Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-27
Inteqrotion Views

Hnte9T0tIon views
Your correspondent Lillian
Evanti castigates the har-
assed people Of Virginia and
Arkansas by calling them an
archists. Yet she eulogizes
John Brown. grandaddy of all
anarchists!
Many a pill Of American
history must be covered with
a coating or it could not get
past the gullet. John Brown
was one Of those pills.
To be a true anarchist like
John Brown requires a bit
of positive-type misbehavior
such as seizing a United
States arsenal, kidnapping a
few leading citizens of a
small peaceful town. shooting
the mayor down in his tracks
when he runs to see for whom
the bell tolls, and offering to
distribute guns to anyone
who would consent to kill OF
the rest of the citizens.
John Brown was hung only
for his treason against the
United States. Stephen Vim
cent Benet writes:
mo one can say the trial was
not fair,
And that it was, made not
the slightest difference.
The laws our yardstick, and
it measures well
Or we'll enough when there
are yards to measure.
Measure a wave with it,
measure a fire.
Cut up sorrow In inches, weigh
content.
You can weigh John Browns
body we'll enough,
But how and in what balance
weigh John BROWNE"
Ann ]. Duval.
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I have been reading with
much distress the accounts OF
the school cloSingS in Nor
folk, Charlottesville and Front
Royal in Virginia and Little
Rock in Arkansas. Being a
student at Washington-Lee
High School in Arlington, l
am particularly keen on the
subject. And I can't help
wondering whether people in
general would not prefer TO
accept, in true democratic
spirit, the indignation ordered
by the Supreme Court rather
than be placed in the ex-
IRENE and uncompromising
position brought about by the
actions of the Governors OF
these States. These actions
have solved no problems.
have benefited no one. and
have jeopardized, in these
most critical times. the edu-
cation Of thousands of young
Americans. How shallow a
victory for its proponents.
how great an injury to the
innocent victims, is the result
Of massive resistance" -
closed schools.
James Birkel.
Gov. Almond urged Vir-
ginians to rededicate them
selves to the Constitution.
If he meant the benighted
program of massive resistance
he and the Byrd machine
have adopted 1t should be
made clear.
If he meant rededication
to the Constitution of the
United States, which he took
a sworn oath to defend, that
should be made clear. The
people should not be left in
doubt.
The doctrine Of massive
resistance not only closes
public schools, it also warps
developing minds and teaches
defiance of the law. Equally
important it damages our
prestige abroad when other
nations are looking to us to
guarantee that all individuals
have equal protection under
our laws. G. A. LewiG
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1t would seem that we have
reached a point in our po-
litical tug of war in this Ma
ton when little bit of give
and take must be brought
into play. Anyone with an
eye to history must know that
there are more important
considerations than the vote
of the Negro in the next cleo
ton. For Vice President Nix
on to have claimed, as he did
some time ago, that that in
tegration ediet came from "a
great Republican Chief JUS
tice" was a new low in ma
tional politics.
And when the President
finally asked for United
States marshals to back UP
the odious Supreme Court
edict at Little Rock, and
ipso facto admittef that