Page 2 As I See It £BSfcRV The Jencks Report MUST MM< TPGt 7 / « * ’ 11 W PUL L ANP EQUAL EMPLO'MW Thursday, ( V to • -r ’ by Lenwood G. Davis R e c e n tly , C h ristop her Jencks, a H arvard sociolo gist, released a re p o rt that stated schools do alm ost nothing to close Vie gap terween ric h and p o o r. M oreover, I« conclud­ ed, the quality of the education that public elem entary and high school students receive has little e ffect on th e ir fu­ tu re income. I t has teen a tra d itio n a l notion in the I m u s l sfates that if a («rso n -even the poorest c h ild - did w e ll ui school he could le tte r his economic condition. T h ls " A - m erlean D re a m " is one thing that Blacks have strived to achieve and we believe that d we got enough education we could im prove our eco­ nomy.- status. F o r s study to come along now and say that no m a tte r how much education we have we w ill s t ill pro­ bably not im prove uur eco­ nom ic condition is shocking to say t ie least. "T h e c h a r a c t e r of a school's outputdeiends la rge- ly on a single input, namely the c h a ra c te ris tic s of the en terin g c h ild re n ," Jencks surm ised. "E v e ry th in g el se­ l l « school fudget. its polices, ’ Th« Northwest s Best W eekly A Black O w ned Publication Published e v e n I li. iw 's y 2201 5 . K;.. : S u b s c rip t« s - v l i l t s tie the T ri-C ix . ;> v e - M a ilin g adress - . . ALFRED I . Ä \’ P TTT The o b s e rv e r’s v:: P u b lis h e r’s Cc . ,. • D esk. Any other a: of the indix aiual w r ib re fle c t the opir.< o Any erroneous n r reputation of pers, m the Portland i being brought to t The Editors Desk ■/ X T'S* "MAYBE, LIKE DIRECTOR OF BUSING, SAMMY" Black youth mature in trouble era ALFRED LEE HF V. tR S By BAY ARI ) RLSTIN Tl present generation of young blacks is approaching m a tu rity in the m id st of an era troubled by pe rsistin g atxl :eeply fe lt sociatw rongs, i" ustices which are deepened by o u r expanded personal e x- The chance fo r P ■ r t i av mg : : ft* fo r s e lf f u lf illr ■ , Jjr- black rep rese rta tic c 1 e m ost b u r d e n s o m e there are three bL aff- etion of the young is un­ ve exp re sse ; th e ir in te re st ■ S’ ts em ploym ent. 1 he s c a rc ity of of m a jo r factions of t jobs h a s spread lik e an a black to f i l l the -t epide iic through our citie s , The O bserver as e a r - sen- eva tin g a destructive to ll ously c o n s u e re . fo r the ruled fr ghetto youth, drawing out along » i t t er ■_ cut th e ir resentment and C . Don Vann and C ‘ a'm ers anguish. The jobless rate Here are some of t e e ve hee- a -; one returning Vietnam by-passed. A ll of the r-v veterans is scandalous.nearly were electee in the one of five cannot find w o rk. elections— so there is I e fa cto ry wnere they plan­ The m oral conscience r e nee u * o r k may have reloca t­ elude the desires of such 3 s ed to the suburbs o r cu r sue J It was not u n til I - - t t - - erte the the p r o fit m argin to Taiwan o r Portland School B o a r . • e ent South Am erica, where its and the Gladstone C ity C m k ¡ a ige owners can capitalize on a was elected gaiter appoi c- •ee J fla c k cheap tabor supply. elected to a state o r cou ce in r e C ity H ow eveij the outlook fo r of P ortla nd . The o b se rve r e ■ f i k pe rson black you« is n o te n tire ly as can win a m a jo r p o litic ' th r _ r’ ■intment. And sorr e r as the pictu re I have P ortland Citv Cou pacane resJy r. ke such des ife d . Despite a re le n t­ an appointment. less unemployment problem In a system that runs r .1 iti p i tn. - ' e ! t e c ity we have moved ahead; despite com m issioners owe a • . to t : e *. • - a e \e r , o u r tm prcverishm en t the suc­ a ll must have loyal ite SUpT I“te r “*■ invaluable xn cesses of our young are not th e ir campaigns o r as sors - s (deration. 