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\ Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man A nd He May Be Wrong Reverend Sanford See. in the papers where The Right Rev erend Doctor' *Terry' Sanford held services last Sunday night in the White Rock Bap tist Church in Durham where he told the colored brethren that “Green Pastures” were just across a couple more barbed wire fences. • , It’s funny hbw mistaken one can be about a man. Here we were thinking that Doc tor Sanford was wanning up in the NAACP bullpen to take General Bobby Kennedy’s place in the Cabinet, when all the time he had his eye on the more lucrative racket practiced by that other Right Reverend Baptist Brother, Adam Clayton Powell. One thing we have to say for Doctor San ford, he thinks big. No need of messing around with a little old attorney-general job when there are such rich pickings open as those in the Powell Baptistery. We keep telling ourselves that these rac ist panderers are going to run out of suck ers, but they haven’t yet. We keep tilling ourselves that “you can fool all of the people, some of tliiif time, ^but j^ou can’t fool ait, of the people all of the time,” and hoping that the day will arrive when the people — north and south, black and white — learn what kind of stuff is in this racial panacea that is being peddled by these bark ers at the great political medicine show. . But our error is in forgetting that poli ticians don’t have to fool all the people all the time. All they have to fool is a numer ical majority. And when you have about 60 per cent of the people who vote and don’t know what they are votinfe. about, another 30 per cent who are voting for selfish reas sons, it is easy to split this 90 per cent up on ancient, feuds and current greeds so that the race is decided by that top 10 per cent. The'negro vote happens to be that de ciding 10 per cent which has the power to make strong politicians quake and crawl and preach in negro churches. —— ' V ' School Figures ting hotter wit;h each tick of the dock we find such formula* as these; The overall rural system at the latest ac counting was spending $162.02 per year per pupil. This fig#e includes both the white and negro and elementary and grammar grades as well as high school classes. In the Kinston system $154.13 of county and state money /was being spent per pupil Schools, while schools is. me important tigures in scnooi systems ' are not those that tell how many dollars and cents are being spent, but are the numbers of students that are being turned out, their weighted academic levels'and their abilities to compete at higher levels of education and employment. Obviously we are talking about one very tangible set of figures against a set of intangibles. But it is possible to put the fixed, and un known. figures together and come up with some pretty solid conclusions. In Lenoir County where„^tbc~*8i£act of consolidating small rural white, high schools is now get student is even more disproportionate than the rough figures above indicate. Since the negro high schools have been consolidated into three large, since the size of all th? county elementary schools is sufficient to support good educa tion, obviously this accelerates the cost of the seven small white high schools. The ^st in a series .of surveys made on this subject by an out-of-county team show ed the average white high school enroll ment in the county td be just a fraction over 1,000. This high school enrollment had a total of 62 teachers — a very high ratio of teachers to pupils it would appear, since this 62 teachers did not include the county-wide 17 additional teachers of such things as driving, band and special education. r ■ uraimrer men ocnooi witn rom?niv thp rural schools combined in that same school in of a totally new industry. The wise men who are looking for new plant, sites hake a number of requisites for a community : Raw materials," labor force, water supply, transportation, . recreation, quality of government; schools and near ness to market. But certainly hot the least of these requisites is the “industrial climate” and this has nothing to do with the wea ther. The broad meaning of “industrial' climate” is whether a community is willing; ..or re luctant to cooperate with industry! in the dayi-to-day ways that are far thore import ant in the long run than the speeches, ban quets and fanfare that mark the general an nouncements 6i new industries coming to an area. • There is, no better way — in fact there is NO other, way to prove the healthy ex istence hi an “industrial climate" than to live it 365 days faeh- year. Certainly a part of this is the encouragement of existing loc al industry in every possible way. This is an area in which we have made some spasmodic efforts from time to time in the past, but more generally as an after thought than a fore thought. We suggest that we apply ourselves just as energetically and just as regularly to this as to hunting new