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MemDer Calllornla Newepaper
PubUehera AaaociaUon
Flight o' Time
Mall Trlbona 10, 20, 30,
and 50 yaart ago.
fr Mir m.
10 YEARS AGO
' May 12, 18S3 (Tuesday)
Hearings on the first 17
protested mineral patent ap
plications on Rogue River Na-
i tlonal forest lanas lasreu
,; hnnt 15 minutes this morning
when the claimant fBlled to
appear.
At least three more Med-
; ford establishments have re
celved licenses to sell liquor
by-the-glast. .
20 YEARS AGO
May 12, 1 (Wednesday)
Arts Throckmorton, 00, dlej;
...j ntaina twice in cover-
ed wagon and resided t Ruch
aince 1883.
rrom Arthur Perry's "Ye
Pot" column: "To-
to Dlants and ice-cream
.i.i. nut nut and on. prema-
turely, have been nipped by
the frost."
30 YEARS AGO
May 12, 1133 (Friday)
' Rogue valley National
Guard companies to hold an
nual review In Medford Ar
mory. Former President Herbert
Hoover headed for fishing
trip on Rogue river.
40 YEARS AGO
May 12, 1S23 (Saturday)
First tourists of season
reach Crater lake.
Poor fishing on Rogue riv
f humeri on snow water and
fish ladder at Savage Rapids
dam.
(0 YEARS AGO
May 12, 1813 (Monday)
Additional eaulpment ar-
rives In Medford Installation
at local weather station.
Arches of welcome being
rnnatructcd on M e d f o r d's
Main St. In preparation for
arrival of 1,500 delegates to
grand lodge of IOOF.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina at tan cotiat h lueeilen
even er elM li ascallsaii five ar
lii ii good.
1. What Is the birth stone
for the month of June?
2. The Isle of Capri (s un
der the sovereignty of which
country?
3. What date Is fixed by
the Constiutlonal amendment
as the date for the beginning
of regular sessions of Con
gress?
4. Monrovia is the capital
of what African republic?
5. The Aswan Dam It lo
cated In which country?
6. Did Hitler become dic
tator of Germany In 1031
1032, or 1933?
7. In which war did the
U.S. obtain the Philippines'
8. Of which Latin Amur-
lean republic It Quito the cap-
ital?
9. Name the capital of
Maryland.
10. What sra bounds the
Philippine Islands on the
west?
Answersi 1. Paarl. 2. Italy.
3. January 3. 4. Liberia, t.
Egpyi. t. 1131. 7. Spanith
Amarlcan. I. Ecuador. 9. An
napolis. 10. South China Baa.
SUNDAY, MAY 12. 1983
Seashore Opponents
It is now apparent that the proposed Oregon
Dunes National Seashore has almost overwhelm
ing approval from the people of Oregon. .
Trie opponents are a relative few, mostly
in the immediate area involved. Some of them
object to the proposal on principle; some of
them because of fear of how it will affect them
personally fears, incidentally, which are mostly
without any foundation.
But the opponents are vocal and determined.
And, in the view of at least one observer, they
themselves are going to help cause the creation
of the seashore.
e e e e
THIS apparent paradox is explained by Charles
V. Stanton, editor of the Roseburg News
Review, who himself first opposed the Seashore,
then became a reluctant supporter of it.
He said:
"In my opinion, the very attitude of the residents
of the area is assuring a transfer to the National Park
Service. ,
"It is evident . . . that they insist upon the status
quo. They want no cnange. incy want no rauum,
They want no regulation. They want no interference.
"But the area proposed to be Included in a National
Seashore has one very outstanding attribute. The
whole coastal strip Is most definitely recreational In
character. The recreational asset should and must be
preserved for future generations ...
"Residents of western Lane county have vigorously
fought off all suggestions for zoning, land use or any
other regulations which might preserve the recrea
tional resource . . . Coos county residents have been
dragging their feet ...
"So long as the residents of the area are unwilling
to cooperate and to Join in preservation of the recre
ational resource, a resource to which all people claim
ownership, while insisting upon maintaining the status
quo, coupled with complete rejection of all land use
regulation, there is no alternative, as I see It, to the
national park program, expensive though It may be."
Thus Mr, Stanton. It would be poetic justice
if the most ardent opponents of the Seashore
become a principal reason for its creation. E. A.
Is Gambling
Is gambling a sin? Is
ful?
