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The Farmville Herald PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY J. B. WALL.Owner and Publisher Subscription Kates In Virginia i Year <By Mail' . $3.00 6 Months iBy Mail' . $1.75 1 Year (By Carrier in Farmville).$3.50 1 Month 'By Carrier in Farmville) . S .35 Subscription Rates Outside Virginia 1 Year.$4.00 (With Comics) . $4.75 Member . Virginia Press Association Member National Editorial Association All communication!* and monies should addresser! to THE HERALD. Farmville. Virginia Entered as second-class matter at the poatoffice at Farmville, Virginia, under Act of Congress of March 1879 FRIDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1957 “Law of the Land” »E PRINTED on this page is An editorial *■ from the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post. If it had appeared in a Southern newspaper or magazine, it would not be news. In the Saturday Evening Post as an editorial it is news. It appears to us that the Saturday Eve ning Post, has come to understand the dan gers to the Constitution and the Republic which have been pointed out for several years by Southern newspapers and North ern conservatives. When the “law of the land" is proclaimed, or decreed by a judi cial body the time has come to stop and think. When the Constitution of the United States is amended by judicial fiat, those familiar with the intent and purport of the Nation’s founding must resist. When the court usurps the rights of the people as has been the case in six decisions of recent years, the most outstanding being the emo tionally packed school desegregation one on May 17. 1954, the time has come to act. When the rights of the 48 states are placed in jeopardy by decisions of the Supreme Court, statesmen should raise some ques Cons. When the Court proclaims the “law ot the land”, circumventing the authority of the law-making body, then Congress should act, and react. It is particularly reassuring to have the Saturday Evening Post state clearly a con ?<tit 111iona 1 position. The policy of the Post would be favorable to racial integration in schools, and evidently for over three years j it has seen only that issue in the present pressure by self-seeking groups. We pre sume the Post has not changed its policy on this issue, but certainly the decision of the Supreme Court on the issue is not the "law of the land” until it has been made so j through prescribed legal procedures, the first of which would be to adopt a constitu tional amendment. Until this has been done we shall “take all appropiate measures, honorably, legally, and constitutionally to resist this illegal encroachment upon our sovereign powers” and the usurpation of the rights of the people of the 48 states by this court. As pointed out by the Post editorial, other decisions of the Court have been re sisted. other courts have refused to act un constitutionally, other justices have sup ported the Constitution regardless of the! changing public opinions. ( More editorials, such as you read in the Post, by recognized national journals could well set the thinking of the people in this nation on the right track. Congress, when it convenes in January, could perform its greatest service and duty j„ asserting its •authority and regaining its prestige am| rightful place, now being usurped bv the .indicia! branch of the national cm-,,-,,!,,. More Records For S, am I |a( i.h S.\ ■!, it is reported, is going to require business men to detail their ex penditures on iiusiness trips and from ex pense accounts. Forms to he sent out next spring' will re qu:re a stricter accounting of expense ac counts and those with an expense allowance will lie burdened with the added duty of noting exact!y how much was spent for car ious things, such as train fare, hotel rooms and so on. In the World War 11 and post-war years, the economy of the t'nited States has be come an expense account economy. Many large expense accounts are actually not ex pense accounts at all but merely an added salary. The Government thinks that much ex pense-account spending has been a little on Hie tlouMluJ side and hopes to collect add- j cd revenue by checking' into these accounts more closely. Since the Government will probably be need in? some money next year, and since revenue in recent months has been less than anticipated, it mav well be that this tightening up will produce newj tax revenue for the United States. hor those employes working for a large company, the company having an auditor "ho can provide employes with an accurate ' listing of their expense expenditures, the new tax system will not be ton much of a burden. However, for the small business man who has no auditor and who must keep up with all of his expenses, this is another headache in the great game of tax compu tation, m which there are, already, too many