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Evening star., 1959-05-26

20 IOWA. p Nontn
Unpointed Book Racks,
sturdy and handy for
nooks and cronnys, up
stairs or down.
l7"x8"x35h" ---$I.SS
22h 1895 "" sass
312-Ib. Homestead Axe
with bend hondle --$3.S5
Koiser oIuminum Do
mond-Rib sheets for oil
kinds of do-it-yourself
projects like partitions,
fences. Cut it with q scis-
sor and noke q corport.
Evening star., 1959-05-26

Convos Window Awnings.
Complete with fittings
and rope. Projection %"
drop 34lh" includes 6"
curtoin.
30" vide YOUR
SO" vide CHOICE
AZ" wide q FOR SQss
48" vide
MineroI Spirits Point
Thinner.
Per gallon Tie
Don't let your clothes droo
on the ground. 90" ool-
vonized steel clothesIine
prop -------------IIe
"a Concrete spies h
blocks, steel reinforced,
SITS
Round or squore shovel,
for oil digging purposes.
Long hondled or short,
sl.oo
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
John Temple Groves
Are Ivy Colleges Really Ivy?

The question begins to be what
sort of individual is to do the COM
ing back the beatnik bum who has
read book, the playboy bum who
hasn't read book, the unmoored
humanist, the tiresome self-cultural-
ist-or the individual who knows ivy
the individual in an Image.
At Princeton in my day wrote
a piece for the Nassau Literary
MAGAZINE called The Aristocratic
Democrats of Princeton" Woodrow
Wilson, then in the White House
but always an attentive Prince
tonian, commended the piece in a
letter priced in my scrapbook. He
did well to commend it for the
idea was his own, another express
sion of his often assertion that
Princeton is for the nations SER
vice." another way of saying ivy
must show ivy.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10

"Oh. bright are the skies Of
Princeton
| And fair its spires and ways,
We listen to naught in the
cloisters of thought
| But the music of glorius days. -
There's supposed to be a glory.
You are supposed to get it. re-
member it. bring it home. use it
all the rest of your life.
AS college men and women COM
pare notes and keep company this
Summer. may the glory show.
There's no glory in silly little pro-
vincials who come home more so
than they went, looking down on
home towns because college hasn't
yet taught them universals that
exist everywhere, scorning tn e
South because college has failed to
get through to them with word that
tllC OOuIIl az ACo OCoC 40 WudI COl-
lege is about, many are born here
with what ivy colleges spend years
intoxicating or trying to inculcate) ;.
There's no glory in certain sons
of riches so spiritually empty they
are capable only Of country club
emptiness later that lets some Of
their young marrieds' play this
wife swapping key game" men
toned in the current NeWsweek, a
Tobacco Road degeneracy that sug-
gests rabbits, dogs and poultry more
than human beings who are parents
of children and children of parents
and must some day account for
themselves as such and as humans.
Do they swap whole wives like
the North Alaska Esquimaux or just
incidentals?
There's no glory in brainWashed
easy-marks who sell out to socialism
in college before ever they learn Of
God, man and America there, rid
ing what they think the wave of
the future Just as the tide turns
and the future belongs to the cult
of the individual again.
Especially is there no glory in
pitiful ones who have been attend
ing ivy colleges without once know
ing ivy or why their colleges are
so-called.
1t is for the accumulated tradi-
ton Of excellence in human beings.
for the good life" as the Greeks
led it, that these Oldest institutions
are so-called, not for spiritless So
snobbery and social
ism
It is for the tradition Of learning
for its own sake. for intellectual
and moral codes, for taste and grace.
for personality. for the psychology
Of believing. the alternatives Of liv
ing. the ability to be humble in
cause, a love, a battle or a lore.
1t is for2 az ''cult Of the in
dividual,' coming back now after
all the years of socialism, cynicism
and materlaliSm.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
Family Reunions

Charleston News & Courier observes:
Reunions are sign of people with roots.
These people know who they are and from
whom they are descended. They feel a kin
ship too with the soil, for which their fore
fathers fought from which they earn their
living and in which someday they will be
buried beside their own flesh and blood
TOO much emphasis on family, like too
much Of anything else, can be bad. 1t might
grow into snobbery and provinciaism Too
little regard for family can encourage the
kind of footloose. nomadic life that today is
sapping much Of the stability from our
country.
lone in five American families, we have
been told, moves every year. While enter
prise and ambition may require individuals
to pursue their careers to the ends of the
earth. it is good to keep always a solid core
of home folk who know and love their faith
erland'
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
Double Check

