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On Collision Course! EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man ~~ —And He May Be Wrong Report on Caswell So far nothing any official of the Department of Mental Health has told us about the transfer of patients be tween the state’s four institutions of the mentally retarded has proven to be true. Firstly, the director of this division of the department of mental health, Dr. Sam Cornwell, said a strict geo graphical allocation of'patients was to be used. This week we have sent Gov ernor Dan Moore letters from two par ents in Lexington whose children have been transferred from Murdock School at Durham to O’Berry Center at Golds boro. Even a psychiatrist ought to know that Lexingtoit./is, closer to Durham than to Gol^o^^Vi.; We have beefl 'TOld that every possi ble effort was being made to avoid transfer of older- patients who have been in one institution for many years. But we have supplied Governor Moore with the name of a . 70 year-old patient,,, who has been in one institution for over/ 50 years and has now been transferred ' to another over-tlie objection of hisi family. We have been told that this so-called geographical plan was instituted to pla acte the officials of Washington, yet no other plan was tendered and it is on the record that 48 freedom-of-choice plans have been accepted by this same Washington agency for public schools. We have been told that the staff of these institutions have “accepted” this plan without objection. But we learn that the staffs have accepted the plan without objection on penalty of losing their jobs if they make any public pro test. Perhaps in fairness we should ad mit that one bureaucratic cynicism that slipped Dr. Cornwell’s bps is as true now as when he said it on August 10th: That parents who do not like “what we are doing with their children have the alternative of taking them out of our hospitals.” For this Mari of insult the .taxpayers are. paying .Dr. Cornwell a handsome salaiy, anS'rarnishinr|' him’ a new car ^,«dE -atettjt-.ttie state. Thoughts on Taxation Nothing is more natural in an era when taxes eat up about half of the average income than for one to dream of a more equitable method of spread ing, and collecting the taxes needed to provide t}ie many services the pub lic either demands or tolerates. For the politician who is the spend ing and collecting end of this taxation tug - of - war the preferred tax is the “hidden tax” that creeps onto one wrapped neatly in the pfice of what ever it is one wishes to" buy, or use. Hie reasons for this are valid and obvious since the politician is able to understand quite well that the natives might get very restless if they were really conscious of the commercial rape their pay check suffered at the hands of government Hie socialists .prefer a graduated in and gift tax so that a^. least theoretical ly nobody will have'any more than come Under a truly republican form of gov ernment the fairest tax is the use tax, or sales tax; but communists and their bedfellows, the socialists, such as con trol our country, revolt at the thought. If one uses the highways let him pay for them with gas, oil, tire and gross weight taxes on whatever he drives. If yacht and barge line operators use waterways let them pay for them in the same immediate fashion. It is hard ly equitable to tax railroads to main tain waterways and air terminals which are in constant direct competition with the railroads. People who have 10 children should pay 10 times as much school tax as those who have one child and the peo ple who have no children should not be forced to educate the children of others. These are over-simplifications, and the measure of their unacceptability to the reader is in direct ratio to the read er’s degree of acceptance of the social istic concept, rather than the capitalis tic. Principal or Principle? The founding fathers of our nation pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors in defense of prin ciples of timeless value. Today the men of medicine in our nation comprise a modern group whose intellect and training can permit them to make a similar contribution to free dom. If enough doctors in our nation were to pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors in opposition to the socialized tyranny incorporated in the so - called “Medicare” legislation they could delay and possibly halt the total socialization of American society. A strike of doctors against “Medicare” would not be a strike against the pub lic welfare, but would, rather, be one of the strongest blows that could be struck in behalf of the public welfare. Those of us who abhor the present climate of government by and for the pressure groups must learn to fight fire with fire. If such mongel coalitions as AFL-CIO—NAACP-CORE can make con gress, the federal courts and the presi dency crawl on their collective bellies; think what a much smaller but much more powerful coalition of doctors can do. Editorial writers, bureaucrats and much of the citizenry have few kind words for the men who wield the scapel and the. stethoscope but when we or our loved ones are in pain we beat a sud den path to that doctor’s door. If unions can use brute force of strikes and picketing to bring huge in dustries and the government to their knees, and if collections of teenaged beatniks can make monkeys of the law by “going limp” in the White House or in a cafe doorway; think what the na tion’s doctors could do if they staged a “sit-out” against “medicare.” All doctors need is the courage. They have the power. The Private School For two generations the public school has been