4The Dally Reflector, Greenville, N. C.Thursday, April 23,1970

Disengagement Will Be Tricky

A PRECARIOUS POSITION!

The figure of 150,000 men to be withdrawn in a year from Vietnam is substantial. However, it is well to note that President Nixon left himself considerably more time leeway on the withdrawal rate than he has in the past.

U.S. forces reached a peak ceiling in 1969 when there were 594,500 in Vietnam. If the 150,000 men are withdrawn during the next year there will be 284,000 Americans in Vietnam in May, 1971.

However, the president did not say that the

Market Made A 'Production'

(Todays column was written by Holt McPherson, Editor, The High Point Enterprise).

By HOLT MCPHERSON

No Broadway production gets more careful attention given stage setting than does the Southern Furniture Market, which was held last week.

For months in advance of the scheduled openings interior designers are at work creating proper backgrounds and settings and mood for the various new styles to be introduced. This ranges from backgrounds of the vignette type to complete installations of rooms such as a mountain retreat, a formal drawing room, or a gazebo created in one space to establish a decor appropriate to the furniture.

These stage settings have become increasingly important as an adjunct market inspiration to retailers who take back home with them ideas picked up here. In the Southern Furniture Exposition Building, where more than 250 exhibitors display in spaces form 20 x 60 feet up to a couple of acres, a regular army of contractors, painters, paper hangers has worked for months to bring about settings for a jewel-like presentation.

On the bridges which connect the North and South wings with the Wrenn and Green Drive wings of the Exposition complex there is a different type of casual furniture on each level for buyers who need to rest their feet from time to tim^ when they are in process of

traversing the 32 acres of

exhibits concentrated there. On the fourth floor bridge an experiment is going on that will be studied as a prototype for the other levels. Colorful awnings and a flower vending car together with casual furniture create the atmosphere of an outdoor

sidewalk cafe.

On.the third floor bridge there is an exhibit of the home furnishings in Governors Mansions throughout this country. An effort was made to get photographs of interiors of all 50 governors but not ail responded. The homes of governors should be symbolic of the good life in America, the excellence of home furnishings surroundings generally available to every American homemaker and the charm and graciousness and utility of modern day furnishings. The North Carolina Governors Mansion, furnished mainly by Tar Heel manufacturers, affords an excellent example of tasteful furnishing plus utility and lasting charm.

Those governors who did respond were most gracious in their cooperation. The homes reflect a wide variety of decor, taste and varying ' degrees of affluence. Here is -a^^ect that needs to be

undertaken by some group in the home furnishings industry telling the story and style and fashion of furniture.

Theres an exciting newness about the market, something like a wind sweeping change into furniture gearing for changing patterns fitted to types of living people want the new homes, apartments, con-diminiums, mobile homes and the life without sacrificing time-tested basic styles and patterns for comfortable living. The biggest news is modern, of course, with new and different materials joining plastics, metal, glass, leather and fabrics into eye - catching combinations that are beautiful and serviceful at the same time.

The sweep of the exposition is tremendous, from the old-time country store that serves as the coffee house for the Gilliam exhibit to the Uniformed security guard who stands outside Stanleys space in a protective vigil over moon rock. Opposite the guard and under dramatic spot lighting is a black carboniferous appearing substance for which neither the armed guard nor we will vouch as to its source. Stanley said it. Whether they are constructive furniture for moon habitats they have not divulged, but certainly they are pulling all the stops to publicize their offerings.

The Exposition Building is the nerve center of the market for the communications media which turn a vast national spotlight in direction of the market. Every shelter group magazine, a large number of metropolitan dailies, magazines and news media of general circulation, TV, and radio check. The press room facilities on the main floor, complete with phones, desks, typewriters, a coffee bar with sweet rolls in mornings and sandwiches at lunch, operates objectively with a staff of five people to assist in supplying information, pictures and even lining up interviews with newsmakers, of whom there are ample at each market.

And the Press Party, a traditional event that has almost outgrown the Top (rf the Market where up to a thousand guests can be crowded into that spacious facility, exemplifies the swinging nature of press members who never cease to be amazed by the variety of decor, food and VIPs drawn to those occasions. This markets center of interest was Liz Carpenter, whose book Ruffles and Flourishes about the Johnson administration, is high on the best seller list, and her tall, columnist husband, Leslie.

