The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-04-07

my name.
Academic liberty is a part of the
American tradition. but it isn't the
same thing as ordinary freedom of
| speech.
This nation can be killed by senti-
mentalists who overlook the dis
! tinction in defense of teachers. who
while perhaps honestly hating com
munism, are confusing humani-
/ tarianism with communism stupid
\ little sister socialism.
4 Through 30 years Of war and de
preston and Of emergency mea-
sureS in those names. college teach
ers have been growing ever more
state-minded. more won to social
lied and centalized government.
Even though there is a counter
tide now. the run has been this way
for many years and has washed
campuses everywhere R m e
from the world Of give and take,
of competition and enterprise. col
lege teachers have been won to the
humanitaliansm behind socialism
just as have men of God But they
have been unmindful Of the bank
ruptcies Of body and soul, unmind-
full that socialist is a communist
who doesn't know the facts of life.
who thinks you can be pretty and
sweet about it. democratic. peace
full. free, solvent. high-spirited
You can't, and Russia proves it.
East is east and west is west.
But the birds fly south. and they
know best n
Come all the induces Of economic
progress pointing our way. the Con
science of the South didn't his
employe say soil plies his anti
South fixation. Ralph McGill's lat
est adumbration on how industry is
supposed to be staying away from
the South because Of Southern re-
slStance comes in sweet little
story Of how good kind GOV. Luther
Hodges Of enlightened North Caro-
lima was just about TO lose big
new industry to benighted Alabama
when il was learned that Alabama
would close its schools before ac-
ceptng lntegration. Upon being told
that North Carolina would not the
new industry changed it's mind and
came TO North Carolina whose
m n i ( o additional advantages
over Alabama Mr.. McGnl then
goes on to recite. and follows with
a flock Of individual testimonies all
about how Little Rock has been
hurt by the resisting there even
as official figures say amazingly
just the contrary
There are more ways than one Of
skinning a cat. Ralph may tell his
sad and unsound story to so many
radical Northern newspapers which
are eagerly printing his column now
that industry vii indeed be dis
!. couraged.
Somehow word must Be passed %
industry that Editor McGlll Is not
taken as seriously in his Southern
nest as in the places where he
fouls it.
Witness two big paper mills actu-
ally competing now for priority in
of all place Tuskegce.
Alabama!
Does Alabama's Attorney Cen
/ eral Gallon make mistake Id
warning that the Deep South is not
Little Rock and that resistance here
/ would make a tempest in a teapot
Of the Arkansas city's? Not at all
for it is fact. Presenting other
wise could create a Situation Of
which it Is well for Federal courts
and executives to be well aware iii
advance
i. 1t could make Attorney General
Rogers forget the neW-found sense
which has him saying YOU can't
really put things over with tn {
whole populace opposed
Above the bayonets. mixed
and crossed.
Men saw gray gigantic
! host
1t is time for the great Southern
Caucus
Six months from now Will be too
late. a year hence impossible The
Gallup Poll shows 30 per cent Of
the South's white Democrats would
favor a third party and candidate
if the party should nominate some
one strongly favoring indignation.
| Only % per cent would not favor
this, with p per cent uncertain.
The poll would have shown an
even bigger per cent If it had been
! worded differently Many Of lis are
still not convinced that a third
party is the answer now.
| We are thinking rather in terms
of third force-a caucus force
holding fast to Democratic power
in each state but free to bargain
nationally with both parties.
The South can't afford a lost
cause now.
1t can't be content with any thin
red line of heroes or "death-cry
of a nation lost
The South has got to win.
It can't win as caudal appendage
of a Democratic Party dominated