Ckotcs of Weapons
EDITORIALS
Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man
And He May Be Wrong
Boston Manure
A large part of the intellectual
manure that fertilizes the anarchy on
our streets today is generated in the
brain cells of such imbeciles as that of
the Christian Science Monitor editorial
writer who whined last Thursday, "We
would emphasize that two assumptions
are too easy: That Malcolm simply
brought it on himself in a feud among
extremists; that, though the fingers on
the trigger were black, Malcolm was
really the victim of a white society pro
viding the atmosphere for such events."
And after assuming that such assump
tions are “too easy” the Boston based
pundit with typically clouded phraseol
ogy opines in print: "The significance
may lie in the complexity of a situation
in which both .won can be held. It was
rifles for defense, not attack, that Mal
colm advocated. He could seem like an
opportunist to some, an evolving lead
er to others. The clouded symbol sow
ed the wind, the groping individual
reaped the whirlwind."
We have not seen so much manure
in one pile since they tore down the
old livery stable.
Malcolm X was a pimp, thief, bandit,
ex-convict who capitalized on ignorance
of his own race and the craven humility
of the white race.
His murder is in the classical tradition
of mob rule, when one mobster begins
collecting the dues, or selling the dope
that had been previously in the domain
of another mob.
There was no intellectual cleavage be
tween Malcolm X and Elijah Muham
mad. The issue was over loot.
Another Bostonian whose grasp of
reality is comparable to that of the Mon
itor editorial writer — one Thomas At
kins, a dues collector for the NAACP,
declared that Malcolm X’s murder was
comparable to that of President Ken
nedy.
Which, of course, makes the same
amount of sense as the Monitor’s
hypothesis that the dead pimp was the
victim of a “white society.”
If Boston could bag this stuff they’d
get rich selling it to fertilize dog fen
nel farms.
Sunday School Lessons
This paper has not altered its opposi
tion to any and all kinds of censorship
by anyone except the individual, but
this does not mean that we favor the
indiscriminate distribution of the most
virulent forms of pornography through
the medium of Sunday School classes.
We are frightened and amazed to see
the reading list of “Young People”, a
Baptist Young People's Union Quarter
ly, recommend three books by James
Baldwin. Unfortunately, this book is too
lurid to be quoted on this page, but
suffice it to say that Baldwin’s latest
book, “Another Country” is a collection
of utter filth.
And we champion Baldwin’s right to
try to free his mind of his guilt-inferior
ity complex by sweeping its filth out
into file sewers of American “Belle
Lettres."
What we question is the propriety of
such sewage being recommended to
teen-agers by church people and in an
official church organ, paid for fay file
entire ennren mmncrsmp.
In this month’s issue of Harper’s there
is a definitive study of pornography by
George P. Elliott, who divides this trash
into two basic categories: 1. The erotic
use and 2. The Nihlistic use. Baldwin
is classified as an ‘old-fashioned nihlist
in Elliott’s article as one who “preaches
destruction in the name of love”.
The bedrocks of Western Civilization,
and all it has meant and means in ev
ery facet of its society are 1. Hie fam
ily unit, and 2. The church.
The Baldwins in all of the anti-art ef
fort of our time seek to destroy both
family and church. Whether they do
this consciously or simply by their lack
of purpose is of little consequence since
the end result is the same.
So this makes all the mare weird the
efforts of nearly all our churches to
commit suicide by brainwashing their
young people with pornogaphy that is
foisted off hi the name of art fay people
whose central purpose is the collapse of
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County Building
Nit the least of problems that con
staufiy confront public officials is pro
vidhig enough office space for the ever
expanding hordes of people working
in all phases of government _ Lenoir
County Commissioners are suffering
from an acute attack of this variety at
the moment
Every county office needs more space,
and once they get more space they’ll
need more workers to fill the new space.
There seems to be no way to stem the
crushing tide of government and un
doubtedly ultimately it will collapse of
its own weight
But in the time between now and
this collapse offices space, filing space
and parking space has to be provided.
So in the name of that most forgot
ten of men; Old John Q. Taxpayer, we
humbly petition the Lenoir County
Board of Commissioners to exercise the
axiom of the Late County Welfare Sup
erintendent George B. Hanrahan; “To
get the most of the best for the least
money”.
In the realm of building this demands
planning and not helter-skelter buying
and renovating of unsuitable white ele
phants that may have been dumped
onto the market
For our money, and for the conven
ience of the public it seems that the
best possible planning will ultimately
turn to construction of an adequate and
expandable annex to the present court
house.
The foresight of previous commis
sioners in purchasing a large and well
developed parking area directly behind
the court house is just one more sound
reason for keeping the county’s offices
together.
