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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18

movement must look beyond this
year. for the schools cannot be
maintained without assurance Of
steady contributions.
Aside from that there is the
question of how effectively children
can be educated in makeshift build
ings with makeshift facilities. These
and other serious problems present
gigantic challenge to Prince Ed
ward. The eyes of the country will
be on the county and the outcome
of the experiment will undoubtedly
serve to guide other localities where
opposition to mixed public schools
is strongest
This is the extremity to which
the unrelenting push of Indignation
advocates has brought one Virginia
community. Most of the LOO Negro
children Of the county are now with
out opportunity for education and
their plight is nothing short of
stark tragedy. A few Negroes will
receive private education and a few
Will be sent to public schools else
where But for the vast majority
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18

off because of the obvious agrees
sion Of the communists. this Op-
portunity would be lost Of course
the results of the meetings between
the two leaders. on Khrushchev' s
visit to the United States. must be
analyzed before final decision on
the Eisenhower trip is made.
This analysis will be interesting.
but probably will not be possible
until the last two days of meetings
between Ike and Khrushchev have
been completed at Camp David.
Maryland.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18
From The Roanoke Times:

Secretary Flemming has con-
demned as indefensible the closing
OF Prince Edward County's public
schools. leaving the county's Negro
children without education. His
comments are a bit gratuitious
since conditions that led to abandon
ment Of public education were not
Prince Edwards making.
With 500 of their children en-
rolled in private schools. the white
people of Prince Edward have set
out to prove the system they have
set up will work that they can pro-
vide education as adequate as was
furnished by the public schools.
There is confidence among leaders
that the privately supported sys-
tenn can be kept in operation in
definitely.
However. to date only about
500 900 in cash is available to meet
expenses It is estimated $500 000
will be required to operate the eight
schools the first year but it is said
uncollected pledges are sufficient to
provide that amount Leaders Of the
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18
Mo1;o Ime.HeroId newpor News. September IS 1859
THE REAL PRINCE EDWARD SITUATION

There has been lot Of comment
as schools opened in Virginia for
their current session. about the
situation in Prince Edward County
There are pitying comments, free
advice. ad infinitum to the Prince
Edward people to do something else
than what they are doing. and such
comments from Washington as that
Of Commissioner Flen1ming of
Health. Education and Welfare that
the county's abandonment of pub
lie schools for private schools is
"deplorable and indefensible.
But what. actually, are the people
Of Prince Edward County doing?
They are exercising their right not
to buy something that no laws says
that they must buy They are
carrying out the long-held right Of
the people to determine what their
schools shall be without federal in
reference They are abiding by the
terms Of Supreme Court decisions
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18
Washington
New, Report

of an official Indian White Paper
detailing the long series Of border
incidents between Indian and China
has revealed that the trouble be
tween the two continents is deeper
than had been suspected. II casts
doubts on the recently advanced
theory that China might be step
ping up its probe along the Indian
border to keep the cold war going
so that President Dwight Eisen-
hover and Premier Militia Khrush-
chev will not be able TO thaW the
ice. There are those who still be-
lieve. however. that the invasion Of
Laos is designed with this view at
least partly in mind.
They believe the Chinese want the
cold war tension between East and
West 10 continue. so that Russia
will feel compelled to safeguard her
contacts with Moscow's most pow
erful ally and continue large
scale aid to China
But as far as trouble between
Indian and China is concerned. the
White Paper released in New
Delhi shows that the incidents ac-
tually began in 1856. The first one
was a clash between Indian and
Chinese patrols with the Chinese
throwing rocks and threatening to
use grenades
The release Of the history Of Dor
der trouble between the two coun-
tires tone Of $4,000 900 population
and the other with 800 900 900
shows tho gravity Of the situation
as viewed BY Prime Minister Neh-
ru Of India. Until now he has tried
TO quiet the dispute and ignore il
or play It down
With Chinese troops Inerea sing
along his borders and new az
erosion in Laos obviously manipu
lated by Chinese Reds in progress.
Nehru is. at least. disturbed. In
spit of this he stuck by his boy
hood friend. the famous U. s..
hater, Defense Minister Menon
when the service chiefs Of the mill
tary forces Of Indian tried to re-
sign recently
Nehru persuaded them to stay
on but the romance between the
Prime Minister and the Defense
Minister Is coming under a n "
strain Top military brass in New
Delhi suspects Menon with plans
to take over whenever Nehru bows
out And they suspect he is a com
munist, or at least ready to sell
out Of the communists.
The new crisis in the Far East
puts President Eisenhower on the
spot as far as his invitation to
Niita Khrushchev is concerned.
The suggestion has even been made
in Washington that Ike cancel the
invitation
There was no precedent for such
action and IL never reached the &C
ton stage because Of the shock Of
international hopes and the affront
to Khrushchev such a withdrawal
almost certainly would have pro
duced. But there IS speculation that
| if communist aggression continues
TO increase. the President may not
return Premier KhruShchev's visit
later in the fall has been plan
| ned.
| OF course. Mr. Eisenhower has
already accepted the invitation and
some Zee this trip as wonderful
opportunity for the u S. President
to put the American view across in
Soviet Russia. Two British Labor
Party leaders recently were allowed
to speak over television, with trans
lation. for a half hour to the
Russian people,
If the President did not feel that
! he could 60 to Moscow. and begged
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18
John Temple Groves
STRANGE EPISODE IN HISTORY

