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PAGE TWO THE LANCE OCTOBER 5,1968 THE LANCE St. Andrews Presbyterian College Laurinburg, N. C. 28352 Staff EDITOR-IN-CHIEF . ASSOCIATE EDITOR ASS(K:IATE EDITOR SPCJRTS EDITOR LAYOUT MANAGER NEWS EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER Joe Junod Linda Susong David Wagner Scott McCrea Pete Cook Sara Lee Jim Bouck Stu Harris Supscription Rates $1,50 per semester Advertising Rates $ .80 per column inch Wallace “Sickness” Plagues U.S. Unfortunate Poll Return The bond issue calling tor one million dollars to be used to further the educational facili ties of Scotland County high schools found no room in the minds of the voters Tuesday at the polls. The final tally revealed a resounding 1945 to 1276 victory for those opposed to the bond Issue. This de feat marks a collective lack of Insight on the part of voters and provides a large stumbling block In the fight to decrease the numl>er of poorly educated in this county. For, with the passage of the bond, the facilities would have been improved as well as others ad ded to better accept the in creased number of students. What was the reasoning of those In favor of the expansion program? Was their primary motive for supporting the $1 million bond to give the school system a year’s grace on the Federal order to deseregate all schools In the county by next fall? I think not. These progressive people were look ing to the bond as a means to achelvlng a greater end, that being a more unified and com prehensive school system that would fall more Into the main stream of American morality than a school system in the deepest South. The “Yes” voters are realists, not 19th century status quo aristocrats who seem the likely ones that head up the Committee of 1000. As the “No” voters go, I see several categories. There are those that will vote against any Ixjnd Issue because the Im plication of a local or state wide lax hike. Then, of course, we have local segregationists who cannot bear the thought of sending their child to school with a black person. Some of the victorious group Include persons who remember the bond Issue of March 3, 1964 when the county appropriated $1,750,000 for construction of the new high school and further Improve ments in other high schools. The majority of this money went Into construction of the new high school, which some people thought t o refined for the tastes and pocketbooks of Scotland County citizens. Last but not least, is the Committee of 1000, who directed the largest move ment against the issue. In Monday’s Laurinburg Ex change, the Committee ran a tremendous advertisement In dicating a partial aggrement existed between the Presi dential candidates as far as an reexamination of t h e De partment of Health Education and Welfare is concerned. This ad, and a lot of radio time, proved convincing. Yet I can not fully believe that the Com mittee’s sole reason for mov ing against the bond Issue Is that the “Big Boy’s haven’t put up a dime.” What they want Is Federal funds before the county can be expected to contribute $1 million. So de segregation waits In Scotland County—and this Is ultimately what the Committee wants. JOE JUNOD Democratic Coalition Offers Constructive Work in Community There Is an organization on this campus which deserves special recognition. The org anization Is the Democratic Coalition. It Is the local manifestation of thise Ideals of Senator Eugen McCarthy and the late Senator Robert Kennedy. After McCarthy was defeated In the Democratic Convention as Presidential candidate, he ask ed for his supporters to con- tlnle their support In another direction In a grass roots cam paign. A large number of Ken nedy supporters have joined the effort and have pledged their support In these local level org anizations. The local level organization Is working In Laurinburg to ward those advances advocated by Kennedy and McCarthy. The most recent task of the Coalition was focused on the local school bond election (which was tragically defeated on Tuesday with a 60% maj ority voting “no”). Members of the Laurinburg Democratic Coalition, which is headed by St. Andrewssenlor, Bill Wilson, walked from door-to-door In the black Lincoln Heights section of town talking with the people there and offering them help and transportation In reg istering to vote. SDS Plays Role (Continued from pace 1) munlsts. Known communists have sat In on SDS meetings and coached organizers since the orgaiilzatlon was founded In 1962; SDS leaders frequently travel to Red capitals; two of three national officers chosen at last June's national conven tion were self-proclaimed com munists. While many SDSers are act ively anti-Kremlln, they share with the communists a common desire to destroy, to annihilate and to tear down, the article asserts. Citing SUS’s role In the re cent upheaval at Columbia Uni