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DIANNE MARTINY
H<’<1 iiml lllack Women's Editor
How It Looks to Others
FOR ME tlio Soiitli means
with Ojjlethorpe. Beginnings
The South means being
horn in a huge bed In a
house on Taylor street.
It means burying the fam
ily silver when Sherman
marched through.
It means a war that
brought hundreds to nearby
Anderson vllle.
beginnings. Beginnings of a
of struggles that still go on.
It means questions I can
not answer.
The South means the
"Georgia Gramma” I know
only by legend.
It moans flowering mimo
sas and great magnolias.
It means Iced tea with
Consider Greek View
AN hen the governed are united in violent opposition
to some law or restriction, there is usually something
wrong with it.
1 he I>reek population of the campus is violently op
posed to the deferred rush system under which they are
currently operating.
fine of the reasons for changing to deferred rush was
to encourage freshmen to work on their grades before
pledging, thus lowering the number of pledges who
never make the average required for initiation.
According to IFF, grades have shown little improve
ment, if any, since deferred rush was begun.
tin the other hand, it has imposed a financial hardship
on the fraternities and sororities. After spring and sum
mer graduations shrink the number of active members,
chapters have decreased revenues. Hut operating ex
penses don t decrease in direct proportion.
I In* Cl recks are the ones affected by whatever rush
system is in use, their estimation of its practicality
should be the one that counts.
R.O.T.C. Snowball
Something bigger than one campus' attempts to alter
the IUI.T.C requirements may result from this week’s
meeting in Washington between a committee from the
National baud (Irani Colleges and Defense Department
officials.
NN e can hope for some broad and basic changes in
policy for all the nation’s land grant schools where
B.OT.C. still poses a problem.
The time has come for r< evaluating the program and
drawing up new national guidelines.
family with their arrival
plenty of ice and free second
helpings.
It means grits and hush-
puppies.
My South is the worn vol
ume of “Gone With The
Wind” which I still have not
rend.
My South is an abundance
of Sunday hats and "Jesus
Saves" signs.
To me the South is red
clay and muddy rivers, to
bacco shacks and decaying
mansions.
My South is the lurking
still of the noonday heat or
tlie drone of air condition
ers.
My South is the memory
of slave days and SNCC
workers in Ainerlcus.
To me the South is end
less rain.
It is the spirit of Henry
Grady, the romance of Mar
garet Mitchell and the
shame of Lester Maddox.
My South is the shadow of
the Klan and loyalty to
Goldwater.
It is voting at age 18 and
learning to die at Denning
or Gordon.
My South is a majestic
past reaching out for a bet
ter future.
My South is Southerners
and "Hell no, We Ain’t Fer-
gittin!"
My South is people whose
hearts know no geography.
The South is the place I
love most—next to home.
t JUNE EDGENS
Ited and lllack Editor
How Can a State
Be So Blind
THE PEOPLE of the sovereign state of Alabama have spoken.
From a field of 10 gubernatorial contenders they gave a clear major
ity to a farcical, proxy candidate who promised more of the same
calibre government they're used to.
It’s an understatement to WHEN HER candidacy
say Mrs. Wallace's election was announced, I was naive
enough to think not even
Alabama would stand for
such flaunting of the law.
As the campaign progressed
made a mockery of the elec
toral process, the democratic
system and the governorship
of Alabama.
YftS/Rl LVRLBBH U1AUACZ HAS
tor oc' &cof&e RI6HT wme
sue. urns m. ol'
teoese sefTFR walk on
IF He WANTS to & 6UmP#!
I began to remember the
Longs in Louisiana, Faubus
in Arkansas and some oth
ers, and I braced myself for
the inevitable outcome.
Whether as individuals we
like the path the South has
been coerced to follow, as a
whole and as several states
we have begun to accept it
as unalterable. A great
many of us—again as indi
viduals—know it is right, if
painful at times.
LEI), OR dragged along,
by Atlanta, Georgia has
tried to put the segregation
issue in its proper political
position, far behind the is
sues of education, industry
and state growth.
Segregation as a major
election issue is dead in
Georgia.
RESPONSIBLE candi
dates have turned to the
problems which have for so
long prevented the state
from becoming all the good
and productive things it can
he.
HOW CAN the people of
Alabama care so little for
themselves? How can they
wilfully blind themselves to
reality? How can they stake
their government on an is
sue that’s as dead as their
state's immediate future?
IEAN MATTHEWS
ll< <1 mid llliirk I'gIiiiiiiiKi
!Xo Fair Weather Friend
UMBRELLAS ARE personal You may not own every
umbrella that you like but you like evetv umbrella you
own. It is yours. It is a friend. It is an asset
During the monsoon sea
son an umbrella becomes a
unique personality. Is your
umbrella conservative, dark,
dependable?.Is it leaky, lop
sided? Maybe it is a fat,
floppy one. Or, perhaps it
is skinny and sophisticated
My umbrella is gone
THERE IS sentimental
value attached to an um-
brelta. That red striped um
brella was with you the time
you collnpsed backwards in
to thnt mud puddle behind
the C-J Building.
The little magenta one
which you affectionately
named "Hog" (rest her brok
en ribs) participated in hur
ricane Betsy with yon
AM) REMEMBER the
sorrowful day you poked
that P.K. mater in the ear
with old Blackle? Blackle is
missing now. enslaved (most
unhappily, I imagine! Into
the service of some evil
stranger.
