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hort ncrift s Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinions Of One Mon, .... —«•-i--And He Mav Be Wrong. This Iniquitous Tax Bill The current legislation before Con gress which has the colossal gall to of fer a 10 per cent tax cut on dividends while offering erectly NOTHING to the man who earns ids living by work la an all-time high In the effrontery of a Congress that seems hell bent On “git ting It while the gitting is good.” It would appear that old Commodore Vanderbilt h«ip Been reincaramated In spirit with his **Ihe Public Be. Damn” approach to the situation. ' This Congress and the Elsenhower Admlnstration apparently have real ised that the people Intend to kick them out at the earliest possible mo ment and see^L bent on getting all they can before- they are chased put of the granary. They gave off-shore oil to the huge, tax petted oil companies. They have given major concessions to the equally huge and equaly hungry utility com panies. They have given an 18 billion dollar interest boost to the Investment trusts, banks and Insurance Compan ies. They have cut the tax on mink cents. They have eliminated the small manufacturer from the defense produc tion picture. And for L|tUe Ole You and Me they have raised the cost of food. They are attempting to kick the teeth out of the farm program. They have raised ' the cost of financing our homes and businesses. They have raised our social security tax payments. They hare al lowed the cost of living to continue ‘ over upward even as the earning ^powers of the masses were dropping with every ’ tick of the clock on the White House mantle. But with this tax bill now before the Senate ,an d so lately passed In the House they have, Indeed, added Insult to all of this previous great injury. To say, or to presume to say that this and all that has gone before Is in keep ing with the fine, fat promises made by the Soap Opera Team which rode to glory with Eisenhower is beyond all rea son or recollection. Elsenhower, who parrotetd the words of ad writers from one end of the coun try to the other ln lfl&2, saying all things to all people, promising one thing In one area and the exists opposite in another; now has the effrontery to stand in front of the Great Seal of the United States of America and white the newsreel cam eras grind say that the only way out of this mess is to cut the taxes of the very rich and to keep high the taxes of the lower Income brackets. They talk of freeing money for the big companies so they can expand, when now the need is for consumption rather than production. All of the productive power In the world Is only a Pandora’s Box of pure hell if sufficient purchasing power is not maintained to buy that which is produced. V Butkjn no facet of the Elsenhower pro gram is there, or is there likely to be any passing attention paid to that all-impor tant animal, the small potato, old John Q. Public, who is the backbone of the country with his thin pocketbook and hungry eye. The billionaires will .buy no more, cars, eat no-more steaks, buy no more appli ances than they have, with -their addi tional donations from this tax MIL » Money in the hands of the masses is instantly and constantly In circulation. Any tax program that has Its principal goal the return of the nation’s capital to the vacuums of the upper economic lev els is not only dangerous to the entire national welfare but Us a revolutionary threat to those who may receive this do nation. They pick on the small boys because they realize that none of us have the money or intelligence to pursue this thing to its legal end. An Income tax is perfectly proper so long as It Is equit ably spread, but an alteration bf that law giving $7,500 to ithe man who is re ceiving $100,000 In dividends 'annually and yet gives not one single red penny to the man making $5,000 a year on a salary is unjust, and Immoral. The Du Pont Company this year, for Instance, received $80 million dollars In dividends from the stock It holdfc in Gen eral Motors. We do not know what bracket the Du Pont Company, is In, but know that it Is bound to be in one of the highest. '> Say It was in tire 75 per cent bracket, it means that last year it paid $60 amnion of that In tax. With the 10 per cent cut in tax upon dividends that Is Included in this present tax bill Du Pont would pay $6 million dollars less tax this year than last. Presuming, of course, that it again drew an $80 million dollar dividend from its General Motors stock — something that is damned unlikely the way new cars are stacking up on dealers all over the country because the purchasing power of the masses has been suddenly jerked back into the hands of the class es. We say the classes are asses If they think they can make a living selling each other Cadillacs and yachts. Profit, prosperity and political stability lies. In the continuation of purchasing ability from the ground up. No wise, farmer would attempt to fer tilize his crops by placing manure on the top leaves of the plant. If fertilizer Is to do the plant any good it must be ap plied to the root of the plant and so it is with prosperity. Pine leaves aind luxurious fruit will not develop on an improperly nourished plant. Billionaires and millionaires can not long survive, financially or physi cally if the roots of our economy are de liberately denied their part in the life cycle of our capitalistic system. We’re For Frizzelle Hie battle line# have been drawn for the race for the Superior Court seat in the Judicial district which embraces Jones County. Incumbent Judge Paul Frlzzelle and Solicitor W. J. Bundy are competing for this vital position. Both are nice fel . lows. ■.' 'V Bundy has a relatively good record as district solicitor, but In our opinion the outstanding record that JudgeFrlzzelle has made in more .than 20 years on the bench Is more than sufficient reason for the votors of the district to renominate him to this post which he hah served so , well. This is MOT an editorial AGAINST Bundy. St is rather an editorial POOR Judge Prlsaene.k/: ■ . The principal argument being used by Bundy in his search for votes Is that ; ! lgudge FrizzeUe is eligible for retirement. This is ah extremely jhin argument to be used against a man wlthso distin guished a record. So long as bis health will permit him to serve Frlzzelle’s great store of wisdom should be used by those people from whom he has acquired his profound sepse of Justice. If Bundy wishes to use the argument for Friazelle’s retirement eligibility that is his inherent privilege but it is also equal ly true that If and when Frlzzelle does decide to retire there was every reason to believe that Bundy would be elevated to the bench by gubernatorial appointment. Bundy has now forfeited that expecta tion. • V Its seems that $undy ia in just a little too much of a hurry. Patience is a qusdftf that every Judge must " possess. Bundy ought to ponder, or have pt>ndered,upon " ' ' ' such i budden . • . ■ ,1 .t .