TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1948
WSGA Rules Written Consent
Necessary for Late Return
Since the blanket (traveling) permission form does not state
whether coeds have permission from home to take one o'clocks for
traveling on returning to campus, the Women's Student Govern
ment Association ruled that all coeds must have written consent
from home to be allowed two late traveling permissions.
If a blanket permission form was signed by a coed's parents
stating that she may leave campus without written consent from
home, a postcard is sent to her
parents when she leaves campus,
stating her destination.
Hostesses' and checkers' rules
prepared by WSGA which are
posted in each dormitory state
under permissions, rule two,
"Women students desiring to re
turn late from out-of-town must
have the written consent of their'
parents sent directly to their host
esses before they leave the Col
lege. Two late returns are per
nutted without penalty each sem
ester, but the written consent is
always a "must.' "
Fellowship Open
To Mortar Board
A $5OO Katherine Wills Cole
man Fellowship is open to all
members of Mortar Board grad
uating in 1949.
The fellowship, awarded to
nine girls over the past seven
years will go to an applicant to
be selected by a committee of
deans, and a committee of Na
tional Mortar Board officers.
Candidates must be unmarried
and able to qualify for the Mas
ter's or Doctor's degree in an ac
cepted graduate school.
Winner of the 1948 award was
Lois Chambers, Ohio Wesleyan
University, who will do graduate
work in sociology and psychol
ogy at Oberlin College where she
will also hold an assistantship in
the department of sociology.
In the Land of
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',nine-tenths of every stick and
brick in it paid for by the de
spised and hated Negro. What
price "separate but equal" now?
Teachers' Pay Rates
Oh, in passing—let us not for
+ get that the Negro teachers in
that bare box back in the country
get from $55 to $9O a month—
there are four of them. Only the
principal gets the $9O. Minimum
salary for white teachers in Madi
son county is $l5O a month. There
are 15 of them in the white folks'
school.
And why is the Negro school
away back there on that dirt
road? Well, when the white folks
finally decided to open their
hearts and the Negroes' purses
they called a meeting of the tax
paying colored folk to discuss the
prospective new school. One
young Negro property owner got
up and broached the matter of
location. A colored church organ
ization offered a couple of acres
on the highway for the new
school. And free.
Somewhat shamefacedly the
white school superintendent told
the group:
"I guess I might as well tell you
that the location is all settled. Mr.
Pearl Hawkins wants it down by
his cotton gin. So that's that."
And that was that. "Mr. Pearl
Hawkins" is "The Man" in Dis
trict No. 4, one of the big planta
tion owners—and white of course.
He wanted the school near his
acres and his cotton gin because
that makes it easier for him to
keep his hands. Negroes through
out the South are literally des
perate for education fir their
children. Given a school in the
neighborhood they'll put up with
almost any working conditions,
no matter how bad. So in Madi
son county many of the little
Negro kids walk six miles to
school every morning—and six
miles home at night.
Discrimination Is Universal
Discrimination against the Ne
gro school child in Mississippi is
universal and vicious. Many
counties do not even pretend to
provide school buildings for Ne
gro children. In rich Bolivar
county in the fabulous Delta
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Intramural Rivals
Renew Competition
After Holiday
Women's basketball and bowl
ing intramural competition will
not be held this week because of
th e Thanksgiving holidays.
Matches would be incomplete and
would confuse the weekly sched
ule.
Bowling rivalry will begin
at 6:30 p.m. Monday, when Kap
pa Alpha Theta meets Alpha Xi
Delta. At 7:45 p.m. Gamma Phi
Beta will oppose Co-op, while
Delta Zeta meets Kappa Delta at
8:30 p.m. Theta Phi Alpha and
Simmons are scheduled to meet
at 9:15 p.m.
At 7 p.m. Tuesday, November
30, Kappa Alpha Theta, the only
undefeated team of Basketball
League I, opposes Alpha Xi Delta
to start the third week of intra
mural basketball. Gamma Phi
Beta and Co-op are scheduled
to meet at the same time. Delta
Zeta and Kappa Delta are pitted
against each other at 8 p.m., while
Simmons meets Philotes, playing
its first game of the season after
taking the place of Theta Phi
Alpha.
im Crow ---
country there are 121 Negro
schools. Only 31. operate in school
buildings. The others stumble
along in churches, lodge halls and
even garages.
Bulk of the state's school bud
get comes from a 2 per cent sales
tax. A million Negroes—half the
population pay their share of
that sales tax. But believe it or
not, the white masters of Missis
sippi pay more just to haul their
white children to their schools
than they spend on the entire •
state-wide Negro school system.
The figures run--3/ million dol
lars to haul white children—only
i
3/ million to educate the little ;
Negroes. 1
Nearly half the state's 447,000
Negro children of school age have
never even been enrolled in
school. The Southern states have
compulsory school laws, just as
in the North. But no state enforces
the law as regards Negro chil
dren.
Trudge Along Dusty Highways
In Tennessee, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, I saw groups
of bright-faced, neat, little Negro
children trudging the dusty or
dangerous highways morning and
evening to and from their tumble
down schools. From time to time
the swirling clouds of dust thrown
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WSGA House Plans
Phone Survey for
11 o'clock Service
An appeal from a living unit
through the WSGA House of Re
presentatives to extend telephone
service in the dormitories to 11
p.m. is in the process of investiga
tion, said Shirley Gauger, presi
dent of the House.
Miss Gauger stated that the
unit presidents were asked to
make a survey of their units to
determine the majority decision.
Girls who are signing petitions or
"voting" for the issue are not
making a final vote, but are mere
ly stating their opinions.
