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I Tribune Editorial Page Opinion Analysis Interpretation ORERI.KY (Colo.) TRIBUNE Monday. July 10, 1U71! 'Pause and Ponder Tak6 heed, and beware of covelousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he 12:15 Martha Won Martha Mitchell relished being the wife of the attorney general of the United Stales. She made the most of her position or the least of it, some might say by doing a lot of what she called "speaking her mind" about a variety of controversial subjects and personalities in government. Mrs. Mitchell did not at all relish having her husband John step down from the Cabinet to direct President Nixon's campaign for reelection.

On this subject, too, she spoke her mind and claimeid that a recent bit of mind-speaking was interrupted by Secret Service men who flopped her onto a bed and "stuck a needle in my behind, 1 That "particular exercise of free speech had embodied her threat'to leave her husband unless he left politics. NOW it appears that Martha has won. John N. Mitchell has, at any rate, resigned as the President's campaign director "to devote more time to his wife and family." Mrs. Mitchell's doings have had a certain fascination because of, shall we say, her style.

But her present ultimatum, and its consequences, are of interest also for a more serious reason. In effect Mr. Nixon has been deprived of the services of a particularly able political operative the man who steered his 1968 presidential campaign to success. Mitchell's successor, former congressman Clark MacGregor, has served capably as the President's chief of congressional liaison and may do a first-rate job as campaign director. In politics as in any enterprise, it is clear that the Nixon re-election drive has lost one of its very best men.

Quqng Tri And After By JOSEPH ALsgp WASHINGTON In the fighting for Tri, the. Hanoi leaders appear to losing the unique provincial capital they have gained by cruel efforts and fea.r/u.1 expenditures of men. Unless the 5puth later have untoward bad luck, in short, the great North Viet-, namese offensive of J972 must now be as a vast and unqualified disaster. The dimensions of this disaster have betn largely concealed from the American public for two rather simple reasons. To begin with, there are too many people in Saigon who have too often predicted disaster for the South Vietnamese government.

Naturally, this makes it unpalatable to report disaster for the'enemy. More importantly, the American public has been justifiably absorbed in the fascinating spectacle of the Democratic Party tearing itself to bits on nationwide television. Yet even in terms of our politics, the battle at Quang Tri can easily prove to be far more important, in the long run, than the battles for ttife, California and Illinois delegations to, the Democratic convention. The truth is th.at, President Nixon now has about an even chance of being able to claim that he has ended the war on reasonable, terms before Election Day. The fa.lt of Quang Tri Improvet the odds in Nixon's favor, at (east to the point of the bet being even.

One must begin by asking, of course, jqst wha.t the bet is really about. It would be idiotic, for example, to bet that the parly first secretary, Le Duan, and the other hard-liners in Hanoi will suffer a change of heart. At this moment, these men must instead be arguing desperately fotvhangi.ng on at costs, in the hope that Sen. George McGovern will somehow be elected, and will then come "begging" fo Hanoi, as he has promised to do. Instead, it is now a'n even bet that the disaster of the great offensive will caqse a major change in the ba.la.nce between the groups in Hanoi.

If that happens, the main losers are bound to be Le Duan and the other hird-ljners, And if the hard-liners lose grip on policy, in turn, President may easily his long- KWfhtgoal. Thii kind of development must now be regarded as entirely possible, for quite different sets of reasons. Firat comes President's -brilliant- success 'separating Hanoi from Peking arid Moscow in all the that matter. Greeley Daily Tribune The Greeley Republican tvtry witk Puttihlif Co. 714 llh OrHky, MMJI1.

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Moscow and Peking can no longer "bring pressure" on Hanoi, as President Johnson used to hope. President Nixon's blockade and bombing are bringing more pressure than either of the big brothers could bring on their own. But both Peking and Moscow are also warning Hanoi President Nixon is pretty certain to be reelected, and that he will be a lot rougher customer to deal with once the election is over. "Do business now, while you can," is the advice being offered. That would be quite divisive enough, in and of itself.

It must be even more divisive for Hanoi to have to watch the once tough North Vietnamese units throwing away their weapons and running like rabbits, when serious South Vietnamese pressure is applied. That has happened often on the an- preaches to Quang Tri. One of the units involved has also been Hanoi's last reserve division, the 325lh. That sort of thing never exerts a unifying influence in any government, especially when it also means that the lives of many tens pf thousands of men have been spent to no good purpose. But third and finally, there is the simple fact that the Hanoi leadership has never been united, even in periods long before these new factors' entered the equation.

On this, the record is quite clear. In 1965, there was a bitter internal dispute about whether to. answer the American intervention by po'uring more North Vietnamese divisions into South Vietnam or whether to go back to classical guerrilla warfare. In 1967, there was a second bitter internal dispute about whether to make the enormous sacrifices demanded by the Tet offensive. In 1971, there was a third dispute, on the same pattern, about the preparations for the present offensive.

