1. Page 2 University Dahy Kansan Monday, March 26, 1956. 1.3 Negro Can Accept No Compromise (The last of a series) That is why such groups as the NAACP will accept no compromise. The states cannot nor will not provide an equal dual school system. And the issuance of public funds to private schools for those who wish their children segregated from the Negro will mean no public funds for public schools, and the cycle starts all over—with the Negro out in the cold. The conditions under which the southern Negro lives exist because the southern whites force them to exist and have no desire other than a surface desire to have them any better. They do not want the Negro to leave. If the Negro left, the South would lose an abundant supply of cheap labor. And that brings us down to the real reason that the southern white will not accept mixed schools. Not because of health, crime, marital habits, intellectual level—these are not reasons, merely loopholes by which to escape the real reason. A reason that if he states it publicly will brand him a bigot. Black is the line and the reason—which is not a reason by any stretch of the imagination—for which the southern parent will not let his kids go to other than segregated schools. He knows that if he lets them go that his Susie will play with Sambo just fine—and it will make him sick. Sick, because Sambo is black. Hud Sambo's great-great grandfather, the slave, been white—it would be just fine because by now Sambo and Susie might be brother and sister. But he was black—and Sambo's black. And the history behind this reasoning is a long one. Beginning with the imperial expansion of the European countries in the 16th century. They found a dark continent whose resources and people could be exploited for profit, and for the first time the white man found a definite line by which he could compare himself to other human beings—a measure, a yardstick and definite cleavage—black. And since he was smarter than this black man he must be a superior being and he had black to tell him the difference. He passed his reasoning along to his son and his son's sons. And that is why so often you see a black man standing in the gutter while the white man walks on the sidewalk. The white man sees the color and he associates white and black, good and bad, superior and inferior. That is the reason, which is not a reason, that he insists on segregation. All other reasons are so much white-wash to keep him from appearing a bigot to those of his fellows who don't agree with him. And the Negro in the gutter? He has got one foot on the curb now. He put it there by pulling on his own boot strap. He can't compromise now. He will try to put that other foot up there, and when he does there will be bloodshed, but he can't compromise. There is no compromise in equality. Either the black and white reasoning will go back to the 16th century where it belongs, or the Negro will stand in the gutter forever. -Dee Richards Washington—The United States has a beautiful new songbird, the flame-orange and black Spot-ted-breasted Oriole from southern Mexico and Central America. A colony of the orioles nest near Miami, Florida. Broadway Plays Make Good Reading university of Kansas student newspaper became biweekly in 1904, biweekly 1909, diced weekly 1909, diced weekly Daily Hansan "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," by Tennessee Williams (New Directions) is last year's Drama Critics Circle and Pulitzer Prize winner. It's the story of a Faulkner-like Mississippi family, rotting away in a fine old southern mansion. The "cat" is Maggie, the heroine, married to a youth drinking himself into the ranks of the alcoholics and unable—through lost, or unwanted, masculinity—to satisfy the sex-lungery Maggie. There is Big Daddy (played on Broadway by Burl Ivens). Well maybe not, but drama is a part of literature, even drama as current as the 1955-56 season. Here are three recently published plays, all doing right well for themselves on Broadway. The announced intention to read a number of plays and review them for the Kansan brought forth a snort of disgust recently from a journalism student. "Why should they read the plays? They can't see 'em!" "No Time for Serggeans," by Ira Levin (Random House), from the wild and wonderful burlesque by Mac Hyman, has been a Broadway sensation since last fall. Reading the play (which also was a television success) makes it seem al- Telephone VIking 3-2700 Telephone VIKING 3-2160 Extension 251, news room Extension 376, business office dying of cancer but not knowing it, fencing his iron will on the whole family. Future In Doubt Whether "Cat" has become a long-run play because it is good or because it has enough bedroom connotations and four-letter words to satisfy "Tobacco Road" fans