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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31
Letters To Editor
No Insurance
No License .
Editor. Falmville Herald:

l read with interest the article
in the January Goth issue of the
Herald by Police Superintendent.
Col c. w. Woodson, .Jr,. which
told of the 876 deaths on Vir-
ginia's highways in 1855.
Col. Woodson terms the sit,ia-
ton as 'Disgraceful' and think
he certainly used the right word
in describing it. AS he said. moth
ing can be done about what hap
pened in 1885 but the question ]
would like to ask is. What is be-
T ing done to make the situation
any better in 1852"
| A fine job is being done By
radar for speeding but what about
the drunk drivers. a lot of whom
are operating cars without insur-
ance? When this type driver
comes over to the wrong side Of
the road and plunges into the cal
driven by a careful driver. is he
hurt? Oh, no. he comes out with
out a scratch and the occupant:
of the other car are killed. The
other people have invested a lo
Of hard earned cash in insurance
to protect HIM. While he has in.
vested nothing for protection o
other people and only enough ga!
to fill the tank Of the old jnlop,
and enough whiskey to fill hi
stomach. to kill them.
It might be said that it is ;
poor fellow and can't afford t,
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31
Voice of the People
Richmond Times Dispatch
Tuesday Jan. "a. 1856
lnterposit;on Moons
Modification, He Declares

On January the people of
Virginia gave the General AS
Sembly a clear and unrnistakable
mandate to maintain segregation
in our schools. Although inter-
position was not an issue in the
election. know many Virginians
who voted for the convention,
not because they thought it was
the answer. but because they be-
lieved a vote for was a neces-
sary preliminary to inteIposition.
am now appalled, at the pusil-
lanimity of those legislators who
say interposition does not mean
notification, but is to be. if any,
thing, a mere gesture of protest.
OF course it's notification, and
if it isn't they may just as we'll
forget the whole thing and admit
that the Assembly doesn't have
the courage to adopt a clear
stand and stick to it.
I am disguised with. fence
straddling and trying to disguise
something to be what it is not
I don't agree with Robert White
head politically. but his question
Is this nullification?" requires
an answer.
The trouble with the resolu-
ton before the Senate of Virgin
ia in its present form. is that it
does not say whether the present
Virginia statutes and cOnStitu-
ton provisions requiring segre-
CATION in schols are. still in effect
or not. The General Assembly
may pass form of interposition
which ignores this question now,
but sooner or later the question
will arise to plague them and us.
1t will arise when litigation is re-
sumed in the school cases. The
clearer the Assembly states it's
intentions now. the firmer will be
the ground on which we will have
to stand later.
Any compromise with the
fundamental proposition that the
Supreme Court decision is null
and void will be betrayal of the
interests of countless Virginians
yet unborn. The present Assembly
has glorious opportunity. an
opportunity to reaffirm those !
principles of the Constitution of !
our country which guarantee to
every State a republican form of .
government and reserve to the !
States all powers not expressly,
delegated to the central govern
meht. The action now may we'll
determine whether Americans are
to live under a government of
law Or whether we are to live
by the whim and sufferance of
nine men who base their deci-
sions on sociological works COM
piled by foreigners. |
HOMER G. RICHEY /
Charlottesville.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31
REALLY MIXED UP

Tampa. Fla. - A tourist police
met here recently was really
mixed up. He was going the wrong
street in the wrong city. Stopped
by police. the man explained he
thought he was on Highway No.
in Jacksonville
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31
From Nelrs and Courier. Charleston. s. {.
South's Appeal to Sister States

TOUR SOUTHERN GOVERNORS have
laid the groundwork for interposition.
This word interpostion, so little under
stood, means an appeal from the Supreme
Courts decision on public schools. The
appeal will be made to our sister states
and to the people of our country.
The exact form of appeal has not yet
developed. The four governors, meeting
in Richmond, have proceeded with proper
caution. What they have done is to make
recommendations to the general assemblies
of their respective states which now are in
session These states. are Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi.
Other Southern states, we believe are
of like mind, whether or not their govern
ors have spoken. If. the people in all the
states of the union, even those with rela-
lively small interest in race problems, full
y understood the basic issue we believe
they too would agree.
The issue before the American people
is not just the assignment of white and
Negro pupils to public schools, whether
the schools be. the same or separate. The
issue is the power of the federal govern
ment to take away the rights of the states
as secured by the Constitution.
While the Supreme Court is the high
est court Of law in our country, it does not
hold supreme power The people them
selves hold supreme power as defined by
the Constitution itself.
The court is nothing more than nine
individual office-holders.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31
so Years Ago

