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Significant Conference
On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Le
noir County will be host to some of
the nation’s top hog growers from 21
states — some as distant as South
Dakota and Texas.
This is not the first, and will not be
the last national hog type conference
held in Lenoir County. The vision and
money of a small group of Lenoir Coun
tians more than 20 years ago launched
the Kinston trade area into the meat
packing industry.
Unimaginable dividends have been
paid on this vision and investment, but
the best is yet to come.
For much too long Eastern North
Carolina has made too much of its
farm living off too little of its land.
Now with the best stabilization it has
ever had tobacco can remain an inte
gral part, but not the supreme dictator
of the East Carolina farm economy.
Meat production for the rich corn
land of Eastern Carolina is as natural
as breathing. One of the nation’s larg
est meat packers has realized this with
a plant in Wilson and Frosty Morn —
far from pint - sized in the industry —,
— has recognized this with continuing
expansion of its Kinston plant.
But a lot still remains to be done.
Type conferences bring together people
who know hogs, and know what it takes
to make money in growing hogs. Some
of their knowledge and enthusiasm will
rub off on more people in our area
and the addition of each 100 good brood
sows in a community bolsters the cash
farm income by nearly $40,000.
The arithmetic of this persuasion is
simple, for there is not a farm in this
area that could not adequately feed
out an additional few good sows. So if a
thousand of Lenoir County’s 3,000 farms
were to add just one extra top-bred
sow over a third of a million dollars
would be pumped into the farm econ
omy. Money that would be available six
days each week, 52 weeks to the year.
But the farmer who makes money off
hogs is that one who gets in and stays
in; not the fellow who expects to get
rich quick without work,
The Silver Lining
Although President Johnson “enjoys”
a Democratic margin in the house of
295-to-140 many of his Great Society
bills only passed by a margin of 35
votes. This means that a change of
just 18 seats in the house could upset
the Great Society apple cart.
And in the house the crucial vote that
loosened the conservative grip on the
rules committee only passed by 11 votes.
■ So there is hope for those of us of
conservative persuasion.
The growing cost in lives and in money
of the unconstitutional war in Viet Nam,
the mountainous increase in Social Se
curity taxes, the nightmare extrava
gancies and total failures of the “war on
poverty” and the final awakening of
more citizens add up to some changes
in congress the next time around.
No political seer in his right mind
would dare to guess how many seats
in congress will revert to their former
conservative status in the 1966 elec
tions, but the odds are high that many
more than the handful needed to let.
the air of the Great Society will switch.
Most mothers would rather switch than
have their sons slaughtered in Viet Nam.
A very large part of the Johnson land
slide that dragged in so many “liberal”
congressmen was due to the propaganda
that misled so many people into believ
ing that Barry Goldwater was the “trig
er-happy” warrior who would involve
us more deeply in an Asian land war.
Johnson was the whining, platitudin
ous “Big Daddy” who was going to cut
taxes, raise federal spending, bring
peace, cast out devils, forgive our sins :
and raise the dead. Goldwater was some :
kind of a nut who was going to end -t
social security — whatever that is, and 3
send.our sons off to war.- . < ■>
Politicians often assert that the dumb i
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Parkinson Theory
At Work
: That eminent tongue-in-cheek British
wit and economist A. R. Parkinson has
established beyond doubt the validity
of his theory on government that “Work
ers will expand to fill the work load.”
Nothing confirms this more quickly
than & casual glance at the first blossom
ing of this thing called “court reform”
that was sold to a majority of North
Carolinians in a constitutional referen
dum four years ago.
The first six judicial districts to ac
tivate these “court reforms” indicate
that the major form this reform will
take is to be in the increased price of
“justice.”
Each defendant convicted under this
reformed justice will have to pay $2
to the city or county whose officers ar
rested him, another $2 for whichever
unit provided the court room, another
$3 into the retirement fund for the of
ficer who arrested him and a final $8
to help defray the salary of the judge
who sentenced him and the prosecut
ing attorney who convicted him.
Recorder’s court judges whose salaries
now average about $5,000 per year will
have their titles changed to “district
judge” and their pay will be increased
slightly to $15,000 per year.
Solicitors of recorder’s court will have
their average pay of $4,000 enhanced by
a $7,000 per year raise to $11,000.
Justices of peace will be changed to
magistrates and their salary will be
fixed at a maximum of $6,000, with
office, equipment and all supplies furn
ished by the city or county. At present
justices of peace draw no salary but
derive their income from fees charg
ed for their numerous services.
Atop this judicial proliferation a de
partment for the administration of jus
tice is to be set up with high-salaried
appointive patriots who have volunteer
ed to serve their state.
