The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-19


In a time Of war, or cold war.
there is need Of central control in
many respects, true.
But there is need, also. of what
ever makes nation function best.
Ours does it in the decentralRed
ideal.
Centralisms that will work in
slave land like Russia won't in a
free and self-governlng land like
our own. it seems to me.
What keeps our vast land not
only lone and indivisible' in all its
parts but at peak in all parts in
respect for those parts And for
individuals.
We have spent 80 years forgetting
it in the name of emergency and
only now are beginning to remem-
ber
A RITTER EXAMPLE of the
harm Capitalization can do is the
demoralized state of public educa
ton in the South and elsewhere by
reason of the Supreme Courts I'M
comprehending interference from
afar.
In the audience were Clinton S
fighting Editor Wells, and Little
Rocks clobbered but carrying-o on ex-
Congressman Brooks Hays. now a
IVA director.
Mr.. Hays, top man always in
Baptist Councils, is writing a book
on The Baptist Way Of Life one
Of a series like the river series.
l never meet him without believing
in his sincerity and devotion. He
is very active in community life
here.
Youthful John j. Duncan. already
serving his second term as mayor
Of Knoxville, is a man with many
: miles to go.
r Florida wants South Caroline
p S e to return the bones O.
) Osceola, great Seminole chief who
died in 1888 while a prisoner a
Ft. Moultrie in the Palmetto State
Editor Henry Cauthen. in The CO
A lnmhia Record, endorses the ples
+. unqualifiedly.
But how does Editor Cauthen fee
t about the wish Of Stanton, Virginia
Woodrow Wilson'S birthplace. t
have the bed in which he was borl
0 returned to Staunton? 1t is how il
? the Wilson boyhood home in Co
lumbia. There has been talk tina
]. South Carolina will not consider re
4 leasing it until the sword of Wade
V Hampton, said to be held somewhert
e in Virginia. is returned to Columbia
Georgia has preserved its owl
2 culture headline over Tren
' Kuhn's column in The Florid
E Times Union recites. Just as l re
o joice at this news from my ma
S tive state whose culture 1 feare'
was being sold out by East Ten
nessee's Ralph McGill and compan,
for mess Of New York Potage
l read on in the story: "Th
GeOrgians, tall, dark, mustachet
men from the mountains and dark
slender Oriental-looking women. !
1t is Georgia in the Caucasus. tn
Russian Georgia! Comes the dawn
and my native state still threatened
its culture still fouled and despise,
by its adopted own.
cit Is Good To be treasures
! by those who do not go with tn
tide or change with the wind
who keep faith with the eternal,
writes Mrs. Allen j. Weaver, Q
Jacksonville. Fla. Southerners Q
: today who are taking this stand ar
no enemies Of the progress. The.
are friends of the only progress
> that progresses, the one that put
!. the temporal into relation with tn
! eternal"
, The important thing is to have
hurt. A sales tax for schools ant
Tor the ''sick poor. is. being votet
in in my country.
=. When combined with an incom
tax it is the best set-up for publi
; revenues, it seems to me. |
5 doesn't take as much from the poo
as from the rich in spite of thu
tall talk. The poor don't buy a
much or pay such prices. And Their,
is offset in the income tax which
: takes more both actually and rela
lively from the rich.
: A big advantage of sales tax
however, is that everybody pays j
and feels it.
Taxation without representation
is unjust but taxation without sen
sation is worse than unjust j
is creeping disease.
The one best hope of holding taxes
. down is that everybody feel the
burden. Demagogs who talk O.
soaking the rich" or making the
} big mules pay" don't really do it
Eventually all taxes are paid by
all of us, indirectly when not di
rectly.