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King Dubs US As
Violence Purveyor
3b ANTHONY HEFFERNAN
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPD— President
phnson brought Gen. William
Westmoreland home to sfl
:nce dissent and encourage
upport for escalation of the
ietnam war, Dr. Martin Luth
r King charged Sunday.
! The civil rights leader, speak
tg from the pulpit of his Eb
nezer Baptist Church, urged
oung men to file as conscien
ious objectors and refuse to
light in Vietnam for the United
states, which he called “the I
(reatest purveyor of violence in
he world today.”
Th? congregation, which in
•luded black power militant
itokely Carmichael, twice in
errupted King with applause
luring his sermon and gave
lim a standing ovation when he
was finished.
The Noble Peace Prize win
ter lauded heavyweight boxing
.•hampion Cassius Clay for re
fusing to be inducted into the
Army because of his religious
beliefs and opposition to war.
“He is giving up even fame, j
He is giving up millions of dol
lars in order to stand up for
what his conscience tells him is
right,” King said.
“Every young man in this
country who believes that this
war is abominable and unjust
should file as a conscientious
objector.”
Revolutionary Movement
King said the United States is
on the wrong side of the revo
lutionary movement of oppres
sed people throughout the
world.
“I don't know about you,”
he said. “But I ain't going to
study war no more.” The con
gregation echoed his sentiment
with the well - known hymn,
“Down by the Riverside.”
King equated his stand on
Vietnam with his previous work
In civil rights.
He said those, particularly in
the press, who once praised
him for his nonviolent tactics
against segregationists such as
former Birmingham, Ala., po
lice comm issi on e r Eugene
(Bull) Conner and former Sel
ma, Ala., sheriff Jim Clark now
denounce him “when I preach
nonviolence against little brown
Vietnamese women and child
ren.
“There is something wrong in
that,” King said.
“There is a very dangerous
development in the nation now
to equate dissent with disloyal
ty," he said. “This was clearly
pointed out by the fact that
Gen. Westmoreland was brought
back to this country to develop
a sentiment and concensus for
the further escalation of the
war and to further silence dis-
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sent.”
The Negro leader said the
war against poverty at home
has been abandoned as the na
tion “wrecklessly” pursues a
“futile” war 8,000 miles away.
“We are spending $500,000 to
kill each Viet Cong or National
Liberation Front soldier,” he
said. “And we are spending $53
on each poor person in this
country, much of which goes for
salaries to people who are not
poor.”
Policy Wrong
King said U. S. policy on
Vietnam was wrong since 1945.
He said the United States sup
ported the French colonialists
in Indo-China rather than inde
pendence leader Ho Chi Minh.
When France lost its war
against Ho the U. S. selected
one military dictator after an
other to prevent Ho from be
coming ahead of a united Viet
nam, King said.
“Elections would surely have
brought to power Ho Chi Minh
over a united Vietnam,” he
said.
King said persons friendly to
I his civil rights programs who
criticize him for his Vietnam
posture apparently never under
stood him. He said he was first
of all a minister of God. He
added that when he won the
Nobel Peace Prize “it was a
mission to work harder for
peace.”
King said it was difficult to
convince “oppressed people in
this country” to solve their
problems through non-voilence
when the government practices
violence to solve its problems.
He said he is a pacifist but
added “I believe I probably
would have temporarily sacri
ficed my pacifism” during
i World War II “because Hitler
I was such an evil force in his
tory.”
TEN DROWN
SEOUL (UPD —Ten persons
drowned and 13 others were
rescued Monday when two
I fishing boats capsized in strong
winds off the southwestern
coast, police reports said
Tuesday.
RAY CROMLEY
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Some men say the South Vietnamese are bone-tired . . .
that all they want is for the war to end . . . that they don’t
care who wins.
Witness then these excerpts from an editorial in a bulletin
put out by the council to which most major South Vietnam
ese youth organizations belong—a private body:
“The youth of Vietnam has grown up and become mature
in the midst of war; they have suffered the most unfortunate
lot as the best years of their life are full of sorrows and ter
ror. But they are fortunate, on the other hand, in the sense
that no other generation has met so many difficulties and
challenges as they to surpass and prove their endurance.
“Twenty-three years of continuous war have annihilated
the intermediate generation, leaving a gap between the aged
one and this growing one, hardly stepping out of their ado
lescence. The youth of Vietnam today is therefore groping
(its) way, anxiously but with determination, to the immense
horizon where both obligations and opportunities await them.
