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THE FOREST PARK NEWS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1964
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The Forest Pork News
1172 Moin St. Forest Park, Ga. 366-3080
Post Office Box 25, Forest Pork, Go.
Guy Butler, Editor
Subscription Rate S2OO Year - Published Each Thursday
Entered As Second Class Matter at Forest Park, Ga.
WORD 'DISCRIMINATION’ NOT
DEFINEDIN CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
THIS COPY HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY JOHN C. SATTERFIELD, PAST PRESIDENT (1961-62)
OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION. MR. SATTERFIELD IS SECRETARY-TREASURER
OF THE COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR FUNDAMENTAL AMERICAN FREEDOMS SUITE
520, 301 FIRST ST., N.E., WASHINGTON 3, D. C.
opponents of the Civil Rights bill have been charged with seeing hobgoblins, of saying there
are provisions In the bill that would far outreach the actuality.
The opponents deny this. They say the bill is every bit as radical as they claim. They say, if
passed, it will destroy the republic.
What are the facts?
Those who oppose the bill make their case, in part, by pointing to three elements of the bill.
The first is Section 711-B which, they say, would permit the President to do practically any
thing he chooses to enforce the bill’s provisions. And, truth to tell, a reading of that section
seems to bear them out. It says: “The President is authorized to take such action as may be
appropriate to prevent the committing or continuing of an unlawful employment practice....’’
To make the second step of their case, the opponents point to Section 602. It Says: “Each
Federal department and agency which is empowered to extend Federal financial assistance to
any program or activity, byway of grant, contract or loan, shall take action to effectuate” the
provisions of the bill.
Therefore, their argument runs, in that the total Federal budget is spent through Federal
departments or agencies byway of “grant, contract, or loan”, it appears the total Federal
budget would be at the President’s disposal to enforce the act’s provisions.
The final step deals with the substance of the bill. In broad terms, the Civil Rights bill seeks
to make “discrimination” unlawful.
To recap, then, under the language of the Civil Rights bill, the President would have the authority
to use the Federal budget In any way he thinks “appropriate” to abolish “discrimination.” I
But what is "discrimination”?
As the bill’s opponents point out, that word Is not defined. The bill does define such words as |
"person” and "employer” and such phrases as "employment agency” and “labor organization”, j
but nowhere In the bill is the word“dlscriminatlon” given a definition. Nor is the word “religion"
defined, nor “race”.
The opponents of the bill say this cannot be an oversight; no serious draughtsman would fall 9
to define key words. Nor is it without significance. Quite to the contrary. They say that without |
these definitions, the bill is wide open, that each Federal department and agency will be left to
decide for itself what is and what is not “discrimination”, what constitutes "race” and what
constitutes “religion”. In short, their personal interpretation.
And thus the bill would transform -the country from one of laws, (a republic), to one of men
(a dictatorship).
So, it seems the opponent’s case is solid. For whatever a person may think of race relations *
in the South, the effects of this bill are not confined to the area South of the Mason-Dixon but
are equally applicable throughout the nation . It follows, then, while the mental picture we hold
of tiiscrlminatlan may apply only to race relations elsewhere, the force of this bill actually will
apply in our backyard, to our jobs, as well. And what may be “discrimination” in our mind,
today may very well be something else again, tomorrow, when it reaches us.
You can’t write good law without definitions. But you can grant dictatorial power that way.
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that Edison missed
Now there’s a challenge for any young man!
Thomas Alva Edison gave the world the elec
tric lamp, the factory to produce it and the
generating plant to put it to use. He invented
the phonograph, motion-picture camera and
fluoroscope, improved the telegraph and tele
phone, even helped smooth the way for radio,
radar and television.
Edison held 1,100 patents. But he only cracked
the door to a world burgeoning with adventure
... adventure awaiting the probing minds of
future generations!.
The world needs more people with imagina
tion, curiosity, the creative spark. And Ameri
ca’s free enterprise system offers the best cli
mate to nurture such individual abilities. Let
us work to preserve that system then —for the
sake of potential Edisons.
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Registration
Set Saturday
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Non-registered citizens of
East Clayton area (Conley, El
lenwood, Joy Lake and Rex) are
encouraged to register now so
they may vote April 4.
Reid Puckett, chief registrar
of Clayton County will be at
the Ellenwood Militia District
Courthouse Saturday from 12
noon until 4 p.m.
A number of families are “new
comers” to the East Clayton
community and some whose
working hours or other duties
make it inconvenient for them to
go to Jonesboro to register.
Members of the civic organiz
ations of East Clayton realize
every person living in this
county has some personal stake
or interest s that he or she can
best protect by voting for and
electing honest and trustworthy
officials to serve the public.
You can still register in Jones
boro if you prefer.
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THE PANAMA situation is
another sorry example of how a
policy of appeasement and con
cession leads only to more de
mands and further aggression.
The current dispute over the
Panama Canal treaty can be
traced back to 19f>0, when Presi-
dent Eisen
hower—by ex
ecutive order
and against
the wishes of
Congress —
yielded to pres
sure and ord
ered the Pana
ma ni a n flag
flown in the American Canal
Zone.
