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Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Mari
,_And He May Be Wrong
The Pain of History
■Publication of the Lindberg diaries
and the movie “Patton” remind us again,
if we needed reminding, of how painful
history really can be.
Both offer, the brutal inference that
America should have turned on the Rus
sians as soon as the Germans were de
feated and have become rulers of all the
world.
Let us hope that no responsible lead
ers of any country ever suffer that
disease of world domination again, and
the world is fortunate that the leaders
of England and the United States did
not permit such stupid reasoning to
prevail in 1945.
World rule is not only undesirable. It
is also impossible.
powers have stupidly oc
soil for a long time; as
tes now still keeps troops
span, and dozens of other
And any maniac who dreams of world
dominion for any power is just one
step ahead of the butterfly net.
The temptation of power-maddened
men to simplify the most complex prob
lems and their thirst for personal pow
er and glory are the surest path to de
struction of both those they lead and
those they seek to conquer.
Napoleon bled France white, and
brought it to its knees.
Hitler did the same for Germany. The
long> history of those who sought to
chase the rainbow of total power has
than holding those people in subjection
as we have seen with Germany and
Japan they have risen now to challenge
-the United States in every conceivable
manner, while we were bleeding our
country of its finest young men and
of its irreplaceable natural resources.
Lindberg at least in one thing is
right. The United States won the bat
tles but it lost the war. If one doubts
this he should consider that the public
debt of these United States is greater
than the Combined public debt of all
the other countries in the world com
bined.
School Complications
When President Eisenhower decided
to make the' public school system of
Washington, D. C. a model of racial in
tegration 53 per cent, of the students
in the system were white and 47 per
cent were colored, Today in Washington
98 per cent of the public school students
in the national capital are colored.
When forced racial integration of the
public school began in Lenoir County
64 per cent of the students were white
and 36 per cent were colored. This year
the enrollment of the Kinston School
system has reached 51.7 per cent col
ored and 48.3 per cent White. The exodus
has: just gotten really in high gear.
We fly men to the moon and hack
but it’s difficult to get a flight from New
York to Miami, without an unscheduled
stop in Havana and now this disease has
spread to international as well as dom
estic airlines.
And now that this form of Iplackmail
and piracy has been proven so easy and
so effective there is no chance that it
is going to suddenly go away.
Putting armed guards on planes is
as ridiculous as most of the remedies
suggested so far. The only cure is one
that nobody is likely to see in our time.
That is open and peaceful diplomatic
relations between afl countries, so that
criminals who kidnap innocent people
and destroy valuable property can be
brought to justice and punished prompt
ly and severely. Our own country, for
instance, refuses to enter into diploma
tic. relations with the government of
the world’s largest nation, China. In spite
of the fact, that the United States govern
ment and the New York Times together
are totally responsible for Fidel Castro
being the dictator of Cuba we refuse to
recognize this bastard government of
our own parentage just off our shores.
So if a supposedly enlightened peace
loving and peace-seeking government
such as that of the United States hides
its head in the diplomatic sands in this
peculiar fashion it is not too fair for
us to criteize other nations who suffer
the same disease.
The more complex a machine becomes
the more delicate it is and the easier
it is to foul its working parts. Most
any mchanical inclined person could
take a pair of slipjoint pliars and a piece
of haywire and keep the old Model T
Ford running. Today’s-fliver demands
the services of an MTT graduate and a
collection of tools and instruments cost
ing thousands of dollars.
Of course the modem flivver is far
nicer than the Old Model T, but how
long would this modem fliver percolate
on the same kind of rutted, mudded
trails that the Old Model T had to
crawl over, under and around?
This same parallel carried to the “Nth”
degree accents the dilemma of air trav
el and space-age diplomacy that we suf
fer today. But then Wells-Fargo had
its problems when it used to run stage
coaches and look what Jesse James did
to trains a hundred years ago!
This comes out at 37.8 per cent colored
teachers.
Up until now the charge of discrim
ination 'has not been raised, but it is
obvious that with 82.2 per cent of the
professional staff being white while only
48.3 per cent of the student body is
white some discrimination against color
ed teachers has taken place. Even if
it has not taken place there is at the
very least a statistical basis for support
ing such claims.
Another very sore spot among the
classroom teacher is that although on
paper the ratio is one teacher for each
18.2 students there are many teachers
laboring with twice that many students
because there are so many teachers who
.are not teaching. Teachers who are hold
ing down much higher-paying adminis
trative make-work jobs that contribute
nothing to the educational process and
offer absolutely no help to that be
leagured classroom teacher who'winds
up having to suffer for all the mistakes
of politicians, parents, judges and these
aforementioned administrative drones
who draw the big salaries, fill.file cab
inets with useless studies and endless
statistics.
for
half
I can only speak for thisparty of one
which I represent — which is myself —
but as for myself, there’s one publicity
bound that I’m getting pretty fed up
with. This may be a cruel and ugly at
titude for me to take about a fellow who
gets his kicks making noises about pro-;
tecting us poor imbeciles who do not
have sense enough to protect ourselves.
I’m talking aibout this knight in shin
ing armor called Ralph Nader. Maybe
I ought to kneel at the very mention ofv
his name and he may be all he claims to
be, as pure as Ivory Soap, as innocent
as the new-borne babe and just exactly
what this neurotic generation needs to
push it off the cliff into total psychosis.
It was bad enough when Nader got
his first taste of national glory by telling
us how dangerous cars were. There is
no record yet of a car, like a pistol,
killing anyone. There always has to
'be a loose human nut involved for any
cold piece of metal to become danger
ous.
But now Nader has moved over and
begun telling us how dangerous our
food is and maybe it is. I don’t know.
But Td rather die early and die peace
fully than to live a hundred years
gnawing my fingernails and worrying
about every late I eat or every inch I
ride in one of the Detroit death traps
that Nader beats his maciated1 breast
about so frequently.
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But the whole stance of these profes
sional busybodies annoys me. They are
so self-righteous, so sure they are right
and everybody else is wrong. I surely
do not subscribe to the old Charlie Wil
son theory that what is good for Gen
eral Motors has to be good for the na
tion. On the other hand I,> surely do
not subscribe to the nutty notion that
General Motors or General Foods or
any other major industry.is deliberate
ly and maliciously trying to send us all
to an early grave. / That is the ugly
brutalization of American industry that
Nader tries to paint.
This is just one more twisting of the
socialistic screw aimed at convincing
the gullible public that they are the
instant, constant victims of some dia
bolical capitalistic plot and all that is
needed to make us safe is a take over
by the all-seeking, all-knowing, all-loving
totalitarian claque which roosts on the
banks of the Potomac ready, willing but
certainly far from able to run even any
thing as complicated as a coin operated
laundry, much less the American indus
JONES COUNTY JOURNAL
Jack Rides, Publisher