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THE DAILY ADVANCE Published By Carter Glass Sons Publishers Inc we said can always get we said POWELL GLASS JR Publisher THOMAS GLASS Co Publisher A GUNN Jr Editorial Page Editor 6 LYNCHBURG VA MONDAY EVENING MARCH 24 1975 I Compromise only choice President ord has indicated avillingness to compromise with Con Vgress on strategy to meet the and energy problems By acceding to a re Iguest by leaders of the Democratic (majority in Congress to delay for 60 'days further scheduled increases inimport fees on foreign oil Mr ord (acknowledged the strength of the con gressional opposition to his proposals Ipnd the potential for stalemate But the President rejected the ap pearance of retreat the appearance of Retreat by following through on his (promise to veto legislation suspend ing his authority to impose the tariffsjjy executive action The challenge to (Congress is apparent A concerted drive to override theyeto could be viewed by an unhappy public as indication of preference bylhe Democratic leadership of confron tation over cooperation To let the (veto stand however would leave Mr program advanced by House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman en visioning increases in the gasoline tax up to as much as 40 cents would be acceptable to him Like the tariff the tax plan would drive fuel taxes up ward and discourage consumption It would concentrate conservation ef forts on the area of greatest effect th automobile and relieve the potential for hardship on families who heat their homes with oil And Mr ord already has en dorsed the tax cut and rebate bill as a stimulant to a falter ing economy The recommendations of Demo crat Ullman of Oregon however have yet to be tested in the wind of Demo cratic consensus and translated to leg islative form Perhaps the ord demonstration of flexibility will spur similar efforts among Democrats of divergent views Henry Taylor red satellite Hungary no it is occupied by Russia The target is clear (t Personpower Inc? John Hamer Utilities face uncertain future tfrhe Arizona Republic UN fund cut level or remain low This uncertainty is troubling to The last was the last straw Under the chairmanship of Sen John Pastore (D RL) a subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee will soon be gin hearings on slashing US appropria tions to support the United Nations A similar move is expected soon in the House Officially the State Department is saying tut tut However the State Depart ment lobbyists on Capitol Hill are taking no action to stop the move Cutting the appropriation will not of course deter the UN from acting like well the UN The Arab states can easily make up the difference Soviet Russia which in the past has never paid its full UN contribution may ante up now The Congressional action will be mere ly a gesture but a gesture most Ameri cans will applaud Henry Kissinger has done the dif ficult so many times nobody is willing to wait a few days while he does the impossible the permanent slogan to the victory of and Red Army Marshal maxim hard fight dreaded AVH are everywhere as foreboding as a hostile grove peopled by unseen enemies The AVH is as Soviet controlled as the own KGB In fact the AVH is trained under the KGB Young Hungarian officers in the national forces in turn are trained at the runze Military Academy in Moscow where idel officers are likewise taught Like the AVH the degradations strike everywhere miss dubbing a janitor a custodial superintendent?) The title and dance has become and dance But the Manpower Administration which makes these momentous job title decisions says it decided how to change its own name Really fellows The American people certainly can expect no less One freshman representative re portedly scorned the avowed eagerness to compromise by saying got no But neither in this critical period does Congress (ord wit the option of restoring thetariff increases if he disagrees withCongressional alternatives The national interest will best be (served by the assumption on both (sides of the energy controversy that Ijeach is bargaining in good faith The President has hinted that a The man at the next desk says we have to worry for a few years The story of his life convinces him that Social Security go broke until the day he retires Most Hungarians anti Russian and on structions you seldom encounter Soviet soldiers in the cities Even when you drive in outskirts they stay largely out of sight But I have driven on the roads to the Czech and Romanian fron tiers On these different Road building is a traditional Red Army exercise and I found the Soviet troops at this toughening work large groups at hard labor Officers and men alike get four hours of political training a week Their Szolnok barracks and all others have a Room" featuring anti Western posters in a a nonsexist xhame that is? lie hearings or formal ap proval rom the present na tionwide generating capaci ty of some 450000 mega watts the electric utilities had expected perhaps to double their capacity in the next decade But last year alone they canceled or postponed at least half of their planned construction Most of the cutbacks have involved nuclear plants which provide only about 7 per cent of the elec tricity today but which the industry had hoped would provide as much as 50 per cent in the future But nu clear plants are expensive to build may take 10 years to complete and are plagued by reliability and I The procedures for screening air line passengers and their luggage for jiveapons has surely contributed to the Recline in attemtped hijackings in (recent years but it has also con ributed to our knowledge of the ex jjent that Americans carry concealed Weapons The ederal Aviation Ad ministration reports that last year (alone airport security officers turnedtp 2450 guns in the possession of (people about to board an airplane The handgun remains the primetarget of members of Congress sup porting stronger gun control legisla tion and the issue is expected to Surface again this year There is that the Gun Control Act of Q968' not accomplish as much as remain intensely the in New York is in bad financial straits but we know of any other city that is prosperous enough to take it on as a wholly owned sub sidiary Soviet leader Leonid I at tendance at the Hungarian Communist 11th Congress in Budapest his first trip abroad since seven weeks of seclusion also took him unrevealed to the garrison