The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-11-03
The Age Of Giants.

other.
Three have oppressed this coun-
try since the Civil War and we have
taken steps against only one
First there was giant business
Then there was giant government
in years after the 1929 depression
had been brought on by business
abuses. especially the abuse Of
credit. And now there is giant la
bor created out of underprivileged
labor by giant government.
We moved giant business with the
Sherman antitrust law of 1890. the
Clayton Act of 1914 and the Fed
eral Trade Commission Act. But
giant government and giant labor
are untouched. They are our prob
lem for today, our home work if
we are to have a home.
Ag aims giant government a
counter-revolutiOn is going on. true.
Its name is Coalition. The untovch-
ed problem is giant labor We hesi-
tate rightly to touch it because it
is human beings The Sherman and
Clayton laws against business mo-
nopolies and monopolisitc practices
exempt labor because Tabor is not
commodity" And that is right.
Labor is not. and labor's great
weapon of collective bargaining
won't work without a measure of
monopoly.
Labor is not a commodity. but
neither is the economy of the United
States of America commodity.
to be pushed around like a sack of
potatoes or crushed like a crate
of eggs at the call Of single-minded
leaders
If the steel strike isn't ended.
Congress will come back with blood
in its eye.
FROM NEW JERSEY DOROTHY
w. Rienks can't understand why
Southern papers are 'tsmugly glee-
full when crime with a racial
angle occurs up North" Gleeful or
not, the Southern policy is forcing
the Northern press to cover its own
news. It is responsible, | believe.
for increasing realization outside
the South that the race problem is
real and that the North is no nearer
a last word on il than It believes
the South TO be-
A NEWSPAPER LOST" AND
FOUND" department has found
more than it meant to- You can't
help wanting to know more Of the
dog advertised as bull terrier, dark
brindle and white. lost Fairv.ew
vicinity He can't live without
tranquilizers
The pace Of modern living goes
on apace
And 50 does the wonder Of the
want adj How simple and brief a
thing it is to carry so far. bring
so many people and things together
in mutual benefit. and even to dis
cover tranquilizer taking bull ter
riers. Big groups of people and
things can be put in contact in a
number Of ways, including page
advertisements and the intermin-
able television commercials. Blu I
that two remote individuals. needles
/ in a community havstack, should
find each other for individual sell
( ing. buying employment or lost and
found business is phenomenon
forever.
4 THERE'S NO DISHONESTY 50
dishonest as the dogooders Their
sense Of good keeps their con
sciences easy. Witness the Wash
ington Crume Commission I'M
I blushing concealment of the race
situations responsibility for multi
piled crime there. The commission
explains that: Most metropolitan
/ areas such as Washington have ex-
perienced an explosive change in
population. AS a spectacular subur-
ban growth has taken place. over
crowding also has occurred in the
older, more central sections Of the
city as the complexion Of the shift
ing population groups has had it,
effort . ~. !"
Washington Correspondent Gene
Wortsman points out that the popu-
lation Of Washington has remained
practically static at about CSC 900
since 1850 but that Negroes have
increased from IS to "a per cent
Of the total
The report does disclose that of
l0054 arrests in 1858 for specified
offenses. some 1857, or 81 per cent,
were mon white
"A thousand fell where Kemper
A thousand died where Garrett
bled
Through binding flame and
strangling smoke
The remnants through the bat
teries broke
And crossed the works with
Afmistead )"
1.-THE SOUTH REJECTS CAL
HOUN" Editor Grover Hall heads
an editorial in The Montgomery Ad-
vertiser, recalling how Calhoun
fought for the free trade which an
industrialized South Of today is Of