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Newspaper Page TextJQ JJ THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Political Revolution Not Backed Up by Other Reforms, Myrdal Notes MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MkDKtKD. ORtliOlM (Cditor'i note: Will the American Negro gain full equality in our time and. li to, what will it mean to America? And what it the portent of the Ole Miti ri ots recently? (Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal, one of the world's fore most economists and a long time student of race prob lems in America, address ed himself to these ques tions in a speech at How ard university, Washing ton, D.C., this summer. Ask ed to analyie the recent unrest in Mississippi, he re ferred back to this address which is extracted below. (Myrdal, 63, is professor of economics at the Univer sity of Stockholm; was Sweden's postwar minister of commerce; and from 1947 to 19S7 headed the UN's economic commission for Europe. He directed a Car negie Corp. study of the American race problem from 1938 to 1942. His book "An American Dilemma" (1944) is a standard work. Myrdal holds honorary de grees from Harvard, Yale and Columbia universities.) necessary. In this new epoch the Negro cause is a winning one. I have not the slightest doubt that we shall continu ously see great improvement in the Negro's status in Amer ican society, and I even fore see that the rising trend of the past two decades will ac celerate. It would take me too far afield to explain all tny reasons for this conviction. But, among them, on the material side, is the grow ing affluence of society which provides more elbow room for everybody and has little in terest in pushing anybody into the ditch. On the spiritual side, there is the reality of the ideals en shrined in your constitution and rooted in the hearts of the American people. With rising levels of edu cation the hold of these ideals in America is continuously strengthened. I n crcasingly, the false and derogatory be liefs about Negroes, which have filled the function of ra tionalizing prejudices, can be expressed only by those will ing to betray their own lack of culture. SELF-SEGREGATION MUST GO: I should not be fully candid entele to give you a comfort with you, if at this point 1 j able and uncontested econom- ing to retain petty monopoly ! segregation and discrimina-1 parts of the North, but many a major step towards the ! preserves among a Negro cli-j tion against Negro families in I other schools are also bad, complete integration of Ne- housing. But the general prob-1 and the best hope for Negroes, groes in American society did not stress another impli cation of the integration of the Negroes in the wider American society, namely that the Negro professional middle and upper class will have to surrender economic monopolies which they have held, and are still holding, on the basis of prejudice. You cannot cry for the breaking down of the walls of segre gation and discrimination while, at the same time, hop- ic safety. You must have the courage to choose a harder life in which your abilities will be tested against the norms established in the wid er American society and, in deed, in the whole world. As the integration process proceeds, the problems of the Negroes will gradually tend to disappear as separate prob lems. For a long time yet, there will undoubtedly be problems of breaking down lem of slum clearance in American cities is the bigger and more important one. And the Negro's stake in that big ger problem is the greater as there is no hope for a sat isfactory separate solution to the housing problems of Ne groes as long as slums remain a blot on American cities. IMPROVE ALL SCHOOLS: The schools most Negro children attend are bad in the South and often in some By DR. GUNNAR MYRDAL Distributed By United Press International As we can now look back over the era of reconstruction with the wisdom of hindsight, we see clearly that the rea son why so much went wrong and why so little permanent improvement in the lot of the Negroes in the South result ed was this: That the politi cal revolution was not back ed up by economic and social reform. The Negro people were left again to the mercy of the white upper caste in the South, now embittered bv all that had followed their mili tary defeat. Thereafter, for more than half a century indeed, un til the end of the 'Thirties - the status of the Negro peo. pie remained on the whole unchanged. There were ad vances on some fronts, but retreats on others. In my study of the Negro problem in America at that time, I came to the collu sion, however, that this pe riod of stagnation was only a temporary ballancing of forces which were just on Ihe verge of being broken. I saw big changes in Ihe offing. And, as we know, this ac tually happened. These last 20 years have been filled with advances on all fronts: in the labor market, in education, in the fields of social welfare and housing, In the structure of law and law observance, and generally In the enjoy ment of more equal opportuni ties to do things, to move in society, to work, produce and consume without meeting seg regation and discrimination. TWO ASTONISHING DECADES: N Prejudice ilself is also slow to disappear, Ihough its legal and institutional retain ing walls are crumbling. There is still