Evening star., 1950-01-23
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Government completely stated by colored
men"
This Congressman claims to be the de-
fender in the House of Representatives of
the civil rights of substantial number of
Negroes in his home city. One of his pa
tronage appointees is a ranking official in
the District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds
Office. Why he brought the colored man to
Washington for a District job rather than
getting him a similar position back home,
where the man votes and pays taxes, is no
mystery. The Kefauver Bill, which would
compact 1O2 separate, overlapping agencies
into IL departments makes a shift in the
Recorder of Deeds Office, traditional po-
ntlcal burying ground for colored vote
getters created by members of Congress who
avoid the civil rights issue at home Thus
the enactment of the bill would threaten the
Job OF this Congressmans appointee, so the
Congressman feels justified in opposing the
measure which would bring democracy to
Washington and enfranchise 85O,OOO people.
This type of illegitimate action illustrates
another reason why the District government
should be taken as far out of the hands of
Congress as possible. The District long has
suffered under the political monstrosity
whereby it is considered the private preserve
OF predatory visiting firemen and undesir-
ables who have no place in home town Of
fees. What this city needs is a good dose
OF democracy and the way to start is by
passing the Kefauver Bill now.
w. H. MALoNEY. Jr.
Argues for Unrestricted Racial Association
As Test Of National Theater in Washington
To the Editor Of The Star:
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warrants reply not merely for its innuendo
but also because it purports to be typical
letter from "theater lover and from one
who feels that a great injustice has been
done to the people of Washington. I, too,
feel that great injustice has been done,
and from this common sympathy venture
to take issue with DR.. Shyne.
He is concerned with the moral illegiti-
macy, the authoritarian nature of the Actors
Equity Union which he claims is preventing
the opening Of legitimate theater How he
determines ipsi dixit the so-called "pinkish'
nature OF the union from this is not demon
strated but assumed. Neither does he ven-
ture into the polemics of the real issue
segregation. His indignation as a theater
lover properly should be directed against Mr.,
Heiman, who Is typical of those people who
set themselves up with repressed Calvin
lstic sense OF SIM to be the judges of what
should constitute the Washington attitude
toward theater-goers.
Mr.. Heiman brought the closing of the
National Theater upon himself-his intrac-
table attitude and jejune racist rationale
properly deserve chastisement His theater
was neither national nor a theater in the
true sense of the word. Dr. Shyne in effect,
has missed the point-righteouS indignation
Is futile unless properly channelized toward
the true evil.
This true evil is demonstrated incisively
in the February issue of Cosmopolitan, a
magazine renowned for it's conservatism.
The real reason that the legitimate theater
is meeting with so much opposition, so much
obstructionism and propaganda is that there
% is desire deliberately to limit access of
theater privileges to one segment of the
population-and to perpetuate the myth of
cultural lag between one section of the
species and another
Is the Negro to be considered second
class citizen in the Capital of Nation theo-
retically proud of its egalitarianism? Not
theoretically second-class-but in practice
very much 50. Some are quite willing to
forfeit their theater to perpetuate an anti
Negro bias. DR.. Shyne is willing to compro-
mise his theater. Not let us take the
control of legitimate theater from the uni
lateral men like Mr.. Heiman and place it
in the hands of those who would be willing
to restrict admission solely on the basis of
seating capacity.
The oft-misunderstood Confucius once
wrote: "A man who has committed mis-
take and doesn't correct it is committing
another mistake" Let us all profit from this
aphorism. WHBERT B. Dublin.
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