RACES: Having Wonderful Time

On a sort of reconnaissance raid into the North, a passel of Georgians gleefully stopped off in Seattle and Kansas City, Mo. last week, publicized a weird scheme for counterattacking the damyankees. As the schemers explained it, a Georgia nonprofit corporation, American Resettlement Foundation, Inc., is going to buy houses in upper-income Northern suburbs and rent the places cheap to Negro families hauled up from Georgia.

According to its charter, the A.R.F.'s purpose is to provide "adequate housing facilities" for "underprivileged persons." But in their hilarity, the Georgians could not help blurting out...

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