The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-02-03
John Temple Graves
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comprising a whole region of
people - read the New Workers.
lead paragraph this week against
those demonstrating students at
the University of Georgia.
Read it with recollection, if
you are a college graduate, of
undergraduate demonstrations
in your own day and college, the
tradition of light hearted riot
ing" half ramp, half earnest
and generally trifling establish
ed on all. including especially
some Ivy College ones like my
own Princeton.
And if you are capable of any
objectivity at all where the
South and its peculiar problem
are concerned, read the story
with enough common sense to
know that whatever was pas
sionate about the demonstrators
was not against the two Negroes
selected to look noble and be
brave in martydom. 1t was
against the monstrous meaning
of them. 1t was against the
tragedy of a peace. order, edu-
cation, and good will Of people,
white and colored. massively in
habiting side by side a quadrant
of America. destroyed by senti-
mentahsts. professional re-
formers, and political opportu-
nists in defiance of the contract
by which we made nation.
Only a fool believes the out
cries at Athens were against the
two apparently exceptional Neg
roes chosen to seek admission.
The New Yorker is no fool.
Only a demagog would make
bitter capital of them against a
whole people.
The New Yorker is a demagog
in this instance.
POETRY is ONE thing elect
ed with Jack Kennedy. Words,
phrases or snatches crop out
in his lines. Even lirnericks
How many recognized the liner
lex when, in the Inaugural ad-
dress, he spoke of those who
"foolishly sought to find power
by riding on the tigers back
tand) ended up inside" That
was the famous
young lady from Niger
Who smilingly rode on a tiger.
They came back from the ride
With the lady inside
And the smile on the face of
the tiger"
A FINE PHRASE WAS THAT
"civility is not a sign of weak
ness" 1t was a message to Rus
STA and, even more, to China,
but it applies against individ-
uals we all know, ones who
strangely feel that saying thank
you or expressing sympathy or
showing any sort of grace is
Serviity.
In the other direction was the
mutual impulse which brought
both President Kennedy and Elk
President Eisenhower to their
feet last Friday with warm hand
shakes for Poet Robert Frost
when he concluded the Inaugu-
raj poem after having faltered
so painfully in reading the in
troductory words because the
wind h ook his manuscript.
There is grace in both of those
men. That was one reason the
transfer of office" was SO
pleasant and effective.
A line of Robert Frost's was
in Mr.. Kennedy's mind through
out the campaign. Time and
again he said to reporters when
he seemed to be pushing him
self and them beyond endur-
ance. But l have promises to
keep And miles to go before
l sleep The line preceding is
The woods are lovely. dark and
deep" The poem is called
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening"
"EBULLIENT" was the word
for Bobbie Kennedy at the in
auguration. tanning his silk
hat down over the ears of a
neWSpaperman and ! a I e r on
standing in his car and bowling
like the President himself land
as the President didn't in the
Inaugural parade. What do they
put in this "ebulhence"? Is it
on the rocks?
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Calm and mnnved as in bat
tie he sat,
The gray-bearded man in the
black, SLOUGH hat y
PENSACOLA'S CIVIL WAR
Round Table is campaigning to
have Robert E. Lee pardoned
and his citizenship rights re-
stored.
This is well intended but I'm.
thinkable.
It is an insult to Leo and to a
Southern cause which is Alneri.
Ca S cause now and still in issue
1t amounts to accepting the war