Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man __' And He May Be Wrong Note to Republicans s-.v We can’t avoid wondering which walls the .local Republicans climbed yester day when they heard out-going Republ ican HEW Secretary Robert Finch tell a senate committee that the Republican Nixon administration, is in the process of revamping its position on private schools and is exjfi^tfed to come out in a few days with a plan to lift the tax exemption that the vast majority of these private schools must have in or der to survive. The voters of Lenoir County elect ed three Republicans to the county school board .last month because the Republicans1 ptomisted that they would Seep Freedom ;of Choice for the local school system: But we have not heard jp: great deal out of these three new Re publican school board jtnwnbers smcp t|iey went to Raleigh last week and got the word from the RepublkhA Administration about what kind of wood $ to be used to make school; house, shingles. Of course all of us who watfch the political pot brew accept the premise that it’s perfectly fair to make a few premises in order to get elected, but experience teaches us that things gen erally look different from the inside than from the outside. The Kinston and Lenoir County School boards held out longer than any others in Eastern Carolina on this federal dom ination, waiting as long as they poss bly could in the hope that the national drift of, school affairs would change. Nixon promised when he was trying to get Southern votes that he would ' support Freedom of Choice, but now Nixon is inside the White House and he apd his Republican HEW helpers have brought about more racial integration of -the public schools in a year and a half than poor old flop-eared Lyndon did in Ms five years in office. And to tbe,b$& our recollection Johnson, whose children attended select private schools, never made any noises about taking away the tax-exempt status of private schools. *■ When November rolls around local Republicans, may be still flogging this school integration horse. . . and they have just as much right to flog a dead horse as anybody else, but they will never -beat any life into that battered old hulk until there is a total change in the attitude of the United States su preme court and the Preadency and as of this moment Nixon and llis Republi can court appointees are still completely backing the mess first created by Re publican Judge Earl Warren. About Wallace Qeorge Wallace has been re-elected governor of Alabama, but he burned up whatever national statureyhe had acquired in the past three years in getting elected. ‘r,i "This is not a new-stance because shortly after the 1968 presidential’elec ton, when his ears were still roaring from the noises of that hectic campaign Wallace said! his next’ effort to apply pressure to the national political scene would be as a regional7 candidate and not as a national candidate. Assuming that this November ’68 at titude has not altered’ the kind of cam paign Wallace just concluded in Ala bama may have more currency than some of the national! pundits expect. By ’72 with the continued degenera tion of the .public schools in those areas where there is a considerable percent age of colored population the plati tudes of Nixon and the! promises of Ag new may sound rather, empty to those who have recently applauded these plat itudes and promises. Viewed in that light Wallace may be able to deny Nixon those electoral votes he so badly needs in the South in order to put does main that although there are job offerings.'the students have not had the huge assortment of jobs to pkk and cull among that hasten the recent rule. And pardoxically enough the more educated the graduate is the less job offerings there are available, the Ph.D. has generally narrowed the field of em ployment by specializing to such a very fine degree in furthering -his educa tion. The average large corporation pre fers to take the straight B.A. or B.S. graduate and then apply his talents where they best fit Ihefijjr particular company. The Ph. D. almost has to be hired for a specific slot, and with the curtail ment of space and aviation research industry is the place to which the ma jority of the graduates are now hav ing to turn! No longer can the Ph. D. automatical ly expect to get himself .a lush teaching job in a select college or university by merely waving his doctoral degree in front of university trustees. And when the academic seats' are,found . full, and when government luring of Ph. D. grad uates is severely cut the complications are automatic. , This spring' has even seen Ph. D. graduates from the less prestigious col leges forced to accept such lowly em ployment as teaching in public schools add this is abbiit half — in dollars and cents — of what such educated young people could expect in prior years. Nobody is yet saying it loudly, but there Is just a possibility that industry is tiled e* being kicked around by aca demic types and this lowering of the boom may be just a not-too-subtle way of reminding the academic community that there is something to be said for the profit motive. .. Certainly corporate management could not be blamedi for tightening its re search and personnel belt ever so slight ly in view of the unreasonable attitude many campuses have ^exhibited toward business. There is, of course, the other side of the coin; which is simply that there is just the possibilty the* the campus, like Detroit may over-produce some years. The edu<$8$pftjfcEdsel & both a possibility and a probability. From .the local point of view total racial integratical office seek-' ers may very Ttoell be singed' by this heal in this year’s general elections in. November. • *• • Wallace is a cahny campaigner. He did not deliberately tium. bridges be hind him without baring some fence mending plains lust ahead. If tjhie. degeneration of the public schools is added to continuation of the Vietnamese bloodletting Wallace may have two stringSon his political bongo to accompany bis composfition about ‘Ten Cents Difference”. JONES COUNTY JOURNAL Jack Rideb, Publisher Published every Thurscfay by County News Company, Inc. ritage Street, Kinston, N. 3-2375. Entered as Secoi " 5,1949, at Post Office iat' ling, under ihe Act * North Carolina payable in h BY JACK RIDE* I have a very high regard few the intelligence of Governor Bob Scott so I know perfectly well that he is not stupid enough to swallow all the hog wash he is being handed in the name of this reorganization Of the state gov ernment, Which aH the more adds to my consternation when Scott keeps re the half-truth about there be ing 317 separate agencies of the state government. This week once more he added his total support to this constitutional amend ment to be voted on in November which authorizes the governor and the gendral assembly to reduce the number of state agencies from this mythi&l “317” to something less than 25. First, let it be categorically stated that there are not 317 agericies unless one includes such, things as the USS Battleship North Caro lina Commission, The Historical Mur freesboro Commission^ and dozens more of the same breed. There are 59 departments of record in the state government: Scott very well ktttnws this and it adds nothing to his character to keep on mouthing the 317 half-truth' C 1 Secondly, although Scott’s service in state 'government is limited and his leg islative experience is not' lengthy he cannot avoid knowing that every agen cy of the state government except the Council of State which is authorized by x the constitution is a creation of the General Assembly, and it is axiomatic that the same hand! which creates can also “de^create”. So if there is a bur densome collection of these governmen tal baubles, bangles and beads it is the duty of the governor to recommend to the General Assembly which is useful and which is an impediment to efficient operation of the executive side of the state government. —i "1 ~ So, whether one uses the half-truth 317 figure or the more rational 59 fig: ure there is absolutely no need to lie the hands of future governments with this 25-or-less limitation of this ill-con sidered amendment to the state constitu tion. f Finally, it is a gross inaccuracy to atteinp$ to persuade the people to be lieve -that this additional bureaucratic layer ol cabinet level politicians 4s giv ing to save 50 million, or add to |hfci!ef ficienfcy of government. It $11 aisureji ly do neither. Because every branch of the state government has been total ly assured' that this reorganization does not mean any curtailment of its activi ties, or itsfunding. But this pig-in-the-poke has 'been pre sented to the public in such a shining manner that the gullible public is like ly to swallow it head, hoof mid wiggling tail, and then find it awfully difficult to digest, and about as expensive as the great court reform program, which has simply tripled the -cost of operating the courts without adding one iota to court efficiency or to the prompt and effect ive protection of personal andpreperty lights. Court refprm was sold to the public in the same half-truth fashion, and the public, having been saddled with it, is mow stuck with it forever and anon