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Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man --——---And He May Be Wrong The Gauntlet Is Thrown By an unbelievable 7-to-l margin the United States Supreme Court has ruled that the United States House of Repre sentatives did not have the right to ex clude Adam Clayton1 Powell from its membership. The gauntlet is thrown and now the lon-building constitutional con frontation is upon us. This is, if congress has the least bit of guts. There is nothing in the constitution more dear than the language of Article One, Section Five, Paragraph Two which says: “Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its mem bers for disorderly behavior, and1 with the concurrence of two-thirds, expell a member.” And to make this issue even more dear the preceding paragraph of that same section says: “Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members . Yet full in the face of this crystal clear language an overwhelming, blind majority of the supreme court has said the constitution doesn’t mean what it says and the house did not have the right to kick Thief Powell out of the house. Committee hearings in the affair revealed more than $54,000 that fyad been stolen from the taxpayers by PowelL ' But from the viewpoint of what is best for our nation in the long run it is well that this Earl Warren court has ^aystaUized^ thjs issue in one of bis final ads as chief justice. Those who are insisting that a constitutional con vention might create a crisis now find the nation confronted toy just such a crisis and without a convention. Jefferson warned, and time toes prov 4«n faktt so correct, that the American Jff, ,V> system Has no room for life -appoint meats to such high officials. What was intended to be protection from govern ment has -proven to -be -the greatest dan ger to our system. Federal judges were not given life tenure to protect them from criminals or civil litigants before their court, but to insulate them from the -power and the pressures of -the other branches oi government. From that point of view the life tenure made, and stall makes sense, but this has been- corrupted by Warren and his claque to that point where their imbecilities are the greatest -peril our nation suffers today, includ ing Russia and Red China. More, Ever More Since the first governments of ™n were conceived there has never been a time when -those in government could not make a -wopderful case for giving them more money. There always have been and always will -be badly needed public projects that have to wait upon money. For the first 11 months of the present fiscal year -there has been, an- increase of 11.59 per cent in the overall tax col lections of the State of North Carolina. This in industry would be considered a very healthy growth rate, -butnot for the state. Governor Bob Scott is iiwisting on adding more taxes onto those which in this 11-month period. Already approved as this Monday writ mg is an'additiojial twocent per gallon Wm Talented Man T From our arimittfilly bfeabd (Mint of view it is too bad that a man of such talent and charm should be lost to Kin ston as Max Abbott, but it would be much lees than candid to say that we re gret Ms stepping up from the Kinston schools superintendency-to become an assistant state superintendent of schools. - . To )>ut It bluntly, there was little that Abbott stood for in the. operation of the schools that we agreed with. He was not the first, and he is not likely to be the last of the ‘big spenders” in' edu cation, but he was somewhat of a jolt after the long, careful tenure of Jean Booth who got far better mileage out of the taxpayers’ dollars than Abbott --- But then Booth was fortunate not to be caught in the flood of federal funds which has caused even such other rider education statesmen as Henry Bullock to go. fiscally berserk. Perhaps with Abbott, as with Bullock it is easier to ride the high tide than to try to swim against the waste, duplica tion, overlapping and overt extrava gance that have been the hallmark of recent years in public schools as federal gestapo agents succeeded in bringing locri school officials into meek accep tance of total racial integration .. . and bribing them with their own money, too. As the history clock ticks it hasn’t been an eon ago since there was quite a budgetary hassle on the board of county commissioners because Jean Booth had a publicly-owned car in which he rode about and1 supervised the city schools. The board of commissioners accepted a car for Bullock, whose schools were a bit mote scattered than Booth’s. Then Booth had two aides in his office and Bullock had three. Now the number of vehicles assigned to these respective offices pnd the num ber of aides rims into the dozens. The two Lenoir County systems are no dif ferent than the other 157 In the state. They are all drowning in money, but 14 per cent of the teachers are not teach ing and next to no real help has been given to the actual men and' women who are doing the hard daily job of class room teaching. In education, like the Mexican Army, the generals now almost outnumber the privates and it’s getting worse every year. increase in highway funds from this itwo-cent hike will foe something in the order of $100 million for the 1069-70 biennium. j Can government (Ugest such glutton ous bites at the taxpayers’ .table? Hasn’t it already approached the point of de mini ahlng returns in many fields, par ticularly ^n education which is consum ing 7/).l.per cent of all state expendi tures? . , The slow-to-leam but stawer-to-forget taxpayer has been taught the hard and very expensive way that there is nothing synomomotis between quantity education and quality education. The state’s .present 3<ent sales tax in this ll-momth period has yielded $217, 843,986, which is an increase over the same U-month .period of a year before of $21,068,638. The yield in May of this year amounted to $20,587,629 from the sales tax, up over $2 million' from last May, I,.*•<,. r.l ■ ‘ ■ * Income tax collections have risen from $300,382^376 for the first 11 months of last year to $335,264,701 for the same period this year — an. increase of more than $3 mflupo per month and yet ev ery department of state government Is ■■ —■—-r PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS | p >V MCk RIDER l ' ; An eerie question keeps coming back to me on a subject that is now slowly drifting out of the headlines: The Pueblo TiH<*ap* During the time when this mat ter was bring given much more atten tion someone asked me this question: Doesn’t it appear to you that somebody on our side wanted that ship to fail in' a communist hands? Of course great volumes have been written 'by backwoods experts such as myself as well as a great deal more by supposedly better informed journalists who have been much closer to the for est; which, of course, brings to mind the old raminider about the peasant who lived so dose that he couldn’t see the forest for the trees. The Christian Science Monitor is run ning an in-depth series of articles by Lt. Edward Murphy Jr., who was execu tive officer of this mistakenly called “intelligence ship”. After reading two of this series of articles it would seem that “intelligence ship” is the most in ept phrase in the language that could have been applied to the Pueblo . . . unless the “intelligence plan” from the very outset was to have such a ship fall into North Korean hands; perhaps loaded with some classified information and a lot more dassitfied “misinforma tion”. It never pays to underestimate, nor to overlook the use of the most clumsy devises in the none-too-gentle art of sipreading confusion and) discontent a momg one’s potential enemies. The Tro jan Horse is as old as civilization, and it still works. In World War Two a high ranking British officer’s body washed up on the South Coast of France, ap parently the victim of a sunken ship or a crashed airplane and he had super secret information on his person which completely fooled the smartest boys of Hitler’s gestapo and undoubtedly saved thousands of allied soldiers when the invasion came because that body’s care fully conceived misinformation had the Germans prepared to meet the Allied invasion in exactly the wrong places. Certainly now it would be the worst part of backwoods guessing to try to document so distant and so hush-hush an affair as this on my part, but even a casual reading of these articles by Lt. Murphy, coupled with the other known facts of the Pueblo Affair convinces me that this eerie question is a most valid one. Such things as the dismissal of the charges by the secretary of the navy after a court of inquiry had recommend ed a court martial for several Pueblo officers, including its captain.' And it might be said simply in passing that since the Pueblo was captured there has been a bloodbath inside Red China that came very near to being a revolu tion and more recently there has been a series of border incidents between the Russians and the Chinese. Bitter seed planted in evil soil often Sprouts into amazing flowers. The Pueblo may have Men the carrier of same such bit ter- seeds.
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