The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-13
John Temple Groves
Let's Play What's Been Dealt
Relief is just-a swallow away

AVC . L lay w III
Relief is just-a swallow away"
MAY KIND READERS weary
of politics and partisanship here
be of good cheer.
Relief is just a swallow away.
The trouble has been that with
the country so exactly divided
and minority Democrats acting in
some quarters like majority ones
and getting away with it by rea-
son of possessing the machinery,
offices and pre- ssure groups,
somebody has to keep the score.
A genuine popular majority here,
affirmed and re-affirmed, is in
danger of losing out merely be-
cause it includes no such activi-
ties as the pressure groups and
officeholders.
MIR. CHARLES DECKER, Of
Birmingham, suggests l am in
dulging in mere figures of speech
when I plug for "a march back
to man in an Image - "a return
to early Americanism, back to
the philosophy Of individualism. !"
He wants to know with what
changes in our government and
present laws l would nipple
ment" the figures of speech.
Mainly it is a matter of stop
ping.
A term used here even more
than the ones mentioned is 1.-The
New Deal is dealt Much of the
New Deal was needed. No one,
not Mister Republican" Taft nor
even ultra Conservative Barry
GoldWater, has proposed to abol-
ish what was dealt. Not only
was it necessary but you can't
give the public such things and
take them back.
They'll simply vote you out of
office.
But Harry Truman with his
Fair Deal and John Kennedy with
his New Frontier have proposed
to 60 on and on with the control
and handout legislation-and the
tax-spend-elect rewards thereof
This column and a fraction Of a
fraction less than most of the
people of America oppose it..
They see it robbing Americans
OF individualism, giving them
ideals of materialism, taking
away early American traits of
character which made this nation
great.
It is the direction that counts.
1t is whether we look to more
and more government or to as
little as possible.
There are some changes indi-
Gated even though mainly it's a
matter of not going on with more
dealings. The change most to the
point would be a tax set-up which
SO dlscourages enterprise and in
dlvldual initiative. And in mea-
sures encoraching on states
rights and local self government
in realms of education and police
power.
Mainly what is proposed is a
return to individualism by halt
to socialism. Well never go all
the way back in so inter-related.
mass producing and mass COM
municating a world, but we can
stop going on. We can hold to the
ideal even if it must be trans
lated into this worlds terms.
IN HIS SO-CALLED strongest
statement vet" for civil rights,
the President repeated his oft
repeated point that only through
the hearts of men, not through
their laws, are true racial justice
and harmony to be achieved. Mr..
Nixon makes the same point.
Lyndon johnson wouldn't dare.
DAMNED BY OUR OWN beau
tiful ideologies. hoist on our own
petards" (Ibsen wrote Brand"
to prove such can be-, we have
TO face it that our noblest Ameri-
can words have not only been
stolen and misapplied by the
Communists but negated in some
instances by the mere march OF
invention and time. Equality. lib
erty, democracy, majority rule
brotherhood Of m an, justice
peace are suddenly confused OF
lost ideas, with folly even deliver.
ing them to primitives Of Africa
scoundrels in the Kremlin, fe.
rocious madmen in Red China
unilateralists, neutralists. and, a,
home, awful sentimentalsts who
won't look as they leap = and
everybody with an atomic bomb
soon.
The hope is I'VE and the West
but not as we and the West are