Another Black
Spot in Dixie
I JOHN J. SYNO
There has been put together,
in Memphis, something known
as The L.Q.C. Lamar Society,
organized, so The New York
Times says, to “seek reconcilia
tion and' pragmatic dialogue” be
tween the races.
On its face, this undistinguish
ed outfit wouldn’t be worth men
tioning were it not for the fact
it typifies the (most insidious
factor now corroding the South.
It is the latest of the malicious
black spots planted among us
to rot the whole. As such, it is
worth looking at.
L.Q.C. Lamar was a noble Miss
issippian who served as a Con
federate colonel and, after the
war, as an associate justice of
the Supreme Court of The Unit
ed States. He is best remem
bered for his post - bellum work
at North - South reconciliation
and one supposes it is this ele
ment in Lamar’s career that led
the integrationists to adopt his
honored name. Their choice
smacks of an attempt to lend
the organization a genuine pro
Southern flavor.
However that may be, the La
mar Society, today, claims 140
members from across the South.
Its moving force seems to be a
Negro named Moses Burt who
earns a living as a staff worker
for the National Urban Coalition.
As I get it, he and a White man
named James Leufae nut the
thing together. Leutze is a form
er member of Hubert Humph
rey’s staff and is now a profes
sor of — Glory be! — American
•history at the University of
North Carolina.
The Times says the society’s goal
is to “shape the (South’s) future
political leadership.” To that end
it will hold “regional govern
ment workshops,” etc.
* * *
Why? Because, says Michael
Cody, a White lawyer and the
society’s first president, “In the
next three years the South must
decide if it’s going to integrate
or face the alternative of mas
sive black alienation, frustration
,and violence.”
Poppycock. The South — as
•the North — has decided that
already. It won’t integrate,
not voluntarily, come the prom
ised violence or high water.
All of which, really, is beside
the point. What I wanted to em
phasize, in writing of The La
mar Society, is the means em
ployed by egalitarians, generally
to revolutionize our culture.
They slip into the South, in
the first instance, via pipelines
already established. (How do, you
suppose so alien - minded a
creature as this man Leutze
hooked on at the University of
North Carolijfe; how do you sup
pose Dean Rusk, whose daught
er married a Negro, came to
earth at the University of
Georgia? How and why?) Once
among us, such as these assume
the posture of people with the
South’s best interests at heart.
And gather scalawags around
them. Together, the scalawags
and the aliens, become “enlight
ened Southerners” and) begin to
tell us, “pragmatically,” how
evil are those who demand and
maintain standards as old as
mankind; exactly that old.
* * * ,
Generally, such groups and
individuals are fed by “free
money,” by tax-exempt founda
tions that long ago were taken
over by the marxists. And they
pump, and they pump, and they
pump their poison.
If it were not for one tre
mendous roadblock, such out
fits as the Lamar Society long
ago would have overrun uS.
Fortunately, that immovable
block stops them whichever way
they steer. For, you see, when
all the propaganda guns have
been fired, when the last “rul
ing” has been handed down and
the individual stands at bay, in
tegration still depends upon that
individual’s willingness to aban
don his bone - deep, instinctive,
consciousness of kind. That, he
will not do; not of his own vo
lition.
For this reason — and this
reason alone — miscegenation
(the true meaning of “integra
tion”) is not working. The egal
itarians can, and) they may, force
us all* to become brown-skinned
people. They can, as thev are
doing, make imitation White
people of Negroes.
But they can’t make the rank
and-file of us — White or Black
— like it. So long as we have a
choice we will remain as we are,
thank you; pulpit, press and The
Lamar Society notwithstanding.
Other Editors Say —
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Homeless Fish?
Rusting away at the curb, a
junked automobile is, an eye
sore. Dumped into 60 feet of
water off the Jersey Shore, it’s a
home for vagabond fish and
Crustaceans.,
“Building blocks Tor artificial
reefs,” the Sandy Hook United
States Marine Laboratory calls
them. And supposedly they rust
away without harming the envir
onment.
I 'For harassed urban officials,
an intriguing idea. But buUdoz
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Dtfwr Edlton Say
Rails Fail
Farmers, Too
The demise of Railroad passen
ger service makes the headlines,
>ut there also is an alarming
decline in boxcar numbers. Ag
riculture Secretary Clifford
Hardin recently reported the
situation to Congress.
In 1959 American railroads
tiad 674,792 box cars. On Jan. 1
this year they had only 386,499,
i drop of 42.7 per cent. The
lumber of narrow dbor cars,
suitable for grain hauling, had
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There are a half-billion more
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New corn harvesting-drying
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ricultural rail transportation
system.” He favored an Inter
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ier to cover emergencies and
;o require boxcar purchases.
distressing to contemplate if a
Nationwide truck drivers’ strike
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— Milwaukee Journal
ing all the nation’s abandoned
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There’s only one hitch. Auto
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lion a year. There just can’t
be that much vagrant fishlife
around.
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