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Where'd They Go?
There was a time not too distant ago
when assorted academic types went up
and down the land, telling all who would
hear that federal aid to education did
not mean federal controls.
Where’d they go?
Educators in the current school year
have done little more than to seek, and
re-seek to conform to the fluid regula
tions promulgated by these same “feds”,
and not for a major slice of this educa
tion pie, but for mere crumbs.
What these controls win be like wnen
the recently expanded federal aid pro
gram moves into great society gear is
a fit subject only for what one modestly
might call wildest conjecture.
When a small crew of 410 gauge “edu
cators” embalmed amid the marble
sarcophagi of “Restrict of Columbus”
can throw the entire apparatus of public
education into academic convulsions
with the switch of a comma there is
no imaginable end to which this tragic
farce cannot play.
One of the more amazing acts of
“Black Magic” now playing the political
theatre is the ability of the “guberal”
to appear and disappear on cue.
We see the specie on one day act out
the drama of “Federal Funds Without
Federal Controls” and on the next day
they are off picketing the White House
about Viet Nam or espresso or ; the
Mattachine Society while the ranch hands
put their brand on the already badly
bruised bottom of American education.
Then on another day with the slight
est lift of some fairy’s wand these “Glib
erals” crawl from their antique worm
holes, blossom into beauteous butterflies
while they flit about with delight be
cause of the great stroke for “academic
freedom” that was struck by the supine
court’s banning of religion in the pub
lic education forum.
Then before their oviducts have hard
ly healed from spraying about this bit
ter seed they shed their wings of free
dom and fall to the ground while another
of the same breed screams that “academic
freedom” has been put to death be
cause atheistic communism has been
voted out ofa few public schools.
Civil Wrongs
No part of our American system at
this time is more wrong than the unlim
ited license given to selfish men who
pose as representatives of labor. In 31
of 50 states payment of union tribute is
a requisite to earning a living.
No matter how reprehensible the union
and its leaders may happen to be to an
individual; if that individual’s trade hap
pens to fall into union-controlled employ
ment he must pay regular dues and
special assessments before he can earn
a living in his chosen field.
Now congress is facing one of the
dirty political promises made last year
by Lyndon Johnson: To destroy the right
of an individual to work without paying
bribes to union officials in 19 of the
50 states where state legislatures have
managed to-escape the' brutal pressures
of these union overlords.
Now, the threat that other state legis
latures may also suddenly find their
lost courage'is enough to keep some
bridle on these dictators of labor. If
the federal congress bows to the de
mands of Johnson and the pressures of
Walter Reuther and his collection of so
cialists then the last curb on rampant
unionism will have been destroyed and
every man, woman and child in the en
tire nation will have to pay bribes to
unions in order to hold any job.
It has long since been a myth that
the working man needed the “help” of
union thugs. There was a time when
unions were needed to protect workers
from the brutal greeds of stupid indus
trialists, but that day is not now.
The unionists argue that if they do
not stay strong the same blind greed
of capital will surge again to the top
of our society. The chance of this hap
pening is much more remote than the
dangerous possibility of union leaders
getting more power than their intelli
gence can reasonable control.
What is worst is that the few remain
ing really good unions are going to ulti
mately suffer for the hoggish excesses;
of their colleague unions.
Poor Comparison
Many who attempt to defend the Ku
Klux Klan use a poor method of com
parison in their effort Frequently heard
are such remarks as: “The Ka Klux Klan
is no more secret than the NAACP.”
“The Black Mnriims are just as bad
as the Ku Klux.” and so on down the
line.
Now there is the strong likelihood
that the perfect organization has not
been developed yet There is the wid
est possible disagreement on such a
a basic thing as religion; so when polit
ical religious, sociological and cultural
ingredients get involved in ah organiza
tional structure the odds are pretty high
that it will be controversial.
But to equate the Ku Klux Klan, eith
er past or present with such criminal
ity and corruption as the Bayard Rustin
outfit presided over by Martin Luther
King is too far from the mark to be
even called a “near-miss.”
Rustin is a convicted sex pervert, ad
mitted communist and full-time anarchist
who has maneuvered Ignoble Prize Win
ner King from the outset and who still
controls King totally. This moral misfit
accompanied King just recently to visit
United Nations Ambassador Arthur
Goldberg.
The position of the Ku Klux Klan
is not 100 per cent right, bat it’s pre
cepts are far more wholesome than
those of the homosexuals who control
the so-called civil rights movement to
such a disgusting degree.
