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I /CARMICHAEL EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man -—-And He May Be Wrong Whistling In The Dark A year in advance of the 1968 presi dential election there is a lot of whist ling in the dark; and most of this loud political whistling is being done as the hopefuls of both parties try to walk quickly by the George Wallace haunted house. Hardly a national gazette with liberal leanings has avoided such hopeful puck ering. Among the most recent is the Christian Science Monitor, which asserts after a survey of newsmen in all the states that Wallace would hurt the Re publicans more than the Democrats. Political statisticians can prove any hypothesis they want to prove in this game of anticipation. But let us take North Carolina as an example of this Monitored reasoning. Tar Heelia is one of the precincts newsmen believe Wallace would hurt Republican chances. This is an example of “noth ing-from-nothing-leaving-nothing”. The last time the Republicans picked up the electoral marbles in North Carolina was in 1928. In 1964 there was a spread of 375, 295 votes between Winner LBJ and loser Goldwater in North Carolina — 800,139 to 624,844. Assuming there is less Tar Heel in clination to continue on the LBJ way in ’68 than there was in ’64, and assuming that Wallace is going to pick up a scat tering of the conservative vote in North Carolina one has to assume that a con siderable portion of those conservative votes will come from the Democratic fold. Dan Moore got 480,431 largely con servative Democratic votes against his liberal opponent Richardson Preyer’s 293,863 in the Second primary of ’64, which certainly supports the conclusion that North Carolina has more conserva tive than liberals in its Democratic regis tration. There has been no test in modern times of the conservative-liberal split a mong North Carolina Republicans, but in the ’64 elections the fact that the com those same 480,431 conservative Demo crats who voted for Moore also voted for Goldwater this leaves only 319,708 conservative Republican voters in that ’64 fiasco. We realize very well that this is an over-simplification, but it deals with the only real set of facts known about the North Carolina political temperament. Gavin, the Republican candidate for Governor, ran 23,679 votes behind Gold water in North Carolina (629,844 Gold water, 606,165 Gavin), indicating that Republican Goldwater found consider able support from Democrats, which was well known and thoroughly docu mented in hundreds of other ways. So now to conclude that George Wal lace will hurt Republican chances of col lecting North Carolina’s electoral votes is absurd. By any real analysis of the most recent facts available it is the Democratic Party that Wallace will hurt in North Carolina. If one assumes the same situation ex ists in other Southern states one can extend this same conclusion to South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississip pi, Alabama, Florida and Texas, which are also classed in the Monitor survey as states in which Wallace will draw wa ter out of the Republican well. Elsewhere in the nation, Oregon, Ne vada, Illinois, Michigan and New Jersey are classified as states where Wallace will hurt Republicans more than Demo crats. After Newark and Detroit this pre diction hardly washes. This survey further asserts that Wal lace will hurt both parties in California, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Delaware and New Hampshire. How this could pos sibly come about is a mystery the Moni tor article fails to explain. Equally ridiculous the Monitor sur vey says Wallace ' . . - Democrats in " South to; has of bein g en judicia ruled last bowling alleys, . amusement parks an _ public accomodations section of the 1964 civil rights act. This is a narrow ad judication th&t will last no longer than it takes to get it before Earl Warren and his four stooges. No trade has more carefully nurtured or clung more desperately to the title “Professional” than teaching. Now con siderable segments of this “profession” are behaving like trade unionists, and their learned elders speak of “meeting picket in the picket line”. Which, of course, doesn’t alter the most basic test of pro fessionalism; to wit entering an occupa tion as a means of livelihood. It merely strikes us as amusingly coincidental that the professionals of several school systems are on strike at the same time the professionals who make Fords are pounding the picket lines. Military thinking has now cycle. From the moated castle, to the Wall of China, to the atomic bomb, to the Berlin Wall and now to the electric fence across Korea, with another to be built across Vietnam. There really is nothing new under the sun ... Just new ways of doing old chores... or trying to. Easy Job Among the easier jobs the Johnson Administration has recently accomplish ed is the “brainwashing” of George Rom ney. We’d say a tea cup of luke warm water and a very light dusting of any cheap detergent would have done the job quickly anti