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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07
A Totalitarian Corps
'ers & Courier, Charleston, s. c.

IT now is clear that the next session of
Congress will receive an administra-
ton program for domestic Peace
Corps. Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy,
keen promoter of the Corps, has been
appointed by his older brother to study
the need for it.
The proposal already is undergoing
publicity build-up. The New York
Times Magazine has published an ar
ticle by Gertrude Samuels calling for
such an organization. Miss Samues
quotes anonymous experts as saving
that the time is overdue for far more
extensive efforts in promoting more
employment, improved education and
health services, the development of nat
ural resources and great variety of
other welfare programs =. No private
group can undertake all this The best
road lies through a centralized
federal service organization - do
nestle Peace Corps"
Miss Samuels fails to explain why
private agencies, churches, social SER
vice and other non-federal organization
cannot deal with slum problems and re-
lated conditions in the United States
What magic would be possessed by reg
iments of Peace Corpsmen?
In our opinion, supporters of a do
nestle Peace Corps are more interested
in interfering with states and communi-
ties than with uplifting slumdwellers.
A domestic Peace Corps would be the
ideal federal instrument for forcing
change in local customs. Detachments
could be sent to Mississippi, for cX-
ample. to provide examples of integra-
ton Thus a domestic Peace Corps
would be a descriptive rather than a con-
structNe force in America.
Youth organizations of this nature al
ways represent form of social and
political pressure. Hitler used battal-
ions of young construction workers to
win youth away from families and tradi-
tons. Organized in groups, youngsters
are subject to indoctrination and
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07

ty, boosts morale, and lessons
the turnover OF military person
mel. These factors are assets to
the military, and at the moment
there are no evidences whatever
Of plans either to reduce or
evacuate the number of Deepen
dents, at least not within U. S.
Army forces in Europe.
Nevertheless. there always re-
mains the possibility that the
day will come when dependents
must be moved out of the area.
The decision will be made at a
high level, prehaps presidential.
When it is made, the removal
process will take on the nature
Of a military operation.
And for that operation, the
European army command de-
clares, complete and detailed
plans have been made"
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07

thought reform. Sparta tried it CEN
turtles ago.
Many American communities have
problems. No city or state in their coun-
try can be compared with underdevelop-
ed regions in Africa and Asia. The diff
ficulties of civilized Americans, white
or colored, should not be handled with
methods used in primitive nations.
Cities and states that suffer from power
ty and slums need more individual en-
terprise and private investment, not col
lective action by cadre of federal
youth workers. The idea of a domestic
Peace Corps smacks of totalitarianism.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07

ginia every ten years according TO the
law. Should the legislature of Virginia
fail to revise it's political districts, the
federal courts will assume the obliga-
ton and furnish the State of Virginia
with federally- dictated plan. Just
what course Virginia will follow has not
been determined. The facts are that
Virginia stands eighth among the states
in the nation in which state legislators
are elected from areas with equivalent
populations. Practically, it is impos-
sible, and undesirable to have perfect
representation on the basis of popula-
ton. Many of the Northern states have
greater discrepancies in their intra-
political districts than does Virginia.
Here we have constitutional test in
federal-state relationships, without the
emotional or racial issue. 1t is purely
political and the politicians need have
considerable apprehension when the
federal judiciary, backed by the polite
ally-minded president and attorney gen
eral, attempts to redraw district lines
for purely state governments.
What's next? How far will the fed
eral government go in overriding the
states and the people?
Congress, which has been ultra-liberal
in following the New Frontier policies
of grasping power, may get its back up
and act to save the republic The con-
sentative elements have been fighting
for constitutional government, but un-
fortunately the American people have
sent too many liberals and followers
to represent them in the Congress. The
die is now cast. The right and powers
of the states to be politically indepen-
dent has been usurped, and the legisla-
tors and Congressman now feel the
power and pressures of the federal gov
eminent
What's next?
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07

Leave sooner - drive slower
live longer.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07
What's Next

