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*■ Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man --—---And He May Be Wrong Election Guesses One needs no special ability to predict that Democratic job holders in Eastern North Carolina will suffer their most severe shock in this century on Novem ber 8th. Some even may lose their spot at the publicrslop trough. The North Carolina congressional delegation dean, Harold Cooley, is run ning scared and with very good cause. Sixteen-year veteran L. H. Fountain is nervous about his political future for the first time since he retired John Kerr from the second district seat he now holds. Freshman ' Representative, Walter Jones, so recently sent to congress, looks back to last winter when the same man he now faces got more than 40 per cent of the first district vote. Senator Everett Jordan is absurdly complacent)' ^despite his rubberstamp record for the. LBJ program, and de spite his blundering cover-up of the Bobby Baker mess. Jordan may join the “Tom Dewey Club” on Npvemlj^r. Otb^, Even the hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, speak-no-evil Democratic monkeys in Raleigh may wake up on November 9th to learn that East Carolina is no longer a voting preserve where the Democratic Party can expect the peasantry to auto matically vote the “right way”. But this is merely the beginning. The real fireworks in Eastern North Carolina will come in November 1968, and all across the land, and especially in the southern part of the land there will be weeping and wailing from those who thought they lived in “safe districts”. The strange coalitions that now com prise both the Democratic and Republi can parties will find another spicy in gredient in the political stew in 1968. IBs name is George Wallace. He is well financed, well organized and although he knows very well that he will never be elected president, he does know that he can quite possibly be in a position to personally dictate who will and who will not be $ected to this particular jpb. The Cause-of Inflation , U . •J.V’i •r The cruelest hoax President Johnson: has tried to pull on the American public is putting the blame for inflation on such innocent segments of the citizenry as housewives, farmers, expanding industry and retail merchants. The single cause of our dangerously high inflationary rate is congress. A congress that Oven outspends such a confessed state socialist as the presi dent himself. A congress that ignores economic basics and attempts to heal every wound — domestic or foreign with a “money plaster”. ; Raising the taxes of working Ameri cans while expanding the waste by non productive government dirones is adding insult to injury. In our tiny community, which' repre sents about one three-thousandth of the entire nation, it takes no crystal ball to, see exactly where the inflationary pres sures have been generated. Several hundred previously gainfully employed people age now working in some phase of the “War on Poverty”, and. at of these “poverty workers” ever earned themselves before. . More people than ever before are working in the post office, and starting pay scales in the post office are twice as high as the starting pay scale for the average business in this area. People in this area who do 'Work un der governinent contract not only have the federal government dictating to them the color of the workers they must hire but also the exhorbitant wages these workers must be paid. Manual laborer* are being paid over $4 per hour under such federal government contracts. . So the pressures of inflation are be ing generated by a power-mad cliche of socialists in congress, whose deliberate plan is to spedd our capitalistic system into bankruptcy so that the buzzards of state socialism may come down and gnaw the bones of what once was the world’s strongest economy. Government controls stifle incentive, V *■ ■. :■ - ."/A.. -r.■ , - raise harass those who are willing ' force many small business emmental policy. The government of a free people mnst never vary .its goal of equal and exact treatment to all, and the fact that government irfthe past or in the pre sent — fails in this effort is a poor ex cuse for supposing that two wrongs will correct an original wrong. “Equal Justice Under Law” is a politi cal slogan chiseled over the entrance to the home of the United States Su preme Court. Recently this has been cor rupted in decision after decision by this court to mean “Unequal Justice Under Judicial Whim”. When the nation’s highest court re peatedly says that law-breakers must not be punished because the laws they broke were “unjust laws” the ugliest evils imaginable swarm from this in judicious Pandora’s Box. This phrase crawled from under the social sciences log and is now moving into other spheres. Just this week a spe cial committee from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has asked “Preferential Treatment” for its branch of the Greater University to the end that it might catch up with its older sisters. The absurdity of this concept ought to be recognized by such elders as univer sity trustees. This is the philosophy of cutting off the feed to all the other pigs in the litter until the “runt pig” has caught up. Any fanner is wiser than this. Universities are living organisms. They cannot be put into a state of