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' Jh EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man ..'■ --—.:- , And He May Be Wtvng SMf' v: Federal School Aid No doubt? the most expensive individual school aid ever extended is to James Mere dith. No taxpayer will ever know just how ' much it will cost to keep this fellow in school for the brief time that he will be there. An armed escort of more than 20,000 soldiers, another 1,000 marshals, prison guards and border patrolmen was used to blast Meredith, into “Old Miss” and his bodyguard is1 s'iill about 100 times as large as the Secret,£5ervice detail that guards The President. But the cost to the nation in principle is worse than it} dollars. One can always scratch around and find a few more dollars for the tax collector, but a shattered prin ciple cannot be repaired. Once the federal government has com mitted itself to such a practice it undoubt edly will be called upon again and again to enforce the illegal whim of such an aptly named judge as Hugo Black. Such sainted house organs of integration as the New York Time? even denounced the arbitrary order of Black, who acted without precedent and beyond the law when he accepted and ruled on a matter that was not legally before him. But this is the temper of the times, and Black throughout his checkered career has been the kind of venal politician who tried to always be on the winning side. When he was seeking election as an Ala bama senator he found it expedient to join the Ku Klux Klan, and that worked fot him well, placing him in the United States Sen ate. Then Black got “religion,” deserted the bridge of bigotry that had brought him from Alabama to Washington and began his work on a bigger and more bigoted bridge that has raised him almost to the level of lesser saint in the pseudo-liberal pond where he now cynically fishes. Juvenile Delinquency . auvuiu initiate cvciy uiuugm, ana certainly every comment on juvenile delin quency with the reminder that we are talk ing about a tiny percentage of youth when we speak of this- problem. But thajt tiny percentage in a nation of more than 185 million is sufficient to cause major concern, particularly to law enforce ment agencies who try to stand between these teen-aged hoodlums and society. With some exceptions, the blame for juv enile delinquency must fall upon the lack nt * or the lack of a 'proper home. schools, churches, police,' the courts and prison cannot substitute for parental discipline and respect. Many parents confuse discipline with harshness, and others mistake respect for love. Discipline among children, as among is commanded,, hot demanded. ip who expect to have disciplined must discipline themselves. hope for the respect of their mey must De willing to mute tne momen tary sacrifice of adolescent adulation that sometimes comes with the enforcement of that, “Not” Children are little different than adults. They respect courage, integrity and man ners. Of course,. there is no home capable of coping with' the psychotic juvenile, but the average delinquent is not psychotic, but is more likely spoiled by over indulgence of his perfectly human desire to do what he dammed well pleases. Each child, fortunately, is a problem pe culiar to Itself. Each parent has the con tinuing, responsibility Of helping that per sonality fit into society with the least pain both to the child and to the society. De Gaulle said he didn’t and .most especially when' if undermines the keystone of government. President Kennedy has in receiit inonflis unlearned some of these youthful flippancies and has had forced upon him a new recog nition of some of theie basic virtues. And even a man in sucli a worldly posi tion as The President must be totally amaz ed with the success he" has .enjoyed with the assertion of these basic virtues. Patriotism, courage and loyalty were all woven into the fabric of his Cuban-blockide decision, and nothing he has done in his 45 years has ever approached the success of this action. _ , . When our diplomats - landed in South America with a .brief case full of promises for the Alliance of Progress they never en joyed the unanimous agreement The Presi dent has found for this simple act of cour age. People everywhere prefer - courage to currency; for what good - is our money if we are' not willing, and ready tp defend our principles and our very lives? And more important perhaps in the final analysis than the reaction of other nations has been the overwhelming response of the natives. We natives have grown increasingly rest less with this one-worldism that saw our money being poured — with no good re sults — down every rat hole around the world in the altruistic, but unappreciated effort to help other people imitate our own way of life. The American attitude, if we must have one at all in foreign affairs, should always begin with the utmost respect for the other fellow, or the other nation to have the kind of government, the kind of economy,- the kind of religion that he damned well likes for himself. v And our constant policy in world affairs, and in national affairs should be based completely upon our own enlightened self interest. Let each of us hope that President Ken nedy with the smart-set blinders ripped away long enough to see clearly the need for action in the Cuban situation will keep these dark glasses off long enough to also realize that these same virtues, applied to domestic affairs will meet with the same happy reponse from the people and the same immediate enhancement of our national government. •'In the' spheres of finance, welfare, civil service, nothing but gdpd can possibly come from the jre?application' of such ancient virtues, as thrift, loyalty, andean honest day’s work for an 'hottest day's pay. Don’t let the headlines about court cost variations across North Carolina fool you into voting ior the entirt court refomi package. The General Assembly already, has full and complete consol over every bill of / costs in every county in the state, as well |m full authority make justices of peace salaried rather than fee officers. -JONES JOURNAL JACK RIDER, Publisher, Published Every f^lmrsday by The Lenoir County News Company, -Mto 4W West Vernon Ave* Kinston, N. C., Phone JA 3; 2375. Eatered as Second Class submitted by Wayside Nar.erie. of Rakish. N. C. wm ^rejected because of an irregular bii and the taitract was awarded to the second low bidder, Wood-How.il of Bristol. Virgin!., for This Is the kind of news release that is calculated to create new ulcers and aggra vate old ulcers anywhere in Eastern North Carolina. While we peasants down here in the east burfip and twist along in the rut-, ty,. bumpy excuses we have for highways they are planting < trees along the super highways in the Piedmont, and not even , on low bid, and on a higher bid from an out-of-state daisy planter M l Meanwhile the Sanford Administration is all set to put Kidd Brewer and the Burch Family in jail for “influence peddling.” This is what was once called' “Fiddling While Rome Burned.” Sanford would still be rep resenting the pipeline people down in Fay etteville if it had not been for the Demo cratic vote in Eastern North Carolina in the 1960 election. Yet we get promises, surveys and delays while the' money is being spent in the Piedmont and west for highways. Once in a while these Raleigh type poli ticians want' a bridge across some creek or sound so they can get to their favorite fishing or hunting spot, or to some of their beach property a little more easily and that’s about all East Carolina gets in the way of big money for roads. And there is little —> very little chance of it getting any better, because to a very large extent the make-up of the 1963 Gen eral Assembly is already decided in the Democratic primaries back in the spring. So it looks as if the people are stuck for another three years down here in the East with many promises and mighty few roads. But it ought to be the daily resolution of each of us to see that when the primary rolls around in 1964 some assemblymen will be elected who have both the ability and the willingness to raise hell every day the assembly is in session until this glaring wrong is righted. I > know that my writing sounds like a broken record. Because I holler about the Same subject too much. But I intend to keep right on hollering until the situation is cor rected, but I need the help of thousands of Eastern Carolinians who will get hot and vpte right. We should, pick in all of our counties legislators who are devoted to the welfare of Eastern-Carolina, who will not sell out their area for a few crumbs when they get in Raleigh, and who are able enough to command the respect of the assembly.
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