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Monday, April 24, 1967 Griffin Daily News
BRUCE BIOSSAT
Frustrated Dr. King Loses
Impact as Rights Crusader
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Washington Correspondent-
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)
A few weeks ago, responsible Chicago Negro leaders
quietly passed a firm request to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
not to come to Chicago this year to resume his controversial
open-housing marches into all-white neighborhoods.
King earlier had signified his intent to return and march
again into suburban Cicero, scene of one of the worst racial
in the Chicago area’s turbulent 1966 summer.
the decision to urge King not to come back was taken at a
meeting of Negro moderates in Chicago, including leadership
of the Urban League, the NAACP and a union official.
Intermediaries carried the word directly to King not long
before he made his now famous speech April 4, denouncing,
the U.S. role in Vietnam and calling this country the “great
est purveyor of violence in the world today.”
There has been at least one other meeting of leading Chi
cago Negroes, bent on heading off trouble for the city this
year. But in this instance, though King’s part in the 1966
events was deplored, no message was conveyed to him.
Meantime, the Chicago Defender, one of the nation’s most
prestigious Negro newspapers, has joined in the call for a
calmer 1967 and suggested that King fails to grasp the com
plexity of Chicago’s racial problems.
The intermediaries who requested King to stay out of Chi
cago were particularly emphatic in stressing Chicago leaders’
displeasure over the conduct of King’s chief lieutenant, Rev.
James Bevel, organizer of the April 15 antiwar protests in
New York and San Francisco.
Eastern Negro sources say King took the rebuff from Chi
cago very hard. He is said to believe now that he has been a
total failure in his attempts to crack the tough northern bar
riers to desegregation in jobs, schools and housing.
In an earlier period of deep self-analysis while writing a
book and resting in Jamaica, King is said to have been as
sailed by doubt that he understands today what the U.S.
Negro really wants.
Those who man listening posts in the Negro movement are
convinced that King’s defeats in Chicago, painfully under
scored by the direct appeal to him to stay out in 1967, played
a crucial role in turning him toward the peace movement.
King’s great successes, it is argued, were achieved as a
moral absolutist, crusading in righteous tones for basic civil
rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma and other places.
When those rights were freshly stated in the major new
federal laws of 1964 and 1965, that crusade was over.
Facing King and other Negro leaders then was the im
measurably slower, tougher task of translating rights into
better jobs, schools, homes. It was plainly more an assign
ment for the politician, chipping away at reality, than for the
moral crusader, intoning urgent phrases.
King nevertheless tried his hand at it in Chicago. Despite a
paper agreement with Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley, the
positive gains were nil.
Beaten, frustrated, not knowing where to turn next in the
civil rights movement, Martin Luther King “solved” his di
lemma by turning to the Vietnam war—where once more he
could feel at home proclaiming moral absolutes in the tones
of the crusader.
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year passed a law making "fast" time mandatory except where state legislators passed
legislation retaining standard time—for the entire state, supposedly, no more local option.
As a result, Daylight Saving is effective in 44 states on April 3 this year. Only Michigan
and South Dakota legislatures have opted for standard time. Since its legislature doesn't
meet this year, Kentucky has been given a year of grace to make its decision. Alaska and
Hawaii, along with Puerto Rico, have been granted exemption pending revision of their
time zones. Only Indiana, by a legal quirk, has contrived to retain local option. The
legislature voted to permit each locality to follow either standard or daylight time but
requires each to set up an "official" clock showing daylight time.
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was left up to each locality. In an extreme case, the schedule of a bus going from West
Virginia into eastern Ohio had to be adjusted to take into account seven different time
changes within a scheduled hour.
Write-In Group
Challenges Demos
ATLANTA (UPI) —The Geor.
gia Democratic Party Forum,
an outgrowth of Write-In Geor-
gia, today challenged the state
Democratic Party to “come
up with new ways to involve
grassroots persons.’’
In a reply to Democratic na
tional committeeman William
Trotter of LaGrange, who chid
ed the group Saturday, Forum
chairman E. T. Kehrer said
“the Democratic Party (in
Georgia) has been a figment of
the imagination of incumbent
office holders who have kept
the party in their hip pockets,
providing no program or organ
ization . . . while - Republicans
have been hard at work organ
izing tl>e state on a district and :
precinct basis.”
Kehrer invited Trotter to ad
dress a rally of the group May
3 to air his grievances with
them.
Trotter had said he would
have no part of the forum, say
ing “it is high time that our
group (Democrats) learned the
political facts of life in that
Georgia is now a two- party
state and we have no room for
third party movements or for
cliques within the Democratic
Party. .”
Write-In Georgia organized
the campaign for former Gov.
Ellis Arnall after Lester Mad
dox became the party nominee
for governor.
