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SUMMER SCHOOL WEEKLY
JUNE 23, mi
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The Law Of The Land
Vs. The
Land Of The Lawless
"Congress shall make no law respecting an
etiablishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom
of speech, or of the piess; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the government for a redress of grievances." .
United States Constitution
The people of Louisiana must now decide for
themselves whether or not a Supreme Court de
cision is the law of the land. Sixty-six residents
have decided.
Very quietly they signed a petition protesting
against a set of segregation laws just passed by
the House of Representatives of Louisiana and
now pending action by their senate.
. The sixty-six are all members of the faculty
of Louisiana State University, and several of
them are former students here at the University
Of North Carolina.
' They are being dissected by State Senator
Willie ' Rainach and his chief counsel William
Shaw for daring to oppose a set of measures per
taining to the separation of " Negro and white
residents of Louisiana. One radical segregationist
has said that "integration is the southern express
ion of Communism."- Readers of this paper all
have many fine friends who are just as opposed
to Communism as to segregation.: The analogies
currently being drawn in Louisiana fail to make
sense. " .. - ,,.
The sixty-six have been subpoened to appear
before a special House sub-committee in Baton
Rouge this week to answer questions pertaining
to the petition which they signed and to their
personal lives. They are being grilled about af
filiations with the Communist Party and about
their feelings on the issue of segregation vs. in
tegration. The case here is not opinions on the race
issue, but rather it is a case of civil liberties.
As a result of their "rash" action, many if not
all may be seeking new emploment in the fu
ture. Rainach is well on his way towards wrecking
one of the countries' greatest universities. What
educator, who has any degree of independence,
will stoop so low as to pursue his career at LSU?
Speech is certainly not very free in Louisiana
these days if a man can lose his job for signing
a petition.
We see in this case the first organized white
protest to segregation in the Deep South It will
not be the last. It is seldom that citizens are
hauled off to court for being in support of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Yet, this is precisely the question. Senator
Willie and his ' playmates are the greatest en
emies of the'South in existence today. Their re
actionnary outlook on the issue of state's rights
is so radical as to appear dangerous. The sixty
six have taken on the responsibility of citizenship
and recognized the superiority of the Supreme
Court.
Regardless of individual views on the race
question facing us today, we must realize in this
particular case, residents of not only Louisiana,
but the United States are being deprived of
their constitutional right to petition. The state
of Louisiana is not a separate entity, but a pin
of the whole.
It does not speak well for the people of that
state to elect and tolerate a man such as Senator'
Rainach. They should take the necessary steps
to rid themselves of his influence. Every time a
Willie Rainach assumes power, another Little
Rock becomes a possibility.
Reasons
We feel that the Louisiana situation is signif
icant news for the following reasons:
1. There.are many former UNC peopIe mixed
up in this situation currently taking place in
Louisiana.
2. Louisiana State University, like UNC, is
a great Southern state school.
3. This is the first significant white opposi
tion to the segregating of the races that has taken
place in the Deep South. . .
Louisiana
Comments
Representative John Garrett
of Claiborne, La., had this to
say, "as you recall in. March of ,
1957,. our Joint Legislature Com
mittee on Segregation held hear
ings ... it was proved that
Communism and Racism are in
separable, that integration is the
southern expression of Commun
ism." Senator W. M. Rainach, chair
man of the Louisiana House
Committee on Segregation com
mented, "This thing has demon
strated we have a solid front in
Louisiana. All education people
in the state agree with us and
all of the peop'c in the state are
with us.
"We have a teacher at LSU
teaching that what the Supreme '
Court says is the law of the
land. My answer is that not a
single constitutional lawyer . in
the country agrees with the Su
preme Court."
William Shaw, - counsel r for
Rainach's committee' on segre
gation said, "as you know, New
Orleans schools are under de-"
finite federal court orders to In
tegrate.1 Everyone. knows tour
State Will not contlituel in the
public school business if we have
to integrate." -
5 President Middleton of Louis
iana State University comment
ed," I know of no teaching or
philosophy at LSU that would
undermine our way of life.." He
went on to defend LSU's policy
of separating the races, although"
the school that he heads has a
substantial Negro enrollment in
the Graduate School.
Rainach's right hand man
Shaw also said, "the American
Civil Libertie j Union was ori
ginally set up by a German be
fore World War I.... to stimu
late pacificism to keep Ameri
ca out of the war. Its purpose
was to assist anarchists, draft
dodgers at al ... It was re
placed by members of the Com
munist Party in the 1920's . . .
Its main purpose is currently to
protect and defend Communists."
(It is interesting to see that
. the ACLU is not Currently, nor
has it been the past one of the'
groups listed on - the Attorney
General's list of subversive or
ganizations . . . Ed)
Laws
(The following is the text of the
laws introduced recently in the
House of Representatives of the
State of Louisiana, now pending
action by the State Senate. Sixty
six professors from the faculty of
Louisiana State University have
signed a petition protesting
against them and are .currently
under fire from Louisiana law
makers ... Ed)
House Bill 941 Provides for
continual pay for school person
nel subject to any federal court
harrassment in action relating to
racial mixing.
House Bill 942 Authorizes the
Governor to close any- public
schools ordered to integrate.
House Bill 943 Sets up educa
tional co-operatives by parents for
operation of private elementary
and secondary schools.
