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Une Colonnade LONGWOOD COLLEGE Farmville, Virginia
March, 1956
VoL XIX
FROM THE EDITORS Our
in+er-racial
The problems that
and
sympathies of the art
.
presented
in
the
following
articles
do not
in
stories,
necessarily
in
and Jeanne Saunders and gives
snapshot tour of Europe and Africa.
a
the stories.
The cover, designed by Nancy Lenz, represents the three races
Nancy
style.
The center spread
illustrated
in
is
the
Lenz,
Lynne Higgin-
work of Nancy Lenz
the
their struggle to gain equality.
STAFF EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Molly
Ann
Margaret
BUSINESS Phyllis
MANAGER Nurney
tHarvey Miller
MANAGING
EDITOR
Jeanne Saunders
SHORT STORY EDITOR ASSISTANT ESSAY EDITOR ASSISTANT POETRY EDITOR ASSISTANT _
EDITOR..
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Billett
Waugaman
Georgia Jackson Pat Walton
Lois
Ann
.Vivian
Childers V^illeU
Nancy Lenz Jackie Marshall
_
...Virginia
Cowles
...Jane
Adams
Jane Railey
TYPIST
Ann
ASSISTANT
RCU LATION MANAGER.
ASSISTANT ASSISTANT BUSINESS
Judy Carolyn
ASSISTANT REVIEW EDITOR ASSISTANT
CI
poems,
express
staff.
work comes from several sources to provide variety
HEAD
2
compiled of prize-winning material from the annual Colonnade contest.
is
botham, and Virginia Obenchain
ART
io,
.
from the world-wide associations of the races are pictured here
the ideas that are
essays. All
The
issue
arise
.
f
MANAGER
Brierley
Joan Harvey Bobbie Carter Margaret Beavers
IN THIS ISSUE "That's the
Way
It
.
.
.
is"
Martha Foster
3
—
Place, Short Story
First
"Retreat to Darkness"
4
Vivian Willett— First Place,
Poetry
"The Slave"
4 Willett—Third
Vivian
"Mental
Inferiority of the
Place,
Negro:
Harold Magnusson
—
First
Poetry
Fact or Fancy" Place,
"Uncle Peter"
7
Helen Warriner
—Second
Place, Short Story
"The Happy Time"
Meade Mann
8
—Second
Place,
Poetry
"The Conscience of the South" Molly
"Junior Year
5
Essay
Workman
—
9
Second
Place,
Essay
Abroad"
10
Jeanne Saunders, Nancy Lenz
"The Souvenirs" Barbara Heck
"The
Critics'
Corner"
12
—Third
Place, Short Story
14
WAY IT IS
THAT'S THE
MARTHA FOSTER
by
(gr^^ARTHA
had
finished
just
peeling the last
poured fresh water over the potatoes and covered the pot with
"Mom,"
she
called,
Jim beat
going outside for a
be
Don't
dear.
right,
The screen door slammed behind Martha as she ran down the back steps. She was a slender rather tall for her age, and with girl of eleven, sandy hair hanging straight down to her shoulders. Jim was seated on the curb, whittling on a with an old pocket-knife. Although
wood
piece of
Martha, he was about
he was a year older than three inches shorter,
skin
hlis
was as black as coal
teeth gleamed very white
his
his
in
dark face
Martha
" "
eat.
was
He got up
said.
spite of his
In
his
hand
a funny
in
salute.
little
"
'Bye,
Jim.
"
She
went
the
into
house.
Her
was already home and they sat down to
Her
parents' conversation while at the table
about the "trouble between niggers and
all "
Martha paid
were saying. school
little
attention to what they
She thought of many things
where the
uptown,
dresses and the big
that
said.
"Hi, Miss Martha," Jim answered.
the sidewalk.
Go!" Martha
he could run fast.
lifted
Miss Martha.
whites.
big
line in
set!
always did.
'Bye,
father
kids
he grinned at her. "Hi,"
He
supper."
for
late
He
her.
back to the
you
race
Til
They toed a
house," she said.
small size,
"All
as
Martha stopped.
"On your mark! Get
"I'm
meet them.
the yards left their toys and ran to
top.
a
while."
and
in
potato when she heard Jim's whistle. She
j|J^(|.
girls
boys drove
—
of the
wore pretty
The other
cars.
on Beech Street didn't seem to mind the fact their
clothes
Martha minded.
were
cheap
She didn't
and
faded.
But
that school, but she
like
from the curb and they walked slowly along, side
and the other children from
by
Anything was better than the school on the West
side.
Beach Street was on the north side of town, mills. The smell from the mills was
near the paper
always the
the
in
mind the
Beech
on
in
didn't
Street
assured them that they
The
mills
The
mills
paid for their cheap clothes
and the rent on the
home
people who lived
smell.
would eat.
worked
the
houses
dingy
little,
But
air.
in
the
little
Martha's father
houses.
and Beech Street was the only
mills,
she could remember.
Martha and Jim walked far down the street. houses were alike, their paint darkened by
All the
the smoke from the
broken
with
playing clothes
and
mills
and
and
trash.
their yards littered
Even
the yards were alike.
in in
tops
the
children
hot weather, and they were dirty
Martha hated
noisy.
the
They wore few
it.
between them.
Finally,
Martha broke the
"What
are you making, Jim?" she asked, point-
ing to the piece of "I
guess
It's
They walked
coming
home.
lunch-boxes
in
wood
in
silence
his
hand.
gonna' be a boat," Jim answered. on.
The men from the
They walked their
hands.
slowly,
mills
their
were
empty
The children playing
Side near the slum
even worse than
district.
that,
Beech Street went.
Jim's school must be
thought Martha.
on Market Street, and he said
it
was
Jim dirtier
lived
and
drabber than Beech.
His father dug
the city's sewer
His mother drank beer, and
lines.
Please turn
to
page 16
ditches for
——
Uark mess
to
Jrvefreaif;
by VIVIAN WILLETT 1
awake
In
And
my
the night from
watch myself as
I
fear:
rise
I
climb above the desolate
All that
I
cliff-face.
have seen passes before me.
my own foot-prints And the ones behind them.
