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MHHR the 1963 rookie of the year.
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school students.
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the United Am Republic.
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OTHER EDITORS SAY
ATLANTA TIMES
#Mob Pressures Destroy Liberty'
There is marching again in
Alabama. Martin Luther King
and his co-leadeifc^ln defiance
of the governor of the state, the
legally elected officials and lo
cal and state laws, are marshall
ing their backers and support
er? for the 50-mile hike from
Selma to the state capitol in
Montgomery.
The purpose of this march re
portedly is to draw the attention
of the federal government and
the nation to voting conditions
in Alabama with respect to the
Negro. The march having been
stopped by Alabama state troop
ers and Selma and county po
lice on one occasion, King has
now called for reinforcements
from all parts of the nation.
The Council of Churches has
responded with approximately
100 volunteers, including minis
ters from Washington and oth
er areas. It is also reported that
Jewish and Catholic leadership
will be represented when the
second attempt to march is
made.
It seems that the issue in Ala
bama is not whether Negroes
have the same right to register
and pass the voting tests as
whites but whether they have
the right to mass register at any
time they may choose — in de
fiance of literacy or voting
tests.
While certainly any unneces
sary force or harsh treatment
of citizens by police is to be
decried, a mob situation is nev
er easy to handle. Even the at
torney general, Nicholas Katzen
bach, had great difficulty with
a small group of 20 lawless Ne
groes in his offices in Washing
ton at the same time the march
was being broken up in Selma.
After requesting them to leave
and then pleading with them
to leave, Katzenbach called on
his chief U. S. marshal and as
sistants to bodily throw them
out.
It is imperative that the lead
ers of this nation, beginning
with President Johnson, extend
ing through the courts, the law
enforcement officers, the clergy
and all respecting citizens, take
a firm stand for law and order.
As Justice Hugo Black of the
Supreme Court has so recently
stated, “Justice cannot be right
ly
administered where throngs
1
of people clamor in the streets.
The streets are not now and
never have been the proper
place to administer justice. Use
of the streets for such purpos
es has always proved disastrous
to individual liberty in the long
run, whatever benefits may have
appeared to have been achieved.
“It is not a far step from what
seems to many of the earnest,
honest, patriotic, law-abiding
multitude of today to the fana
tical, threatening, lawless mob
of tomororw.”
Street demonstrations, sit-ins,
stand-ins, marches on Montgom
ery or Washington are danger
ous, lawless and can very easily
incite and break into violence.
We concur with Justice Black
when he says there’s a real pos
sibility of mob pressure destroy
ing liberty by law.
Saturday Accident
Kills Daughter of
Former Kinstonians
A one-car accident in Greens
boro Saturday claimed the life
of eight year-old Jane Ellen
Shipman, daughter of Mr. ahd
Mrs. Harry Shipman, who lived
in Kinston for many years.
Mrs. Shipman was driving the
car and it was felt that she
might have blacked out when
the family car went through an
intersection and rammed into
a tree.
Mrs. Shipman also suffered
extremely critical injuries in the
crash, and is given slight chance
of recovery. Their three year
old son, Harry n, suffered a
broken leg in the wreck.
Caught in Act
Last Friday night Kinston Po
liceman Paul Nobles and A. J.
Loftin found entry had been
forced to the filling station at
the corner of Vernon and Min
erva and investigation inside
found a pair of shoes under the
counter. Robert Earl Fordham
of 507 Fields Street was on the
other end of the shoes and Don
ald Hooks of 520 Harvey Street
was found in another section of
the station.
On February 20, 1907, Con
gress enacted a statute which
created an Immigration Com
mission with directions that
make such recommendations as
in its judgment seemed proper.
At that time, virtually all aliens
desiring admission to the Unit
ed States were accepted.
After a full inquiry into this
subject, the Immigration Com
mission made a report to the
Cohgress in which it suggested
substantial restrictions upon im
migration to those immigrants
who could be most readily as
similated into our way of life.
If it was desirable or neces
sary to restrict immigration in
1911, it is even more so today.
This is true because the earth’s
population now totals 3 billion
persons and is expected to dou
ble that number in 40 years.
The population of the United
States today is approximately
195 million and the Census
Bureau predicts that it will rise
to approximately 280 million b>
1986. At the present moment,
4.2 million Americans are seek
ing in vain for jobs in which
they might earn daily bread for
themselves and their families
7 million Americans are on
public welfare.
Since much criticism is di
rected to the National Origins
Quota System embodied in the
McCarran-\yalter Act, I wish to
discuss briefly the provisions oi
this Act, which show that such
criticism is unjustified. The Na
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tional Origins Quota System
had its germ in the report of
the Immigration Commission in
1911, was first embodied in the
law in 1924, and is designed to
restrict immigration to those
most readily assimilable by the
United States. *
It is designed to do these four
things: (1) To limit the annual
number of quota immigrants
who can come to the United
States. (2) To determine the na
tionalities of those who come
so as to maintain the historic
population pattern of the Unit
ed States. (3) To put all quota
nations on an equal footing. (4)
To keep the immigration prob
lem beyond the reach of politi
cians and pressure groups.
The McCarran-Walter Act re
stricts immigration. It put the
immigration problem under the
control of the mathematicians
rather than the politicians. It
puts all nations td which it ap
plies, which are the nations of
the Eastern Hemisphere, upon
an equal footing. It does this by
providing that each nation in
the Eastern Hemisphere shall
have have an annual immigra
tion quote of 1/16 of 1 percent
of the number of our people
who trace their national origin
to such country.
Any restriction upon immigra
tion will be charged with being
discriminatory against those
who desire to come to America
as immigrants and are denied
the privilege to do so. If the
United States is to have restrict
ed immigration, it going to have
to admit some aliens and ex
clude others.
No fairer, workable formula
has been devised that the Na
tional Origins Quota System of
the McCarran-Walter Act, which
assigns immigration quotas to
countries on the basis of their
respective contributions to the 1
population of America.
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