A report that small poy had
broken out in the Five Forks
nelgnborhood caused a special
meeting of the Board of Super
visors, which was held Saturday
There are said to be IL or Is we'll
defined cases of the malady in
that section. chiefly among the
colored population.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31

1t was disheartening experience, over
the week end, to hear a small chorus of
querulous little voices piping on Rich
mond's Capitol Hill. These were voices
complaining that. oh, the Supreme Courts
decision in the school cases was dead
wrong, but what would Chief Justice War
rem say about ''interposition" What effect
would the resolution have on somebody's
doctrine of judicial review? What of the
case of Tremble,Chi Us. KnOck-knee? They
didn't know about resisting the court :. .
They would wait and see"
y We would say to these gentlemen, as
forthrighly as we know how, that the hour
has come to stand up and be counted.
The resolution of interpositon now
pending in the State Senate has been strip
ped Of those clauses that would have de-
clared the courts DEGREES in the school
cases null and void and of no effect" A
provision has been eliminated that would
have asserted the Assemblys view that
Section lao of Virginia's Constitution, re-
quiring the separation Of races in public
schools, remains ''in full force and effect"
In its present form, the resolution
assertion of fundamental principles, as an
appeal to sister States to settle by consti-
tutional process crisis precipitated by
the court, and as firm resolve to resist
"by honorable, legal and constitutional
means the courts encroachment upon our
reserved powers We believe the resolution
still is wholly in the spirit of Virginia's
interposition Of 1898; and we believe it
stops we'll short of the Modification" that
seems to brighten some critics so severely.
Let us fight it out right here.
The gentleman from Nelson in an
excess of litigious anxiety, asks if the pro-
posed resolution would be binding" upon
the Federal courts. The implication is that
= would not approve any expression by
General Assembly of Virginia that
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31

tees who had voted against the New Deal
died or retired, they were replaced by
others who would do the Dealers bidding
That bidding included the rewriting of the
Constitution and the reshaping Of the
Republic.
The doctrine of states rights was only
one of the keystones of the Republic that
has suffered The public school decision
affects the South most acutely because it
happens that Negro population is concen-
trated in this region.
On national basis public opinion is
against the South. At this time southern
white people-as body the nearest APP
proach to homogeneous American popu-
lation in the United States = are an OPP
pressed minority. Other minorities have
won greater political powers.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31
Nine Old Men

Twenty years ago, when the New Deal
ers were thwarted by the Supreme Court
in pushing through their unconstitutional
programs, the court was ridiculed as the
mine old men, President Roosevelt start
ed to pack the court by having Congress
enlarge it, -.
AS things turned out. he did not need
a new law. Time took it's toll. AS the JUS
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31
Three-POint Pleas

Ihree-POint Pleas
The governors of our Southern states
are appealing for help fron, other states.
The resolution they recommended to their
respective legislatures would do t hire e
things: l, protest the federal government
encroachment on the states; 2, call on Con-
gress to protect the states; and 3, leave to
each state its own additional means to
protect itself and its citizens.
The statement carefully avoids def
ance of federal authority. Such defiance,
at the risk of armed compulsion, would be
absurd 1t also would be extremely danger
Gus if anyone were foolhardy enough to
try it.
The NAACP would like nothing better
than dispatch of federal troops to South
ern states to start new Reconstruction
era. The Soviet Union likewise would well
come internal strife in the United States.
Strife must and will be avoided The
safey of the country depends on harmony.
Thus an appeal from Southern states to
their sisters is more than plea for our
peculiar regional customs 1t is a plea to
save the Republic, already groggy under a
quarter century attack from radical forces
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31
Time to Take the Current

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads to fortune:
Omitted, all the UOyage of their lite
Is bound in shaliOlrs and in niseries
On such full aflOaf;
And ire must take the current lrhen it serUes
Or lose ventures
Julius Caesar, Act w. Scene 8
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31

The Richmond News Leader
Monday. Jan. %, 1856
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-01-31

