The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-05

He was born with the gilt OF
laughter and the sense that
the world was mad !"
A MAD WORLD is no laugh
ing matter when so supplemented
for madness as t0day's.
Sabatini's Scaramouche lived
in a day when the principle
source of today's insanities was
being provided. however. That
was the French Revolutions mad
egalitarianism. Our American
Revolution had no such idea even
though the Declaration spoke of
it in what Georgia's Mr.. Pitman
has called a bow to the philoso-
ply of our French brothers.
Nothing in the Constitution of
the United States says all men
are equal.
WHEN STAIN SAID I'VE
shall force the United States to
spend itself to destruction" he
didn't know about the mad space
race and how his country as well
as ours might exhaust itself on
what Harland Manchester in the
current Readers Digest calls
1.-THE Senseless Race To Put a
Man in Space" "Since a round
trip to Mars might take $40 days
and require two tons of food for
each man. there is a point in
space navigation" he writes, Eat
which the cost of victualing a
single crew could equal the
Gross National Product"
IF THE WORLD has gone
mad. the prime example must be
Russia S in wanting to conquer it..
What could she do with it? Why
does she care so much? How
could she ever keep up with the
details even if the Kennedy
family were put in charge?
WALTER LIPPMANN'S pro-
longed recent interview with
Khrushchev is being recited in a
series of articles in which he re-
fuses to find Khrushchev a mon
ster but does find him illiterate
about America. history and the
modern world. Khrushchev be-
lieves unblinkingly that a coming
revolution in every land will
make it communist.
He didn't tell Mr.. Lippmann
what the coming revolution would
have in mind. now that the,
march of time, education and
economy has given the Russians
a middle class. with bourgeois
taste for goodies and with sue
cess enough to be looking as
kance at still primitive and fe-
rocious Red China s concept of
communist revolutions.
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WAS A HOAX PULLED"
The Jackson. Miss. Daily News
captions front page editorial on
Carleton Putnam's just published
Race and Reason" Public At
fairs Press, Washington. D. c.,
1929. Hoax" is hardly the
name but you can second The
News when it asks: How much
academic freedom do college
professors who disagree or even
question the equalitarian theories
have in Northern universities and
colleges?"
If Mr.. Putnam could have used
the names of all who wouldn't be
quoted, his panel would have
over-run the page.
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APPROVING THE 1900, word
report of its special committee
the vestry of St. Marks Episco-
pal Church in Shreveport has
called for withdrawal of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of
the United States from the Ma
tional Council of Churches of
Christ.
THE CLYDE BEATTY-COLE
Brothers Circus has been en-
joined by the New York Supreme
Court from calling itself "the
greatest show on earth" Ring
ling Brothers Barnum Bailey has
reserved the rights to that, i.
seems. Caleb King. in The F'lori-
da Times Union. suggests that
one of them might be willing to
be 1.-THE second greatest show on
earth" Another way of handling
such situations was Ed Lam
bright's in The Tampa Tribune
in days when Tampa. Miami and
Jacksonville each claimed to be
the biggest city in Florida. "
Tampa" wrote Ed. lis not only
the biggest city in Florida but it
is also bigger than any other big