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EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are Thel Opinion Of One Man - --■■■■■ ——...— And He May Be Wrong Capitalism In Russia Included in this issue is a contrast be tween the Russian and .United States farm economy and two paragraphs in this con trast point up again the fallacy of our nation’s drift deeper into state socialism because it has been proven, again, and with startling clarity that capitalism is the most productive economic system ever de vised. Russia has a total of 650 million acres of land under cultivation, and 636 million of those acres are in state and collective farms. The other 14 million acres is allotted at about the rate of two-thirds of an acre per family to the 26 million peasants who work on the state farms. On this tiny plot of land each of these peasant families is per mitted to grow anything , it desires and to sell it in the open market without any government controls. That three per cent of the tillable land in Russia produces one third of all the food being consumed by Russians. One might think that the boys in the Kremlin would take this produce away from the peasants, as they do the production on the state and collective farms. They did for several years, but the peas ants suddenly lost their ability to cultivate any crops. Stalin permitted over five mil lion of them to starve to death in one year because they refused to work the fields properly. Millions more were Sent to slave labor camps all across that vast land. Finally, however, the majestic might of Soviet Socialism had to bow to the stubborn simplicity of the peasant, who has again shown that the profit motive is the motive that will move mountains and grow more pigs. ' , ' Baptist Leadership Undoubtedly the most confusing position of many confusing positions that have been taken in recent years by those men who profess to be religious leaders is their op position to any effort by congress to undo the stupidity of the supreme Ct>urt when it ruled that prayer in public schools was unconstitutional. Foremost among these church leaders who join the supreme court in opposing prayer in public schools are the leaders of the Southern Baptist Association. . In their convention last week in Atlantic City, New Jersey, & Iqgmijpbett for South ern Baptists to mee'tV'ffiey i>ai»d a resolu tion opposing “any tampering with the first amendment to the constitution,” which guar antees religious freedom. The Baptists in their pussy-footing wisdom have overlooked the most glaring fact of all; that it is not congress that has tamper ed with the constitution but it is the supreme court that has trod upon, spit upon or ignor ed this written law that our land is sup posed ^to be governed by. . ^ It has been said repeatedly, and with apathy and cowardice and Ignorance inside the country. This convention-expressed attitude of the Baptists involves either or all of these three sins — apathy, cowardice and ignorance. If the vocal leaders of our great religions prevent congress; or even-attempt to pre vent congress from setting up unmistakable guidelines for this power-hungry court then we are a long day’s journey down t h'a t lonesome road toward state socialism, be cause it is the nature of meij who have power to take more power. No matter how benevolent their attitude, nor how paternalistic their goal, it is dan gerous and contrary to the principles of this nation to concentrate any more power in the hands of any branch of government than have been legally and openly surrend ered to those branches of government by the sovereign*-people. " The principle of state’s rights has been corrupted and debased by the “gliberal”' noaee »« tknS nftm* —tiara ctntae rirrhtr press to that point-where states rights is an ugly But the tion is proportions . And No . to have one of coniolation prises point to a victory for Lyndon Johnson vember is^only five months away. It is possible but hardly Jikely that some could happen startling enough to de rail the Johnson steam roller. But it is mote likely that Johnson is too shrewd a politic ian to not have all rat holes solidly plugged up, stich as the Bobby Baker investigation, for instance. It is unfortunate fhat the nation cannot have a chance once more to make' a choice between a person who believes in capitalistic democracy and one who /believes in state socialism.' - ' .' : ' Many hopes were high that such a race might be run between Goldwater and Pres ident Kennedy, but an assassin’s bullet put an end to that possibility and thrust a pol itician into the White House who is all things to hll people and it is unlikely that the people will wake up by the November general election to this ridiculous lade of position. Johnson has promised economy by cut ting off a few lights in the White House and by closing down a few obsolete military bases, but with the other hand he has boost ed spending and his budget rather than being a cut below the too-high Kennedy budget is going to spend even more money and with the hypnotic control Johnson has over congress he is likely to get more money more easily out of the pockets of the taxpayers with the advice and consent of fellow