Even
The breakers spring against the sand And wash the fleeing steps into the The night hides me.
sea.
The darkness
Hides my darkness.
I
should not be cold
And
look
down
Into the very
So
am it
dark
depths of
into the
Through scum and
I
the night from fear:
in
tower above the world
I
filth
it
and death
bottom of the grave. like
hides me.
the darkness,
Thus
I
go on
living
But practice death.
te olave
1
by VIVIAN WILLETT
With gnarled hands and ancient limbs hie
painfully
And
his
tills
soil;
even while the daylight dims,
A
silhouette bent
Is
seen against the sky.
toil
in
Thus has he been for many years.
Racing with the time; For even while
Across the Is
heard
Still
—
a
And with He prays Should
down
hoe;
his
form bent
his
still
more
low.
fervently that the sun
Although the
way
is
a
light of
not
For as he dies,
in
his
Will be that old
Now
warning.
not yet done.
is
light his
His work
chime
a
final
he lays not
His work
twilight nears.
his
field
moment day
is
longer.
spent,
vain;
monument
and heavy chain
loosened from
his
race.
Mental Inferiority of the Negro: Fact or Fancy?
^N
been
interesting experiment has
^^\^
months
for the past eighteen
Washington, D. C.
city of
progress
in
our capital
in
ever integra-
If
Negro and white races has a chance of success, surely this would seem to be the proper place. The results as reported in the Richmond Times-Dispatch of Wednesday, February I, 1956, would seem to indicate a wide intellectual and of the
tion
between white and colored
cultural difference exists
students enrolled
achievement
Identical city-wide
were given
tests
about a year ago, under the same administration, to
students
all
in
the city's
These
schools.
tests
indicated about twenty-five percent of the ninth-
graders were reading on or below the level;
grade
sixth
almost forty-five percent of the ninth-graders
were doing arithmetic on or below the the
made that
One
sixth-graders.
principal
level
estimated
of
that
seniors of the city schools of Virginia
two
were made up of students of
classes
comparative
This would indicate
more.
a score of 71.3 or if
percent of
while the top twenty
less,
Negro
the
ability,
top class would contain
Negro
three-fourths white students and one-fourth
students; the students of lower ability would form a class that
contained one-fourth white students and
Negro
three-fourths
While these difference
D. C.
ington,
or
71.2
the
Wash-
schools of
public
the
in
of
HAROLD MAGNUSSON
by
students.
seem to indicate an apparent
tests
mental
in
ability,
be
should
suspicion
attached to any such conclusion or to any such indication.
According to many of our leading an-
thropologists, psychologists,
and
biologists,
no test
has yet been devised that can definitely determine nnental ability in the individual,
among
mental ability
tiate
much
groups.
less differen-
Many
factors
enter into the determination of mental ability, and
no scientific device has as yet been invented that
determine to what extent those factors are
from ninety to ninety-nine percent of the retarded
can
children as indicated by these tests were Negroes.
in the human intellect. we proceed on the assumption that mental differences do exist, and we must emphasize that
What
how many retarded
the tests consisted of,
children actually were Negroes, whether difference in
background was considered
cultural
at the
in
arriving
above conclusion, and other pertinent queswere not answered in the newspaper article.
present or absent If
conclusion
such a
some
be
plausible
is
an assumption, there should
explanation
for
the
apparent
influx
of Negroes from the
"unfair
we examine the hereditary background of the Negro, some understanding of the Negro's failure to achieve might come to light. How long the Negro has existed in tropical
test,"
"segregated schools," "economic inequality
Africa no one can say with certainty. All the evi-
tions,
"Why do Negroes
The question was asked, so
test
were varied: "High
low?" The answers given
deep South,"
between Negro and white," "over-crowded
class-
rooms
these
in
reasons
previously all-Negro schools."
have some validity
parent difference
obscure
reason
mental
in
is,
in
all
in
All
explaining
the ap-
but a
ability,
probability,
of
more
greater
series of tests given in the public schools of
Virginia to give
during the school year of
some confirmation
to the
1951-52 seem
Washington
as to an apparent mental difference. as
reported
the
tests tests,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
of
lived it
may
there well
be that many more thousands of years could be
added
to that amount.
We a
can only guess as to the stupefying effect exposure to a tropical
long
might have on the race.
Certainly
forest climate ing to which
A.
S.
is
we do know
any human
that the tropical rain
the most enervating and debilitat-
man can be exposed on
Pearse,
environment
intellectual ability of
In
his
Man and
this earth.
Environment
is
of
showed the following
the opinion that climate probably has more affect
The lower twenty-five percent of the white
on man, both physically and mentally, than does
Wednesday, results:
in
These
If
dence at hand indicates that he has not less than six thousand years and
such
importance.
A
difference.
April 20,
1955,
seniors of the city schools of Virginia
made
a score
Please turn to page 17
UNCLE PETER HELEN WARRINER
by
NCLE PETER
"f
III
works for
—somewhere
He's getting old
us.
is
summer
afternoons.
would have retired when they were twenty
a while,
but he won't
Most
years younger.
his
in
Most
eighties.
"Naw,
around to
aren't even
folks
the tale by the time they are eighty years old.
tell
But Uncle Peter
man, and he
a
is
be
will
man
a
he dies.
until
He
one of those old fellows who has stuck
is
His father belonged
slave master's family.
to
his
to
my
Uncle Peter was
great-grandfather.
War came
just
a
Before he was very old, the Civil
pickaninny then.
and
think
I
down
the corn rows
of a
tractor
went to work for Mars'
he
Mars'
Egbert.
Egbert died, and now he works for Boss Marvin. Uncle
Peter
temperamental old darkey;
a
is
you have to be careful of what you say to him. Every once
hear
work for Mars' Smith or Mars' Flippen, our neigh-
Some Sunday
we He and Daddy
up the cowpath. of machinery and
Daddy
weather.
working for "Well,
bacca
us
grow
I
too.
it
my
in
An'
guess
"I
I
it's
got de
it
his
crops,
as
crop
o'
ain't
I
in
fines'
I
a
bigger than
put plenny
good
my
it's
never see 'bacca o'
in
specs
it
little
in
his
eyes,
The following Monday morning by o'clock Uncle Peter
is
at the barn.
