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Evening star., 1961-05-23
RALPH McGILL

There is a new. important
book, titled Russia and the
West under Lenin and
Stain" The author Of it is
George Kennan, our new
Ambassador to the Tito court
in Belgrade. He and his book
are symbols of the inevitable
policy change which, If the
world is to be saved from
war, must develop out Of the
meetings between the Presi-
dent and Mr.. Khrushchev
and still other conferences
and councils of the future.
Neither this country nor
Russia can go on with things
as they now are-unless both
have made up their minds
that war is inevitable. The
not so slow rise of Red
Chinese power, a frightening
factor almost entirely over
looked by the average Amer
ican whose image of China
is still that of Chang Kai-
shek. is Of inescapable mean
ing to the Soviets. They must
either join it, or control it.
1t is not a criticism Of the
man to say that the late
John Foster Dulles proceed
ures and policies must be
drastically revised. and, in
some instances. abandoned.
They are no longer effective.
Indeed, their intended pot
ency never developed. They
were left behind by the swift
rise in Chinese power and
militancy, and by the tre-
Evening star., 1961-05-23
DAVID LAWRENCE
Riqhts and Indictment to Riot

cussed beforehand the events
leading up to the crisis on
Saturday, but this does not
justify Federal intervention
any more than it justifies
mob action. Unless the reg
ular processes Of the law are
permitted to take their
course, the whole thing Just
becomes an emotional spec
tacle with politics and the bid
for votes in the populous
Northern States playing its
part, both under a Demo-
cratic and a Republican ma
tional administration.
If, as Supreme Court deci-
Sions in the past have indi-
Gated, there is a right of any
citizen to travel through a
State or inside a State with
out color discrimination on
vehicles Of transportation, the
proper course for the ag-
grieved parties is to apply for
court orders. Long drawn out
as the cases might be, the
necessary court support
would be forthcoming and
arrests for contempt for
violating court orders would
follow as a routine procedure.
To say that "all this takes
too much time" and that
I'VE have waited long enough"
is exactly what the mobsters
used to argue passionately as
they prepared to lynch a
rapist. The cry was then
heard: Hes guilty anyhow,
why wait for the courts!"
Unfortunately, the Four
teenth Amendment, under
which equal protection Of
the law" has been fostered,
was itself ratified" at the
point Of the bayonet when.
three years after the Civil
War was over, the Southern
States were coerced-by mill
tiamen sitting in the State
legislatures-into "ratifying"
the amendment. The Consti-
tuition itself prescribes a
proper method Of ratification,
and the present generation is
suffering 100 years later the
consequences Of the disregard
Of the Constitution in the
period Immediately after the
civil War. The Supreme
Court has ruled on many
Fourteenth Amendment cases
but has consistently refused
to pass upon any case involv-
ing the legality Of the "ratifi-
cation" Of the Fourteenth
Amendment itself.
tcoPyriEht, 1851
Evening star., 1961-05-23
Ambassadors Book on Soviet and West
Louded for Lucidity and HeIpfuIness

mendous advance in Soviet
nuclear power. Mr.. Dulles,
himself, knew this had hap
pened to him and his labors.
This was why, just before
his death, he urged Mr..
Eisenhower that he use his
great personal prestige to try
to retrieve the situation.
Mr.. Kennan Is one Of our
most lucid thinkers. 1t Is q
Joy to read him because he
does think so we'll. He was the
very first Of our foreign Off
GERS to put down q proper
evaluation Of Russian COM
munism as 1t was developing
under Stain. He was then a
junior member Of the Mos
COW staff.
His thinking was a part Of
the Marshall Plan and Of
the Truman policy which
saved Greece. He left the
service during the years
when the excesses of the late
Joe Mccarthy paralyzed the
foreign office,
The Ambassador. who has
but recently arrived in Yugo-
slavia, has not written in
optimism. But he is not with
out hope. His major theme
is this:
Let us not repeat the
mistake Of believing that
either good or evil is total.
Let us beware, in the future,
Of wholly condemning an
entire people and wholly ex-
culpating others. Let us
Evening star., 1961-05-23
DORIS FLEESON

