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'Oh Well, There's Ahvays War And Hunger9 Antibusing Alliance Is Formed THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN Dedicated to the Upbuilding of Western North Carolina LUTHER B. THIGPEN, Executive Editoi WILLIAM M. MEBANE JR. and BOB TERRELL, Associate Editors JOHN Q. SCHELL.

General Manager Tuesday, July 4, 1972 Toward More Pride In Military Profession By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON A secret meeting on Capitol i 1 between White House and influential Southern-Democratic Congressmen has charted new strategy revive antibusing this summer to the immense)' political benefit of Richard Nixon. On the surface, the move)') to force a House vote on bus-' 1 VJ mfcL- BacktaW A Reader Questions City's Tax Hike South Korea is a young nation, and progressive. It was born in 'a war fought by Americans, a kind of war Americans have come to hate. Today South Koreans are an industrial people with a strong national consciousness. They believe in what they're doing and they put a of faith in themselves and their future.

Next to Japan, South Korea 'economically is the fastest developing nation in Asia. It's also a country that still lives the constant threat of military 'invasion, so the South Koreans put a lot of store in their armed forces. They take pride in their army, and rightfully. It is one of the best in Asia. Above all, it is well disciplined.

A South Korean general was sentenced to death recently because he look bribes from businesses that were Supplying defective equipment to the army. His punishment, meted out by ifellow officers at a court-martial, was "extreme, even cruel. But it does show that the military tries hard to live to the trust and respect of the Korean public. In this country, we have always at least a vague distrust of our armed forces and today especially we hold the military in low esteem, largely because of a disgust with war itself, Consequently, the military has a low opinion of itself. It is demoralized and does not adequately police itself, because we don't demand that it do so.

America's growing disenchantment with its military started in the same conflict that gave South Korea its existence, its freedom and hope, and its disciplined armed forces. Those who look at South Korea and ponder the last 20 years must see the irony there. We don't advocate shooting generals, or anyone else, but there are less extreme measures that might help make the military a more pride-ful profession. Progress In Reverse Forty years ago, the first transcontinental air mail flight gave California residents two-day letter delivery to New York. It was quite an accomplishment.

Even with jets, computers and higher-priced stamps, our modern-day Postal Service hasn't been able to duplicate the 1932 feat with consistency. The passage of time does not always mean progress. Tulsa (Okla.) World EDITOR'S NOTE: The Citizen welcomes comments on its editorials, columns and other topics. Letters must be limited to 250 words, and should be signed, typed or written legilily on one side of paper, and include street address or rural route number. We reserve the right to reject, edit or condense.

cruelty of war and begin now to work for peace. Now is the time for us to cease this wholesale murder and send food and medicine and clothing to those who have been made homeless and helpless through our bombs, our guns and our ammunition. Clara H. Macoubrey 4 Atkins Loop Lake Junaluska ground force activity and buildup of our air and naval forces, with vastly increased bombing and shelling in North and South Vietnam. Hollow words spoken about "Freedom" and ''Self-determination" for the South Vietnamese while the Mixon Administration i foisting a most unpopular, dictatorial and corrupt government upon them.

Mr. Nixon's determination to negotiate from strength and his dubious expectation that the other side (whether North Vietnam or Soviet Russia) will be willing to negotiate from weakness. And as for the arms control agreements made in Moscow as everybody now knows, they have been followed by demands for new and vastly more powerful nuclear weapons, with hideously greater overkill and world-threatening capacity. Drew C. Nichols 52 Arlington St.

Asheville. it was wrong for other political leaders, in other times and countries, to get and keep power by exploiting prejudices but we are told we should make no moral judgment about a contemporary American political leader's policies and tactics, for that would be judging his heart. Moreover, we are told we should leave such judgments to others. Which others? Our religious leaders? Well, it's true that some of them do, responsibly and courageously, make moral judgments as the great prophets of old did, and on occasion will publicly point to a powerful political economic) leader and say, in effect, "Thou art the man!" More doublethink-double-talk: Strict construction of the Constitution but unconstitutional presidential war. A "Generation of Peace" while the barbarous war in Indochina goes on.