-Each lime, Le Duan and the hardliners won the argument. But each time, subsequent experience proved lhat Le Duan and Ihe hard-liners were tragically wrong. After Tet, lo be sure, Le Duan had a kind of fig leaf to cover his folly. He could boast -and did boast-- that Tet had knocked President Johnson out of the box had also ended the bombing. Now, however, the new offensive has started the bombing a a i has blockaded the ports and has produced an even greater disaster than Tel.

You can see why the hard-liners may have some hard arguing to do. Copyright, 1972, Los Angeles Times Pooch Digs Junk Mail By ANN RUDY Copley. News I've solved the junk-mail problem at our house by renaming the dog. Our big black Newfoundland; formerly known as "Noche" after the night of the same color, is now "occupant." I stumbled across the idea quite by accident one day while reading through a pile of occupant mail that I couldn't bear to throw away. Envelopes marked "open immediately.

Valuable 'coupon inside" proved, time and again, to be not only worthless, but downright insulting. I keep getting hints from deodorant soap companies, and little innuendos from book sellers which infer that I'd better update my reading or I'll be a social failure. Frankly, I don't know of a sweeter-smelling housewife than myself, and when it comes to being informed I know the exact date tha.t 'Halley's Comet didn't hit. So who needs junk mail? Certainly not so I took to tossing it aside with complete abandon until! noticed one day that "Noche" fell upon it eagerly and chewed it happily to bits. FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING So This Is Greeley BUT BY JIM BRIGGS THOUGHT FOU TODAY "The trouble (hese days is that there's no arrest.for the wicked." Farmers Almanac.

THE EAT'N PLACE Well, ol' Fritz Barsch, Weld County's "Restaurant Baron," has done it again. What he's done is buy up the Old Eaton Locker and Ice Building up'there in Eaton, remodeled it completely inside and turned it into one of the and most attractive restaurants you'll find anywhere. "What are you going to call it?" I asked Barsch the other day when I went up to look it over. "The Eat'n Place, what else," he replied. (Isn't that a great name for an eat'n place?) Gary Baird, manager, of Bar'sch's Farm Fare Restaurant at Lucerne, wili manage The Eat'n Place, which opened today.

A big "grand opening celebration" will be held later on, Barsch said. Fried chicken will be the specialty of the house, the Baron said as he proudly displayed a shiny new pressure-type cooker, the only one of its kind in the area. A look around the kitchen reveals it to be to these old eyes just about the most modern equipped kitchen any- "This will serve as a central production kitchen for Monfort Feed Lots, Aims College, Wright and McGill and other business firms we cater, with the exception of Kodak," Barsch said. The exterior of the building will be refaced and will look a lot like Barsch's Farm Fare Cafeteria over there at 1024 9th Ave. Barsch started in the restaurant business around these parts on May 1,1963, when he opened the Farm Fare at Lucerne.

Barsch also owns and operates the Red Steer Lounge. Quite a success story for the affable Mr. Barsch, eh what? FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH I see by the papers lhat "Jimmy the Greek" Snydef, out there in Vegas, is giving President Nixon 3-1 odds against any Democratic candidate as of now. He thinks Mr. Nixon will carry all the states he won in 1D68, plus the ones Wallace picked iip lhat Just thought you should know this in case you like to make election bets.

As this is being written it is 1:10 p.m. Friday, and Frank Colohan and I are lamenting the fact that our favorite soap opera, "The Guiding Light," was pre-empted for some 27 minutes while Waller Cronkile showed pictures of Governor Wallace arriving in Miami for the Democratic Convention. We hate to see (he conventions coming up because they'll probably be doing this same thing from now on and how the heck are we going to keep up with Mike and Ed and Holly and Janet and Leslie and Bert and I'oppa and Roger and Barbara and Adam and Ken and their crazyj mixcd-up lives in the pleasant (own of Springfield? T'aint fair! THE A SOLUTION -Managing Editor John Dugan. was doing some research the other day and ran across the following "news item" published in the July 3,1902, issue of the Tribune, which I think I should share with you good readers. "There is a farmer out In Colorado has hit upon a happy solution to the drought problem.

In planting his potato crop he would alternate each row with a row of red onions. In rase a drought should set In the would grow so hot wake the eyes of Ihu potatoes water and thus produce sufficient moisture to keep Ihcm growing. This man lives in Larimer County." LITTLE I NATIONS -Dorothy Strubcl of the Weld County Health Department, says she just completed giving an orientation on Public Health to five new interns at Weld County General Hospital and found them one of the most interesting and also interested groups she's spoken to. The interns are from Korea, India, Thailand, Greece and Iowa. They are Taichoong Chung of Seoul, Korea; Michael Kogianes, graduate of the University of Athens, Greece; Mrs.

