The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-05-31

Wagging their tails behind
them y
II is the song of the caudal
South, the wagging
tail with which our "noderates
tell the world well come home
if given time and inattention.
That Confederate blanket "out
from under which" F'loridas
Gov. Collins is always saying we
must come, gets in his mod
crate way now, kick it off as
he may.
There's magic in it. or, say,
eternal truth, but not for him.
Just as the governor gets word
fl ON Chairman Butler that he
is tc keynote the national Demo
cratic convention, he gets other
word that his man for next gov
ernor of his state is beaten in
favor of a more identifiable
States Rights man.
WHAT A PITY that the most
hateful and impossible race
problem any people ever had
must interfere with all ambition,
all philosophy, all fate, in the
South Of this moment! And that
because Of it no Southerner who
is human and arplauded enough
to have national ambitions can
hope to hold this home base as
he serves those ambitions!
IT'S HARD TO SEE m u c h
future for Governor Collins in
spite of his fine presence.
philosophy and political set-up.
For even though North, East and
West may deem it moderate"
to take the Little 30 Peep at
titude on the race question, the
South does not and never will.
And the extraordinary thing at
this moment is that no Demo-
crat is going to win the Presi-
dency Including the Vice Presi-
dency and the cabinet without
support of the South. 1t can be
that no Republican is either. The
moderation" of Gov. Collins is
the some as Holding Carter's,
Ralph McGill's. Jonathan DAM
els, Harry Ashmore's. 1t says
Leave us alone and we'll come
home Wagging our tails be
hind US 1t dares to speak for
the South and promise - don t
push us and Wen come home
in time to the ways of integra-
ton, also centralism and social
ism"
GOV. COLLINS SAYS our
Southern danger is not recog-
nizing "the change taking place
all around us" That's only half
the speech, or one fourth.
We need not only to recog-
nize change but to take charge
The presumption that % we
are standing still while (2) the
rest of the country is changing
in the right direction is wrong
twice.
The directions of the rest OF
the country are not necessarily
right or all right. And, far from
standing still, this is the part
of the country most in motion
politically. economically, spirit
ually, socially. technologically
culturally.
WHAT A WHALE OF a diff
ference a small twist in Gov
Collins song would makel Wha,
a new day if he could believe
that change does indeed go or
everywhere and that his oWr
part of the country has
some magnificent contributions
to make to the change = anC
isn't helped when the nation is
told only that let alone we'll be
come like the rest of the coun
try, counterparts of Pittsburgh
patterns of Patterson, N. Y.
carbon copies of the Examinations
of Detroit, the Moons of New
York.
What a wave of and for the
future if this truly enlightened
Southern governor could be.
leve in the light around him as
well as that from affair. if he
could tell the world that many a
last word has not been spoken
yet in America 80 on race, labor
economies, polite religion
education, art. and much else
and that Florida and the South
propose to write some, not just
come home to them with a
caudal appendage Wagging.
1T is THE SEASON of point
ing with pride and viewing with
alarm, and will be until Novem-
Der. The ms point. The outs
view.
But at what a price some
times in names and values Of
noble institutions and fine men,
and now, perhaps, in the Sc