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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-25
The Allen-Scott Report
After Widely Quoted Comment Disturbed the General
Goldwater's Visit to Ike Smooths Waters
Nixon's continued disclaimers Of

Nixon'S continued disclaimers OF
aspiring for the presidential
nomination, close partisans are
approaching big campaign con-
tributors for funds to boost him.
There is no indication this is be-
ing done with Nixon's knowledge
or approval. but those being so
hcited are assuming it is
Keep an eye on Clifton White,
Jr., New York, as a leading fig
ure in Senator Goldwater's cam
paign when he formally an
nounces after the first of the
year. White. an able and expert
enced politician, is national di-
rector Of the Draft Goldwater
Committee, and is slated for a
top role in Goldwater's drive for
the nomination. White is highly
regarded by the Arizonan, and
is very likely choice to head
his Citizens for Goldwater or
ganization.
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DEMO POLITICALS-Another
high Kennedy administration Of
fetal definitely slated to depart
is Fred Dutton. Assistant Secre-
tary of State in charge of con-
gressional iMson. His assistant
is already trying to line up con-
gressional support for Dutton S
job. Dutton is quitting on his
own accord. He has decided to
return to private law practice.
but is uncertain whether to To-
cate in Washington or his home
state. California. White House
insiders are limiting that in an
effort to keep him. the Presi-
dent may offer Dutton the am
bassadorship to Mexico. Close
colleagues who have visited all
ing Senator Clair Engle, D.
Calf. say he is much improved,
and expect him to return to his
home to complete his GONZALES
cence in a few weeks. They re-
port Engle is keenly interested
In the news and follows it avidly
Senator Stephen Young. D.
Ohio, is telling intimates he will
definitely make known his de-
cision about seeking reelection
by Thanksgiving. Young is hint
ing he is not averse to quitting
the Senate and taking an am
bassadorship provided "it's the
kind l would be willing to
take" A closely guarded
Democratic National Committee
poll shows Governor Endicott
Peabody of Massachusetts at a
very low ebb in popularity. II
he were up for reelection this
year, his outlook would be eX-
tremely black. This undercover
situation has given rise to inner
administration talk Of replacing
Peabody with another candidate
in 1864.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-25
Double Check

We lost the chicken war be-
cause the United States laid an
egg . and that is undebateably
true. How important to our
economics is the great tax re-
ducing bill that is still in the
Byrd's nest) is yet to be seen.
There will be many reductions
in prices in the coming months
and more increases than you can
shake a stick at some we
all will wonder at Sugar is on
a see-saW if you know how
to do so play it safe.
There is much comment on
the quiet that has developed
around the Kennedys Bob
and John. Since Bob does not
like to be second and al
ways is there somewhere
must be a reason. And l saw
where President John had Papa
Joe out boating -. there is the
brain it could be very ex-
pensiVe trip for us.
Listened in on Radio to SER
mon being preached up in New
York and of all the lies he spoke
out to establish the hatred i'll the
minds of his listeners and the
! ignorance of any facts of mis-
| statement of the facts if he was
Mt ignorant it's no wonder we
are having a real revolution in
America if such lies were be-
lived. The facts are here to
prove that the brother was lie
ing or misinformed and the
truth will some day come out.
Regardless of race, creed or
color when preaching stick to the
truth!
Yours very truly and thanks
for reading.
j. Marvin Brown
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-25
Numbers Game

The way you look, talk, act,
work what you wear. do
or say. who your children
are, to whom you are married,
what your health is or abilities
are makes not one bit
of difference anymore.
Big government and big bust
ness have changed all that.
You are now a number.
You can be written to, called,
foreclosed on. hospitalized, or
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-25
Letters To Editor
Polio Clinic

