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EDITORIALS
Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man
4nd He May Be Wrong
The War on Taxpayers
When the war on poverty began the
presumption was that the government
was going to shoot down poverty when
ever and wherever it reared its ugly
head.
But now the war on poverty has turn
ed into a war on tax payers. So far
no noticeable victories have been gain
ed over poverty because each time the
legislative bodies are assembled they
expand expenditures for the poverty
stricken.
But there is a long and growing list
of defeats suffered by the disorganized,
leaderless taxpayers.
Tax payers, for instance are allowed
$600 per year to drag their heirs into
adulthood. But a poverty stricken tax
eater is allowed $800 per year of those
dollars taken from the tax payer to care
for his child.
The tax payer is not allowed any ex
emption for money spent educating his
children, but the generals in the war on
poverty this year are spending $3,100
000 taken from the tax payers to ed
ucate just 202 domestic peace corps
men. That comes to about $15,342 per
trainee, per year, which ought to make
them among the most educated corps
men who ever fought anything.
And at the fountain head of all this
unwisdom the legions of General Sar
gent Shriver (a new military breed) have
spent $635,000 to baby sit for 450 chil
dren of “working mothers;” or $1,411
per baby per year.
Even in Jones County General Shriv
er’s forces are setting up a beachead
with 20 baby-sitting units, employing
41 workers at a monthly cost to the
taxpayers of $7560 to take care of 100
babies. Senior baby sitters are to be
paid $200 per month and junior baby
sisters are to get $160 per month and
the babysitter in charge of all the
Jones County baby sitting will be paid
$360 per month. And the “patriots” who
provide the roof under which the baby
sitting is to be done will be rewarded
in similar fashion.
The tax eaters are winning because
the tax payers don’t have enough guts
to stand and fight.
The Hair Market
Competing closely with “Hondas” in
the gross national product listing is
the hair market; which further affirms
that there is nothing new under the
sun, or under a wig.
Back in the chill loneliness of our cave
dwelling ancestry some baldheaded
Cro-Magnon found that a “hair piece”
lifted from a truculent neighbor kept
his sloped head warm and gave him a
certain “Je ne sais quoi” with the girls
on the diffside when he went a court
ing.
Most aboriginal societies up to and'
even including those on the Mersey side
have used borrowed hair for one Freu
dian reason or another. v
Those brave men who won our coun
try’s freedom powered their wigs and
dusted it with flea powder When going
off on important affairs.
But for nearly a century the dome
divot was scorned by all except the
painfully bald and. intrepid CIA .agents.
Now the, hair market is as wild as a
can of kraut. Nobody who’s anybody
would be seen in public with her own
hair. Beauticians grow lonesome, with
no new gossip silently scrubbing and
combing milady’s wig, whilst milady gets
another forty winks.
And that is not all; milady who is
really hitting the balls well will have
an assortment of wooly wampum to
drape over her own closely cropped
former glory. Wigs to match different
colored ensembles, to match different
mood s. . . dancing wigs, starting wigs,
boudoir wigs.
“Falsies" led to many an early di
vorce by some deceived young hus
band.
Mgs may lead to even shorter
romances, because one may not be able
to identify “his” even at close range
if she does a quick wig switch between
cocktails and dinner.
What a racket... and some cost more
than a mink coat. Fortunately, the wom
en don’t have to be killed to give up
their hair for La Belle Fashion — or
doxthey?
| My Goodnes?!
Sam Ragan Is a member of that
strange tribe that pitchforks out the
Raleigh News and .Observer each day.
Ragan wears his hair long on the
side and scarce on top, but he insinuates
hipiself into the “long hair” set by
writing poetry, attending “writers’ con
ferences” and affecting something very
loosely called “KultUT.”
Among the hall, marks of current
culture, either way it’s spelled, is an
unbending subservience to “brother
hood,” racial integration, communist in
filtration and “freedom.”
Ragan is among the intelligentsia who
deplore the General Assembly’s curtail
ment of communist activities on state
school properties.
Ragan is a permanent member of a
permanent committee which seeks to
establish the “Right 'of- the People to
unhampered access to public informa
tion.’*
Why so much about Sam?
In his “Southern Accent” column of
recent date he emits one of the most
plaintive bleats of the offended gliberal
by protesting that:
"One of the most outrageous and dan
gerous developments in Community Re
lations Service, created by the 1964
Civil Rights Act, was reported the other
day by Washington Columnists Rowland
Evans and Robert, Nowak. The plan is
to have Big Brother force textbook and
other publishers to give Negroes more
favorable treatment in history books.
In addition, pressure is to be brought
on Hollywood to insert more Negroes
in to films."
Heavens to Little Liza, they may even
“pressure” Ragan’s bleeding heart
house organ of gliberaldom to publish
Negro obituaries and Negro weddings,
and “pressure” might even rise to such
a boiling point that they would suggest
that this integrationist Raleigh rag prac
tice what it preaches by hiring a Ne
gro editor .A even a Negro editor who
writes poetry and wears his hair long
around the ears. . . . My Goodness!!
