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EDITORIALS
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Never Forget That There Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Min
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One Solution
There is very little profit in placing
blame, or searching for reasons because
neither of these will solve the problem
of racial conflict that is now posed more
seriously-than ever before in the history
of these United States.
The job at hand now is to find an
answer, and to find it quickly before
some kind of dictatorship is forced upon
the entire nation.
There is one fairly simple solution to
the Negro problem; that is to relocate
them on a per eapita basis all across
the nation.
In the last census 10.5 per cent of the
nation’s population was Negro. Yet the
distribution of Negroes ranges from the
low of just 0.1 per cent in Vermont and
North Dakota to the highs of 53.9 per
cent in Washington; D. C. and 42 per
cent in Mississippi. Only 17 of the 50
states have as much as their theoretical
10.5 per cent of the Negroes.
Since poor housing is being used as
one of the excuses for the rioting that
has been grinding too many of our cities
into ashes a gigantic relocation program
could be financed by the federal govern
ment with grants to start anew for all
those who cared to move; something in
the order of an urban homesteading
principle.
North Carolina had more Negro citi
zens in 1860 (1,116,021) than 28 other
states combined. Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Rhode bland, Massachusetts,
Connecticutt, North and South Dakota,
Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah,
Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Alaska,
Hawaii, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Kansas, West Virginia and Kentucky
combined bad fewer Negro citizens than
the single states of North Carolina, New
York, Illinois, Georgia, Louisiana and
Texas. As we all know in those north
ern areas where large groups of Negroes
do live they are jammed into ghettoes
as in Harlem and Washington, D. C.
and not spread evenly about.
The opposite answer being proclaim
ed by the black power advocates is com
plete separation of the races with a
land carved out and all Negroes moved
there. This would automatically qualify
them for foreign aid.
Neither of these answers is accept
able but they do accent the problem.
Story Grows Worse
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Three weeks ago we began a study of
welfare programs; first coinparing Jones
and Onslow County, then all of the 100
counties of North Carolina and this week
comparing — or perhaps contrasting
would be a better word, the programs in
the 50 states.
As we said in the beginning it ought
to be assumed that the socialists who be
labor this program would be the first
to insist upon a system of egalitarian
concept, but ottr study has proven that
exactly the oppqsite situation exists.
At the county level welfare clients in
the identical circumstances may easily
get enrollad in one county and just
across a county line they would nqtquali
children is $25.76, but we have seen
in last week’s study of North Carolina
that the range of payments goes from
Anson County’s low pf $19.76 per family
member to the high of $33.08 in Cabar
rus County.
This week we see the spread between
states goes from Mississippi’s low of
$9.35 per family member to New Jer
sey’s high of $55.85. V
If we assume that New Jersey’s
spread is romparable to North Carolina’s
this results in more shocking conclu
sions ... Contusions that are hot jump
. Suppose at the spme time there is no
power to. pump water to fight firesa
sniper picked off another president hnd
frantic governors had no one in the
White House except a dabberhead such
as Hubert Humphrey to lean on.
Talk about panic!’
Hubert Horatio would loose hte headi
more completely than Robespierre* and
TripteH, too, would no longer be able
“to lead a mighty good revolt”; the
words he used in a speech last/year in
New Orleans.
Congress with its adbiction of power,
and its inability to move speedily would
only be a millstone, dragging the country
deeper into the sea of panic.
And then what?
Martial law would be the only al
ternative. r >
And military leaders would promise,
as they have in many lands before to call
for “free elections” when the situation
stabilizes.
For a generation all who pointed to
the dangers of the international com
munist conspiracy have been laughed
down by the soothsayers so aptly repre
sented by the Hubert Humphrey ilk.
Now that revolution is no longer in
Russia, or Africa, or Latin America, but
loose in nearly every one of our major
cities this same blind coterie recom
mends fighting the war with cake and
ice cream for the revolutionaries.
No Tax Rato
Few Americans would oppose w
raises of any proportion if they had
confidence that this additional money
would be used to bring and end to the
waste of men and money that are taking
place in Vietnam.
But the vast majority of us cannot
possibly hold such a confidence, because
the record is daily-fresh and it com
pletely contradicts any such supposition.
The toll of American dead now nears
13,000 and another 79,000 have been in
jured in this no-win war that is costing
ne tovnauer’s * nupr 70 million dollars
us taxpayer’s ‘over
per day. f... . /-W, 1
We see such utterly ridiculous deci
sions being made as to refuse our Air
Force permission to bomb meaningful
targets, our Navy refused permission to
blockade enemy ports, and most recently
the decision to reactivate a World War
Two battleship at a- cost of over 25 mil
lion dollars.
Another mountain of money to play
with in shooting up sampans, and fish
ermen villages, but the Battleship New
Jersey will not be permitted to steam
into Haiphong harbor and sink the ships
that are hauling the supplies that arc
killing our boys.
' Congress has so long abdicated its re
gree that his witisprettygbod
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> lit told me Saturday of his somewhat
pained reception of # visit inade to hiift
by his doctor, Kilby Turrentipe, who is
less well known for his wit, but who is
the possessor of a dryness of rhetoric
that on this occasion, at least, outmatch
ed Lit’s.
• After listening tolit’s faulty heart
and faint pulse Kilby scribbled out a
pair pf’-prescriptions which he handed
to Mrs. Mallard, adding, “If he’s still
alive ip the morning. /Get ’em filled!”
With tender loving care such as that
Mallard jjist had to stay alive for the
next visit, and he’s still kicking . . .
Not very high, nor strong, but kicking.
Lit also says, with some little twist
of the tongue in his cheek that Mrs.
Mallard has tried to get him to stop buy
ing cigarets by the carton. Seems she
doesn’t smoke. But Lit insists that any
unused portion of a carton of cigarets
that he leaves behind will be a “legacy”
to some smoking member of his family.
The topic that brought upl all of these
medical reflections by Lit was the re
cent injury of Thomas Hewitt, who suf
fered a minor fracture of a shin bone
when he stepped in front of a car on
Queen Street. Moving car, that is. Ac
cording to the gospel from “St. lit”, the
first person Who ministered to Hewitt
after his losing battle with the bumper
was Sam Brody. Brody’s ministrations
didn’t bring full relief so Hewitt next
repaired to Jerry Newton, the masseur
at the Elk’s Lodge, who is totally blind.
• Finally, Lit reports, Hewitt had to seek
the help of a man of medicine, none
other than Dr. Oscar Cranz, who also
possesses one of the sharpest wits, and
tongues in Che local pin and needle so
ciety. Hewitt was outlining the “treat
ments” he had undergone from'Messrs.
Brody and Newton, when Cranz rose up
from his labors on the busted leg to
inquire: “Well, you’ve been to a Jew
and a blind man; why didn’t you
priest?”
All of which brings back to mind
medical experience of my own of some
years back, when I suffered an embaras
sing condition, which I called “Ubangi
itus” for want of a better name. My low
er lip would swell to about two or three
times its regular size, and even at regu
lar elevation I don’t have the smallest
lower lip in town. . / 1
ium ranuu puucueu ana proDea,
drew blood, analyzed other body „„
cretions, listened to heart, lungs and my
sad story and after careful contempla
tion of all these many findings reached
an unflattering conclusion, that I was
slightly nutty . . . Well Tom didn’t quite
put'it that way. He’s too nice to be that
■blunt, and he mumbled some long words
about neurotic and edema etc.
And when the end of the month rolled
around I got a bill from Tom, causing me
to call and remind him, “You’ve got a lot
of nerve. Charging me to tell me that I’m
a little on the nutty side, when there
dozens