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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-04-22

siiI fnI30Fel Feb{iJfE3 NOME FE4-
day. after having spent some time
With MIS-. Ct G Harvey ana Mr
and Mrs William Newman and
family. Of FaFmwHe
Pvt W@sley Earl Dunkum rc-
tor1led 10 Faott Jackeon s. q FRI
day, after having been home on
q i5-day fuFiougn
Mrs Elmo Poe ID on the sick
IT.. with virus Infection We Alsh
her speedy recovery
Mrs. Shlriey Dowdy @n0 has
rcen quite SEX. Is home ana a5le
10 be up somt
Mr. and Mrs. o VI Boiling are
both recovering from their colds
The Alfred Harris family and
Miss Lizzie Wilson attended sun
day afternoon services at Cedar
Baptist Church Sunday
Miss Janet Dunkum u Rich-
niond. Was home FOR tue week
end
Mr.. and MIS- Walter Mark are
roth recovering but are stlll under
the doctors care
Recent Visitors 81 the Alfred
Harris family we're. Mi and Mrs.
Albert Janefsof Nj and Mrs.
Earl Jamerson and child 81 Cam
den, II j.. MI and Mrs Frank
johnson and Keith of Maple
Shade. n j.. MRS Ruby Janer-
son. Mr.. and Mrs John IeSueur.
Mr. and Mrs. John HAMS MI
and Mrs Jimmie Thomas Mr. and
Mrs John Dean and MI and
Mrs Ernest Dean and child Of
near DiilWyn
Nj and Mrs wesley Dunkun
arc able 10 be out again. after
Having been sex for several days
las. week
Miss RUBY Kessier e led on
Mrs Lucy BeFsch and Mss Annie
Phaup last week
Mrs. J RI Bailey and Kathy
visited her parents, MI ana MIS-
Frank Agee HAST week
Mr. and MFs Yancy Bauoy we're
business visitors TO Farmg.le
Thursday
Mr. and Mrs Sweden Allen
had as sunday guests. Philip Al
len and family. of Cumberland
M. and Mts. Emmett Dunkum
and Miss VIII on were Richmond
visitors last Tuesday
Mr.. and ME- Harris and family
visited MI. and Mrs Lacy Fiippcn
and family % Columbia and Mr
Laurence Jamrrson and family OF
New Canton Monday
Mrs Reeves Phaup and BUCK
Marks called on the Alfred Harris
family Friday
MI and Mrs Erie FLANAGAN
and little granddaughter. of Hend-
erson. N C., spent the week end
at their Buckingham SpflnRa
home and attended services sun
day morning 1T Smyrna Church.
Rev. j c Weaver Was lunch
con guests Tuesday ol the Wesley
Dunkums.
The Emmett Dunkums visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter 6 Marks
and Mrs. Reeves Phaup and bro (
tner Saturday
Miss Elizabeth Harris spent a
couple Of days at home this week
A.. NJ ~ f4tt4a and Mrs q
NJ Boiling were IN Farmville last
week
Mr. and MRS. Hamilton and
Children and Mrs C0:bin wise
OF Lynchbure, visited M and
Mrs l. A Fitzpatrick, sunday
Afternoon.
MI and Mrs. c. r.. Wise mad as
Sunday guests MI ana Ms Vir-
gltlius Grigg and children 81
Alexandria and Joe oilEg, OF
Baltimore. Md.
Jimmie Leap, OF Noiiolk, spent
the week end with Mr. and Mrs.
wesley Dunkum ana his Vie,
Mrs. Leap, vino IS staying with
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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-04-22
WOMEN'S WHITE CASUAL SHOES

sush boFefoot tofntor~ond OF nesi-to-
nothing nrte foo1l find sling books. open
toes ond sla''er thon-hos soiesl Srzes 10 FL
10 10. Whites cnd-colors tool
Evening star., 1955-05-31
Dead dHonored
AT Briqhtwood

