The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-14


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Naughty American peers and
imperialists are not getting quite
the come-uppance from Khrush-
chev he expected. it seems.
"Khrushchev will meet his
master when he is confronted
with Lyndon B. Johnson" says
Congressman Victor Anfuso, OF
New York.
You can believe that is so, il
they ever meet.
Khrushchev encounters h S
master in another way when he
gutter brawls against Eisen-
hover. In Ike he meets George
Washington, a stone wall of
character and soldier dignity
blue sky Of frankness and open
ness, a public record like no
other living mans and, with it, a
charm and good will TO man that
makes him the most loved indi-
vidual on earth.
In Lyndon johnson he would
meet Franklin d. Roosevelt. He
would meet q Roosevelt with
benefit of all that's happened
since Roosevelt died.
The meeting Khrushchev odds
now, of course. are on Kennedy
or Nixon. Of these, it is some
what fearsome to imagine Nixon
faced in another kitchen with
Khrushchev.
To imagine Kennedy - is i'm
possible.
HOW THE TIME FLIES, De
ploring the South's unyielding
and unreasoning resistance to
desegregation," Publisher Mark
E h r i d e, of The Louisville
Courier-Journal says this feel
ing of being enbattled. this de-
termination to protect its ways
OF life, come hell or highwater,
hydrogen world or not, has led
the South into isolationism which
indeed is a manifestation Of re-
cent years.
How recent, Marx? Was it
just in courtesy to the local
yokels back in 1912 that you held
forth in Birmingham as a mem
Der of the Presidents Commit
tee on Fair Labor Practices, as
follows:
The Southern Negro cannot
afford to drive from his side. in
his march to a greater fulfill
ment OF his rights. the Southern
white men Of good will who have
been his chief asset and his
chief aid There is no power
in the world = not even in all
the mechanical armies of the
earth, Allied and Axis which
could now force the Southern
white people to the abandonment
Of the principle of social segre-
cation. 1t is a cruel disillusion-
ment, bearing the germs of strife
and perhaps tragedy. for any OF
their Negro leaders to tell them
that they can expect it, or that
they can exact it as the price
of their participation in the
The Mark Ethridge of 194l
spoke truly. He predicted strife
and tragedy. He did rot say
where he would be and with
whom he would be standing. but
we of Birmingham we're meant
to presume he meant US.
!; s
DEMOCRAST OF ALABAMA
were defeated last week by two
sets of politicians: ~ an aggre-
gate of Federal. state, Folsomite
and Negro politicians determined
upon Democratic loyalty by rea-
sons of sentiment and-Cr of pa
tronage and-or of long habit. and
~ some dominant States Rights
politicians who wouldn't believe
the straw ballots. reports, and
many other signs of these new
times and insisted on a campaign
of half-denial of their real hope
Nixon.
If States Rights leaders had
honestly proclaimed their pro
posed freedom as meaning free
dom all the way to Nixon if
need be, if they had realizd that
the people of Alabama unlike
the politicians of Alabama are
ready too for this freedom-t they
might not only have won a total
rather than partial victory
Tuesday but have carried the
victory to another coalitionist
set-up like the one of today
which is the only victory posi-
BILE for our outnumbered states.
States R g h S politicians
didn't dare the real issue: Loyal
list politicians took advantage of
the un-daring and were enabled
by that to fight it out on a basis
of the real issue without oppo-
sition.
"Oh. my aching baccalaureatel"
AUBURN, ALA. - Quoting
current pun. President Frank G.
Dickey, of the University of Ken
lucky, spoke effectively of the