BOWERS reserved to the states or to
the people are going by the board
fast.
Usurpation of the states powers in
1854 in the school decision by the T. S.
Supreme Court began series of suces-
sive usurpations, the end of which is
not yet.
Five years of litigation in the school
case principally by the State of Vir-
ginia, ended in capitulation on Blue
Monday, February "a, 1859. Since that
time the Justice Department and the
Executive Department have had their
Little Rock, Ark, New Orleans, La,
Albany, Ga, and Oxford, Miss. Incl
dents BY sheer force of military might
the powers of the various states have
been usurped by the Federal govern
ment. In the meantime the Constitu-
ton, as written, and law and precedent
have become thread worn. What's next?
President Kennedy issued his execu-
tive order forbidding racial discrimi-
nation in Government aided housing in
November How far this order goes has
not yet been determined. For the time
is may apply to redevelopment aid and
public housing only. But there is no.
thing to hinder a second executive order
covering FILA, veterans loans, and
taken to its ultimate National Banks
which have come under federal control.
In fact that is the plan if the liberal
elements are to be listened to. What's
next?
The U. S. Supreme Court in far
reaching decision recently usurped the
powers of the states to control their
internal affairs, by designating ,politi-
cal districts to be represented in the
state government. The Fourth Circuit
Court following this decision has order
ed the redistricting of Virginia, thereby
usurping the power of the legislature.
which has redistricted the State Of Vir
Ners & Courier, Charleston, s. C..
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07
Letter To Editor
Advertising Basis
Free Enterprise

Editor, The Farmville Herald:
It was with a great deal Of
pleasure that ! happened upon
Mr.. Babson's comments on ad-
vertising in your November 9th
issue.
We in the advertising file d
sometimes feel like the voice in
the wilderness when we main
tain the necessity of advertising
in a modern and vigorous econo-
my.
Many people in recent years
have conjured up the very err
roneous idea that there is some
thing suspect about the adver-
Using industry and those en-
gagged in it. Mr.. Babson does a
wonderful job of dispelling this
suspicion in his article.
Advertising, in essence, is not
a great deal more than selling
a product, service or an idea.
Advertising is an intergral part
Of our system Of supply and de-
mand. If that system is suspect,
then its detractors are ripe to
bask in the rosy glow of social
ism. lie. communism
My thanks to Mr.. Babson for
writing the article and to you
for printing it.
Robert G. Sanderson
Vice President and Art
Director
Duncan Advertising,
Inc.
Richmond, Va.
Leave sooner - drive slower
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07

Communist Demonstration

Communism, to the American
people, is a marky sort of evil.
Americans know Communism
is not to their liking, but more
often than not its brute hulk is
50 great the average American
simply cannot aSsimilate it. Like
the meaning Of the words holo-
calst and genocide.
But sometimes it isn't. Some
times - too rarely = we are
able to get a mans size bite of
this mahgn thing that is snak-
ing over the world and then we
know what bitterness can be.
Such an opportunity arose a
few weeks ago.
II occurred during the period
Russia's deputy premier, a bro
ken-nose thug named Mikoyan.
was visiting Fidel Castro.
Mkoyan's wife, you will re.
call. died during her husband. $
stay in Cuba. Yet, for all that it
effected Mikoyan it might as
well have not occurred. The de-
putty premier continued at his
duties" without batting an eve.
lash.
This canous disregard of a
Wfe's passing was breathtakinp
To Americans it was unbeliey.
able. Still, it was within their
range OF vision. they compre-
hended it: A husband who re.
fused to stop work long enough
OF bury his wife.
There was no physical reason
Mkoyan could not have done
so. True, Russia is half a world
away from Cuba but this man is
second only to Khrushchev in
the hereby of Russian tyranny
ne could have been home in a
day, had he chosen.
He did not choose and that is
the point.
He did not because of what he
IS. He is a Communist, a Soviet
Man. Communists are not al.
lowed to love. not as you and
understand love, an unstinting
tn-death-do-us-part, a forever
sort of love.
Having no God, they have nc
hereafter, and therefore nc
spirituality, the basis Of love
Therefore, death has no mean
ing. More.
It isn't that Communism Oh.
poses love. It does not. Love is
acceptable in Russia in as
many forms as it is accepted
IN America. The one verboten
the one thing that is not per
m1t.ed, is love that interferes
with affairs Of state. The state
comes first in everything. First
before the cradle; first, before
the grave.
Had Mikoyan been in Moscow
at the time Of his wife's passing
and not concerned with immin.
ent state business, he could
have attended whatever mem
orlal service he cared to render
the remains. And probably woulc
have; who is going to deny the
man loved" his wife?
But that, as she breathed hel
last. he was On business for the
Soviet Union pre-empted every
other thing. 1t is probable he
did not so much as offer a
moments prayer at word Of hel
passing.
To what or to whom woulc
he pray?
She was; she was gone. That
was it.
We should not misunderstood
this man. He is not doing as
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07