complications. I he I December Sky rJ^ n r. Decomber sky is an interesting: one, mainly because there is so much daik ness (more than in any other month of the year) and because winter nights arc often clear, with exceptional visibility. There are many things to watch in De cember. For example, the Big Dipper drags its tail about as near the northern border of the horizon as it ever gets during the year. But the thing which the amateur observer might like to look for is the bright star \ ega, which blazes away on the northwest ern horizon and which is part of the Lyra Constellation, or, almost straight across the sky from Vega, in the west, the bright star Proeyon. Procyon rises in tile northeast during De cember as \ ega gradually sinks from view in the west. During the first of the month, Proeyon is the most brilliant star on the horizon in its region. It is described as a poldon yellow star, and since if. is twice the size of our sun and near the earth, it is easily seen. Procyon rises a little before Syrius, which is the brightest star in our night ‘-Kies. In December Syrius is seldom seen i (especially during the first part of the month) because it is so near the horizon. On a bright night Frocyon and perhaps ‘ nus can he seen in great contrast to the absense of bright stars in the entire south fm -out h west hemisphere during Decem ber. Look for them and see if you can find mm. They will be most easily seen after Ddl moon (December 7th) and before hns mas, at which time the moon will be rapidly enlarging once again. Exchange Atomic Planes For Defc nse rJP!!K administration recently placed the atomic airplane project under a central authority. I he idea was to cut red tape and prevent the confusion and delay which left us far behind in the race for an I.C.B.M. and an earth satellite. I he move is. nevertheless, slow in coming and has long been advocated by the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic En ergy. The atomic-powered airplane may be the answer to most of today’s military de fense problems. Atomic-powered aircraft would have an almost limitless range am! could remain airborne for days at a time, perhaps weeks or months. ^ lum this stage of progress i: reached, a nation mav be able to cover itself with a blanket of defensive a tonne-powered atr erait. at very high altitudes, and they might he equipped with sufficient detection gear to enable other aricraft, or ground sta tions, to fire an anti-missile missile with a nueleai warhead out to intercept enemv Idanes or missiles. It js known that the Army is already working on an anti-missile missile. is -till difficult to wy whether tha I nik'd States is ahead of Russia in the race 1 t<> build an atomic airplane. The achieve- 1 ment ol this goal may be long in coming, ! tor it is estimated it will he 1960 before the , *ii-st atomic-powered ship (being built by [ the New York Shipbuilding Corporation'! will go into operation. Sexy Magazines P-TA Target QPERATORS of all magazines and news stands racks are being urged by the sev eral PTA organizations to eliminate the is sues described as lurid and sexey. Although it is realized many proprietors are unaware of just what magazines are placed on their racks by the venders, it ns still the store operators responsibility to see that such muck is not offered for sale. Of course the PTA is interested in keeping obsecene liter ature away from school students who are particularly susceptible. Just a little prop er concern by the proprietors plus explicit instructions to traveling news vendors would rid thn community of such denrav ing influences. The 1 sscv City (Miss.) HstoH Hack t round Scripture: Philippians. 3: 2 2.V29: 4:1ft ^Devotional Reading:: Ephesians 3:14 What Christ Means Lesson for December 8. 1957 A XT HAT docs America mean to * ' you? Ask that question of a hundred Americans and you will Set some lame answers, and maybe some nood ones. But you would say that the truest answers are not the lamest ones. What does Christ mean to you? Ask that question of a hundred Chris tians, and you will no doubt Ret some lame an swers But let us ask the question oi one o 1 the greatest Chris- I»r. Foreman tians who ever lived, the Apostle Paul. What Christ actually meant to him. he can mean to every Christian. His language may seem strange, but as D. G. Barnhousc says, instead of complaining about the New Testament vocabulary, wouldn't it be worth while to cul tivate the experiences for which the New Testament would give us the right words’ "Christ Jesus Has Made Me His Own" The first and central point is. in Paul's words uve follow the RSV translation!. "Christ Jesus has made me his own." We turn the tiling around too much We sp< ; k of "decisions for Christ." Paul had indeed decided foi Christ; but that was never foj lum the main point. Christ had decided for him! Hi l»i longed to Christ by Christ s choice first: intimately, insopsta bly With this go two other points. One (as Paul puts it > i.