The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1954-09-11

and applied to the question of de-segrepation in our
schools this idea believe be made to function for
our mutual progress.
Inc fullest education possible, made available to
every man, woman and child in our nation-woud def
ntey contribute to the webeing our land This being
true education be classed highly essential to our
mutual progress 1t is of the fields in which be-
lleve, Booker T. Washington's idea of being lone as
the hand be made work with far less fear and
worry than is being anticipated Most Negro experts in
the field OF Race Relations feel that Negroes re-
sent the local restrictions which the South enforces
based on color frame alone 1t my honest opinion that
all restrictions were removed Negroes would content
to fraternze with their group just as other racial
entities do It's just the idea of being egslated against
that makes many Negroes militant
De-segregation in the schools would believe af
feet only small number of students in the first place
and in the second, would lead to but little actual social
minging. My extensive travels throuphout tho NORTH
East and West reveal that very small percent of
Negroes and whites to develop close friendly rea
lonshp even though many laws these areas do not for
bid such minglng. New York is fairly democratic but
there is still Harlem
In many instances Negroes have neither the desire
nor the money to pay their way to go into the
places where segregation exstsye they feel that they
are less free when they forbidden to 90 even if they
could afford it. In the of education many Negroes
are no more interested in attending white schools than
whites are in attending Negro schools Particularly is
this true in the South where long established customs
nave initiated strongly against friendship any type
VI Eacn group WILL DeleVe, what it
seeks from the school attended at the end of the
school day its separate way the world of it's own
people.
In summing up the situation, I'd like to state that
is my honest opinion that the problem segregation
or desegregation in school will prove as devasat
ing most Southern whites believe it will nor as much
OF cure-all as many of group to think it will
People are human and practical No measures will be
carried out that will bring about too much chaos
Throughout land in where laws do not prohibit
social ntermingling of the races, find each group
living winthn its cultures. In the South where laws
along racial lines hare always been strictly enforced
there is every to believe that social nermnglng
will not exist Then too, because of the housing pattern
throughout the South and the location of schools within
districts there will be wholesale disturbance of pupils
one way the other.
The biggest measurable effect in the de-segre
cation will, believe initiate against the Negro in the
field of teacher employment No particular consdera-
ton will be given him. AS Booker T. Washington has
APPLY put it: This country demands that every race shall
measure itself by the American standard. BY it race
must rise fall succeed fail and in the last analysis
sentiment counts for ittle 1t is my sincere hope
that neither white Negro leaders will do anything
that might destroy the good will that has been built up
between the period of pears