SOUTH IN CONFLICT
Southern
0<al ifornia
VOL. Lll
What Future Holds,
History Will Demand
(Kditor's Note: This is the last in a series of five articles on "The South in Conflict," an analysis of the South since the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court declaring segregation unconstitutional.)
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Bv RICHARD PERLE
Contributing Editor
Even as far bark as 1884 the Southern Negro was imploring the white community to extend minimal recognition to all men:
“We ask not Congress, nor the Legislature, nor any other power to remedy the evils of segregation; but we ask the people among whom we live. Those who have a high sense of honor and a deep moral feeling. Those who have one vestige of human sympathy left . . . Those are the ones we a.-k to pretact us in our weakness and ill-treatments ... As soon as the colored man is treated as a man, that harmony which should characterize all races which dwell together ¿hall be the bond of peace between us.”
It is clear that the Southern Negro is the victim of less abuse now than in 1884. But petitions which Inve, from that date to the present, appeared in countless newspapers altest to the distance yet to be trawled on “that read to freedom" of which the Negro has for so long sung.
What the Negro has today that he lacked in 1884 is the full force of the Constitution on his side—when, where and if it can be employed. What he lacks today, and what j has been absent throughout the long history of racial 1 conflict in the South, is the good faith in seeking solutions which can come only from an enlightened white society.
Negro Contentment Myth
The Negro knows that an enlightened white community can only come when the myth of Negro contentment is fully dissolved—and that dissolution, made more difficult to accept because it imposes new obligations, is j the point and purpose of the protests these recent months, i
The obvious sincerity which underlies the Negro bid for understanding, particularly as evidenced by young Negro students, is a direct threat to the moral indifference the Southerner has long practiced. It is no longer possible j to deny the prcbiem. Only self-deception can blind one to i the obvious, and the Southerner knows full well that battles fought upon self-deception are consigned to failure.
The mandate of the 1954 Supreme Court decision has altered the progress and pattern of segregation not only in the schools, but in every area in which “separate but j equal" is the badge of inferiority. It has come as an answer to a question posed on the first day of January, 1863.
An answer, yes, but not a solution. The solution will come in a thousand ways, a new way for each heart that resolves, for each soul that dissolves the clear and unconscionable prejudice which plagues the South and makes its own better interest take second place to a disproportion- j ate fear.
Challenge to White South
For it is a characteristic of the problem of segregation that, whatever it is at issue, nothing is what it seems. The challenge to the white Southerner posed by equal use of library facilities, or the schools, or parks or employment is always viewed in terms of intermarriage, a deep and irrational fear which makes accomodation impossible in smaller matters.
And so it takes time—time to re-educate the South in the hope that a better understanding can make it possible to deal rationally with fears and apprehension. <
It is hoped that this education will place the problem in proper perspective. As Robert Penn Warren, a southerner by birth and perhaps by disposition has said, “Desegregation will come when . . . they realize that it is just one small episode in the long effort for justice. It seems to me that perspective, suddenly seeing the business as little, is a liberating one. It liberates you from yourself.”
It is the injustice of frustratioh that demands attention, as well as the denial of opportunity. Freedom in law fnr 1 s professional ^aduate
DAILY
TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1961
NO. 115
Outstanding Composers' Works To Highlight Musical Weekend
Symphonic Concert Will Open Tonight
MUSICAL PUPPETS—"Perpetual,“ a cne-act opera by Dr. Ernest Kanitz, professor of composition at USC, tells the story of three musical puppets on a baroque carnival
wagon. Portraying the puppets are "Norman Riggs, Clara Simmons and Paul Dixon. The Lcs Angeles premiere of the opera will be Saturday in Hancsock Auditorium.
Commissioner To Give Talk On Education
Dr. Staling M. McMurrin, U.S. commissioner of education, will address today's charter banquet of Educare, financial support group for the School of Education.
He is a 1946 graduate of the School of Philosophy.
Dr. McMurrin will sjieak at 7 p.m. in the Venetian room of the Hotel Ambassador on “Ed-ucat*ion and the National Goals.”
Educare. eighth support group
Cinema Department Aces Receive Doctoral Degrees
By PENNY LERNOUX Daily Trojan City Editor
Music from the	pens of over	25 of	the	world's outstanding composers	will be presented on	campus	by the
i School of Music in a week-end series of programs beginning tonight with the annual spring concert of the Trojan Symphonic Band.