1 he Black community B u t these young students an — whose com m itm ent and de- Judge Mercedes ei , > Gladys M cCoy, who have hot ee ce it has grounds of poverty have ma­ been ea sie r fo r black * e :te power tured into successful, and s tru c tu re . In p iese -.rr.g r re i n - - e rt oftim es b r i l l i a n t profes­ to get the c ity council vie ■er - t it sionals engaeed m s c ie n tific O ther black men who wer ouid and medida! research, edu­ have made good com ir ss ts , Her cation, scho la rly pu rsuit, A m erson, Charles J or. g vem m ent services and p o li­ We predicted months g • - tic s . and no» we are precicm e 1 lg*S on the lis t tc f i l l the va ■ ' These fledgling carpenters, S u it Senator Betty e le c tric ia n s and sheet metal te Hot of Representatives w o rke rs were often raised in ' reen leading D em ocrats. an ionosphere of deprivation Ed Whalen is la bo r le ■ • com m unity. The streets where they played Jack M ills is Vice r< * e r e ridden w ith v io le n t crim e lites N - lim a i Bnak and l rban \ffa irs and infested w ith drug addic- Ira B lalock is Executive t co: perhaps they, atone tim e, m unity Action P rog r^ suffered from a n a rcotics habit. In pre dicting that te s e *• » V» O . * ' •’** M'1*’ • }]«< A Wes» Ci • ' - . u o ..^ . , • M fM alS o# UNI l i b CHtOCtSv Notice l i e O bserver welcomes your c o m m e n t s and sug­ gestion, however, in ord er to p r in t your le tte r we m ust have your nan« ard address. If the person w ritin g about t ie recent Black C aucus meet- r g » H I claim tr e ir le t te r s we w ill re glad to p rin t them. Jones (C o ntin ue! from Page 1) council seat to the position of M a y o r, w ill re fille d by appointment by the C ity C o un cil. those campaigns so c ru c ia l to o u r movement; the freedom rid e s , s it-in s , vote r re g is tra ­ tion cam paigns. Now, the c o u r s e of the struggle fo r Mack p r o g e s s is changing, ( x ir goal is to seex a r e g u l a r , norm alized place in society and to do th is in a fir m ly in te rra c ia l fra m e w o rk. B lack you th-stu­ dents, young w o rk e rs , pro fe s­ sionals, scholars ire ow ac­ com plishing this, not sim ply by fillin g a slot m an organization, but ly excelling m t f e i r chosen occupation. G e;« rations to come w ill find that the om rnicne t md perse­ verance of tfese young people have do e j great leal tc remove d is c rim in a tio n from the i s t a ­ tions ot A m e ric a -o. e ty • id to erase pre udice fr w v e e a rta and m inds of Am erican people. t ie c h .a rx te i is tic s of th e tea chers- is e ith e r secondary o r com pletely ir r e le v a n t." I his re p o rt is of p a rtic u la r concern fo r B lack people be­ cause it supports tl« position of white ra c is ts . Jencks re ­ lieves that spending m ore money w ill not g re a tly Im­ prove the quality uf schooling. Blacks have known fo r years that this conclusion is invalid, b e c a u s e fo r years Black schools have not received e q u a l financial support as compared w ith white schools. B lacks have also known that if we had received the same a m o u n t of m o n e y fo i uur schools we could have im ­ proved the quality of V e in ' Ih e author rem arked that even if a ll c h i l d r e n — both Black and W h ite -- could be made to score e ju a lly w ell Another point of view on tests, t ie re su lt would do little to erase economic in­ e q u a lity. F u rth e rm o re , even It two students hod tie sane education, |Q , and f a m i l y tw ckgiou