Bible Material: John 1918; II:
Is; Romans 6:4-23; l CORN
thians 15:3-28; I Peter 1:3; 8
John Bills.
Devotional Reading: Revelation
21:1-8.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07

SENHOWER denied Friday that
he had said former Vice Presi-
dent Richard Nixon was not
presidential timber. He also
said that Nixon was not through
politically despite his defeat last
month in Californie's guberna-
tor1al race. Eisenhower had
been quoted in a recent article
IN Look Magazine as saying in
1856 that Nixon was not presi-
dental timber. The former
President, interviewed at his va
cation cottage in Augusta. Ca,
commented that what he may
have said at the time was that
Nixon was not ready for the
Presidency.
! NAVY BEAT ARMY by a
score Of "a to IA in the annual
football classic at Philadelphia
Saturday. President Kennedy set
a precedent by tossing the coin
on the sldellnes before the start
OF the game. The former PIT
boat commander spent the first
half on Nays side, then duti-
fully crossed the field between
rows of midshipmen and cadets
during il a lftime ceremonies.
Wayne Hardin became the first
coach ever to lead Annapolis to
four straight victories over West
Point.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-12-07

Christians might do, carrying a
bereavement bravely. There is
no bereavement. Mikoyan is a
Soviet Man. understand that.
Communists devout. totally
dedicated Communists = carry
nothing within them but as it
serves The State. It is not likely
then the deputy premier Of all
the Russians carries anything
else.
Which is why his smile could
be so broad a few days after
when greeted in New York by
an equally unctuous Adlai Stew
ensOn.
It was an understandable man.
hesitation Of Communist philos-
ophy: The State is everything
the individual nothing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-04

Junior high school students dropped out,
most Of them for reasons other than
military service or getting Job. Nearly
400 high school students also left last
year before finishing their courses. None
of the dropouts had had the benefit Of
special training for Iob-seeking. 1t
would be surprising II very many of
these young people were able to find
gainful employment, If indeed they
made the effort.
Because Of the dropout rate, Ben
jamin L. Hunton, supervising director
of junior and senior high schools, has
outlined a program aimed, first, at
reducing the number of Withdrawals
and, second, at preparing the dropouts
to find and hold jobs. A test Of the
plan will be initiated at the Randall
Junior High School, where more than
a hundred students who have been con-
sidering leaving school will be given
lob conditioning" and Skill training"
instruction. A number Of business firms
have agreed to cooperate in the pro-
gram. A similar experiment proved sue
cessful in Detroit. There Is no reason
why it should not be equally successful
here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-04
'Seoboord MegoIopoIis'

