Now he tefl& me-l
Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of, One Man
---—-- ' •---And He May Be Wrong
The Two-Party System
For some reason, probably called
George Corley Wallace, the two-party
system has suddenly become the most
precious thing under the gliberal pseudo
intellectual sun.
A casual reading of the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution of
these United States fail to find any ref
erence, or hint that any such principle
is a part of the “American Heritage.”
Certainly no one can look around at the
affluence shared by so many dozens of
million people and deny that the Ameri
can System, however many parties it
may represent, has- not been successful
and rewarding to more people than any
other political system devised. ■
But those who truly believe in, a two
party system, of ajl people, should be
strongest for the aforementioned Mr.
Wallace, since he is trying, and with
a success that is terrifying to the Ab
ends, to revive a two-party system.
The recedt record of the Democratic
and Republican parties can be examined
with an electron microscope Without
finding any major differences.
Both have, surrendered a vast slice of
our national sovereignty to the ambig
uous Tower of Babel known as the Unit
ed Nations.
Both have persisted in the mad mis
sionary zeal to Americanize every tribal
fiefdom on either side of the Iron or
Bamboo Curtains.
Both have subscribed to the illegal
and endless list of amendments to the
constitution committed by the supreme
court, because it served — or they both
thought it served the selfish political
interests of their respective, if not re
spectable parties.
Both Democratic and Republican pres
idents have illegally sent federal troops
into sovereign stales t© enforce the il
legal mandates of thil same court.
. Both have presided over the continued
expansion of the insatiable federal bur
eaucracy. ■ ’ v-. ..
Both have expanded the federal debt.
Both have bowed to the military-in
dustrial combine that, inflates our econ
omy and imperils our international posi
tion; . ;.. . .
Wallace offers a small chance of an
alternative. .
Soviet Problems
■
m
■
• 1
' 111"
to l
m
•m
If those who think the United States
has problems by the dozen only knew
half of the problems confronting the
boys in the back room at The Kremlin
they might find some comfort in their
mutual misery.
To an extent not publicized because
Russia has no free press the Soviets are
haunted by the:same set of problems
that terrify easily frightened Americans.
The actors are different but the play is
the same. '* jw: I
Each of these major powers, in meteoro
logical parlance, might be called a “high
pressure area” both feel damned and
compelled to rush in, and generally'
with about as much plan as the average
whirlwind, but often as dangerous as a
tornado.
Politics, as well as nature, abhors
so everytime there is a
_ , or a backwoods coup a
load of RushinS and another
cans listens off to try to line up that
area on its side.
Bidding against each other with mili
tary aid, blackmail and plain bribery the
Russian . Ruble and Yankee Dollar take
a helluva licking.
■ \
On the basis of gross national prod
uct each country has kicked in about
the same in this endless game of “states
manship.” It is a game that has been
played as tong as societies of ihen have
Some historians refer to it as “balance
nnnrnr ** aiuf frlnriAr H
of power,’- ana otm
more nationalistic pb
ifest destiny,” which
Americans at the to
Nixon Ike replied, “Give me two weeks
to think that over!”
Even a little help from the generally
respected Ike would have pushed Nikon
over that razor’s edge that divided him
from John F. Kennedy, whoee elfection
was as much due to Ike’s calloused dis
regard of Nixon, when he really needed
a friend. . 'V1
Now, there is growing sentiment that
Dm is offering too little and too late
what he should have in all fairness of
fered eight years earlier.
Which* must bring to Nixon’s mind the
famous letter of Samuel Johnson to
Lord Chesterfield, who offered to en
dorse Johnson’s famous dictionary. To
this lordly offer Johnson replied:
"Is not a patron, my lord, one who
looks with unconcern on a man struggl
ing for life in the water, and whan ho
has reachad ground encumbers him with
help? The notice which you have been
pleased to take of my labours had It
been early, had bean kind; but it has
bean delayed till I am indiffarant, and
cannot enjoy if; till I am solitary, and
cannot impart it; till I am known, and
do not Want it."
Slow But Steady
The moHthly newsletter from the ag
ricultural department of Wachovia' Bank
tabulates the slow but steady progress
North Carolina farmers are making
toward a more balanced farm economy.
Consider such Items: From 153 acres
of dewberries in the Vass-Cameron sec
tion of Moore County produced nearly
750,000 pints of these succulent berries
for market this year.
Picking cucumbers |n nearly eyery
county of Eastern North Carolina are ex
pected to add |9 million to the pocket
books of those farmers who don’t mind
a little extra early summer work.
