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The most rabid Negro papers publish the crimes of their own people and then editorialize on the cruel inequalities which help to cause them. That is the proper use of freedom of the press. Arbitrary withholding of vital facts is an impertinence and a misuse of the common franchise.

Fancy if you can what this chapter could not tell were we to suppress racial references.

Of every four felonies and other breaches of the law in the grades where a defendant has the right of trial by jury more than three are committed by Negroes. That is not confidential, but official. Arrests for Part One felonies—the more serious—in 1949 were as follows:

Colored males, 7,715. Colored females, 1,085. Total colored, 8,800. White male, 2,396. White female, 309. Total white, 2,705.

Here is a breakdown on some:

 Murder, colored 40; white 8.

 Manslaughter, colored 6; white 1.

 Rape, colored 140; white 23.

 Aggravated assault, colored 2,651; white 381.

 Burglary, colored 2,322; white 640.

Negrophiles and impractical activists for brotherhood of all God’s children campaign to force newspapers to omit racial identification of the lawless and hide it with white lies. That is the foggy, unrealistic policy of visionaries, sparked by the cold, hard practicality of Reds.