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TWO THE' MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 0,, 1 9 5.7 I bama history professor said (before the National Whirligig By Ray Tucker 1 WASHINGTON. ALTHOUGH the Russians' military and scientific achievement tout neci. Tell It To Old timfom Tour name and address must be gtoen on utter But upon request, name wtSX often be withheld at the Siuofs discretion We reserve, the right to shorten utters No poetry, please Repeat: Vo letter will be printed unlet Editor knows usho wrote tL Dutiful Citizens Established 1828 ALABAAIA JOURNAL PabtUhed tach Sanaa? THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER CO. er.terU tile Post Office at Montgomery. Ala, a Second Class Matter Under Act of Concresa of Marth 3.

1879 submitted to the voters of the school district. (Act No. 34) AMENDMENT NO. 17 Butler County special 1 property tax for education. To be first submitted to the voters of said county.

(Act No. 182) AMENDMENT NO. 18 Macon County the legislature may alter, reduce, or abolish Macon County; and transfer its territory to cbntiguous counties. (Act No. 526) AMENDMENT NO.

19 Walker County no municipality shall have power to levy or collect any license, tax or fee on the right to work for wages or on salaries. (Act No. 376) AMENDMENT NO. 20 DeKalb County the legislature may fix and regulate the costs and charges of courts and the fees or salary of certain county officers. (Act No.

377) AMENDMENT NO. 21 Madison County the legislature may fix and regulate the fees or salary of the judge of probate or any other officer of Madison County. (Act No. 183) AMENDMENT NO. 22 Colbert County the legislature may fix and regulate the costs and charges Roosevelt when he found that the Volstead Act of the Congress could not be enforced.

He asked the people of the United States to repeal the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and they did so by their votes in the passage of the 21st amendment. President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock to enforce a decree of the Supreme Court of the United States and not an act of the Congress. Many able lawyers and able writers have expressed the opinion that decision is unconstitutional. Montgomery. O.

C. MANER. Minneapolis Report Editor, The Advertiser: Having just returned from a week's stay in Minneapolis, and remembering the running battle which you had with the editor of one of the newspapers of that city some months ago regarding the beauty of our women compared with theirs, just to see what kind of a Judge you were I took note. Nov I know. You are 100 correct.

Judging from those I saw, and I saw lots of them, I do believe there are more pretty women in Troy (11,000) than in Minneapolis However, I would like to say one thing for the people as a whole: they are a very pleasant and friendly people. I am afraid they have us beat in that respect. Wherever we went in hotels, churches, buses, cabs, on the streets or in the convention hall, they 'seemed pleased to be of service in any way they could, giving any information asked for, and doing it with a smile. But with all that I do not wrant to live there. So much for ladies.

Now I shall hand you a bouquet. The newspapers there compare with yours just about like their ladies do with ours. I don't know if they should be classed newspapers, for I failed to find the news. I do not think that it was because I was out of my territory either. There wasn't any news from anywhere.

For example, ours was a national convention (National Association of Retail Druggists), with druggists In attendance from every state In the nation and some from other countries, with several nationally prominent speakers. U.S. senators, governors, congressmen and others equally as one from London, with more than 5,000 in attendance. I doubt very much if any one paper In the city devoted as much space to the entire convention proceedings as you do to Auburn-Alabama football games. Now, in view of the above I would like to make a deal with you, whereby we both remain in Alabama I continuing to give the people bad medicine and you give them good newspapers, and let the yankees have Minnesota.

What you say? W. T. WHITMAN. Troy, Ala. JDITOR, THE ADVERTISER Will Rogers said that Oklahoma would remain dry as long as the voters could stagger to the polls.

HIC. Montgomery. The Enemy Within Editor, The Advertiser: It seems ironic to me that my son has been sent to a remote corner of this earth, clothed with classified information and with top secrets, to assist in detecting, Intercepting and destroying our mortal enemy from without, while at home the Supreme Court and most of the so-called newscasters on TV and radio, make it easier for our adversary to destroy us from within. At the pace we are now traveling Khrushchev could be right when he says our grandchildren will live under some form of communism here in these "divided states." Pensacola, Fla. F.

E. M.s Give Him His Title Editor, The Advertiser: In referring to other military dictators, news items usually include their titles, as Marshal Tito, General Franco, General Peron, etc. Why does the press not refer to ours with the more appropriate General Eisenhower. Pike Road, Ala. DOUG; JARRARD, JR.

