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LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT
Answer Would Be Ir^teresting
The editor of the Mount Olive
Tribune raises a most interesting ques
tion in his editorial, "Fiddling While
America Dies", reprinted elsewhere on
this page today. He asks why the likes
of Stokeley Carmichael are ignored
while the United States Justice De
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partment seeks to imprison the Frank
lin, County Board of Education.
Carmichael has sought to destroy
this country. He had advocated the
overthrow of the government in
speeches both here and overseas. Yet,
the Justice Department had done
nothing in the face of a number of
violations of this country's laws by
Carmichael and his kind. It is too busy
harrassing southern school boards.
' Agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation are too occupied check
ing out every unfounded complaint by
a member pf the minority race to look
into the action of those who advocate,
the destruction of our country.
The Mount Olive editor asks if the
Justice Department believes that the
Franklin County Board of Education
represents a greater threat to the
security of this country than does the
preachings of Stokeley Carmichael.
An ansv^r from the Department of
Justice v?uld, indeed, be most in
teresting.
Same Sad Story
Fifth Highway Division Commis
sioner J. B. Brame of Durham paid
another visit to Franklin County last
week. He brought the same sad story
he has brought before. No money is
available with which to extend the
NC-39 project beyond Ingleside. Costs
are rising and Franklin is caught in the
middle - a place most familiar to folks
in these parts.
HJe left unanswered the odd arith
metic used by the Commission when
it divided the Fifth Division's $10
million dollar allocation from the
State Road Bonds. Seven into $10
million doesn't come out a short
$750,000 to most people in Franklin
County. ,
Commissioner Brame did point out .
that upon his recommendation, the
Commission alloted one "significant
project" to each of the counties in the
Division. Some, it seems, were more
"significant" than others.
Neal Rattican, capable editor of
the Roxboro, N. C. Courier-Times
makes some interesting observations
in his column "Here and There",
reprinted elsewhere on today's page.
He says that Franklin and Person are
"riding in the same leaky boat togeth
er" and that they are the "red- headed
step children" of the Division. This
statement will get little opposition in
Franklin County.
Mr. Brame and other members of
the present Commission are, of
course, lame ducks. They are ap
pointees of Governor Dan Moore.
Franklin, Person and the other Have
Not counties of Vance, Warren and
Granville - all in the same leaky boat -
must await with some anticipation,
indications from the yet to be named
appointees of Gqvernor Bob Scott.
As the Roxboro editor so aptly
puts it, we may all "see the Deep
Six". However, tjiere is a growing
indication that the Have-Nots have
had it in the matter of unfair and
unjust highway allocations. Unless
some major adjustments are made
when the new Commission enters of
fice, chances are - like the old fellow
said - you ain't seen nothing yet.
And let the Scott administration
take heed. Some changes are needed
in the Fifth Division. The easiest way
to make them is with the new Com
mission. One way or another, the
Have-Nots plan to bail out the boat.
When they reach shore, somebody
better pay attention.
Soul City, N. C.
The Tower of Babel failed because
the Lord imposed the curse of mixed
languages on those who were building
a tower to reach heaven.
The Tower of Integration has col
lapsed because the Lord has imposed
the same language on its builders, but
has changed the meaning of the words
each day.
For two decades a large, expensive
and frustrating slice of the federal
government's time has been wasted in
the effort to rid the citizenry of its
prejudices, and to force serious mind
ed people to do what they know from
long experience is not in the national
best interest, nor io the best interest
of either the Negro or Caucasian
segments of our society.
And now out shouting from a
federal roof top is a colored messiah
from Durham, North Carolina,
politely "amened" by the about-to-de
part Secretary of Agriculture, and
they both are going to lay hands, and
a huge hunk of federal funds on 1800
not so-fertile acres of Warren County
and convert it into a Green Pasture,
which is to go by the trade name of
Soul City, N. C.
