The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-23
NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT


has promised not to invade either
Georgia or Cuba. let's hope Cuba
and her communist allies will be
like Georgia and not like Red
China. When Dean Acheson, the
last New Deal Democratic Secre-
tary of State, announced that Ko-
rea wasn't in our perimeter of
defense, the Chinese Reds, via
North Korean Reds. took it as
an invitation to help themselves.
A show of Southern hands on
whether vernon Vandiver
made a fine bargain and won a
great victory by giving shows
no hands.
The President said last sum-
mer that his strongest trait, per-
hapS. was his sense of history.
Certainly he has a sense of him
self acting roles of other men be-
fore him. Usually it is Franklin
Roosevelt, but last Sunday. in his
message to the stricken Cuban
mothers in Miami promising
them a dawn would come, it was
Winston Churc hill, speaking
French across the channel to the
beaten people of France in Oc-
tober, 1910: Good night, then:
sleep to gather strength for the
morning. For the morning will
come. Brightly will it shine on
the brave and true. kindly upon
all who suffer for the cause
glorious upon the tombs of he
roes. Thus will shine the dawn.
Vive la France!'
Except that eloquences from
Mr.. Kennedy, which stand naked
of achievement, grow too chilled
to resemble Churchill fire or
FDR flame.
"TOKENISM" is Raymond Mo-
ley's interesting word for the EN-
barrassing position of politicians
everywhere now who know no
other politics than promises of
welfare state handouts but have
run out of whereWithal and can
only go through the motion with
tokens. Mr.. Moley takes for eX-
ample the report in the April is
sue Of House and Home that the
Presidents plan to subsidize
100 900 housing units would cover
only two thirds of one per cent
of the need alleged by the Presi-
dent himself. But we the people
are given an impression of grea.
help on the way from the Ad-
ministration.
= :: +
Tokenism in the South, Of
course, means the hypocriticaI
but debatable business of letting
two or three reluctant Negroes
into a white school and calling il
Indignation. Some say it is a foo
in the door and dangerous. Others
of us, suSpecting that grea. mum
bers of politicians and perhaps
even the Supreme Court YEAR,
for way out of all this, wonder
THE HOPE OF MY CITY O
Birmingham is the fair. efficien
and tough police force and com
missioner we think we have. II
that belief we gave Bull Conner
his tremendous vote for re-elec
ton a few days ago. But the pc
lice were neither fair nor effici
ent and tough last Sunday. TX
say they went to the wrong sta
ton sounds either phony or inef
ficlent. since too many othel
people knew the right station, in
GLIDING the radio. the press ane
the attackers. The busy-body
NAACP Negroes from Washing
ton were looking for trouble, O
course. and they got more thar
they looked for. Let no one say
the incident proves anything
about Birmingham or was unpro
voked, however People are a.
human in one place as another
That's why we have policemen
in all places.
Our police commissioner ha.
shown a fine resolve to enforce
law and order against both white
and colored. The vote he has
just won was our way of saying
we approved. We believe he will
not falter now.
1--WE are going to keep our
rendezvous with destiny. both
on this planet and in the far
theSt reac les of outer
space
THUS MISTER SAM at the
Democratic rehabilitation dinner
in Birmingham Friday evening
Proving what a good old-fashion-
ed Democrat the Speaker is. Out
ermost space as we see it on
Planet Earth is not what it
seems. It is the way things were
thousands of years ago there, as
long ago as the rays of light we
see from it have had to travel at
1856 900 miles a second to be seen
on Planet Earth. What outermost
space is like in 1860 won't be
known until 206O or 5000 or some
such time. What seems far ahead
is really far behind.
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