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people does not change a way of life without some upheaval and repercussions. It is to be hoped that they will all be restricted to the field of legal action and that the decision of the court will be taken calmly and sanely everywhere.
The only surprising thing about the opinion was that it was unanimous. With the appointment of Governor Earl Warren of California as chief justice, a decision against segregation became probable, but that the entire court should join in a finding that is politically dictated though placed on humanitarian grounds, and one which has no true constitutional justification, was not to be expected. If the right of segregation belonged to the states under Supreme Court rulings which have stood against all assaults for 57 years, it is clear that only specious legalistic reasoning could now find something in the Constitution that wasn’t there before.
To separate children solely because of race generates feelings in their hearts and minds W'hich might never be undone, declared the court. That is unquestionably true, but its truth does not give the justices the right to make law. It is not for the court to say that _segregation has no place in education. Nevertheless its decrees stand as law, and in this case cannot be upset except by a constitutional amendment. In view of the fact that the Negro race is largely concentrated in a minority of the states, there is no possibility of enacting an amendment on the subject.
In leaving the matter open for further argument as to the time
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