Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-13
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what more than disingenuous
in their opposition. Their
claim is that such measures
invade property rights. True.
But the rights of property
that is operated through and
for publ: patronage have
for long been invaded" by
q multitude of regulations:
minimum wage, maximum
hours, child labor, health
and safety, insurance liza
bility, etc. Does any business
man consider that his prop
erty is any the less his be-
cause Of these restrictions?
Despite the noisy claims Of
opponents, the projected
laws do not tell an owner
whom he must serve. They
simply forbid him to refuse
to serve on specified grounds
that no more violate his
ownership than does his OBJ
legation to pay taxes.
It is sheer sophistry to at
tempt to divorce the legal
istic body of the Constitu-
ton from its moralistic
spirit. Accordingly, 1t cannot
be held that the Constitution
countenances q cumulative
right, be it personal or prop
erty. that is . qualitative
wrong.
J. w. Haywood. Jr.
Before q public accom-
modations law is passed, we
would ask the Attorney Gen.
eral to define limits Of the
proposed indignation. VIII he
insist upon the same degree
Of about Indignation Of pub
lie accommodations in inter-
state commerce as he does
upon the same facilities now
under State-Federal control?
A case at point would
be the existing Federal
State policy regarding inte-
grating bedrooms in the
armed forces, Federal prisons
and institutions under au-
thoritarian control of Gov
eminent. 1t Is the present
policy of Government to int
crate It's bedrooms without
any discrimination whatso-
ever. True 1t is a far cry
from such compulsory inte-
grafton to what could be the
equally compulsory implica-
tons Of q public accommoda-
ton law. But in the area Of
definable purpose and inten-
ton, we have an existing
reason for suspecting the
ultimate potential Of this
needed but highly contro-
versial legislation: the un-
willingness to agree that in
public accommodations like
hospitals. obligatory integra-
ton ends at the threshold Of
the hospital bedroom.
CORE, the NAACP and
Congressman Powell's Com
mittee on Education and La
Dor will not forthrightly de-
clare that it is not their in
tention to force about inte-
grafton Of such public &C
commodations, construed to
be in commerce, such as gen.
eral hospital bedrooms. This
refusal to reassure the white
majority, that desirable and
admittedly necessary inte-
grafton Of public accommoda-
tons like our general hos
pitfalls will not be guaranteed
to end at the bedroom door,
is not conducive to giving
freedom marchers legisla-
tive carte blanche.
We, the white majority, in
sist that our rights be spelled
out by Congress and not left
to the self-serving political
prosecutor, hungry for per-
petuated power. AS Of now.
the white majority has lit
tie reason to trust the i'm
Partially Of Congressman
Powell's political purposes
and ambitions.
Thomas Z. MattlngIy, NJ. d.
= So
The fuzzy-headed think
ing Of the Kennedys regard
ing the public accommoda-
tons bills in the pending civil
rights legislation is typical Of
ultra-liberal "pie in the sky"
reasoning.
The Public Accommoda-
tons Act as proposed is radi-
cal. and offers very little to
the American Negro except
an opportunity to be served
bad food and receive hostile
accommodations from those
opposing big government tell
ing them how to operate
their business.
The Kennedys' lust for
power borders on the impos-
sible reasoning that greater
Capitalization Of power In
Washington can solve all
evils and problems of eur