New York Amsterdam News — 1963-07-29

f I It a N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat, Aug. 3, 1963 AmsterSamWam Nctos < C B. POWELL President k Editor P. M. H. Savoav, Secy-Trees.* J. L. Hicks, Executive Editor Wife. Published weekly by the Powell-Savory Corporation at 231 Eighth Ave., N. Y. Telephone ACademy 2-1800 Brooklyn office, 1251 Bedford Avenue. Telephone ULster 7-2500. — • MM Editorials Judge Quinn Manhattan’s Criminal Courts Judge T. Vincent Quinn has certainly burned his name into the con­ sciousness of everyone concerned with the local rights fight by his actions this past week. By sentencing seven CORE demonstrators on two different occasions to jail and then denying them bail pending appeal he served notice that he might qualify to go down in history with judges in other cities, notably, Danville, Va., Birmingham, Ala., Jackson, Miss, and elsewhere in the South. These temporary roadblocks, however, will do nothing to stop the demonstrations that are going on — as events that have taken place since would indicate. This is a battle of human rights, not of criminal against society. And the two Supreme Court justices who granted the seven defendants bail of $1 pending appeal indicate they are aware of this. Judge Quinn, unfortunately, seems not. But the march for human rights will continue —in New York City and elsewhere in the United States until the Negro has won an “end to discrimina­ tion in all its forms”, as the magazine Newsweek points out in a brilliant survey of “The Negro in America” in its issue of July 29, 1963. “As certain as the rhythm of the seasons, the Negro revolution will outlive the summer of its birth,” concludes the Newsweek article . .. “whether or not the white man is willing to open the final door, the Negro will not stop knocking”. So in spite of the Judge Quinns of the North or the Judge Quinns of the South, this is the way it will be. Workhouse sentences of 30 to 60 days are noth­ ing. They can not stop the tide of marching blacks and the whites who march with them. Meanwhile, we note that nine other persons, including seven ministers, received suspended sen­ tences after they pleaded guilty this week to dis­ orderly conduct in demonstrations at a project site. They were warned, however, of the dangers involved in their actions by Criminal Court Judge William E. Ringel. And an admitted prostitute who hobnobbed with UN representatives also received a suspended sen­ tence this week —because she had been “punished enough” by the publicity surrounding her arrest. And justice moves on. Open The Doors The country is concerned these days with what is happening in Washington as the Senate Commerce Committee holds hearings on President Kennedy’s public accommodation section of his total civil rights bill. Southerners, with few exceptions, are bitterly opposing his measure as an infringement on property rights. In essence, the measure does insure human rights against property rights. It is interesting to watch the opposition to this public accommodations measure. It all comes from the politicians, not the businessmen whom it would affect. We would assume the businessmen would be happy with the law since it would mean that they would enjoy increased business. We recall the recent black days in Birmingham, Ala. when the politicians were denying the Negroes any token civil rights and were using dogs and fire hoses on children. But it was the merchants who negotiated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and brought about the peace that Bir­ mingham and others are now bragging about, which is working fine. r- x . And in the District of Columbia, when the time came to desegregate the restaurants there, there was never any trouble nor any deluge of Negroes descending on Washington’s deluxe cafes, since Negroes, like anyone else, are forced to go where they can pay the tab and nobody can afford steaks with hamburger money. Mr. Kennedy’s public accommodations measure is simply one that insures that every man, every American, can receive accommodations in «nr««teb- lishment open to serve the public, as long as he conducts himself in a proper manner. And it means that he should not be denied accommodations be­ cause of the color of his skin. Is this too much to ask? The hue and cry of the Southern politicians that the public accommodations title would bury private businesses is nothing but the dying wail to the myth of segregation and white supremacy. Write Now Have you written your Congressman in Washington D.C., asking support of President Kennedy’s bill? If not, stop right now and do so. And after you have written your Congressman, write another member of Congress. Let them all know you are for equal rights for all American citizens. Do it now. Your Key, Sir People In Action A Profound Moral.. Continued By DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. JR. ' Since the church is the guardian of the morals of the community, it