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rEhO ERSO N
Catholic conference commended on lettuce
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Child care:
Last priority
How im portant is child care?
In a period a -e n both tew
state and federal governments are attem pting tc push mothers
off of ADC and into the job m a rk e t, it would seem that child
c a re should he a top p rio r ity . F o r how can m o tw rs w ork if
there is nowhere fo r th e ir children to go’ A t how can
m others w o r t when they have to w o rry about children who are
•unattended or are in less than desirab le situations'
Y e t the Stale C h ild re n 's D ivisio n plans to cut an estim ated
15 percent to 50 percent fro m the 4 -C child care r u le e t.
Some cuts in social service program s might be necessary
because of reductions of fed eral money coming into the state.
But why taioe m ost the cut out of one much-needed p ro g ram 7
It is natural that CSD would p r n e c t its own program and let
the others suffer m oat, but CSD is responsible fo r all of the
children m the state, not ju s t r o s e using the d ire c t services
of CSD. M any CSD program s are necessary — foster ca re ,
adoptions. services to delinquent and disturbed children — but
a high p rio r ity fo r child care now could reduce me need fo r
such services in the future.
The 4 -C Councils across the state came Into being two
years ago because of the great shortage oi child c a re . A
v a rie ty cf program s have beer.developed — child c e re centers,
fa m ily day c a re , latch -key program s — to provide educations:
experiences along w ith good child c a re . T his had beer, done
w ith private contributions and fed eral money — m ere has bee-
no state money involved.
Sow that federal money coming into Oregon w ill decrease,
the state has deckled to shut off the flow of fed eral money
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‘ - r child c a re . It is estim ated that 80 percent of the
fed eral money coming into Oregon is used fo r roads, sewers,
s tre e t fights, fa c ilitie s , equipment, and that only 20 percent
goes to social program s designed to help people.
!t appears that .M r. T a n z e r of tfw State Human Resource De
partm ent and M r . G alvin of C h ild re n ’ s Service D epartm ent
are taking me easy way out.
It is much e a s w r to cut out
a p n v a te organization that spends no S U M money than it is .
tc .ook at th e ir own budgets and program s to see where cuts
car be made.
The decision nas beer made. M r . T a n z e r and M r . G alvin
say there is no way cut fo r 4 -C . Only one man has tfw power
to ch ange this decision — and he rem ains sJ e n t.
W here are you G overnor M c C a ll7
1 would like to commend
the United S u b s Catholic
Conference fo r th e ir tim e ly
and courageous endorsement
and support of the lettuce
boy con.
T h e ir statement urges that
only " iceberg” lettuce c le a rly
m arked
with
tfw o fficial
United F a rm W o rk e rs label,
the black Aztec eagle, be pur
chased. T h e ir purpose in this
is to bring about collective
bargaining and a rust settle
m ent of the dispute.
T he statem ent, in p art, ex
plains, " In the name of us
tic e . church. agencies such as
the USCC Cem m :oee on Soclai
Developm ent m ust speax cut
on controversial issues such
as this one even w ith Pw
knowledge that they m ight ce
misunderstood.
Sensitive to
the needs and the c ro tie m s
of both s tie s , these agencies
m ust encourage dialogue by
helping to crease an atmos
phere of c h a n ty and ju stice.
I t was in this s p irit and fo r
the purpose that the Second
Vatican Council re a ffirm e d
the traditional teaching of the
Church with regard to the
rig ht of w e rte rs to organize
and bargain c o lle c tiv e ly arxl,
under certain conditions, to
re s o rt to the s tr ik e ."
T h is issue w as : re a ted by
the V a tic a - Council m the
" P a s to ra l C o n s tia tw n on the
C hurch in the M od em W o rld ,"
which reads it . p art. "Am ong
tfw basic rights of tfw human
person must be counted tfw
rig ht of fre e ly founding labor
unions.’ ’
Ir.cludec m tfw LSCC posi
tion is the "S tatem en t on
F a r m L a b o r,” .ssued by the
Bishops of C e L nited States.
N o vem b er 13, 196*: "W e are
a »rare that tfw s m all g ro w er
is often the v ic tim of c lr»
cum sunces beyond his con
We cannot afford to work since the
sta te is closing o u r child c a re c e n te rs .
t r o l, and that his sincere
w illingness
tc pay h < h e r
»ages meets with obstacles
which he cannot overcome
with a re a lis tic coordination
of all his strengths. We urge
him to examine his situation
c a re h illy in o rd er u see that
his so-called independence is
unreal and could resu lt m his
vanishing from tfw America.-,
econom y. We believe that this
would
be tra g ic fo r our
country.