su spended animation while another “catches up”. The most pressing academic need of our time is for the maximum expansion — intellectually — of every institution of learning; from kindergarten through the graduate schools, and this spirit is poorly served by any thought of “Pre ferential Treatment”. The Search for Peace President Johnson has timed his search for peace to coincide with the congressional elections, but he did not need to fly 25,000 miles to find the key to peace. It lies unused on his desk in the White House: A pen he could use to sign an order calling all Americans out of Viet Nam. " „ • Those among us Who suffer a para noidal fit at the mention of communism may construe such sentiments as coward ly, and others of a simple militaristic persuasion will counter with the allega tion that World War Two began when the world did not hurl back Japanese ag gression in Manchuria, Italian aggression in Ethiopia and German aggression in mid-Europe in the J930’s. This is a historical njisconception since World War* -Two actually, began at the Versailles' Peace negotiations in 1919, when unrealistic boundaries were drawn and when impossible indemnities were levied against Germany. So there is no parallel between the civil turmoil that splits Viet Nam and the attacks of the Japanese, Italians and Germans in the years leading up to World War Two. The Malaysian Peninsula has been the victim throughout recorded history, and perhaps even beyond of aggressions from the nprth. The Chinese have, re peatedly overrun this rich collection of tribal domains that includes such prin cipalities as Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma and Singapore. The wave of passionate nationalism that swept the wbrld since the end of World War Two has caused even such tiny states to dream offreedom. The Vietnamese fought for lb bloody years to chase the French out of their land. sary to chase out placed the Fi is not Red States, but is the to make its own if its decision form jack rider Locally, and fairly new is the drag strip nut. When they began plowing up Simon Jackson’s wheat field and paving a strip with asphalt I thought somebody had lost their cotton picking mind. They had, but it was not the fellows who built the drag strip; it was those such as myself who thought that it wouldn’t ‘'go” around here. < Two weekends ago, returning from the mountains we accidentally happen ed to pass the track where some kind of auto race was being held. I never saw as many people in (me place but once be fore in my life, and that was in the heart of Londdn on VE day in 1945. I heard later on my car radio that more than 55, 000 people had paid a lot of loot to watch those cars roar around that track near Charlotte. What nuts. There is no nut like this sports nut. I know, I’m one: Drive 190 miles, dimb in a high-priced boat, burn 10 gallons of gas, use $2 worth , of shrimp to. catch 50 cents worth of fish, and sometimes not even 50 cents worth. But I laugh at people who pay $500 to belong to a club which gives them the right to spend $200 for a set of clubs that are used to knock a little white ball around a big pasture. A hallmark of the sports nut is his certain conviction that all other people in other sports are nuts. Fortunately all of us don’t suffer the same sports psyr chosis,. although as this past weekend at Swansboro when the spot and hogfish were running it did look a little as if everybody had gone fishing. A special sports nut that I sneer a lot about is the kind who’ll get up in the early morning, drive 200 miles, walk four miles and pay $6 to watch a foot ball game for 48 minutes that he could have seen much better on television. Then there are duck hunters who ride all the way to Hyde County, pay exor bitant fees for the honor of shooting a duck or goose' that they try to give to their friends when they get back to town. It’s ten times cheaper and easier to kill the legal limit of ducks in Le noir County, but mo6t of these hunting nuts insist on riding to Engelhard or even beyond, and freezing in a lonely blind all day long when the sport could be more, comfortably and quickly done right in the local backyard, so to speak. The experts predict that automation is going to force more and more leisure hours upon us spoiled Americans, and that we will have to find some way to spend these idle hours. Some say we should spend them reading the great lit erature, but most of us prefer to mix our serious reading with a little bit of outdoor entertainment. Golf, tennis, swimming, fishing, hunting,': boating: and hiking are a few of the Ways already claiming the idle hours and deflateddol lars of those of tis'who can’t standto sit in front of a TV1 set on a b^autiful Week end, when the fish are running tir the ducks are flying or the deer are leap ing, or the golf links are open. Outdoor recreation is the fastest growing business in America and those same experts I mentioned above say this will continue for a long time to come. So Instead of raising the fanfily heirs to be doctors, lawyers or industrial chiefs one might wisely consider aiming these younger sons and daughters in the lu crative direction of outdoor recreation, where they can be paid, and paid very well to take money by the billions off us sports nuts. r‘-—
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