In the early days of this
nation, horse stealing wns
a hanging offense. Horses
were to the pioneers what
umbrellas are to modern
man.
ALTHOI 4,11 I have never
ridden an umbrella (I guess
I'm old fashioned about
some things), I hare never
theless had many umbrellas
who were friends. There
fore. a vigilante committee
made up of people like me
who have had our friends
rustled, feels that legisla
tion should be enacted mak
ing umhrellanapping a capi
tal crime.
When your umbrella dis
appears. you nre deeply
grieved. You nre occasionally
angry. You nre, in all prob
ability, wet. But do not
despair, umbrella lovers. I
believe that umbrellas, too,
have souls.
NOMEW IIEHE, somehow,
they undoubtedly find their
rest in thnt faraway, dri
lling place where it shall
rain forever.
So let us who remain be
low in the muck ho of good
cheer ns we paddle from
class to class, cherishing in
our damp little hearts a true
faith that our denrly de
parted have passed uwny to
some sloshy haven in the
sky where umbrellas reign
eternally.
£f)r i\ct> anb ItlacU
June Edgena
Editor
Carlos Kellner
Business Manager
Jay Holder
Managing Editor
Ron Taylor
News Editor
Vol. LXXiYi \>. (tq
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LI*. I IFRS l() I III*, EDITOR
The Guilt Is INot the Flag’s
To the Editor:
Johnny wns born in Atlanta and Savannah and Mil
led gevillc in turbulent times long ago, lie was raised in
squalid shacks along the banks of tlie river and on dirt-
farms and on cotton plantations in Georgia 100 years
ago.
THE TI It HE LENT times
. grew heavy and with a deep
sense of obligation Johnny
left Atlanta and Savannah
a n d Ml Hedge vllle and
marched away under a new
red flag to Join a new army
in a very old madness call
ed war.
To the Editor:
Besides waving off an
tennae and being the sym
bol of bravery in a lost
cause, the Confederate
Flag may still have some
value.
HAS IT occurred to you
thnt the flag may also be a
reminder to the Americans
of Georgia and the South
thnt "divided we fall," and
that the I'nton is of primary
importance? Apparently not!
More Americans were lost
during the Civil War than in
the Second World War—an
other reason to keep the flag
alive.
Tint COCHRAN, your au
thority on the Confederate
Flag, should try remember
ing a little History 351-352.
The Confederate Flag in no
way signifies hate. And “di
vided we fail” is hardly the
motto of the KKK.
It so happens that both
the flag and the Klan are
Southern in origin. As a
matter of fact, most stu
dents on this campus are
In a gray uniform he
fought in Virginia and Mary
land and Pennsylvania and
died of dysentery and battle
wounds. And then he fought
again. Months of hunger and
years of sickness passed and
still Johnny fought.
JOHNNY FOVGHT as his
Southern. Still, most don't
agree with the philosophy of
the Klan.
THE AMERICAN flag,
which happens to fly above
the Confederate Flag, sym
bolizes the freedom of
speech, press, etc. It—or
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thoughts qf home faded into
oblivion and his clothes rot
ted from his body. Under a
red flag, far from home,
Johnny fought.
More than 100,000 strong,
a blue-clad army forced its
way along, deep in Johnny’s
land. And on a green-tufted
summit near a small South
ern town Johnny stood and
fought and Johnny won. The
long, blue line turned back
toward Washington 100
years ago.
what it symbolizes—guaran
tees the Klan the right of
their opinion, just as It
guarantees the editors of
newspapers the right to
their opinions.
MY POINT is clear. The
Confederate Flag is not the
symbol of hate, it is not
owned by the KKK, and it
is part of your American
tradition.
Today we all stand under
the American Flag more
closely than ever before—
the Confederate Flag had a
lot to do with It.
I/Ols Morgan,
History
The idea of removing the
Confederate Flag from the
Georgia Flag die,] in com-
mittee at the A’oung Demo
crats Platform Convention.
Everyone can breathe easier
now. Mr. Cochran's com
ments were made in a news
story related to proposals
before the convention: he is
not “our authority" on the
Confederate Flag or any
thing else . , . ED.
gray uniform Johnny formed
a battle line and on a hill
called Seminary Ridge just
outside a little town called
Gettysburg, Johnny died in
a cannonade under a red
flag long ago. •
Then he went back to Vir
ginia and dug a trench and
fought again against a great
blue wave of enemy soldiers.
And when his trench was
overrun he fell back and
dug another one and Johnny
died in the Virginia mud
100 years ago.
THEN WORD came that
they had burned Atlanta and
Savannah and Milledgeville,
Johnny furled his red flag
and came home.
War-weary and defeated
Johnny found strength to
fight again and started re
building Atlanta and Savan
nah and Milledgeville. He
died with the blueprints
scattered on the tabletop
and his son found them and
built tall, shiny, concrete
buildings that punched holes
in cottony clouds that hung
over Johnny’s land.
THE S O N remembered
Johnny and was proud, and
he placed Johnny’s red flag
beside the Seal of the State
of Georgia and flew it over
Atlanta and Savannah and
Milledgeville.
Last week in The Red &
Black a student suggested
taking the red flag off the
Georgia flag and replacing it
with stripes of red and
white.
HE SAID the red flag was
no longer worthy of Georgia
because the KKK has been
seen with it.
Can a leaf desecreate a
tree? Ernest T. Wyatt
Sr., Journalism
IN HIS remanent rags of a
Reminder of the Union s Importance