ixl, tle y olten have w idely d life i ing income. At le a s t 75% of He va ria tio n , Jencks concludes, "m u s t le due e n t e r to LUCK o r to suti­ I I NVVi ,(O DAVIh tle , unm easuredditferenves in P E R fvU N A U n r a id t > N - |||l. - outs. P a re n th e tica lly, Black JDB competence! Thus, le students must be encouraged says, "In ste a d ol accepting to stay ui school, t ie myth that test scores are Jencks* re p o rt should not synonymous w i t h ‘ in te lli­ aid probably w ill not tarter gence' a id that 'in te llig e n c e ' Black people f rum educadon- is t ie key to economic suc­ il I >1 tc Itu.bd, il ,,| lives. cess, we would do b e t t e r to I re r e s e a rc ie r's conclusion* recognize that economic suc­ are at le s t tentative a id cess d e ie td s la rg e ly on faulty a id should not le o t le r (actors,** taken s e riia is ly ly B la ck*. As an educator I m u s t M ost ol tlie study has not disagree w ith most of tre leen tested on desegregated conclusions of the re p o rts. schools ui the south. Most It is an educational (act of (le data was taken from that environm ent is a m ost existing studies ami (Alt in­ im portant fa cto r in a stu­ to a com puter. Hence, if any dent's IQ . ft is an education­ of the data was in c o rre c t- al fact that students- a id obviuusly some was- tle ri tie esp ecially B lack schools can conclusions also had to le in­ achieve economic success if c o rre c t. I his re p o rt noduuht we get iju a lity education. If w ill lecom e r e n o w n fo r B lack students do not have Its pletlio ra ol erroneous p r o ie r m otivations and in­ i vm ) M USI NUT i t centives then they w ill p ro - I AKEN s i. R I K M A BY tu b ly lose in te re st and faith BI.ACKh t in schools and tiecum edrop- D K *r-rx a -r Welcomes Your Visit for Consultation D en tal Quoted in Advance ci S dit «Cem< in at yeur cenvenience* IH H H \ H Ui I M Swdiwrn F e n te ttiw i SLEEP ALL Dtntoi INSUEANCi Accepted Durio<| E x t r a c t io n s am ■ m s HR » The one and only Nixon F ro m The New Y ork Tim es September 22, 1972 w re n Richard Nixon ran f o r the P re sd e n cy fou r years ago, re benefited from the p o litic a l equivalent of the statute of lim ita tio n s . i t was tireso m e, everyone agreed, to keep bringing up all that old stuff about how M r . Nixon d is to rt« ; J e r r y V o o rh is 's reco rd in 194b o r how he and M u rra y C hotm er smeared Helen Gahagar. Douglas as pro -C om m u m tst in the Senate campaign in 1950. Since Joe M cC arthy was in his gra ve,did it re a lly m attei any m ore all the nice things M r . Nixon used to say about him. o r that ‘e borrowed ard re in e d so many of his tech­ niques? So it was that in 1966 the newest of the many new N ixon* wa* allowed to strik e a Statesman-1 ike pose. V ote rs forgo t his b ru ta l misdeeds of b e 1940's and 1950's. But, of course. veteran p o litic ia n s ra r e ly a lte r th e ir cha racters o r th e ir con vic­ tion s. L ik e the rest of us, they are what they are and can hardly begin being much d iffe re n t at age 55. So M r . Nixon has been the kind of P reside nt that e ve ryth in g in his e a r lie r c a re e r had fo re ­ shadowed. M r . Nixon was elected on a "p le d g e " to end th« w a r, but vote rs m ight have done le tte r to re c a ll that in 1954 re had urged Am erican intervention to save the French in V ie t­ nam and that as rece ntly as 1967 he was saying that V ie t­ nam was ’ th« c o rk in the bottle of Chinese exp an sion ." We m ig ht then have been able to foresee that under M r . Nixon another 20,(JU0 A m e ri­ cans would die in Vietnam , that today the P a n s peace talks would s t ill he stalled, that