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J. KOPSl OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Js entree the use for isbtsccSor. of ca the bcc! news printed in tKts newspaper, cs cs oil rews o'lspctches. Kctlbnc! Advertising Representative WARD GRIFFITH COMPANY, INC. Detroit, AtfOfrfa, rgh, San Francisco, los Angeles LONG-TIME MEMBER Woes Of Wall Street In the last 18 months, the winds of economic trouble have swept the canyons of Wall Street.

Falling volume, lower prices and poor management nave combined with inflation and a general business slowdown to force dozens of houses into consolidations and a smaller group into liquidation. The most drastic changes may be yet to come. Ironically, the new blows may stem from Wall Street's efforts to withstand the old ones. With profits plummeting despite layoffs, office contractions and mergers to save some of the weaker houses, the financial community earlier this year asked Washington to raise commission charges. The Securities and Exchange Commission has now granted that permission, but with modifications and conditions that may presage fundamental changes in how- brokers will operate.

Attention presently is focused on details of how- high the SEC thinks commission charges for various stock transactions should be. More fundamental significance may lie in other sections of the SEC's response. For example, the SEC wants to hear suggestions on requiring brokerage houses to install a uniform system of accounts, a possible prelude to much stricter regulation of Wall Street's hodgepodge of operations. Further, it wants to hear ideas on a better basis for setting rates. It has asked the New York Stock Exchange to come up with a plan for allowing non-member firms reasonable economic access to exchange trading.

It suggested that commissions on transactions over $100,000 be thrown open to competitive negotiation between brokers and customers, a move that could pry up the lid of Pandora's box as far as Wall Street's fixed rates are concerned. Such competition could prove the tonic WaU Street needs. With the weak sisters being weeded out, the houses remaining must gain both in vigor and efficiency if they are to, survive the changes which lie ahead. The ways of diplomacy are such that a sleepy ambassador can put a chill on the relations between his country and the host nation. Consider the plight of the U.S.

ambassador to India, Kenneth Keating. He prepared to be present at the sendoff of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who left New Delhi Airport at 6 a.m. on a flight to New York and the U.N., but he was still sleeping w-hen her plane departed. One of the embassy employes, it developed, had failed to awaken the ambassador at 5:15 a.m. as instructed.

The gaffe as the more deplorable because four repeat, four Russian diplomats were on hand at the airport. An India Foreign i i spokesman expressed his pique and advised that his government had taken note of the putative snub. Keating made a personal visit to India's protocol chief to express his regret and zipped off a personal note to Mrs. Gandhi. A State Department spokesman says the case is closed.

Kingdoms may have been lost for want of a horse and a war started over a seaman's ear but good international relations should be able to survive an ambassadorial snooze, especially at such an undiplomatic hour. History Reassures Middle-Roaders By CHARLOTTE FLESHMAN Curiosity once prompted me to bid about S4 at an estate auction to get large picnic hamper filled with yellowed letters and clippings. From time to time in the ensuing weeks. I went through the brittle papers, reading the faded ink of personal letters mostly from a doughboy describing World War I experiences in France and the fine print of assorted legal documents, receipts and newspaper clippings. Then I spent about as much more time finding homes for even-thing, including stamps and postmarks on some of the envelopes.

Every scrap went into some sort of collection -except for two items. I kept a hand-drawn map of Erie County, and a newspaper clipping having to do with, a Puritan plot to capture William Perm and the first migration of Quakers before they reached America. Quaker items if, indeed, these may be loosely designated as such don't relate to me in any way. Yet I find myself occasionally removing the map and clipping from file storage and studying them as -one might ponder a coded message to extract its fullest meaning. --0-The newspaper clipping is from The Inter Ocean.

a Chicago newspaper of the late 19th Century. It is datelined Hartford, Sept. 15, but whoever clipped the item failed to mark it with the year of publication. The opening paragraph reads, "The controversy over the question of whether Cotton Mather of Boston entered into a plot to capture William Penn and the first -colony of Quakers and sell them as slaves in the Barbadoes has been settled, it is said, by the finding of a letter from Mather to John Higginson of Newport." The next paragraph states that the letters at that times was in possession of George A. Reynolds, clerk of the fire board at Hartford.

