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TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1957 Senator Dalton Sets Stage

REPUBLICAN State Sehator Ted Dalton set the stage Saturday for the guberna torial campaign in which we expect him to be in the months just a lead. Though he disavows his intention to carry the Repub lican gubernatorial banner he certainly is placing himself in a position to be its can didate,' which he can be by merely saying the word. His statements before the Republican Central Committee were nothing new, ex cept that he took occasion to oppose the principle of “massive resistance” renewed last week by U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd. Mr. Dalton is not out of character in this. He opposed the interposition resolution, in the regular session and the Governor’s school program in the special session. He maintains that Virginia j can accept the principle of non-segregatjon laid down by the U. S. Supreme Court, and then “keep white schools white under law and order but keep the public schools.’’ Just how this will be done has not been detailed by Sen ator Dalton, nor by anyone else. It is a slogan of several other Virginia politicians, some Democrats, who overlook the import ant governmental principles of usurpation of power by the Federal Cjourts, and the in effective experience of hther states and cities — Washington, D. Cl., New York City, In mention just two — in maintaining pub lic schools efficiently on sin integrated bas is. We presume that Mr. Dalton and those who follow his reasoning will accept, first a little racial integration in schools, which will ineviatbly lead to mpre and more in tegration with its complexities of admin istration. breeding of rajcial discord, and loss of efficient operatiop. The State of Virginia, hinder the consti tution, is a definite unit cjf government. Its laws must be effective ii| all parts of the

Ty Cobb, Great American rJ’Y Cobb, greatest of the! baseball players, is going home at seventy years of age, to Rovston, Georgia. We call attention to Cobb’s retirement because the greatest of the major league baseball players has been an example for others in his successful years following re tirement. For twenty-one; years he played with the Detroit Tigers and then, for two years, with the Philadelphia Athletics, both teams in the American League. Many of his records stfill stand, and his color, spirit and daring op the baseball dia mond have never been equalled since he left the game. More that that; Cobb has been a successful business man j and has lived a life which is somewhat exemplary. He is the founder of thje Cobb Education Fund and is the proud donor of a hospital he built in his father’s memory at Rovston, Georgia. In addition to these charitable un dertakings, Cobb has amassed considerable private wealth, and constantly uses por tions of it to support projects of a charita ble and educational nature. In other words, the greatest of the major leaguers on the baseball dianjond has set just about as enviable a record since his retirement from the game for his fellow baseballers to follow as he did when he burnt up the base paths earlier in the cen tury.

Commonwealth. There will be no integra tion at any place in Virginia, or there will be racial integration in- all parts of Virgin ia. So, those who would accept, maybe, a little racial integration in some of the coun ties with only 25 or 30 Negroes, like Carroll county, must realize that the schools in other parts of the state may find much large percentages. Further, with the in tegration of public schools integration of faculties will follow naturally. The pro , blem becomes more and more complex. But this is but a part of the question. The overshadowing phase is the usurpation of the powers and sovereignty of the states under the U. S. Constitution. We have seen no recognized legal authority which has stated unequivocally that the school de cision of the Supreme Court on May 17, 1954 is according to law and precedent. The present trend toward government by judi cial fiat, executive orders, and bureaucratic interpretations transcends the question of racial integration of schools as imminently important as that is. Our entire system of government is at stake. Will the constitu tional republic stand or fall? Will there be sovereignty of the states or will we submit to the political whims of an all powerful juduciary or executive oligarchy? Will Congress be stripped of its powers, or through inertia retreat from its duties? These are questions which can not be an swered simply by using the school and raci al issues for political advantages. There is no way under the sun that the school and racial issues can be eliminated from the forthcoming gubernatorial elections, but for goodness sake do not overlook the im portant principles of government which are directly connected with those questions. We hope Mr. Dalton’s trial balloon ex plodes, and quickly.

Carolina To California /'1OL. Robert G. Williams, commander of ^ the Ninth Tactical Reconnaisance Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, reports that an RB-660 recently made the trip from California to the East Coast in three hours and twenty-seven min utes. This is the fastest known time for a coast-to-coast crossing in an RB-660, and one of the fastest crossings by any aircraft. The RB-660 is the reconnaisance version of Tactical Air Command’s newest bomber. Captain Arthur F. Smith was the com mander who flew the 2,3000-miles from Calfornia to South Carolina in less than three and a half hours. The pilot took ad vantage of high speed tail winds at a very high altitude, which were found in what is called a jet stream. The RB-660 carried a crew of seven. Ut ilizing the same kind of jet streams which brought it from California to the East Coast in three hours and twenty-seven min utes, the bomber could have crossed from the northeastern tip of the United States to London in about the same time. One can see what passenger travel to Europe will be in a few years when such aircraft are put into commercial service. A business man will be able, to leave Boston early one morning, have lunch in London, spend a few hours at business and return to his home in Boston that night.

