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EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Ma~. . ■■■ 1 ’ : -And He May Be Wrong. Where Lies The Guilt? This weekend three State College bask etball players were indicted for accepting, bribes and cooperating with gamblers in <the controlling of scores that were aimed basically at protecting the “odds” given by the gamblers. So far none of the men who passed out the bribes has been arrested. In bribery, generally, it takes two to tango. But behind th$se two major parties in this conspiracy is a far larger segment of the population. We refer to the people who “play the par lays”. Kinston, and every other crossroads ham let has its vagrant hustlers who peddle these slips of paper. But they couldn’t peddle them if somebody was not stupid enough to buy them. They are a- listing of games to be played for a specific period on which the “odds” are listed — that is the number of points the gamblers are rating one team over, or under another team. ' The “sucker” can pick as many games hs he wishes, and that’s where the “point shaving” becomes important to the “bank er” or the parlay. Multiply a village the size of Kinston by all the basketball fans, football fans and baseball fans across the nation and you immediately are playing with “big numbers”. A few hundred dollars a week— possibly a few thousand dollars a week bet in Kipston is not enough to “buy” teams or even a few players across the country. But when this gyp is viewed from the top side down, then it involves millions of dol lars a week. The local hustlers have to be paid, apd all along the line there are other “employees” that take their slic^Which adds up to what Texas Guinan said on the subject a long time ago: “Never give a sucker an even break!” How Unkind The leftist so-called intellectuals outside the South have been slapped on both cheeks by members of the Kennedy Administra tion on the negro issue and now the boss himself has kicked them in the groin by refusing to jump on the bandwagon for leg islation to further harass and humiliate the South. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, speak ing in Athens, Ga., told the nation, VI think there is a good deal of hypocrisy. It seems to me that this is not just a problem for the South, but this is a problem for us as American citizens. You have the private clubs in the North where you have the members of these clubs — often editors of newspapers, publishers of newspapers who keep writing editorials about the deplorable situation in the South, who belong to clubs that won’t allow negroes in them or have : absolutely no contact whatsoever with Ne groes, and sometimes with Jews.” Labor Secretary Goldberg aw other pink intellectual' cheek W it difficult to understand why, in I have frequented socially, the < •f ties, the cocktail parties, 1 fa at the “ I find seen Negroes., as guests. This is particular ly marked among intellectuals and liberals in Our large cities, particularly in New York City and in Chicago. It is a fact that the much-abused Southerners are often on closer spea!kinig terms with negroes than we critical Northerners.” This follows almost to the letter the prediction made by Senate Reporter Wil liam S. Whjte, who said before Kennedy’s . inauguration, that this administration was not going to further pillory the South on this issue. No greater service can be done the South than to halves the spotlight turned on these typer that these two cabinet members were roasting in the comments quoted above., In the South we should use the same wea pon: Ask A Jonathan ‘Daniels how many negro reporters,he has an his paper, how many negroe8 belong to his church, his clubs when he uses his editorial page to encourage racial integration for the people who have to send their children to public schools. Daniels sent his Children to schools that were segregated from poor children as well as negro children. being “out” the oil wealth g to muni t that are the rampant m world today. We can only aay, and very weakly, that Russian communism is not a form of free dom. The people living under the heel of a slave-owning But Saud believe 'that any kind of freedom — even Russian freedom— is better,. For generations the world looked to Amer ica for the light of liberty. Now Russians are holding their version of the lamp to freedom higher and they are waiving it more wildly before the liberty-wanting . peoples of the world. When American money or prestige is loaned to a Franco, to an Ibn Saud, to a "V. *. Iran, to the King of Morocco it is wrong company. —pported Batista' in Cuba while he robbed the people blind. Now we have in herited a Castro who is picking the Cuban brain rather than die Cuban pocket. Americans are learning the hard way that power carries with it a terrifying responsi bility. For generations We criticized the British for their conduct of world affairs; now we are finding that the Great' White Father must sleep with strange bedfellows, swal low his pride daily and humble himself re gularly before all the greedy, ignorant, sa vage impulses that impel mankind along his “path to glory”. 