* '■ A Headline In the Mount Olive Tribune eays "as oases Disposed of By Mayor’s Court Last Saturday; Drunkenness Is Leader.” Mount Olive Is tin town, you may recall, where It Is Illegal to sell even light wines and beer. Maybe the natives are getlng drunk on Hadacol. Which reminds us that Johnston Coun ty has again staggered to the polls and voted “dry". One of the county’s most prominent citizens, and it’s leading boot legger, said a good many years back that “long as I live Johnston County is going to stay ‘dry’.” It seems the poor fellow nearly went bankrupt in the three years that Johnston County had legal whisky. After all “Self Preservation” Is one of the first Instincts of man and moon shiner. The sidewalk program for the ma jority of Kinston, which now has none, seems, to be bogged down in a quick sand of buck passing and excuse mak ing. We repeat, and intend to keep repeating that we sincerely hope no child, or adult wil be killed directly because of the lack of sidewalks. Chester Gardner, a' city empolyee, Is displaying about town, and the the coun try too we presume, something unique In the way of bills. It Is one stomp ed ~'‘Fald” on .which he was charged five dollars tar a local auto dealt* for making an estimate on the cost of re pairing damages Gardner’s car suffered In a recent accident. This sounds like a good idea, if you can get away1 with it. We’re thinking seriously of charg ing folks for pricing printing. Just hope the merchants downtown don’t take the practice up since It would be mighty expensive for some of the pro fessional shoppers we know if they had to pay for1 price estimates, and In advance too. Gardner says the auto dealer refused to give him the estimate, which he needed for his Insurance com pany, until he had paid the to esti mating charge. Brother. » There seems to be developing a goodly turnout of candidates for the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners. At this writing Thqrmond Hill of Deep Run, J. R. Davenport of Deep Run, Whltford Hill of Pink Hill, Roy Taylor of Jones’ Crossroads and W. H. Howell of Sandy Bottom are in the race from the south ern end of the county. Willie Measley, the senior member of the Incumbent board of Mosely Hall Township and Bruce E. Pittman of Oontentnea Neck are the only “north of the river” candidates. It does appear to us, however, that at least one member of the board ought to be from Kinston. Kinston pays the majority of the county’s taxes and has nearly half of the couhty’s population so by every rule of political logic it should have re presentation on the board. JONES JOURNAL JACK RIDER, Publisher MURIEL RIDER, Business Manager ^ Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir County News Company, Inc., 403 West Vernon, Aye., Kinston, N. C., Phone MU.' Entered as Second Class Matter May 6, 1949, at the Post Office at Trenton, North Carolina, under the' .Act ol March S, 1879. /.■ There are many human race. But there dtvthe aapecto to this stub! lens that classes himself _» ^ ™ Creation.” I've often wondered If Crea tion considers man the lord of all he surveys? What, for Instance, causes Man to decide aUbyhla little self that he, alone, of all creatines Is the only one with a soul? - . ■ • ‘if ' If one creature has a soul, what kind of reasoning Is logically capable of saying that NO other creature has a soul? The Christian World, however, laughs at the Hindu beliefs that animals also enjoy a measure of Immortality. The Hindu World laughs the long laugh of history at the presumptions ego of the Christian World with its know-it-all at titudes on everything and anything. The professional Christian has an an swer for every situation and problem. Other religions, older and more populous, place a greater emphasis on the power' and necessity of absolute meditation. The Western mind with its quick .some times synthetic answers for every prob lem cannot fathom, or appreciate the togl who sits In one spot for years In silent con templation. Nor can we under stand the people who support but'demand such detached application of mind to the problem of Soul. Somerset Maugham In “The Razor’s Edge” has touched lightly upon the Im passive wall between the Western and Eastern minds In their remotest depths. Kipling, who lived a. life-time with the East and who gave a Journalistic picture of Victoria’s East, also gave a report and some Utile understanding to this etern al mystery in his short story, ‘The Mira cle of Purun Bhagat.” In the newspapers and periodical of today one frequently reads of the "En igma That Is Asia.” And how many of us who must live with the Aslan problem actually have evten the remotest notion, of what this phrase means? Few, ini. eluding myself . My Astatic experience has been limited to a few months’ as sociation with a group of Indian soldiers that was stationed near one in England in 1943-44-45. They were Hindu, *mrh and Moslem in their beliefs. (And some of us often snickered a trifle at the sight of their brightly robed priests and separate mess for the three religions. Yet we had three priests at our base: Jewish Protestant and Catholic and the gaps (between Hindu, Sikh and Moslem are far less than those between, Jew, Prostant and Catholic, in theology as well as diet. I spent many hours with those Men of India. They were probing the Amer ican Mind and I was equally intent on getting behind the Veil of Kashmir. Even their music and drama are beyond the syncopated Imaginations of an American. But, like their peculiar diet, it became most enjoyable once one had summoned enough nerve to “try it.” Hie ability of those people to laugh, at the world and themselves as well was one big surprise to me. Their counte nance; particularly the huge, bearded and beturbaned Sikhs, made them appear anything but humorous. But they lit erally bubbled with mischief and the quick retort. One Instance: After a pro longed beer bout at their camp on one snowly winter’s evening as wey ambled toward bed the most tremendous of all the Sikhs smnnwg my acaualntance stop ped to rid himself of some beer. An alert guard squawled. “HaK!" Without the Sikh Subedar (I HeU! I just got
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