The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-05-17

i sets Of the South upon which the
South proposes to maintain its
and America S eternal values are
a means to an end and not an
end in themselves. as is Russia S
dialectical materiallsln and New
York. not even dialecting ma
terialism.
IN MISSISSIPPI, Editor Oliver
Emmerich. Of The JACKSON State
Times, noting that his own state,
under Ross Barnett. is running
dangerously into the red and that
| patronage gives the new COVER
nor more power than any other
in Mississippi history suggests
that Mr.. Barnett use his extra
ordinary powers, abandon for
time his hobby of handshaking
and speech-making, and call upon
some hard-headed business real
lists to help avoid serious trouble
for his administration and what
could be "a deplorable fiscal
situation for our state"
Editor Emmerich opines that
Gov. Barnett gets a thrill out
Of meeting people and making
/ speeches" He is convinced that
the governor sincerely wants to
be a good governor, to go down
as benefactor to his state ;"
It is the curse of inheritance
in Louisiana ard Mississippi, and
m any elseWheres. Inheritance
from a New Deal whose well
fare state, launched in economic
necessity, has become a political
necessity.
Who will stand at Armageddon
against it? Verify the one who
does will be amazed. in my
guess. to find that he is not sen
fenced to political death at all
but rather to new life. For too
long now our politicians have
looked for success to combina-
tons Of this and that pressure
group. They have forgotten their
political mathematics. They have
forgotten that the whole really is
equal to the sum of all its parts
and that serving it serves all
! parts.
THERE is FINE WILL every
where, I believe, to make the
Tooth anniversary of the War Be
| tween the States ore for recall
ing the war effectively and with
en1phases on a nation one and
indivisible under Cod But with
so many agencies of communi-
| cation originating outside the
| South and with those honestly
conceiving the issues to have
been slavery, the tariff and sue
cession, there will be much need
of drawing attention to the deep
er issues involved and remain
ing, issues magnified now into a
very Battle of the World.
The Battle is the relation be-
tween men and government, the
individual and societv. in
America and over the world
| there is counter-revolution now
against the increasing socialism,
centralism and totalism of the
last 30 to so years. What the
South called States Rights was
really the right of the Individual
made in an IMAGE, the right to
the limited and decentralized
government in which that indi-
vidual draws his finest breath,
makes his noblest contributions
and has his fullest being.
\ 4 Il
TENNESSEE'S U. S. SENA-
TOR Albert Gore joins the cam
palgn to put Jefferson Davis in
the Hall CT Fame. What is most
gratifying about the campaign
thus far is the large number of
college, presidents and high-rank-
ing army officers not of the
South who have subscribed. Like
Lee, Davis begins to be recog-
nized for the all-American he
was, Lee for character and mill
tary compel ence. Davis for
Presidency over an American
cause which. far from being lost
today, is the one most in issue
in America and the world. the
cause against too much govern
ment too far from the governed. ;"
FOUR TIMES IN SUCCESS
SION now the Pulitzer Prize for
editorial writing has gone to a
Southern editor, the latest being
able Lenoir Chambers Of the Nor
folk VireinianPilot. But he, like
the other three. has won for edi-
torials favoring public school in
tegration. Thus a Pulitzer policy
is evidenced and not journa-
listic but sociological one. And
four times running makes it a
party line.
Running the Pulitzer Prize
prestige is only ore of many sins
of sentimentahsts since the Su-
preme Court nine held hands
and jumped.
WHO REMEMBERS "THROT-
TLEBOTTOM," the bunbling,
bungling, stuffed shirt Vice
President in the musi-comedy "Of