versity, Methvln declares that firmer action by school author ities in support of the anti- radical “Majority Coalition” would have averted escalating Is This What We Want For All America? Wallace’s Alabama has more murders than any state in the nation— 11.7 per 100,000 population. Wallace’s Alabama has the highest sales tax of any state in the union. Wallace’s Alabama ranks 48th among states in per capita annual in come and is $900 below the national aveiage. Wallace’s Alabama ranks 48th among states in per-pupil expenditures in public schools. Wallace’s Alabama has one of the highest jobless rates in the country. Wallace’s Alabama has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the nation. Letter to the Editor (Editor’s Note: The follow ing; editorial was talen from The New York Times, Sun day, September 22, 1968 ) Millions of Americans today are angry or exasperated or vaguely frightened. The targets of these emotions are as varied as the people themselves. Many, perhaps a majority, are angry that the Vietnam war drags on In an I n c r e aslngly pointless stalemate. Young men are resentful of a draft system which is unfair and erratic and which sends them to fight in a war In which they have no Interest or belief. Older people are exasperated with radical students who are more Intent on disrupting uni versities than on getting the col lege education which earlier generations dreamed of and sacrificed to obtain. Still others are upset by the hippies with their long, dirty hair and their apparently aim less style of life. Among the discontented, too, are many Negroes with their ancient and legitimate grievances still un satisfied. Ranged against the Negroes are those whites who, though prosperous and well- treated themselves, believe that economic pains and justice for others somehow threaten them. Underlying these turbulent, conflicting emotions, there Is probably a delayed reaction to the tragic murders last sprmg of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Both men were “disturbers of the peace’’ In the good, creative sense In that they spoke out against injustice. But their deaths have had the Ironic ef fect of strengthening the forces of inaction and reaction against which they fought. Many voters in this country today do not know what they want In the way of foreign policy or domes tic social policy. All they know is that they want, above all else. In the words of the Con stitution, “to Insure domestic tranquility”. The political beneficiary of this troubled mood in the country Is George C. Wallace, former Governor of Alabama. Public opinion polls indicate that one person In every five may vote for him. He Is likely to carry eight or nine Southern states and may also become the deciding factor In some border and Middle Western states. In short, the Wallace movement has become a major factor In national politics. Yet Mr. Wallace Is totally unqualified to be President of the United States. Indeed, he offers his ignorance and In experience as credentials. Any ordinary citizen, he argues, could do better than the “pointed heads” In both parties who have been running the Government. Referring to critics who say that he knows nothing about foreign policy, he said recently to an audience in Cape Girardeau, Mo., “Well, Reader Raps Modern Patriotism The Coalition has also begun a series o f public meetings offeerlng education on passive reslstence to the white people. Dr. Martin Luther King had nearly mastered this art In ed ucating his followers. The Coalition believes It Is now time for the white people to take a lesson and leam what passive reslstence really Is. Dr, Charles Joyner, St. Andrews’ professor of history will speak this Friday night in Kings Mt. Dorm on the subject. The Coalition also believes strongly In the anti-draft move ment. Adraft counselinf com ment. A draft counseling com mittee Is now being organized which will offer draft alter natives to Scotland County l)oys, as well as college students. The Coalition Is a refreshing and vibrant response to the political hyproclsy and racism so prevalent-even In this Laurinburg area. The Coal ition feels that the Ideals of McCarthy and Kennedy have not been defeated and their aspi rations for this area are certainly symbolic in that the justice and peace which ere so advocated by the two senators have not been forgotten. LINDA SUSONG To The Editor: “Patriotism” certainly has taken on a narrow definition during the last decade. The only type of “Patriotism” accept able to the Great White Ameri can Middle Class Ethic today has to be coupled with the Military to be “authentic” American patriotism. It’s a rather strange union don’t you think? Perhaps it reflects something about the sexual vi rility of America (Join the Marines and be a man). At any rate, what the hell happened to the type of pa triotism manifested during the American