EDITORIALS
Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man
And He May Be Wrong
Anarchy’s Beginning
Anarchy’s beginning is not in the moronic
mind of the mab nor in the parlors of the
professional revolutionaries. Anarchy be
gins when constituted government fails in
its responsibility to law and order.
So the anarchy in Harlem, Brooklyn,
Rochester, Newark, Paterson, Elizabeth
and Philadelphia did not begin with a drunk
en bunch of negroes who wanted to steal all
the booze out of neighborhood grog shops.
It began when' the Earl Warren court dis
regarded the Writteh law i-when Eisenhower
illegally sent troops to Little Rock, when
Kennedy illegally sent troops to Oxford and
when congress -illegally wrote a so-called
civil rights law based in cheapest political
expediency and when the Democratic Party
in "solemn session assembled” refused to
seat the legal delegates from Mississippi aftd
Alabama. /
When the highest authorities in the land
ignore the law a drunken, greedy mob can
not be expected to pay anything but the
richest contempt to law and order.
Earl Warren knew full well he was acting
illegally when he voted to run the state
school systems of our nation so his sin is
more grievous and more deliberate than that
of an inflamed idiot with a “Molotov cock
tail” and a king-sized thirst, who has no
political interest more profound than that
of his belly.
Anarchy begins at the top and filters down
and in our country for nearly a generation
the contemptuous disregard for the law has
been at its sorry worst at the very highest
levels.
On Poll-Taking
Being a practitioner of the printed word
we deplore greatly the growing disrespect
I
people have for the printed word. There
was a time when one frequently heard such
declarations as: ‘There it js in blade and
A
white. What do you sajr now?” But now the
answer is: “So what; look where it’s print
ed.”
And it is our bitter view-that nothing to
come on the news scene 4ince Gtttenburg
has more damaged the printed word than
poll-takers. So it amazes- and embitters us
considerably to see that both candidates
Johnson and Goldwater are what we might
roughly call “pollophiles.”
Modem polls are “taken” to influence
public opinio*; not to reflect public opinion.
Consider one Johnson was quoting to the
Democratic faithful in Atlantic City last
week: According to Johnsons favorite poll
ster he has 69 per cent of the vote in seven
key states that have through the years very
closely ^paralleled the national vote.
The thing that makes this prediction look
awfully rigged is that the best any presi
dential candidate ever did in those states
was 59 per cent and his name was Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. If Johnson is that much
more popular than Roosevelt was in 1936 this
writer is stark mad and stone blind.
Roosevelt got 58 per cent in ’32, 59 per
cent in ’36; 51 percent in 40; Truman got ’49
per cent in ’48; Stevenson got 39 per cent in
’52 and 37 per cent in ’56 and Kennedy only
got 47 per cent in these “key states” in '60
and Johnson is naive enough to quote the
claim from this poll that he’ll get 69 per cent
this year. '
It’ll never happen.
‘Holy Wat*
The bitterest irony of history is that tne
bloodiest and most horrible chapters of his
tory have been written in'the name of “holy
wars.'
Currently Catholics and Buddhists ire
murdering each other in Viet Nam. The war
never has completely ended between the
Hindus of India and the Islanpc of Pakis
tan. Even in modern “Spain /She heirs and
As a one-time member of one of the
mightiest destructive forces ever assembled
in World War II we could not really com
prehend the prayers of success said for us
by chaplains as our planes took off to wipe
entire cities off the face of the earth.
If this is religion it is small wonder that
nnuny people are looking for spiritual relief
outside the church. All of us except the mad
need the solace of some relief, and perhaps
the mad need this more than any Other. In.
fact, this in many cases may be why the
Under tie
aerway ne city-will need
to treat the city’s sewage,
city recreation program needs
These are a few of the major
needs that will he solved to a considerable
by the reclamation of this large
area oetween <Queen Street and the Atlantic
East Carolina Railroad fill. .
The city officials have also decided, under
the persuasion of Alderman Buddy Rayner,
to go'about this reclamation project in an ef
ficient and economic manner by use of a
hydraulic dredge which will move dirt at
less than a third the cost of moving dirt
by truck and dragline or by bulldozer and
earth-moving machines.
This is the kind of long-range^ planning
that will keep the city more than abreast
of its major land needs for a long time to
come and at the same time accomplish this
with a minimum amount of the taxpayer’s
money.
police force of this major city completely
powerless to halt rampant looting and mal
icious damage this huge newspaper had a
single column headline in the No. 6 spot
on the front, page.
