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IWAugusta News-Review October 1,1983
Mallory K. MillenderEditor-Publisher
Paul Walker Assistant to the Publisher
Wanda Johnson General Manager/Advertising Dir.
Diane CarswellCirculation Manager
Yvonne Day Reporter
Rev. R.E. Donaldsonßeligion Editor
Mrs. Geneva Y. Gibson Church Coordinator
Charles Beale Jenkins County Correspondent
Mrs. Fannie Johnson Aiken County Correspondent
Mrs. Clara WestMcDuffie County Correspondent
Mrs. Ileen Buchanan Fashion & Beauty Editor
Wilbert Allen Columnist
Roosevelt Green Columnist
Al IrbyColumnist
Philip Waring Columnist
Marva Stewart Columnist
George Bailey. Sports Writer
Carl McCoyEditorial Cartoonist
Olando HamlettPhotographer
Roscoe Williams Photographer
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The Mayor Comments
Strengthening downtown
by Edward M. Mclntyre
Strengthening the development
of our downtown should be of ut
most impor
tance to each ■ '
of us as I
citizens of
Augusta.
Each of us ‘
has an invest
ment in our JBfA
downtown whe
ther it is as a
concerned citizen or as a business
person. We all stand to benefit
from our efforts of working
together to improve our downtown
physically and economically.
I believe that the downtown
businesses need a promotional of
ficer like those hired for malls and
shopping centers. I see the need for
a person to be working full-time
daily to strengthen the develop
ment of our downtown.
I will be asking City Council to
fund a “nominal salary” for a
downtown promotional director
for one year, if downtown mer
chants will agree to fund some
promotional activities. The city
needs the help of the downtown
merchants in this endeavor.
From page 5
These reasons provisions were
made in the law of Moses for wor
ship and religious exercises. All
these laws and regulations, both
secular and religious, were given at
Mount Sinai, through Moses, and
constituted what we call the First
Covenant.
Covenant Made
From Mount Sinai the Ten
Commandments were delivered
(Ex. 20:1-17). To Moses Jehovah
delivered many additional com
mands and ordinances. See
Exodus, Chapters 21-23. “And
Moses came and told the people all
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I am planning to meet with
downtown merchants and ask
them to evaluate the office for a
year. If the office is as successful
as I think it will be, I believe the
merchants should meet the city
government halfway and fund the
salary and promotional activities
of the office on a 50-50 basis.
The Mayor’s Committee on the
New Downtown Excitement has
endorsed the idea of a promotional
officer.
I have always emphasized the
working together of the private
and public sector for the good of
all our citizens. It is through this
strengthening of our downtown
that we should see an increase in
job opportunities for our people
and an increase in sales.
As concerned citizens you can
support the downtown merchants
by coming to the many activities
provided for your entertainment
and enjoyment and by shopping in
the many fine stores available to
you.
It is by working together,
whether as a citizen, a downtown
merchant or a city employee that
we can move Augusta forward for
a better Augusta.
Covenants
the words of Jehovah, and all the
ordinances.”
To all of which the people repli
ed, “All the words which Jehovah
hath spoken we will do, and be obe
dient” (Ex. 24:7).
Then Moses “took the blood of
the calves and the goats, with
water and scarlet wool and hyssop,
and sprinkled both the book itself
and all the people, saying, this is
the blood of the covenant which
God commanded to you-ward”
(Heb. 9:19; Ex. 24:7, 8). Thus the
covenant was ratified and sealed.
This covenant Paul calls the “First
Covenant” (Heb. 8:7; 9:1,18).
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SLACK RKOORCES ING-
Walking With Dignity
$ credits pit church, state
by Al Irby
Proponents of tuition tax credits
for parents of parochial school
students have ■
won a key ■
skirmish in (he MjCgk
courts, but that
victory could wHk
eventually mean K&y ;• r- ‘ ‘|||
a defeat in
Congress and
possibly a
reversal by the courts.
The United States Supreme
Court recently upheld a plan to
give tuition tax breaks to parents
of students in both public and
private (including parochial)
schools. This ruling actually may
help rally First Amendment ad
vocates and those who believe in a
clear-cut separation between chur
ch and state.
Civil rights groups, many con
stitutionalists, and some in the
religious community at first were
discouraged by the court’s 5-4-
decision. It upheld a Minnesota
law allowing a partial tax deduc
tion for educational expenses, a
benefit that would apply primarily
to parents of parochial school
students.
