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— —- Enthusiasm Wans- ae ‘ Malcolm X is a persuasive debater and a rabble- rousing speaker in the Adam Clayton Powell class, which is to say, top grade. He also has grievances on his side —deep, callous, cruel grievances, The murderous Simon Legree policies of Mississippi and of areas in several | other Deep South states are encouraged by the indifference . of non-Southerners. The Malcolms, few though they be. in number, have something going for them: The statistics, the history, the burnings, bombings, killings and perver- sions of justice in the courts. - 4 _ But golng against the Malcolms is the fact that they Pa _are probably too late. The forces under the banner of non- i violence have at last aroused the nation. History has i taken a turn in the years since World War Il which has compelled the ‘United States to act on its racial problem, figure was off by 200, this num- . | “ber out of 400,000 persons in Harlem does not suggest” ’ overwhelming enthusiasm in that community for the Mau Mau approach. History reveals that Negro Americans, ° Qs @ gToup, have never committed themselves to retalia-— tory violence as a policy. a If they did not reach for shotguns and rifles when ~ lynchings were at a twice-a-week average and when” * segregation and discrimination were in humiliating Aower, : they are not about to immolate themselves now, when oe ' things are improving, especially when they consider the 9-to-1 numerical odds. This is not to rule out viclence here and there, nor to suggest that every one of the impatient and frustrated younger Negro generation will abide by historical trends. These sre more bitterly aware of their imposed disabilities . than they were before better education and better com- munication opened their eyes. Some may listen to the Malcolms, especially if mobs are egged on by police and if persecution goes unpunished. But if the United States does not rest on pious dete Tarations and ‘on a law-on-the-books, but moves steadily: to eliminate racial bias, the Mau Mau idea will sputter and die t hostel ; . -