Civil Rights Planks
Of Both Parties Draw
Attacks From Ranks
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington Controversial
civil rights planks in the 1952
platforms of both major parties
have drawn fire from their own
ranks.
The fact that neither party
has fulfilled its promises on the
Issue in the past, as shown by a
Congressional Quarterly survey,
does not seem to cool the flames
of controversy.
Leading the attack from with
in on the Democratic plank is
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr.,
a Negro from New York. His
counterpart in the GOP is Sen.
Wayne Morse of Oregon.
Powell told a Harlem mass
meeting the Necro was "sold
down the river" at the national
conventions of both parties. He
said the Negro vote is sufficient
to control the outcome of the
Nov. 4 Presidential lection.
"We will vote only for our
county, city and state candidates
unless between now and Novem
ber we can get firm assurances
from Governor Stevenson and
Senator Sparkman that they will
campaign on a more forthright
civil rights program than the
ambiguous one adopted in the
party platform."
On the other hand, several
prominent Democrats defended
the civil rights plank but they
did not all agree on what it
promises.
Sen. John J. Sparkman of
Alabama, the Democratic Vice
Presidential nominee, said in
Richmond, Va., that the Demo
cratic platform leaves it to "leg
islative bodies" how best to as
sure "that no person will be de
nied employment unfairly."
Sparkman said "all I ask a
person to do is read and study
the platform. You can't find
FEPt mentioned in it, and
there's no word of compulsion."
Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D.-
N.Y.) who helped draft the plat
form, said he thought the plank
was much stronger than was the
Democratic plank of 1948. He
pointed to the fact that the 1952
platform includes a promise of
modifying the Senate rule on
debate. This provision, he said,
"singled out the real villain,
which is the filibuster."
In making his attack on the
GOP plank in a magazine (New
Republic) article, Morse said:
"It is a great disappointment
that the plank of the Republican
platform is such a weasel-word
ed, compromising document of
double talk. Eisenhower and
Nixon must clarify it and take
a firm stand for federal rights in
the field of civil rights. All
Americans are entitled to the
guarantee by the federal govern
ment of the constitutional right
to the protection of first-class
citizenship."
18 Join in Statement
Defending the Republican
plank on civil rights, 16 GOP
officials -released a joint state
ment saying a Republican . vic
tory in November would hasten
fair employment legislation.
The statement read, in part:
"It is our interpretation of the
civil rights plank in the 1952
platform that FEPC -'Sth en
forcement powers and' similar
laws will be z;celerated by a
Republican victory. We state this
based on: (1) The plank itself
which says 'We will prove our
good faith ... by enacting fed
eral legislation to further just
and equitable treatment in the
area of discriminatory employ
ment practices'; (2) because we
believe FEPC and other federal
legislation against discrimina
tion and segregation to be en
tirely constitutional; and (3) be
cause we see no interference in
states where adequate laws are
in effect and where federal and
state laws and administration
can be coordinated."
The statement also said that
in the matter of civil rights legis
lation "the Democratic party
can only promise but cannot
achieve."
The Republicans signing the
statemenf""were Gov. Alfred E.
Driscoll of New Jersey, and two
delegates to the national conven
tion, in addition to the following
Congressmen:
Senators Irving M. Ives, (N.
Y.); Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.,
(Mass.); Leverett Saltonstall,
(Mass.) and H. Alexander Smith,
(N.J.).
Representatives Clifford P.
Case, (N.J.); James G. Fulton,
(Pa.); John W. Heselton, (Mass.);
Jacob K. Javit, (N.Y.); Robert
W. Kean, (N.J.); Albert P. Mo
rano, (Conn.); Hugh D. Scott,
(Pa.), and Charles A. Wolver
ton (N.J.).
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Pages 1-6
HAPPY TALK Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois chats with three prominent women at a reception
for Cabinet wives at Democratic national headquarters in Washington. The presidential candidate,
guest of honor, talks to Mrs. James P. McGranery (left), wife of the attorney general: Perle Mesta
(center), minister to Luxembourg; India Edwards, vice chairman of Democratic national committee.
Number of New Polio Cases Reach 2,648 in One Week
Washington - 4U.R) The Pub
lic Health Service has announced
that 2,648 new polio cases were
reported in the United States in
the week which ended Saturday
a 15 per cent increase over
the total for the previous week.
The weekly communicable dis
ease summary of the Public
Health Service reported "a sig
nificant increase." In the East
North-Central division the week
ly total jumped from 535 cases
to 755.-' Largest increases were
in -Illinois and - Michigan, the
summary said.
212 Cases in Illinois
In Illinois, the increase was
Portland (U.R) M-Sgt. Ken
neth Lauer, whose nine-year-old
daughter, Yvonne Louise,
drowned in the Columbia river
Monday, "has been granted a
leave from the Army in Korea
to join his' grief-stricken family
here, Portland Red Cross head
quarters said' Thursday.
from 140 to 212. In Michigan the
case load rose from 159 to 225.
The summary said in both
Iowa and Texas, where polio
had been reported in "epidemic
proportions," decreases, of about
28 per cent under the previous
week were recorded.
In the current "disease year"
beginning in April the over
all total is 12,046, the Public
Health Service said, under the
12,865 for the corresponding
American Soldier Gets
Life Prison Sentence
Berlin (U.R) A U. S. Army
general court-martial sentenced
a 26-year-old American soldier to
life imprisonment at hard labor
Thursday for raping a nine-year-old
girl and attempting to rape
a 16-year-old.
Pvt. Gordon A. Bright, Knox
ville, Tenn.; was the first Ameri
can soldier stationed in Berlin
to be convicted of rape.
period in the record polio out
break of 1949 and far lower
than the 7,056 cases in the same
period last year..
Mexican Economist Lists
Reasons for High Prices
Mexico City (U.R) A Mexi
can economics expert, Santos
Barcena, lists four points contri
buting to' the current high cost
of living in the country.- They
are: 1. The necessary volume of
food is not produced. 2. Pur
chases are made abroad at high
prices. 3. Despite scarcities at
home, exportations continue. 4.
Monopolies prevent competi
tion, i
Medical School
Teaching Hospital
Bids Turned Down
Portland (U.R) Bids for con
struction of the ' University of
Oregon Medical School teaching
hospital have been rejected by
the State Board of Higher Edu
cation because they were too
high.
Dr. R. E. Kleinsorge, Silver
ton, chairman of the board's
building committee, said bids
"far exceeded available funds."
He said the board had about
$5,800,000 available from legis
lative appropriations to build
the hospital. Bids submitted to
taled $6,676,884, about 10 per
cent above, architects' estimates,
he said.
Bids were. excessive, the board
said, because of material and
wage increases which have gone
into effect since preliminary
planning and appropriations
were made about two years ago
The board has asked architects
to work with medical school ad
ministrators to cut costs. Find
ings will be reported to the
board September 9.
Bids were entered on a gen
eral contract, the heating plant,
electrical contract and elevator
installations.
Jap Has Right Idea On Efficiency Pie?
Tokyo '(U.R) An Ameri
can in Tokyo was complaining
about the inefficiency of the Jap
anese. "They, are slow," he said.
"They can follow a given course
but get rattled when something
new turns up. They waste time.
They always use two men to do
one man's job."
A Japanese friend of the Am
erican listened pati ently and
then remarked:
"Perhaps you arf . right. But
did you ever stop to think about
this? If we Japanea were as ef
ficient as you Am ericans want
us to be, we probab'iy would have
won the war,"
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Portland (U.R) Joseph A.
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