Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27
School Hearings

! have noted with no little
amusement the frenetic effort
put forth by the NAACP to
suppress the congressional in
veStigation into the District
public school system and the
scurrilous references to the
motives of Representative
Davis committee-all intended
to discredit in advance the dis
closures and findings.
Certainly if, as the "do
coolers would have us be-
lieve, the colored community
has conducted itself with ex-
emplary good manners and
disciplined its children for in
tegration. they have nothing
to fear from the revelations to
the committee. If. on the other
hand, there is a pattern Of
ugly behavior well known to
these agencies which they
must necessarily conceal, then
the Davis committee will have
rendered our beloved Capital q
signal service for exposing to
more mature consideration Of
those who brought it about, the
dismal consequences of inte-
grafton in the District.
When the full impact Of this
second mobile experiment" of
the twentieth century has
been felt in this benighted city.
and the last white taxpayer
with children Of school age
has departed from our borders.
perhaps the trainers Of our
economic destiny will realize
what q CHASTITY mistake has
been made, and will then, as
with prohibition, offer legisla-
ton of repeal. Meanwhile, the
cowardly and offensive at
tempts to muzzle all opposition
to the proponents of integra-
ton must be dealt with firmly
and forthrightly. as with all
such efforts to stifie freedom Of
expression which bear the
trademark Of organized and
articulate minorities.
o. Ellsworth Rue.
AS an observer of average
political leanings, I am at a
loss to fathom the mind Of
the Negro voter who says he
is still with the Democratic
Party. The subcommittee in
vestigations of the public
schools of the District of
the District OF Columbia. with
its slanted appraisals, must
make the Negro Democratic
voter take counsel of him
self and doubt his good sense.
All Of us who followed
Franklin Roosevelt and the
redoubtable Harry Truman
with such fealty and fidelity
should take a second look at
what is in store for US if we
cast q Democratic ballot
under the present circum-
stances.
If those liberal gentlemen,
Stevenson and Kefauver, lead
the Democratic Party to
victory, they will be absolutely
powerless to forestall such
men as Byrd, Eastland, FL
lender, Talmadge and all their
colleagues Of like persuasion
who signed the Southern
manifesto from doing their
utmost to undo in the next
Congress all that has been
done in the past. This should
be even frightening to the
Negro.
/ am not pleased with
many things in the Republic
can, Party. but. as the lesser
Of two evils will take all the
charges made by the Demo-
Gratis against them, which to
me pale into insignificance
with the possibilities of the
Democratic Party as presently
constituted, to do the Negro
a major injury il they succeed
in their designs.
We have proved to the Re-
publican Party that we are
not dumb-driven cattle and
will use political expediency
when our treatment in the
party is not to our benefit. It
is now time for the followers
Of Roosevelt and Truman to
prove to the Democratic Party
that we will not follow them
when all signs point to an
ineffaceable fact that a
majority Of that party is de-
termined TO politically cut our
naive Threats.
Leon A. Thompson,
Ex-President. Federation
Of Civic Associations.
Inc. of the District Of
of Columbia.
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All we hear about these
days. in the press and over the
radio, is indignation and segre-
CATION.
1t Is making me sick at the
stomach and fun Of nostalgia
for the good old days.
James Baugh. j..