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•fttb Never Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man --——*—7——And tie May Be Wrong Ignorant Advantages !: One of the adva^tagesofbelng ^ignorant is not having' to worry about the good or bad consequences of haying men shot around . fhe earth from time to time. In an age’ that has seen miracles per formed that imagination never dreamed of a generation ago it is -foolish beyond ordinary ignorance to say that man will not go to'the moon or Mafs oi' anywhere. But. to those, such as ourselves who are quite Illiterate- hbont space age travel the trips of Russian cosmonauts and American astronaut; have‘about the same significance that Columbus’ voyages, had to the average Spaniard, whose taxes were being used to put Columbus into 15th century orbit. C ,In 1492 there were few Europeans who , , had even the scantest notion about naviga ing the' "open seas” and none who cotjld see through the mists of time, to predict the results that would come in 500 years' from, that first stumbling voyage toward the west. ' i At 'the pace- of modern technology it is unlikely that we will liave to vait 5CD years for the results of this early space exploration to beat' tangible fruit. ’ . However, it is unlikely that the Spanish ‘ investment in Columbus’ exploration con sulted ps large a 'percentage of the national income as the current effort's.' Whether it benefits or hurts man it is still onethelhiva show tp shoot,a man around the' earth in an hour and a half, but'it is rather ridiculous that it takes longer to ge.t the poor guy put'of the water fhap it took to. shoot around the,,world. Lenoir County has 2,196 registered color ed voters, yet ton Saturday the only colored candidate dor office received only 888 .votes, and certainly not less than, a 100 of these were, white . votes since they were cast in precincts in which few of no colored people are registered. . ' ' This is a wholesome sign, hot* from the racist, point of view that feels it best 'that there be no colored participation' in politics, but from the long-range view that colored voting, must be based in reason rather than 1 ig’"■race. , %■'.life j. The colored candidatei Mrs. J. J. Hanni ■bal, Was very fljtly rejected by her own people, who have with characteristic com mon sense recognized that she represents meddlesome interference rather than a gen uine desire to help' her race. rop.t a few Kinston stores and dictate places, to shop to the thousands of colored citizens who spend their ntoney in downtown Kins ton. V> ’ 'V “ - - More recently Mrs. Hannibal made a “sokx flight into fancy” .by appearing before the Kinston School Board and telling them it wap illegal for theih to build a handsome 5800,000 high school to replace badly out moded and -crowded Adkin High School. - The more rational, solid citizens among . the local colored population resented be ing abused by a group of badly Ipd children in the boycott fiasoo, and fhese same citi zens had the good common sense not to-' turn thumbsdown on a badly needed school facility for their children ip exchange for . the possibility of, forcing a handfuil of ifceir pupils into Granger High Schdbl. This means, among, ofher things that Mrh. Hannibal is a dead issue as far as- politics . although she retains a pertain nuisance yal- . success and rural white high schools. Building an industrial education center and working for a community^ college are • good but it is getting the horse before the dart so tong"as’ we have-sevfen inadequate high schools, that serve the overwhelming majority of our. white high school students. Th'a unhappiestreflection of last wiek’s primary' was thit not a single public word was uttered on. this subject by any of the 22 candidates to.Whom this should have been , a burning issue. .. . ,T^y Not Only are the students who attend' r these small high schools getting less educa ' lion than their town cousins who attend a larger school, but the- taxpayer is getting it in, the neck since it costs twice as much per student per year to operate these small high schools. . ^ June is the month of Brides and Grooms, graduations; beach parties, vacations and out door living and with such a good combina tjon it’s awfully hard to say anything but good about it. i -- ■ -- The diiwtor* of the Kinston Eagles are still in a pleasant daze over the amazing at tendance by local baseball, fans, apd directors of the other seven teams in the league are . green with understandable envy. ~ “We win half the battle, when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns,” wrote Orison &. Harden. The world is made up of things which are not perfect and of people who are not motivated by the highest ideals. Only frustration haunts thctse who think there is some quick way to' change all this. T6 make material conditions better for all peo ple is a lohg„ hard struggle; and to make people better is an even longer one. When * we recognize this and try to live construc tive, purposeful lives ourselves; we ar* con tributing nut small share toward the pH provement' we, all want. • t Editorial Mrisings from “Nuggets” ipust continue without representation. When they,, offer qualified candidates be hind whom they can rally and for whom the white voters have respect the colored vot ers can and ♦ill have representation. Lenoir County, has ntany such colored citizens, tvho realiap: that mutual respect and cooperation wil) ^e ,far 'more problems than threats and force. t .This colored wters have realized that a giibness, and that-certain affectation which the northern born and educated colored person poKshes to such a shine is not a true mirror, but 'Js rather a distortion of the Red Cross sponsors whter safety courses, which include lessons in swimming, • and these -courses have saved thousands of lives, Wit they do hot reach enough people. . Equipment for life-saving is inexpensive ahcfeasy to use but very few outings, especial- / ly on inland waters ever include even the simplest gadgets to save a life. - ' ' . k If you plan any kind of water trip be sure to include' in your gear common sense and ■ the easy-to-get and easy-to-use equipment that may save your life or the life of one of your children. ^ « PARAGRAPHS BY . * JACK RIDER There are very few people who ever come, down With politics that fully recover. Once the virus of politics gets into one's bones he seldom recovers. Once in a while a fel low will suffer a severe attack, run for of fice and get the hell beat out of him and he will either get sf» mad or so hurt that he will evfen quit voting, but this' is the rare case. -My mother used to ask my father what he got out of politics, and he’d say, “It’s a sport, a fascinating game.” And it is all of that Politics is chess with people. There are kings, queens, knights and pawns. Each of the pieces in this human chess game has to be moved in certain ways and under dif ferent rules. And while you are triaaeuver irig your chess pieces the opponent is try ing to check you. , Of course, winning is the most important part of any games, whether it’s politics or chess, but there is a-great deal of fascination in the way the game is played, and even in going back over each move and trying tp decide where the mistakes were made, or where the good moves were made that were ' the difference between winning and losing. The politician who is successful must be an actor and a psychologist and he must be both iof these without it showing.. If he gets too “hammy” or too shrewd the voter senses it qhickly and it is curtains. Different politicians are able to capitalize on different assets. There are the cold blooded Josiah Bailey types who& appeal is professional and there is the warm hearted Boh Reynolds type whose appeal is emo tional. It is a paradox of the ballot box that such extremely different types as these two represented North Carolina in the United States Senate at the same time. I ’ assure you that if you had Combed Tar Heelia from the sand dunes to the moun tains "you couldn’t have found a more com-, pletely different pair than Josiah and "Our Boh." : ■ •No other country enjoys such a wild aud wooly time with its politics as America. Of course, they kill more peojfle in some of the Banana Republics”, hut mayhem is not much fun to any except the psychotic. We have our. poljtical funerals (I’Ve been buried K it our funerals are in fun, al you happen to be the fellow who funeraUzed it’s hard; as hell to1 if taken US
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