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Optimistic Still
Among oUr friends we find many pes
simists who are convinced that socialism is
so far advanced in our country that there
is no possible turning back. Of course, de
pending upon one's definition of socialism
there are many things that tend to look
bad.
But it is our view that there is still room
- f6r hope, and that our nation will not fall
into the bottomless pits of bureaucratic tot
alitarianism. We even risk being optimistic
still about our nation’s future.
True, we are smothered by the maternal -
istic concern of “Mother Government” in
Washington, who knows what is best for us,
and wants us to Sttrfender our pay check on
Saturday night so that she may make se
cure our future.
Most of us are not only willing but are
extremely anxious to cut “Mother’s” apron
strings and Strike Cut on our own. But we
cannot have the cotnforting protection of
“Mother’s” apron strings and complete in
dependence.
The “Oedipus complex” runs nationally as
well as individually. If we want "Mother” to
Is The Denial True?
So much lying and .double talk has come
out of Washington in t^te past 10 years
that no one can reasonably be called cynical
if he examines each announcement-'with care.
We refer specifically to the denial of the
Kennedy boys that there is any connection
between the American withdra-wal of mis
siles from England, Italy and Turkey and
Russia's withdrawal of; missiles from Cuba.
There is documented' proof that it was
'Cennedy who- deliberately fouled up the
of Pigs .invasion effort that could have
easily been 4a°’sft&e'ss with just a little Am
erican help. ’ ’
Whether this was a deal between the
White House
>$6 know ■
at
to manage our problems, she will very like
ly control our freedoms.
If we ask for help we are likely to get
the help, plus a tighter knot in the apron
string.
Which is a repetitious way of saying that
so long as we elect the entire membership
of the United States House of Representa
tives every two years there is no reason to
fear the federal umbilical cord and its con
stricting connection; since we have the vote
to sever that connection whenever and if
ever we feel it is more of a hindrance than a
help.
The bureaucrats may plan, the top exe
cutive brass may connive and the senior
members of congress may strut in their
power and glory but the total control over
their every action < that of the purse —
still remains in the United States House of
Representatives and the voters still exer
cise an absolute control over that segment of
government, even if the courts and the exe
cutive feel that their maternalistic concern
has raised them above the level of the writ
ten law. .
If this nuclear balance of power has reach
ed that point where the respective heads of
the Russian and American governments can
set down and joggle missile bases in the
fashion of the past four months, it is time"
for each country to spend more money pro
tecting its domestic situation and leaving
the vacuums of world politics to attract what
ever aid they possibly can.
How any matt in either the Kremlin or
the White House can' convince himself that
such liabilities as Viet-Nam, The Congo,
Togo* or Korea
ctnifiU TWYor^r*
ontrols
there
kind of “con
adminis
vities.
for five year? as
, where monies come
from county, state, and federal allocations,
knows quite well how the administrator may
use a multiplicity of regulations to have his
own way over the policies of those who
nominally are charged with policy making.
The State Highway Commission currently
is' a horrible example of this kind of state
level polity making. For many years the
primary road system of the state which is
a 30-50 state and federal operation went
along with an equitable allocation of funds
to every part of the state.
Then it- became the deliberate policy of
the Hodges Administration to siphon off the
vast majority of highway spending for the
central part of the state. To save themselves
'from the slings and arrows of the neglected
areas Of the state the boys in Raleigh fell
ijack on this time-rworn device of blaming
Washington. / •
Highway Commission Chairman Merrill
, Evans speaking last week in Lenoir County
hid behind this device.
Simply stated, a single set of regulations
is easier to enforce and to understand than
several sets. Each time another adminis
trative handbook on “procedure” is printed
the operation of that particular program is
turned over. more. t,o the hired hands and
Jess to the policy makers.
This is a hidden evil that is just as cost
ly and just as dangerous as complete con
trol from the Washington level.
The government’s threat to put a rein on
expense account living is just one more pf
the acts of ,government that tend to make
Tiars and cheats out of 95 per cent of those
who file income tax returns.
Now Jimmy Hof fa is: asking congress to
investigate Bobby Kennedy. If congress has
enough guts to investigate Bobby Kennedy,
Bobby Kennedy would not need to be in
vestigated.
