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Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man
--And He May Be Wrong
One More Round
Local school boards in most districts
of the south are going through another
“round of compliance”. They are spend
ing vast sums of the taxpayers’ money
publicizing and sending out highly tech
nical forms to every parent who has a
child in school.
A majority of these school districts
still labor under the illusion that “Free
dom of Choice” is sufficient to placate
the lust for power that swells in the
heart of every Washington-type bureau
crat. They couldn’t be more wrong.
These pettifogging tyrants operate un
der the ugly principle that colored teach
ers cannot teach colored students as well
as white teachers. But this is national
policy. It is the repeated decision of the
supreme court; it is the chief domestic
trick in the political panderings of all
recent presidents. It is the majority view
of several recent congresses, and it is
the overwhelming mandate of the voters
in 44 of our 50 states, and in 94 of North
Carolina’s 100 counties.
So these educational generals in Wash
ington would not only be untrue to their
snobbish upbringing but would as well
violate the law of the land and the will
of the people if they did not pursue ra
cial integration in the public schools to
the very end.
Childe Harolde Howe, federal commis-.
sar of education, cannot be expected to
believe that colored teachers are as good
as white teachers. It would violate his
heritage — expensive private schools —
for himself and his children, and so he
is religiously righteous when he insists
that colored teachers are not as good as
white teachers.
But such Messiahs of racism are hailed,
while those of us who support the view
that colored teachers can teach colored
students better than white teachers are
classified as “racists”, “professional big
ots” and “nigger haters”. The fact of
the matter is exactly the reverse.
The crudest slander of a proud peo
ple is the studied, stupid policy of the
United States government. We resent the
inference and every intelligent colored
citizen ought to reject the slander, rather
than accepting it.
On Firing Scholars
There is a great bovine bleating on the
heels of Clark Kerr being canned by his
bosses at the University of California.
We in North Carolina have heard much
of this same noise in recent years from
the self-ordained intelligentsia, who had
a lengthy hand-wringing session when
Paul Sharpe was called by the academic
gods to a higher level of service from
his chancellorship at the Chapel Hill
branch of the University of North Caro
lina.
What strange milk do these scholarly
giants feed upon; That they place them
selves above the reach of the boss? Even
Earl Warren could be impeached, and
Bobby Kennedy might even be de
but it has come to be a campus
asserts as a keystone of
that people who
The absurdity of this position should
be apparent, even to an educator. Public
schools; whether grammar or graduate
are by the very stern force of finance a
part of the political life of their com
munity.
And a political axiom as old as the
art of community life is that one has to
keep producing, either tangibly or in
tangibly or someone will be “called” to
replace him.
President Kerr has a gigantic reputa
tion in the educational world, largely
because he was head of a monstrously
large educational complex that had com
But the death of three service men st
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Cape Canaveral hits thrown the nation
into deep mourning. There is something
revdltingly wrong with this .contrast.
A majority of the young men in Viet
Nam are there AGAINST their will.
Snatched out of'civilian life, given' a
grubby pay check, hastily trained and
thrown into an impossible situation that
ends either in death or utter frustra
tion. • *. \
The young men who work at Cape
Canaveral are there voluntarily. They
are paid fantastic salaries, live in the
richest luxury and enjoy the adulation
of the nation.
More importantly, those who work at
Cape Canaveral do have some sense of
direction; a feeling that they are mak
ing a possible contribution to science,
while tiie young men who die in Viet
Nam are robbed even of this feeling of
contribution."
We are saddened by the death of ev
ery young man, whether he is serving
With the armed forces or is killed in a
speeding civilian car. We surely do not
want to exhibit any harshness over the
sudden death of the three service men
Friday night at Cape Canaveral. They
were fine young family men, just be
ginning to enjoy the fullness of their
families and their careers.
• We merely say that there is something
theatrically wrong when the national re
action to their death is set beside the'
death in the same week of those 127
young men ih Viet Nam. \
Amen, Senator
In a speech last Thursday on the floor
of the senate Missouri Senator Stuart
Symington said, in part, “Upon returning
from the Vietnam theater a year ago, I
reported^ to the Senate my growing
doubts about the wisdom of trying to
achieve peace by attaching the least
meaningful military targets most, the
more meaningful military targets less,
and the most meaningful military tar
gets ‘not at all’. With relatively slight
variations, this policy continues ...”
