4The Daily Reflector. Greenville. N.C.FiMay, March 3t. If73

War Is Simply Too Expensive

THOUGHT WED NEVER SEE THE DAY!

The United States longest, most frustrating and with the exception oi the War Between the Statesmost divisive war is over.

Virtually all of the American troops in South Vietnam have been withdrawn and the final U. S. prisoners of war held by the Communist have been returned to U. S. soil.

However one views the results (rf the years of fighting, it has to be a joyous day that our involvement has finally ended.

There are still dangers of further involvement in Southeast Asia. We are still bombing in Cambodia, a country which is threatened with takeover bv the Communist. And no one really knows what

Expertise Lost Due Turnover

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH - High turnover in legislative membership flushes experience down the drain, and slows the process of representative government.

The presence of a corps of experienced legislators is essential for stabiltiy and iontinuity in the system. said Clyde Ball, legislative services officer.

Like any other job. lawmaking expertise come with practice Ball noted, (liven the aptitude and ability, any Representative or Senator should be able to function more effectively for his constitutents with every term served, he said.

An acceleration in turnover is a phenomenon ob^rved in recent years by Ball and others who follow closely developments in the working of state legislatures. Factors that have brought it on include redistricting in response to one-man, one-vote judicial decisions, and the increasing demands of legislative office.

Finding ways to encourage tenure. through staff assistance and a realistic pay structure, is a challenge that faces North Carolina and states ross the country, Ball said.

Rapid Turnover Recorded Fully one-third of the current General Assembly are freshmen who never served before. Over the past decade, the make-up of the legislature has underbone virtually a complete turnover. Ninety per cent of the members of the 1963 session are no longer on the scene, removed by death, the call of other pursuits, or the voters.

A first session is like on-the-job training with a lot to learn about where to go and who to see to get things done, said Rep. Willis P. (Bill) Whichard of Durham. The lessons can be put to good use in the second term, which he is now serving.

What a legislator learns is really an investment for the people back home. Its lost to them if he doesnt come back, said Whichard.

Candidates who aspire to a single term, for what it means in prestige and advantage to business or profession, contribute to a high turnover rate and dodge an obligation to voters who elect them, he suggested. I told everybody when I ran that if I won. Id be available to serve a minimum of three terms." he said.

Voters Make Changes Infusion of new blood and fresh ideas is the obvious advantage of a pace of change in legislative ranks.

How fast it occurs can be trusted to the electorate, which gets a chance to pass judgment at the ballot box every two years.

BRYAN

HAISLIP

The 60s decade made representation more volatile and responsive to population rather than geographic lines. Rural areas lost seats to urban centers as redistric-ling broke up pocket boroughs from which entrenched incumbents could look forward to safe return time after time,

A political consequence was to dethrone the Old Guard. composed of a cadre of veterans and open the way for a larger role by newcomers. As their numbers swelled, the old rule that freshmen should been seen and not heard had to be rescinded.

Freshman status need not inhibit performance, said 'Rep. 'Thomas 0. Gilmore Sr. of Guilford. He plunged in to introduce bills of major importance, and champion his ideas for legislation.

Tools For The Job

The tools and structure to deal with complex problems are needs by all legislators, freshmen and those with seniority, Gilmore insisted. Capable legislators would be encouraged to serve longer if they felt they had access to the means to accomplish their objectives, he said.

The loss of experience when legislators drop out amounts to a terrible waste for the state, said Rep. Norwood Bryan of Cumberland.

Rapport with people and familiarity with procedures accumulate with service, said Bryan, in his fourth term.

A maverick on the annual session concept, Bryan said he sees that as a hindrance rather than a help in promoting legislative con-tinuty. Many just wont be able to come up here every year, he said.

Economics is a basic factor in the lack of membership stability. Ball said. I am concerned about those members in the 25-to-45 age bracket who drop out because those are their productive years. I am concerned about teachers. small self-(Continued On Page 5)

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Nixon would do if the North Vietnamese launched a full scale offensive against the south in the near future.

The odds seem to be at present, though, that we can truly consider this agonizing war at an end and hopefully turn over attention to other things.

These other things should be peace and tranquility and a better life for our people. Peace is needed after so many years of fitting and debating the war in Southeast Asia. It is, in fact, an absolute necessity if we are to get the dangers of inflation under control and provide a better life for our poor and elderly.