And so we have made the long
political journey; from bayonet en
forced racial integration in Little
Rock to federally subsidised total
segregation in the clay hitls of Warren
County.
If these men were not so serious in
their pious effort everyone could take
another short snort and have a long
laugh. But here we have an educated
Negro from Durham where coopera
tion between the races has created the
world's largest Negro-owned insurance
company, and where many other co
operative enterprises have raised the
Durham Negro society to one of the
very highest in the world, and yet
lawyer McKissick wants to turn his
back on this success story and strike
out in the wilderness, of course, with
his pockets lined with federal funds.
There is no room in the United
States for totally segregated groups of
people. They breed fear, suspicion and
hatred. The South has never had a
totally segregated system. Whites and
blacks worked and played and fought
together, but practiced segregation in
churches, schools and marriage be
i_cause they had found from long ex
perience that this was best for both
races. ? Lenoir County News.
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
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Fiddling While America Dies
Mount Olive Tribune
It escapes us at the moment how
the Justice Department can consider
the actions of a school board in one
small county more important to the
security, present and future, of the
nation than the rantings of admitted
revolutionists of the Stokeley Car
michael type. Yet that appears to be
the case.
Carmichael himself has broken
enough existing laws to be put away
for years and years, yet the Justice
Department chooses to Ignore him
comp letely.
Franklin County, North Carolina,
has a board of education diligently
trying to comply with HEW guidelines
for integrating the county's schools, at
the same time being acutely aware of
the children's and the county's needs.
The board's proximity to the people
makes it far more capable of judging
how and how fast to complete HEW
orders than the Justice Department, it
seems to us.
Yet the Justice Department powers
that be ask for the imprisonment of
the Franklin school board because
.integration has not proceeded exactly
as the department believes it should
have. All the while forces and folks
which would really destroy our nation
are given the silent treatment.
Wonder, for instance, what hap
pened to those responsible for it after
the disclosure that several million
dollars worth of fuel, and 'untold
millions of dollars worth of other U.
S. supplies and material were and are
being diverted from our servicemen in
southeast Asia to blackmarket and
other uses? The Justice Department is
strangely silent, and for all the public
knows, highly inactive, on these
matters.
Everything built is composed of
one element after another, no matter
how small, being fitted together.
Who's to say that the destruction of a
society isn't accomplished in the same
manner? ? CB.
Ramsey-Brame Flap Would Be Pointless
By NEAL R ATT I CAN
Courier-Times Editor
Rep. James Ramsey of Person doesn't want to become embroiled in any
running debate with Fifth Division Highway Commissioner J. B. Brame of
Durham over whether Brame* did or did not intimate to Ramsey that the
commissioner has been pressuredto divert this county's Highway 49 improvement
fund* to a Franklin County project. He's content to allow Brame to have the last -
word and let the matter drop. \
Speaking at a chamber of commerce breakfast Jan. 8, Ramsey commented that
Brame had informed him certain pressures were being exerted on the
commissioner in this regard. However, a few days later The Franklin Times
reported an interview with Brame wherein the commissioner "emphatically
denied" that Franklin sources have been twisting his arm to siphon off some or all
of Person's Highway 49 money.
Misunderstanding?
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It may very well be true, that Ramsey's comment and Brame's denial could
have resulted out of a misunderstanding, as Mr. Brame has intimated. Hopefully,
that is^he case. Both Person and Franklin counties have been the red headed step
children 'of the Fifth Highway Division, and it is certain that any squabble among
themselves would not enhance their chances of getting the additional highway
funds both deserve.
We doubt .that Rep. Ramsey intended his remarks to the chamber group to
embarrass Mr. Brame. But then too, we doubt Rep. Ramsey would have made
such a public utterance had he not been led to believe that what he was saying
had good foundation. ?