Tribute was paid to those who
safrificed their lives in the bat
tie of Fort Stevens, Brightwood,
at the annual Memorial Day
exercises yesterday, under the
auspices of the GAR Memorial
Day Corporation and the Bright
wood Citizens Association.
Robert F. Sutphin, president
of the corporation, pointed out
that the pledge to hold fitting
services and decorate the graves
OF veterans continues to be car
ried out as has been done annu-
ally since Gen. John A. Logan
issued his order in May, 1868.
Col. Randle Bond Truett, chief
of the memorials and historic
sites. National Capital Parks, re-
ferring to the battle of Fort
Stevens, told how President and
Mrs. Lincoln drove by in their
carriage and greeted soldiers
| while Washington was being at
tackled. He cited early history of
the tract where the Al heroes
are buried.
Mrs. Anna v. Hausman of the
Ladies of the GAR presided, with
Evening star., 1955-05-31

the Rev. F.. Norman Van Brunt,
associate minister. Foundry
Methodist Church, reading the
order OF Gen. Logan establishing
Memorial Day. Joseph C. Stone,
commander of Fort Stevens Post
No. 80 of the American Legion,
participated in the salute to the
colorS.
Other speakers included Mrs.
Bessie Smith. national president,
Daughters of Union Veterans of
the Civil War;, and Mrs. Ruth
johnson, national president,
Women's Relief Corps, Auxiliary
of the GAR. A feature of the
program was the decorating of
the graves by Brownie, Cub
Scouts and Campfire Girls, di-
rected by Mrs. Kenneth r. Peirce
of the BrightWood Citizens As
sociation, with appropriate music
during the ceremony. The pro-
gram included musical selections
by the Headquarters Command
Band from Boiling Air Force
Band, conducted by 1t. Harry H,
Meuser. "Taps" at the flagstaff
were sounded by Robert Redding
of the American Legion Guard
of Honor Drum and Bugle Corps,
concluding the ceremonies.
Evening star., 1955-05-31

Despite all the wishiul
thinking of the One World
ers, the tide Of nationalism in
Western Europe is still strong
and growing stronger.
In the chaos existing at the
end of World War II, many
were the voices oeclaining
loudly the death of nationalism
In the wreckage of war. They
saw a smaehed Germany and
austria, the battered states of
Central Europe aud the Bal
kans able to survive only
through a common, united ef-
folt thai would itself forever
Danish the old ideas Of ma
tiunalism and individual ma
tional sovereignty.
But they we1e wrong, all tie
way. For the first few years
they could point to some mani
festations of unity. perhaps,
such as the Council of Eu-
rope, the Schuman iron ana
coal plan. and the tendency of
American aid like the Marshall
Plan to tie the European non
Communist nations closer to-
gether.
Yet, even while they were
hope fully pointing with pride
at the mirage of the new
United Europe, the vacuum left
by the war in the Balka rs and
Central Europe was quickly
filled by the Reds. who not only
abhor vacuums but equally dis
like non-Communist govern
ments. They moved in fast
peacefully where they could;
by force and betrayal, fraud
and intrigue where they needed
to, as in Czechoslovakia.
Western Europe remained as
the hope of the animation
alists. but it has been a fast
vanishing hope. The fate of
the original European Defense
Community plan was not the
first, but certainly the most
convincing sign. that Europe
had already returned COM
pletely to the old nationalism,
and that any vestiges of the
wlshed-for European Com
munity or United States. of
Europe would soon vanish.
Strangely, we in the United
States have been curiously
loath to admit these facts.
Many of our leaders in both
major parties pretend to be-
lieve that Europe is drawing
closer together. Our official
policy, and our policy-makers
in their public pronounce
ments, continue to take 1t for
Evening star., 1955-05-31
Europe Returns to NotionuIism