These are dark days for
President Kennedy, and a
sprinkling of gray in the
most famous head Of hair
in the world attests to the
aging aspects of heavy re-
Sponsibility.
The gray is still confined
to the back of his neck, and
it is less noticeable than 1t
would be if the Presidents
thick shock had been as
remarkable for its color as
for it's vibrant profusion. But
it's there.
The President remains
quiet, wryly humorous and
precise of mind amid the ap-
parently endless succession
of rabbit punches which
beset him from at home and
abroad. He does not COM
plain or invite sympathy and
he does not apologize for the
mistakes that have been
made.
He still suggests in private
a certain personal contri-
ton, a feeling that he should
have done better. But dis
cussion of past errors and
assignment of blame are as
absent in private as in pub
lie.
This is in substance q re-
port on the President today
in his private dealings with
other powerful Americans,
many Of them practical po-
liticians. This group runs a
kind Of Dow Jones ticker all
their own on the President
Of the United States and al
ways has.
The average they strike
off is rarely aired in any
public way and becomes a
part Of the public dialogue
mostly by indirection. But it
Evening star., 1961-05-23

There is a constitutional
right to free speech. but - as
the Supreme Court has said
there is no right falsely to
cry "Fire!" in a crowded
theater.
There is a constitutional
right to demonstrate. but not
a right to provoke or incite
people to riot.
There is a constitutional
right to assemble in a hall to
espouSe any cause, but not a,
right to organize a "Sit-in"
demonstration for the express
purpose of using private
property-against the wishes
of the owners - to stir up
passions and create incidents
Of disorder.
For decades now the Ameri-
can people have been de-
nouncing lynch" rule and
mob action, and the cry has
been for adherence to consti-
tutional law and the orderly
procedures of the courts.
But what happened in Ala
bar1a over the week end re-
vealS clearly that Indictment
to riot is the fundamental
cause of the trouble. Mayor
Robert Wagner of New York.
not many months ago, rightly
refused to give a permit to a
rabble-rouser who wanted to
defend the Nazi point of view
at meetings in the heart of
the metropolis, where the
bulk of the population was
bound to resent such state
mentS and perhaps be stimu-
lated to mob action.
It was all very we'll for
civic groups later to argue
that a permit should have
been granted by the mayor
and that the champion Of
Nazi doctrines had a right to
free speech. but the mayor
knew what the consequences
would be and acted wisely.
Alabama's Attorney General
has just told the same rabble-
rouser to keep out of the
State.
Today the Federal Govern
ment under the Kennedy
administration has made the
same mistake at Montgomery
as did the Eisenhower ad-
ninistration at Little Rock.
Both refused to let local
authorities deal with the situ-
tioh. The more than 400
Evening star., 1961-05-23
Journey of Freedom Riders in Alabama
Viewed as Violation of Constitution

Federal arshals fully
armed, who we're modified in
Montgomery last Sunday
were, as Senator Dirksen Of
Illinois says, hardly different
from Federal troops.
There are, of course, plenty
of legalisms involved. At
Little Rock the Governor of
Arkansas ordered out the
National Guard to prevent
mob violence around the
school. But the Federal Gov
ernment construed this as an
impeachment to the enforce
ment of a Federal court order
on desegregation Of public
schools.
In Alabama a court order
issued by an Alabama State
Judge had called on the So
called freedom riders" to
abstain from their demon
strationS on buses which had
been advertised in advance
and we're certain to stir up
trouble. Notwithstanding the
existence of this State court
order, the Federal Govern
ment intervened with Federal
marshals, claiming that "law
and order" had broken down.
Indeed, an 1871 Federal
statute was cited by the
United States Department of
Justice as authority for the
step, though this law specifi-
cally refers to Federal inter-
vention only where there is
"insurrection" or domestic
violence" due to a refusal or
inability of a State to grant
protection. 1t can hardly be
said that the action Of a mob,
even though some negligence
is temporarily displayed by
local police, constitutes such
an "insurrection" in a consti-
tutional sense. On the con-
trary, the Governor Of Ala
bama recognized the right Of
the bus to engage in inter-
state travel and the right Of
passengers on the bus to be
protected. Just how this gets
to be "insurrection" is hard
to understand. Neither the
Governor nor the legislature
requested the Federal inter-
vention as the Constitution
prescribes must be done when
domestic violence" develops
beyond the States control.
1t Is true that the United
States Attorney General and
the Governor of Alabama dis
Evening star., 1961-05-23
RALPH McGILL
Kennun Writes on Russia

remember that great moral
issues. in which civilization
is going to stand or fall, cut
across all military and ide-
illogical borders, across
peoples, classes, and regimes
across, in fact, the make
up Of the human individual
himself. No other people, as
q whole, is entirely our
enemy. No people at all
not even ourselves-is entirely
our friend"
Mr.. Kennan believes the
First World War to have been
the greatest catastrophe Of
Western civilization in the
present century. He reminds
us of something generally
forEotten-namely. that an
effort was made TO negotiate
a peace in the autumn of
1917. 1t had a chance to sue
ceed, but the Allied Powers
were then committed to a
policy Of German. war guilt
and to the belief that the in
terests Of Britain and France
could best be served by q
complete military victory.
Mr.. Kennan argues, and
documents his argument de-
vastatingly, that the Western
powers have misunderstood
both the uses and effects Of
modern war and that this has
produced the decline of the
past 40 years.
He holds that the effort to
urge the Bolsheviks into re-
newing the war against Ger
many was a grievous error.
The Anglo-American invasion
Of Russian soil further COM
pounded 1t. He disposes
Evening star., 1961-05-23

