Portland/O bserver Thursday January 18. 1973
"Voice of the NAACP”
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W ilkins calls America "state of seige"
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BLACKS - L E T ’S G ET IT TOGETHER
It la Incumbant upon all
rad-blooded Americana to do
/ «heir bit to keep the lieat on
bigotry and the advocate* of
reclam . Thee* are currently
anemias from within whodea-
troy the very foundation upon
which thia country waa found
ed.
Bigotry can la found In aorne
aurprlalngly high placea; po-
altlona that determine wheth
e r thia community ahall move
forward or backwarda: In In
dividuate who could atretch a
point and decide whether a
defenseless black ahall live
or die.
Thia la an unbelievable alt-
uatlon. But thia la not t t *
only horror b a rrie r the Black
haa to face conatantly. He has
to face the dupe puaher next
door, the raplat In the next
block, the m urdererwholurka
In the dark and la never caught.
(L ike the caae of Edwin T .
P ra tt - Urban League D lre c - •
to r In Seattle, Washington.)
He haa to deal with the hood
lum and the con manwholeela
the only way he can survive
la to outsmart people around
him .
These are Black People we
dlacuaa who terro rize other
Blacka and have the gall and
audacity to call them •‘ broth-
e ra ” and ••alatera” . T la s e
are Black people who create
their own Jungle and criticize
other Blacka wlan they move
to the sulurbs wlarw tlay
search for a climate a little
leas hoatlle.
Black communities are de
veloping Into arenaa where
Black leadera are In a con
tinuing struggle tor power and
are too self-serving and de
pendent upon M r . Charlie to
la effective In any crisis
situation o r even to give his
neighbor a helping hand when
needed.
But the real tragedy la heap
ed upon the poor and less
affluent Blacks. They, too,
fight among themselves. The
difference la th eir fights are
more physical and more per
sonal. T lo y cut up one another.
They shoot one another.They,
In many cases, malm and leave
scars on one another that
w ill last fo r a lifetim e.
The poor Black la no lunge/
the
ha|>py-go-lucky.
foot
shuffling, smiling Individual
he haa historically been pic
tured as being. He la caught
up In a tragic situation to
day that la cannot cope with.
The traditional, paternalistic,
great whIK father la no long
e r there to protect him -
CANNOT PRO TECT H IM .
The young Black has a mon
key on hla back. He la hooked
on dope. He la resentful, He
can’t get or hold a Job. He
haa lost faith in the system.
There has to develop a new
understanding, new program
ming, iaw Involvement, new
and continuing concern If re
sponsible Blacks are to rid
their communities of the hood
lums who have taken over con
trol of Black neighborhoods
ami the deep-rooted problems
which are driving those who
are best prepared to help
outside of the arena.
Tim e and circumstances
have taught Blacks a lesson.
In aplte of promises and long-
winded denunciations. Black
communities can expect only
token help to solve their
neighborhood problems from
downtown. If problems are to
be minimized, there haa to
he total Black commitment.
We must make upuurmlnda
that there la but one way
out - we've got to get It to
gether ourselves.
‘ •NAACP BITS AND PIECES”
The NAACP congratulates
James L . Butler upon hla
appointment as C ivil Rights
Coordinator for the Oregon
Highway Division.
The NAACP congratulates
C la te M . Peoples and the
“ Community Care Program "
for their w rite-up In "J et”
last week.
The NAACP congratulates
M rs . C lifford Dixon for (alng
an honoree as a "Woman of
Dedication” by the Portland
Federation of Women’s O r
ganizations last week.
The NAACP w ill l a taking
a close look at Salem for the
next several months. Under
Don C . Vann’ s leadership, we
w ill see that "o ur voice w ill
be heard” .
O regonians feel taxes u n fa ir
By a wide margin, middle
Income Oregonians feel the
tax load is u n fa ir ly d istri
buted.
Alxxit four fifths of middle
Income Oregonians (eel that
workmen's compensation and
unemployment benefit pay
ments should la adjusted to
cost of living Increases.
A m ajority of middle In
come Oregonians say they
would change Jobs If they had
the opportunity.
Stretching the paychec k re
mains a major problem for
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middle Income Oregonians.