" T o protect h im s e lf, his
interests. and the interests :t
the farm w o rk e rs , we plead
w ith him to unite with his
be s a ti fo r the men working
in the fie ld s .1
A complete copy of the
pfcamplet statem ent, which in
cludes a history of the con
tro v e rs ia l negotiations, can
he obtained by » rn ..-g ; P u bli
cations ( f f i c e . Lnited States
Catholic
C onference,
1312
Massachusetts Avenue, N .W .
Washington, D .C . 20005
»H ow fa rm e rs and grow ers
in
associations pro per to
them selves.
T h is is t fw ir
natural
right and perhaps
even th e ir duty at the present
moment of our h istory.
At
the same tim e we wish to note
that throughout this century,
our stale and federal govern
ments have done much to
ass is t grow ers and fa rm e rs
with th e ir d iffic u ltie s .
The
same,
unfortunately,
With best regards,
R ev. Gordon D ickey
C atholic L n iv e rs ity .
W ashington, D jT .
cannot
Equal opportunities questioned
D e a r E d ito r:
When
the term "E qual
O pportunity E m p lo y e r" ap
peared on windows of busi
nesses, it gladdened the hearts
of many black people. At last
we would be hired if there
was an ope-ing and »re quali
fied fo r tfw position. What a
disappointment to find chat,
indeed, we w ere hired; but we
s till had to work h arder than
anyone els e, be genuses,
m agicians and O reo cookies
ju s t to hold the 4>b. T h e re Is
no point in thinking that you
w ill advance.
M ost of the
tim e you a re just a s ta tis tic —
included m a quota of blacks
that must be h ire d . If this
is the case, so much pressure
w ill be applied chat you w ill
quit tfw jo b .
I f you have
enoug’ intestinal fortitude to
rang in th e re , then comes the
second prase of gett-ng rid
of you. F ir s t, the pressure
is increased w ith hatred and
contempt openly shown, then
the charges that you i r e not
doing enough w ork tc get your
ra is e that is due; and if this
does not w ork, the same
charges a re used fo r your
ultim ate d is m is sa l.
Straight h a ir and a con-
stant sm ile should not tw a
qualification fo r em ploym ent.
Only a white Aunt Jem im a
would f i t this description —
she always sm iles on a box of
com m eal, and if she was
w hite, she would have straight
h a ir.
I do not apologize fo r my
blackness, 1 also do not — in
ar.y way — try to hide it.
S everal months ago I p re
dicted that D r . L ee P . Brown
would be leaving P ortland.
A a most people no doubt know
by n «v . D r . Brown is no
longer in P o rtland . He la at
Howard U n ive rs ity In Wash
ington. D £ w where be ia the
coo rd inator of th e ir newly
created Law Enforcem ent and
U rban Studies Censer.
Thia decision was one oi
much soul searching fo r O r.
BrtMtn.
He had many com
m itm ents to the S U M . city and
com m unity.
A pparently, he
deetded that he meat expand
his 11 ready iegerxlary hort-
zone. W h ile at Howard D im -
v e rs itv , hia unique expertiee
• i l l he used to the fu lle s t.
H is experience and knowledge
w ill effect the national level.
Because Howard U n ive rs ity is
a Black school, u w ill become
the M ecca to r Black c r im i
nologists in the United states
arxl they w ill be guxied by D r .
B row n. L ee P . Brow n, once
again, la putting society be
fo re hie fa m ily , w lie . children
and own personal am bitions.
In other words, he is making
the supreme s a c rific e for
Black people.
force behind tlie caucus. He
fe lt that tfw Caucus could tw
a unifying lorce in the Black
com m unity. D r . Brown was
well aware that the Black
Cau -us would come under at
tack. How ever, ,w somehow
felt that it would em erge vic
to rio u s ly .
L e e P . Brown was orw of
Il goes without saying that the m ost p ro lific men to a r
Blacks
in
Portland des riv e in Oregon in recent lim es
perately need htm. tecause arxl his influence and impact
not tw realized
im
the Black leadership here is w ill
already nil and we can't af m e d ia te ly . M usi jwople know
ford to lose anym ore B lacks. Chat they could call him up
L ee was just beginning to and he would always fwlp
make his impact on the local them . M ost people know that
tw stood Ui the backgrourxl
Black om m um ty.
