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Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man _____ And He May Be Wrong What Is The Line What is the line that divides an at torney from an accessory? When a lawyer knows to his own sat isfaction that a client is guilty of any crime and he bends the law to gain a not-guilty verdict for that guilty client is he acting as an attorney or an acces sory after the fact? Why is a private citizen who lies or refuses to testify guilty of a crime if he assists a criminal in going free while an attorney is paid a handsome fee >— sometimes by the very public his client has prayed upon — for doing the same thing? How can the law pertaining to aiding and abetting criminal activity have one manning for the non-lawyer and a total ly different meaning to the lawyer? Who established the principle that a criminal’s relationship between 1 his priest, his doctor and his lawyer was “privileged” and that neither of these three could be forced to testify in an open court on the guilt or innocence of an accused person even in the worst crimes? These are reasonable questions more and more people are beginning to ask as they watch the farce that passes all too frequently for justice in the Amer ican court system today. These are questions that the legal pro fession dares not try to forever hide from, and their answer will have to stand the test of reason rather than the simple illogic of “professionalism.” In a perfectly legal relationship be tween the non-lawyer and a person un federal snoopers checking on someone’s tax returns, and if we were reluctant to discuss bonafide business relations we were told what the law is, and that it is a violation for us to refuse to give information. St cannot be legal for one man to have to divulge information and illegal for another who knows far more to divulge what he knows. These are questions we ask with lit tle or no expectation of having them answered by the legal fraternity. 'Ambivalence' Ambivalence is a four-dollar word for two-faced and it’s a pretty good word to be used in any offhand description of President Richard Nixon. Nothing is more certain than that Nixon is trying hard as he possibly can to insure a second four-year term for himself and it is equally sure that he is baying up an empty hollow when he tries to do the things that please the militant colored children, the Ivy League socialists and the vast federal bureau cracy. 1 , f \ ' None of these voted for him in 1960, nor in 1968 and non# will vote for him in ’72. Ijfe could divorce Pat, many Lena Horne and betroth both his daughters to Black Panthers and that breed would still literally spit in his face if they were given the opportunity. • Nixon could fire his entire cabinet and replace them with Harvard blue blooded doves and hard-line Wall Street coupon clippers and he would still be as unacceptable to those blocs as he was in his previous efforts with — tionall In rulers of the Christ did not run around with rough necks, because of all the great philoso phies his is the most gentle. " Christ did not fight the establish* ment, because he told his followers to “lender unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.” Beards, long hair, sandals, and flow ing robes were the establishment dress of that era so to attempt to equate the accepted dress habits of Christ in his time with the slothful habits of the pres ent hippy generation is to abuse com mon sense and to ignore the truth com pletely. I The reasoning of this glib young man | is too typical of the apologia that are | spread about today for the drop outs 'who attempt to turn their backs on reality and embrace the escapism of drugs, cultism and assorted other me chanisms which encumber our society today with more than' its fair share of leeches, who take much but contribute nothing to the. overall well-being of the nation or the community they inhabit. Too little attention is being paid to that vast majority of our young people in college, in high school and in the business world who recognize the im perfections of our society and work to improve it rather than subscribing to the nihlistic principle that it is necessary to destroy something in order to im prove it. Such aid and comfort as this offered by the Cherry Hospital employee com pound the problem rather than pointing to a solution. states than any Republican of the mod ern era, and without their votes he could not have been in the White House today. Now Nixon 'thantks his firstterm sup porters by plaguing them with a mouth full of the mushiest gobbleydegook ev er uttered by .politician. And bis staff, as well as himself, do not know from one day to the next'what he means. But here in the south the meaning is crystal clear and it is in direct con tradiction to, what Nixon the candidate promised repeatedly in ’68: No forced bussing of children to bring about racial quotas. True Freedom of Choice would be the policy of Ids administration. Yet this year iwe have forced bussing of children coming up in1 the Kinston school system to luring about racial Quotas add highly placed spokesmen for the Nixon administration advise ail who care to listen that “Freedom of Choice” is dead. They could abridge this and just say ****»■, a to*_ gration is the fierce rule forced upon school boards by political pressures generated in'courts and congresses. Already the Kinston School Board has acted to lower the quality of its educa tional offerings by a serious degree. School board members deny this- and. use a collection of meaningless phrases, to support their contention. But the facts are unalterable: The curriculopi at the high school level has been water ed down and to a disgusting degree and. at a time when exactly the opposite was the crying need. The move is to vocational training ra ther than education and as much as we need vocational training for those who lack the scholastic ability for training, in the sciences and liberal arts it is a crime aganst both to try - to mix them together. But that is the order of the day, and along with this effort to mix. educational oil and water -there is also a blindly stupid policy of name-changing to remove stigma of former white and colored campuses and most hateful of of all is the imperial decree that high school marshals shall foe divided! equa ’v between the races, no matter what the grades of students may be and in spite of the fact -that the population is 63 per cent white and 37 per cent color ed. Nonetheless cheerleaders and marshals and class officers and special awards for citizenship, academic attainment, athletic prowess and appearance must < be checkerboarded — one white, one colored. This is an insult to the basic principles of education and fairness; when color of a student’s skin deter mines whether he receives recognition rather than his ability in any of the many felds in which recognition is given. This is a very bitter pill to swallow and it is ail the more surprising that the vast majority of the students and their parents accept it meekly. Caught in the middle of this maelstrom are the lower echelons of the school people who have no voice in policy and who have to accept the dictates of distant judges^ vacuous congressmen and, cowardly school boards and greedy sdhool admin istrators. : ‘ • " * The classroom teacher is the goat for all the blunders and plunders of their so-called superiors and when the chips are down it is this same lonely class room teacher who win have to carry thfc heavy load piled on them by those absent hands. The teachers and the
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