a long road to travel before America be comes in fact the egalitarian country of its creed. But in historical perspective the ra pidity of progress is astonish ing. Let us remember that practically all of this progress has taken place in Ihe short period of I lie last 20 ye:irs, following six decades of stag nation - - and that its coming was not anticipated by most students of the American scene. The progressive achieve ments of recent years have not been won without efforts. Every individual advance on the whole broad front has !md to be fought for, sometimes against fierce resistance, m thi, general advance unfor tunate incidents occur which neepiy disturb the partici pants. But we should not ex pect the uprooting of racial inequality in the (hi-c of in herited and emotion - laden Prejudices to be frirtinnles. GOOD FROM THE BAD: In a seiiM1, unpleasant inci dents even have a function to fulfill in this process of ad vance. In this light, the Little )(,ck disturbances and the many other unfortunate incident's reported daily in the Ameri can press have their posi tive role to play in giving mo mentum to social advance. I maintain that it is impor tant to see clearly that the trend moves steeply upwards, In order to avoid discourage! ment and to sustain the deter mination required in ihe skirmishing that may still ne Subscribers T-i report Improper nr mm t 1 1 very of Ihf Mail inhmu -. Mrdloid phonf 772-Hlli, Ah. wnrt 4H at 1..UH m ,,r (hone Birutf, Mnntjig.tr jmrt Yrekn phone CLnlic 9-;ii7i he-tort- K pm daily And 10 30 a m Siindrtv il regular delivers- jirme hurt!y alter vmi rail plm.e nnlif office, thua eliminating aperial rneasenser aervlre particularly in this period of desegregation, is a campaign for improving the schools generally. In this situation, it is both natural ana necessary that Negroes should support and join those forces in American society which stand for gen eral social and economic progress. When narrower group interests are submerged and the pursuit of social ad vantage for the whole com munity is brought to the fore. will have been taken To fight discrimination against Negroes in the labor market remains naturally a task that cannot be relaxed. But much more important is the recreation of the condi tions for American economic progress, as nothing is more ! effective in liquidating dis crimination than full employ ment and a rising trend of incomes to all. In this way, the cause of raising the status of the Ne groes in America and stamp ing out the remnants of seg regation and discrimination is bound up more closely than ever before with the progres sive causes in the country. As American Negroes you have no reason to have a split per sonality. "She integration o( the Negroes in American so ciety has already proceeded so far that without any hes itation you can feel that what is good for America is good for the Negroes and equal ly you can feel that what is good for the Negroes is good for America. . Cleanliness, Neatness Affect Work Quality ? New York - fli PI) - Dr. Leslie J. Nason, professor of cduca- . tion at the University of Southern California, says the quality of citizenship and the' quality of learning often are) affected by cleanliness and : neatness. j "The child who is sent to i school appropriately and neat- Two Banks Are Kept For Leukemia Girl Dallas, Tex. - (UPD - There ( employes to give blood to are two banks in the life of ! Cynthia were made by the a five-year-old blonde who is ! Pallas Junior Chamber of dying from leukemia. Commerce, which won a na- . ,, ,, tional Jaycee award for its One is the Wadley Blood j -project Against Leukemia." Bank, where Cynthia Ann Red "PAL" buttons are Calender receives an average iven ns wno dona(e of at least one pint of blood , blood t0 ieukem!a patients a ., . land for research on the dis- ine uuier is me rtrst IV a- TIGHT FIT Huntsville, Tex. - H'TO -Physical fitness programs at the Texas slate prison added a new dimension recently when training instructors urged prisoners to supplement group exercise sessions with do-it-yourself exercises "which can be accomplished in the compactness of a cell." 1MUHSDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1362 'Project English' Starts Look into Students' Writin D 11 ly dressed, as well as physical- ,lona' Bank in Dallas, where Iv clean, is in a good position to tackle his learning task," he noted. One of America's last re maining herds of great ant lered moose is living in Mich igan's Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior. P Oregon 35 SOC 39 Air Force 20 EOC 7 w-y-.vx v ..