The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-12-23
1.-The laws Of nature and Of
natures God -

A GENTLEMAN unWaveringly
clear on this somewhat dim In
terposition Doctrine, it would
seem. is Frank Voelker. Jr.,
chairman of Louisiana's State
Sovereignty Commission.
Our Irterposition was not ad-
dressed to the Supreme Court
he said when asked for COM
ment on the courts rejection,
and it was even presumptuous
for the court to pass on it,"
All that's left out of that state
ment is "but might makes right"
\
ONE WHO SHOULD approve
Columnist w. D. Workmans ad-
vocacy of submitting Federal
control of schools to a consti-
tutional amendment is Editor
James Jackson Fitzpatrick, of The
Richmond News-Leader, for he
originated it..
Or rather he pointed out that
it was part Of the original Inter-
position Doctrine Of Jefferson and
Madison which he has brilliantly
eSpoused.
Note that it was the anti-Inter-
positionists, not the 1nterposition-
lists. who were to be required to
get a constitutional amendment
passed to which the Interpo-
sitionists would submit. There's
a world Of difference between
getting your way by an amend
ment and having an amendment
needed to keep you from getting
your way. Interpositionists. likely
always to be in a national mi
nority. could never hope to pas
an amendment which would re
quire two-thirds of the Congress
and three-fourths of the states
But could an amendment b
passed against them - agains
the South in this instance? Yo'
wouldn't think so if you travele,
this country as have done sine
the decree.
If one were passed, however
would it really be respected by
a South whose whole position il
this matter is that neither popu-
lar majority nor Constitution pro
vision can rule on a matter con-
corning no-man's land? Do
majority of the people have any
more control than a majority of
the Supreme Court in this situa-
ton? The Southern position on
race control of schools by states
has never depended on national
votes.
SUBMITTING THE INTEGRA-
TION controversy to a vote of
the people sounds reasonable to
some only because it is so wholly
unlikely. Be sure that if passage
of such a constitutional amend
ment were imminent the South
would still be absolute against
racial migration in the intimate,
domestic. immature circumstance
OF the public school masses of
the two races.
ADVERTISEMENTS IN maya
zines are pretty wonderful these
days, but on the irritation list
Notwithstanding goes the maya
zine in which advertising matter
is made up to look so much like
general reading matter, or vice
versa, that you can't tell what's
what. You seem to be in a cata-
logue.
VANITY, VANITY, ALL is
vanity" sayeth the preacher. |
Many women, young and older, |
who can't be dissuaded from ex-
cesSive smoking by cancer talk |
or from excessive drinking Of |
the moral and mental ravages, |
are halted by noting in a day.
light mirror what these things |
never fail to do to even the most |
beautiful teeth. how the Excess
sive alcohol inflames gums be- J
yond any hope Of hiding, how the
constant smoking gives teeth a
sort Of secondhand hue. brush
them how they will.
Il 4 i:
WILL THE AMAZING political
emergence of the South in the
last twelve months remain?
Twelve months ago Nixon had
not yet decided the South was
possible enough for his big effort.
Kennedy was talking Of winning
without the South. Yet Monday
the South held the election in its
hands. To lose this something
more than it has ever had by
operating in terms of the impos-
sible would make ours a lost
cause whose loss this time was
due to our own folly and pride.
Coalition is the only word for
these states.
A BLUE RIBBON to the Rome.
Ca. News-Tribune for the best
expression yet of the loyalty we
owe the PreSident-to-be and the
subservience we don't. "Mr. Ken
nedy has been charged with an
aWeSome responsibilities keep
this country strong. secure and
free in a chaotic and unpredic-
table world. But neither he nor
9nVOnp else haC hoor dirortoI ~,