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The n Times W'tMf AN 0< f'MklM Cmtt?y Your Award Winning County Newspaper LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT Is There Any Wonder ? Today marks the beginning of another school year for most youngs ters in this area. Others will be starting in the next few days. This is true across the country. Another step in the educational lives of millions of children is ready to be taken. -In Washington, notice has been served on 121 Southern school dis tricts that they cannot continue to operate as they have in the past. 'The Justice Department is going to be moving against 40 or 50 of them in the near future", says Leon E. Panet ta. Chief Civil Rights Officer of HEW. -While in Mississippi, HEW has requested federal Judges to delay an integration order until December. -Meanwhile, back in Washington a group of Justice Department law yers-termed by one reporter as "idea logical liberals" are threatening to resign because the Nixon Administra tion is not pushing integration hard enough to suit them. Most are John son Administration left-overs. -In Louisanna federal marshals es corted six Negro teachers to a pre dominantly white school after they were blocked from their newly assign ed jobs the day before by a group of irate white parents. -Here in North Carolina, in Halifax County somebody attempted to burn the Aurelian Springs school building following a two-judge federal panel's decision against separate district schools in Halifax and Warren coun ties this week. --In Hertford County, vandalism resulted in considerable damage to school buildings and busses. - In Charlotte, over 800 Negro parents are staging a school boycott against the bussing of their children to predominantly white schools. -In Wilson four out of an expected 123 white youngsters showed up for enrollment in Barnes Elementary ?School this week. School officials said parents "may be awaiting the out come of a current court decision". -Meanwhile back in Washington, a group is organizing a nationwide boy cott of schools which do not have a free food or reduced lunch program. The boycott is to come in October, according to reports. -In Durham, this week, a group of black students held the County School Board virtual prisoners while making demands that they be given mor^ control of the schools. -Also in Durham, the City School Superintendent was subjected to shouts and verbal abuse in a confron tation in his office with black students this week. - And at Durham's Southern High School, the school mascot emblem -a Southern Rebel has been painted over both in the gymnasium and on the football field. The Negro band direc tor will decide if "Dixie"--the school song-may be played. -And needless to say, there are many, many more disturbing reports on schools. ' The widespread notion which has existed for many years, that youngs ters don't want to go to school, is more acute now than ever. Is there any wonder? WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING Bgreaucracy Rumbles On Despite New Government The Courier-Tribune, Asheboro, N. C. THE POWER OF the bur eaucracies ii weighing in e ven on the Nixon administra tion which is burdened with a tightly-acheduled school dese cration program slated to ac cellerate in fall, 1969. In a larger sense, the ad ministration has shifted the aehool mixing attack to the courti which does indeed pro miae beleaguered school ad ministrations a respite from immediate compliance with guidelines established by the Health, Education and Wel fare Dept. Under this plan, the entire Stat* of Georgia is facing a federal court suit, but it Car rie* with it the promise of de lay* to confront this over whelming social problem. But a more immediate prob lam faces school districts which over the months had amixingly hacked out aress of agreement with HEW's guideline policy which more or- lets is still in" effect. However much the pulling aad tugging within the admin istration for an integration sSw-down (and a speed up on the other hand by White House liberals), the (act re mains that the bureaucracy grinds away, implementing a greements already in hand de spite the change of admini strations. I<eon E. Panetta. director of the office for civil rights of HEW, was quoted only this week as saying "if the plans work out as submitted we ex pect the rate to double." "Hiere apparently is no wide spread revolt in the south ?? gainst compliance this fall, so the bureaucracy's juggernaut moved ahead unimpeded. The gain percentage - wide of Negroes enrol ed in form erly all-white or predominant ly white schools came pri marily from plans and poli cies made by the Johnson administration and the federal courts and Penetta's office has adhered to these outlines, or in some cases, court rul ings What is not changing ? and shows no sign of chang ing ? is the adamancy among whiles at integrating formerly all-Negro school! with white students. This isn't involved in the vast majority of cases where compliance has alrea dy been achieved. In most cases, the Negro school was merely closed where threaten ed with the possibility of use by both races. So when Panetta, or other federal managers, speak of a "gain" they are speaking of a continuation of this trend which isn't entirely earning praise of pro-mixing officials. The forty percent integration of schools, as decreed in 1%8 by the Johnson administration, followa this pattern which has proven the easiest to imple ment and administer. Under a hostile administra tion, the pattern might in volve greater usage of form erly all-Negro schools which would have incurred greater popular resentment among white southerner: ana been doubly difficult to accomplish. As it is. what will take place in the south s schools this fall is an outgrowth of the feder al bureaucracy, as inexora bly functioning in one