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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
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