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Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man, ....—.And He May Be Wrong. Kennedy At His Worst uanuiaaie jotrm Kennedy m toe latest of Ms debates with Candidate Richard Nixon has stated as bluntly as possible that he will do everything in his .power to enforce the orders of the supreme court and will also do everything in his power to enforce existing and to secure new and stronger fair employment practices laws. Most of us are so emotionally Involved in the school integration mess that we lose eight of an even more brutal incursion that has been most incorrectly named “fair employment practices”. Many people hear the first word of tide phrase and automatically assume that if it is “fair” it is good, but nothing worse in our system of government is imaginable. “Fair employment” as supported1 by Kennedy, and to only a slightly lesser de gree by Nixon means that the employer would have no control over the person be would hire for a given .position. In effect it would extend toe abuses of the civil ser vice system to cover all private employ ment. IFor instance, a business needs a steno grapher. How to get one. Call toe employ-. meat office and they send one. No matter what the individual's personal altitude might be, if this person is certified as qualified, she would have to be employed, and what’s worse the power of tjie federal government would be exerted at no cost to toe stenographer to force her employment. Surely, toe obvious reason for such a law is to force private employers to hire people they do not want. Largely it is for negroes in the south, Jews in New Yorii and other strategically located blocs of minority voters all across the nation. Catering to strategic blocs of voters is nothing new, but political promising has about run out. The government has hired just albout all the workers it can make ex cuses for and now its pork barrel would be extended to all employment. Already com panies that havegbvemment contracts of any kind are covered by this kind of law. Fortunately toe law has not been enforced to any large degree, but it does exist and is a constant club that can be used on any Cj|m doing work for toe government that <k>es not conform. MFEP€” is government at its very mean est. ' ■ V The Natives Are Restless After more than three years of continu ing abuse by the “un-political” Hodges Highway Regime the natives of Eastern (Carolina are beginning to get restless. The swan song of the Hodges-Babcock Regime—an expensive 15-year plan for the Highways of the state—is the straw that broke the aching hack of heavily burdened Eastern Carolina. This .pnotjected highway program would net only the neglect of Eastern B^t when those figures are totalled for tus to be aima^ed by then we rise in most righteous indignation aver what has been done, and is being done to us. Highway Commission Chairman Melville Broughton has denied that (Ms 15-year plan represents a conttnutog commercial raping of EasternCarolina, which only confirms earlier suspicions that Broughton knows little about what’s going on in the depart ment he is supposed to head. fthat great area east of Highway 801, which includes snore than* a third of the Pb.Wir Wnrfe* Praiect No. IS the protection this narrow strand gives to an, estimated six million acres of fertile East Carolina soil. Arguments against government interven tion in this problem are pale beside the pressing need for action, Sonne ask, “Why should the taxpayers’ mdpey be spent to protect a millionaire’s beach home?” Such a question might also be extended to ask, “Why spend the taxpayers’ money to build a highway for the millionaire’s limousine to travel on?” ' North Carolina has many assets, but none greater than its fertile •bastal Plain, Cannot Stop Now The effort supported by this paper and many others for consolidation of oar rural white high schools in Lenoir County has re sulted in a survey that'once again recom mends three schools—at Deep Run, La Grange and Contentnea.—to replace the present fragmented system of seven high schools. This is exactly the same recommenda tion made 11 yeari ago when a similar sur vey was itaade. County school officials for reasons that apparently seemed intelligent, to themselves pigeon-holed t^e plans of 1949 and we fear they may side-step this issue once again and in the same fashion. Soon after the county school officials re fused to consolidate the rural white high schools they put the finger on the county tax payers far 10 gymnasium s—seven for the &bite high cfaools and three for the rural negro high schools. Sufficient money was lavished—some mfiy say wasted on making Lenoir County the Nation’s No. 1 county insofar as gym nasia per capita is'concerned to have com4 pleted the cryingiy need for high school consolidation. Some of our school leadlers have asserted' that they do .not believe the people are ready for consolidation. We might remind them that many backward looking people opposed 'the original consolidation, of the county’s schools. Now with the improvement of transporta tion, better roads and greater- demands on’ our educational system a further consolida tion is indicated. Also the sky-rocketing cost of education make it economically as well as educationally desirable that larger schools that can be more cheaply operated are installed. By refusing to move forward in this direction our school officials are 1. Severely penalizing our rural yopith who are not get ting really adequate training and 2. Se verely penalizing the; taxpayer who has to support the present expensive system. Injury is heaped upon insidt with the un deniable fact that ti»e children of Lenoir County who are getting the most expensive education are also getting the sorriest ed ucation. of the state’s papulae*®. Slavish allocation of roads by traffic count insures that the same roads will always keep the highset traffic count. Engineers •argue that road® are not built to generate traffic, but to tafoe care of existing traffic. We wonder what the first trans-contin ental railroads were built for? cation land”. A good half o( this claim Would be lost if the Outer Banks were per mitted to wash away, j ' ^ the State q£ North Cardiiia frequently (complains about having.'diffcculty In find ing work for its prison population. Plenty of work for a long tme to come can be found for many of these with a long-range program of shore line stabilisation. Every budget of the state should include a sizable allocation for this work, and we BY 'JACK RIDER • _:_lll.—.— A friend said Monday he thought Richard Niton was the most revolting thing in A merican polities until he read the I960 plat- x form of the Democratic Party. Said he was going to hold his nose and vote for “Tricky Dicky”. Wonder how many Democrats are going to stifle their nausea and make the same decision? Fortunately party platforms, are “only something to ran on” not something to build on,' and the chance of “Bush Head Kennedy” implementing his plan to inte grate all southern schools by 1963, force FEJPC on all employers add force labor unions on every business is remote indeed. Kennedy knows this better than I, because he is a member of that congress which just two months ago refused to go along with the socialistic dreams that are included in the Democratic Party platform.1 .1 -r—r—■ : There is one danger,, however, that such a socialist-labor sweep might follow Ken nedy into office that the next congress would go that far. Norman Thomas, the perpetual candidate for the presidency 'on \ the Socialist Party ticket, no longer runs. Thomas points out that all the things his party stood for have been either realized or are now supported by both major politi cal panties. Actually the Democratic Party no longer exists as such; tMtay it is the socialist-labor party, and is controlled by * such well known state planners as Walter Reuther and Arthur Schlesinger. waat do tney Believe? 1 don't Know au ot their beliefs, but their major promise is that the public is too stupid, or too selfish to wisely use its money and that t^e all wise federal government must take the glut of private wealth and spend it “wisely” in building homes, eradicating slulms, super highways, super-expensive hospitals, pala tial schools. There is nothing new about this kind of gOTernmbnfe The pseudo-lib erals say it is new but nothing could be further from die truth. Aji-iwise govern ments have existed since the Phatoahs. They knew what was best for their subjects. Caesar, Alexander, Atilla, Napoleop, Fran co, Castro and Kennedy all have one thing in common.. They knew, or know what is best for their subjects. ■ This all-wise paternalism sounds good on paper, and in a bee hive. . . But what about the right to loaf, to be a butn. The light to live in squalor, in a slum* Four walls neither make a home nor a slum. Marble palaces will nojt prevent some peo ple from living in slums, nor will education. Slums are not houses, but people. An old home is not automatically a slum.
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