to ttie . Other I’m not 108 per cent sure
where I stand. p;?vf X,:
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Newspaper folks are supposed to geit out
their step ladder and climb up on -their
| highest horse when censorship of any form
is mentioned, and, of course, to take the
.pictures of the “netted gals” off tlm drug
•store sheivfes wouM be a ■ form. of cen
sorship, and by the stone token taking Elvis
off the air waves would be a form of cen
sorship. And since most newspaper folks
are quite willing to stamp hell oat of any
other business, and particularly any other
business that sells advertising it might be
‘♦in form” for me to get out my tom-tom
' and hit. it a 'lick or two against this here
“mounting music?', if you know what I
meap, and if you cap read this far in this
kind of stuff you probably are right with
me, or a couple of jumps ahead of me.
out of it than 1 am. So I won’t stomp radio,
or Elvis, or even the others whose names
haven’t, reached my ivory tower, yet.
But I will have a word or two to say
about the “betted women” pictures in drug
stores, and soda diops and barber shops—
which makes me wonder if the women have
pictures of “nettid men” in beauty parlors.
I’m opposed to these pornographic pub
lications, but not on the usual ground. I
don’t think they’re gonna ruin the county’s
morals; they’re already shot to pieces be
cause mama and papa ‘have put fences
around their hogs, shut up their chickens
and put a ring in the old bull’s nose and
turned their children foot loose. So I ain’t
gonna blame the moral climate on nothing
so innocent as a sheet of paper with a little
ink smeared on it in just the right places.
Tm opposed to this kind of stuff be
cause to me it’s ugly as sin, or uglier if
you want to split hairs because sin some
times is a pretty little thing. But the naked
human form just simply ain’t pretty to
me; not on public display any way. This
goes for the painting, of Rubens, the statues
of Rodin or the cartoons in Esquire. But
ugly as the form divine may be in total
exposure it ain’t half so ugly as some hoot
owl with a badge peeking over my shoulder
and telling me what to peep at, or print,
or write, or think, or say. And so I opewitf
fhisaiway; if some joint gets a little too
rough for my taste either with the brand
of whisky they are bootlegging or the kind
of calendars they hang on the wails I just
thataway about my
W to say right now
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EDITORIALS
Never forget That These Editorials Are The
it is quite Hkely that there 1
a time when one resisted the discipline of
The Oaeaaxs, and perhaps resisted getting
his hair cut in the prescribed mode.
Such an incident could not hove been a
major factor in the DecMne and Fall of
The Roman Empire, but' itr may very-well
have been a symptom of a national disease
which certainly was a major fact in said
Decline and Fall. ,
When a military commander cannot en
force so ample a rule as one pertaining to
hair cuts the armed forces are knocking on
the door of anarchy, for an army without
discipline is nothing more, or less than a
mob. .. .
The success so far in our brief history
of the American Anmed Forces has noit
.been due to the fact that the uniform was
‘Happy Home”. It has always been the
massive appeal of home, and freedom from
tusis 'been very iimply based la'
fact that heretofore an American would
fight against any odds and without the
slightest understanding of the grea^ na
tional principles involved just to get back
home and get the hell out of uniform.
Now, we are maknig the armed forces a
country -club with mama peeping over the
first sergeant’s shoulder and dictating} duty
rosters to the company clerk. This may
keep the soldier in the army, but in ottr
veteran opinion the thing we need to avoid
like the plague is developing an amaj and
a frame of mind in which any lhrgp per
centage of our man power would want to
remain in uniform longer than absodamned
lutely necessary.
ffif we’d been that hair
private’s first sergeant his head'
looked more like a cuehaH rather titan a
kitchen mop.
The Pearsall Plan and Hodges
When Governor Luther Hodges succeeded
William Utnstead as the state’s chief ex
ecutive one ofthe many orientation Confer
ences that took place was naturally .on the
subject of ' the United States Supreme
- Court’s; notion ah
'colored- folks fir*
e in every nook and cranny of
i Way of Life. ■•v,V1 >
pressed then the desire to have
dilative authority; to cut. a*
1 state money to any local
hick inter$ra»dn was ordered,
hted because he felt the roil
(forth Carolina was not in ptst
Darolina where thebulk of the
hut in the larger, cities of the
and where the Jury fc
M bet our bouse rent
in that M^iritring frame
Ofthewttdty business
bar not with juries in
So longas the federal government le
$10J0 tan upon ea*h gallon of whial
wood# Witt be m of bootleggers lx
it only costs about 70 to 90 cents to
it gallon A
«p*p
with the “'Pearsall Plan”; because we doubt
like hell that anybody else in the state is
satisfied with it, black. or white. , ^ V ‘
They will pull out the lawbooks and say
to fee whitepatttm# at then* schools in
$1,650 per ytpr if one did exist Orfailing
that if any single individual stiH desires to
flaunt the majority of his neighbors who
may be in favor of mongreMng the two
races he can also get the same munificent
allocation from the state for fee “education'’
of each of his children — but he can get
that only after he toes suffered tfmitigh the
time-consuming processes of petition fcir
culating, election holding and further ap
pearances before a school board feat op
poses him cm his face, and perhaps be
cause of his face.
Weapft onthe “Pearsall Plan”. We were
far, far Setter off before when mixing of
white and Natk children in public wbools
was illegal. Now the “Pearsall Plan" makes
it 'legal and the very spirit which such
humble surrender creates nullifies or at
least lessens tee spirits that might have
availed against this gross usurpation at
power by those nine nitwits with tee Mack
Advice for a long life: Just do one thing ,
at a time — and try to avoid teat as long as
ir»-' . 1
With 80 mute at Us salary taxed to bal- ; •
aoee the budget, all the average man ten
do is to budget tee balance.