Benson defends the Governments
progrom for farmers.
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Private Power Doubles
Orders for Generators

/. ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. June
4 R).-The Nations private
electric power companies have
demonstrated their confidence
sin the continued high level Of
the economy" by placing orders
in the last is months for almost
double the usual amount of
generating capacity, industry
spokesman said today.
Harlee BRANCH, president of
Edison Electric Institute dis
closed that the power companies
ordered a record 1914 million
kilowatts of capacity in the Pc
1iod.
Other utility officials estimated
that this represented a total out
lay OF almost five billion dollars,
far in excess of the induStry,s
annual average of around three
billion in construction spending
in recent years.
In addition to rejecting the
confidence of our companies in
the continued high level of the
economy" said Mr.. Branch,
these orders demonstrate the
determination of the companies
to not only keep abreast of the
Nations overall growth but to set
q pace for it"
Mr.. Branch and other power
company executives discussed
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the industry's expansion at a
news conference preceding the
Path annual convention of the
EEL, trade association Of the
private electric firms. About
$500 utility men were expected
for the convention, which opens
this afternoon and continues
through Wednesday night.
On other matters, Mr.. Branch,
president Of Georgia Power Co.,
criticized the crash" program
advocated by Senator Gore,
Democrat Of Tennessee. for the
construction by the Atomic
Energy Commission of six nu-
clear reactors in six different
parts Of the country.
He forecast that one-sixth to
one-third of all new generating
capacity being added by 1880
will be in atomic power plants.
and that up to one-half Of new
capacity by the year 1000 will
be in nuclear stations.
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Economic Witerotes

You're among the less than S
per cent of all high school grad
yates in our land if you had even
one semester course in eco
nomicS.
You're the lucky exception
among this picayune percentage
If you were exposed to anything
Except a theoretical discussion
of principles. laws and deflni-
tons with few if any concrete
applications"
You're most unusual if you are
able to fine a fraction of the
dozens of economic trems which
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PEOPLE
BUSINESS

Ford Motor Co. named j. Basil
Burke sales manager of its Mer-
curry divisions Washington dis
trict. He comes here from a
similar post in Los Angeles.
National Business Publications
has appointed John L. Whitlock
assistant to the president. He
formerly was assistant sales
manager at Hotel Statler.
Aircraft Industries Association
announced that Irving H. Taylor
will become export director this
month. Formerly associate d.
rector, he will succeed John H.
Payne, who is retiring.
Hotel Statler named Jerome
Barry front Office manager to
succeed Victor Bushman, who
has become associated with the
Holiday Hotel in Reno, New.
Southern Railway appointed
b. Robert Hill assistant to
freight traffic manager here.
Rudd g. Co. has admitted H
Max zimmerman and Irving S.
Lichtman as limited partners
Of the New York Stock Exchange
firm.
Jones, Kreeger G. Hewitt an
nounced that Garrett Stacked
berg has become associated with
the investment firm as a regis
tered representative of the New
York Stock Exchange.
Walker and Crenshaw, public
relations firm, has named Gill
bert Violante, former news re-
porter and TV newscaster, to
its staff.
Food Fair Super Markets pre-
sented l0-year service pins to
s. L. Seleznow and Charles Glib
son and five-year pins to 16
others.
Dictaphone Corp. will display
new products in a show at the
Washington Hotel Wednesday
and Thursday. L. E. Beardsley
of the firms New York Office and
u. A. Engel, District manager,
will be in charge.
Schaier Butler Associates, pub
lie relations firm, has moved its
Washington Office to larger quar-
tiers in the LaSalle Building.
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BUSINESS
BRIEFS
Nom Communisf natin

