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rr>T:'- W . 1 ' 1 1 _ Never Forget That These Editorials Are The 'Opinion. Of One Man in . .. ■ AndHeMayBeWrofijil Dangerous Reasoning It is dangerous reasoning that the public is being exposed Htt .by the pseudo-liberals who have cornered such a major portion of our various communications media. These “gliberals” accept the United States supreme court decision banning religion in the pub lic schools, while' in the next breath de nouncing the North Carolina General As sembly for banning communists in our col leges and universities. This is an exery|e- m absurdity, but it is a dangerous absurdity because it has the seeds of destruction for the system under which this nation has grown. Whether one It formally religious or not the precepts of the Christian system are an inherently vital part of our heritage. Honor, respect for one’s oath, for the sanctity of human life are hot' common ethics in world society today, nor have they ever been. Especially now with the Machiavellian ruthlessness of Soviet Russia’s so-called communism competing for men’s minds it is dangerous to disarm one’s self spiritually, while protecting those who would “bury us”. If we accept the “glfberal” premise that traitors have the same protection of the Fifth Amendment that ordinary criminals have, if we accept that freedom of speech, or “academic” freedom demands the appear ance of traitors on college campuses and in the same inverted reasoning accept that sep aration of state and church forbids religion in our schools; then the American plum is ready for communist plucking. Communism is not the first “ism" that has competed for world dominance against Christianity, hut it is the mightiest of Christianity’s competitors. Whether our “gliberals” are communists, or fellow travelers or mere dupes of their own perverted reasoning the net result of their efforts is the same: They are under mining one of the basic pillars upon which our nation was built and upon which it has stood during this first 187 years of our in dependence. Domestic Peace Corps? Not so surprising is the growing sentiment . across the nation for setting up something that is being called a domestic peace corps, modelled after the effort now being made by our nation to impress scattered backward peoples around the globe. It is difficult to deny the burning zeal of -the missionary spirit, whether, it is exerted in the name of religion or politics, but we have always taken a very djm view of that particular weakness of mind and spirit that sent such zealots across oceans and over mountains to dcr good work when so many good works need to be done in the old home town. ‘ --V '. - Our churchesrdpend a huge part of their gross annual income in these futile efforts to convert with operand reasoning people of other faiths aroulfi the world. Now our nation is Embarked upon the same kind of program and for equally in tangible reasons. There are people around the world who cannot read and write, who have no roads, jjg s^rer systems, no art, no schools, no bridges, no modern agriculture, no nothing. Unhappily, we have some of all these things right here at home. So on that basis a case — even a federal case can be made for establishing the same kind of missionary programs here at home .that we are wasting money and youth on around the world. But there is another side to this business of “doing good” There are people here.' ahd abroad who are perfectly oontent to be il literate, to have no roads, nd bridges, no eleotricity, no clean water supply. > Nothing is more irritating about the; av erage American than his blind belief that everybody is miserable who doesn’t enjoy, the same pursuits that make him happy. We would impose our religion, our politics, 3ur diet, our science, our ethic, our culture, our TV, our sports, our folk ways. We re fuse to believe that there are people who are content with their own religion, their own politics, their own diet, thei* own science, their own ethic, their own culture. Why can’t we let pepole alone? ■» too much in-, <T Planoiog 1. Surely will lend that we Hg fluence The communaats have moved within the labor movement, in the foreign policy field and in a majority of domestic fields, but they are aides not directors in all of these fields. We are guilty of dodging our own respon sibility fpr error and for venality jf we at tempt to stamp “Made in Russia" on every* thing bad that pops up m our SO states. The racial issue, now and in the past is most basically economic, and from that cen tral beginning point it spreads through the fiber of national politics. Moralizing and sermonizing are merely reflections of the political demagoguery that is injected into the racial problem by persons who have a sharp economic axe to grind. Anything that can be done to harass the South and to delay or even to halt the ac celerated flight of industry southward; that is the basic goal of New England and North Soft Un-Sell Already the sibilant nuances of the “smart thinkers” are being heard in the "right places” politically to short-circuit conservative thinking. This is part of the propaganda that will increase in volume as voting time 1964 draws nearer. The line of thinking based in “You Never Had It So Good” is being offered as an ex cuse, if hot a reason for the continuation of deficit financing, for the extenuation of dol lar diplomacy and the perpetuation