No Precedent Editor, The Advertiser: An Associated Press dispatch from Washington stated that President Eisenhower's action in sending troops to Little Rock parallels President Washington's quashing the "famed Whisky Rebellion" in 1794. I read the dispatch carefully and could not see any parallel between the two incidents. President Washington was patient and acted on his own volition after conferring with Governor Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania and received from him a request to help break up this "Whisky Rebellion" that defied an act of the Congress of the United States for so long. President Washington acted on Governor Mifflin's request and sent troops to Pennsylvania and destroyed the "famed Whisky Ring." President Eisenhower did have a conference with Governor Faubus, but the sending of troops to Little Rock was not discussed 'in that conference and Governor Faubus made no request of President Eisenhower to send troops to Arkansas to integrate nine Negro school children in a white school. Neither did the legislature of Arkansas make any such request, but President Elsenhower did send U.

S. troops to Arkansas in violation of the Constitution of the United States. This last action was so different from the action of President Franklin D. Alabama Editors Are Saying Indian Claims Commission last week) that land in Southeastern Alabama was sold for around 1827. But then the Creek Indians didn't have Sputnik.

Alabama Election Dec. 17 pHE 1957 legislature was among the most worthless. It cost many thousands of dollars, but almost adjourned without so much as enacting a budget. But we have not seen the last of its legacies, for on-Dec. 17 Alabama will have a constitutional election in wlch there will be 25 amendments on the ballot.

The new custom of throwing a massive ballot at the voters amid the swirl and distraction of the Christmas season is getting well established. In December, 1951 there was a constitutional election with 24 amendments to be voted upon; in 1955, there were 30. In the most ideal circumstances, 25 amendments is too much to heave at the voters. They obviously will not be studied and mastered by a large element of the electorate. They should be offered in broken doses.

However all that is, here are the amendments. AMENDMENT NO. 1 Authorizes $10,000,000 bond issue for Navigable Waterway Docks. (Act No. 151) AMENDMENT NO.

2 Authorizes $3,000,000 bond issue for building and improvement purposes at the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind. (Act No. 383) AMENDMENT NO. 3 Authorizes increase from 3 to not exceeding 4Vi in interest rate on bonds ($4,000,000) ratified Nov. 8, 1958 for buildings at the State Hospitals for Mental Deficients.

AMENDMENT NO. 4 Authorizes $4,500,000 bond issue for building and improvement purposes at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham. (Act No. 307) AMENDMENT NO. 5 Authorizes $4,500,000 bond issue for building and improvement purposes at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn.

(Act No. 369) AMENDMENT NO. 6 Authorizes increase from 2Vz to not exceeding 4, in interest rate on bonds ($2,000,000) ratified Nov. 6, 1953. for hospitals, health centers, tuberculosis hos pitals and related medical facilities.

(Act No. 141) AMENDMENT NO. 7 Mobile County authorizes $3,000,000 bond issue for public school buildings. (Act No. 370) AMENDMENT NO.

8 Cleburne County special 5 mill district tax for public school purposes. To be first submitted to the voters of the school district. (Act No. 519) AMENDMENT NO. 9 Russell County special 8 mill school tax to be first submitted to the voters of said county.

Authorizes the issuance of bonds. (Act No. 527) AMENDMENT NO. 10 The legislature may authorize the use of any portion of the proceeds of any special county taxes for the purpose of providing hospital care for certain indigent residents of the county. (Act No.

524) AMENDMENT NO. 11 Obligations for public improvements or school houses, shall not, under certain circumstances, be deemed an indebtedness in municipalities of less than 6,000 population. (Act No. 368) AMENDMENT NO. 12 Walker County the legislature may fix and regulate the costs and charges of courts and the fees or salary of any county officer.

(Act No. 179) AMENDMENT NO. 13 Marion County ratifies Act. No. 29 which authorizes the county to provide for schools and other improvements, to acquire and dispose of all kinds of or equipment, to promote the development and the location of new industries, to become a stockholder in any corporation, to lend its credit or grant public moneys', to levy a special ad valorem tax, to construct a dam, to create a public corporation, etc.