In all fairness to Mr. Brame, however, it can be seen how that Person solon's'
statement placed the highway commissioner in an uncomfortable position. When
questioned by the Franklin County newspaper on whether he was being pressured"
to divert Person money to Franklin, Brame had little course buVto deny this was
going on, if only to save face. After all, the guy has to work with Franklin people,
too. v~
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Didn't Accuse Franklin
Of course, this whole affair could get into the area of semantics. For instance.
Rep. Ramsey never said that Franklin County people were pressuring Mr. Brame,
only that pressures generally were being exerted to have Person funds diverted to
Franklin. Could be that Franklin has some "friends at cdurt" doing the
pressuring, if indeed there is any arm-twisting going on. If this be the case, Mr.
Brame would be quite truthful in denying that the Franklin people are on his
! back. But this analysis, admittedly, could be a stretch of the imagination,
although not improbable.
No doubt Rep. Ramsey is right in wishing to let the matter drop, for there
would be no real point in starting a controversy. Neither would it be a good idea
for either Person or Franklin counties to make too much of this thing. Both
counties are riding in the same leaky boat together, and if the two let trivialities
divert their attention Jrom the bailing, that boat is liablejo see the Deep Six.
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It ain't always the big things that matter in this world.
Sometimes, it's the little things that are important. Fact is,
more often than not. it's the little things tljat make the big
things big.
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We recall one night recently; as we watched, the coach sent
in a little fellow to play basketball in a game here. If the boy
had stood on his own shoulder, he still couldn't have reached
the bottom of the goal. He was about belt-buckle high to the
other boys. t
He stood out' though. Not because he was so big. It was
because he was so little.
But. somebody had forgot to tell him he was little. He
didn't know that he didn't have any business playing with the
big boys. He hadn't never heard that basketball is a game of
tall boys. He just give it all he had.
When it come his time to jump center, he jumped. It didn't
seem to matter that with all his jumping, he was still a couple
feet below his opponent who was standing flat-footed. He
jumped anyway. Guess he did it because it was required of
him. It never occurred to him that his effort would be
fruitless. *
He played for a long time. Finally, he was taken out and a
bigger boy went in. He patted him where they always pat each
other and came off the court grimly. He plopped on the bench
and hung his head.
One of the big boys came over and said something to him.
Probably telling him how good he played. He won't no
better'n the rest of them, but he won't no worse neither. For
his size, guess you qquld say he done good.
But there he set. Dejected. He had been took out of the
game. And no boy likes to be took out of the game, no matter
what size he is.
But as he set starring at the floor, something happened. He
sat up straight and seemed to be looking at his hand. He called
the boy next to him to come closer. Yes sir, there it was plain
as day . . . right there on his hand. A drop of blood. He had
been scratched in the game. Naw, it don't hurt, he was saying.
Shucks, it ain't nothing, he said. But the pride could not be
covered up. He had played and he had played well. He had the
battle wound to show for it. Just a little thing. One drop of
blood. One very small scratch, but oh, how big it made the
little battler.
As the crowds Hied out and the lights were dimmed, the
team began to slowly move out of the dressing room. The girls
were waiting for their heros. And, sure enough, there was
enough to go around. The little warrior had his.
And as they walked arm in arm out the gym door, and as
she looked with so much interest at the little wound, you hear
him say, Shucks, it ain't' nothing. ,And as he rubbed the spot
and moved out of sight, we had to mutter to ourselves, it ain't
always the big things . . . sometimes, little things mean a lot.
Flu
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attributed tp flu and several
others whose cause was not
given. Another man died in
Louisburg on Tebruajry 28
and still -another flu death
occurred on March 14. After
that date, no reports appeiir
of deaths due to the Spanish
flu.
There is no way of know
ing just how many people
died here because of colds,
flu and pneumonia during
that winter, but old timers
have long pointed to it as the
Ttenkful that the Asian
bug dia not match its cousin, -
the Spanish influenza, no
body will be saddened to see
it go. Good riddance.
worse on record.
'At a Democrat, !'?? got
about this Inaugural. I'm
?but happy the country
<lx?d emotions
w didn't win
Is tavmdl'
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