At least we have reached the
summit of summer and from here
on in we can prepare for winter
it's a'coming.
The Governors carried little Of
our freedom celebration over in
Russia. It's the first they'd ever
seen sang America the Beallti-
fu. The milk maids didn't under
stand about all they could do
that was the same in any language
was wave and grin that's un-
derstandable.
While all this fling at spreading
democracy abroad was taking place
Paul Butler was raking the Demo-
cratic Party Leadership back here
at home, saying they are too con-
sentative and moderate. Just plain
luke-Warm to their job my guess.
What Paul wants is to get us South
erners to swallow any thing them
ddlly dlIhCCS COOkup VI UcpOI-
tations him should 60 head first.
We ought to chew up some of this
stuff before we undertake to sWal-
low it. Better to get sick at first
than at the last. Evidently Butler
feels a revolt coming on while
the G. O. p. is trying to get down
into the counties to shake rattle
and roll for the 1860 campaign.
just received word that there is
a new town formed on this side Of
Jackson's Heights known as
Bunker Hill, Marshal Wilson,
Mayor. not yet Incorporated but it's
These are the last days of tire
menderous political campaign .
you either vote sensible or be-
come a dupe.
Thanks for reading.
Yours,
j. Marvin Brown
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10

Another is Sir Winston Churchill. who
often gets together with B4ruch who is al
most as old as Baruch, and Churchill is still
active. painting. writing, on making speech
Is, and travelling around the world.
Still another is Chancellor Konrad Adj
enauer Of Germany, who recently said he
intended to remain as Chancellor until 1862,
even though he is we'll up in his eighties
In the mad scramble to meet headlines,
pay bills, and keep up with the Joneses, we
should more often take the necessary time
to consider the later years, the real values
Of life, and the really, important things to
be concentrated on
If we will do this, and SLOW down. and de-
velop sensible philosophy, we might also
i've to be 80, and we might be able to kick
up our heels and go around the world at 88.
and see the sights,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10

opinion, this is not justified, and we sug-
gest that where no service of merit is rem
dered, no tip be rendered
This has been tried, Of course. and usu-
ally produces better service for the next
customer When tips become taken for
granted, and are almost mandatory, some
workers make more money on tips than
they do in salary. This is, Of course. ridicu-
lous, and one will recall how certain head
walters in large city in the United States
were trapped by Income Tax agents few
years back. 1t was found thew had been
making many thousands of dollars a wear
ana often more than 500 day, in tips, and
reporting none Of it to the government as
income.
ne Cnlteo states IS stll young coun-
ty' ana we are supposed to have independ-
ent thinkers and something of the frontier
spirit lett among US. We hope that there is
enough Of it to enable US to limit tins II
compensation Tor good service. But when
good service, or special service. is given
one should De quite generous in his reward,
for this is somewhat rare in the United
States.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
No Tips No Service


THE official attitude on tips in Russia is
= that there should not be any The dig
nifty of the worker is involved it is theor-
lied, and it lowers this dignity if he accepts
tips from others.
And while we suppose that some tipping
will always go on in Russia we think the
Russian attitude on tipping is interesting.
Reporters in Moscow say that tipping is
gradually increasing in Russia. despite the
official attitude of the government, and the
so-called communist philosophy on the
practice.
1t is further reported, and we think this
is the main point, that the Russian who re-
ceives tip is being tipped for good service,
or something extra, which was the original
idea in tipping In too many countries and
in too many large cities particularly. work.
ers expect tips whether they provide service
or not
In the United States, where service in
restaurants, for example, is notoriouslv
poor, the waiter or waitress expects ten per
cent, or fifteen per cent, or something. and
believes this is due him or her. regardless
OF the quality of service rendered. In our
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10

