Least Most Often Qualify Themselves As ; Experts On The Race Issue by Jack Rider ,v'—7 Presidential Advisor Dan Moy has been roasted by the Is for asserting that ,a per ! “benign neglect” was very in order on the thorny of racial relations in nation. &•/, '? * ■ t the “experts” ih this field, generally those who know the least about racial relations, are declaring Moynihan’s advice to be heresy and there have been suggestions that he should be1 stripped of his 24-carat liberal credentials and banished south, ,of the Mason-Dixon line. Moynihan just happens to be one of the experts in this field who knows a great deal about what he is saying, but those who know much less are calling him traitor and worse. The estimated Negro popula tion of Lenoir County by the state board of health at present is 23,358, and the white popu lation is 38,675 in the latest es timate. The ratio for Jones County is 5,701 white and 5,304 colored. It would seem that the people of such a county — white and colored alike — would have a better opportunity to under stand each other than those peo ple from areas in which racial relations are purely academic. Consider' that there are 16 states of the union in which the total Negro population is less than that of Lenoir County. . . nine sovereign states of the union that have less Negro pop ulation than the sparsely pop ulated County of Jones. In ascending order with their latest Negro population figures the lowest Negro populations are as follows: Vermont 519. South Dakota 727. North Dakota 777, Montana 1,467, New Hampshire 1,908, Wyoming 2,183, Maine 3, 318, Utah 4,148, Hawaii 4,943, Alaska 6,771, Idaho 7,242, Navada 13,484, Rhode Island 13, 903, New Mexico 17,063, Oregon 18,133, and Minnesota 22,263. Peculiarly enough, it is most frequent that the congressmen in both houses of congress from these states ordain themselves as the world’s greatest experts on racial relations. It is significant that the sin gle County of Lenoir has more Negroes than the total Negro population of nine states, since the total Negro population of Vermont, South and North Da kota, Montana, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Maine, Utah, and Hawaii is only 19,985. Even tiny Jones with 5,304 Negroes has more Negroes than the combined totals of Vermont, South and North Dakota, Mon tana and New Hampshire. Yet these 16 states that have less Negro population than Le noir; County have 32 senators out of 100 in the United States Senate and without exception through the years they have vot ed to impose artificial racial relations on all the rest of the nation. The consequences of so much ignorance will be felt for gen erations yet to come and no where will there be more seri ous consequences th;n in the realm of education. These “experts without port folio” have totally ignored that wherever massive forced racial mixing in public schools has come about there has followed automatic re-segregation. Whether this is right or wrong, Christian or Un-Christian, legal or illegal is beside the point because it does happen, and is happening, and it will con tinue to happen. In Jones County in the four year span between the 1964-65 school year and the 1967-68 school year there was a 4.9 per cent drop in public school en rollment. Part of this loss of 153 students, at a time when sohooi-aged children were in creasing is represented by chil dren who simply dropped out of all schools. And this hap pened to both white and colored children. This same picture is seen in practically all other areas where distant theories are applied to practical policy, which is soon found to be impractical policy. In this same period Kinston’s public school enrollment drop ped by 162 students and the Le noir County public school sysi tem’s enrollment dropped 411. Over $1,000,000 in Social Security Benefits to Be Received by Jones Countians in 1970 v by Congressman Walter B. Jones Everyone in the First District , is interest in payrolls which con tribute to the economic well-be ing of all. I am not sure that Social Security payments can be classified as additional payroll, but no one can question the fact that the circulation of these funds contributes heavily to our economy. Recently, I was sup plied a breakdown of payments within the First District and the figures I hope will be of interest to you. For the entire 19 coun ties according to the 1969 fig ures, there was 55,017 people drawing social security checks. The total figure for the District during the year ’69 was $42.8 million annual, while under the new law, this will increase to $49.3 million each year. We list below a breakdown of each county — the first figure being the total number of re cipients as of December 31,1969 and a comparison for each coun ty’s annual total under the old law and the new. Recepients (thousands) Beaufort Bertif Camden Chowan Craven Currituck Dare Gates Hertford. Hyde Jones Lenoir Martin Pamlico Pasquotank Perquimans Pitt Tyrrell Washington Benefits (millions) 