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£&:' >?• - ‘i; •■ • v «* ps 'Please, Brier Fox, ran Threw Me In Thai Briar Patchl' ■i \ EDITORIALS ' ■ — ■■ ■ ' ■■■■'■ I Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man ■And He May Re Wrong Political Magic Long ago it 914$ .pfpyen tnat me nana i» quicker than theeye, and last week Presi dent Kennedy gave further illustration by sending State Secretary Rusk to Germany to assure the gentle ex-Nazis that we were going to keep plenty, of American troops there to protect then* from the mean Rus sians, and in the same week the President sent Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric to Chicago to assure economy minded mid-westerners that withdrawal of overseas troops might cut the estimated fed eral deficit. One must assume that economy-minded mid-westerners and frightened ex-Gestapo agents have one (thing in common: They read papers, and? just'-how they will square Rusk’s assurances in Bonn with Gilpatric’s promises in Chicago is one of those difficult to-penetrate areas of political black magic. When more than half of the 100-billion dollar federal budget is allocated to military waste, as well as military necessity it is much more than obvious that no real econo mies in government are possible without ma jor surgery on tne armea iorces pocKetoook. But the clever location of military bases and the careful allocation of military con tracts has hogtied a very large segment of congress to the point where opposition to military spending is political suicide. Add to this hogtied segment of congress those who seriously believe in the “over-kill” principle of maintaining the peace and one is im mediately confronted with the magnitude of the task involved in trimming the fat off the military budget. In view of the fact that “Our Man In Bonn" has apparently been elected and the further fact that Germans will not be per mitted to vote in next year’s presidential elections here in the USA it is safe to say from this cynical viewpoint that the Ken nedy Boys will pull enough troops out of Europe to give to such groups as the eco nomy-minded mid-westerners the illusion that something is being done' in Washing ton to cut the deficit. Rusk in all likelihood told the Germans more behind closed doors than he said when he spoke on the radio. Up To The Democrats Now that Charlie Jonas has announced that his Potomac Fever is incurable, and that he prefers being one of 435 members of the house of representatives to being the Governor of North CaroUna the future direc tion of North Carolina politics remains as it has been since 1900 in the hands of. the Democrats. Jonas, of course, was no absolutely certain candidate for governor, but he is surely the closest thing, to this that the Republicans have had in this century. He preferred the relative certainty of his legis lative post to the uncertainty and brief ten ure of the North Carolina governorship. Now North Carolina will chase the end of the rainbow on down the Primrose Path of “gliberaldom” in the spring primaries or put the state government back oh the track it ran upon so long "of conservative common sense government.; , v: . At this time it is^oosemfy to decide which Candidate will best represent these political philosophies. All the candidates are not yet in. Obviously, between* Dan Moore and ilit Richardson Preyer it is Moore that wears the conservative robe and Preyer the “lib eral”. Of course the North Carolina variety of “liberals” is identical to the national variety in that they are anything but true liberals, since the basic connotation of liberal in the sphere of politics is an abiding Opposition to growing powers of the, state and lessening powers of the individuals; whereas the mod ern “liberal’.’ is one who is utterly dedicated to the belief that bigger and bigger govern ment is the answer to all the problems con fronting mankind. In short. the current “liberal^ is really a socialist without guts. Whether Preyer is willing to accept the socialist philosophy completely and make his peace with state socialism remains to be seen since he has not had enough public ex posure yet to really identify his political be lief s. ■ Moore also may not prefer to be identified with reactionary conservatism; but this is sue will be decided for North Carolina h .. *" ' ' * May and i The UN1 is the most positive force for continuing general world peace that we have, but it cannot hope to solve every fami ly squabble and every boundary dispute that springs up around the world. , We beKeve it is absolutely wrong that the taxpayers of the United States have to pay such a disproportionate part of the, cost of operating the UN, but it is this or sacri fice the entire effort. _ When the first idea of public police forces came ihto being only a sm^l segment of the population contributed to the support of such police forces. Usually they.-'wens private po lice, but as society enlarg«ied the scope of its outlook it came t6 be accepted that police protection is in the general welfare and should be paid for by ail who share in the protection-. The UN idea today has not yet earned the support of all the lawless elements of world society. They quite understandably don’t want to help pay the cop who may put them in prison. Even such a frequent critic of the UN as Senator Barry Goldwater this week estab lishes quite clearly .ihat he is not in favor of the United States withdrawing from the UN, but he is, rather, in favor of our nation staying in this organization and. working and fighting and financing to make it bet ter than it is/r Unfortunately there are very few perfect organizations in the world today. So those of us who would prefer to belong to the perfect organization must even resign from the human races with ■ all of its imperfec tions. But the