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EDITORIALS
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' No Relief In Sight
There seems to be a growing proof that
socialism is inevitable when the right to
vote is granted to the entire citizenry. Votes
at both the state and national level have
recently and repeatedly testified that the
average voter -favors state socialism.
If you were to ask the average registered
Democrat or Republican if he favored state
socialism the answer would be a loud and
practically unanimous, “NO”.
The average voter who casts his ballot
for more and more government, which au
tomatically means more and more taxes
either ignores or fails to understand the
direction his ballot is pushing our “Ship of
State”. * _
Surely ’such intelligent people as Louis
Sutton of the Carolina Power & Light Com
pany, the Holding Brothers of First Citizens
Bank & Trust Company, Charlie Cannon of
the Cannon Mills, Luther Hodges, a man for
whom the capitalistic system has been most
rewarding, and countless other lesser peo
ple across North Carolina understand this
truism.
Terry Sanford was not elected under false
colors: He told the people of North Carolina
over and over again that he was in favor of
a “progressive program” which translates
automatciaUy into a bigger and more costly
State apparatus of government.
Yet Sanford was overwhelmingly nomin
ated and will be elected in November with
better than a fair chance of putting into
practice a large part of his promises to
the numerous selfish-interest groups who
combined to nominate him.
With nearly 1,000 appointments at his.
command the Governor of North Carolina
has a powerful lever over the 170 members
of the General Assembly, whose number
includes many who want an appointment for
themselves or for some friend who has help
ed them in the political wars. None but the
most unreasonable governors fail to get■
a major, part of their askings from their
first session of the General Assembly:
Added to this power of appointment which
is the basic weapon of the governor is the
unmistakable voice of the voters which in
May, June and will again in November ask
for more taxes. ‘
Hindsight
Since this is the 15th anniversary of the
first military use of the atomic bomb and
since the summer season is one generally
devoid of news, reporters and their in?
teUectual superiors: The News Analysts,
are indulging themselves in a' masochistic
exercise that may be loosely described as4
“The Should We Have' Used die Atomic
Bomb?” caiper.
Speaking as a committee of one who has
seen those crosses, row on row in Flanders’
muddy field, and who has many friends ly
ing forever stall beneath a .cross in Europe
or the Pacific iro can find nothing wrong
with the i»e fit We awful instrument to
bring an end to the most bloody of wars.
Perhaps, some good may come from an
see no value to such debates.
I? war these may be moral considerations,
but above, awl ranging everlastingly be
yond any ethical exercise is that first fun
damental: Winning.
Our enemies did not quibble. They ex
erted every fiber in their effort to win.
They gambled and lost. By the narrowest of
margins oar side won. Most of us never
knew—never could have stood the psycho
logical shock of knowing bow desperately
near our side came to losing this war that
was ended with the dropping of two horrible
bombs in Japan.
The decision to send tanks and anti-tank
weapons to Egypt gave the British the tools
to stop Rommel's drive for the Sues was
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The Golden Gozzard
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to the berk. Now with i collection of his
“essays” he :s headed back to the teller’s
w’nlow with Hi ore dividends from “Enjoy,
Enjoy”. -f v; *• >; >.
With becoming modesty Golden’s son,
Harry Jr. (apparently a eh$ ott-'the old
block) explains his father’s success by say
ing, “He writes his heart .out, which'' of
course, is the secret.’N ‘ ' ,
Secretly we have, always admired the
“con man”; that clever individual who
could eat high on the hog (oops, lamb) by
swindling the unsuspecting. Golden is the
prince of confidence men. ■. >
Foreign Aid Arithmetic
Americans, by now, perhaps are harden
ed to any kind of abuse that might be
dreamed up on the subject of “foreign aid”.
The brains in the state department are
now on record as wanting another $600 bul
lion for foreign aid in South America. They
also have under study a request for $100
million to pay the civil service and military
rapists in the new Congo “republic” for
the next 12 months.
iWe are sure that the boys in the back
room of the state department will be just
as able to justify these raids upon the. docile
American taxpayer as they have the $77,000
million that,has already been poured down
every “foreign aid’’ rat hole that could be
found in the world.