"Wound down" American A Quiet Game For Big Stakes play. At last report, Fischer had Some Ambiguities Doublethink and doubletalk. Looking back we can see McGovem's Economic Policies Part I Is Inflation Insurance An Answer? Is this coincidence? In October, 1971, (Citizen, 10-1-71), in a policy statement on the Asheville civic center-project, City Council estimated that if we did not approve a $3 million bond supplement on Dec. 14, we would have an increase of 12 cents per hundred dollars in ad valorem tax rate. The bond issue was passed.

Now we are told by the city manager that we need a 12-cent increase in ad valorem taxes, due largely to creation of a new capital reserve fund. One wonders why City Council and the city manager couldn't get together on their estimates some nine months ago. Obviously, taxes used to pay civic center bonds cannot be used to pay for a new capital reserve fund. Whether 50 per cent too low by poor calculation or by deliberate deceit cither cause speaks poorly of Council and or manager. If the voters wanted the civic center enough to spend $13,114,000 (principal and interest) for an $8.3 million structure (Citizen, Dec.

2, 1971), that is fine, but if they believed Council when it said that the extra $3 million being requested Dec. 14 was already available, that is very sad. W. T. Burr Jr.

15 Mountain Terrace Road Asheville. Death Penally Ban Just read the long hoped for verdict of the Supreme Court to do away with capital punishment criminals. Years ago a medical doctor spoke out against such killing saying, "We cannot give life and we must not take life." Immediately the thought came to me what a tragic thing it is that we view with horror the death of our criminals and yet stand by with the brutal murder of our youth in war, the killing of thousands upon thousands of helpless men, women and children with our bombs, the frightening use of gasses which destroy the soil, and far worse, burn the children and babies, not counting the cruel and inhuman treatment of our pilots and other prisoners of war. Perhaps this may call a halt to our part in the vicious EVANS AND NOVAK ing is of wholly Southern Democratic But in reality, the Southerners have1 collaborated in an antibusing alliance with the White House. In the midst of his Moscow summit, Nixon reported back to the White House that he feared his total opposition against racial school busing was being blurred.

Since his return, he has made clear his disagreement with the minority of White House aides, who feel no need to press the issue. Last Tuesday, Rep. William Colmer of Mississippi chairman of the House Rules Committee, passed word to! the White House that he was) ready to move. He planned to seek a Rules Committee! vote to force an antibusing Constitutional amendment out of the House Judiciary Committee and onto the House floor. Fearful that Colmer could; not find a simple majority) on the Rules Com-; mittce much less a two-- thirds majority on the House' floor-White House emissaries1 asked Colmer for a meeting! to discuss alternative! strategy.

That session was Wednesday in Colmer's office; in the Capitol. Present were; two shrewd conservative; Democrats, Reps. Joe Wag-' gonncr of Louisiana and Omar! Burleson of Texas. Represen-" ting the President were! Richard Cook, Nixon's chief! House lobbyist, Ed top White House aide on all' school desegregation and Ken Clawson, the ad--ministration's deputy pro-! paganda chief. Burleson and Waggonner backed up the White House! aides in telling Colmer the; Constitutional amendment ap--proach looked Instead, they suggested a plan' the Southerners have been! cool to: Nixon's bill for a' moratorium on court-ordered busing, which does not help Southern school districts' where busing already has! been imposed.

To win Southern the bill would provide for reopening busing plans) previously ordered by the' courts. Moreover, it would! contain a provision for a) quick court test of its con-i stitutionality. Such a proposal! almost surely would pass the1 House. If the Senate went along,) the courts might declare the! moratorium unconstitutional) by early September. That) would open the way for Nixon' to endorse a Constitutional'! amendment, as many aides) and Southerners have been' urging, for Congressional ac-! tion late this year or early' next.

