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BUT GENERAliY ABETTER i192nd anniversary of The of Independence it is rather chill ing, inspite of the summer beat, to contemplate the words of that brilliant Grecian philoso pher, Plato, who died 2315 years ago. ; - In his frighteningly prophetic work The Republic, Plato has this comn^entary on the life cy cle of governments: "All forms of government de stroy themselves by carrying their basic principles to excess. The first form is monarchy, whose principle is unity of rule. Carried to excess, the rule is too unified. A monarch takes too much power. The aristo cracy rebel and establish an aris tocracy whose main principle Is that selected families rule. Car ried to an excess, somewhat tablish a democracy, whose prin cipal is liberty. That principle, toe, is carried To excess in the course of time. The democracies become too free, in politics, and economics, in morals', oven in literature and<aft, until at last even the puppy dogs in our homes rise on their hind legs and demanded their rights. Die order grows to such a point that a society will abandon all its lib erty to anyone who can restore But with this Platonic warning so concise and so accurate be fore us we 6ee our nation plod ding zombie-like down the exact path described nearly 2500 years ago by this wise greek, who did not have to live in but one gen eration to understand the nature of man is eternal and be can no more shed this nature than a bird can change the color of ■ ■' '* ,' in this 'week of the Fourth of July, in which we celebrate the birth of the American Aristro cratic government, which was called a republic, we now see the landslide our society is caught in as we speed throught the mobocracy into anarchy and once again toward that monar chy from which our ancestors fled so shortly ago, as history is recorded. When the 16th and 17th amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted the basic road blocks to mobocracy were destroyed and there is lit tle likelihood that the greedy tide this unleashed will be re strained within the framework of existing government. The 16th Amendment was rati fied February 15, 1913, just slightly more than 55 years ago, and it is one of the shortest but NUMBER 10 7PRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1968 VOLUME XX I July Occupancy Planned for , Newest Buddies on Canqtus of Lenoir County Cemnunity College This handsome structure is the newest, and by far the larg est addition to the campus of Lenoir County Community Col lege and school officials plan to move in this month and begin enjoying^ the many services it offers. The building will house the college business offices, includ ing that of President Fountain. Also on t^e ground floor the col lege library, a 180-seat auditor ium and students’ lounge is pro vided The second floor includes space for biology, chemistry and physics laboratories, for 10 class rooms and for six smaller sem inar rooms. The overall dimensions of the two-story structure are 150 feet by 184 feet • This building along with a smaller building oq the west side of the .cappus, with streets, storm drainage and parking spaces for both cost $1,069,000. 1 The next addition to the campus is expected to be-let to bids in January of 1969 and it will be about half the size of the building shown here and it will be located about 140 feet to the southeast of this build ing, which itself is on the south east corner of the existing campus. Architect lor these two build ings to be occupied this month and for the next building as well is Leslie Boney of Wilmington. Hospital Rate Boast The trustees of Lenoir Mem orial Hospital, faced with large wage increases brought about by federal law,Wednesdayannounc ed rate increases of $5'per had across the board effective July 1st. This will make private beds cast $30, $31 and $33, sand, private beds cost $26, $27 and $28, *ard beds cost $22 and new born nursery beds cost $27 per BOUND. OVER Following a preliminary hear ing last week teen-ager Henry Bell Jr. of 1304 Lincoln Street TO tooond over to superior court DETECTIVE NOT GUILTY In Recorders Court Tuesday Private Detective Marvin Hardi son Jr. was found not guilty of taking money and not perform ing duties promised. The charg es had been made by Curtis Sing of Kinston route 3. FOUND & LOST & FOUND Last week while being booked in the sheriff’s office in Kinston ob several bed check charges Lonnie Mdtouse of Fannvule suddenly took off in high gear. He was caught bear Scuffleton Friday and now faces the addi tional charge of escaping from official custody, y* * * RdAD TERM Goff of 30? Gordon St. and as - female was convict ed of the assault charge in re corder’s court Tuesday and giv en eight months in prison, which he appealed to superior court. MARINE FULTON HURT Marine Private Vaughn Pulton, whose wife and parents live in Kinston, suffered a severe con cussion and minor cuts from a mortar blast in Vietnam on June 15th. He reports that he is re cuperating satisfactorily and ex pects to be back to1 duty in a week or so. NOT-SO-TRUSTY Last week Billy DeGraffenried got an additional 90 days in jail in Kinston for escaping from custody while serving'80 days for habitual drunkenness. He 1 away from the court where he was working as a trusty. most damaging blows ever suf fered by our nation. It says very simply: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on In comes, from whatever source de derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration. Only 29 words, but with their ratification the federal establish ment was given the power to buy voters with their own money. Not even the most bitter oppo nent of this Amendment dream ed to what extent this abuse would reach, nor how quickly. When this terrible taxing