admin istration as the succeeding. TOBACCO AND LIQUOR This Is a lost cause, but the continual bounding of tobacco as a menace with no, or almost no, reference to the menace of alcohol la ridiculous. Not only does Hie US Surgeon General keep quiet about the liquor Industry, but naive newspaper and TV reporters compound Ida Mm by keeping quiet, too. But every smoker and drinker in America 1* aware of the fraud, because they have to Uve with both lablts . And they know very well that liquor and fortified wines directly or Indirectly kill off more Innocent citizens than tobacco. Whoever haard of anyone being charged with causing a Midway death because he smekod a cigarette? Whoever heard of a man puffing a cigarette and then going home and chopping up his family? Whoever heard of a cigarette em holding a punk to shoot a merchant In a hold-up? Who ever heard of a family broken up becauae of smoking? Whoever heard of a man Insulting his guests because he picked up a cigarette? But the point Is <-vrn mor e acute. Hdoesn't * ' V\V T .?'?> i.' . ; take a sot for these disasters to occur. Very often It Is the "moderate" drinker whosefuzzl neas leads to auto accidents. A person might smoke . 4 packa of cigarettes In a day without them appreciably affecting hlu behavior. But a few drinks ? even one ? can eaally turn hlrfi Into a killer, an Irresponsible driver, an Insuf ferable host or guest, an Inadequate employe. How many people ever saw a man amoke a pack of cigarettes, and then stop off at a tobacco ?hop and spend all his week's wages treat ing his friends to smokes? How many peopl ever saw a man smoke a couple of packa of cigarettes and as a consequence losing his job? But liquor does all these things --and to mil lions of Americans. By comparison with alcohol and narcotlca, tobacco Is benign, even If all the things said about It are true, ten tti.-.es over. The liquor people must be very grateful to the tobacco Industry for becoming the shipping boy of the Surgeon-Goieral. The campaign Fives them more elbow room and a longer life. -- The State Magaslne. 'Stop Saying ? We'll Cross That Bridge When We Get There' m - %wmmm mBSm m f l % THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS JOHN J. SYNON m Earl Warren's resignation became effective two months t ago; June 23. t I have waited these days v without comment much as a ft man hesitates to pronounce as successful the excision of a e cancer. But time's up, now. It ' looks like Warren is gone, for t a fact. Perhaps, then, it is safe ' to write his political obituary. [ What a public life: Earl I Warren, so far as I have ever | been able to learn, cannot lay \ claim to a single act of a t creditable nature. This, after 50 years at the public trough, t In 25 years of following his career and of being in the orbit of those who have known him well, I have never heard mention of a charitable act ever being performed by Earl Warren. 1 do have memories of another sort, distinct memo ries. I will tell you of two. ****** I once had a friend named Clinton Duffy, who, when I first knew him. was warden of San Quentin, I remember, late of a summer's afternoon, sitting on Clint's front porch and listening to him spin prison tales. And what tales he told; he was born at the place, sor< of a deputy war den, as I remember. Inevitably the talk turned o death row and, in turn, to he governor ? Earl Warren. I vanted to know of the Great flan's clemency. Clint Duffy told me, in if feet. Warren had none: 'Nobody will ever know", his famed penologist said, 'how many men have been >ut to sleep in the Green loom because of the im >Lacable, unbending nature of Varren. Men who should have >een reprieved." Clinton Duffy told me hat. And I remember the story old me by a man who, to the jest of my knowledge, today s a member of the California udiciary but who, during barren's tenure as governor, served Warren as extradition ind -clemency secretary. I got to know this then ? /oung man because he con inued on in the same post when I served in the gover nor's office as an aide to IVarren's successor. "There was this fellow icheduled to die," my friend told me. "I had given his execution papers to the gov ernor for review - that was my duty - some days before. And they didnt come back and they didnt come back. Fighting Outfit PotomKUf in lh* ProgrMslv* Mssaxin* Remember the 9999th Air Force Re serve? It was a fighting outfit, composed of Senators and Representatives under the dashing command of Major General Barry M. Gold water, that bolstered the nation's defenses a few years back. While piling up promotion points and military retire ment benefits, its members stood ever ready to take off on flying junkets on a moment's notice in the name of active duty training. Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara abolished the 9999th and similar Army and Navy-Marine units based on Capitol Hill in 1965. He doubted, somehow, that the Congressional reservists would actually be available tor call-up in the event of emergency. Now Barry Goldwater is back in the Senate, and he is trying to bring back the reserves. The Pentagon is studying his plan to constitute a special combined serv ice unit ? the only one of its kind ? that would once again allow Congressional re servists to qualify for promotion and re tirement. "Instead of being parochial, with their own service, they would get briefing and training from all branches ? learn about the military across-the-board," a Pentagon official says. "They wouldn't have field exercises or anything like that, of course." Of course. ? "Clint Duffy kept calling about what to do; whether to make preparations for the ex ecution or not. I told him I couldn't tell him anything. Warren hadnt let out a peep. "As time passed, I became frantic. I didn't know what to do. The staff was deathly afraid of Earl Warren and none of