Its lead story was headlined: “President
Courts Moderates in GOP’’. Its No. 2 story
was headlined: “Pirates beat Phils in 9th.”
Its No. 3 story was topp'ed: “Goldwater
Hits Johnson View as ‘Isolationist’.” Its No.
4 story was “Lopinson Signs Pauper Oath,
Father May Get Bill for Trial.” Its No. 5
story was “Cleo Dying Out; Fla. Loss Put
at $300 Million.”
And finally, below the center of the front
page a single column head says,'- “Stores
Looted as 100 Riot in North Phila.”
The lead paragraph says, “More than 1000
person rioted in North Philadelphia late Fri
day, smashing windows and looting stores
under the cover of thrown'bottles and bricks
which kept hundreds of police at bay.”
And th$ second paragraph, “The flouting,
laughing mob virtually unopposed, pelted po
licemen and reporters with anything that
could be tossed- through the air for at least
three hours.
One can only bitterly contrast this, cover
age of hometown anarchy with the coverage
that is given to any violence that combs on
the Southern racial front. .
The ^Eagles Have now finishes the 1964
regular season and as this is written it was
not known whether they won the pennant
or not; but win, lose or draw “Sneaky
Pete” and his Junior Pirates have given
Kinston fans one of the best baseball seas
ons in the history of local professional base
ball. They all deserve our sincerest thanks.
mad are mad.
Currently a bitter German
Broadway in which Pope Plus }
to task for what the playwrigh
be the Pope’s failure to intervei
who were being slaughtered
The Philadelphia Story
- Dr. Fountain Parrott, a Kinston native
who now lives in Philadelphia, sent us a copy
of last Saturday’s “Philadelphia Inquirer,”
that city’s largest newspaper.
This was the issue on the morning after
the terrible night before and although Dr.
Parrott did not write a note with the paper
we got bis message, loud and dear.
On this morning after the night before
which had seen millions of dollars property
damage, hundreds of people injured and the
Uo great nations,' hurtling down the tracks
of time' to their own rendezvous with des
Last week* the Russians announced they
Wire installing incentive systems inf key in
dustries ahd for key professions and ar
ticles in Russian newspapers freely if grudg
ingly admitted that there is something to
.say for capitalism — 30 long, of course, as
it is state capitalism.
While two weeks ago our leaders were
writing into law a billion dollar experiment
in socialism called the anti-poverty bill. This
sounds like the intellectual niivety of Lenin
in 1915 who supposed that once the prole
tariat owned Russia poverty and hunger and
poor housing and bad government would van
ish as if by some kind of political magic.
In his last days Lenin realized and ad
mitted in some of. his last writings how
wrong he had been and how badly he had
abused the working man with his promises
of the ElySian Fields that never material
ized.
Today men cut from the same intellectual
mold as Lenin are telling the American pro
letariat that all pastures will be green and
every pot will be filled when government
does away with poverty and establishes
equality by fiat. Lenin even did away with
insignia of rank in the .Soviet army in his
zeal to equalize ... an experiment that last
ed a very brief period.
While now the Soviet economy gropes
back toward the carrot-before-the-horse
concept the American economy slides down
•the greased path by giving the carrot to ,
the horse whether he runs, walks, balks or
rolls over and goes back to sleep.
The cruelest hoax of the political mind
is that which holds out utterly false promise.
There is not enough wealth, not enough
power; nqt even enough dreams to end pov
erty because poverty is not the absence of
money but the presence of ignorance and
all the king’s horses and all the king’s men
cannot put intelligence into vaccums where
brains do not exist. Admittedly this is a
cynical, cold sounding appraisal of those who
are poverty stricken but with precious few
exceptions this is the unavoidable truth and
we may as well face it.
We are told by our politicians that we are
taxed less heavily than other people, per
centage-wise but what -they do not tell us'
is that the aggregate taxation of Americans
is fantastically higher than of any other
peqple. And we are presently well off in ev
ery, material respect but we cannot claim
any satisfaction for the disintegration of
tfiose tried and proven principles which have
made us well off, in this mortal realm. . f
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In all humidity, we say goodbye and good
riddance to the sweaty, stinky. Sticky month
of August with its mildewy weather, rained
ties and generally miserably wea