TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11 15
THr DAILY. TA HE1L
PASt TWO
feEADERVEPdSJTORY:
Intermarriage Measure
Misconstrued & Untimely,
But Very Admirable...
The "iniMin.ui i.rAc ' resolution
junxmI last .week In tlic State Stu
dent I.f4isl.nmc lias ignited a toti
tmvcisial ionll.i;;iatioii ihroulioiit
tin- state partially due to a uits
touiniiii4 ol the measure's eon
tint state newspaper.
The News Ami Olener and
ol state papers united the mea
sure an open .idvoe .itinn ol ruila
iuteimai ia-e. which is di.muirie.il
lv in opvositiou to the meautes
.utu.il nuanin,r.
The icsolntion K hiallx (idiooitts
tin- )t ffttl of all slte la.es jnvhibl
ting uninl inlet man iagr whieh
in effect, met ely extends moie
civil liheitx to the people ol the
state. '
As an extension oi eivil lihcr-lii-s,
the lesolulion is adiniiahle.
Hut the lone ol the measuie. espee
i.illv at tliis jutlicid.ir lime when
racial flaie ups .uid projosd eel
iu.ilion.il integration has the South
on the tip ol ii tomhy toes. was
ti l i 1 1 i 1 1 I in woi taste and lelt the
student solous open lor a reat
deal ol e title itn l trustees, ad
miuistiation olliiials and alumni
throughout 1 1 u- state.
The tesohition was introduced
hy the Duke I'uixeisiiy Woman's
(lollec and w.is jued I hoth the
Noue ol Ivt -pies nlatives and the
Senate.
11V i t ix thlinilflx ami vfry
irhrmmtlx oflir i ntri -man iage
h(turn Septets ami whiffs. Wi
i.iii think ol nothing moie dcsie
ahle than amalgamation and tnis
e eq uation.
lint we lo not (undone nor end
oise o ( t ninental ptohihition ol
i.ui.il intei man i-e. ttuh his
inii. It individuals want whole
ile mist t e u.it ion. then the matter
should ust with iIicm indi idu.tK.
lioyernmental intervention and
prohibition merely stilfles liberty
anil solves nothing. To wit: The
1 ihteenth Amendment lo the
Tinted States Constitution, and on
a realist i( and more recent level, in
tervention ol lederal troops in
Little Rxk an ad ion justified
onlv because ol the bull-headedness
and politic al-mindedness ol Gov.
()ial I'aubtis.
The rniersitv delegation, ac
(orilin;4 to one unollicial source,
accorded the resolution more nega
tie yotes than any other school
represented. 1 litis trustees and
otlieis so up-in-aims may partially
vindicate local student lawmakers,
if y indication is the proper word to
use.
In short, the resolution came Jit
a most inopportune and racially
upset time.
I t 1 1 the promulgation ol more
civil liberties to individual Ameri
f ns is always an admirable ac tion.
More and more. American in
dividualism and justd'able states"
lights are falling prey to a creep
in.; brand ol socialism generated
bv the ledeial government.
And state newspapers who com
pletely misconstrued the State
Student Legislature's action de
finitely owe representatives a large
economy-sicd ajwtlogy. Some papers
even reported that the State College-introduced
bill to legalize
piostitution was passed. It was in
e ontrovei tihly defeated.
State Student legislators had
guts. lut their fortitude was dis
j)!aved at a rather inopportune
lime.
1 he bill rotoiin individual
civil libet ties was admirable, but
iuoppoi tune.
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Life-Blood 8t Lethargy.
Vote. And Jnsure -Liberty
I he liff-blocMl of American de
rnoracv. of democracy anvwlieie.
is jt st.ikc tod.iv.
Tliis liltblood. ol cotiise. is the
ballot Ih pio t iluie th light to
vTe lot the c andidate ol your t ho-
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ice. It leplenishes government and
reinv isolates governmental system
through the tenure ol ollice which
it instigates or terminates.
Systematic tenuie ol ollice is the
hc'iit-heat ol government, and the
ballot in;.; pioredme is the lilc-hlood
upon which the he.u t beat depends.
Student autonomv is only as
stroll'.; as the pet e entagc ol voters
which appeals at the ballot box
lixlav. In past tall elections since
the majoi student gov ei nnu nt of
ficers, the campus-wide olliceis.
aie elected in th spiing the vot
ing pcie cntagc ol the stude nt elcc
toiate has hcei disc out agingh
small.
