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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-10

visited friends at Yorktown last
week end
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernie Atkins and
daughters spent several days re-
Gently with relatives at Gretna
Mr. and Mrs. Note Pettus were
called to Richmond last week on
account OF Illness OF his father.
Mr. and Mrs S w. Reames, of
Richmond, and Mrs. B. NJ Green
spent several days last week with
their brother and sister-in law
Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ. Smith.
of Victoria
Miss Catherine Scott has ac-
cepted a position with the Grad
dock Terry Shoe Company in VIC
toria
Mr.. and Mrs. Miles Barefoot
were weekend guests of her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. j W. Baze-
more. Mr.. Barefoot was en- route
to Henderson, n c., where he has
accepted a position.
The Rev. and Mrs Charles Wal
ton. of Keysville. were recent
visitors to this community
Clyde Jones and Miss Geneva
Gate. of cambridge. Tenn, were
week end guests in the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Scott.
A number of our people attend
ed preaching services at Meher-
rim Methodist Church Sunday
morning Rev. Salmon preached
an excellent sermon.
1t is extremely dry in this sec
ton The water situation is very
serious. as a number Of wells have
gone dry
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-10
Mrs. Fannie Randolph
Dies In Cumberland

Funeral services for Mrs Fan
ME Lacy Randolph rs, who died
Sunday, Aug. %. at her home in
Cumberland. were held at p. m.
Thursday, Aug 26, at Sharon
Baptist Church Rev. John Gam
BILE. Rev. G G Cosby and the
Rev. c. H Hill officiated, Inter
ment was in the church cemetery.
She was born in Cumberland
County the daughter Of The tate
William and Nina Lacy
Beside her husband, she is sur
vived by -four daughters, two sons,
four grandchildren, six great
grandchildren one sister and one
brother.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-10
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ROUTE /

| Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Hall and
Miss Alvina Valencourt. Of Rich
mond, were recent guests of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. w NJ
Valencourt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wingfield Martin
Of Maine. and Miss Sarah Pres
nell of Tennessee. spent some
time recently with Mrs O. Nc
Ginnis.
The Rev. and Mrs. Coy Grove
and children Of Keysville. were
guests in the home of Mr. and
Mrs Earl O. Atkins, last week
Mrs Ralph Jones. of cambridge.
Tenn, spent last week here with
her brother and sister-in- law. Mr.
and Mrs. A P Scott
Major and Mrs. o. A. Shaw and
family of Baltimore, We're week
end guests in the home of Mr.
and Mrs George NJ Smith.
Mrs. O. M. McGinnis spent
some time recently with relatives
in Washington.
Miss Matte Nance, of Williams
burg, spent the holiday week end
with her cousin. Mrs. J w Pull
ley. Mr.. and Mrs Frank Conner
of Meherrin were also luncheon
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Pulley,
Sunday.
T. E. Bridgeman, of Victoria
representing the Fuller Brush Co,
was in this section recently.
Mr.. and Mrs William Monk anG
Miss Gladys Robertson, of Rich
mond were recent guests Of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs Willie Rob
ertson.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-10

Mrs. A V. Brisent!ne and
daughters. Joyce and Nancy Bris-
entine. Donna Lou Doss, and
Tony Mcdonald. OF University
of Virginia, spent Labor Day at
the seashore
Mr. and Mrs Ned Crawley. OF
Chapel Hill. N c.. visited IN the
homes Of Mrs J F. Alsop and Mr..
and Mrs. c. A. Garden Monday.
Miss Caroline Alsop was at home
for the week end
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-10
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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-10
Congratulations

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Arvin. Of
Meherrin, are receiving congratu-
lations upon the arrival Of girl,
born in Medical College Hospital
Richmond, last week Mrs Arvin
IS the former Miss Dorothy Rober-
son of this community.
Mr.. and Mrs. f l.. Blankenship
and family in Amelia.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Gillian
and daughter visited her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. ID Bailey Sunday.
Many from this community at
tended the stew at Worsham
school Saturday afternoon
Miss Mabel Davis visited her
home here on Monday.
Willie Panky spent few days
recently with his mother, Mrs.
Cora Pankey.
The Mayhem children have re-
covered from measles
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-10

Hehcopters are held to be the
key to future Of airlines.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-09-10

