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EDITORIALS
The views expressed in these columns
necessarily a reflection of the policy
are those of the writer and not
of The Voice —Pub.
Southern College Students Speak
While President Gordon Gray
of North Carolina college would
seek a reversal of the court’s de
cision to admit Negroes to its law
school, the college press and stu
dents throughout the South are
voicing approval of admitting Ne
groes to southern colleges in view
of court decisions. An editorial in
The Plainsman, college paper in
Alabama, reads in part:
The Plainsman feels that soon,
probably during the present
school year, a Negro will ap
ply for admittance to the j
Auburn School of Architecture. 1
And, we feel that if the Negro j
possesses the qualific a t i o n s
necessary for admittance, but is
denied admission because of his
race, the case will be thrown
into the courts. According to
the judicial precedent set by the
decisions on the fore-stated,
similar cases, the final ruling
will be that the Negro applicant
must be admitted to Auburn.
And, thg Negro will enter
Auburn and attend classes, for ■
the word of the Supreme Court '
is final.
If this does happen during the i 1
term of the present edi- ^
torial staff. The Plainsman
Vvill not oppose it. Nor do we
believe that the Auburn student
body will oppose it.
e will not oppose it because we
feel that the answer to the whole
Negro problem inu the South lies
in education. The Negro must be
given full educational opportuni
ties so that he may raise his
standards and improve his wray of
life.
If the desired educational ia
cilities are not available in state
Negro schools, we don’t see any |
course of action open other than1
admitting qualified Negro stu
dents, on a selective basis, toj
white schools where they may re
ceive the benefits of the hereto
fore unavailable educational fa
cilities.
As one University of Texas stu
dent said, upon being asked to
give an opinion on admitting
Negroes to-the Texas law school,
“It’s the only thing we can do,
living in a democracy.”
A letter to the editor of the
Daily Reveille, Louisiana State
University paper, is printed be
low.—Editor’s Note.
To the Editor:
The decision of the LSU Board
of Supervisors to appeal the de
cision in the Wilson case is a
ridiculous demonstration that the
South is still unaware of the Con
stitution. Of course, the Board is
probably meeting political ex
pediency and other pressure in
this action, but in the face of
almost certain U. S. Supreme
Court affairmation of the de
cision, it appears pernicious to
drag the names of Louisiana and
LSU through a legal battle which
will only emphasize the South’s
faults, so that those who would
can capitalize on it.
But it is not this lone incident
in the struggle for democracy in
I the U. S. which riles me—it if
the perfidy of Southerners in
worshipping a way of life that is
the antithesis of all America
stands for, and with which they
| idealistically parade, but illog
ically maintain their American
j ism.
Fundamentally speaking, South
erners are not idealistically Amer
icans. Sure, Southerners pay
nominal respect to the Constitu
tion, but they stoutly insist that
only its privileges belong to the
Caucasian, while the duties must
be distributed to the Negro as
well as white. They loudly pro
claim Dixieism their most noble1
ideal, but let us see what the Old I
South was and would be if still
existing today.
The Old South was and would
be today a feudal society and a
degenerate one at best. If such a
system existed in Louisiana at ;
this time, a small fraction of the j
people would be the rulers or oli- «
?archs; a majority of the whites t
would be, at best, sharecroppers, i
overseers, or “Po White Trash,” t
and the Negro would be a slave. 1
3h, sure, the South was a cul- \
ured society for those who were /
aorn to its benefit; but it was a
nore rigidly a caste society than p
Louis IV’s France. If that is the
ype of social unit Southerners c
want, and some of them do, they -
deserve all the contempt and in
terference that the rest of the '
American states should give.
It is about time that the South
join the Union by putting its
house in order. It is about tibe
that thinking college people for
get that they are Southerners and
remember they are Americans
lirst. 1 hese Southerners, wHc,
want to think, should remember:
in this idealistic fight against!
Communism that false advertis- ■
ing by the U.S. as to political,
economic and educational equal
ity is especially dramatized by the
South itself. We cannot proclaim
democracy to the world and ex
pect the Russian propaganda ma
chine not to play up our weak
nesses. Either we practice de
mocracy and respect the rights of
minorities, or else we play the
fools to the colored peoples of
Asia and Africa who are quite
able to distinguish the artificial
from the McCoy.
I am perfectly aware of the
fee/ing of Southern people. I am
a Southerner myself. I realize
that it will be very difficult to
extend these educational, politi
| cal and economic rights without
| some feeling of hatred branded
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• VATS HISTORIC At SOCIBTT
In the Missouri river number
of Nebraska History (March,
1925), there’s a map showing the
names and locations of steamboats
sunk along the Nebraska shore
from 1830 to 1902. It’s a crowded
map, because it contains the
names and locations of steamboats
sunk along the Nebraska shore
from 1830 to 1902. It’s a crowded
map, because it contains the
names of 60 steamboats whose
careers ended in a watery grave
—and there’s considerable evi
dence that it’s not complete.
When you consider that this
was only a fraction of the craft
sunk along the entire distance of
the Missouri River, you cannot
escape the conclusion that steam
boating was a dangerous as well
as profitable business.
The most common causes of
steamboat wrecks on the Missouri
were the everpresent snags. The
shifting channel seemed to be
loaded with them, and much to
the discomfiture of the river pi- 1
lots, snags encountered on one
trip could not be depended upon
to be in the same place on the
next.
Next among the causes of
steamboat fatalities were fire and
ice. Fire all too frequently was
caused by carelessness, such as
the carrying of candles into the j
lold, and he overturning of lights. !j
3oiler explosions were frequent j
n the early days, but as con- J
truction improved accidents from j
his cause lessened, the list in |
Nebraska History shows only one J
►oiler explosion. That was the j
>*Ils, a 70-ton stem-wheeler,
/hich exploded and sunk above j|
irago, October 26, 1878. It struck |j
snaw, though, before the ex
losion occurred.
The earlier fatality on the list
f those sunk along Nebraska was
nto our minds by years of *
raining and centuries of preju
dice. But it can be done.
As to social equity, under the
present scheme of things it is \
apparently close to impossible ;
and will remain so, for possibly j
centuries. As to segregation '
itself, that is a situation of
choice that no law can change,
unless it be by unnoticed consent I
of the races themselves. Segre
gation is basically an individual
choice and occurs intra as well \
as inter race.
The issue is here now and 1
will be for some time to come,
and whether we Southerners
like it or not, it will prevail.
Since, in spite of what the pro- Jj
fessional Southerner wishes, the "
majority of the American people
rule the United States—and they
seem to want democracy ex- _
tended everywhere therein.
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the Pocahontas, a aide-wheeler
sunk, by a snaw near Rock Bluff,
August 11, 1840. The steamer was
descending the river reportedly
loaded with small lots of groc
eries (where they came from, I
don’t know), when it hit a snaw
forward and tore a hole nearly
to its stern, sinking immediately.'
The steamer and cargo were a
total loss, but its money, books
and cabin furniture were saved.
One of the largest boats lost in
water adjacent to Nebraska was 1
the Benton, a stern-wheeler of
394 tons near Sioux City, July
18, 1897. It had been built in
Pittsburgh in 1875. Prior to its
last accident, it had been sunk
twice, but raised both times. On
its last trip, it was coming down
stream. The Sioux City combina
tion bridge failed to open. The
steamer backed and swung
around, striking some submerged
piling, which broke a hole in its
bottom. The boat filled rapidly
with water and became unman
ageable. The swift current car
ried it against the bridge, tearing
away its upper works. It was a
total loss.
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