The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 32, No. 98, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1946 Page: 2 of 8
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-STUDENT OPINION-!
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TO THE EDITOR:
Majority Rule to Hades?
' Is JiTiKVfjiy predicate J upon the rule of the majority?”
“ I he iu!e of the ma jority The rule of vote Majority to
hades!"
The quotations above are parts of the debate by Sena-
tors Taylor of Wyoming and TyJirg of Maryland in the
filibuster action over the fair Lmploymcnt Practices com-
mittee bill '
1 he later statement by Tydings continued to the effect
that “ the rule of majority has brought more bloodshed tur-!
moil and cruelty on this earth than any other thing I Know of” j
I his philosophy has no place in the highest legislative body
of this d-emoeray Yet statements reflecting prejudiced intoler-
ant selfish attitudes have been commonplace particularly in
this lilibustcr which is designed to provide the most progressive
social legislation since the emancipation act
As citizens uv are i expansible for such men as Tydinys
Bilbo Me C! ellan and George becoming senators Probably
they do rctlect the aliitudtes of many but surely not a ma-
jority Unselfish tolerant views based on adequate information
concerning current problems and personalities in our national
government would result in qualities of statesmanship in Con-
gress rather than a minority of rabble-rousers who cast an indeli-
ble stigma on this body of government
Charles Paul McKean
Coeds and the Double Standard
Veterans on the A and M campus arc so disillusioned about
the women they dreamed of coming home to that they arc so-
liciting the advice of a popular love-lorn column
They say “ instead of the fine virtuous girls with good
habits that we used to know and dreamed of returning to we
find that the girls here like nothing but drinking wild parties
and fast living We’ve discussed the problem with other vets here
and find they are of the same opinion what has happened to
these girls while we were gone?”
A o doubt the coeds at the university will find the article
amusing and will enjoy a big laugh at the expense of the
A and M cceas-However before judgment is passed surely
the coeds on this campus will stop and do a little wondering
about what the veterans on this campus would say about
them if the same question came -up
A good defense would be that the men have set the pace
during wartime for their dates and the girls have merely lived
up to them The men left their wonderful sweethearts at home
and many of them ‘fraternized” with girls who drank and petted
and the men sanctioned such acts But the males still carried deep
in their hearts a deep respect and love for the girls they left
behind
The modern miss doesn't lean to the double standard
for the morals of the sexes She enjoyed working equality
during the war and many feel that in most cases " what is
good for the goose is good for the gander " and that a single
standard should be set for both sexes
If the men wani their women to be of high moral standards
it is up to tlicm to set the pace How about it men ? Is it a chal-
lenge? It looks like the women are asking you to set your stan-
dards again Isn’t turn about fair play? Bette'Bnnz
Few Hundred Students
Arc Not Embarrassed
Brice Armstrong Says
Maurice Ogden
c£The Editor:
In your cdiioriiil "Justice for
All-White Men" Fi-li S you made
the following statement in regard
to the present X:gro situation
"You see gentlemen we are con-
fused and cmliHTasaed"
First of all Ogden who is ‘‘we"?
Whom are you shaking for?
(Emphasi- on the ‘you’) Perhaps
you are confuted and cmliarrass-
ed a
I and a few hundred other
students on this campus are not
Nome things we may not see
clearly hut we hare a pretty
good idea nliut will happen if
Negroes are brought here
I)iil you ever stop to think
what would proluihly take place if
you had your way and Negroes
were suddenly thrown together
with students who are not nc-
rustomed to such a thing— stu-
dents who hate the very idea?
Surely you realize that sueh a
radical undertaking Would have
unpleasant consequences
It has long been the custom in
the South for the Ku Klux to re-
organize or a lynching party to
take place every time a Negro
‘steps out of line’ and sumetim -
merely a “pistol whipping" is
sufficient There's no denying the
fact that thine tilings happen
Many sluilrnts realize that the
first lime Negroes are allowed
to attend classes on this campus
Mime of the boys are going to
get Leered up and do their
damudest to string somebody up
who has a black skin Sure
these things are deplorable hut
their probability Is great even
though wrung
So Ogden Is such an incident
the price we'll have to pay lie-
cause the blacks and whites are
brought together hcfui-c cillii
race is ready? Do you really
think it is wortlt it?
