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2 'Nixon's Trying To Dotoii Benson's Skildng Ship!' jcrr*r» EDITORIALS m Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Of inion Of One Man, ■ .,---—---And He May Be Wrong. Write Our Senators Although no member of the North Caro lina delegation in the House of Represen tatives voted for federal aid to education, both Senators Sam Ervin and Everett Jor dan did vote for federal aid to education the last time, such a bill was before the senate. Senator Ervin has explained his deser tion to the “enemy ranks” by saying it was the lesser of two evils that he supported, since he believed that some kind of federal aid bill was going to pass and he swung his vote to the bill that was least objectionable. We 'have seen no explanation from Senator Jordan. ims is a weaiK excuse insoiar as we re concerned. Death is inevitable, and per haps federal meddling in local schools is inevitable, tout suicide to avoid death by old age is hardly logical, and voting a gainst one’s principles because it seems to toe inevitable is the kind of weak thinking that makes undesirable things inevitable. Simply put; very few men arc able tt> resist the terrible temptation of power-that comes from being a member of. congress, and nothing adds more quickly to the poiwer of congress as. a whole and congressmen as individuals than spending money. ' The bill voted for by Senators Ervin and Jordan would give nearly 43 per cent if its money to the “needy” states of New York, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ill inois and Michigan. The socialistic paternalism which spon sors such legislation has its roots in the pious desire to help “needy” areas provide services that they refuse to provide for themselves. Yet these “poor relations” of the federal goverripent, to wit the Southern States were almost solidly against the “help” in the House and only 11 Southern senators supported the bill in the Senate while 17 Southern senators were opposing sponsibility which it is less able to bear than the state and local governments. 2. “The bill will ultimately place the con trol of the schoolf in the centralized gov ernment, because with control of the purse goes control of the operation. The bill al ready contains provisions for centralized control. 3. “The bill deceives the people in the states and local areas into believing that they are getting something from the fed eral government without paying fdr it. 4. “The bill impliedly declares that the people in the local areas, in whom the operation of the schools is vested, do not understand the problem, and that there tore w teaerai government, iwita a mira culous- and maigic -hand, through money, will providg the solution. ' 5. “The hill manifests the indefensible and erroneous philosophy that the weak ness in our educations system can be solved with money, but without a consideration of the basic causes which ar^ deterring our youth from studying the professions of science, engineering, nursing, teaching, ■medicine and others. < 6. ,“Tb«B bill fails to recognize that while, on the one hand, from our institutions of higher learning there are being, graduated each year practically twice as many stu dents as from Soviet institutions of higher learning, on the ’other hand; our graduates in the sciences are only half the number which are being graduated in the Soviet ■Union. This indicates that something other than money is die cause. » 7. “The bill fails to recognize .that the States and local governments are handling the matter and are every day bringing the required facilities up *o the needs of the 8. “The bill, that in 04 of t on a deficit b. child bas been lowed into a Virginia school is hard to understand. Perhaps his own misery is made less because other people are being made miserable. This is an ancient device of the venal politician, who makes his followers forget their troubles by pointing in the direction of somebody or some group with worse 'troubles. W'; The South is a minority that is being a bused to influence another minority. The danger from this extends jnto every facet of what we refer to rather loosely as The American Way of Life. The farmer is a minority. So to please the big city voters the fanner and the fawn program are held up as horrible examples. Soon the faijmer will join the' white souther ner as a forgotten maa politically. There are growing signs already that a coalition of big city politicians is planning to do to the farmer what both political parties have already done to' the South. , 1 ■. In one way or another everyone is a member of a minority, and when in the name of selfish greed the rights of one minority are eliminated or restricted then The Price Goes Up The latest Washington estimate is that the first year of “freedom’’ for the Congo will cost American taxpayers $100 million. Since World War II the United States has bought more land than any buyer in the history of the world but we have