C.Miics and opjuments ol stud
ent government and its encompass
iii'4 se ll-disc iline often arue that
students are- too-little interested in
government to govern themselves.
Theii most convincing argument
is the lack of student pai tic ipation
at the polls.
sports Editor BILL KING
Asst. Sports Editor DAVE W1BLE
Business Manager JOILN WHITAKER
Advertijinj Manager ... EKED KXTZIN
Librarian GLEN I) A FOWLER
(ovcinment and
heait beat bee onu s
slow onlv il student
bee onu s slow and
autonomy s
lethargic and
participation
t i
lei Karate .
Buines Staff
WALKER BLANTON,
LEWIS RUSH
EDIT STA1T Whit Whitfield, Nancy
Hill. Gary Nichols. Curtis Cans, Al
Walker. Gjil Godwin. Harry Kirschner.
Circulation Manager
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A ire Editor PAUL RULE
Subscription Mxr. AVERY THOMAS
Ollic ials in stude nt gove rnment'
judic iaiy and legislative branches
aie bein elected today the law
enloicers and law-makers of the
cainnis. And class executives,
whose- met it w ith exception beinj;
the 'enior c lass is somewhat more
dubious, will be chosen.
The student electorate must rea
lie that laihnc to vote could ic
sult in a serious ieopaidv. as far as
VIEW FROM THE HILL:
Segregation
& States Rts.
Doctrinaires
Curtis Gans
Perhaps the most politically im
portant argument against integra
tion comes from those who bejieve
Uut the authority over education,
voting, and opportunity emanates
from the states. Those holding
this view feel it is the state's re
sponsibility, not the federal gov
ernment's, to handVe the prob
lem of the colored people with
regard to education, enfranchise
ment, ind opportunity. This is the
States' Rights doctrine.
Article Ten of the amendments
to the Constitution of the United
States gives the basis for those
who claim the doctrine of State's
Rights, ftur this article reserves
the powers, not specifically dele
gated by the Constitution to other
agencies of the federal govern
ment, to the states.
However, there is a clause in
Article Ten that says that powers
prohibited to states bythe Consti
tution shall not be reserved to the
states.
Prior to 1868, only Congress was
fcrxt'ifically prohibited the power
to infringe on the rights guaran
teed individuals, in the Bill of
Rights, articles one through nine.
However, in 1868 with the passage
of the Fourteenth Amendment, the
states were denied power to in
fringe on individual rights. The
colored people by virtue of the
Thirteenth Amendment were, iai
the large majority, citizens. Hence
the states had and now have no
legal claim to infringement of the
rights of any individual regardless
ef race, cried, religion, or color.
There seems to be no doubt in
the minds of the segregationists as
to the vailidty of the Thirteenth
Amendment. There seems to be in
deed some riuestion as to the legal
ly of the Fourteenth Amendment,
and the ciuestion has been raised
often and most notably by Colum
nist David Lawrence. Yet, the
fact is that it is a part of the U: S.
Constitution and has had more far
reaching effect than perhaps any
other single amendment.
Moreover. Uiere is no question
lliat the amendment was . ratified
legally, and is in the Constitution
of the United States justifiably.
There are, however, two ways of
looking at the ratification of this
a-nendent. .
From a Constitutional angle,
there is reason to believe that the
Southern states were not states af
ter the civil war. but were territor
ies of the United States.
In Article One section ten of the
Constitution there is a clause which
states that no state may enter a
confederation. Hence, the Civil
War was the southern indepen
dence, and the result was territor
ial status for the southern states.
If this is true, then the legisla
tures of the Northern States, with
only Kentucky and Delaware dis
senting were enough to carry the
amendment. Moreover. Congress,
which is. by virtue of Article Four,
empowered to set the requirements
for statehood, was able to call
ratification of the Constitution with
the addition of amendment four
teen as a prerequisite for read
mission as states of the Union.
Without ratification .the southern
states fctill would be territories.
There, is another view held by
many including the Supreme Court
in Texas vs. White, that the south
ern states had never lett the
Union. If this is the case, then
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MKWS STAFF Davis Young, Ann Frye,
Dale Whitfield, Mary Moore Mason,
.Stanford Fisher. Edith MacKinnon,
Pringle ripkin, Mary Leggett Brown
ing. Ruth Whitley, Sarah Armstrong.
5P0RTS STAFF Erwin Fuller, Mac Ma
haffy, Al Walters. Kd Rowland. Ken
Friendman, Donnie Moore, Neil Leh
rniin, Elliott Cooper, Carl Keller, Jim
Purki. Rusty Hammond.