Editor of Herald:
Members Of the Jaycees wish
to express their appreciation and
thanks to you and your staff for
the newspaper coverage given to
our polio immunization program.
Without the support given by
The Farmville Herald, our prof.
ect would not have been the sue
cess that it was.
With kind appreciation for your
interest and cooperation. l am
Most sincerely yours,
Calvin Tuck
Corresponding Secretary
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-25

buried without even the faintest
hint Of your Christian name.
heritage or ancestry.
This number bit has been go
ing on for 80 years, but with the
post office. internal revenue de-
pany joining the trend, you, as
a personality, are just about
through.
Take this individual, for in
stance. A brief letter addressed
only in numerals could be de-
ivered - even by special de-
livery - to this one person. Like
this
44-03-444
social security number)
8O8 9
(Street address 1903 S. Ninth.
There is no 8O8 N. Ninth in
Edinburg)
1889
(The postoffice number for
Edlnburg, Texas
So the letter could read:
441-03-0444
sos 9
1889
Isn't that lovely?
It could be possible for you to
pick up your telephone in New
York City and say only these
words to the operator although
doubt if the telephone com
pany is quite ready for this:
F-'i44f:D3-O444
521-383-3255
and you and l could be
talking person-to-person. Mother
Bell. you know, is converting to
| numerals all over the country
a little at time. Instead OF
Dudley 3, Edinburg will soon
become 1888. And with the area
code system the number is pre-
coded by 512. So our number is
preceded by 512. So oM. number
will be 512-383-3255. Don't know
how Bell will get the social Sc
curity numbers made available
but they will in time.
So, remember this, you bust
nessmen, the next time you have
letterheads printed. Be sure te
include in that letterhead your
social security number, your nu-
neral address, your post OFFICES
number and your numerical tele
phone number. Perhaps you car
have it all up in the right hanc
corner Of your four-color letter
head. Like this.
441-O3-O444
808 8
1889
512-383- 1885
Now. if occasion arises wher
more information is necessary
for instance, if you're writing tx
your home mortgagor, your re
turn address need not have the
social security number - only
the loan number. Like this.
| 2-10-25050
8O8 8
| 1889
II you want to, add the socia
security number:
441-03-O 444.
Another point is to be sure Il
tell your wife that she will know
you have expired if she gets ;
letter addressed to:
v. go 355
8O8 9
1889
Open it in a hurry. 1t has
check for $4,000 in it.
Oh, what's the use. Guess W
might as well enjoy it.
The Mission (Tex.) Time
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-25

likely to destroy completely the Coun-
ellis claim to being religious organi-
zation. The NCC increasingly is reveal
ed as mask for political faction.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-25
One way to get rid of cats !:

OfIN way % BtU IIU UI NdtS
Three little girls were playing in the
schoolyard the cher day and man
walked up and handed each of them a
tiny kitten, with the pledge that they
keep them. The three girls are sisters.
Taney County Republican
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-25
Mattoaax.

Oct. "a Mesdames Lydia
! Thompson, G. Ben Lush, Phil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-25
WindowIess Day

Fresh air and sunlight streaming
into school room, and a big window
through which to size up the outside
world where May day beckons to the
Schoolboy-that was school as some Of
us remember it, back in the days when
windows were more to be looked through
than thrown at.
Memories like this make 1t even
Sadder to read that New York City,
where vandalS break nearly 81 mil
lion worth Of school windows a year, is
taking all kinds of counter-measures
not excluding the construction of win
dowleSS schools.
Schools without windows are not
unprecedented. Montgomery County has
couple, and the word is that they are
working out all right. But the main
objective here was aforementioned COM
fort, not a method of outwitting relent-
less rock hurlerS. New York also is ex-
perimenting in other avant-garde school
designs. There is the school with win
dowS, only they all face inward and
stare across courtyard at other win
dowS. Then there are schools with "dec-
orative" (protective) window screens
which are not supposed to look like
prisons.
Perhaps ir-conditioned schools
without windows are all right, If you
have the mole instinct Personally, we
find it hard to blot out one of the most
satisfying experiences of one schoolboy,
who spent many bemuSed hours gazing
from the rarified atmosphere of his al
zebra clasS-at what? At tall, graceful
cottonwood whose ite-backed leaves
glinted in the shimmering sunlight of
never-never land far away. Not good
for grades, but wonderful for youthful
reverie.
Schools without windows? We
might as well have classes without
teachers. And, at the present pace,
pretty soon we probably will.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-25
Life Went On

