"Juvenile Damn Foolery"

"With Communism knocking at the Negro's back door, we cannot afford to let educational segregation barriers stand. It is as plain as the red flag in Russia that continued segregation and suppression can and will cause the death of democracy by the hands of its own leaders."

After writing these words, the editors of the University of Georgia's undergraduate weekly, the Red and Black, calmly put their paper to bed and went on to other things. They had apparently forgotten about the university's powerful regent, Roy V. Harris, political bigwig of Georgia. Last week, in his own paper, the Augusta Courier, Harris himself reported how a good Georgia regent reacts:

"At a recent meeting of the board of regents, I brought the editorial to the attention of the regents and found that there were two young students present covering the meeting for the Red and Black . . . Some of the regents asked them if they didn't know that [the editorial] would mean the mingling of the races and if that was what they wanted. Some of them went so far as to ask them where they came from and if their own people wouldn't be ashamed of them . . .

"I tried to explain to these young gentlemen . . . that the people of Georgia would not be willing to support a university which advocated mixing and mingling the races in the public schools of this state. I tried to explain to them that in their juvenile damn foolery they were hurting the university and the cause of education in this state. I frankly told them that the money for the operation of the Red and Black would be discontinued unless they could do a better job . . .

"So these little squirts went back to Athens and they got out another issue in which they made a personal attack upon me ... They said Harris 'is attempting to squelch our fundamental right of freedom of the press.' Now there is no question of freedom of the press involved. The question ... is whether or not the board of regents will be dictated to by a little handful of sissy, misguided squirts who have just enough knowledge to think they know it all.

"Every 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. What we need today is more he-men and fewer sissies."

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