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AL TISON A Very Unsegregated Colored Man A play in One Act Cast: Andy-Very Unsegregated Colored Man: Amos Kndy's Cousin, visiting him from the South; Ole' Marse The South; Other People-Chorus. Locale: Deep North Time: Present Chorus-"If we're feeling tomorrow like we're feeling today, we'll end old segregation and shout, Hip, Hooray !" Andy-"I wish I could be down home and watch ole' marse's face when he finds out segregation is unlegal!" Amos-"Yeah, but I hope I don't have to watch the faces of the colored folk that cross-up ole' marse when the law ain't looking." Andy-"Man, what you talking about! The Govern meft will have the FBI and the Army down there if they dl t treat us equal." Amos-"You may be right, Andy, but you know ole' marse was mighty good to us when we stayed in our place, and his son Billy treated us more equal than ole' marse did. Don't you reckon that Billy's son would treat us more equal than Mister Billy, and before long we would be accepted as equal?" Andy-"Man, hell!! That's what they been saying for 90 years! I want to be treated equal now, and if it takes the Army to do it, that's all right with me." Amos-"I don't know that I agree with you, Andy; you know that C.cre are most as many colored folk there as there are white folk-when we start going to school together, there's liable to be some commotion, and I don't want to send a FBI man to school with my children. And besides, ole' marse is building us a school as good as his; it'll suit me just as good if my children get a equal education in a separate school." Andy-"Amos, you just don't understand what the NAACP has done for us up North! Why, we're out and out equal up here!" Amos-"Well, Andy, how come you're living in a colored s%Q4ion of town-I thought you'd be living next door to the white folk. And a friend of mine wrote me about that riot somewhere in Illinois." Andy-"Amos, you just don't understand! These things are just part of the process. If I had more money I could live wherever I wanted to buy a house, and when my children finish their education, they'll be able to make more money and do what they want to." Anos-"That's it, Andy! Af'er we get our people edu cated so that they can be proud of themselves, they won't worry so much about being equal, and the white folks will begin to accept us for what we are, and as equals. When the law tells ole' marse to put us in his schools, and let us in his movies and restaurants and all, ole' marse is gonna decide that, since he knows damn well all the colored folk ain't his equal, he can't treat any of us as equal 'cause it would make trouble among the rest. It will be as hard for us as it will be for ole' marse." Andy-"Well Amos, you may be right, but that ain't what the NAACP tells us here. Get your coat and let's go to a movie-there's a good one at the Harlem Theatre. Amos-"Be right with you, Cousin Andy." Chorus--"You must remember this, Tradition is still tradition, By those who like it, it will be missed, But even tradition will partition As time goes by. IUniversity Professors Attend Education Meeting ODoctors W. D. Nixon and Cecil lina, will represent the State De I. Tucker of the School of Educa- partment of Education. tion, Universjty of South Caro- Tecoeaieporm i lina, are participating in the ThirdEdctoaAmisrtons1 Regional Conference of the South-nacdbagrtfomhee ern States Cooperative Program in lg onainoe ieya Educational Administration atpeid Gatlinburg, Tennessee, which be-ThCaimnotesudfr gan yesterday.SotCaoiaiC.BSebr This conference is. composed ofofteSaeDprmnofd representatives from the states ofcain Alabma, Florida, Georgia, Ken tuce , Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, ete ieu . IS Tennessee, and West Virginia. The general theme of the Re gional Work Conference is "Im-Re onC m s 4 proving Preparation Programs for Educational Administration." Chest ersns Those participating in the con-tisRapGegranI.M ference are principally professors Glbr aeanucda pn in the field of Educational Ad-inonteamufrac-d ministration from those institu-rersnaiefrCetfids tions of higher learning in the Tejbetissmln tr above states offering graduate de- (et ntecmu ihCetr grees in the field of Education, fed n festerpeettv and also representatives from stateprciaexrenenadrtig departments of education or publicanimrhdsng instruction. Itrseic-(ssol otc -Doctors Nixon and Tucker willeihrothabvrpeentve represent the School of Education,.ycmu albfr h hit Mr. C. B. Seaborn, a graduate ofmahoiy. the university, and a former trustee of that Institution, who Is Caoi'sGeocsmda presently Director of Administra- ttlo ,6 onsdrn h tionandFinnce Stte epaTh2 esonper ae 3progragei mot f duatonofSothC o t in r4iamis. C .Sebr ['RI-PIII DANCE . . Tlie first ai outlh Center last night. Sponsors Id Phi Sigma Kappa fraternities larette Flake for Ken Flynin, Sig E 'i; Annette Berry for Stanley Kru licks, social chairman of Phi Sigi .hairman. Wrs.L.L.Smith Named Head of !.C.PolioDrive Mrs. Lawrence L. Smith, wife )f the head of the university geo ogy department, has been named iouth Carolina adviser on women's tetivities of the National Founda :ion for Infantile Paralysis. Basil O'Connor, president of the Warch of Diimes, made the an iouncement this week. Mrs. Smith's main duty will be . co-ordinate plans for women's ictivities in connection with the Warch of Diimes campaign in Fanuary. Mrs. Smith, a native of Dar ington, is well known in South larolina for her work in cultural >rganizations. She has been active n the wvomen's auxiliary of the iniversity and has been closely tssociated with a number of other eading clubs. Mrs. Smith recently returned rom a five-day polio conference n New York which was high ighted by a talk by Dr. James E. Balk of the University of Pitts >urgh School of Medicine, dis -overer of a new p)romising racemne. Canterbury Club Plans Christmas oratorio Sunday The Canterbury Club will prne ent WV. II. Auden's Christmas 3ratorio, "For the Time Being," a the Parish Ilouse of Trinity ~piscopal Church Sunday at 8 .M. The Oratorio is a dramatic horal p)resentation of the Birth >f Christ, wvith the setting and empo0 in contemporary style. "For the Time Being" has a *ast of some 35 members, and is )eing directed by "Jeepy" Turbe rille, Payne Bouknight and Bucky stackhouse. The public, especially the stu leats of the university, are cor lially invited, and Episcopal fac ilty members will be special guests >f the evening. Canterbury Club will meet at 7 'clock for supper before the prne ientation. Pi Kap Fraternity Holds Tea Sunday Pi Kappa Phi fraternity will hold a founder's (lay tea Sunday rrom 4 to 6 p.m. at the Woman's Club. Attending will he members of the Sigma chapter, alumni of the Bigma chapter and faculty mem :>ers. The tea is designed to pro miote closer relationship between present members and the alumni. THE GAMECOCK inual semi-formal (lance of the Tri. for the dance, which consists of the were: Betty Hood for Bill Todd, p Social Chairman; Mitzi Levin for gman, dance chairman of the Phi E na Kappa, and Barbara Godwin fc Don Miller Is Named Gallon Club Member Don Miller of Columbia is the youngest member of the Gallor Club in Richland County. The club is composed of persons who have contributed eight pints of blood or more to the Red Crosi drives. Miller has given 12 pinti in less than two years. TI P Requires Knowi Wm W. Kinsley, M.S. in Du Pont textile liber Keepiwg production rol ern industrial plant is peals to men train branches of science an< If you are looking for in this field, you won't far at Du Pont, whe1 1,500 members of the I are engaged in produ< sion.* To qualify, a man m understand both the m chemical phases of pi addition, he should be s and,above all, havea ki ing with others. Production supervis< sible for care of plant I ply of raw materials, t operation and maintena shipment of fininhed pn Phi Club was held at the Memorial Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Epsilon Pi president of Sigma Phi Epsilon; Don Miller, president of Phi Epsilon is; Betty Bowzard for George Maxev or J. Robert Mack, Phi Sig Dance Kappa Delta Epsilon Holds Tea Today Kappa Delta Epsilon, Nationa Professional Educational Sorority will hold a tea this afternoon ir honor of the practice teachers an< their cooperating teachers. Th< tea will be held at 5 p.m. at th Faculty Club. EuDU.P [ S0 roductior *pervisioi edge of Materials, Machin in M.E., Penn. State 1949 (left), j plant, is ihtreduced to new operator b; ling in a mod- as personnel rela i job that ap- safety. ed in man Since Du Pon I engmneermng, products and pr opportunities offer many oppo have t look variety of operal e more than sted in product echnCal sta Du Pont's Organz :tion supervi-- ment, forexample start in plant de ust be able to where they gain a schanical and the technical and oduction. In of manufacture.,] good planner and abilities in pi tack for work- transfer to that I ther, and more d rsare respon- Advancement ls acilities, sup- ing Supervisor, S upervision of pervisors, and Si mece, cost and The responsibi iducta. ae well visory levels var Letters to I (Continued fro It was not so many years ago T that I would have taken an op- N posite view, but I am wiser now w in several ways, and when I came it face to face with the facts, I knew which stand I had to take. May we look at the question in a the form of a case. The defense a for segregation, or the "Southern ii way of life" as some put it, goes K something like this: 0 We should have segregation be- p cause: it 1. We were made of different P color by God, and for what other r reason would he make us so ex- 0 cept to keep us separated? 2. The Negro as a race is in- a ferior to ours, and therefore we tI should be careful not to inter- V mingle with him as it will ulti- T mately lower our own cultural T standards. Y. 3. Separate but equal facilities takes care of our obligation to the t Negro as a fellow man. t 4. It is an old Southern tradi- I tion that Negroes should be kept t separate from the whites. ? 