The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-09-19
YE EDITORS NOTE BOOK

YE EDITORS NOTE BOOK
STFT THE NEWS
The Tampa Bulletin learned this week that a Negro
will get job motor vehicle Inspector in the Southern
State of Alabama If true that pleasant news to the ears
of Negro people everywhere.
Strong evidence keeps piing up in proof that democ
racy is being achieved in America by leaps and bounds
The weeks gives several examples of rapid at
tanment of frscass citizenship Negro will be elected
pn tbe great cv Of New Uny Negro Girl becomes
White House secretary the Navy orders Southern
naval stations to stop discrimination against Negro civil
han employees the Air Force announces that it has
achieved full integration five Negro boys will enter
Catholic military academy for first time All of this in
But less we become too jublant over these bright
velopments the same weeks headlines reminded that
there still in which progress is far too slow
Despite all of the emphasis that has been placed in recent
years upon civil rights, human dignity and the rights of
individual, there still people who call them
Americans human beings They think of dark-skn
Americans folk to be summed They do not know the
significance of the United Nations They have not yet
erasped the full meaning of United States Constitution
The lessons of Brotherhood Week and the sermons de-
ivered from pulpts every Sunday morning lost
upon them.
Two examples given in the weeks news of these
people who are failing to keep up with the democratic
trend in American e One is the andady at the Forest
Ave- apartment who called the police because of her
tenants entertaining group of young people of both
people out of there she would call the police She call
ed the officers when the tenant refused to ask her guest
to leave just because their skin dark.
court for disturbing the peace" The only peace disturb
ed the peace of mind of the andlady who could not
bring herself to accept Negro associate equal
terms with White person.
If the landlady does not wish to have Negro friends
that Is her privilege In this land of liberty would
attempt to force Negro friends her. But by the same
token her tenant chooses her friends upon the basis of
personality and interest rather than upon race
neither the landady anyone else has right to in
terfere.
The tenants guest not loud they were not dis
orderly, they were just colored.
We surprised at Judge Ayers Blochers siding with
the andlady How could he find the young tenant guilty of
disturbing the peace with evidence except the word Of
the preudced andlay and two friends of hers In court
they claimed that the young people noisy but on the
night of the arrest their only demand to get those
colored people out of there"
The young tenant plans to file appeal from the
municipal court Judgement The entire community will
rally behind her in her fight for the right to choose her
own friends.
The other example of reaction comes from Denver.
Challenged by Union Pacific employee who claims that
the railroad and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fremen
and Engmemen have formed conspiracy to keep Ne
groes from the better paying jobs Baker represen-
tative Of the union admitted that White fremen and
gineeS do not wish to associate closely with CoOred per-
sons. & t1f
An official of the Union Pacific agrees with Baker.
He asks Would you like to sit in cab next to Negro?
Imagined And thought that persons with such attitudes
were dying out How long does it take people to learn
about humanity and brotherhood? Doesn't it matter to
Baker and Colombo that Negro and white boys fought
torether on the hills in Korea suffered in the
prisoner of war camps and came back home from living
death on the same boat just last Sunday?
The landlady can have her prejudices as long she
1;ve them hn~ iviro But when it to
nIovment especially when public funds expended, it
This country has q policy against dis