again-and that war came 10
1899.
Although Wilson lost in his
attempt TO sell the American
people on the League of Ma
tions and died a broken and
bitter man. he did not fail to
imbed In the American mind
the principle of international
cooperation and the firm be-
lief that some international
body could one day abolish
war. Franklin Roosevelt dis
played large doses of the Will
son idealiSm at Teheran and
Yalta and in the planning Of
the United Nations, a renamed
ard refurbished League Of
Nations. He had immense
popular support behind him
for the u. N. idea, despite the
sorry lessons of the past.
But Europe, although as in
1c19-20 accepting tie ideal OF
the U. N. with sanrtimoniouS
piety, still persists in thu old
w;yS. And the old ways are
the practical ways, as the war
weary Euror cans know. and
are also the only ways, in the
last analysis. that will bring
about unity and peace in the
world. Those ways are the
way of nationalism; they are
the ways of self-preservation
and sell interest.
Europe will be united when
and if it is plainly to the ma
tional interest of the several
European nations to unite. AS
West Germany, and eventually
a reunited Germany. emerges
as the most powerful nation in
West Eurore, as she must,
nationalism will be plainly
triumphant and even the most
goggle-eyed of American poll
ticians will have to take note
that the fact outweighs the
dream.
Evening star., 1955-05-31
A Talk With Prime Minister Eden

however. till the millennium
comes. There have to be free
elections in Germany so that
a truly independent govern
ment can emerge. Certainly it
is better to bring into being
a unified Germany now than
to let a divided Germany re-
main as a source of dissen-
sion in Europe.
Once an independent and re-
united Gel man., resulting from
free elections, is a re .lity,
tre WY will be opened for the
ultimate restoration of inde-
pendence to the ether states
If Europe. It is. of course, very
important for the Western
allies not to leave the Easter!
European countries with a
feeling that they are being
neglected. On the cor trary,
their status will inevitably be
re-examined, which in itself is
a source of hope
Sir Anthony is well aware of
the enormous responsibilities
Just entrusted him in the do
mest.c as we'll as the interna-
tional sense. The election was
a wholehearted vote of conf
dence in the Con nservative gov
ernment which. while not pre-
sided over any longer by Sir
Winston Churchill, neverthe-
less benefits by the constant
personal contacts between the
former Prime Minister and the
incumbent.
To an American observer,
however. it is good news to dis
cover that there is such an in
innate understanding in the
mind Of Sir Anthony Eden Of
the cross-currents of American
opinion. For here is a man with
z long and practical experience
in the dilemmas that personal
diplomacy faces. Nowadays all
the world is frightened by the
destructive power of the hy-
drogen bomb. Let nobody as
sumo that the heads of states
today-and this includes Rus
sia-are unaware Of the uni
versal demand that a way must
be found to keep war as a last
resort" from ever happening.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star., 1955-05-31
CONSTANTINE BROWN
u. S. Refuses to Admit Failure of Hope
For Unity and Comfy on Continent

granted that Europe is in
deed united in spirit. In the
common defense against Red
imperialism and subversion,
and that a formal political
unity is in sight.
The American press end
journals of opinion follow this
ostrich-like attitude, seeming
ly 5elf-hypnotized with the su-
prt national ideal. And the
only explanation for all this
amazing reluctance to admit
that a fact readily observable
is a fat and not an optical
illusion would seem to be the
emotional and intellectual i'm
pact Of a former President Of
the United States, who cap
tured tire Imagination Of the
NatiJ1 during and immedi-
ately after World War I.
Woodrow wilson was a
high minded idealist who had
a consuming passion-a love
for humanity. That love was
in the abstract, for Wilson was
no lover of people as indivi1-
ua,s. That love of humanity
led him to foster and insist
upon Projects after the 1918
armistice that were unreal
almost to the point of the
zany. His insistence at Ver-
sailles brought the birth of
the pious and utterly futile
League of Nations. His horror
of war caused the chopping
up of the map of Europe and
the destruction OF the old
Austro- Hungarian empire in a
way certain to produce war
Evening star., 1955-05-31
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Rec China announces it is "deportng" imprisoned
American flyers This is semester we'll have to give Red
China for department
Vice President Nixon the Big -Four confab fails
be the Communists fault IT it succeeds he'll give the credit
the Republicans If it's called he'll Democrats
Democratic Senator Symngton he not available
President This means that under circumstances will he
accept the nomination unless is offered
Soviet Boss Khruschev argues about
States Ambassador Riddeberger at Belgrade
Khruschev the job believes his own propa-
ganda.
Surveys show that the most popular hacuts young
fiat tops and duCkais It's nice boys
worrying about trimming something besides the
Ike plays 81 holes OF gof Expected Republican
Chairman Hall: Relax boss think country
is safe"
One fellow saved himself of doing his duty
Memorial Day. He warmed his engine, smashed
windshield blacked both his happy
Evening star., 1955-05-31
Big 4 Talks Will Be Most Intensive Effort
Ever Made to Adjust Great Differences
DAVID LAWRENCE

