Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-17


green mouth, green hair;
green men and women, boys
and girls; green skin-green
everywhere!
Imagine the confusion
then! Why, no one could be
sure what race a man had
started from, or just whose
blood was pure"
Just picture speakers get
ting up to say, I'VE must
condemn all colored folk!"
Then hear the laughs as
people look at them!
Our God has shown a sense
of humor oftentimes before,
and, surely, we are tempting
Him to show that sense once
more.
If Man cannot look through
the skin, into the hearts Of
others, then God-once more
may take a hand. and show
us we are brothers!
Grace PannelI.
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Overlooked in the present
Indignation struggle is the
fact that the plight Of the
colored man is economic
rather than scholastic or
social.
Going to the white mans
school in the South or at
tending his Saturday night
dance at the country club is
of small value to a person
who cannot afford a bathtub
or even proper food.
Since the Civil War, the
South has been incapable Of
absorbing the colored man
economically except on a
bare subsistence level. The
fact that the colored man has
not migrated North and
West in greater numbers is
due almost entirely to his
lack of funds.
If the country wants to
end the race issue, once and
for all, each State should be
prepared to shoulder its just
share of the burden instead
of pointing pious fingers at
the South which is incapable
of solving the problem eco
nomically.
Here is a program that
would be just and workable:
/. The Supreme Court
should allow a Swear inte-
grafton delay in the deep
South.
2. The Federal Govern
ment should set State quotas.
and begin a vast voluntary
resettlement movement of
the colored man from the
South on the basis of the
national average of / col
ored to each 10 whites.
3. Congress should pass a
law requiring each business.
hiring 10 or more people, to
hire l colored to each 10
whites.
4. The Federal Govern
ment should Immediately re-
quire civil service and all
contractors doing business
with the Government to adj
here to the 1-to-l0 ratio.
How much would it cost?
Maybe $40 billion, but this is
only one-eighth of the an
nual Federal budget. 1t is less
than this years deficit.
The money spent on reloca-
ton would return time and
again to the economy through
increased spending for con-
struction. transportation and
increased man-hours added
to the working force through
better utilization of the
mans time.
At the end of the Swear
relocation cycle. the South
could offer no objections to
Indignation of the remaining
colored population into its
schools and its economy.
Can the United States
really afford to end the race
question? Yes. We can always
afford to do the right thing.
Remember how much the
Civil War cost and it failed
to solve the basic problem.
Paul McIlyaine.
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Robert A. Renfro deplores
the growth of Federal power
and regrets the decreasing
influence of State and local
government in the United
States. 1t is about time to
search for the real cause of
this political fact and stop
looking for scapegoats to ex-
plain it. One reason the power
of the central government is
growing is that State and
local governments have been
evading their duties and re-
sponsibilities under the Con-