Moat middle Income O re
gonians are heartily In favor
of the four-day work week,
these are just a few of
the conclusions reached In the
second of three reports on a
precedent-setting survey of
middle Income wage earners
in the state conducted by the
Oregon Bureau of Labor. The
survey was mads about tla
middle of last year and gave
about 500 persons who were
heads of fam ily a chance to
apeak out on issues of the
day, A m ajority of the re
spondents
were from the
Portland area.
The firs t survey report
Indicated, among other things,
that the biggest problems
middle Income Oregonians
think they face today are
taxes and Inflation. The se
cond report amplifies these
sentiments.
According to Norman O.
Nllsen. the State L a lo r Com
missioner, a third and final
report w ill be Issued In tla
near future with a fully-
illustrated
compilation
to
follow.
"T h is survey has given the
most talked-about group In
our society a chance to speak
up about some of their Indi
vidual situations along with
their views, hopes and frus
trations,” Nllsen said.
”1
hope policy-m akers both In
government and the private
sector w ill pay close heed to
what
these
self-Identified
middle Oregonians have to
say and consider appropriate
measures.”
The survey was conducted
by D r . E ric Wales, D irecto r
of Research for the Bureau
of Labor, allied by hla assis
tant. Nancy Doughton, and
with technical assistance of
Bob Hulen, the Bureau’ s In
formation O fficer. The ques
tionnaire they utilized In
cluded such Items as employ
ment, pay rates, pensions,
education, working conditions,
government activity.
When asked In the ques
tionnait» If they thought the
tax load In Oregon was fa irly
distributed among the citi
zens, 89 per cent of those
responding In the Portland
area and 96 per cent of (nose
answering from the remainder
of the state said " n o " .
About 95 per cent thought
that workmen's compensation
payments to those Injured on
the Job should he periodically
brought Into line with actual
living costs.
In regard to aslm llarq u es-
tlon
about
unemployment
henaflts, 78 to 80 per cent
said "yes” .
About one In
six
respondents from the
Portland area were opposed
to what would he an automa
tic, periodic hike In unem
ployment payments.
"T h is support fo r change
Is Interesting,” Nllsen no«d,
“ In view of the fact that It
Is anticipated that bills aimed
at keeping compensation and
unemployment payments In
line with living costs w ill be
Introduced to the forthcoming
session of the Legislature.”
Six of ten said the middle
Income group Is too laavlly
taxed and has by far tie
heaviest tax burden while ora
In eight In the Portland area
and one in four from outside
said those In the low Income
and lower middle Income
brackets were too heavily
taxed.
In general, no one particu
lar type of tax was mentioned
except for the property u x,
which one In four felt was
burdensome.
M ore than 60 per cent of
thoee surveyed felt that per
sona in upper Income brackets
had too light a tax load. About
35 per cent thought the« busi
ness firm s and corporations
got oft too easily and about
15 per cent thought that
"others” got an unfair tax
break.
Among the "o thers'’ were
large, subsidized farm ers;
"tim b e r Interests” ; specu
lators and persons with in
come from abroad: persons
with
high In c o m e
from
sources other than salaries
and tourists.
M ore than half didn't think
they got their fa ir share In
return for the taxes they pay
and about one In four thought
they
were
gening
their
money's worth compared to
other citizens.
Only three
In 100 Indicated they felt they
are getting more out of their
tax dollar than other O re
gonians.
Although latween 70 and 76
per cent of those polled said
they were satisfied with their
jobs and more than a third
said their Jobs were what they
always had been aiming at or
pretty close to It, between 60
and 61 par cent lndlc a ted they
would change jobs If there
was an opportunity.
Biggest reason for a change
among Portland area persons
was the amount of money tlay
now asm while this factor
shared top billing with the
actual type of work performed
among respondents from the
rest of the state.
In closing, the second re
port noted that about half of
those questioned said that
th eir station in life measured
up to previous expectations.
It was about 50-50 among the
remainder whether the cur
rent situation was better or
worse than expected.
Copies of the reports about
OREGONIANS IN THE MUD
DLE may he obtained from
the Research Division. O re
gon Bureau of Labor, Room
438, Stats Office Building.
1400 S.W. Fifth Avenue. P o rt
land, Oregon 97201.
Tele
phone
Inquiries
can
he
dliectsd to the Research Divi
sion at 229-5740 In Portland
or to Bureau of Labor offices
In Salem. Eugene, Medford,
Pendleton and Coos Bay.