It was the early spring of 1865.
And in the words of Carl Sandburg:
There was a funeral"
Never before in this country had
there been anything like it. The journey
from Washington to Springfield was
to last for days. Many millions saw
the funeral train as it rolled by; more
than a million passed the caSket Of
the slain President. Again, in Sand
burg's words: ct was gariSh, vulgar,
massive, bewildering, chaotic. Also it
was simple, final, majestic, august"
This was almost a century ago;
an episode in the life of a Nation
that had come to the end Of dread
full, rending civil war. But life moved
on. Carl Sandburg recorded it in this
fashion,
The ground lay white with apple bios
SONS this April week The redbird whistled.
Through black branches shone blue sky.
Ships put out from port with white sails
catching the wind. Farmers spoke to their
horses and turned burrows till shutdown on
the cornfield. Boys drew circles in cinder
paths and played marbles Lilac bushes took
on surprises Of sweet, light purple. In many
q back yard the potato-planting was over.
In this house was a wedding, in that one
a newborn baby. in another a girl with a
new betrothal ring. Life went on. Every
where life went on.
And so 1t will be in our own time,
nearly 100 years later. Everywhere life
will go on.
No one should expect that life
will be easy. Andrew Johnson was
beset and bedeviled by trials and
troubles when, after the assassination
Of Abraham Lincoln, he became PreSi-
dent Of the United States. In not
greatly different form, some of the
problems which Andrew Johnson in
herited are still with us today. Lyndon
Baines Johnson will have to contend
with them, and with others that are
international in nature, as he assumes
the burdens of another slain President.
One should guard against unrea-
sonable expectations. For some of our
problems cannot be SOLVED" in the
impatient sense. They can be managed
after fashion. Perhaps they can be
ameliorated. We can learn to adjust to
them. But this really is not the point.
The point is that once again the
built-in genius of our political system
is asserting itself. In few If any other
countries could such transition as
we have been witnessing take place.
In single, senseleSS, tragic moment
as time is measured one President is
shot down and another succeeds him.
1t happened a century ago; it is
happening again. And everywhere life
goes on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-25
Teen-Age Crime

If anyone should know about teen
ayers and crime, 1t is j. Edgar Hoover.
Here is what the FBI chief said in a
recent speech at the national conven-
ton of the Catholic Youth Organization:
Courts are influenced too much by the
age -rather than the record of the young
hoodlum who stands before the bar of Justice.
The bleeding hearts, some actually sworn
to administer the law either as judges or
social workers, are so concerned for young
criminals and terroriSts that they are in
different to the rights of law abiding mem
bers of society We have mollycoddled young
criminals, lightly tapped hardened offenders
on the wrists and released some unreformed
and unrepentant hoodlums to prey anew on
society The time is long overdue to adopt
a more realistic attitude toward this critical
problem. We have tried the charitable ap-
proach toward young hoodlums and it has
failed
That is the way we feel about it,
too. 1t is something to bear in mind
every time you read of another sense
less crime by teen ager, which is
every day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-25
Georgetown's Anniversary

Any happy anniversary is worth
celebrating, whether it be golden, CEN
tennial, sesquicentennial or centum
Septuagesimum quintum. The latter Is
the closest Georgetown University's
scholars can come to latinizing the in
Stitution's 175th Anniversary.
BY whatever name or number,
Georgetown'S anniversary serves an
admirable purpose. 1t focuses attention
on a distinguished seat of learning
which has merited the anniversary
theme Of Wisdom and Discovery for
a Dynamic World" 1t serves to remind
us that the Most Rev. John Carroll,
first bishop of the United States,
founded the university at George
Town, on the Patowmack, Maryland"
II years before Congress met for the
first time in Washington.
The anniversary is a showcase in
which Georgetown's intellectual riches
may be displayed through a series of
events this year and next. There are
the James Curley Lectures in Science,
OoAAAAlS dJJCllblOll W Tile University new
$4.5 million ReiSS Science Center; the
Robert Plunkett Lectures in the HUI
manities; the Edward Douglass White
Lectures in Law; the Latin American
Lectures-all bringing to Georgetown
noted leaders in diverse fields.
There are many other programs,
such as the three Foreign Service Con-
ferences for students, employers and
educators. The first of these tomorrow
and Wednesday will remind us that
Georgetown School of Foreign Service
is renowned not only as the first of
its kind, but also the present leader
in the field.
At Georgetown, an anniversary is
something by which the past is APP
praised as a foundation for continued
growth today and tomorrow. For the
president, the Very Rev. Edward B.
Bum, S. j., members of the faculty and
the student body, we wish the fulfill
ment of every lofty goal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-25
Contrast

