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PERSONAL | ' PARAGRAPHS BY JACK RIDER -—— _—: Each year as school opening time has rolled around since 1&54 I have? been the victim of a nervous tension that must be shared by many million southerners both black and white. Each year trouble is not only feared, but expected and with regulari ty trouble has arrived. The South has been blasphemed around the world for its re fusal to bow humbly before the illegal acts of a power maddened supreme court. But the South still stands, battered but undefeated. Treason has been committed in NVxrth OartaUma by cowardly sfchool boards in Charlotte, Greensboro and Win ston-Salem but everywhere else from Vir ginia to the Gulf of Mexico the battle line has been held and the war is being won. The Conference of Chief Justices of the 48 states has adapted a strong resolution, attacking the recent wrongful decisions of the supreme court. Congress almost summoned up enough courage to put this socialist tribunal Into its proper place but failed because of gutless politicians wh0 should crawl upon the floors of congress rather than strut. No where, not even in the wildest ranks of the one-nace gospel crowd is there a fanatic so “gone” as to aceept>a national referendum on this subject. They know, as every congressman on Capital Hill knows, that a national vote on the subject of segregation by race would pass so fast and so overwhelmingly that it would jar the very foundations of the NAAiCP and its stooge, the supreme court. But ultimately that bridge will have to be crossed. The South is not going to mix its public schools, no matter if there ig a display o" brute force as at Little Rock and no matter if there are a few traitors among us as at Charlotte, Greenslboro and Winston-Salem. All the finely worded brainwashing of the newspapers, the pul pit, the radio and TV cannot Change the temper of the people. Schools will be closed. Governor Luther Hodiges, who abdicated in the fight against the supreme court, and accepted the legalized integration of the Pearsall Plan explains his act by say ing he accepted the advice - of associates that the people of North Carolina would accept integration rather than closed schools. He was wrong, his associates and advisors were wrong and time will prove this far more clearly than these few words. Clarence Mitchell, director of NAAC3P activities in Washington, in commenting upon the Faubus victory in Arkansas has this to say of North Carolina: "In some parts of the country, his election will make the decent people more active in the effort to prevent this kind of political situation from developing. I think that in a state like North Carolina, for example, there are many people who surely know that if a movement similar t<> the one in Arkansas got underway, it would be the end of them pol'tically." r Question: "You mean it would be the end of them politically because the negro vote would go Republican?" "No. Because if the segregationists got a real hold in North Carolina, it would de stroy a lot of people not openly in favor of integration, but who recognize that it is inevitable. If the worst elements got con trol of the political machinery in North Carolina it would mean that only a segre gationist could win. I don't think the peo ple of North Carolina want that." Question. "Why not?" t "Certainly my impression of the top of ficials in North Carolina is that they are not beating drums in favor of integration. But they know that it must come, and they know from the standpoint of national im portance as a state, it is much better for North Carolina to be in a column of law and order than in a column of. diehard segregationists." So even this “Big Nigger” of the Wash ington NAiAiCP office realizes that if North Carolina voters had an opportunity to vote between an avowed segregationist and a' (Continued on page 7) 'Maybe Next Year I'll Get Around . to Organizing the Senate' - EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Ot inion Of One Man, ----( ;— --And He May Be Wrong. Congress Has Failed The federalists, or socialists will be pleased with the record of the 85th Con gress for it failed to strike down any of the many forces which gnaw at the vitals of our republic and in most instances moved further towafd the totalitarian con cepts which hide behind the “common man” kind of “promised Land”. Taxes wqre increased for social securi ty—26 per cent, but benefits to the sheep who are being shorn were increased only seven per cent. The Supreme Court, the Communist Party, the NAACP, the Teamsters’ Union and Walter Reuther still control the coun try despite endless congressional fulmina tions on these assorted threats to republi can government. The power to legislate has been abdicat ed to the supreme court, control of labor has in too many instances been left in the hands of racketeers, minority problems have become the property of the fanatics who prosper behind the dark veil of the NAACP and foreign policy has been erected around the dollar mark. In leaving the supreme court unrestrain ed the 85th Congress was guilty of its worst crime of ommission. For it has been the calloused paw of these nine politicians in judicial robes that has held high the hand of totalitarianism in every conflict between the republican government our Constitution once guaranteed and the state socialism which public greed has saddled us with. Congress has the power, but it lacked the guts to set right the floundering ship of state. Small bore politicians posturing as great statesmen have preened them selves before the public and then meekly stolen away into the night when confronted with the forked tongues of racket-filled labor unions, the twisted fanaticisms of the race