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which has to be renewed from the
families on the farms. The farm
family is presently in peril in
America.
In recent years, while the in
come of all other groups has been
going up, the income of farm fam
lilies has been coming down, IS
per cent in less than a decade and
more than 20 per cent in less than
half decade. Hundreds of thou
sands of people have had to give
up farming as a way of life for
American families. The robustness
of American life thus is threaten
ed at it's source.
The mounting bankruptcies of
little business men is a serious
threat to the economic independ-
ence and civic morale of increasing
scores of thousands of families
whose initiative, self-reliance and
rootage in the community have
been the springs of the fresh
flowing water of the American
life. The threats to the farm fam
lilies and to the families of little
business enterprises have put in
double jeopardy the American way
of life.
The present tendency to try to
deny to industrial workers and
management the equal right to
bargain collectively in freely ne
gotiated contracts for the mainte-
nance in good standing of volun-
tarily acquired union memberships
is a threat to the living standard
of hundreds of thousands of the
families of workers. These equal
rights were won in the great de-
preston and this equal freedom
was vindicated in the gigantic pro-
duction which helped to win the
war and the abundance of the
peace which followed.
The American Union as a family
of states and nation of people
cannot endure as a constitutional
republic and a free society if we
choose the paths of either the dis
obediences of the law of the land
or the destruction of the public
schools.
Before the decision of the Su-
preme Court, l personally had
hoped that we could work out the
problem of the races in the public
schools voluntarily ourselves with
in the States by the gradual in
fluences of religion and education
and the principles of American
democracy at work in the minds
and hearts of the people for the
ultimate disappearance of s:gre-
cation in public facilities in the
processes of time, religion and
democracy. was quoted by South
ern Attorney Generals to the Su-
preme Court from a minority
opinion in the report of the Presi-
dents Committee on Civil Rights.
This minority opinion was not ac-
ceptable to either extreme or to
the Supreme Court. In view of the
lag in equalization in many COM
munities in many states and in
view of the appeal and the on
rush of totalitarian tyranny across
the earth, the Supreme Court made
it's epochal decision. After that
decision l have said, in the South,
that religion and education must
work for its acceptance in the
minds and hearts of the people. In
the North l have said that court
decisions become real mainly in
the minds and hearts of the peo-
pie and that it will take not only
good faith but also time and wis
dom in the stages of time and
place, according to the preparation
of numbers of the two races, in
gradual obedience to the law of
the land for which the Court has
wisely provided.
1t is better to have a sincere
and wise beginning in presently
feasible situations than an alterna-
tive mass demand in the courts in
all situations, however, immediate
ly unwise in increasing tension
and bitterness in some situations.
A policy for the notification of
the law of the land will not stand
up in the courts. A policy for the
destruction of the public schools
at any stage will not stand up in
a free society.
The Supreme Court did not in
wade nor do Negroes ask to in
wade the sanctity of any home or
the privacy of any friendship or
personal relation. The churches in
their regional and national assem-
blies asked for the recognition of
the equal dignity and freedom of
all people as children of one God
and brothers of all people. The
Negroes themselves ask for the
recognition of the equal freedom
of citizens of the United States
and equal protection of the laws
of the land as interpreted by the
courts from the lowest to the high
est as the umpires established UNI