The Soviet asks the u N TO
call world parley on trade.
Evening star., 1954-10-17
By Richard Fryklund

pT NiSHuIu IiyNiunO
is testing sentiment in a series
of regional surveys. So far
they have covered "a States
scattered through the East and
West. The outcome so far:
Republicans will lose IA to Is
House seats, l to 3 Senators.
The returns are not all in. of
course, but the way things are
going, Republicans will find
no comfort at the end Of the
U. S. News probe.
GoIlup's Findings
Only the Gallup poll has
given the Republicans some
thing to brag about-provided
they ignore, as the G. o. P.
National Committee does. a bit
of fine print in the poll.
DR.. George Gallup has found
that voter sentiment outside
the solid South favors the
Republicans, 48 per cent to
46 per cent, with 6 per cent
undecided. But DR.. Gallup has
pointed out that the G. o. P.
must carry the non-South by
SIS per cent to break even in
congressional seats. This is
the point overlooked in G. o.
r. research reports.
In another Nation wide
public-opinion sampling, by the
United States Poll OF Prince
ton Research Service, Repub-
licans are found to be run
ming only even with the DEM
ocrats outside the South-50
per cent to so per cent. Again
this would be translated into
a Democratic Congress.
Several newspapers sponsor
more or less scientific polls of
voter sentiment in their States.
One of the most respected of
these polls, the Minneapolis
Star and Tribune's Minnesota
poll, puts incumbent Demo-
cratic Senator Hubert H..
Humphrey ahead of his Re-
publican opponent, 56 per cent
to Al per cent-quite a blow to
national Republican hopes.
The lowo Picture
The Des Moines Register
and Tribune's Iowa poll gives
some hope to the Republicans
but is hardly conclusive.
There Democratic Senator Guy
Gillette polled Ala per cent,
his opponent 40.7 per cent. The
large bloc of undecided"
could push it either way.
Wallace's Farmer and Iowa
Homestead magazine polled
Iowa farmers, however, and
found Senator Gillette leading
SO per cent to Al per cent. This
is the magazine that success
fully predicted a Truman vic
tory in 1948 and an Eisenhower
triumph In 1852.
In California, the San Fran
cisco Chronicle has sponsored
a poll which reveals almost
Evening star., 1954-10-17

ways been a good Methodist.
In 1928. he was a delegate to
a church conference in Kansas
City.
A hard worker. the President
is up early. But at pm. each
day the "out-to-lunch" sign
goes up as he takes an hour
siesta.
While in the United States
there'll be a ticker-tape parade
in New York. a reception at
the Waldorf-Astoria and din
ners with celebrities in several
cities, as well as heaps of
honorary degrees.
But President Tubman's
biggest kick probably will be
saved for his trip South and
a cordial invitation to be the
guest of Gov. Herman Tai
madge of Georgia in recogni-
ton of what Mr.. Talmadge
called their common hef-
| itage."
Evening star., 1954-10-17

Whig. Every time a new or
splinter party is born it's either
Unit True Whig, or Independ-
ent Wing, or some other varia-
ton of the same.
Mr.. Tubman's father. Alex
ander, set the stage for his
son. He was Speaker of the
House, Senator and a Meth
odjst minister. When, at %,
the son was elected to the
Senate from his native Mary
land County, he was the
youngest seated in Liberals
history.
AS Liberals 18th President,
Mr.. Tubman has served an
eight-year term, has Is months
to run in his second four-year
term and already "has acceded
to popular demand" to run for
a third time.
Audible Hondshoke :.
A peppy little man of SO, Mr..
Tubman literally beats the
bushes for votes. He's a good
story-teller and handshaker.
Incidentally. you can hear as
we'll as feel a good Liberian
handshake. It's customary to
snap fingers at the end Of the
shake for added emphasis on
good will.
Liberia has its integration
problems, too. In fact, unfit
cation is one of Mr.. Tubman's
major programs in this coun-
try of 2.75 million colored peo-
pie and about 1000 whites.
The whites don't really fig
ure. for they are rubber or
iron men, operating the indus
tries, and not citizens.
Mr.. Tubman is aiming to
put the quietus once and for
all on internecine tribal feuds.
He is taking to the dark in
land the right to vote and pa
tiently teaching the need for
giving up the old clan habit Of
violence.
Evening star., 1954-10-17

