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'What Have I Been Doing... Or Not Doing!' CoHMeMoti Starts , July //t fl EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man, • . . ...And He May Be Wrong. The Richest Villager Our village is like the average village. We have our church and our bar. We have our poor and needy, a village drunk—evCn a village half-wit and as every village should we once had a rich man. Longer ago than it seems now, a sooth sayer came to town and caught the ear of our richest villager. He told our richesj; villager that it was sinful for him to sleep on a fine bed while the village drunk slept on straw; that it was wrong for him to feast while the widow’s children went to sleep hungry; that it was. a crime for him to doze before a warm fire while the vil lage'prostitute lived in a drafty hovel; that it was sacrilege for him to ride about the parish on a fine horse while the priest had to- walk from door to door; that it was un democratic for his children to go to private school while the rest of the villagers sent their children to a public school; that it was alarming in the eyes of the Lord for him to dress warmly against the wintry blast while the village miser shivered in rSgs. And the soothsayer left, but our richest villager was troubled by what he had been told. After days of prayer our richest vil lager gave his bed to the village drunk, gave his food to the widow’s children, surrendered his parlor to the village whore, gave his horse to the village priest, took his children out of the private school, and gave his warm clothing to the village miser. The drunk traded his fine bed for drink, the whore kicked the windows out of his warm parlor, the widow’s children gorged themselves and returned to their diet of gruel and gravy, the priest sold the horse and bought a sacred object for the church, his children married beneath their station and lived miserably until this very day and the village miser sold the warm coat and shivers still in his rags. Our richest villager? He’s in the mad house. Most villagers who remember him at all, curse his name, and spit on his memory because he was sorry for them. Any resemblance between our richest villager and Uncle Sam is intentional. ReDublic Vs. Democracy The average American voter assumes* that one is referring to a political party when the republican form of government is mentioned, and any average college graduate will tell you quickly that our form of government is a democracy. Our government began as a republic and is now rapidly degenerating into a demo cracy, and the dividing line between de mocracy and anarchy is only guarded by the high wall of autocracy. Applying the principle of democracy to the family unit, it would be necessary for mother and father to call a vote of all children each time they plan a trip, bought a car, built a brfme or shopped for supper. There are a few homes in which this prin ciple is practiced, but the plan is too idiotic for mature The republic is a system in the unit are che sibilifies. first base to the family unit $n members of specific respon ds to play may major decisions. This is not because mama and. papa wish to “dominate” or “tyrannize’' the mem bers. of their "tiny one-family republic but because the wfeight of lh|eir experience generally equips them best to make im portant decisions. In America today the voters vote for everything. They may disapprove a school bond issue and approve a swimming pool bond issue. They may frown oh a Sewage disposal plant and give an OK to the build ing of a civic auditorium. The voting masses quite frequently turn a brilliant student of government out to pasture and install a man in office who thinks congress is a deck of playing cards. Theoretical democracy is a blissful state of political mind, but it cannot operate in an intellectual vacuum, which sucks into its maw the greeds, passions and preju dices of the mob. If that miUenium is ever attained in which all voters are ’ ' (not reflation to solve this 1 a differest kind of * might very well be a school age linator. Germany, France, England or the ttaited States the finest schools -are segregated by Several of our states have found an a nvazing academic improvement when sep arate high schools for boys and girls were set ifl>. This is nothing but natural. High school boys and girls are busy becoming men and women at the same time they are being educated in less fundamental pro cesses. • >. - • Many heart-sick patents who have been confronted with #high school marriage, or a high school pregnancy, or at tj»e very least a high school romance that was get ting out of hand must yearn for an answer to this growing problem of promiscuity. This, please believe us, is no inference Cold War Declaration Those starched and ironed brains in the State Department who are sniffing in their lace handkerchiefs because of Castro’s sei zure of American property should be able to recognize a cold Wat when they see one, but apparently they can’t. The war between the socialist and. one time capitalist powers of tbe world is now being fouflbt economically rather than militarily. With a press even more tiflhtly controlled' than ..the American press these socialistic dictatorships can mislead the so called free world in what