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
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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.
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