The Questions are aee
cerning them has been
. 1 T 1 .
tne iMew nampsnire legislature wnicn ei up
the first state-ran lottery in the nation in nearly
70 years. ' '
Few would areue seriously cnat a Dingo game
onerated to raise money
sinful, for immoral, or
very many people ge.t too upset1 when tney near
ahntit. a neighborhood nennv-ante noker came.
These, of course, are
the crap tables and slot machines ol Las vegas,
But wherein are they different in principle?
- tv . , e'- '-
WHY is tossing a coin to see who's going to
nnw fnv the rfiffpe fnnnpent and harmless.
i m i-i d4i,-i j i.
wniie swKintr aiuu on me
ful? Do thev differ in anv
These are problems
fully resolved in tne mincis 01 most or us. Ana
thus most of us are, to a degree, hypocritical.
The snvereip-n state of Orecon is a hvnocrite.
too. For, though the Constitution forbids lotter
ies, the state allows, and benefits financially
from, nari-mutuel betting
which are out-and-out
definition.
T , .... , ,ii. l airy, nomuer generals to De-
HERE is something in human nature thatueve in bombers, carrier
likes to "take a chance," whether it be a "dmirais t0 believe in car-
business venture or a $2
Business gambles such as insurance com
panies playing the odds on life expectancy
are eminently respectable. But organized
gambling as m Las vegas oiten is regaraea
as shamelui, in large pan, pernaps, Decause 01
thp t.vnfi nf riBonle it attracts.
. , It may even be that
ambivalent attitude toward gambling. When it
. . I l-l l 1L i ll ..lUL.
is aone Dy respeciaoie
when done by "shady
ana immoral.
IT IS true that some people can become addicted
A in irarnhliniT iiiat na
to drugs and alcohol.
ilies have gone hungry
has cambled his money
It is also true that, where organized gamoung
is allowed, the door is open to other sins and
vices corruption, bribery of police and other
officials, and often rackets and prostitution.
But we question whether these adverse effects
of gambling make gambling, as such, wicked.
Certainly it is not so regarded in some parts of
the world where state-operated lotteries have
been conducted without scandal ana witn evi
dent majority approval.
THE moralistic attitude toward gambling was
recently stated well
in his column in the uregon statesman, we saia
"This (New Hampshire's action) la bound to excite
the moral forces across the nation who will denounce
this means of raising revenue. It's a gamble, with
all the vice of gambling which preys on the greed
of human beings. For many it becomes compulsive
and the trail from the betting camps and slot machines
is Uttered with suicides, bankruptcies, embezzlements."
We are not about
adopt New Hampshire s plan for a state lottery,
We have long deplored the hypocrisy of Ore
irnn's lottery can nlus horse and dotr bcttinc.
We acknowledge the
often ensue from gambling, legal or oincnvi.se,
But can someone tell us just why gambling
purely as chance-taking,
Immoral?
it immoral? Is it harm
- old. Discussion con
revived by the action of
1 1 ! 1 L ...
for a church is really
harmful. Likewise, not
different in. intent fi'bm
I, a i i ,i .' : ;
run ox uie uice io sin
way except in degree?
that have never been
on horse and dog races
lotteries by any honest
bet on the ponies,
last is tne Key to our
pcopie, 11 is an tigm;
characters," it is sinful
thou pun Vippnrnfi nrlrlietfirl
It is true that some fam
because tne wage-earner
away.
by Charles A. Sprague
to propose that Oregon
deplorable effects which
is immoral fc. A.
MEDFORD
"You Know What? A Lot Of People Down
Here Are Jutt Plain Prejudiced Against Us"
Matter of Fact y jo..Ph ai.p
(c) New York Herald
McNAMARA AND THE
CHIEFS
Washington-T h e replace
ment of Adm. Anderson as
Chief of Naval Operations has
at least tempo
rarily intens
ified the at
tack on Secre
tary of D e
fense Robert
M c N a mara,
M c N a mara,
it 1 a being
said, must
stop "interfer
Ing" with the
Altop
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It is high time, therefore,
to examine the basic question
that has divided Secretary
McNamara from certain mem
bers of the Joint Chiefs. The
question Is whether the great
decisions about the character
and scope of our defense
program should be made by
the Joint Chiefs-by the pro
fessionals, as they like to put
It-or by the Secretary of De
fense and the President.