cannot look with indifference upon this pressing problem of dis­ crimination. A religion true to its nature must always be concerned about man’s social condition-. - Religion operates not only on the vertical plan but also on the hori­ zontal.. It seeks not only to inte­ grate men with God, but to inte­ grate men men and each man with himself. This means, at bottom, that true religion is a two-way road. On the one hand it seeks to change the souls of men, and thereby unite them with God; on the other hand it seeks to change the environ­ mental conditions of men so that the soul will have a chance after it is changed. KING with Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion in need of new blood. Challenge To Church This, therefore, becomes a grave challenge to the church and churchman. To meet it, all churches must accept the obliga­ tion to create the moral climate in which fair employment prac­ tices are viewed positively and accepted willingly. We must utilize the vast re­ sources of the churches and syna­ gogues for the many educational functions they can employ, and for which they have highly developed skills, facilities and experience. However, to possess resources is worthless without the will to be effective. . The time has come when the churches are needed by their people and their Nation as never before. They, uniquely, can break the deadening silence which en­ gulfs the well meaning white peo­ ple of the South. Everywhere, the white southerner who deplores the evils of discrimination and segre­ gation, complains that to speak honestly or to employ Negroes or work side by side with them will incur community hostility and scorn. He fears to speak dr act in the absence of respected com­ pany. Speak Out No one fill* this need so perfect­ ly as the clergyman? If he speaks out not once, not guardedly, but with the firm and eloquent confi­ dence that truth provides, a small stream of support will grow grad­ ually to a mighty river. I have said many times that I have faith that millions of white southerners want to end the dy­ ing order of discrimination. They need spiritual leadership and guidance. The churches must pro­ vide it because they possess it, and have the moral duty to do it. If they fail, history will record that in this tumultous era of change the churches were unable or unwilling to furnish moral leadership. This would be a grave indictment and must not be the judgment for our age. Pulse Of New York’s Public The Amsterdam be sic Sews welcomes letters on either ride of any subject It Is preferred thet letters not exceed 250 words red. Names wQl be withheld on reyueet So letters can be returned. AU must be addressed to the editor. many others. Also, at one time there was a Negro deputy chief Inspector, the late James Red­ ding. My statements which I have made are true and can be check­ ed by the text of Commissioner Murphy’s speech on the debate with Stanley Lowell. Your can consult the Guardian As­ sociation of the New York City Police Department Joseph Garber, age IS A Future Cop. Welfare Chiselers Sir: January 13. I960, Seymour WUsoo, a city employee who had stolen $30,000, was given suspend ed sentence and permitted to make restitution at the rate of $16 00 weekly Following thia, during January to December I960, numerous In dividualo who had accepted Wel­ fare funds la excess of that legal­ ly permissible, v to terms of from four months to a year for sums much smaller than WHson't. The bulk of these and mothers of children. I writing a book about the and I found in your back issues absolutely no mention of the dis­ parity between the sentencing of WUsoo and the Negro worn All I could find was mention in varioos places of the fact that DA Hogan was continuis* the ■'crackdown’* on Welfare chisel- lars. I am going to mention this in my book. But since no one Is per­ fect, It may be that I overlooked sfcme article or column in which thia disparity was mentioned, or in De- which some comment was made on the injustice of sentencing mothers of children to jag. If you know of any, kindly Inform me the date and page. I can look over back copies in the AundMiig collection. Don't Need Help Sir: I admire your column also your paper of which I’we been a reader for year* and year*. I have studied and com­ pared the Negro with the Puerto Ricans. We are fighting for the Negro and all the time we bring In the Puerto Ricans alongside of us. They can get what they want; Jobs, bousing, etc. without the Negro going to bat for them They even have a better chance for passing for white or what have you, than we can. They have a parade once a year up Fifth Avenue. Do we have one up Fifth Avenue’ I mean the Negro. No, no, ao.