The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-31
The suburbs. the camplses and |
the South -

II
ALL BETS MUST BE off, al
predictions put on ice. al
emotions held in moratorium
until President Kennedy settles
down to whatever this change
turns out to be. 1t could be that
he Is doing an FDR in reverse
Franklin Roosevelt entered the
Presidential. lists talking states
rights and strict economy. When
Garner was chosen to be his run
ming mate. some said it was good
that sound man like Roosevelt
would be on hand to hold that
wild man Garner" down.
After that. as the depression
deepened and the liberal profes-
sors were called came the
sea-change. and the New Dial.
MIR. KEN NEDY CAME
through the convention talking OF
New Frontiers that would sur
pass the New Deal and calling
on liberal professors to do their
stuff again. He even resurrected
Chester BoWles. But as no de-
preston came and no clear-cut
victory, either, he has shown
sea-change. too. The difference is
eloquent in the only phrase from
his acceptance speech which held
over to his Inaugural Address !:
And so. my fellow Americans
ask not what your Country can
DO for you - ask what you can
do for your Country" as part of
a pie in the sky acceptance
speech, the phrase was meaning
less, or worse. But in the altered
atmosphere. history and man
and mandate-of the Inaugural,
it could be the noblest phrase
since Theodore Roosevelt and
Woodrow Wilson.
We shall see what we shall see
1t may yet be. in view OF all
that has happened since the in
augural of FDR, that Sky without
Pie will have Americas accent
under JFK.
1t would have had the accent
under Richard Nixon for it was
uppermost in his mind. Mr..
Nixon's people are saying, &C
cording to the current United
States News, that his party must
look for victories in 1862 ard 1864
to ID the suburbs, ~ the cam
puses, and 80 the South.
By "campus" is meant, not
the faculties. but the students,
the young, the new young"
IF MR.. NIXON HOPES for Re-
publican victories in the South in
the Congressional elections of
1862 the hope is probably vain.
But he can indeed hope for the
South on the President level in
1854 unless President Kennedy
holds to his sea-change.
What he may hope for In 1862
is Southern Democratic victories
over Liberal Democratic ones,
victories that will swell Coalition
but not Republican ranks.
THE CAMPUS AND THE
SOUTH!
How incongruous those two
will seem as a basis for po-
litical support, how out of line
with affinities heretofore! But the
combination makes sense in the
philosophy that seems to be
dawning, in the new day of de-
parture from Sophists and sophis-
ticates. beatniks and playboys,
socialists and slaves of state. dia-
lectical materialists and PAN
derers of pie-in-the-sky.
4 4:
LISTENING TO EDWARD r.
MURROW before Kiwanis in
Birmingham Tuesday as he de-
scribed a possible program fairly
presenting the libel case of Birm-
ingham against The New York
Times on the Salisbury article
reporting a reign of terror in
our city you wondered if, even
with best of intentions, television
can possible embracing enough
to be fair. Television is so es-
sentially exclusive and monopo-
llstic. 1t can be entertaining, in
structive. inspiring, but can it be
judicious where there are SO
many faces to choose from, so
many matters of taste or opinion
from which selection must be
made?
Never was there a greater fall
lacy than saying the camera
doesn't lie. It lies and lies, invol-
UNFAIRLY, unconsciously, as well
as sometimes with intent. 1t lies
because it looks so thruthful yet
can't possibly portray the truth
In many instances.
@ Y OTIN C FROM HUMAN
EVENTS my comment on liberal
professors and left-leaning sons
OF riches, Publisher William
Loeb of The Manchester, N. H.,
Union Leader, says, You ex-
pressed a view which we have
long maintained" AS Theodore
Roosevelt's godson, MIR. Loeb
says. Much of my inspiration
in my own life comes from him.
Following his ideas nowadays is
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