; Sen. Stone and the Court
. (Marry Golden in The Carolina laraelite)
Every American citizen ha; every right to ag?ee or disag ee
with the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Bift these
decisions are the law of .the land, and the judges wfco make them
are entitled to respect even from those citizens who questin
their logic or legal reasoning.
Thus it came as quite* a shock that Clarence Stone, Presi
dent of die North Carolina State Senate, while acting in his offi
cial capacity, gratuitously termed, the Un.ted S.ates Sup.eme
Court, “* disgrace to its people.”
.1 The disgrace in this case obviously was Mr. S.one's mis-use
of his position -as a forum for his prejudices.
Up until the United States Supreme Court decision of May
17, 1954, the South went along with Justice Taney who wrote the
pred Scott decision and held that a Negro had no rights a white
man need respect. It held, in fact, with all the Supreme Court
rulings.
pet us not be too critical of Justice Taoey. Justice T.ney
was ispeaking for the sociological fac s cf his day which t..e
South accepted wholeheartedly.
Justice Vinson and Warren we e speakiig for the foci lai
cal facts of their day which the South does not like, but that
makes it no less a law. Some of t iese ?e pie attacking the Su
preme Court say that the justices are communist - i nspired, and
presumably this includes all future appointments to tie Un.ted
States Supreme Court.
You will notice, however, that the C aronce Stones do not j
express their anger at the late Chief Jusfi e Fred M. Vinson, a j
Southerner. It was Justice Vinscu who struck the f rat blow th i
eventually shattered the pat.ern of racial segregation. It was the
Sweatt Case in which Justice Vinson said that se^reg tion of it
self is unconstitutional regardless of the facilities, «•»%" if the fa
cilities were ‘■‘equal.”
Two murders
(Editorial in The Watt Street Journal)
As he left home early that mdrnl g, three .38 Caliber bullets
tore into his back .Titus, on a Hoboken, N. J., street, ended the
life of Walter Glockner, 27, truck driver. Besides his young
widow, be left two small daughters, one only two months old.
As Medgar Evers returned to his Jackson, Mis*., home from
a church rally last week, he was shot to death by a sniper in
ambush. Thirty-seven years old, Mississippi field secretary of
the National Association for the Advancement cf Colo.ed Peo
ple, Mr. Evers left a wife and three children.
; For years Mr. Evers, a veteran, had been working active
ly for better treatment—mere democracy and fuller freedom of
Negroes. That is why he was killed.
For some time Mr. Glockner, a veteran, had been wcrking
actively for better treatment-—more democracy and fulle- f«e
dom—of members of his union local. Th: t, fcey.nd any reasonab e
doubt, is why he was killed. *
So both men fought for justice, each in his own way, and
each suffered the^most unjust penalty. The murder of the Ne
gro was, as the President said, an act of appalling ba barity. The
nation, North and South, gg eed end, mourn ng, will inter Med
gar Evers in Arlington National Cemetery.
But who, outside his family and friands, mourns for Walter
Glockner?
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