The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-11-10
John Temple Groves
TV Racket Socialism Product

| dlStrlct attorney WOuldn dream pa
going on with the case. The public
makes him hero a second time.
Does being articulately and con-
Vincingly sorry really make every
thing right? Do superior intelli-
gence. education. sensbilities. vo
cabulary and charm some find him
charming exempt j man from cool
judgment? Perhaps this ~ what
4 James Gould COzzens meant in "EY
I Love Possessed" when he wrote OF
feelings winning side Whether
the feeling is right OF wrong. senLl-
nent or sense, ii needs only to az
pear and it takes possession amor
onlnia vincit
1t is another item against tele-
vision that through it's medium this
young man is able to turn disgrace
into new favor. Certainly people
would not be weeping for him and
forgiving him without that heart
rending television appearance out
side the committee room Monday
His case could never have been
won in cold print
WHERE IN THE MELEES OF
sentimentality and bathtu Of
bathos is the inconceivable Teddy
f. 10 .Et
able little loWbroW Who had The
highest brow Of all? Il ho was
coached they forgot ID tell him
about wiping Of patting his brow
in standard agonies Of search fol-
the answer. He gave his so fast
they seemed To begin before tile
question ended
"OF THE MAKING or BOOKS
there is no end" Comes a hand
some 694-page volume called en-
gagingly Gentlemen. Scholars and
Scoundrels" made up entirely of se-
lectiOns from Harper's Magazine
from 1850 to the present. from Marx
Twain to Tom Waring The editor
calls it treasury" and it really
is. The publisher. as luck would
have it, Is Harper
I THE LATE DR.. KINSEY. who
used unscientific S a m lings III
scientific" proof that sex is Just
an ice cream soda to Americans
confined his samplngS overmuch. ii
was said. to the North and East.
That is Why it hardly behooyes
! professor from where Kinsey did
his counting to find something
quaint IN vogue Of virtue at a
Southern college. as BrOoklyn'S
Prof. David Boroff does in an arti-
Gle in the current Harpef's called
The Genteel Tradition on a South
ern Campus The campus IL nv
city's Birmingham Southern Col
lege
I The girls openly proclaim their
virtue, He reports. quoting one as
saying 'primly" Il think We stand
up for onr morals more. You know
( Northern boys are fascinated Dy
4 that" H. SAYS she described III
Harvard boys bewilderment al
her ~exigent moral code
Although he notes that the col
lege IL accidentally very sturdy"
and that so per cent Of its faculty
have Ph.D.'s. Prof Boroff writes
as one who looks down from an
eminence. who pats an infant on
the head or beginner on the back
He patronizes the little church RE-
lated college as though he lived in
the summa cum laude Of educa-
tional light. He is tolerant Of what
he deems the fossil remains Of
Southern tradition, as If more
American one existed now or one
retu ninf5 more to attention after SO
many national years Of centralism.
socialism, materialism. and lber-
tartan sentimentality.
| He reports home loving if it
were the first outbreak in history
| He seas light but light as in
| deses' In the dated Sahara Of the
| Bozarts Mencken invented long
ago. He warns that until the col
lege exercises A.. leadership in the
current crisis in the South. its
chances Of achieving the excellence
it 50 earnestly desires will remain
slender indeed
The REFE ENCE IS THE
STANDARD one to that old debbil,
the race problem
With the hell of Harlem nearby.
the ruin Of Columbia University
PHILOSOPHERS all surrounding, the
economic shambles Of the BoWery
within smelling distance. the medi-
ocritier Of the Bronx half an hour
away ard of Brooklyn on the spot.
with juvenile delinquency approach
ing civil war, and New York in all
its glory an alien and a furnished
thing nevertheless you wonder
upon what rock the professor stands
that he deems it the rock of ages.
upon what meat he feeds that he