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As I See It
Lee P. Brown: Man on the Move
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Thursday, June 22, 1972
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Desk
ALFRED LEE HENDERSON
Legislature must act
A recent decision of the United States Supreme C ourt gives
the states the right to participate in the d iscrim in a to ry prac
tices of private clubs and lodges. The Court found that the
state , by issuing liquor licenses to these clubs, was not guilty
of denying equal protection to all citizens. This is a question
able decision, especially in sutes such as Oregon where there
is a lim it placed on the raimber of licenses issued and where a
private club holding a license prevents another business, one
required to not discrim inate, from holding a license.
This decision demonstrates a trend in the B urger C o u rt-
away from protection of individual rights and back to placing
the interests of government and business above the interests
of the individual. Fresident Nixon’ s appointees all voted to al
low discrim ination and the m ajority decision was w ritten by Jus
tice Rehnquist, whose appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court
was question»! because of his views on racial discrim ination.
Since the Supreme Court has refused to enjoin the states
from condoning racial discrim ination through the is s u in g o fli-
censes and the sale of liquor, it is up to the Oregon Legislature
to end this practice inOregon. There is no reason why the State
of Oregon should continue to provide this service to organiza
tions which have white-only memberships, when the state's
adopted philosophy and law supposedly is to guarantee the rights
of equality fo r all its citizens.
When age brings wisdom
There has been much editorial comment in the daily papers
in recent days regarding the political ambitions of older men.
The inference is that Wayne Morse, age 71, is too old to return
to the United States Senate.
In our haste to make room fo r the young - to give them poli
tical rights, to provide educational and employment opportuni
ties, to tap their financial market - we sometimes forget that
age can bring experience and wisdom.
in the closing years of his life F redenckDouglass, who wrote.
It there is not struggle, there Isnoprogress," struggled long
after a lesser man would have retired with honor.
In his 90's, W .E.8. DuBois le ft Am erica. tookGhanaian c iti
zenship, and began the massive work - "Encyclopedia A f
ricans.” Born in 1868, he was a lert and active, s till fighting fo r
the liberation of black peoples until his death in 1963.
Pablo Casals, nearing 100 years, is s till regarded a? the
w orld's greatest musician and Picasso, also nearing I0T, s till
paints masterpieces and is s till studying. Austrian General
Radezky conquered Italy at the age of 96, and we could go on and
on.
So let us not cast aside ourolderm en and choose our repre
sentatives on the ba sis of youth a lone. Let us choose a man who
over the years has proved to us his commitment to our cause,
a man who has proved his concern by actions, not by promises.
It's better to te represented by the best man fo r a few years
than by a lesser man fo r many.
The Observer's official position is expressed only in Its Pub
lis h e r's Column (The Observation Post) and the E ditor’ s Desk.
Any other m aterial throughout the paper is tfe opinion of the In -’
dividual w rite r or autwnitter and does not necessarily reflect
(the opinion of the Observer.
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GENEVA’S
4 2 2 8 N . W illia m s
By Lenwood G. Davis
Someone once said, " I f you
want something done, get a
busy man todo i t . " This state
ment is apropos fo r l ee P.
Brown. Needless to say, tw
ts extremely busy. Mostpeo-
ple are not aware that he ts a
consultant to numerous orga
nizations - the United States
Department of Justice, Law
Enforcement Assistance Ad
m inistration: C ity of Portland,
evaluator of Mcxlel C ities Po
lice-Community R e la t io n s
Program; C e n te rfo rC rim in a l
Justice Agency Organization
and M in o rity Employment,
Marquette U niversity; Chica
g o -A fro American P atrol
man's League; National U rhan
Coalition, Washington, D.CJ
Columbia Research Institute,
Portland; and Rumor Control
Center, Portland. D r. Brown
is also the author of a number
of books - "Anatomy of the
Police; A CaseforCommumty
C o n tro l" Amistad III, (fo rth
coming book edited by Charles
H arris); " A Selected and An
notated Bibliography on the
P o lic e ," Amistad III, (forth
coming book edited by Charles
H arris): P olice-C om m unity
Relations (forthcoming text by
Lee Brown, Gordon M lsner
and Thomas Johnson); and
Black Men in Law Enforce
ment (forthcoming anthology).
