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‘Of Course, The Government Can't Take Sides’ Never Forget That These Editorials Art The Of inion Of One Man, — -. ■——-—-And He May Be Wrong. What Would We Do? A friend asked us this week what we would do, presuming we had the power, to cut the ewer-expanding cost of welfare agencies. The question, to some degree was based on the two-term experience this writer had on a county welfare board. There is no simple answer to such a question. But there are some directions in which improvement of service to the sup plicant as well as the taxpayer could be made. Aid to the blind, to the totally dis abled and the aged can only be tightened up by stricter regulations on responsibili ties of children to parents, and occasional ly the other way around. In North Carolina this sphere has been tightened just about to the limit. This leaves the single most controversial area of welfare aid; aid to dependent children. For the immediate and more im portantly for the long-range benefit of such children and society improvement could be and should be made. ’, . \ On the specific sore subject of illegiti macy: Forgive any mother one mistake in this sphere insofar as welfare help is con cerned. Strengthen case work effort toward fathers. In the event of a second child out of wedlock no public aid would be available except upon voluntary sterilization. This may be a brutal sounding suggestion, but now there are too many illegitimate moth ers sitting on their lazy bottoms, and com pounding the problem of juvenile delin quency, If they bad it ciearly outlined to them that a second slip would not only put them but their first child and second child “out of business" morality and economy, ' or at least unproved sex hygiene might result. Lastly to the existing families of such children where dead or deserted fathers create their problem: Permit apprentice type wofk under approved arrangements for children 14 years of age or older. Low er family checks as the children get to ,tbe age where‘they can held earn the family bread. Not only encourage but enforce em ployment at least on a part-time basis for mothers ifi families whose children no long er require constant home care. This is not much, we admit; but these suggestions offer two hopes: 1, for greater economy for the taxpayers and 2, for great er responsibility by the families that re ceive help; not only helping them as of the moment but in the future when adulthood forces the responsibility of earning a liv ing upon them. Khrushchev Has Gone (Russian Premi«r Nikita Khrushchev has visited The United States and gone back home. Certainly the thousands of men and women who were changed with his safety while he was in this country must feel re lief that their job was successfully ac complished. All 100 million of us must also feel some measure of relief that he has safely de parted our shores; but there is a deeper relief that must have come to many of us in seeing this bouncy little fat fallow and learning that politicians whether c.apjtalist or socialist are brothers under the skin. Despite the morbid occupation of some local-level vote ^hunters who wanted to canve themselves an “anticommunist” by saying* rude things to the Premier tiie junket went off well and we saw a jovial, suspicious, intelligent politician try ing to win friends and influence people. . Hie happiest reflection is tbat Russia now has a leader who prefers fnore subtle ways''to power than a pistol bullet in the back of the head. No matter whether Nikita participated in some of these “blood pur ges” he represents a mature political ani mal in the American sense of that phrase. Nikita prefers the patting of children on the head, the impulsive gift of. a wrist watch, the willingness to let photographers use'up their supply of film to the dungeon and the bludgeon. When he says socialism will take over in America he if being quite polite in com pand son with some of the things our own Handwriting On The Wall Communities such as Jacksonville, New Bern, Goldsboro and Fayetteville that lead so heavily on military base payrolls should take heed at the handwriting now appear ing on the walla at government. Last week the Air Ftorce announced that it was stopping experiments aimed at de velopment at taster flatter planes and would direct its air defense effort toward the field of guided missiles. One more of the contract pilot training schools such as Kinston once had at Stallings Field is now scheduled to be closed. Disarmament is a small cloud on the horizon that may grow sootier than many of us think into a storm that will bankrupt such small communities as we have listed. Kinston suffered a tremendous blow when its contract flight school was closed, but happHy this operation never occupied the position Seymour Johnson Air Base does to Goldsfboro, that Cherry Point Marine Air Base does to New Bern or that Camp Le jeune does to Jacksonville. The painful part of 'this problem is that we all want greater economy in govern ment, and even above that we all want peace. We can never have economy in Who’s Nuts? Last week an obviously crazy girl wan dered away from a home she had been “paroled” to by state psychiatrists. This week a veteran New York police reporter blames the current juvenile crime wave in that city on coddling of young hoodluims by well-intended but not-very-realistic pl^chologists who want to “help” rather than control the incorrigihles. Which leads us to wonder again about the over-doing of some of our do-gooders who bleed so freely with the tax payers’ money and the milk of human kindness. Some cruel souls say a phychiatrist is a doctor who went crazy. This is generally an over-simplification, but there is ample