thoroughly, considering the size of the object being washed. Identification It'has been logically asserted that if it waddles like, a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck and cohabits with ducks it is safe to assume that IT is a duck. This basic method of identification can be applied with utter simplicity to Stokely Carmichael, Rat Brown, Martin Luther King and altogether too many of those who have been misleading the. colored people of odr nation in recent years. Police Brutality The main propaganda line of Ameri can communists has been the frequent ly repeated scream: “Pplice Brutality”. There is more substance to this, charge than meets the casual eye, For instance: Last year 99 police bfficers were 'given the ultimately brutal treatment; that many being killed in line of duty. An other 23,851 were assaulted while in performance of their duty, and 9,113 of those assaulted suffered disabling in juries. Incidentally, 187 of those as saulted were Newark policemen. Asian Democracy _new “democratic government” of South Vietnam has a powerful mandate — from 35 per cent of the nation’s vot ers. This holds little promise of any more stability for that tiny land than its last eight minority governments, especially since the nation’s two chief executive officers are Catholic and over half of its senate are Catholic in a land that is 85 per cent Buddhist. this survey would like for the nation to believe, but it is nowhere remotely near the truth ‘ It is sadly amusing that a man who has been accepted as one of the most intelli gent to sit in a presidential cabinet has come up in the year 1967 with the amus ing belief that “good fences make good neighbors”. This is the same paranoidal aberration that built the Wall of China, ^ and more recently, The Berlin Wall. This expensive exercise in futility be comes even more psychotic when one looks at the coast line of South Vietnam, as well as South Korea. McNamara has long been exposed to a lesson he is sin gularly slow in learning for a man of such, reputed ability. It is a lesson that history records time and time again. ''American history’s bloodiest pages are on this particular lesson. The, north had the South outnumbered in every index that seemed pertinent to war. In men, money, materials; yet this most terrible American war lasted four Moody years, and did not end until every state of the Confederacy, had felt the invader’s heel. And it is a little sad to reflect; now a 106 years too late, that if General Lee had been half as smart as General Washington the war would not be over yet. Lee, trained at West Point, and a student in the great military affairs of history fought the classical war as it was taught to him. Washington, Jwho learned his fighting from the indians, used his few men and fewer supplies in the same guerilla fashion the Viet Cong now use in Vietnam. . It was the Russian guerilla who cut the heel strings of Napoleon’s “Grand Armee”, and it was their grandchildren who bled Hitler’s Wermacht to death in the snows of Leningrad. In World War Two the British learned from their past mistakes and established a tight ring of guerilla outposts all the way arouhd the British Isles to “welcome Hitler’s invaders, who never got across the channel. The best defense against the Viet Cong is the same kind of terrorism in North Vietnam that it maintains in South Vietnam. The only people who can possibly do this are the Vietnamese, and they are now asking that all fighting chores “be taken over by Americans, while their troops are used for ‘pacifica tion’”, which, interpreted loosely, means milking the natives and stealing all the American supplies they can tote. Lacking the Vietnamese will, and abili ty to out-Cong the Viet Cong there are but two alternatives left for the United States: 1. Total destruction of North Viet nam or 2. Withdrawal as quickly and quietly as possible. To the mind of South as well as North Vietnamese; not to mention the minds of the rest of the world, Americans are the “invaders”. The fact that this troubl ed little land now is under its ninth government since the American govern ment was “invited” in is merely a rath er cynical confession that the United States is there far more for its own in terests than for any except the ruling class of South Vietnam. Last week’s Vietnamese elections were about as suprising in their results as re cent “free elections” in Poland, Hungary, Yugo-Slavia and other nations forced to vote at gun point. President Johnson could have sent any size group, composed of the world’s most unbiased witnesses to “observe” this election and in 99 per cent of the world’s minds'the suspicion would have remained, that the election was rigged. And if the Theu-Ky ticket had beep defeated there isn’t a naive soul even in Washington who really be lieves that the winning ticket would have survived a month in office. We need to build fences in the world, but .McNamara is building the wrong kind. Now we join the Russians their Berlin Wall as exampl tarism gone berserk.
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