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by ;:y JACK RIDER Nobody should be surprised at la* weed's decision by the supreme court to tom over an American soldier to Japan tor trial in a crime committed while that soldier was on duty, on a military, *nd presumably under notary jurisdiction. Ibis is just one more crooked line in the crazybtai* print of inter nationalism which a majority of our nation seems dedicated to* and which tide once supreme court is implementing at a rate far greater than the average citizen can assimulate. .. I' , ^Internationalism is a long word which means, in its extremest^form, “One World”, to borrow a phrase from the late Wendell Wilkie. World Government, if you will, that is the notion festering in the minds of many men; some in the Kremlin, some in the pentagon, others, in the marble halls of the supreme coiut, and far too many m the Iras of congress,.: ' \ - -s - ** -ryt • /*rt ‘r"-‘ • •*%*** •*$ is like communism, a beautiful thing putdown on paper; but about as practical as tits on a boar hog. Purely for decimation and certainly not useful for.anything else, this new political disease is actually nothing new under that lazy old sun that jnst rocks around heaven ah daijh Alexander, Gaeear, Atilla, Napo leon, Hitler were all believers in this “One World” system. M iBut leave it to Americans to give even an old principle a new twist. Rather titan tak ing a base ball bat, or a hydrogen bomb and beating the world' into “One World” we have decided to do it the hard way. By surrendering our solvency, our sovereignty, our sanity and much of our soul we are “setting the good ejcam&le” and hoping to buy a “One World” in a package deal. We are rather in the position of the intent young ' ji'■'■ got a job as a welfare worker ind armed thusly with taxpayers’ money and great principles of humamtarianism strides out into the cold cruel world to “reform” some of her clients. Her clients include broken down drunks, worn out whores, mental and physical misfits, and, of course, a per centage of people who can respond to the kind of help she has been taught to ad minister. The family of nations is just the same. Nations broken down from the most heady of wines, called power; such as Japan, Germany, Italy. Nations who have sold their virtue for the easy life, such as France, earn the title of international trollop. Then there are surely nations whose mental and physical conditions make them unlikely pa tients for such tender treatments. Lands without water cannot be made into gardens of Eden. Lands without organized govern ment cannot exist formally as friend or foe. India is a land mass and a human mass whose problems are so tremendous and whose disease of government and economics are so deeply rooted that nothing but the most ruthless surgery wild avail. Certainly not platitudes and powdered milk. But on this alter of internationalism the great white priests in the temples of the highest court, and their vassals in con gress and in the white house are busily sacrificing practically everything this na tion was built upon and prospered from. Senator Sam Ervin speaking last Thursday on this spirit of sacrifice asked in the lan guage of Omar Khayyam of his senatorial colleagues: “I wonder if what the. wine sellers buy is one-half so precious, as what they sell?” '■■■’ ■ „ . And so it. goes. Is the surrender of an American soldier to the once “tender” Japs in order to prevent a “major Japanese in cident” half so vtabiable as file denial to /that soldier of a ball dozen once .cherished constitutional rights? Is the pandering to the colored races of the world with decision af ter decision half so important as the prin ciple of state sovereignty which these de risions nullify? t ■ V The Big One It Next! >■■■' N -•'' r”: n EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Of inionOf One Man, ' : = -gA. Thaddeus Stevens was the most ruthless enemy the South had iwhen the War-Be tween The States ended. In Congress through the bitter hatred Stevens had for the South and over the veto of President Johnson were passed the vindictive laws that throttled the Southland and kept it in political and economic bondage for two generations. Today the intellectual heirs to this legacy of hate carry on in spirit, if not in name, ihe cold legal war which Stevens fought, and won against the South. The words are different, the actors in this strange > drama are changed but the plot is identical. The play opens on a high, emotional note: Soft music playing in the background echoes the ageless lament of the negro, the poor negro. Into this at mosphere a Bible-toting soothsayer walks slowly, and thoughtfully and opens the play with a solioquy that - sets the tone of the melodrama: . Here are God’s children being denied the right to vote, the right to attend white schools, the right to swim in white pools, the right to even play golf on a white golf course. And the lights die down and the soft negro music rises in the background and we fade into a scene on. the floor of congress. Some high principled solon with flowing rhetoric and equally liquid morals rises and beats his breast for a half hour on the nabihty of man, and the plight of the