The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-09-02
THE YELLOW PERIL. !

WHEN THE LATE Arthur
Brisbane, along with the late
Kaiser Wilhelm, used to warn
against 1.-The Yellow PERIL no.
body was race conscious enough
to call them racists or war-con-
sclous enough to call it war
mongering.
The term retains its sensa-
tionalist flavor today, no doubt,
but is coming to be dreadfully
real. Not a Japanese-led peril
such as Brisbane feared, but a
Chinese-led one is in sight and
1t may become so imminent be-
fore long as to make small
change of the so-called Cold War.
The peril is not only in the DO
tential power Of China but in her
continuing barbarism. China, :"
says Henry Wallace remember
him? from his farm to New
Yorker Magazine visitor, lis the
one country that could calculate
on sustaining atomic War-count-
ing on saving just one or two
million out of her seven hundred
million people to take over the
world that's left"
MIR WALLACE SPOKE Of the
patience and persistence OF the
Chinese. 1T is not inconceiv-
able he said. that China will
turn on Russia. and you'll see a
day when Russia is imploring the
United States to help her against
!. the onrlshing Chinese"
Echo ! is pretty big but | saw
it 60 under leaf the other night.
MORE PIOUS THAN THE
POPE v"
JUST AS THIS column begins
family to hope lower federal
courts may be hopping too much
in their eagerness to please a
Supreme Court which no longer
wishes to hop that far on the
race and other civil rights ques-
tons and that we Of the South
may possibly gain in the judici-
| AIRY what we have been losing in
the executive and legislative
/ branches, comes Editor Caleb
King, Jr., in The Florida Times
Union finding no hope at all in
the Supreme Court under Nixon
or Kennedy since both are such
integrationists.
| a THOUGHT IS THAT both
men are politicians, too, and
likely to fill Supreme Court
vacancies not on theological but
on political considerations. They
can't be expected to appoint any
segregationists but it is quite
possible that Nixon at least
might appoint a Constitutionalist.
Given a few Constitutionalists on
the court. or let a few more JUS
tees already there turn COnsti-
tutionalists and we might 60 to
town.
still think the court is in an
interesting condition" and gives
reason for expecting"
AN OFTEN THOUGHT here
has been that the 1860 campaign
in the South is developing into
contest between editors and
politicians, with the editors called
by nature and circumstances to
the free side Washington Column
mist Ray Tucker agrees. IAN i'm
portant test of the comparative
influence of an independent press
and professional politicians will
be staged in many sections of
the South" he writes. THE duel
could have tional signifi-
canoe"
NAMING THIS WRITER. along
with Tom Waring, Virginius Dab
ney, Don Ewing, Oliver Ernmer-
ich and J. M. Orndorff of Roa-
noke. fall of whom. except Mr..
Dabney, carry this column, Col
umnist Tucker comments on
"pers soma | relationships with
! readers" and personal names in
the nation as giving Southern
papers ''unusal influence with
their readers in the duel between
the Southern press and the poll
ticianS."
HE is RIGHT DOWN my alley
| when he speaks for the personal