Senator Symington quoted a pilot,
“On four of our last five missions I have
flown directly over airfields, some 12
miles from Hanoi on my way in to at
tack targets of questionable importance
only five miles from that city. Each time
we saw Mig-21s on the field; in fact
watched them take off so as to attack us
from the rear while we continued on to
the approved target near Hanoi. Our
planes have no tail gun capacity. The
Mig-21 can ‘out-maneuver’ us. Surely an
airfield loaded with military planes is a
military target. Therefore we cannot un
derstand why we are forbidden to attack
those MIGs, on that field. This is not
theoretical. Recent MIG-21 activity has
been increasing.”
Senator Symington adds, “In addition,
because of the great and growing costs
of this war, it will not be possible to con
tinue, at least on a proper scale, many
of the domestic programs which are so
essential to the progress of this coun
try.”
Senator Symington concludes: “For
the above reasohs, as well as others, if
we do not start fully utilizing our tech
nological superiority, on a conventional
basis, it would be better to terminate
hostilities as against continuing them on
the present quantitative basis.”
Amen, Senator, Amen ...
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cipline has departed.
At every level of every society; no
matter hpw precious we may ieel our
One of the most frightening
possibilities is the rising star
Kennedy. The lavish use of
the power of planned pu
been combined to push this
ger far ahead of President Johnson
recent polls. ■
I do not put holy allegiance
but one is foolish to disregard the plia
bility of the American electorate. I re
call very well how the pollsters “elected”
Tom Dewey, but the polls came out too
early, Dewey was too insipid and Harry
Truman was a politician with the com
mon touch. Each political race is com
pletely different than all previous races;
even if the same candidates are running.
Shifts in issues, in publicity, fads rise
and fall, luck turns from one to another,
and the, barnacles of office attach to the
“ins” while the “outs” come from their
drydock with a fresh appearance, ready
to clean up the mess made
But Bobby Kennedy! For President!
But don’t reject the possibility. When a
man born in Massachusetts, who is living
in Virginia, who is not eligible to vote
can win one of the two United States
Senate seats from the most populous
state in the union anything can happen.
Money has a way of talking that drowns
out reason and morality.
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Money bought the Republican nomina
tion for Eisenhower in 1952, and sent
Robert Taft to his grave, saddened from
having been so callously sold down the
river. Money bought the nomination for
John F. Kennedy in 1962. frever has one
political convention offered, so much to
so many “delegates” as the Kennedy mil
lions offered in Los Angeles. And the
Kennedy Family is still far from broke.
In addition to the estimated $400 mil
lion bankroll behind the Kennedys they
have two martyred sons, who have died
nobly on the national altar. Joseph Ken
nedy Jr., who was killed on a combat
mission in World War Two and John F.
Kennedy, who was murdered by a com
munist in Dallas just over three years
ago.
They have a coldblooded, hungry
young man in the bullpen, warming up to
take his late brother’s place. He will
stoop to any depth, climb any mountain
— even if he has to be carried to the top,
to reach this goal. So those of us who re
volt at the notion of Bobby Kennedy in
the role of the Chief Executive of Our
Nation had better arm ourselves with
something more effective than our in
dignation.
Money, organization and dedication
will be required in great quantities to
stop this eager young Boston beaver. Our
nation has gone a long way in its short
history. From colonial controls, to repre
sentative republic, to mobocracy, to oli
garchy, and now it would even appear
that we might make the circle complete
by returning to monarchy, under this
economic royalty that is represented by
the Kennedy Klan.
There is a possibility that Bobby may
have over-reached himself with his effort
to manipulate history through William
Manchester, but it is too early to make
bets on this, especially when Bobby still
has the money and the public relations
team to remake his image instantly. He
has risen from the reactionary ash heap
qf the McCarthy Hearings to a very
noble “liberal” in one brief decade. If
the temper of the times calls for a con
servative Bobby has the ability of the
chameleon to change his colors auieklv;