Among the millions who spent
most Of yesterday in front of their
televiSion sets, very few can have missed
the dramatic contrast in the events
recorded. On the one hand there was
the solemn ceremony in Washington
honoring President Kennedy, setting
the stage for today'S final homage. On
the other hand, and simultaneously,
there was the groteSque business in
Dallas, where Mr.. Kennedy'S suspected
killer was himself killed by a crank
with a gun.
The story here was by far the
better one.
The cadenced march up the avenue,
along the route which the young PreSi-
dent had followed to his snow-white,
triumphant inauguration - the poetry
and pathoS of Mike Mansfield'S eulogy
Mrs. Kennedy kissing her husbands
casket, and pauSing at the end for
woman word with the new
First Lady those remarkable Kennedy
children the endless line of everyday
people passing through the Rotunda
all afternoon and night. These things
reflected the Nations love and respect
for the fallen leader They bespoke the
civilized freedom and order which, de-
spite the guilty doubts of this time of
shock, remain hallmarkS of the Ameri-
can performance at its best.
And then there was the scene in
Dallas. A twisted character accused
Of the Presidents assassination was
being moved from one jail to another.
Under the eyes of the assembled Dallas
police, as all the world watched, he
was confronted point blank by his
own mindless executioner. Even as Mr..
Kennedy's body was borne in majesty
from the White House, Lee Harvey
Oswald fell victim to the same sort of
debasing violence he inflicted on the
President. Two hours later, when the
ceremony at the Capitol was reaching
its climax, he died in the same hos
pital where Mr. Kennedy died on
Friday.
A Shattering intrusion on the de-
cency of our national life this was
a particularly dreadful aspect Of the
deed of the man who killed our Presi-
dent. It was dreadful, too, that he was
permitted indecently to intrude on our
honoring of Mr.. Kennedy.
1t was dreadful, and ironically dra-
matte. But the thousands who turned
out, yesterday, last night and today to
show their respect for the late leader
had a healthy, human reaction to the
fate of Lee Harvey Oswald or, for that
matter, of Jack Ruby.
Newsmen circulating through the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-25
John Q. Pays

What has happened to the
sense Of propriety among so
many of our public officials?
We pay walters way to and
from Paris. congressman and
their wives Get all circle the
globe under the guise of lob
serving" comforting" and
IS CRYING" and the White
House must have everything
from a helicopter squadron
to a huge secret service
corps, and a limousine fleet
that could cause a traffic
jam by itself. Per usual these
Indifferent and unconcerned
officials drive along while
John @. Taxpayer gets taken
for his customary ride.
I for one am sick and tired
of these types of disburse-
ments Of my tax contribu-
ton. 1t is simply an affront
to the dignity of every Amer
lean citizen. We hear once in
a while of the rebuttals when
criticism Of this nature Is
mentioned, but I dare say.
none, not even one of these
"big spend ers" ever cam
paigns for election or re-
election on the proposition
that it is really in the public
interest to consume dollars
with such reckless abandon.
Someone once told me to
ask myself what 1 could do
for my country. On behalf of
millions of Americans I re-
specially request those in
positions of leadership to up
hold with greater honor the
public trust vested in them.
David L. Weaver.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-25
State Antiques