/ selves while the sentimentalists
against segregation are Southerners
protected so long they don't know
protection is needed! Yet some
thing like this is happening. More
and more Northerners and Negroes
are deciding they don't really want
to be so ardently saved" by the
NAACP.
Eloquent is the migration. small
but significant. of New York Negro
students to segregated Southern
schools. And the "re-segregation'
process reported by the Civil
Rights Commission under which, as
this column has been predicting.
the tokens tire of tokening and
drift back to their own all-Negro
schools
HOW HUMILIATING IF AT
LANTA became as Like New York
as Conscience of-the-South McGill
wants it to be. only to wake up
one morning and find New York
itself like Birmingham
A LONGTIME READER and Oft
time critic. Dan r. Houston. of the
United Steelwor.ers District 36. &C
cuses me of constantly praising
people for disobeying the law and
cites kind words here for Missis-
sippi's famed Mary Cain. who re-
fused to pay her social security
taxes.
Bewitched by Mrs Cams good
looks, charm, eloquence. fundamen-
tai rightness. l did speak fliply of
\ her laWdefying as 'one-woman
Interposition. But after all, do
really approve Of her refusal to
pay her legal social security taxes?
The answer is that don't.
THE DOCTRINE OF INTEPRO-
Y SITION is for states. not individuals.
ment. not the Ninth as she seems
N to believe. the sovereign right Of
4 a state to act on an issue that lies
y in a constitutional no-man's land.
/ The South is challenging. through
its states and their rights. SUI
preme Court decision it deems VIC
lative not only of the Constitution
but Of the compact behind the Con-
sitution and a threat TO its life.
But for that very reason the South
must be stern for the law in all
ordinary or individual instances.
Too many bigots. DULLES. foolish
knights and home made fascistS are
waiting in the wings They must
be given no cue.
The South defies the court on
desegregation in the name Of its
sovereign states and its oppo-
sition is still strictly within the let
ter Of the law. the same letter
the court relied Oh and more Of
the intent
DON'T WANT MARY CAIN ar
rested. please, I will defend her
to the death or utmost or some
thing. 60 to jail in her place if
need be. And as her case is still
pending. it cannot be said yet that
she has broken any law But l am
on Dan Houston's side against in
dividually disobeying the law.
He will agree that the lawbreak-
ing Of some Of our strikers and
picket-lines and Of our labor lead
ers in many a recently revealed
activity, which brought about the
revolt of the public and the new
labor law entities him as union
man to speak with the bitter ex-
perience of burnt fingers.
The westernmost tip Of Virginia
| lies west of Detroit. Mich.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18
Little Boys Treasures

Wondrous things little boy keeps,
Trinkets and trifIes galore;
Some odd-shoped rocks and old arrow heads
And curious shells from the shore.
Relics uncossfied, just junk, perhaps
But full Of enchontment and Joy
Trophies and treasures found in his walks
And dear to the heart Of boy
The items Oft found in little boys stock
Are more than can ever be told;
They're not to be weighed on Q worldly scale
Or valued in units Of gold
Let Time, the old spoiIer, corrupt as he may
With prizes that dazzle and blind
The treasures Of boyhood will always remain
In the vaults Of an old mans mind
- D. WHITAKER
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18
REVENGE

Forty years they had been hitch
cd and 40 years she had made the
living then he died The thrifty
widow instructed that his body be
cremated and the ashes be de-
livered TO her.
Carefully placing them in an
hourglass she put il on the mantle
sat down to rock and said Now
you worthless bum. at last YOU
going to work. :
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18
CITY GETS THE BLUES

1 Luton, England When blue
rain began falling in the streets Of
this English town. the residents
we're baffled.
It was not until later that the
cause of the mysterious rain was
discovered. A nearby dye factory
was being demolished at the time
the storm came up. Large globs ct
dye were swept skyward by tn.
wind and mixed with the rain, tint
ing it blue.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18
John Temple Grove.

