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EDITORIALS
Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man
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About Senator Smith
Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith
made an important speech on the floor
of the senate recently that has been
given a great deal of attention, but
most of the comment we ha ve seen about
the sipeech overlooks one mistake the
senator made.
fo an attempt to be fair Senator Smith
was more than fair, and this, of course
nesults in being unfair. She tried to bal
ance her comment by placing equal
blame on the extreme left and the ex
treme right. This sounds good but it
wall not stand analysis.
Where is there a burned out campus
building that can be blamed on the
right-wingers?
Where is there a burned out inner
city that can be blamed1 on right-wing
ers?
Where is there a campus in the throes
«ef anarchy caused by right-wingers?
Where has there been' a session' of any
court thrown into disarray by right
wingers?
Where is there an instance of {damned
murder of police officers by right-wing
ers?
Where is there in evidence the mur
dier of a national figure by ngnt-wang
ers?
Where is there a courthouse nearly
destroyed by right-wingers?
Where is there a deliberate plot to
corrode our youth with narcotics and
pornography sponsored by right-wing
ers?
Where is there a plot to stab our
troops in cbmbat in the back sponsored
by right-wingers?
Senator Smith has surely raised a
basic point, but it is hot simply the ex
treme right versus the extreme left; be
cause in the ultimate conclusion the ex
tremists are all authoritarians, whose
principles only include their own right
to rule over everyone else.
What the country feces is a stern,
md long-delayed repression of these
authoritarians of both the left and right
by the majority of us who are damned
well tired of seeing our flag, our na
tion and our youth betrayed by these
matley mobs.
Those construction workers in New
¥ork had no political motivation. They
were simply fed up by the few rotten
apples in the barrel of youth that
threaten everyone.
Matter of Concern
In this issue we publish a news article
based on the annual report of the North
Carolina Board of Health on communi
cable disease for the year 1969.
This report documents by county and
by race those diseases listed in the
communicable category, and there are
ft great many happy reflections one can
make on study of these statistics. - ; .
Such 'happy reflections as the absence
of polio, smallpox, rabies and other
dread diseases that use to Ml and crip
ple a great many people and the dra
But there is nothing happy nor flatter
ing about the venereal disease report,
and especially the story as sad and alarm
ing when consideration is taken of the
fact that 24 per cent of the state’s popu
lation suffered last year 83 per cent of
these social diseases.
This is not a racist view of the Negro’s
dilemma, because the vast majority of
the state’s colored citizens do not share
any guilt whatsoever in this matter, but
they do share a far greater part of the
Amen, Brother Doyle
No major church has suffered! more
emtoararametrt and anguish in recent
years than the Episcopal as the result of
ill-considered politically motivated acts
by its leadership. '
It is refreshing, if infrequent to hear
an official voice of protest blit The
'"Reverend Peter R. Doyle in a letter to
the editor of The News and Observer
last Thursday certaihly speaks for what
we know is the ^majority of the member
ship of this great Church . . .
EPISCOPAL LEADERS
—To the Editor: Episcopalian Christians
have bean shocked to learn of a shame
ful publication put out by their national
headquarters staff in New York. In a ;
news release dated May 23, 1970, the
members of the executive council of tho 1
Episcopal Church demanded that our
government effect an immediate with- ;
drawal of ell our armed forces now in
Southeast Asia. These church leaders '
urged the reduction of this nation's stra- 1
tegic forces.
They voted their support of the re
cent — and .violent — student riots that 1
shocked America. They justified these.
riots by claiming our government is
unjustly harassing the Black Panther ;
Party and is misusing National Guard
and police forces to kill American stu
dents. .
The ma|ority of Episcopalians do not
at all agree with the violent political
objectives and tactics of our current
church leaders. The majority of us do
not support the foreign policy aims of
the Communist nations and we do not
seefc to contribute to the slaughter of .
helpless millions of Asians by our pre
cipitating immediate American retreat i
from that area.
We deplore the killing of American
students and we deplore the reigning
lawlessness in our land which allows
trained agitators and agents to use our
children in their deadly revolutionary
games. We elected our present church
leaders to promote the Gospel of Christ
and, the helping of mankind — not to
promote revolution, anarchy and racial
strife.
We deny the competence of these
church leaders to direct national and in
ternational/affairs. We deplore their pub
lic encouragement of stone and concrete
throwing mobs. We deplore their de- \
fending the Black Panther Party just as
much as we would deplore their de- '
fense of the Ku Klux Klan.
Whatever our political convictions, the .
majority of Episcopalians honor the Bi
blical teaching that demands respect for
legally constituted government. We do
not .wish for our church to replace the '
Gospel of God with any particular po
litical or social scheme: for God's Word
is not to be confused with man's. . . ‘
THE REV. PETER R. DOYLE
Rock Hill, S.C.
made more vicious by the foot that
free cure and free prevention! of the
entire venereal disease family k avail
able to every citizen.
This sorry picture also reflect® rather
dimly upon the entire field of public
health medicine since there are several
fields of much less consequence — such
as leprosy and tuberculosis for which
treatment is required under law a-nd
under close quarantine if Che victim of
the disease resists normal treatment.
Each writer for public consumption
s, or should be allowed one column cf
juesswork on the recent tightening of
he poMtical screw ini the . highest levels
xf the Nixon Administration. Obviously
something is a brewing, but what?
Those who subscribe to the “Southern
Strategy” which is, or was supposed to
xe it part of the Nixon plan for a second
era in the White House swear that
jeorge Wallace’s election had every
hiing to do with the rough game of
nusical chains played at the cabinet level
ast week. I fear this is ascribing to Wal
lace even more power than he believes,
le has himself.
' 1 )
But the reduction in rank suffered
yy Robert Finch, the kicking upstairs
jf George Schultz and the firing of
James Allen seem to fit into the kind
>f pragmatic pattern one should expect
3rom Nixon, who is nothing if not a
wall'vai- /
He has moved one of his toughest, and
Hopefully best administrators from un
iersecretary of state to secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare in the
continuing effort to organize something
>ut of the chaos that rules in .that huge
comer of federalism. Elliot Richardson
has the reputation of being able to see
the sore administrative spots and to act
mu them before they infect the entire sys
tem. He has certainly not Nixonized the
state department but it is felt that as
he leaves that department it is more re
sponsive to presidential policies than at
mytime since perhaps Truman’s time
in the White House.
Whether the sudden and drastic shift
n personnel in' HEW is a certain sign,
that Nixon intends to soften the heavy
hammer of public school racial integra
tion which his Southern supporters are
Hopefully whistling in the dark about,
>r whetheir Nixon is simply trying to
nake the huge apparatus of HEW func
ion in any given direction has to be de
cided on the basis of what does happen
n the next few months rather than any
vishful thinking either at the local or
Washington levels.
It would seem that the firing of Edu
cation Commissioner Alton was done
nore for his heresy on the Cambodian
ssue than on Allen’s views about school
jolides. If this is true then Interior Sec
retary Hiekel may also soon be numbe r
id among the growing unemployeds, un
less he is also given ia soft if reduced
rank in the White House inner guard.
At the very least, and for whatever rea
sons Nixon may have haul for acting it
s comforting to note that his actions
end to move in the direction upon which
lis election was based): Conservatism. If
^ixomhas learned . . .,as Johnson never
lid until too late; that these is no middle
pound for meeting the current crop of
iiberals except that of unconditional sur
•ender, jbhen the executive drift of fed
eral affairs may take a turn that is whole
some from the eonservaitive’s point of
Mew and catastrophic from the liberals