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December 4, 1954
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THE MAROON TIGER
The Maroon Tiger
FOUNDED 1898
Published monthly during the school year by the students of More
house College, Atlanta, Georgia. Entered in Post Office at Atlanta 3,
Georgia, as second-class mail matter under the act of Congress, March
13, 1879.
Member of Associated College Press and Intercollegiate Press.
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vice Inc., 420 Madison Avenue, New York 17, New York.
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academic year 85 cents; by mail $1.00.
Office—Room 113 Graves Hall. Phone—RA. 9420
EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Richard E. Johns
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Major Owens
NEWS EDITOR - James Goodman
FEATURE EDITOR ' George Clark
SPORTS EDITOR - Robert K. Jones
COPV READERS Geroge White, Samuel Alien
ARTISTS - Archie Meyer, Alfred Greene
EXCHANGE EDITOR - - Robert L. Brown
NEWS REPORTERS—
Leroy W. Aiken, Herman Robinson, Foster McDonald, John
Wesley Simmons,II, Donald Jones, Cornelius Johnson.
SPORT REPORTERS—
John Barber, Asa. T. Spalding, Jr. 1
FEATURE WRITERS—
George Love, Leaverone Harley, William McCray, Samuel
Allen, Rufus'Butler, Charles H. Jones, Andrew Ezenkwele,
John E. Simmons, David Hickman, Alexine Clement.
TYPISTS—
Donald Hickman, David Hickman, William H. Wiliams, Sam
Atkins.
BUSINESS STAFF
Bull Sessions
“Perhaps you write to show just
how one can confuse topics, in
vert ideas and jumble thoughts,"
one reader of “Bull Sessions”
said to me.
Upon hearing this I immedi
ately began the long task of ex
plaining my deformed article of
the last issue. Between theprint-
er and the last proofreader
several paragraphs of “Bull Ses
sions” changed places. Just how
this happened I don’t know. I
do know that the first column
made practically no sense be
cause of this.
As the school year progresses
and the examination dates creep
closer, one would think that the
number of “Bull Sessions’ on the
campus would decrease. But there
is an abundance of things to talk
about and this offsets the lack of
time.
For example, who could hold
back the streams of pride and
joy that flowed as a result of the
Panther defeat! Who can help
but sing of slaughter and the
result of that battle that sent
C. C. Shouters home to bathe
their sore backs in their own
tears.
BUSINESS MANAGER Harold Randolph However, all sessions in the
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER Anthony M. Hurley past few weeks have not been so
ADVERTISING MANAGER Collin Cromwell carefree. Local politics concern-
CIRCULATION MANAGERS Robert J. Allen, Ronald Johnson ing the private school amendment
FACULTY ADVISER G. Lewis Chandler and Omega men speaking of inte
gration have provided food for.
thought and talk. I ran across
a small group of men a few days
ago who in the course of dis
cussing intergration had side
tracked and began arguing about
what Morehouse should do to im
prove and prepare for the stormy
future.
“I think the college should
start a policy of strict selection
and allow only the very best to
enter”, said one.
“If they start that; they will
have to close up,” a witty sopho
more said laughing. “I’d have to
leave myself.”
“What do you mean by strict
selection?,” I asked.
“You know what I mean,” he
answered. “Take only those ap
plicants who have very good
marks and are in the upper fifth
of their class.”
“I challenge you,” I said, “to
find ten men on the campus who
did not have very good grades
in high school and who were not
valedictorians.”
“Oh, 1 see what you mean,” he
answered slowly. “Then why not
select them on some other basis.
Why not give tough entrance ex
aminations like Chicago and Co
lumbia and most of the big col
leges.”
“Yes, why not do it that way,”
a few others added.
“Tough entrance examinations
would keep out the trash. You
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
ARE WE LOSING OUR
SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY?
Responsibility and its inevitable challenge is the problem
which we as students must meet with courage and strength.
The events of the past weeks have been clear indications of our
indecisiveness, disunity and lack of perspective as to what
should truly be our attitude in dealing with problems when
they arise. We have failed to achieve our purpose repeatedly
by a certain indifference, not so much of manner as of feeling
and action.
We have failed to see that individual responsibility is in
finitely more important than things of a frivolous nature to
which we very often give proirity here on the campus. With in
dividual responsibility comes disciplined growth and maturity.
Certainly responsibility means taking an active part in student
affairs with a soundness of judgment which is indispensable
to actions of college mem Responsibility does not only in
clude the cultivation of assiduous study habits; the develop
ment of a decorum is also a vital part in its meaning.
Since we are all involved in a college community which
has the tradition of a Christian basis, certain implications
are unmistakably clear. Our responsibility is much greater
than we might suppose because it involves the whole of
society. We have a function which is not merely the accumula
tion of excellent grades as mentioned before, but the function
of freedom if we are to be dynamic or even attempt to end
some of the evils of society.
If we desire to act in any sensible way when issues come
up, it must be clear in our minds what it is that is really the
problem • and see it in all its ramifications. Then act in a level
headed manner. If there is any value in what one is fighting
for, then the ultimate goal will be a quest for freedom,
There is a tendency to make all kinds of excuses for our
own failure simply because we are not responsible enough.
We blame the administration, the student council, or pressure
groups of one kind or another for difficulties which we
experience. We fail to see that there are choices before us
which we must decide on in an intelligent fashion in order to
assert ourselves as students.