LONDON. May 81. - Allied
solidarity, which is so essential
to the United States and Great
Britain in dealing with the
delicate problems Of the world
was never as strong as it is To-
day in the all-important period
of preparation for the four
power conference between the
heads of states.
This correspondent had an
opportunity to lunch and then
to talk alone for an hour with
Prime Minister Eden at his
country place over the week.
end holiday, and the net i'm
preston is that the govern
ments of the United States
and Great Britain understand
each other thoroughly "at the
summit"
The Prime Minister doesn't
give interviews, and what he
says in a private chat cannot
be quoted. But it isn't neces-
sary now to reveal details or to
describe plans for the future,
as these will unfold in due time.
What is vital is to know that
the American viewpoint is un-
derstood and that there is no
lack of information on the state
of American opinion or on the
views of the leaders in the
United States concerning the
possible direction that the
four-power conference might
conceivably take.
The pitfalls of international
conferences are known only
too well, and especially the
danger of any formula that
resembles the Yalta expert
ence, when agreements at the
top level came to such a tragic
result later on. Nor is there
today any thought that pub
lie opinion in any country can
be ignored as heads of states
reach conclusions of their own.
A healthier attitude toward the
idea of a four-power meeting
is developing at the moment
primarily because those par
ticipating will necessarily be
looking over their own shoul-
Evening star., 1955-05-31

ders at the reactions back
home, and this does not ex-
clude the spokesman for Soviet
Russia.
Misgivings may remain and
skepticism may not be erased
until deeds of good faith are
consummated, hut there is a
significant fact which stands
cut above all others. This is
that the heads of the govern
ments of Britain, the United
States and France will enter
the conference with a whole
hearted desire to make it sue
ceed and 70 bring about as
much agreement on existing
issues as is possible.
There is indeed something
even more hopeful. 1t is the
decision to explore and search
for solutions without a dead
line that limits the duration
of the inquiry Itself. There
will be no feeling that only
three days or three weeks have
been allotted for the effort of
the foreign ministers tn bring
about a meeting of minds. For,
if agreement doesn't come at
oLce, there is a determination
to try again al another con-
ference and another and an
other. What it means is that
the world will be witnessing
perhaps the most intensive
effort ever made between ma
jor governments to find a
common ground for adjust
ment of existing differences.
Once it becomes known in
Moscow that there is one hun
dred per cent sincerity behind
the allied approach and that
many fundamental questions
such as the future indie
pendence Of the states often
referred to as satellites
cannot be laid aside, the way
is opened to a progressive
handling of the most delicate
of issues. Uniflcation of Ger
many. for example. presents a
problem closely related to re-
duction of ornaments gener-
ally. This cannot be postponed,
Evening star., 1955-05-31
Tennessee Committeewomon Says
Dixiecrots Don't Represent Dixie

