The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-10-28

friends.
We would be a more cordial
caudal appendage.
WE ARE so MUCH more to
their way of thinking. Consider
ing the direction Nixor's philoso-
ply and politics are taking him
and the possible indispensability
Of Southern support once he gets
it, the South might be as often
the dog as the tail in that set-up
just as is the Congressional
coalition.
And the South would be part
of true majority. Liberals were
able to control both national con-
ventions but that was because the
conservatives were concentrated
in nei t h r. There is actu-
ally conservative majority in
America. The coalition in Con-
gress proves and reflects it with
its many victories.
MY ND ATTORNEY
LLOYD Hunter of Cleveland,
Ohio, is outraged as a lawyer,
a Nixon supporter and a patriot
at what he feels was Henry Cabot
Lodges bartering of cabinet posts
in public ito give the heavy sell
to minority voter groups" He
will agree. I believe, that such
a thing is a sin against the Negro
himself. OF the protests by both
Mr.. Lodge and Senator Kennedy
that Negroes should be given
places in the cabinet and in the
federal judiciary just because
they are Negroes, Mr.. Kennedy S
is the worse.
What he. as presidential can
didate, proposes or protests,
amounts to a real promise. What
Mr.. Lodge offers as vice presi-
dental candidate does not. And
it is much worse, quantitatively
and qualitatively, to promise to
put many Negroes on the high
courts than one in the cabinet.
Respectful as I am Of college
professors and dazzled as l am
by sons Of great wealth, l often
wonder why both tend to mistake
socialism for liberalism and to
presume that conservatism is a
cuss word. Such presumptions
are gone out of fashion now. Per-
haps it is because both groups, in
spite of all their advantages, are
underprivileged. They have no di-
rect contact with the competitive,
private free enterprise system
which makes America click.
IT'S NO REFLECTION on any
body to say there should be
watchers and super-watchers at
the polls and counting places on
November 8. It is just a com
ment on human nature. with the
election machinery largely in the
hands of one party" writes Tom
Waring in The Charleston News
and Courier, "a close election
might be swung with a few
stuffed boxes" Or some poor
arithmetic. Or some helpful err
rorS. Democrats cheat each other
on occasion. Surely they'll not
discriminate against Republicans.
AFTER THAT RACE-MINDED
bloop I might have known it.
The Lodges aren't the ones who
speak with God. It's the Cabots.
And it's the Lowells, not the
Lodges. who talk to the Cabots,
although Henry's middle name
indicates intermarriage. Kindly
but firmly my city editor. Douard
LeGrand. tells me it was the
Cabots who had the Diety's ear
when old John Collins BoSsidy
made his famous toast at the
1910 Holy Cross alumni dinner
And this is good old Boston,
The home Of the bean and the
cod,
Where the Lowells talk to the
Cabots
And the Cabots talk only to
God y
FROM GREENSBORO, ALA.
Miss Rosalie Tutwiler writes to
say Cleveland Amory quotes it
this way, too. in The Proper
Bostonians." The general idea
originated, according to Bartlett,
with the toast of "a Westerner"
at Harvard Class Of 1880 ban
Quet-
Here's to old Massachusetts,
The home Of the sacred cod,
Where the AdamSeS vote for
Douglas
And the Cabots walk with God"
NO NATTER WHO WINS, the
First Lady is going to be some
one to write poetry about. Now
that Mrs. Kennedy's witchery has
appeared on television. you can
marvel that the poet. william
Wordsworth, put them in the
same poem 50 long ago. The
first verse was Jacqueline-
"She was q phantom Of delight
When first she cleaned upon
my sight,
A lovely apparition sent
To be a moments ornament,