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line might serve to provide
that all payrolls in that same
area carry the percentage of
members Of each minority
race represented by that race
in their States total popula-
ton, but no less than one Of
each.
Ridiculous? Certainly. But
no more so than passing a
law which says violation of
court orders is criminal in
one part Of the country but
perfectly legal in another; no
more ridiculous than provid-
ing Federal election super
visors in the South and
letting Tammany Hall OF
scotfree in New York City.
If this is what we may
expect under Nixon and the
Republicans, then give me
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
and Soapy Williams. At least
l know what to expect of
them.
Charles w. Carter.
Before we become COM
pletely bewildered by slosh-
ing through the mired uncon-
stitutional mess euphemisti-
cally termed civil rights"
now consuming almost the
entire time of Congress. it
may be well to pause for a
moment and realize a startI-
ing and appalling fact. No
modern Southern boy can
even hope to become Pres
ident Of his country.
This fact is based upon a
realistic view of present-day
national politics as influence
ed and swayed by certain
questionable news media. The
people of the North and West
have had no chance to know
the truth Of these civil wrongs
proposals designed to bleed
the South by even worse laws
than the vicious Reconstruc-
ton Acts passed by the North
after the War for Confeder-
ate Independence. so long as
their only information came
from such sources. This un-
American and dishonest
smearing Of the South has
been referred to several
times in the course of the
current debates. For example.
Representative Kitchin, of
North Carolina, stated
that:
through no fault of
the vast majority of the
Negro population, the NAACP
fostered by other minority
groups Of agitators. has Great
ed in this country a condi-
ton which has inflicted
wounds that will not heal
for many generations. and
created a condition under
which George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson. or An
drew Jackson could not now
be elected President Of the
United States. Why? Be-
cause they were Southerners
and such a stigma would now
attach to such noble greats
as to make them impotent
politically. Nor could Abra-
ham Lincoln be President now
because he possessed a phil
osophy that would be con-
trary to the teachings of the
NAACP and the present-day
thinking Of the U. S. Su-
preme Court"
1t may be added that
neither could the intelligent,
patriotic and purposeful
James Madison (Father of
the Constitution or James
Monroe (Author of the Mon
roe Doctrine) become Presi-
dent in this day and age for
the same reason-they were
Southerners.
Franklin T. Miles
y y y
David Lawrence deserves a
big bouquet for his column
on the Southern side on civil
rights.
Never having missed one Of
his columns in years, Mr..
Lawrence has surpassed him
self on this one. In his true
spirit of his writing, Mr..
Lawrence shines through as
a real reporter who gives both
sides and does justice to both.
I am a Georgian and a
newspaperwoman myself. and
I know how often reporters
fail to do more than give the
sensational side of a question.
1t is with great pleasure
that I know there are still
newSpapermen around like
David Lawrence.
Annette Cutler.