Senator Pell, Rhode Island Demo-
crat. has proposed novel idea for
improving the passenger carrying facil-
tiles and fortunes of the railroads in
what he calls the "seaboard megalop-
oils" Mr.. Pell, as a New Highlander,
means the Eastern seaboard, of course,
and he Is baSically accurate in deScrib-
ing the area from Boston southwark to
Washington and Cape Charles, Virginia,
with offshoots into Pennsylvania and
Western New York State, as zone long
metropolitan industrial unit
His plan, in brief, is to set up a
interstate public authority that would
take over and operate the railroad
passenger carrying services, leaving to
existing private companies the more
profitable function of hauling freight.
The Senator cites numerous and sue
ceSsful presidents Of interstate author
tiles operating ports, bridges and other
utilities in the public interest. He pro-
poses that this one be financed through
bond issues attractive to private in
vestment, another suggestion for which
there is ample precedent.
1t is in his vision of the service
to-be that Mr.. Pell appeals most to the
imagination of the potential traveller.
He contemplates lightweight, air
conditioned passenger trains moving not
only swiftly but smoothly along the
main arteries every fifteen minutes"
stations that would be updated from
the horse and buggy era" and passenger
traffic that should soon be back to
what it was in 1950-perhaps even in
1910" In explanation Of his dates,
which actually sound good enough with
out explanation, the Senator notes that
the number of passengers currently
riding the New Haven Railroad is only
70 per cent what it was ten years ago
and only 81 per cent what it was fifty
years ago. And as he noted, the passen-
ger service itself has declined in quality
as well as in quantity"
If Mr.. Pell's idea has an over
simplified fault, it probably is that it
is too imaginative for politicians, rail-
reading management and labor alike.
But among them, they have reduced
the rails to pretty sad State-at least
as far as carrying people is concerned
and they might do worse than take
second look at the plan offered by the
Senator from Rhode Island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-04
New Regional PIonner

The National Capital Regional
Planning Council has been securing the
country during the last several months
for an aggressive planning director with
a background Of experience that would
qualify him to cope with the formidable
problems of urban growth which result
from the profusion of Federal, State and
local political jurisdictions in the Wash
1ngton area. In selecting 34-year-old
George L. Heller, who most recently di-
rected three-county planning agency
in Illinois, the council believes it has
found the right man.
We hope so. Since It's creation sew
eral years ago, the Regional Council has
performed useful function, particular
~ during the period in which the area
Mass Transportation Survey was devel-
oped. In most respects, however, its
progress has been disappointing. Work
ing hand in-glove with the Metropoli-
tan Washington Council of Govern
rnentS, whose members are political Of
ficialS from the various local areas, the
Regional Planning Council can and
should assume position of vigorous
leadership in the development of eff
fective regional plans for the benefit of
the entire metropolitan community.
This should be the goal both of the new
director and of the local planning rep
reSentatives who sit as members of the
Regional Planning Council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-04
FoIIout in Perspective

There is nothing particularly new
in the Federal Radiation Councils
report on the health implications OF
fallout from nuclear- weapons testing.
In effect, the council has pulled to-
gether, evaluated and summarized all
available information on the subject,
and it has confirmed the main conclu-
sion of past expert Studies-namely,
that such testing constitutes only a
relatively minor hazard to the physical
well-being Of mankind.
Thus, while pointing out the diff
culties of being precise in this field"
and while acknowledging that no one
can SAY with certainty what health
hazards are caused by fallout," the
members of the council have wound up
their report with these reassuring
words: 1--WE expect there will be some
genetic effects; other effects such as
leukemia and cancer are more specu-
lative and may not occur at all. We
can observe that, compared to the
number of these same adverse biological
effects occurring wholly apart from
testing, the additional cases that might
be caused by testing are very small
quantity"
Indeed, as the council has declared
at another point in its report, "the risk
of damage to a single person is
extremely small in comparison with
others which people normally accept"
These other risks include natural back
ground radiation (such as in cities
located high above sea leveD, X-ray
examinations or treatments, chemical
contaminants, air pollution and auto
mobiles. The latter, for example, are
incomparably more dangerous than
fallout from testing; in our own country
alone, they kill over $1,000 and injure
more than million persons every year.
Yet nobody cries out for an end
to automobiles the way some people
have been crying out for an end to
experimental nuclear shots. Actually,
these people have grossly exaggerated
the fallout danger, stirred up unwar-
ranted fears and carried their crusade"
to point Of hysteria. One must hope
that the report of the Federal Radiation
Council will help to calm them down
or at least persuade others not to take
them too seriously. In any case, unless
or until there is an adequately policed
treaty banning such experimentation,
our country must stage whatever
acknowledgement tests are deemed nee
eSSary for its security.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-04
Total Solution

