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6 B WEDNESDAY. JULY 24. 1H3 MEPFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Churches Heed To Respond Positively To Civil Rights Challenge By GERALD S. SNYDER , United Press International New York (UPD Christian churches in America will ail completely in their usefulness if they do not respond posi ' tively to the challenge of Negro civil rights, one of the nation's most prominent Protestant churchmen be lieves. "If we do inot produce mas sive Christian support for a moral issue that is as clear as this one, the churches will have been revealed to be an incumbrance on society rath' er than a source of inspiration and vision," said Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presby terian Church in the U.S.A. Dr. Blake, who is stated clerk of the 3,249, 000-member denomination, was arrested and shuttled off in a police wagon earlier this month as one of a group of white and Negro clergymen who at tempted to integrate an all white amusement park near Baltimore, Md. i ) GETS WORK PERMIT - Television actress Abbie Dalton holds her son, Matthew David Smith, 8V4 weeks old, as a clerk at the school district office in Los Angeles gives her a city school district work permit for her baby. The baby, her real life son, will play her television son on the Joey Bishop show. The baby will make his television debut as Joey Barnes Jr. Sept. 21. California state law requires that all minor children get a work permit from the local school district before holding a Job. (UPI) Swvjns: Southern Oregon- tnd t, - Northanv Caljiqmla for Ovar 33 Yean HEAP DIG BUYS for POW WOW DAYS mo. Is Your 1 r Wedding Ring Set Worn ? 1 For Pow Wow Days W Are Offering a Collection of DIAMOND SET IV adding . 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For about 20 years, he said, the churches have "said all the right things" about deseg regation, but now all Chris tian churches must "identify themselves" with the plight of the Negro. The emphasis must be on "action against talk, he said. It remains to be seen, he said, if the rank and file of church membership will fully support the movement for full equality. "The leadership of the oppressed groups almost completely lost confidence in the seriousness of the white leadership," he said, ! ',7 ftjg Country of Origin Stamped on Lumber Has Opposition By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - The Senate has adopted one of the major proposals of the domestic lum ber industry to aid its com' petitive battle against Cana dian competl tion - but the prospect of a p r e s idential veto 1 o o m s large if the bill reaches House. Both Sens, wayne Morse and Maurine B. Neu berger said they supported the proposal to require, that all imported lumber be marked with the name of the country of origin. This proposal was adopted as an amendment to a broad bill on the same sub ject. The amendment was of fered for the industry by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D Wash.). The Kennedy administra tion is opposed to the legisla tion just as was the Eisen hower administration. A simi lar bill, without the lumber rider, was vetoed by Presi dent Eisenhower in 1960. The bill itself Is aimed at the practice of importing prod ucts in bulk, marked wun their country of origin, and then repackaging them in smaller quantities and selling them without identifying tneir foreign origin.. Much of the Impetus behind the bill re portedly is from tne wooa screw Industry, Lumbal Rider Rejected The National Lumber Manu facturers association tried to get the Senate Finance com mittee to .Include sawed lum ber in the bill's coverage but the committee declined. The committee received opposition reports from a host of govern ment agencies. It rejected the lumber rider but approved tne overall bill, 11 to 4. when Sen. Magnuson offer ed the lumber rider , during Senate debate on the bill, it was adopted without a roll call vote. Since the bill had previously passed the House without including lumber, the Magnuson amendment is sub ject to approval of a House- Senate conference committee. Whether the lumber rider survives this conference or not. the bill appears to be headed for a veto from Presi dent Kennedy for much the same reason it was not signed into law by Eisenhower. The State Department claimed then, and still claims, it will Impede good trade relations. When Congress enacted a law requiring imports to be stamped with the name of the manufacturing country during the New Deal, it exempted certain products. In the case of lumber, It gave the presi dent discretion over whether to require imported lumber to be stamped. At the time the United States was engaged in trade talks with Canada, and one result was that the U.S. agreed not to require the Ca nadians to stamp their lum ber. So no president has since exercised his discretion to re quire marking of lumber im ports. The effect of the Magnuson amendment would be to make stamping lumber mandatory Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) ar gued that it would violate the agreement entered into with Canada in 1938. Neither Oregon senator was enthusiastic about the amend ment. To Seek Reliaf Morse said he supported the Magnuson amend ment be cause he hoped it would be helpful to the United States in negotiations with Canada In September on the lumber issue. The talks are supposed to seek some relief for Ameri can lumbermen from the im pact of rising Canadian