European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the Sfass an6 stripes tuesday August v Mumm what 13 president Carter trying to Tell Vemon Jordan arid the Black Community it sounds suspiciously like be quiet i know whats Bea Tor or dont Call til Call you the executive director of the Urban league and an Early Carter had watched the administration for months in pained at the Urban league National convention in the Plata de Spile Carters he 11 we Haw no Rull employment we have no welfare Reform we have no National health we have no Urban James Kilpatrick baffle Royal shapes up in Houston next novembers International women convention in Houston already is shaping up on the liveliest Brawl since John Sullivan licked Jake Kilran ints bar knuckled the Prospect has its aspects Good and what is happening is a kind of counter revolution within the women revolution for the past 10 the Gloria sell Nims have had things pretty much i Clr own now the Phyllis Schot Lys arc Ventur ing out of thei r for the first Militancy on the left is encountering Tancy on the at Houston the opposing forces will meet one of the problems in writing about the conflict lies in finding the right Nomen la not much is gained by the shorthand of libbers and for those m the sch Fly Camp insist they Are not opposing any woman to speak of feminists and anti feminists la still further from the for in any conventional use of the the ant libbers Are More feminine than the to identify the factions As liberals and conservatives might be generally but it takes the terms from their usual con no Gloria Steinem is perhaps the most prominent of he women who have fought Over the past decade or equal sexual easy and the Phyllis sch Fly is surely the ribs prominent of the women who have opposed the pending equal rights Amend ment and sought to restrict i speak of their followers and not in most of the state women the Stel nems have dominated proceedings almost skilled in Par filamentary they have elected heir own prepared slates of delegates to and they have pushed through a series of canned resolutions in support of Federal Day care equal credit and so ten years of activism equipped them superbly for the hit the 10 years of it is increasingly accomplished some thing else som Ellne that the Steinem finally goaded the to a Point beyond the tone of the women liberation movement became 8 tone of contempt for the House millions of american women had found rewarding lives in their roles of homemaker and Mother now they found themselves be somehow inferior to their thu int professional a Towel there the sowl Dertnig resent ment has burst into the old Ayoroa women conference saw the rebellious Schaf Lya suddenly in the same happened in Utah and in Lippy on july and an estimated boo mothers and outta neutered the conference says Norris Moore of we not Only on prayers to put legs to the Moore is a sort spoken but a very determined in the Stel nems underestimated conservative the Confer ence turned into a Battle Royal and left some bitter hostilities Shirley c0rrell of a Leader on the Schafis by Felt so infuriated by the parliamentary tactics of the conference managers that she threatens court the profanity and vulgarity it the lesbian con Tingent struck her As especially newtons third Law of Over Sim Bolds hat for every action there is an equal and opposite it applies after years of suffering indignities from the the Schally Are out to give them a taste of their own do the Stel nems want activism the Scha Hys will match their activism with activism of their to the extent that these erupting emotions obscure the reasonable and valid alms of the Steinem some harm May be steamroller Ara no More lovable on the right than on the but the counterrevolution May accomplish far More Good if it awakens the Fichas Fps to defend their own this International women convention has been rigged from the Start to promote the views of one group of women the Steinem will be in control at but they too May Benefit from the Battle if they not merely with perfunctory lip service but with Heartfelt that the counter revolutionaries have an Admi Rable cause of their own fiddler on the roof h angelas tit Tim  we Haven Aggro j Sive affirmative action we Hayes no National solutions to the grinding problems1 of poverty and l the next from the same Carter listed what he thought his rmnistrallon3 accomplishments in these areas and said he had no apologies1 of Hig efforts so he Well to to to caution and to then he met privately with a White House spokesman that the president had told his critic that the1 Carter administration had a genuine aft in poor people and that statements that argue to the contrary Are damaging u the Hopes and aspirations of those m a news Carter was asked what he had meant by this he said he had Only pointed out to Jordan that when erroneous of demagogic statement were made inaccurately reporting that neither i nor my own the Congress cared about those poor pie that this removed from them that Prospect of a better life to prey upon those who arc deprived or who Are alienated trom society and erroneously report that neither i nor my Cabinet Mem Bers nor the Congress cares about them that does Hurt the he didst mean to Call Jordan demagogic or to accuse him of preying on the he contended under further but to the extent that he alleged that Nei ther nor my administration nor the con Gress was concerned about the these statements were but Jordan had made no such state As any fair Reading of his text will quite the opposite to specifically said that Blades Are teaming that even an administration sympathetic to our needs and in Harmony with our aspirations needs sustained that was the real purpose of Jordans and he amplified it a moment later then he said that the Urban league was meeting in Washington to recall this administration to what we feel is its True the spirit of soda Reform and racial what is there in that approach that could conceivably Hurt the poor or be termed Carter does appear to have had a Point in albeit a limited his Secretary of Ray made it better in another speech to the Urban league when he observed that Many of the poor were Al ready despairing and cynical about the governments willingness to help them anything that increased their cynicism would make it harder to get their participation in and support for necessary he said Marshall that the Urban league should not be satisfied with the status that Carter fell it to invent remarks Jordan had not then crib fee those remarks As demagogic and preying on the suggests that no ready answer to Jordans real complaint that he was doing too to help a group to whom he hades Emesto Promise so Carter insisted that he had no quarrel with Vernon Jordan and thai Jor dans statements Are certainly legit but the combination of the no apologies statement in the presidents speech and the demagogic reference in the news conference is a Clear refutation not Only of the criticism but of the propriety of making and since the president has shown no inclination to relax his rigid insistence on a balanced budget by 1981 As his first priority a stance which precludes any sub Stantial increase in his Antipoverty efforts Blacks and the poor can hardly be blamed if they conclude that Carter is not heeding them As much As be seemed to a in last years Campaign co  m