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'It Is Later Than I Thought ■TWTy fSmfx HUMPH*Eyd EDITORIALS Afever Forget That These Editorials Ard The Opinion Of One Man, ------.-And He May Be Wrong. Not White Supremacy Hie battle being waged in the Union of South Africa now is not for White Suprem acy but is for White Survival. The irony of our generation is the pious manner in which a vast majority of the white world has turned its back on the white people of South Africa, after having kindled and fanned the flames that threaten to consume a proud and productive member of the World Or der of Nations. Here we have three million white people whose ancestry in Africa in many instances predates that o! the white race in North Aotnerica. In the most inhospitable and least productive part of Africa except the'Sahara these men and women of French, Dutch and English origin have persevered for nearly 300 years and with luck and ten acity they have bull: a nation. In two World Wars and in the Korean Co’fKct troops from the Union of South Africa—white troops—have given their blood to sanctify the principle of domestic self determination. Now the entire govern ment of South Africa is pilloried in the press of the world, is villified in the United Nations and jackal-attacked by such col lections of frauds as comprise the majorities in the United States Congress and the British Parliament A strong, but small nation that has not lived off the charity of such give-away programs as the American taxpayer suf fers; a breed of people proud of their lonely fortress and their independence today fights a literal bat.Ie for survival. If the resources—threadbare as they are —of their rugged domain were deposited with the masses of negroid South Africa they would be suddenly debauched and in less time than it takes to read this item a delegation of ex-witch doctors and tribal chieftains would be making reservations for a flight to Washii&ton to get same Yankee Dollars. This is the pattern wherever “freedom” has taken Africa from French or British so called '^exploitation”. And the majority of these “freed" men live in the lushest area in the world insofar as natural resources are concerned. As one citizen of the United States we are sickened because of our policy of na tional stupidity and for the small worth it may have we extend our humblest apolo gies to the beleaguered responsible citizens of the Union of South Africa. f A Word To The Wise North Carolina law demands that a voter be able to read the Constitution, but does not insist that the reader understood what he has read. With that snide beginning we address these few comments to that tiny Vfimurt ot the electorate that is capable of both reading and -understanding what govern m chance to make tho prom iso como true." Larkins reminds that there is no question where the money flor all these promises is to come trom—oobody else hot the tax payer, hut he asks what will these “promis ing candidates” tax: Raise die income tax, raise the sales tax, or extend the sales tax to food, drugs and other necessities, or pot a state tax back on land and personal pro perty’ Of course governors do not levy taxes— «£SV“ » thing to one generation l. poiite jttiy to another. The imperfect example of this fluidity is the political ■ adjective: Liberal, which for several generations described that political principle based upon an abidingrespqct for human rights. In the'isrgop of today this same Word has'been switched full-face to describe the political breed that has. decided that it knows best what is good for .mankind. The garden variety literal of today is transfixed with the image of his Own intellectuality, and hypnotized by-this flattering reflection he wain the nation with complete assurance of omnipotence on every subject fron? abacination to zymuigy. * The 19th century breed of liberal respect ed the peculiarity,'of the individual and de voted considerable of its energy to pre serving the weeds that flourish in the gar den of human society. , * '. Ex Poste Facto After more than a decade of either very slack enforcement or no enforcement what ever of one part of the tobacco acreage al location program the ASC this month has suddenly decided not only to commence the strict enforcement, of this regulation but to also turn back four years and begin a retroactive enforcement. This, in our opinion, is not only immoral but is illegal as well. This oo-and-off regulation in its simplest form forbids the transfer of tobacco acre age from land when that land is used for residential, commercial ■ or industrial pur poses. It is exemplified in the Tiureacrafic axiom, “Tobacco goes with the land and not the man.” If a farmer gives a son or daughter an acre of land to build a home, his tobacco •oreage will be forthwith reduced by what' ever percentage of that farmer’s cultivated acreage that one acre represents. If a farmer sells half his cleared crop land for a plant site be loses half his to bacco allotment.. Enforcement of that rule from this day forward makes some sense, but it cannot make legal sense to attempt to go back four years and enforce the rule. Transactions that were made in 1956 in many instances included as a major pert of the “consideration” the transfer of to bacco allocations. Going back now for any number of years—whether one or four or forty—is rather like trying to unscramble the egg. Washington and Raleigh officers of the ASC had better take a good long look at this half-cracked effort to walk backwards in time and in policy. Wasn’t there an old song that went some thing like: “Soring will be a little late this year-” Perhaps it’s a weather forecast we’re remembering. The basic difference between Thad Stev ens in the reconstruction era and our cur rent breed aC “force bill” composers in Congress is that Stevens bluntly admitted that he was trying to install his party in power for “a thousand years’*. Thegrand jury indictment of 54 persons in NoW York City for fraudulently taking civil service examinations, lor other per sons surely is not news, and is newsworthy only in the sense that if has taken the wheel of justice so long to grind around to this flagrant'' and ancient kind of thievery. This civil service fraud in Washington is a hundred times, more abused than ,in New York City simply because so many more workers in Washington are under the so called impartial control of the civil service system. , . Arid this kihd of racket is not confined simply to job getting. The huge diploma mills such as Columbia University in New York Qity have been areas in which , de grees, up to'and- including doctorates .could be purchased from professional theme and theses writers for a long, long timd. Classes of several hundred students where the 'teacher cannot possibly have any personal contact with his pupils are automatic* in vitations to this kind of stealing. . There are hundreds of school teachers in North Carolina who are drawing additional pay on the basis of these mail-order master ard doctor degrees from Columbia and other less well-fcnuwn schools. This is ou« reason that the teachers* union for a long time has refused to accept merit examina tions as a basis for teacher pay- Happily the North Carolina Education Association has recently reversed its old stand and now has recommended tie institution of a merit examination system as one of the indexes upon which teacher salaries will be based. 1 , M — ’ In a less grand and glorious realm we have here in North Carolina the professional driver’s license examination taker. This character simplly substitutes for somebody for a fee who has failed to pass the driver license tests. Several times a year at die Kinston office some of these professional examination takers ar$ caught. But there is no way of knowing how many actually get away with die trick, but in my (pinion not less than 10 per cent and possibly more of die driver’s license in use today in North.. Carolina were obtained in this fradulent maimer. It is a rather sad commentary on our times that these types, 'of fraud are so flagrant But it is almos* as sad to recog nize that those people changed with pro tecting the public from such chicanery have failed to current the situation that permits the fraud to continue. A thumbprint, or a small photograph on (a driver’s license would automatically elim inate false exam taking. In the civil service tests where dozens or hundreds of people in the large cities are taking tests at the same time; the person seeking'the job can go up get fingerprinted, photographed and pass heck into the crowd where the "did ppo” JONES JOURNAL
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