Arms and the man, I sing.
who, forced BY fate
And naughty Juno's unrelenting
hate ~
The strangest episode in Ameri-
can history has begun.
A man hated here by millions.
mistrusted and opposed BY 100 mil
lions. vet presiding over a cult that
commands over half the world, and
able to press button that would
blow up the world, has come from
Russia to be our protocol honored
guest.
The President has paid our people
the supreme compliment Of think
ing them civilized and self-disci-
plined enough to be visited in the
name of the human race BY this
man whom hosts Of men call
murderer.
CHAIRMAN BUTLER YIELDS a
singing whip. He wants no non
sense against the South's slave
status within the party that used to
be the party of its fathers. He wants
these states forced to promise loyal
ty and. at the same time. deprived
Of the bonus system under which.
in both parties. loyalty in prior
elections has been rewarded with
extra delegates.
IN HIS BOOK OF THAT title.
conservative young William Buck
Icy. Jr.. deplored a certain lack Of
philosophical respect for God and
Man at Yale AT Princeton in my
not so distant (as decades go, day
we loved God and man-and also
Woodrow Wilson The American
doctrine Of socially umpired indi-
viduals made in an Image would
never have been confused with its
antithesis the lattfr-day welfare
state socialism of the Dealers-as
Mr.. Buckley does in his forthcom-
ing new book up From Liberal
ism" When he writes Of Wilson
and Roosevelt as two Of a liberal
kind, history tut-tuts
Mr.. Buckley's trouble is that he
never went to Princeton He lust
want ~ vain A. Dr;rooto,, ~ would
have got the point Of Wilson enough
not to be impeaching his own con
servatism by being blind to vii
sons. Have this underprivilege in
mind. gentle reader. as gently YOU
read his forthcoming new book
Leaving out the blind spot. it has
exceeding light
1T NEEDED A MOST talented
and beautiful young woman to Win
the. Miss America title again for a
state which had won it the year
beforehand that also a state So
maligned as Mississippi. But Miss
Lynda Lee Mead. Of Natchez, look
ed and sounded all Of that on tele-
vision. She seemed to have dignity
character. and even the indescrib-
able and invaluable thing called
grace. Her beauty looked miles
more than skin deep.
And what a storybook name.
Mead is as Virginian as Lee
THERE is NOT truth in rumor
that the rollv-polly means to 90 into
orbit himself for few turns be
fore he moves on the Mao anG
strict accounting
CONES DIR. JOSEPH H. JACK
son. head Of great National Bap
fist Convention Of Negroes. which
outnumbers by millions the NAACF
yoWing the Negroes struggle fol
first-class citizenship is not aimee
at race mixing. How strange if the
foes Of forced mixing come to be
Northerners and Negores them
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18
How ps.es Gene.

Now children and old people do
not make peace. they simply enjoy
it. It Is the middle aged. the active
influential people who do most
either for peace or against It. So
the prophet Zechariah addresses
the great mass Of the people about
peace and prosperity fs:12. He
speaks Of Sowing" prosperity, and
then goes on to put this figure Of
speech into very plain words. What
are the seeds? He goes on. still In
the name Of God: These are the
things that you shall do -" II we
want peace and prosperity. GOD
viii not drop them into our laps.
He expects us to plan and prepare
for peace just Is we plan and pre-
pare for a crop Of apples. No man
can raise an apple without the help
Of Nature (or, rather. Of Cod.
So while Gods ideal for the HUI
man world is . world at peace.
there are certain conditions to be
met. The seeds Of peace have to be
sown. Zechariah (8:16-17 names
some specific things: truth and
Justice in particular. To say that
war 10 the effect OF sin is only half
the truth. Tho other half IL that
peace Is the fruit Of public and
private goodness. The most endur-
Ing peace is not an accident. It is
not mamma from the sky. It 10 a
crop reaped by those who have
worked hard sowing and cultivat-
ing the things that are true and
make for peace"
Chased On outlines copyrighted BY
The Division II Christian Education,
National Council Of the Churches OF
Chriet n tho g. 8. A. Released b.
Ccnnnunity Press SeYviee.)
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18
What Others Think

three editorials are all we have seen on the
subject and give fair cross section Of
thinking among editors Of the metropolitan
press. Since the Richmond newspapers are
generally read in this area we have omitted
their comments
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18

