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There is this that may be said of race riots: If the equalitarians who now control our country re main in power, the lives of us all .will become more and more chaotic, Lyndon Johnson, given the chance, will destroy this re 's public. And don’t talk to me of Republicans; there is not a Re publican op the national scene who has an understanding of the problem. Or having it, reacts as should an honest man. That is to be expected; the Republican attitude, I mean. Theirs is the same as is held by most of-us, an attitude built up on a single premise: All men are equal. And, dammit, all men are not . equal. Men are different; races are different; and if we do not come to grips with that fun damental fact -r- overthrow these equalitarians— we will know a worsening situation, end ing in national-collapse. That is the way we are head ing, into oblivion. As an indicat or, read the Department'of La bors well-meant (?) unemploy ment summaries. In all of them there runs a central thread: The races are equal — nothing else is even considered. I have in hand one such sum-, mary, published last March. It will serve as a model. The unemployment rate among Negro slum dwellers, it goes, is 10 per cent or more, as opposed to four per cent, nationally. Then it says, unemployment on the part of Negro individuals “is primarily a story of inferior edu cation, no skills, police and gar nishment records, discrimina tion, fatherless children, dope addiction, helplessness”. No doubt. It says, six of 10 applicants lack nkffl; one in five is poorly motivated; 15 per cent are heavy drinkers. Now, the recurring reason giv en as to the cause of this total situation — false as that reason is — is the only clear note struck: This situation prevails, so we are told and retold, be cause of ,racial discrimination, that White people mistreat Ne gro people, invidiously discrim inale against them; “we” do not give the Negro a chance. And that is the lie of. the cen tury. Hitler, in all his fancy, never dreamed of one so big. People are morning to realize the monstrous iiature of 'the charge-’ but because they don’t know what to do about it, be cause the equalitarians keep the truth larded over, the rotten mess that is Lyndon Johnson’s integration policy lies soggy in its own deceptive context, its rot permeating every element of our cultural and political life. Read again those facts on Ne gro unemployment and while you read, consider the possibili ty that there are, in truth, mean ingful differences between the one race ! for the other. Should it surprise you, then, when the “alien” race does not do as well as the race that created the environment? Does it surprise you when a duck on a pond outswims a chicken; both are birds, you know, and in that sense, equal. And are you aid ing the chicken when you keep throwing him back into the wa ter with instructions to swim like a duck? Or are you, bit by bit, drowning the benighted, con fused critter? Face the truth: Until the Ne gro race was exposed to the White race, the Negro’s cultural history — by White standards — was a 5,000-year blank. Negroes had not domesticated an animal; they had not learned the prin cipal of the. wheel; the extent of their architecture was mud huts; they had no written language; no system of mensuration; and their idea, of agriculture con sisted of digging a hole in the ground and dropping in a seed; cannibalism was a common prac tice and, in Africa, remains just that, a common practice. Now, then. None of this neces sarily makes the White race su perior to the Negro race. You may think it does — by your standards. But “superior” and “inferior” are relative words, matters of opinion. However that may . be; these particulari ties certainly do make the races different, that is, unequal, as an apple and an orange are differ ent and unequal. And if you take mud-hut peo ple and pit thepi in competition with those who create cathedral spires, and lay down rules ac cording to “cathedral” stand ards, what would you expect? Wouldn’t you expect unem ployment to be at least 10 per cent, crime to be rampant, drunkenness rife, and bastardy the normal thing. Ultimately riots? I would. > There is a line from a song that seems apropos: “Give a man a horse he can ride”. Do so and our race troubles will level off. Fail to do so and we will have Watts, Newark, De troit and way stations. Two Lenoir 4-H'er$ At Wildlife Camp ■, ' . V-v’- - - Two Lenoir County 4-H Club members are attending the North Carolina 4-H Wildlife Con servation Camp this week. They are Thomas Ray Rhodes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack V. Rhodes of Kinston Route 3 and Annette Simpson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Simpson of Pink Hill. The camp is being held at Millstone 4-H Camp which is located on the Wildlife Conser vation Reservation in Richmond County near Ellerbe. The purpose of the camp is to provide the opportunity for qualified 4-H Club members to conservation in greater Specialists in wildlife, Mmservation, and nduct various ional Too Late to Slam It! SENATOR SAYS The search is underway in gov ernment circles and elsewhere to find the causes and cures for the breakdown of law and order in this country. In many quarters, it is said that the persons who participat ed in the riots were deprived persons who had lost hope in their effort to cope with the so ciety in which they live. Almost in the same breath, it is said in these quarters, that while the riots were “deplorable”, they were “understandable”. But, if the phrase “understandable” is to be used as a springboard for some of the new proposals now being circulated in the wake of the riots, ! think we had better tfcke a second look at the whole : matter. The Senate Judiciary' Committee has been conducting hearings on anti-riot legislation in recent weeks. It has come up with some persuasive evidence that deprivation existing among individuals in our cities is not the whole story. Moreover, a recent issue of U. S. News & World Report quotes a Detroit police detective as say ing that “a good number of the guys we pulled in for looting worked steady at Ford, Chrysler and General Motors over the past three or four years. They were making $125 and $150 a week.” The article says that De troit police state that in one sur burb “105 of 111 looters arrest ed had jobs and late-model cars”, and in Milwaukee, one of the rioters was “a $3.50 an-hour It' also says t “about one took part in college to burn, steal, and destroy are being organized by agitators who have the avowed purpose of creating a climate that leads to disorders. Often the underworld aids in these riots, the police say. If this is so, pouring many billions more into major cities in crash programs is not a panacea for these ills. Already, the fed eral government is spending $25.6 billion annually to help the poor in this country. Detroit was supposed to be a model showcase of what the fed eral government could do to erase poverty. It received about ■ $220 rhlffipn^ am told, in fed eral funds in the last twelve months. What these revelations mean is that pouring fantastic sums in to the cities by the federal gov ernment beyond any reasonable budgetary considerations ap pears to have less bearing on the problem than what the peo ple begin to do for themselves in these localities. Some forgotten ideas seem ap propriate. Our schools, welfare agencies and employment agen cies need funds, but they need more than that. Schools need the support of the parents and com munity leaders to preserve dis cipline so that students can re ceive an education to obtain jobs and build a better nation. Welfare agencies should help the needy, but such programs ought not to be administered to encourage immorality by the re cipients of such aid. Tax-sup ported employment agencies were instituted to find jobs for the unemployed, not to encour age idleness. These programs will work, however,, only if re sponsible citizens begin to take more interest in their function ing. GILT SHILLIN’ 100% BLENDED Cf'/vrr>x WHISKY ;irn y< ,vlls» fj •
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