Babson Discusses Population

Babson Park. Mass., March 211 In 1950. our It S population was about 159.000.000 Today we are 170,000.00 strong and the prospect is that jour rapid expansion in numbers twill continue. The 2,000.000 more Ameri cans added since 1950 are equiva lent to twice the present population of the six New England stales I am told that a baby is borji in ; this country every eight secopds.' and that, if present rates of increase continue, we could well have a popu lation of 220.000.000 by 1975. This huge gain means that demand pros pects for our products are good. Each new birth, each immigrant, and each person living a longer) life than had previously been considered normal adds to the potential ; de mand that American manufacturers and merchants can attempt to .sat isfy This growth in population far; ex ceeds earlier predictions. I well re member the experts telling usj in the depression days of the thirties

that ttw U. S. population would hit a peak—probably around 1980—and then decline. As I recall it. they thought that peak might be around 154,000,000— a mark we actually passed about five years ago What About Our Labor Force? The current boom in people is the result of an unexpectedly high birth rate and a steadily declining mor tality. Modern medicine conquers many of the diseases which in the past have cut life short. Thus the area of our greatest population gain is among the very young and among our senior citizens. The adults who form the labor force are a decreas ing segment of the total population. That being the case, we should be more concerned about labor-man agement relations in future years. I forecast that labor-force growth may continue to lag the total popu lation rise to an increasing degree during the next twenty years. This widening gap will create problems for management except as the auto

matic factory becomes a factor in the situation. This is especially true if too small a proportion of the labor force possess the scientific and engi neering skills required to keep us abreast of technological develop ments. Instead of paying too . much at tention to the expensive frills of edu cation < as we do now >, we need to encourage high school boys and girls to become scientists, chemists. I and engineers, as well as econo mists. business managers, m e r chants, and teachers. We ought to find out whether our schools are ac tually doing the type of educational job that needs to be done. If we do* not mend our ways in this respect, we shall pay dearly in coming years ! for our foolishness. I)o More People Mean More Sales? Growth in population suggests a rising demand for products and services. However, we should not be too quick to assume that this in crease will always be translated in-! 1

Double Check While the President has gone visiting things perked up right smart in the way of talking about what's got to be and not to be. When a politician gets among friends look out. anything can happen. Looks like we might have war. Military staff faces a 12' , cut: Ben-Gurion threatens too. We have so much territory to patrol that belongs to somebody else . . . and we have to try to satisfy their whims and fancies to get into and out of without having interna tional friction that will eventually result in World conflict. Now they tell us. were angry with Nasser, of Egypt, but we cannot get tough because we got oil interests and land strips, stragetically located and we done built on them. We got to be mighty easy on them or they start blowing them horns and we can't hear ourselves think if'n they do. So we got to sorter keep in with Faisal. Saud. Neru and Tito regardless of anything else. About to run John Foster Dulles plum nuts getting in and keeping in with all these hooded rulers of much of the disputed earth. We cannot tell what they got under them head shawls but if we get into war agin' them might as well say "our now I Lay Me's" 'Notljier thing is: things are not all hoiikeydorv here within the States/Looks like we got to make Peace with -God first and our selves before we can do much big talking. Thanks for reading. Yours. J. Marvin Brown

to actual buying power. Much will depend on the economic conditions during the years ahead. More people will not necessarily mean more sales if the government does not curb its spending. Such spending makes for highly progres sive taxes which undermine profits and cripple business incentive. Neither will more people mean more sales unless we are able to adjust as a nation to the vast changes which are ahead. I have in mind the further development of atomic power, automation, speedier trans port, and other new manufacturing and marketing techniques. Mere bigness in numbers and in potential resources will not assure our pros perity. Hence, my repeated empha sis on the need for more religious training of our children. Are There too Many People? Our rapid population growth scares some folks. They fear we cannot produce enough food for all these people. I do not share those fears. We have learned during and since World War II how to step up our crop yields to levels not dream ed of a generation ago. We now have food and feed surpluses. In i gation and phosphate can produce miracles. Surely more people in future years may well solve our current farm problem of overproduction. In fact, I forecast that the time is not far distant when we shall be eagt r to increase our farm output. We will step up our crop yields to new rec ord highs through an intelligent use of irrigation and fertilizer and other soil and crop builders. I am opti mistic about the future of American farmers.

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Letters To Editor

'Farm Boys Then and Now' An Answer To L. D. Whitaker’s Editor. The Farmville Herald I have a boy who's only nine. His farm life makes him sigh, He has chores to do every day As Doc had m days gone by. He has toilsome tasks to do That nightly he must repeat: You see there are still those of us Who use wood to furnish heat! The woodshed is still on lots of farms. And is yet a scene of toils. Ours hasn’t yielded to a heating plant Which is fed from a tank of oij! True, he doesn’t walk behind a plow'. But there are still chores to do. He must gather the eggs, feed chicks and calves, Then bring in the stove wood too! Sure, the bus brings him home ’bout four or so, I But homework he cannot do | Till all his farm chores are done. Then supper he must eat too.

The family eats late as Mom and kids All help Dad milk the cows, Then comes homework and some times it Really takes two hours! ; There's many a farm this day and time That helps make a man of a I son. He grows, and works, and helps his folks To get the days work done. * ; And so. Doc Whitaker. If homesick for days of yore. Just come on out to our dairy farm, And we'll be glad to give you a chore! -—Olivia Hobgood (Mrs. A. D. Hobgood, Jr.' RFD Meherrin. Va.