last two years. AS a militant
and sentimental Southerner l
appreciate this tender solici-
tude for our feelings. But I
want to be sure that the direc-
tion of the solicitude is soundly
placed.
Il want to know who is apol-
ogizing for the so-called (and
miscalled> loyalty pledge at
the last convention. want to
know what Democratic leaders
feelings were hurt by it and
what their post convention
record was. I want to know who
it is that this line of reasoning
is trying to appease. One thing
I do know is that it is not the
voting South.
"Those who think that a
few superannuated professional
politicians speak for the South
are interested in something
other than winning elections.
1t makes me mad every time l
see or hear a reference to how
the party will have to make
this compromise or that COM
promise to hold the South
This is a libel on the South
and dangerous doctrine for the
health of the Democratic
Party.
1--WE are the same South
that produced Jefferson and
jackson. We are the same
South that has consistently
supported a liberal and sound
foreign policy. The liberalism
Of the South has never died.
Sometimes it goes into hiding
but now is not one of those
times. 1t is a growing and, l
think, dominant element in
the South today.
In the lace OF all the EVIL
dence, why is it that party
leaders continue to pay trib-
ute to the ghost of a politi-
cally expiring South that
can't take the Democratic
Party straight? To coun-
sci Difference to the Dixiecrats,
the Eisencrats and the Walk
Softlies, at this point in his
tory. is a disservice to the
party and to the country: and
because it is prompted by a
mistaken estimate of the
South, it does a disservice and
an injustice to the South"
That's what Mrs. Ragland
Evening star., 1955-05-31
Gen. Taylor and Wife
Call on Emperor

TOKYO, May 81 (P).-Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor, United States
Far East Commander and newly
appointed Army Chief of Staff,
was received in audience today
by the Emperor and Empress. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Taylor.
1t was a farewell call. Gen. Tay-
lor leaves June for his new post
in Washington.
Evening star., 1955-05-31
Koreu Aide Honored

TOKYO, May 81 (P.-Vice
Admiral Sohn Won II, South Ko-
rean Minister of Defense, who is
en- route to Washington, today
received the United States Medal
of Freedom from Gen. Maxwell
D. Taylor. 1t was conferred by
President Eisenhower.
Evening star., 1955-05-31
Why Compronis With Boilers?

said in September, last year.
1t is indeed prophetic. She
repeats it today as fitting the
situation that has developed
since Paul Butler became
chairman, which was in early
December last year.
Evening star., 1955-05-31
THOMAS L. STOKES

The returns continue to
come in from the South about
Democratic National Chair
man Paul H. Buffers kiss
and-make-up" overtures to the
1852 party bolters, notably
and in person Gov. Allan Shiv-
ers of Texas. The Governor
seems to want to get back into
the party fold but is very
choosy about what kind OF a
Democratic presidential can
ditate he would take, if any.
What inks many Southern
Democrats about the Butler
appeasement policy is that it
seems to be based on a mis-
taken notion, the notion that
"the South is dominated by
Dixiecrats and must be catered
to-" as it was put by one
woman Democratic leader.
This attitude, so widely
held, is most diScouraging to
those of us who have worked
hard to elect genuine Demo
Gratis in the Jefferson-Jackson,
liberal tradition, and to build
understanding and support for
the program they work for and
the votes they cast" writes
Mrs. Martha Ragland, Demo-
cratic National Committee
woman from Tennessee.
Her views are timely and
pointed because she is herself
active in Southern Democratic
politics, because she expresses
what so many Southern Demo-
Gratis feel, and because she has
spoken out frankly from time
to time as the pacify-the-
boilers situation has developed.
In that she takes her stand
alongside Paul Buffers pred
ecessor as national chair
man, Stephen A. Mitchell, who
is for barring from next years
conventions the 1852 bolters-
Gov. Shivers. Gov. Robert F.
Kennon of Louisiana and for
mer Gov. James F. Byrnes Of
South Carolina, II any, or all
of them, knock on the door.
Incidentally. in her recent
statement on the Butler
Shivers peace party, Mrs.
Ragland put her finger on a
situation here in Congress, say
ing:
"It Is a tragic mistake, it
seems to me, for our party
leaders to compromise the posi-
ton of the Democratic Party
by playing ball with the Dixie
Gratis. 1t is already affecting
our record in Congress. where
Democratic members Of COM
mittees were carefully selected
so as not to upset vested inter-
ests that are the darlings OF
the DixiecratS."
How right she is it is very
plain to anybody familiar with
the setup here and what has
happened to the legislative
program.
Mrs. Ragland could be called
prophetic about the course
chosen by Chairman Butler.
This takes us back to last Sep
tember. to the Democratic Ma
tional Committee meeting in
Indianapolis and a statement
Mrs. Ragland made to the
committee at that time. 1t was
prompted by a news story
about a meeting the month be-
fore, in August, at Kansas City,
of Democratic Party leaders,
including former President
Truman, Adlai Stevenson and
Stephen Mitchell, a mon 6
others. The dispatch, she said
in her statement, quoted
someone at the meeting as
saying that in choosing Mr.
Mitchell's successor we would
have to get someone acceptable
to Southerners so as to main
tain the unity built up since
1852 and avoid hurting those
upset by the loyalty pledge. >"
1.-THE same type of express
sion of difference to the
South" she continued in hel
statement at Indianapolis, "has
been repeated over and over By
Democratic Party spokesmer
and in party action during the
Jackson advocate., 1955-07-23