Last May he got together
500 paramount and clan chiefs
and elders from every province
and district for a six-Week
national executive council. No
backwoods stuff here. The
delegates were flown around
the country in planes. Tact
fully, Mr.. Tubman aired griev-
ances. dispensed justice with
mercy and laid groundwork for
more schools, roads and med
ical clinics.
Lecture on SeIf-Improvement
Boss Tubman wasn't too
happy with some chiefs who
didn't trouble to plant coffee,
cocoa, oil palm and rubber seeds
furnished by the government.
He gave them a good talking to
on the theme of improving
their station in life, but prob
ably scored heaviest with the
glistening prospect of auto
mobiles for those who hustled.
What Mr.. Tubman would
like to have from America is
q, four-year extension on the
five-year Foreign Operations
Administration program, and
a SIS million loan for educa-
ton, roads and other improve
ments. Back in 1943. when
he made another visit to
) Washington. he helped sell
President Roosevelt on a $21
million loan for the free port
of Monrovia. which has paid
off big.
The Liberian leader favors
an open door policy for
foreign investors in the coun-
try's huge deposits Of natural
resources.
$4,000 in One Hour
Mr.. Tubman is a good money
raiser. Once he scrounged
$4,000 in less than an hour
at a rally for his Mount Scott
Methodist Church. He has al
Evening star., 1954-10-17

AS far as the pollsters,
urvey-takerS and professional
prognosticators are concerned
the November elections may as
well not be held. For they al
ready are giving victory to the
Democrats.
In fact, the opinion-samplers
give the Republicans about as
much chance to win as they
gave Harry Truman in 1948.
There is a difference in to-
days predictions, however.
The memory of election night.
1948, still weighs heavily upon
the forecasters. Today their
pronouncements are consider
ably less confident. They edge
cautiously out on the limb,
but through a stout chain Of
on-the-other hands try to keep
contact with the trunk.
Minus the Quolifiers
1t is doubtful, however, if
the public pays much atten-
ton to the qualifying words
and phrases. 1t is in that
same unsympathetic mood
that this survey of the surveys
is launched. Ignoring the ifs,
ors and howevers, here is what
this falls crystal balls show:
The Democrats will win con-
troll of the House by a comfort
able margin and the Senate by
q hair.
Some of the forecasters give
the exact size of the future
Democratic margin. (Keep in
mind the Democrats need only
six seats in the House and two
plus Independent Wayne
Morse's vote to win the Sen
ateD
Look Magazine, for instance,
announced the results of a
Nationwide survey last week.
The Democrats have got it,
Look said, by 236 to 1913 (plus
one independently in the
House, and 48 to Al (plus one
independently in the Senate.
Political writer Joseph F.
McCaffrey is equally fearless.
He has written a fat Election
Guide" full Of facts and figures
on the congressional elec-
tions, but also containing his
predictions of things to come,
based on a national survey.
The lineup, according to Mr..
McCaffrey, will be 222 Demo-
Gratis, 212 Republicans and one
independent in the House and
40 Democrats, 46 Republicans
and one independent in the
Senate.
The New York Times has
ordered its farf1ung corre-
spondentS into the grassroots
for a survey of Senate pros
poets. It found Republican
prospects bad. They will lose
Is out of 80 Senate races, ac-
cording to the Times and will
turn control over to the Demo-
.Ats.by one seat.
q. s. News and World Report
Evening star., 1954-10-17
Po|Isters Agree Democrats Are In

nothing. Republican Senator
Thomas H. Kuchel and his
Democratic challenger are
neck and neck with 80 per cent
each. The remaining % per
cent, of course. will decide the
election.
A good many other persons
have taken a f1ier at election
predicting this year using a va
riety of techniques. The Eve
ming Star, for instance, polled
members of the American So
ciety of Newspaper Editors
during their convention here
and found the editors con-
vinced there would be no sig
nificant change in the congress
sional lineup.
And the editors bosses,
members of the American
Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton, said in a poll of their con-
vention that the Republicans
might even gain a little.
Their optimism on behalf Of
the G. o. P. seems to stand
alone, however. Even the
Rogers C. Dunn Survey, as re-
ported in the New York Daily
News, failed to find a bright
side and asked rhetorically If
the disappointing G. o. P.
drift to the left could possibly
garner any votes?
Louis Bean, forecaSter VINO
has become as faithful a pre-
dieter in favor of the Demo-
Gratis as the late Emil Hurja
was for the Republicans, sees
the G. o. P. as being even
worse off. After a bit of fever
ish slide-rule work with Demo-
cratic victory statistics in
Maine, Mr.. Bean discovered
the G. o. P. would lose the
House by 80 seats. A later es-
innate, however, set the DEM
ocratic majority at AZ House
and 2 Senate seats.
Lubell Estimote
Another expert, Samuel Lu-
bell, has put his often-suc-
cessful interviewing technique
to. work for the Scripps-How-
ard papers and has found that
Republicans are in trouble.
His survey Is not completed,
but there is hardly a Repub-
lican in the country who is
looking forward eagerly to his
election-eve summary.
The Stars Gould Lincoln,
dean of Washington political
writer's, is currently making
his 18th prediction tour Of
the United States. Mr.. Lin
coins final conclusions will
not be in until the day before
election, but his daily dis
patches from key States in
dicate once again that this is
just not a Republican year.
Definitely the Republicans
have had 1t in "a. Nothing
could be surer, say the poll
sters. Except possibly the
one-sided Dewey victory Of
1948.
Evening star., 1954-10-17
By IsobeIIe Shelton

