Show I The Round Table I By CHUCK AKERLOW There are two interesting notes on the Mississippi integration The first is the open defiance of the Governor of the state to federal court THE GOVERNOR balked at every He refused to go to court when ordered to do he refused to register Meredith when asked to do and broke his word to the Attorney General and the President on the Sunday afternoon registration and he generally defied the stood before his constituents and told them the federal government was invading Mississippi and that they were breaking He urged his fellow to support his action in denying admission to And he withdrew his state marshals on Sunday when the riots broke Ross Barnett openly declared his principle of the controversy and defied the federal He stood on his platform of an elected state official and condemned federal THE SECOND note refers to former Major General Edwin A. defeated candidate for Governor in Texas and removed from command in Germany because of John Society He is the man who led President Eisenhower's troops to Little Rock in 1957 and who admitted he had an and was going to repent by fighting the Feds in Here is a man who announced in Texas that he would lead volunteers into battle in Mississippi in order to preserve those fundamental constitutional rights he stipulates are being After his announcement he claimed tens of thousands of hopped a plane for and arrived to take personal command of the nation's patriots in full battle ON THE night of the which was to have been a sophisticated military he took to high ground and urged his disorganized ranks to refrain from In stirring words that will echo through the ages he told his volunteer army to maintain law and order whatever the general meant by The upshot of the whole thing is that Barnett hasn't been arrested yet primarily because of his official position and Walker is under arrest being examined by a These along with the open defiance of the Governor and the good folk of Mississippi makes one wonder if this is a nation of laws or A crisis like this always brings up an old philosophical BUT I would first cite the President's feelings when he declared we a nation of then went on to urge the Mississippians to obey those We Americans like to think of ourselves as a nation of laws rather than men but I must admit the concept frightens I can't help feeling laws are made by men and it seems a people must determine its own It further seems only likely that laws are only as good as men make BUT THE important point to be made is that government must re- main a human We can- j not allow the society to become so law oriented that it loses sight of i its human Governments must be run by Those acting S as must make law Law must never create and shape i j Granted the society will need to suffer its Ross Barnetts and Edwin Walkers but this is to be endured when it is realized that great statesmen will also When men resign themselves to living under the law in preference to their own they cease being men and become only small cogs in a gigantic |