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4? ]• f. S *, EDITORIALS J. Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man —■' '' ■ - .- ■■ ■ And He Map Be Wrong The Cost Of Education The University of Mississippi's most ex pensive scholar has decided to drop oat af ter three months of the most expensive schooling in the history of edocatmnv Negro James Meredith} who has cost the American taxpayers some over five million dollars — with many claims still pending, two lives and doaens of wounded, has de cided not to enroll for die second semester at "Ole Miss," It costs much less than three million dol lars a year to ton every school in Lenoir County for an entire year. Salaries, busses hooks, food. heat, water and light bills for more than 14,000 pupils for an entire school year cost about half of what the taxpayers have been forced to spend to keep Meredith in school for three months. There ought to be, but there isn't any defense Hint the taxpayer has against this hind of abuse. Our impulse is to simply quit paying any federal tax. But this is a A Delicate Issue Attempting to find the answer to where labor's rights end and the public welfare begins is an extremely delicate task. In New York the prolonged newspaper strike and aB slug the east coast the steve dore strike force upon each of ns this ques tion. Few of ns are likely to come n» with We are hkeiy to he widely split in our complete impossibility, since the federal tax collector’s greedy paw is stuck in every pocket many times every day. So boycotting the tax collector has to be forgotten, bat it is a beautiful thought. What have we left? Bending the ear of congress, over and over? That lets off a little steam, but actually does not make much if any dent in the federal waste that increases with every tide of the bueancratic time bomb that slumbers by the Potomac in Washington. Elect some congressmen who will do something about it! Mow that’s an original kind of idea, bat electing congressmen is not a very simple process. It is a complex maneuver in poli tics and a damned expensive exercise in ec onomics. Those who can, may write editorials. AB of ns can, and should write letters to the editor, to congress, to the president. One must try or simply be smothered. regular fashion, under the existing rales of taw determine the fairness or unfairness of demands and offers inwhef in tahor dis putes? Letting judgments he retroactive to the date litigation is instituted, with foods n«a hi escrow ovrag oft penoa ot ungp tion. And with a tone limit set daring which the soit most be tried. If trial by joy of tahor issoes is not fair nor logical can trial by joy of far bigger issoes by joy be fair or logkal? not notice this before he became a party to the biggest increase in federal power in cision under which federal troops; federal marshals, federal judges and federal lawyers have acted to force racial integration of schools. No single act of. the federal government in this century compares with this illegal usurpation of power that was sired by. po litical expediency, dammed by vengeance and bom in a bed of misunderstanding. We've always had some kind of contempt for the virile type of specialized nut who' clitnbs mountains. To us, they are compara ble to people who swim English channels, or swallow goldfish. Douglas does nothing to disabuse my long-held concept of the mountain climbing breed. Douglas blames the press for putting money ahead of news. Perhaps he should remove the mote from his own eye, where lust for judicial power and political pand ering persuaded him to go beyond his oath, and re-wrote the law to suit their own po litical beliefs. They mutter that this is agnation of laws, and not of men; but then they subvert the law to their whim. Government is too powerful but Douglas helped make it so. A Congress First Each of as probably has a "mast item" for congress -to work on now that it is back in session. Bnt for the national welfare the job of first importance for congress is an immed iate examination of the foreign policy that is -being pursued by President Kennedy. Many questions need to be asked, and an swered in this sphere. How committed is oar nation in men and in dollars to the great vacuum of Southeast Asia? How can we maintain friendly relations with Pakistan while arming their most dead ly enemy, die Indians? How far financially and militarily will American money and men be extended in The Congo? How many secret alliances exist or are being negotiated toward removing Castro from power in Cuba? How mnch of foreign policy is being dic tated by the Central Intelligence Agency? How much is die CIA spending? How much ipanpower does die GA have? How can we justify continued foreign-aid spending when no other nations are sharing their share of this "white man’s burden"? How far can American strategy be ex pected to extend in supporting the Berlin myth? How ranch true reform can we expect in South America, ..whether we pour money in or withhold it? Boa realistic is our overall African policy, where tribal rule is hemg substituted for colonial rale? How long dial the American taxpayer be forced to pay the great majority of the cost of running the United Nations? Last year was the worst year in the his tory of Lenoir County insofar as traffic deaths were concerned, but only two of the 17 accidents that claimed 31 lives were the fault of teen-aged drivers. The other 15 were adult mistakes. Perhaps this- is not an 'average picture all across the state and nation, but we can only deal with facts as we see them close at hand. ' But even after assuming that scare statis tics against ^een-aged drivers are correct it is still NOT fair to penalise the sensible kids because some of their reckless friends don't care about their lives or the lives, of anybody else. We already have plenty of laws — some would say too many — that can easily take care of the situation' whether it involves teen-aged or adhlt drivers. But highway safety is not simply the responsibility of the law. The first responsibility- for safer high ways and streets;test with each .of us who drives. Safety in. every sphere — at home, at work, gt play or at the steering wheel is a matter of common sense and Courtesy. Perhaps we could simply Reduce that to “common sense”, since, -common sense cer tainly should indUde courtesy. - - j „• * •- ■. _ - > > \ V ' - If you or I saw one of the neighbor’s kids r— or the neighbor himself —; running up and down the street shooting off an auto matic rifle or shotgun we’d instantly do something about it. But letting off a few. short blasts from an automatic weapon is no more dangerous than screaming around town with a two-ton monster made from old tin cans and synthetics. But we hear people ask, “What can I do ?” Firstly, each of us can drive sensibly our selves. Secondly, each of us can help enforce common sense driving. This is really where the rub begins. A lot of us had rather see our child, or parent or even ourselves dead than be called a' “stool pigeon.” This is some kind of mixed up idiocy. If we knew a neighbor’s kid was taking dope, or suffering some dread disease we’d think it was our duty to let the parent know immediately. But we classify misusing such a deadly weapon as an automobile differently despite the glar ing fact that cars kill more people than dope, shotguns, rifles, and pistols combined each year in the United States. Trying to persuade, by every means, a driver that he is risking his life and the life of others is NOT being a stool pigeon. There is, however, another side to this coin: He is the blind parent This is the type who believes that everybody in the world is pick ing on his little boy. The law, the newsmen, Ae judge are all “out to get my boy." In stead of listening to people whose only interest is greater safety on the streets and roads, this group of blind parents accepts any wild story told them by their “boy" and everybody else is a “damned liar who don't This is comparable to telling the doctor he has something against kids when he tells you that your child is seriously sick. More kids-are killed in cars than die from diseases. Wfc believe the doctor, andsome of us be Seve ihe officers yrhea/they tell us our Hd is suffering a serious driving defect. But let’s not blame our adult knits in the
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