5,475 4.2 4.8 3,371 2.4 2.8 791 .6 .7 1,748 1.4 1.6 5,970 4.7 5.4 1,157 1.0 1.2 1,185 1.0 1.2 1,326 1.0 1.2 2,868 2.2 2.5 1,007 .7 .8 1,330 .9 1.0 7,062 5.5 6.3 3,450 2.6 3.0 1,429 1.1 1.3 3,565 i 3.1 3.6 1,402 1.1 1.3 9,299 7.4 8.5 736 .5 .6 1,846 1.5 1.7 Further research revealed the following figures: for fiscal year ’69, employees andeffiploy ers of this nation contributed $33 billion 908 million dollars. For fiscal ’70 it is projected that this figure will rise to $38 bil lon, 645 million dollars; while for fiscal ’71 it will increase to $42 billidn, 253 million dollars. The number of people partic ipating in the social security program were 92.2 million In 1969, a projected figure for 1970 of 93.7 million and 95.5 million in 1971. ' tb respect to tbe benefits OH Age Survl DiaaWiity, $29 billion, 154 million dollars; for ’71 — $32 billion, 897 mil lion dollars. < I have been asked many times about the actuary soundness of the Social Security program. I believe the figures listed above show an intake of some 25 per cent in receipts over disburse ments. Lack of Support Last week on Wednesday, April 8, the United States Sen ate once again refused to ap prove a Southerner for a place on the United States Supreme Court. Those who opposed the confirmation of Judge Harrold Carswell gave varying reasons. Some of the same ones who voted against the confirmation of Judge Haynesworth in recent months at that time stated that Haynesworth was qualified, but offered other excuses. But in the instance of Judge Carswell, the excuse of many was that he was not judicially qualified. Therefore, those who are ada ment against the confirmation of a Southerner will use whatever excuse they can find. An analysis of the confirma tion vote showed a lack of sup port between President Nixon and the Senate, for 13 Republi can Senators voted no in spite of White House pressure. The majority of the Southern Sena tors of both parties supported Carswell, with the glaring ex ceptions of Senator Spong of Virginia and Senator Gore of Tennessee, both Democrats; and in a major surprise, Republican Senator Cook of Kentucky vot ed against. Railroad Strike Also last week in a most un usual action the Congress pass ed legislation to avert a nation wide railroad strike. In recent years resolutions have been pass ed by the Congress to force la bor and management to furth er negotiate; but last week, the CongressionaT action also includ ed the setting of wages as it re lates to back pay and overtime. In other words, the legislation actually spelled out the terms of the settlement. There were four unions ipvolved in this dispute, and three of the unions had ov erwhelmingly agreed' to the set tlement offered by the railroads, while the smaller union, the Sheetmetal Workers, by an ex tremely dose vote, rejected the offer. In spite of the Congress ional action in settling the 17 month old dispute, the present contract expires at the end of this year and negotiations on new contract will begin does hot set THE JONES COUNTY I O U RNAL NUMBER 47 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1970 VOLUME xvn 1970 Jones Rabies Vaccination \ Schedule Listed The Jones County 1970 Rabies Vaccination Schedule wil be held Tuesday, April 21. The schedule is as follows: 1:00 p.m., Pollocksville, at Armstrong’s Store; 1:45 p.m., Maysville, at Fire Station; 2:45 p.m., Trenton, at Health Depart ment; and 3:45 p.m., Comfort, at Philyaw’s Store. Due to a lack of cooperation in the past, it was necessary this year to cut out a number of clin ics, but authorities stressed that even though there has not been a case of rabies in Jones Coun ty for a number of years, Jones is subject to have it at any time because of the fact that rabies Is still prevalent in Western North Carolina and numerous other parts of the United States. If you are unable to attend one of these clinics, please take your dog to a Licensed Veter inarian for the immunization. When a person has been bitten by an animal suspected of hav ing rabies it shall be duty of such persons to notify the Coun ty Health Department immedi ately. The charge for the vaccina tions will be $2.00. a precedent where each labor dispute will reach the halls of Congress. It seems logical that labor and management 'in this sophisticated age should be able to devise a mutual plan for a voiding costly and crippling strikes. FHA Anniversary_ In the confusion of our pres ent affluent society, we some times overlook or forget organ ifzations which are making a great contribution to the stabil ity of this and future genera tions. Such an organization is the Future Homemakers of Am erica, who last week celebrated .their 25th anniversary. This is a national organization where home economics students in ju nior and senior high schools as semble throughout the nation. It fans a national membership of 604,000 in 12,000 high schools. North Carolina has 29,665 FHA members in 459 chapters. This salutes the leaders and membership. ■ «*/ -'