(Act No. 177 refers to Act. No. 29) AMENDMENT NO. 14 Bullock County may acquire and dispose of all kinds of property or equipment, to promote the development and location of new industries, to become a stockholder in any corporation, to lend its credit or grant public moneys, to become Indebted and issue bonds, to levy a special 1 sales tax, to construct a dam, to create a public corporation, etc.

To be first submitted to the voters of said county. (Act No. 176) AMENDMENT NO. 15 Tallapoosa County special 3i district tax for public schools. To be first submitted to the voters of the school district.

(Act No. 174) AMENDMENT NO. 16 Colbert County special 5 mill district tax for public schools. To be first tate a reexamination of American for-s eign policy, the Administration will resist demands for drastic chanees' in our relations with Russia, our allies arid neutrals pending a restoration of the uneasy balance of power of the last decade. There will be demands on Capitol Hill less financial support of such alliances as Revival Of Isolationist Sentiment and SEATO on the ground that intercontinental missiles and hydrogen bombs render obsolete these conventional defense outposts.

In a new wave of isolation sentiment, it will be contended that foreign aid money could be spent more wisely on a "crash" program at home. Specifically, it is pointed out that the sfcrrv in? su Diuion sent overseas since World-War II would have enabled us to out-race the Russians in conquering "outer space." Such a policy, once advocated by Herbert Hoover, the late Robert A. Taft and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, is-known as the "Fortress America" doctrine. It still has many supporters In Congress, and their number may now in crease.

i.ijjj iuvjiva Dfloto ivuw as against such a retreat, White House, State Department and Pentagon spokesmen argue that the free world now has need oi more ratner than fewer bases encircling Russia. It has been in a desperate effort to break this blockade that the Kremlin concentrated so completely and so effectively on spatially superior devices. They hope to leapfrog this barrier through the air. Temporarily at least, these forward bases, equipped with hydrogen and atom hotnhs trill on tn nontrali-jo ti a munists' intercontinental missile. Until Moscow can build even -thousands, of perfected, accurate and de--liverable bombs of this kind, American and allied bases, which extend from Northern Europe to Korea, can furnish vtn.il immense retaliatory ana punishing nowpr ACT TO PREVENT STAMPEDE On the diplomatic front, Washington must act to keep neutral nations in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and the unexit irom making a panic-sxriCKen' stampede into the Russian camp.

The Administration outwardly calm recep--tion of Russia's recent triumphs was designed to have this psychological arid' political effect. So far, there has been no such stampede. On the contrary, and especially in the Middle East, the ruling monarchs-and politicians seek to avoid involvement with either side. Even friendly Lebanon may repudiate and its original acceptance and approval of the Eisenhower Doctrine on the ground that it is a dangerous and provocative-infringement of her neutrality. Committed nations, such as Britain," France, West Germany, Greece, Turkey and Japan have not weakened- they cannot; in their pro-Western -allegiance.

Prime Minister Macmillan of A. A isntam recently expressed tneir senxi ment when he told anti-American. Bevanites that a dissolution of ties' with the United States was "unthinkable." Ironically, and contrary to fears. KhriLshr bravado and hoasts. based on his scientists' accomplishments, appear to have driven the more 'civilized, and advanced nations into a closer-relationship with us.

Even newspaper criti--" cism of this country, in London and Paris has been muted. RELY ON U.S. As in World Wars' I and II, they feel that they must rely on us to come to their aid In the current crisis. No other nation, they realize; has. the financial resources, the industrial''' SKins ana piant ana me scienuuc personnel to redress the present and pective imbalance.

preserve this solid political, military front only if it justifies this faith and trust. Either alone or in con-, cert with Britain, West Germany the TTnitpd States must aomination or sienar ana spatial Dat--tlefields. And it has. in the ODini'on -of experts on the problem, less -than year in wnicn to aemonsirate sur perionty over the communist empire. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate Living I oday By Arlie B.

Davidson Living By Faith TAITH is one of the most important-' facts about human No man lives witnout it, ana nine wouia De -ac- comphshed without a faith to keep courage strong and vital arid the expectation that human -efforts will not be -in" vain. I iou estaDiisn yourself In business by faith In. 7 your ability to meet the" requirements of. i 2 DU5iness ana g-ain tne I 41 necessarv a -rn ac LaJ'i-wi from your fellow DAVIDSON SI' warmth and moisture will cause them to sprout and soon come forth and giwy to fruition. You spend time and to keep the plants cultivated and prop- -erly nourished by faith that you have good harvest.

