The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-10-13
Yes, but you amt done nothin
for me lately


Virginia stalWart junior sena
tor, A. Willis Robertson, told Hen
rico County Democrats last week
that the manifest destiny Of South
ern Democrats is to see that the
rights of sovereign states are not
destroyed
Amen, but in colossal non seQuitur
the senator opined then that history
shows believers in states rights and
strict constitutional principles they
can be more at home in the
Democratic Party"
Shades of the last two Democratic
Presidents and the Democratic
Supreme Court under Earl Warren
which handed down the desegrega-
ton decreel
Not since Woodrow Wilson has
the Democratic Party done anything
for states rights but violate and
repudiate them. Sins Of Republican
are more pecadillos.
When Senator Robertson hanks
back to Abraham Lincoln for Re
publican reputation of states rights
he is guilty of what Washington
and Lees brilliant Prof. Marshall
FishWick 50 mistakenly thinks Vir-
ginians in general do. He is living
in the past.
But Virginians don't do that any
more, nor do other Southerners
Like the farmer reminded of all
his Congressman up for reelection
had done for him through the years.
the South may say to the National
Democratic Party on the S tat S
rights issue, yes. but you amt
done nothin for me lately"
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS have
to call their shots now and say
which Democratic Party they mean
the national one or the one of their
state When Senator Robertson says
he is Democrat partly because
of what the party has done in Vir
ginia. citing roads, schools. fisca,
stability etc. that's the Virginia
Democratic Party. not the nationa,
one
For the last three Presidential
elections the people Of Virginia anC
the South have proved so well they
know the distinction that right
thinking Senator Robertson shoulc
speak in it.
| BACK ON THE BENCH after va
cation. the Supreme Court will dea
with many racial cases. including
one involving seven Negro teachers
who lost their jobs when a Missouri
community integrated Its schools
oh, what tangled web we weave
When first we practice to de
ceive' Also when we plan econo
| mics, and also when We play Coz
With human relations
| Naturally the courts will force
gro teachers On lntegratel
| schools sooner or later.
1t is only fair. but the prospec
should multiply Southern resistance
WE WILL GET THESE wage
increases, Or else JIMMY
Hoffa threatens. He's prepared II
tear the whole national economy
down with a general strike. Ye
how much worse is he than steel:
labor leaders who insist on a CLAUSE
I increasing steel wages wheneve,
the cost Of living goes up, thu!
! making it 20 still further up2
The steel clause sounds fail
enough. and might be if this we're
not a basic and enormous industry
which decisively affects the Who'll
country 1t il one Of initiation 5 ma
jor inflators
Seine years ago in the first Pitts
burgh Basing Point Case | was il
the room when the Federal TRADE
Commission ordered u s. Steel Il
cease and desist 4 ! have never
forgotten the response Of Judge
Gary, Big Steels chairman HI
said he didn't agree but he wouldn
contest. And he said that his com
pany was 50 big he considered j
affected with a public interest.
as was the steel industry as {
whole, and not justified in a policy
of profitmaklng alone.
The giants of labor and manage
ment can't let themselves be lee
today, even less than in Judge
Gary's day, by more go-getters
nei h er disreputable ones like
Hoffa, nor honest ones like Dave
Mcdonald
Both giants are affected with {
public interest"