The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-05

-Oi its five founders only aAe
was Negro ~ Communtst-sym-
pathizlrtg lawyer named W. E. B
DUBOIS whose record Of participa
ton in Communist. Communist
front and subversive organizations
and activities taken from the files
of the Committee on un-American
Activities Of the United States House
of Representatives requires eight
pages of single-spaced typewriter
copy to outline.
Among his more recent activi.
ties of this nature was the dona.
ton of his services in the prepare.
ton Of legal briefs defending since.
executed Communist spies Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg and the i'm.
prisoned leaders of the Communist
party Of the United States. In 1888
he was awarded the International
Peace Prize by the Communist
front World Peace, Council In recog-
milton Of his participation in the
sponsorship of the series of Com
munist-dominated World Peace Con.
ferences held since l949 in an at
tempt to undermine the Nor h
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Since Mr. Cook spoke the above
words Dubois was. in May 1859
awarded the $35 900 Lenin Prize
formerly known as the talin
Prize by the U S.S.R. for his work
toward 1.-THE maintenance and rein
forcement of peace" Verbatum
safe sapienti!
All of this has brought into focus
an interesting facet Of human ma
ture which. for want of better
name, might be called the Law
Of Spatial Daltonism. Simply stat
ed, it goes The degree Of racial
Daltonism color blindness, varies
directly with the square of the dis.
lance of one 'thnic group from
another :.
Gunnar Myrdal, for instance
comes from a country where I re-
Gently spent two weeks without see.
ing a single Negro citizen. Il die
see one NegroNan American tour.
ist.) Mr.. Hubert Humphrey halls
from state where the Negro popu
lation percentage is only fractional
The fact that New York represen
tatives and representatives of other
states with effectively articulate
minorities, vote consistently pro.
NegrO-ie.. anti-South - does moth
ing to invalidate this law.
On more local basis, the people
Of the Emory community or the
North Side of Atlanta are strong
advocates of Save Our Public
Schools. whereas the people OF
West End and southeast Atlanta
take somewhat DINNER view OF
this desideratun.
The susceptibility of some col
lege professors to this line is un-
derstandable when it is recognized
that their knowledge of the Negro
is principally based on sanguine
recollections OF acquaintances from
their graduate school days. or a
few handkerchief headed re-
tainers in their present places of
employment. 1t must be like the
p ople in Texas feel about the
MeXicans: the Californians, about
the Chinese; the former British
colonials, about the people of India
Tolerance is a cispadane virtue
II, looks better across the river and
in the trees.
AS for the clergy. it is perfectly
all right with me if they want to
be as humanitarian as he y
please on these matters. but if their
advocacy from their pulpits in
which they are. in the last analysis
the paid guest speakers becomes
sufficiently obnoxious to their list
enerS to cause a substantial de-
cine in attendance and gross re-
ceipts las it did in a Well-known
Columbus, Georgia. casel, tn e
clergyman mustn't be too surprised
when the church fathers arrange
fer his transfer to more favorable
cl.lneS.
So, | am what you might call
preJudiced, or unreconstructed -
or unbrainWashed, to put it in pres
ent-day idiom. But l still think pri-
vate schools within the economic