The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-02-13
Hell trembled at the
hldeous name"

for 10. these 20 years and serving
both South and nation in doing SO.
Sad because it misses the great
point we must get if America is to
keep on being America and the
South the South.
Mr.. Charles Decker. of Blrming-
ham. says I am guilty Of sly and
Republican propaganda when pre-
fer a Nixon to Reuther or Soapy
Williams. He should know that he'll
no longer trembles at the Republi-
can name even though we South
erners propo to 60 on being
Democrats at home and free in the
nation as well as in Congress-
He misses point, too when he
says / try to damn all the Demo
cratic possibilities by linking them
with Reuther and Williams. This
Reuther-W Williams Butler crowd do
have good chance of dominating
the national convention. want the
South not to be tied to them if they
do. Mr.. Decker seems to be one OF
those who are willing to have us
tied and to hope that what we turn
out to be tied to won't be this
crowd
He is not alone Most Of our poll
ticians feel like that. But YOU and !,
gentle readers, are not politicians.
We can put the South's and nation
interests above political greed mas
querading as loyalty
don't care for Mr. Nixon. But !
take him over Reuther or a
Williams OF one Of that ilk. Especi-
ally, as he IS an agile and amenable
politician and political facts Of life
are telling his party it has no
chance Of the Negro. union labor.
and socialist votes and had damn
well better take a look at the South.
What is Republican? I've just
seen letter Senator Barry Gold
water wrote The Washington Post
about some of that slanted journals
bad names for him. Since he IS
chairman OF the Senate S Republl-
can c a mpaign Committee now.
after his recent galnst-the-trend
victory in Arizona. he is much in
the Republican picture. along with
his theological opposite number,
Nelson Rockefeller Senator Gold
water. as "a conservative and a
Republican" believes in % the
Constitution and the Declaration Of
Independence. ~ opposing TO
tally" the naturalization Of power
and the destruction Of individual
liberty 49,, the free enterprise
system. Ia lane & d budgets, the
soundness Of the dollar and lower
taxes. more economy in government
and the right Of man to spend his
own money and not have it spent
for him By a bureaucrat" and I'm
the dangers Of labor taking over the
politics Of this country by buying
elections for Democrats as "corpor-
ate baronS at the turn Of the cen
fury bought them for Republicans. :"
This isn't Republicanism. II is
Amerlcanism But flaw that could
be fatal is the word totally. All
the fine things the Senator speaks
/ for are necessarily matters Of de-
gree and ideal. In common sense
he knows this and it is a pity he
can't say so now that he is SO sig
nlflcant a figure. reasSurlng some
! who think him a sort of Neanderthal
man blind to the fact that the world
is round and intcr-related and en-
gagged in mass producing and com
mlnlcating.
If he would remember Bob Taft
now and be as like him as possible
he might lead his party and country
out Of a wilderness. for he is man
Of principle and Of courage, as Taft
50 greatly was.
Senator GoldWater is too inlpor-
tant a figure now and with to much
potentlality to bc anywhere but IN
the malnstream OF what's what.
He is no flower TO be wasted on
the desert airs Of "back-to-Collidge
ism, 10 gem whose ray serene
must be confined to Neandcrthal
caves and ncvcr-never lands.
But who can break the guards
that wait
Before the awful face Of fatc?"
The Associated Press flunks some
arithmetic when it says fifty-nine
and one-half cents of every federal
dollar spent goes to national Sc
curity 1t forgets seven cents to
veterans and major part Of ten
and one-half cents for interest on
a federal debt incurred mostly for
security"
The total is nearer seventy-five
cents.
The spending" issue should be
no issue as between Democrats and
Republicans if they arc patriots and
commonsensible, not 50 long as the
var between Russia and the United
| States continues 10 be an economic
war