Newspapers / Jones County Journal (Trenton, … / July 18, 1968, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
about you r EDITORIALS ■ ■ ' 1 ' .!' ,||' - t " L,"r' " " —If—W~ Never Forget That There Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Men -——------—Adi He May Be Wrong Mrs. Hazel Taylor operates a nursing U*xme on West Grainger Avenue in Kinston and has for many years, and the need for more and more of these smaller nursing homes, and the fact that Mrs. Taylor had done a good job with, the one she now has caused officials to ask her to consider opening others! of the same small, personalized type ... and she did consider it, and is still con sidering" it. But welfare department officials tell her that $165 per month is the absolute maximum they will pay for any indi gent patient. Welfare officials also tell 'Mrs. Taylor that she must have at least eight em ployees in the two homes she was con sidering using in this expansion. But the wage and hour people tell here also that these people must be paid the minimum wage which is $193.20 per month. So with nine patients from the wel fare department Mrs. Taylor’s maximum income would be ?i4»a per montn, ana her minimum payroll would be $1545.60. When the cost of utilities, food, laun dry and rent are added to this payroll cost it is very easy to see that Mrs. Taylor, and a great many more people who have a concern for nursing home patients and for small homes in which the institutional atmosphere would be avoided are eliminated from competition with the larger institutional type nurs ing homes in which the patient-to-em ployee ratio is only a fraction of what small home operators must have. It would seem that even a bureau crat of the lowest echelon could under stand the idiocy of such conflicting reg ulations. Of course it is all “the law,” but as Mr. Bumble said, in an equally absurd situation in Dickens’ “Olive Twist”; “If the law supposes that, the law is a ass, a idiot!” And it is. Nausea There was a time of anger, and then' pity, but now the only feeling at the mention of Attorney General Ramsey Clark is nausea. In the national political sense one cannot avoid feeling like the little boy who atetoomucbat the party and warned the hostess: “I fink I’m gonna frow up!” The nation’s hknimbeni chief Jaw en forcement officer is the same naan who hi true blubber-lipped fashion crawled Into a congressional cemmitt.ee high chair and threw up all over the caucus room the smelly obscenity that there was absolutely no connection between the. activist decisions of the supreme the April burnings and to also become party trr ja conspiracy which ended up spending 20 days in jail as^bhe curtain came down on “Insurrection City.” flow in his legal knee pants this game junior jerk has been led by the hand back up to Capitol HOI where be has told a congressional committee — which certainly hung onto every lisped phrase that fell from his lips: “Capital punish "Section 409. No part of tho funds contained Irt this acf may ba Mad by any official, employe or agent of tha United Stataa Dapartmant of Education 5firaS?53t»5?3SB attending any aiamantary or secondary school to attend a particular school against tha choice of his dir her patents, or parent. "Section 410. No part of tha funds con tainad in this act shalll ba used by any official, employee, or agent of the Unit ed States Department of Education to force busing of students, the abolish ment of any school or the attendance of students of a particular school as a con dition precedant to obtaining faderal funds otherwise available to any state, school district or school." The liberal effort to take these sec tions out of the $17 billion appropria tions bill failed by a vote of 137 to 101. once more it is n&eiy max xne uoerais Will try to cut these two sections out. The likelihood of these sections re maining in the finally adopted bill is not; good . . . possible, of course, but not probable. The senate is more heav ily laden with Hberals than the house, and only 238 of the 435 member of the house Were present on June 26th when the bill was adopted with sections 409 and 410 intact- K is not likely that the full membership of the house would sup port the bare quprum vote which orig inaUy paaaed it, but it at least shows that there is strong sentiment in every part of the nation opposed to current tactics of HEW in this realm. Until George Wallace really began ex citing their tender sensibilities the na tion’s liberals were in near panic at the approachig probability of a national constitutional convention. Now with Cousin George breathing on their pink little necks there are two booger bears scaring hell out of this easily frightened collection of do-good erSi ' The very thought of the people, through a constitutional convention, having any thing to do with running the'country simply put them to chewing rugs, and now that a man from the Deep South with an unconcealable Southern drawl is threatening to upset this two-party tea cup there amply k no end to their panic. This modem pseudo-liberal concerns himself perpetually with the “rights” and whose “diet” will be what, where *^ttS?who fought with simple right eousness for “Freedom of Choice” in not hw the “Freedom of Choke” of the individual parent or pupil but was the “Freedom of Charee” of some faceless Washington bureaucrat, or the runaway powesdust of a federal judge. And, of course, thebattie cryof tlmse same liberals for minority rights has blown up in their faces as these minor ity blocs have deeided that if one law is uujust, ipso facto, all laws must be ofalHs ed a convention) next month. ' One thing you can certainly say about these blacks; they know the ham part of the hog when they see it, because they .sure wanted to take out the choke- por tion of these here united states. Seems to me there was another movement about a hundred or so years ago when some other fellows wanted just about the same little slice cf the country for their own reservation. History has come full around now with blaeks wanting exactly what the whites wanted two generations ago. Of course, the whole notion of setting up a black nation inside the United States is idiocy, but if they want to put it to a vote, I’ll support and vote for a resoluion to give them Alaska and -possibly throw in Cal ifornia so they’ll have some hot weath er and cool weather both to suit the tastes of those blacks who don’t like it too hot or too cold. But North Carolina Hell No! One of the more amusing sides of the current racial hassle is the inability of: Negroes to get along with niggers, and. then on top of that the blacks can’t stand either Negroes or niggers and when these three groups get through disagreeing there is still one more splint er movement which call themselves Af ricans who can’t get along with Negroes, niggers or blacks. And there is even one more group which titles itself Afro American. To tell ithe truth these Negro nigger-black-African-Afro-Americans are beginning to sound, and act a helluva lot like white people. Kinda like Baptists and Catholics or Jews and Arabs or Demo crats and Republicans. But in all of this hassling among the many splinter organizations who are grabbing for a slice of this racial pie their seems to be one crystal clear con-' elusion: All of them are sick as hell of phony white liberalism, which)basically tends to denigrate the Negro and lode him even more tightly into the chain step misteps of white society. Whether it is the Black Muslim, or the more literate firebrands of Negro intelli gentsia thfey all seem to be polarizing' around a far more rigidly segregated society than this country has ever known. And this ultimately is the way it has to be if Negroes — whatever they final ly decide to call themselves — want to climb out of second class citizenship and into pride in themselves and their race which are as necessary to their survival as bread and water. But there" are dangers even in this path as Senior Negro Leader Roy Wilk ins pointed out this past ’ week: “In teaching race pride, it will be disastrous if we tpach a false distinction and a false superiority. We do not correct white racism by erecting black racism.’’ Those, who speak and write for pub lic consumption such as myself who through these troubled recent years have stood strongly for racial segrega tion in all the social spheres, including schools have been called racists by a vast majority of those who preach inte grationbut practice the most rigid kinds of segregation tor themselves and their families. ifCl
Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 18, 1968, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75