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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-24

lItical division sharper than in
Hollywood, with elders on the
side Of constitutional government.
middln-ageds on the other, and
youth an unknown x as else
where. Paying tribute to the late
Ward Bond. leading man of tele-
Visions Wagon Train as a
patriot. constitutionalist and dedi
Gated champion of Americanism.
Editor Ida Darden, of The South
ern Conservative, lists a few
others of his ilk in the entertain
ment business. 1t is notable that
they are all old-timers jean
cite Mcdonald, Joe E. Brown.
Leo Garlic. Charles Coburn. Mae
West, John Wayne, Lawrence
Welk, Robert Taylor, Adolphe
Menjou. Corinne Griffith, Roy
Rogers, Dale Evans, Ginger
Rogers, Robert Montgomery, J.
Carroll Naish, Loretta Young and
Gloria Swanson.
On the other side, the middle
aged New Dealers and socialists
whom Pegler calls the Rat
Pack" include Frank Sinatra.
Dean Martin, Peter Lawford.
Sammy Davis, etc. They think
they speak for youth but they are
too old, and beatnik, and Holly
woody. There's a youth they've
never met.
AN ELEMENT OF THE South
ern case against forced integra-
ton is that our people feel strong
| ly against it. AS both Eisenhower
and Nixon have said time and
again, the race problem will
never be settled by law. It's
settlement depends on the hearts
of men, on their acceptance of the
law. Without condoning or pro-
posing violence of any sort at
the University of Georgia or else
sWhere, we should take care not
to give our people the idea that
there is anything either morally
or legally wrong in demonstra-
tons. in assemblies this side of
law-breaking. Indeed, it is highly
important that we be noisy and
numerous about it. That is one
of the proofs of our case.
University of Georgia students
are not called on to "act like
ladies and gentlemen" just now,
as their dean begs them to do.
You can be peaceable in this in
tolerable situation without being
a Little Lord Fauntleroy. You
can assemble against an AFRO
giant and usurping federal court
without looking pretty for CHS OF
/ throwing rocks for them either.
You can resent an unconscionable
sin against the South without
either shooting anybody or say
ing Sir
You can give the devil his due
without giving him d party.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-24
TUESDAY, JANUARY "a, 1861
Reopening Public Schools

IN a feature story by Allan Jones
published Sunday in the Richmond
Times Dispatch the statement is made:
Several lawyers interested in Virginias
school segregation litigation believe Prince Ed
ward county could put up a better defense
against its most recent court attack if it
would reopen public schools
The article suggests that the reopen
ed public schools would be attended by
Negro students alone, and the Prince
Edward School Foundation would con-
tinue to operate private schools for the
white children who wished to attend
them.
We do not know. of course, who the
Several lawyers" are or how much they
know about the legal implications of the
suit filed by the NAACP against Prince
Edward. 1t would be our guess that they
were talking off the cuff and had made
no real legal study We would hope this
to be the case at any rate II is inconceiv-
able that any lawyer would suggest
that the heart of the litigation be ad-
mitted in any court case.
The fundamental legal question
raised by the NAACP stated simply,
is: Can federal court Ga judicial body)
order the board of supervisors of Prince
Edward county Ca legislative body) to
assess taxes from the people Of Prince
Edward to pay for integrated public
schools? This is exactly what the people
<f D,.,, L Il Nd I, ;c+o
tended that they would not do This
question is fundamentally constitu-
tional question. And it should be dis
cussed on that basis in the courts. The
legal points encompassed have never
been passed upon by any court, state
or federal. To be sure federal courts
have forced the State of Georgia to adj
nit students to the University, and have
issued some high-handed orders in
Louisiana. In each of these cases the
Legislatures had appropriated funds
for the operation Of public schools The
same thing happened in Virginia in
1859, when Norfolk, was forced into
integrated schools overnight by court
orders.
Prince Edward County has gone out
of the public school system and the
legislature has set up scholarship funds
without discrimination for any child in
Virginia who wishes to attend a nom
sectarian private school or a public
school in or outside the place of re-
sidence. Prince Edward has likewise
adopted ordinances to provide educa-
tional opportunities for all children in
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-24

Why the EDITORS Job is a headache
Professor Ernest Brennecke, of Co.
lumbia University, is credited with the
discovery of sentence that can be made
to have eight different meanings by
placing the word only in all possible
positions in the sentence: | hit him
in the eye yesterday" -Coronet.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-24
John Temple Graves
John Temple Graves
The Torch Passes