the source of education for the majority of us, and in this time the private school has come to repre sent a terribly expensive finishing ground for the very rich. For the past generation uncountable billions of dollars have been poured in to the public schools at all levels; and they have failed the nation badly, be cause state-controlled education inevita bly led in the direction of state social ism. Children conditioned to egalitarian bowls of sup in the public school have grown-into adults who have suffered the conditioned reflex which is a basic requisite to the lock-step society of totalitarian socialism. So today, perhaps late — but not too late, there is a nationwide trend back to private school education. It is the hope of those who work to stem the ^de Jthat these schools will teach their pupils to think, rafher than to con sfoMif: >•. .that their schools will resurrect angl fcwxthe “common if. * ' "" The people wlio are willing to run the gauntlet of the slander by the conform ists will have to absorb such epithets as “snob,” “racialist,” “reactionary” and go patiently about their difficult task. They will hay# to keep on paying ever-increasing county, state and fed eral taxes to support the public schools and at the same time make whatever sacrifice it takes to also support the private school. They will have to choose in many instances between a new car and a better education for their chil dren. They will have to weigh the cost of sending their .child to a private school against the illusion of “free” education that is held out to them by the paternal ism of public schools. This is a crucial decision^ but we are sure enough people will be able to see the basic need to support the private school adventures in our own area and all across the nation: Our freedom was won by a tiny ma jority of our forefathers in 1776. So loiig as a few today are willing to fan the fires of freedom, tyranny may toy but it will never succeed in ruling our country for very long. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS BY JACK RIDER Semanticists must writhe in agony as they try to keep up with the torturous meaning now given some words. For a hundred years one of the most respected words in the lexicon of political scien tists was “Liberal”. The classical liberal was that lonely and courageous indivi dual who stood between the individual and the monarchy and then his descen dant who rose to stand between the in dividual and the powers of whatever variety rif government there happened to be. But today those who have adopted this flattering political classification happen to be those who preach the om nipotence of government and the rela tive unimportance of the individual in the scheme of things that they believe to be in the general welfare. They have clasped to their breast the ancient liberal battle for civil rights, but they have used and abused this ral lying cry as a lever for their own self ish political preferment, rather than for the basically good and just cause of civil rights. They have shown their true color politically by being ready, willing and anxious to completely wipe out one individual’s most precious civil rights in their purported effort to be stow a civil right upon another. They have not learned, or they sim ply ignore the political truism that civ il rights are won by extending, and not taking civil rights. This is as true in political science as it is in economics: That you cannot enrichen society gen erally by robbing Peter to pay Paul. This may temporarily fatten the purse of Paul; but the moral way to enrich en Paul, or to extend civil rights is by first protecting the existing civil rights and opening the door to greater ec'd nnmir» nr nnlitipul connritir To be personal about a local “lib eral;” we have one named Don Law son, who ministers to the spiritual needs of patients at Caswell Training School to earn a living as chaplain. He is the type “liberal” who stands far be yond the firing line in any of the cur rent exercises of the pseudo-liberalism. Lawson supports the anarchical prem ise that “liberals” have the right to break any law they personally feel to be “unjust.” He is an example of the breed who makes speeches about all of the “freedoms.” He pays lip-service to a warped kind of intellectual licen tiousness, which assumes that only the ignorant are charged with obeying the law and that the annointed ones are only bound by their own peculiar and particular moralities. Lawson maintains Martin Luther King’s divine right to “scream ‘fire’ in a crowded theater” on the basis that this is freedom of speech. But this same Law son has written letters to Attorney Gen eral Nicholas Katzenbach in an effort to have me silenced on the radio be cause I express opinions Lawson is not capable of either sharing or understand ing. Lawson vicariously shares the martyr- 1 dom of his contemporary “liberals” who enter and die in the lion’s cages of Ala bama and Mississippi. Men who die be cause they lack the spiritual grace or purpose of Daniel in a less deadly lion’s den. Lawson is the modern “gliberal” who expands Voltaire by saying, “I dis approve of what you say, and I will put you to death if you say it.” Threat ening a radio station owner with the bureaucracy under which he hold^ lic ense is threatening him with financial, if not physical death. Fortunately the x Continued on Pace 8 JONES JOURNAL PuBi-iiHio every Thumoay by The laNoia COUNTY NCWS COMPANY, INC., 403 WANT Vernon Aye., Kinston, n. c.. phone JA a 2*75. Entered as Second Class matter Mat #. 1049, at the Post Office at Trenton, mmmzzmsmrs:
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