Revolution and the writing of the Constitution and BUI of Rights? That patriotism Is pretty Intangible at times (the Bill of Rights has never become a part of the “Ameri can Dream” - whatever that Is), bit It’s also pretty tangi ble at limes (a black man fell with a white man during the Boston Massacre), Needless to say, a man like Gene Mc Carthy Is a patriot In the spirit of ’76, as Is Stokley Carmi chael. Both are working for a realization of the American Constitution in American so ciety. Their ends are the same, their means dUfer - one is black and the other is white. But what does good, clean- cut all-American patriotism i mean today, October 4, 1968, In the “land of the Free”? There are several pre- ■ requisites that the power struc ture In this country demand: 1) You have to be white (when was the last time you heard someone call Dr. King a pa- trolt?) 2) You have to submit your self to conscription for im moral and unjust wars (what does the Constitution say about made cannon-fodder for mili tary minds?) 3) You have to support “Law and Order” (Nigger??) 4) You have to support the military-industrial complex (Anything less is “unamerl- can”.) 5) Support the theory of nu clear deterrancy, containment, domino theory etc. etc. (What have we learned from Yugos lavia, Czechoslovakia, let alone Vietnam?) 6) Believe in some kind of myth or illision about Ameri ca’s super-destiny (preserve freedom?) and that every do mestic and- foreign problem, given time, will work Itself out for the betterment of all, or the white suburbanites who are working their way up the corporate system and in a cor poration that depends upon Its survival on military contracts?) Well, this type of “patrio tism” leaves us, who are In terested in the dawn of de mocracy in America instead of a military-Industrial gar rison state, out in the cold without the helpful crutch of “ Smoke The Grass; Don’t Get Caught ” St. Louis, Mo.-(I.P.)-“Go a- head and smoke marijuana,” said the dean, “just don’t get caught.” Probably no college administrator has ever given such advice. But Howard S. Becker, a Northwestern Uni versity sociologist, believes that such an attitude on the part of deans is the only way that campus drug Incidents can be halted. Becker writing in TRANS ACTION, a social science pub lication of Washington Univer sity, does not believe that stu dent drug use can be stopped, “Students want to use drugs and can easily do so; few col lege administrations will de cide to use the totalitarian me thods that would be required to stop it. ' 'One might Institute a dally search of all rooms and per haps, in addition. Inaugurate a campus ‘stop-and-frisk’ law. But they are not going to do these things, so student drug use will continue. ” Becker believes that the deans are worried about stu dent drug use, but they are more worried about the ‘ 'great public-relatlons crisis’’ of campus narcotics raids and stu dents on trial. Yet, Becker argues, the more administra tors worry about student drug use, the more such embarass- Ing incidents they will have to deal with. ‘ ‘All Increases in surveil lance, of course, multiply the number of cases that come to public attention,” Becker says. Becker’s arguments are mainly based on marijuana- smoking, which he says Is more widely used than LSD. Mari juana,” Becker says, “has no demonstrable bad effects.” Administrators,” Becker concludes, “must take a calm er view of drug use and stu dents must become more cau tious. The main obstacles to such a bargain will be nervous administrators afraid to take such a step and ideological stu dents who wish a confrontalon on the Issue, But college ad ministrators have learned to live with sex and drink. They may yet be able to learn to live with drugs.” violence that culminated in can cellation of classes at Col umbia. While acknowledging that leg itimate grievances by students must receive “far more at tention” from officials than heretofore, Methvln says that prompt action by students and adminstrators is a must to prevent campus-wide clashes In the future. Sidney Hook, noted New York University philosophy pro fessor, has said that SDS mem bers “threaten to become the true grave diggers of academic freedom in the United States”. Only prompt action by school authorities and the overwhel ming majority of students can prevent the grave from being dug. NOW SHOWING LAURINBURG'S INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL A TASTE OF ^ HONEY starring RITA TUSHINGHAM Cent®*! SHOWS AT 1-3-5-7-9 V Now Showing Gibson M ' "Hang 'Em High"-K I'VbuK 50M HEKE TgLLpME rOLi PeOf’LESQweWHAT FINM:iaulY IN$n?LlMEN7?