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Not Hard To Find
Now that Arizona Senator Barry Gold
water is being called the top choice of Re
publicans for their presidential candidate it
is good for the public to ask how Gold
water stands onsjapeOific issues. The answers
are not hard ’ft/^pud because Goldwater
is a very forthright figure.
Fiscally: Goldwater is mHitantly for a bal
anced budget, and reductions in federal
spending.
State Rights: Goldwater voted against a
constitutional amendment to end state poll
taxes. He believes that it is morally wrong
to deny negros equal accesss to public ac
commodations but he feels any attempt to
solve the problem by law will not' “solve
anything.”
Unions: He supports state right-to-woric
laws, thus Opposes the union or closed shop
in which every worker has to belong to a
union whether he wants to or not.
Filibuster: He' has voted in each instance
since he has been in the senate against in
voking cloture, which is the parlimentary
device used to cut off debate in the senate.
Education: He is against any federal aid
program to education.
Foreign Affairs: He is opposed to the
i'V.f.it '. • r
continuing -huge expenditures of American
money in Such places as The Congo. On
several occasions he has urged that diplo
matic recognition be Withdrawn from Russia.
Generally he feels that there is more to fear
from the extreme left than from the ex
treme right.
One may rest assured that as nomination
time draws nearer the “gliberal” press will
slant more and more of the acts of Senator
Goldwater to attempt to make him appear
ridiculously conservative. In fact the Social
ists Editorial Cartoonist Herblock, who plies
his trade in such socialist house organs as
the Washington Post and the Raleigh News
and Observer, has already begun wielding
his poison drawing pen on Goldwater. Which
is; if any were needed, a very strong recom
mendation in Goldwater’s favor.
In the event any one may be interested ; if
the race is between Goldwater and John.F.
Kennedy, this paper is for Goldwater all
the way.
If the race is between Nelson Rockefeller
and Kennedy this paper favors a third party
nominee from the South in the hope of
throwing the election into the house of rep
resentatives.
Chub Is So
The Kight Honorable Chub beawell of
Carthage is noted across Fair Tar Heelia
for his folksy ant, brilliant intellect and de
sertion of the Party of his Forefathers.
Between earning a living as a lawyer,
making speeches'to the delight of dozens of
audiences each year and contemplating the
comings and goings of the seasons Seawell
writes the most readable “letter to the ed
itor” in the
In the ci
well says,
strafe that
meaning of
He assert
he State” Sea
rations demon
don’t know the
by flop-downs on private property.
Seawetl reminds, “The beat friend the
negro ever had said this, ‘Let not him that
j* houseless tear down the house of another,
but let him Strive diligently and build one
for himself.”’
And Chub concludes, “The negro can't
help his color, but he can certainly help his
effective solution is available that requires
only one brief stroke of the executive pen:
Drafting a substantial part of this group i*>
to the anhed forces.
A large per cent of this group has already
been rejected by the armed-forces as unfit
because of intellectual, physical or moral de
fects and the armed forces today are striv
ing for a superior type man, rather than for
the misfit. f.. ■
But ill other armed forces in the world
have labor batallions, which dee made up of
men not fit for combat or not fit for the
highly technical tasks that modem military
hardware'demand. ” < l.
But the armed forces have a trained staff
of supervisory personnel, have quarters that
are available and have had experience in
handling groups such as this. Drafting into
the armed forces of a.goodly percentage of
this group would serve as a stimulus to those
not drafted to look for work, and to give an
honest day’s work once they find -a job.
We surely do not recommend making con
centration camps for juveniles out of our
military bases, but we do strongly believe
The Next Step?
A majority of our preachers have ap
proved the. supreme court’s banning t'h e
Bible in the public schools. We cannot avoid
wondering if these same preachers will voice
the same loud approval when the
supreme courtjinevitaibly takes the next step
to install atheism ^ the national religion?
