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Is That Man Bothering You, Ma'am?1
Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man
— .. . And He May Be Wrong
Consider The Source
* ui 111UV.U iuo lung a majority or us nave
accepted without much thought "handouts”
allegedly "from Washington.” It’s been said
before, but it’s worth further study that
each of us consider the source of these
"gifts” from Washington.
The federal government cannot give a sin
gle penny to anyone at home or abroad that
it has not first taken or borrowed from us
innocents, sometimes referred to as The
Taxpayers.
When we hear of “grants-jn-aid” from
Washington, "emergency loans” from Wash
ington, "matching funds” from Washington
each of us ought to apply these propaganda
news releases to our own tax contribution.
When we get,,a, “grant’,’ to help with a
drainage district we ought to see how many
years taxes We as individuals would have
to pay to pttt up that .particular amount
of money.
When a military base near us gets an
appropriation for housing, or hangars or golf
courses or swimming pools we ought to di
vide out annual contribution to the federal
tax man and see if. we can understand a bit
more clearly what this Washington-type
manna is really costing.
iuis rax year tne estimated income tax
bite alone on just 55,000 ci^ens of Lendir
County is $6,509,000. Assuming that we have
about five persons to the family and about
11,000 families in Lenoir County we can
vsee the average bite is about $519 per fam
ily- .
But this is ONLY the federal income tax
take. There is the federal gaspline tax (four
cents a gallon), tobacco tax (8 cents on each
pack of cigarets), federal whisky tax ($10.50
on each gallon of whisky), federal luxury
tax (10 per cent on items-classified as lux
uries), federal stamp ta* (a fixed percent
aged on each real estate transaction) and
the list, runs On and on and on.
So actually not even a certified public ac
countant really has any notion of how much
of his total income is consumed, by both
the direct and hidden forms of federal tax
es.
Of course, the percentage varies with each
income bracket but for the average person
it runs dangerously near to half of his an
nual income that goes to Washington to
be returned to us, much shrunk, as a “gift”
from the great white fathers whose council
is beside the'muddy waters of The Potomac.
The Moral Issue
xvx-okick Musnm lviaicoim a nas ja'DDea a
dull needle into a very sore part of the Am
erican anatomy by suggesting from his an
notated heights: “You can’t legislate good
will.”
This accents from a direction completely
new in current domestic affairs two facets
of the great debate that has now been going
on for" more than a decade in the name of
“civil rights.”... 'W:
The first facet is the childish innocence
of those who believe that “passing a law”
is going to heal ancient sores and make the
entire body poKtkicompletely well of all its
frailties. ^
The second and ugBest facet is the general
acceptance of the oft-told tale that there
is nothing bat ill u$l for the negro in the
South. riJ •
There always has been, still is and very
likely always will be more genuine good
will for the negro in the South than in any
section of this -nation, or-.for- that natter in
the entire world.
No where since history began ha. the
negro prospered more, owned more and ris
en so fast as in the continuously libelled
Southland. \
True, there are Souherners who perhaps
“hate niggers” but they^ are in the tiniest
minority imaginable, and even where they
exist they are no more vicious than the
bigots of Boston who recently voted over
whelmingly against bus-imposed total rr-!-*
intergation of that city’s schools.
Negroes own more homes, more
counts, more college degrees, n
more businesses, more automob
States of The Confederancy tha
the rest of the world combi:
South has less than one
cent of the negro populat
How anyom
is eph'
id
ers and ,*<
Efforts by
frustrated youths run
brickwall of surliness, suspicion and
tempt that has been deliberately created
and excited by such So-call«6 neves media.
The negro of some position who tries to
help by telling these young negroes that to
be equal they must BE equal is hooted down,
called an “Uncle 'Tom” and sent off to
nourish his own’ notions of what they really
need.
The experienced and sincerely, interested
white' person finds that his only, approach
has tP be one of meek, mealy-mouthed sttb
serviance rather than through a forthright
clarification of what the problem really is.
