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Sj ■' £Q EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The (Opinion Of One Man .. And He May Be Wrong v Legislative Composition V, ' This paper freely and frequently bitterly criticizes the Earl .Warren court bloc for its patently illegal excursions into the jungle of socio-politics and for its continual lust for power. Friends tell us that we are too vitriolic in such criticism. They are entitled to their own opinion as we are to ours, but we in clude this mention simply to let it be known that there is very high and very stern crit icism of the Warren majority bloc on the court itself. In the latest legislative apportionment de cision Justice Harlan in an “extremist” dis sent had the following to say, among other things about the court’s majority holding: “This court* limited in function, does not serve its high purpose when it exceeds its authority even to satisfy justified impatience with the (low workings of the political process. For when in the name of constitu tional interpretation the court adds some thing to the Constitution that has been deliberately excluded from it, the court in reality substitutes its view of what should be for the amending process . . . What is done today deepens my conviction that ju dicial entry into this realm is profoundly ill advised and constitutionally impermis sible.” This perhaps lacks some of the fine Irish invective that we employ from time to time in comment upon Earl Warren and Com pany, but the language is clear, the logic is irrefutable and the criticism is sharp. Wihen one considers that most of this rule by fiat is being done by the thin ma jority of one vote on the court, one should get the point. > Assassination ‘Report’ Leaks persist that the long-awaited re port of the Warren commission will declare that the murder of President Kennedy was a one-man job and that there is no evidence to support any theory of an organized ef fort to kill the nation's youngest president. Beyond doubt this provincial editor is in no position to refute the findings of this group which has had every investigatory resource of the government and its own initiative and intelligence at work on this crime for the best part of a year. But there are many well-publicized fac tors in this case that demand explanation — reasonable explanation — before the public can be expected to accept the “one-man theory.” Beginning with the lightning-like repa triation of Lee Harvey Oswald, the strange and unprecedented permission given for his wife to leave Russia, and continuing through the absurdities of the trial of Jack . Ruby, who silenced forever the one person who undoubtedly knew most about the plot — Oswald himself. Where did Oswald secure funds to sup port himself and family and to travel about the country? Why security agents did not keep such an inflammatory person as Oswald under constant surveillance ? t attendance in Rub/i ence? office Was his nightclub a Was the the same post office and in the same month by Oswald 'and Ruby another of these weird coincidences? Was the fact that Oswald when he killed the Dallas policeman was walking in a di rect line toward Ruby’s apartment, and not toward any bus, railroad or airline terminal another pure coincidence? Was the expression on Oswald’s face one of fear or one of recognition on that Sun day morning when Ruby jumped out of the crowd to shoot him? What did Earl Warren mean when he said there are, facts about this case that may not be revealed for a generation ? What is causing obvious dissension among members of the Warren commission, as evidenced by the return this week to . Dallas of several members of the commission for more study. Why did the motorcade of President Ken nedy leave the freeway and swerve over to pass by the place where Oswald waked! -;t'f Who accompanied Oswald to rifle .prac tice immediately prior to the president’s murder'? ' 1W::V .'Sjj Was concern for. Mrs. Kennedy the real motive Ruby had in shooting Oswald? Why is a key staff member of the in vestigatins commission a New York professor who “Free hare ss in vast t eoun 4te boaad ana m m conaones even passively the situa tion there needs to be some major changes made at that level as well as at the Jones County level insofar as the public schools "This paper has in some detail criticized the dereliction of the Jones County School Board in re-hiring a confessed felon to be principal of the county's largest school. This paper has publicized the weird mixup and controversy that is now raging tj:tween the school board and many citizens in the west edge of the county over a move made this year recalling all resident Jones County students to Jones- County Schools. This was a move that tvafs made after a generation of children in this particular area had attended schools in either Duplin or Lenoir counties because of their nearness, and now because the elementary schools available in Duplin and Lenoir counties are so vastly superior to the make-shift, about to-fall-down Jones County elementary school at Comfort. Many families and more importantly, many children are being badly penalized by this sudden decision to change school pol icy after many years have passed. Added to this is the impossibly absurd position of the school board which in effect said, “We don’t care where these children go