Housing and Segregation.

Schott's Alley is a filthy, verminous Negro slum just across the street from the U.S. Senate Office Building. These slums so close to the Capitol present one of the ironic contrasts in which American life and politics abound. This week some Senators visited the area and found conditions of filth, poverty and misery as bad as anything that exists in the nation. The tour was the outgrowth of a statement made by Senator Ralph E. Flanders, a relatively liberal Vermont Republican, when he spoke last Monday in behalf of the housing and slum-clearance bill. Senator John W. Bricker is trying to kill or cripple the housing bill by loading it down with unctuously phrased and destructively intended anti-segregation amendment.