Calling people sissies for their views, I guess that's the 1950's equivalent of "cuck".........
The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 70, Number 49, 30 November 1953
Freedom Is for Sissies — The Cornell Daily Sun 30 November 1953 — The Cornell Daily Sun----
'Way down south in Georgia everyone licks hambones, eats candied yams, cracks pecan nuts and remains complacently happy throughout his terrestrial stay. Every once in a long while, though, somebody pipes up against the long-hallowed institutions that provide for the complacent happiness. And when there is such an occurrence, brother there's fireworks.
Such was the reason for the ranting editorial remarks of a mature newspaper publisher and former speaker of the state legislature of Georgia recently. His target was two editors of the University of Georgia weekly student newspaper who had dared to take a "liberal" view of questions concerning racial segrega-tion in public schools. Of course. said Mr. Roy C. Harris, weekly newspaper publisher, member of the Board of Regents and one of the state's foremost political powers, anybody expressing these views are nothing but "a little handful of sissy, misguided squirts.'
And furthermore: "Each time I see one of these little sissy boys hanging around some college, the more I think every one of them ought to be made to play football.
"... the time has come to clean out all of these institutions of all communist influences and the crazy idea of mixing and mingling of the races which was sponsored in this country by the Communist Party."
Mr. Harris went on to say: "The state of Georgia pays a big price to educate its college students. If the slate is willing spend this money, it has the right to control what is taught and what is done at the University." Prior to Mr. Harris's published remarks, he told the student paper editors that one-third of their $15,000 would be cut if there were any more editorials attacking segregation. The next day the students published a story telling how Mr. Harris had threatened to "put us out of business." This Mr. Harris denied. "I didn't threaten them," he said. "I just told them what was going to happen." Following this exchange, the student editors met with University officials, the result being Students a written letter of apology by the students who expressed concern over the fact that they had created an embarrassing situation for the University or for the Board of Regents ..."
The students signed the letter to show their interest in the university's "growth and development." The result of the affair has been an attempt to set up a system of student-faculty approval for controversial editorials that will "allow for some measure of student expression."
This whole incident is just so remote from the Cornell way of life that it appears almost laughable. But it isn't so very funny when one considers that the individual's and the newspaper's right to free expression were squelched within the bounds of this nation. Mr. Harris and his kind are deeply embued in tradition. As educated persons, they've been exposed to documents upon which a rich tradition has been built in this count,. What do they think of when they refer to "the crazy idea of the mixing and mingling of races," How can they so easily forget that this nation was founded on the premise that "all men are created equal"? And how can they use freedom of the press, guaranteed to them by another great tradition, to quelch another person's use of that same freedom?
Of course this can all be brushed off very easily with something to the effect that "well that's the way things are in the South but the situation is improving every day."
This isn't the case, however. Only last week, the press's right to free expression and discretion was subverted by one Joseph McCarthy, senator from Wisconsin, who, subtlety using the threat of an investigation, forced the nation, radio and television operators to accord him free time to refute political utterances against him. He was granted free time, $300,000 worth in fact, which he used only incidentally to refute the charges but more specifically to hurl new vitriolic brickbats at indiscriminate targets.
It is too coincidental that George D. Stoddard, former president of the University of Illinois, recently noted "a discernible shift toward bigotry" in the United States today. He went on to warn of "the paranoid state of mind that once perpetrated the Inquisition, the Salem witch-hunt, the Ku Klux Klan."
Mr. Harris. Senator McCarthy, et al—take note of tradition not numbered in your catalog as outlined by Dr. Stod-dard: "Freedom is indivisible, to invade it at one place is to degrade it everywhere."
The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 70, Number 49, 30 November 1953
Freedom Is for Sissies — The Cornell Daily Sun 30 November 1953 — The Cornell Daily Sun----
'Way down south in Georgia everyone licks hambones, eats candied yams, cracks pecan nuts and remains complacently happy throughout his terrestrial stay. Every once in a long while, though, somebody pipes up against the long-hallowed institutions that provide for the complacent happiness. And when there is such an occurrence, brother there's fireworks.
Such was the reason for the ranting editorial remarks of a mature newspaper publisher and former speaker of the state legislature of Georgia recently. His target was two editors of the University of Georgia weekly student newspaper who had dared to take a "liberal" view of questions concerning racial segrega-tion in public schools. Of course. said Mr. Roy C. Harris, weekly newspaper publisher, member of the Board of Regents and one of the state's foremost political powers, anybody expressing these views are nothing but "a little handful of sissy, misguided squirts.'
And furthermore: "Each time I see one of these little sissy boys hanging around some college, the more I think every one of them ought to be made to play football.
"... the time has come to clean out all of these institutions of all communist influences and the crazy idea of mixing and mingling of the races which was sponsored in this country by the Communist Party."
Mr. Harris went on to say: "The state of Georgia pays a big price to educate its college students. If the slate is willing spend this money, it has the right to control what is taught and what is done at the University." Prior to Mr. Harris's published remarks, he told the student paper editors that one-third of their $15,000 would be cut if there were any more editorials attacking segregation. The next day the students published a story telling how Mr. Harris had threatened to "put us out of business." This Mr. Harris denied. "I didn't threaten them," he said. "I just told them what was going to happen." Following this exchange, the student editors met with University officials, the result being Students a written letter of apology by the students who expressed concern over the fact that they had created an embarrassing situation for the University or for the Board of Regents ..."
The students signed the letter to show their interest in the university's "growth and development." The result of the affair has been an attempt to set up a system of student-faculty approval for controversial editorials that will "allow for some measure of student expression."
This whole incident is just so remote from the Cornell way of life that it appears almost laughable. But it isn't so very funny when one considers that the individual's and the newspaper's right to free expression were squelched within the bounds of this nation. Mr. Harris and his kind are deeply embued in tradition. As educated persons, they've been exposed to documents upon which a rich tradition has been built in this count,. What do they think of when they refer to "the crazy idea of the mixing and mingling of races," How can they so easily forget that this nation was founded on the premise that "all men are created equal"? And how can they use freedom of the press, guaranteed to them by another great tradition, to quelch another person's use of that same freedom?
Of course this can all be brushed off very easily with something to the effect that "well that's the way things are in the South but the situation is improving every day."
This isn't the case, however. Only last week, the press's right to free expression and discretion was subverted by one Joseph McCarthy, senator from Wisconsin, who, subtlety using the threat of an investigation, forced the nation, radio and television operators to accord him free time to refute political utterances against him. He was granted free time, $300,000 worth in fact, which he used only incidentally to refute the charges but more specifically to hurl new vitriolic brickbats at indiscriminate targets.
It is too coincidental that George D. Stoddard, former president of the University of Illinois, recently noted "a discernible shift toward bigotry" in the United States today. He went on to warn of "the paranoid state of mind that once perpetrated the Inquisition, the Salem witch-hunt, the Ku Klux Klan."
Mr. Harris. Senator McCarthy, et al—take note of tradition not numbered in your catalog as outlined by Dr. Stod-dard: "Freedom is indivisible, to invade it at one place is to degrade it everywhere."