St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-12-04
Ike Has Courage OF His Convictions

II Dwight Eisenhower was concerned chiefly with political
Implications and fortunes he would have had his attorney
era Herbert Browne keep Of the five challenging
u racial segregation which will be orally argued before the
u Supreme Court beginning Monday, December This is
especially since the briefs submitted argued
against racial segregation in the schools
If ike" only with keeping his great popu-
larty in the white south he could have sescpped the
He received far support in his campaign for the pres
dency from the white south than he received from the
Negroes who win be the chief beneficiary aong with
country II school racial segregation by
lawed
Eisenhower did receive much support from Negro
Americans in the 1852 presidential elections because his pre-
decessor Harry Truman, in openly backing the end Of
segregation had also shown the which Mr..
Eisenhower Is exhibiting today.
Truman took just big political gamble in supporting
civil rights measures Eisenhower because he guavey
had to turn his back the Democratic party south which
factor in the election Of Democrat to the Presidency
Eisenhower has had to make the decision lie
to decide to choose between being important cog bringing
about greatly needed social change catering the
NODDED segregation practices which IN years
the whole Of the the butt Of criticism The
latter would have been the politically expedent one
follow That the Administration has courage to
the right course rather than the politically cxpeent
bounds TO its credit.
The Supreme segregation issue may be political sui
eide for the Republican administration and il may just
opposite In the long the substantial law abiding whites
the south thank both Eisenhower and the Supreme
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possible justification for schools in the past
day is long Certainly the south has really attempted
10 make Negro schools equal and actually IL able
financially 10 do without Federal government
AT the present time in - of the southern is pos
be bring about the separate but equal" program wthou
the state going bankrupt
With the exception Of North Carolina, single one o
the IL states that maintain separate schools made any
effort 70 give the Negro anything approaching equal schools
before the NAACP courts of the land for relief
All these the Negro children robbed the
their due in education because Of the dual sseuwhch ic
to support syStemswth barely enough money for one
President Eisenhower knows well rs any sober
fair and intelligent American that abolition of the segre
gated school system win raise the of United
States in the minds of millions of people throughout
world who want TO be friends
He knows that Soviet propaganda which scoffs at GU
leadership of the free people will lose its argu
ments by school segregation abolition namely That in prae
system aud maintains it in hypocrcal defiance its owl
Constitution
The Sovets rulers, the Russian Polboro pulling TO
the views of Americans of the Byrnes aud Tamadge type
win decision before the Supreme Court II views pre-
vail, the Kremln win be very happy
This newspaper hopes the u Supreme Court will exhibi
the kind of honesty and which President Es
hover has shown, in throwing the weight of executive
branch of the behind the end stat
sponsored American segregation the public schools
ruling school segregation in violation the 18th Amend
ment TO the Constitution.
BY such decision il will be doing service TO the nato
as whole, which viii than many think create ne,
Of common unity the people who make up
country and make stronger in practice well precept
and mere words