Supervision is easier, access by the
public is better and certain obvious ec
onomies result from keeping the coun
ty’s business together, rather than scat
tering it around the county in any ran
dom sort of fashion.
An Obvious Oversight
Each time the General Assembly is
convened a considerable amount
of valuable time and cheap ora
tory is wasted on such nonsensical items
as the name of state universities and ad
ditions of schools to the so-called
“Greater University”.
Under debate currently are both the
name of State College and the addition
of a Charlotte college to the administra
tive alinement of this “greater universi
ty”.
This little school in Charlotte is no
where near as large as East Carolina
College, which for so long has been
the stepchild of the annual gathering
of alumni in the General Assembly to
pass out higher education money.
One never can know if making East
Carolina College a unit of the “greater
university” would help it, but one thing
is certain, that the change could not
hurt it, because East Carolina College
gets the lowest per capita allocations of
funds of any institution of higher edu
cation supported by the state.
We have no tway of knowing if the
alumni and officials of East Carolina
College would like to get in bed with
the Chapel Hillites but even a passing
glance at the budgets of those schools
“in” and those “out” of the “greater uni
versity” union tends to indicate that
money-wise; if not education-wise there
is something to be said for joining the
Chapel Bill based onion.
Asking educators and legislators to
agree on anything that makes too much
sense, however, is about like keeping
up with LBJ*s “economies” in Wash
ington.
Let us hope that all courts — and
especially local courts will cooperate
fully in the effort to force parents to
keep their children in school. Those
who stay out of school are those who
need it moat
JONES JOURNAL
PERSONAL
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JACK RIDBR
I have known and admired many men
on the superior court bench of North
Carolina, and count many of them as
very close friends. None closer than
Chester Morris of Coinjock and Henry
Stevens of Warsaw. They just simply
happen to be my kind of people. Like
me, their bark is louder than their
bite, but I like to feel that I have in
common with them the deep and abid
ing respect for our system of laws and
for the rich heritage of our particular
corner of the world.
Both of these men are veterans of
more than 40 hard years of service in
the court room, where they have watch
ed and helped to unravel that difficult
ball of yam called “Justice.” In the
past week each of these men has spok
en out against the soft-hearted simple
mindedness of the majority of our peo
ple which is turning the nation over to
the thugs, rapists and murderers.
I know each of these men well enough
to know that they subscribe completely
to the principle that it is better to let
fifty guilty men go free than to punish
one innocent man. But I join them com
pletely in the belief that the guilty
should be punished and not petted. Our
governors, parole boards and other pro
fessional do-gooders turn confessed
criminals loose faster than law enforce
ment agencies can catch them.
On top of the misguided mercy of
juries, the liberating zeal of paroles
boards and the political payments of
governors society has to bear the much
more anarchistic absurdities of the fed
eral judiciary, which has quit adjudica
tion and gone into the profession of
“nit picking”.
The recent actions at every level of
the federal judiciary indicate that it
has two obsessions, each of which is
psychotic. First and worst is the fed
eral judiciary’s view that well qualified
state court officials are incapable of
dispensing justice and second is the
view that the criminal should have more
protection than the innocent people
they prey upon.
It is axiomatic, and inherent in hu
man relations that when legally consti
tuted authority turns its back on the
public and for any reason turns the
wolves loose in the streets; then society
will turn to defending itself. We know
of the recent necessity of Jewish com
munities in New York City where vig
ilante groups have been formed to pro
tect their people against the human
wolves in that asphalt jungle.
Judges Morris and Stevens have both
served their state and nation well but
each is quick to confess that there no
longer is any law; that rather the law
has come to be the day-by-day whim
of men who have no judicial background
and whose basic motivation is not jus
tice but is either venal political prefer
ment or sociological experimentation.
Judge Morris last week Saw a mercy
minded jury in Onslow County find a
rapist guilty of a misdemeanor for which
the maximum punishment is two years
sentence. And under the paroles
system prisoners are eligible for
release after serving one-fourth of
their term, which means that a man who
forced his way into a private home and
raped a young woman at knife point
would be eligible for release after serv
ing six months in prison.
However, in the instance of this sweet
little boy who was treated so mercifully
by the Onslow County jury; he broke out
of jail, stole a car and was in custody
for even a briefer term. Now he is out
to break into other homes and to rape
other young women.
There is no absolute deterrent to
crime, because people of warped and
greedy minds always have and always
will break the law. But speedy appre
hension and certain punishment are the
best deterrents ever devised to keep
aim at the lowest possible rate. The
PaWte and our courts ignore this at
their own peril.