--0-Then follows the letter datelined "Boston, Sept. ye 15th, 1682" and addressed "To ye aged and beloved John Higginson: There be at sea a shippe called 'Ye Welcome," R. Greenaway, master, which has aboard an hundred or more of ye heretics and malignants called Quakers, with W. Penne, who is ye chief scampe, at the head of them. "Ye General Court has accordingly given secret orders to Master Malachi Huxett of ye brig Propasse to waliaye sed Welcome as nearye coast of Codde as he may be and make captive ye sed Penne and his ungodly erewe so that ye Lord may be glorified and not mocked on ye soil of this new countre witbT ye" heathen worships of these people.

"Much spoyle may be made' by selling ye whole lot to Barbadoes, where slaves fetch good prices in rumme and sugar, and shall not only do ye Lord great service in punishing the wicked, but we shall make great good for his ministers and people. Master Huxett feels hopeful, and I will set down ye news when his shippe comes back. Yours in ye bowels of Christ. "Cotton Mather." If the Puritan theologian wrote this letter in 1682, he was only 19 at the time, but it must be remembered that he was considered a prodigy and was graduated from Harvard when only 15. Five years later (16SO), he was Ms Congregationalist father's assistant in Second Church.

Boston. When his father. Increase Mather, became president of Harvard in 1685, the son, Cotton Mather (1663-172S), became minister of Second Church, and remained there throughout life. The son was known, for his prodigious learning but equally known for vanity, arrogance, bigotry and fanaticism. He attempted to tyrannize all of Massachusetts but lost much of his influence after the Salem witch trials, which he led.

Mather epitomized Puritan effort to retain power in the American colonies at a time when ideas and mores were changing. --0-We are living in such a time now. and it is disturbing to be threatened by extremism of radical revolutionaries and reactionaries. It helps to look back in history and see that after the pendulum swings wide in both directions, it slows down finally to a sane middle course. Maybe that's the reassuring message of that newspaper Clipping.

Jack Anderson-- Mild Opiates Hit, Too The new federal anti-drug law is a powerful tool to be used against the peddlers of hard narcotics, but it goes much farther than that. It is the first national effort to brand the drug culture as the insidious destroyer of minds and bodies that it is. Nor is the law aimed exclusively at the usual targets of narcotics drives: marijuana, i and the naliucinogenies. It is directed toward the indiscriminate use of potentially harmful drugs of any kind. This includes the milder opiates which have been in use.

legally, by a careless population for many years. If there is one argument youthful drug users have in their favor, it is the observation that the adult population has been addicted to pills of one variety or another for a long time. Not that this is an excuse for turning to more damaging mind-benders, but many adults would be embarrassed if they took a good look in their medicine cabinets and read the ingredient labels on some of the inventory stored there. My Answer By BELLY GRAHAM Everyone is concerned about the group of rebels and revolutionaries in our country. Can you explain in a few words the reason for this phenomenon in our nation, and why it is happening at this time? E.R.

There may be many reasons, but there is one that makes some sense. Dr. William Glasser, a psychiatrist, believes that the alarming rise in violence, narcotic use, and sex sickness among many of our young people is caused by failure. The word "sin" means, "missing the and when a person misses the mark he is a failure. In studying these rebellious youngsters, just about everyone of them have failed in some area of life.

Certainly they have failed spiritually. They are spiritual drop-outs. When a child realizes that, he has failed he begins to act irrationally and irresponsibly, and to strike back at society. When you think of it, a criminal is a failure. He has 1 failed to maintain a clear conscience, failed to reverence God and man, failed to respect authority.

But now, there seems to be an epidemic of lawlessness. This disease has spread to every part of our society. We are all "missing the mark." Treatment Of Indians In Peace Corps Caused 'Disaster WASHINGTON The nobie experiment of the Peace Corps with American Indian recruits has ended in wholesale resignations, fir- i a a clumsy effort to cover up the debacle. The disaster was so embarrassing to the a ce Corps that its formal evaluation report on the "Peace Pipe Projects" has been classified "Confidential. Authorized Eyes Only." This column has now obtained a copy of the 54-page document, which blames the administrators, not the Indians, for the failure.

