The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-11-06

Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson was no con
sentative, but he was certainly an
anti-statist and an individualist.
What makes Wilson his supple
ment is that Jefferson anti-socia-
ism had come to need protection
by society in days of mass produc-
ing. consuming and communicating
Wilson, equally anti-socialist, pro
vided for that protection with Fed
eral laws that would umpire com
petition to preserve it, keep it fair,
and make it productive.
In Mr.. Buckley's eyes Wilson
was just an early New Dealer or
national socialist because he caused
this increase in Federal law
Yet he was the antithesis Of the
New Dealers. employing the only
practical method against socia-
ism S creep.
u
The conservatism that counts to-
day goes back to Wilson, not Cool
idge or Mckinley. 1t goes to the
ideal Of a government self-umpired
against socialism, legally armed
and active in preservation of free
enterprise
TWO RESCUE JOBS need attend
ing If the record is to be right. One
IS OF Robert Taft from the conven-
honal idea that he was an ultra
conservative. The other is of Wood
row Wilson from the convention
that calls him a capital IL Lib
eral
Once when l told Sen. Taft l con
sidered him a Woodrow Wilson
liberal he laughed and said he knew
what ! meant. He couldn't have
been expected 70 say more
IS TT NEWS THAT the dissenting
Judge Of the Federal Appeals Court
which affirmed the Taft-Hartley in
junction against the steel strikers
IS Negro. William Henry HASTE.
onetime governor Of the Virgin Isl
lands. q Truman appointee in both
caseso Apparently not. for nobody
| has mentioned it.
THEY LIKE 1T on Planet Earth
IN South Carolina. The state has the
lowest suicide rate in the nation,
~ per 100000 population This re-
fleets in part the large colored
population. Colored people don't
XII themselves. But they may BE-
gin TO do 50. Heretofore they have
been our most complete extroverts
out the Supreme Courts meddling
makes them more and more intro
vert
SPEAKING or WILSON and UNI
pred competition, it was interesting
to hear Nixon on television Monday
| night crlticizing modern education
for falling to inspire the competi-
tive spirit and instill discipline and
morals.
What has become of the free
dom Of the press when you and
others dominate sthe pages of large
newspapers and effectively silence
all xxx opinions?" asks Horace
Miller, of Waco. Texas.
Well, we covered faithfully the
Birmingham story of the mutilation
OF Aaron Judge, Negro whose
only offense was being a Negro.
20, your sweet eyes,
Your low replies,
A great enchantress YOU may be;
| But there was that across his throat
| Who would cut his throat Iii
trlple-crossed love of Maria Calais?
Not her elderly and neglected
husband, Signor Meneghini, the Sc
cret Of her successful spite Of the
dlverslonary actions and yachts Of
also elderly M. Osnassis who
wouldn't cut his ether.
Not anyone, really. 1t isn't lust
that Maria is hell-cat on occasion,
Tor heu-catS can have great appeal
IN more heavenly moments. We Of
Birmingham remember this one
when last she sang for US. demure.
modest, shy and divine in her
lower replies and registers even if
metallic in high.
It's that the girl is graceless. 1t
keeps showing
What grace is no one can say pre-
clsely but she hasn't cot it. It has
70 do with sensibilities. true III
spouse, imagination. self-dlsclrlne,
soul and anti -anlmallsm.
foet John Keats, who said beauty
/ that that was all YOU knew or
uas truth and truth beauty and
needed to know, never met anyone
Like Maria, we must believe. Beauty
is only hall true In her Her sweet
eyes and low replies have nothing
to do With her real case. The metal
sound Of her high replies or notes
and the wud-ani1nal glaze in her
eyes when she is crossed or in a
mcod-make for entertainment but
not allure.