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PSRSONM PAM6RAPHS BY , JACK RIDER Last week my wife asked me several times to go with her to see an Ingrid Berg man movie. I kept putting it off with one excuse and then another. Finally, when pressed hard enough I made known my real reason for not wanting to see Miss Bergman play the role of an English Missionary in China. In substance, I de clared: > , “I know she is a great actress, but she is not great enough to erase from my 'mind the fact that she1 is morally a slut. I am no blue-nose who thinks divorce is wrong. In fact, I believe it to be the best thing when people are miserable in a marriage, and are making life miserable for them selves and all around them. But Miss Bergman cannot hope to claim any such nice privilege. She lived with this Italian for months before divorcing her first hus band, deserting her children by her first marriage and creating a scandal that still smells, even in Europe. i “A woman with that kind of background cannot aict well enough to convince me that she is a ‘dedicated missionary’. In each scene, I’d imagine she was taking the ‘sack measurement’ of every male soul she was trying to save. That makes an evil, gray-headed old man out of me, but that’s just the way the inner-springs bounce. ‘‘I know full well that Miss Bergman is not the only tramp in her trade. Rita Hay worth could probably spot her ‘cards and spades’ and beat her at any boudoir game, but then Miss Hayworth ain’t been play ing missionary roles recently. “TBie great stage or screen artist is sup posed, on paper, to create characters, but mo matter how great they are they are still part of the image that they have created of themselves in the public eye. Humphrey Bogart would have had difflwsilty playing a Baptist preacher, at least for me. Andy Griffith cannot aspire to' Fred Astaire suavity- Judy Canbva could not play Juliet. Oscar Levant cannot be a Van Kliburn. “For other people, this reasoning may he as “square” as an honest dice, but for me it’s just thataway and I’m making no effort to drag my artistic appreciation in anyother direction. If Miss Bergman want;s to play parts that fit her real-life tem perament, I’ll enjoy her along with the rest of the world, but not as a missionary, please.” I’m not one of those who believe Holly wood is a den of iniquity, filled with im moral people. Sure it has some of that flavor, but' what village doesn’t. On that subject there has recently been a lot of bitter things said about the “All Ameri can Boy” Eddie Fisher forsaking his wife for Elizabeth Taylor. I’ve seen Debbie Rey nolds in TV appearances! never in a movie, and last year I saw Miss Taylor in a movie. Can’t say that I blame Fisher. That makes a double-standard bearer out of me, at least on the surface. I “OK” for Fisber what I’ve just 'denied Miss Berg man. But it ain’t necessarily that way. My objection, very largely is to one of, these “bed hoppers” trying to play a part that is so completely different from'their real self. I don’t approve of wholesale divorce, but it is a legal method of handling a problem that would otherwise be difficult. If a couple cannot get along, It’s better tor them to divorce and remarry a dozen times than* to flaunt accepted -moral standards by simply “shacking np” with first one, and then another. —- ’ -V 'Stigy EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are. The Of inion Of One Man, -—...- - ■ And He May Be Wrong. Didn’t Read Papers Despite the fact that every news media from coast to coast proclaimed the Novem ber elections as a “Great liberal Sweep” there are positive indications that th* men elected take a different view of things in general and their responsibility in par ticular. ' The opening, skirmishes in both houses of congress were clear victories for con servatives. The defeat of Joe Martin was brought about by desperation in the Repub lican Party, not from any notion about socialization of the GOP. In the Senate, Lyndon Johnson has called the tune quite effectively and now the same newsmen who were talking about a “liberal sweep” in November are reexamining those legislators who three months ago bad that label hung on them. , . The Democratic victory was largely- a rfesult of Republican “Me4ooism”; the effort of Republicans to out “New Deal”, the Democrats. There is also a very great difference be tween a “liberal” from Montana and one from Harlem. The western “liberal” it a man who wants pujbiHe funds for conserva tion practices far the general welfare, while his “liberal” next-of-kin in Harlem is a simple political pimp to nothing more altruistic than reelection. .The vote of the senate so soon after the opening <St the 86th congress on the so called filibuster rule indicates several things, and we do not believe we are mere ly taking an exercise in wishful thinking to assert that among these is: The senators have been home and have beard what the home folks have had to say on the civil rights issue. The senate is our last bastion of con stitutional government, and happily it has had the courage to resist the pious cbant ings of the flapdoodle liberals, the N1A1ACP, .the Supreme Court, the narrow-gauge're ligionists