The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
Southern People Must Find
Racial Solution Without Force
"And he sees across weary land

"And he sees across weary land
A struggling road in Spain
Up which lean and foolish knight
Forever rides in vain )"
Is the Rev. Martin Luther King
quaking in his well-heeled boots this
weeke
He is not He is passing the ma
tional hat with new assurance He
is looking to Washington with new
confidence that the civil force bills
will pass and that jury trials In the
South will be denied.
The South suffered bitter defeat
in the church-bombing acquittals at
Montgomery. Not only for what they
will do in Washington but for their
encouragement Of what a defense
attorney witlessly called 1.-THE men
over the boys" BY men" he meant
those who propose to scare Southern
Negroes into line-as If anything
were more obvious than that they
won't scare-now that they have
such national backing and know
that attempts TO scare them will
increase the backing
viii history say that these states.
with victory half won through legis-
'ative and legal resistance and in
creasingly potent appeal 10 national
mi yaJa 40 hn
snatched from them at the witching
hour by their foolish knights?
There has been no reign Of ter
ror" in the South, in spite Of the
wanton assertions of the NAACP
and the Rev King and company.
The wonder is that there has been
SO little, Once let II come. and the
South's cause Is worse than lost,
for II is lost to night OF hate,
bloodshed and such dividing as
we've never done before.
MY Birmingham will have an op-
portunity today to offset the bad
news form Montgomery by re-elect-
ing as commissioner Of public safety
Rober Lindbergh. man whose de-
votion to law and order has won
him the confidence and votes OF
both races. even as he stands I'M
flinchingly for segregation as the
police and biological necessity it is,
The Supreme Court justices are
not cardcarrying members of the
Communist Party" comedies Mrs.
Frances P. Minis. of Homer. La,
who edits the Citizens Council publ
cation The Councillor" but , /
think they are doing far more
damage than if they were" Amen.
Mrs. Minis. but what you and
need to remember is that We help
them more than We hurt them when
we foolishly call them Communists.
People tend to think We have a
foolish case
All that's cultured, modern or top
notch In the South comes from out
side. according to ex-Chicagoan Stan
Windhorn in his column in The Sara
sofa. Fla, Herald Tribune. and all
that's left is what William Faulkner.
writes about in The Town a book
which. according to Mr.. Horn With
the Wind mean Windhorn. makes
Faulkner "for many the worlds
greatest living writer"
For this illiteracy Mr. Windhorn
should be made to read Who's
Who" and list the grained -in-the-
wood Southerners commanding the
burgeoning South's industry. com
merce. finance. and education. writ
ing its and the nations best books.
and editorials. building their best
buildings. praying Their best pray
ers, and playing their best politics.
Auburn's dropped Professor Bud
Hutchinson. who loves New York
City's police state methods Of en-
forcing school Indignation by long
distance bus. mixed his signals re-
vealingly In his post-drop comments.
Standing rightly for freedom of lin
ellectual discussion" on such mat
sers, he ruined his point and made
Auburn's by adding: Professors
who dare to perform their function
If providing information do so at
The peril of their Jobs and profess
sional regulations
A professor before pupils is not
engaged in intellectual discussion"
but in providing information /"
That's what Prof. Hutchinson we'll
says and that's why academic lib
erty'' differs from ordinary free.
ION of speech" With the nation In
4 constitutional crisis over public
school segregation, therefore. and
With millions seeing it one way and
Millions the other, a professor who
deems d ca cy of indignation
merely the providing of information
IS obviously not objective enough to
teach.
The real trouble with organized
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