Itrtce Armstrong
Daily Want Ads Cct Results
Virginian Supports Editor’s
Ideas on Race Discrimination
Dear Editor: 1 am sending you a clipping herein where you
slate " Separate school systems are impractical undesirable j
and unnecessary: we hope the courts will decide the same" When!
I read it I yelled "HURRAH WE OL D I-OlK MAY NOT j
H VI: TUP COURAGE TO DO RIGH T BUT WE CAN
I RUST OUR YOU KG POlKrj am proud of you
You may have rend of the girl -
at William and Mnrv ncarlv two
years ago who wrote the editorial
in w hieli she said more or less
that “the lime would come whew
William and Mary would enroll
negro students and even blacks
and whites would share tlnir
reoms ” wow it made hod-
lines in Virginia papers Of course
she did not ay when
A few weeks later 1 addressed
the Methodist young folk there
and I wrnt one better Just to
see their read ion I told them
that since the dark skinned
people of the earth were In the
majority that the time would
come when they would put us
pink skinned people In our
places And even more the
time may come when we pink
skinned folk might be proud of
the dark Nkinued lilood we
would have in one veins
You see when race is mention-
ed intcr-marraigc is the first
stumbling block Now I do not
believe in international marraige
let alone interracial marraige In
our dealing with other races that
has no place in a discussion hut
what does have a place is hard
horse sense and a hit of fair play
and justice This is not to bring
into the discussion’ religion
Stanley Jones says that man
breaks himself when he goes a-
ainst nature’s and Cod's laws
We will break ourselves if we do
not learn to do justice toward Hie
minority races among us Negroes
Japs Jews and all others
Keep a stiff upjier lip and no
mailer what may hapen stand
your ground for you are right
Frank M laing
Roanoke Virginia
Student Secs Need
For New Directory
Dear Editor:
With all the new students there
are on the campus why hasn’t a
new' student dim-tory lieen print-
ed? Since many students of last
semester have moved and because
there are so many new students
on the i-aminis it would not only
be a convenience hut is a neces-
sity The )aii-r shortage isn’t as acute
us it used to tie Therefore that
shouldn't interfere with the print-
ing I'll uiihlusliingly admit the rea-
son 1 want it so liadly is because
I'm madly in love with a girl on
the Chill pus who lust enrolled the
second scincKier-1 only know her
last name and my predicament is
driving me mad! And yes 1 tried
l lie registry office hut they were
mi busy 1 bated to ask for the last
name of a lot of students
Resides the dirts-lory contains
informal inn ulwut students and
faculty lru-mlHis that is csiss-ially
interesting to the new student
A need definitely exists for the
directory and there really Is no
valid excuse for not priming It
Wailing for the first copy I am
Sincerely
Ilelmar Watson
Anger man Selected
lti-tty Holi Angerman senior has
liccn M-Ii-rtcd an delegate to the
Mth biannual convention held by
Kupim Delta PI national honorary
society of education Tlu conven-
tion Is to be held in Milwaukee
Match 11 to 11
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Frontier Days Voting
Arouses Student's Ire
Dear Ed-
it's him a long long time since
any H)iiiral faction anywhere lias
tried to put anything over on the
group of people they supposedly
represent as pathetically a small
and childishly corrupt deal as the
student senate is pulling on the stu-
dents of OlT
Just what in the devil’s Hell do
they think they can get away with?
Library cards! No vote is a vote
against the referendum!
For the love of Heaven Ed do
you know that if every one of OU’s
3100 students were to stand in the
same line with their library cards
and cut all of their classes to stand
in line that it would take forty-two
and one-half hours of a steady
stream of votes coming at thirty
second intervals for every one to Ire
represented?
And considering the decora-
tive endeavor on behalf of our
library curds and the earnest at-
tempt to ascertain each person’s
identity thirty M-ronds is not by
any stretch of the imagination
too long a time
The (sills however are going to
oHn for nine hours on Wednesday
and Thursday a total of eighteen
lrmn-s That is long enough for 21W)
people (two-thirds' of the numlrer
of votes required to carry the is-
sue) to even got n chance to vote
It is physically imixissilrle for the
rerefenduin to carry regardless of
the overwhelming majority of the
sentiment
Yes sir Ed we sure have a
swell set-up Regardless of the re-
sult of the vote (and there is only
one possible outcome) the students
of OU are getting the dirtiest deal
I have ever seen pulled on any
campus Oml bless our truly rev
resent alive student senate
This vote is an insult to the
intelligence of every student who
lias even the slightest ability to
reason from cause to effect
What's the matter Llrandenhurg?