No final vote can be taken un
til a committee investigates the
situation with the administration.
Professors Attend
Textile Conference
Ruth E. Graham and Mrs.
Marion P. Fraser, both of the de
partment of home economics at
the College, will attend a con
ference of college teachers of tex
tiles and clothing in New York,
beginning Wednesday and con
cluding on Saturday.
Professor Graham is chairman
of the Steering Committee for the
various meetings.
War Bride Tells of Living
Under Deadly Bombing Raids
(This is the last in a series of three articles describing life
under Nazi dictatorship as experienced by Mrs. Wallace Culver,
wife of a graduate sociology student.)
"We couldn't understand why the bombers didn't strike my city
in Saxony because it was.= industrial center . .. some people joking
said the Allies had missed us because Churchill's aunt had lived
there once." -------
"Finally on February 6, 1946,
Cnother alarm sounded", Mrs.
ulver said, "and this time it
wasn't a drill. Many civilians
were needlessly killed because
they didn't take the warning ser
iously."'
"I was stranded down town
away, from my mother and baby
. you can never know what fear
kinves your heart when you do
not know if your family is still
living or has been hit. You want
only to be with them if they are
to die."
Every day until March 5, the
1 "Big Bumble-bees" returned two
or three times, said the war bride,
and the people scrambled to the
shelters. Nervous breakdowns
and hysterics were common.
Often I prayed that a bomb
would hit so my troubles would
be over, but there were others
who still said 'Our glorious fueh
rer will lead us on to victory'."
On March 5, the worst raid
came, the dark eyed brunette'
continued. She was in a shelter
in the south of town feeling corn
paratively safe because the radio
many leitzinger
"Big Bumble-bees"
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Cagers End
Second Week
Women's intramural basketball
ended its second week with only
six of the 24 teams remaining un
defeated. Theta Phi Alpha has
dropped out of League I and will
be replaced by Philotes.
Kappa Alpha Theta remains
the only undefeated team in
League I by virtue of its win
over Co-op, 35-29. Kappa Delta
I eked out a one-point winning
14-13 margin to down Alpha Xi
Delta, while Simmons battled
Gamma Phi Beta in a close con- 1
test, winning 27-23. Delta Zeta
won by default over Theta Phi
Alpha.
Three teams of League II
gained one more victory Wednes
day night to stay unbeaten. Al
pha Omicron Pi easily defeated
Alpha 'Chi Omega, 28-15, while
Atherton I played a hard game to
defeat Sigma Delta Tau, 20-18,
for its first victory. Delta Delta
Delta won its second game by a
decisive 23-9 score over Alpha
Epsilon Phi. Zeta Tau Alpha
placed a second mark in the win
column through default of Leon
ides.
Town and Atherton II remain
undefeated in League 111 by win
ning over Phi Mu, 43-22, and Al
pha Gamma Delta, 38-30, respec
tively. Chi Omega eased by Kap
pa Kappa Gamma, 42-30, while
Atherton 111 defeated Delta Gam
ma, 33-14.
By Jo Fox
reports said the planes were
headed northward. Suddenly the
radio reported a reversal of
route, the planes were coming
south.
Burning City
"I thought the raid would nev
er be over . . . we could smell
phosphorous ., the city was
burning. Suddenly we decided to
leave the shelter, and got out
just before its roof collapsed.
"The sky was blood red from the
fire . . every house on my street
was burning. With my two year
old son in my arms. I started With
my mother to my relatives home
outside the city.
That night the yuung immi
grant, mother and child walked t
about twelve miles in the cold.
Strings of weeping people were
everywhere, and it seemed that
all the world was on fire, she
said.
One House Left
"My baby kept saying, 'Take
me upstairs I want to go to bed'.
I was afraid he would freeze.
About midnight we found the
only house that still had a roof.
"Everyone from the little vil-
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Omicron Nu
Omicron Nu, Home Econom
ics honorary, recently initiated
Margaret Alexander, Violet
Brughelli, Madeline Bush, Jean
Foulkrud, Mary Kuzman, Nancy
Meyer, Angeline Mingoia, and
Beatrice Rigling.
Masquerettes
Masquerettes, Thespian wo
men's organization initiated 13
girls last week. Those initiated
were Deane Brown, Joan Cart
wright, Barbara Cooper, Mary
Jean Eisenhuth, Ruth Federman,
Bernice Goldberg, Barbara Keef
er, Patricia Lloyd, Rosalyn Mc-
Collum, Carolyn Mowery. Nan
cy Parent, Mary Pennell, Janice
Stevenson.
Meeting Canceled
There will be no meeting of
the WSGA House of Represen
tattves tonight, according to
Shirley Gauger, president.
Lunt Gives Talks ,
On Fashion Careers
Miss Ferne Lunt, director of
admissions for the Tobe-Coburn
School for Fashion Careers in
New York, presented two talks
on fashion careers Wednesday at
the College.
The talks were sponsored by
the textiles and clothing division
of the department of home econ
omics.
lage was crowded inside. I had
to put my boy to sleep with a 75
year-old man who was dying."
Mrs. Culver told how she final
ly reached the home of her rela
tives and waited the approach
of the Americans. The people
feared the Negro troops more
than anything else, she explained.
Nazi propaganda had painted
them as savages. Fearing for her
life, the pretty German disguised
herself as an old woman so that
the young American troops would
not notice her.
"I was ashamed of myself lat
er . .. the American's both white
and black were kind to us all
they especially liked the children.
I can honestly say that they were
the nicest people I have ever met
... and they did not take one egg
from my relatives' farm.
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