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The Battalion Page 2 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1956 ‘Her Kind’ or Mankind? A controversial man of the earlier part of this century was avoided by the people of his hometown because of his beliefs. Not that he was much of a scoundrel, even though earlier in his life he had been what one might term a “rabid reformer.” But he had a great love for and a faith in mankind. He didn’t believe that this country had yet attained the prom ised land of democracy for all men. Why, he even dared to say: “While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.” Society had no room for this man. Today, not many of such men are left. Those who are still with us from an earlier era of high hopes for mankind have, for the most part, capitulated to the external pres sures of society—to the vested interests that apparently believe that history—a relentlessly changing, evolving world —has come, or should come, to a stop. But among the forces that still believe “all men are equal” has come another man. His skin, it is true, is of a different color from that of the whites. But even the most bigoted have to admit that he, the Negro, is a human being. And he, as a human being, feels that he has a place. Some persons do not feel that this man has a place—a place that a Supreme Court decision could only recognize, not bestow. So, he will have to fight for his place. Many persons didn’t think that the Emancipation Proc lamation meant the end of slavery. And, even up through modern times, in some ways it hasn’t. And a lot of persons do not believe that the Supreme Court’s decision means the end of segregation. And it won’t for quite a long time. So, the fight will continue, a fight that might be termed an attempt to end speaking of the Negro as “his” or “her kind” and start people to thinking of them as part of man kind. — Bill Fullerton It’s a pleasure to get to know Old Spick After Shave Potion. 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Ex-officio members are Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader. Secretary. The Battalion is published four ymes a week during the regular school year and once a week during the summer and vacation and examination periods. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year and on Thursday during the summer terms and during examination and Vacation periods. The Battalion is not published on the Wednesday immediately preceding Easter or Thanksgiving. Subscription rates are S3.50 per semester. SO.00 per school year, $6.50 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class __ . _ matter at Post Office at Member Ot College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con- The Associated Pl'CSS gross of March 3, 18/0. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Represented nationally by N a t i o n a 1 Advertising: Services, Inc., a t New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. Letters to the Editor Editor, The Battalion: I’d like to ask you some ques tions in reference to your editorial “Alabama Mob.” Did you ever have a deep thought? Did you ever look behind the headlines? Yours is a typical pseudo-intellectual article of the type that has been appearing in Northern newspapers for 100 years. Well, the Yankees that think like you have finally gotten their wishes. What were the results? Nothing but a chain of bloody ra cial riots and a few mixed mar riages, the offspring of which are the beginning of a mongrel race. These are the results of pushing a race into the limelight when it is not even ready for the shadows. As the old saying goes, you can’t squeeze blood out of a beet. A point to illustrate this is the fact that there have been only three Negro governments in the history A&M Fliers Plan To Enter Air Meet The Texas A&M Flying Club has been invited to take part in the National Intercollegiate Flying As sociation’s annual air meet to be held in May at Norman, Okla. Definite plans have not been made as to how many Aggies will attend, according to Edward E. Rivers Jr., club president. About 20 colleges and universi ties from all parts of the nation are expected to participate in this year’s contest. The meet is sponsored by several major companies in the aviation in dustry. Awards are given for pow er-on and power-off spot landings, bomb-dropping, and cross-country navigation problems. Five members of A&M’s “Flying Kadets” attended the meet in Fort Worth last May. They scored a high number of points at last year’s meet even though they had never before flown in a contest. With this experience behind them, the Kadets are hoping to carry off their share of awards this year. WEDNESDAY “Dance Hall Racket” and “Good Time Girl WEDNESDAY CIRCLE THRU FRIDAY “Blood Alley” John Wayne — Also — “Thunder Over The Plains” Randolph Scott WEDNESDAY T% witli STEREO PHONIC SOUND! M-G-M’s BEDEVILLED in COLOR and CjNEMaSCOPE starring ' Anne BAXTER Steve FORREST with Simone REN ANT. Maurice TEYNAC and Victor FRANCEN of the world—all three were dismal failures. It has long been a dream of man kind to make all men equal—in spite of nature. Tell me, do you actually think that Autherine Lucy wants to go to Alabama Univer sity? Doesn’t it seem logical to you that she would want to attend a school with her own kind ? This is only human nature. ‘ Now to get down to the roots of the whole trouble. Just who do you think is encouraging Autherine to go to Alabama U. ? I say it’s the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Who do you think will pay for the court trial which Autherine de mands? Surely not the poor, pen niless, oppressed coed. I say it’s the N.A.A.C.P. Who do you think raised such a great row that the Supreme Court itself was practi cally forced to overthrow its “sep arate but equal” doctrine, which it had upheld foi" decades ? I say the N.A.A.C.P. Do you realize that this vast program for desegrega tion has cost the N.A.A.C.P. mil lions of dollars ? Where did this money come from ? Surely not from the American Negroes. It would have to come from a group far more wealthy and powerful. I say it is the Communist Party. Don’t yell “McCarthyism.” Sui-ely even you, Fullerton, would not be so blind, stupid and naive to believe that there are no subversive activi ties going on in the United States and especially in the most unlikely suspected organizations. Perhaps now it becomes clear to you that the Alabama incident is exactly what the Communists want. No doubt Autherine is already a mar tyr in Moscow and all of Russia’s sattelites. This is in part what you said in your article, only you were so unbelievably naive as to have overlooked the real cause and therefore blame the wrong people. Don’t write editorials blasting your fellow Americans at Alabama U. That is merely a waste of paper and encourages the recent rapidly widening gap between the races, the very thing against which you are preaching. Don’t fight the results, fight the cause! Serve your country by help ing to uncover the many subver sive Communist activities that threaten the continuance of the freedom and Christianity of all men —colored as well as white. James P. M. Syler, ’57 (Ed. note: This all sounds like the script to the motion picture “Trial.”) rzrp-nnTMf MOVIE-b AT COF-rsUT'^U ROPED IN BY WASHDAY WOES? LET US SET YOU FREE! Thanks to our quick efficient service, your laundry is done in a jigtime. ATTENTION SENIORS! 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