The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-10-20
And trture one poor word ten
thousand ways. /"

Uneasy over the delinquency OF
its juveniles, the NAACP uses the
conventional words.
1t speaks on "motivations
rooted in a background of socia
disabilities and economic -inequities
which foment damaging psychologist
cal Illustrations.
Social and economic inequities
do have something to do with it,
of course, but the NAACP had bet
ter watch out for that tortured wore
| psychological" It is beginning tc
work the other way from what. the
Supreme Court and the NAACF
have had in mind The nation is
learning that in education the ruin
GUS psychology is the one that re
suits from Indignation, not segrega
ton
Equally it is learning that in ju
venile delinQuencies. pampering is
more to blame than economic anG
social conditions This includes the
psychology that is giving the Negro
a chip on the shoulder, turning the
country's happiest extroverts into
resentfnl introverts who feel at once
SO put upon and SO sympathized
with that they are both justified
and safe when they break the law
while blaming economic and so
cial background.
Happily we are coming back tc
an understanding that there is such
thing as wrong doing, and punish
ment for wrong doing, sin and hell
topay. for sin.
The NAACP is dated with its jar
gon, and will 50 discover.
WHAT CAUSED VIRGINIA's
placement law to be slapped down
by the Federal courts while Ala
bama's was not was that Virginia
passed so many openly anti-inte-
grafton laws at the same time that
the court said the placement law
was obviously one Of them
In other words, a face-saving ele-
mem was missing.
LAST NIGHT. All YESTER
NIGHT, l dreamed hard boiled
Southern police chief and segrega
ZIONIST found himself responsible for
three token Negoes in a Southern
white high school and undertook to
handle the matter without benefit
of paratroopers or bayonets As
sured by latest court decision that
tokens need never be more than
that. he protected the three enough
to let them and the world see that
the damnable business won't work
If il comes to be a matter of
taking a few tokens with assurance
that the court requires no more
it seems more and more to me
that the placement Law should be
explored to its limits before ac-
cepting the inconceivable disaster
Of massive closing of schools. The
court has said the law mustn't be
used to enforce segregation But il
hasn't said it can't be used to avoid
ruinous psychology and complete
educational decentralization
Only one thing in the world could
be worse than closing the schools
That Is massive intcgrahon Safe
guarded against Il, the placement
law may be the South's way ont
and the courts salvation of face
He wasn't there again today
Oh. how wish he'd go away
LongvieW. Texas - States Right
Democrats are staying away in
droves from the liberal wing din
ner to Harry S for nothing Tru-
man in Dallas. Ed Drake, head OF
the Democratic Party in Dallas
County, one Of the stay-aWays, vows
that liberals" Of both parties are
destroying states rights and con
stitutional government
It was Mr. Truman whose civil
| tone proposals as President in 1919
| provoked the first revolt in the
South. Apparently he will be more
anti-South than ever in 1860.
Yet his choice for President is
Senator Symington, who has main
tanned such silences on most ques-
tons that many in the South are
looking hopefully to him as candi-
date they might endure if not de-
light in
Is the ex-President giving the
Senator kiss of Southern death2
HERE IN EAST TEXAS "con-
servative" Democrats who control
the situation in Tyler and elsewhere
are refusing to join a party fund
raising campaign because of new
poll y requiring donations to be
sent directly to Washington rather
than to party officials in Austin.
The policy is said to be Paul
Buffers bright idea.
We are assured that "a rose is
a rose is a rose" and especially
in Tyler, "the nations rose CAPT
against our State Department in