But it has to be good, because the
majority of the people voted for it and
majorities are always right, except when
they are wrong.
Attention Called
If the bitter lesson of the recent past
American politics proves nothing else
it proves the power of minorities who
either actually or rhetorically assemble
their power. '
A coalition of all labor unions, all in
dustrialists, all ethnic leaders and all
ward-heeling politicians cannot match
the total power of the nation’s practic
ing physicians.
Doctors can afford financially to stand
up for their principles better than in
dustrialists who must try to keep their
corporations solvent or politicians who
must keep on trying to be elected.
Doctors are educated and certainly
should be more aware than the average
person of the paralyzing hand of state
socialism. Doctors know that govern
ment medicine is not the best medicine.
This year alone 1160 doctors have fled
England — already faced with a drastic
shortage of doctors — because they had
rather make new lives in distant lands
than to become numbers in a grand
governmental scheme of medicine.
In this issue we publish the statement
of one courageous doctor, speaking to
his colleagues. He is only putting into
words and into print the things that
every doctor already knows.
Doctors in order to completely frus
trate the monstrosity called “Medicare”
do not have to leave a single patient
unattended. All they have to do is re
fuse to turn their private offices into a
huge file cabinet for the ever-expand
ing bureaucracy of Washington.
This surely would mean a financial
sacrifice in the beginning for doctors,
hut in the long run it will keep their
profession free and protect their
patients, to whom they owe the first
illegiance from the outrages of political
pandering.
roter has a short memory, but there
ire scattered indicators all across the
lation that the voters will not all suf
fer amnesia between now and the ’66
Sections, and that even, a Jfew might
K>ld...,©nto their memory, until 1968
•ban LBJ will be up for his “second
roming”.
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PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS
V BY,-'
JACK RIDER
l)r. John East is shadow boxing when
he tries to get Democratic nominee Wal
ter' Jones to debate the issues as they
seek to, win the seat vacated in con
gress by Herbert Bonner’s death. Jones
is a fine fellow, but lie is a Democrat,
and he figures that in the First North
Carolina Congressional District that is
the only pedigree he needs.
The 15 counties which comprise the
first district voted 47,067 times ■ for
Lyndon ■ Johnson to 20,318 times for
Barry Goldwater in 1964 and even
President Eisenhower could only break
the party barrier in one of those 15
counties, carrying Dare County in 1956
1028-to-839.
This no doubt is a frustrating lesson
for a political scientist to have to learn
at the advanced age of Dr. East. But
when one has the votes there is nothing
to be gained and much to be lost by
indulging in TV debates.
Jones is an experienced legislator,
whom we suspect knows more about
the needs of the first congressional dis
trict than Dr. East, or any ten pro
fessors in or out of East Carolina. Which
takes us back to 1948 when Rhodes
Scholar Robert Humber was trying to
unseat Bonner from the same post now
in contention between Jones and East.
Freshly back from three years in
England myself and working with a
kinsmen of Dr. Humber, I ventured
a few suggestions to a Gates County
farmer on the primary election soon to
be held. I mentioned Dr. Humber’s ed
ucation, his international background,
his success financially in business, and
the farmer listened very carefully; but
he was not sold.
He ended the conversation with the
unanswerable question: “What does he
know about peanuts?” To a Gates Coun
ty farmer peanuts are more important
than world affairs, or even the affairs
in the next congressional district.
I’m sure that if the qualifications of
Walter Jones and John East were fed
into a computer and the question was
asked, “Which is the most qualified to
be a member of congress?” that the ma
chine would quickly nominate Dr.
East, because computers are built by
learned elders who have more concern
with the form of education than the
substance.
Dr. East will be able to return to his
political science classes at East Caro
lina College next month a wiser if not
happier man. But then wisdom has
never been a guarantee of contentment.
Perhaps the wisest man of all; no mat
ter what his IQ may be, is that man
who understands very clearly what his
limitations really are. Dr. East undoubt
edly will have a more firm grasp of
his character when the voters have
spoken next month in the first district.
Finally, one last ugly word about
the first district: Goldie Frink, the ‘ex
jail bird, ex-pimp, present'negro lead
er, has offered to throw the negro vote
to either Jones or East in exchange for
a small $15,000 per year job on his
staff when he moves into the house
office building. Neither Jones or East
has risen to the occasion and both
have failed to recognize that Dear
Goldie is just what Washington needs
in these troubled times.
So it would appear that Goldie will
have to suffer along on the scraps from
the civil rights table, with maybe a
few big chunks from the War on Pover
ty which his former boss, James Farm
er, is now using to extract fifty million
tax dollars from us docile, dumb jerks
who pay taxes. v
JONESJOURNAT
JACK RIDER,
PUBLISHER
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