DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.
Presented here, with complacent confidence, is one more of the frequent efforts, simply by waving the Constitution on high, to open the doors of Federal Courts for adjudication of purely local and private disputes. Widespread belief apparently prevails in some quarters that a sort of "Open Sesame" is found in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments: that no matter how devoid of true constitutional issues or substantial Federal questions...
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