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'Hey!—Come bock here!’ EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man And He May Be Wrong On Human Rights Consistency, perhaps, is too much t( expect of a politician who is trying t( be all things to all people at all times Ever since Lyndon Johnson startet running for president he has beer working the civil rights side of th< street and mouthing platitudinous pai about human rights and human dignity and brotherhood — of course, while hi! children attended the swankiest private schools. And most of us have become inured tc this line, but now that LBJ has estab lished himself in the roll of the greatesl protagonist of civil rights since Kar Marx he has done an about face anc come out in opposition to “Right-to Work” laws which exist in 19 states . . and in case you don’t know what this kind of law is, it’s simply a law that permits any individual to hold a jot without being forced against his will tc belong to a labor union and to pay union dues. But LBJ said Tuesday that these Right to-Work” laws have got to go, and what the leader wants the leader has been getting recently ... so we may as well accept the fact that this rubberstamp congress will soon say that those 19 states that have these laws will have to forget them or repeal them and that people will have to pay money and horn i age to people like Jimmy Hoffa, Walter i Reuther, Dave Beck and the other goons who run the labor movement. [ But our leader tells us in his most , simpering style and with the very sweet : est choice of words at the command of i his ghost writers that it is a grave crime against humanity to deny a man the i right to eat in the restaurant of his choosing, but it is not an infringement of a man’s rights to force him to belong to a union that might stand for everything — politically, morally and economically that this man despises. It’s like saying a man cannot be an independent in politics — he has to be either a Democrat or a Republican. But we live in a phantasy-world in which old values have been abolished or warped so badly they are no longer recognizable. Liberals are no-^onger liberal in the classic sense bed&use they stand for more and more ^government when the liberal in politic^ originally was that brave soul who stood between the in dividual and the grinding powdr of gov ernment. Liberals today are socialists, with a very liberal sprinkling of communists... and as we see from the President’s speech against right-to-work laws, peo ple such as he only favor those civil rights that serve their own selfish ends. Medical Blindness So many medical statisticians — oft times called doctors — have wasted their time and intelligence belaboring an apparent obvious that they have ov erlooked what is undoubtedly the basic cause of so much respiratory infection, including the dread lung cancer. Even chain smokers do not fill their lungs with tobacco smoke and tars with every breath, but people who live in areas where the entire atmosphere is polluted DO fill their lungs with irri tants which'lead to infections of various kinds. The smog death-wave several years ago in London and outbreaks of a sim ilar nature la other heavily industrial ized areas should have pointed the right direction for intensified research. But it is easier to pick on an industry such' as tobacco, which has always been the target of physical culture nuts and other equally wacky groups. The petroleum industry is sp much larger and so much more widely based that the statisticians have ignored the possibility that our pollution problem from oil burning vehicles and industries is far more serious than the few mom ents of puffing Oven on millions of cigarets per day by those afflicted with the nicotine fit. t. * Undoubtedly the abusive use' of cig arets — as by a John Wayne, who ad mitted smoking seven packs per day, is not good fpr health. But driving cars Traffic in Misery Nothing is more slanderous to the aversge parent, and especially the aver age mother than to be told that she cannot take care of her own children. This is the gross slander perpetrated on our negro citizens by those morons from out of the South who chant with monotonous bigotry that the negro can not educate his own children, cannot care for his own sick, cannot minister religiously to his own people. Now our state officials are meekly hauling feebleminded and insane' pa tients around from hospital to hospital so that each negro hospital will have some white patients and each white hos pital will have some negro patients. This has been ordered by the Potomac Ges tapo. The gestapo’s interest is political, not medical but in view of the general mad, mad state of domestic politics it would be something less than fitting if the power-mad hand of the federal king did not reach into the madhouse itself; apd it now has. Wesleyan Brainwashing The graduating class of North Carolina Wesleyan College at Rocky Mount will be exposed to the brainwashing of Arth ur Larsen, a parlor pink from Duke Uni versity, who covered himself with some kind of aromatic glory in last year’s election by waving the threat of govern mental investigation at radio stations. Larsen, reputedly a professor of law, but more basically a socialist pied piper, was alarmed last year that some radio stations in the nation were not doing handsprings in support of the chief socialist, Lyndon Baines Johnson. So to intimidate the gutless who hold a federal license to broadcast, Larsen organized a “watchdog” organization to monitor those stations that were not in the right propaganda line. His effort was financed by known