\L IN HIS (SeTTING THKU C01\£C£!' SHADY REST RESTAURANT The Family Restaurant Just South of SA on 401 FRESH SEAFOOD DAILY THE BEST SPAGHETTI IN TOWN STEAKS CUT TO ORDER Fix Your Own Salad from Our Salad Bar Open Daily Except Monday 11:30 • 2 & 5:30 - 10 Tel. 276-3047 the word patriotism and Its meaning In the spirit of ’76. “Patriots,” In the modern sense, are In fact forcing out of American society those who are interested in a democratic society. Our alternatives are many but not exactly what we would like them to be -self exile, 1-A (Hershey: “There’s nothing In the regulations to take care of a pacifist. We classify him 1-A”), under ground, or to be herded into the general phase (thus able to be generally disregarded) of being “anarchists, left-wing subversives, Communists (rather Ironic) and traitors.” This covers the whole spec trum but still misses the point, doesn’t it? But America, in her usual good wisdom, has provided us with three choices this year— Wallace, Nixon and Humphrey. Say the names slowly and think of all the implications that come to mind when you utter these names. Rather frightening to see what our “democracy” has provided In cholcesl Ameri ca does not have much time left, if any at all. The De claration of Independence, pa ragraph two: “Accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suf ferable, than to right them selves by abolishing the form to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing in variably by the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, It is their right It Is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future society. BILL WILSON Democratic Coalition I ask you, what do the Re publicans and the Democrats know about it? They’ve been in charge of the Government in the last fifty years and we’ve had four wars, we’ve spent $122 billion of our money on foreign aid, we’re about broke, and we’ve got less friends than we’ve ever had, and we’ve got the Communists running wild in the United States.” The country has heard this loose talk before, although Mr, Wallace probably has the dis tinction of being the first candi date for President to promise that If anyone lies down In front of his car he will murder him by driving over his body. This lurid threat which is part of Mr. Wallace’s standard speech epitomizes his call to violence. He speaks of law and order, but It Is the lawless order which the vigilante Imposes with his rope and the KuKluxKlans- man with his bull whip, Mr. Wal lace does not attack Negroes by name, but he promises, in ef fect, to curb radical students and hairy Yipples and liberal Government officials with the same harsh physical force which the white South once inflicted upon the Negro. He is the political expression of the school burners and the church bombers and the night riders. Americans have now to ask themselves whether their dis contents are so fierce, their grievances so woeful, that they are prepared to follow this apostole of violence and anger as he leads them they know not where. There are businessmen, the so-called “fat cats” of Dallas and St. Petersburg and Los Angeles, who have made great fortunes In the last thirty years while the country was under political leadership which they scorned. Some of these men are now contributing to the Wal lace campaign. They have to ask themselves whether In their Insensate greed and political recklessness they are prepared to imitate the German indus trialists of the early thirties and go on f I n a n c I n g a demagogue whose ultimate alms they cannot foresee or control. There are industrial workers who have achieved in these last years real advances In their standard of living and in econo mic security. They have to ask themselves whether they want so badly to “zap the Negro”- as one New Jersey labor leader put lt--that they will vote for this smooth-talking adventurer. There are young people who attend the Wallace rallies. They have to ask themselves—what- ever reservations they may have about Hubert Humphrey or Richard Nixon—whether they really think the man poking his head above the bullet-proof lec tern even remotely approaches the Integrity, the Intellectual breadth, the charity or compas sion required of a President of the United States. There is a sickness abroad in the land. It cannot be cured by looking away from it or pre tending that it does not exist. The Wallace movement Is an evil phenomenon. George C. Wallace Is not fit to be president of the United States. He Is not fit even to be discussed in Presidential terms. This country has no need for his falsehoods and his slick innuendos and his Invocations to violence and unreason. Every man and woman who casts a vote for him will bring shame upon this country. Let Ameri cans decide now to have done once and for all with this demagogue.’’ Ye Olde Worlde Welcomes St. Andrews Parents And Invites You to Stop by and Visit St. Andrews' Only Student Owned & Operated Business. Now Featuring for the First Time the Finest Rib-Eye Steak only $2,95 Carry Out & Delivery Service 276-6503 1835 SOUTH MAIN STREET ACROSS FROM ST. ANDREWS
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