The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-01-30
"And the dawn comes up
like thunder -

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for Mexico's sake, and beautiful
with rhythm. tempo, verve and
balance, passionately grave or gay.
The vitality is real.
Then begin the tin thunders and
synthetics Of American (Which is
to say, Southern California; pro-
grams. Screeches. howls, jigs,
adenoidal horns, dreadful tin pans,
the worn. familiar jazz routine, the
done-to-death hill-billy a full vent
in music of what Henry Adams
called 1T h e degradation of the
democratic dogma"
He meant loss Of mornings.
In course Of the day the Ameri-
cans become very superior to the
poor Mexicans. But dawn is
Mexico's by big margin.
This valley is the richest in the
world. And without benefit Of a
Nile or Mississippi to make black
deposits. When they need water in
California they just turn it on. IT.
rigation lets them outgroW the
South in cotton and all else. But
there are handwritings on walls.
The distant water sources begin to
be insufficient And that dread St.
Andreas fault which runs all the
way to San Francisco and beyond
is acting up again and due to
earthquaking. Creepings and shift
ings are going on underground
Above, every prospect pleases -
sun. soil and cline. You coul d
think yourself in Florida if you
didn't know better. Not even the
subterranean set-up here has moor
ings. It's good to be en- route to
Arizona with banjo on my knee
WHAT could you really have ex-
pected of Earl Warren!
When Earl Warren was governor
here and Fuller Warren was run
ming for governor in Florida, Fuller
made a hit saying the only thing
California had which Florida lacked
was a Governor Warren" That
wouldn't 60 over SO big in the
South now.
This is the state Of democracy
gone mad With their initiative and
referendum you can. hire we'll
trained organizations to get you
enough names to initiate" any
legislation you want They have a
constitution but they don't under
stand that constitutions are moor
ings. Or that they are supposed to
be permanent. They will amend the
constitution to create a new com
mission or agency and stipulate
that the head of it is to be Bill
Jones. That. ! suppose makes il
a violation Of the constitution for
Bill Jones 70 die or move away or
otherwise become unavailable
Naturally both Of California 5 u
s. Senator's Engle. the Demo
crat; Kuchel. the Republican :
voted for ,cloture by simple ma
jority Of the Senate. Fine demo
cratic distinctions are beyond
political mentalities out here.
knight would have done the same
and so would Nixon and Earl War
ren. Only Bill Knowland would
have seen the point against gag
rule g and where is he now
When you see how they fight over
water here you wonder that we in
the South, even with plenty Of
rain. can be 50 free-and-easy with
it. We use it mainly to dump our
sweet land of liberty, our precious
top soil into the sea. The red and
yellow Of most Of our streams say
SO. It rains more in the Sout
than anywhere else in the country
and II we use even half the fall
somehow for the increasing needs
Of industry and electric power as
well as agriculture and navigation,
we could rival California in econo-
my even as We beggar her in men
tai, moral and geological moorings.
The lack Of moorings makes it
hard to explain to Californians
about Alabama Judge George
Wallace and his resistance to fed
eral orders lit is hard even to
make some fellow Southerners I'M
derstand). The issue isn't Negro
voting. It is federal judicial fudg-
ing on constitutional moorings.
Alabama has a poor leg to stand
on so far as this involves dis
the most qualified
Negroes in the country-those at
Tuskegee Institute - but what is
being stood for is states rights. If
an unconstitutional federal aggres-
sion is taking place it mustn't be
to succeed by default and
make precedent. 1t must be
tests.
A woman rather than man
may be selected for the first space
capsule flight Men start worry
ing about their families" explains
Col. John Stapp, director Of the
Air Forces aero-medical labora-
tory
Also women can knit.
A s #. 4 in, California highway
who finds it necessary
to kneel when talking to offending
drivers Of low-hung sports cars.
has been provided with a stool
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