socialists and com munist sympathizers. It was put quietly to rest when the public voted right on November 3rd. Now his attention is turned to the tender minds of our Methodist children. Let’s hope it will satisfy the Potomac Gestapo to have 111 negro children seg regated almost totally in the seven white schools of Lenoir County. The booming noises in assorted Caro lina League ballyards in the past week tend to indicate that Mike Derrick has come alive in 65. The Pirate chieftains have felt all along that the big South Carolinian had the power but connection was his problem. Now he seems to have solved that. Passage of another automobile inspec tion law in North Carolina is about as necessary as mammary glands on a boar hog. But any gesture in the direction of more safety on our streets and highways is gobbled up, no matter how impracti cal or unnecessary. What North Caro lina and most other states need in this department is much more stringent driv er license examinations and stricter en forcement of those licensing laws. It’s the nut behind the wheel, not a cracked windshied wiper blade that kills so many people on our highways. 120 miles an hour, -or drinking two fifths of whisky a day or eating 10,000 calories a day, or playing 54 holes of golf per day; are all bad for one’s health, pocketbook and family. But the national welfare demands that our atmosphere, our water and our soil be saved from the unbelievable moun tains of filth and deadly chemicals that pour into them with every tick of the clock. This is a challenge to our engineers and to our doctors. Cigarets used mod erately may make it easier for the men in both of these sciences to solve the bigger problem that threatens us all. JONES JOURNAL JACK RIDER, ruiLKHER Published every Thursday by The Lenoir County News Company, Inc., 403 West Vernon Ave., Kinston, n. c., phone ja s 287S. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER MAY B. t»4S, AT THE POST Office at Trenton, NORTH CAROLINA, UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH S. IB7B. By Mail -in first *one—$3.00 per TEAR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Second Class Postage Paid at Trenton, n, c. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS BY JACK RIDER I was amazed last week on reading my friend Tom Johnson’s ‘Independent” from Montgomery, Alabama to learn that Montgomery County, Alabama is the na tion’s biggest beef producing County, and I think the average Eastern Carolinian will be amazed, too. This county, which also finds room for over 170,000 people has more than 90.000 beef cattle in it. It is a big coun ty, 790 square miles in size, compared to Lenoir County’s 391 and Jones Coun ty’s 467; but, still — 90,000 beef cattle. We’d have to have about 40,000 beef cattle in Lenoir County to put us in the same class, yfe only have an average of 27.000 hogs on Lenoir County farms; only 16,000 hogs on Jones County farms. So you can appreciate the shock I had on learning the proportions of the beef business in this one Alabama county. And this is the amusing thing. They have to import nearly all the grain they use in fattening their cattle, or they sell their cattle to feedlot operators in oth er states. Less than one per cent of this huge production of beef cattle in that county is finished for market in the county of their birth, despite the fact that Montgomery has several large pack ing plants — including one belonging to the Frosty Morn folks who have a plant in Kinston. Here we have a grain surplus, which a majority of our farmers dump on the market at harvest time to lose about half of its actual worth. In Montgomery County, Alabama they suffer the same poor use of this great resource they have. Their farm leaders are trying to persuade their beef growers to take advantage of the new cheaper grain freight rates pioneered by Southern Rail ways and finish their cattle at home to realize the maximum return from their effort. One current result is a co-operative feedlot operation that will be equipped to feed out from 4,000 to 5,000 cattle per year, and this has been organized by only about 15 cattle growers in the county. Here in Eastern North Carolina we have the climate, the feed, the land, the know-how to do exactly the same thing: Bring cattle and feed together. There they have the cattle and lack the grain, here we have the grain and lack the cattle. The Chamber of Commerce and other organizations that spend a lot of money and effort on a fat stock show would serve better if they organized some pilot projects in this direction. The fat stock shows were fine when we needed 20 years ago to prove to our people that fine meat animals could be grown in our area. Now that issue has been re solved a long, long time. Now is the time to capitalize oij the assets we know we have, and we are not doing it to the degree that our ec onomy demands. The tightened con trols on tobacco are likely to persuade many more farmers to move in this di rection than have. There isn’t a single farm in Eastern North Carolina that cannot increase its cash income by a wide margin by moving slowly and in telligently into meat production. This does not mean that every farm can produce beef, or that every farm can economically produce hogs, or both. But it does mean that every, farm can prof itably involve^ itself in one or the other of this kind of operation. -- • ' There is plenty of information avail able, credit is available and all the av erage farmer needs is the energy and the inclination. The hot fires of econo mic necessity will' soon provide both.
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