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No Troops, No King
A thug last week in Detroit shot down
a colored boy and strangely enough LBJ
sent no troops and Martin Luther King
didn’t run up to collect any coins.
A racist murder in the north is little
tie noted, and hardly mentioned in the
national press. A similar incident in the
South is puffed out of all proportion
and the world is led to believe that the
people south of the Potomac and Ohio
are somehow different than those in
Detroit, New York, London, Paris, Mos
cow, Delhi, Peking, Tokyo, Vatican City
and Leopoldsville.
Racism is not a sectional problem, nor
is it confined to people of one color.
Koreans and Japanese hate each other
with a passidtt-'even a Black Muslim and
a Ku Kluxer would find hard to appre
ciate.
For nearly 2,000 years the largest so
called Christian church, the Roman Cath
olic Church, has pursued the bitterest
policy toward Jews, and still forbids on
threat of excommunication marriages be
tween Jew and Catholic. Yet many not
ables in this same church wring their
hands and cry buckets of crocodile tears
because there are laws against miscegen
ation in most of the United States. To
some people the mixing of races in mar
riage is at least undesirable as marriages
of mixed religions.
But the mania that rules in the world
today has deserted every political, re
ligious and ethical concept of intelli
gence and seems bent upon enshrine
ment of madness at every level and in
every part of the world.
Our own country not only turns its
back, but exercises boycott of beleaguer
ed people of a similar heritage in Rho
desia. We accept into full voting mem
bership in the United Nations a tribal
enclave whose president served time in
a French prison for eating his own
mother-in-law. And this “nation” has the
same vote in the United Nations as our
own” country. Yet our “supreme” court
is busy telling every state legislature in
the nation that it must desert constitu
tionality and common sense and invoke
some kind of black magic called “One
Man-One-Vote”, which is more contrary
to the basic precepts of these United
States than monarchy.
Madness is, indeed, epidemic in the
world today.
No Controls
Confusion and consternation are the
perfectly good words used by Kinston’s
Assistant School Superintendent to ex
plain the situation in North Carolina in
sofar as funds from the federal-aid-to
education bill passed in the 1965 ses
sion of LBJ’s rubberstamp society, some
times laughingly referred to as “The
World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.”
Although we have asked the question
repeatedly, and recently we have not
been able to find a single one of those
noble educational souls who went about
the land saying that federal funds could
be allocated to local schools without
federal controls.
For an educator to have ever sub
scribed to so stupid a premise was one
of the best reasons we ever had for
supporting “Quality Education,” for this
mndp it sadly apparent that the educa
tion we had up until now had surely not
been of very high quality.
Because the first lesson in any politi
cal science class is that those who con
trol the money caH the tune. The fact
that, the money originated from the same
riiftiitiifiitiiiM
taxpayers who are about to be brought
under control has little or nothing to
do with the use or abuse of money
once it has been put in the hands of
some annointed, well-intended bureau
crat who KNOWS beyond doubt that he
is better equipped to dictate the oper
ation of thousands of school districts
than all of those people who have spent
a lifetime trying to find that uncertain.,*
route toward the holy grail of quality
education.
The high priest of federal education,
with malice before and after the thought,
has come down from the mountain top
with a commandment that all this feder
al tax loot, must be spent in schools
that have as high or higher percentages
of underprivileged as the school districts i
overall percentage of underpriviliged. <
- Which says that the most underpriv- :
ileged child in the United States — say
the orphan of white. Protestants, who is 1
living with his Ku Klux Klan grandfa- 1
ther could hot benefit from this largess 1
if he were enrolled in a school with i
less than the district level of “po folks.”
prpssion than to suppress an evil
This is the almost unanimously adopt
ed policy of those people trusted with
operating the tax-supported colleges of
North Carolina. They have agreed to per
mit “infrequent” appearances of com
munists to brainwash our cluldren, and
to set the stage for destruction of our
system. ,
Lenin’s conspiracy never included
more than 11,000 members but it man
aged nonetheless to take over a country
of nearly 160 million people. And control
of a modern society is much easier than
the coup Lenin engineered in the feudal
ignorances of Tsarist Russia.
Last week’s electrical failure in North
eastern United States points up the vul
nerability of a highly mechanized socie
ty. Communications and even vital op
erations slammed to a sudden halt be
cause somebody or something — con
trolled by a person — made a mistake.
How quickly could a pre-conceived
plan close the bridges to Washington,
lay siege to the White House, and con
trol the nerve centers that might resist?
Industry, transportation and commu
nications can be.,paraded much more
easily in the United* States today than
in 1776, when" industry was not the fac
tor it is in modern society, when trans
portation was an individual problems.
One man’s communications in 1776 were
about as good as another’s, but today
those who control the nerve centers of
radio, TV and the wire services control
all communications, and those outside
have no method of coordination or re
grouping.