“Disadvantages have besieged them; hatred, death, famine,
diseases, ignorance, the degradation of moral and material
values and the bankruptcy of a society ravaged by a seem
ingly perpetual war have hindered their effort and are ready
to pull them down the abyss of despair.
“However, advantageous elements, if viewed from an opti
mistic angle, are not scarce. The latest statistics reveal that
65 per cent of the population in South Vietnam is under 30
years of age, which enables a hope in the new energy of a
young and rising people.
“Experiences gathered from 20 years of struggle for the
ideal of a free and just society have strengthened their will
ingness and determination to build up an independent,
peaceful and prosperous Vietnam, friendly with all other
countries in the world.
“The current conflict in their country has helped them
distinguish falsehood from truth; their insecure life has
taught them the goodness of patience and suffering.
“They feel all the more confident In their cause, for the
survival of their beloved land, as young people from allied
countries have come to join them in their fight, while others
all around the world are focusing their attention to their ef
fort.
“The youth of Vietnam today are well aware of their posi
tion and role in the wretched country of theirs. They want to
rebuild a new one, where freedom is guaranteed, justice re
spected and opportunities of progress equally given to every
one.
“They, on the other hand, reject (worshiping a foreign)
scheme of thoughts, a regime laden with oppression and ran
cor, a miserable and slavelike life.
“The youth of Vietnam today know what they want for
their people and themselves, what they are struggling for and
what they will carry out to rebuild their nation.” ...”
If these young men have the courage to persist after 23
years of war, can we do less?
Carmichael
Says Clay
‘My Hero’
ATLANTA (UPD — Negro
leader Stokely Carmichael Sun
day called heavyweight cham
pion Cassius Clay “my hero”
for refusing to go into the army
because of his opposition to the
U. S. Vietnam policy.
It would be foolish for the
champion to go into battle 8,000
miles away while at home he
could not even live in the neigh
borhoor of his choice, Carmich
ael said.
Clay is from Louisville, Ky.,
where Negroes have met stiff
white opposition in a drive for
open housing. |
“Here is a black man who
can't live where he wants to
live,” said Carmichael chair
man of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee. (SN
CC) “And they want to send
him to Vietnam.
“It’s about time we’re going
to tell him (the white man) . . .
no, -we won’t go’."
Carmichael, a chief advocate
of Black Power, charged a
“bunch of hunkies (white peo
ple) took away his title like
they gave it to him. He beat
every white man who got into
the ring with him. Tell them
(white boxing officials) to get
in the ring and get the title.”
Carmichael said “the real
fight in this country — the Black
Power fight — is a fight to ci
vilize white Americans.
“I don’t know why white peo
ple are scared of violence,” he
said, “because they are the
most violent people in this coun
try.”
He said whites preach to Ne
groes that violence gets people
nowhere “but what they are do
ing is bombing the . . . out of
I Vietnam. Violence is okay so
I long os it’s not against white
people.
“Shoot 30 Vietnamese and
they give you a medal. But if
you kill a hunkie after he hits
you, they give you the electric
chair,” he said.
The SNCC chairman defined
Black P.ower as “the coming to
gether of black people to fight
for their freedom by any means
possible.”
War Has Not Dimmed Viet
Youths' Hope for the Future
By RAY CROMLEY
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)
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Griffin Tech
Job Opportunities In
Electronics Unlimited
(EDITOR’S Note: This is the
first in a series of articles about
courses offered at Griffin Tech.
The articles are prepared by
Coy L. Hodges, student person
nel director. The fall quarter at
Griffin Tech will begin on Aug.
14.)
Opportunities in electronics
seem to be unlimited. At pre
sent, it is estimated there will
be a demand for at least five
technicians for each engineer in
this area.
Job opportunities for Electro
nic Technicians are unlimited in
national defense industries in
volving aircraft, ship building,
missile research, space pro
gram, production of automated
machinery and equipment, po
wer plants, ordinance commu
nications and other experimen
tal and testing work.
Griffin Tech will begin at new
class in Electronic Technology
Fall Quarter 1967. The Electro
nics Program is designed to pre
pare the student for employment
at the entry level in the broad
field of electronics. The program
of Instruction consists of class
es on basic and advanced the
ory of electronics, components,
circuits and systems.