They still don’t like the ruling.
But now many say they don’t see it
as the damaging frontal assault on
the “wall” of separation they first
did. Some even say it could help
block broad-based legislation, now
before Congress and backed by the
Reagan administration, which
would permit tax credits to parents
of children attending private
To Be Equal
Fair housing action needed
by John E. Jacob
The world’s most neglected law
has to be the Fair Housing Act of
1968. Intended
to end housing ■
discrimination,
it has gathered
dust. Rarely ®
the
law has failed I
to discourage I
housing discrimi- JM
nation.
The betrayal of the promise of
the fair housing law is a national
scandal that should be rectified by
passage of tough enforcement
provisions. Those provisions
should have been there from the
beginning, they weren’t because of
a naive faith that people will obey
the law even if there is no serious
penalty attached to violating it.
That hasn’t worked out. And an
Administration not noted for its
toughness on bigotry has not
pressed the fight on housing
segregation.
The Justice Department, for
example, has filed only five
housing discrimination lawsuits,
compared with an average of 32 a
year in previous Administrations.
Worse, it concentrates on minor
suits involving redress for in
dividuals, rather than broader,
precedent setting suits that would
schools.”
The decision by the Supreme
Court in Muelier vs. Allen to
uphold a- Minnesota tax
deducation for parents of school
children has increased the chances
that the Reagan tuition tax-credit
plan would be declared uncon
stitutional,” insists Donald N.
Jensen, research associate at Stan
ford’s Institute for Research on
Educational Finance and Gover
nment.
Mr. Jensen, a national expert on
education funding, says he doesn’t
believe the Reagan plan can say it
met the litmus test originally set up
by the Supreme Court in 1971 and
followed, at least in part, in the
Minnesota decision.
This holds that to be con
stitutional, a law assisting private
schools or parents of children in
those schools must: (1) have a
secular purpose; (2) have a primary
effect that neither advances nor
inhibits religion; and (3) not lead
to excessive entanglement between
church and state. Justice William
H. Rehnquist writing for the
majority in the Minnesota case,
cited “facial neutrality” in the
Minnesota law.
He explained that on its face, it
does not distinguish between
public and private schools,
religious or secular. He conceded,
however, that the tax deduction
benefited mostly parents of
parochial school children—since
more than 95 percent of Min
nesota’s private school students at
tend religious schools, few public
have wider application.
The Department of Housing and
Urban Development withdrew the
regulations implementing the Fair
Housing Act and still not replaced
them with new regulations, an in
dication of where housing
discrimination stands in the order
of priorities.
HUD’s fair housing office spen
ds a hefty part of its limited funds
and manpower in peaceful per
suasion to encourage voluntary
compliance with the law. That is a
worthy effort, but I wouldn’t call
it tough enforcement. A better job
of education could be done with a
few well-timed lawsuits and by
publicizing offenders.
The existing enforcement
mechanism is so cumbersome that
it is no bar to discriminatory prac
tices. It stresses conciliation to the
point where a home can be long off
the market by the time a case is
resolved. While the Justice Depar
tment can handle cases of systemic
discrimination, it has been lax in
doing so.
So the law is not working.
That’s something even the Reagan
Administration admits. It has
finally introduced a set of
proposed changes in the law that
would allow the Justice Depar
tment to handle individual com
plaints and to raise the ante for
school students incur deductible
expenses.
Jensen and others point out that
the current federal tax-credit
legislation does not cover any
public school expenses and focuses
on a tax "credit” rather than on a
“deduction” for private-school
families.
The Stanford scholar suggests
that other court decisions” in
dicate that tax credits maybe a
stronger form of aid to religion
than are tax deductions.”
And he adds that a bill chan
neling funds only to those atten
ding nonpublic schools cannot be
considered “secular.”
In Minnesota, taxpayers may
claim a deduction for certain
school-related expenses, such as
tuition, textbooks, and transpor
tation. There’s a limit of SSOO for
elementary-school students and
S7OO for those in upper grades.
The proposed federal tax-credit
is dollar for dollar forgiveness
against the net payable tax after all
deductions and exclusions have been
taken. Jensen says that the courts
may decide that tax credits involve
the state more deeply in assisting
sectarian schools than do either tax
benefits or deductions.
