The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-14
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
THIS MORNING

Here about the beach | wandered.
nourishing a youth sublime
With the fairy tales of science and
the long results of time. !"
Our public school system, in all
its grandeur has never yet at
/ tanned its potentialities for "arous-
ing intellectual curiosity and teach
ing child to think for himself. ;"
my old friend DAVID Edward Finley.
chairman of the national Commits
SION Of Fine Arts. told the Winthrop
College graduating class in his
native South Carolina last week.
A way Of putting this is that our
schools haven't yet taught our chill
d'en how to spend a summer va
cation since those vacations or
something else OF summer occupa-
ton are much in issue at this mo-
ment Halt the urge for summer
time jobs or for taking summer
courses results from inability of
young people to be left to their own
resources and make go OF it.
Something more than nostalgia for
the good old summertime suggests
that our young people develop
knack Of worthwhile leisure" we'll
says The Birmingham Post Herald
BY worthwhile of course. is
meant something other than what
most Of them do with leisure now :"
Dean Francis B. Sayre. Jr.. of
the Washington Cathedral criticizes
Billy Graham for seeming to think
mere individual repentance a So
luton to the difficulties Of our era.
He overlooks the fact that Billy
Graham isn't proposing to solve
these difficulties OF our era Billy is
just trying to bring about in indi-
viduals the virtue. excellence and
peace of God without which there'll
be so solution or satisfaction in so
luton.
Dean Sayre thinks preachers must
face up to such great concerns as
racial brotherhood. foreign aid,
disarmament. peaceful uses of
atomic energy, and immigration. !"
Noting this. The Charleston News
and Courier notes, too. that the
Dean is "a son of high. official
in the Roosevelt administration.
But the Dean is also a grandson
Of Woodrow wills son. His father
might approve mixing church and
state but his grandfather wouldn't.
Is it Christian to foul your own
nest? Is 1t Baptist to bear false
witness against your own people?
Let the Christian Life Commission
Of the Southern Baptist Convention
ask itself that. It's race relations re-
port to the Convention in Chicago
last month pictured its Southern
home as a snake-pit Of oppression
and terror as doesn't exist even in
Detroit. Los Angeles or Chicago,
much less the South. 1t reported
| violence in all its ugly forms" and
suspected that the nation cannot
long endure" such a hell-on-earth.
Surely, sins committed in liberty's
name begin to be beggared by sins
in Gods name.
The marvel" marvels Editor
Randolph Russell in The Augusta
Herald, lis that people living in the
South can write report that gives
the impression that the Negro
people OF the South live under a
reign OF terror. where lynchings,
bombings and violence in all its
ugly forms are SO common that
the continued existence Of t he
American Republic is in jeopardy"
Agreeing that there have been
scattered instances OF violence.
usually the result of extreme provo
cation, as that Of the militantly or
ganized Negroes Of Montgomery or
the intense campaign to push Auth
urine Lucy into the University Of
Alabama" the Augusta editor finds
it incredible that the Christian
Life Commission should take cog
niZance Of them without also making
reference to the good relations that
exist between the races throughout
the South in spite of the pressure
OF agitators +"
Amen and amenl
My Birmingham has voted back
famed Bull Conner to be police
commissioner. Colorful, decisive, ex.
citable, determined to pres serve
school segregation, he is neverthl-
less no foolish knight and will en-
dure no foolish knights against local
law and order.
Any law breaking will have to be
official and federal.
Noting that a socalled Southern
Conference Educational Fund, Inc"
has called for civil rights bill
fre- from Gripping amendments, N