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waiting!’ EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man -;--;-And fie May Be Wrong Journalistic Morality The men of small bore who fire their poisoned bullet from the sanctuary of the editor’s typewriter should hang their collective head in shame, and es pecially here in North Carolina. These “gliberals” who hiccup when the White House takes bourbon were either strangely silent or naively polite when President Johnson named Abe Fortas, the Fixer, to the United States Supreme Court, but they have spent their worst adjectives in comment upon Governor Dan Moore’s appointment of Beverly Lake to the North Carolina Supreme Court. These “learned editors” either neg lected to tell their readers; or simply did not know that Abe Fortas has a long record of close affiliation with communist-front organizations, and had no better credential for appointment to the supreme court than being the very able fixer for Johnson on those fre quent times when Johnson needed the sure eye and steady hand of a profes sional fixer. Fortas represented Johnson when he stole the seat he fouled in the United States Senate. Fortas represented Bobby Baker, who was the satchel man for the ex-school teacher from Texas. Fortas has wallowed in the gutter with some of Washington’s filthiest proj ects and he will be a proper pipeline tc transfer the sewage that flows bach and forth today between the cesspools of the supreme court and the White House. But on the other hand Beverly Lake’s only crime in a long and distinguished career as a professor of law, assistant attorney general and candidate for gov ernor was his dedication to the prin ciples of the United States Constitution To be sure, he did help Governor Moore in his fight for the governor’s job, but he did it openly, and withoul any of the back-room conniving thal too frequently is associated with such aid from a defeated candidate. Lake publicly announced his support of Moore. Moore has publicly and with out apology appointed a singularly well equipped man of unimpeached honor to our highest state court. The contrast between the caliber and character of Lake and Fortas is only equalled by the calculated venality oi much of the North Carolina Press in its comments on their appointments. Crime Responsibility The Christian Science Monitor on Aug ust 26 in an editorial cartoon titled “A Challenge to the Police” pictured a giant labelled “Crime” standing astride a city. Crime in America today is NOT a challenge to* our police, because our police give us all much more and bet ter protection than we deserve. Crime is foremostly a challenge to the entire citizenry. We, the citizens, lend a helping hand to the anarchy that has been created in the name of “civil rights.” We support preachers and political leaders who encourage law-breaking. We tolerate courts that slap criminals lightly on the wrist for the most serious kinds of crime. We tolerate the professional agitators who holler “Police Brutality” to covei their own evil acts. We refuse to aid police physically when they need help. We refuse to offer tips, or to sign warrants when we KNOW the law it i being violated. We expect miracles of a police force that mu?t attempt to recruit young men of ability and integrity on less than the going wage of stevedores and ditch-dig gers. We sit on juries and free men we know guilty because we have more sym pathy for the whining criminal than foi the people he has preyed upon. We take the word of deliberate per jurers in preference to sworn testimony of honorable officers. We fill high offices with weak-mindec men whose job it is to turn convictec criminals free nearly as quickly as of ficers can apprehend them. We vote for men in highest offic« whose record of cheating and corrup tion is a matter of record, We elect and re-elect congresses wit) many members whose record of delib erate thievery is a matter of high pub lidzed records , No .. . Most certainly, No . . . Crinu is not merely a challenge to the polio of our nation: Crime is a challenge tx the individual morality or amorality o: each of us. 'Civil Rights' Constrast When a menagerie of dues-collecting hustlers, ■ beatniks and stupid preachers gathered in Selma, Alabama to “March on Montgomery” President Johnson sent a division of troops to protect their “civil rights” and when a neurotic, white nyphomaniac was shot in the car with a young negro man, this same President Johnson sent about a fourth of the FBI to investigate her murder. But in California where the “civil rights” of 37 people have been erased; where an estimated $200 million dam age was done to the “civil rights” of those wiio did not get murdered this gpmp President has not dispatched even a Boy Scout troop, or a Junior “G” man. But this same President Johnson has sent a “committee” to Los Angeles to find out why thousands of negroes ran amok, burning, murdering, and looting for more than four days. This sending a “committee” was an act of utter stupidity; because a blind man, with poor hearing and an impedi ment of speech could have told John son over the telephone what the cause of the riot in Los Angeles was. The cause lies squarely on the door step of the White House and its occu pants of the past 30 years. Beginning With Roosevelt and culminating in Johnson; we have seen the most delib erate use and abuse of the nation’s negroes in the simple, venal cause of their own political preferment. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Ken nedy and Johnson ■ — each and every one had no use for the negro as ari in dividual, but they care greatly for their mass vote on election day. To cultivate that bloc vote they have lied, promised, cheated and recheated not only the ne gro but the entire nation of the slow, but steady progress which the negro was enjoying in every facet of our so ciety. Our leaders have sown the wind and our generation must reap the bitter whirlwind. The Frequent Question A question each of us should be ask ing from time to time is: How long can government continue to penalize the productive in order to pamper the unproductive? The answer, ambiguous as it has to be is: Just as long as the productive permit it to be done. Now we are being faced with more congressional claptrap in the form of a bill that would pay men to loaf for 52 consecutive weeks. Before you scream too loudly about this, ask yourself what your position about the “soil bank” is. It’s no more immoral to pay a man 52 consecutive weeks for loafing than it is to pay an other man for NOT planting a specific crop on one farm, while he may double the acreage of that same crop in an other county on another farm. It is no more immoral to pay a man to loaf for an entire year than it is for congressmen to permit members of their secret order to cheat the tax payers’ out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is no more immoral than for our government leaders to deliberately create the myth about a coin shortage in order to “steal” the true value of coins with coinage of base metals. And so on it is through the entire political spectrum. Noble members of congress stand iorthrightly behind “for eign aid” because hundreds of millions of that so-called foreign aid is being spent in their own district. Waste, waste, and more waste and it is only possible so long as each one of us thinks he has his snout a little deep er in the federal slop bucket than his ■ next-door competitor. We tolerate it because we believe we are fattening on inflation, when our size is only ah unnatural bloat from swallowing too much of the hot air our i pseudo - economists are generating on • order to support the proliferation of big ■ government graft, greed and gravy. Let none of us who live in “glass i houses” throw the first stone. Only when we have cleaned our own i backyard will we have the right to fuss ’ about the mess in the neighbor’s back yard. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS by ,J'' . JACK RIDER A study of the United States Depart ment of Labor has put into clear and concise language, the mountainous prob lem of American negro society. For the nation’s major cities, where negroes are huddled in asphalt jungles this study clearly explains the basic reason for the riots in Rochester, Ndw York, Spring field, Chicago, and Los Angeles. But to a lesser degree this study alerts every community with' a considerable negro population to the social dynamite that is burning with an extremely short fuse. The breakdown of family in the sor riest element of negro society has cre ated a wild new element that gets its frenzied kicks in unimaginable orgies of senseless violence. In Harlem — the world’s largest negro city — 43.41 of all children are illegitimate — in the na tion as a whole 23.59 per cent of all negro children are born out of wedlock; comparing poorly with the 3.07 per cent of illegitimacy among white births. In the past 12 years Negro illegitimacy in Milwaukee jumped 78 per cent. In the nation 22.9 per cent of all negro homes have the husband “absent”, while among white homes the percentage is just 7.9 per cent. And 23.2 per cent of negro homes are headed by women, compared to 8.6 for white homes. Only eight per cent of white children receive welfare aid during their life, while 56 per cent of negro children do. At pres ent only two per cent of the nation’s white children are receiving welfare aid while 14 per cent of all negro children are getting welfare aid. Negro women are having babies at the rate of 149.3 per thousand per year, while among white women the ratio is only 104.3 per thousand per year. Although negroes comprise less than 11 per cent of the population last year negroes committed 2,593 murders in all cities over 2550 population compared to 1,662 murders committed by the 89 per cent who are white. In this same urban grouping negroes committed 3,570 rapes compared to 3,199 by whites and com mitted 29,357 aggravated assaults com pareu iu uy wmica. And as I have pointed out frequently on this page the vast majority of the crimes committed by negroes are com mitted against negroes. So this huge and rapidly expanding mob of family less negroess — without parental dis cipline, without education without jobs, without homes, without hope and with out the reasonable ability to cope with the urbanization of our society, con fronts our nation in general and our cities in particular with a frightening problem. And at a time when our national lead ers should have been lending every pos sible hand to local authorities, who must confront physically this mob that last year killed 57 police officers and in jured another 7,700, these national lead ers have been encouraging these mobs, financing these mobs, turning these mobs out of prisons in the mixed up name of “civil rights.” The most favored regions in the Unit ed States for negroes are the North Central states where negro income is 74 per cent of the white income and the western states where negro income is 81 per cent of the white income. Yet it is in these areas of greatest economic opportunity that negroes have commit ted their most savage assault on all of society. When mad dogs or mad men are loose in the streets — whatever the cause may have been — there is no protection for society except to remove them from the streets. This is a monumental task ON pace 3 -JACK RIDER, publisher Publishes every thuubbay by Tub COUNTY NEWS CSNPANY. 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