Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-02-15
EDITORIAL :.
THE S0UTHERNERS HAVE IT

With the temporary defeat of the Fair Employment
Practice Bill Southern goang over the TACT
that they successful in defeating fair employment
practices, but more over maintaining State Rights
To thwart any infringement State Rights was the main
southern senatorial opposition Getting the support
their constituents back home for they knew
that necessary publcize the old bugaboo OF social
equality They knew their constituents would not or eou
the provisions of the BILL if they did see 1t
White supremacy would render them blind unconscious to
anything else.
This Just today it was before the war Inc
humiliation that theory taken from America to Germany
after causing millions of to lose their lives has not en-
lghtened the people any at all
What we're the objections to the Presidents Fair Employ
ment Practice Commission?
Ignorance to its provisions seems be the most logical
answer.
In simple language the bill only prohibits discrmina
ton in employment because of creed COLOR national
origin ancestry only applies agencies of the Federal
Government; employers of six persons who opera
tons affect interstate foreign commerce. labor unions
whose practices affect interstate and federal con-
and subcontractors who employ six more per-
that undemocratc? If it what about this All per-
born naurazed in the United States and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof citizens of the United States and
of the State wherein they reside No State shall make
any which shall abridge the privileges immuni
of the citizens of the United States shall any State
deprive any person of life liberty property without equal
protection of the laws"
Or what about this? "The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall be denied abridged by the United
any State account of color previous
condition of servitude."
These are amendments to the Constitution The first
was adopted 1863 and made clear that Negroes ct
The second adopted in 1870 to Negro suf
fage and Negroes from being DISTINGUISHED Now
10 deny Negroes these according southerners demo-
cratic Still they part of our Constitution.
Something wrong somewhere If it is undemocratic
10 guarantee fair employment United States
and deny citizens privileges guaranteed them
by the Constitution Somebody has the bull by the wrong
end or the Constitution isn't worth damn
It has been evidenced that was poor strategy the
part of pocos after the south defeated and whipped
into the union State hts party support The
South got the power welcomed for it souheners the
right to deal with the Negro the way they fit Today
that power become detrimental to the entire structure
of democratic country and if not curbed is likely
TO cause the overthrow Of entire America
Already the traditions of the South have made it the
poorest section of America the most erae the poorest
in health that alone has cost the North East and West
more than their share of casualties in late world struggle
This is in addition to making America to worlds
peace.
True southerners know this to be true They know
sometime sooner later be done This much is adj
med in many circles Still they fight and oppose anything
Offered TO better the conditions from "We
must work out program they say. Yet nobody
offers a program for any substitution.
II is our prediction the wakes up and offers
some form of program that will destroy the evils of this
ton and comes to the realization that the biological differ
ence in the color of ones skin has nothing to do with his
SUPREMACY will always be fbusering against legislation
from the North East and West in attempt to the
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