Tommy Bailey in Granville County —
far from what is usually called “Straw
berry Country,” picked 48,000 pints of
these delicious delights from 2.59 acres.
And Bailey says he is concentrating on
strawberries rather than , tobacco be
cause he feels berries will return him
a higher net -profit
Overall North Carolina., ranks first
in flue-cured tobacco, second in peanuts
and sweet potatoes, fourth in broilers,
fifth in peaches, seventh in apples and
turkeys, 11th in hogs, 12th in corn and
soybeans, 13th in sorghum grains, 16$
in .oats, 18th in cash farm income from ,
livestock, 19th in Irish potatoes, 21st in
milk and 22nd in winter wheat- ..
Hut North Carolina still, with, all
the unused acres of fertile land, with
all the idle farm labor, imports more
pwk than it growsi more milk than it
produces and more beef than it grows.
North Carolina is s$l a deficit state
in every vegetable crop. ,
But progress is being made, if slowly
and now that stability has more nearly
come to the tobacco growing industry
than eyer before our farmers will have
the time,, and the need .far more cash
incbme will force them to exercise
the same ingenuity in these manydireo
co production from about 600 pounds
per acre up to nearly 3000. ' - '
But vastly improved market facilities
are ’needed, and that is the most im
portant job facing the overall faraecon
scious mid-20th Century. ,*;f ^
With tiny Czechoslovakia . . . smaller
area tlun Ntulh Caroliim and
The _
Of the world’s best newspapers, except
for its editorial page, which apparent
ly is written by a collection of old maids
and frightened escapists who live in a
dream world of tbleir very little own. Let
me give a recent example of this lean
ing-over-backwards philosophy of this
Milquetoastish page. v< ' :
“Vigilante Juries” is the heading of
.this editorial shriek, and it goes: “ They
caught him with the gun in his hand,
what more do they want?” This remark
points up an all too widespread impat
ience with formal legal processes for
determining the guilt of innocence of
suspects in highly publicized crimes.
The specific object of the above remark
was Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, accused as
sailant of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. There
have been similar but more damaging
public statements made assuming Sir
han’s guilt. These can, on the one hand,
interfere with giving the accused a fair
trial. On the other, they can undermine
confidence in our court system which is
vitally needed at this moment of na-.
tional change and unrest.”
__s
There is a little more to this plaintive
wail, giving Los Angeles Mayor Sam
Yorty a rap on the knuckles who “crude
ly spoke out about the suspect without
regard for the likelihood he might pre
judice future jurors.” And another hiss
in the direction of Truman Capote “no
authority on crime,” who had said “flat
ly that Sirhan was the slayer of Senator
Kennedy, but that James Earl Ray was
not the assassin of Dr. King.”
And finally, joining that other old good
gray' journalistic lady it tip toes off to
nltey-nite with its candle and flannel
night gown, warning: “The entire discus
sion was utterly in bad taste. The New
York Times TV critic was just in his
charge: If the country disapproves of
individuals physically taking the law
into their own hands, then it can no less
frown on individuals intellectually do
ing the same’.”
To re-use an old expletive: So much
horse manure has not been seen since
the livery stable burned down! This
is the kind of incredulous simpering
that has so largely discredited the once
considerable credibility of the printed
word. Today a newspaper item has
about the same credibility gap connected
to it that Is automatically attached to
poltidal promises.
. This is objectivity gone berserk. This
ig the single biggest reason so much
Violence is loose in our streets today;
because 'courts have affected this re
volting, inisnamed “humanitariaism”
, which in effect, shoots the jockey
when the horse breaks a leg. and ostra
cizes the rape victim, while “rehabilitat
ing” the rapist.
- This is -the same idiocy that prated:
“lives are more important than prop
erty” as police in city after city were
ordered by their inferior superiors to
stand by, and watch repeated acts of
arson and looting. This is the same simp
ering simpleton unphilosophy that turn
ed Mallory loose, for raping and murder
ing a young woman because he had been
held all of 14 hours without being
brought before a committing magistrate.
Despite the fact that he was arrested
late one afternoon and arraigned early
the next morning.
Nuts, or international conspirators
such, as Sirhan Bishara .Sirhan who plan
and commit so brutal crime as the mur
der of Bobby Kennedy should be given
a speedy, fair trial and shot in the head
with the same weapon he used to end
the life of a young father who was
seeking, in the way he felt best, to
serve his country. To labor over such
absurd technicalities in this Christian
Science Monitor fashion is to really de
stroy faith in our courts. Courts were