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fk to Editorials is Going to be a Slow Process | , Preadent Eisenhower lost_his stri with the extrema in ihe integration bate when he said, in one of his pres conferences, that favored a slower pace for racial integration. “We have got to have reason and senec and odu- cation—if this proces is going to have any real acceptance in the Unijred Staves.” he said. Ag the resistance in the South indicates, the President's analysia was entirely correct. For the carrying out of a social change ag rev- olutionar,. although in the jong run inevitable, as this, gradualnem, as the late G. Bernard Shaw used to say, ia exential. The _cotored poopie amt many of their supporiers, particuiarly among “liberal” groupe, want mast of all to win. They have the Fed: ris on their side and few of them eet any rea- son why every American school, re- gacdiem of geography, choad not im- mediatchy include white children and | Hawi worked out & AAC Po exer premure on ibeschoot uchorities 10 transport children our- side heir neighborhoods to bring this about In che jong run, however, chia is not likely to happen in many, commu Bitica, because children normally go to school in the neighborhoods wher their parents live. Nobody can blame the Negrors, ter enlorced social jAgcriority:, that white chil- dren auend, a privilege which they have a moral and legal right to enjoy. But the first flush of victory may prove more exhilarating than in eventual fruig. The experience of Washington, D.C., where thousands of white chil- dren have deserted the public schooly for private owes, mugyests that court decisions cannot change things over- aight. The white people in the Southern Mates, and to 8 considcrable degree with mupport Grom other sections of the country, feel themselves uncer siege. em of edu- ae OES a symienm of cd cating Ni which war ted as coastal Tor at Teast waxty years, we are expected to abolah it. This d comes, not after the adoption of a constitutional amendment, or ¢ven & Federal saute, but in a detsian by the Supreme Court of ube United phate de colored children. In New York, the States, which seems to Southern people a Sut. Bl fare bo ignore consiituiional arguments in favor of sociological doctrines. The challenge to local authority over mat- ters long considered of focal concern is a firebell in the nigh” in the South. So “the South says never,” without stopping to ask juelf whether in the long man anything as disastrous as it has been anticipating is likely to hap- pen. Curiously cnough, onc Southern cary which was willing to make the in- tegration experiment in a limited way hag had to bear the brunt of liberal and antiscgregationiss abuse. But Little Rock had proposed a plan for limited integration which, had Governor Fau- bus managed to hold his horses, might have worked, or at least taken the heat off for a time. Few other Southern com- mynities have moved as far as Little Rock tried to move, and, as the bitter- mew increases. few will change their minds. The usually “liberal” Washington Post recently pointed out that a work- able solution Tay not in “massive in- tegration.” but in some sor: of plan which woukt “remove the stigma of Segregation based on race and still result in relatively little mixing.” If President Eisenhower's advice could be taken, partisans on both sides of the fence would have an opportunity to decide whether the practical issucs. as opposed to the emotional issues. are worth so much furious controversy. The U.S.A. Can't Surrender its Rights in the Panama Canal Agitation in the Republic of Pan- ara over the statusef ube Canal Zone features two claims: (1) “The Canal is ours": and (7) Panania and the United States are equal partners in the Canal. and should therefore split its gross revenucs fifty-flty, while we meet all expenses In this counin. sume voices, no tably Mr. James Warburg's, have been raised to suggest that we should internationalize the Canal. to set a Rood txample tv Colone] Nasser None of these proposals makes sense. There ia no begitiiniaté cum. Parison beeween the pasiniun of the American Government at Parana and ther af the Suez Company ia Eu pe. As Congeenman Fhood (PD. Penni.) has pointed on in several aperches, the Canal Zane in “eonsii- Autionsth jecspuired wrnturs of the Pacted States” While the Brivish Geax comment owned B15 percent of the Sue? Comypans. and its adminis- Iralun was targels French, ihe com pany was an Evsptian enterprise, eperating ore a one-hundeed-s car lease, when Naser expropriated il, Our treaty of 1909 with the Re- public of Panama gave us sovereign right over a strip of Land ten miles * wide across the Isthmus. The stated purpose of the grant waa that we might build, maiptain, oprrate aod defend an interoctanic canal, and the grant was perpetual. We undertook to pay the Repub lic of Panama $10,000,000 in 1908, and an annuity, thereafter. The pay- menus have been increased several times, and now stand at about $1,- 600,000, Te is conceivable chat this will be increased but the notion that Panama can rightfully claim a half share of the tolls iv ridiculous. Yet it was put forward by the Deputy Forcign Minister of Panama, who now occupies a profemor’s chair at the Univerniiy of Panama, where he instructs student in the fancied rights for which they riat period- ically, Charles Evans Hughes. Secreiary of State in +924, made this state- ment to the Minister from Panama, when he raised the question of sov- ercients in the Canal Zone: “Jrisan almolute futility Jor the Panamanian Government to expect any Amer- ican Administration, ao maticr what it is, any President or any Secretary of State, ever to gutrender any part of those rights which the United Seates haa acquired under the Treaty of 1903." Considerations of international law and hemisphere security make the Hughes declaration of 1923 even more valid today. Next Move tor Our Ex-Urbanites: a Cut- Rate Castle In Spain! Back in the ’20’s, when anyone Patnlioned an American expatriate, he war utually talking about a type that approximated an F. Scott Fitz- gerald character at the Ritz bar, or a bearded painier in Miontparname. According to John ©. Tysen. preai- dent of an international real-estate: firm, Previews, Inc., the "50's have produced a brand-new and different crop of expatriates, They are rebels against the high coat of Living. Previews) American cunomert have found that it coats Jews to buy and maintain a European chiteay or even a castle on the Mediterrancan coast than it does to keep up a four-bedroom ranch house in the New York suburbs. Overecas gales by Previews, Inc., which have v jumped § per cent over last year, mow account for 8 per cent of the firm’s total business; they have sold such bargains as a seventeen-room villa in Southern Spain for $1 §,000. A house fike it here, they estimate, would cast $45,000. Tt isn't only well-toda elderly persons who have decided to retire abroad. A fair number of dhe new expatriates are men under forty- five who prefer to tive in a Mediter- ranean villa while doing, sav, free- lance advertising work or coliccting dividends on American securitics. According to the president of Pre- views, Inc., “it's almost impossible foapend as much as $500 a month in Many acctions of Europe. Less than that amount is required by many young toupies to buy food and clothing for a family of three and to maintain 2 eight-raum home with two servants. Cooks and maids are about cight dollars a werk.” This new group of American ¢x- patriates have found a way to have their cake and ¢a1 jt too. But ihe rest of us are compelied to stay at home. with our high taxes, inflated prices and eight-dollar-a-day (nat week) cleaning women, and like it! And. in spite of all we've read about chdteaux and castles, there's 2 lot yo be said for life in the U5. 4. (a IOLA 7 - fr