PHOTOGRAPHERS Norman Kantor,
fcuddy Spoon.
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Niht Editor
ALTON CLAYTOR
Failure to do so is dangerous.
Letter Policy
Letters to the editor are not only
welcomed, they are heartily en
couraged. All letters signed and in
iood taste will he printed with
the teaiest possible expediency,
Typewritten letters, set at (i spaces,
aie prttciied.
"They Keep Disintegrating'
jS'0 .rfS
there is also no question of the
legality of the Fourteenth Amend
ment. Although the Fourteenth
Amendment was rejected the first
time around, with thirteen states
dissenting, , there is no bar in the
Constitution to trying to pass an
amendment a second time. The
second imc, it was passed by the
Reconstructed' southern legisla
tures. There may be some who say
that the 'reconstructed" govern
ments t were not representative
i:overnanents, but Congress is em
powered, by. Article Four, to gua
ranteed to the states a -i-epublicau
form 'Of government. Hence, the
"Reconstructed" southern govern
ments under he 1867 Reconstruc
tions Act. were the governments
thought of as respresetative and
republican at the time by Con.
press.
Whatever the ills of Reconstruc
tion, the great good of the protec
tion of the democratic rights of all
citizens in law was a product.
Equal educational facilities
through integrated schools was
judged to be one of the rights or
a corollary of the rights guaran
teed to all citizens, regardless
of race, creed color, or religion.
Any attempt by Gov. Orval Fau
bus. Sen. Harry Byrd. or even the
more moderate Rep. Thomas
Pearsall of North Carolina to pre
vent the progress of integration in
the southern states is a deliberate
circumvention of the law of the
land .
It is indeed unfortunate that
President Eisenhower waiter! until
force was necessary in Little Rock,
but it is a fact that the President
as executor of the laws of the
U. S. has the power to employ
force to see that the law of the
land, is followed. Eguality of rights
is the law, and must be followed.
It is only when the colored peo
ple have equal rights in all fields,
WISE AND OTHERWISE:
Herringbone Spacers
Reject Housing Offer
Whit Whitfield
We don't imagine that anyone
else saw it. Most of the coeds were
in, and it was after 3 a.m.. It
was about 268 teet, 3 inches long,'
weighed 26 tons, and was shaped
like a lampshade with, a cigar
like nose.
The Herringbone tweed design of
the body was clearly discernible in
the streetlight near Y-court. The
yellowish, orange-like glow which
surrounded the ship as it descend
ed was eerie enough, but the pas
sengers were enough to scare
even such a brave man as Presi
dent Eisenhower.
There were 67 of them in all,
each dressed in olive-drab space
suits of Harris Tweet! eyes, with
no pleats They were all six feet
tall and weighed 137 pounds. They
appeared friendly enough, so we
walked over to chat with them,
which was difficult, for they only
spoke (Ireek.
We asked them if they were
responsible for the stalled cars in
Texas and New Mexico, the kid
napped dog. the potato patch scare
in Dunn and the fish pond in
cident in McColl, S. C. They af
firmed that they were and apolog
ized for the trouble they had
caused. Incidentally, their leader.
not only education, that the prin
ciple of democracy can become
reality. The road maybe long
and hard, but the ultimate result
will be a government of the United
States, truly, "of. for, and by the
people."
Kris Kolombo, mentioned a visit
with a gentleman named R. O.
Schmidt on a Nebraska prairie a
few nights back that proved most
interesting. He., was the first
insane human that they had met.
We were invited in for a break
fast of dogs, and eggs. (They met
with Sputnik II on th,e way.) After
wards Kris told me that they were
married students at the University
of Nocoop, a state-owned school
on the planet Mars. They too were
looking for accommodations.
Most of them were veterans of
the Clnunpchev Revolution, and
deeply concerned over the lack of
consideration given them by the
state. Their living quarters were
in a state of semi-dilapidation,
but this was all they could afford,
for the apartments near tlte uni
versity were so high that it was
absured to think that they would
afford to pay for them.
After we had told them the situa
tion here, they were quite upset,
and rightly so, for they had wanted
to commute from earth if possible.
They didn't relish the idea of
going on to Jupiter.
Optimistic Republican: One who
thinks that after resounding de
feats in New York City. Virginia,
and New Jersey tfaat things look
bright for Rickie Nixon in 'CO.
"Nix" Nixon has already lost
Goodie Knight's vote.
