Editors Opinions— I
in bolding
was not
entirely
as individuals
as they were
According to reports,
behavior until the
on the scene, and
literally attacked them with guns
and ckhs, firing on the retreating
cars of the Wan.. No»gun-toting,
dub-wielding Indian who marched
onto the area rented by the Wan
was arrested for taking the law
into his own bands. Since the Wane
men didn't resist, thereby avoiding
a Woody fight, only one arrest was
made—a Wan member accused) of
“carrying a concealed weapon.”
Now, we are strong for law and
order, but anybody who believes
it’s for just one side is just as
bad as the KKK. In fact, that’s the
disgrace about the Wan: It believes
in its own law, for its own pur
poses.
So, we nominate for membership
in the Ku Klux Klan those Indians
who proved1 they can shoot guns in
the night, wield dubs and fists, and
instigate lawless disorder. We
nominate for membership, also,
the laiw ‘enforcement officers and
agencies who stood by grinning up
their sleeves. How far up the line
Most Eastern Carolina
Farms Are Fire Hazard
That’s the opinion of R. S. Doug
lass, forestry specialist for the N.
C. Agricultural Extension Service,
who advises that the cost of pre
paring and maintaining firelanes
■with a farm tractor is low com
Unless your farm is different
from most other Eastern North
Carolina farms, you have a fire
hazard on your handis.
pared to what a bad fire can cost
a farmer.
'Douglass says that if you have
a rough area, you may need to
get the N. C. Forest Service or a
heavy equipment operator to pre
pare your firelanes the first time.
Then you can maintain them with
ran be maintained
. roads and firelanes
if they are worked with a hush and
bog harrow reversed to pull the
dirt ip until they are level, and
then maintained with a gang disk
to leave them level.
Douglass warns that often a pre
pared and maintained firelane is
the difference between stopping a
serious fire and losing a stand of
timber that would take 25 years or
more to replace. “Fire is a serious
hazard in timber growing, and
spending a little money to reduce
the hazard is an excellent invest
ment,” he concludes.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
Cent. Prom Paso 6
2*397 of 3,597 aggravated assaults,
1,938 of 2,425 house breakings, 324
of 4(70 thefts of more than $100 and
1,719 of 2,575 thefts of less than
$100 and 450 out of 623 auto thefts—
this in spite of the fact that Wash
ington is 65 per cent white and 35
per cent negro—or was before the
Supreme Court chased the white
people out 'into Maryland and
Virginia.
More: New York with a negro
population of 908,191 had 7,585 in
prison while Mississippi with a ne
gro population of 966,494 had 1,432
in prison. Which works
far both negro and white
_. wholesale integration as in
New York or complete segregation
it The North has
an ethical prob
up
problem
to grow worse
wfthgrieTOueta
of the prob
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of law enforcement responsibility
tWa would run !»'debatable. Just
consider It as going to the lord
from which orders which would
have been given if the situation
had been reversed. Judging from
the governor’s remarks it could
include a pretty high level of law
i '"l;”'' L: ''T'T V
enforcement responsibility. All
these have demonstrated their fit
ness for membership in such as
the KKK by their actions in the
Robeson county affair.
Last but not least, let uS nom
inate the press for its handling of
the story. Its indulgent, smirking
rnuc. Mvcn
reports of the mob violence of the
Indians shows it needs no train
ing in prejudice to qualify for the
Han.
It might just be, though, that
these nominees are a little too
strong for the modern-day ldan.
—Mt. Olive Tribune
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