The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-17
John Temple Groves
ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE

Eliminate the negative. accentu
ate the positive.
and don't fool with Mister In-Be
| tween n
| Once more on the school segre
cation matter which mainly con
Germs the nation in the race con
troversy President Eisenhower has
meaningfully failed to take stand
in spite of the policy of his De
partment of Justice and the Su-
preme Court.
He has been so resolutely mega
lively SO often now that his position
is positively positive.
Against race segregation t h a
makes for economic and-or political
equality Of opportunity he takes
a stand. Against segregated public
schools. he takes no stand. says
nottingham loudly.
l think the South would settle for
this.
If only Paul Butler could be
farmed out to Jim Farley for few
months to learn what a National
Democratic Chairman ought to be-
Mr.. Butler has let it be known
that his three choices for President
are Stevenson, Humphrey and Ken
nedy in the order named. The Pat
terson pat has dropped Kennedy
two places. it seems, in the ratings
of the fidgety. officious, egotistical,
forever interfering busybody Mean
while the less said by Southern
"loyalists" the better. They do not
speak for the people Of the South
in my guess. when they say how
intolerable Mr. Butler grows and
yet are perfectly ready to tolerate
him and the South-haters If the ma
tional convention so decides.
There is absolutely something
more important in this world than
the Democratic Party.
This columns continuing belief
that the Alabama placement law
has a chance Of being interpreted
especially by the new Supreme
Court in the new atmosphere as
permitting complete rather than
only token segregation where local
demand is strong enough, with no
tokens at all, is supported by some
Arkansas lawyers mentioned by
Don Ewing in The Shreveport
Times Arkansas had originally a
placement Law like Virginia s re-
jected one but it has substituted
now the Alabama law North Caro-
lima and Florida, with a law like
Alabama s. have accepted token in
tegration. and the tokens are be-
ing subjected to efforts BY the
NAACP to make them total, Of
course. But the Supreme Court has
never said tokens we're necessary
Even though Alabama is nervous
about testing it, the test could bring
surprising results. in my opinion
| Refusal Of pupils because of con
! ditions resulting from race would
not necessarily be refusal because
of race.
Token indignation is cOWardly
evasion and begging Of the question
1t advertises the lack Of real int
grafton and it confesses real int
grafton won't work
But the Supreme Court is likely
to be guided by what it wants, no
by what it deems the correct inter
probation Of the placement law. o.
Of its own 1854 decision, or of the
Constitution. It can decide either
way and sound perfectly all RICH
to itself
1t was Bernard Shaw in hi:
Quintessence Of Ibsenism who
wrote that We do things because
we want to do them, and thel
think up reasons for what We hav'
DONE
There's No Glory in the ".
League my friends of The Jack
son State Times caption my recen
column on colleges in general. Usu
ally this paper captions me bette
than l write but this time it mods.
MY point was that many go to ",
colleges without getting any ivy
The ivy is there all right. don
want to be put out Of my alumni
association.
| 1t is good news that Paul Butler
barkings begin to provoke Dick Rus
sell to words that could turn t
deeds.
Perhaps" well says Edito
Cauthern in The Columbia, S. c
Record, the day that Richard Rus
sell is sufficiently angered will b
the day when the voice Of the Sout
will gain new weight and force
the councils Of the party"
Amen, but why confine it
t councils of the party?
, Has Editor Cauthen cOnsidere
r that Southern leaders like the gres
Georgian may have come at last