Im ports. Morse suggested that the Magnuson amend ment might become a bargaining weapon, that if Canada makes some offer to satisfy some I American grievances the U.S. might "modify the effective ness of the Magnuson amend ment." Mrs. Neuberger said she had promised Magnuson to support it, but she expressed doubt that it would prove significantly beneficial to the domestic industry. . Magnuson said the opposi tion to the amendment comes from home builders and retail lumber dealers "because they like to have the lumber mixed, so that the person who comes in to buy will not exact ly know where the lumber came from. A good contractor can tell the quality and type of lumber when he knows where it has come from." An industry SDokesman said he thought the amendment would have little benefit for lomestic producers so lone Canadian lumber is cheaper because price Influences the market much more' than where the lumber comes from. "Now, the most important thing the churches can do is try to persuade their constitu ents to negotiate with Negro leaders in order to bring about those changes that will de segregate American life." When all negotiation fails, he said, "it would appear that the only way to move for ward" would be for the clergymen - white and Ne gro - to stand together in demonstrations." The real crisis is still to come, he said. "It is more of a national than a sectional problem and in the long run it will be solved in such major cities as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo.,- and San Francisco. : White citizens, he said, have escaped "physically" to the suburbs of these and other cities. "But it is too soon for the Christian churches to find out whether all their con stituents are going to escape morally and psychologically." Part of Religious Culture The church, by definition. is part of the religious culture of the community -. in the suburbs, the city or anywhere else, he said. And ordinary American attitudes affect the suburban churches. But the important question is, he said, "is the church affecting theirs?" Many people living in seg regated, all-white suburban areas would like to think of themselves as being in some kind of "Kingdom of God," he said. But people cannot "iso late" themselves from ques tions of moral concern by moving to the suburbs, he said. In the suburbs, they will find no such "kingdom." Just "suburbia," he said. Dr. Blake is a vice presi dent and acting chairman of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Re ligion and Race which recent ly blue-printed an "emergen cy" program to combat racial prejudice. Adopt Broad Statement The 32-member commission adopted a broad statement in support of pending civil rights legislation, made plans for a mass religious assembly in Washington and asked de nominational boards and agen cies to withhold funds from church construction projects which do not follow fair em ployment practices. The commission further has asked Congress to oppose a filibuster when projected civil rights legislation reaches the Senate floor and to pass civil rights measures "which will guarantee equal opportunity under the law to all Ameri cans." Has Dragged Its Feet Whether any real progress is made, Dr. Blake said, will depend on "the employment of Negroes and their upgrad ing, the availability of hous ing at all economic levels, in cluding the elimination . of Negro ghettos, the (raising of) educational opportun i t i e s" and, as he said was tried in Baltimore, the elimination of all "affronts to human dig nity." Some people say the church has been dragging its feet on racial matters and others that it has been moving too fast, Dr. Blake said. I I'm willing to risk a great deal in order to have the church appear to the world to be more consistent, he said A church can be very popular by just doing noth ing - if popularity is what you're after." But in the long run, he declared, a church can have no influence if it merely reflects the culture or the ideas of "ordinary people." One of the many jobs to be done, he said, is the desegre gation of the church itself and its institutions, such as hos pitals and homes for the aged. Many of these institutions of the Methodist and Presby terian churches are still seg regated," he noted. "Our whole effort will be a failure unless all white Americans begin to feel that this cause is their cause," he emphasized. "We can't leave it ever to the students or the clergymen." Dr. Blake said he has received both favorable and unfavorable comment for his participiation in the Balti more demonstration. He ad mitted that he has been roundly criticized" by some for his outspoken views and added, "I'm not happy to be an accused law-breaker." But, he said, "our best, young leadership is really watching the church" to see if it is going to be an intense and strong enough force to deal with the racial and other issues in American life. He said that to those who have criticized him for the stand he has taken here, his answer has been: "W hat would you expect a Christian to do?" - . a HI vet i i "w ' ,f ' . - - f - v f X I - " -a" J 1 ii i i k X --' -n ACCEPTED BY COLLEGE-Relaxing in the library of her home in Bethlehem, Pa., Tamar G. Moat, 14, has been ac cepted by Shimar college, Mt. Carroll, 111. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grenville T. Moat plans to be a doctor. (UPI) P GrM,8,t "Se,lp,n9'' P Wi in lit. it V hi.wvi.nfltim..floA? 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