To a WW and M: "Methinks
the lady doth protest too much."
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EDITOR: i
' Last week's article "A Plea for lighter currmi
la . reiteratetj the well-known need for scientists
in this country scientists of . all ranks, not jtut
Einsteins, but technicians and everything between
the two extremes. The major point was something
familiar; to most students, and r that is the unfair
workload hat is placed on science students. Mien
we say' unfair, wo mean the actual amount of work
required for sceince students as compared to tha
amount of work required for non-science students.
Just imagine the difference in. the amount of
work outside. of, class necessary ; fqr a non-science
student to keep up wjth his sociology, anthropology,
or, english : classes, and the amount of work nece
sarj for the science student to" keep up with his
chemistry, physics, or calculus classes. The num
ber of hours credit for both is approximately the
same, fifteen or sixteen hours, but the difference
in actual work performed is-practically doubled!
And don't be misled into believing that the
science' courses are just as easy for the science
major as the non-science courses are for other ma
jors. It just, ain't so! "Why is there not a propor
tional representation of science students participat
ing in' extra-curricular, activities? ' Why aren't more
science students in fratiernities and sororities Is
it because they are not interested in these activi
ties? No a better reason is that they don't have
the time to participate. Most of them have to double
up the amount of work in a given time just to be
able to go to one football game in two or three
months!
Also every semester several science students are
forced to quit school or change to another field be
cause they cannot maintain an average scholastic
standing due to the present workload requirement.
This is a loss of capable students; it is a loss that
is detrimental to our country and our way of lii.
Can we afford this loss?
But what can we as students and faculty do
about this? Well our need for scientists is a reality.
Why not use? a realistic method to help meet thi?
need? Why not reduce the workload for science
students? That ,isr instead of requiring fifteen hour
per semester,, why not reduce this requirement to
perhaps twelve hours of work per semester in case?
that need this reduction? What this really amounts
to is an equaling-out of the workload for sciencp
majors. This would give them a chance to compete
and participate on an equal basis with other stu
dents. This reduction in workload does not imply a
decrease in the. quantity of courses required for
science majors, nor does it imply a decrease in th?
quality of work required for any particular science
course. 'But it does offer the student of science an
Opportunity for a "normal" workload each semestpr.
One .possible outcome for" an equaVmg-out pro
gram of this type would be the inducement neces
sary for students who are interested in science f
go into it. Som of these students are afraid to
tackle it now. We can't afford to lose these inter
ested people, not . with the world situation th&t
exists today.
Some students obviously just aren't interested
in how much, work a science major has to do. but
there is one thing you can bet those "uninterested'
students are interested in, and that is protection
for themselves and freedom. And after all, those are
the problems at hand in the world today! Tbere
seems to be one country that knows where its safe
ty lies, and that country is Russia!
Are we going to be able to use our tradition and
resistance to change as defense against their know
ledge and their missiles?
'THE FIRE FIGHTERS'
FORM OREGON DAILY EMERALD;
Cruelty To Dogs
Or Achievement
The peculiar nature of huroans is nicely pointed
up by the storm of indignant protest that has arise i
over the Russians launching of a small dog in
Sputnik II. The repercussions of this act may well
catch them with their propaganda down.
This is really much as we hate to admit it
another scientific "first" for the Russians. They
beat us with Sputnik I and now have launched a
larger satellite. with a warm-blooded animal in it.
Many observers are saying, and perhaps' cor
rectly, that sending Curly up with the new satellite
will do the Russians much more harm r prop
anda-wise than good. This follows the old journ
alistic axiom that a picture of a starving pup on a
back page will arouse rriore interest and discus
sion than a dozen stormy editorials.
But from a detached scientific viewpoint, the
storm of indignant protest over Curly is nonsense,
and made, even mora ridiculous by some animal
lovers' suggestions that human volunteers should
have been sent up instead. Much of scientific value
can be learned by sending a mammal orbiting it:
space. , ,
Most of the modern advances in medical science
have been over the dead bodies of thousands ot
laboratory rabbits and guinea pigs. Many, of the
techniques ef treating heart disease have been per
fected through experiments en dogs.
The Emerald, certainly does not condone need
less inhumanity, toward dumb animals. But we hold
no brief with those emotional people who are say
ing thi animals should not beused in legitimate
scientific experiments. And just because the Rus
sians ire using Curly in 'a scientific experiment
does not change the facts ef the matter. We're just
sorry, that sh' not up in an American -Vanguard.