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THE DAILY STANDARD, Celina, Ohio
Wednesday Evening, June 12, 1963
JFK: The Leader Is Led
The largest failing of John Ken-
against this nation's seemingly end-
nedy, in our view, has been an un-
less supply of Ross Barnetts and
willingness to commit the forces at
George Wallaces and Bull Connors.
his command to an all-out battle in
The President has worked behind the
favor of the things in which he be-
scenes to speed integration efforts at
lieves.
every level and he has spurred the
It is a common enough failing,
Justice Department to countless court
one that our present President shares
actions intended to break down thick
with m o S t of his predecessors
pockets of racial extremists.
throughout the nation's history. And
But these efforts were mostly si-
it is not, we suppose, a lethal one,
lent ones which, though materially
for taking no action is decidediy bet-
helpful, still denied today's Negro the
-|
ter than taking the wrong one, and
vocal support of this nation's chief
moves that should have happened
executive. This was support that the
yesterday are still welcome upon
Negro should have had a long time
their tardy arrivals tomorrow.
ago. He has it finally, today, thanks
to Ross Barnett who forced Kenne>
PRESIDENT KENNEDY addressed
dy's hand in Oxford, and to George
the nation yesterday concerning the
Wallace, who repeated this proce-
lack of civil rights that presently con-
dure, though less violently, in Tusca-
fronts a large majority of its citizens.
loosa.
It was a good speech, pointing as it
did to polite forms of bigotry and
so THE TWO Negro students a r e
segregation as they exist in the
now enrolled in Alabamá University
North, as well as to the always pres-
and every state in the union today
ent threat of violence that accompa-
contains at least one integrated pub-
nies similar situations in the South.
lic school system. It has been said
Kennedy briefly outlined a new
that yesterday's confrontation in Ala-
civil rights bill which he will pre-
bama will prove to be the last really
sent to Congress next week, a bill
dangerous m o m e n t in the Negro's
that would e n S u r e equal rights for
long and painful voyage toward be-
Negroes in several areas where those
coming a genuine American citizen.
rights are legally withheld today.
It has been said that the future looks
The details of the bill have not yet
bright, that integration is now un-
been fully divulged, but we are con-
stoppable, that racial justice looms
fident that it will be a good one, for
very close on the American horizon.
Kennedy's ideas are usually sound.
We wish we could share this op-
But i d e a to be appreciated,
timism. But we find it difficult to do
must first be voiced, and this un-
so because one integrated school is
willingness to speak or act unless
not integration, and because as Ken-
prodded by a groundswell of public
nedy said, "this issue is mainly a
opinion strikes us as the President's
moral one, as old as the Scriptures
weakest and most vulnerable point.
and as clear as the American Consti-
He should be a leader, molding
tution."
new thoughts and ideas tc be relayed
What happened in Alabama yes-
to the citizens of this nation. In-
terday was an obvious victory for the
stead, he has been content, at least
forces of equality and justice. But
publicly, to let nature take its course,
the moral issues still remain, the ha-
to follow each unfolding drama in si-
treds and fears that exist in New
lence, acting only when impelled to
York and Chicago and Celina, as well
act, speaking only when it becomes
as in Little Rock and Oxford and
politically safe to speak.
Birmingham.
We think Kennedy is too astute
And it is the very fact that a
a politician ever to become a truly
moral issue underlies this problem
great statesman. For the one is con-
that renders a politician inept in at-
cerned only with the art of the pos-
tempting to deal with it For the art
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