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Wsst Virgins Hillbilly
H Fortas, Spock And Priest
What ajxmt Calvin Coolidge
and his thing about no man be
ing above the law and no man
bslow? That is if I am not quot
ing slightly above or below the
exact quote. Was old Silent Cal
a bit of a square? Now, there’s
Doc Spock. There was a law he
didn’t like, s6 he said the hell
with it and broke it. And, too, 1
read about a, clergyman who
didn’t -like the'* draft law so he
leads the way into the court
house, gets the files,, takes them
out and burns them. See, what
I mean? Somebody is nuts, Cal
or Spock or the priest. Jf Spock
gets by and the priest is acquit*
ted, what does that mean? Does
it mean that in the future peo
ple will only obey the laws they
like? I suppose so.
In fact, I know so, because I
have just read an article by Abe
Fortas in the New York Times
about 'how far people can go in
civil disobedience. Fortas, as any
good Johnsonian knows, is the
new Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court of the United
States. This is about as high as
you can go up the jurisprudence
pole and live. This means that,
by old Blackstone and White
Rock, he is about the last word
in law. You would think right
off that he would be a devoted
follower of law to the T. But no.
Read this quote from the article:
“If I had been a Negro living
in Birmingham or Little Rock or
Plaquemines Parish, La., I hope
I would have disobeyed the state j
laws that said I might not enter j
the public waiting rooms reserv
ed for ‘whites.’ I hope I would
have had the courage to disobey,
although the segregation ordin
ances were presumably law until I
they were declared unconstitu
tional.” I
That is the highest word you i
can get on justice in the United
States, mind you.
That means, of course, that a i
man has a right to interpret his
own laws; a right to decide on
what laws to obey. It is a silly
law which keeps me from buy
ing a drink in a West Virginia
restuarant while if I were in
New York City I could have my
libation. There’s a law in this
state which says that a merchant
can’t sell certain items lower
than a set price. What kind of a
law is that! The merchant should
disobey the law? According to
Fortas and Spock and the priest,
yes. But I say no, and the gen
eral public says no, because
when people decide what laws
they like, anarchy is born.
There used to be a saying,
now extinct, that “your liberty
starts where my nose ends.” Re
member? No more. The students
who illegally occupy campus
buildings, at the approval of
Fortas, Spock and priest, keep
one student or many students
from doing what he came to that
campus to do. In Chapel Hill in
the winter, a student picked me
up in his car, and we talked
about student rights and usur
pations. He didn’t approve of
any campus laws, he declared,
became laws were made to fet
ter the masses. He stopped at a
red light. I remarked that that
light was a law and why did he
obey it and he looked at me as
if I were a nut, and said, did I
want him to get a part of his
anatomy knocked off. And that,
. of course, explained everything.
'Violation of the red .light could
have too sure and too rapid a
. reckoning; others are slower, but
just as sure for Fortas, Spock
I F ASIAN BACHKACH
] GORDON V. COMER
I new President of the
Christian Sciatica Church
Today’s world of destructive
upheaval and tremendous
change calls men to be spiritual
builders.
This appeal from The Christian
Science Board Of Directors was
heard today by over seven
thousand Christian Scientists,
gathered here from around the
world for the Annual Meeting of
The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Massachu
setts.
The message from the Board
of Directors, read by Arthur P.
Wuth, its new Chairman, stress
ed individual effort as the first
step in any attempt to help solve
the world’s ills.
“Poverty, ignorance, war, ra
cial conflict, immorality, civil
disorder, mental and physical en
slavement exemplify standards
tom down, spiritual ideals de
secrated, the best of civilization
fallen into disuse,” Mr. Wuth
9aid.
HOME ECHOES
? — what causes jelly or jam
to darken at the top of the con
tainer? Storage in too warm a
place, or a faulty seal that allows
air to leak in.
? — Why should preserves
and jams be processed? This
procedure is principally to drive
air from the jar and secure an
air-tight seal. Air left in the
jam may cause discoloration, loss
of flavor, and may result in
spoilage.
? — What is wrong when the
1 leaves of camellias become
1 thickened, curled, fleshy and
pale green to white? This is a
leaf gall. The disease is more
alarming than damaging. If you
have only a few plants, control
the disease by hand picking and
destroying the diseased leaves.
It can also be controlled with a
3-1-50 Bordeaux mixture. The
first application should be made
near the end of the flowering
period and repeated at two
week intervals until mid-June.
? — What color are aphids?
Aphids, or plant lice, are small,
| green pink or mealy-white in
' sects that attack plants.