The plain fact is that fighting wars has become just too expensive even for the economy of the United States. The limited fighting in Southeast Asia strained our economy more than we like to admit. Fighting a war of the magnitude of World War II would, without doubt, break this nation if we tried to maintain the present pay rates for military personnel and carried on a development program for equipment on a corresponding scale. There are those who can tell you of earning $21 a day once a month as privates in the first drafts before World War II.

So with the huge cost of maintaining the military, an expansion of the armed forces comparable with that of World War II just does not again seem possible.

Perhaps we will see in future years that the greatest lesson to come.out of Vietnam is that war has become too expensive for any modern nation to carry on. If we have learned this lesson, perhaps all the suffering, expense and divisiveness will have been worth it.

Counterattack Order Relayed

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Confronting new exposures in the poisonous Watergate scandal, the White House using former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell as a secret intermediary* has ordered the Committee to Reelect the President (CRP) to open up a new counterattack.

At least six new legal and public affairs aids, possibly more, are being hired to give CRP usually called Creep added muscle to take over the main chore of what could be a decisive political battle between the administration and its legion of critics, including growing numbers of high-level Rebublician politicians, on the political espionage issue.

Thus, nothing has changed in the Nixon strategy in handling the Watergate scandal. Creep, financed by funds contributed to reelect Mr. Nixon, should have lost its reason for being last November. Mitchell quit as Creeps director immediately after the bugging and break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate last June 17 and has had no formal political position since. But Creep and Mitchell are used by the; White House to keep its hardnosed reaction to the scandal rigid and unbending.

'The threat of convicted Watergate bugger James W. McCord, Jr., to implicate higher-ups in the scandal has generated appeals from some highly-placed Republicans that the White House make a clean breast of the whole sordid business, no matter who is involved. To the contrary, Creeps orders from the White House, relayed by Mitchell, are just the opposite: counterattack.

That doesnt mean Creep will counterattack the Senates investigating committee (headed by Democratic Sen. Sam Ervin, Jr.. of North Carolina), an authoritative source told us. It means Creep has been ordered to counterattack with its own facts.

This was precisely the weak line laid down by the White House at the

Republican national convention last August, when the Democrats were un

successfully trying to convert Watergate and political espionage from an

outrageous escapade into a

shocking issue of the presidential campaign.

At one closed-door Miani Beach meeting, leading Nixon fundraisers and

Republican politicians outside the administration begged Clark MacGregor, who succeeded Mitchell as Creep director, to tell all about Watergate.

'Their rationale: Watergate could continue to drip drops of acid on the campaign, setting the stage for serious damage to the Presidents credibility in his second term.

Among those urging the tell all policy were big-time fund-raisers Max Fisher of Detroit and Thomas Pappas of Boston. They and others wanted to bring out all the facts, and let the White House take the political heat.

MacGregor, presiding over that meeting, aggreed with everthing said. But the White House insisted it was not involved. Without involvement, presidential lieutenants asserted, there could be no clean breast.

'The fact that this same White House imposed silence of eight months ago is being drooped like a cloak over any possible involvement of White House aides in the new McCord-triggered crisis is clear from the order to Creep to recruit new legal and publicity aides for the im pending battle.

Oeep was supposed to have gone out of business April 1 almost six months after the election it was set up to win. But presidential aides want the White House to publicly shoulder no part of the defense against the Ervin committee Nor does the White House want the Republican National Committee to play a defense role. Given the growing mood of anger against presidential aides -j particularly chief of staff H. R. (Bob) Haldeman by elected Republipan politicians, the White House (Continued On Page 5)

Strength For Today

TROUBLE ACTING AS A BLESSING In the New Testament the faithful are admonished not to regard adversity as a calamity. Jesus said, "Blessed are they which are persecuted, . .Blessed are ye when men shall revile you. . ,In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the

world.

How can this position be maintained? It can be maintained only becuase we beieve that God bends everything to his loving purpose, that in Jesus Christ, who suffered and rcwe from

the dead, we have the answer to lifes most grievous situation. For those who belong to God and seek to know his will through Jesus Christ, adversity is changed into blesssing, bitterness into knowledge, despair into hope, sorrow into peace.

To have (3od is to have everything. Everyone at one time or another passes through crises which try his spirit. And very few of us will avoid the taste of adversity. Armed with the Spirit of God a man can turn adversity into blessing.