Directed by Anthonp Desid- | -----------------------------------'—
erio, the symphonic band will perform at 8:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
Opening the program	will be
“Orb and Sceptre” by	William
Walton. The two marches were written for the coronation of Elizabeth II and are among the outstanding examples of British march writing in the grand style.
First Contribution
Following the Walton piece will be Aaron Copland’s “An Outdoor Overture.” which represents the composer’s first contribution to symphonic band literature, and Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring'’ from Cantata No. 147.
Jaromir Weinberger’s polka and fugue from the opera “Schwanda” and Cesar Franck’s “Psyche and Eros’’ will also be heard.
Following will be Symphony
No. 5
can be reassuring, but to witness the law set aside by strategems and denial is the deepest hurt of ail. The Negio in the South must feel the full meaning of these lines by
Yeats:
The mountain throws a shadow,
Thin is the moon’s horn;
What did we remember I nder the ragged thorn?
Dread has followed longing.
And our hearts are torn.
chools, has more than 150 members who are alumni and friends of the School of Education. Each member gives $100 a year to provide funds for projects beyond USC's normal budget allocations.
Officers of Educare are Dr. C. C. Trillingham, county superintendent of schools, presi-i dent ; S. C. Joyner, business The South requires time to measure itself. It always manager of the Los Angeles
has. A true perception of what the Negro believes and intends and feels will be crucial if the measurement is to correct.
Thus what is happening in the South today is a necessary prelude to tomorrow. The law .'hall continue to do what it can. The President has pledged the power of his office on the side of the Negro, and this too shall help.
If and when we in the North, who are free of the burden which surely is shared by both white and Negro in the South, respond to the issue and its challenge, the cause will be so much advanced. For whatever indictment can be sustained against the South, it is clear that those of us most distant from the problem have forfeited the right to express indignation.
We segregate our fraternities and sororities, our restaurants and living areas, our clubs and organizations. And all of us who refuse, through indifference or passivity, to change what we know to be wrong, are party to the crime. To what extent have we cared, and in what measure have we acted?
A Moral Argument
I am reluctant to here intrude upon what is essentially a moral areument. but there must be added one political point. That point is. as stated by former Secretary of State Stimson. that. “No private program and no public policy can now escape from the compelling fact that if it is not framed with reference to the world, it is framed with perfect futility.”
This is not to say. as has been charged, that we must run our liv?s. at every turn, out of deference to the un-; derdeveloped world. It does mean that we cannot afford to abdicate the strength of our international posture—a postur? built upon justice and equity.
City Schools, president-elect; W. Earl Brown, superintendent of the South Bay Union High School District, Redondo Beach, secretary; and Ray W. Johnson, superintendent of the Riverside County Schools, treasurer.
Dean Speaks
Of Trends In Education
The most signiticant trend in engineering education today is that it mixes more freely with j science than ever before. Dr. Alfred C. Ingersoll, dean of the j School of Engineering, said yes- j terday.
He spoke in an address before the 33rd rvnual convention of the California Sewage and | Industrial Wastes Association in Santa Monica.
newsreels from 1894 prize-fight films to the modern motion picture newsreels of 1960.
Dr. Fielding discusses the faking of newsreel content at the turn of the century, propaganda in newsreels with the advent of sound and the gradual decline of newsreel quality after World War II.
“The American newsreel may be said to have flourished for only two brief periods in history,” writes Dr. Fielding.
He says that the first period was the years from 1920 to 1927 when lavish sums of money
The USC cinema department has added ' to its list of “firsts” this semester by awarding the first doctorates to professors with majors in communications, specializing in cinema.
The department, which is the oldest in the country, awarded the first doctorate last Febu-rary to Professor Richard Arlo Sanderson, who is currently serving as audio-visual consultant for the School of Public Administration project in Pakistan.
Recently, Professor Raymond Fielding took his final oral examination before the Dissertation Committee.
Both Dr. Sanderson and Dr.
Fielding earned the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Motion Picture Dr. Sanderson’s dissertation | was “A Historical Study of the Development of American Motion Picture Content and Techniques Prior to 1904.”
A sample of 681 films which had not been previously released for study were viewed and analyzed by Dr. Sanderson in order to trace the first motion pictures produced in America.
The four prominent categories of films studied were documentary, travelogue, entertainment and military.
The analysis of film techniques was divided into three main sections — camera movement-, special effects and film composition.
Traced History Dr. Fielding’s dissertation was “A History of the American Motion Picture Newsreel.” It USC cinema department, traced the history of American ' Serrurier is a member of the
were spent to present newsreel stories in a journalistic fashion.
