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Friday, Dae. 8, 1967
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
AS WE WERE SAYING
For Students of
What Senator Edward W.
Brooke achieved in a huge break
through Dor a Negro candidate in
1966, Carl B. Stokes, mayor-elect
of Cleveland, and Richard G.
Hatcher, mayor-elect of Gary,
Indiana, have accomplished in
smaller arenas.
There are differences, of course;
but the trend is unmistakable. Ed
Brooke, who had tried unsuccess
fully for more localized political
offioe earlier in his career, prof
ited tremendously in a statewide
contest by the votes of subur
banites and small town and rural
dwellers. In same oases, they
gave him their vote to assuage
a sense of guilt about racial bias;
in many instances, they voted the
way they did because they felt
sincerely he was the better man.
In the Stokes and Hatcher
triumphs, there undoubtedly was
much voting along racial lines—
against the Negro candidates only
because of bias, and for their
white opponents primarily be
cause of bias. This is not to say
that the contests were the same:
in Cleveland, Seth Taft won
thousands of merited votes not
because the electorate down
graded Stoke3 on the basis of
color but because Taft was con
sidered better qualified. Hatcher’s
opponent in Gary — Joseph B.
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Radigan—couldn’t hold a candle
to Taft as far as qualifications
were concerned. The Gary race
appeared a backlash contest to a
very strong degree.
But students of voting along
ethnic and racial lines have per
haps their best lode to mine in
their examination of the Boston
elections. Two minority groups
won representation at Boston City.
Hall in the Councdlmanic elec
tions: John L. Saltonstall, a sec
ond cousin of former Senator
Leverett Saltonstall, led the tick
et, 1 - enabling Yankee Bostonians
to keep a bit of the view at City
Hall. More significantly, young
Tom Atkins, an NAACP candi
date is there ever was one, also
captured a place on the Council,
giving Negroes a direct line at
long last to City Hall and all that
this enfolds.
Atkins’s triumph made history
for a number of reasons, not the
least being public endorsement of
his candidacy by 25 Roman Cath
olic priests. (And did that bold
act keep the radio talk shows
buzzing!)
But the most fascinating con
test, as far as ethnic and racial
meaning is concerned, was Bos
ton’s mayoralty race. Like Sarah
Bemhardllfs several farewell
tours, here was another “Last
Hurrah” for a candidate who
supplanted the dying breed of
big city bosses with a mother
image. Louise Day Hicks, whose
most telling line during her cam
paign seemed to be, “The most
important act every night is to
bolt your doors,” is not done wih
politics. Seasoned political ob
servers think she will make a
great try to succeed House
Speaker John W. McCormack in
Washington. But it is unlikely
that she will try again to be the
head lady at City Hall.
She wanted that post and she
fought for it shrewdly and with
vigor. A four year term in Bos
ton’s handsome new City Hall—
a jewel in the federal-state-city
Government Center—with a sal
ary of $40,000 a year. A delect
able plum! But more than that:
a fortress from which one could
see to it that city government
was taken from the hot grasp of
the Establishment and given to
the little people; a citadel with
command over Boston’s finest and
Theologian Says
Jews, Christians
Need Closer Ties
NEW YORK (JTA)—A leading
Protestant theologian has called
here for a “seriously religious dia
logue between Jews and Chris
tians” from which a “more pro
foundly Christian religiousness
can emerge.”
Dr. Elwyn Smith, Professor of
Religion at Temple University
and 00-editor of the Journal of
Ecumenical Studies, said at the
annual dinner of the Jewish Re-
constructionist Foundation that
the secular alliance between Jews
and Christians that precluded dis
cussion of religious issues was
partly responsible for the ade
quate response of Christians to
the threat of genocide 1hat Is
rael faced in last June’s Six-Day
War.
“Christians tend to view the
Jewish State in secular terms,”
he noted, “and very quickly their
humanitarian sympathies were
stirred by the pathos of suffering
among politically deceived Egyp
tians and Jordanians rather than
the victorious Israelis.”
Outline Reforms
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)— A
series of reforms of Israel’s im
migration laws designed to stim
ulate immigration, particularly
from Western countries, was out
lined here by Aryeh DuVcain, head
of the Jewish Agency's immigra
tion department, at an Aliyeh
conference convened by the
Zionist Organization of Argen
tina.
By Robert Segal
Voting
a guarantee that no mare hand
bags would be snatched, no ad
ditional widows strangled.
Mrs.. Ilicks assured the elect
orate that she was, as she her
self proclaimed, a “woman of in- v
tegrity and courage.” She would
do what was rifeht—extend essen
tial services, hold the tax line,
reclaim taxable land, build one
and two-family homes, put park
ing facilities underground, and
get revenue from college dorm
itories.
When Mrs. Hicks said, “You
know where I stand,” she ingeni
ously avoided the challenge to
spell out what she intended to do
—If anything—for Boston’s 90,000
truly alienated Negroes. (Bos
ton’s Negro newspaper, The
Banner, ran a “You know where
I stand” cartoon, showing the
candidate with feet placed firm
ly on the body of a Negro citi
zen.)
And Mrs. Hicks’s 30-year-old
Irish opponent, Kevin H. White,
creaked into the office, acknow
ledging that somewhere along
the way, City Hall had lost the
people, so busy had it been build
ing the handsome, skyscraper-
proud New Boston.
To reclaim the little people, to
establish new lines of commun
ication with that handsome City
Hall, to build fine schools and
places therein fine teachers, to
end the city’s housing disgrace,
to improve police community re
lations— Mayor-elect White has
many promises to keep. And Bos
ton has a new chance to throw
away the whips and the back
lashes.
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