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WUll&m,;, Portland, ~ 'TlTIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIJllITIIIUIIIJIJIIIIIIITtlllll 1n1111111111u1n111111u11m1u111m1•n11m1111111111111n1111111111n1n11r11111111um1111ru111111111t Editorial Round-Up From The Negi·o Press IUI ITII 111 '1111111 wmrnmm ni-mtmnmumrr 11ur1mtr111rmnr111m111m111 1 Los Angeles Sentinel Poverty War Now that the "war on poverty" oil! has been passed and into Jaw, it is gratifying to know a large portion of the proposed ~947 million projed is designed to boost the living standards and earning potential of the millions of minority citizens who are_ included in "the forgotten fifth'' of our nation's population. President Johnson, in proudly signing the new legislation, promised that it will offer "opportunity and not an opiate" and also "help our people find their footing for a long climb toward a better way of life." Embraced in tne goals of t.lie measure are these goals: helping unemployed youths, jobless fathers, blighted and "deprived" communities and the poor masses in rural areas. It also will provide training for idle young people and training and retraining for adults whose former jobs have been swept away in the rising tide of automation, in addition to helping school dropouts return to classes and aiding college youths. Philadelphia Tribune Poverty Program Starts Wrong The United States Congress gone in its approach to the auhas made available millions of thorities in Washington is dollars for the much-publicized known only to members of the Anti-Poverty Campaign. It is ''Task Force." There is a pronow the duty of community gram coordinator and an execueaders to take whatever steps tive directQr of the program, are necessary to secure an aJlo- both po?i.tical o!ficeholders. ~ - -, ,.._ _..,,n o{ funds to be used in What kin'1 o{ program. i.c ho-- keeping v.itn the law providing ing coordinated and will be dithe funds. rected is still a secret. In Philadelphia the program As we see it, the Anti-Poveris being given considerable ty Campaign in Philadelphia is overtones of politics. Printed getting oU to a bad start. Povliterature carries at the top this erty knows no politics. The label, "Mayor's Anti-Poverty Anti-Poverty Program should Program." A group labeled the include on the ground floor "Mayor's Task Force," headed representatives of the communiby the Mayor, would seem to be ty, in addition to office holders. the group that will direct the It is believed that a commitlocal program. tee will try to set up a meeting On this :•Task Force" are with Mayor Tate in an effort to nine members of the Mayor's find out how far his "Task Cabinet, all Democrats, plus the Force" has gone, what kind of Mayor, and three others - the program is heing formulated, president of the PCCA, the Dio- and to suggest that the procesan Superintendent of gram be directed by a group Schools, and the Superintendent more completely representative of Public Schools. of the community than the How far the "Task Force" has present "Task Force." New York Courier More Negro Businesses The Small Business Ad.minis-- which could prove useful in tration and some private white planning !or the future, which groups have Jaunched a cam- should be the first aim of any paign to aid in the establishment organized Negro group. of more Negro-owned busi- Our biggest business today, as nesses. for a Jong time in the past, are Such a campaign is long over- the insurance companies, then dlle, but it is hard to under- the banks and savings and loan stand why the Negro communi- ~:~:~llowed by the rely, itself. cannot do this without government or philanthropic aid; and not only conline efiorts to Negro neighborhoods. There·have been Negro-owned businesses in this country for well over 150 years, and they took a great spurt alter the Civil War and continued with declining influence until the Depression. For many years, there were Negro Business League offices and Chambers of Commerce in most large Negro communities, and since World War II there has been a great opportunity for more. Unfortunately, there are few collected facts and statistics It would be a great stimulus to economic activity of this sort, if there were more organization, instruction and planning internally &0 that a greater proportion of the business done in our communities would be under our control. Beyond that, there should be some planning to enable more Negro bu.slne$Se5 to