m ore bombs than ever wculd he fa llin g on Vietnam and that the w a r would s t ill be on the fro n t pages. Or consider ch a ra cte r • asassinatlon. In 1952. M r . Nixon denounced the m em ber* of the Trum an A d m in istra tio n fo r th e ir fa ilu re to stand up to C om m unist China. He described G overnor Stevenson as " A d la l the appeaser . . . . mi /'W Lawrence who got a I'b J -. fro:: Acheson's College of Co­ w a rd ly C om m unist C e n ta l-- t.” In 1969, the same M r.N tx u n sent V ice P reside nt Agnew out to defame A verell H a r r i­ man. In 1972, he sent H.R. Haideman, his W hite House Chief of staff, on television interview show to say that Senator Edmund M u s k « and other c r i t i c s were "c o n ­ sciously aiding and ire ttin g the e n e m y" — a very slight paraphrase of 0 « co n stitu ­ tional definem ent of tre a s o r. Then he had H e r fe r t K it-« , his D ire c to r of Com m wuca- tion s, cha racterize M r.A lu s - kie as "b o ltin g beyond tfe bounds of c n tic s m and dis­ s e n t." Having o rc ie s tra te d thus sm ear campaign, M r . Nixon n a tu ra lly tfe n came forw a rd, w ringing his hands, and said, " I do not question the p a trio ­ tism o r the sin ce rity of those who disagree with my policies to bring peace . . . " In 19So, Vice P reside nt M uon took partisan c re d it fo r the Supreme C o u rt’ s school desegregation decision. It had, he said, leer. . ,evef under th« leadership of " a great Republican C h « f Ju s­ tice , E a rl W a rre n ." The man who made that rem a rk hecame the President who has turned every supreme C o u rt vacancy into a p o lilK <1 f « ld day. When th« Se ate quite p ro p e rly refused toco n- f ir m c . H a r r o lI Cat F lo rid a fo r th« Supreme C o urt, P resident Nixon d is ­ torted a question of jiersonal incompetence into "a n act of regional d is c rim in a tio n ." " I understand th« li t t e r feeling of m illio n s of A m e ri­ cans who live in the S outh." M r . Nixon declared, presum ­ ably hoping to p r o fit fo rm any "b itte rn e s s ” be uuld whip UP. In his f ir s t national cam­ paign In 1952, M r . Nixon was shown to he the beneficiary of a secret $16,1X10 fund sub­ scribed by a clique of Soutli- ern C a lifo rn ia businessmen. Twenty years la te r, be be­ gins th is campaign as the beneficiary of a secret $10- m illio n fund e ile c n ie d by wealthy donors whose names he refuses to divulg e. M r . Nixon entered p o litic a l life w ith p o litic a l la w y e rM u r- ray C hotm er as his gray em inence. In 1956 a senate investigation showed that M r . C h otm er was engaged in in­ fluence ;saddling. He seemed to recede into the background, and, in 1958, M r . Nixon told Stew art Aisop, " I t was a tradegy that le (Chotm er- tad to get involved In the kind of law business that does not m ix w ith p o litic s .' T ra g ic o r otherw ise, when M r . Nixon a rriv e d in the W hite House so did M r . C hot­ m e r. He is busy in Washing­ ton today p ra cticin g t l« "k in d of law business" le always ha», doing secret p o litic a l chores fo r the President and acting as a conduit fo r hot p o litic a l money from the d a iry lobby and other special in ­ te re s ts . W ith him In the Nixon entourage are a num ber of other p o litic a l fix e rs , w ire - bipping hatefetm en and p ro ­ paganda ¡« d d le rs. as seedy a crowd as ever surrounded any C h e f E xecutlve. In the 1950’ s, young M r . Nixon was Im ita tin g Joe M cC a rth y and playing fo r the M cC artf-y vote. In tfe 1970's m ature P re sld sn t Nixon is im ­ itatin g George C . W allace and playing fo r the W allacite vote. 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