He
five
or
six
helps milk,
and then he eats breakfast before he goes to the field. Daddy gives him his orders for the day, and he will keep at his job, in sight or out of sight, until
the
Mama
rings
the
house then and
eating.
When
he has
dinner waits his
bell.
until
dinner,
He comes
to
we get through and
as soon as he
in
in
his
keep
feet
old
an
It's
twitch
little
old.
tired
his
knees
constitu-
plodding
along.
get a
I
lot
I
amusement out of
of pleasure and
talking to Uncle Peter.
the summer, after dinner
In
go out to the woodpile and turn up a block of
wood
to
sit
on while he
me
tells
about the old
all
times.
"Mars'
Booker he
cabin
little
me
use
Miss Blanche would
to take him home.
over dah
live
t'
He'd
de woods.
in
de creek.
after
I
He
he'd git mean.
drunk.
but I'd
him
I
tell
in
use
t'
him
t'
de haid.
home
an'
put him
Miss Blanche she'd
in
fin'
him an' come
fall
was de only one dat like
dat 'cause
dah know he was
cuss an' rip up things
shut
I
up fo
You had like
de bed.
come
a
drunk an'
min' dat.
didn'
in
git
could han'le him when he got drunk
jus'
Boss."
is.
clod-worn
his
an' knock
Negro chuckle
throat and a devilish twinkle
his
and
like
can
I
behind the barn as
hill
the evening.
who's de boss when he git
"Well," he says, with that
"I
down the
in
that brings out the get-up-and-go tion,
isn't
it.
I
about him,
think
I
walk, but he has a certain
for a while,
place."
tobacco,
Every time
home
futilizer
Uncle Peter?" Daddy asks.
down
he goes
in
'bout dis high an'
It's
'Cose
got
about
all
I
it.
life.
piece
sideline for him.
think
ever had.
I'se
so
him
just a
is
on a
sit
crops.
I
about the crops and the
talk
asks
boss,
see him coming
mornings,
got a fine color on
on
but he always comes
over the back fence,
bors back.
the
What's de matter wid you, suh?" have never seen anyone who walks quite
he leaves us and goes to
while
a
in
it."
Billy.
see him shuffling
and
on
can
this
died.
'long
Peter best as he
when we used horses instead
cultivate
size,
great-grandfather
knock
jus'
I'll
him now hollering at the horses, "Git up dah,
to
By
my
Then
more.
slaves
listen.
used to walk behind the harrow or plow up and
time Uncle Peter had outgrown the waterboy
weren't
tries to
remember Uncle
I'll
Uncle Peter.
slaves
Daddy
Boss.
suh.
any
along
On some hot make him rest
through, he goes back to the field.
folks
now
iSjiJ^
after
t'
dat.
I
tuk a stick
let
him know
I'd
take him
'Bout de nex' week,
me
agin.
You
can't
do nuthin' with dem drinkin' folks, you know, 'cause dey jus' don' pay no 'tention t' you a tall. use t' wuk for Mars' Willie Tom Vaughn. His house was right over dah on dat hill cross de creek from my house. All dem woods dah was in "I
—
den was big fields all cross dah. Mars' Vaughn he raised 'bout twenny acres o' 'bacca. An' we didn have no m'chines t' wuk it with neither.
cultivation
Please turn to page 17
W Oappy
1
by
Young
Or
little
with
yellow
skin,
Negro boy,
take the white child's toy,
While you believe you're
You are too young
ime
MEADE MANN
child
Come
1
to see
kin.
They'll
say you don't belong
The difference of your race.
To
The color of your face
You'll say that
Holds meaning
just
And
me.
for
But as the years pass by. You'll
strive to
make your
Meet problems face And,
oh,
I
how hard
place,
to face
you'll
try.
classes of their kind.
you don't mind
cover tears with song.
wish you luck and joy.
May
your success be sung.
But for the time stay young;
Be happy,
little
boy.
—
—
The Conscience of the South by
MOLLY WORKMAN undoubtedly
true, for the natives
"^"^~S^E of the South today face the serious prob-
Asia. This fact
,^J^
of Africa were essentially a primitive people. The
known
lem
South the
and Negro
concerned,
is
and
material
integration.
as
Insofar
involves
problenn
this
the
as
equalization of the white
social
The Suprenne Court of the United
races.
States has ruled that segregation as practiced
in
the South violates the constitutional rights of the
American Negro.
In
all
American
sider ourselves loyal
must admit
citizens
Supreme Court decision
that the
we who con-
conscience,
the only just
Is
and honest one, both from moral and points.
Furthermore,
violent
reactions
bow
the
to
and
political, social,
at
looking
the of
decision
cultural leaders,
we
wrong
our heads
are forced
of
Negroes
is
"separate
but
policy
equal"
for
facilities
of racial discrimination;
they have warned that the "catastrophe" of integration would result
In
the "mongrelization" of the
But the tragic motive behind these and other
race.
defenses server
general sheer,
is
only too apparent to any unbiased ob-
way
Southern
of the
Southern unalloyed
shakeable belief
of
prejudice.
It
Is
behind
life;
toward
attitude
an
Intrinsic,
inescapable.
trine of segregation
the
—
let us
of
the
and
race
connotes
make no mistake about
culturally superior to the
its It
socially,
average
The pro-segregationalists point out the fact that
Negro
attained
which existed
the in
slaves
brought from Africa had or
cultural
organization
seventeenth-century
Europe and
social
so.