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150,000 men would be withdrawn at a steady rate. Thus with the problems that are developing in Cambodia it could be that the bulk of the men in this new withdrawal would be in the latter part of the 12 month period.

The president spoke optimistically abgyt the progress of turning the war over to South Vi^am.

We can now say with confidence that' pacification is succeeding.,We can say with confidence that outh Vietnamese can develop the capability for their out defertse. We can say with convidence that all American combat forces can and will be withdrawn, the president said.

He concluded that Hanoi had failed to break Americas will. American has never been defeated in the proud 190-year history of this country and we. shall not be defeated in Vietnam.

It seems certain that the bulk of the United States troops are going to be withdrawn from Vietnam. However, it would be a mistake to conclude that our troubles are nearing an end in Southeast Asia. We have a stake in the problems of Cambodia and Laos if, for no other reason, because our forces are in the area. Thus disengagement is going to be tricky if we are to avoid a disaster. That may be the reason the president allowed himself a full years leeway to withdraw the next 150,000 troops.

Kremlin's Pollution Problem Less Acute

In typical Soviet fashion Premier Alexei N. Kosygin has assured Henry Ford II that Russia has no air pollution problem.

The Ford Motor Company chairman reported that the subject came up during business talks with Kosygin.

It is true that the Soviet Union has far less automobiles than the United States and thus less pollution from this source. However, Russia is industrialized and it is doubtful that all the fumes and water wastes that have plagues other industrial nations have been eliminated in the Soviet Union.

Certainly the problem is less acute there than in some areas of the world, but water and air pollution are a world wide problem.

Since Kremlin leaders are not prodded through free speech and a free press, it is to be hoped that the Soviet premier is more aware of the pollution threat than he indicated in his talks with Ford. Often we find that government is one of the worst offenders in water and air pollution. We doubt if it is any different in Russia.

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By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Unforgettable moments of a lifetime:

Paying a dollar for a kiss at a church social and realizing later that you could have got a greater value for your money by buying four good cigars.

Climbing the Great Pyramid near Cairo and feeling, as the dawn illuminated .the desert, as if you were astride the rooftop of the worldand could, by stretching out your hand, touch the cheek of Deity.

Opening one of those windowpaned envelopes from the Internal Revenue Service and finding an mexpected check from a favorite uncle.

The disappointing first taste of twd things youd always thought would be more wonderfulcaviar and pomegrantates.

Watching a topless maiden in Bali climb a hill with a jar of water on her head, sinuqus as a panther.

Listening to Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley, patient as a friendly schoolteacher, brief a group of war correspondents in Normandy.

Getting a Dear John letter from a college sweetheart who had promised to wait forever but soon decided forever lasted too long.

Being impressed by the Schizophrenic face of Field Marshal Herman Goering at

Resurrection Of The Body

Bible readers often are mystified by the term resurrection of the body. Does this mean that the particles of our body which lie in the ground and disintegrate will some day come together again and give us a new body? Not at all. Our present bodies adapt us to the physical world in which we live. The resurrected body will be a spiritual body and ' will adapt us to conditions in the spiritual world. The New Testament teaches that at the resurrection on the last day we shall have a body, given us by God, and this body will adapt and adjust our souls to 'heavenly and eternal conditions.

The future is radiant with light and joy for the sincere Christian believer. We shall eventually be required of course to give an acccxint of

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

In Spiro Agnew's Corner

In his recent speech on higher education. Vice President Agnew spiked the guns of his critics so effectively that his critics responded with the most unkindest cut of all: They gave him the oh, him again treatment and left the speech alone.

This was a pity, for the Household Word said some things about higher education, and especially about the folly of black quotas, that needed badly to be said. His protest, at bottom, was a protest against the obsessive egalitarianism that threatens to reduce so many of our institutions to creamed roinach. He was

some men are better than others, and you just dont hardly hear that kind of talk anymore.

The Vice President buttressed his argument with supportive testimony from a dozen accredited intellectuals who share his concern. The quotations made for a better speech, but they served also to discomfit his critics. It is one thing, after all, to call Mr. Agnew a boob, but it is something else entirely to impute boobiness to Daniel Boorstin, Clark Kerr, John Roche, Gardner Ackley and Irving Kristol. And Agnew had them all in his corner.

Thus he quoted Boorstin:

the nuremberg trials-:-benevolent looking as a Dutch uncle in full view but satanic in profile.

Tlie paralyzing sight of a schoolmate in a coffin, first of his class to be confined in moveless silence.

