The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-05-28
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
The Blessedness Of being late.

AuC o~iCSoCQilCSS vi UClii5 ldtC-
Mississippi's r. E. Dumas Miner.
who, at Al, is one Of the nations
eonspicuously S u c c e S S u bust
nessmen. industrialists and publ
cists, in citing some advantages to
the South of being late to Industrial
THE new plants and those
under construction" he points out,
have profited by the advance in
design. equipment and production
engineering so that they have a ire
mendous advantage Owe the obso-
descent plants of the older industrial
areas"
Amen Also by reason Of being
late, the South should have advan-
tage of some last words Of its own
on labor relations, race relations,
education, religion, architec-
ture. manners and what-have-you.
And there is the extra ~blessedness
Of being powered by electricity and
gas, the decentralizers. rather than
by centralizing steam which has re-
quired the huddles that are still eye
sores and heartburns In the North
and East.
We have room to grow. breathe.
be free and fair. not be socialists,
slaves, integrationists or faceless
items of an eating society.
Mr.. Miner will agree that this
comment is for men only. 1t might
compound a vice to have our Won-
enfolks persuaded of virtue in being
later than they are.
Comes a professional South-baiter
with claims that Stonewall Jackson
wasn't standing but stalling like a
stone wall.
"Haste thee, nymph, and
bring with thee
Jest and youthful jollity. :"
Jollity jumps the track a bit at
our great University OF Virginia
this May. Good clean fun is good
clean fun, and not-so-clean Is fun,
too. But the University's Spectator
shouldn't use its reputation for Jest
and jollity to be unfair about lnte-
grafton. Processing complete neu-
trality, its May issue carries serious
viewpoints on what it calls both
| sides Of the segregation question. 7
The first is by Charlottesville's Mrs.
Sarah Patton Boyle, nationally pro-
life writer for indignation. The Sec
ond is by Edwin Henderson, NAACP
official. The third. by, William
Faulkner, maybe is supposed to
represent the segregation side but
Mr. Faulkner isn't on that side. Hes
a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. home
man, like Holding Carter although
professionally vague. being a man
Of letters rather than Of biology.
politics, sociology or law.
The last two pieces are by 100
per cent segregationists, true. But
what a two. They are John KaSper
and his associate. Floyd Fleming
in the notorious ''Seaboard White
Citizens Council, an outlaw organi-
zation so far as the real Councils
are concerned, Mr.. Kasper ends his
piece on a t~ypically fascist-cloak-
Observation-Disclosures note: ITO
those who oppose us. Marxist. usur-
er, race-mixer, degenerate polite
ian. we pledge eternal vigilance
feternal combativeness, even death
There's no reason why the Spec
tator shouldn't be neutral if it wants
to be. But there's every reason-in
Virginla's tradition-not to call a
lop-sided portfolio like this fair
At Clinton Federal Judge Taylor,
who seems sorrier and Sorrier for
what he carelessly put his foot into.
eagerly consents to a jury trial and
~iidt D iiloic, W pctitioli VI 10 u tHe
II defendants that they not suffer
the contumely and the prejudice to
their cas- of being tried with the
17th-self-styled Rabble Rouse
John Kasper.
The Spectator please note
David Lawrence. editor OF the
United States News and World Re
port. is to be the commencement
speaker at the University OF Ala
bama.
A true conservative. Mr.. Law
renee knows, as some don't, that