Rabbi Doubts Whites For Racial Equality America today s tan d s frozen and immobilized and as she stands at the crossroads, more and more blacks have abandoned the dream of integration. This is the belief of Rabbi Emanuel Rose of Congregation Temple Beth Israel. Rabbi Rose was speaker at the B'nai B'rith Brotherhood Award Banquet. Mayor Terry D. Schrunk was recipient of the 1968 award. Rabbi Rose said blacks "have concluded that we whites do not want, and never will want, real racial integration." "In my estimation, the only way we can really solve our urban crisis is by a massive re-ordering of A m e r i c a n priorities, by spelling out deadlines for total elimination of the slums, and by pledging the billions and billions of dollars needed for an American domestic Marshall Plan," stressed the rabbi. "We must examine radical income maintenance proposals, such as family allowances, negative income tax, guaranteed annual income and other such proposals which are common in Canada and all other industrialized nations of the world. "But, to expect such daring action from our sullen, war-sick, distracted and demoralized federal government is perhaps to expect revolution to burst full-blown from the brows of Everett Dirksen and James Eastland. Rabbi Rose asked: "ls genuine racial equality achievable in American society? Or must we face the dread fact that we are really a racist society? Which really reflects the character of America, the Supreme Court, or the racial backlash now sweeping the land?" That milestone legislation has been passed in the field of civil rights was acknowledged by Rabbi Rose, but he noted the actual situation of the Black man had not improved. "Relative to the rest of America, it has declined," he observed. "Negro unemployment is a crisis equivalent to the deepest days of the depression. Negroes are being automated out of American society faster than they can be integrated in. "And, yet, the inhuman conditions under which Negroes live in the American ghetto, including Portland, are invisible to us. They live in another America. In their frustration and 'rage, they are driven to communicate with us via slogans of Black Power, wild threats and the certainty of riots. ''When will we finally learn that it is more morally justifiable to break out of oppression than to afflict it?" Warned Rabbi Rose: "If white intransigence and resistance to racial ingegration continues to weaken and destroy such moderate leaders as Martin Luther King and Roy Wilkins, if Negro despair continues to deepen and to produce such demagogues as Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael and Leroi Jones, reinforcing insurrection and alienation, if the Congress continues to preoccupy itself with the symptoms, and ignores the basic cancers of our urban life, if our lily-white suburbs continue to tighten the rope around our black inner cities, then our cities are doomed to destruction, and we, as a nation, are headed toward a genteel manifestation of racial apartheid. "Only a few years ago, I would have rejected such words as irrational, but I cannot today." GET READY for SPRING! 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Later he went Mrs. Preston Daniels, lndi- There are some 75 of them to the University of Washanapolis, Ind., she has been and there are never enough ington and got a master's a clerk-stenographer at the to take care of children degree in social work. Six Mrs. Don McPherson Albina Neighborhood Service Center for two years. The bridegroom, an appliance repair technician, formerly lived in San Diego, Calif. He is manager of a Portland co-op appliance company. The couple will live in Portland. League Works For Consumer Oregon has a state-wide Consumer League whose purpose is to protect the consumer. A Consumer Education Workshop is one of the activities at the Albina Neighborhood Service Center and it will supply speakers for various organizations and church groups. They will talk on the legal rights of the consumer, the advantages and disadvantages of credit, used car purchasing, shopping for food and other problems that confront the consumer. A call to the center, 2872603, will bring additional in.. formation. The Oregon Consumers' League arranged for introduction of bills in the last session of the Oregon Legislature. It also has endorsed a truth .. in-interest bill in Congress that has passed the House. ( ·nder it the people would know exactly what interest they pay when they huy on time and it would give legitimate ctealers protection from unscrupulous competitors. :Vlinnie Harris of the l\eigh . borhood Ser-vice Center said organizations and clubs in Albina were invited to join the league and strengthen it in its work of protecting con - sumers. An individual may join for $1 a year. The fee for organizations is $ iO a year. Membership a pp Ii cat ions should be sent to the f- r iendly House, Inc., 2617 i~. W. Savier St., Portland 97210. BUSINESS GUIDANCE SET Persons interested in starting a new business will get guidance from a new television series on Oregon's educa - tional stations, KOAP, Channel 10, Portland. and KOAC, Channel 7, Corvallis. The first of ten half-hour programs will be shown Thursday, March 7, at 6 p.m. The series then will he repeated in the afternoons starting at 2:15 p.m. Friday, March 22. The story plan of the series is that of a young man who seeks advice and guidance f,om businessmen and educa. tors in his community about the problems of management. needing temporary homes. months ago he started wo_rkFinding them, Johnson ing for the Boys and Girls says, "is no special prob- Aid Society, seeking foster lem. It's just work.'' homes. The principal effort goes "The greatest hazard a into finding homes for racial- Gilbert L. Johnson foster family has to face," Iy mixed children. "Hardly he says ''is that some day anybody shows up to take find a home in a week or io they have to turn them those children," he says. days. Last week we found loose." ''A healthy white child will a home for a child with a The happy result, he says, minority background and he is that the foster parents Ira Munford Named Boxing Announcer was a year old.'' often adopt the child. Johnson is a retired Air Johnson, a widower, has Ira Mumford has been aPpointed by Vic Harris, president of the Three Star Sports Attractions, to be ring announcer for boxing matches in Portland. Mumford was announcer for the matches held here Feb. 19. Force veteran. He got his seven children - a married bachelor's degree from the daughter, a son in the MaUniversity of Omaha in 1959 rine Corps in Khe San and while stationed there with five at home. 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