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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1MI
LION IN THE STREETS
We Get Yet Another Tale
From the banks of the Potomac
comes yet another report on the
nation's civil disorders, and with
it a handful of recommendations
sufficient to stagjer the imagina
tion and chill the marrow of our
bones. This one, submitted by a
special presidential committee set
up to survey the problem, entails
sweeping recommendations for
public housing, employment, and a
guaranteed annual wage.
Charity, friends, is one thing.
Communism is another. We have
yet to encounter the interpreter
who has had guts enough to call
the kettle black (or red, in this
case) but we dare do it in the
belief that the wolf, alas, may be
just without our circle of fires.
For a generation now, we have
observed and decried the lunatic
fringe, which has fluttered from
ghost to ghost, crying all the while,
"a lion is in the streets," and
called them thus because they could
not pronounce pussycat. Prophets
of gloom and doom we have chas
tised, because the communist take
over, however insidious, had naught
but loss in competition from with
out with democracy from within.
Yet today we stand but one mis
guided Congressional vote away
from a pure communism Marx and
Lenin dared not dream of. A
sharing of the wealth has been
proposed -- without a sharing of
the work and not a soul has
stepped forth to expose it for what
it is.
The guaranteed wage we have
heard proposed in the past would
award to each individual (or to
whatever unit the wage would be
distributed) the sum of $3,000, or
the difference between that noble
median and one's actual earnings
paid for, of course, by the federal
treasury.
And where would the treasury
get the gold? From we who work,
obviously, in the form of taxes.
Thus, the individual who earned
six thousand per annum and coughed
up half for Uncle Sam (a rather
absurd tax rate, except for pur
poses of comparison) would be sup
porting not only himself, but one
full-fledged recipient of the guar
anteed annual wage.
No matter how it's sliced, that's
communistic, in that communist
theory, we have been told, is to
share the wealth of the state.
Ideally, a substantial average is
struck and everybody lives miser
ably ever after.
Not even Marx or Lenin dragged
on that pipe of dreams. Cer
tainly, in communist Russia and
China, one does not eat, let alone
share, unless he works. Which
is altogether inferior to the pro
cedure recommended for our fair
land.
God forbid.
No Insult Intended
For the past two weeks, now,
The News-Journal has carried
articles about allegedly decreased
moonshining activity in Hoke
County since the establishment of
ABC sale of intoxicants here some
five years ago. The first may
have indicated, in a slanted sort
of way, that the ABC system has
worked wonderfully well, dimin
ishing to a trickle the flow of il
licit spirits. The second the
recitation of a Hoke business
man -- took exception with the first
and gave credit for the dry-up to
local Industry.
In so doing, more than a few
workers at Raeford Turkey Farms
were offended, or so we have heard,
although none has lodged a formal
complaint at the newspaper office.
It is easy to be misunderstood In
presenting such a delicate parable,
and in praising local Industry our
informant and certainly we our
selves did not mean to infer
that Raeford Turkey Farms, or any
of the area industries mentioned,
are loaded with ex-bootleggers.
Obviously, they are not. And
anyone who imagined as much in
reading the piece of Thursday last,
exposed a sensitive spot in some
body's anatomy.
We would make no comparison
between the work forces of Rae
ford Turkey Farms with other
industry in the area, except to
propound what, happily, is con
firmed fact: A great many tur
key plant workers, if not most
all, apart from their current duties
are unskilled, and likely would be
driven back to the farm were their
present employment to be ter
minated. And this is what we wish to
emphasize bootleg liquor be
hanged. The economic value of
Raeford Turkey Farms is all but
incalculable. Itproduces an annual
payroll of a million dollars, plus,
and in the barnyard vernacular,
"that ain't feathers, no matter
how you pick the bird."
If ever the nation should look
for an example of what native
ingenuity and enterprise can ac
complish, with a helping hand from
the federal government, no better
illustration could be found than our
own fowl processing plant. Its
payroll dollars are a boon to all
who share them and that Includes,
before the gamut is run, a great
many people in Hoke County.
And If perhaps there is an ex
moonshiner or two among the
several hundred citizens working
there, take heart that hard work
and devotion always are rewarded.
And if, indeed, your employment
gives you an opportunity to labor
with dignity for your bread, we
congratulate you and salute your
employer.
Well done.