I have no doubt as to the
quality of the furnishings re-
Gently loaned to the Depart
ment of State for use in the
Thomas jefferson reception
room, but one questions the
appropriateness of utilizing
European antiques in a re-
ception room used by officials
Of the Department Of State
to entertain foreign diplo-
mats. Louis XVI settees,
Louis XIV com des, and
18th century Flemish tapes
tries seem out of place in the
Thomas Jefferson Dining
Room of the United States
Department of State. Ger
tainly there are available
American antiques of the
same period which would be
more fitting for this room.
willard ]. Webb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-25
THE PASSING SCENE
Johnson Despises 'Litt[eness
By WILLIAM S. WHITE

When there Is death In the
family there Is shock and
horror and grief and then
there is. terribly and inevi-
tably, the harsh awareness
that life must go on for those
who are left.
When there is death In the
national family, death re-
moving the very central arch
Of the power and purposes of
the Western world, as brutal
death has removed John Fitz-
gerald Kennedy, horror and
grief are inexpreSSibly multi
piled. But one thought, one
emotion, must master all
others.
This Is that the Republic
of the United States Of Am
erica must go on, under the
comma and now Of a new
President. Lyndon B aines
johnson. It is he upon whom
the great burden has now
fallen and it does not seem
wrong to thank Providence
that the successor is worthy
Of both the man who has
gone and Of the country they
have both always loved and
served, wryly. toughly, un-
sentimentally and calamity
well.
If ever In all our history
there was an hour when men
must put aside all that is
small. all that is angry and
ugly and pettily partisan in
our national life, this is, su-
premely, that hour. For I'M
less all the people, the par
ties, the factions, the regions.
the races, the clashing pri-
vate interests, can summon
up among themselves the
sense and honor to unite be-
hind the new President, the
United States Of America will
face perils Of disunity 1t has
not Known before.
Who is this man, Lyndon
johnson, who must now have
the support, the help. and
the understanding of all who
are in the United States, and
Of all they have and are?
What I am now about to say
I should never in ordinary
circumstances have said, for
In ordinary circumstances IL
would be name dropping in
its most tasteless form. But
because Of the special cir
cumstances. I say it all the
same. so that readers may
have some standard to mea-
sure the worth of my evil
dence.
Man of Tolerance
For 80 years-since he was
a slim and eager young Sec
rotary to a Texas legislator
I have intimately known
Lyndon Johnson as I have
never known any other pub
lie - or private - man. I
have known no other man of
more true tolerance, if a toll
erance sometimes hidden be-
hind the brusque manner
isms Of q master Of his pro-
fession - politics - some.
times impatient Of slower
minds and always impatient
with those Of smaller motives
than his own.
I have known no other
man Of truer compassionate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-25
Crop of Idiots?

OSAAAAAA AAOJ0 OOAACos WAAO4u
I consider one Of the finest
writer's and cleaTest thinkers
among columnists, deplores
the tragedy of the 80 per
cent Of young Americans
who have been left on their
bellies on the living room rug
to absorb the sterile repeti-
ton Of TV shoot-em-ups."
Only one In a hundred, he
believes. has been led by his
parents into the wonderland
Of literature"
Mr.. Jones writes a. the
man who reads widely and
with discrimination is an
EN- a ncipate d man. Good
reading is the enemy Of bigo-
try and provincialism. 1t is
also the enemy Of boredom.
=. Of error" This bears
repeating because so many of
those who started reading
Jones' fascinating and con-
else outline Of the "inven-
ton" Of the art Of communi-
cation by symbols soon found
their TV-conditioned minds
so over-taxed they turned to
the comics.
This is, indeed, Americas
great tragedy! There is on
the shelves Of even a small
library a treasure greater
than that of King Midas. Yet
I know many people who
have not opened a good book
in years and who have no
conception of passing along
to younger generations a
feeling for good books, for
literature, for continuing &C
QUESTION of a modicum of the
knowledge and wisdom Of
the ages. Many Of these same
people can tell you without a
moments hesitation the rat
ing and quality Of, and the
names of the principal
characters in, every time
consuming "wasteland" pro-
duction on the air.
Is good reading out Of
date? Is it as old-fashioned
as honesty and simple sin
certify? Is it. like American
ism and patriotism. some
thing to be sneered at?
r. ID. McHugh.