Comfortable, Taxpayer? Editor. The Farmville Herald: The national budget has reached such gigantic proportions that the total is beyond the comprehension of taxpayers. Not many people have had experience with even one billion of anything. Perhaps this will help to visualize the meaning of the proposed budget of $T1.8 billion: Assuming the budget in silver dollars, it would take 1,292 freight trains of 70 boxcars each, and each car loaded with 800.000 silver dollars to transport the amount. If further visualization is needed, j $71.8 billion in silver dollars would j make 72 piles 1,500 miles high. And i in case you have a billion dollars and only one billion) hurry around j to your bank and invest it. even at only two per cent, and you can sit back and enjoy life on an income of nearly $50,000 a day. Do you still feel comfortable as a taxpayer? Think it over before you I answer. C B Kiddle Washington. D. C.

Dickie Is Still the Boss Editor of the Herald: My birds have not appeared in ! your paper for some ttme. They are quite sensitive, and I am afraid they will not be happy. Dickie still lives on raisins, and he called for his breakfast this morning before I had mine. I served ; him immediately. There are too many purple grackles visiting me now. and they are very noisy. Dickie i cannot drive them away, although they are not his friends. Spring flowers are very beautiful •now. jonquils, forsythias. hyacinths, japonicas. bridal wreaths, and others are lovely. This is indeed a beautiful world, even if we do not appreciate it as we should. State birds are quite busy, and are very handsome, but Dickie is the boss here. All of the birds join me in wishing all of you the best of luck and they uige you to drive carefully. Birdie May Baugh Belona, Va.

Aid Handicapped; Buy Easter Seals Editor, The Herald: Does a lump ever come into your throat when some helplessly crip pled fellow-being shambles by, and do you silently give thanks that you are not so inescapably burdened? Poor indeed in spiritual wealth is the man or woman whose sympa thies are not touched by the plight of one who has been crippled, and thus handicapped in the job of earn ing a living. And how much greater is the tug at our hearts at the sight of a crippled child. There are many millions of crip pled children in the United States. Some have been handicapped from birth; others fell victim to disabling diseases and accidents. Some of these can be restored to normal by trained therapists and the miracle of modern medicine. Those less for tunate can—and should—be trained to earn their own living and enjoy happy, useful lives in spite of their handicaps. They all deserve that chance, for their handicap is no fault of their own. It takes lots of money to provide the medical care and specialized training necessary. That's why the National Society for Crippled Chil dren and Adults and its local mem ber agencies conduct an Easter Seal campaign each spring. It is appropriate that this laud able fund-raising campaign should be conducted at this time of year, when the Christian world is cele brating the resurrection of Him who said, “Suffer the little children to [come unto Me." | By buying and using Easter Seals. 1 you may help train a special thera pist for crippled children; it may i help pay for an operation or a brace to free a crippled child from con jfinement in bed: it may train some j youngster for an occupation he can aake up in spite of his handicaps. Through your Easter Seal contri bution, you can help start some crip pled children on the road to com plete recovery and others on the way to useful, happy lives. The crip pled child cannot help himself. But ! you can help him—by giving gen : erously.

Cordially yours. Everett Trent ClayviUe, Va.

Marker At Hunting1 Tower Editor. The Parmville Herald: I enjoyed the sketeh of Peter Francisco in your issue of March !. There is a correction T'd like to make Hunting Tower 'not Towers . the home of Judge Anthony Winston, was at New Store. The site of the old home is about half way between Sheppards and New Store. After the war Peter operated a tavern at New Store and he was certainly living there in 1821 and 1822 as shown by the list of purchases from the store of my grandfather. William Dibrell Jones. My cousin, Mrs. Nannie Francisco Porter, the author of the ‘'Roman tic Record of Peter Francisco” was confused as to the location of Hunt ing Tower. She confused it with Locust Grove. I called this to her attention and she said she would correct future issues of her book. It appears that Peter lived for a t’me at Curdsville. See “Today and Yesterday." It is unfortunate. T think, that so | much has been written about his feats of strength—throwing horses and cannons around—and so little done to work out a chronological list of his homes, land ownings, oc cupation. family, etc. I have a thick lde on Peter Fran 1 cisco and have recently acquired a j lithograph of his exploit at Ward's tavern. See copy of this picture on ■page 36 of Virginia Cavalcade 'au tumn, l'Cil . Now, a marker of some sort should be placed at the site of Hunt ing lower, and one at thd site of his I tavern at New Store 'just where the road turns off to New Store Church. With very best wishes. Maben Jones Columbia. S. C.

JOB TOTALS Employment in October reached f>C.200,000. the highest October fig lure on record. 100000 above the Sep tember total, but 0000.000 under the - pea kof 66,800,000 reached during the summer when many students and oethr temporary workers were employed. Unemployment stood at 2000.000 beolw that of October. 1955, and was one of the lowest levels since late 1953."

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