Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1946-07-12
SADDER WORDS WE'RE
NEVER SPOKEN

fine features not more tlan live yeas
old looked through the bars of the ia
Der City jail recently at his mother VINO
was confined within.
"Mommy', he said, ''what are lou
in there for?" and your editor has never
heard sentence more melancholy or
question with more reason behind II
than those few words so APPLY put.
That little yomgster, typlca!ly
American with barefeet and slightly
dirty face, couldn' t understand why his
mother would be behind bars and shut
off from him. Why couldn't his mother
he at home with him where she usually
was9 That s what confronted the young
ster He had reason for wanting to
know "whv" in this free land OF ours
his beloved mother was estranged from
the household.
Such instances are not too rare
here. Such conditions, however, are SO
deplorable, despicable and repulslve that
it is the duty Of every public spirited
citizen to discourage every form OF law
breaking, especially the wholesale
drunkenness and disorderly conduct OF
50 many of our citizenry every week.
Weekend after riOtous weekend,
local police make arrests, largely OF the
same group of people who seem always
to conduct their every action IN a way
contrary to the laws of the nation.
Our little subjects question was
put to a mother guilty of public drunk
enness and diSorderly conduct. we
ask YOU. what chance does that child
have of cultural development even IN
America! That child is practically cut
ting his teeth on the ugly, unlawful side
of life. That child deserves more from
this great nation than what he Is get
ting.
Yes, it is bad for fathers and bro
theirs to land in jail with like charges
but to be open minded and liberal as
YOUR editor can, and he can't see that
quite as ugly as the mothers OF the
nation spending their week-ends IN jail
to overcome hangovers.
Our village wants to overcome the
reputation it has had III the
past. 1t wants to forget such SANDER
as ''razor city" and ''border town.,
names which it has been called III the
past with reference tc its unlawful and
rlotous behavior. But to disprove these
ideas. these written, condemning accusa-
tons, Tabor City must never let the
displace the "Tabor''.
To keep our town within the bounds
Of the law. all lawabiding citizenry is
dutifulv sworn to back its law enforce
ment officers to the fullest regardless
of the situation. And, unfortunately,
that isn't being done either.
Only tive weeks ago, a local city
police arrested man in the heart OF
the business district, late at night for
drunkenness. He started to carry the
man to jail when he was slugged from
behind BY the arrestee's brother. Three
other citizens were standing near by.
With two men pounding the police, and
him obviously overpowered, he called
for help from the bystanders. One OF
them made move to help the police
man, the other two stopped him with a
"let 'em fight it OUT.
Gentlemen, those bystanders should
should have no welcome in this town of
ours. They, to this newspaper, are
not worthy of calling Tabor City by
name, not worthy to drive down its
streets, to buy in its stores, to look at
it's churches they have no place III our
town.
If two Japs suddenly ambushed a
lone American soldier, would anyone
else in the American service standby and
say ''let 'em fight it OUT That is
smile which to us apopos. No Ameri-
can would see an enemy of the country
get the upper hand if it waS humanity
possible to avoid it. Those bystanders,
and of course the two guilty of actually
aSSanltinu the notice. are this towns