Atlanta Daily World

Think On These Things

In spite of the proviso the court attached to its decision upholding the Alabama placement law, to the effect that if this measure is ever implemented in any wise to sponsor segregation, it would be null and void, there was a wild acclaim of this law in some states seeking a segregation loophole.
Some even went so far as to say that it was a "half loaf" in the segregation area, and would beat outright integration.
High state officials, after examining the law, made no bones of how it could work in attempts to circumvent the court's order.

This is not a regular "run of the mine" integration or "mixing" discourse. It is one of inquiry into the basic morals of standards being set for our youth in this generation.
One of the chief functions of education itself is to the end of creating and developing restraints to give support and guidance to impaired morals, to bolster noble codes in human behavior and channel more strength and emphasis where the spiritual and ethical mechanism might be is out of repair or impoverished.
One shudders when he sits in a court room and listens to state authorities and those who are being held up to youth as trusted guides in morals and truly vouched for veracity, swear that cases of denial of admission to Negro youths to certain institutions to be coincidences and not for the purpose of elimination according to race.
It is time for responsible authorities and those selected for the stewardship of our institutions of learning, and the channeling of high concepts and noble ideals into the spiritual and moral mechanism of youth, to think on these things.
For verily, youth should never see the oath of office exposed to the glare of those who voted for whoever takes it under the condition that it never be carried out.