way toward that impossible goal of perfection is to. stay in the fight and do all that is possible .to make the imperfect better. Busy Little Bee Undoubtedly ope of the busiest little bees in ^tfie hive at SVashington is the one in charge of telling good dictators from bad dictators. His job is not an easy one. Watching a cowboy picture one always knows that the fellow with a black hat and moustache is the bad man, and the smooth-shaved boy with' the -white hat is the good guy. But picking dictators is not that simple. For instance Castro has a beard and he’s a villain, yet Haile Selassie has facial foliage and he’s a genuine good guy, from way back. Then there’s the moustache bit, Franco has a soup strainer on his upper lip and he’s a good type dictator. While old smooth head Nikita is a bad guy. Some communist dictators are Dad guys; like Perfidious Fidel, and others are wined and dined at the White House, like Tito. Some who fight communism are kept in beans and rice by our foreign aid effort, such as Chiang Kai-Chek; while other pur ported foes of communism are in-the Wash ington dog house; like Madame Nhu. The characters, who go around "imperial ing” on other folks land are generally black hat boys, but there are exceptions such as Sukarno, who takes our anti-colonialist yan kee dollar and spends it on guns to take land away from such gentle folk as the Dutch, and the infant Malayan Republic. The test of good and bad, insofar as it applies to dictators is most complex. Lincoln freed the American slaves a hundred years ago, but Ibn Saud out in the sands of-Araby Still has h»s Ethiopian eunuchs -around the harem. But Old Ibn also has a lot of oil, so what’s a, few thousand slaves where billions of gallons of oil reserves are concerned? This, much has to be said; even with a score card it’s damned hard to tell who’s on whose side in this here ballgame. JONES JOURNAL • JACK RIDER. Publisher , ; Published Every Thuftday by The Lenoir County News Company, Inc., 403 West Vernon Ave, Kinston, N. G, Phone JA 3 2375. Entered as Second Class Matter ,May 5, ISMfl, at the Post Office at Trenton, North Carolina, under the A<?t of Match 3, 1879. __ .... ■ BY - - - v. f4? -nt/.-*: wH$A JACK Let me make clear tBat 1’fti just as guilty as the rest of neglecting the many blessings right on the local doorstep. The automobile has spoiled and made fools of a big per cent of us in recent years . . . that with a little more prosperity than we could stand. Travel has become so easy and so univer sal that we feel we haven't been anywhere if we doh’t travel hundreds or even thous ands of miles. This is a disease that is suf fered in every part of the nation, and I doubt that this little confessional is going to cure many, or even me. • But Sunday was such a pretty day, after sweating out Hurricane Ginny for a week, and with the rest of the family playing foot ball (Jack Jr.), sleeping (Libby), enjoying her birthday (Janice) and cooking a birth day cake ((Muriel) I slipped off and had a wonderful two hours and never got more than IS miles from the Rider backyard. An uncle (Gilliam Parker) recently re minded me of something I knew but too frequently ignore: “We live' in the garden spot of the world.” Gilliam was bp.rn and raised and still lives in Woodington Town ship on the land that he and his family have tilled all their lives. He has a love affair with those rich acres that he has known so long and so well. Sunday I renewed my romance with this blessed “garden spot”. I rode out the Green ville highway to Northview, cut through to Tower Hill road, turned toward Oak Bridge, swerved on a quiet dirt road over to Grainger Station, to Sharon church where Sunday School was in session. Up past Airy Grove, where another church yard was filled with cars, to Wooten Crossroads for a brief Stop with Ruben Davis and a chat about baseball for 1964. On over to Dawson Station; to a brief look at Grey’s millpond,, to Wheat Swamp where another of the county’s oldest churohes had a big turnout. Through beautiful Institute with its lovely old homes so neatly kept and its modern new homes, indicating that some of the children from those stately old homes had stayed at home, rather than seeking their fortune over a distant horizon. Through Institute and the rolling hills, painted in fall’s brilliant reds and golds. Down to La Grange, back and forth a few times across the many crossings of Bear Creek. Through La Grange at just about the time a streetfull of churches was turning out. (Four churches in four blocks—Baptist, Free 'Will Baptist, Presbyterian and Metho dist). On down the road into the rich valley called Bucklesbtfrry, past Jenny Lind to Hardy's Bridge—where I paused to look up and down the beautiful, quiet river. Empty skiffs nosing the bank, with one car parked and a trailer indicating that at least one fisherman was trying his luck. Turned on the river road, up to Moss Hill, tack to Holy Innocents, where another big turnout was enjoying Sunday services. I stopped briefly to look at Isler Davis’ big mill, the quiet millpond, the huge corn storage silos, the retaining wall being, built to keep , Holy Innocents’ graveyard from sliding down the hill. Then across to Tull’s Mill, -where “wild” ducks slept aL the edge and only one car was backed up to indicate fishermen—it was \ frotn Goldsboro. Thji headwater of South west Creek is the county’s biggest lake, and it has' a lot of fish that needs to be caught. From there to Salty Hill’s little fishpond and barbecue place, back across Highway NC il, to another Davis’ mill, that of Ellis, where several children were fishing with reed poles from the spillway. Over to Noble’s mill and back on 258 to Kinston. A beautiful trip, and never out of Lertoir County. Try it some Sunday. >'
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