The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-03-22


/ lead ChurchaH Gordon long
rector 81 lhe University
By NELL BATTLE LEWIS
The Saturday Evening Post for
February 18th carried an article
headed 'Southernors VIII Like an
tearation by Sarah Patton BOYLE
wife OF a member Of The faculty.
OF The University Of Virginia. who
described herself as really
+ Southernera who was reared 3n
! all tie Southern notions and par
+ UcIpated IN all the practices.
one Of whose grandfathers was
+ General Lees personal scout and
/ the other d colonel under Stone-
wall Jackson Mrs. Boyles article
+ vas illustrated with a photograph
Of her in the company Of two
Negro medical students at the
University Of Virginia, a Jolly trHa
grinnig in front Of the Rotunda
] am informed by a resident uJ
Charlottesville long connecteri
I Wi.a the University Of Virginia
that 50 far as he knows. the reac.-
ton 0f Charlottesville people 10
Mrs Boyle's article has been
most unfaYorable " Revolving
is tie word applied to 1t b. sons
with whom I agree. Ny Chas-
/ Charlottesville correspondent nv
brother. Of coure Or. Ivey r.
Lewis fomef Dean Of the U Va ]
adds In any college community
there IS a small number Of cract-
pots l have not talked with any
Of these Il
/ Mrs BOYLE is q daughter Of the
| Rev. Robert Patton. an Episcopal
/ minister from Vmglnia. who was
4 the founder and untl his death;
] III. Director Of the Church Ihstl-
| tute for Negroes maintained by
| the Episcopal Church Her hns~
, band Roger Boyle. Of Washing
! ron y c. specialized in the study
/ Of drama at the University Of
| Virginia. leaving the institution
( in 1898. and Is now an Associate
! Professor Or Speech and Drama
| there. She has a sister vino also ii
the wife Of a professor at Virginia
| but who I'm told. fortunately
! does not share Mrs. Boyle's readi-
| " marketable Negrophilic views
| As everyone knows. the prime
| issue in the South today is the
/ one raised by the u S Suplemf
| Court S anti-scPregation decision
| relating TO the public schools In
| r4dible though it may be Mrs
Boyle. writing Oh intematlonI en-
| thely avoids this issue and in her
| discussion emphasizes a case five
| years old that Of Gregory swan
| son. Of Danville. Va. the Negro
| lawyer who in 1850 applied for
| admission. to the Law School "A
| the University of Virginia anc
| was at first refused but later ad-
nitted That IS She relates the
| question Of indignation merely t.
| the admission Of Negtoes to grad
tlate and professional schools. now
| virtually settled and wholly IT,
| nores that question as it relates to
the public schools whore it's is an
entirely controversial matter
Mrs Boyle gives. the impression
| that tie majority 0f Southerners
base no real objection to inteQr.
| tion and are simply covering
| about 1t because they're afraid To
| speak up IN its favor Nothing. III
| course, could be slllier than such
a notion VI all know that plebis-
| cites even in Virginia and North
| Carolina. considered two Of TN.
| most conservative Southern States
let alone in South Carolina
| Georgia Mississippi. and other
| States where feeling is STRONGER :.
kEould Overwhelmingly reject in
| Iteration Hence. Mis- Boyles' ar
| ticYe Is seriously misleading and
/ rnudaies water already muddy
| .naush Thousands Of readey IS d
| her piece outside the South ig-
| rorant Of conditions here. and
| Mistakenly = assuming that she
I Wlll De RruaslE mlSled ais 10 the
| time state OF Southern public
opinion
/ She states that 1t 80 members
Of The faculty at the University o.
from passing out tips. as he noW