Land where my fathers died.
Land of the pilgrims pride :"
AS the torch passes, let us
pray!
PRAY THAT THE YOUNG
man will keep the faith and
know what it is. Pray that the
diurnal sun, the stars in their
courses, the perpetual forgive
ness and return of grass, the re-
incarnations that come to every
winter death will remind the
Young man in all his glory.
genius and FrOntiering that there
are principles which do not die,
principles of frontiering. things
true today which were true when
the cave men carved their his
tories in stone and will go on be-
ing true until Gabriel blows his
horn.
LET US SWEAR WITH him
that as the world shakes it will
never shatter by reason of any
lack in our country, any failure
OF the courage and leadership
and will to hold fast, or of the
readiness to grow in directions of
our nature and known law.
The Genius and the mortal in
strumentS
Are then in council ;"
TO BE THE MORTAL instru-
ment of enormous fate is to be a
great man. BY that token Dwight
David Eisenhower has been a
very great man.
He was instrument Of the vast
assembly, diplomacy and discip-
line that destroyed Adolph Hit
Ter. And when history lengthens
enough for distance glasses he
will be seen, l believe, as instru-
ment of worlds runaway
from death on its lowest common
denomination, from dialectical
materialism in socialist, com
munist, fascist, or Perpetual
New Dealing form.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER's two
terms may come to be divided
into the part before the depar-
ture of Sherman Adams and
death of John Foster Dulles-and
the part after when he took com
mand. # the command has in
volved fewer special and general
orders, that is the nature of the
times and the man and the ex-
chequer of orders already on
hand. Liberals will deny it was
a good thing and ultra conserva-
tives will deny that he did it ~
but he may go into history as
the President who turned his
country's face in right directions
after years Of wrong ones or ones
going wrong because directors
wouldn't stop directing.
That makes him savior of
his country. ...
He is also, as he goes out of
office, the most loved man on
earth. Within the twelve months
passed he has been indoliZed and
adored by the whole people of
his plant. There has been moth
ing like it in history. How good
that the end of his public life
finds him bright-eyed enought to
appreciate the plaudits and look
forward with zest to live more
private!
In the Bible the particular
blessing for the pure of heart
was that they should see God.
Ike has an appointment.
NOWHERE. 1T SEEMS, is DO
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-24

cent is a facet Of total war,
whatever the time and place
And the NAACP is engaged in
total war by open admission
= against all forms of segrega-
ton. ....
The one form under chief as
sault at the moment is that which
affords Southern whites the
right to send their children to
schools with their own kind.
Consequently, the N ACP
shrewdly makes pawns of the
children, whether black or white.
Neither these. children nor
their mothers are proper parties
to this right. For the racial i'm
plications of this partic ular
struggle are secondary to the
constitutional considerations.
THE CLASH IS between SOW
ereignties - state and federal
rather than between individuals
or races. The question is not
when. or where. or if integra-
ton Of the schools shall be ac-
conplished - but, rather who
shall make the decision.
BY a rare and inexcusable per-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-24
Feels White
Citizens Insulted

Editor Farmville Herald
In the January 10. 1861 issue Of
the Richmond Times dispatch.
read the following letter.
Persuasive ArQument
For Segregation
When one compares the be-
havior Of the two races in the
current Indignation crisis. one
is forced to the conclusion that
the defenders Of segregation
are overlooking their most per-
suasive argument: The whites
are not yet fit to go to school
with the Negroes.
Marvin W. Schlegel.
Farmville.
When I read this letter, I felt
it was an insult to the white citi-
zens of our state. 1t set me to
wondering as to who was respon-
sible for having a man who would
write and have published such a
letter, teaching in one of oul
state colleges.
Whoever is responsible. should
hang their heads in shame and il
the president of the college in
which he is now teaching, contin.
ues to keep him on the faculty, he
too, should hang his head il
shame.
Do the tax payers of Virginia
want their money to be used tc
pay the salary of a man who
would write and have published
such a letter as the one 1 quote
above?
I, for one, DO NOT.
L. D. Whitaker
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-24
About the Author

