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• 'I Wonder If He's Coming Out?' EDITORIALS l\'ever Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man, -And He May Be Wrong. A Congressional Decision Although many professional cymes pre dict that Congress will not exercise its power and' its wisdom because of election year politics we hopefully belong to that optimistic group that has not lost faith in our representatives in both Houses of Con gress. Certainly, ever^ j$$r Congress does make decisions—if we to offer a criticism it would be that Congress is called upon to make too many decisions, many of which could be just as well made by either an exercise of judicial or executive authority. Now, as for the past 20 years the most terrible decision Congress has to make is the choice between spending for defense or paying off some of the huge federal debt. Just as Louis Johnson and President Truman had dragged the military budget into something like reason the communists precipitated the Korean conflict, and once more we were off to the deficit-financing war. - When the stalemate of Korea arrived and Eisenhower began to inch toward a sensi ble budget “Sputtnik” kicked common sense out of orbit. Today we live—as civilization always has lived—in an uneasy world. But the wisest men believe general war is checkmated by the very awesome machinery of modern war. Border conflicts, revolutions and counter-revolutions are still very much with us, as each day’s headlines remind. So what is the decision, today that faces Congress? Whether to attempt to maintain every possible kind of military hardware and kiss any reduction of the national debt goodbye, or to streamline the military program and serious turn toward fiscal sanity? The Soviets have said It flatly, and re peatedly that they intend to “bury” us. Not in atomic dust but in economic warfare. They say, and many pessimists admit, that a n early-free economy such as ours cannot compete with a state-controlled economy. Same in Congress use this as the best argument for tighter controls ora our own economy. The Soviets have learned this much from us: That incentives are an ab solute must for increased productivity. Congress might profit greatly from appli cation of this American principle to the American government. Cuban Confiscation Since Cuba was granted its freedom it bias lived, revolted and' revolted some more un der patronage from the United States of A m erica. Now a man who is dedicated to communistic socialism has taken over that island and is confiscating all American private property in. sight... ' , We cannot argue that he does not have the right to do this, because in politics frequently might makes right. And* after ail he IS doing it, so to argue about his rights is a useless waste of time. But this coin has another side, and we suggest that American .policy makers should glance at it. Let us immediately put an end to Cuba's sugar subsidy which costs American tax payers ^200 million a year. Let’s cut off all tourist traffic that is still foolish enough to want to go to Cuba. Let’s lop off NOW every Und of foreign aid; military, cultural, aigri or educational and see . how long last co its fragile economy. ’ some boy in the striped pants I we do that flntnU fr-.tXS illAMI i will give them So what, let ’em. Russia is nursing a $400 million rathole in Egypt, plus countless political and engineer ing headaches that it inherited when A merica refused to build Nasser a monstrous dam. The economies of communists can be bankrupted too. If the boys in the Kremlin back room think they have problems with Tito, Nasser and other characters around the Mediterranean you can quote us as saying, “they ain’t seen nothing until they begin running a Latin American country.’’ 'With our own country it appears that the more we speod on foreign aid the fewer friends we baver so let same of these in ternational aims askers chant their plea in Moscow. They will find quickly what strings are attached to Soviet charity, and they will leant at first hand .how glorious the techni cal achievements of the Russians really are. i The Soviets have a subway with murals and the first satellite- fat orbit, but they have not yet cracked the sound barrier that ■ < ">■ The Louisiana Vote 1 W, w No realistic analysis of the election last week in Louisiana can escape the cold fact that the Protestants of the state refused to elect a CMboBc governor. New Orleans Mayor Delesaeps Morrison, a Catholic, carried all IS parishes in which the total population is pndoahiately. Ca tholic, but he only carried seven of the ofjier parishes whore Protestants are in the numerical majority.. This not oniy tends to indicate thet Pro testaots generally rejected a Catholic can didate, but also dearly iUnabattes that QathoBcs will vote rather solidly for a Catholic; at least Louisiana Catholics did. With the national convention of the Democratic Party just five and a fraction months away, these current figures on the religious issue will be staring convention delegates coldly in the eye, when they pon Good, But Is It Justice? The conviction of 20 underworld figures for “conspiring to obstruct justice” is good so far as society is concerened but we won der, is it justice? Thdse men gathered in the home of one and because of their background were ar rested, and now stand convicted on a sel dom used federal law. To say that these men “conspired to con ceal the true meaning of their meeting” is not enough for a criminal conviction in our mind. The government finally got Capone on an income tax charge, despite the belief that he was everything that was ugly and illegal in the eyes of the law. Some of these men may be just as “ugly” as Capone, but un til, the power and grandeur of the law can support a more specific charge and obtain a conviction from a jury they should be freed. The law cannot