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fv Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One ---And He May Clean, Mean Gene The bared indifference with which Senator Eugene McCarthy tosses off his witticism might'be funny if he were ta,iiran,g about less serious affairs than the state of our nation, and its pressing future. ^ To one such as this writer, who has less than nothing fdr Hubert Humphrey it is still brutal, almost to the point of i»tfmwii sadifim to consider the McCarthy way with Triple-H. \ But far bare important than either ^wngiHeration for the pitiful situation of Humphrey or the whimsical unreality of McCarthy’s position is a casual reflec tion on the fact 'that so many people ever did take this Wisconsin Senator so seriously. It seems that, state has an unhappy faculty of turning up senators who draw attention to their causes and then flutter into limbo as time permits a closer look at their philosophies. Although Joe and Gene came from the exact opposite side of the tracks, intel lectually, they are blood brothers polit ically because each surged toward the great seats of power on the wings ol what they mistook to be universal caus es. Joe’s gimmick was communism in high .places. Gene’s gimmick is the na tional sickness over the Vietnam mis take. - Both,, however, overlooked the inher ent sense of decency of the American public, which refuses to be stampeded into believing', that official Washington was totally infiltrated with card carrying communists, or into believing that .every one —r or anything near <r majority of us is willing to totally run up the white flag on even so unpopular a project as this Vietnamese horror. Looking back on the First McCarthy era one can only shiver that the news media cooperated in making a mountain out of the first McCarthy mole boll and this year we have seen the press take a rag, a bone and a shank of wit and puff it into a national figure, who was able to cause the Democratic Party its most desperate day in Chicago and who is still rubbing salt into the open wounds be and his coterie inflicted there. \ The Old Shell Game While we sacrifice more than 30,000 fives and uncountable billions of dollars to halt a military dictatorship taking over in Vietnam, last week two military dictatorships took over neighboring na tions in South America. In Peril and Panama the duly elected officials of those tountriea were chased out and militaxy strong men took over, and the top set*** in Peru got off to lion worth of American property in Us country. Through 1965 the taxpayers of the United States had given Peru $675,200, OOA in traoiim o&A ndiinh g nmliv district And the teachers’ union is resisting this tend of dictation by this all-Negro school board. The union takes the posi tion that teachers cannot be fired and U»d on the basis of color, and ban now wiBfaH three strikes to protest the un principled firing of 87 white teachers and other professional personnel in tins All of which comes under the 'beading of chickens coming home to roost. For nearly a generation it has been the studied stupid preaching of these North ern bigots that everything that is wrong with this nation stems almost directly from the racial bigotry of white South erners. Even the most casual study of the overall situation could have resulted an no such conclusion. But no casual study was made, and instead a vast ma jority of the people outside the South and sadly, many in the South, jumped to this stupid conclusion. Now all of their miscalculations are haunting them. They have watched their cities burn' and anarchy loose in the streets because they have insisted on turning loose the worst elements of Ne gro society to prey principally on other Negroes, and only incidentally on white society. This make-good effort of so many misguided do-gooders has backfired with a Molotov Cocktail vengeance, and it cannot be cured by hand-wringing, prayer-meetings and well-wishing. Crim inal force has to be met with legal force . . . and enough legal force to protect society. The! New York School System is now getting a ,full blown education in this ancient. Unavoidable fact of life. vessels and to bold (them tor ex horbitant hansom. There was a time when the Unified States would not have stood by and watched (this kind of piracy. And ope of the bitter ironies of one sudh piracy was tbe fact that the Peru* yuan vessel used to commit the piracy was one given that nation by the United States. / For the past 23 years, since the Unit ed States proved its power and wealth in World War Two, our diplomats have flit ted.about the world apologizing for our power and wealth, and trying to drag us down to the same levels as those we are supposed to be helping. Power and wealth are the only two facets of ‘character that other nations respect. They do not trust our misguid ed political and religious missionary work, nor our questionably altruistic Peace Corps and other do-gooders who make their passing contributions to these * |pd starving Hands m the most pa of all faghiofos and wind up more ill than good will for Nothing is more terrifying teen the unbearable tediousness of my Ug ibureacracy. Anyone whorubs up against any of the endless of these governmental dinosaurs ... end most ^1OTe ; * is bw"wi to suffer the vtorst Wmd of frustration. One such mass frustration ftvni- is being impatiently suffered in l& noir County is the cruel intersection of Highways US 70 and NC 11 Just south of gfrmton, where in four short months 16 serious automobile accidents have taken place. Now the recwjds will say that driver error has caused most if not ■ all of these wrecks. But the ffighway Patrol men who make these records and the general public and the officials of the State Highway Commission all know, and know very well that the real cause of these accidents has been the crude mtetair* Of the Highway Commission en gineers and their deliberate slowness in correcting what everybody recognizes as a monumental mistake. Here we have six roadways intersect ing. The four lanes of the US 70 Bypass, and the north and south lanes of State Highways NC 11 and 55. When this busy intersection was opened early this sum mer a set of traffic lights was installed and traffic lanes were marked off with paint and other constructed devices. And included in these marked lanes were left4um lanes, but there are no left turn lights . . . and this elemental mistake . . . failure to include lefttum signal lights has been the exact cause of 16 of these 16 accidents. But before this oversight can be cor rected studies have to 'be made. Plans have to be drawn. Conferences have to be held. And endless procession of officials have to see copies, make their comments even before a final recom mendation can be made about correcting this blunder. And then even after that final recommendation is made another series of paper maneuvers has to take place. Orders that filter slowly down the line until on some distant day.. .months after the mistake bad been dearly rec ognized ... a crew will arrive on this scene one morning with about nine trucks and 40 men and they will be gin remarking traffic lanes, and install ing belatedly what should have been installed before the roadways was ever opened to regular traffic. But the Highway Commiasian is not alone in this hardening of the bureau cratic arteries. It is a disease suffered by all buneacracies. Every thing has to be done through the “chain of com mand”. Everybody along the line has to have a copy for his bulging file cab inet. All of which may have some value. If you have a son or daughter advise erytbing today is done on once but dozens of time
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