Evening star., 1948-12-17

We "eASoHA1c cOI1umatO0 IN THIS report OF
the beliefs whicfrw we hold and are putting into
practice In our daily lives.
ROBERT B. KONIKOW.
President, Evans F. Carlson Chapter, Ameri-
can Veterans Committee.
To the Editor Of The star:
since you gave the self-appointed and self
righteous committee Of ninety and -one 20
much publicity for their personal opinions,
suppose you tell us where the $4,000 came
from ana to whom 1t went. Any one Of this
biased committee could have written such q
report without spending nickle. Dr. Reissie,s
name on the committee Is not going to helm
the Federation Of Churches meet its budget.
OF course. DR.. Reissig has no authority to
speak for the churches, even If newsuapers
40 imply that he has All this agitation for
the colored race Is part Of the trend toward
socialism Many self-appointed spokesmen for
the church are advocating q new social order
TO take the place of religion. 1t is time for
cnurch members who disagree-and they are
numerous-to make themselves heard,
Without spending $4,000, would say living
conditions Tor the Negro are better In the
District than any other city In fact, I think
We need society for the preservation Of the
white race. A CHURCH MEMBER.
To the Editor Of The Star:
An article In The Star said that the Neeroes
are Disseminated against. That Is the great.
est falsehood ever published In any newspaper
Go to the Post Office Department, the De-
partment Of Agriculture, the Social Security
Building, and then tell US that Negroes are
pushed to one side.
You say the Negro Is being Disseminated
against in the matter Of housing, but did YOU
ever ride Benning car and count the white
faces In It? Did you ever go to the end of
the Benning line and see where these colored
people live? They live In much better places
than tho white trash do-and cheaper,
How do you support the theory that it is dis
elimination to want to live in q neigfborhood
OF ones own race? Do you think civil rights
Is merely . one-way ticket?
I am nrm believer in colored people hav-
Ing everything as good as have. But why
not give the white race the same considera-
ton? The Negroes have the run of Washing
ton, and we all know 1t. WALTER HARRIS.
70 the Editor Of The star:
The recent speech Of Clifford M. Newell to
the Glover Park Citizens Association contains
some fundamental misconceptions Is to the
nature Of race relations in Washington.
Mr.. Newell seems to think that. time will
take care Of all the important issues, and that
1t Is inadvisable to stir up trouble by calling
attention to them. As any one who will study
Washington history can find out for himself,
time often has increased instead of dimin-
ished race prejudice. According to the spe-
cial report Of the Department Of Education on
the condition and improvement of the colored
schools tn 1871, colored people were taught In
the Sunday schools and evening schools &C.
casiona1ly, and respectable mulatto families
were In many cases allowed to attend with
white children in private schools and acade-
mics. There are scores Of colored men and
women still living In the District who are de-
Gently educated and who never went to any
but white schools. There are also white men
and women still alive here who went to school
in this city and Georgetown with colored chill
dren and felt no offense."
Mr.. Newell calls on the outstanding Negroes Of
Washington to devote themselves to uplifting
their own society instead OF breaking down
ours" 1t is precisely because Negro leaders
have been 50 concerned with education-the
hrst private school for colored children was
founded In 1S07-that they are no longer salts
ned with the inferior facilities which the
present segregated system Of education pro-
vides. 1t Is hard to see why the abolition of
segregation in Washington should break
down" white society, since the culture pattern
OF the Negro In the United States is essen
TALLY American and not African. The only
sphere Of American culture which is beina
broken down" by Negro influence is that Of
popular music-a process which has been
going on for decades, and which even Mr.,
Newell does not consider important enough to
mention. JAMES II. WHITE