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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1971)
Voice tfye pariin ta v e rn of reason PORT LAND/OB SERVER Thursday A p ril 1, 1971 The N o rth w e s t’s Best W eek ly THE BARON...has 3 pool tables A Black O w n e d Publication THE BARON...has Bowling THE BARON...has foosball Subscription rates: 60 cento per month by earner, $5.00 per year- $6W per year by mail in Tri-County area: $6.25 per year by mail outo.de Fn-County area. Phone 2 8 2 0 9 2 » THE BAKoN...has I Now all it needs is your good - so sroo in i o d n l l ALFRED LEE HENDERSON, Publisher and Editor W ILLIAM R. DEIZ There was the voice, firm If you’ ve noticed something A re Hard to Read Because Each and persistent — taking the different about the way this Capital Letter Slows the E y e battle to the oppressor himself, n e w s p a p e r-lo o k s lately and Down a L ittle . SENTENCES IN caught in the middle, a voice ca ll haven’ t been able to figure out WHICH O N L Y CAPITAL LET ing fo r reason in an irrational what it is, we’ ll letyou you in TERS ARE USED ARE EVEN — time on the secret. HARDER TO READ. The voice, of course, belonged to Whitney M . Young, J r . who It’ s the headlines. Instead of Some issues we’ ve been capi when he died at the age of 49, had capitalizing all the main words, talizing only the fir s t words of probably done more fo r the we’ re capitalizing only the fir s t headlines on the editorial paget cause ofgreen power among black word and any other words that Now we’ ve extended the practice people than any one man in this would be capitalized in ordinary throughout the paper. It may century. w ritin g . seem a little strange at fir s t. He was born in Kentucky and When you get used to it - i f educated there, then he received THE IDEA is that headlines you aren’ t used to it already — his masters in social work in ought to read pretty much like you’l l probably w o n d e r why Minnesota. sentences. Sentences in Which It was while a sergeant in the newspapers ever did it any oth - Most Words Are Capitalized e r way. A rm y, in a unit of blacks com manded by southern whites, that he began being the Whitney Young that was to take him into the thick A n s w e rs fro m V A of the battle for black rights. It was World War 11 and Young was determined that the men in (EDITORS NOTE: Veterans and Q — I have recently been a- his unit be treated with dignity. their dependents are asking thou It was a constant v ig il, negoti warded Dependency and Indem sands of questions concerning the ating the legitimate complaints nity Compensation as the widow benefits their Government oro - unsympathetic of a veteran killed on active duty, of blacks with vides fo r them through the Veter 1 am also a veteran and have my white officers, but it was a task ans Adm inistration. Below are certificate of e lig ib ility for a he took upon him self w illin g ly. som e representative queries. It wasn’ t a pleasant experience, home loan. May I now obtain Additional information may be two VA home loans — one on being caught in the middle. obtained at any VA office). His men must have wondered my husband’ s service and one on Q — 1 receive VA compensa mine? why he seemingly moved so slow tion fo r a service-connected A - No. An unrem arried widow ly on matters that were so press- d isa b ility. Am I also eligible fo r of a man who died while on active in8 t0 them; while the officers medication from the VA? duty or who died from a service must have felt threatened by the A — Yes, a veteran is eligible connected disability is eligible stubborn streak they saw in this fo r medication from the Veter fo r a home loan based on her hus- man *ho was determined to see ans Adm inistration if it is re band’ s entitlem ent, but only if justice done. quired fo r a service-connected she is not eligible on the basis He talked to those officers and disability. he persuaded them to change. of her own active duty. But talk takes time, and when one’ s head is submerged beneath 20 tons of horse manure, one doesn’ t have too much time for talk. And so some of the men in Young’ s unit must have be - come c ritic a l of this sergeant, and you can’ t really blame them— they were suffocating. But you see their suffocation was by no means of Young’ s fault. He felt strongly that the way to relieve their m isery was by pointing out its existence to those in a position to relieve m isery- the officers— and not by ranting and raving and using up precious C. Don Vann oxygen. Whitney Young’ s style should serve as an important lesson to anyone faced with problems caus ed by race. The lesson is that in an area as complex as whites have made re lations between the races, a m ulti - pronged approach is the surest method of success. Whitney Young’ s right along 5211 N. Williams Ave. with «M artin Luther Kings and Portland, Oregon Malcolm Xs are all needed in the fight fo r equality. They all have particular miss ions to perform . Personal Service of High Quality Pricing That Meets Your Requirement! 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