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t » I An Interesting Paradox Unless somebody throws a wrench with perfect timing and careful aim John Mc Cormack will be the new speaker of the house shortly afer congress is re-convened next month. This will put McCormack in the Nb.. 3 position just two heart beats away from the presidency. But much ,more important than the unlike lihood of McCormack ever becoming presi dent is the fact that the two most powerful jobs in the federal government will be held by Roman Catholics of apparent opposite views on the subject* of government aid to schools in general and Catholic schools in particular/ N ■ Kennedy,, whose statements last year were aimed at the national electorate, is on rec ord as firmly and everlastingly opposed to spending federal funds on any private schools. McCormack, whose election, is in a- pre ponderantly Catholic district i of Boston, takes an exactly different stand. If the chief legislative officer and the chief executive cannot agree on some point so fundamental as this, and so frequently • spelled out in the courts of every jurisdiction, we wonder how they will' be able to work in less clear-cut realms. So far as the nation is concerned, the alarms that will likely be heard on the sub- ‘ ject of such Catholic power is less important than the ability of these two men to get along together. If ■McCormack insists as speaker on carry ing the ball for federal aid to Catholic schools as he has dpne in his present post as ma jority leader, a breech will forcedly develop between him and the President th^t will be extremely difficult to repair. There is the possibility that a special em missary from T^he Poji^ to this country may be able to pour some oil on the trouble watt ers that separate this pair of Boston Catho lics. For the sake of the nation, we wish him success.' Much Too Much Defense Secretary MacNatnara has a Scottish name, but he apparently has lost any Scot notions of money that he might have ever had. He has sent a request to', the White House for a $51,000,000,000 ,— that’s billion — dollar budget in fiscal 1962 63. confusing when men build swimming pools as one friend of ottr'i is a statistical unemp The Democrats whi That is a $10,000,000,000 that’s billion again — increase over the current armed forces budget, and by any logical standard it is about twice as big as it should be. The armed forces have been used alter nately in the past 20 years to fight wars, to fight unemployment and to precipitate dip lomatic fall out. Perhaps the use of the military in so many fields is simpler than setting up another in the executive seats of the mighty after an 8-year absence felt they had to stimulate the economy, and What could do it more suddenly than vastly expanding the military program? ' Nojpv, the reservists who were called tip are growling and rightly so. They -find them selves pulled off their jobs, away from their families1 and for no discernible reason* They are stuck into re-activated bases, de moth balled ships and pushed around in the standard military fashion. President Kennedy says they have served their purpose, but he has not. told ‘ them what their purpb.se was. Was it/ to tear down the wall in Berlin ?, to frighten Castro ?, to bolster the hopes of Laos of South Viet Nam? , . ,.f"; ■ . " If it was either of these it hak fajled. , Jf it was’a political exercise in, recession t he continuing success of Charlie Jonas in North Carolina and the Republican bOom in Florida have combined to cause OOF palpitations and hot. flushes all across ^ihe, South. . - ' r ••iA'i In North Carolufa' the absurd lengths Gov ernor Tetry Sanford and his caiinp follow ers have carried their spending program, have been added to the growing discontent from conservatives df every political lineage to .mike hot only possible* but. qttke-likely , a fierce struggle for the top spot in the 1964' electiohs between followers Of the 'dOnkey and the -elephant. And this, to bur way of thinking is good. Assuming, of course, that the Republicans ,ate to field a tea^i that wily not do as Republicans have done in some areas — try to out-liberal the Democrats, •' Now there is an elegant - sufficiency of arth-conservatives and -that may backfire just as badly- against the Republicans as having a Nelson Rockefeller or Javits year his, head. ‘ ,The; majority of us are cabght sOmewhCre between one upper millstone of crushing governmental expansion and the lower mill-, stone of inflexible change.. .., 'Wt personally look for a leader that can grind the grist of government without totally pulverizihg the 'people or ruining the wheels ot government. ' . 