The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-19


would have told them the twin marks Of
Patrick Henry's character-love OF lib
erty and love Of leArning-are imbedded
in Prince Edward as deep as thought it.
self That 1t was Americas legendary
Red Head, no other. who served as q
founder Of the FIRST magnificent school
-Hampden-sydney-to grace your land.
Conviction Forgotten
After Henry, / would have said. came
another: q gangling man with strident
voice and of certain convictions on the
worth of liberty HIS name was John
Randolph.
No other community in America.
would have concluded-had I been asked
no other American community the size
of tiny Prince Edward has known TWO
such founding fathers.
Did the transgressors forget? Did
they forget your spiritual beginnings?
Or did they-in their Overweening AFRO
gance-even know, or knowing. care?
Did they really believe you were weak
lings? Did they really think they could
break your spirit?
They must have.
AS say, that was their first mistake.
In any event. this-you appearance Of
being malleable-is the reason your
county was chosen. of all America, to be
the crucible in which the character of
our people was to be tested Conditions,
from their point of view, were just
right
So. they struck
For America sake. say they could
not have made better choice. nor
greater mistake For, what they tested
they now know-was not weakling but
a Southside- Virginia Tartar-Lord love
us!-0ne of no mean metal.
Now. ten years after. your fight is
won. There stands your school.
Fabian Socialism
The second part of my thesis WHO
struck Prince Edward is more complex
Go back with me in time.
Nearly 30 years ago. there was turned
Loose in this country an evil so gross,
so deeply dyed as to pass the under
standing of the normal work-a-day man.
It's root is in Communism to be sure.
but it was not Communism, per Sc, that
struck Prince Edward
Rather it was a tWo-headed relative
of this worldwide conspiracy and unless
it is understood. and being understood,
routed out, it will devour us, all of U.S.
These twin evils-as Communism it.
self-were born in Europe and have been
injected into our lives with malice afore-
thought.
speak of the Freudian Ethic and
Fabian Socialism . one embodying the
philosophy and the other the method of
those who struck Prince Edward
Let's look at them, one at a time.
Fabian Socialism has as , its pro-
claimed end the precise design Karl
Marx conceived for Communism: De-
structi0n of the rights of the individual.
Fabianism is not new; it was born in
England more than 70 years ago. It's
prophets were George Bernard Shaw and
H. G. Wells. In speaking of the ends
sought by the Fabians, Shaw said they
meant quote, Ito put an end to CAPT.
taliSm by developing the communistic
side Of our civilization until communism
ciety" (unquote). That is about as plain
IS you can make it.
The only material difference between
Fabian Socialism and MARKHAM Socialism
lies in their methods of operation. Where
as Marx would bring his ideas into be-
ing by every. conceivable means-princi-
pally through bloodletting-the Fabians
chose stealth and the theory of gradual
ism as their modus operandi Force.
prefer to skulk.
Fabian Technique
The Fabian plan of operation calls for
infiltration of existing organizations
Once inside and under the cover of
anonymity they seek first to rot, then
destroy They are the Trojan Horse of
Communism.
Specifically. their plan is to change
our land, inch by inch, little by little,
without our approaching the change: as
the drip-drip-drip of water erodes stone
When, at long last. when they have
brought America to the brink, when
there is little difference between our way
of life and textbook socialism. then, they
hope, we won't consider the differences
worth fighting for; we will just roll over
and die
Fabians remind me of nothing so
much as a night prowler in a chicken
roOst. The thief quietly grabs the birds.
one by one, tucks the head of each under
its wing and. without peep from his
victim, drops it in his bag. So quietly
in fact, the hen on the next perch doesn't
even know danger is abroad. Only &C.
casi0nally does the sneak make the mis-
take of lingering some doughty, baleful-
eyed. old rooster. When he does-for-
give the expression hell breaks loose.
Anybody who has ever stolen a chicken
will know what I mean
( Today. after 30 years. the Fabians
are in every oop we have and their