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Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man
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A Question Of Discipline
Perhaps the use of such an old-fashioned
word as discipline will automatically defeat
any discussion o'f such a liberalized subject
as education, but we still feel it pertinent at
this time to say a few words in that direc
tion. '/c \ ;
In the recent past there has been *— and
happily so — a great deal of experimentation
. in-the public schools^ by educators who want
ed to make the best better. Some good ideas,
some bad ideas and some that had no value
one way or the other have come into the
class room. Some have stayed and others
have gone.
But in any administrative set up, wheth
er it be for the digging of ditches or the
training of young minds a basic requisite is
discipline.
If discipline does npt exist! at. one level,
one: can hardly expect to7 find if at another.
If the school board directs the superinten
dent' to institute specific programs and he
' refuses; quite obviously something has to
give. And at the next level of administra
tion; when the superintendent instructs his
principals to institute such programs and '
they refuse the'identical parallel exists. .
If the principal passes this order to a'
teacher and the teacher refuses to follow
the order some form of anarchy is inevitable.
(Specifically, two years ago i)ie Kinston
School Board voted unanimously, and after
much discussion 'to instill homogeneous
grouping in the eight schools of the city
system.
In the August meeting of the board mem
bers said categorically that some of the
schools had not instituted this grouping. Su
perintendent Jean Booth reminded the board
that there was no "unanimity among pro
fessional educators on the va/ue of homo
geneous grouping.” '
And Board Chairman Fleming Fuller re
minded Booth that this was not .the point
at all under discussion, but was rather
the fac£ that the board had unanimously in
structed all of the city’s eight principals to
institute such a program and, flow it was be
ing stated flatfootedly that certain of these
eight principals had elected to ignore the or
ders of the school board.
Booth wats instructed 'to “get the facts”
and report to the board at the September
meeting.
Brazil. Nuts
' The colonization of what we now call
the United States of Brazil began in 1531.
considerably before colonization of the Unit
ed States of America got underway in the
next century.
/ Until 180? Brazil remained a Portuguese
colony. Then it became a monarchy, and re
mained so until 1891 when a revolution led to
the founding of the nation as it is known tor'
day- ■ V.j •, ,, • "
But the stupid mess that we see today that
is going on in the name of government in
Brazil indicates that' somewhere along the
line they have missed a couple steps that
are most basic in the government of free
For such a huge land mass, with a pop
ulation of more than 63 ...'million people to
drift aimlessly for weeks oh end without a
head of state is too absurd to dwell upon.
This,is an invitation to ana«hy,?if it is not
mumsm i
,il - ;7T'A,
conflict, and in this complex, interdependent
world of today every Rational explosion auto
matically endangers international peace. Cu
ba is a' case in ppint at the moment, as is
Korea, Laos, The United Arab Republic and
the handfull of so-called “emerging states”
of Africa. v ■ - {■
’ Self government is the government that
all men yearn for, but it is the form of gov
ernment that imposes the most terrible re
sponsibility upon its citizens. Every kind of
dictatorship; nether that of the Arabian
sheikdoms or of the Kremlin oligarchy is ut
SbtSiin ssl?’’
A Matter Of Principle
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as it doe*, M the
tainhrad for'Eastern North
newspaper of such high j
thp way by hiring a few
itself to lead the way into the
No Where in this Raleigh cultural center
is a negro employed in an intellectual rap
acity. Some might argue that the same could
be said of white employees, but that would
be snide and snide is the last thing we’d want
to be’ about such a great pillar of liberal
hogwash as The Raleigh News and Qbserver.
This'"sob sister" has overlooked a few. tear
Judge Williams Is Right
Judge Clawson Williams" is exactly right
in attacking the commutation of sentences
last week by the State Pdroles Board after
Governor Terry Sanford had asked a review
of the prisoners involved.
1 Judge WiUiams, who presided over the trial
of the involved parties, describes their crime
for those who have forgotten it, as the most
brutal in his long experience in the courts
of our. state. i , , V~y.
Judge williams says political pressure .was
involved.
Under the noble sentiments'^that caused
the paroles board to be set up every prisoner
theoretically is. supposed to have exactly the
same consideration) But anyone with half
any eye must realize that the paroles board
does NOT* operate in any such fashion.
The prisoner whose family'or friends can
retain such high-priced legal talent ad’ Victor
Bryant of Durham "has always gotten and
still gets priority consideration.