It. is rather upsetting that the only voices
listened to by any great segment of these
frustrated youths is that of such wild and
impractical people as "Malcolm. X” or such
empty-headed dues collectors as Luthei1
King.
And at a time when every responsible
journal should be exerting every effort to
bring some kind of reason out of the cur
rent racial chaos the majority are preaching
anarchy of the mob or the brotherhood of
saints, and in this temporal realm neither
works very well.
The Baying State
Massachusetts has some crazy mission
aries who are earning for it a rather dubious
distinction. Assorted Bay State nuts are
involved all over the South in racial demon
strations and other deliberate mischief
aimed at a second “freeing of the slaves.”
Even the Massachusetts Governor’s moth
er has spent the night in a Florida jail to
prove that insanity runs< in high as well as
Iqw places in the Puritan bloodstream of the
proper Bostonian.
So it needs to be said in defense of the
vast majority of the citizens of Massachu
setts that they are not all nuts. Most of
them are too busy trying. Jo cope with the
higher cost of living and the increasing bite
of the tax man to spend any effort in this
misguided kind of missionary work.
The percentage of idiots in Massachusetts
runs about the same as in North Carolina.
We have squatters on post office lawns. in
Chapel Hill—some homegrown, and we have
preachers who are'just as “gone" on.this
integration. kick -is any Massachusetts
prea^rswhoare in jail oyer in'WSlliamston.
Perhaps, if’s that the Bay: Staters have
better press agents. Some of them have ap
parently forgotten , that' the last negro
lynching in the United States took place in
Boston. ' . \
Now Is The Time
Now is the time for all gopd men (and
women) to come to the aid of {heir country.
Now REALLY is the time, because the
for candidates is April 17th,
us who Sit quietly or sit
in the wings of ptfMic life and
“good
negroes.
was from
midwest
uui«H oil ot tne propaganda that has been
spread in the world about the alleged abuses'
of negroes by Southerners. Here is an ed
ucated, well-mannered man who has per
mitted his own prejudices to be inflamed
to the point where he accepts as gospel all
that he is told by others equally inflamed
about treatment of negroes in th,e South.
This supports the theories of Joseph Goeb
bels: That the big lie told loudly and fre
quently enough will, in , time, come to be
accepted as the truth. Propaganda is like
the drip of water;'in time it wears away
the hardest principle and corrodes the most
apparent truths. Goebbels and his “intellec
tuals" at the typewriter and microphone
convinced the “Gentle Herrenvolk” of the
most literate and intellectual country on the
face of the earth that the root of all their
troubles was the international conspiracy of
Jews. ■ < J
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Today the intellectual descendants of
Goebbels have convinced a very large part
of the so-called American intelligentsia that
each and every trouble of the American
negro stems from a Southern white con
spiracy to systematically exploit and de
base the negro. . >
The facts to the contrary are so old that
it seems absurd to the average Southerner
to even offer rebuttal to such propaganda.
Surely it is obvious and ancient that there
has not been a minute since 1865 when any
negro except the few in prison could not
have left the South and planted his family
in the “Greener Pastures" of the north,
midwest and far west.
The fact that now, nearly a hundred years
after negroes were freed they still in the
majority preferto remain in the South is
proof enough that they — who should, be
the best judges of their abuse — apparently
do not suffer any such systematic exploita
tion as modern propaganda declares.
There is no Iron Curtain along the Mason
Dixon Line. No Berlin Wall to hold the
negro in the South and since the negroes
in the South own more automobiles than all
the rest of the negroes in the world com
bined theire surely is no question that they
lack transportation “out of Egypt” and into
the “promised "land.” !
So the matter of residence is a simple con
tradiction to the big lie of negro abuse in
the South, ThelT there is a less readily ap
parent but' equally simple contradiction:
That of negro accomplishment in the South.
The list is much too long to repeat in this
brief column but it runs all the way from
such materialistic indicators as number of
negro millionaires to such cultural indicators
ruDlishea livery