Troops to Mississippi to protect the civil
rights of a single man, but when the rights
of the entire nation are being abused in the
longshoreman strike not even a single fed
eral marshal was called out.
South Carolina has now joined the parade
of states that have bowed to the military
might of the Kennedy boys. Only Alabama
is left, so obviously it is the next target of
Generalissimo Bobby.
both Russia and the United States.
We Americans, of course, talk of our al
truistic roll in world affairs, but this is a
bill-of-goods that is difficult to sell any
where outside the confines of Young Demo
cratic- Clubs and the International League of
Wishful thinkers.
Americans must still put their country
first in every kind of world consideration,
but we heed to know also the kind and
degree Of commitments , that are being made
in our name by people who have established
their ability to lie and deceive when it is
useful to them as-individuals.
And we say this generally, keeping in'
mind the series of lies that the immediate
past president, Eisenhower, told about the
U-2 incident and the current series of lies
making the rounds on the Bay of Pigs in
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Have you ever
one of these
tease hairdo gets in a <
right well that there are a lot ot things
in this troubled old world of greiter con-i,
cert, than these bushy-headed girl children
who couldn’t get their heads in a molasses
barrel (empty' of course — the barrel, not
their 'head.)
Just about the time the boy children come
to their senses about these “drake tail” and
"bucket of-lard” coiffeurs, the, girls go crazy
again. If you want an afternoon of cheap
entertainment just park where there is a
lot of pedestrian traffic and watch the heads
of ha» go by.
About half the gal young’uns will have
their'head ringed in small pieces of tin.can.
called curlers and will have a bandaria or a
diaper tied around to keep the cans from
rattling in the breeze. Another 40 per cent
will be sporting one of these tease, jobs.
\
I haven’t completely, made my mind up if
the name; Tease, refers to the pulling, haul
ing and lacquering of the hair or of the
"tease” an anxious young man gets if he
gets too close to one of those barbed-wire
entanglements into which the girls have
their hair fashioned.
The male among those who .have read
this far have a shocking, surprising, sensa
tion coming if they have not yet patted a
tease. It’s about like patting a porcupine or
a cactus plant. I walked back of ,a gal at'
a dance the other night and patted her from
behind — on the head of course, and her
head had more bounce to it than a motel
mattress. " 1
I haven’t the faintest notion what this
spray contains that converts a gal’s hair
from a soft tress to a stiff mess. At first I
thought it was starch, but I found a can of
it around my house and sprayed some on
my' hand, and found that it . ain’t starch.
What it is I haven’t found out. But I under
stand it is highly flammable, which causes
me to fear that one of these gals may get
to close to a candle or someother heating
apparatus and start a fad for bald-headed
women. Yul Brynner has set the world on
fire with his skin hairdo, and some gal may
get the same idea.
I do recall some observations — at long
ranged of course — in France and Belgium
at the end of World War II where they
shaved the heads of all the gals who had
been shacked up with the Germans — nat
urally, after the Germans had left. As you’d
expect they were some of the prettiest and
easiest to talk to gals in each, village, which
caused many a full, or was it full many a
GI to come stumbling back to the tent in
the wee hours of morning muttering about
some damned .bald headed gal he’d picked
up in a cafe (with' bandana.)
Throughout the history of mankind there
has been some kind of a crazy and con
tinuing desire to'“fix hair*’. Go to the dark
est jungles of Borneo, or Afripa, to the
highest peaks of the Himalayas, to the
Gobi Desert,, Lapland, Tierra, del Fuegb,
Hyde County or even Upstate New York
and you’ll still find' them roaching, rinsing,
twisting and'now teasing their hair into
some kind of array or disarray.
Fortunately tatooing has not hung on to
the degree hairdoing Has, The Masai have
a hair spray made out of cow manure and
mud that holds thtefr plaits in place and keeps
all but the strongest young bucks at hay
in fly time, and flies fly 12 months to the
year in Masai territory.’
Bleached, curled, teased, rinsed, straight
ened, dried, toasted, baked, shortened
lengthened, lessened, sprayed, oiled;, sham:
pooed or pompadohred —• no matter wha
they do; on gals it still looks good.