You marry in faith that you 'will en- joy long years of pleasant companion ship together and create a new family unit with growing children. You gi'vp much of yourself, time and money, to V. 1 ii a Tr uciu Kuaraiiiee mat your cniiaren will have a good start and become well prepared to meet the responsibilities of life and contribute something good tb the common welfare. All these things are done by faith that the outcome will be somewhat according to your plans. Yet you can never be entirely certain.

Calamities may ruin your business or farm. Misfortunes may destroy your hopes for your family. But you must go on in this: "It is not always grarited to- the (JW rvcA. bis U1C tai lr WVIIJV til A is worth anything is done in faith." BAD ADVERTISING The St. Louis Post-Dispatch oreanization can for the soundly based protests of outraged -citizens and get by with it.

Hoffa Co. have only themselves to blame for their Insatiate greed. The quicker the-labor movement is rid of them all the better it will be for the thousands o-f decent, fair, honest labor leaders members. HUDSON Chairman of Board P. HUDSON JR.

PublUher OROVEH BALL. JR. Editor-in-Chief FRED THORNTON Aisoclata Editor WILLIAM H. McOONALD AuUtant Editor Full Report of ASSOCIATED PRESS Tb Associated Preu exclusively entitled to the use for reproduction of all new dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited ta this paper and also the local news published herein. Right of publication of special dispatches reserved.

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300 Montgomery St. ALABAMA JOURNAL-MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER TELEPHONES AH Departments other than Want Ads. 8:00 to p.ra Daily AM 2-1611 For Want Ads 8:30 to p.m.. except Saturday. Hntll 4 p.m.; Sunday hours 2 p.m to 5 p.m.

AM 4-4567. For other departments after 10:30 p.ra. to 8:00 a.m. and all day Sunday News Department AM 2-5201 Circulation CH 7-7749 CoUred News Bureau (All hours) AM 3-2886 Sports Department AM 4-5341 The Green Pastures In Modern Dress The NBC Hallmark Hall of Fame has presented some notable TV performances, among them Man And Superman, George Bernard Shaw's play, and the highly regarded The Lark. Thus there was reason to hope for an honest presentation of The Green Pastures Thursday night.

It was more than a quarter of a century ago that Green Pastures hit Broadway, won a Pulitzer Prize and a place in the heart of the nation. It played at the old Grand Theater here in Montgomery and enchanted the city. It was also made into a movie. The Green Pastures Is supposed to be a story oi tne uia Testament, or heaven and creation, of God and his feeling toward man all told as a Negro foly work. God was De Lawd, a Negro preacher tvrje.

eiven to bombast and fond nf rarin' back and passin' miracles. It was a charming play, as originally conceived, embodying a treasure of Negro wit and philosophy. The humor and characters were genuine even if the plot took some cavalier liberties with Scripture. The TV Green Pastures was an utter flop. The characters had been divested of their Negro traits and manners of speech they were neither white nor black, nor were the humor and philosophical bits.

The Green Pastures had been plowed under by the same rampant bigotry which has done in other works involving the Negro in America Huckleberry Finn, the songs of Stephen Foster, even that harmless old funny man, Stepin Fetchit. Even Time was offended by the expurgation: In the new edition, De Lawd becomes The Lord; he speaks grammatically nTar rn lnnorpr smnkps 1fl see-ears, is not addressed by irreverent gamblers any more as Liver Lips or even High Pockets; instead they call him Preacher Man. According to a spokesman, the whole cast will speak w-ith "a soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's script Perhaps the unkindest cut will fall on those who especially relished a Babylon that looked like a New Orleans night club or a celestial throne fice in a Louisiana town. Said the r. Viae hoon cnpnl 3 1 emphasis in the physical production to point up the timelessness of story the fable aspect rather than any specific place or period." What he was really saying was that the producers had bowed to the inverted prejudice which insists that Negroes shall never be portrayed as Negroes.

This new taboo is sad because it Is aimed at part of the nation's rich past the unique humor, art, and philosophy of the Negro. Because of the taboo, 1111 1 1 1 L. millions wno never naa. a ciiance 10 en-Joy The Green Pastures were insulted Thursday night with an insipid parody. Manna From Sputnik It's an ill satellite that can't be exploited for cash by somebody.