overthrow free enterprise in
America" He currently heads
a group which is circulating
defamatory literature against
Senator Paul Douglas of Illi-
nois, according to the Chicago
Sun-Times.
The convention resolution
recommended withdrawal Of all
support of the Girl Scouts "un-
til they =. eliminate these
un-American influences from
the Girl Scout Handbook and
publications."
Cooler Legion heads resisted
the resolution Lawrence ].
Fenlon. past State commander,
shouted, How screwy can we
get?"). But it was whooped
through after an emotional
reading of a violently anti-re-
ligious, not to say blasphemous.
poem about Jesus Christ, writ
ten in the '20s by Langston
Hughes. A recent book by
Hughes, "The First Book Of
Negroes" was mentioned fa-
vorably in a guide for adult
Scout leaders.
The Defense
Mrs. Roy F. Layton OF
Chevy Chase, national presi-
dent of the Girl Scouts, issued
a statement rejecting the IL
linois Legion's charges as "un-
warranted and unfair" She
said the 1858 Handbook, in
stead of printing the entire
Bill of Rights, tried to make
it's great principles come alive
for girls through a must
requirement in the new My
Cove ernm emit badge and
through repeated references to
the Bill of Rights as an i'm
portant part of our national
heritage"
In any case, the Scouts said,
the Bill of Rights was being
reinserted in their new Hand
book-one of several changes,
all of which had gone to press
even before the Legion acted.
What the Scouts did not say
was that many of the revisions
apparently had been made on
the heels-and as a result
of the earlier LIE Fevre blast.
Some of the forthcoming
revisions give clear indication
that the LeFevre charges
stampeded the Scouts. Men
tions of "One World" have
been changed to MY World"
The four pages on the U. N.
have been cut to two. Some
other changes are more
startling. Items:
An architecture merit badge
requirement to describe the
work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
LIE Corbusier and Mics Wander
Robe, all giants of modern
architecture, has been changed
to ''tell about some present.
day architects.
The order OF listing, in the
Evening star., 1954-10-17
Liberion President to Make State Visit Here
By Hermon schoden

A President who Is punched
oftener than a commuter ticket
is William Vacanarat Shad-
rach Tubman. head man Of
the up-and-coming little Re-
public Of Liberia.
Mr.. Tubman wears his scars
proudly, as well he should. for
as much as anything they
sum up what he stands for
Ia common man bent firmly
on making sure other COM
mon men hear the gospel Of
plenty-through- democracy.
s Mr.. Tubman believes In rule
BY example. Bustling through
Liberals $4,000 square miles
On Africa's West Coast, he
ofttimes runs across uncivil-
lied tribesmen exposed to the
scourge Of typhoid. Out comes
the hypodermic needle, terror
fills the savage eyes, and DR..
Tubman goes to work.
In pidgin English he pa
tiently explains it won't hurt
q bit. More headshaking. So
DR.. Tubman rolls up his own
sleeve, a nurse jabs him and
the worlds most vaccinated
man is stuck again. Con-
vinced, the tribesmen line up
for the treatment.
Three -Doy Fling
Tomorrow President Tub
man is bearing his wounds to
Washington for a state visit,
complete with all the panoply
ever accorded top royalty. It'll
be the usual three day fling,
with serious talks, dinners
with the Eisenhowers, sight
seeing and a visit to the Lin
coin Memorial.
The latter holds special in
tereSt for Mr.. Tubman. The
people of this little ebony -hued
man consider him something
of an emancipation in his own
right. He is Georgia's gift to
the Dark Continent.
Mr.. Tubman wasn't born
down in the land of cotton,
but his mother emigrated
from Atlanta, and his father
descended from the first set
tiers who left Augusta, Ga, in
1884 to establish home for
dark-skinned peoples under the
American Colonization Society.
The settlement of Liberia
amounted to a round trip for
some of the slaves hauled over
from Africa. To complete the
yoke-shedding, Liberia de-
clared its independence in
1847, patterned its government
after that of the United States
and went into business for it
self.
True Wing Porty
What's a democracy without
politics? The popular party in
Liberia is Mr.. Tubman's True
Whig. 1t came along in the
1880s when the common man
began emerging. At that time
Liberia was having a little ra-
cial trouble. an oddity in a
country whose constitution
bars citizenship to any but COL
ored peoples.
The dominant party then
was the ill-named Repub-
lican, controlled by wealthy
and hghter-complexioned citi-
zens. The common man sud-
denly rallied around the Wings
and the Republicans vanished
of the face of Liberia.
Now there's nothing like
Evening star., 1954-10-17
Metropolitan Scene
Empty Narcotics Ward
Bonuses OfficioIs Here
BY John w. Thompson, Jr.

