The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-05-06
Editor Of The Herald

One oi the strange phenomenon
Of our modern thinking Is cxemp-.
lifted by Our so-called Nothern
press which Includes magazines
and newspapers and other forms
Of mass communication II seems
mat these Via With each other III
printing article about the Negro
and the South. which arc them
selves biased but which lmputc
bias To our reaion One such ran
just recently under the slg-
nature Of a wife Of 4 professor al
the University Of Virginia, entitled
The South viii Like Scgrega-
ton The author vas pictured
waking across tho campus ac-
companied by two Negro students
I wrote the President OF the Uni
yerS.ty OF Virginia and inquired
as TO whether the white woman
author vas prepared to sponsor
mixed dances and dating between
'f'EtO SttNtt4LN anu " llttt tO-tIHt
pointing out that such mixed dat
ing IS now being practlced at some
state universities outside the
South l also asked whether the
article expressed the sentiments Of
the authorities al Charlottesville
He replied that the article did
not express sentiments of the
president.
Wrote President Colgate Oar
den Jr When the segregation
case. which vent to tho Supreme
Court and was one Of those de-
eided last spring. was tried til
Richmond, appeared as Wit
ness and testified that ! thought
the abolition Of segregation would
be Injurious to our system Or pub
lie education and that | believed
separate schools provided they
were both good did not constitute
discrimination. I see nothing
wrong with that view nor is II
biased Or unrealstc. I wrote the
University OF Michigan. having
seen IN the Negro press that
survey there among the white CO.
eds endorsed mixed dating by
score Of 10 out OF % interviewed.
and received a letter from the
Director Arthur l. Brandon. saying.
that there never had been full
survey OF the 5000 women stu
dents. but that there had been ex-
AmnleS OF mixed dating on the
campus. but that there has been
such small amount OF it that il
probably would have been Of no
concern had not Two Of the young
women Wh0 lived IN a private home
sought to make an issue Of the
matter when the landlady refused
TO permit Tie mixed dating Ill
her home
III Is encouraging 10 know that
N Michigan there arc white nom
Ell Rho take far-sighed view 81
racial relations. and who arc in
tcrcsted ID the purity 81 their
race
Jefferson on Segregation
The professors wife at Char
lottesv.llc mentioned something
about Thomas jefferson in con-
nection with her own broad vIew
Of the race question I VIII quote
from Thomas Jeffersons auto
biography written in 1921. and
quoted on page A302 in Congress
s.ona! Record Appendix. January
20. 1855 Nothing is more GER
talnly written In the book Of fate
than these people are to be free
nor Is il less certain that tao races.
equally free. cannot live in the
same government Nature habit. Z
opinion have drawn indelible lines
Of distinction between them she
had quoted Jefferson In relation ~
hts having founded the University
Of Virginia ana with The .mpilca-
lion that HE would bc shocked that
Negroes we're not being accepted
INTO the white operations cduca-
t.onallr and pr course otherwise
II We ATTIC 20 cite jefferson BIT TINS
subject. why not cite him alth
his o3n Words
Lincoln on Segregation