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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION a1 CMlWrer For 1 04 Yrs Souf A's Sf finrforrf Ketmmper T7j IT fl IMfl 11 ffofl Ith flfl. VP Plfl fl JACK TARYER, President RKG MURPHY, Editor One of the more intriguing news pictures of the political year cropped up the other day at the hearings before take any final action on such a plan' this year. But the Mills-Kennedy ommendation may well amount to an outline of what the Congress will adopt: next year. Their plan went far beyond one of PAGE i-A, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1972 Democratic party platform committee, a shot of old pro Rep. Wilbur Mills leaning over to whisper to young still presumed heir-of-Camelot Sen.

Ted Kennedy. It had a special kind of intrigue to it, in ret The Free Press Mills, his earlier friendship with President John Kennedy and Sen. Robert Kennedy, it would be almost impossible for him to refuse a request by Ted Kennedy to be a running mate on a Kennedy ticket. That won't happen in all probability, though the California delegate controversy makes McGovern's assured first ballot nomination less probable than it seemed only days ago. But it's Reg Murphy is on vacation.

why there is a certain fascination in a photograph of Congressman Mills leaning over in friendly fashion to confer with Sen. Kennedy. Politics aside, what they were conferring about is interesting in itself. Mills and Kennedy resolved their differences on a proposed compulsory national health insurance plan, joining forces in presenting their views to the Democratic platform committee hearing in St. Louis.

This is a presidential election year, and it's not likely that Congress will Mills may one day be Speaker of the House. Already, his House committee writes most of the nation's tax legislation. In fact, a tax bill can hardly become law without at least Mills' tacit approval. In terms of actual power, becoming vice president might almost be a step down for the Arkansas Democrat. Yet, then, Mills went on to say something else about the vice presidential nomination, the kind of thing which might well keep Sen.

George McGovern or the outside possibles, Senators Edmund Muskie and Hubert Humphrey, awake in the wee hours of the morning. There was only one possible way he might consider a vice presidential nomination, said Mills, and that was with Sen. Edward Kennedy. The convention might well become deadlocked, he said, and if it did, the convention might turn to Sen. Kennedy, despite his almost (but not quite) Sherman-esque statement of his unavailability.

In light of his own closeness to the Kennedy family, said The Kennedy-Mills joint statement favored a health care system Americans with a standard, prehensive set of basic health insiuy. ance benefits supplemented by protect tion against catastrophic costs. Basic benefits for each citizen would include physicians' services, in patient and out-patient hospital ser- vices, extended care facility services, emergenyc health: rehabilative services and home health care, dental services with env-phasis on preventire care, general pre- ventive health and early disease detection, vision care, prescription drugs," U(tU rospect, because the photograph was taken within a few days of a network television interview with Congressman Mills, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, in which Mills acknowledged that his own long-shot candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination was indeed a long shot. The liklihood of his ever even considering the vice presidential nomination was very slight, said Mills. And that made sense.

Many think and durable medical equipment and' treament devices. All that's a big order. The Mills- Kennedy plan doesn't make it clear i a v- i i precisely jusi now nu ue miauixu. Ernest B. Furgurson, Nothing There is a portion of the U.S.

Supreme Court's decision saying that newsmen must supply information to grand juries in criminal investigations with which we agree. As Justice Byron R. White's opinion for the 5.4 majority put it, the U.S. Constitution does not exempt a newsman from "performing the citizen's normal duty of appearing and furnishing information relevant to the grand jury's But we think the high court erred drastically in failing to apply the First Amendment 's guarantees of free speech and free press to the special situation of protecting a reporter from disclosing information obtained from confidential sources. As Justice Potter Stewart wrote, in dissent, this ruling "invites state and federal authorities to undermine the historic independence of the press by attempting to annex the journalistic profession as an investigative arm of government." Doctors, lawyers, and priests, are by tradition and sometimes by law protected in the right to honor a confidence offered to them in their professional capacities.

