The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-10-06
''Okay!"
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"Okay!" Khrushchev reported
from the landing platform as his
plane came home.
What a dawn. oh, Kay. if you
mean it! We must find out. This
country isn't so capitals" as you
have thought nor is yours SO com
munist. You are popular leader,
your country's first. Your people
are educated, a first for them, too.
And left alone they are kin to
Americans in many ways. If they
should come to rule themselves
under you as the first popular lead
er-they would no more make war
on America than we on them.
Democracies don't.
Meanwhile, o Kay. where is thy
stingaree. thy unyielding on Ber-
lin? Put away the thought that we
will ever let West Berlin's millions
be subject to Communist dictator
ship or the possibility Of it, and
the sore spot which aggravates all
the others may be removed before
hatefully and dreadfully rising
sun in the Orient burns everybody
That sun is Red China. illiterate.
naive, religious, and passionate in
communism as you and yours no
longer are, o Kay 1t is Red China
behind whose curtains a threat to
Russia equally with American can
be proliferating.
OKAY. X! THE REAL net of
your visit to America can be a
mood for approaching the common
threat to your country and ours
from those true communists who
are also true barbarians-un
GUST A KISS NV IN THE -
DARK :"
Dixie states were once regarded
by the Kennedy camp as good hunt
ing ground" reports Columnist
Bascom Timmons. But as the
Massachusetts senator gained with
labor and pumped strongly fol-
civil rights and welfare state legi-
station, it was evident that a con
siderable part of his Southern con
sentative support deserted him. .
Alabama Gov. Patterson, who en-.
dorsed the senator. doesn't want tc
talk about it any more. There
nothing more embarrassing than a
bandwagon seat when the band is
gone and the ball is over
Peoples religion doesn't mean as
much to them these days as it die
a quarter Of a century ago ever
though more people are signed up
That is SO of Catholics as well as
Protestants. although in lesser de
gree Whatever the strict letter Of
Roman Catholicism might dictate
to John Kennedy If he were Presi
dent. he could be counted on,
believe, to put the Constitution frs
in affairs Of state. Or his notion
Of the Constitution. What concerns
us in the South against him Is no
his religion, believe, but his ADA
| NAACP- CLIO loyalties, or rather
the indispensibility Of these groups
to his political establishment
| WIFI On WnIu NET cn\
ROCKEFELLER as a campaignel
| find as unhappy a difference be
TWEEN New York and the rest Of the
country as New Workers. AL Smith
and Tom Dewey did? These two
were unbeatable at home but some
how never quite took with voters
elsewhere. The Rockefeller per
sonality, still largely unknown, i
supposed to be the big reason fol
nominating him over Nixon But i
is possible to imagine nationa
television public finding him a little
too much the mice Nelly" and pro
fessional good fellow type, as vel
as vaguely "arty'
"Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole te
pole :"
THERE MAY BE ESCAPE from
the pit.
In the number and kind Of the
country's new college presidents
especially in the South, there j.
hope. They are administrators al
right, but, in blessed addition, they
are academicians. scholars an6
dreamers of the American dream
| Fred c. Cole. youthful, straight
forward new president of Washing
ton and Lee University, for ex