Show comments from dixie by E A DAVIS cleveland tenn solid bodies cannot occupy the same place at the same tune in spite ot of the attempts of some auto drivers to alove piove it otherwise otner wise almost every day one sees this law work with in expiable certainty two new cars isi ia i together the other evening at the corner of wildwood avenue bouth south both cars were pretty badly damaged and both drivers quite irate fhe rhe ement began cautiously but soon picked up mo iii fatum aided and abetted by some of the rapidly gathering bystanders who even though they had not act bally seen the collision began to take sides tempers began to rise words got more caustic and insult ing then one of the disputants called the other a not socially accepted na me which brought on a shove with an open hand and a doubled fist held in reserve A split second more and there would have been a grand me lee with probably half the uninvolved but ignorantly belligerent beh beli gerent bystanders joined in A stabilizing element in the form of the law arrived just in the nick of time tune it was wonderful to see how quickly all the heat of dissipated disi and cooling balm of reason soothed the situation the police got the necessary information called the wreckers and dispersed the crowd with calmness and efficiency effic ency when people try the impossible two cars in one place at one time an ex plosive situation can develop rapidly and get completely out of hand what I 1 am so clumsily trying to really tell you is that the old autherine therme Au lucy who insists on attending the university of alabama in spite of the fact there is a negro college a few mi rm les away in the state is like the auto driver who wants to prove two cars can be in the same place ot one time the NAACP the supreme court rul ing the reds and pinks imported from various other sections of the country and the hangers on are the unthinking and belligerent beli gerent crowd that gathers around auto wrecks ho ping for a knock down drag out fight doing all they can to get it started black and white are not like love and marriage they just don t socially go together and never will not withstanding the adders and abettors who want a fight the in telli gence culture and dignity of the south will presently arrive just as the police at a the wreck and get this matter set right in no time at all un less perhaps we have abed the ignorance and vehemence of agitators |