Catholic Brotherhood
Last week the “ecumenical council”
of the Roman Catholic Church voted
1,763 - to - 250 to no longer prescribe
as church dogma that Jews are re
jected by God and accursed.
Today the most unfashionable avoca
tion one can pursue is bigotry. This is
the hour of “brotherhood”; when one
is cautioned to put aside those childish
“prejudices” of race, religion or na
tional origin.
So reluctantly the Catholics are shed
ding their ancient bigotry toward Jews.
Who knows; any day now The Pope may
embrace the principles of Margaret
Sanger.
But no bigoted, ignorant, prejudiced
Southerner can put aside this Catholic
renaissance without asking? Why so
many priests and nuns march across
the South to wash away the Southern
sin of racial segregation, when for most
of 2,000 years their church has held
firmly to the undebatable premise that
Jews are rejected and accursed in the
sight of God? l
If it has taken such annointed groups
as the College of Cardinals and the
High School of Bishops the best of
2,000 years to lay aside the Roman
Catholic brand of anti-Semitism why
won’t they give us Southerners a few
generations to get used to the idea of
social and family racial integration?
Since time began running on the
Catholic calendar no Roman Catholic
could marry a Jew without immediate
ly losing his membership in the religion
of his choice. And even in the sweet
ness and light of this mid-20th Century
there were still 250 Roman Catholic Bis
hops who apparently still ding to the
bigoted, stupid notion that Jews are
accursed and rejected by God.
But, of course, people who would
presume to know, what is on God’s mind '
are capable of most any imbecility.
JONES JOURNAL
JACK RIDER. wUd*HWi . .
Published every Thursday by the. Lenoir
County News Company, Inc., 403 West
Vernon Ave* Kinston,, N. C. 28501, Phone
JA 3-2375. Entered as Second Class Matter
May 5, 1949, at Post Office at Trenton,
1879.
plus 3 per. <
rates payabld'in advance. Second: Class post
age paid at Trenton, N. C,
PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS
' by
JACK RIDER
Elmer Brock of the Mount Olive Tri
bune is smarter than the average Brock,
or for thalt- matter, smarter even than
the average editor. In the Tuesday is
sue of his paper Elmer wonders if the
current rash of youthful protests against
Viet Nam, the Draft aiid such trivia is
hot far more justified than meets the
naked, easily critical eye. Most of us
jump too hastily to the conclusion that
these young people burning draft cards
and deliberately dodging the draft are
cowards, traitors or some kind of nut.
Some of all of these may be in this
wild assortment but Elmer says it is
small wonder that, these young people
are confused, frustrated, mad and will
ing to run the gauntlet of Big Daddy
government. He asks, “Why not demon
strate?” After all the majority of our
domestic affairs for the past 20 years
have been dictated by “demofistrators.”
How can young Americans taught the
Monroe Doctrine principle accept mud,
blood, death and frustration in Viet
Nam, when our country has rejected
the Monroe Doctrine by permitting Cas
tro to import Russo-Chinese imperial
ism within shooting distance of our
own shores?
What property, political or personal
rights can these young people see in
Viet Nam when our leader is giving
away the Panama Canal to a bunch of
revolutionists and panhandlers who “de
monstrated” against our country last
year, and who are now being given much,
much more than even the wildest one
of them ever imagined possible?
Why shouldn’t young people spit on
principle when they read great, ringing
speeches in the history books in defense
of unlimited debate in the United States
Senate and then see the same man who
made those immortal speeches against
cloture talking from the other side of
his mouth as the Number One Citizen
of The Land.
Why not turn their back on country,
flag and patriotism when turncoats are
given greater recognition by govern
ment than patriots. General Edwin
Walker is illegally jailed by the same
attorney general who lionizes Bayard
Rustin, the sex pervert, jail bird, draft
dodger, who led the great march on
Washington? What is honor?
Why not cut corner? Why not chase
the fast buck? The president has par
layed his wife’s $87,000 inheritance into
a $15 million dollar fortune. And all
because she is such a smart business
woman. Politics had nothing to do with
Johnsons having one of the richest TV
Radio markets in the nation all to them
selves. Most any barefaced Texas school
teacher can rise this high if he happens
to be majority leader of the senate,
vice president and president. If John
son had never spent a penny of his
salary since he got his first govern
ment joj>, and if he had not spent a
penny of his wife’s $87,000 inheritance
. . . and if they had been lucky enough
to have doubled all of this at the crap
tables or in the stock market his gross
net worth would not now approach one
million, not to mention 15 million dol
lars.
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So our young people have every right
— almost a compulsion to be cynical...
to wonder about the profits of patriot
ism, about the glory of public service,
iabout the nobility of those patriots
iwho serve for so little reward.
And this same cold cynicism reflects
not just the ugly picture of government
gone berserk j . . it also reflects the
picture on the wall of private business
putting profits ahead of ethics, of
amateur athletics done to death by the
lust of paunchy alumni and frightened
school administrators.
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After all they’re children of this gen
eration and we have not set the finest..,, ,4
example for them. , . - . .
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