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OTHER EDITORS SAY WRAUTV VIEWPOINT In His Heart, He Knows It was a simple little para graph, no more than a sentence really, that seemed so out of place in such a massive declara tion of promises of everything to everybody. As the President of the United States reached that point of his State of the Union address, his face length ened and his eyelids drooped. The air hung heavy with hum ility, and Lyndon Johnson peer ed forth through his contact lens, blinked, and intoned: “A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.” Lyndon Johnson’s speech writ ers had done their job well! No body, they surely must have reasoned, will dare fire away at such a splendid covey of prom ises of peace, prosperity, hap piness, good health and free dom. These promises fluttered into the air from the political underbrush that hides the reali ty that Mr. Johnson carefully neglected to mention — and which the people of the land have clearly demonstrated they do not wish to face. We have read the complete text of the President’s address several \ times during the past few days, and it becomes a more remarkable document with each reading. It is almost as if a king were talking to his subjects, in stead of the chief executive of a representative republic mak ing a report to the people. There was hardly a hint that anything is wrong in the land, or in the world, except those troubles for which the Great So ciety has already sought and found a solution. That hardest task of both knowing what is right and doing it, the President made clear throughout, has fi nally found its way to the right shoulders — his own. But questions persist. Indeed, a Lyndon Johnson of an earlier year might well have asked them following such a barrage of gen eralities and omissions by an other President. Mr. Johnson once expressed very clear ap prehensions about the destruc tion of personal freedoms in his land. There was a day when he knew the difference between civil wrongs and civil rights. And when, as a member of Con gress, he supported the Taft Hartley Law, he had no trouble deciding that it was right to give the American working man the choice of paying dues to a union, or of not joining a union. Throughout the fabric of his speech last week Mr. Johnson wove threads of his own feelings of guilt, mostly in the form of things he did not say. When he mentioned that he would press for the abolishment of the Right to Work Laws enacted by 20 States, he referred to it only as “Section 14-B” of the Taft Hartley Law. Union bosses knew what he was talking about, DUT11UD FtOM MAM IAUD & CO. SCOUYVIUt -■ '■ ■■ v. .*? but the majority of the Ameri can people did not. Except in the vaguest of gen eralities — that we are in fa vor of peace, freedom and the enrichment of the life of man — our perilous postures in both Vietnam and the Congo were ignored, as was any reference to the continuation of subver sive activities in Latin America that coptinue to spew daily out of Cuba. We are told that peace is our goal throughout the world and that Communist uni ty is crumbling. And that was that. It was not, somehow, enough — either as a descrip tion of the situation as it ac tually exists, or as a guideline to a more constructive pursuit of our role as a self-appointed keeper-of-the-peace. If one must judge by Mr. Johnson’s outline, we are to continue the indeci siveness that has marked our past relationship with the com munist bloc. Mr. Johnson said something of “moving toward” a balanced budget, but almost every other syllable of his message took us further from it. The $317 bil lion national debt was not even mentioned, nor was the other trillion dollars of existing com mitments to which he proposes to add additional billions in further debt and commitments. In a way, we cannot really fault the President for the na ture of his State of the Union address. He was, after all, tell LETTER TO THE EDITOR Route 1 Haw River, N. C. 11 January 1965 Editor: It is my privilege to serve as Honorary Chairman of the North Carolina Chapter of the Arth ritis and Rheumatism Founda tion. Arthritis, the nation’s great est crippler, afflicts some twelve million Americans and over two hundred thousand folks in North Carolina. Our organiza tion supports research seeking the cause or causes of arthritis and a cure. We also conduct programs of public and profes sional education. All of our work is solely dependent upon public support. Folks in Trenton and Jones County recently received a let ing the people what they want ed — and demanded — to hear. So, in a sense, what Mr. John son said in his speech tells at least as much about the Ameri can people as it does about the man who delivered it. As Judge Learned Hand said many years ago, liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. And when it dies there, nothing can be done to save it. Mr. Johnson’s mes sage was simply a disclosure that the American people are more interested in physical com fort than in personal liberty. In the end, we may find that we have neither. ter from our local chairman, Mrs. Theron D. Humphrey, ask ing for contributions to support our work. While most of us in North Carolina cannot give large amounts, most of us can contribute at least a dollar to aid in the fight to STOP ARTH RITIS. I hope that any of your read ers who have not done so will send a contribution to Mrs. Hum phrey for the work of our Foun dation. Every donation will be appreciated by the folks who suffer from the crippling effects of arthritis. Mrs. W. Kerr Scott --;---rp PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Continued from Page 2 steady job to go to each day the civil.right# issue becomes less than academic, because the man who is master of his home and in control of his job doesn’t need the tranquilizing opiate of “equality” which he knows does not, has not and can not exist — not even between two identical twins. Tearing down an old plant ends an era, arouses many memories and causes a lot of of problems to roll across the mind of those who concern themselves about such things. Hogs and Cattle Bought Daily Premium Price Paid for Meat Type Hogs “Honeycutt Meat Products” Let us slaughter and chiH your cattle and hogs for you, saving you the drudgery of slaughtering on the farm. We slaughter every day except Saturday — just bring us the live animal any day — get the dressed meat the following day or we will deliver it to the locker plant for you. Charge: Hogs 2c per pound; Cattle $2.50 per head plus the 5th quarter. NEW BERN PROVISION Co. 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