But on the basis of simple arithmetic,
South America—not including Central A
meric a and the “republics” of the Carib
bean— has a population of just over 134
million, while the Congo (before they re
verted to eating one another) had a popula
tion of 13Vi million,
Giivirg $100 million to 13Vi 'million Con-,
goneese, hardly jibs with giving $600 million
to 134 million Yankee haters to the South of
us. Perhaps this reasoning stems from the
fact that in either case a very damned few
of the people in either the Congo or South
America are going to get any of these spit
upon Yankee dollars, but they will be Siph
oned off into the bands of the ruling class
as has 90 per cent of that aforementioned
$77 billion.
The gift to the Congolese—if it were
fairly spread around would be roughly $7
for each cannibal, witch doctor and prime
minister in the “republic” but if you think
this money is going to be spread around
thataway you have no notion of the kind of
limousines Prime Minister Lumumba or
dered when he was in Washington recently.
Somebody’s going to have to walk and it
ain’t going to be “Patrice”.
Americans are long-suffering, stupid
animals—rather like milk cows— they don’t
give a damn who’s milking them as long
as they have their head stuck in the feed
trough. Some day that feed trough is going
to get empty if we keep \gasting oW re
sources in this impossible effort to buy
the friendship of people who despise us as
the indigent despises the* welfare worker.
pi es of the Middle Bast and complete con
trol of the Mediterranean an Allied victory
would have been highly improbable or at the
very least terribly delayed.
The Japanese failed to follow up their
faid on Pearl Harbor with landings of
troops, and failed to close the Panama
Canal which could have been #ne just as
easily as the destruction at Pearl Harbor.
There are no second prizes in wars.
His
money began in a
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gin. Suddenly the bucket shop mt visited
by the police and Golden went op the river
to Stag Sing to pull a five-year hitch tor
swindling.
In the ivy-cowered walls of Ms. ahna ma
ter Golden “got religion”, saw that tffisre
iwere safer, more legal w*ye of skinning
the puWlc. He packed his canpet bag; left
his name (then Goldenbunst) and his po
lice record behind and came tq Charlotte
where he began publishing a journal called
die “Carolina Israelite”. He milked the
Jews at Norte Carolina, 4tace they had
no other Hebrew paper to advertise with,
and then he quickly recognized the un
limited money available to a “Southern
(Liberal” who would boldly espouse tee
cause o£ racial integration. His first fame
came as a “fighting southern editor”, who
favpred instant integration.
After the liberals discovered his “pun
gent, grass roots ■ Americanism” nothing
less *«i a book of Ms essays would suffice,
teen another and how another.
Harry is truly, “The Golden Gozzard”.
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l BY
JACK RIDER
Gavin will come no where near beating
Sanford for governor. He could if he took
advantage of all the cards that have been
dealt him in the troubled twistings of North
Carolina politics, but Gavin, and his as
sorted advisors are going to walk the nice,
neat, polite path so disastrously followed
by John Larkins in May and after Novem
ber 8th they’ll be in a position to join John
at the wailing wall.
Gaivin can cou"t on 97.8 per cent of the
registered Republican vote in North Caro
lina. This is something like 400,000 votes
(Chub Seawell got 383,329 in 1962 against
Urn stead and Kyl^Hiayes got 375,379 a
gainst Hodges in 1956. Urn stead got 796,306
votes and Hodges got 760,480. This clearly
indicates that a Republican has his work
cut out for him to beat & Democrat for gov
ernor in the Tar Heel State.
Umstead was the Democratic nominee al
ter a hard fought race between himself and
Hubert Olive. Hodges had only nominal op
position in the primary that nominated him.
The nominations of Umstead and Hodges
did not follow bitterly fought campaigns that
would compare even remotely with the open
sores, that are still bleeding from the San
ford defeat of Beverly Lake.
Jin 1952 public school racial integration
was not even mentioned in the campaign.
In 1956 Hodges had lulled'the people to
sleep with the Pearsall Plan. But in 1960
this was the major issue. Spending and tax
ing took a poor second and third to that
fundamental cleavage which saw Sanford
favoring “limited integration” which is
rather1 like limited cancer, and Lake fight
ing for state control of state activities.
If Gavin bad the courage to combine his
automatic Republican vote with the segre
gation vote and conservative government
vote that Lake represented his coalition
would be greater than the coalition that has
carried Sanford 90 far and so fast. But
Gavin has been taken to the top of the
Republican mountain and shown the valley
down below. He cannot get out and slug
for what he really believes in—for truly
conservative government and non-federal
interference in our public schools .. . Why?