I am not
and gave guidance. W hetfw r
unmindful that he was b to e rly
v is ib le o r invisible, hia pre
c ru iz e d fo r tfw le tte r that he
w rote to the Com m unity Con
sence was te ll.
“ F a re w e ll
vention.
It seems to rite it
D r . Brwwn; Portland and O re
was not so much what he said
gon w ill m iss you'**
o r did (o r did not do) as a
1 have observed that a (ew
the way that he went
o tiw r poaentul leaders have
about it .
It was reg retful
a rriv e d in the community —
that he was out of town when
Jam es Rogers and Almose
the convention was held. How
Thompeon — and it w ill he
e v e r, as the (acts sur rounding
interesting to see what role
that " c o n tro v e rs ia l" le tte r
they w ill play in the future'
come to light, I am sure
1 have tie feel ing that Leon
people w ill re a lize that he
H a r r is w ill not be in Portland
was somewhat justlfted fo r
too much longer. And it would
w r;ting it.
As of date, how
tw a shame to lose him . In
e v e r, ALL of the (acts are
spite of his "personal philo
N U T known.
sophies and habits,” tw is an
As I have often surm ised.
able and know ledge r Lie In
P ro fe s s o r Brown was re a lly
dividual and we need h im . We
doing too many things. How
m ust soriwhow keep Biecks
e v e r, he did stop doing some
■n the state. T h is point w ill
of them arxl .’ egan to con
tw analyzed in a forthcoming
centrate on the Oregon Black
a rtic le .
Caucus. He was the moving
BLACK POWER
is in the voting box this year.
Ruby L . Pace
114 N £ , Shaver
P o rtla n d . Oregon
With Ron Hendren
A YOUNG VIEW OF WASHINGTON
1972: NEW HIGH IN POLITICAL LOW BLOWS
W A S H IN G T O N -It may be that the full
scope of the intelligence activities earned
out by employees o f the Committee for
bbe Re-election of the President will never
come to Light. Certainly, the details of the
Watergate caper and related incidents are
not likely to be sorted out prior to the
election. And since the finality of the
ballot box seems somehow to render
unimportant even he stormiest of cam
paign antics, perhaps nothing much will
ever come o f the wnole affair
More, however, is to be hoped for. The
activities »nth which the Republicans
have been charged -and the Administra
tion's own investigators apparently have
confirmed that at least some o f those
charges are justified -are of a distinctly
illegal shade What is worse, some of
those activities seeia to have been earned
off by, or at least with the knowledge of,
rather high officials in the Republican
scheme of things
Politics, we all know, can be a dirty
business And precisely because we have
come to expect questionable conduct
during campaigns. :here is a tendency to
brush the whole matter aside as unworthy
of serious attention
It is a tendency we should resist The
Campaign
Practices Committee,
which has been ir./estigating complaints
about dirty polit cs for 18 years, an
nounced the other day that it handled
more complaints in the first five weeks of
this campaign than during any com
parable period in its history
“ I f the present trend continues," said
committee chairman Charles P Taft, “ we
will have a new high in political low
Wows during 1972.”
I f we are to believe T a ft-a n d to date
no one has challenged the impartiality of
hia com m ittee-then one of two things
has happened. Either we have become
better at detecting bad poiitica, or we
must be resigned to the fact that there is
more of it today than four, eight or 12
years ago.
Of course, part of it may be that i t ’s
somehow in vogue io level chwges. It you
are accuaed of bugging, let’s say, the
tactic ia a.) deny it happened, b ) deny
knowledge of it if it did happen, c.) call 4
a cheap political shot and d .l accuse the
opposition o f larceny-all in the same
indignant breath. A more-or-less calcu
lated confusion reigns and no one knows
what to believe If the truth ever does
come out, it's not until after the election,
and that spells “ too late ”
But this year, »nth its overall increase
in corrupt campaign practices in general
and the Watergate affair in particular,
provides an opportunity to crack down
on the whole nasty business, if not
through the ballot box then in the courts.
It is an opportunity we should avail
ourselves of. I f we don’t, by the time our
next Presidential election year arrives we
may find we »nil need a grand jury just to
referee the campaign.
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