amalgamators and the brute force of the “One Worlders”. The 85th Congress passed a lot of bills, - but its record lies in the wastebasket. The bills which a minority managed to get to the floor only to see die, done to death by political cowards, opportunists and flap doodle intellectuals of the Douglas-Hum phrey-Neuberger ilk. Conservative, republican government is desperately ill; many say fatally ill and the one “doctor” who has the power to prescribe the medicine for recovery has failed to lift its hand to paper. Even so conservative a hand as that of Congressman L. H. Fountain has affixed his signature to a report which supports the vast federal bureacracy in its penetra tion into practically every sphere of life that remains in this republic' of once sovereign states. The Prepared Insult On May 17, 1954 the United States Su preme Court heaped the worst insult ever written upon an entire people. It said to the raice of George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Robert Russa Moton, Robert- L. Vann and Ralph Bunche: “You and your children cannot .learn firom iden tical books, from better framed teachers unless they are mixed in classrooms with white children.’’' ' • Of course,. that statement is nowhere in the decision which these' white men on the nation’s highest and once most -respected court wrote. But the insult is there. .11 was pat there by the suave lawyers of the NAAiOP, who needed "results” to collect dues. They took a socialist textbook, a prevailing climate of political cowardice and strategic blocs of negro votes and fashioned from them the fafbric which the supreme court stitched into' the ultimate slander, i 1 This paper, bitterly* and everlastingly 'opposed as it is to the mixing of the white and black races* in our schools and at evenyother social level denies tl^ brutal implications of this NAACP-in^pired slur which was adopted unanimously by the nine nitwits on the supreme court. The negro parent, the racial agitator, ; Deny Its Own? Ttie pressing question of this week on the segregation front is whether or not the United States Supreme Court wil 'Deny Its Own order of 1955 in which it foisted the job of public school integration onto the federal district courts. If the court were composed of men od either intelligence or character, which it most assuredly is not, one could logically assume that it would over torn the appellate court’s reversal of Judge Lemley’s deci sion to postpone the forcing of negroes in to Little Rock High for 2Yt years. But since this court is composed of political lackeys and proven socialsts who are determned to mopgrelize the nation in the pious name of the “common man”, it is far more logical to assume that it will Deny Its Own decision of just three years ago by saying, now that the district judge is less qualified than itself to determine how sloiwly or how quickly this political pandering must take place. If it follows this “logical” pattern of biting its own tail, then it will have as sumed the responsibility of adjudicating each and every integration squabble in every school district in the naton. It will also have assumed the position of demanding humble and immediate sub serviance to its whim by every member of the' federal judiciary. Powgr is a maddening thing. Power such as the supreme court has is certain to corrupt any but men who are dedicated to the highest sense of public service. This court has demonstrated beyond doubt that its) dedication is to- venal, gutter-level politics rather than to the republican gov ernment once guaranteed by our noble (Constitution. A Community Loss The unexpected death Sunday of Verder Leroy Pollock was not only a tragic blow to his family and close friends but was also A Community Loss in the very finest pos sible use of that frequently over-worked phrase. A description we heard of Pollock that is an epitaph each of us could be proud of was, “He wiasm’t the kind of fellow who talked a lot. When he saw something that needed doing, he simply got busy and did it.’’ His church, his civic interests, his deep love for his native county and its people were characteristics that made Pollock a valuable citizen. This abiding interest in and willingness to do something for his county and its citizens when added to the gentle spirit of his entire life combined to make Pollock one of Trenton’s best liked men. No man is irreplaceable, and Pollock would have been the first to insist upon the truth of this, but Trenton and Jones County will join with his family in miss ing him and in needing his help and ad vice for a long time to come. the soothsaying religionists and the Joe Nathan Daniels breed of newsmen who preach the integration sermon repeat the supreme slander of the supreme court. Negroes have vast capacities for learn ing, great natural capabilities, qualities peculiar to their culture and heritage that are noble and needed by the South and the rest of the nation, but the neigro cannot reach his goal by imitating white men and mongrelizing his race. America is a land of proud minori ties. True, many have been segregated for many different reasons. But they have risen to the level of equality not by force of law but by force of character and force of accomplishment. This is the only way the negro can ever attain equality. JbNES JOURNAL JACK RIDER, PuDUsher Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir County News Company, Inc., 403 West Vernon, Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phone 5415. • Entered as Second Class Matter May 5, 1949, at the Post Office at Trenton. North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mall in First Zone—$3.00 Per Year, ion Ratos Payable In Advance ! I \
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