The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-07


doesn't know the facts Of life. "
COMES MY ALWAYS sharp
sighted friend Editor Henry Cau-
then. Of The Columbia, S. c.,
State, with proper analogy for
Leftist Historian Arthur Schlesin-
gers theory that the welfare
state is the bast aniode to COM
mumism: 1T is like saying the
best protection against man.
eating shark is to become a man.
eating shark
"And make the worse appear
the better cause :"
FIRE. DOM OF SPEECH,
never more precious, is compli-
Gated by a medium like tele-
vision whose reach is boundless
but whose availability is thin. It
carries as far as the breeze can
bear but it has room for only
few carriers and often even they
must have their wordage cut.
The American Medical Associa-
ton has been engaged in a bitter
quarrel with CHS over a recent
program on socialized medicine
involving these very limitations
CHS is accused of cutting the
meat out of the ANA case.
For the purposes Of this docu-
mentary DR.. Leonard Larson,
President of the ANA, was inter-
viewed for five hours. When the
hour-long show was put on the air
the ANA position was given 4l2
minutes.
The real truth about the ANA
position the chairman of the
board of trustees has written
President Frank Stanton of CHS,
lies on some CHS cutting room
floor This CHS report was
designed to project the worst pos
sible image of those who see in
socialized medicine not just a
threat to the quality of medicine
but the loss Of individual free
doms as well The producer
Of the program selected the most
unrepresentative quotes from
ANA, twisted them out of context
and positioned them in a manner
most favorable to the cause of
friends of government medicine.
THE KEY WORD IN this is
selected" in good faith or bad,
there has to be selection in a
television presentation - selec-
ton of people and of things said.
That is why this column believes
that even with purest intent tele-
vision doesn't know how to be
fair.
The networks are not all preju-
dice and bile. They do have a
problem. The American Medical
Association charges may be true.
The bias" may have been de-
liberate. But cutting had to be
done. since five hours of inter
view were tapped and only one
hour was available for the whole
program. And wherever selection
involves controversy there are
sure to be charges of Partially.
1t is possible to be innocent
of the charges.
It is also possible to be guilty
as hell.
A third possibility is of being
too prejudiced to get a point, as
with those who simply can't be-
lieve Southern opposition to pub
lie school Indignation doesn't
mean benightedness and hate.
n
HITTING A MIGHTY NAIL on
the head, The Columbia Record
suggests to President Kennedy
and company that their yen tc
follow Franklin Roosevelt is not
| to be served merely by "doing
something" The fatal flaw-and
it could indeed be fatal-is what
The Record calls "the vast and
abiding difference between 1888
and 1861. Mr.. Kennedy cannot
just burn down something (and
say at least we got a fire started
anyhow The fire he starts could
burn down the world"
Happily, in spite of the Demo
cratic platform, no one seems to
agree more definitely with this
for the moment-than Mr.. Ken
needy.
THE SATURDAY REVIEWS
John Ciardi, who tells his public
Jim Crow is treason" may
count on the vote of The Com
munist) Daily Worker whose Will
liam Patterson told its public last
month that Jim Crow-ism is
subversive. Mr.. Landon B
Lane, of Altavis t. a. Virginia
points out the sweet harmony
Messrs. Ciardi and Patterson
could have added that the treason
is compounded by having existed
since the first day of the Repub
lie and before.
20 love, o fire. once he drew
With one long kiss her whole
soul through .....
Her lips as sunlight drinketh
dew !"
BROOKS ATKINSON SAYS
"When Bernard Shaw was IS he