The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-05
By THOMAS J. WESLEY, JR.


us readily admit that this nation
owes both its independence and its
happiness to the principle OF self
determination That principle is
now in danger Of being suppressed
by blind zeal for Standardization
and enforced conformity"
In another part he says. when
doctrinaire liberalism. is applied to
societies. the choice is between re-
jecting it in favor of a natural re-
gime, or accepting it in the form
of an enforced Utopia sustained by
a police state
The foregoing quotations are. in
my opinion, an excellent epitome
OF the present-day world-sickness.
The symptoms of the disease are
discernible everywhere. Any and
all excluSiveness: fratefnities, ten
mis- clubs-even racial or cultural
self-identity or representation
are. by modern thinking eQuat-
ed with injustice. The fegalitarian
theorists of the French Revolution.
so long since repudiated as i'm
practical, have been resurrected
and sold to our jurists, our clergy
and our clustered academicians un-
der the styling Of Christian HUI
manitariansim.
BY some not inconsiderable feat
of casuist dexterity, it becomes un-
ethical lie. un-Christian to deny
the Negro children the benefits"
of going to school with the white
while at the same time. it is con-
sidered quite ethical christian to
deny the whites the same privilege
of selecting their associates. The
black child cannot. they tell us, be
denied the uplift which he tby the
contention of his friends) would
gain in associating with the white
but the white child is denied any
right OF protection from the de-
triments his parents contend he will
suffer.
Since equal no longer means
like" or comparable, or even
identical" but now means It h e
same and at the same time" the
Negro has. through the semantic
gyratiOns of the Socialists, secured
the cooperation of the law, the col
lege professor. the clergy. and the
bloc-vote-pandering politicians in
the most monumental achievement
of evolution-by-fiat the world has
ever seen. AS hass been the case
in all human attempts to contra
vene natural processes. chaos has
followed. Race is pitted against
race. servant against master, man
against his brother. Riots. crime
waves, acts of belligerence a. d
contrived effrontery occur with
ever greater Frequency.
Communist Plan
s, OF course, is precisely
what the Communists knew would
happen when, at their national con-
venion May 26. 1923. they announc-
ed the Inauguration of this program
which they have now virtually
c hieved through well-ordered
Fabian-Socialist court actions, with
out tossing one Bolshevik bomb
Well-intentioned people people
who should know better have
become innocent dupes in follow
ing such Understanding slogans as
Save Our Public Schools" and
Hope thus becoming adjuvants
to the processes of disharmony and
social disintegration which greatly
weaken and may finally achieve the
Communist-planned purpose of de-
stroying this nation He'll isn't the
only part of the country that is
paved with good intentions!
But to be more specific, what of
our schools? There are few, in
deed. in the South who do not readi-
ly agree that racially segregated
schools are preferable to forcibly
integrated schools. How, then, can
segregated schools be maintained?
To me the answer is obvious: by
presenting completely united front
of opposition
No real trouble has occurred any
where except where signs of weak
ness and willingness to compromise
have appeared South Carolina and
Mississippi are still untouched. Only
where there appears a Virgil Bios
som, a William Hartsfield. a Harry
Ashmore or a Ralph McGIl does
trouble start. If we categorically
VOW that we will never integrate
that We will close all public schools
rather than integrate--and t h e n
show that we mean it by making
necessary preparations in that di-
rection, little or no Indignation will
be attempted because the results
would, inevitably, work greater
hardships on the Negro than on
the white.
And suppose we do close our
public schools? What then? Why,
with their such-brief history, have
public schools suddenly become SO
sacred a COW?
Education Available
Up until approximately one hun
dred years ago public schools were
virtually unknown. Education. while
not quite so universal, was at least
more selective, and of much SUI
perior quality The available supply
of classrooms and teaching talent
was not, in these former days.
wasted in keeping relatively unedu-
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