COUTHSIDE Virgnians are famed for
n family reunions every summer held gen
orally in July and August, when frying
sized chickens are at their tenderest, old
ham reaches two years of curing, and water
melons just off-the-ice add to the festive
occasions.
The reunions perpetuate close tie which
for generations has been characteristic of
Virginia families. They afford opportunity
for the rich old uncle from the city to join
with the concourse of sisters and brothers,
aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews in
swapping stories Of by-gone days and add
ing blessing to the newest babies of the
tribe. Then there are the family friends,
who always contribute to the pleasure Of
the reunion with possibly more objective
recollectons Of the Yesterdays 1t is great
institution.
Commenting on family reunions, the
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
Deatonvillc Church
Revival Opens Sunday

Revival services at Sandy Greek
Baptist Church at Deatonville. Will
begin Sunday. July II, at 7.45 pm,
the pastor, the Rev. Louie A. Over
ton. has announced
The Rev John Lennon of Amelia
Baptist Church. win be the guest
speaker
Services beginning at As pm.
will continue each evening through
Friday, July II, according to the
pastor The public is invited to at
tend the services.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
n "a ST. 8&$anoon

sued with recommendations.
g. Government regulations at
fecting industry. Many such regula-
tons are no longer needed. because
Of archaeological developments,
and the Committee has initiated
several studies looking for their
modification
4 Farm price support programs
The present program, in the opinion
Of the Committee. is based upon
'obsolete laws, and the expendi-
lures "go largely to a compare
lively few large producers. and to
industries only remotely connected
with farming" Again special
studies will be made for the pur-
pose Of finding noninflationary So
buttons,
5. Practices of labor and bust
ness In the words Of the Commit
tee. Excessive concentration of
power in the hands of labor or bust
ness results in practices which are
contrary to the public interest The
correction Of this must be through
elimination Of the power. not by the
government stepping in directly.
The Committee will report on the
extent to which such concentrations
Of power contribute to initiation or
impede economic progress.
Obviously this is quite program
Of work the Committee has set forth
for itself Fortunately it can call
upon any branch Of government and
any private organization should
stand willing to give whatever aid
Isl asked.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
HARD LUCK STORY

Phoenix. Ark Roy Holmes, Jr.
l7-year-old Phoenix grocery clerk,
thinks it is about time his C k
changed.
A few months ago he cut his left
hand with razor blade. A short
time later he fell while skating and
broke a wrist. Then he slipped on
some grease and broke his right
foot.
Holmes was hunting recently and
accidentally shot himself in the
right ,fcot. H.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
Background TOT Decision

No choice, whether that Of a
man or a nation, is made in a
vacuum. A man makes the good
choices, or the bad ones, Of his life,
against all the background Of his
earlier life, education and train
ing. This is brought out in Deuter-
onomy where the heads OF fam
lilies are commanded to teach their
children the law OF God. This
writer once met young man who
was a patient in a hospital. He
talked quite freely about the prob
lem that was bothering him. He
was undecided what to do when he
got out Of there. Should he be a
rum-runner, bringing "moonshine"
out Of the mountains into the city,
or should he get job in the post
office? All he could see was that
the post Office job was safer, but
the rum-running was better paid.
That's a little funny, but isn't 1t a
little sad too? II that young man
had been brought up in a Chris
tian home, II he had gone to church
and to Sunday school, il he had
given his heart and his mind to
Christ. how differently he would
have faced that problem, how diff
ferent his choice would have beer!
Chased es outlines eepyrighted by
National Council 81 the Churches Of
Christ In the Q. 3. 4. lAleessd By
Community Prsss seYvies.l
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10

