PAGE .FOUR Editorial Opinio A Matter of Learning " You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear, You've got to be taught from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught to be afraid Of people ivhose eyes are oddly made, And people ivhose skin is a different shade, You've got to be carefully taught you’ve got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or eight, To hale all the people your relatives hate, You’ve got to be carefully taught.’’ The writers of the show South Pacific have, with this song, characterized the beginning of prejudice —an unnatural phenomenon. in the United States there exists prejudice of all kinds racial, religious and ethnic. At the same time a nationwide TV audience sees a New Orleans mother screaming at her crying child, “Tell’em you don’t want to go to school with niggers,” part of our Judeo-Christian heri tage 'teaches us that all men are brothers in the sight of God and we learn that all men are equal under the law of the Con stitution. It has been proven that no one race, religion or ethnic group is superior to any other and yet these prejudices remain. In the South even the educated firmly reiterate the slogans “separate but equal” or “they’re fine —in their place.” Despite the evidence, many still believe that only whites are human and others are the next rung down on the evolutionary scale. In the North, where we often haughtily look down on the ignorant segregationist of the South, there exists the same preju dice the same feeling that the Negro is inferior. Only it takes a more hidden, hypocritical slant. A neighborhood becomes "undesirable" when a Negro moves in, and the "educated" whites often stop at nothing to keep him out. The Northern schools are integrated but in many cases the Negro students go their own way and there is little friendship between the two groups. Many times Negroes come to Northern schools from inferior Southern schools, and when they cannot successfully compete with their northern neighbors, tension rises on both sides. Resistance to integration in the South has been costly and yet reason seems out of the question when mobs- of screaming mothers show up to keep two little colored girls out of an elementary school. But we TODAY AK’HR, Hril MHKcmbly room, 10 n.m.- ftlarer Commitlfi, 203 HUB. 7-9 p.m. Faculty Meeting. Cullegt* of Agiicul* ture, 109 Armsby, 4:15 p.m. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years 0/ Editorial Freedom Stye Hatlg Collegian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Pally Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934 at the State College. Pa. Pott Office under the ect of March $, 1871. Mall Subscription Price! IS.OO per semester 15.00 per year. JOHN BLACK CHESTER LUCIDO Editor Business Manager Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press STAFF THIS ISSUE! Headline Editor, Saralee Orton; Wire Edi tors, Ellie Hummer and Joan Mehan; Night Copy Editor, Lynne Cerefice; Assistants: Shellie Michaels, Marilee McCllntock, Sue Taylor, Robert Dean, Barbara Duitz, Carol Lee Vino, Betsy Sauer, Linda Johnson, Maxine Fine, Rochelle Goulde. Gazette iV Christian Fellowship, 218 HUB, 12:46 p.m.-l :15 p.m.; 111 Boucke, 7 :30 p.m. ODK, 217 HUB. 12:30 n.m.-l :15 p.m. ‘'Summer and Smoke. Center Stage, 8 p.m. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN,. STATE COLLEGE. - PENNSYLVANIA must remember that it is the mothers and not their children who are screaming. When we are young 3 or 4 we will play with anyone and not stop to ask if his parents are Presbyterians or notice the color of his skin. Then the emotional prejudices of an older generation seep in and we are iold that Johnnie and: Susie are not "nice" people to play with because they are Negro or Jewish or Catholic or Italian or Puerto Rican. Seeking to win approval, we cease to play with Johnnie and Susie and become “nice” people. Yet at the same time we learn gradually the traditional ideals on which our country was founded. We hear the words “all men are created equal” and yet for some of us thi3 phrase has no real meaning. What the sociologists call a conflict has arisen between this ideal and the idea that we ought not to associate with “dif ferent” people. This conflict between idea and ideal is often resolved by individuals who simply ignore one or the other. Those who are prejudiced have allowed the idea of exclusivenessio prevail over the traditional ideal. Deep emotionalism has covered the plain hard fact that there is simply no rea son for prejudice and thus our conflict arises between an unfounded but emotion ally charged idea and the simple truth. The problem then, is how to erase this idea which is illogical but powerful. Many people in the United States will have to “unlearn” prejudice and be able to accept the truth. Today there is evidence that some people have “unlearned” prejudice and their number is increasing as the Federal Court stands firmly behind the Negro, in his fight for recognition for status as a human being. The Negro is no longer going to accept his former role in our society and he has the support of many whites. Movements have, arisen on many cam puses to stamp out local discrimination in housing and other facilities. The sit-in demonstrations and racial strife in the South are part of the battle for the basic human