The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-09-23

be broken this year = and will
the winds be Russia's doing,
brewed on the back side of the
moon and loosened to accent
Khrushchev's United Nations dra-
mates? Before ever they could
give the name of Ethel to one
gathering in the Atlantic last
week on the spiked heels of
Donna. new one claimed it in
the Gulf.
The alphabet may be strained.
Those parents who named their
newborn daughter Xantippe so
she wouldn't be a hurricane
never realized. Or perhaps they
thought Xantippe too difficult
name for meteorological uses.
Or perhaps they thought that
once the alphabetical vicinities
were reached the tendency to
skip to Zsa Zsa would be irrsis-
tible.
WHEN YOU TRY to total the
blood, tyranny. ideologies, his
tories, menaces and dreams the
Island of Manhattan is to include
this week you think of Arranged
don, final battle between good
and evil. There II be enough good
and enough evil to stage the
battle, all right, but no finalities.
Russia doesn't want them and
we can't get them.
| Pax Atomic = the Peace of
Atomic AWfulness - will still be
the policeman. The finality of
atomic war is something only
China seems willing to face. Her
brutal adding machine tells her
she would have a few million
left, she and no one else. How to
persuade her that she wouldn't or
that even so it wouldn't be worth
while?
NOW WE ARE BEING TOLD
that mankind can survive an all
out nuclear war, after all - if
people will stop being fatalistic
and build some shelters. You can
imagine such talk bringing on
such a war.
And how many of us would
want to survive an about nuclear
war? How many would feel that
the world left was anything
worth living in or making a life
in?
He that is without sin among
you. let him first cast a
stone '' - John 81. Southern
local television stations are being
urged to carry an hour long pro
gram on racial prejudice outside
the South entitled Cast the First
Stone" But before going about
!. for this program it should be
noted that it seems, from the
name, to be another of those
findings that the South's awful
"sin' Of segregation exists else
where, too. The presumption that
segregation is a sin goes with the
program. And most of us sub
scribe to no such presumption.
We feel that some forms of seq
regation are not only necessary
but most advance the most col
ored people.
"They shall fold their tents like
the Arabs
And silently steal away ;"
NOT LIKE ARABS ALONE
but as all people anywhere who
stand upon the awful brink and
know a step can take them to
atomic perdition, the Russians
have folded in the Congo.
Once again the hell beyond that
brink has been approached and
we have turned back. Pax Atomi-
ca, the Peace of Atomic Awful
ness, is not like the one of which
the Christmas angels sing, but
it's peace.
Or rather it is non-war.
Friends and foes of the United
Nations will note not only that
here is its most effective piece
OF work yet but that it has been
achieved not so much by auth
ority as by appearance in pub
llc." Because Of the United Ma
tons there has been a place to
tell all, report all, let the opinion
Of all materialize and make it.
self felt.
THE CONGO INCIDENT-or
epic doesn't prove the United
Nations is policeman or a sub
stitute for sovereignty. It could
never police Rus STA against
America. or vice versa. But it
proves the organization s worth
while for what Taft and many
other unbelievers in it's police
manship priced it, as place
with a table, place of public
notice and knowing, of facing and
being faced, of world family.
Last night, ah yesternight, l
dreamed that Khrushchev asked
for asylum. But the night before