Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-26

Hungary has come to
America! Federal troops are
arrayed against the citizens
Of a once sovereign State.
Here in the Land of the
Free and the Home Of the
Brave" we now have Eisen-
hover and Nixon "a member
Of the NAACP), Warren and
Davies waging war on their
own countrymen. No delay.
no waiting. no time to adjust.
M. w. Goodman.
People form groups or
organizations when they feel
they have more in common
among themselves than with
the rest Of the population. A
country with many such
groupings is generally said to
have q pluralistic society.
The United States is an OUT
standing example. The re-
suit is a system Of checks
and balances which consti-
tutes the best guarantee Of
democracy.
No single group or organ
ization effectively commands
the allegiance Of so per cent
Of the United States adult
population. which means that
ours is basically q country Of
''minorities. :" This is a bless
ing rather than a handicap.
Through intergroup checks
and balances We have
achieved a social arrange
ment whereby the rights Of
each and all are respected.
Totalitarianism and "po-
groms" are foreign to our
land.
But the factors which lead
people to form groupings in
variably harbor elements of
antagonism, for internal CO.
hesiveness implies external
differences. This, like every
thing else in time and space.
belongs to the realm Of the
relative. Our groups and or
CARNATIONS generally make
strenuous efforts to smooth
intergroup differences in or
der TO prevent deep antago-
nisms. We have. in fact. been
quite successful at 1t. This
policy might be called one
Of responsible citizenship. To
depart from it is dangerous.
particularly at a time when
the most powerful totalitarian
force the world has ever
known is threatening the
basic institutions of our
democratic life. Let us try to
prevent the division Of our
country on the racial issue
from growing deeper.
Bruce acMaSter.
If you drive through the
South, as I did this summer.
1t looks like a green and
pleasant land. with lovely
mountains and valleys, at
tractive cities and towns. and
all the earmarks Of an adj
vanced civilization. But
events like the Little Rock
riot reveal that the South is
rotten at the core, decayed
by racial prejudice.
Frank Fisher.
- 49,
In the Arkansas school in
tegration imbroglio. Judge
Davies insisted that the Su-
preme Courts 1854 social
equality decision (which has
not been approved and imple-
mented by the constitution
ally designated legislative
body is "the supreme law of
the land" and must be strict
ly enforced Thy injunction)
regardless Of public feeling.
Hooray for government by
the peoplel
For a decade prior TO this
judge-made law, race rela-
tons In the South had been
better than ever before in
our history, or the history OF
any other racially divided So
ciety. Lynching and racial
violence had virtually disap-
peared and, under the "sepa.
rate but equal" doctrine, ex-
cellent schools were being
built for Negroes. Integra-
ton in the elementary schools
was working in from the bor-
der States and could be found
at the college level even in the
deep South. Never since the
world began has the economic
and political progress Of the
Southern Negro from 1865 Il
1854 been equalled by an un-
derprivileged group in an!
other nation. This wa
largely due TO the materia
assistance supplied by thu
white population. But tn,
agitators for complete socia
equality were not satisfied
and they are determined II
have it though the Natiol
again be divided. Recent!
the London Daily Telegraph