Arkansas State press., 1956-03-16
State Rights Need An
American Objective
5. S. Taylor, Associate Editor

hundred congressman issued statement denouncng
Supreme Court desegregaon daily reports The group
was said 10 have been composed southenes with the no
table Tennesseans Inspiration for the procedure
said to have come meeting held by Senator Walter
George of Georgia the state of Marvin Griffin ana Euse
Cook oc -
aors This makes total of SCI law makers. To pass any
measure it will that majority of 2lS representatives
40 needed 1t will be seen therefore mat the
number directors shows the weakness In the nation
II also the for the recent howl about state
rights rights which really disturb these gen
the possibility of Negro rights small group OF
is against the extension of legal equality 10 the
Negro larger group of 40 or more states In FAVOR OF
granting legal equality to the Negro To defeat the VIII oil e
national majority and to oppose the announced ana uha
nous of the Supreme Court the only resource LETT
say. mo, the nation can't do this; the STATE
boss"
of course the southern representatives
unit They have always been noted for their solidarity We
could All that had been done in the past 10 get
opposed is to call il favorable TO Negroes num-
Der papers and number of politicians have taken
labelling everything that advocates application oil the DEM
ocratic principles Negroes Communslc.
this unified group is dwindling In size Less ran
years ago there 20 states praeeng segregation
Now there less than half that many The states which
have embraced ntegraon show no tendency TO turn eak 70
Supreme Court has from decision
another constantly enlaging the expeaton and mpca-
on of its meaning The judges OF the lower courts nave a
precedent by the judges of the Supreme Court
Only by advocating the overthrow of the decree of the
who stand for the legal oppression
entire have their And If you really want
manifestation of Communism where you find better es-
ample? constitutional government The Supreme
Court authorized supreme awdecarng Of that
To oppose its decree except by constitutional
means is subyersive
group segregation representatives
said have ehamponed "nterpositon by name This,
the form opposition is taking in extreme segrega-
ton states short time five Arkansas men were sent
Virginia study the Virginia plan They came back and
stated they liked It, The of the plan that the state
the ruling unconstitutional and disobey II till
say obey OF course treeourhs
would finally because that is the three
fourth going But fibusteng would take time In the
doubt that the Segregationss would
gain time although they would make themselves look
small the of the world.
Christian Science Monitor the Charlotte n {
saying. "Interposon has fetching label and his
tory of bluff and buster but 1t represents futile in
appropriate gesture II which has led to trou
bic in past promises nothing better In the future
The attitude of these segregation legislators is at striking
variance with the attitude of the party leadership AT the re-
cent Civil Rights Rally" in Washington d. C.. Paul NJ But
er Democratic national chairman and Representative Hugh
Scott Pennsylvania Republican We'd with each other TO claim
party credit for Negro indignation gains The NAACP credit
ed with staging the rally certainly in distinguished COM
pany State Rights need American Objective.