us ever entered his office unless sent for. Even with a man's life hanging there, I couldn't screw up enough courage to ask for an interview. "But I did, finally, when the execution was but a few hours off. And I will never forget standing in front of Warren's desk. I began to stammer out why I was there and I made a hash of it. When the purpose of my visit finally got through to him I could see the blood begin to rise out of his collar. It crept past his wattles but I couldn't stop talking. Finally, he was livid and I shut up. And there I stood. Warren's pale eyes glowed. I will never forget what he said: 'When I want advice from a secretary, I will send for you.' "I crept out of there." ******* Dwight Eisenhower, un knowing as always, appointed this man Chief Justice of the United States and never de nied the widespread story of a comment he reputedly made about that appoint ment: The appointment of Warren, so they had Ike say ing, . was the biggest damn' fool mistake I ever made." Shakespeare said: "The evil men do lives after them." I hold there is no Ameri can alive but suffers because Earl Warren once was Chief Justice of The United States. And that should be his epi taph. 'COME TO THINK m OF IT... by frank count It ain't like everyday is a bit; thing down there in that section of the county That section will remain unnamed nostly because to name it might be hazardous to my health. 3ut when word got out that a real live Congressman was :oming it did stir some kind a commotion. Rob Blind swept out his store for the first time since the : 1 l: ? 3uys convincvu nun Coolidge was coming through on the train some time back. That took some real convincing seeing as how the nearest train track was forty miles away. But that crowd that hangs around the , store will tell you most anything so long as it afn't neighboring to the truth. They once convinced a traveling man that he was in T6xas by tying some deer horns on a Labadoor retriever. 'Course Zeke Potter had to wear his old lady's straw hat which looked the world like a ten-gallon cow boy lid. . specially after Zeke took the flower pot off it. , Zeke's the one I want to tell you about. He hadn't never seen a real live Congressman and 1 reckon Zeke got about as com mot ted over the commotion of the Congressman coming as anybody. Zeke heard some of it on his transistor radio. He carries It in his back pocket. He hadnt never seen a transistor radio till he won it on a punch board. He was trying to win the old lady a box of candy suckers and he was some kind a disappointed when he got the radio. But he learned to live with it although carrying it in his back he still gets a scare at times when he thinks somebody is behind him singing or grunting, depending on which is on the one station he can et. Soon's Zeke heard that a real live Congressman was coming, he left the mules in the Held and run to the house to tell Lizzie. Lizzie . . . that's his old Lady. His mules named Liza and Lena. Some folks sometimes gets the three mixed up. Ain't never heard of Zeke doing that though. He was out of breath when he told her to go to the smoke house and get his suit. She brought back a forty pound ham and after Zeke bawled her out, he forgive her. Zeke's that way. He ain't one to hold no grudge. He decided to get her out of the house. He thought the fresh air would clear her head and da her some good. So, he sent her to fetch the mules. That Zeke is thoughtful. I got to say for him. It didn't matter none that the suit was a winter tweed. Zeke didn't care if it was hot. He almost decided to wear his necktie but he come to his senses before he did. The suit, Zeke told me later, was a little uncomfortable to sleep in but he wanted to get a early start next morning. He hadn't never seen a real live Congressman. > He left the house about 5 o'clock walking and he got to the store about eight-thirty. It wont far. He hadn't hardly got there when this big black car drove up and tooted the horn. Some of the boys was gathering, too. Zeke run out and jerked the door open and helped the Congressman out and told him how glad he was to see him. Zeke even asked him to have a drink. This didn't seem like Zeke when I first heard it. Fact is, it don't seem like Zeke since I heard more 'n one time. Right off, Zeke started telling the man how he didn't think nothing of taxes. Zeke was informed. You could tell that. That back-pocket transistor had give Zeke a wide outlook on things. He liked to hear folks say he was well versed. He didnt know what it meant but he said he liked the sound. Well. Zeke was all over the fellow's car. He pumped gas. Rob didn't mind. If you don't wait on yourself at Rob's you go without. Zeke cleaned the windshield and swept out the front floor and all the time he was talking. One of the boys said something about how smooth the Congressman's hands was and Zeke defended him by d saying that if he didn't have no more to do than them Congressman, he'd have soft hands, too. Well after Zeke had hogged the whole show and not let the boys hardly get even a handshake, the man in the big car said it was time for him to go. "Mighty nice to see you, Congressman", Zeke said. "It aint every day that we gits such a pleasure down here. You're the most excitement since Bird-Brain Bailey come through hen with the House of David." "That's very nice of you, neighbor", the man said. "Could I interest you in the latest thing in my line?" "Line? What line?", Zeke yelled. "Let me show you the newest - models. Your wife will love these high-top button shoes." The Fra^kjin Times Established 1870 ? Published Tuesdays ti Thursdays by The Franklin Times. Inc. * Bickett Blvd. Dial GY6-3283 Louisburg. N. C. * CLINT FULLER. Managing Editor ELIZABETH JOHNSON. Business Manager NATIONAL EDITORIAL Advertising Rate! 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