Integration in Officialdom

Whatever his motives for asking the question, Georgia's Representative James Davis, chairman of the House subcommittee investigating integration in the capital's schools, could well have caused a flurry of embarrassment in Government circles. How many officials, he wanted to know, have been willing to send their children to desegregated schools? Last week Davis got his answer.

One of his obvious concerns was the U.S. Supreme Court. But none of the Justices now living in Washington has children of school age. Last year Vice President Nixon's two daughters attended the Horace Mann School, which had one Negro. Among their schoolmates were the son of Interior Secretary Frederick Seaton and the children of Senators Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and Thomas Kuchel of California.

Bonnie Benson, daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture, went to Roosevelt High School, which had 518 Negroes. Her sister attended Powell with 214 Negroes and 138 whites. The daughter of Allen Reed, presidential legislative analyst, went to school with 20 Negroes, and the three daughters of Maxwell Rabb, secretary to the Cabinet, attended integrated schools. At Jackson Elementary School, which New Jersey Senator Clifford Case's son attended, there were 39 Negroes. Even some of the Southern and border-state Senators have become colorblind. The daughters of Louisiana's Russell Long went to Horace Mann. The daughter of Texas' Price Daniel and the son of Indiana's William Jenner went to Alice Deal, which had five

Negroes. Mary Laird, daughter of West Virginia's William Laird, attended Western High with 77 Negroes, while the daughter of Texas' Lyndon Johnson went to Murch with four.

One Southerner was sticking by his racist guns. The private Sidwell Friends School revealed that Mississippi's James O. Eastland had withdrawn his son and daughter. Reason: one little Negro had been taken into kindergarten.

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