Newspaper Page Text
PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, September 2,1971
TAURUS
PORSCHE ! AUDI Authorized
500 W. PEACHTREE^” 1
577-8500
Good news for
people who are tired
of being pushed around.;
The Audi has
front-wheel drive.
'■ ~
CLASS PIANO LESSONS
FOR BEGINNERS
Classes are now being scheduled for beginning
piano students ages 7-12. This new exciting
program is being offered by Baldwin and is con
venient to residents of Sandy Springs, North At
lanta, and Vinings. Call now for an appoint
ment.
PHONE 252-8176
Conveniently
Located In The Holy Spirit & St. Jude's Parishes
CUSTOM BUILT
VISIT OUR DISPLAY ROOM
Renovators of Cotton, Felt and Inner-Springs Foam Rubber Mat
tresses Pillows, Extra Large Capacity Sterilizer. We Own and Oper
ate Our Own Felting Machine.
OLD MATTRESSES MADE NEW-ONE DAY SERVICE
BOX SPRINGS REBUILT
Custom Built Box Spring and Inner Spring Mattresses
Any Size —All New Material — Foam Rubber Mattresses
“ATLANTA’S LEADING RENOVATORS”
ESTABLISHED IN 1925
NEW MATTRESSES DIRECT FROM FACTORY TO YOU
McDaniel Mattress Co.
523-8526
H.M. WEIR, Proprietor
628-634 Whitehall St., S.W.
At The Expressway
CLEANERS
Home Drapery
Quality Laundry & Cleaning
5395 Chamblee-Dun woody Rd.,
Dun woody, Go. - 451-9832
[SKILLET FARM
p. O. BOX 241
ROSWELL, GEORGIA TELEPHONE 475 6484
LOCATED ON OLD ROSWELL ROAD
Our Selection Of Wines
Date Back To 1928
ON
5% PASSBOOK
SAVINGS
5.25%-5.75%-6%
ON SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
TRI-CITY FEDERAL
SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
Horn* Offlc*
606 S. Central Av*.
Hap*vill», Go; 30354
THREE LOCATIONS
Branch Offic»
27 Smith Street
Fairburn, Ga. 30213
Branch Office
150 W. Lanier Av«
Fayetteville,
'Ga. 30214
NC NEWS ANALYSIS
Protestant View Of N. Ireland Troubles
By Ernest Ostro
BELFAST, Northern
Ireland (NC) — “We beat the
b— at the Boyne and we’ll
beat them again,” declared
the Rev. Donald Gillies,
pastor of a Presbyterian
Church in the heart of this
city’s Protestant Crumlin
Road area.
“Sure as the devil it’s going
to be another all-out holy war
that we’ll have to fight and
win, you mark my words.”
The battle mentioned by
the Rev. Mr. Gillies was the
Battle of the Boyne in 1690,
marked annually with scores
of parades throughout
Northern Ireland by the
militantly Protestant (and,
without exaggeration,
anti-Catholic) Order of the
Orange. At the Battle of the
Boyne, the Protestant armies
of King William of
Orange-later crowned King
William III of England,
defeated the armies of
Britain’s last Catholic king,
James II.
The militant Protestants of
Ulster-another term for
Northern Ireland-are not a
small, extremist minority. By
ail accounts, a substantial
majority of this British
province’s million or so
Protestants are determined to
maintain the state of affairs
here that has caused all the
current violence; the
exclusion of most of the
500,000 or so minority
Catholics from any significant
participation in the
decision-making processes in
Ulster.
This is done in the name of
majority rule, but in reality,
it is majority domination.
The militant Protestants fear
that the Catholic minority is
interested solely in reuniting
the six northern provinces
with the predominantly
Catholic Republic of Ireland
in the south and in
converting, voluntarily or
forcibly, all Protestants in
Ireland to the Roman
Catholic faith.
There can be no question
that Northern Irish Protestant
families have suffered in the
same way as Catholic
families, although not on the
same scale. Hundreds of
Protestant houses were
burned out; thousands of
Protestants fled in terror
from their homes. The human
misery in the churches and
community centers of the
Protestant areas of Belfast,
Londonderry, Newry and
other Ulster cities and towns
is every bit as real-if not as
widespread-as in the Catholic
areas.
