The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-09-19
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By LAURA VIRGINIA HALE

BY LAURA VIRGINIA HALE
In recent press report. MIR Ed
Stokes. member Of the Warren
County Board OF Supervisors, spoke
| with justified pride OF our colored
citizens. The record OF race re-
lations In Warren County has been
a remarkable one Of mutual respect
and helpfulness, OF friendly devotion
between some white and colored
families for several generations.
I Oliver Hill. NAACP attorney, felt
II necessary TO assert that he Is "a
diRnified Christian human being
For that cannot vouch. but / do
know those adlectives TT the great
ma ioritv OF our Warren County Ne
grocs. From my research as local
historian. | know equally well that
their attainment OF this reputation
as well as their steady progress to-
ward better Jobs. homes, churches
schools and fratcrnal organizations
| Is a convincing witness Of the pa
\ tlcnt guidance hearty cooperation
economic aid and goodwill Of their
white fellow citizens, now being
/ held up 10 scorn and ridiculc BY a
man who honestly admits that the
SEGREGATED school Nc attended As 4
boy IN Roanoke was equal 70 the
white one but that he had dcdl-
Gated bis life 10 racial agitation be-
cause he had 10 get UP at $50 In
the morning 10 practice basket
bali MIR Hill and his clients
need reminding that thousands u
White boys arise at from 4 10
n clock III the morning not to play
/ bail but To do farm chores. deliver
papers. etc
Negro Nethodi>m Start
h Since one 81 our | ocal Negro
ministers has chosen 10 play lead
lng role III this move now threaten
inG our peaceful race relations. us
ing his pulpit as a political arena
4 and NAACP sounding board, II
would be timely to remind him and
his congregation that Negro Metho-
dism in Front Royal originated In
the ante bellum white Church
where colorcd members were a
represented and beloved part OF the
congregation. They were brought 10
God through the laborS Of the white
ministers and members. at white
/ homes and affairs Both the 1918
Class Book of our local Methodist
church and Register Of 1857 in
clude lists Of colored members. and
the 1850 Baltimore Conference Min
utes show that the Front ROYAL Cir
cult had 40 colored communicates
Even after the War, when the Gen
eral Conference adopted a plan for
the colOred brethren to organize
their own congregation the white
Church continued to offer its help
love and prayers to this race en-
deared by their former relationship
The Front Royal group worshipped
in the little frame church formerly
used by the white Methodists. and
were loaned their priced brass horn
and communion cup until they were
assisted generously in building their
first house OF worship on Church
Street, the lot being given by a
white family
The Supreme Court has admitted
lts segregation ruling was based
not on law, or the evidence adj
duccd in court, but on certain social
and economic books, particularly
one written BY a foreigner who had
spent only short while in the
United States. financed by the Car
negic Foundation which employed
Alger Hiss also.
Jefferson Said
Thus has been proven the wisdom
Of Thomas Jeffcrsons warning III
1921, after observing the function
ing Of the Supreme Court for a
quarter Of century. 1T has long
been my opinion, and l have never
shrunk from its expression
the germ Of dissolution Of our fed
eral government is in the consti-
tuition Of the federal judiciary: an
irresponsible body working like
gravity by night and day. gaining
a little today and little tomorrow
and advancing its noiseless step
like a thief. over the field of juris-
dlctlon. until all shall have been
usurped from the States. and the
government of all be consolidated
into one. To this l am opposed be
cause when all government, domes.
tic and foreign. shall be drawn to
Washington as the center of all its
power. it will render powerless the
check provided of one government
on another. and will become as
venal and oppressive as the govern
ment from which we separated. =
I In recent years Virginia has had
notable influx Of new citizens.
who readily admit that they were
reared in Northern communities
which had few or no Negroes and