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oeagn’t cut ’em down like it used lor EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Ediioirials Are The Opinion Of One Man ----—And He May Be Wrong Panic Sets In In Jones County, and many more be leaguered counties all across the South an aching panic has set in as the open ing of schools approach. ( People who have had their heads buried in the sands for over a decade are now finding out the hard way what the blackmail power of federal judges and federal agencies really is. Headmaster Ray Wooten of Kinston’s Arendell Parrott Academy winch enters its fourth academic year in September says he has a stack of student applica tions — largely from1 Jones, Greene, and Pitt counties — as Lenoir Countians still wait, passively for this educational guil lotine to mow their school system down. The pairing of elementary schools in Jones County under the ugly illegal writ of a pompous judicial ass named Alge non Butler has brought the issue to a head in that small county. So far there has not developed any real leadership in Jones County to cope with this prob lem. Efforts to start a private school in one of the county’s churches are moving, but slowly and one church cannot hope to accommodate the hundreds of children whose parents—white and colored alike — resent the enforced integration of their children in schools that neither the child nor the parents wish them to attend. Schools officials are more interested in keeping their jobs and the lush ap propriations they have been wasting than in saving education in their respec tive counties. In counties such as Jones and Greene where more than half the population is colored an exact mix along racial lines immediately creates a school system that is fair to neither white nor colored Stu dents. , Both of these wealthy counties of Jones and Greene have ample resources to not only meet but to solve this prob lem, but everyone seems to be sitting on his hands and waiting for ‘John to do it.” Time has run out on these and many more counties, and now they will have to do something more constructive than wringing their hands and cursing' them selves for having voted their children into this ugly corner. &_' Nixon and '4> v- yjjjll No man ever came back so strongly from the political graveyard as Richard MRbaufi Nixon. We won’t know until after November 5th whether it is flesh or spirit that is now briefly among the living. And with Nixon in this ghostly rein carnation there isanebulient, handsome Baltimore politician who has performed several modern polftidal miracles by walking in Republican shoes on the nor mally Democratic waters of The Great State of Maryland. <, They offer an, intriguing combi nation which will give Democrats and Wallace-ites a warm time for the next 1 has been honed to the finest edge of his incisive career. Dou eat has mellowed the tough cari created of him in 1900, and the of the day in our streets and in gles of Vietnam have given him stormy sea < of affluence. r:'A 3^./ s zo nui fare recipients, four million soil-bank check farmers and nearly four million government workers who get all or most of their paycheek from “Unde Sugar,” and this is a pretty potent coalition. Some say it adds up to * majorityxm Americans, w ape told, win more frequently -vote their pocketbooks than their principles. Shis, too, is probebty under the heading of truism, since the prevailing cynieal view is tbatfar mOPe abiding li-.&itgmfijitii In the lockstep of miHtary, conformi ty this is true; discipline cannot be maintained any other way except for orders to be obeyed. But in the judiciary of a once free nation such as the United States, in which the individual judge is guaranteed life tenure to protect him from the pressures of superiors, the exact oppos ite philosophy should rule, since Judge Larkins and all of his colleagues are sworn to uphold toe Constitution of toe United States, and not toe whim of any transient, thin majority of one on toe supreme court. ( Larkins and his brethren argue, un convincingly to themselves, that anarchy would result if they didn't operate as rubberstamps, rather than as mqn of principle, who have the courage to sup port their innermost convictions. But anarchy is being spread because they dp follow toe imbedlic illogic of that thin majority on the supreme court. Unhappily, from Earl Warren down the vast majority of the federal judiciary are men who failed in toe political arena and who w^re given judicial sinecures for “service” to the party. The same lack of courage that fre quently caused theft failure in toe elec tive political arena carries with them into the pompous mumbo-jumbo of the courts, where they are surrounded by sycophantic lawyers a»d hired lackeys who bow and scrape and agree with et ery notion that may penetrate toe head of these pensioned practitioners. Nothing is sadder than to see a dose friend of long standing, such as Larkins, surrender to the seif-inflatirig poison of that kind of power which corrupts all it touches. History will not forget in a thousand years the crimes "of Dachau, Buchenwald and Austerlitz, and history will not for give for a thousand years; the cowardice of the federal judiciary for having so meekly forsworn its sacred oath and most basic principles. On Judicial Oaths Who said this: <y "From these and many other selections which might be made, it is apparent that the'framers of the constitution contem plated that instrument as .a rule for the government of courts, as well as the legislature. Why otherwise does It direct the fudges to take an oath to support It? This oath certainly applies, in an as the science time treats of animate or the animal kingdom. After meditating briefly on what sub tle hint this selection of a dean of stu dents from the zoology department may hold for the average parent I went on and scanned the questionnaire which has to'do with the Betting Up of a new set of rules “governing women stu dents”. Since I bad not been able to gov ern the women in my family during even the most fleeting moment of their pre university years I Was drawn to a sug gestion from a zoologist’ that might let me know where I had failed in keeping that stern paternal hand over my small family zoo. “While the burden of the decision as to how your daughter lives during her stay here should not be yours alone, we, at the University, are interested in your attitudes and solicit your opinions:' “1: Do you think the University ought to be concerned with the social behavior of women students: Yes No Uncertain Please check one. 1 wound up uncertain about, wheth er I want my daughters in a school where the dean of students is even aide to ask such a question. “2. Should the University set guide lines for behavior in the form of reg ulations: Yes No_ Uncertain My answer: Ditto. “3. Should parepts be notified if it comes to the attention of the University that a student is involved in the use of, or traffic in drugs, serious use of alco holic beverages or serious aberration in behavior? Yes No Uncertain _This one really hooked me. I sat for a while wondering what kind of a parent would answer this question “No” or “Uncertain”? “Closing hours: 1. Beginning with Sep tember 1968 the dosing hours for un dergraduate women Students (except first semester freshmen) will be 1 a.m. on weekday nights and 2 a.m. on Fri day and Saturday nights. Closing hours for first term freshmen will be mid night on week nights and 1 a.m. on Friday nights. Women students are free to leave the residence hall at 5 a.m. What is your opinion of these hours: Too restrictive ,_ Acceptably re strictive __Acceptable ____ Acceptably lenient_Too Lenient—” 1 thought all respectable zoos had more reasonable hours than these. “Women are presently permitted to visit in social rooms of men’s residence halls and fraternities from noon until women’s dosing hours, seven days a week. Men aregranted the same visiting privileges for approximately the same hours in women’s dormitories and soror ity social rooms. What is your opinion Of this present policy?” Somebody had better let Pope Paul hear about this: “A proposal has been submitted to the administration by students which would pit? Here 4gain I can't rried wonder about a call this bedroom visit!
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