The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-21
"Watchman, what of the
night?"

Let the watchn1en be advised
that in course of the 1860 Presi-
Dental election We have come
now to the usual point.
That is the point at which
people call each other traitors.
You Traitor!" writes Flori-
dian, noting correctly a long
time and never-a altered intlina-
ton here to support Nixon if no
Democrats will do.
"You traitor!" telegraphs a
Mississippian. with good grounds
suspecting intent here to support
Lyndon johnson as the only
Democrat who would do, even
though not believing he II get far
or do perfectly
You traitor!" accuses a con
federate in the recent free
elector campaign avowing in
correctly that our candidates in
Alabama promised to vote for
some sympathetic Democrat if
| the national nominee Wouldn' t
do-even though knowing we'll
that what they did after long
debate over letting the freedom
include Nixon, and preferring
that by II to 9, was to say they
would favor" a Democrat. con-
spicuously thus not excluding
the possibility of Nixon (any
more than it excludes m e
Democrat like Johnson after de
feat at the convention.
IF 1T BE TREASON on nv
part and that Of many others it
has existed too long and been
too clearly made known all
along to get any exclamation
points. It is treason to the tune
of regular party line and a
program. 1t is treason in the
great company of the real ma
jority Of the people of the United
States-if the identifications are
made and added up. 1t is trea
son of Southern Democrats who
retain their totally unrelated
Democratic controls at home but
hold themselves free on national
levels. 1t is the treason of a
great Coalition that rules this
, land. and through which alone
he South can rule. disagreeing
IN some vital respects but join
| ed in a common basid philOso-
| ply and ruling by reason of the
majority they make when join
ed. 1t is the treason of men
with too much at stake to go in
for sentimentality and los
causes and to strike postures OF
loyalty to the little thing over
the large or the past over the
present.
ARE THE MILITARY not as
other men are?
Some of them feel that way
bout spending government
money. They snend it for some
thing so imperative that they
are entitled to feel their neeC
comes first, no matter what the
price. But Senator Douglas find
ings of wanton extravaganza
and giVe-aWay in disposal o.
certain goods touches on some
thing that can kill this republic
We talk Of cutting expenses
avoiding initiation, holding doWr
the cost Of living, but there's
hope of radical accomplishment
in these directions so long as
we are obliged to look upon the
forty billion spent for the arm
ed services each year as toe
sacred to be questioned. 1t is
indeed sacred, so sacred it needs
to be honored with questions
penny by penny, item by item
year by year. Nothing can be
stinted that is needed, but moth
ing can be spent that isn't.
It is the biggest single eco
nomic operation in the history
of the world. Surely it requires
the worlds most meiculous adj
ministrators.
GOV. ROCKEFELLER, on the
Meet the Press interview las
week, defined a Republican a.
differing from a Democrat today
in that the Republican is fol-
looking in the direction of in
dividualism, limited government
spending. But when he went OF
to the details Of his own pro
gram he sounded like the New
Deals most loquacious parrot II
governmentalism. President Eli
senhoWer and Vice Presiden
Nixon are guilty of the same in
consistency, but not Xix
Rocky"
The public needs to know
; about him, not about xon
Nixon has been in sight ant
sound for eight years. bu
Rockefeller is known largel.
from afar, as a wealthy AM
good looking "hi-ya -fella saying
New Yorker who wants to d.