sharply Of the many Russian
propaganda charges Still
made about this Inflated ex-
pedition. The Allied invasion
was a minor, futile plan and
was utterly lacking in any
desire to overthrow the So
viets for theological reasons.
He also sets down as tragic
the refusal to have Russia
and Germany seated at Ver-
sailles, and our incredible
failure adequately to support
the Weimar republic. 1t is a
helpful book. which, if dis
quieting, is not wholly so.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27
Guy McCraw, IS,
Rites Thursday

DILLWYN, Jan. 26-Guy Nc
Craw, IS, a Buckingham county
farmer died Of a heart attack
Tueaday afternoon enroute to
the hospital. He had been hunt
ing and suffered heart pains
while alone, he managed to get
home and was being taken to
the hopital after calling doc
tor.
He was born in Buckingham
county, February 2. 1895, a son
of the late Tom and Anna Car
ter McCraw:
He is survived by his wife
Mrs. Pearl Hudgins McCraw
one son. Dancy B. McCraw. of
Dillwyn. four daughters, Mrs.
Frank Ownby and Mrs. Newell
Ownby, both of Dillwyn, Mrs.
Walter Simpson. of Cumber-
land. and Mrs. H. Nelson Lump
kin of Scottsville. There are
eleven grandchildren
Funeral services were held at
2 pm. Thursday from Cedar
Baptist Church Buckingham
county, with burial in the church
cemetery.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27
Hospital News
There were 81 hospital patients
Monday morning.

There were 81 hospital patients
Monday morning.
Patients Admitted
Mrs. 10y L. Lenhart. Chase
City; Miss Alere Higgins, Farm
vile; Mrs. Genevieve Holiday.
FarmVille; Mrs. Ruth Beasley.
Dillwyn; Judson Covington, Pros
pect; E. c. DoWdy, Rice: Mrs.
Monte Walker, Victoria: Miss
Margaret Elan, Dillwyn; w. c.
Canada, Farmville; Claude Stay
tor, Farmville: David McGrady,
CreWe, Mrs. Ernest Jennings.
Burkeyille. and A. B. Cassada,
CreWe.
Births
Mr.. and Mrs. Harper Pridgen,
Farmville, girl. Jan. Is.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Wallace.
brakes Branch. girl. Jan. 25.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Cook,
Bmkeville. boy. Jan. 26.
COlOred Patients
Hattie Townsend. Keysville
and Elizabeth Lyle. Meherin.
COl0red Birth
Franklin and Marylene West,
Farmville. boy, Jan. 25.
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ceive five annual reductions Of
one percentage point each. This
would bring the combined nor.
NAL and surtax) rate down from
- to AZ per cent.
For depreciation purposes. the
maximum required time for writ
ing off new property would be re-
duced about rs per cent over the
five year period
The theory Of the bill explained
by its authors is to produce In
centive capital to build more
businesses and provide new jobs.
A highly placed Latin Ameri-
can Desk official in the State
Department has tied in the break
off Of the United States with
Cuba with negotiations between
the Eisenhower Administration
and the Kennedy Administration.
Il think this whole business Of
breaking off diplomatic relations
with Cuba. was worked out in ad-
vance with Sen. George Smathers
of Florida. Adolph A. Berle. Jr..
Of New York. Dean Rusk the
Kennedy nominee for Secretary
Of State) and Mr. Kennedy" the
official said.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27
Funeral Rites For
Mrs. r. f. Pettus
Thursday, 3 PM.