There are three Government
Committees studying initiation. The
Joint Economic Committee, under
Douglas, has merely been holding
a series Of hearings and will make
report later this year. Another
is an Intradepartmental Commit
| tee under the craftsmanship Of Dr.
Raymond Saulnier, h c a d Of the
Presidents Council of Economic
Advisers. Third : is the so-called
Nixon Committee, the Cabinet Com
mittee on Price Stability for Eco
nomic Growth. This last group is
sued its. first public statement a
few days ago and. because of its
membership, its views are most i'm
portant
The membership in addition to
Chairman Vice President Nixon,
consists of Secretary of the Urea
sury Anderson, Postmaster General
Sulnmerfield, Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Benson. Secretary Of Com
merce Strauss (or presumably his
successor, Secretary of L r
Mitchell, and Dr. Saulnier.W Allen
Wallis from the University Of Chi
cago is executive vice chairman.
On the negative side of the Com
mittee rejected the idea that little
initiation is inevitable and also re-
jects the idea Of government con
troll Of prices and wages 1t says
that moderate price increases
cumulate in the course of years to
immoderate rises in the cost Of liv
ing, and that controls always re-
suit in waste. inefficlency. and a
slowing down Of progress.
On the positive side the Com
mittee recommends "as minimum
course Of action" these steps be
taken promptly. These are:
/. Recognition by the Congress Of
reasonable price stability as an ex
pllcit goal Of federal economic
policy
2. Expenditures must be held TO
the level recommended by the
President in his budget message Of
last January, and programs for
later years must not be authorized
which will create deficit. If
spending is thus held under con
troll. II may be possible to begin
to reduce the public debt
g. There must be firm control OF
the quantity of money and credit,
and the Government must be per
mitted to borrow IN the public mar
ket at rates which attract private
investors. This means. at the mo-
ment. removing the present four
and one-fourth per cent interest
ceiling on government bonds. The
issue, says the Committee, is
whether we want price stability or
whether we want. in concealed
way. to do the equivalent Of
printing money something the
American public would not stand
for if done openly.
Those are the conclusions reach
ed up to this point. For the future
the Committee SAYS it is studying
five basic problems. as follows.
/. Tax reform In the opinion OF
the Committee IF the line can be
held on the Administration bud
|get tax revenues should more than
meet current expenditures. This
would provide the margin for re-
duction Of the debt and tax re-
form
2. Our competitive position II
foreign markets No indication IS
given as to what should be done
to meet this problem. but promise
is made that a report will be Isl
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
Politicians On The Go

keeping up with the active candidates, al
though he, himself is considered elimi-
mated as presidential nomination posi-
bilty.
With Senator John Kennedy thinking
about going to@Africa with Senator Hubert
Humphrey about ready to cut out to the
Far East, and with Vice President Nixon
ready to 60 to Moscow, it must be that Sen
ator Stuart Symington, Governor Nelson
Rockefeller and Majority Leader Lyndon
johnson are wondering where they can 90
to maintain a political and psychological
balance
If one Of these gentlemen could make the
first trip to the moon. before the conven-
tons in 1860 he would be an almost-sure-
shot for the nomination. Certainly no one
could match that, and the interviews he
could obtain on the moon. and the profound
secrets he could discover, would certainly
dazzle the world and put him far ahead Of
the other candidates in the world travelled
Man of Distinction category
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
Choices Count
Lesson for July IL, 1859

MOT ALL choices are worth los
: ing sleep over. What tie shall
I wear today? Shall drive to town
by the old road or the new road?
What shall give Grandpa for his
birthday? The results Of these.
choices are not likely to be world
SCATTERING one way or the other.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
So Years Young.

i GROWING old is something which some
= time is done graciously and which some
times is not done graciously. All of us hope
that we will be able to perform this feat
graciously.
Of course, in the United States it is some
times hard to be around for the process
With automobiles killing several thousand
each month, with so many men working
themselves up to heart attack or a stroke,
and with other diseases taking their toll, it
is sometimes difficult to make the grade
Several who come to mind are Bernard
Barueh, for example, who recently took off
for a six-week's visit to England Baruch is
SO years old, and is still hale and hearty
and seeing the world and offering advice
He has been advising U. S. presidents for
many decades.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10

Still, they might
be more impor-
tant than you
think. II you pick
the wrong tie. the
right girl may
turn you down,
for the reason
tn at anyb ody
who would wear
a mons tfosity
ill., That r1,.1I.tk
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10

ANOTHER American, former New York
- Governor Averel Hartman. has met
with Russian Dictator Nikita Khrushchev
This is in keeping with the trend among Z.
S. politicians.
Mr. Hartman, of course, is writing a
series Of articles about his travels. and his
interview with Khrushchev is feather in
his cap, and one which he obtained as the
former Ambassador to Moscow, and as the
former Governor of New York
Mr.. Hartman, who enjoyed a meal with
khrushchev at his country villa near Mos
cow is reported to have carried on his dis
cussions with khrushchev longer than most
Americans. although we do not kno
whether he could match the record claimed
by Senator Hubert Humphrey, Of Mime
sofa Humphrey was claiming something
like an eight-hour-stint. if we recall cor
rectly.
Whatever can be said about Harrman's
travels, and his series of articles seems to
be very interesting reading he is at least
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10
HIGHBROW POETS

