The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-28

PAO'So ~ do PCl NGud1 do tWO
and two. The centuries are on
its side, gone and to come.
But will it survive in the South
where its amplest being ha
been? Will it survive the pre-
tense that modern national So
cialism is compatible with our
dear and eternal principles of
competition. of private enter
prise, of free trade?
YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOSE
your Southern accent. forget
your free trade philosophy and
competitive enterprise upbring-
ing to plug for righting the
wrong in the present cotton tex
tile foreign trade situation. Ala
bama's J. Craig Smith, presi-
dent of the National Cotton
Council. told the National AS
ISOLATION Of Shirt, Pajama and
SportsWear Manufacturers in
New York last week that cotton
textile people must rot let them
selves be saddled with a charge
OF being "simply out-and-out
protectionists.' They are ac-
customed to competition, at
home and from abroad, he said.
reconciled to it. ready for it.
They look upon it as a basic
American economic principle.
But they think they are entitled
to have the competition fair, to
have it subject to the same
ground rules as other enter
prises and competitors. In the
case of cotton textiles the ground
rules are unequal and it is our
own government which makes
them So They burden our own
manufacturers with federally
maintained higher home wages
and raw cotton prices "a story
often told it needs no repeat
ing here but which seems to get
nowhere.
When we win these equal
ground rules Mr.. Smith con-
cluded, you won't hear me COM
plain any more about imports.
We can compete if we have
fair opportunity"
He thinks the cotton textile
situation should be identified
as part of an overall interna-
tional trade problem that has
great meaning for every Ameri-
can" But he is not to be I'M
derstood, I am sure, as count
ing the textile problem identical
say, with the steel one, in which
a more or less ruthless push by
monopoly welding union lead
ers for higher and higher wages
is increasing American economic
trouble both at home and abroad
THE VICE PRESIDENT for
got his wedding anniversary. If
there were Geiger Counters to
register political reaction would
they say it shows him heartless
OF human? Since Mr.. Nixon
told the press about it, he may
think it. makes him a regular
fellow, perhaps even Nelson
Rockefeller "hiya",
WHAT TIMES ARE THESE.
Comes Mr.. Justice Hugo Black,
accusing his protege of getting
personal. In a minority decision
against the too-free hand as
sumed for itself by the Civil
r h It's Commission Justices
Black and Douglas accuse the
Earl Warren majority of being
guided by personal feelings ra-
Their than logic 1.-The louder the
denial the more evident it is
that emotion rather than rea-
son dictates the answer say
Messrs. Black ard Douglas.
HAS OUR GREAT SUPREME
COURT got itself hopelessly lost
and did the losing begin with
the desegregation decree which
so many ADLER lawyers CUES
ton? More specifically, did it
begin with the appointment of
Earl Warren, a gentleman of no
experience n d impregnated
with the moOrleSS attitudes of
California? Justice Black is
supposed to have been Earl War
rem mentor on the court, out
he has so much more sense
and foundation than Mr.. Warren
that real contact may have turn
ed out to be impossible or not
for long.
Justice Black has mornings.
All there are. He is moored to
the Constitution as whole, and
to civil rights and, what's more,
to states rights. When he breaks
away he knows from what he
is breaking. That means he may
be expected back when some
other case arises. But civil
rights are one of the things for
which he is supposed to care
enough to break away or "strain
the leeways of constitutional in
terpretation." It must puzzle his
pupil, the Chief Justice, to have
him turn strict about it in the
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