town of Szolnok Actually Hungary is not a Red satel lite state It is a Soviet occupied country And Szolnok is the headquarters for the Sowet Red Army in Hungary Szolnok is 100 kilometers southeast of Budapest in a tight bend of the Tisza River and I was stopped from entering there by car by the Hungarian AVH se cret police The AVH kept me under constant surveillance and even my at tempt turned into an AVH threat of jail finally overcome by the intervention of our American Embassy Brezhnev stole off to Szolnok with Hungarian Red leader Janos Kadar a straight Soviet stooge infamous for his part in helping crush the tragic bloody 1956 anti Soviet revolt in which 32000 Hun garians were killed and 200000 fled their country Russia's standard Red Army division in Hungary numbers 12000 men A mecha nized division of the Soviet central re serve is stationed at Szolnok Another division rings the 19 million Hungarians of Budapest Another confronts the Roma nian border Two more face the' Czechoslavakia frontier Eleven air dromes house the Soviet tactical air force geared to the infantry and tanks Widespread reports about a shift of satellites from rigid Moscow control may impress us at home They should be tem pered by such realities The shift is in form not substance Electric utilities have re sponded in two ways: they have sought rate increases and they have cut back ex pansion plans To raise rates utilities must win the approval of regulatory commissions in most states Last year regulators ap proved a total of $22 billion in rate increases and early in 1975 they were being asked to approve $4 billion more 1 Residential rates went up by an average of about 22 safety problems per cent in ivh out in some metropolitan areas the average increase ap proached 40 per cent There has been a growing backlash against rate hikes especially among cus tomers who cut consump tion voluntarily to save energy only to see their bills increase One of the biggest controversies con cerns the so called fuel ad justment clause a device which allows utilities to pass on higher fuel costs automatically without pub handguns which figure often in crimes and accidental shootings but have no value to sportsmen or marksmen The 1968 law prohibited the import of such guns but not the import of As a result they are simply entering the country disassembled then are put together and sold The question of constitutional rights will flare again in the gun control debate and legislation which would abridge the right of citizens to buy and own guns is no more palatable today than ever However Congress might well try to put some stronger teeth into laws which seek to control traffic in inexpensive hand puns that contribute tn crime mis was expected in reducing traffic in chief and tragedy but have no justifi night specials" cheap cation for being on the market WASHINGTON The public utilities traditional pillars of the na an industry that years in tional economy suddenly advance bases its ex find themselves facing an pansion plans on antici uncertain future it is a pated future demand future fraught with hazard for the utility companies and for the public they serve At stake may be the very survival of the utili ties at least in their pre sent form Of all the utilities the electric power industry is the most troubled today The electric industry is unique because it is the largest American industry in terms of total assets the most capital intensive in dustry in the entire econo my and the largest fuel consumer Electric utilities have kept pace with a demand for electricity that has doubled every 10 years since 1880 far faster than the overall growth in energy consumption even faster growth of elec tric power is needed in coming years according to government blueprints for moving America closer to the goal of energy self suf ficiency The ederal Power Commission en visions electric power ac counting for 50 rate willreturn to the traditional Plenty if the in ourWashington Wonderland have any thing to say about it And of course most of the gob bledegooking and federaleseing thesedays We note via the Wall Street Jour nal th are headed zfor extinction if you can manage to Iin and beer it In revising its massive Dictionary3pf Occupational Titles to eliminate Jige and sex connotations the Labor (pepartment has decided the job prop erly should be called direc Among the 3500 job titles thatjiave been revised hasbecome "child mentor" be more to the point?) fcand has been changed zfo school A is a is a The ord administration and Congress are consider ing a variety of ways to aid the utility industry Presi dent ord proposes limit ing regulatory action on rate increases to five months eliminating bans on fuel adjustment clauses allowing utilities to include construction and pollution control costs in their rate bases and increasing the investment tax credit for utilities henceforth while a (Did they I have a Budapest friend let me call him whose brother by breaking out to neighboring Austria Josef was a lawyer or five years the only job the Central Labor Office has assigned him is as a window washer The work week is 51 hours six on Saturday and such workers get next to nothing said my friend "It could be worse The people here are never warned when we may be Josef and I had to meet secretly At his former level the AVH requires Hungar ians to report any Western contacts You can thank him for a story: A Budapest professor went into a store to buy tea or the storekeeper asked it coffee in the professor said When you move among the Hungarian people in the cities or countryside the girl who does the laundry the old farmer at his pump the woman who speaks of a relative in America the macabre plight is plain: Communists do not govern countries they pillage them morally economical ly ethically and spiritually The Kadar government departs from the straight Kremlin line only when it is utterly painless to the Kremlin to do so Surely visit further endorsed that Janos Kadar and his entire cabal would be out of a job in five minutes and would probably wake up in Siberia if they (took an independent plunge Moreover it would simply Oe a plunge to nowhere the Kremlin has seen to that only a gesture such cartels as the Organization of Petro leum Exporting Countries Making Arabic (a language spoken by only about 1 per cent of the population) an official UN language Boosting the pay of the 30000 staff members to a point where now 42 per cent