operate in the general market, catering to all people and meeting the C()mpetition of others. It is distressing to notice that another summer has passed in which little, jf anything, has been said, in our numerous conventions, about this basic consideration. YOUR NEW DEFENDER DEFENDER Guest Editorial ym; OREGON JOURNAL Regrettable Vote In California Californians almost surely will come to regret the vote Jast Tuesda~• by which thcv adopted a constitutional amendmctlt canceling the state's fair housing laws. Citizens of other states may regret it. too, for it has been widely predi<:ted that the success of the measure m California would lead to efforts to wipe out laws in other states prohibiting discrimination on racial or religious grounds in the sale or rental of propcrtv. On its surface the California propcsition might sound reasonable enough. It seems to say that the state has no right to tell a property owner wh!lt he shall do with his property. The hidden evil is that it writes into the state constitution an implied endorsement or the "right" to discriminate against minorities. There can be no doubt that the chief purpose of the amendment is to limit the ability of Negroes and others of California's minority groups such as Japanese-Americans and Mexican-Americans to move into previously all-white neighborhoods. There are moral and legal arguments whv this is wrong. The California SuprCme Court already has said it has "grave doubts" that the measure is valid under the United States Consl1tution's guarantee of U1e_ E:(IUal protection of the Jaw for all cthzens. There is an imJX)11ant practical argument against it, too. Penning Negroes in a ghetto helps produce the very qualities - "shi!tlcssness," "disho,lcsty," "violence'' - which the advocates of segregation say they fear. The widely praised report o_r the Committee on Race and Educatior:i o{ the Portland School Board recogmzes this. It points out that as Oregon's experience shows, fair housing laws do not result in a sudden flood of Negroes into new neighborhoods. But ':'-s ~me_ or the ways of promoting the assmulation of Negroes into society on equal tc>rms, the committee C'alls for active efforts b,· private agencies, in cooperat\on ";ith an appropriate public agen~y !tke the Portland Development Comrruss1on. to help Negroes who want them to find homes outside of the Albina ghetto heTh~ aim Is a peaceful and just s~iety. The approach represented by Oregon's fair housing law and the reco_mmendations of the Race and Education Committee are a Car more hopeful way of achieving it than the step which California's voters have just taken. trl..A.aoea:I .......... bt_ A, S. MlLAI A NEGRO OF REUNION, AN ISLAND OF EAST AFR!· CA, WAS THE GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER OF THE 1860'5. HE IS ESPECIALLY NOTED FOR HIS WORK ON THE"VANILLA PLANT, WHICH SO INCREASED ITS PRODUCTION THAT IT BROUGHT MUCH WeALTH TO THE ISLAND. ~GYPTIAN DEITY OF 1200 8.C. SUPPOSED 10 REPRESENT PTAH!FATHER OF 11-lE GODS, ™E GREAT, 11-lE MIGHTY, lllE SOURCE AND HEAD OF AU. "THE GDDS~ lllE OLDEST DEITY THAT MAN COUlD IMAGINE. HE ORIGIN· ATED IN lllE SUDAIJ AND IS SAID JO HAVE BEEN lllE tt"l - FIRST WORKER IN METALS, WACE·NAME FOR WHITES IS f INCUJDING IRON. (=,,~,:.RIS) ~~~OM~~l~/~~~r diRi: wisCf~t .___________,. LEGENDARY SON OF HAM. ETHIOPIA WAS CALLED.LAND OF CUSHdlN lllE 8 I8LE. THE BLACK CUSHITES DOMINATED IN THE CAUCASUS, NOW SOll™ERN RUSSIA. HERODOTU5(i508.C.)SAW NEGROES lHERE.•CAUCA· SIAN'FOR WHITES WAS COINED fN 0UJMENBACH, A GERMAN, IN 1775.- ,.urnm1111111nmu1111111111111mm11111111mm1111umm111mrr11nrn11111111111111tm1111111mmmm1111nmmr11111111111111111111111u1111rr1 Only In America ii 11utnmu1111111111111m11111111111ui1111111u11111uu1111111m11111m1111111111111111uu 8Y HARRY GOLDEN The Great Women Whan I said in one of these columns that America produced no great women on the scale of a Clecpatra or Catherine the Great or Victoria, I was inundated by complaints from the ladies. I know now the name of every wQman college president, every woman writer and half of the women editors. "Think of the suffragettes!" urged many of my correspondents. So I did. What I think is that Ellen Glasgow and Charlotte and Emily Bronte accomplished more without the vote than most women accomplish with it. Simply perauing the books that American women buy leads me to believe they a.re basically insecure. We have •·sex and the Single Girl." "Sex and Iha Ca• reer Girl." "Sex