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Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man -..- . -. And He May Be Wrong Due Process Of Law No one should be much shocked by the completely illegal methods that were used by the Gestapo Forces of the Kennedy Family in Mississippi. Frightened, untrained marshals ran rough shod over about half the civil liberties in the book. Firing on unarmed college stu dents, searching dormitories — including girl dormitories in the middle of the night without warrants and'without respect for the condition of dress in which the girls were, jailing hundreds of people without warrants, holding them- without arraignment and questioning them at great length under Star-chamber condition is just a part of the ugly picture painted by the Knight-errants of the Kennedy Kingdom. Then when the opposite number to The Right' Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King began to exhort the multitudes from the steps of the nearest court house he (ex General Walker) was captured by abattal ion of stoimtroopers, held excommufticado, refused bail and railroaded into a federal nuthouse. Indeed, Walker must be crazy to expect fair treatment from the Kennedys. ' Recommended Reading We especially commend the reading of Senator Sam .Ervin’s column in this issue. In it he explains in very clear words why he voted against the so-called foreign aid program that will spend another four bil lion dollars of your money in the next fiscal period. Ervin’s reason will make the average tax payers blood Boil, but when enough taxpay er’s blood begins to boil maybe the steam will smoke out some of the intellectual one world nuts that have been running our coun try deeper in debt with each re-convening of congress. When enough of us really resist a stop will be put to this gross abuse of our na tional resources. Up until now not enough of us have really resisted. We growl, gripe and Utter an oc casional unprintable word or two but we have not really gotten mean about it. We suggest that it is time to get mean, and to mean it . . . Training Exercise war in Mississippi maybe they rwill have stimulated the ’ morale' of our “fighting forces” to that point where they can be "unleashed” upon the bearded ones of Cas tro’s Cuba. But if one may be permitted to judge on the basis of the recent past this is a foolish dream since American policy seems imbed ded in a kind of national psychosis of self destruction. At home, and all around the world our government for a generation has been de dicated to, the absurd principles that re wards should be given to enemies and in sults heaped upon friends.’ . iffce French, British, Dutch, Belgians Portuguese, PhiHipinevwho stood with ns when we were in grave danger have been In national politics the picture is almost identical The South which has been the cornerstone of Democratic party politics since the party was formed is abused, in vaded and crushed with every force of fed eral expression. : ' < \ In fairness, we should perhaps admit that -the Kingly Kennedy Family abuses us no worse than the choleric Eisenhower, the politician Truman or the Royal Roosevelts. ---- ' I—* -i. We were reminded just this week of the employees directly involved. The federal pay system is a ni of absurdities that gets bigger ant with each convening of congress. I bastard child of congress and its ill affair with the power-hungry occu| the executive posts erf government. The Only Salvation The only political salvation in sight for the South is to raise a third party that though lacking the power to elect, will have the power to obstruct the processes of national elections. Our professional politicians — such as those in state and federal jobs — shake with fright at the notion, but it would not be at all necessary to jeopardize the committee posts and other jobs held down by these selfish polticial types. The South could still elect its congression al delegations in the name of the once Democratic Party, but on the presidential ballot it — if it combined its forces — could command more respect from both national parties than it has at present The negroes with the tiniest fraction of the white vote in the South are doing much better with the use of their pivotal blocs of votes. The South has the complete key to na tional politics in its hands if it could rid itself of the traitors that serve in the name of the South and/begin working for its own best interest. Time For Action The North Carolinia Insurance Commis sion for nearly a year during the death sick ness of Charles Gold, did not have an execu tive head. Now Ed Lanier has been promot ed to that. job. Lanier has a big job cut out for him if we are to preserve the good part of our finan cial responsibility law and get rid of the ugly parts. Recent publicity- has shown how greedy men can abuse this program. Checks shoulc be written into the law to prevent such ac tions. . .. There is also the possibility that the Gen eral Assembly should put the state in the insurance business if private concern re fuse to fairly accept their responsibility. We said when the compulsory insurance program was being debated that its great est danger would come from greedy people in the insurance business. Happily a vast majority of the people i» insurance business are., honorable in theii dealings, but in every business there wil appear people who disregard ethics, prej on the weak and give their entire busines a bed reputation. It is the job of the Insurance Commision er to ride herd oh these bad elements tha crawl into a good business, and it is als< the duty of honorable insurance people t< lend every possible assistance by reportinf the bad elements that do so much harm ti their'tradev ' * „ L " ■ JACK RIDER, Publisher Published Every Thursday by The Lenoii County News Company, Inc., 403 Wes Vernon Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phone JA 3 2375. Entered as Second Class Matter Ma; 5, 1949, at the Post Office at Trenton. Nortl Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879 By Mail in First Zone —$3.00 Per Year Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Second Class Postage Paid at Trenton, N. C part Of a mow w reaucratic redtape that tached to every facet of tion by the Federal Communu mision. Theh an opportunity came — become a part owner of a radio station, ana now I can hear my Father’s words all over again, and with deeper understanding. Those who occasionally hear my radio ed itorials may already know what I’m referring to. In April and again in May of this year I had radio editorials in which I commented upon Mrs. J. J. Hannibal’s appearance be fore the Kinston School Board and later her candidacy for county commissioner. Everything I said has been repeatedly con firmed as the truth, but she got the hell beat out of her in the election and she has elected to blame my two editorials for her political demise. Knowing that the NAACP, of which she is a member, was running Washington while the Kennedys were directing military oper ations in Mississippi and watching the yacht races Mrs. Hannibal began an inter minable correspondence with the Federal Communications Commission in which she bled with four-dollar adjectives about how I had libelled, slandered, lied and propagan dized grossly and repeatedly against hef over the radio. Stupidly, I presumed that truth was a sufficient support for any utterances, in ra dio as in newspapers; ,^n4) nibal and each other citizen has the pro tection of the libel laws if they believe they have been lied upon in public statements. But the FCC is a huge, expensive, un wieldy bureaucracy that has erected a 20 page substitute for the truth that it calls its “Fairness Doctrine.” Boiled down to its simple essence this faimes9 doctrine infer entially imposes upon the radio editorialist the absurdly impossible task Of 1. Notify ing any and all persons to be mentioned in editorials in advance, 2. supplying such per sons with an advance copy of such editorial comment, and 3. offering such persons equal time to rebut any opinions expressed about them. The utter imbecility of such a “Fairness Doctrine” is apparent to any except a bu reaucrat. But under this “Fairness Doctrine” Radio Station WFTC engaged in a lengthy correspondence with the FCC, sending cop ies of the editorials to which Mrs. Hannibal objected, and ^receiving the unbelievable statement that fairness, or truthfulness of the editorials was “not the question”, and that, rather, the question was whether we had notified her in advance, given her cop ies and offered her equal rebuttal time. Our station is only on the air 18 hours a day and there wouldn’t be enough time in that period to submit every imagined of fense to equal rebuttal time, nor would the financial resources, of the company permit the employment of a sufficient staff to pre pare copies, in advance, —* *i~i" *’“*** to those mentioned. To make a of wasting time and trying to talk sense to' we surrendered, offered rebuttal time which but in “chara which is me of
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