The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-11-08
John Tempe Grove.
John Temple Groves
Northern Press Still
Snubs Southern News

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Orlando, Fla Sometimes, no
matter what the book says. two
and two make far more than four.
You talk Of putting the
national interest above the pres
sure group" said a gentleman in
my audience last night, but the
nation is just the sum Of all its
pressure groups -- that stands to
reason"
Not SO --- twice.
Not so, because millions Of us
don't belong to a pressure group.
And not SO. because you can't
serve a pressure group without
tending to sell out the general
interest. Serving two or three or
more pressure groups can mean
lust that much more selling out.
The South, Of course, needs to
make itself pressure group now
as never before ~ but its appeal
TO the nation Is nevertheless a
national interest one. That is be-
cause the appeal is for the Con
stltutlon, the framework, the rules
Of The American game.
Oi this Central Florida region,
the biggest thing to be said sta
tistlcally is that its wealth and
population keeps pace with
Florida. j. N. Stonebraker, facto-
tum Of all available facts. fancics
and Florida computes the score
and finds it constant.
70 keep pace in Florida is to
Keep something terrific.
! never sec this capital city of
the Incompatible lake, Hill and
orange grove region without
thinking Of that line in America.
the Beautiful
thine alabaster cities
shine
undimmed by human tears
Ihere must be human tears in
Orlando, for they are everywhere,
but the gifts OF nature and CON
ulvlngs Of man dry many.
Publsher-Edito Martin Apder-
son. Of The Sentinel-Star, who was
oorn in the Mississippi Delta
country. is factor in keeping
TINS states rights and Constitu-
tlon-lovlng Southern community
even as the population is ever
more nationwide in origin. He is
SAD these days -- as are We all
about The New York Times the
great newspaper Americans have
been brought up to revere. Its
eccentricities with news from the
south are in local minds now be-
cause Of the speech North
Cardinals Gov, Hodges made at
a district Rotary Conference here
iast week recalling how he was
censored out Of The Times last
year when he undertook to tell
New York's Rotary Club the
southern point Of view. And this
even though The Times had ~
ceiVed an advance copy. had sent
a special reporter and had inter-
viewed the governor additionally
He told Publisher
anderson be would not have been
- shocked at the shut-out if The
Iimes hadn't indicated much
aWareneSs Of the speech by send.
ing the special reporter
Editorializing on this YESTERDAY
unoer title "A Great Newspaner
10 Disgrace" Martin Andersen
caiied u one Of the most amaz- |
ing and startling example Of the |
attitude on the South,s |
views on segregation He re- |
called The Times pride in the |
sasutude Of its news coyerape |
WIN more correspondents than
any other newspaper IN tic !
world, and marvellcd ~ such !.
paper flatly refusing to sive a |
southern governor w and q some |
what liberal one at tl,at--snare Il
explain the South'S thinking ON
his vital issue
70 have 50 temperate and
nature q man as Luther Hodges
experienced as he is in ways Of
ne press. still be recalling this
Incident publicly and bitterly one
makes it one more example Of that
'transe inability in highest legal
political and editorial places to
y fair about tile South.