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me iormuia strates that t-hi standards, suf has yet to receive ment, if the peoplt tolerate its passage. to the Senate as Closer analysis demon drafted, sets up vague legal constitutional defects, and essional study. In my judg t in this bill, they would not If one is to really understand the language and implica tions of the bill, he must devote an immense amount of study to man’s long and bitter struggle for freedom from govern mental tyranny, as well as constitutional history and constitu tional law. When all is said, the pending eleven section meas ure outlines a conflict between persons who place a different value upon incompatible things. The legislative struggle now going on is a conflict between those who prefer a supposed equality coerced by law over the freedom of the individual, and those who prefer the freedom of the individual over a supposed equality coerced by law. The stakes are high for men who love liberty, for we can not have both equality coerced by law and the freedom of the individual. Fundamentally, this bill involves the use of centra! governmental power. Advocates of this bill are willing to tram ple on traditional American liberties, among them the freedom from arbitrary discretionary power vested in a powerful cen tral government. If the government is to assume the power tc control attitudes and actions not physically injurious to the persons or properties of others based upon such attitudes then government destroys the freedom of the individual. If i1 can do this to effect one purpose, it can do this to effect any oi all other purposes it desires. It is for this reason that I think the freedom of every individual in this country is imperiled bj this bill. Title by title the bill is fraught with danger. Title I is un constitutional. Titles two, three, four, and six of the bill re lating to public accommodations, public schools, and Federa assistance of the States, communities, and local facilities thrusl the hand of the central government in drastic ways into per sonal relations, into business activities, and into the fabric oi individual liberty. Title VII grants the central government th( power to supervise and control employers with respect to th< selection, the promotion, the discharge, and compensation o: their employees, and the terms, conditions, and privileges oi their employment. Titles VI and VII strike at the whole con cept of the free enterprise system. They would substitute <01 business acumen and judgment the deadening hand of bureau cratic decision. In the final analysis, the House-passed measure rests upor the fallacious assumption that greater wisdom resides in un known bureaucrats than in the talents and efforts of local cit izens most concerned with intricate day to day human prob lems. It disregards the lesson of history that the protector soon becomes the tyrant. In the search for the solution to mankind’s age-old prob lem of how individuals can best live together, I take my stanc for the freedom of the individual, because I think this offers a far better way than a supposed equality coerced by law. Use Realty-Mixed rowc**ETE No Mess — No Waiting — Our Ready-Mixed Concrete Is on the Job When You Need It. Also Sand, Gravel and Crushed Stone. Barrus Ready Mixed Concrete Company Frca Estimates — New Bern' Highway, Kinston, N. C. FARM and HOME Requirement* Of Petroleum Products A view of the new 12-bed intensive care unit at North Carolina Baptist Hospital at Winston-Salem. Six beds are in private rooms. The others are in cubicles separated by curtains. The unit, which provides care for critically ill patients who need constant obser vation and professional care, will be expanded to 27 beds. • • • ather s not hone to shop, get plan get-togethers. Rain or shine, Raining? adding a
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