In a refugee center
adjoining Agnes Street
Methodist Church, an
unemployed laborer, Alfred
Madgley, told NC News:
“I was there last Monday
morning in the Ardoyne (an
area shared by working-class
Protestants and Catholics). I
was shot at and had to go
back in with the (British)
army. The fires spread quick.
Mostly spreading from where
the Catholics set them into
Protestant homes. People
were being forced out of their
homes by IRA (Irish
Republican Army) gunmen.
One of the IRA gunmen told
them, ‘Get out or get burned
out.’ ”
“We were moving
Protestant people from
Farringdon Gardens when we
were approached by five RCs
(Roman Catholics). We
couldn’t communicate with
Television - Radio - Phonograph
Color - Black & White
Clairmont - Skyland T.V.
W. A. Waller
Owner
4010 Buford Hwy.
Repairs - Sales - Service
Motorola & Westinghouse
636-5909
FUNERAL IN BELFAST - A little girl places her hand on the coffin of Father Hugh Mullan during
nis funeral after he was gunned down during Belfast violence (Aug. 9). (NC PHOTO)
them because of the threats
to our people. They walked
down the street for a short
way and then separated into
two groups, two and three,
and pulled revolvers and fired
on us.
Another worker in the
Protestant church center,
Billy Mcllwaine, a truck
driver, said:
“We panicked and started
to run towards the army, who
were 500 yards away. One
boy was shot in the lower
arm and back. The other one
was shot in the leg. I was
lucky.”
In other areas, NC News
was told by one 49-year-old
widow of being forced to pay
protection of $5 a week to
IRA gunmen. “Lots of us had
to pay up or they said they’d
burn us out over in East
Belfast.”
Accounts given newsmen
in the heat of violence,
UN Group Urges
Slavery Eradication
By Kathleen McLaughin
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
(NC) — A subcommission of
the UN Human Rights
Commission called on
member-nations to eradicate
all forms of slavery.
Members of the
subcommission, who sit as
individual experts rather than
as government representa
tives, took the action after
hearing a report on the
subject requested by the
Human Rights Commission in
1967. It was summarized by
the commission’s special
reporter, Mohammed Awad
of the United Arab Republic
(Egypt).
The subcommission
especially recommended that
the UN Economic and Social
Council call upon all eligible
nations not yet parties to the
League of Nations’
International Slavery
Convention of 1926 and to
the UN supplementary
convention of 1956, to agree
to them as soon as possible.
The subcommission also
cited “the close relationship
existing between the effects
of slavery, apartheid and
colonialism, and the need to
“insure full elimination of
these shameful amnifesta-
tions.”
The subcommission urged
all nations to enact legislation
needed to progibit slavery
and the slaye trade; to
provide effective punishments
for abductions of holding
persons in slavery; and to
ratify conventions of the
International Labor
Organization in order to
improve conditions of life
and work for tenants,
share-croppers and other
agricultural workers.
The group also
recommended that the
International Criminal Police
Organization be invited to
cooperate with the UN in its
efforts to eliminate slavery;
that nations still lacking total
emancipation of persons in
servile status be asked to
speed up the process and to
absorb such persons into the
working force; and that the
secretary general of the UN
be requested to prepare a
plan of technical cooperation
to contribute to the
eradication of slavery.
Awad’s summary of the
report on slavery noted that
some UN member-nations
had not ratified the
conventions of 1926 and
1956 because they do not
want to admit the existence
of even a vestige of slavery. In
many countries, he added,
institutions of slavery operate
underground instead of
openly because the civilized
world had prohibited slavery.
passion and misery are
exaggerated on both sides.
The tales of intimidation,
maltreatment, etc. given by
some Catholic refugees
doubtless were also somewhat
exaggerated.
Where a significant
difference develops is in
accounts of the reasons for
the present unhappy state of
Northern Ireland. Catholics’
reasoning, whether of the
clergy, the lay leadership, or
the average citizen, is seldom
colored with what can only
be characterized as the
bigotry and ignorance of the
militant Protestants.
