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r ’ • ' / ■-' MSS p' r -M ■ ( :-m , t -■ 31 I all 111 . *?*■ iSj EDITORIALS ■¥ Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinio IfOtte, ■■«■■■■■'■■ iVi Mind Of His Own sun Much has been written about how absolute ly wedded Pres^baMgAthnson was to the program of Preejd*5ftr Kennedy. Bnt few people who knew Johnson well really ac cepted this myth* as events arc rapidly prov ing. ■ y' President Johnson is proving two things: One that he has amind of his own, and secondly that he fetjHke pulse of the nation in some very senipRppshion. f V.: His flat statem^wy^t the budget is real ly going to be tmgmffiat least three billion dollars is evidenaHj||Ejohnson recognises that the people a^BB^of an ever-expand ing federal budget thgt^seems to get bigger and bigger from inmjil rather than from reason. yy ' ■ ' ■ - Johnson also seems to have recognised very early in the office of the President that he most be president himself; and can not survive in the reflected glory of a jj»rtyred president. sT-.. On the subject of civil rights it seems fairly safe to assume that Johnson is just reafistk enough to know that this emotional jag is confusing and delaying congress so he’s in favor of getting it but of the nay and passing on to some serious legislation; recognizing that the so-called civil- rights legislation is so ridiculous that it would be unenforceable. Thw care more ways than one tw slcm a cat Congress has tried ignoring this subject but like a cat* seems to have at least nine lives. Johnson knows that the federal gov ernment cannot hire enough cops, cannot build enough jails to make every business in this country knuckle under to a fair employ ment practices laW, or to make every hot dog stand and boarding house in the nation accept dictates of a handfnll of politicians in Washington. But it is on the specific subject of eco nomy, so far, that Johnson has shown, his most complete freedom of mind, and abso lute separation from the Kennedy principles of oj*r*j*>u. Only through cutting th(| li near future. Highway Problems Every candidate for governor in North Carolina is going to be forcefully reminded of the fact that Eastern North Carolina, •toad* badly in need of better roads, and a Prohibition 1 tt••.urihla^nxperinient in |w| outlawing poverty! - One . #duld have thought that the more stable among us would have learned from this debasing exercise in futility that passing laws will not make even the noblest dream home true. And to it ir noth civil Sights. Ibis is a catch phrase that has alt the purple emotion alism of demon rum, 'John Barleycorn and all of the dramatic imagery of Ten Nights, in a Barroom. Because we-even the most segregationist among, ns—have some near and dear negro friends, each of us sheds a tear when we hear jf some cold and hungry Most ol us in Eastern North Carolina have had some passing knowledge of the fact that this section of the state had been left oat almost completely by the past three gov ernors insofar as road building wascon cemed, but this is but one of the fields in which this area has been “took”. The only major educational institution of higher learning east of the “Concrete Cur tain” tailed Highway 301 is East Carolina College, and thevh has not been a day since it was founded in has shared anywhere near equaJly arThe allocations of ECC is low. TKe ^sWlent, per year allo cation for the ottf^ttle colleges is like this : State College W. Carolina $flfr, Wo man’s College 1667, Elizabeth City State Teacher’s College $634, North Carolina Col a collection of Mongolian idiot*. We must be to have pat up with this Kind of treatment ,o long and so meekly. But there are mutterings between Camden and Southport and from Wayne County to Ocracoke which indicate that after so many generations bf exploitationfcuje natives ana getting restless. And nothing makes the Ra jahs of Raleigh more, nervous than restless natives. The trading beads are being packed and safaris into such unexpected areas as the .Albemarle, the Roanoke-Chowan; the Pam lico Estuary, the Great VaUey of the Neuse, even into the rugged Coastal Sounds are^^v charted for every vote 1 up his rhetork to his home in Bf&foSS heard firing a tremendous volley on :s of the Gape Fear: “I will fo'ur 17!” Another vote hunter armed “elephant" gun fires a scatter load: four-lane roadways to our major knd a third is still back in the hills, the explorations of his adversaries, may rest well assured that he, too, ing the maps, contacting “guides” :ing new and more deadly affimutii his trek “Down East” where tjie titles, but they are titled bees in a gilded hive and their wings are clipped -long before they are taken upon the mountain an4 shown the honey down below. We have the chefs, but they t*ke the: pit It is wonderful to know that our good did Eastern Carolina boys are chainnen of the Advisory Budget Commission. Larking Woodard, miter to name1 a recent few. They’ll take care of But while they are presiding the wqrl bees are toting off the loot for their a backyard. It is * rather laibored metaph but these titled Eastern Carolinians are i liter like Queen Bees. They are selec carefully by the hive, force fed to give th that royal sheen, and then they are hr After this one moment of ecstasy they;}i held captive for the reft of their life, layi die kind of eggs the hive wants thetn lay and enjoying' life and. position. I say it’s time we Eastern bees pick* Queen Bee of our own and lertiKxed her
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