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The United Good Neighbors
acy, IncM $10,500; Planned
board of directors approved
Parenthood Association, $51,
allocations to Its agencies,
(XX); P a rry Center for Chlld-
last week for use during 1973.
e m , $72,000; Portland Center
T la UGN board approved the
fo r Hearing and Speech, $65,
recommendations of the 91
350: St. Johns Day Care Cen
member volunteer agency re
te r, $6,250; St. M artin Day
lations committee, which con
Nursery $42,300.
ducted fudge! studies before
Salvation Arm y (Portland),
and after the recent UGN cam
$262,500;
Salvation Army.
paign.
(C lark County^, $32,500: Sho-
The 1972 campaign achieved
C ra ft, Inc„ $14,544; Suicide
Its second straight victory
Prevention Services, $5,000;
In as many years by raising
Tualatin
Valley
Guidance
$6,698,013 for 100.1 per cent
C linic. $31,850; Tualatin V al
of $6,691,351 goal.
ley Workshop, $7,500; United
Don C . Frisbee, UGN pres
C erebral Palsy, $71,740; U r
ident, said allocations total
ban League of Portland, $100,
$6,729,553, which Includes the
000; Visiting Nurse Associa
sum raised In the recent drive
tion, $99,372 plus $12,000 for
plus a “ ca rry-o ver” amount
Bedside
Nursing Services
made possible through refunds
through theClackamas, Wash
from agencies where service
ington, and Clark Counties
demands In 1972 did not re
Health Department; Volun
quire expenditure of full allo
teers of America, $181,315;
cations.
Volunteer Services Bureau,
Frisbee, chairman of the
$10,010; West Tuallty Day
board and chief executive of
Care, Inc., $24,570; Women's
ficer of Pacific Power and
Protective Division, $150.
Light Company, said the funds
YMCA (Downtown, John R,
w ill help meet minimum agen
Leach,
North,
Northeast,
cy needs, a development fund
Washington County, Clack
of $75,000 to finance Innova
amas County, andClarkCoun-
tive programs, and support
ty,
Washington). $290,100;
for four new agencies.
YMCA
(Dwantown and St.
The new agencies are the Johns),
$202.800;
YWCA
Children’ s Club, Inc., which
(C lark County),$25,900; Youth
Is a day care centerforchild
Progress Association, $19,
ren of working parents, and
568.
is located In Southeast Port
The Oregon United Appeal
land; The Foster Parents As
was allocated $820,857 for
sociation, which recruits and distribution to the following
trains
foster parents; St. member agencies: Albertina
John’ s Day Care Center, which
K e rr Homes. Inc. (Louise
provides day care services to
Home, Portland Residence);
children In the St.John’ s Area;
American Social HealthAsso-
and Tualatin Valley Workshop,
ciation; Boys and C lrls Aid
located In Beaverton, which Society; Catholic Services for
conducts a sheltered workshop Children: Farm Home of Ore
program for both physically
gon; C hristie School; Leuke
and mentally retarded.
mia Association of Oregon,
Frlsby added that some of Inc.; Mental Health Associa
the child care agencies re
tion of Oregon; National As
ceived larg e r increases this
sembly fo r Social Policy and
year, due to the fact that Development. National Coun
th eir 4 -C ’ s Federal Funding
cil on C rim e and Delinquency;
has been cut tack. These In
Oregon Association for Re
clude: Clackamas County Day
tarded Children; Oregon State
C are Center. East Vancouver University YMCA-YWCA; Our
Day Care Center, F ru it and Lady of ProvIdenceChildren’ s
Flow er Day Nursery, S t.M a r
Nursing Center; St. M ary’ s
tin Day Nursery, W estTuality
Home for Boys; United Serv
Day Care, and Volunteers of
ice Organizations (USO); Un
America Day N ursery.
iversity of Oregon YMCA-
YWCA; V illa Gerard; V illa
The agencies, and th eir a l
locations, are as follows:
St. Rose; Volunteers of Am er
ica Mothers and Children's
Allepgy
Foundation
of
Home; Waverly Children's
Am erica, $3,000; American
Red Cross (Oregon T ra il
Home; and YMCA Youth in
Government.
