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. . .
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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