Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-03-22
EDITORIAL -.
The Uliimaiunl Of iiie Ninth
Street Bus Siiuaiion???

For several months racial has been mounting in
the by the Ninth Street bus increasing hate IN
people who have looked for years to that mode OF trans
portaon to the point of explosion that will make the atom
bomb look like the average Fourth of July ecracker cee
bration This is not written a suggestionbut an newt
able prediction unless the Capital Transportation Company
does something about it, and does it damn quick
No right thinking person any community wants to see
violence in his community read about 1t IN any other COM
munty, but it is certainty Little Rock long as the
officials of the transportation company continue the employ
ment of ow-grade- negotiating Observation-Disclosures to
transportation buses and pass off as fancy their IN
suits and abuses to Negro passengers
The "Taucking dog type of Negro who was prevalent
few years ago has just about passed off the scene Out OF
this past worlds conflict comes new Negro who has been
taught to expect DEAL and who has been trained
by the best instructors the world to die for the principles
of democracy
These new men did return to American soil, the
soil their BIRTH seeking favors from the white man. neither
cid they the role of the inferior group,
accepting abuses insults and dogke treatment from any
group 1t is foloy for anybody to expect that If the
white man has learned nothing from World H. the Negro
He has learned that the practice OF superiority among
races ends disaster He, himself party to making
the drastic Uncle Sam did not train men to accept
abuses from enemies with smiles, and neither were they
trained their folks abused without coming to
their These things dealt the Negro from employees
Of Capitol Transportation Company and full knowledge OF
the instruction given the Negro during the past four years.
make us know serious trouble inevitable unless some
action is taken to prevent by the officials of the ranspor
taton company.
What can the company do?
There are several applications that will remedy the
situation But, What will the company do?
One may offer suggestions only be told: 1T won't
work. How does anybody know what will work until it is
tried? Since we the victims of sinking JmCrow law
folly for any to expect and pleasant relations
long such sinking piece of legislation exists because
the law within itself is motvaed to keep America from be-
ing democracy and to breed hate and disunity There
are many Souheners of the type that running
buses who would have other method Of
showing their superiority without the law,
The employing OF Negro bus drivers gets the "ho, ha
from the officials when mentioned. Insructns bd
drivers deal humaney with Negro passengers white
passengers would have bearing with the type OF uncouth
upstairs Negroes encounter the buses running through
Ninth Street for very few in the south will make de-
nands strong enough for effect to white employees dealing
with Negroes The company institute the method that
used successfully in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City is city of the south infested with the
still sinking JmCrow law Little Rock still doesn't see
the ACCESSIBILITY of employing Negroes bus drivers Yet
Oklahoma City has solved problem saving the city of dis
grace. problem similar TO the facing today.
the bus line there known E. Fourth going into the
heavy populated Negro section, similar to W. Ninth Street,
ridden mostly by Negroes all JmCrow restrictions ruled
completely Negroes themselves any avail
able Even when boarded by whites the white sit wherever
thy find seats they desire; not they at liberty to
stand. This is solution problem that headed in
the same direction the here that brought boodshed
TO the little God-forsaken town of Tennessee.
The problem is solved in Oklahoma City, and is
any the off Special observations made of the
white riders who seated themselves with Negroes
and visible signs present of their suffering from any
plague of ineriory any more than the white supremacs
of Little Rock
Oklahoma City didn't do this any favor to Negroes.
1t was Negro problem neither Oklahoma City prob
lem but it was a problem of America, brought by the
sinking JmCrow laws of the south designed to make the
white feel because his face is white that he is better
han