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'Draft?...What Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man, -And He May Be Wrong. The Veterans’ Candidate? Ia Sunday’s News & Observer and in this month’s issue of the North Carolina American Legion News advertisements pro claim that Terry Sanford is the “veterans’ candidate”. We are among those privileged to be classed a “veteran” and Sanibrd is NOT our candidate and we’ll tell you why. .■ Sanford entered the army in 1943, a year and a half after the war began. He was sin tgle 'and eligible to have been in the arm* long before he did get in, so anything be did in 1943 was done with the hot breath of the draft board on his neck—just as it was oa ours. There is nothing dishonorable about a man being a veteran; in fact there i§ everything honorable about serving one’s country in time of its desperate need. But, to us, there is nothing honorable a bout a man who uses that for personal pre ferment, either political or pecuniary. The fact that neither of the other candi ' dates can match Sanford’s armed forces tenure, or his taste of combat has nothing —absolutely nothing to do with his ability to be governor of North Carolina. John Larkins was 36 years of age, father of two small children and hardly physical ly apt for paratroop or anyother combat duty, when Sanford enrolled in the armed forces after spending the first year and a fraction' of the war in the deferred sta tus of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Beverly lake was even older than Lar kins and Malcolm Seawell was in Wash ington protecting the population from in vasion. Bach of us—in time of war—does what he has to do; some are chosen by the fickle finger of fate to serve in different spots than others. j Upon the Sanford assumption Sgt. Alvin York should still be serving as president and Audie Murphy—World War El’s most decorated soldier—wbuld be in the buU pen warming up to take over when Sgt. York vacates this veil of tears. There was a time when world affairs were basically a tribal brawl and the man who penetrated deepest, swung his sword most bloodily and brought home the most scalps was/‘the chief’. For good or bad that time has long since passed, and Sanford has to offer more than a European theater ribbon to properly qualify him for governor of North Caro lina. Prescription For Doctor's When congress is in session the Ameri can Medical Association is generally found in great pain, suffering from a recurring malady known as “socialized medicine”. To' cure this perennial palpitation the AfMA doses its membership liberally with the “castor oil” of Adam Smith. Hie learn ed men and women who comprise the AUA apparently go through school, and life wearing a king-sized set of blinders .(those too young to know what blinders are have no business reading serious stuff like this). The good old “family doctor” is a folksy pharmaceutical bouse picture, hanging in drag store windows. Ibis is the medical era cf the “specialist”. But while the doctors have been learning to specialize in medtt siss isnored For the purpose-of this item there is no point in drifting into the never-never land of politics where assorted “Fairy God mothers” flit about with magic wands. Let us remain on terra fifcma. Medically the nation gets far better care today than when it depended upon that “good old family doctor”. But to get that better care a lot of money is required. Medical educa tions today require twice the time and five times file money of a generation ago. pay asst a h Tbe ..... the solid princi( minded citizen he has to what £ linded j__ morl guarantee* rTS_col lcu w uvku^ « v. chattel mor tages on okl appendectomy scars. Even if he repossessed them they have a law trade in value ahd require peculiar kinds of stor age. Let same at toe one legal Drams m we AMA draw up a simple chattel mortgage that would penmit a customer to buy medi cal care with the same ease as a refrig erator. Let each community have a central clear'nig tiouse for medical mortgages, so that the frauds may be known. But alas in such a plan we have left no space for emotions. The auto dealer who turns down a bad credit risk is not con demning the customer to death from secon dary infection, the sorriest scoundrel that ever fouled the air of a community gets nothing but sympathy if a. busy doctor re fuses to waste his time in patching him up. We oppose socialized medicine, not be cause it would penalize the doctors, bp cause it would do anything but that. En forced liability insurance has not badly hit any insurance companies in North Caro lina:" But we oppose socialized medicine because it is socialistic and is based upon the brutal iUogic that the productive citizen must burden himself with further taxes to care for the leeches of society. A perfect case in point: Last year year roughly 10 per cent of the people treated in Lenoir Memorial Hospital did hot pay their bills. Only three per cent of these were people classified by the hospital as people who COULD not pay. The other seven per cent were simply people who WOULD not pay. Yet the taxpayers of Lenoir County had to pick up the tab for $90,000 to pay in large measure for the medical panhand lers, who scream and writhe their way in to hospitals and doctors office and then refuse to pay. At the moment the aged citizen is the camel’s head that the socialists are trying to wedge under the tent. Every indigent aged person on every county welfare list in the United States is automatically guar anteed free hospital care—and something more that the public rarely learns—free care by doctors. . Another 20 million America as get free medical attention from having honorably served in defense of our nation. Another three million and their families get free med'cal care for presently serving in the armed forces. So for those groups that the majority of tears are died there is already a full-scale socialized medicine—the indigent aged and the veterans. What of the others? For years hospitali zation insurance has been available at less JONES JOURNAL JACK RIDER, Publisher Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir Oountgr Now Company, In*, 408 West gopiier bole. in sach legislation waving its expensive magic retroactive legislation, > ' that is strictly forbidden in the field of criminal law and by most logic should al so applly to file laws of taxation. social security coverage to people who have not helped foot the social security bill is just as reprehensible as sending a man to jail for an act be com mitted before it was declared illegal; the milk of human kindness to tire contrary notwithstanding. Persons paralyzed by strokes, immobiliz ed by cancer, arthritis, rheumatism and other horrible diseases would be better served, and more (economically served by local nursing homes than fay federal pa ternalism. PmOHAl PARAGRAPHS BY _JACK RIDER Apparently Terry Sanford is “running scared”. All of us in the John Larkins’ camp had expected Sanford to raise the “veteran” question when and if he and Larkins tangled in a 2nd primary. Now with the first primary weeks aiway Sanford has already begun running pictures from his war album. In another editorial on this page I have said my piece about people who pull their military rank for any reason- so enough on that but now to the purely political aspects of the situation. Last Wednesday night Sanford spoke in Pink Hill High School in Lower Lenoir County—just where Jones, Duplin and Lenoir counties join, and In that particular area where Kerr Scott had his fiercest and most loyal strength. Some less than 75 people turned out to hear the fellow who claims fbr himself the inheritance of the “Scott Empire”. And a good many of those on band were Larkins people who were present simply to see what kind of crowd turned out for Sanford. This could not have been anything less than a jolting experience to Sanford. A well publicized major appearance—his first in Lenoir County and quite likely his last and so few out to hear his promised major pro nouncement on farming. Toward the Albemarle and the Roanoke Chowan country , where Scott was also a force to be reckoned with, Stanford is suf fering mightily before the onslaught of Beverly Lake. Seven of the nine counties in North Carolina where there are more negroes than whites are in that general northeast corner of the state. rum to toe southeast corner from whence Sanford cmneth and what do we find, a major gauge opponent in the person of Mal colm Seawell. But even worse Seawell is, too, a graduate of that great brain trust called the Institute of Government, and Seawell is a Carolina man. And news papermens majority of whom are Caro lina graduates—are also finding the color of Seawell preferable to the blandness—al most prissiness of Sanford. So that great nucleus of propaganda strength that Henry Belle’s survey turned up last year for San ford in the press is being splintered—and badly. Then, turn to labor—organized labor that is, and what small consolation can Cumber land’s Terry find. Wfth the racial issue flung into the campaign by Lake’s presence, San ford would be much less wise than even bis worst enemies believe if he dad not glance over his shoulder at the results of the Frank Grabarm-Willis Smith campaign of not. so Ions aso. b "O ’ Graham is undoubted] ' FnTwa’iirsr
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