Page 12 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 29, 1962
Negro Must Improve Image With Ambition
There is no more lethargy among Negroes than among any other segment of the population, a Ph.D. candidate in political science said last night.
But Harry Bailey added, the Negro will be "called upon to be more inventive, more creative," if he is to overcome the problems of segregation.
"The Negro desperately needs a new image," Bally told the KU-Y race relations committee.
Bailey said the race relations meetings often serve "as aspirin tablets for guilt feelings. The people can come to the meeting and go home thinking they have done something about the problems of segregation," he said.
Bailey said whites, if they are really interested, can help the Negro by:
- Forming committees to go to merchants and "urge, cajole and persuade" merchants to hire Negroes;
- Go to school boards and urge them to hire Negro teachers, even in all-white schools.
- They can deluge newspapers with protest letters against using race tags in stories.
"I know of six rape cases in the last year. Three were committed by Negroes, three by whites. But in the newspapers, the stories read "man rapes," or "Negro rapes."
In the eyes of the public, he said all of these cases will be remembered as committed by Negroes.
Bailey said he did not think Adam Clayton Powell's election to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York represented any inroad.
"Ninety, per cent of that district is Negro," he said.
But he said the election of a Negro as attorney general in Massachusetts was a real inroad.
"In Massachusetts only about two per cent of the electorate is Negro," he said.
Bailey defined desegregation and integration.
"Deselegation is public matter,' he said. "Examples are schools, restaurants, and motels. It is here that the greatest advances must be made."
"Integration is a private matter," Eailey said. Examples are interracial marriages and entertaining in homes.
Bailey took a swipe at people who refuse to join private groups that segregate.
"That won't do any good," he
said. "The only way advances can be made is for whites who are concerned to join these groups and try to change them from within."
Bailey said he favors sit-ins and any other type of demonstration that would "prick the conscience" of the public.
But once the mass conscience is pricked, he said, the Negroes must not flood the breech with stereotyped persons.
"Persons who defy the stereotype should make the contact," he said. "Those who fit the stereotype will only reinforce the bias."
In order to help bridge some of the gaps, Bailey suggested that Negro students study the sciences and other critical skills in college. In this way, he thought, Negroes will be able to break down more of the barriers than if the Negro studies the humanities.
He thought Negro students should make a conscious effort to win whatever awards are available in college, particularly those awards which make study abroad possible.
"The Negro should make every effort to get out of the provincial areas in which they grow up." Bailey said.
All this would help improve the Negro image, he said.
"It is one thing." Bailey said, "to give favors to 'Uncle Tom,' and quite another to grant recognition to his son with a college degree."
Adenauer-
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Another objector was the present floor leader, former foreign minister Heinrich von Brentano. He refused to consider a switch to justice minister. To complete the blocking action, CDU housing minister Paul Luecke rejected Adenauer's attempts to name him defense minister.
THE CDU MOVE to have Adenauer name Erhard his heir apparent was made in an attempt to ease the crisis. Erhard, who engineered West Germany's postwar recovery, has wide backing, including that of the FDP. Erhard already is vice-chancellor.
CDU officials who asked to remain unidentified said the party wants Erhard named as the next chancellor.
CDU parliamentary whip Bruno Heck said Adenauer should form a new cabinet which can remain unchanged until the 1965 elections, regardless of whether the chancellor retires.
membership cards at the first of the semester. Aylward said he had received 150 cards recently in a second shipment from the Collegiate Council.
"The delay was caused because the Collegiate Council didn't print enough the first time." Aylward said. "Anyone who wants to sell them can come and get them."
Each card has a stub, which must be returned to the treasurer with $1, he explained, as an improvement from last year.
When asked if there had been any YD meetings this year, Aylward answered, "That depends on what you call a meeting."
Young Demo Presidency Dispute—
"BEYOND THIS. I did not go. I was not asked to determine the validity of either officers or delegates." he stated.
Ayland felt that the improper conduct concerned not only the election of convention delegates, but also the election of KU YD officers.
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"The people who were eligible to vote for one were eligible to vote for the other," he said.
CONVENTION DELEGATES elected on March 28 were recognized by both the Collegiate Council and the state YD organization. Aylward said.
Clamor for the office of president of the KU YD's developed because the candidates favored different candidates for the state Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Bennington and Gary Conklin, third year law student from Hutchinson and election chairman at the March 14 election, supported George Hart.
"They (Bennington and Conklin) had planned for Hart supporters to take control of the Collegiate Council in hopes that the Council could get in control of the Young Democrat convention," Aylward said.
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