dignity of ALL men a battle which has just begun. Perhaps it will be a very long battle indeed but at least In some places action has taken the place of apathy; and there is hope for a victory a victory in which all men understand the phrase “all men are created equal.” Letters - North Halls Say Live Ones Better TO THE EDITOR: In regard to a news item in the Collegian yesterday, it was stated that the ratio of boys to girls in West Halls (3:1) is too high. We men of North Halls would like to know how the West boy 3 would like living up here where the ratio is 1150:0? Dean Lipp, hear this! We de mand new faces. We’re sick of looking at each other. There are plenty of girls in South Halls. Why not move half of them into North Halls and move half of the fellows down South! We’d like real live women to look at for a change: "Play boy’’ is getting expensive. —l5 Lonely Hearts of North Halls / SUGGESTION,) * J jj MAttE I COULD SET W A DISHTOiia OR SOMETHING... 1 C k V v c World at Cuba Sets Celebration For Fidel HAVANA [IP) Cuba turned from the task of re pulsing a “Yankee invasion” that never came to planning a victory parade to demonstrate support for Prime Minister Fi del Castro’s revolutionary gov ernment. Propaganda organs abruptly dropped warnings of the U S. attack once freely predicted by Castro. Instead they concen trated on rallying a massive crowd for a march to the presi dential palace tonight. Whether Castro will address the throng is still not certain. But people here are quite cer tain that if he does, he will an nounce that the “aggressors from the norths" have been frightened away once again. Credit will go to the two week mobilization of the work ers militia and soldiers backed by a lavish supply of Czecho slovak and Soviet weapons. Fewer armed men and women appeared on the streets of Havana and other cities yesterday. Judge Deals Blow in Ga. MACON. Ga. (IP) A fed eral judge dealt a killing blow to Georgia school segregation laws yesterday but took no ac tion to return two Negro stu dents to the University of Geor gia. They were whisked from the university by order of the governor after campus rioting Wednesday night. U.S. Dist. Judge W. A. Bootle invalidated the state appropria tions law ban against the use of tax money for the support of an integrated public school or college. He continued in effect an injunction granted Tuesday against Gov. Ernest Vandiver and other state officials which had kept them from closing the university by cutting off funds. Vandiver had planned a tem porary shutdown for legislative repeal of the fund cut-off law. Kennedy Approves Jackie's Wardrobe NEW YORK (IP) Mrs. Jac queline Kennedy’s designer permitted a brief peek yester day at the new First Lady's wardrobe, and disclosed that the President-elect had quite a bit to say about it. “I feel he likes them very much,” designer Oleg Cassini told 200 fashion editors of the nation’s newspapers, here for the spring press week show ings. FRIDAY. JANUARY 13. 1961 WHVDONtVOULETMETW TO FIND SOME SORT OF SUggTITUTE FOR VOUfR BLANKET? (juould You give a. starring DOG A RUBBER BONE? a Glance Laotian Pilots Attack Rebels VIENTIANE, Laos (/P) Laotian pilots raided rebel lines yesterday for the second day in a row, flying four hasti ly armed obsolete training planes supplied by the United States. The biggest battle of Laos’ six-year-old civil war was believed shaping up. While British and French diplomats in Vientiane ex pressed fear of Communist re taliation, a top U.S. official de fended the air strikes as a de fense measure against a big pro-Communist rebel buildup to the north. When the battle will come no one here knows. But West ern military experts said quick action is necessary to offset continuing Soviet air drops to rebels in north-central Laos. The targets of the propeller driven planes, delivered by the United States only Tuesday, were secret. And a tight secur ity screen was thrown around the capital’s field from which they flew. Ike Says Stick To Principles WASHINGTON (IP) Presi dent Eisenhower called on his successor yesterday to stick to principles which he said kept America strong and free in a world menaced by Communist troublemakers. Reviewing the record of his eight years in office, during which he said the country has risen to unprecedented heights while holding Red imperial ism in check, Eisenhower said: "These vital programs must go on. New tactics will have to bo developed, of course, to meet new situations, but the under lying principles should be con stant.” Uruguay Expels Cuban Official MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (IP) —The Cuban ambassador and the first secretary of the So viet Embassy here are being expelled from Uruguay as per sona non grata (unwelcome), a high government source said last night. The presumably were linked with pro-Castro demonstra tions and street fights that led to a government raid Wednes day on Communist headquar ters and the arrest of 139 per sons. Mice Set Loose in Store BRUSSELS, Belgium (IP) A striker let loose a flock of white mice in a department store at Verviers yesterday. Police reported women shop pers cleared out. They arrest ed a young man for question ing and reported a similar in cident took place earlier in a department store in Liege.
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