The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1958-10-11
EDITORIAL
A Historic
Pronouncement

Clearing up the climate of strain elections and
encred the school indignation issue
Supreme spoken with such cearnss orceiuness
nay rules where emotion briefly held sway
In an opinion which for hvmaness resrmon of the
Fundamental which the US founded must
the nations historic pronouneements the High
spelled the law OF this Nation against
any maneuver TO block inesrafion
In bunt laying down especial benefit of the would
be nuers the evadcrs the rioters and the VINO
nc them the idea that state
legislative judicial officers against the Con
without violating their sacred oath to support IT,
From now demagogues will to don short pants
Uncle Sam cracking down The peculiar ar OF unrey
about gongson the school indignation with
minor and relatively insignificant officials hurting de-
been able to exist only because inc
been overtolerant and placdy inactive
But now Uncle Sam is angry. fabric Of law and
order which has enabled down horys corridors
steady being undermined by the Fsubuses and
The the other anarchists.
Their and nonensca But they have
their day The elaborate schemes they dreamed up to AVOID
obedience the seeds of their own de-
the clergy lawyers and students themselves con
the choice of ignorance negraon are beginning
They beginning realize that ntegraon would
have few problems politicians had let the situation work out
its destiny Indignation inevitable and chdrcns minds can
the and practices of previous genera
tons.
These reactions by students parents clergy and others
are not surprising Secretary Health Education and
Welfare Arthur observed the other day. IT the
high schools Rock and virginia not soon re-
opened difficult not impossible for eoIeoebound
their plans The udenis cannot enter COL
Of Aerediistion will not seered these
schools the Federal will deny them subda
ton funds. without which the schools cannot carry on
Faced with all this plus the Supreme Court there
that the dsScners implement their plans
They the end of their ropes
The High Court speaking through Chief Justice wrenbuf
with Of the nine Justices attached to the
opinion 70 emphasize their unanimiyutery rejects the
h ,h ,ha, violence and disorder stimulated by actions
Fsvbus, be permitted to undermine
rights OF eitiIens defined by the high
tribunal
The ruling destroys the hope OF scgregatonsts
that they might accomplish their Of ccmventing the law by
transparent for example the leasing of public schools
to private" corporations
FINALLY the Hiqh the doctrine OF
supremacy the basic principle recognized
as fundamental American system Of government ever
Of John Marshall. that the Federal judiciary IS
supreme exposition Of the law Of the Sonsfvfon
should not be necessary of 958bu apparent,
il isor the Supreme issue reminder that 1.-The
of the Amendment enunciated by this
court law OF the land OF binding effect on th'
anything in the constitution or laws OF any state TO the con
Notwithstanding.
Chief Juee his eight colleagues have made "
every and their state underlinss that at
tempting TO sabotage school dsesresation decision neud
na those Of the deep there hope that the law
be permanently deferred
Mondays decision simply and clear language
even 10 the segregation that the
Supreme Cours Interpretation Of the law tina
the that neither direct nulcao
will be tolerated that state officers are SUP
c Federal law anyone else that violent resistance inns
is the establishment Of full inegration IN inc pun
lie schools Of our nation will full understanding
local situations.
And that's that