poor negro, whose residence incidentally is for bidden in the apartment hotel in which said high, principled solon resides. - In the background lightening is seta and thunder is heard, and there is wailing and gnashing of teeth and a Southern solon rises to defend white honor and insist that if the negro is so abused in the Southland why doesn't that poor beleaguered sold pack his carpetbag and take it back where it came from, where the negro is hived and wanted and put in cages in ghettoes like i » soo and fed-regularly by wi and ground into t "*/-^** W&m “love and off stage scene taro usds and when the final act curtain rises we see the sriioke filled room, with the high principled men of politics sitting down to review the work of the day. One noble Roman from South Chicago rises to assert/JJVe gotta keep these damned niggers down south. Pretty soon they’ll have ail of Chicago”. Another noble soul from South Boston (where the most recent lynching took place) lifts his graying head and says, “We could use some more black labor around Boston, because they’re cheap, but these damned labor unions rope ’em in and by the time they reach Boston they think they’re worth as much as a white man.” Another man at the round table reminds, “We’ve got to unionize the South. Cheap labor there/ is closing up factories ev#y day in my district”. Another asks,' “How you gonna ' get Southerners unionized when sU the unions are hollering for nigger 'rights?” v ■■■ " Another points out, “We got our signals crossed. We ought to have unionized the South first and mongrelized it next. That wa/ we’d be able to keep plants from mov ing south. We all know the south has a bet ter dimate, more raw materials and a better working farce than we have, but if we can keep the south in a big enough stew .over this nigger business we can keep these big outfits from pulling their plants out of our part of the country and heading south. Why hells bells, we kept the Smith dosed industrially for 90 years by so simple a gimmick as jacked up frieght rates. We can’t do anything so simple as that today, but we can pour on the nigger oil and light , crosses from Louisiana to Virginia. That’ll make toe corporation executives tUnk twice before heading. South.” “And don’t forget”, another descendant of Steven* reminds, “M we can keep toe otf as S political factor and seed in aB good faith and under our once cherished principles of government a per son — even a tobacco fanner — is pre sumed innocent until proven guilty. The ABC, however, up until now has said that these fanners and many others in adjoining counties wiM have to accept “blue” marketing Cards and sen their to bacco with only SO per cent at the parity support given to other i»n-p«H$xed types of tobacco. IMS entire point may he academic, since with only 00 per cent eg e ci*op this year, it is felt that few farmers afe going .to need the protection of parity support, this year. He always hopes that he will not need in surance bat where , would he-be if he did heed it and thdh’t ha/ve it? We ted strongly that after investigation these faraaers ought to be given white marketing cards if their claims are sup port able add the straujgest point in tnnr of that argument is what one of the Murphy Boys down at Pint HH1 said, “Man, I had 244 last year, and anybody who says I went out' and dcfSbcgrately bought 244 seed this year is mrstiir than me. K weren’t no good lost year'.and. If that’s what I have tMs year, it-still ain’t no good.” : The DuPont Sheep That 'big mechanical sheep operated byttfte DuPont Company and 2200 helpers out! in Contentnea Neck Township' is revolution izing the textile industry and there are in dications that the revolution has hardly be llow by this fiber from the test tubes which (joes everything cotton does, and then some. Bad as tins may sound to the cotton pioking and sheep-shearing gentry is it good news to those of us who live within the economic shadow of this king-sized wool gatherer in Contentnea Neck Township, which now assumes the applications if not the kneeling attitude of the cotton picker. . Hot weather is nicfe for ice salesmen, air conditioning firms, soda pop makers and water melon peddlers but you can have our share of it. We’ll take the frost. About the only predictions coming out bf Detroit on the 1958 models of cars is that they will follow the pattern of the past 20 years and cost a' little more. Eisenhower is really fighting the good fight against inflation. For nine consecu tive months now the cost of living has risen each month. Which brings up the Question: Hew high is high? We are sorry that Jack Home has decided to leave Grainger High ,and Kinston. His presence will be missed, but a most able man, Frank Mock, is there to replace him. JONES JOURNAL JACK RIDER, Publisher ' Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir County News Company, toe., 403 Wert Vernon, Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phone 5415. Entereti aa Second Class Matter May 5, 1945. at . the Post Office at Trenton, North Carollna, under the Art of March 3, 1876. . Bjr Mall in First Zone—$3.00 Per Year. Rates Payable in Advance saHass m
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