w. D. Workman, of Columbia,
S. c., political writer, news
paper columnist and author,
covers the Capitol in South Car
DINA for several newspapers.
His is author of The Case for
the South, one of the outstand-
ing books of the year.
This column appeared in the
Charleston, S. c., News and Cour-
Ter.
Mr.. Workman puts his finger
on the points for which the South
stands. Louisiana is fighting, and
The Herald editor has often
tried to explain.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Freedom Rides Held Unnecessary
In Liqht of Recent Ruling by ICC

to cover seating in buses and
terminal facilities similar to
those previously issued for
railways and rail-terminal
facilities. Why didn't the
Department of Justice advise
the Negro organizations in
the beginning not to start
Freedom Rides but to give
the law a chance to function?
There are rumorS that the
demonstrations were actually
undertaken with the knowl-
edge, if not the advice, Of the
Department of Justice. This
needs to be cleared up. For
there is a suspicion growing
that the Department of JUS
tice is acting as a partisan
of political causes and is
playing politics with the
whole problem OF oeSegrega-
ton.
Thus, it is not explained
why President K ennedy
waited until the last moment
in the current Congress to
send to the Senate the nomi-
nation of Thurgood Marshall,
general counsel for the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
to be a United States appellate
Judge in the Second Circuit.
Knowing that the nomination
would stir up a Senate in
quiry to determine whether
the appointment was a po-
litical one and whether some
other Negro lawyer without
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Ford Co. Offers JAW
Plan Like GIN Pact

plan, employees would receive
at least 65 per cent of their
straight time rate for each hour
less than 40 in week in which
they we're scheduled to work
less than 40 hours.
Maximum weekly benefits
under the supplemental un-
employment benefit program
would be increased form $50
to $40 and maximum duration
would be extended from 80
weeks to So weeks.
The company would grant up
to $3.50 to employees trans
ferred from one company plant
to another.
Ford has IS union bargaining
units. OF these, II made no
separate demands, 19 others
have been settled and 54 re-
main to be negotiated.
The GIN package includes:
l. A national economic agree
ment covering wages and
fringe benefits; 2. A national
non-economic pact establishing
uniform rest period and the
like, and 3. At-the-plant work
rules.
1t was local strikes over the
latter that knocked out the
ALTERNATING giant for almost
two weeks.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

or man-like beast, apparently
fashioned simple stone tools,
perhaps to work something like
/ e a t her. But this creature
apparently was unskilled at
hunting, lived on tortoises and
catfish caught by hand, and
perhaps occasionally swung a
club at bigger game.
On the other hand, the skull
of the Chellean man suggests
a huge and powerful type with
a massive brow. DR.. Leakey be-
lieves he was a superb hunter,
capturing giant animals with
a bola-an entangling weapon
made of weights connected by
thongs.
He also probably liked color,
as evidenced by the discovery
of Jumps of red ocher.
A second article in the Ma
tional Geographic explains how
zinjantropus was dated as the
oldest man-like creature, in
radioactivity tests at the Uni
verSity of California.
DR.. Leakey and his wife,
Mary, have been working at
the Olduvai Gorge for many
years. He has credited a grant
last year by the National Geo.
graphic Society's Committee for
Research and Exploration, with
speeding up their work.
I'm a single period of 13
months" DR.. Leakey said, with
the enlarged staff made pos
sible by the grant, we put in
$4,000 man hours of excava-
tions-more than twice what
Mary and I were able to do in
the previous 80 years"
Evening star., 1961-09-25

DETROIT, Sept. 25 (AP) -
The Ford Motor Co. made the
United Auto Workers Union a
new economic offer today
roughly paralleling a proposal
accepted by the union from
General Motors Corp.
The company said the offer
was contingent on the peace
full conclusion of new agree
ments within the next two
weeks and ratification within
mutually agreed upon time
thereafter"
Meanwhile, current agree
ments, which originally expired
at midnight August 81, would
remain in effect.
Today'S proposal calls for a
continuation of the annual i'm
provement factor and a cost of
living allowance, for full cost
of hospital medical insurance,
improved pensions, and the
new short work-week proposal
which was included in the Gen
eral Motors agreement.
The offer came as UAW
President Walter Reuther and
top union aides moved to the
Ford negotiating scene follow
ing a wrapup of contract talks
at General Motors.
Mr.. Reuther entered the
Ford talks today bolstered with
strike authorization against
the No. 2 automaker.
The UAW International FIX
ecutive Board last night Or
dered GIN workers back On the
job and granted the unions S
Ford department permission to
strike if necessary.
Ford'S proposal was made by
Malcolm L. Denise, vice preSi-
dent in charge of labor rela-
tionS of Ford.
Mr.. Denise, in presenting the
revised economic offer, said he
believes his company and the
union can reach agreement
within the next two weeks
without strikes either national
or local.
Under the short work week
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Deseqreqotion and Politics