The greatest dahger represented in
the Ku Klux Klan is that it occupies
the “point” in this effort to bring our
country back to reason in the minds
of a great many people, and occupying
this position makes it dangerously vul
nerable to infiltration by communistic
and anarchistic elements. Certainly if
the FBI can infiltrate the KKK it is
possible that trouble-makers from the
atheistic left could have done the same.
Apd it is the possibility of a direct
and bloody confrontation between these
paid agitators on both sides of the cur
rant political crisis that makes the job
of KKK leaders dangerous to them
selves and the nation.
But as so many people have said to
us in recent months: Where else can the
white race turn to when all levels of
government are so supinely sprawled
before the colored vote?
Down With Biology!
There must be a strange disease that
infects legislators, because from time
to time in the histories of legislatives
we see wise men doing wild things.
Many of us are old enough to remem
ber the studied imbecility of national
prohibition, an act of legislative insanity
that attempted to repeal the laws of
fermentation and human nature.
Now we have been recently treated
to another instance of legislative mad
ness in something called equal rights
for women.
Under this petticoat statute firms
with more than 100 workers cannot ad
vertise a job for “Men Only.” Firms
similarly situated cannot have a policy
of firing women who get married unless
they also fire men who get married.
Next year this law drops down to snag
firms with 25 or more workers.
This, of course, is a further effort of
wise men to accomplish by legislative
fiat the impossible act of outlawing the
laws of biology.
This law, as prohibition, was one
forced out of congress by militant
collections of females freaks and spine
less men.
Any and every attempt to write exact
and equal coverage for both the sexes
is as sure to fail as night is to fafi.
We still share, and completely the
Gallic exuberance so well expressed in
the French Chamber of Deputies, where
a stem sister deputy demanded equal
rights for French women and concluded
with the mistaken notion that: “After
all there is very little difference be
tween us!”
To which the Chamber rose as a body;
when a toast was quickly offered by a
gallant Frenchmen, who said, and we
cheer: '
■Vive, Le Difference!”
The ruling last week from the
attorney general’s office about public
schools being in competition with private
business is about a hundred years too
late, but even late as it is it has caused
quite a stir among schools officials, and
it ought to be of some little concern to
those of us who are on both sides of
this problem.
Government for a very ldng time has
been moving more deeply into competi
tion with private business of all kinds,
but this has been generally accepted
under the premise that such penetra
tions were in “the general welfare.”
The list is ancient and long of gov
ernment services that have put private
business out of business. The govern
ment post office put numerous private
carriers of mail and goods out of busi
ness. Public roads put private toll roads
out of business first, and then more re
cently these same public roads have
made passenger life impossible and
freighting hauling difficult for railroads
who built their own roads and paid tax
es to help build public roads to put
themselves out of business.
It may even surprise members of
the present generation to learn that the
very topic under study: Public Schools,
were not always a part of the American
way of.life, and when they began mush
rooming a century ago they put thous
ands of private schools out of business
and even today those private schools
that survive have a hard time because
the private school sponsors still have
to pay the same taxes to support public
schools while bearing the burden of
the private schools as well.
In North Carolina the State Blind Com
mission takes money collected from
private concession owners to equip
and operate concessions in countless
private business locations under subsi
dies in tax dollars. This happens to be
one of the most brutal instances of pub
lic institutions competing with private
business.
The list could go on and on of public
competition with private business, but
Td like to reverse the field now and
argue on the other side of this fence
since the majority of us still have to
send our children to public schools.
Because of this I feel it not only good
but almost vital that our children in
the public schools be given some ex
posure to the capitalistic system by
learning to work, to sell, to earn money
for specific things they and their school
want. Unless they get such exposure
they are likely to come out of school
believing as too many of them already
believe that there IS such a thing in
this world as something for nothing.
In our chain-step Great Society where
each school child is supposed to get the
same size bowl of-sup, the same num
ber of crackers ,the same size slice of
government cheese^ seems to me to be
desirable that there be some exposure of
our children to the basic truths of eco
nomics, and that they ought to learn
that government cannot give them or
anyone else anything it has not taken
from someone else.
Our children ought to have some
living and working learning of such
facts as these: That ‘annuals” do not
grow on bushes 6n the slopes of any
big rock candy mountain, that “trips”
are not instances of spontaneous regen
eration, that class gifts do not fall as
manna from the heavens, that nothing
of value is free; and most importantly
that those things hidden under the wrong
label of “free” are in the final analysis
the most expensive things one ever
could hope to suffer.
JONES JOURNAL ~
JACK RIDER, niHiiNin
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