The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-11
John Temple Groves
Railroads Essential To America

these would make comparatively
good time even if Is miles apart.
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America could never fight a
war without its railroads in high
order. It begins to seem that
America can't do its peacetirne
carrying jobs without such order,
either.
An optical Illusion that must be
obliterated before we begin to be-
gin is that of the public, the rail-
roads, the government and the
brotherhoods that there is mo-
nopoly situation to be dealt with.
On the contrary. in the course
of invention and human events,
railroads today are subject to
more competition, and more Of
that unfair, than stout-hearted
men can face indefinitely with
stout hearts.
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THE night Of long knives :"
Pity the railroads and a nation
deeply dependent on them! A
faint sign of spring is being
smeared for them by Jimmy
Hoffa as his Transfers Union de-
clares war on 'piggyback' - the
transportation Of new automo-
biles on special tri-level freight
cars which has been steadily
growing and has amounted to the
only bright spot in two years Of
general recession piled on many
times two of rail recession.
Is this good or bad? Ladies'
hats seem to have become edi-
fees again. They are no longer
mere indentations.
Ajax defying the lightning :"
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Billy Graham at Fort Lauder
dale preaching against sin in the
sand fell back upon that old
chestnut about having been a boy
once himself. He missed a great
cue.
The cue came when he asked
rhetorically what is the greatest
thing in the world and a would-be
callow youth yelled sex" DR..
Graham ignored the remark and
continued the conventionalities.
But, oh. if the tongue of men and
angels which he is supposed to
possess had been put then and
there to its noblest employment
yet! If only the sum total of elo-
quence. religion. youth and pulse
in him had responded with a
mighty Isl. sex!"
II only he could have let the
Would-be calloW youth and his
frustrated fellow and sister bac-
chanalians know how much they
miss, how truly sex is the great
est thing in the world. If only he
could have let them know all
that sex really is, the million
things more than Lauderdale s
sandpipers experience or re-
motely imagine.
Call it what 1t is - the ere
alive force of the universe :
and it's infinities of value, its all
of love, beauty, art, religion
poetry, enterprise, and throbbine
pulse appear.
For IS years Harper Lees "Tc
Kill a Mockingbird" has been or
the best-Seller lists of The New
York Times, Book Review and
other count-keepers. And this il
spite Of the fact that it is authen
tic. grained-in-the-Wood Southern
recognizable by any given South
erner. Time Magazine says it has
AL of the tactile brilliance anc
none of the precosity generally
supposed to be standard swamp
warfare issue for Southern writ
ers.' 1t this doesn't make much
sense. remember how embar
raised Time may be at having
10 speak we'll Of a genuine South
ern product.
There's a great yen in the
North and East to have it tina
only the old fogies and fuddy
duddies in the South really care
about race separations. Tha
simply isn't true, although there
are indeed many Southern younf
people who have been so pro