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fpt Democrat* Must Stick Together!' EDITORIALS - ;• ' ' ■ ; 111 1 ' ' 'j 1 = Never Forget That- These 'Editorials Are The Op inion Of One Man, - '■■ ■ - ‘ And He May Be tVrong. Kennedy Can Win Obviously it’s an over-simplification to say of any presidential hopeful, “He can (win”. All any candidate needs to win is enough eleotorial votes. But viewed cold bloodedly it is our opinion that John Ken nedy is very likely to be the next president Of these once United States. Those who fear the anti-Catholic echoes of A1 Smith’s defeat in 1928 should soften that rumble with more recent noises of a profoundly political nature. In 1948 Truman won the presidency with out, a majority of the South and minus the massive electcrial vote of New York State. The Solid South is no longer needed by the iDemocrafic candidate who plays his Cardd right; and who can deny that Young Ken nedy is not playing according to Hoyle? Add to this the tragic blunders of the Republican Party in foreign affairs. The frustrated, almost frightened Eisenhower rebuffed at Paris, at Moscow, at Tokyo. The (Cuban debacle, the Korean collapse', loss of air bases in Morocco, Pakistan, Turkey' and the Flag of the United States torn down and spat upon in subsidized Panama; this is the huge collection of explanations that the Republicans cannot make. The traditionally Republican middle-west is sickened after eight years of Ezra Taft jBenson, who is ^blasned for the ills of our major industry as it is caught in a great technological transition. The scattered minorities are largely Democratic, despite the fact that their highwater mark of power has been reached with a‘Republican President, a Republican Supreme Court and a Republican ordered battalion of paratroops. i Nixon, who at this moment has first log .up on the Republican nomination, cannot in i960 cry on Eisenhower’s shoulder. Nixon iwill have to explain, if he can, the million aire’s club that subsidized his congressional career. Nixon, perhaps, will not even at tempt to, explain the ugly brutality of his early political career. So on that basis any Democratic nominee has an excellent chance of changing his address to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That is why there is such- a knock-down-and drgg-out „ fight this month to select this Democratic Party nominee. Four years ago Adlai was the sacrificial goat for a second time on the altar of Eisenhower’s monu mental popularity. This time a wjnner is being picked, and no goat is needed. V A Sticky Flypaper , Each of us who is caught between a mort gage and a car payment must ask occasion ally, “How'far in delbt can the government | There would appear to be a limit beyond which drowning is inevitable, but the na tional debt is a sticky flypaper. Nearly a third of a trillion dollars, and still growing. More money than we understand, feditors write silly little squibs about how long it would take to count a million dollars; but our debt is nearing a third of a million, government owe? The: v war bonds, or del gs bonds? Yes, the gov i, but the major part a But: this handful of huge corporations that controls such a slice of the wealth have worked themselves into a difficult corner, and they are caught on a sticky flypaper. iThey are like the corner grocer who has extended credit to a iaimi( hill get too high. Now they the groceries to that indebted family fear of losing the whole hill. If the national debt is defied iwho hold government boi va lue of their holdings less. Thi mm Political Immorality Terry have been inclined to “toandwagon itis”, but bone ever called a press confer ence to confess Ms amlhitfoii to be on the winning side. Perhaps this candor is refreshing, but to us political morality is based upon choos ing the be*; qualified man in one’s own opinion and then fitting for him uptil the last shot is fired. Sanford hats now set the pace for the to the winner’s circle. But then, that was'the way a lot of folks jumped on tfce Sanford wagon, after they had decided he was going to be the winner, and not • bscatise they believed him to’ be the ’best qualified man for the jci». ■_ * Revised Tax Program The bulions of dollars per year being raised through the medium of gasoline taxes, which roughly amount to 10 cents per gallon on each gallon sold. With the staggering committments for construction and maintenance of highways that; the na tion pow has any very large drop in gaso line consumption would automatically force either a greatly increased tax on gasoline or new taxes. This question becomes important ih view of industry predictions that within three years the so-called compact cars will cap ture between 60 and 75 pdr cent of the mar ket. Each of these cars has, or promises much lower gasoline consumption. The'average standard size cfr manages to get about 12 to 15 miles per gallon. The Compacts are delivering much better than twice this Red Africa The helter-skelter rush to give political freedom to the scattered tribes of Africa cannot avoid Irrutal collisions between an cient habits and modern interpretations of nationalism. ' A very thin layer of civilization has been spread over the feudalists society which composes the bulk of Black Africa. To expect this thin layer of civilization—no matter how nobly inspired—to supress the ages-old habits of family and tribal life is to expect the impossible. t Black African society is built upon ab solute monarchy, a spiritualistic muinbo jumlbo and the lowest forms of human sla very. The education of a handful of the brightest young men and' women in the pro cesses of free government has been a noble, but foolish experiment that will unleash the passions of this continent into a bloodletting of horrible proportions. When India was set free the Moslem and Hindu societies—which represent two of the oldest segments of what'we loosely call civilization—exercised themselves in bloody fits that saw hundreds of thousands mur dered in the name of religion. Compared to India, Africa is not living in a different century, but in a different age. Black Africa will now become Red Africa. way into state socialism these companies will be nationalized and their debts will become bookkeeping entries rather than actual obligations. This situation already exists with the Social Security payments workers pay to the 'federal treasury. ( Rather7 than being kept to pay off it is spent on other agencies of government, and' never expects to be reimbursed for its , (“loans” to government. / There ig.no limit to national debt There is, however, a very definite limit to ablhty of the taxpayer to pay. Our nation 4s tow very near that dangerous limit. JONES JOURNAL v JACK MDJaft, Publisher Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir Oouqjy News Company, Inc(., 408 West Vernon Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phone JA 3 2875. Entered as Second Class Matter May 5, IMS, at the Poet Office at Trenton North Carolina, under the Act ot Man* 3, U79. By Mail in First Zone—$3.00 Per Year. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance. mileage. The state and federal lawmafaers will have to sharpen their pencils in the near future and devise methods of filling the trea sury bole that will be created by the pub lic’s shift to smaller cars. An Unanswered Question ~~ Until now neither President Eisenhower nor any of his aides has answered one lingering question that hovers over tpe infamous “U-2” incident. The question: If it^were as necessary as claimed to send these planes in the first instance, why is it not still necessary to send them? K the vital information these planes allegedly were getting was important be fore, what now, makes it unimportant. If their mission was so necessary that it was permitted to jeopardize a “summit .Con ference”, what has so suddenly converted it to the unnecessary? PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS i BY _i_JAClO RIDER This week that collection of misfitted minorities which compose the Democratic Party will choose their candidates for president and vice-president in Los Angeles. There, appropriately, in the never-never land of the movies the farce will be acted out on television for a bored segment of the electorate to wataSh and admire. For one so concerned with politics as myself I couldn’t care less about their choice. * Possibly my bitter lack of interest stems from the utter frustration I feel about the entire anatomy of American, politics. I wish sincerely thaLI could without mental reservation join the merry moband plunge along the primrose path to state socialism. But I must drag my feet, and dragged they are, and much faster than is 'comfortable. Americans have been hypnotized by the rhetoric and have lost sight of the funda mental responsibilities of freedom. We have —on the majority—accepted that freedom is flexible enough to be stretched over every human need, or, imagined need. Freedom toy the contemporary politician extends far beyond tbe concepts specified in that original document of freedom; our neglected Constitution. x Tto-ay freedom in the mind of the selfish, greedy masses includes freedom from want, freedom from individual responsibility, freedom from the cost of medical care, task of providing one's And in these
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