Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-05-10
editorials
as IT TRUE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT DIxIE?"

as it true what they say about Dxie? This query was
put few days ago. sat in the dining room of one
Of Detros leading hotels The information seekers
two lady students of the University of Michigan Unfortu
nately we had to answer in the affirmative.
It is true does shine but the air is tainted with
prejudice There nothing wrong with most of the people
of Southern ancestry Once they able to breathe
air of the North less tainted with prejudice they in
far different However, the strain
every fiber of their being trying to be decent without resorng
to tolerance.
Proof of this was seen when the writer boarded Mis-
souri, Pacific passenger train recently for trip Being as
signed to paror seat in Little Rock for St Louis be-
Little Rockans perplex problem, and
remained until passed Poplar Bluff Missouri short
distance above the imaginary Mason-Dixon line. The air
became tainted with prejudice and Little Rock par
lor negbors began getting neghbory the train sped
northward the neghboy they became In fact they
got neghborly they became monotonous as hell On
trip from Detroit proof is offered to substan
tate the affect of climatic conditions on ones behavior
Boarding of the Chicago and Southern planes in Detroit
for Little Rock "Mr" this and Mr. that all along
the until left Evansville, Indiana for Memphis
Tennessee, and the Memphis stretch, became just
plain "so-andso" the Mr. title absorbed in the
tainted of southern traditions with due respect to the
steWardess the service remained the throughout the
tipl
These conditions present because people do not I'M
derstand each other every effort proered for an I'M
Outstanding rebued The pocos of the South have 1al
ed mserably offering anything to bring about better
understanding between the two people And move
ent educational legislative religious civic offered by
any group other sections to improve upon the relations
between white and cooed is taken by the wrong end and
labeled "Communstc "Socalistc anything that tends
to erase the glory of the white supremacist"
This is not entirely of all souheners. There are
MANY who cooperate with movement to bring better I'M
Outstanding between the people But lacking
ton on the part of the Negro they will only go certain
distance The named" Negro hasn't yet learned to ac-
cept responsibility of better citizenship lie still prefers
to take his trouble to Deity and leave them in His hands
then 90 ahead in his nonchaant way anything is done
about them here it's H. if not he still remembers the re-
ward that's promised him hereafter and finds plenty con-
ISOLATION
We do not want to be contradictory to any proverbal
teachings but we do believe that prayer alone is the
solution to all problems We feel that the solution of our
problem as secondcass citizens depend lot on the energies
we exert (ee James 3l8) Too much four time has been
spent on things provdena and not enough things ma
terial The named" Negro spends too much time attng
IN the white man about the of his degrading for
the sole purpose of building himself in the estimation OF the
white
AS long as these part of many southern Negroes
ake-up along with traditional prejudice of many of the
whites everything that is said about Dixie will be true
Dixie will always be the mill that grnds brutality ignorance
ree poverty peonage and everything else that
America to be menace to worlds peace until the Negro
realizes that mo chain is stronger than its weakest link
dsrobes himself of his cowardy attitude takes the bone out
m hs head and puts it in back then joins forces with
the liberal whites who and willing to accept the
truth about the nustces of the southland and willing to
do something about it.