Innovation Periods
“The second and even briefer period of innovation lasted from 1927 to 1932 when a new and almost forgotten type of newsreel appeared. This type featured unmanipulated sound-film interviews with internationally famous political personalities.”
Both professors were examined by a Dissertation Committee headed by Richard D. Mac-Cann, assistant professor of cinema.
Cinema Fraternity To Initiate 10 Students
Ten cinema department students will be initiated into Delta Kappa Alpha honorary society at a banquet on Sunday at 8 p.m.
The national honorary cinema fraternity will also honor Mark Serrurier, president of Moviola Manufacturing Co., Hollywood, with honorary membership.
Other Honors
Associate membership' will be conferred upon actor Richard Eagan, Saturday Review film critic Arthur Knight, commercial film producer Margaret Mehring and motion pjcture music composer David Raksin.
All are instructors in the
society of Motion Picture and TYT Engineers. He is the developer and manufacturer of the Moviola editing machine, which ,	.	,
is one of the most indispensible | ?aro?Ue_^^l_ vva"on-
items used in the motion picture	..	, ...,
| Commedia dell Arte, or Harle-
j quinade.
industry.
Early Designer
Serrurier is also well-known as one of the earliest designers of the "crab dolly.”
Delta Kappa Alpha fraternity’s recognition of Serrurier is in keeping with the group's precedent of honoring distinguished affiliates of the motion picture industry.
They also annually honor those who have assisted in the cinema department’s educational program.
Transportation Be Topic Of Conclave
As the second of its series of public affairs forums, the School of Engineering will sponsor a ! discussion of transportation in 11 os Angeles tomorrow in Hancock Auditorium from 9 a.m. til] noon.
Speakers will consider a 11 problems‘involved in the movement of passengers by public and private transportation systems.
The School of Engineering held its first discussion program last October on Proposition 1, the Californ;a water plan, and will conduct another forum next Serge Prokofieff’s “sym- fall on air pollution, phony about the spirit of man.” , Administrators Participate and Moorside March from “A Dr. Alfred C. Ingersoll. dean . oorside Suite by Gustav of the Engineering School, will HoIst-	j	moderate	the	transportation for-
Clarinetist Jerry Kirkbride, urn. Dr. Tracy E. Strevey, vice soloist for the program, will president for academic affairs, then present Mozart’s Concerto will open the discussion, for Clarinet in A.	The	history	of the problem of
Lincolnshire Folksongs transporting people in the Los “Lincolnshire Posy” by Percy Angeles area will be given by Dr. Aldridge Grainger will follow. Homer H. Grant, associate dean Based on folksongs collected in of the Engineering School. He Lincolnshire, each piece in “Line- is also head of the industriad en-olnshire Posy” is intended to be j gineering department, a musical portrait of the par- :	Dr. Grant formerly was with
ticular singer who sang its un- , the Key Syste/n in the Bay area.
C. M. Gilliss, executive director of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, will speak on current political and legislative as-dance suite based on the Rus- pects of the transportation prob-sian fairy tale of the same name. | lem in Los Angeles.
The public corpora tk>n"*Tie heads moves three-quarters of a million persons daily in buses and street cars operating in four counties. MTA is also responsible for planning and providing a rapid mass transportation system for the future.
Engineemg Aspects Irvan F. Mendenhall, partner in Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall, consulting engineers, will speak on engineering aspects of the proposed mass rapid transit system for Los Angeles.
Wade Sherrard. managing director of the California Trucking Association, will speak on commercial vehicle use of streets and freeways.
Robert Bradford, State of California director of public works, System Approach will discuss a system approach to freeways integrated with mass transit.
Following the formal speeches, there will be an opportunity for debate by the speakers plus
derlying melody.
Concluding the program will be the berceuse and finale from Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.” a
and Paul Creston’s "Celebration ! Overture."
On Saturday, the After Din-j ner Opera Company of New j York will present the Los An-| geles premiere of "Perpetual.” i a one-act opera by Dr. Ernest i Kanitz. USC professor of composition.
The performance will be given at 8:30 in Hancock Auditorium.
Musical Puppets “Perpetual” tells the story of three musical puppets on a It is
based on the tradition of the
Dr. Kanitz "notes that neither of the two male puppets “gets the girl” in the end. which is symbolic of his belief that everyone must face the fact that they will be alone sometime during their life and that life will go on anyway.
The music professor feels that the opera’s singing melodies within the framework of contemporary music are the most outstanding parts of the piece.
