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EDITORIALS
Never Forget That These Edit oriole Are The Opinions Of One Man,
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The Importance of Voting
No matter who a person votes for In
a second primary, they should exercise
that duty. Voting in a first primary is,
of course, important too, but in the fi
nal analysis the vote In the second
primary is the one that actually selects
the office holder.
This pa£er does not belong to that
“get out the vote” school of thinking,
with repeated beggings to the public to
wte above all else, we believe that a
person should take the time to Inform
himself of what the Issues and Indi
viduals are and after that vote.
If a person is too busy, too ignorant
or too lazy to Inform himself he ought
to stay home and wait such time as he
can inform himself to vote. The most
dangerous segment of the voting public
is that part which merely votes be
cause “voting” is a public duty.
Voting is a serious business and should
be approached/ta just that manner. And
-in that serious vein, we urge as
strongly as we can that .everybody who
voted in the first primary on May 29Sh
go back to the polls on June 26th and
make that final seelction. The first pri
mary was only a preliminary skirmish,
the one June 26th is the one that -
counts.
More On Court Decision
to calm us by remindng that “This
-isn’t going to hapepn overnight. Don’t
:get too alanmed. The Supreme Court is
n’t going to rush this thing on us. It’ll
take years to put it into practice. The
court was merely pointing out a princi
ple.”
These platitudes and many more have
been aimed at us, and those who think
like we do. My answer to them has been
and still is: Nuts.
Wo one with an ounce of knowledge of
what is going On in this aiMair can sin
cerely believe that any such %low process
Is going to be permitted. This has
been pointedly and repeatedly stated for
all to see by Walter White, executive
secretary of the National Association
Star the Advancement of Colored People.
At a meeting this past Sunday in Dur
preparing petitions asking Southern
school boards to abolish segregation with
out delay. The petitions have been com
pleted by the organization’s legal de
partment and are 'being sent to local
branches.” \
Spouting further, White added, “There
is a pathetic futilUty in the recent
agreement of certain Southern governors
not to comply voluntarily with the Su
preme Court’s anti-segregation de
sion.”
If rids is the language of a group
“satlsified with establishing a legal
principle and not wanting to end seg
regation any more than white people”
then we are guilty of a complete ignor
ance of the meaning of the English lan
guage.
In a speech delivered last month by
Walter Troban, buerau chief of the
Chicago Tribune in Washington, which
is reprinted in full in this edition of
Tax Supervfc
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and rate are comparable to tax coats In
other areas where they have plants, so
they’re happy. The Du Pont company
’— * —iputaition of wanting to pay
its fair share of taxes everywhere that
it does business. And, of course, it’s good
public relations to pay strictly local
taxes ad they are deductible when time
rolls around to j>ay those “exhorbitant"
*"i“™\l taxes.
ve often wonder if the public is not
exposed to TOO MUCH inforxation. We
have so much shoved at us by radio, TV,
the printed word and plain rumor that
we have little or no time to digest any
of what is put before us. Hather as if
we have Indigestion, of the brain from
.over “eating,” Our mindis are so crowd
ed with ‘Tacts’ ’that we are frequently
unable to penetrate the mists and see
through to the principals and principles
acually involved.
' It might be an enlightening thing lor
Americans today to play back some old
recordings of Hitler’s. Whether one
speaks German or not, the similarity be
tween the sounds-Hitler made and those
Currently being made toy Senator Mc
Carthy is most evident. The same forc
ed gutterals, the same tone of hysteria,
the same phonetic posturings are. there.
Of course, even more enlightening would
be a comparison of the actual subject
matter.v " 1 * *»'
Speaking of taxes, the five cent cut
voted for 1964-56 by the Lenoir County
Board of Commissiohers is no doubt wel
comed by one and all. We get more for
our city and county tax dollar than for
any other money we spend, but no mat
ter how much we get we are always hap
py to pay a little less so long-as we still
get the many services that the city arid
county provide.
From reading curd listening to the
Indo-Chinh attitudes of our leaders it
appears that the American mind is now
being conditioned for another Korea.
Alii of the subtle tricks of the propa
ganda trade in America are being used
to get the public “use to the 001100 ”
Hope we are wrong, however.
Novelists who make money either write
things that make them blush or shame
their grandchildren.
“Freedom” they have been given by
their so-called court and use at least a
little ofit to go to the north where they
claim they are accepted as equals and
with open anus. -..' -
JOURNAL
go too
Jar Into ;
up to the opposite direction, so that
.the purpose the paper started out for
backfires. This column may ,be of that
nature. I certainly hope that It does
npt for I feel very seriously on this spe
cific subject and surely hope that this
cohtoto does not backfire to the detri
ment of the cause which I hope for.
The people of Lenoir County are fac
ed with a choice on June 28th between
Clay Broadwoy and' D .F. Wilcox Jr. for
the important jdb of Sheriff of Lenoir
County. This is the highest police job
in the county, although in recent years
it may have been somewhat dimmed by
the lassitude of the holder of that of
fice. •
Nevertheless, the Office of Sheriff is
a high and constitutional position of
great trust and great importance to ev
ery man, woman and child who lives
in, visits in or passes through Lenoir
County. The voters of the county have
a solemn obligation to seek for the
truth in the campaign between these
two men and to do their best to find
which of these men would be the best
tor this job.
This Is not an attack on D. F. Wilcox
Jr as an individual. I have known
him most of my life and personally like
him and have never gotten along with
him in any but the best (way. We have
never had any “falling out.” But this
Is rather an atack upon the official
position Wilcox has held In the present
sheriff’s administration and the part he
has. played or MOT played in that de
ptUTUDeuI. &*$$$$ ''-Nv-/'
This ,1s not a personalized effort to
drag all, or any of the personal affairs
of Wilcox Into the public eye. I have
heard a great many charges against him
but most were largely of a personal na
ture and practically all came flrom peo
ple who were not themselves as “pure as
the driven snow.” Because of the per
sonal nature of many of these charges
and because they were made by people
who may have had an ax to grind I
must put them aside and In my effort
discuss things as THEY AIRE and not
as somebdoy SAID THEY WERE.
Among the things I have found, with
out too much effort that exists, to the
detriment of Wilcox are mostly sins of
"omlssslon” of the present department In
which he Is chief deputy. I know fun
damentally that She responsibility for
these sins of "Gsnlssion, 'rests most large
ly upon Cherlff Sam Churchill for he Is,
at least In name, head of the depart
ment. But Wilcox cannot escape re
sponsibility In these mutters for he has
had fuU authority to do just about as
he has pleased under Churchill.
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The No. 1 fault I have found, and
still find with his department is that
it has not done the work for the county
that it should have done. A current
report reveals that fees paid to consta
bles during the first nine months the
sheriff had five deputies and three ra
dlo-eqdiped can amounted to $4,429.80
while fees paid into the county treas
ury by work done by the sheriffs
Six-man department amounted to only
$308.50.
I do not maintain, for one minute,
that the Sheriffs department could
have done all of this work, could have
served every one of these papers btft
I do contend that It could have done
ftur more than an average of $36 worth