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—.. *.. m i —. ■ .. t-7- — rr- zzz ^ It Will B« A Long Trek Te The 'New Frontier' EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man, - —-And He ilfav Be Wrong. Capital Moving ‘We will have .to find a new capital for the Bigots of America. Since Uncle Tom’s Cabin and through „the defeat of A1 Smith the South has been! automatically pointed to wf.h scorn by the intelligentsia. Atlanta, or Montgomery and occasional ly Columbia have been spat upon as the capitals of racial and religious prejudices. Now the Soulh, except for those islands that have been “Yankee-ifeed” such as Florida, have swallowed greedily; A. One Roman Catholic president, B. The party platform that promised the most instant racial integration, and C. The party that is wedded to the socialism of Walter Reuther and John Galbraith. Now, we wonder will the liberal pundits switch their scorn to those areas where “liberalism'” was not carrying the day? To New England, the Northwest and North Central States. Will''Ooluimbus, Ohio replace Columbia, South Carolina as a symbol of resistance to Catholicism and racial integration? Will Indianapolis succeed Montgomery as the rest home of reactionary resistance? ' There is no need to answer our questions. They are self answering! • The South has been the whipping boy so long for so many perverted liberals that it cannot be saved. On the newstands * a t this moment is an exercise in bitter fiction by McKinley Kan tor, who dealt hisT.ory a kick in the groin with his ‘‘Andersohville”. Bleeding-heart liberal Kantor explains in* his article how Russia would already have control of North America -if the Confederacy had won the war. No sewer is too deep or too foul for manure collectors of the Kantor breed. Those who have known the South long ago realized the wrongness of the allegations a gainsit the South. Jews who have moved from New York to the small town South know where bigotry really resides. Negroes' who have left the South to dwell in the north understand the difference between preached equality and practiced tolerance. Now, if the line will form on the right we will organize a National Association for the Advancement of Quakers. An Obvious Lesson If there is any lesson worth learning from the mess a meddlesome federal government is imaking of southern school it is that racial integration is only taking place in those cities and states where officials are di vided. Currently in New Orleans we see a state legislature fighting against federal usurpa tion of power and a city school board f>rac ' (king the philosophy that if rape is inevit able, relax and enjoy it. voided any mention of South Carolina. Why- is this so? It is so because federal bureacrats lack couraige and will 01% move into _ “ioft spots”; places where there is a split among the people: In South Carolina there is no division in its leadership. South Carolina does hot have a coward! such as North Can little Rock, or N< So with the typk the burglars of tl mental pickpocket ■ Gerrymandering, The Answer add to or subtract from our state delega tion, to tibe House of RepreeentaCives the Assent was able to avoid its sworn duty. But now the 1980 census and' the addition of two new states have 'combined to cause North Carolina to lose one representative. 1 Although this has been headlined this week it has been recognized for months that North Carolina was going to lose' a congressman; so the n^en who tend the po litical fires of the state have been ponder ing this problem for a long time. .• Since the state legislature is cosqprised of about l8o Democrats and 10 Republicans it is automatic that first consideration in this re-districting be given' to “gerryman dering” the Republicans out of the one dis trict they have managed to Wd for the past 10 years. This is a very brutal practice' but in states where Republicans enjoy simi lar majorities in state legislative bodies they apply it with the same vigor that may be expected here in North Carolina. O! course, the principled method of allo cating these 11 representatives that are left to North Carolina would be to split the state into districts that would include as nearly as possible 414,000 people, but this exercise of principle is not likely to be put into prac tice. Why? Largely because there are four of the present districts (1st, 2nd 3rd and 11th) that would be likely to suffer if this prin cipled method were used. There four dis tricts include 36 counties with 39 repre sentatives out of 120 in the State House; Divide And Conquer Probably since men first began hovering together: in groups there has been one who realized that the simplest route to victory ’ is by dividing the “enemy”. In politics, of course, the enemy is any body standing in the way of success ait the polls. ' *J’» The conservatives of the United States havfe been out-smarted by a handful of dedicated socialists whose goal is, totalitar ian staile socialism. The' conservative® have been divided rather loosely between the two traditional political parties. With the conservatives divided in this fashion it becomes easy for the liberal socialists to tip die .balance of power in ithedr own direction. If the men and women Of the south who believe almost passupateiy in constitution^ government, in states rights, un less fed eral interference had voted as their mind - told them to vote, rather than as some an cient party loyalty dictated the result of last week’s election would have been quite different. So long as the socialists can keep the con servatives divided they will control the -government. With (he exception of Ihe 80th congress the socialists have bad control of the country for the past 21 years. They control it now, and there’s no need for any one to expert Kennedy or his coterie to exorcise any sense of, humility because of the closeness of his election. They have won, however narrow their margin of victory and with a supine congress, awed by executive power the implementation of Galbraith’s planned economy and Adam Clayton Powell’s “New Frontier" will move ahead in high gear. , Ar m the governor’s mansion realize that the cobra’s head has no real fangs this ad ministrative tyranny "h .without power. ■Government is by cAbaeut of the governed, and if reminder is needed of this political truism today we tender Clarendon County, South Carolina. This 'weekend my wife and I drove up to Norfolk and came hack down the Outer Banks, across Roanoke island and back by Engelhard and Belhaven. I have never been beyond Belhaven in that direction, and be yond Ooinjock on the road to the outer Banks so it was a kinid of exploration ride and we bad a beautiful weekend. But both of us are used to large expanses of water, long bridges, sand dunes and marches, so that part of our ttfpfwas not nearly so exciting as what we saw in Norfolk. And in Norfolk it was not an airplane carrier or their new Hampton' Roads tun nel that excited us, but the urban renewal program that is remaking the heart of this oki city. You have to see it to believe it. Over 5H million dollars is committed to the tearing down of old, out-moded buildings, the construction of new and badly needed facilities, including parking areas by the thousands. In a tightly bound land area such as Norfolk their parking problem is being solved vertically. Kinston, hedged in by the river might learn much by studying this ap proach. , Kinston’s official family is also interested . in urban renewal but a year ago tfiere was such a terrific outcry by realtors who were afraid of more residential construction that the aldermen have since then steered very carefully on this subject. - Although Kinston, and every community for that matter has a lot of sub-standard housing the pressing need is for drastic action in the downtown section, where traf fic and failure of certain property owners to cooperate is strangling this important segment of the tax listed valuation' of the city. Individual property owners cannot cope with a situation' such as this. If they have an adjoining property owner who refuses to lraep his property in decent, rentable con dition there is next to nothing he can do about it. Only through the medium of some municipal corporation that has the power of eminent domain can such inequities be corrected. Under the enabling legislation of North Carolina that was passed to take advantage of federal funds that are avail able for urban renewal this is actually not a program' aimed to hurt private property rights but is really an effort to protect pri vate property rights and values in instances 'where they are unable to defend themselves. For instance, if a block ini downtown Kin ston were acquired for re-development all improvements not required for public pur poses have to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder. If a parking area {tank ed by nows of attractive shops was built the city could keep the parking area and sell off the shops. If any loss resulted from this sale the federal government would absorb two-thirds of the loss and the city would absorb the other third. But the city can include as its one-third, of the loss any if has expended for relocating -i.. nr nnnwr tin OS.
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