stand, or at least it ought not to stand on the practice that any means to an. end is proper. Exercise of this kind of logic jeopardizes the most basic liberty of us all. Two Strikes Is Not Out United States Attorney General Rogers has failed to “hit the ball” in two attempts to secure indictments in Mississippi for the murder of accused rapist Charlie Mack Parker. Those of us who might rejoice in federal failure to intervene in state affairs ought not to lose sight of the fact that Rog ers has one more strike before he is “out”. His next strike is on a different ball dia mond, The Congress; where cries are al ready being heard for new, stronger puni tive legislation under the guise of civil rights. The odds greatly faivor Rogers because so far as The South is concerned the ball game is fixed when it hits the congressional diamond. The “Black Sox” scandal is a minor tempest in a cracked teapot com pared to the strangle hold that the black minority today holds in American politics. Certainly some mad, frustrated men in Mississippi murdered Parker, and they should be tided for their crimes, but each member of the United States Supreme Court, should be indicted as an accessory before the fact for having created the climate which led to his murder. Questions Why don’t air liners have to carry para chutes for their passengers? Why can’t air liner fuselages be safely lowered to earth in serious emergencies by parachute, after the majority weight of the in the wings is jettisoned? can’t every parcel or piece of lug-< r put on a plane be X-rayed? by can’t a limit be planed on the a mount of “trip insurance” on any passen ger; on any form of public transportation? DNES JOURNAL -TACK RIDER, ruousher Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir County News Company, Inc., 403 West Vernon, Ave., Kinston, N. 0, Phone 9415. Entered as Second Class Matter May 5. 1949. at the Post Office at Trenton.. North Carolina, under'me Act of March 3,18*9. . y Mail in First Zone—33.00 Per Tear. -■las'-Vl vA ' Vtf-' ‘o' .■-* der the wisdom of nominating Catholic Senator Kemuxly tor the Presidency. AHhmigh there were other issues in volved in the Louisiana primary the major issue cannot be cDssaified as anything hot religions. One pertinent quea'ion seems to auto matically attach 3/toeff to this national problem: U CathoBca elect to vote almost solidly for Catholic candidates as pant events in Boston, Detroit and now in Louis iana prove; then can the Protestant be classified a religious bigot it he elects to vote for a Protestant candidate? PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS 8Y JACK RIDER . I don’t know who the committee was that selected 09ear Greene Jr. for his second Distinguished Service Award but they were exactly right for iny money. In my years in Kinston, which number for the vast majori ty of my 42 total no young man has con tributed more unselfishly of his time, his money and his talents for a better county thhn Oscar. For other young men who may shrink from competing with Oscar; they can relax. He will be 36 in February and do tanger eligible for this distinct honor. _!_ While the family of this friend is warmed by his recognition, another family for whom I feel more than an ordinary closeness this week was literally shattered by the death of their youngest son and brother. Words are cold, useless things—no matter how well in tended or how sincerely sympathetic they may be in such a tragedy. I’ve known Plumer and Georgia Daniels all my life, and their son all of his life. Impossible as it is to understand their agony this week, as the father of three very dear ones of my own I shiver with the thought that most parents have in a time such as this: This could happen to one of my own-. Kinston shared the company this week for a day and a half of a really dynamic per sonality; Paul Harveyj hard-headed, hard working and hard-Amerioan plus a Quick wit, incisive intelligence and a platform manner and voice that command attention and demand respect: This is all the flattery any good man can stand, and a damned sight more than I’ve been accustomed to passing out in these columns. For Harvey’s appearance Kinston and Le noir County should be most grateful to, the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Monday at noon when Harvey eulogized Kinston and Lenoir County over 240 stations of the A merican Broadcasting Company through the facilities of Radio Station WFTC more peo ple heard more good things about Kinston than ever have ini the 199 history of our little hamlet. The JC’s ran a small deficit in bringing such a nationally known speaker to our town, bdt the profits of their gen erous gesture will be reaped for a long, long time. Governor Hodges has given Eastern Carolina in general and its richest citizens in particular a bucket full of hell for the slowness of industrialization. Maybe Lu ther’s righit. Too many of our luckier citi zens have gotten rich in Eastern Carolina and then sent their money to Wall Street to finalise companies in other parts of the na tion. If I might, I’d like to point to ait least one exception, and one in which some of Kinston’s best heeled citizens have never made any direct profits. North Carolina’s first federally approved and federally inspected meat packing plant was built in Kinston with local money, and although it suffered through some mighty bard times it has flourished and today is making a major contribution to the economy of Lenoir and surrounding counties. And if this first major effort in the meat p/addng business had not established a solid base for the meat business in Kinston there is cer tainly a logical question whether Swift would not have its big plant at Wilson. But Luther, who was raised by Marsball Field, ought to know as well as anybody and better than most that it takes an aw
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