Last year, there was more
agitation by Panamanian nation
alists, and further concessions
were made, allowing the flag to
be flown wherever the flag of
the United States did.
The stage was thus set. If the
United States had given in be
fore on our rights in the Canal
Zone, could we not he expected
to meet further demands, espe
cially if they are underscored
by mob violence?
* * *
LET US HOPE there will be
no more concessions and that the
United States will be firm in as
serting its legal and moral rights
to title, control and management
of the Panama Canal.
Our right to the Canal is just
as absolute and binding as our
right to any acquisition we have
made by treaty. Panama has no I
more right to demand a renego
tiation of the Canal Treaty than
would France in insisting on
more money for land in the
Louisiana Purchase.
The United States acquired the
site of the Canal more than 60
years ago and Panama agreed
to a treaty in 1903 which gave
us complete control "in perpetui-'
ty” over the Canal Zone. The ।
treaty stated that the Canal /
Zone was ours "to the entire
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MORE PLYWOOD
Since 1945, the production of
softwood plywood has expanded
more than eight times. The con
struction of two new plywood
plants in the South is encour-
Elect
MRS. MARY ALICE
RUTLEDGE
School Board
Riverdale
exclusion of the exercise by the
Republic of Panama of any
sovereign rights, power or au
thority.”
The Panama Canal, extremely
vital to the security of this hem
isphere and also to world com
merce, is the result of Ameri
can ingenuity, engineering and
। capital. The United States, at a
cost of some S4OO million, took
on the task of building the Canal
in the face of seemingly insur
mountable obstacles. We suc
ceeded, where the French had
failed, and built the Canal and
have operated it successfully in
the best interests of the world.
Moreover, contrary to popular
opinion, the Canal is not profit
, able to the United States, Tolls,
which are the same as origin
ally set in 1903, are designed
to promote international trade
and not make money, and we
have not yet redeemed all the
bonds for construction of the
facility.
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THESE DEMANDS of Pan
ama upon the United States put
that small republic in the posi
tion of biting the hand which
feeds it. Panama now gets about
$1.9 million a year from the
U. S., and the Canal generates
the annual income of the coun
try in the amount of about SBS
million.
Also, Panamanian claims that
the treaty should be renego
tiated, are without any merit,
and any contention that the
' Canal Zone belongs to them is
absurd.
We must not back down. If
we allow any infringement of
our rights in Panama, if we
bow to the coercion of Commu
nist-infiltrated mobs, the cause
of freedom in the Western Hem
isphere and throughout ‘the
। world will suffer.
aging to producers of south
ern lumber, say Extension Ser
vice foresters. They add that
these plants—the first in the
region—will have an annual ca
pacity of 200 million square
feet of plywood.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Hang your head in shame.
After going through two states .North and South Carolina, there was no trash on the roadway.
But on entering my own state of Georgia I did not need signs welcoming me back home, only
the trash and garbage along the right of way.
In arriving home, I found beer bottles, liquor bottles and just garbage in front of my home. This
is not the only side road in our growing county, but on every road. Has this happended to other
citizens? Maybe yes. and what did you do about this? Only look and walk around it, hoping it
would go away?
I called Mr. P. K. Dixon and discussed the above shameful condition of our roadways. Mr.
Dixon agreed, only to say that we need a strong drive on dumping of garbage along the side of
the road.
I further told j Mr. Dixon, if I were from another state I would think twice before buying a home
in Clayton County in the state of Georgia.
After talking to him, I called Chief Smith, about the above condition. Mr. Smith stated he would
put up signs, “No Dumping, Order Police Dept., ” and he did. But the garbage is still out there
and how will Mr. Smith know if other garbage has been dumped?
Citizens, this is Election Year, let’s not look behind us; let’s vote for the candidate who will
work to carry out these promises, along with the other promises that go with election year.
Let’s not live in shame and garbage. Let’s not vote for more garbage representation in our
state.
Let’s vote and show other states that we can and will have good government.
Let’s educate our representative let them know that we mean business, if they expect our vote.
JOHN P CAGES
RTE 1, CONLEY, GA.
Georgia Baptists Hike Giving
Georgia Baptists gave a re
cord $7,094,397.7 during 1963
for their work together in the
area of missions, education and
benevolences, according to a
report released today by Dr.
Searcy S. Garrison of Atlanta,
Georgia Baptist Convention
executive secretary-treasurer.
The increase during 1963, dol
lar-wise, was $256,633.53, over
the 1962 total of $6,837,764.24.
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Gifts to the Convention’s Co
operative Program totaled $4,
009,722.60, as compared with
$3,77’,230.68 in 1962, for an
increase of 6.15% - - - dol
lar-wise, $232,491.92.
The increased giving during
1963 means that Georgia Bap
tists will have available $797,
105.57 to apply on the Con
vention’s Capital improvements
and Endowment Program, which
is contingent upon Georgia Bap
tist institutions matching dol
lar for dollar their percentage
available.
The Cooperative Program of
Georgia Baptist is the method
through which the nearly 3000
Georgia Baptist churches co
operate together voluntarily to
support their mission, educa
tional and benevolent enter
prises.