socialists in congress. If the long,'bloody summer develops that has been threatened by colored leaders there is likely to be a voting backlash against any politician who is a slave to the civil rights “kick” such as Johnson, but if the race is between Johnson and Rockefeller the public will go crazy trying to decide which is the lesser of two evils. And even Goldwater has recently endorsed the use of federal troops to enforce illegal orders of the United States Supreme Court. The evil forces behind the anarchy that prevails in the ghettoes of our major cities have created a situation with the aid of gutless .politicians in Washington that will result in either anarchy or martial law, and very soon. The Nehru Vacuum The death of Indian Prime Minister Nehru has created the .inevitable and dangerous political vacuum that results when a dicta tor — even a benevolent one — is removed. Nehru was a rich, English-educated soc ialist who spent 13 years in prison as he worked for Indian independence. He was from the highest caste in Indian society and although he' gave lip service to the egalitarian concepts of Fabian socialism he never lowered himself to that point where anyone quite felt equal to his gray eminence. Nehru skillfully guided his huge, hungry masses toward his socialist dream; prying money out of the pockets of American cap italists through their socialist- government and getting help from the dictatorship in Russia that is constantly mislabelled a soc ialist state. - But the one thing. Nehru did not do was permit the development 6f any man of sufficient stature to step into his shoes. In ,this he proved his inferiority to Gandhi, who did have the great political wisdolii to pick a much younger man in Nehru to carry .on the fight that he had won for Indian independence. Gandhi, fyowever, was almost a mystic leader as well as a very shrewd politician and he could do things with a grander sweep and dream better dreams than an admin The voting Saturday across North Caro lina may have surprised a great many people, but I was not among that number. And as I watched the figures roll in I couldn't avoid a reconfirmation of my feeling that Luther Hodges deliberately kept John Lar kins from being governor of Jfprth Carolina in the I960 election when he got Malcolm Seawell to come into the race and split the conservative vote with Larkins. This gave the second primary seat to Beverly Lake who was badly beaten by Terry Sanford, who could have been just as easily been beaten by Larkins if Seawell had not been injected into the race at the last moment by Hodges. Hodges got his reward in Washington for turning the state • over to the “gliberals.” This time the shoe is on the other foot and nothing short of a political miracle can prevent Dan Moore from bgating Richard son Preyer on June 27th. All the noise and name-calling that will take place between now and'the second primary are completely futile, because the issue was decided last Saturday. Preyer is the most personable of the two men, and there is no evidence to indicate that he is the tool of anyone else, for he is both a man of character and in telligence, either of which would shield him from being "used” by anyone. In addition to his intellect and character Preyer is also a wealthy man, which further insulates him against external pressures. But Preyer despite his ability and quali fications .is the Captive of a set of political circumstances over which he had no control and in which he had no part in making. Last week’s election iq Florida is an ex ample of the same kind of situation; where the hot breath of voter-discontent blew a liberal candidate out <*f contention and installed the candidate who iq. the eyes of the public represented a more conservative view. I suspect that between the political phil osophies of Preyer and Moore there is no major difference, but the groups with which they are identified are world’s apart and each is the product of his political environ ment. This, of course, is just one man’s opinion but it seems to be supported by the arith- _ metic of the first primary and although there is always the possibility that the pic ture could be changed completely in four weeks the likelihood seems .small, indeed. At the local level there was one more ob ject lesson to politicians in the amazing vote of Cameron Langston, the only can didate who was nominated in the first primary for the county board of commis sioners. And that lesson is very clear and simple and I hope.more politicians will learn it: That standing up strongly on a major issue when one sincerely believes himself right has never hurt any public figure, ^.angston after years of debate on the school consolidation dilemma finally concluded that consolidation was inevitable and that immediate consolidation, using existing fa cilities, was in the best interest of every concerned party. JONES JOURNAL JACK RIDER, Publilhsr Published Every Thursday iy The Lenoir County News Company, Inc., 403 West Vernon Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phone JA 3 237S. Entered as Second Class Matter May 5. 1949, at the Carolina, tind By Mail in ;
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