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Page 2 Wednesday, June 6, 1962 THE OREGON MIRROR Jfe OREGON MIRROR Established in March 1959 - Negro Weekly Circulated by Mail - Newsboys - Businesses Published Every Wednesday 4617 N. Williams Ave. AT 4-4551 PUBLISHER - J. Marcus Wellington. Ill MANAGER fit EDITOR - Don Alford EDITORIAL You Can Help Build It! Chicago Freedom Rider Return ïo New thinking Orleans about going back to New BY ANP Faced by the awesome destructive power placed at man’s disposal by modern science, the average American sometimes feels overwhelmed and helplessly caught up in forces beyond his control. At such times it is easy to forget that he and millions of his fellow citizens have cooperated with science to bring about some of mankind’s greatest blessings. Perhaps the best example of this partnership was the development of polio vaccine through work supported exclusively by public contributions to the March of Dimes. This month Americans again have the opportunity to join with scientists in working for human betterment. A local committee has undertaken to help raise funds to build and equip the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at San Diego, Calif. With Dr. Jonas Salk as director, some of the world’s scientists will gather at the Institute to study S e eatest basic processes of life and their bearing on control of disease. There is everv reason for confidence that the Salk In stitute will be the scene of scientific discoveries that will bring tremendous advances in man’s well-being. That is why we urge local residents to give generously to the June campaign to make the Salk Institute a reality. or. began holding annual exer- FIRST tribute to motherhood was rises to lionor mothers in 1»87 The mod«' by the ancient Greeks, who idea was adopted by the school of worshipped Cybolo, mother of the Springfield. Ohio in UNO, but it gods, with an annual tribute held spread no further, on the Ides of March. FIRST mother of the English col- FIRST specific Mother's Day in onies in America was Mrs. Eleanor the United States was not a popular Dare, whose daughter Virginia Dare, success Miss Mary Towles Sasseon. was horn on Roanoke Island. North a Henderson Kentucky schooltoach- Carolina in 1587. For Teens CHICAGO. —One of three Orleans. Can’t Find Jobs Negroes sent here on free one-way tickets paid for by the segregation “Th -» has been some talk about ist White Citizens Council of New going home,” Roy Hamilton, 23, THE ATTAINMENT OF Orleans has made it a round trip one of the “reverse Freedom Rid WORTHWHILE GOALS after futile attempts to find work. ers,” said. No worthwhile goal is ever achiev Rezzie Moffett. 45, disappointed Two of the group have found jobs— ed without a struggle. Our Ameri but otherwise calm, departed with a Shelva Williams, 30, who became a can democracy was not handed to us worn canvas bag under his arm and supermarket butcher, and Julius Eli, without cost. The helpful discoveries $3 in Cook County welfare funds in 21, who is working on an assembly in Ihe field of medicine did not come his pocket. He boarded a bus for line in a screen factory. easily. The church is not built New Orleans last week, convinced New York Problem Similar through ease. that his free ride to Chicago had Mrs. Marjorie McNair, manager ‘‘The heights by great men reach been a mistake. of the New York state employment ed and kept, were not attained by His inability to find employment office, said the rest are unskilled sudden flight, but while com was attributed to his ill health and laborers and it was difficult to find panions slept were toiling their upward in Chicago’s already high unemploy jobs for them. The group has been the night.” ment rate which, at present, is most staying “on credit” in the Harlem Every person ought to have son e felt by persons in the unskilled la YMCA. Louis Boyd, the first New worthwhile Then that per Orleans Negro to accept the segre son should goals. bor field. begin early in the gationists’ offer of free trip North, achievement of his goals. Taxpayers Pay Fare Moffett’s ticket was paid for by joined his new employer on a picket Many people go through life un Cook County taxpayers. Ralph W. line in Jersey City, N.J., to demon satisfied and never accomplish Collins, executive director of the strate against a legal snarl that held anything worthwhile. The reason is up his weekly $100 weekly pay- a simple one, they never take time Travelers Aid society, said. check. Moffett was one of three Negroes out to decide what they wanted to who came to Chicago under the be or do. sponsorship of New Orleans segre I am of the opinion that one will gationists. The two others, Clifford probably become what he pictures Taylor, 25, and Frank Hill, 43, found Veteran Newsman in his mind. And that if one thinks jobs. about going nowhere in particular, After several job interviews, Mof Succumbs With he probably will end up there. fett gave up and ?.sked to go home, Somewhere I read that “Juvenile Collins said. delinquency is sweeping our land be Heart Attack Negroes Express Sympathy cause our youth have nothing to do, Moffett arrived May 1 with Taylor. they have all day to sleep and all Taylor, Mrs. Gordon said, is work WASHINGTON — — Louis night to run around and get into ing at a service station as a $40-a- R. Lautier, veteran capistol corres week attendant. Hill, the third to pondent and special assistant to the meanness.” people mentioned here must be arrive, has found a job unskilled Republican national chairman, died the The youth have no worthwhile work, Mrs. Gordon said. last week May 6 at Washington goals. They that have aim in life. The Meanwhile, in New York, one of hospital center where he had been achievement of no any degree of a group of six Negroes sent there by a patient for two weeks. success is never easy. It the White Citizens council said the Lautier, 65, apparently died of self denial, effort, toil, and requires labor. group is disillusioned and were a heart attack We cannot become moral gaints without strain. We cannot become IF THE PARENTS WENT BACK intellectuals without studying IF ALL MISFORTUNES were laid TO SCHOOL AND learned grammar great and we cannot become financially most people would be content to and accent, their children might secure without working. No goal is take their own and depart.-Socrates grow up to talk well. ever reached without dedication and effort. GENERALlm EDITORIAL Tips Whitewall Craft Treads (the quality G e n e r a l retread) Help build the OREGON MIRROR. Support those that support us. 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