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Count Our Blessings
Most of us, naturally, spend most of our
worries on our own problems. But it might'
solve, or at least alleviate our own problems
if we take a look at the troubles of others*
While our own nation has its fair share
of problems — foreign and domestic.; our
problems are infinitesimal beside those of
Russia.
The United States is composed of many
races, colors and creeds* but jn this domes
tic realm our problem is utterly insigni
ficant compared to that of Russia; whose
realm embraces uncomfortably the highly
intelligent areas of. East German, Czecho
slovakia and Finland, and the completely
illiterate tribesmen of East Russia and Si
beria. v
The United States is plagued with a huge
surplus of food. Russian and most of its
satellites are plagued with a great shortage
of food.
The United States is irritated by having
in its midst a handfull of Stalinist commu
nists and a larger nucleus of Fabian social
ists, but Russia is concerned ev6ry political
second of its life with untold millions of
'its subjects hungering for true freedom and
national recognition.
The United States js politically split al
most evenly down the middle in the grow
ing liberal-conservative squabble, and our
political wisemen see omens of evil in the
stalemate that results from the election of
liberal executives and conservative legisla
tures. .But Russia is paralyzed at the sug
gestion of a free election — not only within^
the confines of its own borders, but as well
within the borders of each of its satellites:
The United States is worried with the
Cuban cancer on its southeastern extremity,
but Russia is girded to the west and south
by free-wheeling capitalists economies that
constantly beckon to the hungry people on
the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain, and fin
ally Russia is bordered to the east by the
huge political, economic and cultural prob
lem called China.
Kennedy has a lot easier job than Khrush
chev!
A National Disgrace
This bi-partisan prostration before the
racial blocs of voters has bankrupted thous
ands upon thousands 'of Washingtonians,
who have been forced'to sell their homes
on si “block-buster marked and move to
The cheap, short-sighted pandering of
American politics has turned the Nation’s
Capital into the nation’s largest ghetto.
In this school, year 83 per cent of the pu
pils in Washington, D. C. schools are negro,
so that the politically inspired effort of Eis
enhower to make Washington a showplace
for school integration has'failed miserably.
The social experiment adined at getting
votes has not only cost the taxpayers hun
dreds of millions of dollars, but it t has also
made tbe once peaceful and beautiful City
of Washington into an asphalt jungle where
police must' travel in pairs and where wom
en cannot go out alone at night, of either
race. ■
into the negro mecca of the world. Over 50
per cent of the welfare clients were found
oni cursory congressional check to be in
eligible to get thje checks they were getting.
And 93 per cent of every welfare dollar
spept in Washington is going to negroks.
In the nation’s capital V per cent of all
children bom are bastards, and a woman
with five can get as much as $316 per month
of the taxpayers' money to keep her dressed
Well enough to attract more sires, and to
pay the rent on her government-owned
garden apartment. .
Twenty-three per cent of all civil service
jobs held in Washington are held by ne
groes, Who comprise M) per cent of the na
tion's population. A huge and profitable
racket flourishes within the racket-ridden
i rnmmissmn where nrofessionhl
Civil service commission, wnere protessionai
&z£tZ2&f&Stt
meeting, pulling their rank and aggravating
So we suggest that each of Us convert
ourselves into a one-man, or one-woman
inspection force. „
How?’
Ve'ry simply; by refusing to spend Our
money in places that are filthy.
Drive up to a filling station, .and before
you order gas, oil or even a bottle of. pop;
go check the little boy or little girl room.
If you find it unfit for a hog to wallow in,
come back out, crank up your fliwef and
drive on down the road. « " ' i
If you go into a cafe, and the flies are
fighting in the Sugar bowl, the silverware
is filthy and the dishes are greasy: Leave.
Admittedly this imposes a little bit of a
hardship on the traveller, but-we prefer rid
ing another mile and getting cussed by
some lazy inn keeper to hiring another horde
of inspectors (who probably Would still not
really do the job.) . ' •
Get rude once in a while. It will do your
soul good to tell some fellow that his toilet
is filthy, his cafe dirty and his food unfit
to eat.
