The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-04-12
For I heard them say, Let
us 60 unto DOthan. :"
Genesis 37:l7

Dothan. Alabama - For many
years under Horace and Julian
Hall The Dothan Eagle carried
the Let us go unto Dothan'
line under its masthead. You
gathered that not only the
Chamber of Commerce but the
very Bible approved the much
going unto Dothan that goes on
as the storied city grows,
prospers and shines. But when
famed Ralph Nicholson bought
The Eagle q few years ago he
promptly ordered the line drop.
ped. He was a Biblical scholar
and knew well the passage from
Genesis. It had to do with 10.
seph and his murderous Breth
rem. Searching for them ir
brotherly love, Joseph had beer
told they had been heard say.
ing Let us go unto Dothan'
and had sought them out there
But when they saw him afal
off, even as he came near unto
them, they conspired against
him to STAY him :"
All is not gold that glitters nor
is all Biblical benign that's Bibli-
cal. Just having your name in
the Bible isn't enough, any more
than having it in the paper. For
seeming innocent but sinister
word Of comings-and-goings the
passage ranks with the exchange
between Macbeth and his lady
after they had agreed to kill
King Duncan:
Lady Macbeth: My dearest
love. the king comes here
today.
Macbeth: And when goes
hence?
Lady Macbeth: Tomorrow
as he purposes.
The "aS he purposes" hangs
with especial borrow in my
memory because of the way my
brother Cothran would recite il
when we were in school years
ago and his Southern accent was
more extreme than today, ex
pecially in emitting the r.
from such a word as "pur
poses" His Tomorrow - as
he purposes" presaged some
thing even bloodier than Shake
speare staged.
MODESTLY AT DINNER fol
three here last night before my
talk to Dothan'S school teacher.
and their guests, High Schoo
Principal Sam P. Jones listen
ed while Superintendent O.
Schools Bruce FURRY and
snapped experiences in France
aver age experiences. neither o
us having actually won the war
Principal Jones polite attention
seemed proper in a late-cone'
to world warning. Not until jus
before we left for the meeting
did l learn that his war wa!
War II and that a months il
it, Pacific theater had givei
him all the experiences Their
were.
We should have been talking
of education, of course, and oul
governor, modern youth. intergra
ton, Federal aid. but the othel
was refreshing. No brother-kill
ers were these two likeable ant
con1panionable Dothanites. Yo'
had a sense of time and tides
even war tides, going on for
ever and not too unhappily s.
long as there is human com
partnership. You could hear eth,
deep heart of existance beat for
ever like a boys" while
Life. like a dome of many
colored glass.
Stains the white radiance OF
eternity"
Old soldiers never die. am
neither do soldiers a world wa
younger nor drafteeS Of today
not in the sense of soldier at
titudes that bless with tn (
sahsfactions of conradeShip ant
carrying on. You can't say why
but everything is worth while
THERE WAS SOMETHING
for everybody on the Wisconsin
Christmas tree. For Kennel.
there was victory. For Hum
phrey a better showing than hat
been expected. And for Richar'
Nixon, who got only 80 per cen
| of the votes in a TRADITIONAL.
Republican state. one more in
Wtation to the South. The cleo
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