Evening star., 1954-05-18

public schools.
violence would be to beg inevi-
table grief.
Louisville (Ky.) Courier-J Jour-
nal-In a way, the decision was
an anti-climax. The justices had
but to look around at the facts
of today's life in the United
States and the world. Ken
lucky and several other States
years ago began admitting Ne
groes to graduate and profess
Sional schools, heading the Su-
preme Courts rule in the Nc
Laurin, Sweat and Sipuel cases
that separation cannot hold, if
equality is lacking. And the lat
ter usually is lacking-not only in
standards but also in outlook and
in acceptance of individuals as
Americans among whom funda-
mentally there can be no differ
ence in rights.
Lexington (Ky.) Herald
There never has been a time
when racial relations were bet
ter in the State and it is to
be hoped that the situation that
results from this decision may
be met in way that will further
and advance the best aims of
all for the advancement of edu-
cation and not occasion agita-
ton. Considerable preparation
has been made in educational
circles toward that end. With
wise leadership and competent
preparation it is believed and
hoped that the predictions that
Kentucky will not face as Seri-
GUS a problem as some of the
other States such as Virginia
and South Carolina may be JUS
titled.
Miami (Fla.) Herald-It is
futile, of no consequence and
not conducive to poiSeful and
intelligent adjustment to discuss
the overall action Of the court.
The law has been determined.
We feel that so far as this State
is concerned the adjustment to
it-when the time comes-will
be sanely. judiciously and hu-
namely carried QUITO the sat
isfaction of our colored and
white citizens alike.
Pensacola (Fla.) News-Journal
The best procedure is to face
the issue squarely, for white and
Negro leaders to work out plans
to avoid friction. Certainly we
must oppose any system of pri-
vate schools as planned by at
least two States. Political evils
should be obvious. We hope Act
ing Gov. Johns has no such idea
in calling special session of the
Legislature.
Little Rock Gazette-The level
of discussion has now descended
to the crossroads hamlet and
the participants are not learned
educators but the parents of
Negro children and the white
laymen who sit on a local school
boards
It is here that the South will
have to determine the future of
it's educational system. Wise
leadership at the upper levels
can help, and emotional excur-
sions by the leaders of either
race can do great harm. But
in the end the new patterns will
have to be hammered out across
the table in thousands of scat
tered school districts, and they
will have to be shaped to accom-
modate not only the needs but
the prejudices of whites and
Negroes to whom these problems
are not distractions but the es-
sence of their daily lives.
Texarkana (Ark.) Gazette
>. f. It has been our feeling that
the welfare of the Negroes and
the whites would have been
served best by a delay of several
years. Let those of us who
are not able to make an inn
mediate adjustment figure out
a course of action which will
suit us and follow that course
with quiet determination .
The decision poses an ever
greater challenge to the Negroes
than it does the whites. Their
progress will be in ratio to the
wisdom with which they ap-
proach this new opportunity.
Fort Smith (Ark.) Southwest
American The overwhelming
majority of the people in the
States which now have segregat-
ed schools have hoped the court
would stick to its time-honored
rule that separate but equal IA
cllities are permitted under the
Constitution Many Negro
people do not want mixed
schools Extremists have
forced the issue to a decision