LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Football "Firsts"
TO THE EDITOR:
I am wondering if the appearance of the Princeton football team in Hanover next fall will be the first time Dartmouth has thus met the Tigers in Hanover. While thinking along that line, I jumped forward to 1969 and wished that a first time for the Yale team in Hanover might be planned for our 200th anniversary year. My reason for this is simply the fact that Dartmouth was founded by a Yale graduate, and the interest aroused would be tremendous.
Probably a much wiser head than mine has already made a decision on this matter, but I didn't see any harm in submitting a suggestion for reflection.
And what about an anniversary postage stamp? Is it too early to be making some plans for a vertical stamp of Baker Library or a horizontal stamp of Dartmouth Hall or Hopkins Center? We might as well reap all the benefits we can from our anniversary year, for after raising seventeen million for plant development, we ought to follow up our advantage in every possible avenue of approach.
Pomona, Calif.
The appearance of the Princeton footballteam in Hanover next fall will be its firstvisit here. The very first Dartmouth-Yalegame was played in Hanover in 1884 (score:Yale 113, Dartmouth 0) but no game in theseries has since been played in Hanover, althoughother games did take place in Spring,field, Mass., and Newton Center, Mass.
To Governor Wallace
TO THE EDITOR:
The following letter was mailed to Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama on December 10. I will appreciate your printing it in your "Letters" column.
DEAR GOVERNOR WALLACE:
Your remarks at a recent appearance in Hanover, New Hampshire, have come to the attention of some of us who are deeply concerned about the crisis currently facing American democracy. I would agree that the demand for racial integration creates a situation facing all of us — North and South, of all religious faiths — who have the privilege of being Americans. Not only does this crisis confront all of us, but it can only be solved by the mutual efforts of all dedicated Americans working patiently and humbly to untangle the conflicts and confusion arising from an unhappy side of our heritage.
You have stated your opinion that the chief difference between the problem in the North and the South is that the South is open and forthright in expressing its segregationist sentiment, whereas the North is devious and hypocritical in repressing similar sentiments.
It so happens that the grandfather for whom I am named, John Willcox Brown, was an officer on General Robert E. Lee's staff and my other grandfather also served in the Confederate Army. I was born and raised just south of the Mason-Dixon Line and as a forester I have studied, worked, and lived in many parts of the United States. This experience leads me to a limited agreement with your sweeping generalization.
However, in your statement, you ignored the fact that some Southern leaders, such as Ralph McGill of The Atlanta Constitution and the Reverend Martin Luther King, who have national reputations and a nation-wide audience, are also forthright in expressing views of the solution of the racial crisis that are diametrically opposed to your own.
In my opinion, your accusation of hypocrisy, against every non-Negro resident outside the South who favors integration, also is an unacceptable and insupportable claim.
The North has no monopoly on hypocrisy as long as Southerners like yourself, who claim to be both Christian and democratic, refuse to accept the fact that Negroes are fellow members of the human race, deserving, like the rest of us, to be treated as unique creatures of the Lord God Almighty.
Dumbarton, N. H.