? — Is it safe to spray iris
plants with malathion? USDA
says to kill aphids, spray plants
with malathion, Repeat if aphids
| reappear. To make the spray,
add 2 teaspoonfuls of 57
cent]
. ' 11 '■ ! i!
WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
by Henry E. Garrett, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Psychology, Columbia University
Pist President, American Psychological Association
Q: Dr. Garrett, here it a clipping
from a news story (enclosed)
that says, "we can never charge
the Negro with lack of ability or
lack of ambition unless he has
been given equality of opportun
ity with the White". Do you
agreo with that?
A: That phrase, “equality of
opportunity”, is a cliche that
means little unless it is carefully
defined. If the same opportunity
is £ven two people — one an
able person, the other a dullard
— the two situations are not
equal. If you gave a six-month
-old boy and a physically able
man each the opportunity to
own 20 pounds of gold if he
proved to carry it 100 yards, the
opportunity to do so would be
the same h ■ it would not lie
equal. It would be mope accurate
to say that we should give every
man an opportunity commensur
ate with his ability; and opport
unity and ability may be quite
different. There would be no
need to accuse the Negro of
lack of ability or interest if we
tested his abilities, first.
Q: Dr. Garrett, Liberals team
always to apply tha word "pre
judice" to any statement with
which they do not agree. Is that
your impression?
A; I am afraid it is. The term
“prejudice” means pre-judg
ment, and implies a judgment
in advance of the facts. In racial
matters, prejudice carries the
idea of dislike or even hate for
some racial group. Thus, a man
prejudiced against Negroes
would be one who dislikes all
Negroes because they are Ne
groes. Southerners are rarely so
prejudiced and their attitude
toward the Negro is not pre-de
termmed.
In many, perhaps most cases
the term preference is what is
really meant by the Liberal who
uses, instead, the word “pre
judice”. Both Negroes and
Whites usually prefer their own
groups; there is no prejudice in
volved. When you are called
“prejudiced”, challenge your
critic to demonstrate whether
lyour attitude is a pre-judgment,
not based on facts, or whether it
i is simply something with which
he does not agree.
WILLIAMS HONORED
The coveted “Cattleman of the
| Year” award from North Caro
lina, awarded anually by the
LIVESTOCK BREEDER JOUR
NAL magazine, has been voted
to a Newton Grove cattleman.
Sherrill Williams, 46-year-old
feedlot operator and business
man, was chosen by the maga
zines Selection Board for North
Carolina to receive the 1968 pla
que and now becomes eligible
for the Grand Cattleman of the
I Year award in competition with
other Atlantic Seaboard and
| Deep South state candidates.
Lenoir Countians
Receive Degrees
Lefettie Esther Moore and
Shmuel Brent OMver HI both of
Kinston received degrees Jonh
Appalachian State University on
Thursday. A total of 746 stu
dents received their degrees, the
largest class ever at Appalach
ian.
Lefettae Esther Moore obtain
ed a Bachelor of Science Degree.
There were a total of 599 seniors
receiving these degrees.
Samuel Brent Oliver HI was
-one of 118 students who were
NOTICE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The undersigned, having quali
fied as Administratrix of the
Estate of Dartha Whitley Mea
dows, deceased, late of Jones
County, this is to notify that
said Estate to present them to
tiie undersigned before the 8th
day of November, 1968, other
wise, this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery^
All persons indebted to said
Estate will please .make immedi
ate settlement.
This the 8th day of May, 1968.
Sarah Ferrell
Administratrix of the
Estate of Dartha Whit
ley Meadows
Donald P. Brock
Attorney at Law
Trenton, N. C.
J—May 16, 23, 30, June 6
awarded Master of Arts Degrees
at the commencement program.
Lt. Col A<|uiHd Sugg Honored With
Air Force Medal at Charleston
Lieutenant Colonel Aquilla D. Sugg (right), sob of Mrs. A.
D. Sugg of 213 Capitols, Kinston, receives the Air Force
Commendation Medal at Charleston AFB, S. C., from Colonel
William W. Thomas, deputy chief of operations^
Lientenant Colonel Aquilla D.
Sugg, son of Mrs. A. D. Sugg of
213 E. Capitola, Kinston, has
received the Air Force Com
mendation Medal at Charleston
AFB, S. C.
Colonel Sugg was decorated
for meritorious achievement
while on temporary duty at Pope
AFB. He was citied for his out
standing professional skill,
knowledge and! leadership.
He is now chief of the airlift
control division at Charleston
with a unit of the Military Air
lift Command.
The colonel, a 1940 graduate
of Grainger High School, served
in the European Theater of
Operations during World War
n.
His wife is the former Lila
Lee.
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