The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-08-28

Will Khrushchev's visit have to be
called off because of dangerously
mounted tensions?
| Will the President have to have
a diplomatic sore throat?
| 1t begins almost to seem SO as
the mercenaries and sentimentalists
who want to exploit the Russian
aggravate the outrage felt by those
who recall his crimes.
tional hysteria. The mercenaries
froth to have the great man speak
to them, make their community i'm
mortal or enterprise profitable with
a pause in passing. The emotionals
whip themselves into acmes Of hos
tility against scourge of mankind,
threading with their passion and
numbers a police problem too big
to handle. diplomatic one fatal to
further relations.
Be nice to Nikita. beware of be-
ing nice to Nikita-the counter
warnings run And both will be
needed Millions are going TO be
greedily nice. millions dangerously
protesting. The combination can
create tension like none ever ex-
perienced here before over an indi-
vidual.
MY SMALL VOTE is for being
nice.
The hope Of the world can be in
I having a free pass at the public
opinion in Russia which Soviet
policy nov. Willingly or not. has al
lowed us to approach through the
Nixon visit.
KHRUSHCHEv POOH POOHs
those who say he has much 10 learn
about America He may be right.
we NAV DC naive TO ina CINE him
surprised and impressed with this
and that item Of our living. our eco
nomlc and military power, our
] berty democracy. and single
mlndedress against communism.
He lives behind AN iron curtain but
these arc not dark ages Ii is incon-
ceivabe that the most powerful
! man in the modern world would not
have vide knowledge Of the way
and establishment Of his country s
great opponent,
But the Russian people have
much to learn and they may be
taught BY his travels. By the spot
lights that will play on every scene
through which he passes And that
could be the important thing.
HIS VISIT COULD be occasion.
too for new appreciation By Ameri-
cans Of America. new education
here in what communism means
and what its menace is, new dis
covery OF the fore. aft and all
around Of 'dialectical materialsim. =
Seeing ourselves as he will see us
may tell lis Of our margin over
him.
That margin is an image Of God
Not an Image in the religious
sense only but In all the apprecia-
tons by which life is more than
j 6iaipctiraf rnaferioJicp
We may learn. for example. how
divinely We sin against communism
when We are by love possessed =
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New
World" and also in his "Apex and
Essence" a communist future he
imagined forbade any falling in
+ love. All vas emotionless material
ist mechanistic. matter of-fact. Get
ting Nbur feelings involved was the
sin Of sins There was sex. all
right but straight stuff. sex.
period Generations Of people con
/ tinued but they were not really
people
TN OUR CONCEPT it takes
flower. Who forge S Thurber's
| imagined morning after atomic
holocaust when there are left on
earth one man. one woman-and
one flower Without the flower civil
lization could not be revived. only
apes.
Let the great world spin forever
Down the ri ging grooves Of
change
If YOU WANT to be a conserva-
/ tive consider Editor Thomas R.
Waring. Of The Charleston News
and Courier. whose recent talk to
our Birmingham Kiwanis Club on
his Adventures Behind the Paper
Curtain pleased and impressed our
people. left them with much to
think about. hope for. resolve.
Most OF US are not as conserva-
tive as he is. but the point is his
manner Of being so. his freedom
from bigotries and meticulosities.
his readiness to adjust to marches
Of time and circumstance. and
this above all-his appreciation OF
the fact that there is no standing
still
| No STANDING STILL. It isn't
only liberals and "progressives'
who believe change is the law OF