‘ Now if you can show or tell me why we are fighting for the Puerto Ricans as well as the Negro I’ll decline, beg your pardon and just do almost anything for amends. [ They don’t need our help. I’m a non-white aa their religious superior? I respectfully request that the Catholic hierarchy clean up its own backyard before castigating us poor sinners. Ivan Germaaicui, NYC Mr. 1-2-5 Sheet Sir: In your "Mr. l-2-M>treet" column of your recent issue you defeat your purpose in the pre­ cise area where you wish for success. investigation of Job problems We must cut through all this non­ sense. The youth of my com­ munity have not been getting Jobs! Any day you can see who Is unemployed in Brooklyn by look­ ing at the lines outside the New York State Employment Office on Pulton Street near Ashland Place. Eight out of every 10 persons are colored, and virgule or Puearto Rican. Mr Matthews expresses his Mayor Wagner should Im­ mediately call together repre­ sentatives of business and In- own bias by writing in such an dustry. the press labor and City incredibly offhand manner, of rather macabre tidbits. He neith­ er offers explanation nor means of correction. And the fact that the column is a gossip column, there is a kind of levity includ­ ed. which obviously shouldn’t be there government aides to sit down in marathon session, just as he did in the newspaper strike, until we have found at least 10,000 Jobs for our youth, who are at least as important as a newspaper. I will bend every effort to make the new Brooklyn Labor Office work for the benefit of the people of Bedford-Stuyvesaut. It is good as far as it goes, but certainly it does not go farH eoough. There can be no other solution but jobs, and that's what we need and want. .Jobs. Jones Kings Thomas R. 17th A.D., How About Cops? Sir: In one of your recent edi­ torials your paper points out there Is discrimination on the Board of Education, since there are no Negro captains. On the matter concerning the Board of Education I agree with your paper fully. But how can your paper come out with such a statement that there Is dis- crimination in the Police partment? To be appointed to the Police Department a candidate must pass several exams. Thia same procedure also applies for pro­ motion la sergeant, lieutenant and captains. The only way one can obtain his rank is by hard study aad not by akin color or religion. I would like to make another point. On the captain’s list there are several Negro lieutenants on tt. U. Eldridge Waith, 32nd aqd„ Lt Arthur Hill, 40th Pet., and In other words, items such as I have underlined are exception­ ally bad public relations Wheth­ er or not one personally knows ahi. u the i*°Ple involved is complete quite sure about it. fact thd the Although jy you are more of an expert at some people a particular color this than I am. Id appreciate or raee may act ln a „ m answer In your column con- (ashion their actilW iB lerula* this. any other way. Wased I have talked to quite a few usea an aa. people and their ideas are the tomatic synecdoche when read­ same a* mine. There have been ing news of this type and the per incidents where Puerto Ricans son of the particular race, etc resent a Negro associating with is re-appraised of bis group's them short-comings, or what have you, A good deal of blue pencil will Mr. Howard Bell do wonders for your column and Brooklyn, N. Y. substantially knprave your im­ age. I am for the cause. Not Impressed Arthur R. Kloth, New York Sir: At a recent Harlem hous­ ing project dedication. Cardinal Spellman malnfested his displeas­ ure of racial bias. Somehow this eloquent discourse did not Im­ press me. especially when re­ flecting on the number of Negro priests assigned to his own par­ ish. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. And along these lines one might inquire into the embarrassing sparsity of Negro bishops, arch­ bishops and cardinals that re­ main in America instead of be­ ing relegated to the African bush league. How many orders of nuns, priests and brothers have Jobless Youth Sir: As one of those who fought for a Branch Labor Office of the New York City of Labor in to help the 11,MO out of out of school Ntgro youth find Jobs, I'm glad that you have pointed out la your recent edl tortal that aa sdacational guidance program is sot is called for in Brooklyn. Every day the press is filled with announcements and plans for training, for guidance, for B “Write-Ins’ For Your Sights •» It is known that you are committed to participate In the struggle of the Negro for equal rights and opportunities and for recognition of his human dignity. No matter what other activities you, your as­ sociates, your friends and those with whom you come into contact, are engaged in to help further the fight for justice, there is one more important thing that all of you should and must do. "I t* It is a fact that letters to United States Senators and Representatives of both parties, even if sent by those who are not constituents, have much more in- • fluence on Legislators than most people realize. Moreover, several times last week, we read that more mail is arriving in Washington, D.C. against the civil rights bills than in favor of them. Even though the