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Never F°r\ person from ability to servants, private jet front Sunday of'Jacqueline Kennedy and totle Socrates Onassis. In spite of being left comfortably rid in the estate of murdered President John Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy could not pos sibly live at the level she 'had growi accustomed to during her three-yeari in the White House To one such as she, with a queenly complex, it was easj to compromise the almost saintly pod tion she occupied as widow of a maitym president for the less saintly but mor* T JT* ftfTjzRH OfXsV ^ as much motley ttjf j invest in famous ■women as any other man with a big bankroll and a star complect. But from a purely personal point of view and of course every editorial can be little else no maty: 'how loudly HAVACID Report from -otWi c^ims mid for out of the union dues of fcard ially in the South this week were recip ients of a bigoted bit of political propa ganda under the label: “Report Freni that “SCOPE” is “Southern Committee on Political Ethics.” What it is is a blast against George Wallace ... all the venom, half-truths working men and wornen,in every part of the nation. Four years ago an equally Southern do-gooder named Arthur Larsen from Duke University put his Signature to a similar hatched job oh Barry Goldwater, and the sad side of the story is that such “ethical” efforts hove their effect. This week Mhchxaker Drew Pearson drags out the fact that Wallace drew 10 per cent compensation from the Vet erans Administration for a nervous ooh £"•££ Mary service ih World War Iftwv'EMs information was also illegibly leaked out of the government who are purer than AU Itaungs Deang pspwwy wjmju — which they never are — a lawyer would be preferable over a non-lawyer for a legal job, but It is a fierce kind of egotism which persuades slightly more than half of the lawyers in Lenoir Coun ty to subscribe to the hypothesis that all lawyers are smart. There are eight candidates for these four job6; and as the lawyers indicate with their obtuse advertising five of the eight are lawyers, and this advertise ment categorically assertp that the least qualified of these five lawyers is far bettfer equipped than the best qualified the non-lawyers. To paraphrase Dic kens’ Mr. Bumble: ‘If the lawyer sup poses that, the lawyer is a ass, a idiot” T^e voters of these three counties are for wiser than these 18 Kinstonlawy . jfrp|nd whether they are wiser or not rag are more numerous and we expect their vote to show it, and more strongly than might have been as one result of thi? ‘Objectivity” of these learned elders. The late Judge Joe Dawson, a very \jrisp lawyer, if not a, very good judge, once ran for office shortly after World War One and his opponent had been an officer in the army, while Joe was a .phlin buck, private in the rear ranks.. Dawson campaigned very simply. He said: “Let all the officers vote for my opponent and all the enlisted men vote for me.” This philosophy has some applicability here. Just Before The Bottle In just a few more days now there will foe great weeping and waning hi the land because no matter bow, the political cookie is crumbled somebody is going to lose, and: along with them in their latter angufen ; wififfoe'those who worked and spent and voted in their behalf. Perhaps the mpst frustrated group will , foe those minions^ such as ourselves, who voted for George Wallace. Too many have hypnotized themselves into believ ing there is a chance of Wallace being elected. <PTom many yeiaxs ofexperience <fois writer has tried to avodd any such will no doubt further confuse social scientists who insist that there is never bom any such thing as a had boy, or There is how a growing body of med ical evidence to contradict this since it lias been found in a large number of sages that .people with records of ex treme violence have thte extra chromo some and it is being offered in courts is defense for people charged with violent crimes. > An Australian court has this month acquited a m»n charged with m&rder because he had this physical defect and i French jury handed a very light sen tence out to such a sufferer who had lolled a Parisian whore rather like the Johnny Cash character; “just to see her die” M Illinois lawyers representing Richard Speck who murdered the eight student hurses in Chicago, are preparing an ap peal on this same scientific ground. All of which raises a very profund philoso phical point First whether any kind of defect physical or mental should ever be accepted as encase for committing any kind of crime, minor or major? Second, whether science, or the report ing science, is not exceeding its reach by hold out such straws to drowning defendants, and their families? It is overlooked that the same body of scientific evidence indicates that those having this extra chromosome are eith er excessively violent or excessively meek. Which eliminates any broad gen eralizations about universal care of such sufferers. If every possessor of this extra chromosome w.ere violent, society could simply give every new bom baby a Mood test and then dispose of the child as unfit for human companionship or order for it the more cruel sentence of life in strict custody. But science only sup plies the question in this instance* and society itself will have to find1 the ans wer. It is no consolation to find some scien tific support far such old saying as “hom mean,” “born to foe bad” sauce whether a person is born to be mean or just simply develops a mean streak as he goes along the problem for society And since societies of men have exist ed the hard rule has had to be that those who refused live by accepted standards, or could not because of phy stoal or mental defect live foapnonious ly in society have had to be resteained in one way or another. Permfeatyeaess
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