The most impressive, and hopeful,
aspect of the Presidents report on fu-
ture Federal development in Washing
ton Is its comprehensiveness. Previous
administrations at one time or another
have stabbed at most Of the complex
facets Of the program. The new report
for the first time treats them as part of
single problem.
Along with the rejuvenation Of
Pennsylvania avenue, major emphasis
UNDERSTANDABLE has been given the de-
cision to develop a new kind of Federal
architecture. 1t is the intention that
nothing less than the very finest estab-
hshed talents" in the country will be
called upon to design buildings that will
be not merely initiative, but creative
in their own right, which will not isolate
Federal employees in islands of monu-
ments, but will make many of them an
integral part Of the life of the commun-
ity. This is an exciting prospect.
Other elements of the report are no
less important. The assertion, for ex-
ample, that Government decentraliza-
ton "is not panacea for the Washing
ton space problem" is most welcome
The theory of massive dispersal has
been abandoned as a practical matter
for some time. But the absence of a
firm administration policy nevertheless
has created constant confusion. Ger
tatnly there are Instances in which
Government agencies can and should be
housed in the suburbs, or at points
farther away. But that determination
should be made on the basis of specific
criteria, as the new plan proposes, rather
than on the initiative and the desires
Of agency heads.
A determined effort also has been
made to estimate future space require
1nents with precision. The long-range
$425-million proposal for IL new ONCE
buildings, according to the report, makes
adequate allowance for expansion Of the
Federal work force, as well as for the
replacement of obsolete space and
demolition of all the war tempos. We
hope these estimates prove reliable. The
long, sad story of the past has been that
the cracker-box tempos have remained
filed regardless of new construction.
Despite its broad range, however,
the new White House program" re-
mains at the moment largely a declara-
ton Of policy. Ahead is the complex
job of co-ordinating the many proposals
into realistic and orderly schedule of
construction. This is a job which the
National Capital Planning Commission
in conjunction with the General Serv-
ices Administration, is fitted to do. With
the continued support of the White
House, there is no reason to lag.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-04
THE PASSING SCENE
British Weighing Common Market
BY WILLIAM S. WHIT

The long-common assump-
ton here that Britain's entry
into the low-tariff European
Common Market was prac-
tically foreordained always
was dangerously premature.
Now it looks as though the
British not only are q long
way off in time from going
in, but actually may not be
able to go in at all without
intolerable cost to their an
Gent ties with British Com
monwealth nations like Aus
tralia and Canada.
There have been great and
avoidable political miscalcu-
lations on both sides Of the
ocean. Six months ago the
British tended-when in this
country at least-to suggest
that the real question was
not whether Britain could
make q reasonable deal with
the European Com on
Market countries, headed by
France and West Germany.
u. s. Tariff Factor
The real question, they
intfmated, was whether the
United States Congress would
ever approve the broad tariff
cutting authority required If
the United States itself is to
be able to bargain uSefully
with the Common Market.
The history Of this tariff
bill in the House Ways and
Means Commute shows how
very wrong was this idea. The
committees chairman, Rep
resentative Wilbur Mills Of
Arkansas, has done Just about
what those who knew him al
ways thought he would. He
has brought the bill forward,
with q quiet mixture Of
power and persuasion, to the
point where there is not much
reason to fear that the House
will reject any Of its principal
features. The British want
the United States to have
that legislation; and the
United States wants Britain
in the Common Market.
British estimates Of the
alleged unreadiness Of Con-
gress to act were wrong be-
cause Britons asked the
wrong people. Representative
Mills is outwardly, but only
outwardly, q country boy"
The British got their infor-
nation mostly from young
city slickers who made the