Meanwhile, some constitutional
lobbyists, including church groups
such as the American Jewish
Committee, the Baptist Joint
Committee on Public Affairs and
Americans United for Separation
of Church and State (AU), say
they are ready to do battle in each
state to head off public funding
programs for parochial schools.
bigots by providing for hefty
fines—up to SIOO,OO0 —for lan
dlords and realtors who
discriminate.
Better still is another plan, being
considered in the Senate, that
would establish a system of ad
ministrative judges to hear housing
complaints. The judges, appointed
by a presidential commission,
would have the power to award
damages and fine violators.
Cases would be referred to the
judges by HUD and their decisions
could be appealed, ensuring fair
ness. So critics complaining about
the power of the housing judges
are off-base; that power would be
tightly controlled.
Such a system would have many
advantages. It would short-circuit
the slow complaint process under
the existing law, a process that
amounts to preventing redress. It
would also compensate victims of
discrimination while punishing
violators of the law.
Such a strong enforcement
mechanism is long overdue.
Housing is the one area where
Blacks can be sure that
discrimination is still strong. Each
year there are well over two million
specific instances of discrimination
against Black homeseekers.
That illegal discrimination has
to be stopped. The marketplace
has had fifteen years to come to
Going PtejHl
Local panel
to view march
on Washington
by Philip Waring
The March On Washington,
both 1963 and 1983, will be
reviewed on a
special Chan-
nel 6 television I
program on
October 2 at 1|
noon.
Frank Tho
mas, program ■
moderator, is H flB
urging residents who are out of
their church service to tune in this
half hour program. Thomas said
that so as to get a varied mix of
opinion, he was inviting four
panelists with varied points of
view.
As Dr. King’s Dream has not
been realized, the recent march has
engendered considerable
discussion. First panelist is Dr.
C.S. Hamilton, Tabernacle pastor.
It was he and B.L. Dent who got
together a railroad car with
Augusta passengers for the 1963
event.
As an Augusta NAACP leader
and president during this era, Dr.
Hamilton frequently served as
spokesman for the civil rights
organization.
The next person is Philip Kent.
He is the editorial page editor for
both the Augusta Chronicle and
Herald, and as such is their chief
editorial and policy spokesman.
He was formerly press secretary
for U.S. Senator Strom Thur
mond. Mr. Kent has been a visitor
to the Union of South Africa and
has often written in support of its
racial policies.
The third panelist is Ms. Blon
dell Conley. She’s president of this
year’s, the Augusta-area, SCLC and
was responsible for securing a bus
for the Washington trip. A neigh
borhood activist, she often speaks
out on civil rights, advancement of
human, affairs and the like.
Ms. Conley offered strong sup
port for last month’s gathering in
Washington.
Philip Waring, with 50 odd
years of affiliation with the
NAACP, Urban League and the
Black Press of America, was
the official respresentative of the
City of St. Louis and also the
Augusta Weekly Review of which
he was national news director. His
36-year-old weekly column,
“Going Places” appears in the
Augusta News-Review and often
reflects the stance of the threefi
a fore-mentioned organizations. L
It is good to note that a
number of influential newspapers*«
such as the St. Louis Post-*
Dispatch, Washington Post,
Chicago Sun-Times, Atlanta Con
stitution, Boston Globe, USA
Today and others gave excellent
news coverage. And many of them
had slaudable editorials on the
need or March II because King’s
Dream has not been realized.
All three networks and PBS gave
in-depth and sensative coverage,
with the Turner News group of
fering almost 24 hours of news.
Scores of key civil rights leaders
were interviewed. This made
possible for the full and vivid story
on the nation’s many problems to
be aired. The Black Press of
America gave virtually unaminous
backing. Radio did its share.
Now to turn the coin over. A
select number of conservative
national news columnist did not do
what Time and Newsweek and Jet
did. They were quite critical and
some downright critical of March
11. There were more than 700
national, regional and local groups
who endorsed it. Jesse Jackson
said that March I brought us some
measure of freedom via the various
civil rights laws but not equality.
terms with the law and the gover-B
nment has had fifteen years to!
learn that the present law isn’t!
working the way it should.
This most pervasive form of!
discrimination has to be tackled at!
its roots, and now is the best time!
to mount a real effort to pass an!
enforcement law. ’ ?
With a presidential election®
coming up, few contenders wilfl
want to appear to be against stop®
ping housing discrimination. Bu®
the real test is whether they’ll bacl®
a strong law that does what it i®
supposed to do—end housing
discrimination. |j|