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<ei That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man Never Forgt A Letter to George Wallace Editor’s Note: Following here is a letter received last week by George Wal lace. It speaks eloquently for itself: "There are three groups of people — rich, middle, poor; I am in the second group, that goes to work at 8 a.m., gets off at 5 p.m. I obey the laws and pay my bills, including taxes, try to live within the law and do right by others. "I keep the rich rich and fedd the poor, who in many cases are attempting to deprive me of my right to earn a liv ing or to walk the streets in safety. I am tired of having a dual set of laws. One that allows the Holers to destroy my property, attack and threaten my family and t|ien get off almost Scot-free. Then another set of laws places mg be hind bars for exceeding the speed limit. "I'm tired of thin pocketbooks and fat, lazy politicians. Pm tired of saehtg people retire on what appears to be am ple income only to have inflation cut the dollar to a point that they can hardly mist, let alone live their re maining years in the comfort they had hoped for and expected to en|oy. "I'm tired of our sons being sent to another country to defend people who won't defend themselves. I'm tired of feeding people both here and abroad who think this is a way of life and will not raise a hand to holp themselves. "I'm tired of minority groups, who after six months of training refuse to lay bricks and want to bo a bricklayers' boss. 1 am tired of paying tuition for students who prefer to tear the school apart rathor than to get an education. I am tfred of the students' attitude in general. "I'm just a IjfHb man with not much monpy and/Only one vote (two with , my wife) but. thtnijr* three things L-can do in M attempt to correct the above: 1. Give what I can to help. 2. Vote for Wallace bn November. 3; Talk to others and get them to do the same. The Messy Mass Media National Observer this week has an extremely interesting aittele on Yippies, and it concludes that Yippiedom is a myth created almost out of smoke by a clever, aimless handfitil of young men who began an exercise in puffing the leg of the establishment and suddenly found .themselves live copy to the messy m«igg media. And as seep with such freaks as Sfcokely Carmkbaei and Bat Brown all it takes to create national figures is national publicity. Now these young men -r- one a former Onctapatti reporter, are basking in the limelight and hive every inclination to continue this ma mw® their prank, based in the premise that if our society is so fragile it may very well deserve to be pulled down, If the vast majority of us are conditioned to that point where we ignore reality and traipse off into this drugged play world of these drop outs from civilization; then a new set of values is surely heeded. Urban League DirecfcorWhitney Young pointed out months ago: “Sure, Stokely Carmichael has a following; about 200 misguided children and nearly a thous and reportera!” When into the addled, di°— world of these freak outs a sudden of communist money * indeed, come ud with ourselves into Hus but for the sainted er U Thant to keep is reailyadding insult to WJury. There is no secret now, end has been none for a long time that U Thant is almost pathotogicany anti American, and perhaps there is good reason for this Burmese statesman jto feel this way. It only pains us to kaOw that we supporting him in his in ternational campaign against our na tion. So far the UN has been an expensive experiment, largely paid for by Ameri cans, who have leaned so far over that they now are .prostrate on their backs while every backwoods potentate is per mitted •*— even encouraged to walk across us roughshod. This is not to say that the secretary general of the UN has to be a parrott of the United States, but it is to ex press the view that he could at least be impartial. So far he has not opened his pinched little mouth abouf the Russian re-rape 6f Czechoslovakia, nor about the Chinese invasion, of India, but be bows toward the Kremlin each day and mutters a few more pious phrases about the wrongness of American stupidity in Vietnam. jVe agree with him that the United States .position there is wrong, 'but we’d like to hear him — just once — say a few well chosen words on the subject of Russian imperialism and' stupidity. After all the United States does not have an absolute monopoly on either of these commodities. For everyone’s sake, for the sake of wildlife, our forests, our. homes, our recreation use caution and common sense all the time with tire out of doors, but in tinder-dry timbs such as these super-caution aaxf constant' com mon sense. ■ ' ■■ have been coined: “OverkiH” in the cryptic pedaguese of the military, add one of the newest is over-react, which was very loosely applied to Mayor’s Daley’s police force. Until now the communications media have not looked into their own mirror and accepted the responsibility they must share' for having over-publicized a collection of misfits, whose former oc cupation was bumming drinks in the assorted Bohemia ©f our major cities, chopping out mutterings that have come to be called the New Poetry and dis sipating themselves into an early grave. Without publicity ti»y will quickly ||i|» week an understandably fconcem sd woman called ;to a* <a#‘ “What an we do to farm an advisory com nittoe to prevent things happening like this Saturday night murder of Wood tow Stanley?” ItahappHy, my answer bad to be, “Nothing." There to no sure way to eliminate from the mind of aflmett the stupid notion that there is a short ci* to rich a, end that murder is just one of the loots used in this effort to get Some difaig for little. There is little . . rery littfe profit in reminding that bank robbers, and stick-up men of afl varie wages. The majority are caught, jf course, and work many years under prison conditions for the money they tried to snatch from another's labor. And even those who are not caught jeMom enjoy the fruits of their ignor ance. Someone else a little smarter generally manages to take from them all they have stolen, and if their family happens to have any resources they are bankrupted as well, trying to keep such types from suffering the punish ment they deserve. Easy come at a pistol point is generally quickly gone in a whore house, or a backroom poker game and on junked jaloppies. Hopefully we can all strive for im provement in our court system; so that the guilty may he punished, and al though we have to accept the cold fact that there is no way to end all crime there are ways to reduce crime. But it requires the help of every law-abiding: citizen. Bach of us must assume a share oi ine responsiuimy iw> upuuiu. me jaw, to apprehend offenders and to punish them once they have been captured. The 25,000 citizens of Kinston, cannot expect 60 policemen to be everywhere at every .moment, to know everything about everybody. And this is not a plea aimed at turning us all into a nation of tale-bearers, or stool pigeons., It is simply a reminder that no town, no nation can be any better than the overwhelming majority of its citizens want it to be. Respect and support for law and or der are not just something that one invokes when heinous crimes are com mitted. It is the willingness to support all the laws, to be willing to go into court- end testify against people who willfttily and wantonly disregard laws that are intended for the protection of us all. Mime people are killed on our highways than are murdered' in rob beries; and more perjury comes from the witness stand about speeders and drunken drivers than all the murders combined. People cannot turn support for law and order off and on like a spigot be cause it might inconvenience them, or irritate a friend or lose a customer, lit is the general climate of permissiveness that causes stupid young men, and ‘wom en, to commit terrible crimes. And we as individuals cannot pass the buck by blaming the courts, or the police. . Jot it is everlastingly true that we get the
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