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Friday, July It, 1*4
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pag* Fir*
As We Were Saying. . . .
Nation Moves At Last On Civil Rights
BY ROBERT SEGAL
Now the Congress of the United
States is joining the other two great
branches of our federal govern
ment to strengthen the moral fibre
of our nation by making more se
cure the civil rights of all Ameri
cans. Presidents Roosevelt, Tru
man, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and
Johnson all ennobled their high
office by issuing executive orders
calculated to curb discriminatory
practices. The Supreme Court,
through its towering 1954 school de
segregation decision, placed the
judicial branch of our governments
clearly on the path to civil rights
progress in our era. And now,
even the Senate and House of
Representatives are shaking off
the impediments of reaction and
LONDON (JTA)—A Moscow court
has imposed a five-year jail sen
tence on a Soviet citizen who was
found guilty of promoting the sale
of anti-Semitic and anti-Soviet lit
erature and of trafficking in obscene
books, according to a report pub
lished in Vechemyaya Moskva, a
Moscow evening newspaper.
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silencing those who cry doom by
deciding at last to enact powerful
civil rights legislation.
“The Senate is usually the Last
place in the government to get the
drift of American public opnion,”
Dick Itussell of Georgia commented
as his finger turned to ice in the
senatorial dike of filibuster. But
at last even that palladium of
temporaizing has moved, after 75
days of obstruction, to register the
nation’s determination to use the
sinews of law to advance the cause
of human dignity.
Senator Russell and Senator Gold-
water cannot be parties to this ad
vance. The Georgian is committed
to a philosophy strong in a belief
in white supremacy. And the Ari
zonan, who voted for cloture, has
looked himself into 1 the illogic that
makes much of the fact that New
York State has more civil rights
laws than any other state and also
has more racial problems. Should
all the Laws imaginable fall short
of expressing the determination of
the government to secure these
rights, the debate engaged in by
free men to enact those Laws is in
itself a powerful weapon for de
lineating racial problems and for
determining ways to overcome them.
One example of the value of such
debate can be found in a recent
action of the Keene, New Hamp
shire, “Evening Sentinel.” That
newspaper published an advertise
ment placed by an organization
sharply opposed to civil rights leg
islation. Along with the ad, the
“Sentinel" carried an important
editorial, stating:
"We do not tthink we should
deny others the right to buy ad
vertising space in this newspaper
to express views contrary to ours.
Accordingly, we publish the ad,
but at the same time we announce
that we will make a contribution
to the NAACP in exactly the same
AUGUSTA NEWS
Dr. Robert B. Greenblatt, profes
sor and chairman of the department
of indocrinology at the Medical Col
lege of Georgia, is on a two-month
European lecture tour. He will re
turn to Augusta August 22.
»*•
Dr. Morton Wittenberg is among
19 Americans attending the first
Adult Study Fellowship of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations
in Israel. The group will spend
seven weeks in Jerusalem and other
places in the area.
***
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Levy are hosts
to their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Harv
ey Levy and grandchildren, Lami
Sue and Vicky, who have recently
returned to the United States from
Subic Bay in the Philippines. Dr.
Levy, who just concluded a tour of
duty at Subic Bay, has reported
to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balti
more, where the family will live
while he completes his residency at
Johns Hopkins.
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amount as the revenue we receive
from it.”
Beyond the enactment of federal
civil rights laws—giving muscle to
the 13th and 14th amendments to
the Constitution—must come action
by the government to dig into the
morass of blight and poverty and
despair impeding large numbers of
America’s 20,000,000 Negroes. Sen
ators Russell and Goldwater haven’t
seen anything yet: Martin Luther
King wants direct government sub
sidy for families with $3,000-and-
under annual incomes, and con
servative economists estimate that
Washington will have to spend
$15,000,000,000 as a starter in the
anti-poverty campaign so essential
to the nation’s morals and ad
vancement.
The demand for enactment of
new and far-reaching federal civil
rights laws has been the ineviti-
able cry of a nation still shaping
its character and destiny. Negroes
sharply segregated in the military
tradition of World War I were
among the first in America to
stress the need for modem emanci
pation in an era that saw men
move off farms into the cities, saw
machinery replace reliance upon
sweaL and long hours. World War
II experiments in military integra
tion and the full mobilization of
manpower added impetus to the
movement. Wartime bousing short
ages touched off the Detroit race
riot of 1943. The Supreme Court's
decision to outlaw restrictive ccn-
venants and later decision over
turning the insidious doctrine of
separate-but-equal were long strides
forward The mass boycott of Mont
gomery bast* by Negroes in 195®,
joined by the initiation of sit-in |
demonstrations by college students
in 1960, saw this irrepressible move
ment for full freedom bring for
ward the disciplined determination
of thousands
No filibuster, no cries of havoc,
no printing presses distorting the
nature and meaning of new civil
rights laws, no whining by oppor
tunists who shout that Communists
are leading the movement can de
ter this mobilization for freedom
Rather, the danger ahead lies in
the possihlity that adventurers will
crush the genius of the non-violent
revolution and raise flags of foroe
or supplant white racism with
black racism. This the nation can
not afford, cannot countenance.
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