Nom Communist nations pro-
duced an all-time record of a.
982, 1000 barrels daily of crude oil
in March. Output in the United
States also was at a new high
7.278.000. up 10000 daily from
February.-Oil & Gas Journal.
Signs Of a dip in the STEEL
making industry are becoming
more obvious each week, but it
is equally obvious the decline will
not be general in cope.-Maga-
zine Steel.
Backing by the Canadian gov
eminent of a $375 million pipe
line project to carry natural gas
from Alberta to Quebec may
plunge Canada into a general
election this year, reports from
Ottawa say.
The 32-h0ur work week will be
the next great achievement" in
the auto industry, Walter P. Reu-
ther, president of the United
Auto Workers, predicts.
Walter H. Dreier, president Of
the United States Savings ano
Loan League, sees little chance
of any easing in home mortgage
credit before early fall.
WorthingtOn Corp. plants in
New Jersey were shut down to-
day in strike for higher wages
and short contract by United
SteelworkerS Union members.
Brown Shoe report for sis
months ended April 80 net in
come of 1882, 1926, equal to $4.3s
a common share, compared with
$3,428,540, or $4.67 a share, fol-
the like period last year.
Other earnings:
For 40 Weeds Ended March 81
coIum Pictures sl.s55S. 600 $685.. 1852 'ooc
Fer Fer s ssaT Month. Ended .i February 3 ss'
Warner Bros 1853, 76S 2.0S1. 44s
FER snare O.75 0.S4
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Stock Trading
Near SIoWest
Pace Of Year

NEW YORK. June 4 up. -
Only slight progress was made
today in the stock market.
Prices in the early afternoon
moved between and 2 points
in either direction, but small
fractional changes were by far
the most numerous.
Trading was around the slow
est pace Of the year. Fridays
total was l,440.0 900, the second
lowest of 1856. and the rate to-
day was in that neiehborhood..
Not a single major group ex-
hibited exclusive tendencies, al
though the aircraftS showed UNI
changed to higher inclinations.
At noon the Associated Press
average Of go stocks was up 20
cents at $l78.s0. The better
showing Of the average was due
entirely to strength of individual
issues.
Corporate bonds were irregu-
lar, and United States Govern
ments were lower.
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YORK PRODUCE

NEW YORK, June Op.-(UsDA)-
wholesale eeg prices were unsettled to-
day. RECEIPTS q days) $1,000. whole
sale selling prices based on exchange
and ether volume sales.) New. York spot
quotations follow: Includes Medwestern
Mixed colors: Extras t4s-50 lbsl 40
extras extras. medium 1929; standards large
Whites, Extras l4S.5O ibsS 4O.4iIs:
extras large i45-4s lbsl 1910: extras
medium $3.50. Browns: Extras (4S-5O
l 4on 4i ii,ta Includes nearby: whites:
$3.50; smalls 33la-34 Browns: TOP
Al smalls 341s-35.
Butter steady. receipts e days. t.
100000. Wholesale prices on bulk car
tons tlreshl; Creamery, o. score (AA)
$4,000 cents g2 score CA) 59h-5ais
gg score tB) 57sl.5s so score (c) $3.50
5B. Cheese steady. Receipts Il DAYS
~. 900; Wholesale sales American
cheese whole milk. Cheddars aged 4il-
~ cents. Single daisies fresh 3sH 40.
ssninsle daisies agsd 47-52. fate aged
3sM DOMESTIC Swiss (wheels) grade "A'
45-4S grade "B" 1916 Grade &C" 3p-43.
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YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
~ SYLVIA PORTER

daily dot this newspaper and all
others, and you're an intellec-
tual pearl among pearls If you
really understand the terms, rec
ognize their meaning to you and
your Nation.
In short. the odds are over
Iwhelming that:
You are an economic illiterate.
Your economic education is
made up of "haphazard observa-
tons and ideas. often partial and
not true to facts"
You are not aware that: Food,
clothing, shelter, health care.
education. employment - these
are essentially economic needs.
Economics constitutes the warp
and wool of the fabric of modern
society; it is the foundation on
which our political and social
structure rests"
You simply do not have the
"sounder understanding of the
economic process which is an inn
operative for modern citizenship"
Harsh accusations indeed! But
unfortunately. they are valid
more valid today than ever be-
fore, although the need for eco
nomic literacy in our land is
more urgent today than ever be-
i fore.
The Council for Advancement
of Secondary Education has Just
released two studies-"Key I'm
derStandings in Economics" and
Economics In the Press"-which
are deeply discouraging and
frightening. The brutal points I
summarized above are highlights
of the surveys.
| In this colossal and complex"
system Of ours, says the Coun-
Gil, Economics plays a domi-
nant role in our affairs, affect
ing our lives at every hour"
Prices. wages. interest rates,
taxes. banks and credit - all
these concern us. Few of us
escape the intricacies of tax
forms. life insurance, installment
credit, Social Security regula-
lions. Every day. newspapers are
loaded with news stories on
economic subjects. voters are
regularly called upon to cast a
ballot on issues that are largely
economic or that carry economic
implications. The special
Language of our economic society
must be mastered. A decent
competence in economic educa-
ton is indispensable to every
alert and responsible citizen"
Yet, the council reports
and its own horror is apparent
in every line of its studies -
that most schools offer little in
economic instruction and, If
economics as an independent
subject is offered at all. it is
usually an elective.
Most of the teachers Of eco
monies lack adequate training.
Most of the textbooks are "ab-
stract and theoretical rather
than concrete and practical"
tcopyrIEht 1855. The Hall syndicate, Inc.l
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ODD-LOT DEALINGS