In the case of the priest, this takes on a sacred and religious aspect. We believe the right of the free press involves directly the right of the newsman to, on occasion, talk to confidential sources with the implicit guarantee that such sources will remain confidential. We agree with the Ameri Is Sacred GETTYSBURG-There are a very few pieces of America that never fail, to hold the heart, no matter how many times we go back can Society of Newspaper Editors who called the ruling a "direct blow at the right of the people to be fully informed without hindrance by the government." Sigma Delta Chi, the national professional journalistic society, has endorsed a similar stand. "What was at issue here," said Robert Fichenberg, chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the editor's group, "was whether a reporter can be compelled to reveal his sources for a story in which the government may have an interest. If he can, he becomes in effect an agent for the government." We hope, with all due respect, that the Supreme Court may see fit to affirm the right of the free press in whatever rulings may be necessary to clarify the effect of last week's ruling on the role of a reporter in a free J0 to them.

For me, one is the Lincoln Memorial, where you look up into the sadness of that great face and then out between the columns, down the Mall toward the Capitol. Another is the Drunk Driving I mm mi -mm, v.ww.v.v.v.v. Statue of Liberty, copper-green in th. bay, obsolete in an age when immi-grants bypass the harbor for the airports, standing forever eloquent. And there is the point here on the slight slope of Cemetery Hill, where 109 years ago, July 3, the Union held and" the Confederacy receded, and the? world was different from then on.

I never stand here but I see the: rows of gray, the bayonets in the dust. 1 Baldi The Fourth of July annual celebration falls on Tuesday this year, tomorrow, and we hope all of us survive it. Unhappily, holidays are too often times of high numbers of accidental deaths, especially deaths on the highways. More will die this year before the Fourth of July ends. I thought soniebody oughta Tomorrow we celebrate all our freedoms, Sarge come by and say C.

Sulzberger Has to Be Invented Why Money Col. Ray Pope, Georgia commissioner of public safety, spoke out the other day against one particular source of death and injury: the drunken driver. Make no mistake, the drunken driver is a killer. Last year alone, said Pope, 1,820 persons died on Georgia highways. More than 1,100 of these deaths could be traced to alcohol.

Pope blasted present Georgia law which, in most cases, permits a driver whose license was supposedly revoked for one year for drunken driving to get his license back in 30 days if he can show that he is financially responsible. That means, routinely, that a convicted drunk driver must only come up with the cash to finance a new liability car insurance policy. Needless to say, the fact that the driver has money enough to pay a higher insurance premium has little to do with whether he ought to be driving on the highways again in 30 days. There's nothing to be done about that loophole in the law, not at the moment. But we would hope every motorist would exercise especial care during the holiday.

You've heard the phrase. The life you save may be your own or that of a loved one. LONDON Four years ago, when he was still President of France, General de Gaulle bid me, "Now the advancing across the open with hardly i a yard of defilade between ridge and ridge, and hear the cannon and see the gaps rip through the lines as they mfve closer. I have wondered sometimes if it moves just me, because Lv know my great-grandfather was there in the 53rd Virginia, coming on with- Armistead's brigade. But in fact it always did, before I ever knew what out fit he was in.

The Prince of Peace Museum, Gettysburg Game Park, Diorama Tours, the Lincoln Train Museum, Elbys, Copter Tours, Audiotronic Tours, Fort Defiance Museum, Howard Johnson's, the National Civil War Wax Museum are mostly hidden from this point. But on the hard right, cruddy kids on loud motorbikes rumble back and forth through the parking lots of Hardee's and Col. Sanders' fried chicken. Overhead, helicopters conduct tours. Buses with signs promising "drama in living color" stop and go.

All of which would seem to be bad enough, here on what Lincoln himself proclaimed hallowed ground. Howt ever, some of our citizens still per-1 ceive a buck unmade, and they are determined to make that buck, and in the? United States does not want to change its policy on gold and it is doing everything possible to continue that policy. It is lending to other banks and trying to conserve as much gold as is possible in its own stocks. The Drama two-tier price system for gold, keeping its monetary level at $35 but letting its commercial level (jewelry, etc.) float upward. Then, last year, the monetary parity was hoisted by Washington to $38 an ounce.

