The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-05-06

have him chairman Of the
NAACP board or founding father
if the campaign goes on long
enough. Naturally. as a politician
he does not propose to offend
the NAACP teven though he
dares come much nearer than
Humphrey. Kennedy and Com
pany). That is why, when op-
ponents drag in out of a clear
sky a positive statement that he
is "cardcarrying, dues-pay-
ing member of the NAACP, .
Mr.. Nixon has to grin and bear
it even though it isn't true. He
can't afford to repudiate t h e
NAACP any more than any
other candidate.
The truth seems to be that
many years ago-long before his
point Of view on this question
broadened sO-a little local in a
small California town made him
an honorary member That's all
there is to the story.
No card, no dues.
MEANWHILE, HE has dared
make such anti-NAACP state
ments as no Democratic candi-
date would come near. In Miami
last winter he said the voting
referee measure was 1.-The sort
of thing that should be left to
the states" When he broke a
Federal aid to education bill tie
in the Senate, he explained he
thought that, too, belonged to the
states.
The NAACP damned him both
times.
To identify him with the
NAACP now and leave Demo
cratic candidates out is lik e
having very black pot call a
comparatively W hi tie kettle
black.
MANY HEARTS IN and out
side his Episcopal church are
warmed by Bishop Charles c.
Carpenter, of Alabama ives, he
went to Princeton, whose pro
test against endorsement of the
sit-in demonstrations has been
refused by the church's National
Council. 1t has needed courage
and a very great conservation
to challenge fellow churchmer
like this on civil disobedience. 2
It may be that he is wrong anc
that we who agree with him are
wrong. but he has followed
where his honest Christian
thought took him and is entitled
to say as Martin Luther did
Itch kann NIGHT anders.
FROM THE UTHER N
point of view it is not bad news
that Nixon isn't going to win by
any landslide and may not even
be leading at all when the No
vember returns are in. Only in
such a set-up could Southern
Democrats Of the South swing a
balance to him and have him be-
holden not only for now but in
hope of four years from now,
even though, win or lose, the
longtime value of a South con-
spiciously shaken free in his
favor would stand.
ANOTHER Democratic ma
jority in Congress seems assur-
ed. The South as part Of that
but incompatible with
other parts, under a Democratic
President incompatible, too, and
dominating such a situation as
a Republican President couldn t,
would be a mere caudal ap-
pendage as SO often of old. But
a South situated as it is now.
controlling the Democratic
Party at home and in coalition
with the Republican minority in
Congress, controlling there, too,
with the additional advantage of
a grateful Republican President.
Woul1 be a South of maximum
power.
YOU WONDER AT certain
senators and congress
men, not for the loyalty"
stands dictated by personal po-
litical necessity, but for continu-
ing to believe the people of the
South are deceived by the talk
of losing Seniorities and chair
manshipS in Congress unless the
Democratic nominee is support
ed. Naturally these Young
Democrats of the University Of
Alabama are too educated to be-
lieve it but 50 are the rest Of
our people, l am convinced.
They know that the South hasn't
gone all out for a Democratic
candidate for President since
1874. yet no chairlnanships are
S t, no Senioritieg rcduC-
cd. They know plain arithmetic
which makes If 81 clear that a