"RACISM. bungling. bureaucratic deafness (and) sheer ignorance," destroyed the Peace Pipe program and embittered many of the young Indians, charges the Office of Evaluation report. The idea of sending Indians overseas as Peace Corps volunteers was adopted by the former director. Jack Vaughn, with the encouragement of Sen.

Fred Harris, and his Comanche wife. The program finally fizzled out just after the new i Joseph I Say To You That You're Not Serious About Peace In The Middle East! 7 Blatchford, took office. "Peace Pipe the first of the two projects lost 90 per cent of its trainees. "Peace Pipe II" was supposed to profit by the mistakes. Some 33 optimistic Indians enrolled.

During training in Puerto Rico, four quit. Six more dropped out after the group moved to California for advance training. WHEN SURVIVORS were assigned to Colombia. 10 more quit. Firings, the draft and medical problems forced out most of the rest.

Is less a year, only four remained. Declares the report: "If one could imagine a totally evil man and susoeet him of the worst sort motivations toward American Indians, it would be difficult to conceive of him doing a more thorough job of messing with lives than the Peace Corps has accomplished. "The Peace Corps has extremely limited capacity to tolerate, much less to include, oeople of minority backgrounds in fact, the system has been designed to reject them, one wav or another." can look at what the Peace Corps did to help the two Indians who had draft problems. Nothing at ail while everyone killing themselves for some of the white trainees." MEANWHILE, THE young Indians began to drift "Dining 12 weeks of training, the trainees learned virtually nothing about what they would be doing or "ffhere they would be doing it," says the report. "Does Peace Corps really believe that white 23-year-old, urban college graduates con- be ite true, Yesterday And Today-- THE REPORT charges the Indians were not trained -for Colombia, were discriminated against on draft deferments, were lied to about assignments and got such miserable medical care that many were ill for weeks with diarrhea, chills, cramps and fever.

The Peace Corps director for Colombia, in fact, didn't even know how many Indians had been assigned to him or where they had been sent. The deputy director thought there was only one volunteer in Colombia, when in fact there were five. "No one was in control of it. The buck was passed rapidly, sometimes back and forth." The administrative bungling was unbelievable." states the report. tae contrary should they reply.

"Young American Indian men and women, have the basic skills and the savvy our host (countries) are asking for -in agriculture, in animal husbandry and in general knowledge of the possibilities for change in rural life." THE REPORT urges another try at Peace Pipe, which Biatchford has rejected. However, Peace insiders say that Blatchford has at least learned from the Peace Corps report. His handling of minority volunteers is more sensitive than in the days before the Peace Pipe program's disaster." In fact, this week Blatchford named William Tutman, former Peace Corps country director in Tanzania, as head of a new Office of Minority Affairs. Tutman is supposed to guide minority businesses to Peace Corps contracts and to press recruiting of minority volunteers into the Peace Corps. Few Daughters Of Confederacy Left THE YOUNG Indians were told by one training official that the program was doomed to be a failure." Another Indian youth grumped: "Peace Pipe seems like an effort to make us nice little "WASPS so that we can fit in." An outside consultant, according to the evaluation office, viewed the program with open disgust.

Said the consultant: "Anvone INTELLIGENCE partially confirm the Cairo claim that Egyptians are man-'. ning the missiles in the Suez truce zone. Apparently the Russians will remain only long enough to teach the Egyptians how to operate i sophisticated new missiles. The Russians have tried to keep their men out of combat in the Middle East except in emergencies. Soviet pilots, for example, flew some combat missions during the final stages of the fighting and a number of Soviet pilots were shot down.

Proof of this was picked up by U.S. monitors, which listened in on the secret radio frequencies that the pilots used. There is evidence, however, that the Soviets want to keei their men By SHIRLEY DONNELLY Another old friend of the long years put out to sea on Oct. 26 on her voyage to that bourne from which no traveler a returned. It was on that day that Mrs'.

Emma a a Taylor Painter (April 7. 1890- Oct. 26, 1970) loosed the moorings and headed for her long home. I had known her since 1923 and numbered all the members of a i a a friends. During course of her funeral at Oak Hill on the afternoon of Oct.

