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1 , 1 ■*-v. ’ Hover Portei’iWkmW**" Bi»oridU Are~tbe Ofhfrn Of One Men ML And tie Bin* Be Wrong There Is brewing information com ing out of Russia that the present § leadership is rapidly trying to return that great country to the prison it was under Stalin. This is an injpossMe «*>«' »■ When the communists stole the Rus sian Revolution from the naive leaders of the real revolt they took over a country almost totally illiterate, and far behind Western Europe in every index of progress. Ih, a generation they have nearly be made to totally agrarian and the vast majority of its people were in bondage to hunger. The Russian spirit involves a tough ness of mind, gentleness of touch and capacity for greatness that cannot be stifled by either the excesses of the Romanoffs or the Pdlitburo. Freedom from fear, from want and freedom from the smothering paternal isms of the sefl-r are the guideposts that will ultimately lead the great Russian people out of the navelpU add poetic justice to this travesty the whole projectback In those seven states and 22 fth Carolina counties colored regis tration rose from 1,580,684 to 8,248,000, which was a goodly increase hut while thkt many illiterate Negroes were hav ms ineir names a emeu 10 uie vouna reg istietion hooks in these states white il-. literates (and possibly a few literates, who had not bothered! before) increased white registration from 11,128,816 to 16,160,000., While the increased Negro was the original notion. But-even after hauling, begging and hiring Negroes to register whether they knew whothey ' were voting for or not well over a mil lira haven’t bothered yet to register. Of course, in this apathy they join the whites who have almost four million eligible tp register in these southern precincts who haven’t bothered to do im includes not voting as meats now being »«ch a perverted as I#* exercising too muih concern vicious criminal ,. Since thei read “life’s” account of, the “family" that is believed to ha havfe, after they just butchered a group of people simply for kick* and to bolster the ego of this little squirt? lam not a violent have no more the switch on animals Buch as these* than I would in killing a rattlesnake that was about to bite one of my children. The snake, if anything could be more forgiven than a bunch of drugged hu mans whose actions are not based on are the result of pure damn m Of course, anybody who knows any- f. thing about the current paralysis of the brain suffered by " our courts knows vm well that this IB year-oldweneh who so brutally murdered the Rocky Mount grocer wUl never be put to death toy the State of North Caroliha. There are too many handwringers and whiners who are willing to line the pockets of lawyers who will keep this/ murderesSt alive as long aS there’s a buck to toe made out of the project. Their contempt for her is only exceeded by their con tempt for the law, and for justice and for the lives of those innocents who die because such violent criminals are loose to prey upon society. ? ihis is not the kind of column, per*/ haps, that one should write for Christ- A mas, but more people need to recognize that there is nothing to do with religion in the punishment of vicious criminals. It is not the court, nor the lav, nor the state that brings punishment to Crimi nals. They are punished because of their own misdeeds. And if we quit punishing the violent they will grow more violent. If there years it is this, l*ast year there were
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