5. Non-segregation is backed by 0 communists and other radicals who e wish to use it for cheap political ' gain. Perhaps there are yet others r which have been expressed, but c these are the general points " around which they center, and h serve as a basis for proof of their S opposites. a One of the Gamecock writers t asked the question of why God made us of different tongues and colors had lie not meant for us to c be separate. As to the colors, it i is easy to see the geographical, f climatical results upon one, and the essential of being fitted to the climate in which one lives, and certainly God knew that all of us could not live in one area; we had to move to separate geographical locations in order to survive. As i to the tongaues, it was man's own . selfish pride and sin that caused t such a thing as happened at Babel d to happen. It all boils down to c this: From the standpoint of an- m thropology as well as from the I standpoint of Christianity, there is g only one race-the HUMAN S CN WE NOT PLACE it OURSELVES IN THE POSITION e OF WH.T IT WOIT[) BE LIKE George B. Bra M.I.T., Asst. S in ammonia sy'r the men, the 0o ucts. For examp s, and Men dyes, up to 5 may be carrie, maintenanct planned and needs for finis Temperature, of reactants r trolled to inst dye will mnatcl actly. In making e different unit r upon. And, in the unit opera cal engineering ously, produc excellent oppo pand their tec roduct ion supervisor ingenuity. Eq 'foreman, can acquire bi experience tha vancement to tions, training and mn managemer makes over 1 ,200 >duct lines, it can ASK FOR "Chi rtunities in a wide DuPont." NE ions to men inter- scribe. initial a pah fpromo on supervision. In to E. I. du P< c Chemicals Depart- ( Inc.), 2621 1' mosttechnicalmen int",E nDel velopment groups, Graduate" & background in both at Du Pont." I economic aspects 'hose with interests oduction may then ield to acquire fur Btailed, experience. da to jobs as Build anior and Chief Su- BEE THINGS P4 perintendent. ities of these super. . CvIa u, depending upn Page Five the Editor n page 2) 0 BIE A MEMBEI OF THE IINORITY? But that we could, ould we not change our views nmediately ? Separate but equal facilities. hat a worn out phrase, and what n excuse. There is no such thing, nd there never will be, for what the purpose of keeping them parate except to keep them out r what we have . . . We cannot rovide separate but equal facil ies when one side has as its main urpose the building up of its own sources and the tearing down r those of the other. We shall not argue that. it is i old Southern tradition to keep ie Negroes separate. BUT THEN TRADITION IS WRONG, HE FACT THAT IT IS TRADI ION CAN NOT AND DOES NOT IAKE IT RIGHT . . . . . . The proposition is presented nat one should not fight segrega ion because communists and rad rals in the United States have iken it to the platform as political idder. That is like saying that ne should not go to church be ause some of the people that be )ng to our churches are hypo rites. This writer certainly does ot intend to be classified as a ommunist by this article; he 'ould venture to say rather that e has probably made more peeches to larger audiences, gainst communism, and has writ en more papers on the necessity f fighting communism everywhere n every way, than the writer who laims that the fact that commun sts advocate non-segregation is ,ood reason to go against it, will ,ver hope to make. .\ claim was made a: to how well .ie Negro has fared in the South. The sad fact is that the average rearly income of the Negro in ;outh Carolina is close to a neasely $700.00. as against $2,200 00 for the state as a w%hole. Is his progress? Almost one hun red years after slavery was de lared illegal, we still have people orking for less than slave wages. . that illustrative of this great ood that we have done for the 'egro? If he has equal opportun ies, then why are his wages not nough to live on? . . . Thomas E. Brown dshaw, Jr., B.S. Ch. F., upt., inspects a unit udsed( thesis operation. eration, and the prod le, in manufacturing D) different operations I out. Production and must be carefully scheduled so that all hed product are met. pressure, and quality, nust. be carefully con re that each batch of previous batches ex ach color, from 6 to 10 'rocesses may be called the course of time, all ions known to chemi come into play. Obvi :ion supervisors have atunities to use and ex hnical knowledge and ially important, they ickground and varied t; prepare them for ad responsible positions t and administration. ,mical Engineers at willustrated booklet de-. ,eignments, training and Lion. Just mend post card int de Nenmours & Co. Femours Building, Wil ware. Also available: npany and the College "Mechanical Engineer. 3R SITTER UIVING ..IMOUIGH CMAM8VRY me sfAmnrta,' Os .ls.w..s.e.