the grounds that the defend
ant was being denied the
public trial guaranteed by the
sixth amendment. Of the Con-
stitution.
Judge Edith Cockrill was
probably correct in overruling
the contention. The guarantee
is given to persons facing
criminal prosecution. Juve-
nile Court has never been
considered a criminal tribunal.
Constitutional lawyers must
have thrashed this one out
before secrecy became the
standard practice In most parts
of the country.
Secrecy may not be good
idea, but it's probably con-
stitutional.
\ i y 4
Byrd's Dilemma
DR.. H. c. (Curley) Byrd,
former president of Maryland
University turned Democratic
candidate for Governor, is
expected to feel at the polls
November 2 some damaging
effects from his bitter political
feud with Baltimore contrac-
tor George P. Mahoney, de-
feated primary candidate.
This was made fairly GER
tain when Mr.. Mahoney
baked at acknowledging the
Byrd victory and even took
his case to the courts.
Now a skeleton has escaped
from the closet at the uni
versity to worry him. It is
the hitherto secret and poll
tically embarrassing refusal
of the Middle States Associa-
ton Of Colleges and Secondary
Schools to renew Maryland's
accreditation.
The university regents voted
last July to keep this a secret.
presumably to avoid embar-
rassment to DR.. Byrd. They
met again Thursday. and still
decided against making pub
lie the 163-page document.
The Republicans, however,
have brought out enough Of
the bad side of the story to do
DR.. Byrd some damage. How
much remains to be seen.
\ X n
Complaint of the Week:
Commissioner Renah CANA
lier-The cost of economizing
in the District government Is
going up.
Evening star., 1954-10-17
Now hear thist


The District pushes through
Congress q law for compulsory
disqualification of dope addicts.
It gets Uncle Sans okay to
confine a limited number
for rehabilitation in Federal
hospitals.
It rushes to completion a
16-bed narcotics ward at Dis
trict General Hospital for tenn
porary treatment of addicts
before sending them to Federal
hospital.
And what happens? No ad-
diets.
The $64 question: why no
addicts?,
The United States attorney
says police aren't bringing
them in. Police say the United
States attorney is only inter-
ested In those with a chance
for rehabilitation and there
aren't many of them.
Both police and the United
States attorney say the wives
and mothers who were counted
on to help rehabilitation of
their addicted husbands and
children aren't cooperating.
Another reason seems to be
that red tape leading up to
getting the addict to D. c..
General gives him a chance to
duck underground and evade
it. Changes in the law may
be necessary to close this loop
hole.
At any rate, the United
States attorney. police and
the United States marshal
will try to get together to
work the thing out.
If they don't District Off
cials may close up the clinic
at District of Columbia Gem
eral and put the space to other
use. X X
Disposal Problem
Add intimate glimpses of
important people: Maryland's
Gov. Thomas Roosevelt Nc
Keldin, on finding he had
distributed a postcard picture
Of himself to- a Democrat:
IF you throw it away, throw
it face up"
X 4 X X
Secrecy on Juveniles?
That was an interesting bid
made by a lawyer the other
day to upset the secrecy Of
Juvenile Court proceedings on