KEYSVILLE. Jan. DC Mrs.
Gladys Hester Pettus. 81, died
Wednesday at her home at Keys
vile. She was a former presi-
dent OF Alice Kyle District, Vir-
ginia Federation of Wolnen's
Clubs.
A funeral service will be held
at 3 pm. Thursday at Ash Camp
Baptist Church where she was a
member and church organist for
the past 80 years. Interment will
be in the church cemetery.
Surviving are, her husband.
Richard E. Pettus: her mother,
Mrs. Charles w" Hester of Chase
City; and five sisters. Mrs.
Charles M. Booth of oxford, N.
c., Mrs. Ralph F.. Willis and
Mrs. Thomas c. Humphreys,
both of Clarksville, and Mrs.
Herbert Best and Mrs. E. Walk
er Stevens. both of Warsaw
N. c.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27
By Edward H. Sims
and JamisOn Cain

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Jan. %
Legislation providing for re-
form Of corporate and personal
income taxes has been introduced
in the House by member OF
the powerful House Ways and
Means Committee.
The bill. Jointly introduced by
Rep. sgd Herlong OF the House
Ways and Means Committee
representing Florida, and Rep.
Howard Baker. OF Tennessee,
urges a reform of the present tax
system by changing the punitive
character Of the system to "a de-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27
Hospital Auxiliary Work Commended

The Auxiliary Of SOuthside
Community Hospital was com
mended for its work in 1860 dur
ing the annual meeting Of the
hospital association. Tuesday eve
ring.
W. Earl Willis. administrator.
said. The hospital auxiliary
under the capable leadership of
Mrs. Fred Hamburg. Jr.. did
much to increase patient morale
and add to the comfort of nurses
in the nurses home. An active
and interested auxiliary can be
one Of the greatest assets to q
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27
H-SC Building
Continued from page


oldest college. 1t will be financed
in part by contributions made in
the Hampden Sydney Fund
campaign.
The existing section Of the
library building will be convert
ed into two large dining rooms,
capable of handling 600 students.
On the main floor of the addition
will be housed a banquet room.
kitchen, refrigeration and stor-
age facilities.
The basement level of the en-
tire building will be a recre-
ational area. On the second floor
OF the addition will be quarters
for the several school organiza-
tons, such as student publca-
tons, etc.
Two small dining rooms will
be housed in the present rare
book and micrOfilm rooms at
the front of the building. Be-
meath them where the offices
are now located will be two
small lounge rooms.
Floor Space Doubled
When complete, the building
floor space will be increased
from 10000 square feet to q 900,
more than doubled.
Space in Venable Hall, the
freshman dormitory, where din
ing facilities are now located
will be partially devoted to
dormitory space. The exact use
of the total area has not been
determined.
Additional dormitory space
will also be available in Graham
Hall with the removal Of stu
dent publications and other or
carnations into the student &C
tivities building.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27

hospital. especially small hos
pital. Their efforts are appreci-
ated by everyone. and we earn
estly solicit their continued inter
est In the hospital
In Mrs. Hanbury's report. she
said. In the Nurses Home.
which Is one Of our continuing
projects. we added two nylon
plastic s,lntan cots and a circular
metal coffee table with nylon
cover. These are to be used on
the porch Two hassocks in the
living room were reuph0lStered
and furnished with new nylon
covers. A metal dinette set with
plastic table top and plastic
chair backs was purchased for
the Kite hen in the Nurses
Home
In the Patients Solalium pill
lows have been mended and
magazines have been furnished, -"
she continued.
Mrs. Hamburg said. For the
cafeteria wall decoration of
carved wood was purchased. also
metal utility cart with an cleo
trio outlet. An automatic electric
percOlatOr and a lace tablecloth
were given to the cafeteria. The
Irving unit made gift of num-
Der of yards of material to the
cafeteria to be used in making
chair covers.
The Barnett Unit provided II
metal bed stools for the patients
in the East Wing and a number
of metal cabinets. This unit also
provided an air conditioner for
the East Wing. At Christmas,
oranges. apples and Christmas
cards were distributed to every
patient on the East Wing by the
Barnett Unit. This unit also furn-
ishes hostesses for the East Wing
every Sunday f I DON and
night. to regulate the flow of visi-
tors so that the patients rooms
will not be overcrowded." Mrs,
Hamburg said.
The auxiliary in 1850 spon-
sored the nursing prevlew course.
Last summer there were %
graduates. The auxiliary con-
tributed 5000 to this course. After
the graduation exercises, the
Anderson White Unit gave a
lovely reception for the gradu-
ates, their families and friends"
she reported.
THE ellis Unit has provided
toys throughout the year for the
children's ward, and on some &C.
casions have provided suitable
reading material. the report
said.
Mrs. DeMuth. our grounds
committee chairman, has iudici-
ously pruned, cutting out dead
material. She has beautified the
court between the hospital wings
with a planting Of magnolia and
azaleas. Her plan now is to re-
place the deciduouS shrubs in the
foundation planting with ever
green shrubs and to plant the
deciduous shrubs elsewhere. The
parking lot and the banks sur
rounding it have had a lot of at
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27
Bill introduced In House Which
Would Gradually Lower Tax Rates

