The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-04-01

advertises to all the world IF
the world were allowed to hear
that our colored people are the
most privileged and Well-heeled
on earth.
IT is GOOD TO HAVE South
Africa called to attention now
for the bloody rioting. oppression
and total underprivilege there.
It should remind all concerned
that in our country the Negro
is object Of everybody's solici-
tude. the Supreme Courts, the
Congress, the White Houses,
and, when left alone with him,
the whites of the South.
And that even wnen he threat
ems the peace of his country
with such wanton behavior as
sit-down aggressions and dem
onstrations, he is treated as if
he were the aggressed against
rather than the aggressor.
WHEN YOU THINK III a
some of our colored people, even
with their unlimitedly fair and
enlightened country in a cold
war that can become hot, are
willing to tear law and order
to pieces and threaten bloody
disorder in the very face of the
enemy-you do wonder about the
qualifications not only for vot-
ing but for living anywhere but
in Africa No other colored
people on earth are so well off,
and yet they are willing to de-
stroy their very country at the
call of organized professional
agitators who are bringing us
nearer to national bloodshed
than we have been since h e
War between the States. Only
an alien and communist leader
ship could turn our colored
people into this.
THE SIT-DOWN MOVEMENT
has been a failure" well-says
Editor Karl Elebash, Jr., Of The
Tuscaloosa Graphic, because
Of the calm, level-headed ap-
proach of Southern law enforce
ment officers, public officials
and white citizens who have re-
fused to be swept into the vio-
lence SO desperately desired by
the professional agitators. We
pray that calmness and order
illness will prevail until the sit
down movement collapses of it's
own irresponsibility and incendi-
airy origin
He thinks the failure has
shown the nation how badly the
Negroes ARE being misled by
the Kings, Reuthers, ETC."
HERE'S HOPING, TOO, that
the attempt and failure have
given both Negroes and the ma
ton a sense Of something "too
full for sound or foam" - the
unlimited passion and power be-
hind this calm police control in
the South. Widely circulated re-
Gently was picture from Selma
Alabama, Of long row of
mounted special deputies, four
abreast, riding briefly and
quietly though the city. 1t was
in no sense a march of ter
ror.' " wrote The Selma Times
Journal, "or a yelled warning
to anybody. 1t rather was a
practice maneuver by a highly
organized group of sound and
constructive citizens who are
dedicated to advancement of the
best interests of all our citizens.
To them protection of abused
Negroes will be just as import
ant as safeguarding the interests
OF white people. There will be
no tolerance of any function on
their part but enforcement Of
law under direction of duly
elected law enforcement Of
These measures are more in
dicated for some communities
than for others, but they should
be noted everywhere.
if AGITATORS INSIST on
troublemaking as a part of their
scheme, if they seek return to
Reconstruction terror, or if, in
stupid inSensibility. they bring
such a thing on, there will be
no Ku Kluxing of Sound or
foam now, no vigilantes, no
foolish knights venting sadistic
lunacies-but this force tn t
moving. seems asleep" Of
authority in allegiance, this vast
arnyin-waiting. this legion Of
the law, of the sovereignty Of
oIlt states, the majesty of each
of our communities.
IT'S OUTRAGEOUS med
ding" famed Ralph Nicholson $