Sputnik has been a windfall for New York department stores selling space toys, optical manufacturers advertising "Sputnik spotter" telescopes, automobile dealers offering "Sputnik specials." As one happy capitalist put it, Sput-k. may be a propaganda blow for the tnited States but in the toy business it's like manna from the skies. Our favorite of the Sputnik profiteers is the Japanese Astronautical Society, rhich had been selling lots on Mars for 55 an acre to raise funds for its operation. The satellite's appearance, with scientific predictions that there would be trips to outer space within the decade, boomed prices to $2.78. That's more than twice what an Ala- of courts and the fees or salary of any county officer.

(Act No. 175) AMENDMENT NO. 23 Cullman County the legislature may fix and regulate the costs and charges of courts and the fees or salary of any county officer. (Act No. 114) AMENDMENT NO.

24 Dallas County the legislature may fix and regulate the fees or salaries of cer tain county officers. (Act No. 173) AMENDMENT NO. 25 Montgomery County the legislature may fix and regulate the costs and charges of courts in said county and the method of disbursement thereof. (Act No.

520) Matter Of Fact By Joseph And Stewart Alsop PARIS. JF PRESIDENT EISENHOWER seriously intends to save the States and the Western Alliance from the dangers now looming darkly ahead, he is going to have to take at least one very painful step. He Is going to have to find a new Secretary of State. lk Should Can Dulles; Allies Dett Him This reporter hesitate to blurt out such a home truth. If he did not have the precedent of November, 1950.

The 1950 elections, as will be remembered, produced a Congress amounting to a standing vote of no confidence in Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson. Therefore, this reporter and his partner then suggested Acheson's replacement. The suggestion gave much personal offense. Yet it was based on the most wholly impersonal reasoning.

In effect, a reasonable measure of Congressional confidence is an essential working part in any Secretary of State. He may be energetic, intelligent and courageous, as Acheson was. But if he lacks this essential working part, he is like a piece of machinery that cannot do its. job properly. The case of Secretary Dulles in 1957 is the obverse of the case of Acheson in 1950.

His relations with Congress are at least tolerable. But he altogether lacks the confidence of the governments and peoples of the other nations of the Western Alliance. TNDEED, this is a grave understatement. The truth is that John Foster Dulles is not only heartily detested. Worse still he is passionately distrusted, in all the countries where his job requires him to represent and typify American leadership of the West.

It does not matter that Secretary Dulles has many remarkable and valuable qualities. It is not worth enquiring into the Dulles quirks which have produced the present unhappy situation, such as his habit of covering the backs of his contracts with print so fine that it cannot be read by any eye not trained at Sullivan and Cromwell. What matters is simply the hard, undoubted fact of total lack of confidence in Dulles. Even more than a reasonable measure of Congressional confidence, a successful Secretary of State needs to command a reasonable measure of confi dence abroad. Once again, the image of a piece of machinery lacking a vital part is directly applicable.

To see how applicable one need only consider the present Soviet drive for a face-to-face dialogue with the American leadership. As long as Secretary Dulles is at the State Department, the American government' cannot so much as consider whether such a dialogue will be or will not be desirable. The subject must not be whispered about in Washington, it must not even be thought about. For if the other Western governments even begin to suspect that Secretary Dulles is about to open a dialogue with the Soviets, they will at once conclude that Dulles intends to sell them all down the river. Boiling with distrust, they will therefore hurry to Moscow to seek their own- deals with the Kremlin.

And thus a single personality can cause the Western Alliance to dissolve in an inglorious game of "Save yourself and the devil take the hindmost." A THIS POINT, one can hear the ln-dignant reactions of the Dulles partisans. "Why should we care? If he's good enough for us, he's good enough for those foreigners." This kind of reaction is the other side of the medal of the ever-present American desire to be liked by foreigners, which is our worst fault in the field of foreign relations Many centuries ago, the Roman historial Tacitus gave the correct rule: "Let them hate us so long as they respect us." The rule exactly applies In the case of Secretary Dulles. It is Immaterial that he is disliked; but it is highly material that he is neither trusted nor respected. Indeed, this is not merely a material fact. It is also a desperately perilous fact in the present pre-Korean atmosphere.

Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Ibc You're on, Mr. Whitman. Ed. to racially Integrate a high school in Little Rock Is not confined to the Deep South. For example, it also looks this way to observers in the nation's capital.

