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Never Forget That Those Editorials Are The Oiinion Of One Man,
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Course in Ethics?
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education is devoted in principle to the
leaching of ethical conduct, but we won
der, in the light of current events if greater
stress is not needed in this sphere.
Young men and women conning from col
lege into the main stream of the business
(community may understandably be puzzled
when 29 major corporations plead guilty to
grand larceny of millions, of dollars from)
the public.
College students who haye attempted to
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» play, while non-athletic scholars must pay
their way still find it difficult to under
stand why a man has te seH his interests
in all companies doing business with the
Igovernment if he miters the executive
branch of government, but may—aa in the
lease of Oklahoma Senator Kerr—keep a
huge interest in companies that are mak
ing millions from government contracts.
Conduct cannot be ethical for one man!
and un-ethieal for another.
Change is Needed
. While tne'JNorm Carolina uenerai Assem
bly is wrestling with the problem of re
districting congressional and assembly1
seats it ought to give serious study to a
long-needed change in the system of legis
lative allotment for the state as a whole.
■Both bouses of the General Assembly are
predicated upon population, which certain
ly should not be. The federal pattern which
{guarantees each state equal representation
in the senate and proportionate represen
tation based on population in the house is
Meal for countless good reasons.
We suggest that each county in North
Carolina be allocated one senator and that
representation in the hoCtse be based on
population with one member for each coun
ty up to 100,000 population and an additional
member for each increment of 100,000 of
population.
This system would give Buncombe, Ouim-,
foerland, Durham, Forsyth, Gaston and
Wake counties two jrepresentatives, Guil
ford and Mecklenburg three awl all other
(counties one each.
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(collection, but in the high-pressure
where meet tax bills are boiled this
•principle comes out in rugged couch
Tents, chvaaends and sales of produce be
taken in the same fashion. One man earns
$50 a wedk hi a factory, another man earns
$50 per week by selling produce from las
faun*. Why abouldn’tboth pay their toes
the same fashion? Bookkeeping is offered as
an excuse, but it seems to be a very weak
one when books are already being kept on
every mother’s son amongst us. r'
A man has a house to town that oo«t'
$20,000 sad it’s pa tbe tax book* tor $6,000.
4 man has a fanm in the country that cost
$80,000 and if* on the tax books for $6,000.
Is an "ad valorem’1’ to really a to “*t
valne”f ' S&'
thus almost ending c
ent indirectly. ^
No jury should haw an*Vu
criminal case except to find
or guilt. The present <
sees over half of the offenders
trial tufted loose by jorte*
law leaves no discretion in the i
of a convicted drunken driver, Hm makes
the Jury both judge and jury.
A person convicted of premeditated mur
der, rape or first degree anon should be
put to death—not for the effect it will have
on society as a whole but for the effect-it
will have on that particular individual. If
be or sbe is put to death that positively pre
vents diem from doing the same crime
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To this Ust of just
subject to capital p
advantage of'that'person who is under the
drug. Some may say that toe present laws
pertaining to rape cover tow, but an over
dose of an aphrodisiac would eliminate the
forceful aspect that must-be present to sus
tain the 'simple.rape char®*. . j ,
Juries should not h&vfe the right to recom
mend mercy. Prosecutors should be given
Campaign oratory from Terry Sanford
last year fairly oozed with pious proclam
ations for the ‘“little man”, the underpaid
teacher, the. small business man and .toe
struggling fanner. •*
That was last fall, hut how the spring
rains are washing away somb of the white
wash that covered the real body of the
Sanford “Go Forward” program.
No tax on the big fish who footed toe
bill' for “Terry's Grass Boots Oampaigb,”
Tax oh toe poorest, because they wouldwamt
to share” in the progress of the state.
Tax on food (cynically because everybody
has .to eat), tax on fertilizer because tobacco
farmers have to use so much, tax oh cars
raised because we have fongottejr how to
walk, tax on medicine because sickness is
inevitable, and expensive, tax bn factory,
machinery because North Carolina is trying
to attract new industry and nothing will
attract an industry so quickly as a new tax,
but of ail toe stupid and calloused taxation
tax°©n all supplies purchased by counties,'
cities and the state government ...
Talking tax money out of one pocket and
stuffing it in another may be good exercise
tout it’s damned poor economics . when one
Conors the attrition on the poor tax dol
lar that takes place each time its passes
through; any level of government.
/Ibis archly-conservatlve Kinston claque
has been operating far ^some years now
tout Mossomed into its most furious activity
after a recent visit to tiio stow ty
patron saint of anti-communism, Herbert.
iPhi&rtck. Tbfe young socialist, who
spied on the communists for the FBI (and
Who has made a fortune ton tt. patriot
ism, getting $850 for Us ooe-nd«Jit stand
in Kinston) shook the loeal conservative*
In a single sortie over Kinston she suc
tc ceded in I. Establishing that a big seg
tmeot of the local branch of the American
Medical Association iwas opposed to the
church, the government and, incidentally, to
communism. ^
2. That somehow the coming of Du Pont to
Lenoir bounty was coincidental to this po
Mtical revolt. Eastern North Carolina has
long been viewed by the Democratic Over
lords pf Tar Heelia as a bulge feudal fief
dam in which the peasants eat'their hum- •
ble pie, and vote the straight Democratic