What we do is indicative of our feelings. Do we feel like
Morehouse Men? Then precisely we will act in a way which
will not only confirm the feeling but in a sense define it. To
effect a cure for our apathy and lack of responsibility, a
thorough sober study of ways and means to foster responsi
bility is suggested. This should be done by a group of willing
students. Moreover each' student should take it upon him
self to work towards this goal. Certainly, only an enlightened
awareness of this prime necessity, and how imperative for us
as students, since we do not merely exist as a conglomera
tion of impersonal objects but as individuals, to shoulder the
responsibility which is ours so that we may be better able to
distinguish the true from the false,
1 am writing to air views un
THE MAROON TIGER of Octo
ber 30, 1954, and also to make
a suggestion.
In the first place, the general
setting of the paper is on the
whole good. In the second place,
the articles that appeared in the
above issue are on the whole
topical and informative. It re
quires a great deal of work to
achieve anything of worth. I
am therefore congratulating the
Editor and the members of the
staff for what they have so far
succeeded in doing. While I am
offering you this congratulation
1 must also remind you that much
still remains to be done. This
being so, I wish you all the spirit
of vigilance and an untiring de
votedness to the duty of making
THE MAROON TIGER a paragon
of college papers.
I suggest that the paper open
a special column, in which stu
dents from different fields ,of
study will from, time to time, be
writing thought provoking papers
bearing either on their fields of
concentration or on other fields
of interest. This will not only
afford such students an oppor
tunity of seeing their thoughts
in print, which is usually stimu
lating to young writers, but it
will also serve to stimulate and
inform others.
—A. Azekwele
Dear Editor;
I have read the October 30,
1954 issue of “The Maroon Tig
er” and enjoyed its content very
much.
“The Maroon Tiger” contained
a number of well written and in
formative articles about the local
scene including news of the af
fairs of our own campus, as well
as the affairs of other campuses.
There was also some coverage
on the international scene by
means of recent European trips,
and the well written article
“How long will it be?” Account
Was given of our recent chapel
speakers and the fact that our
president spoke in Sister’s Chapel
when Atlanta University played
host to thirty-one college presi
dents and board members.
My dear editor, the fact that
strongly irritates me is that not
one single line was devoted to
the fact that at the Atlanta Uni
versity Convocation on Sunday,
October 17, 1954, J. Ernest Wil
kins, the Assistant-Secretary of
Labor of the United States, was
the principal speaker.
In don’t see how the staff of
the “Maroon Tiger” could have
possibly overlooked this coverage.
Is there an explanation?
—Roger Ward
Dear Editor:
The students of Morehouse Col
lege should know how and who
to criticize. As editor of the Ma
roon Tiger, it makes no differ
ence to the student body wheth
er or not you have majored in
English, History, or Mathema
tics; they voted for you as the
best capable than. In view of
this I think it only fair to let
you know what you are up
against, Mr. Editor.
There are several things you
should always remember. The
first of these is never throw away
a copy of your newspaper; they
will later serve as material for
classroom work.
Another point is the mechanics
of your paper. It may serve as
a reflection on your staff. I would
be extremely careful of the lite
rary style. This emphasis is vi
tal to your position.
Another point which you may
consider as inevitable in the
journalistic world is that no mat
ter how many articles that you
write “the public is your final
judge.”
Mr. Editor, such a job to which
you have been elected is very
taxing but it may be profitable
in later years.
Oscar M. Davis.
CHARLES WALTON
Across the gridirons of America
on brisk fall afternoons can be
heard the urgent cry of “hold that
line.” In these football contests,
this plea usually rises from the
throats of spectators when their
team is on the defensive and
when an aggressive opponent is
hammering away at its line. The
situation of the U. S. in Asia to
day demands that we send up a
terrific plea for our team to hold
that line. Red China with all
of her awesome brute strength is
on the offensive; and, if she
scores, her touchdown will not
mean a mere six points, but it
will mean the complete domina
tion of Asia by the tyrannical
forces of communism.
American communists are at
tempting to spread the unwar
ranted ambiguity that the Chinese
people are by nature a genteel
peace loving fold, and that the
Wall Street War mongers are
committing one act of aggression
after another against these in
nocent peace loving folk. After
thoroughly lambasting our de
fense minded foreign policy, these
Reds say that only a policy of
peaceful co-existence can ensure
a lasting peace. This theory of
peaceful co-existence is a most
beautiful panacea for the age old
problem of war among nations.
However, history has shown that
there can be no peaceful co-exis-
tence between sovereign states for
any period of time. Even the
most respected people of anti
quity, the Greeks, could not make
peaceful co-existence work. The
two most famous Greek city
states, Athens and Sparta, tried
it for a while, but their strained
period of peacful co-existence
was blasted out of existence by
the Peloponnesian war.
History has shown most em
phatically that there can be no
peaceful co-existence with Red
China. The Chinese people have
pretended to advocate peacful
co-existence with their neighbors
for centuries, but they have in
vaded them and swallowed them
up whenever they thought it was
necessary for the welfare of
China.
Korea, Indochina, Tibet, Nepal,
Sikkem, Bhutan, Japan, parts of
Indonesia, and parts of the Phi
lippines have paid tribute to
China at some time or another in
her imperialistic history. In the
early centuries, the propaganda
used by these conquering hordes
was deceptively poetic communist
gobbledygook about peaceful co
existence. We know that there can
never be any peacful co-existence
with these peoples as long as
they believe that it is their divine
mission to rule ail of Asia. .
The most effective imperialism
of the Chinese is an engulfing
type in which the race of the
invaded territory disappears, and
their lands are forever incorp
orated in the racial territories
of the Chinese. There is a re
curring process in the engulfing
imperialism. First China pro
duces a surplus population; next
population pressure causes in
dividual Chinese to seek oppor
tunities abroad, and finally troops
are sent in to join these indivi
duals. This pattern has occurred
recently in Tibet, Malaya and
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