The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-11
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"A journalist in the finest ira
dition Of the craft. /" President Don
aid Russell. of the University Of
South Carolina, calls David Law
renee in citation for that uni
versity's honorary egree "A
champion of truth wherever the
chips may fall not journalist
who writes merely for today
President j H. Newman. of the
University of Alabama, spoke in the
same terms Sunday bestoWing his
own university's honorary degree
after Mr.. Lawrence had delivered
the commencement address He ex-
tolled the fine reporter but he hon
ored even more the fearless. honest,
world-minded, moral-minded under
standing American
What m kes David Lawrence
tick?
Those who greet him this week
as two Southern universities honor
him could find the secret in the
era when his education got its
bases-even if some will say it is
straining fancy.
| He went to college-an honor
bright liberal arts college, Prince
ton-before World War One.
He went before the Jazz Age Of
glittering abandon
He went before the following
Aspirin Age of economic and spiri-
tual hangover. humdrum and col
lapse.
| And before the Age after that
the Lower Animal Age when sins
which the Jazz and Aspirin Ages
had sinned gracefully or with heart
and still in the errlng image Of
God, were sinned in the fashion Of
barnyards and the emptiness Of tir
cans. with Dialectical Materiahsn
the image. sex the ice cream soda
security the dull dream
Through the shadow of the globe
we sweep into the younger day 4
The younger day now is the Older
day, the one when lights were on
the one which had made Dave Law
renee tick right and which makes
him the toast Of South reborn as
America s economic hope. spiritua
reservoir and authentic wave Of tbs
future.
My distinguished friend Prof
John Ware, Of Shorter and Sewanee
reproves me for describing al
South baiters' those who say Bee
spoke in dispraise rather thar
praise at First Manassas when ht
shouted-There is Jackson standing
like a stone WALL" Prof Ware is
certain Bee was complaining o.
Jackson's stubborn refusal TO &C
forward, He thinks l should be
more accurate and careful about
/ historic things
| But how can | be more accurate
| than Douglas Freeman who, des
cribing the incident in Lees Lieu
tenants" page 80, says Jackson
deserved this tribute. Since Prof
Ware disagrees, / withdraw South
batter fer he is certainly not one
but choose Freeman also G F. r
Henderson, author Of the standard
biography on the history Freeman
wrote the piece on Jackson in the
Dictionary Of American Biography
too. and tells the same story there
Without disputing Prof Ware 5
right and fine competence to be a
| dissenter, l get my feelings hurt
when he calls an old friend careless
and inaccurate for taking the much
more authenticated version.
| AS real enemies sound off against
| him. Ike seems to be winning back
some of his fine but faltering like
likes of heretofore. My admired col
league Holmes Alexander, for ex.
ample. gives his lately critical
column to magnificent defense oil
Ike against the wanton epithet Of
Wayne Morse and the business
batting of Walter Reuther
Before that was the return Oh
John Knight
| Oh. how commencement times re.
mind you of times leading I'D to