The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1955-04-16
Who Are They To Defy
The Supreme Court


been need of fair and courageous leadership
our Governors Mansion in Richmond than today.
To language adequately describing the cowardce dis
regard and contempt shown by Governor and the
oey General for decision handed down by the Supreme
Court of land and country would be unprintabe So
we are leaving it to you to name them.
The historic ruling of the Supreme Court May II,
the IL Southern States and the District of Columbia As
for the State and certainly better for our Chief Executive
and Attorney General if they had fishing instead of
mos Exalted Not o have they made
takaby clear that they going to do all they cir
ethical standards of their high offices down TO- the eye Of
abberouses BY doing they have rendered the Mother
State OF the Union great dsserVlce
1t natural to expect spirits of resentment and threats
Of defiance Of the law to spring from irresponsible in
is set by the highest officers of State that's just going
too far.
needed provide leadership especially such
an all ober wh have rn M
scene of action would actually be embarrassed by the be
havor OF Vrgnlas Governor and Attorney General this
enlightened age.
We cannot believe the polished gentlemen Of the su
II States and the District of Columbia to present their
views when and how negration is to be accomplished
have behaved rudey the Court find it necessary
to hand down decree with teeth in it. For example any
be subjected to heavy fine The officer officers charged
with the responsibility of executing this law and
subjected to a fine Jail sentence, or both.
You would not need than two test cases
law than they thought they
Is the Attorney General Mad?
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad"
Is it that Attorney Generals much learning has
him mad has his desire be made him mad?
Whatever the may be that has Infatuated him. our
Attorney General is acting like mad His friends
admirers who have always hailed him jurist of
ability are sadly disappointed in the he is deporng
himself in this matter which commands the eyes and at
tentiOn of the world
In his insulting and unwarranted reference to the il
legitimate children of the Negro Though the subject
was far from the pont) has only to look Negro
to ascertain the of much the iegitimacy
though grossly exaggerated by Attorney General We
care not to discuss this subject further
AS to Mr. Almonds reference to the health fthe Yr-
gnia Negro able attorneys inelgently took
that Indictment before the Supreme Court
In to Attorney Almonds to the quail
caton OF Negro and white public school teachers perhaps
he has read the latest statistics that subject For his and
the publcs bneft, the following verbatim teram
reprint from the December issue 1854 of the Virginia Edu
cation Commission
"The studies of Virginia Teachers Association s
Research Department and the reports of the Virginia State
Department Education reveal that Negro teachers on
percenagewide basis the better trained group of the
teachers in the entire State.
A. OF the 1851 supervisory personnel including Super
ntendents Directors of Instruction supervisors
Ject white in Virginia 1927 during the
college and holders of the Virginia Post Graduate
Collegiate Professional or Collegiate Degrees
Similarly of sos school administrators in the Negro
schools for the period 513 per cent had finished
four of college and held the Virginia Graduate
Collegiate Professional Collegiate Degrees
Conclusion
OF the school administrators in our respective white
and Negro systems for the school term 195354 group
per Of the Negro officials had had four
of college training held Virginia