But,
forced to admit
the social and economic domination of
is
race
In
the
which
South
condition by denying the
this
brought
has
Negro
suffi-
cient opportunity to better himself.
of
First
educational
"separate
the
of
we
all,
facilities,
educational
deny
but
facilities
Negro adequate
the
hiding behind the false front doctrine.
equal"
Southern
are certainly separate as far
as the races are concerned, but they are far
from
Great improvements have been made in the past few years to rectify this situation, particuequal.
larly
but a great deal
the metropolitan areas,
In
more remains to be done. If the practice of segregation were to endure in the South, it would be
many
year and cost
a
many
a
dollar before edu-
cational leaders could honestly say that the facili-
were "separate but equal."
ties
Secondly, when the young
graduated from a more or with
Negro
has
left
or
ill-equipped school
education,
second-class
a
less
opportunities
what
vocational
a
profession
are
at
one of the
small,
obscure Negro
he has even more guts and can stomach the discrimination, he might enter one of the white universities or colleges which colleges
the South.
In
If
admit Negroes through reluctant legal necessity. Or and this is more probably the case he will simply forego any further education and try to get
—
—
Let us examine the reasons behind this belief.
not
is
do
sary to buck the financial problem, he might study
Inferior;"
Negro.
the original
observer
condition
their
to
ability
case
this
In
average Southerner believes himself
intellectually,
bettered
Southern doc-
means "separate and
"mongrelization"
destruction, for
the
plain fact, the
In
the
humble con-
open to him? If he has the large amount of ambition and determination neces-
not always
Is
an easy or pleasant thing to face, but is
un-
it
about
is
the natural superiority of the
in
white race. The truth about ourselves
it
the
Integration
not
impartial
the
white
In
not a
have
because they haven't the
the
as segregation
doctrine
Negroes
again,
retain a
still
most Southern Negroes, maintaining that
dition of
the
maintain
to
Furthermore,
capacity.
Intellectual
like
as a race,
segregationalists point to the present
that
South's
American Negroes,
primitive
subsequent
shame that such an out-and-out Is not only countenanced but strongly supported by those same leaders. The opponents of Integration have staunchly defended their actions with a series of justifications. They have maintained that the Southern political
to
advocates of segregation would that the
legal view-
the
is
a job. There probably
open to him nearly
all
—
will
be several opportunities example
janitor or truck driver, for
of which involve menial labor, small re-
P lease
turn to page IS
(W^^ lUo^
od"'
•QV
-^
The Souvenirs HE moon was
the area from the artillery discharge would
began to
moon and cause weird shadows
One had
soldiers.
The
other
hands to
his
face covered with
his
collar
up around
palms
of
He
them.
into
his
several
reached deep Into
his
As he snapped
pen.
"Why you can
his
it
He
un-
and
his
He
under the
clip
her
My
"Grudge?
He gave McGregor
"Maybe you this
like
up for
clear off the it.
Maybe
this,
map
here.
be
I'll
—and
all
Maybe you
playground the Germans have set
little
us." like
fool,
a
killed in
No,
Pat.
didn't
I
the war, and sure
home, but you're not getting
won't
way
tell
where
us
want
I
war over
this
Every
Jerry as
be
some
"Well, they are,"
weight on
kind
of machine that can't
his
said
He
Patterson.
forearm and leaned toward
put
his
com-
his
You can hardthem human. You've seen what happens when their CO. gets killed. The whole outfit goes panion. "They're Hitler's machines. ly
we're
things are going may-
Tommy
he's
if
killed."
her people with
be home with you and
call
to pieces
the key that runs the machine
if
is
lost."
Patterson kicked a clod of dirt free from the
soon.
Has my son learned to handle that new baseball bat you gave him for his birthday? hope that can soon show him myself. I
a cutting glance.
By the
Germany may be blown
But enough of my side of the world. We're moving out of here tomorrow. lieutenant
killed
time we go out on an assignment, you go at each
the whole world could profit by
heading, but the
you
brother
We've
that.
The
Wouldn't kid
don't want to go home.
have any brother
1945
you had a
if
any sooner with your ideas and methods. peaceful
pushed the Germans back again. time you read
maybe
The platoon's moving
McGregor.
Sure,
grudge
little
at Anzio?"
woman
dearest Marge, is
it
Could mean we'll be going home Maybe, after you've been home for you can scrape off some of that grudge
carry a
to get
Everything
at
pocket.
his
into his jacket pocket, he
person?
in
"You're talking 8,
looked in
you carry for the Jerries."
small blonde-haired
March
back
don't you wait about a week, and
tell
awhile,
boy which he knew so well. Balancing the pad on his knees, he began to write.
and
pulled the pic-
clip,
time.
this
jacket together, he
stared at the smiling faces of the young
it
He
out tomorrow.
back
pocket.
inside
pulled out a picture and slipped his
jacket,
his
from under the
was watching him.
and rested
head against the bank.
his
snapped the middle catch on
of
his
blackened sheet.
a
glanced up to see that the once-sleeping soldier
He
times.
into his pocket.
it
carefully
As he dropped the pen
jacket
rubbed the
The soldier pushed
closely against the side of the foxhole
fingers
his
became
once again and then placed
pocket and pulled out a pen and
a small writing tablet.
back of
ture
frequently
pulled
neck and then
his
hands together
his
reached into
the
and shoved
mouth, take a deep breath,
his
and blow slowly
would
soldier
and he once again
before he finished the sen-
But
write.
The soldier slapped the cover over the writing pad
two
helmet,
his
clear to him,
tence, the paper again
to be
sat
muffled snore could be heard coming
slow,
within.
cup
one foxhole
In
BARBARA HECK
few seconds the paper and
a
In
became
writing
blot out the
from
on the paper.
in
awhile the haze and smoke that hung over
cast across the foxholes.
and a
Once
brightly.
shining
by
bankment. too
I
Pellets
em-
of clay rolled into the foxhole.
"Yeah? And maybe they want to get home or at least to what's left of home," retorted
—
McGregor. His pen
up at the
stopped abruptly. The soldier looked
sky.
Thick clouds were floating slowly
front of the moon.
He
waited with
his
"That's a
don't give a
in
pen perched
wouldn't 12
joke."
Patterson sat upright.
damn about home.
have
goose-stepped
If
out
"They
they did, they of
Germany.
