The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-29
John Temple Graves
Fundamentals Not Yet Lost

IA youth who bore mid snow
and ice
"A banner with a strange de-
vice
Excelsior
THE ASSOCIATED Press re-
ports that when Nelson Rookie
Teller expressed his liberia l
views before the party's plat
form committee he got mild ap-
plause but there was an ova-
ton for Senator Barry Gold
water of Arizona :" The APPS
Jack Bell, recalling that Gold
water, the conservative, won as
dramatic an upset victory in
1858 as did Rockefeller, the lib
eral, points their Numerically
opposing views: Rockefeller
plugged for an FEPC and en-
dorsenlent of lunch-counter sit
ms. Goldwater said that t n E
Constitution says nothing about
education or employment. I'm
less the Constitution is chang
ed he said, we can't enforce
school Indignation in the South.
It has to come under states
rights. And we can't tell a man
whom he has to hire l
agree with the Supreme Court
decision on School Indignation,
but l disagree that it is the law
of the land
ECHOES OF REPUBLICAN
Conservative Bob Taft! Echoes
Of Republican Liberal Bill
Borah! Barry GoldWater has
no place in the Presidential pic
ture but he is a man to watch.
Too conservative in some re-
spects, considerably to right of
Taft. he's nevertheless a man in
motion. an honest, brave, in
telligent one. He, no. Kennedy,
is the true frontiersman-if a
frontier is still something in
front, not the same old forever
land of handout long gathered
tradition" Of socialism and tax
spend-elect.
Barry Goldwater doesn't think
of politics as putting lot OF
pressure groups together to
make a majority. He thinks of
it as the fine art of the general
good.
Right or wrong, he is tn c
frOntiersman.
Kennedy and Rockefeller are
proposing only a quicker beat
along beaten path, more OF
the same, pushing frontiers out
ward to include more of identi-
cal terrains. Nixon and johnson
are more or less for holding
where we are and making il
work. equalizing advances al
ready made. being social-mind
ed in the sense of response.
bility to persuade or enable in.
dividuals to improve themselves
and prosper under their ow
steam.
But Senator Goldwater carries
the banner with the strange
device" Turning his back on
the socialist centralist tradi-
ton which has been accumulat-
ing for nine decades, disregard.
ing all its now vested interests
IN the economical, political and
philosophical set-up of America
he is border-bound. He is intent
on making the bounds Of liberty
responsibility. individuality and
human excellence broader vet
WILL THEY SAY OF Planet
Earth one day that it died of
post-aural humidity as it's older
men left the scene?
Or will they say it was killed
IN traffic on a six-lane highway
it mistook for a frontier?
FIDEL STRO IS Toe
young to know what he is do.
ing. So is Patrice Lumumba
A-year-old Congolese premier
They would destroy Planet
Earth if they had their way but
they don't seem to know or care
You wonder if Khrushchev. as
he contemplates these two nov
in full awareness Of what they
mean and as he walks in in
creaSing discomfort with tn {
monster, Mao, who would cal
it victory if he lost two hundred
million people because he woulc
still have four hundred - ISM
deeply troubled in his sleep
Education and long years ir
power have made the Russian
Revolution middle class, bour
geois, suburban, creature-com
fort-minded. They don't want t
die for Havana or Leopoldville
or even to have the whole world
THE are two of the coolies,
and toughest men in our public
life" Thus Raymond Moley in
Newsweek on Kennedy and Nix