and the College Girl." I fully expect "Sex and the Upstair~ Maid" next. A culture produces great women when the women are sure they are loved. When \.YOmen are unsure of male devotion and love, a culture produces a great many best-selling books Women entertain the erron· eous idea that once upon a time before the 20th century. they were atl vassals and marriage and life were a momentary joy followed by a chain or sorrows. But indeed it is the contrary which was true. Women were always deferred to. For noth!.Dg has ever prevailed against the institution of marriage, not even easy divorce laws. Women always ran the house or the castle or the hut. Life itself may have been rude but it treated women less rudely than it treat• ed everyone else. Cleopatra never looked through a microscope nor did Queen Victoria spend her summer vacations painting sets al the local theatre. Yet they wen,~ great women, great because not only were they loved but the mass of women in these societies were loved. A woman's life turns on love. In Shakespeare's play, Richard III kills Edward and marries his widow Lady Anne because he convinces her he killed for her love. He bares his chest to her sword and she rewards such passion with her troth. Was ever a woman so wooed? asks Richard. But indeed yes. Convince a woman of your love and there is no tenement in which she will not live and no crime she will not forgive. But make her doubt, and the next thing you know she will want to read books and realii:e herself and spend her junior year abroad. improving herself. My mother used to shine my father's shoes before he left the house every morning. He would complain about his aching back while she stooped to make him presentable. But he loved her and she ran the house. He never made a move without asking her opinion, though I daresay he did not like to be interrupted while playing chess or discussing world affairs. But she would tell him in the afternocn, 'We need to mo~e to a better street. I found a place on Eld:-idge. I've paid a month's deposit and Santini Brothers will be here Thursday to move us so we'll be seHlod by the Sabbath:· Then she shined his shoes, That night at dinner. she would say, "Children, Poppa has something very important to tell us." At which point, Poppa would relate why we were moving and where and when Santini would move us just as though it were his idea all alon". Voters' Blow Staggering But Not Fatal. lh~tspo~~e~~~~~~i:~i:~e:; On th~ panel . we_re St~te bers_ of labor unions. ··The Relhe Republican party a death Rep. Sh1r.ley Field. Irving pubhcan party has long stood, blow but left it facing a long, Enna, chairman or t_he Mult• ror civil rights," she said. "It rough road to recovery. ~r 0ajat,~~7~re:epau:Ju::w~I~:: has led the fight in Congress Sen. Barry ~oldwat~r will Moomau, form~r county cen- and in state Legislatures. be forced lo g_ive up his per• tral committee chairman. "Yet we lost millions of Nesonal leaders.hip or the. GOP, Although voicing general op- gro votes because of a label but. ~o drastic chang~ in the timism for the future of the altac_hed to our presidential, Jl:0S1t1on of ~e Republican Na- party, none of the panelists ar- c~nd1datewhovotedagainst thel t1onal Comm1t~ee 1s likely. . gued with a statement by Rep. cavil rights bill because he The. Republican pa:1)' "".'111 Field that "the Republican par• ~uestioned, the const!tutional• repudiate any connection with ty will remain a minority par- 1ty or certain parts or 1t." the Kl~ KJux . Klan and the ty in the foreseeable future ." Moomau said that although John Btrch Society. Rep. Field said that U the Goldwater was ,repudiated by ntESE are the major points party is to regain power, it the voting pubhc. he has not or agreement expressed Mon- must "let various groups yet been cen,su red by the_par• day by a trio of prominent know" what the GOP is doing ty. He predicted the Arizona Multnomah County Republi• ror them. senator will give up his party cans discussing the future of . . leadership, but willl remain the GOP during a panel dis• SHE MENTIONED spec1r1- active in a capacity similar to cussion at Reed College. cally the Negroes and the mem· ~i~~>n. occupied by Richard COMING BIG DEFENDER (l>WARDUJ. 8ROOk.€ OON TIIE 11/&NtsT £lUTIVE OFFICE £VER 11£1.1) SY A NEGRO. W/.IA T WA s THIS om«? ANSWER.- ATTORNEY C{NWL OF THI: STATE OP MASSAC/.IUSETTS FASHION SHOW-DANCE HILTON HOTEL DEC. 11
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