28, the tide of local i came rolling 1 in and splashed on the flood walls of memory. MRS. PAINTER was a member of the Southern Cross Chapter of the i Daughters of the Confederacy. Ker membership in this fast thinning organization was based on her fathers service to the lost cause of 1861-65. He was the late Thomas Taylor, one of the early Fayette Countians who rode witk the redoubtable Partisan Ranger Capt.

William D. Thurmond (Nov. 11, 1820-May 14, 1910) throughout the Civil War. During Ms days in the saddle, Thomas Taylor was a private in the ranks of Captain Thurmond's command. He hailed from over in the Plum Orchard community of Fayette County, where Southern sympathy was strong.

Years ago, the last of Thur- men passed to Valhalla. It was 60 years ago last May 14 that the captain of these men was gathered to his fathers. He sleeps in the family burial ground high on the mountain between Oak Hill and the Sanger section, in the Thurmond Cemetery overlooking the quiet little valley that is dramed by the waters of Meadow Fork Creek. who doubts there was racism out of the fighting. Andrew Tully-While Witness Waits, Defendant Set Free Mel IRS Claims Belafonte Owes $340,000 In Tax NEW YORK Things one I New Yorker thinks about: The Internal Revenue people I say Harry Belafonte $340,000 for 1965 to 1967, but 1 Belafonte calls it a bum rap and has gone I to U.

S. Tax I Court to fight I it Germ a hasn't yet a i a vision advertising, a la the U.S.A. Harry Belcfonie move Jan. 1. but it's Fighting i a oite the situation and at the least may slap some curbs on such commercials.

The Christian i Monitor, whose news columns don't recognize the existence of crime, has upped its newsstand price from a dime to 15 cents. "All Quiet on the Western Front," the late Erich Maria Remarque's fiction classic, is banned in East Germany. Kathryn Grayson is making her fourth tour of Australian nightclubs and Morey Amsterdam his fifth. A dozen members of the "Hair" cast were picked up in L.A. on drug charges--the third time within a month that California cops have arrested actors in that depressing musical.

movie company, some of whose productions will be from Baldwin's own books. AMONG THE 100 who attended Mrs. Painter's funeral was Mrs. Sadie Harvey Wiimer, a granddaughter of Captain W. D.

Thurmond. Also present at Mrs. Painter's funeral was a mere handful of the Daughters of the Confederacy only four or five of them. Time is taking its toll of this group. It grows smaller WASHINGTON Ardebt is a Washington Evening Star for a story of the ham-handed administration of justice in the nation's confused capital It is a na- i a because it Is typical of the a and then: a i a ttaches play i most of big cities.

It is also an indictment of defendants often in the same room, a ploy that gives the suspect plenty of time to intimidate an i witness. Mrs. waited in the room for more than two hours. Occasionally a court flunky would come in and call out the name of a witness wanted in the courtroom. THE MOVIE "Wanda" that was shown at the Venice Film Festival not only starred Barbara Loden--it also was written and directed by her.

She Elia Kazan's wife. Director Francis Ford Coppola would like to film "The Godfather' in New York, but producer Al Ruddy says no dice. Ruddy says the unions are too -demanding in Manhattan and production costs soar when you make a movie here. The funny and exciting Robert Carson novel about aging crooks, "The Golden Years Caper," is going to be made into a picture, with Carson Kanin directing and Ms wife Ruth Gordon starring. i the Brofessional, card-carrving, in number each time I see an surer-liberals among our" nal assembly of them.

tio nal politicians, who have At the funeral home on the night before the funeral, it was observed flag was of the'coffin. among tional I managed to arrange things so that the administrators of jus- that a Confederate i tice are tougher on the victim of masted at the head i a crime than they are on the suspect It was old and faded by age i and use on similar occasions over a long stretch of years i It will not Save to be used much longer because those who employ it on occasions such as this one will go hence before many a more twelve month! Thurmond, was a charter member of this same church. When this church was constituted on Dec. 22, 1892, Cap- The Museum of Natural ta Thurmond was one of the History just got what it always I 72 persons who became charter i members of it. In the intervening almost 78 OF COURSE, these outrages happen more frequently in Hell City, where every municinal office staggers under the inefficiency of semi-illiterate louts employed for political reasons.