evidence to support the belief that included among the ranks of “head shrinkers” one can find more than the normal rate of damned fools. The “cow* listener” who attempts to makb exact diagnosis of mental ills, and who just as glibly prescribes “cures” is just as much fake as the fellow selling sugar pills for cancer cure. (But out of the realm of the mentally sick, and down to the grit and grime of the non conformist who hides behind his libido and id; there a lump on the head or a badly scorched bottom with a promise of more of the same is far better medicine than the sympathetic nausea they are exposed to under these so-called social guidance pro grams that are not the practice in too many necks'of the woods. Discipline is a hard word. It always has caused casualties and always will. Today, however, it is more frequent to reward than to rebuke the undisciplined. Special teachers, special schools, special diet, spe cial this and special thaf are prescribed for the bully who invites his teacher put for; a knife duel or a couple of rounds of bpudoir gymnastics in the teachers’ lounge. Cruelty to criminals of any age is to be despised, but the worst cruelty to the in corrigible is pulbUc surrender. Either the juvenile criminal must submit or society must submit. In many metropolitan centers now society has surrendered and cowers in its concrete jungle afraid of dark streets and public {daces. Certain, fair, fast punishment is the best medicine for the nonconformist whether he be six, sixteen or sixty. ■> leaders are saying. Many argue that so cialism has already taken over in our coun try. Mankind’s greatest search is for peace and security. The closer Russia and The United States' come, to an understanding the nearer that search is to an end. JONES JOURNAL JACK RixnsE, ruousher Published Every Thursday hy The Lenelr County News Company, Inc., 403 West 'Vernon, Ave., Kinston, N. C, Phone 5415. Entered as Second Class Matter May 5, 1949. at the Poet Office at Trenton. North Carolina, under the,Act of March 8, 1879. y Mall In Filet Zone—33.00 Per Tear, subscription Rates PayaMe In government until the military budget if shmdgr reduced, end we can neve* sharply reduce the military budget until some aye ten of disarmament under controls can be devised. Certainty in a nation that is now agent ing at a gross national product of more than $400. billion a $41 billion military bud get is not all powerful. But, politically speaking this $U billion defense budget is the dog that wags the Washington tail. There is hardly a congressman that does not have some kind of military expenditure in his district. As the Kinston area knows fun well; when that expenditure is threaten ed business men who ought to know better throw reason to the wind and belabor their congressman to “do something”. The howl let out by Kinston over the closing of the local flight school is a tiny whisper com pared to the noise to be expected when that sad day arrives and the order comes for the closing or sharp curtailment of activi ties at either of these huge operations we referred to above. PERSONAL pmamphs BY JACK RIDER Hurricane watching is a fascinating pas time, v Nobody wants any less than I do to haive these hellacious ladies go around us, but the awesome power and magnificent terribleness of these whirling masses of wind and water do really grip the imagina tion and remind man of his insignificance. I always think of the weirdly stupid sug gestion from the late Senator Kerr Scott who wondered out loud one day about drop ping an A bomb in the middle of a hurricane to break it up. Scott most of the time was a common sensical type, but he sure went off the deep end with that notion. Maybe be didn’t put it just the way it came out in the papers, but it certainly wound up with ,an odd-ball sound. l!1 Powerful as these nuclear bombs may be, they are mere poofs of hot air when set beside the monsters called hurricanes in the Atlantic and typhoons in the Pacific. Imagine the unimaginable zillions of horse power packed in one of these emperor sized whirlwinds that spin for days— sometimes weeks before they sweep into the a»rtic wastes and blow themselves out on the top of the world. , Three or four hundred miles in diameter, five or six miles high, spinning counter clockwise with trillions of tons of water; such power fortunately, until now i® not within the grasp of mortal man. . (Foolish though I may be about watching and waiting for hurricanes, I’m not file utter nut who insists on sitting out such a blow on an isolated sand bar. I’m like my friend, Allen Guthrie, down at Broad Creek, “I like to have some high ground back of me.” , Eyerytime there’s a hurricane there’s some character who gets his name called because he refuses to move out when au thorities issue their warnings. There is absolutely nothing wrong* with this. If a fellow wants to run the risk for the thrill he gets out of such a situation he should be given full use of that risk. Personally, I have no desire to be the “last man. out” or the first one Mown away. Although predictions on the path and in tensity of hurricanes have greatly improv ed, in the past few years, there is still a helluva lot the experts don’t know about them. And along the coast the .flooding that comes generally with these lusty, gusty gal-named freaks is more dangerous than the wind itself. , Even so, the wind itself can get pretty iwgh. Marine Sergeant Dick Fulton tells a story about a pet dog his outfit had on Okinawa when a typhoon came by. The dog' ran out of a building—perhaps to chase a r*$*t—land the wind simply snatched pdt the ground and like Jackie Gleason, away he went. Never to be see* again in
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