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Show LET CONSOLIDATION REST. i Now that the segregationists have signally failed to get n favorable action ac-tion from tho Hoard of County Commissioners Com-missioners to tholr request for segregation, segre-gation, consolidation should have n rest frcjm .strife. It wns very evident to any fair man present at the meeting meet-ing hint Saturday that tho sentiment favoring ' consolidation is rapidly glowing, and we believe that it has grown simply becniiHo the K)tem is succeeding. In fact, somu ot tho warmest siippoiters of tho system were formeily its bitterest opponents;! but through experience they have concluded con-cluded that the plan of consolidation is dolngv 'great tilings for tho sehoolx. Insofar as this Is true, tho agitators who are now lifter segregation should tutn their errorts to building up the now H.VHtem. The same y.eal which they dlspl.i) io disrupt consolidation would make a powoifnl factm1, where. h consolidation could he '"iiiitde to succeed the moie. Jt tin! sumo "spirit" of working lor conxolldatlon pio ,ir eiitliUHiasti a k the iirdpr of the .sOg-''i .sOg-''i regntlonirtJi., tliu" iiewillfui of 'school i maiiagenieiit would grow hy leaps . and boundh Thiiuiiloiu if funds w.'mld besnulcikly sof('ed; differences would he amicably niljustod; uhlidiou wonliI.be housed In abort order; and In (iierj- wiij would thu cause of edu-, edu-, uailon prnpei wlieieiJt is now throttled throt-tled ' IMiunli, ihe fOgreKiuloiiiHlH asked . ' vr.iv difficult thing of the county com- j niiHslonern Supposo tho CromiulBt mo-, mo-, Hon bad pinvitlled, and the coramis-l I aloimrs him voted to dlKsoiVti tho rre.j I Mill school dmllicl or (bielio coiinly : j L'lide,!- the nuerpretatli'ijr or 4lut law''' j fniule by Attorney tloiieral llnniiH,'ln j which he conours wltli tlio opinion ex-I ex-I pie-jHeiiiiy t'oiinty .Attorney John . 1 Sneddon, tlifi act of the commissioners would l.o.dli.mly ngniiifcl any law' thai Hie piv-jem xtiiiiiles grunt ilium. Tlioj baxe-uofliower to segjegnte, In shoit, andfiTii Ijahhuiiiiiilon or that puwor woilld only bring on n lung and oxpynsivo legal battle with nit tlio odds ngaliiht tlio commlssloiiors. Hundreds Hun-dreds or dollars would iirtvo to bo ox-ponded ox-ponded and tho work of tho schools would bo linmpored during tho on-tiro on-tiro tiino. Samuel P. Oldhnm very plainly pointed tho problem out nud gave aufflclont wurnliij; of tlio battle before tho pooplo, wliuroln a legal civil suiro would bo Instittitoir, ono sootlon of the people plttod against nnutliur socilon. Only iMsruptlQii and trouble to the schools could result from tiie Btrlfo. Tho ciyisu of segregation was uot helped ninlerlaliy by tlio determination determina-tion or it miherents Ui fono tho com misKloueis i act against then ludg meiit and HKumHt Mie inn in iba mat ter. From all the legal advice directly direct-ly offered, dissolution of tho school dlstilct cannot be accomplished by the county commissioners. If dissolution can bo gotten it will havd.to come by 'an act of the leglstyure.Such seems to be tho law In tho matter. And ns we have said, tho determination ' ot tho segregationists to fly in the face of that condition,- seems to lose for them the lawabldlng citizens who might otherwise act with them. |