Anyone seeking the right
answer to this question must
always keep in the very fore
front of his mind the central
fact of modern national de
fense. ,
e e'
THIS central fact, which
makes our national de
fense problem different from
any in the past, is simply the''
relentless and terrifying pro
gress of the countless sclentl.
fic specialties with military
applications. Military technol
ogy, which might change
once a century before the
industrial era, and once very
20 years before the Second
World War, is now in a condi
tion of continuous, rapid revo
lution. Because of this continuous
technological revolution, a
senior commander who Is not
obsolete before he puts up his
fourth star is a very rare bird
Indeed. It is in the nature of
cavalrymen to believe in cav
alry, homber generals to be-
1ICIO, ITIICII MIC WCMfUIIO 11ICJT
believe In become obsolete,
generals and admirals usually
become obsolete at the same
moment, because they will not
change their beliefs.
The record of the U. S,
Army and Navy between the
two wars affords countle l
melancholy proofs of this
rule, like the fate of Gen.
Billy Mitchell, who fell victim
to the Army's ruling cavalry
men and also to the Navy's
ruling battleship admirals.
1WE primitive ship-bombing
tests of the '20s ouaht to
have been quite sufficient to
show the battleship admirals
how wrong they were. At vast
expense, the battleship admir
als refused to be convinced
until 1041, when the Prince of
Wales and the Repulse went
down under rather weak Japa
nese air attacks. In this re
spect, moreover, our own ex
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"Hay. Mie, whara s lha action?"
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD.
Tribune Syndicate
perience exactly parallels
foreign experience.
The tank doctrine so bril
liantly proclaimed by Col.
Charles de Gaulle ought to
have formed the basis of
French and British military
planning before the last war.
But no one then was strong
enough to force modernization
upon the French and British
General Staffs. So the de
Gaulle doctrine was heeded
only by the German General
Staff, which had benefited
from that great reformer and
modernizer of all military
services, and resulted in total
defeat.
In that era technological
change was like a glacier,
whereas now it is like a rush
ing torrent. The most con
spicuous and horrifying post
war object lesson is the story
of the Air Staff's manage
ment of our early missile de
velopment.
WHEN the war ended, it
must be remembered, the
Air Staff was wholly controll
ed by senior officers who
were even more deeply con
vinced that "nothing would
replace the bomber" than
Gen. Curtis LeMay is con
vinced today. Missile develop
ment was so weakly pushed
that it took the U. S. several
years to build a single work
able Chinese copy of a Ger
man V-2 missile taken as war
booty.
In addition, the bomber
men on the Air Staff laid
down specifications for the
first American long-range
missile which would have
required a weapon of the
approximate size and configu
ration of the Empire State
Building. The specifications
themselves effectively for-
bade a serious ICBM program
In 1953, however, we were
saved the word is by no
means too strong by two
civilians, former Secretary of
the Air Force Harold Talbott
and his Assistant Secretary
Trevor Gardner, both of
whom were subsequently
fired for their pains. They
first secured the appointment
of the committee headed by
the late Dr. John Von Neu
mann, to study our missile
program.
rTHE Von Neumann Commit-
A tee report proposed radi
cal changes tn tne Air ataii
specifications, to permit the
ned ICBM design which has
now resulted In our existing
Atlases and Titans. The Air
Staff response was bitterly
all but unanimously negative
Acceptance of the Von Neu
mann report was in fact im
posed on the Air Force by
Talbott and Gardner, and
they alone persuaded the
then-Defense Secretary
Charles E. Wilson, to put the
Von Neumann program Into
effect, despite the Air Staff
opposition.
There are, in truth, only
two ways to have a modern
defense when technology is
WELCOME TO
NEW
HAMPSHIRE
OREGON
Today Cr Tomorrow
By Walter
c I9S3. The
ON VACCINATING
THE GERMANS
On the face of it, there is
something strange about the
urgency with which the ad-
ministrati o n
has been push
ing the Brit
ish, the Ital
ians and the
Germans-par
ticularly the
Germans-toac-
v.
ccpt a scheme
for a Europe
an nuclear
Lippmaoa force. Al
though the administration in
sists that the United States
has a nuclear power which is
quite adequate for the defense
of the West, It continues to
press the Europeans to inter
est themselves in nuclear mat
ters. Why? The administration
does not like General De
Gaulle's nuclear enterprise.