let the title remain with the original owners. In the 61 years since Cuba was granted its ‘‘freedom” the United States has poured something like $6,000 million into that tiny island, and today it’s not safe for an Ameri can to walk the streets, much less travel the back roads of this backward /‘republic”. Naime a country on either side of the Iron Curtain and no matter where it may be there’s a king’s ransom , of American taxpayers’ dollars buried there, and after all this the United States is in the position of “having to hire pallbearers”. , Our stupid open-handedness has created1 hostility rather than friendship. People upon whom American taxpayers’ money have been lavished despise us rather than love us. They keep asking themselves, “What’s the gimmick?” Thby’re like the' chorus girl who has been wined, dined and be-jeweled by the rich old boy. She knows that sooner or later she’s going to have to “give her all”. Per haps, there may have been one such rich playboy in the history of the specie who wahted nothing more than to give his “little flower” a chance to “bloom" and .reach the heights she deserved. We belive that the United States is that exception among governments. The United States does sincerely want to help its poor relations, but the best way NOT to help a poor relation is to fix him up with a handout. Give him a job, help him to improve his living standards but do' this in a fashion that he can understand. Giving a tractor to a man who has plowed a water buffalo all his life is rather like giving a battleship to a mountaineer. He doesn’t need-it and doesn’t know how to operate it if it’s given to him. Much of our foreign aid has been in this “iee-box-for esfcimo”'category. . C JONES JOURNAL JACK BJDisK, Publisher ■ , * . Published Every Thursday by Hie Lenoir County News Company, Inc!., «&)We* Vernon Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phone JA 8 not wane day witter from an wtemko 4 the same legal IUa«fte. If today a negro child suffers from not swimming in a white 5pool, may not tomorrow another negro child suffer from lot living in so fine a home as that first negro child? Jf law becomes predicated upon pious sociological and theological concepts as now exhibited in schools, parks, lunch counters how long might it be before this same con cept be extended to every facet of living. People suffer inferiority corhplexes be cause others have prettier wives, bigger ears, fancier yachts, more hair. Generally, however, peopM suffer most seriously from inferiority complexes when they are in ferior. KRSOHAl PARAGRAPHS > BY JACK RIDER This is a highly appropriate time ito make my annual squawk about the stupidity ol men’s fashions. A handsome young sales man just left my uf.-air conditioned office sweating -like, a boar mink, and probably smelling just as sweet. Bid be was robed in a shirt with tie, and^over that choking ap paratus he bad a jacket Jhat was soaked abqpt as wet as a “drip-dry” jacket can get. They drip while one is wearing them and dry over night. Courtney Mitchell is the only - sensibly dressing man in Kinston * and everybody laughs at him because he ha*, the guts to dress comfortably—or as comfortably as possible in this high humidity climate. 'From May through September Mitchell puts on walking shorts and to hell with what folks say about them. “ . My wife, like most wives insists that a man is not properly dressed no damned matter how hot it gets unless he is wrap ped like a mummy and sweating like a field hand. But there she sits in a sleeveless, low backed light cotton frock that Jets the breeze blow free. Of course, I don't dress up as she says I should,'but we have had many a long discussion on the subject. One utter paradox is the British attitude on this matter. No people are more stuffy and proper in matters of dress than the British, yet when the British are forced to live in climates such as this of Eastern Carolina they .dress in walking shorts, which are abouf twice as comfortable as long trousers. Most men bow to the fashion dictates be cause their legs look like the hide of an aged wart bog. Back in colonial, times when men wore krteer breeches and hose, they, took a great deh l of pride in the “turn of their calf" and the ‘trimness of tbeir ankle. That is a concern that men reserve now for the girls. . ' ->— '1 Eet me make clear, I’m not a nudist by practice or theory; but after the concessions have been made to sensible modesty and good taste there is not much more to say about the covering kof the body. From the' time I wrote the above para graphs until this paragraph l have been downtown (Monday morning)aind I’m hap py to report that I saw four more men who have joined Brother Mitchell with walking shorts. Maybe in another five or ten years more men will develop the courage to dress for comfort ya^r than for convention. For generations women went around it along came emancipation, and now oa
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