THE COLONNADE Serves them right
Germany
f
if
blown sky
is
high."
into the other pocket and pulled out a picture. was a picture of a woman sitting on a lawn bench with her arms around the shoulders of twin
hand It
"Okay,
okay.
sorry
I'm
some sleep
better get
out of here
pushed
against the bank and
"We
face.
to pull
McGregor leaned
morning."
the
in
We
anything.
said
I
we can be ready
so
his
helmet over
his
really got the Jerries sweatin' up there
at the Rhine, don't
blew
The next day was hot and dry. around the heavy boots of the platoon as they up
Patterson
road.
the
McGregor
and
Patterson was
brought up the rear of the group.
McGregor about Tommy's great
telling
when
a baseball player
as
ability
eye caught the reflection
his
of something shiny on the
and
edge
Mac."
"Hey, with
rifle.
his
that
"Isn't
by
friend
his
He pointed German helmet?"
those weeds."
in
a
Patterson jumped over the ditch and landed firmly
the
in
field.
almost forgot that
"I
remember
Tommy
told
I
the
the
The German was helmetless,
many times
that
playground with
Patterson
Tommy came hair
his
almost
brown from the dust and dirt. He thought that behind the closed lids were eyes of blue like Tommy's. Patterson could not see any sign of the
—
the dead soldier's clothes: nor remember ever looking so intently at a German soldier before. He opened his fist and
German emblem on could he
looked at the cross.
of the road.
caught
Patterson
"Look over
soldier.
blonde hair was thick with dust.
his
could
his
the arm.
looked from the picture to the face of
German
home from
we?" Dust
ambled
He
girls.
the
other
hand.
happen now?
He
Why,
This
looked at the picture
he thought,
soldier
why did
would soon be going
home.
He
picked up the jacket from the ground and
once very quickly. The dust blew in and he blinked several times. He then the jacket over the soldier's face and chest. shook
it
eyes,
bring him back a souvenir."
I'd
"Get back
here,
Pat.
This
is
no time to go
souvenir hunting."
Pat,"
called
now.
Wait
one of till
you're
town with
in
women and
'ze
"
ze
wine.'
Patterson paid no attention to their jokes and
Wiith the barrel of
laughter.
his
rifle
he pushed
He stopped suddenly. His rifle had He jumped back and stared
back weeds.
stuck something solid. into the weeds.
A
on the ground.
Next to
startled him
—the
Hitler's
little
like
much
of a
dust covered packet was spread
body
he could see what had
it
of a
German
hurry to even
pick
Just
soldier. In
too
up the dead.
He
men, Patterson thought.
smiled to himself.
No
What's the use?
sense
in
burying a machine.
He ing
stooped next to the body and began pokfingers
his
soldier's
pockets
the
inside
His fingers touched
shirt.
of a
the
dead
cold
metal
object.
"Hey, Pat," yelled McGregor, "get "Yeah,
coming,"
I'm
shouted
pulled the object from the pocket. cross.
He
at
It
his
it.
laid
it in
the palm of
glittered brilliantly
fingers over
looked again at the objects the
men turned around. "Hey, the men, "don't go AWOL
Several of the other
it
in
a
fist.
in
his
a
move
on."
He
Patterson. It
was
a
gold
hand and stared
the sun.
He
closed
Patterson slipped
his
in
this
cross
in his
and picture over the
— not
stood up very straight
hands. jacket.
taking
his
He
his
laid
He
placed
Patterson
eyes from
body. He glanced up at the platoon. They were rounding the second bend in the road. He jumped to his feet and began to run toward them.
the
Soon he would be going home, away from cruel
war
—
cruel for both sides.
this
C oorner
t^he C ritics CSji
N Tuesday
evening, October 25, Dr. Walter
Hartley presented a piano recital
!
Hall.
For this
in
came from
S.
Jarman
faculty recital of the year
first
in
free contrapuntal style J. S. Bach's "Praeludium
in
Dr.
The listener found it most compare this with the two classical
melodies.
which followed: "Sonata
Bach and "Sonata
in
G
in
K.
next;
and
followed by an "Impromptu
beauty and
Dr. Hartley has a rare gift in
as
was shown
in
his
in
its
whole
que of camp
His
aware of
his
sonata,
is
typical
so
ludes"
familiar with the
by Chopin, which
close his program.
its
was noted by
his
its
comic
all
long
went
well,
all
too
Fortunately, the
glazed-over western.
a
its
As
battles.
was number three on
Films Series,
this
and we admit that we
charm,
more to equal subtle and was indeed highly received by
"Pre-
those
humor,
broad
its
satire.
It
who appreciate
and
its
the tongue-in-cheek.
James Parker
0N
beauty of expression
February
the Long wood College Music
14,
Department presented James Carson, organ-
all.
Dr. Hartley chose as an tiful
six
His accuracy of note and nim-
bleness of finger, as well as
burles-
swashbuckling swordplay,
its
Hartley selected to
Dr.
of the
its
chased the horses we were
it
Better
brittle is
life,
drills,
wish there were going to be three
of
Bartok.
Every music lover
Neverthe-
the military,
satirizing
antic military
its
"Fanfan the Tulip" year's
These short selections as
a
as
retrieve the humor.
by Bela Bartok, a Hungarian composer century. These included "With Drums and Pipes," "Barcarolla," "Musettes," "Night
selections
were amazingly descriptive,
posing
bravado of the actors and the action contrasted
of the twentieth
Sounds," and "The Chase."
who,
marriage to the king's
with the improbability of the plot was sufficient to
played five
Hartley
Dr.
XIV's
recruiting sergeant's
camera followed the buffoons,
as the
but when
Following
shotgun
Louis
kings; the strength
raucous innuendoes, and
in
style,
listener.
his
were those
bits
film lay in
the sonata has no particular program, leaving the
meaning to the discernment of the art of self-expression was impressive.
a
Lollobrigida,
predicts
and the pomp of
war,
style,
"Sonata
latest composition,
So completely twentieth century
A."
and acted
was
set
A," also by Schubert.
in
a
much
the most delightful and most aptly constructed
less,
gay dance
light,
this
Majesty,
Royal
of the farce involves his rising fortunes.
Eight Viennese Waltzes by Franz Schubert were
played
gave
Fanfan naively believes her and the rest
daughter.