Even though Brown is a con
s t a n t , author, professor and
d ire cto r he s till finds time to
keep in touch with community
affairs. He was selected In
1970 by the Portland Police
Association
as the citizen
making (he most outstanding
contributions to the profes
sional ization of Law Enforce
ment. He has worked with the
Model C ities Program , Albina
M ulti-S ervice Center and PM-
SC Program s. Yet, one would
never know that he has a Doc
torate of Crim inology l legree
because he seldom uses the
title Doctor. He usually In
troduces him self as "L e e ”
o r "L e e B row n." This is a
rare quality in today's society
since most people are ex
tremely status conscious.
Brown can communicate ef
fectively with all classed of
people - whether It is the av
erage citizen, pimp, prosti
tute, hustler, executive, may
or, c ity councilman, governor
o r President of the United
States. He has the rare quali
ty of being able to make others
feel af ease In his piesence.
Lee Brown has the keen insight
to know and understand human
nature.
What does the tutu re hold fo r
Lee P atrick Brown? This
w rite r can only offer conjec
ture at this point. However, it
is a known fact that he has
many offers to be Chief of Po
lice in many citie s. It is also
a known fact that D r. Brown
could get almost any high po-
Mobile Home: Just
How Safe Are They?
Ron H andren_____
IN WASHINGTON
Lon w ood D a v it
sitlon in the U.S.Government.
Perhaps, one day, he w ill go
into p o litics. H ecertainly has
many of the necessary assets
to he a politician.
le e Brown w ill probably
leave Portland In the near fu
ture. It w ill not he because he
wants to le a v e -It w ill, how
ever, be because his expertise
is not being utilized to the fu ll
est by Portland. If he leaves,
Portland w ill lose one of the
most resourceful citizens that
it has had In many a year.
THEREFORE. C I TEENS OF
PORTLAND,
IT IS YOUR
CHOICE TO KEEP T H ISPR o-
I IFIC CI T E E N IN THE CIT>
OF RtSESI
Five persons died In Syra
cuse, N.Y. this past w inter
when (ire swept thuugh their
mobile home. The suddenness
and Intensity of (he blaze was
such that all w eie (rapped
inside and perished within
minutes.
This tragedy is not an
isolated instance. Unfortu
nately, injuries arxi deaths
occur at an uncommonly high
rate among this nation's more
than seven m illio n mobile
home re sklents.
P art of the problem, ac
cording to F lorida Congress
man Lou Frey, J r , Is that
theie are no texte raI safety
guidelines
governing con
struction o r installation of
these housing units. And while
many manufacturais do strive
to m e e t indu s( ry - adopted
safety standards, tliese regu
lations are not mandatory ant
some builders simply ignore
them.
Thus faulty electrical w ir
ing,
flammable
insulation
m aterial, malfunctioning fu r
naces and flues. Inadequate
exits and im proper installa
tion all add up to a m o rta lity
rate as much as eight times
higher than in conventional
homes.
W m l damage Is the second
most serious safety problem.
E arly this year a tornado
swept through a mobile home
park at F o rt Kuckei, Alahama.
I rve weie killed and 80 In
ju r» !.
Nearby conventional
homes suffered little damage.
In a recent windstorm in
Boulder, Colorado - - where
safety regulations have teen
adopted fu t, according to
F rey, not enforced - 35 mobile
homes were destroy»! with
damages totaling $800,000.
A ll these factors have made
insurance hard to get ami ex
pensive. This problem Is
compounded by the tact that
most mobile home resklents
e n te r are retirees living on
meager incomes o r young
couples Just getting sta rt» !.
Yet the insurance late on a
$6,000 mobile home Is com
parable to that on a con
v e n t io n a l
home costing
>40,000.
Mobile homes ate not sub
ject to local building curies
and although they constitute
95 percent ot the homes sold
in America fo r under $15,000,
mobile homes are subject to
state regulations in fewer than
half the states.
A t best, enforcement of
existing regulations Is hardly
adequate.
In F lo rid a , for
example— the largest mobile
home market In the nation—
there are only three lnst>ec-
to is competed to 165,000
mobile home lots. Aral yet,
acconluig to F rey, Florida
lias one ol the le tte r enforce
ment programs in11»country.
