Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-30
But We've Still Got Roy SieversY
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Further Reactions to Integrotion Disturbances


I am Arkansas-born and
bred. My forebears have. been
in Jackson and Independence
Counties since the 1S3O's.
When / retired from the Navy
! settled in Washington, but
family and property interests
keep me in close touch with
my native State and ! 60
there several times q year.
For some reason. Arkansas
in the past has had the un-
Just reputation Of being the
most ignorant and backward
part Of the Union. For about
the last 20 years. however.
the State has been improving
its national character rating.
But now the excuses Of the
cowardlg hoodlum mobs in
Little Rock have blackened
our name all over the world.
so that the term Little
Rock is joining the terms
"Quisling" and Mccarthy
ism" as epithets Of oppro-
brium everywhere.
Arkansas Is the only State
in the Union that is steadily
shrinking in population.
Forecasts by population ex-
perts in a recent issue Of U.
s. News and World Report
indicate that In the next 10
years every State will greatly
increase in population except
Vermont. Mississippi and Ar
kansas. For the first two
States. the forecast Of loss
is small-for Arkansas 1t is
large. The forecast was made
before the Faubus troubles.
All over the country people
are now saying why go to
that place where hoodlums
in the State Capital are in
cited by Official acts?"
Little Rock is known
everywhere on the globe.
Moscow is straightforward
casting Gov. Faubus' infiam-
matory words and acts. and
those Of the Little Rock
hoodlums. The disorders at
Little Rock have been straight
down the Communist alley.
How can one say anything
about Russian cruelty and
violence when the United
Nations delegates are looking
at pictures Of mobs attacking
Negroes in Little Rock?
I earnestly pray that the
good people Of Arkansas will
ignore Gov. Faubus' new
martyrs pose and his siren
song about States rights
and bayonets at our throats,"
and will concentrate on the
fact that mob rule begun
over one issue can quickly
spread to mob rule over all
facets Of the community life.
NELL Phillips,
Rear Admiral USN (Retired).
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Just how stupid can mill
tary Presidents and the
Northern party-line doctrin-
aire liberals" get? For the
price Of grandstanding with
a few airborne troops, these
people have pulled the rug
from under the moderates
and set back the morale Of
the leaders and the people
Of not just one State. but
q whole region for many
many years. President Els
enhower and the FBI had
the choice between Thad-
deus Stevens conquered
province plan and Lincoln's
plan. They took the blatant.
snowy TIL a ddeus Stevens
plan and turned their back
on President Lincoln's plan
and on the patron saint Of
the Republican Party.
At one clumsy blow by a
mailed fist instead of a
gloved grip, the chance for
a genuine two-party system
has gone glimmering; the
chances for future unsnarled
legislation laid low: the Rus
sian scare neutralized: hate
for the FBI and all courts
increased; the rest Of the
Bill Of Rights undermined;
ground laid for q new Huey
Long under very dangerous
auspices; jury trials dis
credited. and Southern Ne
groes put in jeopardy unless
constantly guarded.
They have won q illegal"
Pyrrhic skirmish but have
lost a whole war.
Howard G. Snyder.
4 \
President Eisenhower has
agreed to meet with FIVE
Governors. Here is an oppor-
tunity to prove that we have
in America statesmen who
love their country more than
bigotry and outmoded tradi-
ton. America faces a new
order, and all the States
must come into the Union