industry in hostile territory far away. A great many philandering "community husbands" have found — too late some times that while they were "romancing” an out-of-town' gal they were leaving much richer resources back at home. A Happy Trend Nothing makes a conservative more quick ly out of man than a mortgage and two or three children. In the-past-10 years in North Carolina, we have seen an eight per cent. increase in the percentage of home-owners. From 55 per cent to 63 per cent of us now live' under a roof that we call our own, no matter how big, the mortgage may be. Owning a home, generally means that the house hears tiny little foot steps and has jam smeared about the door facings and furniture. The responsibilities of paying for the home, and trying to take care of those “lit tle ones” will cause any blit the most fana tic socialists to lose interest in big gov ernment, because the bigger government gets the more severely if penalizes the fam ily that is trying to .do something for. itself. Sp the paternalisms of government come into a hostile confrontation with the more personal paternalisms- of those who like to keep a little of what we earnffor the future’ liot only of ourselves but for the future of those who bear our name. This confrontation may be just exactly the straw that is needed to break the back pf authoritarian bureacracy in Washington and turn this country once again to the principles which made it great. Here’s one papa who hopes so, at least. single well-balanced faculty, permitting specialization, while the 62 rural teachers were divided into seven units, permitting no one of these seven rural schools to have a well-balanced, specialized faculty. JACK RIDER, Publisher Published Every Thursday by- The County News Company, Inc.,- 403 Vernon Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phon< 2375. Entered as Second Gass Matt' 5. 1949, at the Post Office at Trenton arc more important than money, and that deficit .financing by a government it a moral necessity in times of national stress. I don’t believe that there are many people who- would argue with the basic concept of this theory. If our nation is imperilled by war or great national disaster few among us would question the correctness of doing everything possible to weather the storm. That, is exactly what President Roosevelt had to do in the Thirties. More than a third of the work force of the nation was un employed — really unemployed. Our coun try^, .faced anarchy and revolution if some thing .were not done quickly and dramat ically to pull the people out of the quick-, sand they were sinking into. But the. argument for an unbalanced bud get, bigger deficit and increased national debt today is not predicated upon an em ergency but is based upon textbook theory and such illusory figures as .“Gross National Product,” “unemployment rate” and “via ble economy”. What is suggested today is the Galbraithean fantasy, called the man aged economy. This ivory-tower cdncept begins upon the tissue-thin presumption that the “natives” do not know how to wisely manage their money, and that the “natives” will be much better off if a major part of their income is taken to Washington where the learned elders can provide for them the;, things which they refuse to provide for themselves. The list is endless, and includes every imagined “necessity” and a great many of the splen did luxuries that these “natives” have come to expect in the “stagnant” American econ omy. This is surely not a new principle of gov ernment.- It is, in fact the very oldest sys tem of government. But dressed up in new phraseology, and sprinkled with the holy water of modern-day socio-economics this -return to the political dark ages is made to sound like the very singing of angels. The common man, humanity over bal anced budget, environmental' factors,' the urban society — these are just a I few of the newly injected catch phrases of this selling job. All of which, and each of which is: a. direct contradiction of the nations .of freedom which once inspired this nation to inspire the world. 11 t1 . „«, * When the state imposes charity it is just as guilty of killing freedom as whep it im poses prison. Freedom includes the right to NOT want some things as well as the right to aspire to greater things. Today the hobo is a vanishing American. He has become part of the great statistical pile as one; of the “unemployed.” Every village exerts a large part of its emotion and money on “saving” the derelicts of society; each of whom ob viously prefers to be a derelict since the or iginal choice was his. We are permitting ourselves to be chang ed gradually from a nation of free men in to a collection of do-gooders. This does hot mean that a free man cannot'do good, but if does assert as positively as I know how that the majority of "do-gooders” despise freedom because it connotes something foreign to the do-good spirit.
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