The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-02

DEOPLE in the South are becoming
incensed by the invasion Of few
radicals on the freedom rides" for the
purpose of breaking state laws and
bestirring racial troubles. Attorney Cen
eral Robert Kennedy appears to have
given his blessings to the freedom
riders" and added the questionable pow
er of his office by ordering the Inter-
state Commerce Commission to force
disappearing companies into breaking
state laws. The latest was his order to
the ICC to notify all bus operators to
desist from enforcing state laws re-
quiring separate racial facilities, under
threat of losing their ICC license to
operate.
People in the South are law abiding,
reasonable, patient, and considerable.
They are not people who will be push
ed around. When a group of outsiders
deliberately foment trouble with the
blessing if not the insistence of the
Justice Department, they should expect
resistance AS much as we detest vio-
lence of any sort especially racial vio-
lence, hooliganism on one side brings
it out on the other side. 1t would APP
pear to us that the Department of
Justice has as much obligation to pro-
tect one group of people as another.
When known agtators set out to cause
trouble, police are obligated to isolate
the cause to protect the general public.
Just such tactics as have been seen
in the South have been used by the Com
munists, when the Russian nation of 200
million people were taken over by a
small body Of dedicated communists.
Movements of this kind set into
International
president Kennedy left Wednes-
day for France to confer with Presi-
dent DeGaulle before going to Vienna
for talks with Russian Premier Khrush-
chew, and finally to England to consult
Prime Minister Macmillan All of the
talks are to be INFORMAL, get acquaint-
ed conferences with no decisions to be
made, according to publicity FROM
Washington. The older world leaders
and politicians will become personally
and intimately acquainted with the
young vigorous president of the United
States.
Personal diplomacy has become the
vogue of the era, but in the past the
United States has made very little pro-
gress in finding international solutions
through personal diplomacy. Mr.. Eisen-
hover, world known leader, travelled
more than any other United States
president. His popularity was shown by
the huge crowds which met him in
many nations of Western Europe and
the Middle East. What was gained in
goodwill by these visits was counter
acted by communist riots in Japan,
leading to recall of his invitation,
Khrushchevs undip!omatic perform
ance at the summit meeting, and his
subsequent unethical behavior at the
United Nations meeting in New York.
Built-In
AN automobile designed specifically
to safety was recently unveiled by
a major insurance company. The car
had about twenty-four special safety
features built into it,
Some of these safety features are
highly interesting. Shoulder harness,
along with safety belts, are designed
to keep passengers from being thrown
head-forward into the dashboard or
other harsh objects. Already some
drivers insist on safety belts and few
on shoulder harnesses, but not enough.
Some safety features practically no
one demands, which were on the special
safety automobile, include roll bars,
anchored seats and collapsible steer
ing wheel Roll bars are what stunt