Hearing the sound of opportunity knocking on your door but feeling just too darned humanly lazy to get up and open it.

Taking an egg, warm to the ~ hand, from the nest of a squawking hen.

Falling off a horse you were trying to ride bareback.

Being kicked by a cow, indignant because you tried to milk her from the wrong side.

Hurting your funny bone and wondering why they call it that since you didnt exactly feel like laughing.

Trying to creep soundlessly up the stairs to bed the first time in your life you stayed out after midnight.

Landing a job on your own and bragging to your father, Oh Dad, 111 never need help from you againand then hitting him up for two bucks the very next week.

Lying in a ditch in Tmisia under bombardment and trying to claw your way through the earth to (?hina or anywhere but there.

The vast victory of pinning your first diaper on your daughter without benefit of wifely help.

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giving fresh point to the old Aristotelian doctrine that

In the university all men are not equal. Those better en-

Other Editors Say

To The Country

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Dr. Gallups new finding that most Americans would live in a small town or on a farm if they had their choicea reversal from as recently as four years ago suggests to our mind a growing yearning for the certainties of simple living. For many years most urbanites have settled for asmuch as suburbia could offer them of closer contact with the land and with neigh-b(M^. Now they seem to be reaching farther afield, tragically at the very time when opportunities for livelihood in small towns and on farms are fastest waning.

There is something to do with it, of course, in crime in the cities, the torments of traffic, the but-recent awareness of air and water pollution; but this rebirth of nostalgia for the land appears to us to go deeper than all that. Ronald Blythe, an English novelist and critic, writes in his book Aken-field, a portrait of* a millennium-old village in

Suffolk, The townsman envies the villager his certainties and, in Britain, has always regarded urban life as jiist a temporary necessity. One day he will find a cottage on the green and real values. He speaks of the almost religious intensity (rf the regard for rural life in this country (Britain), and the sense of guilt which so many people feel abiXJt not living on a village pattern.

Whatever its causes, the phenomenon may offer a source of salvation for American cities. Too much for our nations population already lives in them, and too many more are crowding into them every year. At the extreme. New York is being spoken of as unmanageable. ...

If the Gallup poll is correct in estimating that only 18 Americans in 1(X) really want ^ to live in cities, the time is ripe for a rational and voluntary redistribution of our spiraling population-given the opportunity.

dowed or better equipped intellectually must be preferred in admission, and preferred in recognition.... If we give in to the armed demands of militants to admit persons to the university because of their race, their poverty, their illiteracy, or any other nonintellectual distinctions, our universities can no longer serve all of usor any of us. He quoted Roche, a professor at Brandis, on the violence emanating from black students: We created our own difficulties the day we (and I mean the liberal academicians) decided that a college or university should jdoublejis a settlement house. Once the decision was made that Negro or cultural!^ underprivileged youngsters should be admitted to first class colleges, without the usual prerequisites, the escalation began.

In the Agnew viewand it is the view of other men who combine compassion with common sensethe quota system and the open admissions policy are two times wrong. They wrong the misguided university, unqualified black students, whose frustration and bitterness lead only to a greater alienation.

^The folly in all this (and I am paraphrasing Agnew, not quoting him) is that such policies are founded on discrimination, and the blacks know it. Who could know it better? If a freshman class must be limited to 500 students, and 50 blacks are recruited, regardless of their qualifications, to fill a ten per cent quota, qualified white applicants beyond No. 450 must be turned down. They are turned down, if you please, because of their race.

Very well, it is said; qualified blacks have been turned down for generations, in jobs, colleges, housing, and you-name-it; and it is time the whites got some of their own medicine back. But such Kontinued On Page 5)

Speech

Deep

Words?

By JOHN CUNNIFF 'AP Business Analyst

new YORK (AP) Although the winter months were rather poor ones for profits, a good many business executives in rq-cent days seem to be concerned with topics that, superficially, appear to have lite to do with balance sheets.

War, environment, revolution, rebellious youth, changing values, the relevancy of institutions and even of their own roles in a changing society. These and other subjects occupy the minds of aware executives.

It was well within the past decade that the business executive at annual meeting time, which is now at its hei^t, felt that all he need do was defend his financial management and announce a new and potaitially profitable product.

That other concerns should now occupy his timethey have dominated some annual meet-ings-4estifiesto the tremoidous pressures for changes in the goals and values of business.

