Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-12
Georgian Blasts
u. 5. Attempt TO
EndSegregdtion
Davis Tells House
6. O. P. Uses Issue
For Political Ends

Representative Davis, Demo-
crat. of Georgia charged today
that President Eisenhower and
Attorney General Brownell
played politics in asking the Su-
prer1e Court to outlaw. racial
segregation in restaurants here
as a means of helping the Dis
trict get home rule.
In a House speech he called
attention to the friend of the
court" brief filed in Supreme
Court Tuesday by the Attorney
General. This brief urged the
high court to uphold validity of
anti discrimination statutes
passed in 1872 and 1873 by the
old legislative assembly in the
District. The text of Representa-
tive Davis remarks:
Last year majority of the
American people. completely dis
satisfied with the New Deal way
of running the Government,
voted for a change. They want
ed reductions in spending and
taxes, something done about the
Korean war, and a return to
sanity in Government.
Hits Left WingerS."
THE radicals and left-wingerS
such as the Americans for Dem
ocratic Action, the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement
of Colored People and similar
groups did not want a change,
and did not vote for a change.
They wanted a continuation of
the petty politics and the So
cialistic program of the New Deal
element. 1t begins to look now
as if those who want the new
administration to get to work
to pull the country out of a hole,
reduce spending and reduce taxes
will have to be content with Sec
ond place. Position No. l has
been allocated to program of
appeasement of radicals and
minority pressure blocs for politi-
cal purposes.
Tuesday there was a news
paper story telling that the At
torney General filed a brief in
the Supreme Court asking that
segregation be abolished. Now
this brief is filed by the Attor-
ney General in the name of the
United States. The United
States is not a party to the
suit. It is not entitled to file
a brief as a party to the suit.
He pushes himself into the case
under the guise of a friend of
the court.
Eisenhower Blamed.
'It is undoubtedly done at the
direction of the President. He
and the Attorney general bring
themselves into this case to palm
off their personal views as the
position of the United States.
Undoubtedly it is done as a po-
litical gesture in the hope that
these radical groups can be en-
ticed away from the New Deal
ers and attached to the Repub-
lican Party. This brief is an
effort to use the Supreme Court
as a monkey to pull political
CheStnutS out of the fire for
them.
1T is an unauthorized action
on the part of these officials.
Neither of them is authorized to
allege in a brief, or otherwise,
that the United States advocates
the abolition of segregation in
the restaurants and cafes in
Washington.
Il had expected that PreSi-
dent Eisenhower would apply his
talents and those of his aSsoci-
ates to some of the many press
ing problems which need imme-
diate attention. But this action
seems to indicate that we may
look for the new administration
to carry on the New Deal prac-
tice of appeaSing radicals to get
votes and that the major objec-
tive will be to do it more effec-
lively and to outdeal the New
Deal"