Evening star., 1954-10-14
L letters to The Star.

AL tGtIcTS
God could have SO little pride that he
is willing to push himself into COM
pany where he is deeply resented. and
even gloat over 1t.
Interested Observer.
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Rights for minorities! This is the
cry today, but Is it really possible for
q minority to get hearing In the
press? / am writing to find out.
The South is q minority. That Is
the real reason why 1t lost the Civil
War. It was outnumbered. It is still
q minority with peculiar problems Of
its own. not the problems Of the rest
Of the Nation.
The first OF these was the terrible
poverty after the war. There was not
enough money for education. there was
not enough leisure to write the true
history of the South. and the enor-
NOUS number Of freed slaves had to
be helped and cared for. Much has
been written about the Ku Klux Klan,
little about the helps the anxiety, the
warm friendship Of the white people
of the South for the Negroes. They
gave Of the little that they had, and
together the two races have been
struggling forward into better future.
A small minority of Negroes have
laid aside patience and wisdom and
are distorting the situation with un-
friendliness that borders on violence.
It seems strange to me that some Of
our statesmen. our editors, and even
our lawyers and judges are so much
inundated by Communism, that they
shape their opinions by it.
C. nj. Ely.
The recent demonstrations by school
children in expressing their objection
to enforced integration show the true
American spirit. However some school
and police officials have used coercion,
intimidation and threats to silence
these Youngsters and few clergymen
have gone so far as calling. them sub
versive and un-American.
have seen several Communist
picket lines in Washington, D. c., and
the paraders were given police pro-
lection but what did the school chill
dren get when they expressed their
objection to Supreme Court opin-
ion?
b. M. Miller.
am referring to the letter signed
by -Four Parents" and published Oc-
tober In The Star.
In the first paragraph it was stated:
"Such assignments are definitely not
for the best interests of the children
because Of the close emotional tie be-
tween teacher and pupil in the elemen-
tary grades" They were referring, Of
course. to Negro teachers relation to
a white pupil. would like to pose the
question. how about the Negro nurse
maids employed by thousands of work
ing mothers? How much closer emo
tionally can that relationship be? For
generations Southern families have en-
ployed "Mammies" to care for their
young ones and there is nothing wrong
with the results.
The Supreme Court of our country
ruled, so what are we to do? Teach
our children self-discipline and courage
to obey the laws of this great United
States. How lucky we Americans are
Negro or white.
Yvonne A. Burke,
-Four Parents protest against the
policy Of allowing Negro teachers to
teach in schools which are predomi-
nately white. It is apparent they fail
to realize that this policy can go fur
tller toward ainiable integration in the
District schools than any other. And
for what reason do they protest? They
offer the reason that it is not for
the best interests of the children be-
cause of the close emotional tie be-
tween teacher and pupil in the ele-
mentary grades. propose that it is
for the best interests of the children
and the best interests Of the country
as a whole, for precisely the same rea-
son.
Children are flexible and are easily
nodded to think along prearranged
lines. If given an unprompted choice
it would make no difference to them
Some children, however, have been
guided along the same narrow-minded
path as their parents once were guided
and quite naturally they will continue
to follow this path unless their parents
concede their error. This is difficult
and indeed requires great will and de-
termination.
James r. Hecker.
So a recent graduate Of Woodrow
Wilson High School is "An Ashamed
Student.
The students Of Anacostia High
School did not expect the students oi
Woodrow Wilson High School to joir
them in the walk out. Why shoulc
they? They probably have no Negroes
in their school. nor will they have more
than a handful for many years in the
ultraexclusive Cleveland Park, Chevy
Chase section.
The students of Anacostia High knew
before they walked out they could not
win, but it was their way Of letting
Cleveland Park, Chevy Chase, Glover
Park and the Nation know how they
felt about integration. My own child
the last I have in school, thank God
was with the Anacostia demonstrators
and am proud that she had the cour-
age of her convictions to stand up fol
what she believed in.
James A. johnson.