It thinks poorly of the British
nuclear effort. -Yet it keeps
slogging along toward a "multi-lateral"
scheme which would
bring the Germans into the
nuclear business and, inci
dentally, induce them to pay
a large share of the cost.
THE underlying motive of
this strange behavior is a
fear that the Germans insist
on Imitating the British and
the French, that they will be
gin to cry out that they, too,
must have nuclear power be
cause, if they are not a nucle
ar power, they will be a second-class
country. It is as
sumed by the medicine men
of the administration that if
Germany were then refused
nuclear weapons, the country
could, and probably would,
revert to the militarism of the
first world war if not the
Nazism of the second. There is
the shadow of Franz -Josef
Strauss and his Bavarian fol
lowers. Therefore, it is ur
gently necesary to do some
thing to prevent the Germans
from reverting to type.
The something that has to
be done, it is then argued, is
to make the Germans feel that
they are a first-class European
nation with nuclear power
while at the same time not
giving them any genuine nu
clear power.
There is to be a multi-later
al nuclear force in European
waters, manned by crews in
which there will be some Ger
mans and paid for in part by
the West German government.
Germans are to participate in
the targeting and planning of
this force. The purpose of
these clumsy and complicated
devices is, to put it bluntly, to
vaccinate the Germans against
wanting a nuclear force of
their own.
It is, I believe, an amateur
ish, naive and deeply unwise
project. The supposedly killed
virus in the vaccine is just as
likely to be a live virus.
Moreover, far from this being
a way to treat the Germans
with dignity and self-respect
and as equal partners, it treats
them as an incurably danger
ous people. They are to be in
oculated against a congenital
propensity to become rabid.
But the supposed vaccination
is to consist of their being al-
progressing with great speed.
One is to trust to civilian
control. The other is to per
mit the cavalrymen, or who
ever their successors may be,
to spend all they choose on
their pet weapons, and then
to provide enough additional
funds to buy the newer wea
pons as well.
That, it must be added, is
why the Joint Chiefs of Staff
this year submitted a budget
$13 million higher than the
final McNamara budget.
This Is the
By ERIC SEVAREID
By its dominant voices, its
most unforgettable faces and
its chief acts of bravery docs
generation
recognize It-
BVll UIIU IMS
( lory mark it.
For America,
this post-war
period Is sure
ly the era of
the Negro pas
sion. The most
moving voices
aavareia are now those
of Negroes; the most searing,
lasting words are put on pa
per by Negro writers; their
music is the American music
most penetrating and persuas
ive to other parts of the
world: no cause is now to
fundamental to the health and
integrity of this society as the
Negro cause: of no other lead
ers are to much stamina and
courage demanded as are now
required of Negro leaders.
They are bound to win,
somehow, not only because
their present alms are so lim
ited and unarguable, but be
cause they have succeeded In
involving us all, whoever we
are, wherever we live within
the nation frontiers. They
have caught the attention of
th whole American peopl
lippmann
Weihtniton Pa
lowed to look at, to put their
hands on and to smell nuclear
weapons.
e e e
IF WE mean to treat the Ger
mans as equals, we should
begin with the reason why,
even If Britain and France
have nuclear weapons of their
own, the West Germans must
not and should not have them
today. This is not because the
West Germans must be made
to suffer more for the crimes
of Hitler. It is because, as a
consequence of Hitler's
crimes, Germany was defeat
ed, occupied and divided.
It remains divided because
the four occupying powers
and the two German states
have not been able to agree
on a plan for the reunification
of Germany. As long as Ger
many is divided, it is a sick
nation with a grievance. As
such, it must not have the
power to redress its grievance
by going to war. The truth of
the matter is, and all sensible
Germans know it, that Ger
many is not a normal Euro
pean state as long as it is di
vided and occupied. Because
Germany is abnormal, she
must not have the means and
she must not live under the
temptation to make war.
Germany, therefore, ca n
have full equality only when
reunification has been
achieved and her grievance
removed.
THE right approach to the
German question, the
right way to vaccinate the
Germans, is by taking ser
iously the problem of German
reunification. This has been
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Many of our nation's news
papers (this one not included)
printed a picture the other
day of the Simon Bolivar
status in Washington that was
decidedly unusual.
The status, located across
the street, from the Interior
Department building, ' depicts
the great Latin American lib
erator mounted on a spirited
horse and waving his sword
above his head.