Trotter said the group should
"participate in the framework
of the Georgia Democratic
Party ... In no other way can
you make a contribution as a
Democrat..
Kehrer said the forum was
loyal to the state party and the
national party and the “high
Ideals of such leaders as Frank
lin D. Rossevelt, Harry S. Tru
man, Adlai Stevenson, John F.
Kennedy and Lyndon B. John
son.”
He said the group would sup
port the 1968 national presiden
tial ticket “regardless” of what
state party leaders did.
Gov. Maddox, who is at odds
with the national leadership but
has indicated he would not bolt
the party to support a third
party candidate such as former
Gov. George Wallace of Ala
bama for president in 1968, has
hinted he may “go fishing” or
sit out the race if the ticket is
again Johnson and Hubert
Humphrey.
BURN UGLIES
BRIGTTON, England (UPI)
—This town’s festival of arts is
to end with not a whimper, but
a bang—or a bonfire of hideous
objects, to be more exact.
Festival director lan Hunter
asked townspeople Thursday to
contribute their most hideous
possessions of a reasonable size
for a grand bonfire April 29.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) —Know
what the week of May 15-20 is?
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Improvement Week.”
Postmaster General Lawrence
F. O’Brien said today the
observance is aimed at calling
attention to the need for
keeping in shape the mailboxes
along the 31,000 rural routes
served by the Post Office
Department.
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Observance Os
Passover Event
Starts Tonight
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
Judaism’s oldest religious
festival, the Passover, begins at
sundown today in millions of
Jewish homes.
Once again, the ages-old
Biblical story of the mighty acts
by which God delivered the
children of Israel from slavery
in Egypt will be told.
The annual recounting of the
story is an act of remembrance
performed in obedience to a
divine commandment preserved
in the Book of Exodus (Chapter
13, Verse 14):
“And when in time to come
your sons ask you, ’What does
this mean?’ You shall say to
him, ‘By strength of hand the
Lord brought us out of Egypt,
from the house of bondage.’ ”
The name “Passover” is
derived from the imal punish
ment inflicted upon Egypt when
its ruler, the Pharaoh, stubborn
ly refused God’s demand that
he “Let my people go.” The
book of Exodus tells how the
angel of death visited Egyptian
homes, destroying every first
born son. But the deadly visitor
“passed over” the homes of the
Israelites.
Actually, the name Passover
is not used in the Bible. It refers
to the annual celebration as
“The Feast of Unleavened
Bread.”
Unleavened bread, called
"matzah” in Hebrew, is eaten
throughout the Passover festi
val, which is observed for 7
days by reform Jews and for 8
days by conservative and
orthodox Jews.
The origin of this custom can
be found in Exodus 12:39, which
records that the Israelites fled
Egypt in such haste that they
had no time to let yeast rise in
the dough of their bread, so
"they baked unleavened cakes”
to sustain them on their long
trek through the wilderness of
Sinai.
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Reaches 16
By United Press International
A one-car crash at Macon
Sunday night claimed two lives
and boosted the Georgia week
end highway death toll to at
least 16.
Lewis Horne Jr., 35, and Car
roll E. May, 50, both of Macon,
were killed when the car driven
by Horne left a city street and
crashed into a tree.
The worst crash of the week
end claimed three lives near
Dublin on Georgia 319 Saturday.
The victims were identified as
Homer W. Cordy, 23, of Miami,
and two 19-year-ol<i Wrightsville
youths, Thomas A. Taylor and
Willie L. Shine.
The Highway Patrol said the
car went out of control at high
speed and overturned. Three
others were seriously injured.
Two Pennsylvania women
died late Saturday when their
station wagon overturned north
of Brunswick. They were Mrs.
Verna Anna Schaffer, 40, and
Mrs. Anna Horn, 70, both of
Allentown.
Joe W. Dusek, 23, a Ft. Ben
ning soldier from Denver, Colo.,
was killed and two persons in
jured in a head-on eollision on
Interstate 85 near Senoia Satur
day.
Others killed in traffic Satur
day were:
Steve L. Wilder, 20, of For
syth, in a one-car crash near
Forsyth.
Paul W. Leford, 72, of Young
Harris, two-car collision near
Blairsville.
Ernest Nipper, 42, of Cordele,
head-on crash near Nahunta.
Bobby Ray Nettles, 15, of Ma
con, two-car collision in Macon.
Howard Walker, 19, of near
Calhoun, one-car wreck near his
home.
Gene Ray Chamblee, 31, of
Doraville, collision in Doraville.
A LaGrange youth, 19-year-old
Ernest McCormick, died Satur
day of injuries received Friday
in a rear-end collision at La-
Grange.
In addition, Charles C. Brown,
34, of Atlanta, was found dead
outside his apartment Saturday.
Police said his mattress had
caught fire and the man appar
ently died of smoke inhalation.
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