That strategy keeps! the President out front opposing a most unpopular integration device while the Democratic National Convention is getting ready to endorse it. ps. gJH miLrrirr-Hacliii agreed to fly to Iceland. Fischer, who is a 2-1 favorite, could be the first American to hold the world championship and, at 29, one of the youngest champions. It's Fischer's gambit and chess is a war of nerves and if a hockey player can gel $2.5 million A Cool Sort Martha Mitchell probably is the only woman around who could shake up a presidential campaign.

Especially one going great guns toward reelection of a president. Mrs. Mitchell, who is about as timid as Muhammad Ali, told husband John and the world last week that she would leave him if he didn't get out of politics. So he did. He resigned as director of President Nixon's re-election campaign.

And she didn't. At last report, they were reconciled and presumably living happily ever after. This may make Mr. Mitchell look like a pushover. But he's always struck us as being a cool sort.

It takes a lot of cool to tell the President you gotta go, the wife is calling. Chess. It's known as the quiet game, a game played by the genteel, intellectuals. Yet, here it is capturing page one headlines and, for all things, because money. It seems that Bobby Fischer, the jnercurial, unpredictable American grandmaster, wants to elevate the to the money level of boxing, Jootball or baseball.

I Fischer is scheduled to meet Boris Spassky of Russia, the world champion, in a 24-game title match in Reykjavik, Iceland. The game was scheduled to start Sunday; it was postponed, in deference to Fischer, until Tuesday. The purse is $125,000. The winner gets five-eighths. Each player gets 30 per cent of income from the sale of film and television rights.

It is- the greatest prize money ever offered to a chess player. I But Fischer wants more. He wants SO per cent of the gate receipts. He wants the loser's share in cash, in advance, and he wants quarantine horn the press and public. It appears his gambit might pay off, A London banker put up $130,000 of his own money to entice Fischer to )Slriclly Personal By SYLVIA PORTER If Sen.

George McGovern were to become president of the U. S. and if he could then put into effect programs he is supporting as of this date, what might it mean to you? You, as a small saver with a nest egg in U. S. bonds and insurance? You, as an older individual living on a fixed pension or Social Security? You, as a veteran attending school on educational benefits? AH of you who have seen how brutally inflation erodes the buying power of the dollar? Answer: "Inflation insurance" on a scale not ever tried or even approached in the U.

S. before. At the very start, get these three points straight: (1) McGovern has been and he still is backing away from many of the radical economic positions he took during the primary campaign; he is trying hard to tell you this. (2) Even if he were standing pat on all his controversial proposals, in the U. S.

the President proposes and Congress disposes. It is inconceivable that the next Congress would obediently pass many of his programs. (3) McGovern has shown himself to be a pragmatic politician who is fully aware that a business and stock market slump caused by his proposals would destroy him as well as millions of us. notes maturing in two to five years with purchasing power guarantees. These would permit you, in McGovern's words, "to offer escalated savings accounts and savings certificates to individuals" and thereby to offset the competition from cost-of-living U.

S. bonds. As an investment officer of a pension fund or insurance company, you would be able to buy long-term, low-interest, non-marketable U. S. bonds with similar purchasing power guarantees.

These would permit you to offer pension benefits, annuities and other packages with the protection of constant purchasing power, too. As an individual already drawing a fixed-dollar private pension or annuity, you would get protection from further erosion through an exchange deal the U. S. Treasury would offer your pension fund or insurance company. Under it, the Treasury would replace the securities on which your fund or company is relying to pay you with its own purchasing power bonds of suitable maturities.

The South Dakota senator in briefest summary, would accept inflation as a fact of life and that it has surely been in our generation and he would then go to unprecedented lengths to try to insure you against this fact of life. In his words: "People who want to hedge against inflation, and are willing to sacrifice the chances of larger gains for such security, should be able to do so." If, under the conditions, a galloping inflation took hold in the U. the Treasury's obligations to owners of its purchasing power bonds could float the budget on an even deeper ocean of red ink. The acceptance of inflation, in essence, could turn out to be a perpetuation of inflation (as many foreign nations have to their horror discovered). But in this area, the thinking of McGovern's economic "radicals" and of many economic "conservatives" is a lot closer than has even been hinted in public.

