The Press: Let the South Go

The 7,000 readers of the Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise are no strangers to proposals in ornate Victorian prose to turn the clock back. Some time after he revived the long dormant Enterprise for a plaything in 1952, aging (57) Dandy Lucius Beebe, onetime high-society chronicler for the New York Herald Tribune, genially proclaimed: "The editorial policy of the Enterprise is benevolent backwardness—reaction against everything." Last week the enterprising Enterprise, tongue only half in cheek, declared that since the centennial of the Civil War is to be observed next year, it might be...