The picture was unusual be
cause it showed an AMERI
CAN FLAG flying from the
tip of Bolivar's sword.
1IHAT happened?
" A Irlrk nholnpranhpr man.
euvered his camera around
until he got the flag flying
from its staff above the In
terior Department building
exactly in line with the tip
ot the Bolivar sword and
pushed the button.
The result was the startling
picture.
ITNUSUAL?
Not at all.
m Washington they are,
and long have been, expert
at making things look like
they ain't.
MORE from Washington:
" Latin America is in
dangerous period because of
conflicting social and eco
nomic pressures, according to
Phlllippe de Seynes, United
Nations undersecretary for
Economic and Social Affairs.
Undesecretary de Seynes add
ed: "It is true that Latin Am
erica is going through a par
ticularly dangerous period in
which the social aspirations-
having grown more rapidly
man economic capacity, ex
press themselves in impati
ence and sometimes in an
ger." Era of the
and, more than that, thev
caught up the conscience of
tin. whole people, however
many of us may try to deny
this to ourselves. A news
paper or television picture of
a snarling police dog set upon
a human being is recorded in
the permanent photo-electric
file of every human brain.
This generation is not like
ly to find surcease from the
Negro Passion; its source
springs and the resistance to
it are too deeply grounded
for easy resolution, and its
present outburst too long de
layed. Its more violent mani
festations are not going to be
confined to the deep South.
The head of black steam build
ing up in places like New
York, Washington and Chica
go arc finding outlets too-few
and too small, at the present
rate, for the permanent avoid
a nee of combustion.
Because t h I r unfolding
drama Involves the automatic
reflexes of the Instinctive
sense of justice, because it In
volves namable, hearable.
countable individual persons
of flesh and blood, It la going
to dwarf the general and so
cial pageants of this domestic
era, whether they be th
struggles to ra!loi-.!,ie the In
choat megalapolit, to pre
THINGS YOU WOULDNT
KNOW IF YOU HADN T
READ THEM HERE
Artichokes are much bet
ter If swallowed whole . . .
Excessive TV viewing can re
sult In a condition known in
the trade as fried eye balls . . .
Robin Hood got his start steal
ing bicycles from rich mes
senger boys and giving them
to poor messenger boys ... A
western martini with an on
ion in it instead of an olive
is called a Hoot Gibson . . .
The Jayne Mansfield Fan Club
has more men than women
. . . If you're a flea, happi
ness is a warm puppy . .
Prince Rainier is our idea
of a poor but honest million
aire . , .
imnoBsible under Dr. Aden
auer. When he leaves office, it
should begin to be possible to
interest the West German gov
ernment in the prospects of a
gradual and controlled draw
ing together of the two Ger
manys. If the two Germanys begin
to draw together, it will not
be possible for Mr. Khru
shchev and his successors to
keep the two Germanys apart.
It is a poor business, our
seeking to beguile the Ger
mans with phony nuclear tri
fling. The central principle
and purpose of our German
policy should be the reunifi
cation of Germany and with
it the end of the inequalities
and the servitudes which are
the consequences of Hitler's
war.
He concluded:
"This is a period in Latin
America In which certain ar
chaic structures resist essen
tial reforms."
1IELL, HE WAS talking in
official Washington gob-
bledy-gook, and as a result no
body outside Washington has
even the foggiest idea of what
he was talking about.
Thats one of the things
that are wrong with our fed
eral government ' In these
days. ",
OTILL more from Washing-
ion: - ' - ' -
The U. ' S. Foreign Aid
Agency has dropped a pro
ject to bring EDUCATIONAL
TELEVISION to underdevel
oped countries.
The project, part of an aban
doned $1.6 million program
would have put more than 1,
000 large transistorized tele-
vision sets out in remote
areas of Africa and elsewhere.
The idea came under fire in
congress last year, and was
postponed.
AS NEARLY AS CAN be
determined, the idea was
to park big TV sets out in
the African jungle - so that
in intervals between their
tribal wars the natives might
be enabled to come and see
MODERN CULTURE, and
thus be diverted from their
evil ways.
Question:
Do you reckon their trib
al ways are any worse than
the W8ys of life they might
have picked up from watch
ing modern TV?
tviaemiy someoody in au
thority had his doubts, and
so the idea was abandoned
Personally, I think it was just
as wen.
Negro Passion
serve the open space, to erad
icate a disease, to "conquer"
space, or whatever.