(TOMORROW: How McGovern's economic policies would affect the wealthy.) Hazards Of Conversation By SYDNEY J. HARRIS If you're going to speak to me, keep your distance say, about three feet. And keep your hands to yourself. Also, don't blow. SYLVIA PORTER Now, to continue.

On curbing inflation, McGovern has so far been fuzzy outside of making the fundamental point that ending the war and sharply cutting military spending would theoretically cool inflationary fires. He would let our present price-wage controls die, and about the only specifics he suggests are actually generalities namely, stiffer enforcement of our anti-trust laws and greater use of the President's powers to "jawbone" against price gouging. Against this background, it is highly significant that McGovern is probing an area of finance long familiar in other inflation-prone nations but virtually unknown here. Here's how inflation insurance might work: As a small saver, you would be offered U. S.

savings bonds with purchasing power guarantees e.g., the dollar value of your bonds would rise as the cost-of-living index rose. The regular interest rate on your savings bond would be slashed to one-third or one-half today's rate of 5'A per cent to maturity. This would be picayune Interest indeed, but every three months your bond would become more valuable to offset higher prices. As a person living on a government pension or Social Security benefits, you would get automatic increases in your payments or benefits as the cost of living rose over the As a Vietnam war veteran, you would get automatic Increases in your education benefits as prices increased, As an investment officer of a bank or savings institution, you would be able to buy special non-marketable U. S.

Notes On The Newt Most persons obey these sim-! pie amenities, but too often you run across (hose pernicious breeds Jot conversationalists: The Rib-t Diggers, the Lapel-Grabbers, and the Breath-Blowers. This is for them. There is a certain type of Jiearty male who likes to punctu-' ate his conversation with sly little digs in the rib, using the nearest elbow. Sometimes he punches 6me an unfunny dirty story this 'way, or climaxes a profound po-J iitical platitude. Published each weekday mornlno at m- Henrv Av' C.

ROBERT BUNNELLE, Pros phllhnr RICHARD B. Pre.lS.St sibilantly) in a tone loud enough to be heard across the river. As he talks, essence of garlic and Parmesan cheese is wafted right up your nostrils. There is some deep psychic reason for this, I know. Such unpleasant creatures must feel basically insecure, so they try to anchor their audience by physical means.

But whatever the compulsion, it's a most distressing habit and is guaranteed to lose friends and alienate people faster than anything that Dale Carnegie can do about it. Almost os obnoxious are the Phony Laughters. They f.re given to immoderate guffaws, at great length, while tolling their own stories. They become so convulsed with self-appreciation that you are forced to twist your mouth into a painful rictus of a false smile for their benefit, even when nothing is funny. They are simply conversational blackmailers.

Closely related to these are the Hand Holders, who pump your arm up and down a few dozen paralyzing times while greeting you, then keep your hand clamped in their moist paws while relating some pointless yarn. Ward committeemen and similar low specimens' are most guilty of this. The art cf making affable and easy conversation docs not so much depend as the Success Courses would have us believe on saying scintillating things, as simply on being relaxed and sincere. Nobody likes to be overwhelmed by a strident personality that wraps you around like an octupus or the master of ceremonies on a TV quiz show. MCMneo mi n.

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Pi S9. Only Only I This revolting type, fortunately, is no so prevalent the Lapel-Grabber, whose name is self-explanatory. He seizes your lapels in a vise-like grip and refuses to let go until he has finished some long (and usually boring) anecdote. Sometimes, for a switch, he leans lover confidently and grabs you by the arm, just under shoulder, in karate position No. 1.

Try to get away and you've got a busted scapula. Lapal-Grabber often compounds his social felony by being a Breath-Blower at the same time. He loves to bring his face up to yours and speak rapidly (and 1 Wl! tj 1 Mof-h j'js VontM I 111 ion. 111. 10 7 JO "Before we classify this as a power plant site will we destroy natural beauty here?" PutnUhed upon Request Cot-ntv Sale 1," 10 nd mtPHONIS ISIStll A.