And while we’re being rude,, leave us not
forget that some filthy traveller is general
ly responsible for messing up the public toi
lets. r
students and only 22,280 white.
So the effort Jo create model racial in
tegration of schools has resulted in what
the social dreamers are calling “re-segre
gation.”
■'•fcSjlay there arr| adBools In Washing*
ton: Of these 27 are totally negro, another
88 schools range from 99 per cent down to
90 per cent negro; while three are all white
and. another 17 range from 99 per cent to
90 per cent white.
And the'flight to Maryland and Virginia
still continues at a frightening pace. In nine
brief years (1953 through 1962) the white
school enrollment of Washington dropped
from 44,897 to 22,280.
In another 10 years whichever political
panderer is living in the White House will
have to send paratroopers out into Mary
land and Virginia and haul back some white
children so that some of their intelligence
may rub off on the negroes, whose leaders
have succumbed to the insulting myth that
negroes are incapable of learning except
when they'are exposed to white people.
The negro leadership in the nation permit
ted themselves (To be trapped'into accepting
the Supreme Court edict that forever stamp
ed the negro as unequal intellectually; foi
that court said in > its May 17, 1954 decisior
that it would give a negro an inferiority
complex to attend the schools of his owr
race.
The court said, ioferentially, that a ne.
gro child, using the same books, sitting ai
an identical desk and with a negro teachei
could not learn as well as if he sat in s
room with white pupils and with A whit<
teacher. , ■ . v; '
This is undoubtedly the most insulting
public Statement ever made about' a people
And,stupid executives, trying tp provi
the; dburt was right, have turned the na
tional capital into a national disgrace.
; JONES JOURNAL
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going to' try their best to gerryma
publican Charlie Jonas out of co
Some & the 1<W? !#»<»* of. 4
eratic Party attempted to raise
Republican congressional districts.
wanting
Rather than to eliminate one Democrat
itself the General Assembly took the polit
ical path of least courage and let the vot
of the 8th and 9th restrict* eliminate two
Hp . j - - awswflPP■
Democrats. As a Democrat l ean only say,
“We got what was coming to us.m
Not only did the cowardly act- of the gen
eral assembly eliminate two Democratic
congressmen, it quite likely set the stage
for the first Republican governor of North
Carolina in the 20th century. Jonas more
than any Republican of our generation is
capable of conducting the kind of statewide
campaign that could elect him governor.
Coupled to the undoubted ability and per
sonality of Jonas is the utter blindness of
the Democratic1 leaders now in control, as
well as their immediate predecessors.. These
Democrats who held their jobs only because
of the tremendous Democratic pluralities in
Eastern Carolina have repaid this huge
geographical portion of the state with crude
contempt. In the building of major road
ways, development of adequate higher
■schools and industrial guidance Eastern
Carolina ranks at the bottom.
The area most in need of better schools,
better roads and more industry has gotten
the least. And there are many hide-bound
Democrats such as myself who will quickly
go to the polls and vote Republican to shake
our leaders out of this attitude they have
toward us.
True, there is no assurance that a Repub
lican from the western Piedmont, such as
Jonas, will treat us any better, but there
is also the absolute knowledge thjt he could
treat us no worse. This month’s election in
Lenoir County was an excellent example, in
that 1923 Republican votes were cast al
though the county only has 710 registered
Republicans.
At the risk of telling the Republicans how
to win, I might also point out that they have
treated East Carolina with almost as com
plete contempt as the Democrats. In
the campaigning, expenditure of funds and
display of their big party names the Re
publicans have generally, started at Greens
boro and workedt westwardly. Perhaps this
year’s rising Republican vote in the east
will cause them to cast a few campaign
crumbs toward the east. <
North Carolina politics is moving toward
a much more liquid state than they have
known since Reconstruction times, The
party is no longer sacred to either Demo
crat or Republican. If North Carolinians in
1964 are faced with a choice between an
able and proven Republican of Jonas cal
iber and an unknown and unproven quantity
such as Bert Bennett, it will be extremely
difficult for a conservative Democrat to