The time Is coming, soon,
when the Negro Passion will
truly dominate American pol
itics. It is going to change the
prism through which we con
sider the problems of far-off
nations; romanticism will
have to give way to realism.
Liberalism of the academic or
cafe society brand - the moti
vations of those who rhapso
dize over the Peace Corpsmen
in Ethiopia or journey 6.000
miles to sit at the feet of Dr.
Schweitzer, but who would
never dream of visiting the
night police court In their own
city and observing the tragedy
ot the American Negro - such
Impulses arc going to lose
their present staus in the hier
archy of the virtues. There
will be a noticeable dearth of
hiding placet for those pro
fessing belief either In their
religion or the American
Constitution.
a
An education In the facts
f life and history is in store
for those pained by the messy
contradictions built In to the
Negro Passion. Those bewild
ered at the Negro uprising
("alter all, they had made a
lot of progress') may learn
that thit it one of the eternal
..wo.
TELEVISION IN TOKYO
According to th Nailian
ratings, wrestling account!
for three of tha fop rated
twenty shows in Tokyo.
Th Jetsons, Popeya and
Our Gang Comedies are th
only thre American shows
Jo find favor in th top
twenty. Thar Isn't a single
weitern, not yn an east-rn-weiern.
"Zubari Ate
masho", on of th mot
popular shows, is a Japanese
rersion of "Th Plic Is
Light.'
S5o
HOW IT BEGAN
It's the deep South in 1851
and a plantation owner tells
his overseer that he wants all
the slaves out in the field)
hour earlier every day.
The overseer drawls some
thing like, "Great, chief, what
are you all going to call it?"
Having been fed his straight
line, the plantation owner re
plies, "Daylight Slaving Time,
what else?"
TOM SWIFT AND HIS
ELECTRIC GARBAGE CAN
Maybe you haven't heard
about th man out Phoenix
way who decided to do
something about neighbor
hood dogs knocking over
hit garbage can at night
Having torn knowledge of
electricity, h wired th
garbage can so that ii would
give th dogs a terrifying,
but non-fatal, jolt if they at
much at dared touch their
wt noses against it. (Pleas
understand that w don't
approve of this tort of
thing). At a safety precau
tion, he added a twitch at
hit back door to that hit
lectronie dog tcarer could
b turned off aach morning.
Anyway, he forgot to throw
the twitch on morning and
a contcientiout and hard
working garbage man reach
ed for th can and . . . powl
Th ending it quit simple,
really, Th dogs' ar back -happily
pushing over th
garbage can and our elec
trical friend tpendt hit Sat
urdays hauling hit own gat
bag to lha dump. , . . .
5z
WE KEEP OUR PULSE
ON THE FINGER OF
THE PEOPLE
We stopped a typical man-on-the-street
the other day to
ask how he felt about Rocke
feller's recent marriage. Hii
reply, interesting to say the
least, was,
"How's the old coot going
to support a wife If he keeps
on giving all them dimes
away?"
MIDGET MOSIALS LEARN
SPORTSMENSHIP FROM
MAD MOTHERS
II really happened ever
at Nyssa in eastern Oregon
but w tuppot it could hap
pen any place. A crucial
pea wee league baseball
gam was In progress whan
two mothers of opposing
players started to have heat
ad words over an umpire's
decision. Th gam was call
ed a few minutes later after
the two mothers ttaried
beating aach other over th
head with their puries.
lessons from past ' rebellions
against oppression. It is not
when the oppression is most
complete that these revolu
tions begin to revolve, but
when concessions are given,
hopes are born, light is
glimpsed at the end of tha
dark tunnel. It is when an
oppressed people feels close
to its goal, not far from it,
that their action becomes
frenetic.
tea
Those who are cynical or
upset by the moral quality in
the Negro phenomenon, by
the spectacle of lofty courage
and self-sacrifice among the
Negro leaders, side by side
with the spectacle of spread
ing crime and moral squalor
in the slum-bound masses of
the Negro poor, may learn
that the first is a direct re
flection of the second, in
natural, not ita unnatural
partner. Desperation, like,
wir, ennobles some among Its
victims and debases others.
No true people's revolution
was ever neat, clean or de
void of tad anomalies.
If the Negro Passion of to
day is not a true people's rev
olution, it Is as close to on
as we have ever known in our
land.
(Distributed 1963, by Th
Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved)
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