legislation is minimum, compared to the need, it is the most comprehensive bill of its kind ever to receive consideration from the Congress. Therefore it must be passed and passed without crippling amendments or compromises. If all of us carefully watch our daily and weekly newspapers and magazines, we will find in them the names of the Congressmen who remain uncommitted, uncertain or dubious about how they will vote. Every one of us should assume this extra task, from now on and should become part of a national “Write-in” ef­ fort. A flood of mail from us is essential. We should attempt to write at least two or three letters a day, to those lawmakers who need urging to vote for the rights of Negroes, rights that already belong to them, both morally and constitutionally. Attached is a list of Senators and Representatives that need letters sent to them now and from now on. Perhaps, in addition, you will find it possible to send letters, similar to this one, over your own name, to other individuals, agencies and organizations that you know arc interested in and concerned about the fulfillment of the American dream of Democracy. The following Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee should be written to as quickly as possible urging them to support H R. 7152 in full and to substitute an across the board Part III for the limited school desegregation Part III in the bill. William M. McCulloch, Ohio; William E. Miller, New York; Richard H. Poff, Virginia; William C. Cramer, Florida; Arch A. Moore, Jr., W. Virginia; George Meader, Michigan; William T. Cahill, New Jersey; Garner E. Shriver, Kansas; Clark Mac Greg­ or, Minnesota; Charles McC. Mathies, Jr., Maryland; James E. Bromwell, Iowa; Carleton J. King, New York; Pat Minor Martin, Calif. In addition late in July and during August the following five Republican members of the House Rules Committee should be urged to vote for a rule to bring H.R. 7152 to the floor. Those Representatives are: Clarence Brown, Ohio; Katharine St. George, New York; H. Allen Smith, Calif.; Elmer Hoffman, Illinois; William H. Avery, Kansas. Letters to Representatives should be addressed: Hon. John Doe, House Office Building, Washington, D.C., Dear Mr. Doe: 4 The following Senators should be immediately urged to sign the Administration Bill, S. 1731, Non- Southern Democrats and liberal Southern Democrats. Clinton P. Anderson, New Mexico; F. L. Bart­ lett, Alaska; Allen Bible, Nevada; Harold W. Cannon, Nevada; J. Howard Edmondson, Okla.; Carl Hayden, Arizona;* Estes Kefauver, Tennessee; Frank L. Lausche, Ohio; A. S. Mike Monroney, Okla.; Ralph W. Yarborough, Texas; Albert Gore, Tenn. Moderate Republicans who have not yet signed are: George D. Aiken, Vermont; Gordon Allott, Colo­ rado; J. Caleb Boggs, Delaware; Frank Carlson, Kansas; Jack Miller, Iowa; Thurston B. Morton, Kentucky; Winston L. Prouty, Vermont; Leverett ♦,-> Saltonstall, Mass.; Margaret Chase Smith, Maine. In addition, a few members of the Senate Com­ merce Committee should be written to now, urging them to make a strong and favorable report on S. 1732 to tjie Senate as soon as possible. The ones that need to be written to are: dk I iw f Democrats — *A. S. Mike Monroney, Okla.; •Frank J. Lausche, Ohio; *Ralph W. Yarborough, Texas; *E. L. Bartlett, Aslaska; •Howard W. Can­ non, Nevada. Republicans — Morris Cotton, New Hampshire; •Thurston B. Morton, Kentucky; •Win­ ston L. Prouty, Vermont. a i Soon Senate hearings will be held on Fair Em­ ployment Practice Commission (FEPC), S. 773 by ? Sen. Joseph S. Clark, R. from Pa., who heads a sub­ committee of the Labor and Public Welfare Com­ mittee. Senators should be addressed: Hon. John Doe, Senate Office Building, Washington 25, D.C., Dear Senator Doe. Once the bills have come out on the floor of first the House and later the Senate, we will send other - mailings that will include the names of Congressmen who will need “write-ins” at that, time. Never under- estimate the power of the pen. - , • Indicates that these Senators have been re- ferred to above. One letter to each could combinee,n both requests. Mrs. Maxine Arons- 355 East 72nd Street New York 21, New York . x e He paid for Ms Vftiat more can he do? I eay he' Mortimer T. Cohen New York, NT. booing Liston? mistakes. Plea Far Liston Sir: I would Just like to say that 1 think it Is about time that Negro Americana got ott Soot Liston's back. Why are we stiU The man Is proving hhnsetf a great fighting champion, more than we can say for Patterson, ’the good guy” te thia ease Uston la trying to live down his past, why don't we let him? , should be invited to every social x function. Let's get behind our champ All he wants is acceptance, isn’t ,T that what we too are fhdd'ng for > ail over now? R Dawkins, NYC •< Untitled Document file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/hello.html2/18/2007 11:01:03 AMThomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 www.fultonhistory.com