NEW YORK, June 4 1P.-The New
York Stock Exchange reported today
these odd-lot transactions by principal
Purchases Of 191 ,635 shares: sales Of
13S,414 shares including 1880 shares
sol dshort.
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Hourly sales on the Exchange
l1:OO m. 31O 900 II noon $40 900
1900 pm. eOo 600 200 pm. 600 900
tUnit OF tradina 10 shares or sales IN
full Rates Of dividends In the forego-
inp table are annual disbursements based
on the last quarterly or semiannual
declaration Unlest otherwise noted,
special OF extra dividends are DOT In.
cluded Also extra or extras. An.
nual rate plus stock dividend Declared
or paid IN 1866. plus stock dividend
Declared 81 paid 80 tar this year
Payable IN stock durins 1885. estimat-
ed cash value on ex-divIdend or ex-dis.
tribution date g Paid last year De-
ciare6 OF paid after stock dividend or
split up ( Declared or paid this year,
arrears Paic this year, dividend
omitted deferred o. no action taken Il
last dividend moeting Declared or
paid y 1868 pius stock dividend. Pay.
able In stock duriug 1850 estimated
cash value on ex-dividend or ex-distribu-
tion date y LiauidatinG dividend cid
called Ex-diyidend x-dis Ex-distri.
button xr Ex-riRhts Nv without war.
rants WV With warrants wd When
distribqted vi When issued nd Next
ershlp Of being reorEaniEed unaar the
by such eompaniea.
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NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK. June 4 lR1.-Cotton fr-
today, with scattered liquidation abb
sorbed through spot house buying. one
leading fiIm boueht 1000 bales OF De-
eemneI futures and 100 bales Of nearby
Private crop reports were on the ia :
yorate side. a leading spot flrm In It's
latest cotton letter indicated there was
but Nuying Of old crop for June and July
delivery increased. The nrm said indi-
cations were that prices for prompt
shipment cotton viii continue strong
IN tho Memphis territory. several mai
buyers stated that their consumption
had increased and they needed add
Moor prices were 40 cents q hale
higher TO 70 cents lower than the pre-
vious c.ose, July -. SO. October 30 'b3
and December 1891.
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CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, June 4 R.-wheat held
fairly steady TO nrm, but other graini
Isaistered weaker tones on the Board Of
With the exception Of the bread grain
most cereals were lower at the openinF
Influenced By number Of factors, in
weaker tone In soybean OIL
wheat near the end OF the FIRST hour
was ~ to "a higher. July 2.O21a; corn
Il i 70 . Jus s sl re oai' love-. 70
July 1.1s21; soybeans a. 10 9 lower July
3.0Ota; lard 20 TO 35 lower. July ii.6J
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Mortgage Market Tight

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 R.-The
mortgage market will be tight
in 1856, but mortgage money
will be in available supply for
construction purposes, says
George w. Warnecke, head Of
George w. Warnecke g. Co. Inc,
independent mortgage invest
ment and servicing firm.
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

Sales
stock and Add Mel
Dividend Rate 90 High Low 1915 chg
MysrBrOs2.4Oa l 45N 45A 4S11+ Y
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QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK. June 4 A.-spot nom
ferrous metal prices today. Cooper 40-4o
cents a pound, Connecticut Valley. Lead
10 cents a pound. New York Zinc 1877
cents pound, East e., Louis. Tin p31s
QOat cents per troy ounce. New York.
ecrap steel No. 4 heavy t5.o0-4B 90.
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DIVIDENDS

NEw YORK. June . OPl.--plvldend.