But these moves were not enough to help the world out of its fundamental slough. De Gaulle's theory was that by doubling the price of gold the United States would double its assets and halve its debts. In 1962 official U.S. gold reserves totaled $16.95 billion. Now they have slid to $10.49 billion Europe's reserves have steadily climbed so that it holds about half the world's stock but it also has some $23 billion in unconvertible U.S.

dollars. The old Gaullist idea that Washington should resign itself to doubling the price of monetary gold non-monetary gold already approaches that level-remains popular among many Frenchmen. But any appeal this ever might have had in the United States has diminished with melting bullion reserves. Moreover, there just isn't enough gold in the world to finance the immense boom in trade. De Gaulle's thought was really to use gold as a means of forcing the United States to adopt a stable external monetary policy.

Gold will probably have to slip upward again but the world must accustom itself more and more to such artificial devices as Special Drawing Rights (S.D.R.') and perhaps other substitutes for the yellow metal that is in short supply. The Eurodollar already plays an ever-increasing role in international finance somewhat like that of sterling before 1939. In this confusing situation, the Bank for International Settlements observes in its annual report: "The essential role of gold in the system at present is not in its use as a means of settlement but its use as the standard for the parities of currencies, and as the guarantee of value for the S.D.R. itself and for creditor and debtor positions in the international Monetary Fund." All this relates directly to the current crisis in Europe, represented by Britain's decision to float the pound. But this alone, with its immensely important political ramifications including the Common Market's future, is only symbolically related to gold.

The world has moved far from the little golden calf before whose altar it once worshipped. Today's difficulties stem from an explosion in world trade and living standards which require immense quantities of money to finance them. In a sense, the money has to be "invented." i The combination of cause and effect have produced a movable inflation that shifts from one to another country. The fear that really obsessed de Gaulle was that either the United States would export its inflation broad or, failing that, be consumed by it at home. The United States has somehow dis-.

tributed so many billion dollars overseas that the outside world is stuck unless a more disciplined American external monetary policy is devised. This is at the heart of British Prime Minister Heath's problem; also, ultimately, of President Nixon's. Nixon obviously knows this and has been working on it for at least two years. nrnpaao tn consquence is that the United States has too many dollars which it doesn't want to keep at home. "It wants to send these abroad, to export them as loans and investments, in order to avoid an excess of dollars at home and consequent inflation.

This export of dollars is used to buy up European enterprises while protecting you from inflation. Of course this is inconvenient for Europe "In France we have no desire to see the United States embarrassed and we would derive no satisfaction from such an event. The only thing we want is to see a healthy and normal economic equilibrium established there." De Gaulle tended to simplify the remedy for a situation that has now become even more critical. He suggested the price of gold be doubled from $35, which it was at the time of our conversation, to $70 an ounce. Since then there have been two small steps in that direction.

Later in 1968 the central bankers, meeting in Frankfurt, established the more publicity than any in recent history, thanks to Fischer. Before he moved his first pawn on the board, he caused an uproar by not appearing in Reykjavik when expected and stirring rumors about demanding 30 per cent of the gate over his share of the $125,000 purse. If the drama on the chess board is as intense as the drama around it, chess enthusiasts are in for an exciting tournament indeed. Not many years ago a chess tournament was a perfect place to be if you wanted to be completely ignored by the press and the other media. Nobody but chess players was interested.

Terrible-tempered and money-conscious Bobby Fischer, America's chess champion and quite possibly one of the great players in the history of the game, has changed all that. The tournament scheduled in Iceland Sunday between Fischer and Russia's world champion Boris Spassky is getting Other Voices blow to Gettysburg. A Maryland gentleman named Thomas Ottenstein, who has some spare cash to multiply, has decided for himself and all Americans present and future that the Battlefield of Gettys- burg would be further hallowed by the presence of a three-tiered, 307-foot observation tower much in the fashion of the monstrosities erected at San An tonio and Seattle. i Bruce Catton, who recreated the Civil War for so many American read-1 ers, opposes the idea. Prominent ar-, chitects oppose it.

The state of Penn-. sylvania opposes it. The Interior De-! partment opposes it. The National Park Service opposes it. The dent's Advisory Council on Historic' Preservation opposes it.