The
two Bachs are sons of the former.
latter
Gina
daughter,
E.
P.
to escape a
Phillipe,
His
enters
fortune-teller,
selections
C. Bach.
J.
song and the co-
a great deal out of
He happens upon
service.
interesting
Minor" by by
B flat"
Gerard
Fanfan,
wedding,
G," bringing out the beauty of the contrasting tc
s
Christian-Jaque,
nonsense.
Hartley played
with the Bach,
example of making
fine
Hartley chose selections from Bach to Bartok.
Opening
French children
a
adoptors and directors,
encore
"Ecossaises" by Schubert.
ist,
of the beau-
six
his program with Buxtehude's and Chaconne." This was followed chorale, "Savior of the Heathen, Come" by
by
a
Bach, and
De
a faculty recital.
Prelude, Fugue,
program reflected good taste and diligence on the part of Dr. Hartley, and was well received by the audience.
in
Mr. Carson began
This well-balanced
Dav
by Hanff.
'A Safe Stronghold
The
latter
"•=^ANFAN THE
TULIP"
saw on January
18,
movie swashbuckler that we 1956.
The
title
contrast
to
the
Mendelssohn's organ
French costume western and farcial lampoon of the typical
Our God." These two
sharp
was that enjoyable
"Sonata No.
2,
C
14
chorales
opening
literature,
Minor."
the organ threatened
of the film
"
Is
Still
"A Mighty Fortress
the familiar Lutheran chorale, is
Our God
based on the same tune as
is
served
selection.
as
a
From
Mr. Carson chose
Faulty
during the
mechanism
first
in
movement.
"
THE COLONNADE but the organist overcame not lose E
I,
his
it
audience for an
so quickly that he did instant.
"Chorale No.
Major" by Franck connpleted the
first
only Mr. Mdccherini gave o consistent portrayal of the character portrayed.
On
half of
the program.
whole
recital
It
was a
Trovatore
II
regrettable that
is
second-rate
was necessary
it
poor substitute for the better
present such a
to
The remainder of the
consisted mainly
opera, Aida.
more modern compositions: "Chorale
of
the
presentation.
Prelude
Joann
on Rhosymedre" by Vaughan-Williams, "Requiescat
Fivei
L.
Pace" by Sowerby, and "Poeme Mystique" on
in
hymn tune "Manna" by
the
These three
Purvis.
were especially enjoyable. Although modern, they
0N
March
Symphony Orchestra,
the National
6,
very definitely leaned toward romanticism and Mr.
under the direction of Howard Mitchell, was
Carson could not have chosen any registration that
presented in Jarman Hall. The opening number was the prize-winning "Concert Overture" by our own Dr. Walter S. Hartley. This compo-
would have been more suitable, throughout the entire
should
recital
registration
hlis
be
certainly
commended, but in these three it was outstanding. "March" on a theme of Handel by the Frenchman,
written
adagio and Sonata allegro form.
should have
As encores Mr. Carson played "On Liebster Jesu" by Richard Purvis and "March Triomphale
in
Overture
the
nately,
Guilmant, concluded the program.
the
Better
sented the third film of
The movie
Films
Series
this session
pre-
Trova-
II
based on the opera of
is
Giuseppe Verdi and his librettist, Salvatore Cammarano. The story of Trovatore concerns the two sons of the Spanish Count of Luna and their II
rivalry for the
plot which
is
ridiculous than
affection of the beautiful
lacking
even more complicated and more
be the music. in
good
Pederzini, as
Leonora,
the average opera.
The strong point of any should
film
based on an opera
was sadly
production
This
performances.
musical
Azucena looked
far too
Gianna
young for the
FHer tone
and
Manrico, Gino Simm-
harsh.
In
the
role
of
was choppy
berghi
looked the part of a young lover, and
acting
was
fairly
good.
larly
evident
in
His singing
could
his
have
phrases.
A
Whereas the theme
pearances, final
its
within them. In several places the tone production was most beautiful. The crowning touch
performance was
his
acting.
its
broken
Of
the four.
subsequent apand pathetic strain in the first
measures was tossed away.
Unconsciously
audience
the
More than once
chords lacked interest.
final
responded
to
this
weakness by showing signs of weariness where
would have been overwhelmed
if
it
the performance
had been nearer perfection.
On
the whole the
first half of the program fared The Three Dances from "Bartered Bride" by Smetna were performed with verve and wit.
better.
In
Moussorgsky's
years ago.
stayed
was particu-
funeral march.
and
overplayed on
He seemed
of his voice and
This
movement
was
ably since their
limits
inter-
dramatic sense for the movement as a
Mr. Mascherini was the best of the four singers.
know the
the
the concert overture,
like
whole was obviously lacking.
orchestra was at
to
it
Unlike a persistent, strictly measured march, the rhythm wavered with unwarranted retards between
been quite beautiful had he not forced the upper range of his voice. The other two singers, Enzo Mascherini and Vittorina Pederzini, fared better.
his
followed
Flat,"
the second
during the program the
part and sang very poorly.
of
E
3,
symphony,
This
suffered from a too-slow tempo.
tore.
than
The heaviest composition, Beethoven's
tional order.
mission.
15
slower
been, thereby distorting the original
"Symphony No.
February
Unfortu-
The program was planned out of the convenJoyce Clingenpeel
a
was played
the
follows
conception somewhat.
by Sigfrid Karg-Elert.
0N
modern idiom
the
sition,
classic
Prelude its
to
"Khovantchina"
the
The orchestral coloring
best.
painted vivid tonal images suggestive of daybreak.
The National Symphony has improved consider-
We
last
appearance
shall look
in
Jarman
Hall
return with hopes that they might
be better Virginia
Please turn
two
forward to their promised
to
page 16
yet.
Cowles
THE COLONNADE
ON
March 8, 9, and 10, fhe Longwood Players performed "Blood Wedding" by the great
but
they
modern Spanish poet and playwright, Federico Garcia-Lorca. This
play, written in
and
its
modern Spain. The Longwood Players' version was very well interpreted. With a background of music by Dr. Walter S. Hartley and a symbolic
stage
the
setting,
mood was
I
like
The man spoke I
know what's
niggers
to their fate.
that's
stirred
up,
Why
Jim.
can't
I
play with
ma and
and we say you gotta' keep place. That boy'll be gittin' too
their
in
"Martha, your
quickly,
best,
high and mighty afore long."
