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500,000 MEN 1" m,. : - Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man ----And He May Be Wrong Civil Terror A shiver is running across this land, touching every home and heart. It is a shiver of fear because the long unbridled passions of civil rights have turned into civil terror. Business people, and simple house holders share the common fear that their town, th§ir business, their home or. their very life may be next in this wave of federally encouraged anarchy that now holds our country in its grip. This is the exact terror loosened upon the French nation by its misguided ven ture into liberalism in the waning days of the 18th century. And that was the terror that led France to accept Na poleon after he had disciplined the mob with a few well placed rounds of artil lery. If there is a worse terror than ram pant anarchy it is the brutal alterna tives people are willing — even anxious to grab. Today a growing number of Our nation’s major cities would welcome martial law. Civil law has broken down, because people with utmost sincerity and nobility of purpose have tried to move too rapidly in attempting to right the wrongs of generations that some seg ments of the Negro race have suffered. Now there is almost surely a tide set ting in that will turn the Negro cause back a long way, and today there is also the sinister possibility that some Ameri can Hitler may loosen all the terrors of genocide on a gentle people, whose crim inal elements are threatening their safe ty, as well as that of the entire nation. Unfortunately, at this late date there are no alternatives available to our lead ers at either the state or national level. This terror must be put down, Swiftly, sternly and surely; and the longer offi cials wait to face this unhappy duty the more costly it.will be in lives, in proper ty and in the ultimate' welfare erf every citizen of every color in every part of the country. Obviously in a “body stretches from the Western shores of Maine and from ti to the Florida Keys there i between the taking of si ' tnat to the officials feeble t idea effort to convert people through laws, s subjective abuse ofall the arts. And in Washington a confused ejec tion of congressmen ponder the mess they have made. The more they have given the worse the situation has grown. Every so-called “civil rights’' law has spawned p new round of demands and another series of threats, and now the threats have been converted into action. a policeman is beyond the understand ing of the average citizen. $• Undoubtedly the clerks of each of the more than 4,000 draft boards in the na tion try to do a fair job under the moun tain of regulations they' are forced to live with'. ^ V'/ ./ v-. '' , But the end product of this mass of regulations is still an unfair system which penalizes one group and patron izes another. , The most difficult job of the draft board is in months when a board has a quota of one or two men. How to go about choosing from dozens who may he equally able and equally liable for serv ice is the question that has to haunt ev eryone involved in this exercise of pow er over the lives of our finest young men. The Welfare County The phrase: Welfare State has come to’be pretty common in conversation in recent years. There is some logic in the assumption that Jones County may be rapidly earning for itself the dubious distinction of being called The Welfare County. This year welfare spending in Jones County is at the rate of $54.70 per capi ta, as compared to $18.66 per capita in Lenoir County. 7 . This, of course, does not mean that each citizen of Jones County will get $54.70 this year in a welfare check, but it does represent the average cost to each Jones County citizen in state, fed eral and county taxes to support its counjty welfare program. If that small per cent of Jones Coun tians who will get this $540,701 is sub tracted from the total population of Jones County it obviously means that those who DO pay these state, cojinty and federal taxes will have to pay con siderably more than $54.70 as their part of their county’s welfare bill. Jones County is spending, this year “ an4 expenses of its hile Lenoir Coun to serve In his vagrancy lie has concede teach at Brown, Harvard, Califa Wayne State, Princeton, Iowa ahd Cinnatti, but Berryman hates the St A typical modern "liberal”. Berryman's Boswell who profiles in last week’s ‘life” begins her a< tck magi with ink, whisky and ink. These are the fluids John Berryman needs.” And perhaps a wee drop of elderberry wine. This 52 year-old thrice-married booce artist is one of the hottest properties in the Ginsberg tradition now operating off BroadWAy. ' - *■ . **.• * t - ' • ^ Poetry is only another thing of beau ty that is totally in the eye, or ear of the beholder; so to each iris peculiar own. •' • "■ v v fflpi Hmemsti-k «*• But there are some facts of life that “Life” and many it articulate ignore, either for alliterative or uglier reasons. Principal1 among these oversights by those who “hate” the Southis that the 10 million “put down” Negroes in the South enjoy more of every happy index of life than all the other 200 million Negroes on the globe, wherever situate. This five per cent of the world’s Negroes who live south of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi own more homes, more farms, more cars, more bank accounts, more college degrees, more college presidencies, more truly elective offices, more safety in their per son and their property than all the rest of the Negroes in the world. For the past 102 years and three months every “put down” Negro in this hat?d.®°“^; tos had daily opportunity to seek the Elysian fields to the North, west or any other direction his heart desired. a/ter this century and a frac tion the finest and most respected Neero community in the world is not in Har-' Iem’"or Detroit, nor Newark, nor Watts nor The Congo; not even in Washington’ Lcthtoysteeintte "-"h” pus hated white South'never jailed an entire people as the flaming liberals of S??1* Chd in 1941> a helping SESjfc#?* »«■* wtnott it during four long years of this na faons most terrible, war the white and black South suffered together, and not at each other’s throats. Not until Ste 2* s°w^2ag days the rnZf ft?- ai“y vlolence between 3?. rf^es^.:C?,rt^mly none to compare with the Civil War riots in New York City m which white mobs tried to mur de'W Negr? in ^t fair city. ten£LSL“ ■history> an<i modern in wttStt mote cracOTKd ««■ are poBce brutality in mmgham, yet automatic shotguns
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