There ought to be a method under which
the courts of our state could actually sen
tence an offender to life in prison. At pres
ent-the passing of a life imprisonment sen
tence is farcical, since in nearly every sen
tence of this kind commutation and parole
are the rule, rather than the exception.
Such a group as is involved in this case
in point, who cold-bloodedly murdered a
kaleigh produce dealer for a little handfull
of'.money can never be rehabilitated1 suffi
ciently to become decent citizens.
When Judge Williams sentenced them to
life in prison he' thought at the very least
that the paroles board would not commute
-those sentences before it had consulted the
trial judge, the prosecution, the officers m
the county where the crime was committed.
But that is exactly what the paroles board
did. Under pressure from the governor’s
office the paroles board ignored not only its
duty,, but the protection of society, which
is in all instances paramount to-the protec
tion of a premeditated murderer..
Biting The Hand
■She Congress of Racial Equality this week
has announced that it will begin boycotting
national retail chain stores in an effort to
force them to hire more negroes. Specifically
it has set its.-propaganda guns upon Sears
Roebuok & Company.
This is really biting the hand thatvfeeds.
Julius Rosenwald, who was boss man of
•Sears until his death, set up' the greatest
system of patronage for negro education the
world has ever seen until "Soapy” Williams
came along,
- Which proves and old' adage, "The only
difference between a man and a dog isi; that
if you take a man and a dog put of the gut
ter, feed them, clean them Up and put them
on their feet; the dog will never turn -and
bite you." i ~
- Boycott is a two-edged sword,—'* ■
that represents 11 per cent of
population and less than 11 '
national incopie is hardly in
begin boycotting.
Sears, we’re sure will
the loss such a boyc
it, but we wonder if ■
enhploye
will be a
than
also the fact" that a
'olseducj
■ V*T. v! I " ••'•••rvYig.vi *r‘
Carolina in jobs fitting
_n in any state' of the
the Ipreissure points of em
government — which
number of ne
his employment discrimin
ation is worse id every state in the nation
than in North Carolina. < v
This “sob sister” has also jumped over the
several .multi-million dollar negro businesses
Jn North'Carolina, wl/o employ nothing but
negroes. .v.;y,C- ,r'. ; ' ; C \
"Sister” Gene Roberts moans that 170,000
negro college graduates have left North Caro
lina in the past 10 years. He overlooks the fact
that ho 'other state in the union graduates so
fnany negroes fri^n college as North Carolin
and be overlooks the fact that while 170,000 ne
gro' college graduates w,ere leaving Nor'
Carolina there were possibly five times t
many whitecollege graduates who went -
looking sfor “Greener Pastures.” .
And while the News & Observer is climb
ing on its snow white liberal charter in be
half of hiring educated negroes;-one might
s.k why does it discriminate so grossly
ask why
against negroes in its news columns ?
The only negroes that get . their names in
the New9 & Observer are criminals. Are no
educated -negroes getting married in North
Carolina ? We’ve "tiever seen a negro bride
on the society page of this liberal house or
gan or the “New Freedom.”
. ’ The News' & Observer obituary column
buries eyery white person that dies in East
ern North Carolina, but the negroes go to
the grave little noted, and never mentioned,
in this final resting column.
PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS
BY
. JACK RIDER -
The Raleigh News & Observer Tuesday
saql its Monday circulation was 130,074,
which, may have as much truth in it sis ,
some of* its editorials. But beyond doubt this
Raleigh house prgan of the NAACP party
line does have far more circulation than anjr (
newspaper generally circulating in Eastern
Carolina. Which proves Leo Durocher*s
philosophy with some to spare, "Nice guys
don’t win pennants l” .
A pharitable guess would be that well over
half the subscribers to the News & Observer
despise its editorial policy end deplore its
pornographic news style, but they still
subscribe. Why? Is^t habit? Or is it some
thing nearly as basic as habit: 'The human .
thirst for argument ? „ < • ‘
Men who become apoplectic on glapcing
at the News & Observer editorial page read
it every morning and fuss about it all day.
And pay over $20 per year for this privilege
of having their ukers primed.
For two generations those interested in
the political life of Eastern Carolina have
talked from time to time about a newspaper
to combat the unsutble influence of this
magisterial propaganda weapon. Every
election year enough money is wasted in
Eastern Carolina in an effort to off set the
News & Observer influence to Establish and
endow handsomely'a half dozen newspapers
of the size, and of better quality than the