When poets come down from their hghbrow towers
To n1ngIe With plain common men,
Forgetting distractions and fantastic showers,
Perhaps we may read them again.
They highbrowy muse il their eyres ooof
On cynical, bosphemous themes
Debosng good English, distortine the truth,
While dreaming surreoIist dreams.
Corrupting the syntox, ignoring oil rules
Sans metre, sans cadence or rhyme
Oh, give Us the poems we learned in our schools
IN q soner and happier time.
The poets whom most critics praise
Are too highbrow for me-
And thot is Why seldom read
Our modern poetry
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10

have much sense. II you take the
new road to town, some Of the new
traffic may give you a funeral
sooner than you expected. And if
Grandpa happens to be very rich,
the wrong kind Of present might
induce him to change hisswill.
Decisions Determine Destiny
There are great choices in life
as well as small Looking back over
a long life, an odd man can see
where this decision or that changed
the whole direction of his life
time. A train crossing Missouri
approaches . little station where
1t will not stop. There is a long
siding at that station, and 1t is
empty. The express train could
just as well be sent through the
station on the siding as on the
main track, they are both going
in the same direction. But coming
out Of Union Station In st. Louis,
with its maze Of switches Is
another proposition. All trains
head out Of that station IN exactly
the same way, but when they hit
those switches, they are turned
once for all westward to the
Pacific Coast cities. or east to New
York, or south to New Orleans. So
1t IL with life Some decisions turn
life toward a destiny Of glory, or
OF misery depending on the
choice depending on the one
who chooses. 1t was so when Moses
said to his people: Il have set be-
fore you life and good, and death
and evil therefore choose good
"0nes To Every Man and Nation"
"Once to every man and nation
comes the moment to decide, A
wrote James Russell Lowell in
what is now wellknown hymn.
opportunity knocks but once is
an old proverb. Hymn and proverb
are partly true. partly not. When
an opportunity for decision has
been ignored, or when the wrong
choice has been made land ignor-
ing the choice entirely is itself a
wrong choice), that particular OPP
portunity. that one decision. does
not come again. What one has lost
by wrong decision IS lost for good.
But in the mercy of God there may
be other times. The nation Of
Israel, to whom Moses made his
appeal to decide for God, again
and again had to make that same
choice: Who is on the Lords side ?
When we think Of how one gener-
alton follows another, we see how
true it Is. Our forefathers may
have decided for God; but unless
we in our time face and act on
that same central choice; For God.
or against him? our ancestors
good choices will not help US q
great deal.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-10

have much sense. II you take the
new road to town, some Of the new
traffic may give you a funeral
sooner than you expected. And if
Grandpa happens to be very rich,
the wrong kind Of present might
induce him to change hissAwill.
Arizona tribune., 1959-12-23

Morning, noon and MD
night hours serve as back
ground for traditional Christ
mas carols. Jingle Bells
has tangled it's way through
my skin. would like to meet
Santa and his reindeer before
they pack up for the last haul
from the North Pole. Rudolph
would have more than a red
nose.
The best sounds will come
a few days later. "Mommy,
Daddy, Santa's been here. y
The best sights will appear
when Junior tears the strings
from the biggest present he
can find.
Q'm not Scrooge's sister,
I'm just tired. Merry Xmas
to you!
Arizona tribune., 1959-12-23
SIGH
AND
SOUNDS
Eloise B ank S

Yule trees simmer and
glimmer up and down the
street. Tinseled packages
peek from under harried shop
pers' arms. DiSgruntled huS-
bands try to keep calm at
the lingerie counter. Tired
mothers drag weary tots
through crowded store aisles.
Erect policemen blast shril-
ly as pedestrians race the
caution light. Foot fatigued
sales ladies grit their den
lures in order to please GUS
toners. Christmas is coming!