liberate incentive system
The Herlong-Baker bill sug.
gests four steps to accomplish
this end.
1t would
|. Gradually ease the Individual
and corporate income tax rates.
2. Introduce more realistic
depreciation rules.
3. Defer taxes for individuals on
long term capital gains which are
reiEvested.
4. Reduce tax rates on estates
and gifts.
The gradual reduction in in
come taxes proposes a five-year
program which could be stretch
ed to nine years, if necessary.
During this period. the first tax
bracket rate would be brought
down from 20 to IS per cent.
The top individual rate would
be reduced from 81 per cent to
AZ per cent.
Corporate tax rates would re-
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News Summary
Continued from page II

Continued from gage II
munities will have to be re-
vised. He made the comment
shortly after a federal Judge in
Now York City ruled the board
had deliberately created and
maintained a racially segrega-
ted grammar school. He order
ed the board to devise plans to
desegregate the 81 per cent
Negro Lincoln School not later
than the 1961-62 school year.
Most Northern communities re-
quire pupils to attend the school
located in the district in which
they live.
Ell SALVADOR was taken
over Wednesday by a three-man
army junta which says it wants
to curb the left-Wing excuses of
TIE old regime. The old regime
was likewise instituted by an
army junta which seized power
last October
A FIRE aboard the U. S. air
craft carrier Saratoga early this
week killed seven creWmen and
injured IS others. The ship was
cruising in the Mediterranean
and has put into Athens, Greece,
for repairs. The skipper, Capt.
Roger w. Mehle Of Cincinnati,
told reporters Tuesday that the
IS bombers on board had not
been put out Of action by the
fire which was blamed on a rup-
tured oil line.
kT. REV. ROBERT F. Glib
SON. 81. was installed Wednes-
day as the 10th bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese on Virginia
in Truro Church in Fairfax. Bis
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27
Funeral Rites For
J. d. Yeats, 70
Friday, 2 PM.

BURKEVILLE. Jan. 26 = Jo-
self Damon Yeats. 78. died
Wednesday at his home near
Burkeville.
Surviving are three sons, w.
r. Yeats. Sr. of Crewe. D. M.
Yeats of Burkeville and j. P.
Yeats of Gainesville. Fla; four
daughters. Mrs. J. C. Nav and
Mrs. j. NJ. Furqueron. both of
Burkeville. Mrs. S. L. Kelly Of
Crewe and Mrs. Geneva Clai-
borne of Richmond; four broth
ers. Edward, Abraham. Taylor
and Greenwood; a sister, Mrs.
Henry Rowlett; 20 grandchil-
dren. and 20 great-grandchil-
dren.
A funeral service will be held
at 2 pm. Friday at the c. L.
Jennings and Son Funeral Home,
Crewe, with burial in Trinity
Memorial Gardens, Rice.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27
Church Study
Course Planned

SCOTTSVILLE, Jan. &c The
church study course Of the Scots
Vile Baptist Church will meet
for a third session in the church
annex Monday. January 30. at
: pm
John Williamson will be the
teacher in this course which will
be Studies in First Corinthians.
Rev. John P. Elliott. Jr., pas
tor Of the Scottsville Baptist
Churches, will teach the same
course on First Corinthians at An
tioch Baptist Church. Wednes-
day, February /, at 7:30 pm.
and Fluvanna Baptist Church
Thursday, February 2. at 7:3O
n m
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27
Dark Tobacco
iContlnned from PAGE

continued IRON page l
ISOLATION. Edwin P. Lancaster,
manager of the Dark Tobacco
Sales Cooperative Marvin 1nge,
Jr., Blackstone warehousemen.
and farm organization represen-
tatives.
The Agriculture Department is
conducting its annual acreage
hearings for the 1861 allotmerts
for all tobaccos except bright
leaf, which was set earlier.
Monday, spokesman for hurley
tobacco growers requested a 10
per cent increase for 1861.
Brand new Secretary of Agri-
culture Orville L. Freeman must
set allotments for dark tobacco
by February |.
Report Errs
Making the hold-the-line re-
quest for Kentucky Tennessee
growers were Kentucky Con-
gresham Frank Stubblefield and
William H. hatcher and Senator
John Sherman Cooper
First press accounts from
Washington indicated that Con-
gresham Abbitt had sided with
the Kentucky Tennessee delega-
ton, but this was in error.
T. B. Hall said today, 1--WE
made strong appeal. The facts
favor our position. and Congress
man Abbitt pushed hard for our
view"
Bright tobacco allotments, set
earlier, will be substantially the
same as the past year.