The next step is making all church prop
erty taxable. The growth of foundations to
hide big chunks of property from the tax
payer make this an inevitable economic
question as well as-a pertinent politicial
question.
' If it is unconstitutional for children to say
the Lord’s Prayer or to listen to the read
ing of a chapter from the Bible how can it
possible be legal for trillions of dollars worth
of church owned-property to be exempted
from taxes? -V'
The answer is fairly obvious. Until now
no one has raised the issue, but it soon will
be posed. Huge fortunes such as the Duke
and Reynolds fortunes that have hidden tax
free behind the curtain, of.church exemption
may soon find that they are no more quali
fied to dodge taxes than the average citizen
who is trying to operate a business — big
or little. ' - /
Parochial schools should not expect any
more consideration from the tax collector
than a private school. Churches are big busi
ness today. Even small churches have bud
gets that run beyondllOOttiOO per year. Church
owned summer camps are in direct compe
tition with private resort owners who must'
pay heavy ad valorem taxes.
If we are going to accept part of this
atheistic loaf from the United States su
preme court we might as well take the
whole loaf; heel, crumbs and all.
This we agree is completely foreign to the
principles incorporated in the
by those wise men who wrote i
years ago,,but it is the
of a majority of -those
the black robes
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PARAGRAPHS
JACK RIDER
A friend of mine who began practicing law
in the early thirties says the current frenzy
over minority rights and especially the.crav
en acts of politicians are a direct parallel
to the Prohibition era. First, he says, not one
per cent of the men -beating their breats
about equal rights for negroes give a tink
er’s dam for the negro, just as less than
one per cent of those who voted “prohibi
tion” really favored drying up the country.
The parallel between the frenzied activities
of the church continues. Even now theanti
alcholol kick hangs over churches which re
fuse to use wine in communiion services.
The Christian Church which has flourished
for nearly 2,000 years never recognized un
til 1954 that the Creator was wrong when he
created different races, of different habits.
But since 1954 when the United State Su
preme court went upon the mountain with
Swedish Socialist Gunnar Mydral and re
turned wtih an 11th Commandment: “Thou
shalt not honor they race, but shall do all
in they power to end it by hastening the
merger of all races into one," the churches
have all got this “new religion” and have
forgotten “old time religion.”
My .lawyer friend reminded that nobody
paid prohibition much'attention except 'rfV
enue officers, who were half thieves and
half drones on the government payroll. Ev
erybody who wanted a little dram could get
it, and in hundreds of places rather than in
regulated places where reasonably sanitary
whisky can be found.
The federal marshals and federal troops
who are enforcing the current racial mongrel
ization go about their task with the same
robot like lack ■ of zeal. The Great White
Fathers in Washington have decreed and
their duty is to implement. Legality, common
sense and morality are not involved any
more. Truth is absent when this Project In
tegration is under discussion.
My lawyer friend who is older, and I trust
wiser, takes a more philosophical view of
this current mess than I. He sips his cider
and say, “Time will take Care of it.” I hope
he's right, and he may be. Because common
sense and truth cannot everlastingly be
ground into dust by even tfie^crudest poli
tician. * r3 -
Congress in a different era permitted it
self to be blackmailed into destroying our
armed forces after WorldWhr I in an emo
tional exercise in ignorance called Pacifism.
Before World War 1 had ended the same
kind of no*think action demoralized the coun
try and created the prohibition nightmare. Our
country seems fated to stagger from one
moral experiment to another, rather liSce the
starry-eyed missionary, who quits civiliza
tion to convert the happy heathen. Finally
to be barbecued by his converts when they
find that he has -been serving his onto in
terests while posing, as a martyr.
Congress cannot avoid responsibility for
this psychotic mumblings of our government.
Acting under the blackmail pressure of vot
ing blocs such as the WCTU, the NAACP,
the National Council of Churches, The Ca
tholic hierarchy, and the United Nations it
abuses common sense, enshrines quixotic
:hivalry and demoralizes that majority seg
ment of the public which recognizes the »K