The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-27

and Woodrow Wilson have their
names abused by the slaveries
of Farnklin Roosevelt and Harry
Truman.
May Mr.. Kennedy see it and
change course in accordance with
the strange mandate of Novem-
Der.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S point
is most clear now in the field of
economics, foreign and domestic.
We hold to our principles of free
trade and free enterprise even as
we burden ourselves with wage
and price controls. with planned
economics, tariff reductions and
state financed human welfare
which confuse and in many cases
cripple the free way.
| What is free about an economy
whose major prices are deter
mined by the simple but deadly
process of having management
yield to labor while the public or
the government yield to manage
ment?
What's free about a foreign
trade in which we stake our for
eign competitors with laws that
hold our wages far above theirs
and, in the case of cotton, let
them have raw material from us
at less than we pay for it, leav-
ing our own people unprotected
against the artificial handicap?
"ONLY GOD" THE POET
said, "can make a tree" Only
God can plan an economy, fix
a wage OF price control pro-
duction. And in all reverence,
you may wonder if the Lord Him
self could run an economy half
planned, half-free, like ours.
Is a liberal arts college edu-
cation worthwhile?
Certainly it isn't for some. It
is beyond the limits of their he
reditary stretch you are limited
by heredity even though there's
leeway). But those who are capa-
BILE of really assimilating a lib
eral education should keep in
mind Jones Law. Or is it Smiths
Law? Anyhow cit says the longer
you live and further you go the
more your liberal arts education
means to you. vocationally, avo-
cationally. and existentially.
Tell that to those who say how
much of a head start you can
get in life by not going to col
lege. It's a head start but the
head is too small. Soon you are
0vertaken and then in prime of
life, swiftly passed. and then as
middle and older years come,
left a mere vegetable in COM
parison with educated contem-
poraries whose values, tastes,
loves, sensibilities, companion
ships-won, entrees-achieved and
spices of life appreciated give
them life Astounding while you
doze half dead, waiting to die.
SPEA KING OF VEG E.
T A B L E S, a modern one is the
television-sitter. He just sits there
in a stupor while the stuff flows
against his consciousness, with
out reception or title to reception.
Like a conterted cabbage or in
ert potato he is
What without asking hither
hurried whence,
And without asking, whittier
hurried hence :"
Should artists be permitted de-
pletion allowances on their in
come taxes, and a right to call
their earnings capital gains? Pr
anist Van CIburn told a reporter
as much last week. Several years
ago. as I recall it, the Internal
Revenue people disallowed the
depletion claim of a beautiful
young stage and screen star who
reasonably pointed to an eventual
coming Of the crows feet, the
sWay-back and the sundry col
lapses. Allowances seemed rea-
sonable in her case, as in the
case of prize fighters. profess
sional ball players and others
whose income-capacity depends
on the physical completeness age
removes. But ar artist is sup
posed to be different with sensi-
bilities and soul qualities that
multiply year by year. his genius
most athletic when his legs are
least.
Hi fela. this is Nelse!"
IF EVER A POLITICAL goose
was cooke and hanging low, it
seems to me that Gov. Rookie
feller'S was last November. After
all the ballyhoo, build-up and d.
version, pixillating even Dick
Nixon. Nelse was uncovered in
the election returns as a COM
plete dud.
Human Events quotes Sen.
Goldwater that for the first time
since 1913 the New York which