ever direction is convenient for them on a, given day. Jf they want the United States and its allies to step nearer to the brink of bank ruptcy for rocketry they can rattle their IOBM’s. On another day after Good Old Uncle Sam is extravagantly committed to Cape Canaveral earnivalry they can con fess that an old-fashioned, very-slow ortho dox American airplane has has been flying back and-forth over their country despite every effort on their part ,to catch a “U-2”. Then all the unselfish capitalist^ who have heavy investments in the sale of such ortho dox military weaponery as manned air craft get their snout deeper in the federal trough again. ' ^ ' When the taxpayer begins to groan under the burden of both types of aiij hardware tbe Russians dispatch a couple of submarines along our coast to chill the native and warm the hearts of those who build tbe gadgetry that the “experts” say we must have to combat this threat. So by exerting the simplest pressures they keep Americans in general and con gressmen, who are concerned with a plant back in the home district, in particular in a constant state of preparedness panic, i If it’s any consolation to the American taxpayer he may enjoy knowing that the Russians suffer the same kind of fright, and now the question is jsimply; Which country shall bankrupt itself first? And for those who scream about the A merican farm program it might be of pass ing note to mention that it is in food and fiber alone that we have the edge at this moment over Russia. Consumer goods is the nightmare that keeps the boys in the back room if the Kremlin awake nights, and first on the list of consumer goods is food and drink. might succeed. Alas, these conditions exist nowhere to day and are not expected on any tomor row that is now in sight. JONES JOURNAL - JACK MDISR, Publisher Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir County News Company, lne|.', 408 West Vernon Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phone JA 5 2STS. Entered as Second Class Matter Hay 5, 1948, at the Post Office at Trenton North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. By Mail in Fin* Zone—$8.00 Per Year. SubscrigpitiQk Bates Payahfe in Advance. number of serious biological complications. There is nothing too wrong with this. Na ture planned it that way, and it has been that way tor millions of years and if the species is .to survive it must continue to be that way. But in a society that attempts morality and hopes tor education, both would be better served with an educational system that would lessen the number of hours those forces mentioned above are permitted to operate. We seriously suggest that school officials should give a long, look at an inexpensive, sudden and proven way of raising scholas tic standards and lowering the number of sex problems that plague parents, school officials and, most importantly, the students themselves, PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS JACK RIDER Americans have substituted money for statesmanship. No where is this more evi dent than in the fight for noniination each four years of the presidential standard bearer of our two ifrajor parties. Today politicians are sold like soap, with Madi son Avenue polish and lavish use of the media of Conrad unications. This year Senator Kennedy accents this trend; for Papa Kennedy is determined to see Ms son run for president if it takes the last of Ms estimated $200 million for tune. West Virginia, where the Protestant Catholic issue ghost was supposed to have been put to rest by the Kennedy victory, never saw so much money in so short a period as^the last week before the Hum phrey-Kennedy vote. Humphrey in Wiscon sin and West Virginia was “pacing” Ken nedy.T ' Humphrey never had the ghost of a chance of nomination but by serving as a “■pacer” for Kennedy he shoved the Massa chusetts millionaire so far ahead that such powers as President Truman are now throw ing themselves under the Kenhedy steam roller. Eight years ago the nomination of Eisen hower was purchased and Senator Taft was destroyed. Wendell Wilkie was the instru ment first used to show how a nomination can be purchased. This year Tricky Dickie Nixon is shiver ing in his loafers because the same con trolled kind of lightning that created Wil kie, Eisenhower and Kennedy is crackling around Ms noggin—but not for him. Nel son Rockefeller is supposed to be baiting Ms trap fdp 1964, but when all of those easy to-buy delegates come marching to the' Republican convention Nixon had better have them locked id a room without tele phones if he doesn’t want them purchased out from undr him. On a much smaller scale we hid the same thing last month here in North Caro lina. Well over ^ million dollars was spent in nominating Terry Sanford to a job that pays $22,500 per year for four years. What did all those folks put up so much money for? The power, telephone and gas companies wanted a utilities commission that “would listen to reason”. The school teasers, state employees and their families wanted a pay raise. The labor-union labor wanted an “open door” policy to organize the largely non-union labor of North Caro lina. The NAAGP wanted a chief executive* that would not fight .its'program of racial
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