Not all of Ulster’s
Protestants are bigots, of
course. But the
Protestant-U nionist-Orange
leadership, and a substantial
majority of its popular
support, is unquestionably
colored by the myths and
prejudices of four centuries.
(The Unionist party is the
ruling political party in
Ulster.)
A woman in the Benview
Center, who had worked long
hours in humanitarian efforts
to rehouse many of their
fellow Protestants, told NC
News their views of the
situation in Northern Ireland.
“The Catholics want their
own rule, which is the rule of
the gun and anarchy. No law,
no order .. . They want to
bring down the
democratically elected
government in this
province . . . They are backed
by the IRA.
“This is a part of Britain
and we are going to keep it
that way...”
“We are British, and British
we stay. And if we must
fight, we will.. . When a
Catholic is shot down, there’s
a hue and cry and the candles
are lit all over in them
churches .. .
“We Protestants are
God-fearing people and in the
end right will triumph over
might no matter how
mighty.”
American Smoke
Eradicators
One-Stop Correction Of Fire, Smoke,
Water & Vandalism Damages
Homes Buildings Automobiles
19 Years Experience 24 Hr. Service
Wm. H. Hall President
Bus.: 373-0923 Res.: 289-2983
'»•
And Billy Mcllwaine:
“(The Catholics) are still not
satisfied. They just want to
join the Republic, where the
RCs have it all their own way.
We’ll never, never live in
Catholic Ireland. We’re
British.”
Ulster’s Protestants
universally call themselves
British, not Irish. They are
descended from Scottish and
English settlers literally
“planted”-hence the term,
the Ulster Plantation, popular
well into this century-by
Protestant English monarchs
to help dominate Ireland.
Alfred Madgely:
“In the end, there’ll be an
awful civil war to keep
Northern Ireland a part of the
United Kingdom. We’ll not go
into Ireland. We won’t go.”
And the Rev. Mr. Gillies:
“It’s all a part of the Roman
Pope’s plot to get more and
more power. I don’t blame
the poor Catholics who are
being kept down and misled
by Pope and priest... It’s a
religious war, that’s what it is,
and we know God is on our
side.”
The extremists are
squeezing out the moderate
Protestant center, even as the
IRA is gaining support among
moderate Catholics who once
had no use for violence.
The central point of the
Catholic minority’s argument
is that Protestants have ruled
Ulster for 50 years without
sharing control of the
government or of the
community’s institutions
with the Catholic minority.
The Catholics feel that
they’ve pressed their claims in
a peaceful fashion to the
Protestant-dominated Ulster
government for half a
century, with little or nothing
to show for their efforts.
They are now embarked on a
widespread campaign of civil
disobedience to press their
cause. For them, law and
order are only slogans that
really mean oppression and
injustice.
When law and order do
return to Northern Ireland,
they will not again be colored
orange.
ST. JOSEPH’S
INFIRMARY
SODA FOUNTAIN
COFFEE SHOP
AND RESTAURANT
LOCATED NEXT TO GIFT SHOP ON MAIN FLOOR
IN NEW BUILDING
ATLANTA, GA.
DUNCAN REAL ESTATE
SCHOOL
We specialize in preparing you for the
Salesman's State Exam.
Day and Night Classes.
TO REGISTER, call
427-5556 - 427-8663 - 427-5025
Duncan Rlty. & Assoc., Inc.
767 Powder Spgs. Rd., Marietta, Ga.
U". ?
JIM ELLIS
VOLKSWAGEN,
INC
Authorized
Volkswagen Dealer
SALES - SERVICE
PARTS & BODY SHOP
LEASING
5855 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.
458-6811
Chamblee, Ga.
The New Bug House In Town”
I A Congenial Atmosphere Makes
Dining Out Fun for the Family-
Sunday
Buffet
Childs Plate Vi Price
Serving from 11 am til 8 pm
Large T-Bone Steak- $2.29
Cat Fish-All You Can Eat- $1.59 Served Dally
Belmont
Restaurant
2410 Atlanta Rd.
Smyrna - 436-0268
Mon-Thur. 7-10
Fri-Sat. 7-11
Sunday 7-10