such political connections and
controversial b a ckground
could have been nominated,
the President held up sending
the nomination to the Senate
so that there would be no
time for any inquiry at all
at the present session of Con-
greSS. Indeed. there now will
be a recess appointment
which will permit the new
appointee-who has had no
experience on the bench-to
occupy a high judicial post
and draw a $25, 5,000-a-year
salary.
This is a defiance of custo-
mary procedures. Again and
again members of Congress
have criticized the idea of
giving recess appointments to
Federal judges. For what is
to be thought of the rulings
of such a judge made during
the recess if his nomination
next year fails to be con-
firmed? There are signs that
both parties are playing poll
tics in an effort to win the
support of Negro voters.
There seems to be a throw
back to reconstruction days
when the slogan was might
makes right" The Fourteenth
Amendment itself, on which
the whole issue of equal
rights" is based today, was
declared ratified" in 1868
three years after the war be-
tween the States was over
by precisely such illegal meth
DDS, in disregard of the re-
quirementS of the Constitu-
ton.
Copyright, 196D
Evening star., 1961-09-25
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Congress agrees to establish a disarmament agency
First thing need is youth divson-to dsarm the switch
blade knife set.
Kennedy stop taking long weekends at Cape Cod-and
start taking them in Palm Beach.
The Peace Corps is off to modest start abroad Not
enough to start war-and too to be by natives
Comforting thought: Don't worry Only crazy person
would dropping Hbombs all the place And you
don't think there people in the world do you
The United Nations split secretary general
Our side would settle for neurast secretary but Russia
holding out for a Communist general
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Extremists Seen Aiding Khrushchev;
Leaders Urged to Stoy Calm in Crises

A m erican people within
themselves.
Thus it will be the greatest
of pities and the most fan
tastic of national errors if
by our own words and &C
tions we promote for him his
prime purpose of putting
people and political parties
in this country at each
others throats.
Let US, for Heavens sake
and also for our own sake,
stop acting as though those
nice old ladies, male and fe-
male, who want only ne
gotiation" at any price really
have the power to sell us out
to appeasement. They don't,
not for a moment.
And let us, for Heavens
sake and also for our own
sake, quit acting as though
those bluff characters who
demand an atomic ultimatum
to Mr.. Khrushchev by sun
down really have the capacity
to hustle us into an unthink-
ing nuclear war. They don't,
not for a moment.
We have no reason what
ever to fear either kind of
extremism. The responsible
leaders in both parties have
in fact for months demon
strated a great capacity for
sound, calm and responsible
conduct in the face of the
most frigidly menacing blasts
yet to blow from the cold war.
AT the moment, however,
and in spite of the fact that
we all surely ought to know
by now that every time of
trouble always brings out the
lunatic fringeS, the outlook
for continued calm reason is
becoming a bit beclouded.
There are those who be-
lieve the President should
declare in advance precisely
when and how and where he
would use atomic weapons
against the Russians in
various eventualities. They
have a right to this view.
But they have no right to
suggest that those who think
otherwise are soft on COM
muniSm-" those disSenters
often being, ironically, some
of the most decorated and
conservative officers in the
American military services.
Those who think that the
Berlin crisis (and all others
Evening star., 1961-09-25
S. WHITE

There are small but unmis-
taxable signs that a familiar
American reaction to pro-
longed periods of interna-
tional strain, name-calling
among ourselves, is about to
set in.
If it sets in generally, it
will be one of the most hand
some gifts we could hand to
Nikita Khrushchev and the
Soviet Union.
For the first and most
basic of all Mr.. KhruShchev's
objectives has never been so
clearly manifested as now.
1t is the objective of division.
He tries to divide the Western
allies over Berlin, the United
Nations within itself and the
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Let's Stop the Nome-Co oIIing