cam el first got his head under the public tent it nibbled away a modest two per cent of the in come an individual had above $10,000 per year. But it has grown, and not slightly. The individual today whose taxable income is just $1,000 only pays $14 federal income tax, or 1.4 per cent. If he earns $2,000 the tax jumps to $161, which is just over eight per cent. At $3,000 income the tax is $329, or 10.9 per cent. Alt $10,000 income the tax has risen to $1,742, or $17.42 per cent. For that lucky few who reach the $100,000 income plateau the tax is $48,182, which, of course, is 48.18 per cent. But the blow to the individual tax payer is not the worst aspect of this kind of tyranny. The worst face of it is that this mon ey which is taken from all who Spanky And Our Qang to Play at ECU The “Spanky and Our Gang in Concert” show will perform at East Carolina University on Monday, Jtdy 8y at-8:15 .jun. The show, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the East Carolina Student Government Association and is one of a series of popular shows to entertain during summer school at Greenville. Spanky and Our Gang, the versatile and off-beat quintet whose dress conjurs memories of the ’20s but whose repertoire spans a half-century of musical development, achieved wide spread popularity with their first record, “Sunday Will Never Be the Same.” Spanky and Our Gang spend much of their time playing to college audience on campuses throughout the nation. In addi tion, they have appeared on numerous television shows in cluding Ed Sullivan, Hollywood Palace, Johnny Carson and oth ers. The show is to be held on the mall at East Carolina but will be moved to Wright Auditorium in case of rain. PROBATION REVOKED Monday a 15-month suspended jail term for stealing against George Wiggins was revoked by Superior Court Judge George Fountain who held that Wiggins had violated the terms of proba tion under which the jail terrm had originally been suspended. DEMONSTRATORS PUNISHED Tuesday in superior court Fred die McKnight, Raymond Sutton, Carl and Milton Perry were each given nine months in prison for carrying concealed weapons and engaging in an unlawful parad es, charges that grew out of dis orders in Kinston following the murder of Martin Luther King in Tennessee hi April. The grand jury failed to return true hills against Arthur Thompson, No bles Hall and Roderick White, who were booked at the same time for engaging in an unlaw, ful parade. have an income is used to bribe voters into even worse excesses than they had revelled in be fore. But as bad as the 16th Amend ment was for the ultimate fate of our country it could not have worked its worst evil on the na tion if the 17th Amendment k»d not been ratified on May 13,1913; so 1913 was an evil, un lucky year- fedeed, for these United States, , The 17th Amendment is some what longer than the 17th, but its net effect was just as bad. The 17th Amendment, in effect,, took the election of United States Senators out of the hands of the “aristocracy”; that is the several state legislatures and put the election in the hands of the voters. The Constitution originally placed the election of the House of Representatives in the hands of the qualified voters of each congressional district, but it was the expressed sentiment of the majority of the members of the Constitutional Convention that the “senior house” of the Nation al Congress should be one step removed from the hot breath of the voter, and further insulated with six-year tenure rather than the two-year term of the house most responsive to the voter. This was not done casually, nor without careful thought and long debate, and it was done to protect the new republic from that single governmental entity most feared by the members of that convention, which was de mocracy. But as time passed it became easy for the demagogues to prey upon the ignorance and greeds of the voters by insisting that they, the voters, should al so directly elect senators as well as representatives. This, of course, was the “democratic thing to do.” So, in 1913 the ratification of these two Amendments gave the mob the key to its own pocket, which is always carefully cam oulflaged in the language of the demagogue with such sugar coating as is found to be neces sary to get the patient to swal low it without thought or re sistance. The “graduated income tax” is one of the more popular sugar coated pills that has poisoned the American body politic, be cause all taxes of every kind, are ultimately consumer taxes, and hence the mob is the over whelming consumer. - It follows very simply that the mob is feeding off itself, when it is deluded with the simple no tion that only the rich, or the middle-class citizen is paying the freight. Nothing could be fur ther from the truth, and it is axiomatic that the higher the tax rate goes he more he low est economic brackets suffer. It cannot be any other way. So, in this summer of our na tion’s discontent we see anarchy in the schools, in the streets, in the home, in art, in morals and as Plato cautioned, even the puppy dogs are demanding their rights through the militant mi nority faction called the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Canines. And instead of trying to cor rect the errant dash into anarchy we see the President of these United States naming a; pair of lackluster cronies to the nation’s highest court; where it is assur ed they will -continue the per missive, libertine socio-economic adjudication that has corrupted1 our constitution and brought our country to that point now where, again,vas Plato warned, “Society will abandon all its lib erty to anyone who can restore order.” Even, possibly, to anyone they hope can restore order. • W.V ;
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