The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-08-26
John Temple Graves

It doesn't hiss any more. Diese
locomotives of today pmr. The
gasoline engines of automobile.
and modern planes purr, too, anc
| the jets whistle. Travel by mis-
Sile will make still another sound
| and atomic-powered vehicles er
route to outer space may be like
the tree falling in a forest where
there's no one to hear, sound
less for want of mortal inter
| ceptor.
It's far cry from the clop
clop Of the shod horse, the ele
CANT tread of the medieva
camel, orAthe scraping sound 0
the primitive sledge.
And its tomorrow is magic I'm
told, adventure unlimited. Trans
portation Of men and things ha,
frontiers in infinity by way O.
all the Western stars. Every dec
ade brings revolution.
Our Southern Research Insti
tute, with imagination unlimited
will add one more to its nation
ally-attended conferences on to
day and tomorrow with a pro
gram on "TomorroW's Transpor-
tation' September 20 and 80
at the Dinkler-Tutwiler Hotel in
Birmingham. Names big not only
for being known buy for great
knoW-hoW are on this program
which begins properly with a
keynote by man Of steel, Big
Steel's Vice President E. E.
Ploughman.
There'll be water tranSporta-
ton for the coffee break, high
ways for lunch, air lines for the
evening banquet, pipe lines for
next days morning break, and
railroads for lunch with Chair
man James NJ. Symes of the
Pennsylvania.
Will these VIP's and their We
hicles be dated a few years
hence with "air cars" that ride
on a cushion of air without bene-
fit of wheels, rails or roads, by
mass-transit mono-rails, by ships
that skim the water on skis, by
pipe lines of orange juice and
milk, by aircraft that takes off
as instantly upward as bird?
Will tomorrow transportation
include that most intricate, deli
cately constructed, balanced and
operative Of all moving about
the foot? Or are feet destined
to innocuous desuetude and even
tual atrophy? In the name of
rugged individualism. self re-
lance and physical well : being,
surely steps will be taken to con-
tinue the taking of steps, to carry
the foot forward into the Space
Age. Surely the bicycle. the
skate and the shoe are not to
disappear from the face Of the
earth.
whatsoever things are true
honest Just pure
lovely of good report
think on these things Philip
plans w, 8
\
Walter Lippman finds such in
the Congo wv where others are
finding all the evils that came
out of Pandora s box.
OF the United Nations effort he
wrote recently: Among all that
is 50 sad and SO mean and SO
sour in world politics. it is heart
ening to think that something SO
good and pure in its purpose is
possible !"
It doesn't look like this now.
Another ugly quarrel over an
other immensely wealthy and
dangerously unorganized part of
the world - such as Mr.. Lipp-
mann himself, long ago in his
book, THE Stakes of Diplo-
macy named Number One
menace to peace, is being fought
with one eye on the good but an
other on the gold, on the I'm
eoualed mineral wealth of the
katanga. Tragic testimony is
offered again OF racial incompati-
Dnlty. and OF sentlmentallty and
exploitation IN dealing with it. A
new front for Communist aggres-
sion IS sohdifying, with both
Russia and China playing mill