The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-03-26


segregationiStS have to deal. For
it is common knowledge that
when a Southerner becomes a
convert to cause, he goes all out
and all the time and under all
circumstances. There is no more
vigorous defender of cause than
the Southerner, once he is COM
mitted.
Lynching enjoyed what SEEM
ed like an indefinite currency UNI
til Southern women led by Mrs.
Jessie d. Ames, great southers-
er, gave the lie to the then pre-
vailing propaganda that lynching
was essential to the protection
of Southern Womanhood. Mrs.
AmeS and her supporting group
soon drove Judge Lynch to the
wall, where he dares not raise his
bloody head.
So when SouthernerS more and
more begin to eSpouse the cause
of democracy as embodied in in
tegration, we may expect happy
developments. The cause of full
democracy is by no means lost
in the South, in spite of its Tai
madge and its ByrneSSeS. There
are Whites who have resolved to
make the South decent and
democratic place in which to live.
For years and years this writer
has been contending that there is
good will and moral decency in
the South to save the interracial |
situation. 1t was contended that |
moral courage was the great re-
quisite to complete interracial I'M
derStanding in the South. The |
latant NegrophobeS have long held |
sway and the demagogue has had
a field day; but there are signs
that the latent moral courage is
beginning to assert itself and the
cause Of better race relations is
being wonderfully served.
Lillian Smith with her vigor-
GUS writings is being heard with
a conviction heretofore not so
manifest. Her Strange Fruit and
her Killers of the Dream and her
more recent Now The Time are
making a potent impression on
the current situation. Now comes
Mrs. Sarah Boyle of Charlottes-
vile, Va, Southerner to the
manor born, with her challenging
article of recent date in Saturday
Evening Post declaring that
Southerners will like indignation
The opposition that Mrs. BoyleS
article stirred is easily one of its
finest points. Her point of view
bristleS with moral challenge; the
criticisms of her gainsayers are
seeped in prejudicial lore of the
Old South that is currently dying
a natural death. Mrs. BoyleS'
article looks toward 2055AD and
that of her critics bark back to
1855,
The world nor the critical stu
atoms thereof cannot be saved by
some nostalgia formula devised
by preiudiced human creatures
who cannot bring themselves to
realize that Civil War has been
fought and lost by those who take
their greatest pride in feeling
better than some of Gods unfor-
tunate children. The South needs
saving from these hapleSs crea-
lures who specialize in trying to
throw stumbling blocks in the
way of fellow travellers.
Now comes Billy Graham, cur
rently the worlds most famous
evangelist. The memories of
Dwight l.. Moody and Billy Sun
day have not vanished from re-
ligious thought in these United
States. Billy Graham is a power
for good in the world and
Southerner, who has recently
dared to lift his voice against
segregation, calling it sinful"
Right, Billy Graham, and God
bless you'll
Another Southerner has mus
tered the requisite moral cour-
age and speaks UP in defense OF
the South and the nation and
righteousness. When Billy Gra-
ham was in Richmond a few
months ago this writer was not a
little disappointed that he COM
pletely by-paSSed the South's No.
One moral problem, segregation
It must be admitted that Billy'S