Arc you afraid that if everyone had
the chance to vote the results
would imssihlv disagree with your
personal opinion?
The nerve of this student liody
anyway! Wanting a chance to have
themselves represented in the gov-
erning of their school life What
could Is? more ridiculous? When
are we going to learn that none
of us are intelligent enough to
know what we want? Only the
student senate is nll-wisv — Praise
lie Allah!
Can anything he done about it?
Munrer llisx-n
Delta Kappa Gamma
To Have Book Review
The annual informal t-a and
hook review of the Eta chapter
of Delta Kappa Gamma sorority
national women's teachers organi-
zation will lie held from 1 to 5
p nt Sunday All future teaeiiei-s
are Invited
The entertainment will lie fur-
nished by the voeal trio from Nor-
man higlisehool and a review
by Mrs Mary Marahle associate
professor of library science
Presiding over the tea table will
he Mrs Eva Jo M Inter Norman
highsi-hool Dr Dixie Yuung asso-
ciate professor of zoology and
Miss Ruth elder assistant profes-
sor of elementary education
De-Commission
The Dailv Bitter I
m '
Student Demands
Dear Ed
Tcave us tlv (giving yon the
benefit of the doulilt that nur
tiohlc cr soilage was out fur a
short sum t v lien that immortal
hit of journalism — complete with
IS point head— crept into the
front page of Tue-dav's edition of
the Daily
I refer to the -tory on the man's H
gleeeluh of course If you haven't
seen it l (-til it anil groan!
Out f the 2li iiirnilici-s (21 of
whom were veterans) 4 were
named in the story — the div
tine! ion In-ing given to these I
gentlemen because they were for-
nn-rly coiniiiisioueil officers in
the armed forces The only
other liiciiihrr mentioned was
the newly elected president u
former sergeant who must have
frit sadly outranked in that re-
volting write-up If that's
“good" Journalism make mine
vunillii
I had a feeling that the grati
tude we owed the veterans on
tlie campus should lie extended to’(i
ALL vets but apircntly there jj
are those who feel the former officers-
are to lie treated as the SS
men of America while the non-'J
coins and infantry rank men are
overlooked
Don't get me wrong ed I still ‘J
say nothing can stop 'the AAF ton Ll
hut it i-n't in the same seme as
At I A 1 I At ' 1
the writer implies in the clause
“who ranked from captain in the
air corps to private in the infantry-'
I think lhit Anirriun's offi-iri-s
in tills war performed mar-
velously and arc- something oi (
which OP can rightly be-preud:
lull along with raeh officer were
a dozen or more men iu the
ranks who performed just as
difiicult a task in just a coni-
liirndalile a manner While
we're on the subject notice the
lowly (?) infantrymen on cam-
pus that have earned the Purple
Heart and other such disthic- f
five honors! i
Tli is isn't a griiw for any mem-1
her of the glee ciub either fur I '
don't believe 1 know any of the 1
ZlS members— nor do 1 care to i
Cut if this type of article can
smuggle itself into the broad-
minded Daily that (up to this!
time) has served the campus
as a whole Heaven stop the big-
oted individuals and publications
of OU
K nowing your stand on giving''
every devil his dues ed this must
have been an oversight Please
ray It was and keep a bitter stu-
dent from losing all faith in hu-j
inanity!
Klaiue Anderson
Sorry Andy but I personally
plan lied the whole thing iiiouth-i j
ago— Ed
Radio Workshop Gives
Student Drama Today
"Release" an original radio
play by Dette Hetzler junior in
the school of radio drama will
be presented over WNAD at 3:4T
p m today Victor K Ricks di-
rector of the university radio
workshop said Wednesday
This program is one of a series
presented weekly hy the radio
students under the title of "Radio
Workshop Iresenn"
Members of the cast of Ibis
week's show include Dorothy Ew-
ing Frank Uonrdman George
Williams ljirry Swanson Roll
Culver and Wills Johnson Grace
Schmidt will he student director
of the production
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Epperson, Bill. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 32, No. 98, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1946, newspaper, February 14, 1946; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1800742/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.