By Earl Douglass

By ART BUCHWALD

Watergate And Sausage

WASHINGTON-Did you know that the price of meat has a direct bearing on the Watergate bugging scapdal?

I didnt until I saw Helmut Dragonfield at the the supermarket the other day.

We were standing in the checkout line and Helmut said to me, 'This Watergate case smells to high heaven. It really boils me that men in

high office can lie through their teeth about mattters that affect the very fabric of American democracy. Helmut, I reminded him, you didnt seem very excited about the Watergate last November during the elections.

That, said my friend,-was because you could still get a decent steak for $1.50.

Other Editors Say Toughness Pays

(Jacksonville Daily News)

'Ihe lesson of the past six months, driven home again and again, is that firmness and toughness pay off in dealing with Hanoi.

'Die North Vietnamese decision to talk realistically last octobe the revision of the draft pact after Hanoi had said it could not be revised, the solution of the prisoner of war hangig) are examples.

But this is not a three-shot problem. If the record tells us anything it is that the North Vietnamese will test us again and again, prolnng weak points and learning just how far they can go in attaining their objectives.

In part, this is a difference of philosophy. To Americans, a signed agreement is the end of the matter. Itiings have been arranged. Asian Communist documents whether Chinese Maoist or NorthVietnamese stress that agreements are merely techniques or strat^ems for achieving their just objectives.

The agreement, then, is the beginning of a new struggle, not the finish of one.

A careful reading of the North Vietnamese reasons for holding up the freeing of POWs makes clear that their objectives were not primarily those advatised in the headlines.

What Hanoi was attempting was straightforward and simple. It wanted the United States to dose its eyes to the inflow of men and material into Laos and South Vietnam, to the building of illegal airfields complete with antiaircraft missiles, to the repeated offensive drives (Tf^ie North Vietnamese troops.

Secondly, and even more importantly, it wanted to force the United States to compel Saigon to accede to Hanois will in matters which require unanimity.

That is, Hanoi wants to be free to do what the Communists did in Laos and North Korea after agreements were reacheduse the truce as a safe period of buildup for future attacks.

One most effective Communist thechnique is to make thousands of truce violation accusations, the more the better. The second step is to delay any inspections of their own violations until the evidence on the pot cannot be evaluated. TTie third step is to use whatever leverage they havein this case the prisonersto force public opinion in the United States to pressure the Nixon administration to bend to their will.

Inspections in Vietnam have been a farce. Tbe inspectors have been stymied at every turn. The volume of Communist accusations has been so great their major violations of the pact have gone unchecked. Because of our humanitarian concern for the POWs our attention was distracted from the North Vietnamese aggressions.

Are you trying to tell me the only reason you are appalled at what hapi>ened at the Watergate is because the price of steak has gone up? Not only steak, Helmut said, what about eggs and fish and cheese and fruit and vegetables? Why shouldnt I be mad about what the Republicans did at the Watergate when Im paying $1.35 for two pork chops? But, Helmut, why didnt you get mad at the time the crime was committed? Because McGovern was running for President. I didnt want to believe the Nixon people would do such things, because if I did, that meant I would have voted for the Democrats.

Helmut, if it is a moral issue now. it was a moral issue then. You cant get mad about the Watergate because food prices have gone up. Who says I cant? You dont seemp to understand much about the American people. As long as the economy is good, wages are high and inflation is in check, they couldnt care less what the Republicans were doing to the Democrats. But now that inflation is running wild, the stock market is at its lowest ebb and the dollar is in so much trouble, were seeing the Watergate in a new light. Something is rotten in Denmark and I hope the Senate Investigating Committee gets to the bottom of it.

Im glad you feel that way, Helmut. It shows you really care about your country.

Of couse I do. Gas is going up, shoes are going up, booze is going up. When I pay 59 cents for a can of tomatoes. Im hot going to put up with corruption in the White House, too.

Do you think if food prices went down the Watergate affair would blow over?

Im certain of it. All Nixon has to do is get bacon down to 85 cents a pound and Ill give his staff the benefit of the doubt on anything they say about their role in the Watergate. But as long as (Continued on page 5)

Addis

Ababa's

Baths

By ANDEREW 'TORCHIA

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) One of the most expensive tickets in Addis Ababa buys you a bath. Romance is extra.