A United Press dispatch reports it to be the "consensus" in Washington that "Eisenhower's decision to send federal troops to Little Rock killed all hope of success for 'Operation the recently launched Republican drive to increase its current toehold in the South." Ready To Retreat The Decatur Daily PRESIDENT EISENHOWER will doubtless be the first to grasp any opportunity to get federal troops cut of Little Rock. Just any excuse urill be sufficient, so long as it is face-saving. Look Homeward The Baldwin Times A WRITER In a national magazine says the real racial strife is going to break out in the cities of the North instead of in the South. We've been telling those yankees for years they had a bigger racial problem up there than we do but they persist In trying to mess the problem up down South instead of staying in their own back yard. The Flu Epidemic The Opp News JT IS generally expected that Asian flu will reach epidemic proportions in this country this fall or winter.

But there is no cause for panic and wild fears. The illness is of short duration, is generally mild, has few complications, and has a very low rate. An effective vaccine has been developed, and the supply will gradually increase. World Situation Very Tense Opelika, Daily News fpHE Russians make no bones of their intention to step in if and when Turkey becomes Involved with Syria. Up to now, the West could rely only on implications in putting Russia directly into this particular picture.

Unless our administration in Washington' is prepared to carry through If need be, it had better not renew its bold talk of a few years ago. Then, when big trouble first broke in the Middle East, Secretary Dulles let loose with a barrage of threats, warnings and implications. Dulles even bragged that -we had thrice reached the precipice and each time had averted It would not seem a good Idea to cling to this "precipice" talk. The state of the world is in such shape today we all might go over the precipice. A Moses In The House? The Sylacauga News has already replaced us as the most powerful of all nations.

They have stolen the march on us scentlfically as evidenced by their satellite encircling the globe. Our smaller allies are deserting us like rats from a sinking ship, and never again will England and France be our first line of defense. As serious as these questions are, the most important one of all is will we regain our place in the sun, and if so who will it be to lead us out of the wilderness. Is there a Moses in the house? If there is let him come forth now or forever after hold his peace. The Tide Football Situation The Talladega Daily Home CLNCE there does not seem to be in Alabama a sportswriter with the initiative and the courage to deal squarely with the deplorable state of University of Alabama football, we consider it a proper field of editorial discussion.

Alabama's plunge into the depths after the long stretch of glory years is an old and painful story and there is no necessity for rehashing It. But the Tide's showing against Texas Christian University represented something of a new low. For a team to lose and 1 even to lose substantially is no disgrace and of no importance. But for a team bearing the proud name of Alabama to lose in such a manner that it becomes an object of open contempt for the victors, is an entirely different thing. We suggest that the University has now reached a crisis in its athletic affairs in which it must either clean house, lock, stock and barrel, or get out of the Southeastern Conference and schedule no more major lntersectional games.

Such humiliation as its teams now endure in virtually every game is calculated to be definitely harmful to the school and to the state. Football in itself is of importance only because of the Importance which its fans attach to it. It is perhaps tragic, but it is true, that in most of our minds football has come to stand for a college. That being true, we submit that It is ridiculous for the situation at Alabama to go unventilated and uncorrected. A class team has no business In the big leagues.

We are weary of class football at Alabama and we are even more weary at what seems to be a conspiracy of silence concerning tne situation. A Turnabout The Andalusia Star-News TN ALABAMA, the character of the men on the Supreme Court is held to be of that type who can switch and jump about as the situation may demand. Alabama's shame is that one of her sons, Hugo Black, sits on the U.S. Supreme Court bench. There are men in South Alabama today who are carrying Ku Klux Klan cards left over from the 1920s.

Those men remember well that Hugo Black first was elected to the United States Senate, his first step to a Supreme Court justice's robes, as a loyal and vocal disciple of the Ku Klux order. Those same men have seen Hugo Black betray the very voters who elected him. Black, as a Supreme Court justice, has held that Integration of the races in schools should be ordered. Now in the Florida law school case, Black has -jumped back. Hugo Black is a leapfrog iustice, a jurist who can flip or flop as the public whim demands.

And Hugo Black is not a bullfrog singing any solo. There is plenty of harmony on the UJS. Supreme Court bench in forcing integration at gun point one in leaping to the other side the next day when an aroused public opinion rebels. GOP's Cooked Goose The Mobile Register PINION that the Republican political goose has been cooked below the Mason-Dixon Line by the Eisenhower administration's use of UJ3. Army troops.

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