- the eager di urc that "! may . . be found in Him. Tins meant that when God looked .it Paul, Paul hoped C -d would rev him in Christ. Paul i. a it any long, i par..to. lone man. iu so u uly in Chi.st than • is I. Vi.si look: at him. ho i t's. Christ. A!, v w s, that thought, amt i in: of it. is an..tin , "not having a i rghtcoi; ness of my own, ini' that winch is hu.tugh taith in Ch i.-t, the righteousness from God that depends on faith." This t opposite 'o what the ordinary pi son, all icligious but ours, and in •! id : a tv C rntian understand ■'oi.'! aim at. that it shuns too n ange to In lii.v i l’-,it tins is a hat Christ, c., mi ..u my righteous ness. The true Christian character is not something built up by the Christian s own efforts and offered to God: it is something accepted from God. If it is true that when God looks at tiic Christian he sees Christ, he sees the Chiistian (as one of our songs puts it i "clad in His rigiHcou. ni ss alone." "The Power of His Resurrection" Christianity i.- a supernatui ..] n ligirm Any one who takes it f..r i< -s is like a person ow ning an air plane who never fills it. with gas nor ’,.ki s 11 out on the runway; like a person who has a fortune in the bank but ncvei writes a cheek. How- often a Christian says to him self. "I cant! and he is quite i ight, r-s a rale. Much i: demanded oi a Christian that is impoisible; which doesn't make sense till the Christian discovers that the answer ought to be: "I can't but Christ tan." Paul not only here but in other place; testuii,- that the same power that, raised Chris! from the dead is actually available t. the Christian I! does not conic all ;.! once; Paul w expressing it as a hope only partly realized; but it makes sense spiritual, .supernatu ral sense if you must put it that way. A Christian can see above In ordinary eartJibound elf. by 111. same power in which Christ tri umphed is er death. "Wo Await a Savior" Uncc mor e, Christ f n Paul means the Suvi.’i. otic who er,i*nes to his rescue. But while Paul can speak of bar ing been saved, he ran also talk of salvation in the fuline. The same Paul who cherished the phrase Tim do in remembrance (»f ’lie . could also speak of awaiting a Savior i'll- re are tn i great tilings, part of what is meant by "salvation,' which Paul expects Christ yet to d", in the future. They are closely connected, nie first is that Christ w iL! come to bring him and others to the "heavenly city"-- Uve common wraith the Christian has never pi n but where his citizenship papers are already made out The | other thing Paul expects is to be changed: his "lowly body" is to be "like (Christ’s! glorious body." ! Paul dots not make this fully . clear; lie had not yet had the ex- j pcrience. This is the language of hope. But one thing is plain for Paul, cfirist is not only the Savior from sm, but the Savior from death Faul no longer feared death, as he might have when t bey. ‘ B«t«4 e! £*?!>*!•* Kf >•?»!! nf Cfei'lf !^*t *( C***!r* j % K i f i r d K i f •wwnait' j CORN STOCKS Stocks of com stored m all sec-: lions in this country have increased l for tlie past five consecutive years, totaling, on October 1. a record ! 356.652,000 bushels. Iowa led with! 155,000.000 bushels IUlneis was sec- I end with 230,000.000 and iShmetcta asri vria iS7.ooc.OT saatte. Ain’t Like It Used To Be It's gotten so, I hate to go To Farmville now to shop, And have to find a porking place When in my car I stop. I do not like to watch the lights With colors green and red, That blink at me above the streets On wires strung overheod. I do not like the slot machines That Main Street's sidewalks grace; I do not like, each time I park, To pay for parking space And when I walk, I do not like Those walking lights they've got; I do not like a blinking sign Tell me to walk or not. No doubt they have to have these things For traffic regulation, But none the less, to me, they are A darn aggravation I guess I must be getting old, But still it seems to me, That Farmville now on its Main Street, Ain't like it used to be, P S. Because I so dislike in town With all its traffic tricks, I stay at home, enjoying life At Twin Oaks, in the sticks. —L D. WHITAKER A ‘Law Of The Land’ Needs A Firmer Base Than Mere Court Decisions <Thc editorial reprinted below is taken from the Saturday Eve ning Post, December 7 1957.) Back in the 1930's, when the court was questioning the consti tutionality of New Deal legisla tion. liberals were loud in their complaints that the court had in vaded the legislative field. Now that the court has been making decisions pleasing to the liberals, we are repeatedly informed that the court's decisions are “the law of the land" and must be enforced by all means at the disposal of the Federal Government. This is by no means a new idea. In 1R57 the Supreme Court de dared in the Died Scott case, by way of Chief Justice Roger Tanev, that the Negro "has no rights which the white man was bound Letters To Editor Efficiency Becomes Modern Master Editor, The Herald: Like most little tin gods. Effici ency is all right in its place, but efficiency is a jealous god: it wants to rule us completely; We even eat, sleep iind loaf ef ficiently. Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes on schedule with one eye on the clock and the other on an ap pointment. sheet. To squeeze the most out of each sinning hour vu have streamlined the opera, condensed the classics, put. energy in pellets and culture tn a pocket-sized package. The worst thing the god of efficiency has wished on us is this automatic dial phone system, who is going to save us a lot of trouble by telling tis when we ask for a number toftener than not., a name) that it's no use wasting time for right now Mr. Jones is down at the drugstore enjoying his morning Coca-Cola, as he just called Mrs. Jones from there to ask if she is using tiieir Ford? •Central'1 can tell him right, off the bat 'yes', be cause she has heard Mrs. Jones tell Mrs. Smith, that she is on the way to pick her up and they will get to the sale at Davidson's early. When the baby gets the croup at night, and the doctor doesn't answer his ring. "Central" knows "here he's bringing another baby, and generally .she tells you before you ring, and she saves you that much lost motion. Who's going to have that vital information around a soulless mechanical chamber controlling light rays and electric calls? Besides, when a baby s gasping, one s fingers are in no condition to fumble with a dial — one want to yell out. one s fright to a sympathetic, under standing human being who has the wits to help and can get a whole chapter of tragedy from a few words shouted breathlessly, and even before the shouting's over is doing the thing that needs to be done. According to a set of statistics left on my window sill by a little bird, if your roof is leaking, and you dial Joe's Roofing-Repair Shop. Instead of Joe's baritone, which you know very well a voice from outer space may say, “This is Joes Roof mg-Repay Shop. Your cal] is being answered me. chamcaHy by automatic answer ing equipment Joe is not here now Please leave your name and telephone number and he win call you. Leave your message after the second dial tone, Thank you Over". We live sixty-miles a minute and the great god Efficiency smiles. i Cordially yours, Everett A. Trent Ciac-riHe, v*. to respect,” and that escape to free soil had no bearing on his status as a slave. Immediately the Southern slaveholders went into action, declaring that the Dred Scott decision was the law of the land. But the anfislavery people did not agree. Abraham Lincoln said of the Dred Scott decision, "We Shall do what we can to •>,<>..'» tt < the Supreme Court) overrule this. We offer no resistance to u. out the Dred Scott decision remained in effect the "law of the land." until the Emancipation Proclama tion and later the postwar amend ments ended the argument. There was also the decision in Pollock v. Farmers’- Loan and Trust Company In 1895 that a .Federal income tax was unconsti tutional. That stood as the law of the land until the adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913. So today the income tax is very much tire law of the land and doubtless will remain so indefinitely. Acceptance of the 1954 decision decreeing racial integration in schools would be more easily ob tained if it rested solidly on some specific article in the Constitution or on a Federal statute. As things stand now, the 1954 school inte gration remains the law of the land by virtue of a Supreme Court decision in one set of cases. But this is not accepted by large sec tions of the American public and many members of Congress. A firmer base is needed. As Hamilton A. Long points out in his Usurpers. Foes of Free Men, this necessity was recognized by Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott opinion. He declared that a change of public opinion about slavery could not "induce the John Tempie Gn»et Courage To Be Happy Life Is Purposeful "The shame of little Rock " Yes. but -whose? The way things are working them selves out now in national psychol ogy the "shame" may come to mean no longer- the pictured shame fulness of. a mob and a governor but the shameful use of federal bayonets without need or consti tutional respect and the equally shameful magnifying of the situa tion until we had Clare Booth Luce compared it with the gas chambers of Auschwitz and the horrors of Buchenwald. Mrs* Luce’s uncon trolled extremism may have been the straw that turned the shame pointing current from the South to its invaders and defamers. • • • On the "shame of Little Rock” we are a, nation