Portland Observer Evers protests Wallace visit 0/éjÿan . and nobank like life RbaI O leari Bank¿. 1 B Y W A L TE R L. S M A R T Exocutive Director National Federation ot Settlement» and Neighborhood Cantar» I can't street too strongly the importance of unity, of working openly together for the public good. Maybe this is an old fashioned message at this moment in a country whose leadership appears to have been working in secret to maintain power by means unfair and foul, when we find new evidence everyday of stealthy and illegal air strikes in Southeast Asin and chi canery in South America by a cabal of America's corpora tions and its C.I.A. CLEANERS « kAUNDERERS <» IstaòHshad 1 9 12 M H S V f DRY CUANING REASONABU RATES •S ami nr t sM «t service •? H o u r cteA N iN G SATUtOAYS until noo n •C O M FtW t lAUNOtV « e v ic t s e if service 0 4 * C U A N IN G A V A IlA ilt Do II VoorMlI And So*t I t 1014 N. 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Ijet's face the fact that while our elected offi cials and their hirelings have been busy laundering dollars and b u gging each o th e r, themselves and even their families, they have ralloualy and crassly neglected the needs of the country and its people. What has happened to programs to aid the cities, to improve standards of health, housing, economic develop ment for the urban and rural floor, to provide day care for children of working mothers or tuition aid to young men and women whose talents de serve college and whose par ents can't afford it? What ever happened to those vaunted programs for law and order? The simple answer is: nothing has hap pened nor seems likely to. I'm optimistic enough to think that the situation in W ashington w ill im p ro ve slightly after the next Con gressional elections and enor mously a fte r In a u g u ra tio n Day, 1975. Even pessimisti rally, 1 am darn sure it can’t get worse. But in the meantime, who is doing something to help solve the problems of our cities? Who is working to help the poor to help them selves? Who is our brother's keeper? The answer is you are and I am . . . we are. No one can match the re sources of our government it still pays welfare checks and Medicare bills and dis burses disability and Social Security payments. No one nor one organization can do what our government has the ability to do. We must continue to pressure for real change in our next adminis trations. Alabama Governor George Wallace made a not too publicized visit to Jackson, Mississippi on August 31 to speak at the 18th annual leadership conference of the Citizens’ Council of America. Wallace, who only a few weeks earlier had shared the platform with Senator Ed ward Kennedy at a political rally in Alabama, shared this one with former Mississippi Governor Boss Barnett. Bar nett, a staunch defender of segregation, praised Wallace as a "political messiah" and a “ modern Moses". Wallace told the audience that the nation is finally beginning to understand the platforms and objectives he enunciated in his unsuccess Ervin fights busing Senator Sam Ervin's role as rhairman of the Senate Watergate Committee has been widely applauded by many liberal opinion makers, but some of his North Caro lina constituents aren't quite as impressed. According to E rvin staffers, the Senator has been deluged recently by letters from back home urg ing him to forget Watergate and turn his attention to busing and school Integra lio n w hich the le tte r w riters see as a more im­ mediate threat. E rvin, a long time opponent of civil rights legislation, has taken steps to m ollify the home folks by introducing a s trin ­ gent anti busing bill, which forbids any branch of the fe d e ra l go ve rn m en t from tampering in any way with freedom o f choice schools. On August 28, during a re cess in the Watergate hear mgs, E rvin sent out letters to all 99 of his Senate col leagues urging their support of his bill, and he carefully called the letter to the atten lion of N orth Carolina news papers. The bill, S 1737, is one of at least a dozen anti busing measures now floating around the Congress. Geaocide T re a ty gets Seaate consideration Consideration of the Geno ride Convention w ill soon begin in the United States Senate. The treaty, passed by the United Nations Gen eral Assembly in 1948, makes it an international crime to attempt the destruction of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups as such. Seventy five countries have ratified the Convention. The United States is the most prominent nation that has not. It was submitted to the 11.S. Senate in 1949 by Presi­ dent Harry S. Truman, but the Foreign Relations Com mittee refused to art on it. President Nixon sent it to the Senate on February 19, 1970. The Foreign Relations C om m ittee approved the Convention in May 1971. re­ porting to the Senate: "As our planet becomes more crowded, man's behavior to­ wards his fellows must be governed by standards even higher and more humane. This treaty seeks to set a higher standard of interna tional morality and should be judged on that basis," Be­ cause it did not reach the Senate floor by the end of that session of the Congress, the Foreign Relations Com mittee again gave its ap proval early in 1973 and the treaty is now on the Senate calendar awaiting floor ac lion. Senate M ajority Leader Mike Mansfield has indicated that he w ill bring it to the floor of the Senate for action in September 1973, soon after the August summer recess. Day Care Mothers To p ro v id e C h ild C a re In y o u r h o m e Ages Infancy th ru 12 yrs. Day - Swing • Graveyard (Continued from pg. 1, col. 6) hy the Portland Development Commission or hy the Hous ing A u th o rity of Portland. 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