kmt involved in trying to forces situation
upon two peoples wb6 had accomplished
■' go much together under no sterner prod
/that mutual respect and enlightened self
interest. The black and white citizens of
the South have marched steadily forward —
neither quite equal in many economic and
' political aspects to their compatriots in
other parts, of our country. Yet they did
the law turn its back On the majority in
terests of the area. The federal law is spit
upon by men of goodwill who five years
ago spoke with reverential awe of the
supreme court. The federal law has be
come a cheapened political tool, used to
gain office for men of small conscience and
selfish motive, that gap Chat had grown
so narrow between the white and < black
The pressures beneath such a vast politi
cal tent as the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People ax#
understandable if not appreciated. U*e
hunger for fuU citizenship in every sense
of the word inspires many wild, many
sane impulses- in every heart blade or
white. Ope white father may gnash his
White father may gnash his
* Us energies to have a homo;
a car, dothes, recreation, education for
1 lii.: TV': • tWA ni fUa:
bis children that ate equal to those of
fellow next door upon whom fortune
smiled more Madly. But none but the i
? socialist would insist that the family
the second family be deprived of ti
better things of life because the unU
neighbor cannot afford them ft* Um
i a^l Us family.
ad public education, but
the same forces which an
v cannot split the nation tor
Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of. One Man,
-—— ----And He May Be Wrong.
Thie Pt?arsali Platt;
Firstly, .<nH»r this plan mining of white
and negro children in the public schools
is made legal if a community or itsschool
board so desire. We believe that all of
North Carolina — not just parts, ought to
maintain its positive position on continued
segregation in all public schools.
Secondly, The Pearsall Plan is an abso
lute abdication of the position taken ear
lier by Governor Hodges. He has repeatedly
said that the Supreme Court did not have
legal authority to begin meddling with th'e
public school systems of the several states.
By this'plan the (governor apparently ac
cepts the premise that the Supreme Court
did have proper authority to meddle into
■SBairs of once-sovereign states.
Thirdly, The Pearsall Plan gives all the
high cards to the extremists on th^ inte
gration side of the fence. They can force
every white school to dose by simply forc
ing a negro student into a white school.
Fourthly, the absurd notion that private
school education can be bought for the pro
rata costs oT the public schools is , simply
■meant to be a club over the heads of those
both negro and white who want their child
ren to get an education. This will tend to
waition bag been
Mill the judical 1
t our federal govi
states acting to
school boante. . (
This Is not to belittle the courages or the
wisdqm of these men and women hi the
trenches but is to say that in a time of
major crisis* such as this, the master band
is needed at the helm.
Our’federal courts, foaming at the mouth
and mad with hydrophobia of anbridled
power would gobble, and have gabbled up
local school boards like so ranch table
scraps, but even the mightiest of these
pensioned politicians on the federal bench
would be reluefcant to start Hefting around
the governor of a state.
Contempt citations against' a local school
board are one thing but contempt cita
tions -against the governor of a state is a
political and judicial animal of another
nor as the ehief evecutiwe of
fht to remain' in the front lines
rorst battle since IMS that oor
aught. We cannot accept the
! provisions of The Pearsall
divides tbe state into count
n nAMA iMlinllir rtev4-r\ JU* ri flarnrHii mm
■a negro usually gets rar less severe pun
istaneni thin a white who has killed or
raped a white. When the negro kills’ or
rapes a white then his punishment Is raised
to theextreme levels used against white
£ y/-;
i Now that there is such a forceful ef
fort to bring equality to the negro at every
lefrel — and most particularly at the ju
dicial levels we believe it time to
the negro up to the equality of'punisi
in the eourta. ‘-.V h.,
Now upder indictment in the com
Lenoir County are two Camp Lejeun
gro Marines who are charged with a
brutal, criminal assault upon a 'til
negro woman. We feel, and strong!
that in the light of this cry'fia; «q
that these negro Marines ought to
trial for the capital crime they are cb
'with rather than haying the couzi
<Mwvf n lodsixr n1<Mir In® nWlae t/v <
LcifL it i c, vr X .g&I r*H If! tirillGjr t Jtr t*L 1
■the case, v. . *^^..7 >■
than to be armaed with a weapon that wOl
hot work. K you depend; apon it for pro
jteetion ant ft fails you1 are lost If you
know Quit yon have to depend upon your
own ability ,to resist them toe action is sim
pler and often more safe. North Carolina,
in our opinion, would be far safer behind
its present laws and principles than be
hind this new *set included in The Pearsall
Plan.
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We are informed Oat Kinston City SI
ager Roy Robinson has been told “to i
down” bis effort to eliminate Mind <
ners in Kinston caused by shrubbery
other privately owned constructions on j
lie. property. We trust that if this is
that the aldermen responsible wall be
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