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'If* Time To Blast Him Off The Launching Pad!' EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The O# inion Of One Mar. " ■ 1 1 v " ■ '. • And He May Be Wrong. The President’s ‘Sacrifices’ In an open letter to a New York news* paper President Kennedy baa listed 20 “sac rifices” that he is asking of Ms subjects: Some of these are 1. Ebd racial segrega tion, 2. support more money for foreign aid, 3. pay higher postage rate*, 4. serve without ‘pay or comfort’ in Peace Corps,. 5. take government jobs at salary cuts,, 6. corporations to pay higher payroll taxes, 7. corporations to forego tax cuts, 8. all employers asked to pay a. decent minimum wage, 9. labor is asked to end work stop pages at missile bases, 10. farmers are ask ed to accept feed grains program, 11. tax payers have been asked to give up expense account living in yachts and night clubs. ♦ That is a noble listing of “sacrifices” but none of these includes any “sacrifice” on the part of the government itself. No where in his list does the President mention, or, even hint tha t government might surrend er any of the expensive and unnecessary practices it is presently engaged in. If government wants to end racial seg regation why does it not give equal op portunities in Washington. Well over half of all civil.service jobs in Washington are held by “persecuted minorities”. Why1 doesn’t the government practice ec onomy in its massive throwaway on so called foreign aid? While corporations are foregoing tax cuts, let the government forego tax increases. Let government create a tax climate in which the businessman can make enough to pay a decent wage. Let members of congress and the executive branch of government give up their “admiral barges,” world jaunts at taxpayer expense and plush carpet treatment at every way station. To hell with running this sacrifices busi ness down a one-way street. When we see evidence of “sacrifice” by those people who are being paid with our tax money then we’ll begin making our private sac rifice list. The Freedom Riders’ One day a ‘‘Freedom Rider” collecting lumps in Alabama and the next day a hust ler collecting money from the gullible on the sidewalks of old New York. That’s the standard pattern. New Yorkers are the biggest suckers in the world. Let same idiot stick his hand in the lion’s cage and he can pick a spot in New York and get rich showing his scars. The Right Reverend Martin Luther King is a prime example of this kind of rackete er. Far better hustlers are balking with midway shows at county fairs. They are peddling “Wild Men from Borneo,” “Hilda with the Hula Hips,” and a spin of the old wheel of fortune. These “Freedom Riders,” and puipithufct-, lers are peddling piety and martyrdom. They are the worst racists among us. They are no more interested in the welfare of the negro than they are in the price of Yak mitt. They are selling dues, subscriptions, raising money, and the internal revenue de partment never knoweth the coming. and ' - • si". going of such piously gotten gains. Show us a “Freedom Rider’’ and we’ll show you an executive secretary in search of a limb to light on. NAAC3P wasn’t milking the suckers fast enough so along . comes “CORE”—Congress of Racial Equality. The last damned thing in the world they ever want is racial equality. What they want is a fur-lined nit, a ma hogany desk with matching secretary, an expense account, and a few hours of net work television time so they can milk a million suckers with one “sermon”. Consider the path of the aforementioned Dr. Martiii Luther King: Just another bush league negro Baptist until his rainbow de posited a pqt of gold at the foot of a pre meditated bus strike in Montenmerv ■_ mighty expensive to as irritating'to news It Is this: The more offices across the nation m from Washington each we “newsletter”, which helps_... ... office deficit with a weekly mailing to each and every fanner in the nation. Lenoir County has 1840 such farmers who get this weekly newsletter. R rims' from one to as high as four mimeographed pages. Each office has personnel to write, type, mimeo graph, fold,'insert propaganda flood. Each office also has several hundred dol lars worth of mechanical equipment to as sist in this outpouring. Multiply this by 2500-and the arithmetic begins to frighten the average easily scared taxpayer. Nobody would object to occasional blan ket mailings of Important information to farmers, but a weekly “must” letter is no thing more than an administrative exercise. In a Community where there are three radio stations, two IV stations and four newspapers circulating there is obviously no need for a “weekly newsletter from any or all of the tax supported agencies that . proliferate with alarming rapidity. Senator Ervin justifies his support of federal aid to education because we already