and the broad-bottomed hypo crites who have and still seek to use the race issue for their own selfish ends.' The temper of the people has been sampled and the senate has reflected it in rising to resist the Paul Douglas kind of mummery that would ruin our country in thO name tit some kind of namby-pamby philosophy erected upop the equailitarian principles of an ant heap. Hurrah for Congress. Castro’s Cuba Cuba’s new “Strong Miato”, Fidele Cas tro', has promised that* his enemies will be given a “fair trial’’ before being shot. Seems to us we have beard that line some where before. vXet us assume that Castro is cut from the finest democratic doth and that he means all the things he has said about a better Cuba than existed under the heel of deposed Dictator Batista. After swaltowing that assumption we then may go on to the next question: Are the Cuban people capable of ruling themselves? There is serious conjecture on that practically all Cubans are either Spanish, negro or haMbreeds of. that combination and the political and religious heritage of botih is rooted ages deep in dictatorship. the experiment which we carry on here in the United Stated in republican govern ment is the end product of over 500 years of effort In that direction. Since King John and Magna Carta there has bee^ a foment in the °****"~ more effort revol ' ‘/V Just Before the Battle Up until now the socialists on the federal courts have been toying with children, but now that they have moved in to the State of Georgia in their, determination to mon grelize education and society they will find, and quickly that they are dealing with a far different breed of people than' in such weak-kneed states as tfortfa Carolina and Florida. The federal court order to admit negroes to a Georgia college is about os valuable as a used postage stamp. There is some chance that the order may have a nega tive value, in that it win crystallize even more solidly the resentment and resistance of the South against th# illegal invasions of these turncoats in the federal judiciary. North Carolina with its Malcolm Sea well and Luther Hodges are eager to “take the middle road”, the path od moderation, the surrender-a-little-bit route. In this fight over state rights, and this extends far beyond the simple question of racial integration, there is no middle ground. Either the 10th Amendment means what it says, or it means nothing. The modern fashion of writing laws in long-winded technical language was not the Style in the Constitutional Convention, and when the Bill of Rights was added to that original draft the same simple, con cise language was in use. Even a child in the third grade can un derstand the 10th Amendment, it says: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved 1 to the States respectively, or to the people.” - Compare that with the 14th Amendment which was extracted under duress from the prostrate South by a vengeful north. The 14th Amendment is-440 words long, consisting of five sections. The last 15 of those words are: “The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.” The first four “provisions” of the 14th Amendment, in substance, guarantee equal protection of the law to all citizens except those Who were meaPbers of the Con federate Army, Spells out the qualifications for voting and holding federal office— again excluding members of the Confed erate Antay, repeats the same in the third paragraph and in the fourth sanctifies the “public debt” as it pertains to “pensions and bounties for suppressing insurrection and rebellion”, but. repudating all debts incurred in aid of the same rebellion. From beginning to end the 14th Amend ment is an instrument of vengeance, heap ing insult upon the injury of the South. Later, and until this day, Congress in a less bitter mood has left the 14th Amend ment to fester without a single, solitary bill to “enforce” its bitter provisions. But in this generation a court haS been jerry-built out of discarded fragments from the political scrap .pile: SUeh weak “stones” as a socialist law school dean, a pensioned Ku Klux Klamner, an ex-attorney general, whose knowledge of the law is infantile, a blundering California hypocrite, a moun tain-climbing intellectual goat and a num ber of other- pieces of similar value. This collection of shysters, sworn to uphold the Constitution, has grasped one tiny fragment of tiie entire framework of government and is doing its venal worst to shake down tbe whole Structure of government. Left to their own petty devices, they would succeed. Given the pious contra dictions of a Seaiwell or a Hodges and they would keep playing their deadly gam^. But happily for our Constitution there are men like Almond, Russell, Tatanadge, Er vin, Basteriing and Long who are not only armed with greater courage but . with a far greater intellect, and above all are fight ing in a far more righteous cause. The battle has just begun, but victory win be with Constitutional government, we earnestly pray. IIDEK, Publisher _ ‘ Thursday by TheWnolr WnpMjy, Inc., 403 West Uurto«, N. C„ Phone 5415. md Class m— r ■ost Office at Trenton, under the Act of March
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