(Continued on Page 2) questions from the floor.
three Transfers Build Fraternity
I Long Beach if they said no!” i and that Joyce helped them get i the spring pledges outnumber The fraternity's national paid I adjusted to the USC system. the actives by 12 to 8. many of the expenses for the The Phi Taus tell an amusing One °f ,*ie mosf pressing pro-
By RICK BUTLER
Row Reporter
Could you build a fraternity from zero to twenty men in less , three transfers, especially early | story about their shiny new
when we came up here.”
"We were worried about our social life the first semester.
• | jects for the new band has been j Four men can’t throw much of
"The confusion between scientist and engineer, created by-references to ‘missiles scientists' instead of ‘missiles engineers,’ has reached such proportions that
_.	,	..	.	..	men	working in a technical field
The inescapable consequence of segregation and it, vearssdon-t kll0„ whcthel. attendant conflicts must be a liability no weapons system J «¡emfcts or engineers," can successfully combat If. m fact we do not. so long as	;	„
we continue to segregate, subvert the very heritage our
than a year?
Three Phi Kappa Tau transfers from Long Beach State thought they could, and the rapidly filling pale green Phi Tau house on the Row is proof of their success.
One jf the imported brothers, Dennis Wilson, explained that their 1960 summer rush budget
| in the lean fall semester when “Most Improved Chapter” tro-i only four men lived in the house. ! phy. At the Domain mee’ing of Each man had a private bath, all California chapters held in but they said, “We missed hav- March, the three men of Fi chap-ing exchanges.”	tr at USC were called on for a
Curran gave credit for the sue- Pr0Siess iepoit.
; think they expected us to
Scholarship is also being p"shed by Phi Kappa Tau. Tv.o
cessful re-establishment of the chapter to Frank Joyce, counselor of men'r. organizations, and to the Tri-Delts, their new next door neighbors. He said the women came to serenade them, rent
| was $25 for 2 cases of coke and
weapons systems are designed to defend.	i	“Often	the	same	men	can be phone calls. He wonders how
The history of our time demand? response. Nothing is both 'pure scientist’ and ‘engi-jmany ether houses could get. more certain th?n that response must be based upon	neer' as	l.e works on different	five pledges on that budget, at	j
the ideal we are committed to defend. Expectation and	problems	or parts of the same	a cost of five dollars per man.
hope and desire are in all parts of the world, even here,	problem.	The engineer, however, j President John Curran re-	j
the considerations which must determine the course and	is the member of the technolog-	membered bidding the first five	1 tremendously, loo. Without him.
the destination we Choose to seek.	:	ical team who creatively adapts I men. "We sat here on the couch
say we had doubled our number four,h fraternity 0n the Row —from three to six. Instead, we , when phj K a p p a Tau was insaid we had 20, and everyone | staued in 1922. went wild. We had to win the j sjnce th„n 1 300 a|Umni have trophy. When you go from none gra(luated from the local ehap-cakes and food and even came ! to twenty, you really have got “
the percentages on everyone ,	..^ye U5ecj to wonder about this
else,” Curran said with a smile. | p,ace u.hen we vvere pjedges at
Long Beach,’’ Curran recalled. "We were taken to San Diego
to hash at dinner.
“Frank Joyce has helped us
One of the first five pledges, we never would have come this [ Ted Patterson, outlined his goals
Since the founding of St. Augustine. Florida, in 1565. the findings and methods of sci- and extended these five bids, far, Curran said. He explained
the South has been making history. Now it is time for enee to meet the needs and de-land our bags were packed up-history to make the South.	|	sires	of	mankind.”	I	stairs	SO	we	could	get	back	to
that they had trouble with petitions and regulations at first
for summer rushing by the Phi Tau men want
saying a fall
pledge class of 15. Right now, 1 had already written our obituary
cleaning and repairing the dam- I a party. Long Beach helped us age caused by a group of Boy : out. and we had our big' parties Scouts who broke into the house with them," said one of the during the summer.	men.
The house had been closed since spring w hen only two ..en- j
ior members lived in it. It was 1	.	.
pledges, both NCAA swimmers, built in 18<9 and became the r , .	„ _
n	are working on 3.o averages. The
chapter also has a live-in arrangement with a graduate student, who plans their study pro-giam and administers IQ tests.
“Phi Tau has done a great job, arl they have done it by and large by themselves. The men who came from Long Beach have proved that fraternities can still be started and grow rapidly,’’ IFC advisor Frank Joyce concluded.
and UCLA, but no one ever mentioned Pi chapter. I think they