ket," Mr. Jenkins said. In dis
cussing the world situation he
stated that with the recent eco
nomic STRINGS in Asia and Africa
there are definite advantages in
introducing Negro brokerage
house at this time"
The following is a brief biog-
raphy of Philip M. Jenkins:
Address (residence): 25 Adams
Place, Parkway Gardens, White
Plains, N. Y.
Address (business): Special Mar
kets, Inc, 90 Liberty St., New
York 6, N. Y.
Position: President and Founder.
Birth: Bristol, Conn.,, November
%, 1898.
Education: Studied at Temple
University and New York Univers-
ity.
Work Experience:
Retail Field:
In the early thirtles, was in
charge of store operation for the
National Colored Merchants Asso-
citation, a project of the National
Negro Business League which in
volved voluntary chain of Negro
owned food stores located from
New York to Alabama. This was
the first major organized effort
to sell the Negro Market" to ma
tional advertisers.
Newspaper Field:
! In the thirties, was advertising
manager of the New York Amster-
dam News, New York City.
Real Estate Selling And
Management Field:
In the thirties, was employed by
large New York City real estate
firm-Nail & Parker-which spe-
cialized in Negro-occupied proper
ties in Harlem and other New York
City areas, and did large properly
management business for banks
and ether institutions which owned
the properties. Made several stud
les of the economic status and
population movements of New
York Negroes, also conceived the
first block-by- block slum improve
ment plan fo rthe Harlem area.
Teaching Field:
Taught and supervised classes
in retail selling on the New York
City Adult Education Program.
Trained and placed over four hun
dred young colored men and wo-
men on selling jobs in Harlem
Jackson advocate., 1955-07-23

The international Association Of
Railway Employees, and the Inter-
national Ladies Auxiliary held its
Fourteenth Bi-annual Convention
here this week with the three days
sessions ending Wednesday even
ing.
More than 100 delegates, men
and women, attending the Conven-
ton which was held at the College
Park Auditorium and the College
Park Club House. The delegates
attending the convention represent
ed locals in every state in the
South.
The hosts to the convention were
Local No. "a, Jackson, Richard
Maddox, President; Local No. 2,
Memphis, Tenn, Dewitt Benton,
President; Local No. Ia, McComb,
Miss, Jerry Gibson, President;
Local No. 80, Vicksburg, Miss, A.
A. Taylor, President, and The In
ternational Ladies Auxiliary, whose
officers are Mrs. Florence Beasley,
President; Mrs. Ella w. Nelson,
Vice-President; Mrs. Mary E.
Shepherd, Secretary; Mrs. w. H.
Perkins, Treasurer; and Mrs. Rosie
Lee Wright, Asst. Secy. Mrs. Dicia
Howell, Mrs. Beslanette Whitaker,