Lesson for September 20. 1859

THINGS HAVE become badly
1 confused when peace" seems
to be bad word. Believe it or
not. there are people in the United
States who think that any one in
terested In peace is a communist.
That is not only bad logic, but It
plays into the hands Of the real
communists. Their constant bad
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18

word for US is
war mongers."
a people VIII o
W ant war and
will do anything
to start one. This
is not true Of US
as a nation, and
yet people who
turn against the
notion of pc ace
are certainly civ
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18

DEPRINTED below are three editorials
- referring to the Prince Edward School
Foundations schools. We are not interested
in belaborng the subject beyond the mat
ter Of publishing other points of view as ex-
pressed in Virginia newspapers. These
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18

TELEPHONE subscribers must have pa
thence with the operators and the man
agment during the next few weeks when the
change over from manual to dial telephones
is taking place. There has been remark
ably little disruption in the service - few
numbers changed. especially at Hampden
Sydney - but further than that there has
been service as usual The change over will
come on October a, and then the mechanical
dial will take the place Of the friendly
Hello girls.
It is going to be wee BIT sad for us.
Over the years we have had exceptionally
good service from the exchange operators.
We like to hear CHEEKY voice instead of
the dull drone of mechanical apparatus.
What's more. some messages will now be
recorded and a mans voice will be heard,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-18

ing ammunition 10 ANYBODY WHO
likes to call US a bloodthirsty ma
ton.
with I Whirlwind"
The great prophets Of the Old
Testament did not admire war.
They looked on it as something
brought on by sin. One passage
from Zechariah Is sample q:
S-12) God had an ideal for hts
people. q life Of justice. kindness
and mercy. But the Israelites
would not hear. and so God scat
tered them with a whirlwind :"
As We know from the Old Tesla
ment histories. this whirlwind, the
instrument OF Gods wrath. his
punishment on nation that would
not obeythis was nothing other
than the wards which ended the
Hebrew Kingdoms And the He
brews. as the stories show. had
chiefly themselves to blame for
getting into those wars. Most Of
the recorded history of the two
Kingdoms Of Judah and Israel is
history Of wars. long or short Very
few Of them did the Hebrews any
good. and in the end it was war
which. like a tornado. left their
homes in r,lins and blew them like
straw across the face OF the earth
Ideal City
But the storm Of war was not
the last word of God to Israel. The
prophet Zechanah. preaching in
time when Jerusalem was only Just
beginning to rise from the ashes
Of more than half century Of des-
oiation, looks forward and prom
Uses in Gods name new and diff
ferent kind of city He draws no
blueprints: hut II is plainly city
OF peace This is not foreview Of
heaven; it Is picture Of the ideal
city right here on this earth. IT IS
to be called the faithful city,
that In. faithful to the laws of God
That covers everything: but Zech-
ariah puts IN some particulars.
Old men and old women will be
sitting in the streets. and children
will be playing there. Remember
the ancient type Of city had no
parks and no open space except the
market-place; and there was no
traffic except Of very slow animals
and people-) This you would not
see in war time. In that era the
aged and the very young and the
weak simply died Of in war times:
only in times Of peace would they
be out there in large numbers.
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ing ammunition to anybody who
likes to call US bloodthirsty ma
ton.
Evening star., 1959-12-18

ground here is realistic, these
creatures are and they are
guaranteed to scare the day
lights out of the small fry, and
possibly some large fry.
A mad Count SaknusSemm
(Thayer David. claiming own
ership of everything under
ground, attempts to foil the
intrepid quartet, too, but he
has no more success than the
hungry lizards. They get to
the center of the earth-in-
cluding Boone, who falls most
of the way on account of STEP
ping into holes while looking
where he has been instead of
where he is going.
They know it's the center
when they get there because of
the intense magnetic field that
rips the wedding ring off
Miss Dahl's finger. Instead of
an inferno. the center turns out
to be a whirlpool in the mid
die Of a rampaging ocean, in
dicating that Verne once heard
Evening star., 1959-12-18