Merely because it is typical, I give you or ratherl the MRS. PAINTER'S funeral Star does the story of Mrs. was held in Oak Hill Baptist 1 who was mugged and beaten Church, where her membership had been for a generation. Her fathers company commander during the Captain SHE LISTENED carefully, she said, but her name was never called. (In Hell City, of course, it is always possible that a witness will be paged in some bush dialect) At 10:30 a.m., the defendant was taken out of the room by an attorney for the D.C.

Legal Aid Agency. Mrs. made some inquiries of official hangers-on and was told to be patient. At 11:15 a.m., she finally left, located the Corporation Counsel's office, and was told blandly that he was "sorry, but the charges in your case have been dropped." The Star quotes Asst Corporation Counsel Michael Darrington, the prosecutor in the case, as saying he "thought he remembered" having paged the woman once. by three young hoods more than a year ago as she walked from her office to her car.

Eight days after the assault, the cops arrested three youths HE TOLD THE a however, that there was no second paging and no attempt was made to locate Mrs. X. Unfortunately, while Darrington was "thinking" he had called the woman, Chief Judge TT 1 NEW YORK film critics didn't do handsprings over "The Great White Hope," but they unanimously agreed that James Earl Jones repeated his towering stage performance as the thinly disguised Jack Johnson. a event accomplished the hard way: thieves worked a whole weekend to crack seven little, safes in a Queens bank and got away with $27,000, but. they earned it.

The money was in 90,000 dimes and 72,000 quarters. New York finally beat Paris to an entertainment ''first." A Left Bank saloon, Le Speak Easy, has just started presenting male stripteasers, but that's been going on in a 42nd St. joint for a while now. James Baldwin, the novelist who seems comfortably settled in Paris, is starting "his own wanted, Fm butterflies from East Africa, formerly Dr. V.

G. I. van Someren's private collections. Another Carradine is on the entertainment scene. Keith, David's brother, is in a new Warren Beatty-Julie Christie film.

SCOTT OSBORNE, the CBS newsman, has switched to ABC as a New York-based correspondent. Woody Allen, the comic, has been playing once-a-week club dates at Barney Google's as a clarinetist heading jazz combo. Jackie Gleason was negotiating with Caesar Palace in Las Vegas for an appearance there, but dropped things when he couldn't get Art Carney to do a "Honeymooners'-type act with him. Earl Wilson the young singer-composer, has written the book and music for an off- Broadway musical due next month. Happy 85th birthday to Harry Hershfield, one of gentlemen of our time.

a Restaurant at Madisoii and 6lst is to be replaced by an office building, but owner Gene Cavallerp Jr. has been having talks with the owners of La Seine and it just could be that the Colony ultimately will be situated there. years since this church was crime. Mrs. identified two of the youths as her attackers.

That was 15 months ago. FINALLY, ON Oct. 26, she received a subpoena from the clerk of the Juvenile Court, or- worthies have transferred their membership to the assembly of the first-born of those whose names are written in, heaven! I knew quite a number of them after settling at Oak Hill in Jan. 1923, and it feU to me to say a few words over some of them when they died. Children of those charter members, some of them, at least, are members of the church which their forbears planted.

Time has told on them, too. as they can no longer be classed as young folks. a.m. the next day, and threatening her with contempt of court if she failed to show up. Mrs.

showed up several minutes early at room 227, displayed her subpoena and was told to have a seat In the room, she recognized a youth leaning against the wall as one of those she had identified. He was to be tried that day on charges of "robbery, force and violence." In Hel City, victims and ise. because try to swallow this one there was "a lack of a complaining witness." Naturally, the suspect was set free. In all- fairness, it must be reported that so was Mrs. That is to say, she was not jailed for contempt for the court's failure to call her.

Moreover, Darrington said he was "sorry about the mixup," but explained that his office is very busy and added that the fiasco was caused by the- merger of the Juvenile Court vdth the D. C. Court of General Sessions, which a caused some confusion." I DO NOT KNOW if that youth is guilty of attacking Mrs. although her identification entitles me to my suspicions that he was guilty. by Brickman.