Oregon Advance Times_1968-03-07

Rabbi Doubts Whites For Racial Equality America today s tan d s frozen and immobilized and as she stands at the cross– roads, more and more blacks have abandoned the dream of integration. This is the belief of Rabbi Emanuel Rose of Congrega– tion Temple Beth Israel. Rabbi Rose was speaker at the B'nai B'rith Brotherhood Award Banquet. Mayor Terry D. Schrunk was recip– ient of the 1968 award. Rabbi Rose said blacks "have concluded that we whites do not want, and never will want, real racial inte– gration." "In my estimation, the only way we can really solve our urban crisis is by a massive re-ordering of Am e r i c a n priorities, by spelling out deadlines for total elimina– tion of the slums, and by pledging the billions and bil– lions of dollars needed for an American domestic Marshall Plan," stressed the rabbi. "We must examine radical income maintenance propos– als, such as family allow– ances, 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 dar– ing action from our sullen, war-sick, distracted and de– moralized federal govern– ment is perhaps to expect revolution to burst full-blown from the brows of Everett Dirksen and James East– land. Rabbi Rose asked: "ls gen– uine racial equality achiev– able 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 acknowl– edged by Rabbi Rose, but he noted the actual situation of the Black man had not im– proved. "Relative to the rest of America, it has declined," he observed. "Negro unem– ployment is a crisis equiva– lent 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 Ne– groes 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 justi– fiable to break out of oppres– sion than to afflict it?" Warned Rabbi Rose: "If white intransigence and resistance to racial ingegra– tion continues to weaken and destroy such moderate lead– ers as Martin Luther King and Roy Wilkins, if Negro despair continues to deepen and to produce such dema– gogues as Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael and Leroi Jones, reinforcing insur– rection and alienation, if the Congress continues to pre– occupy itself with the symp– toms, and ignores the basic cancers of our urban life, if our lily-white suburbs con– tinue 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 ra– cial 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 Wash- anapolis, 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 appli– ance repair technician, for– merly lived in San Diego, Calif. He is manager of a Portland co-op appliance company. The couple will live in Port– land. League Works For Consumer Oregon has a state-wide Consumer League whose pur– pose is to protect the con– sumer. A Consumer Education Workshop is one of the ac – tivities at the Albina Neigh– borhood 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 purchas– ing, shopping for food and other problems that confront the consumer. A call to the center, 287 - 2603, will bring additional in.. formation. The Oregon Consumers' League arranged for intro– duction of bills in the last session of the Oregon Legis– lature. It also has endorsed a truth .. in-interes t bill in Congre s s that has pas sed the Hou se. ( ·nde r it the people would know e xactly what in – te re st they pay whe n the y huy on time and it would give legitimate cteale rs p rotection from unscrupulous competi– tors. :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. Sav – ier St., Portland 97210. BUSINESS GUIDANCE SET Persons interested in start– ing a new business will get guidance from a new television series on Oregon's educa - tional stations, KOAP, Chan– nel 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_rk- Finding 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 aP– pointed by Vic Harris, presi– dent 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 Ma– University of Omaha in 1959 rine Corps in Khe San and while stationed there with five at home. 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