varied "a hardly adequate
world talents of Pat Boone
James Mason and Arlene Dahl
at the stellar level. Lending
them support are Diane Baker
Thayer David and Peter Ron
son. The rigors they are put
through by the special effects
department prove them as du-
rable lot of actors as you ever
saw.
Those most rudely used are
Mason, an Edinburgh profess
sor; Boone, his prize student;
Miss Dahl. the wife of a de-
ceased Swedish scientist, and
Ronson, an Icelandic strong
man. This is a truly motley
assortment. In fact, it takes
Director Henry Levin a good
half-hour of exposition to get
them logically together in a
Evening star., 1959-12-18

that phrase. hell or high wa
ter, and guessed wrong.
Fortunately for adults en-
trapped with Journey to the
Center of the Earth" by their
young, Mason. Boone and Miss
Dahl don't take their work too
seriously. You may even enjoy
this affair, especially if you're
too tired to care. The sight of
Pat Boone, clad in plaid shorts,
Evening star., 1959-12-18

scampering among subter-
ranean mushrooms as tall as
trees is only one of its many
wonders. If you do enjoy it,
you'll be better off than one
matinee moviegoer yesterday,
who couldn't get his mind on
anything else for wondering
what those carnivorous lizards
have been eating all these
years.
Evening star., 1959-12-18
The Cast
Pat Boone

dead Iceland volcano and en-
barked on their journey.
Once they are embarked, the
special effects boys take over
with gusto. without wasting
any time on a semblance of
reality, they subject the ad-
venturerS to earthquakes, rock
slides, windStormS, S, sudden
floods and onslaughts by man.
eating prehistoric monsters.
These latter, incidentally, seem
to be real lizards enlarged to
fearsome size by trick camera
work. If nothing else under
Evening star., 1959-12-18
VERNE TOURNEY
CoPitoI's Fontosy
' Is q FoncifuIOn
By HARRY MACARTHUR
Star Stan Writer

Jules Verne is not easy top, but his Journey
to the Center Of the Earth has been turned
pepoSterous anything imagined Undoubtedly
aimed at the holiday moppet trade it has installed at
LoewS Capitol Theater in all its CnemaScope Deluxe Color
glory.
Evening star., 1959-12-18

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF
THE EARTH" Goth Century-FoS
release OF a Charles Bracket proGuc-
tion. directed by Henry Levin, SCREEN
play BY Brackett and Walter Reisch
music by Bernard Hermann. from the
Jules Verne novel, in CinemaScope and
Deluxe Color at Loews Capitol The
ater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26
Princeton Leads
Navy and Hoyus
In Dinghy Races

ANNAPOLIS, April rs (AP)
Princeton took an eight-point
lead over eight other colleges
today at the two-thirds mark
of a Middle Atlantic elimina-
ton regatta for dinghies at the
Naval Academy.
After 61a races on the Severn
River, Princeton had 1O4 points
while Navy and Georgetown
were tied for second with SO
apiece. The remaining 21a races
will be held tomorrow.
Behind the leaders were
Haverford IA, Swathmore 70,
George Washington 10, Drexel
81, Stevens 48 and Penn 46.
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Penn Grew Beats Princeton
By a Lengths in ChiIds Cup

NEW YORK. April rs tAP).
-Pennsylania's varsity eight
easily won the 5lst childs Cup
Regatta on the Harlem River
today, beating Princeton by
four lengths and Columbia by
nine over the choppy two-mile
course.
Coach Joe Burk's crew, which
had beaten Rutgers in its only
other competition this year,
opened a length lead over
Princeton. with Columbia third
after a half mile. Penn
stretched the margin to three
lengths at the mile mark and
led by as much as five lengths
with a half mile to go. The
Quakers coasted in at rs
strokes per minute.
The Penn crew is an all
senior outfit. except for Cox
swain Leigh Faldi and Stroke
Jim Wynne.
Strong head winds and chop
py water held the winners
time to 1896. Princeton fin
ished in 1851 and Columbia in
1923. In other races, PENIS
Junior varsity won in ll;l5 over
Princeton (ll:25) and Column
pia (ll:45).
Princeton won the freshman
event in 1918. Penn was Sec