Martha
sat quiet, but her parents
saw the look
on her face. They looked at each other, and the
woman nodded "Baby,
her head sadly.
We
to me.
listen
with him again, ever.
well integrated with the action,
don't want you playing
Do you hear me?"
Martha looked at her father.
brought out the subtle rhythms of poetic set,
Dad,
"But,
,
The
trouble
the
all
him?"
first
As the three girls, Pat Leake, Cat Osmond and Lynne Higginbotham were promising newcomers to the Longwood stage. Donna Boone, playing the servant woman added comic relief. it
mother said quick-
think," her
folks'll
with
you can't be too careful with niggers anyhow."
Both were well cast and played with deep feeling.
and
at
think you oughta' stop playing with
what
"It's
Patsy Abernathy Rice and Fred Staples played the
sections.
first
nigger."
little
"What
ly.
speaking role as Leonardo's wife very sensitively.
The music was
we
"Baby,
As the mother, Anne Brooking gave one of her widow whose only hope lay in her one remaining son, who is soon to be married, James Parker, the bridegroom, also acted
who were bound
and looked
a chair
in
father spoke.
best interpretations, as a
bride and Leonardo,
to you.
talk
Martha sat down
sustained
Clee Koons played her
"
want to
I
that
understanding.
Street.
her mother, then at her father. After a while, her
throughout.
with
down Beech
blocks
said,
in
is
for
Then one night after supper, Martha's mother "Martha, before you go upstairs, your dad
1934, was
the second of Lorca's last three tragedies, and setting
walked
Jim's boat was almost finished.
"Why, Dad?" she asked again.
which consisted of three movable
units of geometric shapes and a warm orange color, gave an effect of hard masses and heat. The lighting, which was also effective, focused gradually on
"He's a nigger, that's why!" The man stood up and walked out the back door. The discussion was over.
the scenes. All the leading characters wore black,
Martha walked slowly upstairs. The little, low room was hot. She pushed the window up as high as It would go and stood looking down on Beech
and other costumes were raphy by
Patti Parker
in
soft colors.
Choreog-
deserves special mention.
Judy
She
turned
down the street away from the
Then she heard Jim's
whistle.
She stood quite
She could see the
Street.
Billett
playing
THAT'S THE
WAY
cursed
at
his
father.
But that
"Martha, did you have a nice day at school?
Mom.
"I'm
her
mother.
sorry,
way
did
it
not whistle
any more, and
Jim,"
a
The big tears
chair.
whispered,
she
"but that's
is."
She picked up
'
her thoughts.
"
After they finished dishes for
He
Jim whistled again.
Martha knew he had gone. the
Her mother's voice interrupted
the middle of the room.
She waited.
was nothing.
men.
"Yes,
in
still
Many women and men on Beech Street drank too much, and the women cursed and threw things at their
kids
window. IT IS
Continued from page 3 she
hop-scotch.
book and
down
rolled
down
in
the
her cheeks,
un-
sat
heeded. eating,
Jim walked down Beech
Martha dried the
and
Then she took her books
room and did her lessons. The days went by, and it was almost time for school to close for summer vacation. Martha saw Jim almost every day. They never talked much,
turned
down
Elm.
Street, across a block,
The
paper
boy on
the
corner was shouting, "Extra! Extra! Governor says
upstairs to her
there'll
be no integration
in
South Carolina!
Get
your evening paper here!"
Jim 16
stopped
and
stood
still
on
the
street.
THE COLONNADE Then, with a quick jerk of
completed wooden boat hands deep into
his
down the
He was coming down
Martha
school,
the street toward
The above explanation as
and black seems to be the most plausible. The test scores from the schools of Washington, D. C, and from the schools of the state of Virginia would tend to bear out the conclusion reached by Mr.
he
Hrdlicka as to intellectual differences.
ference does actually
one of degree only;
MENTAL INFERIORITY
.
.FACT
.
OR FANCY?
Continued from page 5 hi. G. Duncan, his environment, Race and Population Problems, goes a step
any other phase of his
farther, as he believes that race itself a
appears to be
differences
are
Duncan,
difference.
a
direct
however,
result
does not associate
mental differences with physical differences.
mains for Ales Hrdlicka, writing on in
Human
all
climatic
of
Human Races
Biology and Racial Welfare, to present
Mr. Hrdlicka has
that point of view.
this to
say:
"Races that have been subjected for a long time in
past to malarial
their
or other infections and
must have acquired more or
survive,
against these infections which races
—and
such
less
lacking
is
has found
Medicine
advantage, but
vital
this
other
in
be the
to
Such races have therefore gained
case.
immunity
certain
a
It
all
blood infections.
chronic
a
in
malarial
mental
invigorating
region,
But
it
his
Negro seem
actual
habit of cannibalism.
change the mental
ually
either
lectually.
He
process,
ability of the
Negro can-
even though the
Supreme Court of the
States
United
might
made exist
It
UNCLE PETER Continued from, page 7
We
not be
manager.
ability in the
*in
a
his
Negro super-
bodily enslavement,
Mr. Hrdlicka all
inevitable
is
and
of the
that
no equality
between the black and the
physically,
so
decree.
did
It
all
team
with de
"Mars' Vaughn use'
t'
an'
de hoe.
I
was de
say ev'ry mawnin', 'Well,
Peter,
you take those boys out there and chop the
grass
from
under that tobacco.
I'm
going
Into
town today.' trus' me 'cause he know do what say. He could depen' on me 'cause goin' wuk 'long steady on de job, and when
goln' I
physiologically,
cites the cultural
or
Intel-
evidence to sustain
such an assumption, while admitting that no direct
I
I
I
come out de
field,
won't goin' be no grass under
dat 'bacca."