Frey telleves t« le ia l reg
ulations are needed, anil in
late May lie Introduced H.R.
15157, tie National Mobile
Home Safety Act of 1972.
l i e b ill, which Is peidurg
te fo te lie House Hanking and
Currency Committee, would
lay the groundwork (ot foderal
mobile home safety atandards,
and Is niixleled a lter the
Motor Vehicle Safety Act of
1970. A companion measure
Is pending In the Senate.
Standards would te p ro
mulgated in tie lepartm ent
of Housing trul Urban I evelop-
rnerit and would he In effect
within 180 days a lter enact
ment ol He b ill. Prey says
fie (mends to work fo r quick
consideration of hts proposal
by the committee, six) hopes
for prompt passage by Con
gress.
It so. It would te the firs t
la te ra l law ever enacted to
provide sate construction of
mobile homes.
With seven
m illio n Americans living in
mobile homes luing con
struct»! each year—certainly
some tyje of enforceable
regulations are need«!.
Vernon Jordan asks Nixon to visit ghettos
President Nixon was chal
lenged last week to v is it the
nation's troubled cities and
rural areas fo r a face-to-face
confrontation with American
citizens who have suffered
poverty and racial d is c rim i
nation.
The challenge was issued by
Vernon E . Jordan. J r , execu
tive d ire c to r of the National
Urban League, in the annual
commencement address at
Howard U niversity.
Taking note of President
Nixon's recent summit meet
ing in Russia to deal with the
problems
of international
peace and to reduce the ten
sions that threaten a world
wide holocaust, Jordan said
that "th e domestic situation
requires the same depth of
concern and the same bold
ness."
"J u s t as the international
situation has been eased by
this display of communication
and negotiation by the leaders
of the great powers, so toocan
our domestic situation te im
proved by increased commu
nication among black and
white leadership and by a black
voice in decisions concerning
our security and s u rv iv a l,"
Jordan said. "T h e admini
stration has fo r too long
screened itself from the sight
and voices of the ghetto."
Jordan
continued: "T h e
time has now come fo r him (the
President) to go into the pov
erty - stricken
ghettos of
Am erica, to talk with the very
people whose lives and hopes
he sogreatly affects. The time
has come fo r a summit confer
ence with the organized black
community, to negotiate and
communicate.”
" . . . in Leningrad, the Pres
ident paid tribute to a little g irl
named Tanya, whosediarydo-
cumented the destruction of
her fa m ily during World War
11,” Jordan s j xl. “ H ewasel-
oquent m his statements about
the sufferings ofTanya anti the
hundreds of thousands of little
Tanyas who suffered so much
in w ar. We Join him in those
sentiments.
"A nd, we hasten to add that
here in affluent America are
hundreds of thousands of black
children, our Tanyas, whose
fam ilies have been scarred by
poverty, whose fathers have
suffered unemployment and
discrim ination, whose moth
ers have suffered ill-health
and racism , whose brothers
have been victim ized by drugs,
by an unresponsive education
al system and by the d is c rim i
nation that s till pervades our
society," Jordan continued to
the applause of an estimated
13,000 persons m the Howard
University Stadium.
"Come to see our Tanya,
M r. President. See how she,
too, is cut off from tier true
human potential, not by war,
but by economic and social
coalitions so easily co rre ct-
a l. Listen to her. Listen to
her dreams and her hopes.
Listen to her representatives
in a meeting just as you listen
ed to M io ant) Brezhnev. Her
leaders are not your enemies
nor are they, as those (women
are, determined rivals of this
nation. Her leaders are c iti
zens pledged to wot k fo r con-
The
tw o -d a y A f r i c a n
American
National
Con
ference on A frica ended with
the c a l l fo r a permanent
structure to implement the
strategies
from the con
ference workshops.
The conference also clos»!
with an appeal from the Com
mittee Concerned Blacksask-
uig black Americans not to
tcxir o r entertain in South
A fric a . This committee was
represented by co-chairmen
D r. John Henrtcke Clarke,
Hunter C o lle g e and M rs.
Louise
M eriw ether,
Los
Angeles.
The Conference on A frica
was sponsored by the Con-
Open letter to Goldschmidt
Dear S in
There can be no dispute,
the incidence of burglary is
very high and increasing.