A 17-year-old, Gettysburg student named opposes it. I would feel sick and V-lonely if most of 209 million Americans besides me did not od-'4' pose it. But Ottenstein is rushing to obtain" the site between sessions of the Adams i County Court where his demand is now 4 being heard. When the case resumes next Friday, his lawyers may be in position to plead that permission to build should be granted because he has already gone to so much trouble and expenses. Fortunately for the nation, the state and other opponents are likely to appeal the case all the wav im th Shooting in the Dark Leo Aikman Finish the Fourth Alert and Alive Ann Rich, who moved to Valdosta from Great Britain four years ago, tells this story on her two sons, as re ported by the Valdosta Times.

After hearing post-Civil War talk for four years, Scott, 5, asked big brother, Darren, 9, "Ami a Yankee or a Rebel?" "Neither," the brother replied. "You're a Red Shooting in the dark is awkward. And it's dangerous. That seems to be what the Jekyll Island Authority is doing, as it goes about its task of "developing" Jekyll Island for the glory and use of Georgians. By law, Jekyll is limited in the amount it can be developed.

The Legislature put a limit of 35 per cent development for the state-owned coastal island. And how much is Jekyll now developed? No one knows. Authority Director Horace Caldwell was quoted this week as not having an exact figure on how much the Island is presently developed. His guess was 20 per cent developed. Mr.

Caldwell is somewhat limited by the Authority. Apparently the prestigious Authority has not itself decided what the Legislative intent of the -d "development" is. In this respect the Authority is shooting in the dark. If the Authority is unaware of the total development ratio, what other im portant elements does the Authority not know about? The question can come: Has the Authority already developed more than 35 per cent of the island? Where do we stand today? How else can the Authority protect the interest of the people of Georgia if it doesn't have defined for it the word "development." It has been suggested that a dump or borrow pit, or artificial lakes, is not "development" in the sense that the Legislature thought. Some have even gone as far as saying that a golf course should not be counted as part of the "development." To these, we strongly object.

Anything that takes away from what nature has put on the island, to our tliink-ing, is "development." The Jekyll Island Authority needs to reach a consensus on defining "development." Unless the Authority makes this definition, some day Georgians could wake up and find every inch of the Island in its natural state-covered with golf courses. Wayne County Press. i. The Britisher replied, "My government expects me to be on duty on all American holidays. By not being alert on one July the Fourth, we lost a lot of valuable real estate." Then there was the English immigrant who worked diligently to become an American citizen.

"Why?" asked a compatriot. "Well, for one thing," the fellow said. "I win the Revolution." OF ALL THINGS: It's later than you think. The North Georgia Tribune reported last Thursday that Canton merchants have voted to buy new Christmas decorations For the Alcoholics Anonymous convention on Marcos Island, the bars were closed and the bartenders took a holiday Hoosier columnist Lowell Nussbaum reports on the fellow so broke he couldn't afford to buy his children Roman candles on the Fourth, so he did the next best thing blew lightning bugs through a peashooter Remember if you don't down a fifth on the Fourth, you're more likely to be alive on the sixth. I LIKE THIS: "Patience is the leading characteristic of great minds." From Mary K.

Leary. And this: you. have talent and patience, you can accomplish anything." HIGHLINES: A young lady we know says what she'd really like is one of those nice, little foreign sport cars, with the foreip sport still in it. Tom Hay, Rockdale Citizen. I read where a Japanese company offers as a fringe benefit a 90-second yawn break every half hour.

Some workers I know would need an alarm clock to wake up for the exercise. Jerry Pryor, Fitzgerald Hid. chain if the local court rules against them. But then, so is Ottenstein. He has hope, because here and there among the nearly unanimous opposition he hears an occasional, voice like that of the chairman of the county commissioners, a man who has a fine ear for the clicking of turnstiles.

The chairman says a 307-foot tower that collects $1 a head from visitors cannot conceivably desecrate the battlefield. All those who think so are just "narrow-minded historians," he says. To which Lincoln would surely respond, is nothing sacred? coat." Which reminds me of Elbert Forester's story about the senator who phoned the British Embassy on George Washington's birthday and feigned surprise on finding it open. "You're working on one of our national holidays," he said in jest to an embassy staffer. "I'm sure our government would not approve of that.".