1 ... "td withdraw from reality completely and insist that nothing good has been done by the federal government since 1812 is not enough to please the average voter. Equally obvious; a great many of us are fed Up witih ever-expanding demands upon us to support an extravagant military machine whose appetite for money is unlimited. • We are in an economic war today, but we’ are permitting the enemy to dictate the size of our, budget, and very largely its use. Dominican Dithers ' V, The Caribbean Sea is dotted With islands that are ■ inhabited Jty people, who have been exploited mercilessly for. several hun dred years. ' ' Now these people have been exposed to the pieties of international goodwill on the subject of man’s inhumanity to man and armed with this impractical suit of mail and the typical have-not appetities. they are busy, as they have been for some time, kicking' first one and then another dictator with his'Swiss Bank Book out of the country^ Even a fdw have been buried Without their ill-gotten gains. But the chance of these isles ever reaching anything near political stability is- remote without outside “interference” or absolute control. The foreign policy of the United Stages has been consistantly stupid in the,Caribbean since 1898 — and possibly before, in that we have tried to milk profits out of these so-called republics without really giving a damn about the ; people and the breed of lecherous dictators who were supporting the commercial raping we were giving their Sub jects. . , - 11 We have failed in the past, and that is the best reason for trying to do better in the future; assuming, of course, that we’ll ever have the chagce. T ‘Mammy’ from a critical point of yiew it would have been much better iot Dinah .Shore’s show last week if the entire appearance of Nelson Eddy had been deleted, since the old boy ha# not only lost his volume .but can’t sing on key, either., ' However, he didn’t get deleted; but he bowed to NAACP pressure and deleted the word “Maminy” from.his pitiful rendition of ’'Sho.rtnin Bread Fortunately, A1 JolSon passed on before the NAACP moved, in on his rendition of ’’Mammy," Eddie £antor retire before his pop-eyed version of “Ida” in burnt cork w** JACK A lot of folks my age (44) and older argue very strongly against the expenditure of public funds — in any.amount — for' public recreation.1 Having been, for more .than 11 years ai member of the Kinston Recreation Commission, I, of course, have no such' view. There are countless good reasbns for hav ing organized recreation programs, such as Kinston’s. But the most important is the development of healthier and stronger bodies for our youngsters. ’ ' Why is this necessary? Because in the modern home —* even around the .modern farm home — there is not enough manual labor for a school-aged child to really get the; kind of strenuous muscle stretchm'g that is necessary for thfcm to develop into well proportioned men and women. ' . f ■ ■/ My wife and I were talking about this Sunday night, and I was amazed as we be gan to 'run over the chores we had to do around the house just 30 years ago, and goodness knows I was never over-worked, put today there isn’t a single one of those * chores that were a must 30 years ago left for children to do. They simply have vanished. Cutting wood, filling the woodbox and the coal scuttle, cleaning ashes out of the cook range ai^d the “heater” or fireplace. Carrying water to the wash pot, keeping the fire going on wash day or on soap-making day, work that could be found ybar-round in our big vegetable garden. Banking sweet potatoes in the^ early winter, pulling up com and collard stalks in the early spring, chop ping and pulling out weeds, picking off po thto bugs, stringing the beans, picking theiJlj and one' labor of love — eating diem. Packing all of this into a single paragraph might make it sound terrible, but I still had plenty of time to play, but as a kid I learned the necessity, and the satisfaction that comes from regular chores. But around my house today what I can find for my three kids to do? Wash the dishes? They do, but it’s a running fight and daily argument. Cut the jfrass ? Occa sionally, but we’re afraid to let 8, 11, and 14 year old kids loose with a power lawn mow er, which will cut a foot off as quickly as it cuts grass, i How are you going to allocate chores among three kids when there are not three chores a day to do? So if they are to get" the strenuous exercise that I use to get with a hand plow, an axd or crosscut saw they have to get it' in some’ kind of recreat ional activity. ^ Even on the farm today there is very little manual labor left. Cameron Langston says his boy had never heard of fodder and “thought” a crosscut* saw was “that old rusty thing hanging in the barn.” Tractors plow the fields, saw the wood, even dig post holes, stretch the wire for putting up fences. Personally, I think our public school phy sical education program is far too weak. Every kid ought to be made to exert Wat self if he is not sick or crippled. I recog- _ nize that this is passing the buck from the home to the school, as seems to be the style today. JBut so long as we spend millions of dollars fjfr gymnasia and thousand* of dollars '* :_' &»n£j JONES JOURNAL . ’* JA<3K RIDER, Publisher Published Every Thursday, by „The Lenoir Chanty-News Company, Inc., 403' West Verpon A.ye., Kinston, N. C-, Phone JA 3 ■237S. Entered asjjecond Qafs Matter Mpy S', #49, at the Post Office ajt Trenton, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, By Mail in Fitst Zone —: f Subscription, Rates P-“’* SefcoPd’Glass PpSt) y-i
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