Geeta a of the Christian Medical University of Punjab, Lud- hiana, India; Suwich Sanwong, nf the Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, whose home is Ubol, Thailand, and Gary Landers of DCS Moines, Iowa. Looks like they've Rot a little United Nations up there at the hospital. ON THK LI01 IT SIDE I liked this quickie in the notary Club's Bulletin. Seems an Alabama girl whose father was an undertaker was sent to a fashionable Eastern school. One day one of the snooty uirls asked her what business her falter was In and.

fearing the truth damage her fashionable image, she carelessly answered, "Oh. my father's an old Southern planter." KNOWS WHEREOF HE SPEAKS -Being an ex-bureaucrat of sort (two years as an information officer with the OPS), I was amused to read about Pennsylvania's education secretary, John Pittenger, who turns out to be another official who properly exhorts his underlings to write English instead of Bureaucralese. I found especially interesting that part of his memo ironically couched in the sort of language he would end, to wit: "A determination has been made that the communications effectiveness of department personnel suffers from low i i i a i of a i and correspondingly high thresholds of verbosity and circuitous phraseology." Now that's a man who's been there! TODAY'S GREETING A Hi there. Herb Jacobson, hope your day is going well. Happy-'Birthday', yesterday.

A SURE SIGN An "Avid Header" (love those "avid writes about reading in "Success Unlimited" the story of a.farmer who had tried unsuccessfully to dissuade his neighbor's chickens from playing havoc with his garden. So he made some signs which he attached by means of thread to kernels of corn. The chickens came and ale the corn and when Ihcy returned home some hnd signs dangling from their beaks which said: "I have been a bad chicken. Please keep me home!" The fence was mended. LUCY'S CALL- And Lucy called to tell about a farmer who cime to town with his wife and stopped at a fancy restaurant.

After taking an unbelieving look a he called the waller over and asked him: "How much is juil a plain- old hamburger?" The a i i "11,50." "Maude," the farmer to hit wife, "we're leavhi' for home thli minute. you realise we got a cow back (here worth and Letters to the Tribune City Should Convert To Water Meters To The Tribune: Continuing economic Inflation w6qI4 seem (o justify some Increases In Gret' ley's water and sewer rales. But citizens have a right to expact new rates will be equitable -amopl users, with water bawd on; the amount of water used and based on volume of sewage discharged for treatment. The only accurate way to determine the amount of water used Is by meter- ing it and immediate action should bf. taken to require meters in residential construction.

The city should have ownership of ill water meters within the city and should increase tap fees to cover' cost 'of-'providing meters. The 9,000 flat-rate dwellings should be converted to meters as rapidly. as possible, within a five-year schedule, starling with newer additions first. The city would furnish meters and owners could have the option of five- repayment of paid with their quarterly bills. The city could have specialized stallation crews or could set up provement districts with meter contracted to private.firms.

Lawn watering restrictions should lifted as customers go on meters and this might hasten conversion to meters. A few years ago Kersey and John- slown required all water users to install meters. All Windsor customers are also metered. Shouldn't Greeley show similar responsibility and concern for conserving water and establishing an equitable rate structure? An advantage of having meters is that it provides an base for establishing.sewer Present sewer rate for with four or more family units is 50 cent of the quarterly water bill. With all users on meters, they would also be charged 50 cent of the water bill, based on the quarter at December, January and February they would only be charged on water-I used inside dwellings.

This rale'-could be adjusted; up 6r down, according 'rrietered and financial needs of sewer department. Fort Collin's sewer rate is Ki.per cent and some cities are higher where water receipts are low or sewer needs greater. A Considering this, the proposed dinance doubling the sewer charge''fop' 1 non-metered residential in.4 removing a a and rnobile homes from the present 50 per cent is a backward step. Since commercial and industrial', rates remain at 50 per cent, residential owners, under proposed rales, will bi discriminated against when their sewer charges will be too per cent or more of their water bills. Most of us owning duplexes with meters now pay $7.50 a quarter for' waler and S7.50 for sewer which is 100 per cent.

If sewer rates are doubled as proposed, we will be paying $15 for sewer which is 200 per cent of (he water bill. This would be the case for most apartments and mobile homes. this sound equitable? Julius Thompson 2129 5th Ave. Current Quotes By The ASSOCIATED I "I feel as you feel; grieved, deprived, orphaned." Archbishof lakovos informing (he notional' congress of the Greek Orlhfldo'v. Church in America of (he death hY Istanbul of Patriarch Alhanagoras'-f' "I have worked for more than 7 year to get this match to I would do many things.

But I will. not bite into a sour apple." Gud Thorarinsson, president the Icelandic Chess Federation, I had been under pressure from Fischer to give up a share of thV gate recepils (he Flscher-Spasiky chess match. "My reaction would ht: li Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt when asked how he felt about (he Cuban demand that the United SlalW withdraw from its naval a't''' Guiinlanamo Bay in Cuba, "The Constitution doesn't gay candidale has to be alive." Jeffrty'' Anidur, a spokesman, for Millan! Killmorc KS -urn prosldcnllnl cnndidnte..