The first year of instruction
consists of the basics of electro
nics, direct and alternating cur
rent fundamentals, vacuum tu
bes, transistors and other elec
tronic components parallel with
the subjects pertinent to the el
ectronic fields, such as, physics,
technical writing, drafting, and
basic through advanced mathe
matics.
The second year includes re-
BODIES RETURNED
NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPD —
Forty coffins bearing the only
identified victims of last Thurs
day’s air crash which killed 126
were flown to Switzerland
Tuesday. The other 86 bodies
were to be buried in the British
cemetery at Larnaca.
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Mack W. Brown (c) of 112 Luckie street, Griffin, re
ceives a certificate of service from Lt. Col. Murry D.
Smith (r), director of maintenance, Atlanta Army
Depot, on completion of 20 years of employment.
Horace E. Swann (1) of General Equipment Branch,
where Brown is employed as an automotive machi
nist, looks on. Brown is affiliated with Highland Bap
tist Church, Masonic Lodge No. 26, which he has
served as Worshipful Master. He is the father of a
son, James W. Brown, a graduate of Griffin High and
West Georgia College, who is on active duty with the
Navy.
lating the first year fundamen
tals to complete circuits and
systems such as FM and AM
transmitters and receivers, mi
crowave, television, radar, com
puters and other phases of ad
vanced electronic circuits and
systems.
Beginning salaries for electro
nic technicians in 1964 ranged
between $4,500 and $8,868 and of
ten approached SIO,OOO in as
little as three years. The school
provides a job placement ser
vice t 0 assist the graduates in
finding jobs.
Applicants to the Electronic
Technology Program must have
a high school education or Its
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equivalent. A strong background
in math and science is desirable
for the program. Applicants
must make a qualifying score on
an admission examination. This
examination is administered at
the school on scheduled dates
during the year.
Electronics Is offered in both
the day and night programs. The
cost of the day classes Is $15.00
perquarter plus textbooks. The
cost of the night classes is $9.00
per quarter plus textbooks. The
Persons interested in enroll
ing in Electronics Technology
should write Griffin Tech, P.O.
Box 131, Griffin, Ga. or call 227-
1322 for additional information.
Busy Governor
Maddox Supports
US In Vietnam
ATLANTA (UPD—Gov. Les
ter Maddox declared Sunday
that “no amount of marching,
singing, burning, screaming and
refusing should ever convince
our national leaders to aban
don” the war in Vietnam.
Maddox told an audience at
Kingston Baptist Church the
U. S. course in Southeast Asia
had been charted and there
could be no turning back.
He termed “unthinkable” the
prospect of the nation breaking
its “commitment” to South
Vietnam.
The Kingston Confederate Me
morial Day address was one of
three the governor made Sun
day. He also spoke at the open
ing of the cerebral palsy day
care center in Atlanta and at
a meeting of the Flying Rebels,
an organization of private
pilots.
“Southerners have always
been staunch supports of the
right of: state and local govern
ments to solve their own prob
lems in their own ways,” Mad
dox said in Kingston.
“We believe in the Jeffer
sonian philosophy of govern
ment...that people, when given
the facts, can best determine
their own destiny.
“We fought a Civil War in be
lief of these beliefs,” he said.
“We stand ready at all times
to protect and defend them,
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just as thousands of Americans
are defending our liberty and
freedom in the rice fields and
mud swamps of Vietnam.”
1 At the day care center in At
lanta, Maddox said, "We can
not cure cerebral palsy, but we
can help those who suffer from
it. And perhaps as we continue
to search the day will come
when we will find the key
which will unlock those mys
teries.”
He told the Flying Rebels his
administration had provided
more than $1 million in emer
gency funds for airport develop
ment in Georgia.
“If any community in the
state has an industrial prospect
which is holding back because
of no available airport,” Mad
dox said, “I want to see the
representatives of that commu
nity in my office.”
OPEN-SHUT CASE
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.
(UPD —Harry Koch had a
pretty good argument going for
him Friday when he asked for a
change in venue in Middlesex
County Court.
Koch, 34, was charged with
entering a home with another
man and robbing Mrs. Stepha
nie Morris of $l,lOO.
Koch's request to have the
case heard in another county
was granted. The victim’s
husband is Middlesex County
Judge Charles M. Morris Jr.