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Friday, July 2, 1965
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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
As We Were Saying
by ROBERT E. SEGAL
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Ezekiel 16:49 is offered in a
churchman’s guide for fighting
the battle of America’s 34,000,000
poor people (incomes $3000 and
under). And what is written in
Ezekiel is worth repeating here
as we observe the new Populist
Movement now taking form:
“Behold this was the guilt of
your sister, Sodom: she and
her daughters had pride, sur
feit of food, and prosperous
ease, but did not aid the poor
and needy.”
The poor and needy in Amer
ica, including those representing
third generation folks on welfare
lists, are battling it out with City
Hall in Cleveland, Philadelphia,
Boston, and many other cities.
They want to have more say in
how the $800,000,000 in current
ly-appropriated anti-p overty
funds will be used. If by next
year, some $3,000,000,000 will be
available, they want to be con
sulted on that distribution also.
Inspiring this demand is not
only an understandable pride on
the part of those intended to
benefit by the government funds
but also a search for a built-in
protection against allowing City
Hall to use the largesse as a
spanking new kind of pork bar
rel.
Much of the controversy over
se^f-determination on the pover
ty program centers in Harlem;
and as Congressman John V.
Lipdsay steps up his campaign
for Mayor of New York against
the incumbent, Robert F. Wag
ner, we will all learn more about
the poverty power struggle.
Watching the fight unroll, we
will come increasingly to realize
that civil rights issues—so much
in the news these past 10 years
—spring largely from our under
lying maladjustments in the areas
of poverty, jobs, housing, and
education. The heavy thinkers
in the civil rights field have long
since hoped for a concentration of
efforts on the basic social issues.
And what are the dimensions
and shapes and characteristics of
poverty in modem America?
Michael Harrington, who has
moved rapidly into the slot of
Number 1 authority on poverty,
estimates that having the poor
with us is costing this affluent
nation $50,000,000,000 a year. He
arrives at this staggering figure
by totaling up tall that we spend
maintaining poverty on federal,
state, and local levels.
Harrington, the eloquent cham
pion of the “invisible poor,” has
been going about the country
pleading for the expansion of
minimum wage coverage, hikes
Israel Buys French
Helicopters
PARIS (JTA)—Israeli officials
last week signed an agreement
for the purchase of an undis
closed number of French-made
Super-Frelon helicopters which
can carry 35 soldiers and equip
ment plus a jeep and military
supplies. The cost of the purch
ase of the military-type helicop
ters also was not disclosed.
The agreement was signed by
Brig. A. Kashti, director-general
of the Israel Defense Ministry
and Admiral Mordehai Limon,
the Ministry’s European repre-
senative, Officials of Sud-Avia-
tion. manufacturers of the hel
icopter signed for France. The
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equipment in the French Army,
can be used for combat as well
as transport missions.
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in social security, a wider range
for medicare, and all-out efforts
to improve education for the
poor.
Economist Leon H Keyserling
has given us this graphic break
down: Of America’s 34,000,000
poor, 52% reflect deficient edu
cation, 44% live in the South,
40% reflect excessive unemploy
ment, 29% reflect female family
heads; 27% reflect aged family
heads; 25% are non-white; and
15% live on farms.
In applying the anti-poverty
money to this deplorable pic
ture, Sargent Shriver and his
aides are putting hundreds of
teen-agers to work this sum
mer, placing much emphasis on
remedial education and job
training, advancing small busi
ness loans, and establishing our
domestic Peace Corps.
And certain alert congressmen
are minding the store in Wash
ington by trying to make it im
possible henceforth for Ala
bama’s Governor George C.
Wallace or any other regional
satrap to veto localized anti
poverty programs set up with
federal funds but unpalatable to
state political bosses because
local political favorites have
been bypassed.
To sum up: Widespread pov
erty demoralizing the jobless
and underpaid is a moral scand
al and an economic anachronism.
With 15% of our teenagers and
30% of our Negroes unemploy
ed; with persons representing a
low level of education suffering
an unemployment rate six times
that of others; with 9,000,000 to
12,000,000 new jobs badly need
ed, and with our unemployment
rate threatening to spiral to
more than 10% by 1970, we
have multiple obligations. We
must insist that the federal
grants are spent with honor;
we must help the poor gain de-
xision-making positions as the
campaign unfolds; we must
sharpen our facilities for job
training; and we must upgrade
our educational methods and
facilities.
Beyond that, we must start to
mobilize now for passage of
anti-poverty legislation in 1966,
channeling a much greater slice
of our tax dollar into the war
against poverty.
Ezekiel will be watching over
our shoulders—we who have
pride, surfeit of food, and pros
perous ease” but do not suffi
ciently aid the poor and needy.
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