The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-08-18
the right of the people
peaceably to assemble"

peaceably to assemble.
That's what the First Amend
ment promises but things aren't
as simple in Little Rock
Who knows what new lions Harry
Ashmore may be seeing in h E
streets!
And who can say how peaceful
''peaceably'' must be! Any sort Of
assembling there is going to be
viewed with wild alarm by some
people In the circumstances the
alarm will be understandable if not
justified.
HERE'S HOPING there is enough
assembling to let the world know
Little Rock has not surrendered
and is not going to surrender. II
will have to be peaceable, of course
Those who are persuaded the city
is all love and white and black
wonder now need large reminder
that massive mixing is not going
to happen there or anywhere in the
/ Deeper South
/ Peaceful assembling is as Amerl-
can right as free speaking - and
prime weapon of Southern resist
ance. 1t is a way along with
the letters, printed matter n d
speakers our people and our Citi-
zens Councils are sending to other
parts of the nation Of letting our
fellow countrymen know how pas
\ sionate and determined we feel, how
right we are. and what realization
we have now that our battle is to
be won not by force but by opinion
plus every known legal maneuver
IN ARKANSAS as in all the other
Southern states now the Pupil Place
ment Law, born in A b m a
energies more and more as a hope
now that the Supreme Court itself
seems to be looking at it as a
hope, a face-ful and graceful way
out for itself So far as this Law
means token mixing and as toker
mixing Will be followed BY ma ssive
1 mixing it is intolerable and vii
not be tolerated
! But the Court has not said it re
quires token mixing everywhere.
And massive mixing need 0
necessarily follow tokens if the Su
/ preme Court really wants a way
out. no matter how hard the NAACF
\ tries.
The Southern people white anC
cOlOred together have both the
will and the ways to prevent mas
/ sive mixing unless the judicia!
situation is stacked against them
And that is what both white anC
colored want and what the people
of the nation give evidence now Of
wanting. too
AKING OF MENTAL
HEALTH and the alleged plot Il
use it for communist international
ism by railroading conservative.
into straps and straight jackets. al
example Of the confused alarms j,
the case Of Gov. Earl Long Come
Publisher Kent Courtney. Of The
Solid South. refusing to take side,
on Long sanity but vowing tina
the manner in which he was
forclbly strapped to stretcher anC
loaded on an airplane and dumped
in Texas mental institution vas
outrageous If this can hap
pen to dulyelected governor re
gardless OF his mental stability
just what fate would be in store fol
a non-elected private citizen?s
The Louisiana Legislature shoulC
take action to prevent a reoccur-
renee Of police state tactics thai
'railroaded' Louisiana citizen into
Texas insane asylum
Yet what impressed others was
the inability Of the institutions tC
/ iioAA liz SofSl iiOL lNOtillS tIldl AIOt
Long wants it made harder tt
commit patients the Scripps How
ard papers suggest that If his oWr
case is fair example it is practi-
cally impossible to commit them
now. He's been in two in the Ia n
several weeks, one in his home
state, and neither could hold him.
| That mental institutions have
been abused is as likely as their
necessity is great. They need care
full watching and careful nurturine
too. Gov. Long S case is special for
the fact that he is a governor but
1t certainly contains no hint Of a
gurrate communist plot sponsored
by the United States Government
itself against conservatives. Y e
such a plot is favorite fairy tale
with our lunatics Of the extreme
right
Speaking of communist plots.
why should they fool with nluo-
rides when they have got Miltowns?
GRANTED THAT WHAT throat