WHY INVITE WALLACE?

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I am concerned about the invitation offered Governor Wallace of Alabama to speak at Harvard (The CRIMSON, September 25, Efrem Sigel, "Harvard, Yale Students to Issue New Invations to Governor Wallace"). Mr. Sigel reports that the Governor will debate the President's civil rights program here. Another issue is before us: the killing of six Negro children, four by a bomb, one shot by a policeman, and one shot by two white boys--all in Birmingham, Alabama.

I object to the Governor's being invited here. My objection is not a disparagement of the right of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats to invite him, but such an invitation demonstrates an insensitiveness to the feelings of Negroes not only in Birmingham but throughout the country.

To Harvard's five black sons on leave this year in Mississippi and elsewhere, working amidst violence to gain fundamental rights for Negroes, Governor Wallace's presence here might be, in the kindest terms, ironic. Archie C. Epps 20.