of racists controls over the total fabric of federal gov ernment. i Eighty per cent of us are in debt to one extent or another, 99 per cent of' American business is predicated upon credit-buying. Most of us live in houses built by credit, and enjoy the necessities and a great many luxuries through the use and sometime abuse of credit. So for this overwhelming majority any rat tling skelton® in the credit closet is a nerve jangling experience. This is the sensitive nerve end that is being lacerated by the "in side boys” who ask, “How would business be under a conservative like Goldwater?” and “How would you meet your commit ments if deflation were to set in ?” and “Isn’t your take-home pay better after tax es now than it was in the thirties with no federal taxes?” These are all questions that fall into the “Have-you-quit-beating-your-wife?” cate gory, The basic issue at the national lev el today is not individual survival, but is the survival of our system. If we are going to put our own personal business ahead of the national welfare we are confirming what Khrushchev has said long ago, that Ameri cans are too soft to fight an economic war. That we will be buried by state socialism and our own greed without a single shot being nreu. ^ If we are not wililng as those were in 17/Ji6 to ’’pledge t6 each other our lives, our for tunes and our sacred honor” then it is fore ordained that the free enterprise system is doomed, and that state socialism will win. Now, as in 1776 the overwhelming majority prefer “business as usual” to “Give me Lib erty or Give Me Death 1” Destiny, as ever, rests in the "hands of the principled and courageous few, and de struction hangs within the grasp of the greedy, howling mob who would destroy the seed com. JONES JOURNAL ■■ JACK RIDER, Publisher Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir, County News Company, Inc;,' 403 West Vernon Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phone JA 3 2375. Entered as Second Class Matter May 5, 1949, at the Post Office at Trenton, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. By Mail in First Zone -* $3.00 Per Year. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance. Second Class Postage P in this era of instant communications this north. ,'V ; The north is confronted with a massive migration that it cannot cope with,' so this makes it even more pres singly important to use the South as a, whipping boy. This is pure Americana and nobody in Moscow di rects it or even understands it. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS JACK RIDER ' ■■■■■ .. :j 1, ■■ /■ . - . r At 45 memory is a lovely convenient thing. All of us are victim? or darlings of that wonderful thing called the convenient mem ory — that has total recall of those wond erful moments, and a blank on those items that neither pleasure nor gratify our mortal prides and prejudices. A few minutes ago I rode downtown and saw at one comer a covey of string-bean type callow youths gathered around a badly parked flivver, half blocking the street while they discussed some issue of international importance and a block away another more ambitious crew of the same age swarmed around, beneath and into a flivver that was being made ready for a sortie into that won derful land of the teens. , With a typical 45-ish irritation I maneuv ered around these boys, and stormed on ward with an epithet pr two on my mind on the general subject of these “bratstheir peroxided-hair, cigaret-hung lips, sldn-type levis, air of Worldliness and their aggravat ing youthfulness. And then as the steam blew out of my irritation and I reached back toward that time when I enjoyed that dis respectful, delightful, dilemma of teen agedom it struck me that 20 years ago I, too, walked that primrose path. And I understood more what Kipling had meant when he wrote, “East is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet.” For those boys could not begin to ap preciate the pressures that made a fat, forty ish fellow stomp his air-conditioned car around their vintage vehicles — and this fat, fortyish ex-teen-ager could never really re call those terrible moments of late childhood when life seemed to hang on balance be tween a gallon of gas, a patched tire and an oil-hungry motor. To each of us, in his own, good time comes those moments of rending decision when it’s, a present fo£ ’’that girl” or pitch ing the whole wad fpr % new tire upon which that'’ Chariot can travel tfc see those eyes, to taste those lips and to hear those sweet nothings from that one and only one. Nature has a devastating passion for or derliness. To each in his own good time, and according to his own ability. To youth are assigned those momumental decisions that turn on the toss of a dime, or the playing of another tune on a noisy juke box. To the fortyish are the problems of government, of family, of propriety, of civilization, of cul ture. And I mused, it is a good thing. For ras sling with jaloppies, counting pennies and coloring one’s hair is surely not the proper exercise for a father of teen-agers, a minor pillar in a minor community. Now would any of these things be the reasonable pro vince of the young in heart and the wild of spirit. So it is, to each of us, in his own good time; and the sad ones among us are those who would reverse this axion of na ture and Hve-a different fashion and a dif
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