A short bugle blast from Emperor Haile Selassies palace is a string of 144 red brick cubicles with plastic domes the new Filwoha baths. Empress Taitu stopped to soak her feet at these hillside springs nearly 100 years ago and thus laid the foundations of Addis Ababa.

Ethiopians flock to the baths. Tourists grimy from eastern Africas wild game parks shouldnt miss them. But a visitor looking for more exotic bathing pleasures than just getting clean may be disappointed.

Die new Filwoha baths answer the coed Finnish sauna and the New York steam-and-sex parlor mostly by ignoring the question.

The architecture cant compare with the classical pillars of the great English spa at Bath but the formula at Filwoha is the same volcanic heat plus mineral water equals health. A sign proclaims the waters effective against stains, acne and wrinkles. Or as an attendant told one wrinkled, stained client, If you believe in something, youll be cured.

Five Ethiopian dollars about $2.50 buys a bar of English soap and three large towels. A guard in a military-style uniform checks your "ticket, which looks more like a supermarket receipt than a ticket to adventure.

You get the brief attention of a bored female in a blue smock, who points you toward a two-room suite and goes back to reading the newspaper. A stony-faced, barefoot male attendant turns on the water and vanishes. Not a word has been spoken, and since it is noon and with-it Ethiopians bathe at night, you are the only customer in the place.

Youve paid your way into what looks like an oversized, six-sided American bathroom, including a fashionable low-profile toilet. The water filling the green-tile tub comes in two temperatures hot and unbearable. An adjoining room contains a plastic reclining chair, table and a sexy paperback in unreadable Amharic-language script.

This is first class at Filwoha, costing more than a movie and nearly as much as bacon and eggs at a luxury hotel. For 1.50 Ethiopian dollars about 75 (Continued On Page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

By GVVYNCOGHILL March 30,1933 Little interest so far has been manifested in the muncipal election which will be held in this c,i.ty the first Monday in May. The election will be held for the purpose of electing a mayor and five members of the Board of Aldermen, one for each ward.

There will be a meeting Thursday evening at the Court House of the various relief heads in the county and those who are to assist in promoting individual vegetable gardens, or the farm relief programs in the county.

Interest In Commodity Market

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

Editors Note: Diis is the third and concluding column on commodity futures trading.

NEW YORK (AP)-If you are one of an estimated 500,(XX) people who trade or speculate in commodity futures, or one of the 2.5 million more who are forecast to join the market by 1980, you are or should be aware of the basic rules:

A good trader needs risk capital he can afford to lose, a idan of operation, and the discipline to follow the plan without emotion or vacillation.

If he has the capital, the {dan, the qualities of tem-permit and the pr(^>er information from government..

with

skill

reports, newspapers, brokers and observation, he might luck and still another turn himself into a winner.

,The other skill is the ability to translate all these elements into an informed estimate of what prices for such things as pork bellies and silver and wool and cotton will be anywhere from a month to a year in advance.

The rewards could be enormous. A well-known broker notes in an advertisement that an $800 commitment made last October in cotton for March delivery could have resulted in a profit or loss of $6,000 by mid-February.

This would have been impossible, of course, without the capital. All other considerations are academic in the absence of money, but an

absence of money is the precise condition in which a trader finds himself by violating the other rules.

Commodities are very volatile markets. Since only 5 or 10 or 15 per cent of the total purchase price must be placed on the table, you have tremendous leverage. You can earn 1,000 per cent or lose it, if you arent careful.

It is very easy to lose in futures. In fact, most speculators lose far more often than they win, but they limit their losses by never bucking the trend. In contrast, when they have a winner they soar with the trend.

Diis is not a simple accomplishment, and potential traders often find they arent equal to the psychological demands made. After three straight losses they may find themselves without the con

fidence to stick with their big winner.

Leo Melamed, chairman of the International Monetary Mart, which trades foreign currency futures designed* in part to take the guesswork out of floating currencies warns speculators to study themselves before researching the market.

In futures trading, more so than perhaps in any other field of endeavor, he states, "ones psychological makeup is put to its hardest' test and thus it is crucial to know what kind of person you are before it can be determined if you can succeed

He suggests that before speculating, the wise person will ask himself:

Can I admit error in the face of defeat? Can I allow for unprejudiced interpretation (Continued on page 5)