one and indivisible, yf-s. We may come to be as one and 1 indivisible on whose shame it was and remains. Does it take courage to be happy? A just-published 'Houghton Miff lint volume of essays by Dorothy Thompson <a great human being in |my book' is entitled "The Courage To Be Happy.” She quotes one | Joseph J o u b e r t. of Napoleonic France, whose unrequited love of a i certain Pauline de Beumont was i selfless enough for him to seek her , happiness in spite of his own un i happiness. He called upon hei to !exercise "the most beautiful of all I forms of courage, the courage to !be happy." The lady had courage but she had lost faith in life, was (without courage to believe it worih ' while in spite of all. You can do (brave things in that negative co Idition. but it is. itself a want of ; bravery. 1 I Miss Thompson associated coin age with compassion, with canny (right up-to last moments of living, ("nd being sustained, made happy even, by faith in that caring. An agelessly beautiful lady told me last summer that her secret was "always being in love.” She meant 'having some sort of glory in her (heart. Whatever the inspiration. Dorothy' Thompson would agree. j’T.ife. it seems to me." she says j n her book, “is good, 'be it stub j court to give to the words of the I Constitution a more liberal con struction in their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopt ed.'’ Such a change of attitude. Taney said., should be expressed through $n amendment to the Constitution. Eighty years later, in a case which invalidated the Bituminous Coal Act, Chief Jus tice Hughes declared that if the people wished to give Congress the power to regulate industry within the state, ’ they are at liberty to declare their will in the a impropri ate manner, but it is not for the Court to amend the Constitution by Judical decision.” That certainly is the orderly way to 'enact the "law of the land." Law is more widely accept ed when it is actually incorporated in a body of statutes and not merely "interpreted" as the law by nine judges. (See Editorial Comment! Ijckt’v long o, suddenly a' mortal splendor' and not only good, but wondrous and magical. And I am also c o n t 1 n c e d that it i? pur poseful . . In th’s she reflects a new Gen eration-With-the-Lmhts-On. alien to the Lest Generation after World War One. the Beat Generation of the depression and World War II. , nd the Generation - that - Just - llxisted from then until now. In some respects Do-othy Thomp • cn is even more sympathetic with 'he South on the race Question than David Lawrence, our best friend In national print. Now it can be told! The trouble with the South.. Yale Professor P. S. C Northrop advised the Utah Education Association in Salt Lake City while I was there. "Is a conflict between two sets of ‘trapped universals’ or cultural norms within the Southerners them selves." One “trapped universal" is the idea of aristocracy, the other the idea of democracy !although the professor, of course, doesn't put it as simply as that for it would sound too simple to be worth making a speech about i. To achieve the boon of inti ■ (nation. as the professor sees it. we Southerners have got to have one of our trapped universals removed the aristocratic one. With Americans in such tenible need of being ever more aristocratic about our democracy, of giving it e. i ' more excellent human beings and an ever more substantial base, the professor’s nursery rhyme is as phony as it is funny. Double Check V-’ tshington centers around a nu> t ;■ m of who is to decide as to when a president is incapable. It is as confusing as any other dou ble-talk Tlie nation and the world is at a loss to know. No doubt they will fix the Constitu tion this time Might as well add that no president shall succeed himself - one term only We need a leader — but in the right direction. We are m a mud dled condition right now. My prediction that something | would happen in Cumberland icounty, and it did. Congratula tions to Judge Williams and Com monwealth's Attorney Carter and Billy Carson can be seen dally at 3:30 p. m. on Channel 12 TV in |1 The Verdict Is Yours. ' Recent foreign broadcasts, (mostly short wave, show the U.S. ; A. has enemies. Read and listen |— leant all you can. Our trouble j is not up yonder or over there, it's | right down here. Thanks for reading. Yours, J Marvin Brown A small amount of leftoyer cooked i beef may be ground and added to any standard muffin mixture. Serve jthe muffins hot. topped with a quick sauce made from undiluted mush ! room soup. JOIN OUR Qheistntas eu FOR 1958 i ... receive for next p Christmasia sizable |i check for generous L giving — and meet- 1 ing year-end bills.. Why not start sav ing now? Ik'ofta *" $0 W«*4\ » .*5.$ It JO 58.'.. JS.OO 1.80.... 50.09 t.00 .... 100.00 3 00. 150 00 5.08..... 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