Argentines dine with such gusto
that foreigners sometimes call
their nation the "Land of the
Stretched Belt," the National Geo
graphic says.
Ancient Egypt worshiped birds
and used their images as charac
ters In hieroglyphics. Thousands
of mummified birds have been
found fn burial vaults.
Chinese emperors once Imposed
the --Great Kow-Tow" on emiss
aries from foreign countries. The
ritual called for three kneellngs
and nine prostrations before the
emperor's throne.
'This Is the Lunar Year of the Monkey.'
CLIFF BLUE . . .
By Jim Taylor-
Move Over,
Edgar A
Spring is just around the
corner. Soon the sap will be
rising, salmon swimmins up
stream, and nature's gift to
lovers will visit us a spell.
I don't 6et romantic (God for
bid), or hardly notal6ic. any
more, no matter how and tfhen
the seasons come and go (on
second thought, they have away
of showin4 up pretty much on
schedule). I get a kick out of
the calf-eyed mooning that
comes with spring, and remem
bering that 1. too, once was
young, I usually take particular
pains not to ridicule young lov
ers. I am sincerely interested in
true love, for as the bard Rob
bie Burns wrote (in"ACotter's
Saturday Night," I believe):
"O happy love, where love
like this is foundO heartfelt
rapture, joy beyond compare.'
I've paced much this weary,
mortal round And sae experi
ence bids me this declare: If
heav'n one drop of saintly vin
taAe spare, One cordial in this
melancholy vale. 'T'is when
a youthful, loving, modest pair
In other's arms breathe out
the tender tale That scents
the snow white thorn amid the
evening gale."
I'm not quite certain my
recollection of Burns that de
pendable, and 1 can't recall
why I have remembered that
one verse. Probably it is be
cause somewhere in my long
lost youth. I had a place for
that special cubit of poetry.
Speaking of poetry, I love
it, but think it has two proper
places: to be whispered be
tween lovers, and to be read
from books on cold, windy,
snowbound weekends and Sat-
urday nights.
I almost have a mania about
excluding poetry from the news
columns, and it dates back, I
suppose, to a Two-year pernd
in my early journalistic career
when I hadtojealwithapseud.i
poet several time.: a week (and
often more than once within a
-inle day).
His verse stank (stink, stank,
stunk), and had he been advised
to pay more attention to meter,
he'd have started to read the
electricity indicator on the ide
of his house, presuming, of
course- that he had "lectric."
He wa' a friendly man, and
sometime when things weren't
so busy, we'd chat for a while,
the poet, the publisher (who
was an authority on the sub
ject, if I remember correct
ly) and more than once the pub
lisher would prod him, in a
lefthanded sort of way, to write
more poetry.
The inevitable result, of
course, was that Mr. Moore
would turn up the next morn
ing fifteen minutes from first
edition deaJline and want some
body to read his latest master
piece. I do not mean to be.ittle
poor Mr. Moore, whose poetry,
for all its faults, was probably
better than mine. But to give
either or both of us all the
credit we were due, his poems
Were lousy and mine were worse
still.
Unlike Mr. Moore, though,
I didn': try to promote publi
cation of my poems. Indeed,
I seldom showed them to an
other, unless, perhaps, the
"other" was involved. Mr.
Moore had no such false mod
esty, though, because he signed
each and every otler'n0: "Vt'rir
ten (date) by John Wade Moore,
World'; drearest I'oet."
Whether anyone else ever
shared John Wade's admiration
of his work, I cannot say for
sure. Hut I rather doubt it.
Newspapers are hounded, to
a 0reat or les -er degree, by
amateur poets who dash off a
staii 'a or two in rhyme, which
isn't the irrefutable evidence
that two, or lour, or six lines
are a f tan -a. and one or more
rhyming rtanas. poem.
Sometimes the of ering of
everyday poets is quite good;
more offer than not, it is ran
cid, and once you open that door
a little crack, you are a sym
pathetic poetry editor forever
in their eyes.
That is another reason that
most newspaper editors do not
solicit or accept poetry manu
scripts. While one particular
poem may be of its own merit
good enough for the Saturday
Review, the forty-five that will
follow it from other bards will
be mostly the same "Mama
Ain't Dead, She's Only A
Sleepln'." And therein Ueth a lion best
left to slumber. When one Is
moved to express his grief in
poetry upon the passing of a
relative or friend, what more
noble purpose could inspire
him. His thoughts, therefore,
somehow seem sacred (at least
to him) and it would take a
terrible fool to make light of
the sentiments of a daughter
at the passing of her parents.