"Yas,
white,
would also
It
not be accomplished overnight,
"Yes,
possibly
desire to ad-
within a favorable environment, that might event-
under which the Negro has existed for untold cencould
else,
within; the
slow evolutionary
that this
logical
these conditions
have
all
higher intellectual plane.
a
rehabilita-
this
come from
above
himself must,
vance to
progress.
Intellectual
must be emphasized that
"You see, he could
opinion that the total results of
turies,
eventually
of mental vigor must
tion
applied
of Africa, has been further restricted by his
his
an
himself
will
main deterrent to
belated."
ideas,
might
so
ambition and an overcome the apparent mental torpidity that now seems to be his
could
and the other
The development of mental stitious
climate,
develop within
will
may be It
wholesome region, could progress equally and retain the same standards. The affected group would
become
social
more
expected therefore that two human groups, one living
and
political
only at the cost of pro-
breeds few talents; and the same to
Ameri-
that, as the
awareness be sharpened to such an extent that he
an old truism that a malarial region
is
dif-
into a
longed suffering which was adverse to intellectual advance.
may be
It
this
If
must be regarded as
it
bondage, as he slowly migrates northward
re-
It
exist,
can Negro slowly emerges from
Inner drive that
consequence of climatic inluences and that
racial
possible cause of
a
passed.
as
she didn't look back.
in
on which to base
available
is
She walked on uptown, and
up or speak
look
didn't
hie
evidence
opinion.
his
the apparent intellectual difference between white
The next day on her way to
Neither did Martha.
scientific
pockets, he walked
street with bent head.
saw Jim. her.
Pushing
the street.
into
pants'
his
he threw the
wrist,
his
I
my
raise
sir.
I
know
ma'am.
that's
Dat's
right."
right.
crops at home, too.
An'
and harra my cawn and 'bacca. I
had "I
par o' steers remember one
a
I
all
I'd git
use' 'stead
day up
wuk with
I
time,
'fo
day
steers.
of a hoss."
pair of steers
Please turn to page IS
you had, Uncle
THE COLONNADE Peter.
was small then, and seemed to pull a plow
I
funny
It
"Ha,
ha.
big ones.
so,
time.
seen
'em 'em
bring
I'd
before
growed some
my patch
big as dat
but
steal 'em,
down dah
'em.
I'd
out 'bout dat, you know.
I'd fin'
dey come agin
till
back no mo' 'cause I
I'd
had done skere em
I
em
might shoot didn' put
"I
den
bang
I'd
suprise
so.
Negroes, as
Dey
South
I
do.
I
was raised up
t'
wuk, an'
ol'
fella
De Lawd
ain't
goin'
t'
wants you right den. Ain't no foolin' 'round it.
I
done
de Lawd Dat's
try
t'
ready for
gits
de way
Daddy
live right,
abroad
bout
substantial
"Dinner's ready.
to
"Yas, suh. Boss."
is
THE CONSCIENCE OF THE SOUTH
the
is
told that he
must
sit in
restrictions permit,
and that he may not patronize
live
blind
Best of Food
injustice
moral,
being and
United States' prestige
prejudice,
enemy
hearts and
Our
conscience,
all,
we must
realize
based on nothing more
and
hypocrisy,
Then and only then can we begin intolerance
of
on
its
home
minds of the people of
only protection
against ourselves
and the conscience of the South
and awakened by the
stirred
is
fault
is
its
able to arrive at a to the
an Injustice.
When
realization this
is
ac-
own, not that of the Supreme
just,
problem of integration.
Newberry Store" J.
KLEANWELL CLEANERS
J.
NEWBERRY
CO.
CEDARBROOK
Opposite Post Office
Try Jake's Steaks
Agent
18
will
be
moral, and logical solution
"Compliments of your
Best of Service
CHARLOTTE FUDGE,
is
Court of the United States, perhaps we
GOOD EATS
—
is
the
and the
only where the zoning
white restaurants, motion picture houses, and other
0'
the
complished, when the South admits that the wrong
the back
may
HOUSE
than
that segregation
employment problem, the
of the bus, that he
a
is
in
people
They must develop a
Most of
the
in
must be
Continued from page 9
muneration, and practically no chance to advance.
Southern Negro
realize that the
—
the South.
to
its
twentieth-century America.
fight
field
addition
in
our internal dissension.
Uncle Peter."
In
and
South
being harmed by the South's defiance of
is
personal bigotry.
from the house.
But the fact that
life.
injustice.
that racial discrimination
'tis."
calls
many
are naturally
of our
be ready for him.
I'll
who
Supreme Court decision and that the enemies way of life are eagerly taking advantage of
the
you know, so dat when
me
in
shame that such an
They must
Lawd wants you t' do. But goin' t' wuk much longer now. call soon an' when He calls He
legal
been tolerated
has
believe dat's what de
de
and
sense of
I
t'
whites,
undeniable. The
is
social,
I
de right thing
many
must face the fact that segregation
I
I
perhaps,
has,
Undeniably, there are
such flagrant racial discrimination does exist
I
can
or white,
brick wall forever.
a
to better their condition
much wuk you know an' jus' didn' have time to bother with 'em. De ol' boy gittin' ol' won't be round much now and it's hard on him. kin. longer, but likes t' do what Dese young don' believe dat's ones dey don' like t' wuk, but Dey's so
well as
good-for-
"shiftless,
black
and good-for-nothing and have no desire
shiftless
or sumpin'.
no wattermalon patch dis year.
in
a I,
The problem as presented here been over-simplified.
accom-
and thereby earns the
Nc
head against
his
average
or no effort to
little
being
of
nigger
sthln g
An' dey wouldn't come
what was good for 'em. think
an'
reputation
racial
'em to git out dah fo dey knowed
tell
any wonder that the
it
is
near-impossible
the
plish
de house by de wag'n slip in dah an'
t'
him,
Southern Negro makes
Sometimes de boys would
loads.
With
colored.
Is
almost insurmountable barrier of discrimination
this
raised a lot o'
I've
really
I've in
establishments simply because he
"
chile?
my
in
I've
tub dah.
set
dat
Is
wattermalons
remember how
I
with steers.
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