For deep and complex reasons, businessmen today are being asked to defend their decisions on a broad range of affairs. The demands go beyond this, too. They are being asked to help resolve issues that dont immediately concern their companies.

Appearing as a private citizen before the Senate Foreign Relations (Committee, Louis B. Lund-borg, who happis also to be chairman of the Bank of American testified:

In my judgment, the war in Vietnam is a tragic national mistake,he said. It is time the shareholders of America begin to call for an end to the squandering of American blood, morale and resources...

A day later, J. Paul Austin, president of the (3oca-Cola Company, told the annual meeting he feared the earth could become a barren plnnet with ixidrinkable water andi unbreathable air.

Several days earlier, the pres-idtent of Formica (?orp., Wallace G. Taylor, told a Honolulu audience that the nations businessmen are deaf, dumb and blind to a hydra-headed new American revolution that is tearing this country asunder, value by value.

How,he asked, can a country whose business is business continue to be deaf to its own youth and blind to a war that is rapidly timing this country into one of the poor nations ...?

This is only a sampling, but such topics are now the chief contents of executive speeches that five years ago might have dealt with subjects such as busi-ness-government relations and the regulatory climate in Washington.

The question arises naturally as to how deep is the conviction. Could it be only speech deep, designed merely to steal the issue from the critics, to convince youth and conservationists and others that the company is with it?

And are some of those Elarth Day advertisements produced by companies accused of polluting the ivironment, meant essentially to counteract criticism and give a positive image that really isnt supported by acts?

Reform, Where It Is Needed

Strength For Today

the life we have lived in the flesh, but we should remember that God is love (I John 4:8), and we should remember that the final judgment will be presided over by a Being intent on saving our souls. Gods continual interest in us indicates his desire not to condemn us either in this world or the next but to save us. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son. that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved (John 3:16-17).

God wants us to be happy, not morbid and brooding. Be of good cheer, said Jesus. I have overcome the world (John 16:33).,

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER Government, politicians, do-gooders and consumers are all steamed up about consumerism truth in lending has been made the law of the land; they are trying to make truth in packaging work with very little success; the

ELMER

ROESSNER

government is trying to k'eep customers alive and buying by prohibiting, inflammable fabrics; dangerous drugs and food additives are being banned; efforts are being made to halt the pollution of air and water, and some day we may be able to get hot dogs made of prime beef.

But nobody is doing anything about the things that really bug consumers'.

the things that do not endanger your health or life but annoy and bedevil you and drive you almost mad.

The Real Problems Consider these everyday annoyances:

^ Inferior thread on good dresses that starts breaking on the second wearing, unseaming seams and devastating stitches. My wife says she must spend hours replacing the threads in seams of expensive dresses.

0 Zippers that get off the track, A repair- shop wanted $7 to fit a detracked zipper on my $5 briefcase.

Pants pockets that quickly wear through. English tailors will always make your change pocket of extra heavy material.

Cheap clips instead of buttons at t(^s of mens pants.-These come back flattened beyond u^e the first time the pants are cloned.

^ Raincoats tl[iat go down only to mens knees, letting

their pants legs soak.

More Grief

Coupons good for 7 cents off on the NEXT package, buried in packages of breakfast food. It seems that I have to eat Goody Chaff for the rest of my life because my wife always has a 7-cent equity in the next package.

Easy open packages that arent easy to open.

0 Gum machines that dont give gum.

Soft drink machines that take your coins and laugh at you.

0 Eyeglass hinges that constantly break. Why doesnt somebody invent a hinge that wont break? I asked my optometrist. What, and make us lose all that repair revenue? he asked.

If they ban DDT, ^cyclamates, rotten meat, 2,4, 7, T, leaky color TV sets, dangerous infra-red owens, inflammable pajamas and mattresses, cigarettes and

whiskey, we may all live to be 1(X). But what fun will that be if our zippers dont work?

Whats your pet peeve about merchandise today? Send it in to me in care of this newspaper and Ill try to get Ralph Nader and Warren Magnuson into action.

Australia Experiments With Animal Soft Fats An Australian organization is experimenting with increasing the amount of polyunsaturated fats in animals. Vegetable oil enclosed in a casein capsule with a formalin treated skin is given animals. The skin prevents the anihials rumen from changing soft fats into hard fats, and the unsaturated vegetable fat is absorbed into the apimals system. ^

Cows given the supplement give more milk with higher bptterfat content and lactate longer. This might lead to butter as soft as margarine.