to school so long as we get credit for their attendance in the Jones County School System." This mess cries for action at the highest public school levels and immediately. Not next year, but now. Top Secret One of the consistent inconsistencies of the “gliberal” 'press is its constant hounding on the subject of free access to public in foipii&a. $uch eminent “gliberals” as the editor of the-Washington Post and the Raleigh News the Observer are on standing committees, trying to get access to the “top secret,” “classified,” “eyes only” files of countless government bureaus. A bill is now under debate in congress which would strip' these agencies of their arrogant hiding of facts from the public. This is all well and good if very late in com ing. But the “gliberals” all preach the doctrine of an ever-expanding federal government. They say that state and smaller local agen cies cannot cope with the “great problems” of our “moving society”, which is, of course, pure horse radish. They say that only through the magic efficiency and awesome power of the fed eral government can all of these great pro jects for humanity be accomplished. Obviously, the bigger government gets the more difficult it is to comprehend, to check on it or even to find the news that is read ily available. The bigger the haystack of government becomes, the more difficult it is to find that needle of truth that gets lost in it. § f "Gliberals” cannot have their cake and eat it too. If they have big, big government they are going to have hidden facts, lost facts, covered mistakes and other assorted skullduggery. The truth is that the higher echelon “glib erals" all have their integrity compromised by “inside” and "background" information leaked to them for the specific purpose of compromising them. mittee Chief Counsel Lee . Rankin said he did not hire this man.) From this distance and with limited ac cess to greater detail these are some of the questions that this committee report, must answer if it is to persuade tjbe public to accept the "one-man” concept which the Warren group has apparently reached. JO ier .. ' \ if™ ; t V ■ ■ ';'-1 /> *$*■$#?** -i:' Coun west JA3 cities suffered five deaths, 952 persons in jured, 1,080 prviate businesses looted, 2,484 arrests and an estimated 63 to 8.5 million dollars in property damage when negro thugs rioted as a cover-up for thievery and anti-Semitism. this terror in the asphalt jungles to tne north. This Southerner finds nothing of the kind. This Southerner finds nothing but bit terness in his heart for the blind, lying, self-seeking white politicians who have with malice aforethought created the nightmare that has become a jarring reality in these seven cities and the worst is yet to come. These two-faced white politicians have convinced the floor-sweepings of negro so ciety that negro heaven is just north of the Potomac River and that once they cross this magic boundary they will loll , forever in those green pastures where the negro is etjual, jobs are plentiful and the white people all welcome them with open arms and open pocketbooks. The most intelligent members of the negro race recognize the utter absurdity of such “Big Rock Candy Mountain” promises. Other slightly less intelligent segments have been up and looked and found that the north is a place where they love negroes as a race and despise them as individuals; while the South is a place that Still resists them as a race but adopts and in many instances spoils them as individuals. But the rioting was made certain by a long series of actions by our nation’s lead ers. The courts have surrendered complete ly to the concept that nobody — white or black is really a criminal, that all thugs, rapists, murders, thieves and bums are vic tims of -their environment rather than of their own brutal instincts. The executive side of government has aid ed and abetted the sorriest elements of ne gro society in the supine effort to secure blocs of votes on election day. Eisenhower and Brownell tried to win the negro vote with troops to Arkansas. The two Kennedys used the same tool for the same reason in Mississippi. Johnson and his scalawags are singing the same song. What each and all of them fail to realize is that by upholding the good-for-nothing elements of negro so ciety they are punishing the good negroes far worse than they are white society. Over 97 per cent of the murders commit ted by negroes are against other negroes, and the same ratio follows through the entire spectrum of negro crime. If congress, the president, the courts, and all of the other assorted do-gooders would exert one-tenth the effort and a fraction of the money they now waste on “rehabilita tion” of people who cannot be remade on the finer elements of negro society the en tire country would be better off. But rather the current pitch is to further penalize the productive citizen — black or white, and to spoil, pamper and make ex cuses for the unproductive, incorrigible scrapings from the gutters of politically created northern ghettoes. ---J... .. r We wish no one in Florida any harm, physically oar financially, but i£ any of the current crop, or future crops of hurricanes just has to blow against lahd, we’d prefer that they pick on someother area than our own backyard. This year seems to be uwm.’c k-a i„-u
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