Chapter), $926,771; A m e ri
can Red Cross (C lark County,
Washington), $49,010; Boys
Clubs of Portland and the
Tri-C ounty ares, $83,500;
Boy Scouts, $295,600; Camp
F ir e G irls (Portland). $110,
000; Camp F ire G irls (Clack
amas), $33,000; Camp F ire
G irls (C lark County),$23,800;
Campershlp Fund. $18,500;
C a rl V . M orrison C e n te rfo r
Youth and Fam ily Service,
$62,850; Catholic Children’ s
Service (C lark County), $15,
200; Catholic Fam ily Serv
ices, $64,150; Catholic Youth
Organization, $39,400; The
C hlldem 's
Club,
$7,000;
Children's Home Soclery,$17,
700; Clackamas County Child
Day Care Center, $16,000;
Clackamas
County Mental
Health C linic, $ 17,650; Coun
cil on Alcoholism, $5,000;
C lark County Chapter of the
W as h in g to n Association for
Retarded Children. Inc., $14,
208.
Delaunay Institute fo r Men
tal Health, $26,750; E astV an -
couver Child Care Center,
$18,900;
Epilepsy League.
$19,250; Fam ily Counseling
Service (Clackamas, M ult
nomah, and Washington Coun
ty Offices, and Homemaker
Service), $266,176; Fam ily
Law Center, $46,357, plus an
additional $4,000 to the Wash
ington County B ar Association
for sim ilar services, $2,000
of which comes for the UGN
development fund; F t. Van
couver Seamen's Center, $9,
500: Foster Parents Associa
tion, $6,000: Friendly House
end Llnnton Community Cen
te r, $106.000; F ru it and Flow
e r Day nursery, $49,700: G irl
Scouts, $124,100; and Highland
Community Center, $10,300.
Jewish Community Center,
$72,200; Jewish Fam ily and
Child Service, $34,500; Jew
ish W elfare Federation, $17,
500.’ L IF E Center, $16,583,
Lutheran Fam ily Service of
Oregon, $50,000.
Mental HealthCenter(Clark
County),
$29,030: Multiple
Sclerosis Society, $30,000;
Multnomah/Clackamas Asso
ciation fo r RetardedChlldren,
$40,000; Myasthenia Gravis
Association, $5,800; Neigh
borhood House, $59,500; O re
gon A rthritis Foundation, $53,
000; Oregon Heart Associa
tion, $165,000; Oregon L ite r
American Negroes are un
der a state of siege launched
by the "executive branch of
the Federal Government,” ac
cording to Roy Wilkins, ex
ecutive director of tt>e Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
” We used to he able to call
Lyndon or John when things
got bad,” said Aaron Henry,
president of the Mississippi
chapter. "But now we've lost
tla White House and the Attor
ney General. And when Nixon
appoints one more member to
the Supreme Court, we've lost
that, too.”
In remarks following his
speech, M r . Wilkins said his
greatest disappointment In
1972 was the Presidential
election. He labeled Senator
George McGovern “ wishy-
washy on the busing Issue”
and he accused President
Nixon of fostering polarization
between black and white by
telling white voters they were
"hard-working people” (and
implying that blacks were not).
With membership up by
nearly 22,000 to 412,000 in
1972, and the treasury in good
financial shape, the NAACP
w ill not go into a "holding
action,” M r . WUklna Insisted,
but would pursue a “ cool”
strategy in areas of education,
housing and employment.
However delegates from the
Deep South said they felt
violence could be the result
of President Nixon's alleged
policies.
" A fte r they hear Nixon’s
code words, the whites in
M ississippi say they don't
have to obey the laws any
m o re ,"
said
M r . Henry
a long-time civil-righ ts ac
tivists and currently the only
Black state chairman in the
Democratic party.
"B u t it's worse in the Deep
South than up North,” said the
Reverend E . Bums, field di
rector in Mississippi. "Back
home. It’s a matter of life
and death."
M r . W ilkins devoted much
of his speech to the claim that
the Government has not fought
fo r jobs for black workers. |n
la te r rem arks. M r . Wilkins
repeated his opposition to the
appointment of Peter J.B ren
nan, president of the State and
C ity BuildingandConstruction
T redes Council of New York as
Secretary of Labor.
"Brennan has been a very
real obstacle to the employ
ment of blacka In the construc
tion Industry,” M r . Wilkins
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