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[* *7* ■»A EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man .—.—-■-——.And He May Be Wrong Thank Goodness X At least for the current session of con gress federal aid to education has been kill ed. The hoggish determination of some reli gious groups to be “included in” this po litical pie-cutting was the hammer that kill ed the bill. In legislation there is a great deal of in direction. Legislative leaders have leamec long ago that the ^ “Shortest distance be tween two points is not necessarily a straigh line.” For instance, because of home pressure: there possibly were many members of con gress who would have found it embarrass ing to vote against federal aid to schools although that same congressman might haw been bitterly opposed personally to sucl steps. But by standing on a high constitutional mountain and voting against state and church collaboration the congressman just as effectively kills the bill, and is able to escape the slings and arrows of outraged professional educators, who are anxious to expand their incomes from whatever source, and no matter the consequences. Who is to say that in the secret nooks of the capitol a deal was not contrived to include just such an escape valve in the fed eral aid to education bill? Whether it was included deliberately or accidentally it has served the nation 'Well , because there is not a single school district : in the nation that is in such bad financial i condition as the federal government. Fishing Port ine construction or a tismng port Dy Russians in Cuba seems to us to be as much threat to this hemisphere as is needed to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Hitler sent hii'troops into the Rhineland with orders to march out if there was any kind of resistance. Mussolini marched his jackals into Ethiopia because fhe League of Nations had not guts. The Japs took over North China in the early 30’s because of the same kind of cowardice. Some will say, "Russia has as much right to bases in Cuba as the United States has ■ ' '■ ' ■ to Dases in turkey. iftose who make such statements fail to accept the known fact that the United States would remove any and all of its forces from every nation in the world if they were asked to do so. The Russians, as Hungary has proven, are much more reluctant to release their hold. There is no parallel between Budapest • and Guantanamo. But aside from these diplomatic apologies and justifications the most basic issue is whether we are going to permit all of La tin America to be converted into a Soviet camp. Judicial Paradox One of the great judicial paradoxes of out time is the humble sub-serviance of federal district judges to the pressures of vena) pol ■ Theoretically, the federal judge is giver s life tenure to remove him from the pres sures of partisan politics. Bat in practice it has worked in .reverse. fc,|;l8f|fgb Bach judge takes an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. He netthet swears allegiance to the president, the sen ate nor to the supreme court. His oath is to the swnautwtspit from the high court bench the district judges without exception practice allegiance to the mortal judges, rather than to the immortal principles of the constitution. This accents the danger of appointed of ficers, whose acts and tenure are beyond the reach of the voter. Not a single federal district judge in the entire south today could hold his office if he served — as most have served — as the rubberstamp to the executive branch of government or to the servatively Iars per year than the present court system. But thirdly, and perhaps most importantly there is no need for this Sweeping and ex pensive overhaul of pur courts since the General Assembly already has the power to correct many of the faults that are most often held up to ridicule. * : ' f ■f The court reformists point to the wide spread in court costs from one county to an other.- All court costs aire fixed by the Gen eral Assembly, and not by the Constitution so a simple legislative enactment could heal this admitted wrong of the present system. The same thing could be said for the method of paying justices of peace. The con stitution is absolutely silent on the manner of how justices of peace shall be paid. At present all fees collated by justices of peace are fixed by the General Assembly, so a legislative enactment is all that is needed to change JP's from fee officers to salaried officers of the court. So in stipimary; we vote, No, because we want no part of appointive judges, because it would be much more expensive than the present court system and because those ma jor faults with the present system can be cured by legislative enactment. Pot Says To Kettle Last week Attorney-General Bobby Ken nedy was reported as saying that he would not pnt Mis^ijsippi Governor Ross Barnett in jail because that wab what Barnet want ed, since Barnett was playing politics with the race issue. If there ever was a perfect example of the pot talking to the kettle; this is it. The Kennedys principal political .magic has been the cold-blooded deliberation with which they have gone about using the neg It’s rather refreshing that our astronauts have gotten In a mild tizzy over who was getting the most gravy out of the publicity that has surrounded this use. of the tax payers’ journey. We have always taken an extremely dim view of anybody bn the gov ernment payroll — from the President on down — giving, or selling exclusive inter views to any news media. Reports that some warehousemen feel a cut should be made in next year’s fluecured tobacco crop raises the inevitable question : What business is it of any Warehouseman to make such a recommendation ? are whipped together in the attorney gen eral’s office. Principles be damned, actual physical dangers to great masses of the pop ulation be damned; Washington prescribes and the federal district judge is the phar macist who fills the bbttle. This in full contradiction of the fact that not a single federal judge beneath the Po tomac subscribes to the medicine that he is helping to jam down the throats of un willing patient mm >NES JOURNAL Inc.. 403 West r* t a lass Matter May * Trenton! Nort£ r March 3, 1879. $W» P*r Year. Vemon Ave., 2375. Entered 5. 1949, at the By Mail in I Subscription Of the “pea” in this great political "shdl orame.” Since 1850 the burning Issue north of the Potomac has been the economic rise and the political Stability of the %wth, and in that order. So long as the New England “puritans" could grow rich off the slave trade there was nothing wrong with that sinful road to wealth. So long as the north could process the raw materials of the South and sell them back at exorbitant profits, it was all right for the South to progress agriculturally. But when the slave trade became unprof itable the scions of New England families who had grown wealthy from this traffic in human bodies rose in righteous indignation. When the South began to inch into indus trialization the owners of New England sweat shops began to panic iri fear of sweat shops that were springing up in the South. Atop this greed for dollars and cents was the galling knowledge that the South' main tained a political dominance that could not be defeated by legal parliamentary proced ure. Of the first 16 presidents, 10 were southerners, and in congress the sway was even radre dominantly Southern. The west ward expansion of the nation saw a con tinuing figbtto see which political elements would control the. new states that were com ing into the nation. This was the first use of the negro as a political catspaw. New states comprised of ISO per cent white pop ulations were frightened with the bugaboo Of slavery and they wound up almost solidly in the political camp of the north. Once the north had gained preponderance in' the congress by this “packing process” they began to apply economic sanctions against the agricultural south in the form of discriminatory tariffs that benefitted the manufacturer and penalized the farmer. The pressure of the dollar was applied to ex tract compliance with newly found anti slavery sentiments among those whose an cestors had created the slave trade. Today we see the same, dollar pressure. Towns such as Goldsboro and New Bern knuckle under to racially integrated schools because they don’t want to lose their mil itary bases. Great companies such as Du Pont, which have the power, but lack the will; knuckle under to illegal usurpations of power because they don’t want to lose government contracts. And through this all the inegro has been used, and abused by the'extremists on both sides. The northern bigot has promised “Green Pastures” to the negro, and the Southern bigot has frightened his constitu encies to the polls, using the other side of the coin. The bleeding heart Societies of the north and the pseude-intellectuals of the South have contrive^ a socio-economic myth which says in substance: One is backward if one opposes racial integration. The snobbism that lies just beneath the surface in most of us has been fertile soil for the cultivation of such weeds. : ' negro never has been, and nev
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