should be approached solely
with glad hymns to "negotia-
ton" and glad offers of same
also have a right to that
view, extraordinarily silly
though 1t is. But they do not
have the right to suggest that
those who think otherwise,
and would like to mix a little
power and determination in
with the negotiations, are
reactionarieS and war
mongerS.
This kind of enfevered non-
sense, and the enfevered non-
sense of those who believe you
avoid war by shouting tough"
slogans, will do nobody but
Premier Khrushchev any
good.
And. unhappily, much the
same spirit is now being shown
by a few emotionalists in both
political parties, A small but
increasingly eager Democratic
ultra-liberal handful is priv
ately pressuring President
Kennedy to get tough with
the Republicans" time,
anywhere, for any reason.
And a Republican ultra
conservative handful is priv
ately preSSuring the party
leaders to get tough with the
DemocratS-also any time,
any where for any reason.
Meanwhile. perhaps the
most authentic anti-Commu-
mist in the United States, J.
Edgar Hoover of the FBI, has
just done a notable service
in the present atmosphere.
He has warned the public
that indiscriminate denounc-
ing as Communists of those
we don't agree with helps
the Communists by diffusing
the forces of their opponents"
There is one other thing he
might very usefully do. He
might also justly point out
that the indiscriminate la
beling of other people as more
or less Fascist war-mongers
isn't too helpful either. What
we need in this dangerous
period is a great deal Of crea-
ative tolerance among our
selves.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

A million years or so made
quite a difference in the devel-
opment of mankind, DR.. L. S. B.
Leakey, the noted British an
thropologist, says in the october
issue of National Geographic
Magazine.
DR.. Leakey's subjects are the
recently announced discoveries
Of fosSilized remains of the Its
million-year -old Zinjanthropus
and the Chellean Man. who was
a relatively recent specimen
of 400, 900 years ago.
Both finds were made in the
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Fossils Reveal Gains
In Mans Development

fossil-rich Olduvai Gorge of
Tanganyika, in East Africa,
With Zinjanthropus also was
found a child whose crushed
skull indicated the possibility it
was murdered.
Zinianthropus, whether man
Evening star., 1961-09-20

rumors, Maryland is not sold
out Of tickets for Syracuse
October D and Penn Sta tie
November A..
SO
Not only did The Citadel re-
ceive an unpleasant surprise in
that 400 loss to Memphis State
last week, but it lost Halfback
Tommy Edwards for six or
eight weeks with a fractured
ankle. He was the teams lead
ing rusher last year with a
6.1-yard average.
Yale unbeated Ivy League
champion last year. also loses
an important player. The Ellis,
who graduated all except one
player Capt. and Guard Paul
Bursiek) from their starting
eleven, now find they won't
have the other guard. Billy Kay,
who started the Harvard game
last year, the only soph to do
so. He dislocated an elbow
early this week and may miss
the whole season. '
Z 4
Penn, due for a return to
Ivy League prominence lit
skidded from first to sixth last
year, is practicing in the
mornings now instead of aft
ernoons. Dawn practices are
not uncommon early in the fall
when coaches try to beat the
heat. but once school starts
they mostly work in the after
moons. But Coach John Steig-
man finds that so many of his
Penn athletes have late after
Evening star., 1961-09-20
GW'sCaptain
Joins GROWING
Injury LIST

Capt. Steve Bartnicki today
was added to George Washing
ton Uniyersity's growing list OF
sick and injured football play
ers.
Bartnicki, veteran 217-pound
tackle. is in bed with the flu
and probably will miss Satur-
day nights game against The
Citadel at Charleston. s. C.
Coach Jim Camp also re-
ceived another jolt last night
when he learned that Guard
Morris Sutter, a sophomore,
will be out for the rest of the
season because Of a knee injury.
Walt Ligenza, who played
center last year but has beer
switched to guard, also is out
with a leg injury. Center Len
GunSior is still suffering from
a sprained ankle and will miss
Saturdays game. He also was
Sidelined in last weeks opener
against Florida State.
The loss of Bartnicki would
leave a gaping hole in the Co
lonials' line. The two-yeaI
letterman from Shenandoah
Pa, is a steady performer and
one of the Colonials' top candi-
dates for All-Southern Confer
ence honors.
Sutter, 5-foot-S and zoo
pounds, was injured in a pre-
season scrimmage. Other CIV
casualties are Guard Gary
Scollick and Tackle Cliff Botyos
both with bad knees, and Backs
Bill Pashe, Tony Fredicine ano
Charley Reed all have charley
horses.