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less than the right to own
human beings. the immortal
Lincoln was also approached
with the suggestion to find
some compromise" Lincoln
must have been both shocked
and amused by such lack of
understanding Of the issue.
Compromise with whom?
With rebels who preferred to
continue slavery even If it
meant the end Of the Union?
B. S. BercOvici.
$50
There are those who may
bubble that we are all Amer
leans. and then proceed to
play that old WORKOUT hack
neyed record about race,
creed and color. America, the
melting potl Good old cosmo-
politan Americal Chameleon
America" would be infinitely
more descriptive of our great
Nation at this stage in the
worlds chronicles-what with
the Supreme Court reversing
itself as often as the chang
ing modes in women's styles
and elected public officers
campaigning on one political
concept. performing official
acts in conformance with an
other. preaching a third con-
cept and ultimately commit
ting themselves to still a
fourth w. S. S.
Your editorial, mo Time
to Quibble." says the Pres
ident bubbles and that
1T does no good for the Pres
ident to say that the troops
are in Little Rock to support
the courts and for no other
purpose. There is another
and more important-Side of
the coin. The editorial fur
ther declares that lit is in
tegration. not the courts as
such. which is being opposed
at Little Rock" ask: Who
is ouibbling? Isn't it a fact
that in enforcing indignation
the troops are supporting
the courts? Indignation and
enforcement here are the
same. regardless of emotion
aliSm. The one grew out of
the other. Integration has
legal support and the troops
are there to enforce compile
ance. ! disagree that there
is "a more important side of
the COIN" the attitude of
hatred displayed by some Of
the people in Little Rock.
The other side of the coin is
the more important but /
read it differently. It reads:
The Majesty of the Law and
In God We Trust. 1t is more
important that a good law
be enforced regardless Of
whether people like it or not.
A law can be good even if
nine-tenthS of the people are
against it. The majority is
not always right,
Matthew A. McKavitt
$50
Perhaps il the people Of
Little Rock considered a mo-
ment, they would be a little
less resentful of the Federal
troops in their midst. They
might realize that the troops
did not want the job-they
are young American boys.
after all, and they know, EACH
in his own heart and mind.
that the prestige of their
proud l0lst Division is sunk
beyond repair.
In years to come when the
inevitable grandchildren
gather around the inevitable
grandfather's knee and ask.
What are the two most
noted battles you fought in.
Gran daddy" Will gran dad
dy want to answer, "Ah. my
little dears. the Battle of
Bastogne and the Siege
Against the Teen-agers of
Central High?
Mark Hart.
So many politicians on
both sides of the integra-
tion-segregation controversy
have been shocked" by the
other side, to use their hack
heyed phrase, we evidently
have a formidable source of
static electricity land do
mean static) built up in all
these unfortunate individuals.
If we can't bring such OPP
posing human reservoirs of
electrical energy together,
thereby neutralizing their
dangerous charges, suggest
the next best solution would
be substituting them for
atomic energy reactors. In
that way ohe taxpayers might
get a small return on their
investment in the United
States Of America. A
JahM Z. Street.