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~-~--------~--- - - - · -,......,.--- - PH ONLY W. JOHN T. HAMNER Editor OA,11.Y NEW.SP.APER ·· tU8L'ISHED··1N MANATEE ~C:OUN"f.Y ~ RlD E. PAGE, President and Publisher WILTON MARTIN R. P . RICHARDSON, JR. Managing Editor Advertisfng Director W. E . PAGE III, Comptroller . W ednesday, Sept. 7, _1966 4-A A THOUGHT FOR TODAY T hey are to do. good, to be rich in. good deeds, lioeraL and generous.-I Timot hy 6: 18. ··
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The best way to keep good acts in m emory is to re.fresh t hem with n ew.
- Marcus Cato, Roman statesman.
EDITORIALS
lly Want
What Negr e
. Jn_·an the furor in recent years
grams help out only if he breaks
· ovei -r ights for Negroes, little real away from his fa mily. What the
effort has ever been made to deter' mine exactly what the Negro-in-thehome really wants. " Freedom Now"
hall been the rallying cry, instant
prosperity the indication. But the
precise details have been lacking.
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Now a survey conducted for the
Senate subcommittee on executive
reorganization-the one which has
been conducting hear ings on the
"plight of the cities-has made a
· stab at finding out what the average
Negro fam ily really wants. And the
·answers are not very surprising,
. . though Martin Luther King and
.-~tokely Carmichael probably don't
like them.
THE SUBCOMI\1ITTEE'S survey,,
conducted by the John F. Kraft
firm , revealed that the Negro in the
1'ghetto":
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Isn't particularly interested in
civil rights laws;
Loathes w e 1f a r e programs
because they force families to break
up;
v Isn't worried about "police
brutality" because he lives in a state
of near-anarchy, and actually wants
more police protection;
""' Rejects forced desegregation of
schools, but wants schools that will
t e a ch children basic discipline,
1anners and personal hygiene.
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Senator Abraham Ribicoff, chairan of the subcommittee, said the
urvey as conducted in carefullycontrolled interviews in Watts, Har·
em, Chicago and Baltimore, usil1g
~ ecially-trained Negro interviewers to overcome the "whitey"
barrier.
TIIE SLUM AREA Negro s objec-
tion to welfare programs is that
amily instability is one of the prime
au es of difficulties among the
oorer Negroes. But where an unk11led Negro father finds it difficult
o support his family, welfare pro·
Negroes of the slums want, the surveyors report, is .i,gb training so t b,gt
Sen get of£ r~ef and keElE._ the fam,ity
together .
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HARLEM RESID ENTS were par·
ticularly strong in their demand for
stopping crime on the sti·eets. Whole
neighborhoods, the surveyors re·
ported, have been virtuall y aban·
doned to dope addicts r eady to kill,
maim or steal for a "fix." The
Negroes want more police protection, so they can walk, shop, ·work
and live in safety .
The results of this survey speak
well for the Negro fa milies of the
big city slums, for they show that
the aspirations of the average Negro
there are sound and in keeping with
the aspirations of most other Americans. But the survey findings
suggest that the civil rigtits ~ s
and the P,Oliti'c~al fip'e1~ s are chasing
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the wrong moonbeams.
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