Militarily our country, is ?n easier
mark for the coup'-3‘efeit’-today than it
was a hundred or 200 years ago. And if
there are those among us naive enough
to believe that ultimate total control
is not the motivating factor behind
every move of international communism
then he is living-in a foal’s paradise,
indeed.
The importance of Size
One of the standard American preoc
cupations is with size. We wonder how
“big” a town is, rather than how good
it is. How much a man has rather than
what he contributes to society. How
many members a church has, and how
much its edifice cost ,rather than how
many devoutly religious members it has.
Because of this slavery to materiality
we tend to ignore anything that lacks
enormity. This is the most dangerous
weapon American communism has, for
when we read there are only 20,000 or
even 100,000 communists in the United
States we relax because that many peo
ple frequently attend a single football
game.
But one man with a flaming desire
and with a persuasive argument is more
dangerous than even the grandest army
with the most terrible weapons if that
army lafks similar desire and it leaders
have failed ito-. m^ke ah equally persua
sive argument.
" Americans are more afraid of a 30
foot python than a 3-foot coral snake.
We recoil in fright from the monstrous
body of land and people called China,
but we accept with mildest reservations
political snakes in our own country
whose threat to our country is far great
er than that of poor, hungry, over-popu
lated and abused China.
One professor in a key spot is more
deadly to America than all the hordes
of China. One editor controlling the
right newspaper is more dangerous than
Russian nuclear capability. One preach
er with the right pulpit can conquer
more Americans than ill the Lenins.
The threat academically in North
Carolina, and in the nation today is NOT
the card-carrying, insult-hurling profes
sional communist, but it is the misguid
ed socialist who sincerely believes that
a paternalistic government, controlled,
if course, by intellectuals can put an
end to aU the miseries confronting man
kind. ' -
This is the humanitarian with guillo
tine, who “freed the French” of Bour
t>on tyranny, and cut off their heads if
they had a different approach to free
dom than those ordained to such high
political pretensions. -v
warn
PARAGRAPHS
BY
JACK RIDER
„ I am happy to see that Lenoir County
Community College is taking registra
tion for “A Class in Human Relations
for Automobile Mechanics.” This is like
ly to be more far-reachingly significant
than Elvis Presly’s influence on the
electric guitar industry. On seeing this
notice I rushed to the phone and made
inquiry about the course, for although
I am far from being an automobile me
chanic, I do on occasion find myself call
ed upon to have human relations.
The young lady who answered the col
lege phone ran through the school di
rectory and found, oddly enough, that
the school had no human relations di
rector, although it has assorted other
directors ranging from those aardvark
care and cultivation to the chair of
zoology.
Confronted by a shortage of human
relations directors, and not even find
ing an “acting” human relations direc
tor, she wondered what it was I wanted
to know. And all I wanted to know was
what a course in human relations for
automobile mechanics entailed. Did it
infer inhumanity on the part of mechan
ics, or their clients.
The cooperative young lady couldn’t
offer much help, except to inform me
that the human relations classes were
at'night, and that sounded fairly reas
onable to me, and I told her that I
thought night was a better time for
human relations than broad-open day
light.
She asked if I could wait and talk to
the teacher of the human relations for
automobile mechanics class could be
brought to the phone. I demurred, not
wanting to wake up a man with this
kind of problem as early as 10 o’clock,
and on Monday morning, too.
I did ask her, however, to have him
look the definition of' the course up and
call me later in the day. Some of my
best friends are automobile mechanics,
and if this is a good course I’d like to
urge them to invest $4 and enroll im
mediately, but with all the assorted
infiltrations hitting college campuses to
day you can’t really judge a course by
its title.
Is this an “adult only” type course?
Has it ever been banned in Boston? Is
there a similar course for dental techni
cians, barbers, TV mechanics? All of
those could learn a lesson or two about
humane human relations. Will the col
lege offer such a course for realtors?
Especially in view of the hellacious price
the college paid last week for 45 acres
of land.
There are some taxpaying humans
around the county who are pretty sore
about paying $105,000 for something on
the taxbooks for $19,000. This is a pret
ty high mark-up even for quality educa
tion.
I suppose what the cbllege most needs
is a course in human relations for news
paper people. We are a pretty inhumane
breed. We are Cynical, nutty and nosy
but the good ones — such as myself —
do occasionally look over our intellec
tual noses and roar a belly laugh or
two at our own pretensions.
The hardest job for most of us is be
ing able to face the fact that the world
will turn, birds will fly and fish will
swim whether we approve or not. Even
last week the world kept right on about
its business for a full 12 hours without
all the culture and brains concentrated
in New York, Boston and points in be
tween. -
But I would like to know more about
this human relations bit for automobile
mechanics. More about this later, I
think.
-
am
J*SNI
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