Statistics show that youth be
tween the ages of 16 and 21 In
our community a re largely re
sponsible for these crim es.
Burglary is generally a crim e
of stealth and non-violence.
In other words, violence or
the threat of violence does not
usually accompany an act of
burglary.
However, citizens are ag
gravated (mad) and a re moved
sometimes to demand harsh
Stop library cutback
Dear E ditor;
It would seem that the deci
sion to put Central L ib ra ry on
a five-day schedule needs re
thinking Inasmuch as that faci
lity maintains »ich Important
services as m icro film perio
dicals, m ajor references and
Indexes, special collections
including the Oregon Collec
tion, governmental depositor
ies, etc. . . .
I do not feel a c ity this size
can afford such a drastic re
duction. Is this an lnstanceof
"penny wise and pound fool
ish” ?
An Informal observation
w ill find many persons stand
ing outside ten minutes or
more before Central L ib ra
ry's opening tim e, each day. In
order to take advantage of the
many services. This obvious
ly evidences the enthusiasm of
early a rrtv e rs .
Even with some neighbor
hood
fa c ilitie s
currently
closed on Friday, there have
teen a few lib ra rie s open on
Friday such 8 3 Hoolywoodand
Central L ib ra ry . What la the
necessity fo r a complete can
cellation of lib ra ry service on
Monday, effective July I, It
operational funds should be
come available?
Inasmuch as die lib ra ry
serves as a laboratory of ex
tended learning fo r people of
all ages and incomes, the pub
lic Is entitled to a fu lle r ex
planation of reasons fo r the
proposed five-day schedule. I
feel the decision fo i a five-day
schedule should be reconskl-
ered to ascertain If Morxlay
really reflects a day of poor
lib ra ry usage.
Sfcicerely,
M rs. O. J . Gates
4215 SJE. Bybee Blvd.
Portland 97206
I he tune has come, Jordan
said, fo r "th e Presklent ami
the highest tigures in his Ad
m inistration to meet with us;
to go into the ghettos, to v is it
the Black colleges of this na
tion, to Communicate on a
face-to-face basis with (hose
of their fellow citizens who
have suffered most and bene
fited le a st."
O b s e rv e r’ $ Intercom
— Letters to the Editor —
Honorable Nell Coldschmidt
Mayor Elect
314 C ity Hall
Portland, Oregon 97204
structlve change through the
process ot a democratic soci
e ty ."
measures against burglars
and other crim in a ls.
It may be that the demands
fo r harsh measures are fa ll
ing on receptive ears, fo r It
appears that the Police De-
paitnient is now shooting at
people who are Interrupted in
tie commission of a burglary.
We should be reminded that
there was a great public outcry
when a Clackamas County de
puty killed a young man In the
course of stealing a turkey. It
would be most unfortunate it
the Portland Police killed a
youdr while in the course of
stealing a portable TV set.
Very tru ly yours,
John Toran, J r.
Attorney at Law
234 S.W. Salmon Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
gressional Black Caucus at
Howard U niversity.
Major topics iheydiscussed
concerned economic develop
ment and a ld;Carrlbbean link,
anti L l be i a 11 o n of South
A frica .
Ben 1.. Hooks, a black fo r
mer judge from Memphis
learned that the U > . Sen
ate c o n iirm o l his nomination
to tie Federal Communica
tions Commission (FCC). He
said, " I'm looking forward to
the challenges and opportuni
ties of rendering service on
the F C C ."
Proposal regulations that
would prohibit States from de
nying public assistance to an
orh._r.ise eligible individual
le y because he ls n o ta c ltl-
/• ' or because of his status as
. alien were announced by
HEW’ a Social anil Rehabilita
tion Service A dm inistrator
John D, Twlname.
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The Supreme Court unani
mously let stand a California
Supreme Court decision that
struck down the state’ s death
penalty, sparing the lives of
more than 100 convicted men
facing the gas chamber.
In a b rief order without
comment, the High Court re
ject») an appeal from the state
decision brought by the State of
C alifornia. The state court
ruied that thedeath penalty v i
olated theCal Ifornla'sC onsti-
tutlonal
provision against
"c ru e l o r unusual punish
ment.”