have several programs under which fed eral money is penetrating this citadel of free government. That is rather like sup porting cancer because some people -fire dying from It. What he and everyother be liever in the Constitution should be doing is fighting to eliminate all those areas 'n which the federal government is now in volved in and in which it has no moral, leg al or economic reason to be. The Supreme Court has handed President Kennedy the Protestant vote by supporting his contention that tax monies cannot be used to support church schools. This poli tical windfall was premeditated by Catho lic officials, who knew exactly what they were doing. There was nothing accidental about it, whatsoever. They erected a straw man, President Kennedy “destroyed” it and now becomes a Protestant as well as a Catholic hero. Which level Of gambling is more immo ral: Taking bets or making bets? Business men with big investments bluy insurance to protect themselves from loss. Gamblers with huge investments in athletic events biiy “insurance” for the same reason. But if there was no bettors, there would be no businessmen gamblers, and if the lug gamblers were not involved stupid college boys would not be bought for “insurance.” Which came first: The chicken or the egg? Can, you answer? Friend, asks, “K feder al law is supreme, why can a man buy a federal license and operate a race track, gambling joint or barroom in one state and buy the same federal license and not be permitted to operate in another state? There is only one .constant in highway building: Everybody thinks it should be on somebody rise’s land, except the absen tee landlord who wants it through the mid dle of his beddings. This is the time of the year when women of practically all ages begin practic ing their “What- in-the-hell- are-you-st* r ing-at-ane” expression. .Notice, I-said wom en of aU .ages, and NOT practically all women; since a very large part of the fe male voting bloc has no special need for this glacial stare. Those I refer to are those who in the molting season begin, to shed their “feath ers?' and don’t know, or care where they quit “molting.” Those who get out their suntan lotion, their short-short shorts, their bandaid bras and start parading. Person ally, 1 have nothing against this kind of parading, except as a charter member of the Lenoir County Safety Council I ought to point out that this kind of Undressing-is a very serious traffic hazard. I. know, be cause the only fender-bending. I ever got tangled in was caused by a well stacked redhead in a tight fitting sweater, who I was watching in preference to a redlight. But what I do object to is these gals who undress like this objecting to being stared at. If they haven’t got any better sense than to go around “damned nigh naked.” I sure ain’t got no better sense than to stare at them. This is a fairly average male re action; most of us share the willingness to stare. I told Ed Blalock that the season had of ficially opened on Saturday. While I was ■" at his filling station a young mother, push ing a stroller with a baby in it, swung through his corner and she had on a bright yellow rig that attracted considerable at tention. Her skirt was flared out from a lot of pleats, and it was just long enough — or > short enough so that it left in some doubt whether she had on any pants. Blalock, who has a detached retina pro blem in one eye, said he was willing to risk his good eye,1 well as his weak eye on sights like that. My only concession to the sight was to take off imy dark glasses and put on my full view, 20-00 asbestos—framed Prudie Hartsell specials. That was. a mighty dangerous corner for that young matron to be walking by. If the rush hour Du Pont traffic had come it long all of the safety Chris Henkel has brainwashed those Dacron makers with for the past 10 years wouldn’t have.been worth a tinker’s dam. /> Believe me, I’m no prude about female toggery. Tom Parrott says my heart is in, good condition, my blood pressure is a lit tle on the law side, and Hartsell still sells me glasses on credit. So I’m prepared for the season. J. T. Sutton also has enough insurance — I hope — on my flivver to cover any damage I do to trees, utilities poles and neighborhood dogs that may get in my way as I cover tjie news around town. ■ / > year I spoke to Captain Fred gates of the traffic department about the traffic haz ard involved in this kind of problem. He looked in toe City Charter and the City Ord inances and' couldn’t find anything to “cb* ver” toe problem. He said he was going to ask toe city council to pass some new rules on the subject but I think that after Safes made a personal “survey” on the situation he decided to let “well enough alone.” ~ he has invested in a new pair of dar glasses, to protect himself from -the srl
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