See TAYLOR COLUMN. Page II
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I Philosopher Says Hold Riots
I In Faraway Saigon Or Hue
Dear edltar:
According to an article I read
in a newspaper some do it
yourself garbage disposal work
er dropped In the ditch along
the road near my house out
here yesterday, a lot of people
are concerned about what's
going to happen in this country
next summer when (he weather
is warm and the rioting is easy.
I guess it's all right to have
somebody worrying six months
ahead, although I don't see how
he does it, I'm not through
worrying yet about whathappen
ed yesterday and is bound to
happen tomorrow to worry about
spring, not to mention summer.
I thought of offering the sug
gestion to these planners that
the place to hold riots is in
Saigon or Hue. From the looks
of these wrecked places you
could stae one without being
noticed, the before and after
pictures would be the same,
but that's out of my depart
ment. What interested me in that
article was the report that the
way to prevent riots is to re
move the causes. That's true,
the same as it Is with wars
and divorces and school trustee
fights and economic depres
sions, if anybody wants the job,
but what really got my atten
tion was a statement one of the
rioters of last summer made.
He said, as he walked off with
a color T.v. set. "All I'm
doing is collecting what's owed
my great-great-grandfather."
Well, how you're goir.g to pre
vent new what happened a hun
dred and fifty years ago to
your great-great-grandfather is
a problem I'll leave to the ex
perts In Washington. It'd re
quire more re-writing of his
tory than I could manage.
However, I like the idea. For
example, I have been told that
one of my ancestors was thrown
in Jail in England for life for
a bad debt he didn't owe, he
wasn't the type of man who
was given grocery credit In
the first place, and I hope the
bank recognizes this if I skip
the next payment on my note.
And If it doesn't, I'd ask it to
remember what Julius Caesar
did. What this country needs Is
more banks and television
stores familiar with the his
tory of the human race.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
People & Issues ! q
PCLLSScoff at public opin
ion polls If you wish, but major
decisions which effect top per
sonalities and the fate of the
nation are made after the poll
results are in. No doubt but it
was the report of a public opin
ion poll or polls which caused
Governor George Romney to
withdraw as a Republican candi
date for president, without wait
ing for the New Hampshire
people to vote,
BRAINWASH Romney says
that he is glad that he used the
word "brainwash". We admire
George Romney as an honest
man and an honest politician,
but we just can't believe him
when he says he is j.lad that
he used the word "brainwash"
some months ago. When he ad
mitted to having been "brain
washed," he was leading the
field of candidates for the GOP
presidential nomination. Then
his popularity started melting
away like a block of ice on a
hot summer day and despite
his compaigniti4--giving it the
best he had he was never
able to again establish himself
as a strong candidate with a
chance to win over l.BJ.
NIXON Rockefeller Is In the
race for the GOP Presidential
nomination but we would put
our two-bits on Nixon to walk
away with the nomination when
the Republicans meet in Miami.
Nixon, like Johnson, is a pro
in politics and it seems that
the GCP pros are pretty strong
for Nixon.
GEORGE WALLACE For
mer Governor George Wallace
could rum out to be the "king
maker" insofar as the next
president of the United States
is concerned. Should Johnson
receive 256 electoral votes in
the November election and Nix
on as the Republican candidate
255 electoral votes, and George
Wallace carry three states
Alabama, Mississippi and Loui
siana with a total of 27 elec
toral votes neither Johnson or
Nixon would have a majority
and according to the U.S. Con
stitution the issue would be de
cided by the House of Repre
sentatives. But, hold your horses a min
ute. There is but very little
chance that the issue would
go to the House of Representatives-.
The electoral votes
are not cast on November 5,
1968. The electors elected in
the General election of Novem
ber 5 will meet in their re
s'pective state capitols at a later
date and cast the votes for pre
sident and vice president. The
CiL
electors do not have to vote for
this candidates being voted on in
the general election, although
it is a general rule to do so.
No doubt the electors for George
Wallace will he dedicated Wal
lace supporters and George
Wallace could well make a deal
with either Johnson or Nixon
to have his electors vote for
the one ho wished -- either
Johnson or Nixon without
the matter going to the House of
Representatives.
