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Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man - v . . I .-fll'v And Me May Be Wrong' For the pest 22 years we have tried to find a new way to impress upon our readers the fact that every day of the year should be a Thanksgiving Day for Americans . not just'the-last Thurs day in November. But there are not but just eo many ways one can' say the same thing, so this simply resays what we, and others, iiave said many times before. Those earliest white men who came to these stawge and horifie shores had practically nothing to be thankful for compared to even the most poverty ‘ .stricken American of today. But they did rive for the little they had and the custom has been banded down B.Many Health, vote or not to vote. These are a few of the things we take for granted that so few other people in the world today really enjoy. " • • . •' This makes us smug, and in all 'too many instances it makes ns more, un thankful than thankful, because we per. mit ourselves to ignore the much we have while we poison our soul with envy of those who have two mists more than we can __JPMH(PL - spend a minute really giving thanks, .fou’il be gratified how lucky you really are. said of professional for many years has now become ible to college football; that it much of a business to be called a sport, yet too much of a sport to be classified a business. College football has been call, to support the total athletic a majority of colleges and to respond with College football is Of “The Yales” it is a btutal ally estate is This, of in pure theory he less taxes if the in the same ratio of Staten Island'real rse, hi not a new notion and some churchmen for quite a long time have concerned themselves with this problem,, which becomes an.enor mous problem when any paining consid eration is given to the lars <xf real estate holdings by churches. This decision is not expected before summer, but with the recent record of the supreme court it is much more a likelihood that they will assume that if prayer in public schools is illegal that exemption of church^wned prop erty from taxes is far worse. But the maddest tyrants do have moments of reason, and even the breed of men who have so brutally abused the powers of this high office UUgbt to keep in mind the undoubted fact that given enough such rope they may fashion a noose for themselves. " Bight now a national convention hov ers ahout the court on the issue of prayer in school. It is quite likely that play football but is with the schedule maker, who ignores the fact that (af ferent conferences have different hir ing rules for football players. 1 In most conferences all a young man has to do to qualify for a football job is play football well, but in the Atlantic Coast. Conference young men who en quired to read and write, and do reason able sums, which doesn’t seek at first glance to be a very ugly thing to expect of a young man who has just completed 12' years of lower level education. Inter-conference play ought to be be tween intellectual as well as equals In brawn. At present there are no two conferences that have the same en many of my on the overall system is a direct on them personally. Nothing eo further from the truth. than I the need for better educe for everyone, young or old. But few willing to accept the undeniable that Lenoir Countians are now, and 1 been for a good many years, pa more and getting about the sen* their cousins in other counties of area and in the state as a whole. 1 perhaps the stogie exception of SS The saddest part of it all i» that is not the direct result of any individual effort to do Lenoir County dirt. It is simply the end product of too much bureaucracy, too^far removed from the madding crowd, with too much power over the distribution of the education dollar. Until about four yearn ago I the State of North Carolina through the general assembly voted money for sdhools that money was allocated fairly and that a child in one school dis trict could' expect to be the beneficiary of just as much state love and devo tion, and money as any child in any other district. Unfortunately this is very far from true, and! it is on this point that I have harped so lengthily and on which I intend to continue to harp until correction^ is made. In this effort I am attacking no in dividual, but simply the system which has systematically robbed the taxpayers of Lenoir County out of millions of dol lars in the past several years and is still
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