The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-07


HOW NATURAL = and ridicu-
lous to have the book of
Pasternak Of his life as he
dies - reviewed in news stories
which speak Of him as " prod
uct Of pre-l9l7, not a poet of to-
day"
He was more Of today than any
who write of him like this. He
was of a today and tomorrow
to which the world is swinging
now after half a century of NOV
ing in one direction and deeming
it modern - the direction of
socialism, centralism and ma
terialiSm.
Pcstmark was a product of
pre-l9l7,' yes, and of pre-18l7
and pre-l0l7 and the cycle of
time gone and to come.
Those who would identify his
lndividualism with Queen Vic
toria s times are permitted to do
SO only if they identify him, too.
with Medaris, Einstein ard Ed
ward Teller, it seems to me. He
was born at a time when life
was what it is just now coming
to be again. Perpetual New
Dealers who speak of him as
"pre-l9l7' think of life as a
straight line. not a cycle. They
see 1t as constant direction.
ceaseless more and more of the
same thing. But these straight
liners get lost at last on a pale
tangent Life is circular. an up
ward spiral. swinging from one
accent and emphasis to another,
then back again, and rung
higher each round. And in the
center always that core of eter-
nal truth, that heart Of love.
that mystery. wonder and dimen-
sion of glory which make mys-
tics and artists of men like
Pasternak.
REMEMBER ON THIS DAY
that awaits such Southern next
steps, dear friends and Southern
Democrats, the six weapons Of
the South
IL The Constitution of the
United States Impaired but OBJ
erativel.
~ The Two-thirds Rule fatu-
ously thrown away.
90 The Filibuster fg care d
down but still going).
AZ Seniority impaired only by
some of the seniors themselves
t5l The Electoral College a
Fifty-one Per Cent Rule that can
more than replace the Two
thirds if rightly rather than SEN
timentally used.
g. Coalition (the most power
ful, natural and operative wea-
pom Of all. controlling Congress
for l6 years now. making of
Southern Democrats plus Re-
publicans the country major
minority and often majority.
NOW AS IN 1913 you can be
told the free elector movement
IS a politician S, not the people S.
But this column has good reason
to know that the beginnings in
l948 were grass roots as have
been subsequent ones. In Janu-
airy of that year, weeks before
any politician except Fielding
Wright in Mississippi had taken
up the civil rights issue strongly.
! gave my whole space. under a
Dallas dateline, to call for a
Southern Conference. Some of
the papers carrying the column
ran it in special display that day
with editorial comment. The Co
lumbIa, S. c., Record carried it
IN box on the front page.
And e ters and messages
which poured in thereafter from
people of all walks and ways
throughout the South spelled out
grass roots and deep.
For the first time since the
Democratic Party came back to
power in 1898" this column
pointed out, it needs the South
Only a little defaulting next
November would cost the party
the Presidency This is a
Wltching hour to take the bold
step, seize the national balance
OF power e. What is called for
is the political genius that once
lived here, the genius to say to
both parties that the Souths vote
is a precious thing. that it's point
OF view is as entitled to consid-
GRAFTON as any other minority
groups, and that its support will
be given to the nominee Of what
ever party shows this considera-
OUT OF MUCH EXPERT
ENCE with South-wide Confer
ring" l warned then = as now
that the movement must not be
~ thing Of Klu KluWers,
bigots and foolish knights, ~
thing sponsored by wealthy out
side organizations seeking to ride
Southern coattails for causes of
their own, or 49, a pointless tea
party of blind reactionaries, des-
tined to loneliness alone.
Is this where we came in?