House Bill 944 Provides a
system of education expense
grants to children attending such
private schools.
House Bill 945 A pupil as
signment system patterened after
Alabama's. (This system was re
cently upheld by three federal ch'
cuit judges ... Ed)
House Bill 946 Prohibits bud
geting of any funds for racially
mixed schools. (LSU is integrated
on the graduate levels . . . Ed)
House Bill 947 -. Provides that
any school official guilty of any
intentional act "designed to bring
about race mixing in public
schools shall be guilty of malfeas
ance in office.
House Bill 948 Eliminates a
section of the State Constitution
held unconstitutional in the New
Orleans School segregation case,"
in an effort to offset federal court
rulings.
Petition
(The following is the text of
the petition sgned last week by
59 members of the LSU faculty
in protest to the laws shown
above. Editor)
"We believe the proposed leg
islation to abolish the public
schools in Louisiana and make
them private institutions would
be disastrous for the people of
Louisiana."
It went on to say the law's
, changes would cease all public
education in the state, ruin teach
ers' retirements, take away the
people's control of the schools and
end the lunch program which
now exists.
The White Baby Plan
Harry Golden
The White Baby , Plan offers another possible solution to the
segregation problems this time in a field other than education.
Some months ago there was a revival of the Laurence Olivier
movie "Hamlet,' and several Negro school teachers were eager to
see it. One Saturday afternoon they asked some white friends to
lend them two of their little children, a three-year-old girl and
a six-year-old boy and holding these children by the hands, they,
obtained tickets from the movie house cashier. They were in like
Flynn.
This would also solve the baby-sitting problem for thousands
and thousands of white working mothers. There can be a mutual
exchange of references, then the people can sort Qf pool their
children at a central point in each neighborhood, and every time
a Negro wants to: go to the. movies all she need do is pick up a
white child and go.
Eventually the Negro community can set up a factory and
manufacture white babies made of plastic, and when they want
to go to the opera or to a concert, all they need do is carry that
plastic doll in their arms.
' The Carolina Israelite
Anything Goes
Peter B. Young
When dusk steals over the river town of
Batort Rouge, La., a searchlight high atop the
Capitol gently illuminates the big, statue far
below of Huey Pierce Long. The Kingfisb i
buried kjnct'.th that statue, protected from
heretical Vandals by almost 20 tons of con
crete.' t 1
However, wltftTn the past week, the bona 5
of Huey Pierce Long have stirred restlessly.
These bones carry a message for Senator
Willie Rainach. And if Huey's bones could
talk, this is what they would probably say:
Okay, Willie. So you got ambition. That's no
crime, boy. Shucks, I had lots of ambition. I even
wanted to be President of the whole Yew S. A.
"Every man a king!" That was my slogan, and
if that ain't ambition, I don't know what is.
Now, Willie, there's also a lot of talk float
ing around that you've got your hand out. I got
a laugh the other day when my brother Earl,
now the governor, told the whole Legislature
that he knew exactly which of them were on
the take, and for how much. And old Earl was
looking right at you, Willie, when he unburdened
himself of these remarks. But that ain't neces
sarily a crime either. It all depends on who you
steal from, and who you steal for.
Take me- for example. Willie Boy, I could
teach you tricks about stealing that would make
your eyes pop. Me and my boys stole millions.
Some of the loot lined our own pockets, sure.
But , most of it went to buy the votes of bad
guys in the Legislature. How do you think I was
able to build roads and schools and hospitals
and a great university? What did you ever buijd,
Willie? What did you ever build besides Willie!
Speaking of the university you know, Wilio
Boy, that next to the big hospital in New Orleans,
LSU was my pride and joy. I got that school
enough money to buy the best football : players
and drum majorettes and bandsmen in the South.
I even got them money to buy some good perfes
sors because you gotta have them too. . ' .
Now, I'll admit that I had my share of troubles
with LSU. Once in 1934, I canned a few snot
nosed kids for writing some bad stuff about me
in the Reveille. I nailed a couple of those ex
pensive perfessors for the same reason. And, of
course, everybody remembers how my university
president went to jail for embezzlement; The
same thing happened to my contractor who built
most of the new campus. But these were all little
things, Willie. And they wouldn't have happened
except for my temper and my nerves.
But what you're doing now, Willie Boy, i&
altogether different. You're killing my university
in cold blood. You've been laying for LSU for
a lon time. And now, just because a couple of
tired old perfessors hand you a silly petition,
you're out to destorv the Skule. Your lawyer,
that Shaw fellow, wants to bring the FBI in on
the hiring of perfessors. Very funny. If it was
any other kind of a deal, Shaw would tell the
FBI to go fly a Jute. Tell you what, Willie. Why
don't you and Shaw call in the Strategic Air
Command. That outfit would do an even better
job than the FBI. Just one of those ntw-fangled
bombs and you could pack all of LSU into a
picnic lunch basket.
No, Willie, I was never an angel. I stole, I
played rough. But dammit to hell, I was a build
er. And you never built nothing. All you do is
cry, "Nigger, nigger!" And, "Rfld, red!" But
one of these days, my boys are gonna wake up
to the fact that, you never built nothing. And
then they're gonna cut. your heart out and eat
you ali;e. '
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