-.... m. v. - - " - N: '. ' v . :." -.: ;. :...: n Jl I. j H mW inn c nwiywHUu m ft -w- J , . - I A 1,100 employees have "adopt ed" the girl and are pledged to donate the needed blood. Cynthia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Callender of Electra. Tex., does not know that doctors expect her to live less than two years. Arrangements for the bank ease. Ten other groups in the Dallas area, ranging from mil itary reservists to fashion de signers. have similarly "adopted" children stricken with leukemia. Burma is an agricultu-al country, depending on one crop. rice. HEADY SPICE New York - Wli - Take an other look at the bay leaves sitting on your spice shelf. To you, the things add extra in terest to fish or chowder. They're palate ticklers. But to the Creeks and Romans, bay leaves were used when weav ing crowns for Olympic heroes. By JAMES DOYLE United Press International I Eugene- il'PP -Several years j ago. educators came to the I rnnrliNinn thai .Tnhnnv .n,,M ! ' not read. Changes were made to correct the situation. Johnny is older now, and he can read. But he can't write well and generally can not express himself well in conversation. A new five-year study call try. The University of Ore gon is the only one in the West engaged in the study. The program, under direc tion of Dr. Albert KiUhaber. will be carried on in two fields-the university is the headquarters for the center and three contiguous school districts in the Eugene area where students, grade 7 through 12, will work on cur riculum devised at the center. ed "Project English" is going I Methods of Teaching to look into the situation and make changes to correct it. Project English began this fall at six institutions of high- ine reason Johnny has a poor general knowledge of his mother tongue. Kitzhabcr believes, is mainly because shamefully out of date High school English is a mixture of grammar, fre quently repetitious, and lit erature and anything else that can be crammed into the course. 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"There is now an entire Beneration which thinks that one of the characters in 'Snow White' is a lovable little deaf-mute." And what of grammar? "Most textbooks show no awareness of the scholarly developments in the study of language since "1900," he said He added that the material on language in these text books is a description of Latin, not English. Latin, at the end of ihe last century, was regarded as the only pure, classical lan guage and. as a result r... lish was forced inlo its mold. Nol Sequential On the whole high school leaching in English is "not sequential, not modern, and nol intellectually sound" Kitzhaber said. He mentioned some brum spots, however Westport, Conn., Pittsburgh, Nebraska, and Portland, where the high school curriculum was revised according to his own study. It is hoped the new project will result in a complete re vision in methods of teaching English in high school. The results of the study will nui force-fed to other schools, however, but will be held up as a model for a new cur riculum. Selected groups of hloh school teachers spent the past summer in classrooms learn ing a new order in literature and language. In order to teach effectively their own language, the teachers must have a belter grasp of the subject mailer, he indicated. Grades 7 through 12 were chosen for the project study because departmentalized in struction normally begins at the grade 7 level. The fresh man college level was omit ted because of the necessity ot limiting the study. New textbooks will be. one major result of the project. ihe U.S. Office of Educa tion has granted the univer sity $250,000 to begin work. The program will eventually cost a halt-million dollars. The rest is to come from the university and the Oregon Public School system. Outside Nations Plague Britain For Territory By PETEB KNOX London - IDPII - Britain Is fast winding up its colonial empire but remains a big enough International landlord to be plagued with real es lalo heartaches. In various quarters of Ihe globe, Britain is being con fronted with claims by out side nations for territory over which the Union Jack now flies. These claims are distinct from the independence de mands of the peoples inside the colonies and come main, ly from neighbors who believe the British rights of owner ship rest on shaky historical ground. ' Some of the claims, like Spain's over Gibraltar, are centuries old. Others have lain dormant for many years but have bubbled to the surface again as talk of colonialism has filled the international air now that many countries have won their independence. Wants Land The latest country in with a claim on British territory Is Venezuela. It wants back a slice of disputed land along its border with British Guiana and is asking the United Na tions to consider the matter. Britain is used to this sort of business. Recently, the Philippines came up with a claim to British North Bor neo. Earlier in the year there were talks with Guatemala over its demands to soverign ty in British Honduras. South Africa has been cast ing covetous eyes on British Bechuanaland, and in the arid Middle East the Yemen has long disputed British rights In Aden and its neighboring pro tectorate. In the Antarctic, Britain, Argentina and Chile all have rival claims to big tracts of 1-ind, befittingly have agreed to "freeze" their various He. mnnds for 30 years. The British recognize that Ihe old days have gone when the dispatch of a gunboat to the scene was enough to dis suade other countries from trying to take any British controlled area. Unvleldino; Nevertheless Ihe British have shown no signs of yield in" to any of the claims. Their diplomats are engaged In a large scale holdine oner ation to keen the pretend" away while the eolonlnl prob lem is sorted out. The avowed British aim Is to hrlne all colonial nenntes eventually to inder)cn',enr and then let them deride for themselves the problem of nei"hborlv relations. The Brltisli are confident lhat the people in the colon, les prefer It that way. and want the neighbors kept back.