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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
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