greater than pay for compar able jobs In the US government The Communists and the countries of Mhe so called Thrid World in the UnitedNations have been having a rip roaring Mime in recent months tweaking Uncle CSam's beard and kicking him in the shins" probably going to cost the UN a potful of money The United States now pays a man datory 25 per cent $150 million of the $600 million budget In addition it 4 makes voluntary contributions totalling3500 million for a host of UN activities In contrast ill 18 Arab states togetherJjut up only about $6 million to maintainthe world organization Saudi Arabia jj5vhich received almost $30 billion in oil last yeart contributed only Congress has gone along with is in past but unlikely to much longer What has Congress riled up are such S'XlN antics as: RS The invitation to Yasser Arafat guer Kvilla leader of the Palestinian Liberation Vprganization to address the General As 'Zjembly The expulsion of South Africa A resolution permitting expropriation of foreign properties without compensa tion and upholding the right to create Russell Kirk Trouble faced by book trade The book publishing trade is in difficulty Big and small trade publishers are dismissing many of their emf ployees Some university presses have folded their tents forever The average retail price of a good sized new book now approaches so there are few customers Textbooks pornography and still sell reasonably well or the why if somebody writes a really good book will anybody be given an opportunity tp read it as things are moving? i This question is raised mordantlyby Mr Richard Kostelanetz in a big new book entitled End of Intelligent (Sheed Ward) Mr Kostelanetz is the champion of young and innovative writers As hp suggests were WB Yeats and James Joyce and TS Eliqt and Ezra Pound seeking a publisher today they might go unpublished (They had trouble enough half a century ago) i Also Kostelanetz assaults the oligarchy which today dominates American publishing and reviewing of books He describes the ruin worked upon book publishing during the past decade by the industrial conglomerates and communications conglomerates which have bought up most of the publishing houses (The latest firm to be acquired by a conglomerate is Simon Shuster) They have been crassly insensitive to the works of the mind these conglomerates More they have been woq drously stupid driving up costs and prices driving down sales I quote Kostelanetz: "The demands of commerce exercise an implicit censorship independent of a content not only before publication but afterwards or instance by over pricing a new book the publisher jeopardizes not only its sales but its possible communication In totalitarian socie ties a book is censored at the point of production in literary industrial societies censorship occurs at later points along the communication I Kostelanetz denounces New York literary mob" whose oligarchs are Jason Epstein Irving Howe Norman Podhoretz and Robert Silvers He lists some 245 mem bers of the Mob These have editorial control in effect of many of the more vigorous publishing houses And they exercise control over most of the bigger book revieiV media is worth noting that most powerful reviewing media as well as its largest publishing houses are located within a mile of each other in midtown Kostelanetz reminds us Both the production and the criticism of books have been captured by a narrow clique This oligarchy thinks of itself as liberal or radical But the real objects are money and power The domination of publishing and reviewing by any such band of brothers must tend toward the exclusion or suppression other opinions Innovators like Kostelanetz are excluded so are Christian writers or indeed any writers who do not subscribe to canons of Holy Secularism Such an ascendancy provoking resentments cannot endure forever Yet it may another decade Kostelanetz thinks Then it may give way to the domi nation of another of Gay Liberationists perhaps Mr particular villain is Mr Jason Eps tein of the firm of Random House Epstein and his friends control the New York Review of Books they have bought up Kirtus Reviews the second most powerful pre review ing medium they have acquired I Bi Weekly Partisan Review Commentary Book Week Saturday Review and other book review media are in fluenced or greatly penetrated by the York Kostelanetz argues Thus the publication and distribution of books throughout the United States are determined in large prt by a clique of middle aged or elderly literati many of them of small personal accomplishment They think alike They scarcely are representative of American tastes and backgrounds infrequently do they leave the confines of midtown Manhattan What wonder that their wares are ceasing to sell profitably? These are men deficient in moral imagination chained to literary modes They succeed chief ly by buttering one another by exploiting the con connections with the television shows and by such puffing devices as the National Book Awards (con trolled by the Mob) The New a are literary muggers Kostelanetz declares: they bludgeon all rival talents he says New York literary mob has not become magnanimous or high minded with its collective success Just as no literary clique ever pushed itself harder into eminence on such slender cultural achievements so none has been as ruthless and smug in its operation or as glib with self serving rationalizations or quite as tenacious in retaining transitory power for longer than its normal Just so Kostelanetz writes that we ought to have at least 25 publishing houses outside New York City Mean while why marvel that the dollar volume of pet food business is twice the dollar volume of trade book business? Dr A Purnell Bailey Bread of Life Harry Bailey the Irish comedian once told a story of Mike paying a visit to Pat says Mike you had $50000 would you give half of it to your poor old friend and I answered Pat if you had $5000 would you give half of it to your old friend Mike that has hardly a penny to his sure I came the answer if you had two sheep would you give one to your poor old friend This time there was a pause' the asked Mike you see Mike got two 1 It is not what we would do "if we had a but how we will use the $3 in our pocket! Of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee (Genesis 28:22) World rp 'Ci tB nE1 4X7 think time for me to shift some capital from tax free municipals and gold into groceries!" 1975 i KEA kK.