And If neither the Democrat
or the Republican candidate gets
a majority of the electoral votes
on November 5, we expect both
to fall over themselves making
concessions to the former Ala
bama governor for his electoral
votes !
JORDAN AND EDWARDS
Two outstanding Tarheel citi
zens, long active in politics and
state government answered the
final call last week Henry W.
Jordan and I. on Edwards.
Both Edwards and Jordan de
voted many years to the up
building of North Carolina. Both
were lay leaders in the Metho
dist church and both were what
you might call "middle of die
road" leaders in the Democra
tic party. Jordan gave serious
consideration to running for
governor In 1952 and again in
1964. During Kerr Scott's ad
ministration Jordan was one
of his righthand menserv
ing as state highway chairman.
Lon Edwards served for many
years in the State House of
Representatives, was a mem
ber of the Advisory BudgetCotn-
mission, president of the N. C.
Farm Bureau and many other
boards and commissions. Both
Jordan and Edwards served
North Carolina well.
MARGARET HARPER Jim
my Harper, husband ofMargaret
Harper who is a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for
lieutenant governor and editor
of the State Port Pilot of South
port makes no bones about who
he is supporting for the state's
number two job. In a ringing
editorial in behalf of his wife, '
Jimmy has this to say: "If t
Margaret Harper were mar
ried to someone else--and we
are glad she is not we would
have to say that she is an ex
tremely capable person who is
too wise to jump on a job she
didn't believe she could han
dle. . ."
JJ DINNER From all over
North Carolina Democrats will
gather in Raleigh for the Jefferson-Jackson
Day Dinner this
Saturday, March 9.
SENATOR
SAM ERVIN
SAYS
WASHINGTONMost Amer
icans cherish their right to use
private property In all ways
permitted by state law as one
of their most precious posses
sions. Yet, the Senate has been con
sidering an "open" housing pro
posal that would make far
reaching changes in property
rights of every American. The
threat is one that should not be
taken lightly in an era of so
cial legislation. In fact, the
Senate recently refused to re
ject the "open" housing pro
vision in a series of votes.
When one removes the slo
gans "fair" and "open" from
the title of the housing bill, it
becomes evident that its pur
pose is to rob all Americans
of their basic rights of pri
vate property. Again, as with
most civil rights legislation,
the purpose is to substitute a
bureaucratic for an Individual
judgment. At present, Indivi
duals can select and choose
those to whom they sell or
lease property. The bill would
change this when a prospective
buyer or lessee registered a
complaint with the federal gov
ernment that he could not buy
or lease property because of
his race or religion.
Thus, the bill seeks to impose
the will of the federal govern
ment as a substitute for the
will of the individual in the
sale or lease of residential
property upon the theory that
individuals ought to be free to
choose buyers or renters only
so long as their judgments are
in accord with administration
views.
This negates the "due pro
cess" clause of the 14th Amend
ment. The power to rontrol
residential property and its sale
and rental would be In the hands
of one cabinet officer in Wash
ington. It would nullify state
property laws, and it would
make property contracts Sub
ject to the bureaucratic judg
ments of the Department of
Housing and Urban Develop- t
menu
In one stroke, this bill would
embroil the federal government
in every housing transaction
upon the complaint of any per
son that another person had
elected to sell or lease his re
sidence to a member of another
race or religion.
This bill is another example
of a trend that I have noticed
for some time. When freedom
is to be taken away, the leg
islation always provides that it
will be most difficult to pre
sent a defense or to receive
a trial by jury.
The "open" housing bill
demonstrates this to a high de
gree. Complaints would go to
the Secretary of theHousingand
Urban Development Department
on the banks of the Potomac
Then he would determine if a
hearing should be held on the
complaint. If a hearing were
held, he would act as prosecut
ing attorney. Thereafter, he
would act as a jury In finding
facts, and as the judge in ren
dering Judgment. One can un
derstand From the provisions
of this bill that the prospec
tive seller or lessee of resi
dential property would get the
message that "Big Brother"
was watching his every move
when he sold or rented his
house.
Like other societies thathave
won and lost freedom, we had
better wake up to the fact that
freedom Is best left to the people.
The speed of a cloud or a
cloud system can be measured
within about three miles an hour
by weather photographs from
satellites.
Huge neon signs In Moscow
promote Communism, safety,
and sobriety, the National Geo
graphic jays.