is the question. It has unquestioned power, though it doesn't read as well as "A Sreetcar Named Desire". But, pending the play's movie appearance (how can M-G-M even think of it?) and it's likely road showing in the big city to the east, play-lovers might like to have a look at "Cat". Incidentally, it has two final acts—the one Williams wrote originally and the one director Elia Kazan persuaded him to rewrite for Broadway. Member Inland Daily Press Association, Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by National Advertising Service. Individual College Press. News服 务. United Mail. Press mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year. Published in Law出版社. University year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second-class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence Kan., post office under act of EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Dick Kelley, Ray Wingerson, Editorial Editor Ann Kelly, Ray Wingerson, Associate most imperative to see the play, which stars a North Carolina lad named Andy Griffith in the role of Will Stockdale. John McMillion Managing Editor Barbara Bell, Bob Lyle, Kent Thomas, Brian Porter, Ken Thomsen, tors; Jace Pecinovsky, City Editor; Margaret Armstrong, Gerald Dawson; Assistant CITY Editor; Gordon Hudacke, Editor; Larry Stroup, Assistant Teachr editors; Felecia Fenberg, Society Editor; Editor; Robert Truce, Sports Editor; Daryl Hall, Louis Strop, Assistant Sports Editors; Larry Hell, Picture Edi- NEWS DEPARTMENT BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Mrs. Jean Brunning, a defense witness in a manslaughter trial, was asked to point to the slayer. The man she pointed to turned out to be an alternate juror. The juror laughed and Judge Saul I. Rabb called a recess to restore order. Mrs. Brunning blamed a "similarity" in appearance for her mistake. Richard Hunter ... Business Manager James Wiens, Advertising Manager; David B. Cleveland, National Advertising Manager; Mary Lon Wickersham, Management; Mary Wickersham, Meyer Ford, Circulation Manager; Walter Baskett Jr., Promotion Manager. 'OK, OK, HENLEY Y-OTHER STUDENTS HAVE HAD TO FACE REQUIRED COURSES, YA KNOW' An Improbable Hero The unguarded Wilson county jail in Fredonia had its 30-year safety record broken when three burglar suspects escaped. One of the three was William O'Hanlon, 62. The last previous escape from the lookup was in 1926—by William O'Hanlon, 32. For those who don't know by now, "No Time for Sergeants" is about Stockdale, a Georgia hillbilly who kills the Air Force with kindness. He can't be insulted. He considers it an honor and responsibility to get latrine detail, and he polishes up the john so beautifully that even the toilet lid snaps to attention at inspection. He and his brainy friend Ben are busy trying to get transferred from the Air Force to the infantry—truly a switch—and they eventually make it. It's a mad tale, it will probably be forgotten when little theaters are still trying to understand O'Neill, and it's certainly worth the little while it takes to read it. Thieves added insult to injury when they looted an automobile dealer's safe of $2,500 in New Haven. Conn. They cracked open the safe with the dealer's own tools. "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" by George Axeirrod (Random House) is a variation on the Faust legend. It's an only occasionally funny variation. A movie magazine writer falls for a beautiful film star who's an obvious takeoff on Marilyn Monroe: He's an absolute stick, and the actress can't even get his name straight. But an author's agent makes a deal with the writer, buys his soul, and the dumb kid becomes famous. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler NEW YORK CLEANERS 929 Mass. VI 3-0501 The title is a lampoon of movie magazine titles, and the author reportedly combined "Rock Hunter" from Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter after he had to give up the name "Rock Hudson" by itself. To those who thought "The Seven Year Itch" was screamingly funny (this writer didn't), "Rock Hunter" will be welcome. It has a few laughs, but it falls far short of its intended aim of satirizing the two big towns—New York and Hollywood. Easter Vacation Fewer adults but more juveniles were arrested in Oklahoma in 1955. Buck Cook, state commissioner of charities and corrections, said 5,614 juveniles were arrested, about 100 per cent more than the previous year. Adult arrests totaled 95,128, a decline of about 18 per cent from 1954. HOUSEMOTHERS at Orientals and Carpets New York and Hollywood. —C. M. Pickett Try Kansan Want Ads. Get Results. By appointment purveyors of soap to the late King George VI, Yardley & Co., Ltd., London Instant! 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