The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07
Il would resign

ONCE AT A BANKERS BAN
Quet in Kentucky l asked fthenl
President of the University, what
he would do if he found over half
his his liberal arts faculty
were socialists.
After thinking about it, he said,
Il would resign"
But that was no sufficient an
sWer. Not for times like these.
University and school officials
can't leave a thing like this to
blind chance. 1t is part of their
job, in my opinion, to see that
socialism does not predominant
on their faculties.
ALTHOUGH THIS COLUMN
was the first to criticize the Ala
bama Education Association S
choice of the Saturday Review S
John Ciardi C"Jim Grow Is
Treason for its convention pro
gram, regretted the withdrawal
under pressure and praised our
Unitarians for dating him later
on. Comes now a reader, who
thinks as | do on most matters,
strongly disagreeing with me for
, disappearing the withdrawal of
the invitation once given.
He thinks we newspaper people
are so anti-censorship it amounts
to virus.
Would be agree in praise Of the
Unitarians for giving Mr.. Ciardi
a forum, l wonder? think pro-
lntegratiOniStS have a right to be
heard in the South in the name of
free speech. and that we have a
right to damn them in the same
right. But l continue to make a
distinction between free speech
and so-called academic liberty.
nv Soiiobltutloil Days IlObilliiG
about academic liberty.
There is certainly no academic
liberty to put anything a teacher
pleases into the mind of stu
dent They face each other not
as equals and free agents but the
one as having knowledge and
authority, the other as come TO
receive it. To say we must not
interfere with the teacher. once
he is there, is one thing. But it
is quite another to say we are
duty-bOund to select teachers
without regard to their attitudes
on the issues which today constl-
tute a Verltable Battle of the
World between Americanism and
the Observation-Disclosures ZIONIST
Including oneWorld-iSmj phiioSo-
ply.
1t would be folly to leave to
mere change the matter of
whether our young people are
taught the one philosophy or the
other. That is why in the Ciardi
case my first question was who
had invited him and what degree
OF devotion to leftism like this
teachers. since there is notori-
ouSly a lot of it among our col
lege professors.
How beautiful upon the noun
tainS
Arc the feet of him that bring
eth good tidings.
That publisheth peace. "
BISHOP PIKE, of California,
whose passions are sometimes
known as Pike S pique" and
whose early career as a business
man, attorney and Securities Elk
change Commission bureaucrat.
have kept him of the world
worldly. is troubling himself
and his fellow chTchmen over
the literal truth or untruth Of
Biblical stories, especially the
miracles.
If those whom he diSturbs i'll
Gods peace could project them
selves a hundred or so years
from now. dear hearts. / think
they would smile at the nature
Of things we mortals gave our
selves ulcers aud nervous break
downs about in the mid TWenti-
eth Century
1t is as though the Bishop were
engaged III some earth-Sha king
campaign against Santa Claus
long after Santa S existence had
been proved and Virginia told.
Against his liberalism and can
tankerOslticS the Bishop should
be told of by angles in heaven
we shall know as VIC arc
known
Nevermore to walk alone.
In the dawnlng Of the morning
of that bright and happy day
We shall know each other better
When the mist, have rolled
away
What an unhappy time for
Bishop Pike Easter must be. Yet
it ranks ever higher in Christian
meanings.
IN HOW MANY OTHER things
will people hundred years from
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