1 ' A Pressing Need If we were a judge we’d sentence each member of the Kinston Board of Aldermen to a roundtrip every Saturday morning on McLewean and Heritage streets, from King Street to Vernon Avenue. — We know that none of the present board was on the council when a one-way system was junked seven or eight years ago be cause some merchants believed they were being penalized by the one-way traffic. It would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to widen both these streets over the distance mentioned above, but it would cost nothing more than a simple resolu tion to make both of them tremendously more useful. Heritage Street merchants objected to the plan because it had southbound traffic on -Heritage and northbound on McLeWean. We still think it is idiotic to turn traffic off the King Street bridge north on Heritage, but it’s going that way now, so it would lie no worse with a one-way system than at present. We urgently petition the aldermen to in struct the police department to convert at least these two streets back to one-way; with northbound traffic on Heritage and southbound on McLewean. Whether Caswell, Gordon, North and Blount should be made alternately one-way as they Were before is open for debate; personally, we believe it would be in the long-range best interest of the downtown section. But we insist that there is no in telligent debate possible in consideration of Heritage and McLewean streets. The improved channelization of traffic in a one-way system would eliminate the left-turn, right-turn jams that develop early on Saturday or another busy day and lasTthroughout the day. Please, Aldermen. . . JONES JOURNAL HAfnr wjnmn, Publisher Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir County News Company, Inc)., 408 Went Vernon Are., Kinston, N. C., Phone JA 3 2318. Entered as Second Cteu Matter May 5, 1940, at the Poet Office at TTenttm North Carolina, under the Act ot March 3L1879. By Mail in First Zope—18.00 Per Tew. Subscription Bate* Payable in Advance. One of the current international illusions is that the non-white people of the world are going to suddenly unite and take over. May be they will, but they'll have to find a better excuse than numerical majority if they do. Sjnce the earliest dawn of civiliza tion there have beeta many more non-white than white people on the face of the globe. Yet there has never been a time when they “ruled file world.” ^ « Jn passing, it also might be admitted for the record that the white people have never ruled the world, either. Since the days of Alexander white people have suffered from excesses of power, and perhaps may have theoretically “ruled all the world.” Alexan der is supposed to have wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. Yet all the while this Great Greek was weeping the massive areas below the Sa hara were untamed — as they still, remain today, all of Asia east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas never saw, nor heard about Alexander. ,And, of course, the the entire Western Hemisphere was un known to any but its own inhabitants until long after Alexander had left this veil of tears. . Caesar, Attila, Genghis Khan, Charle magne, Napoleon and Hitler spread their webs of government over huge portions of the world, but at their highwater marks none of these “ruled the world”. Perhaps, if challenged to a war by the masses of colored people they might have won, but they could not take , the war to the Congo, nor the Amazon rain forest, nor to the empty space, of Outer Mongplia. So this business of “ruling the world” is an over-simplification, a bugaboo used by politicians to frighten their subjects into accepting higher taxation, less jfreed|om and more direction of their every-day lives. One of the reasons the non-whites will not rule the world- is because the vast majority of them are not the- slightest bit interested in such grandiose geopolitical schemes. But even bigger than tins' indeci sion is their inherent inability to agree among themselves. Of course, it is a truism to say that “IF” they all got together they could take over from simple numbers. But getting them together is not the sim plest political trick in the book. A combin ation of terror, national pride and a mon umental hunger has given the Chinese man mass a semblance of unity, but hardly more than that. Constructing a working coalition of what we might call the non-white na tions makes the Labors of Hercules seem like child’s play. * Theoretically, of pourse, it IS possible, and perhaps iwe should attempt to make our plans for the theoretical worst situation, but if either a nation or an individual con sumes itself with such dreadful pessimism there is no happy hope for anykjnd of fut ure. V While the white races have been holding forth under the first one and then another “power” there has never been much to in dicate that they could work out an intelli gent plan for slicing up the world. Hitler offered Britian in 1940 a chance to slice the world into German and British spheres of control. The British didn’t feel, they could satis factorily deal with a megalomaniac of the Hilter ilk, and from the kmg-range van tage point of world history they recognized the practical impossibility of even the,most powerful allies sitting down to a nice cup of tea and so deftly settling the affairs of Russia and the United
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