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THE ONLY “DAILY NEWSPAPER AUBUISHED IN) MANATEE COUNTY
W. E. PAGE, President and Publisher
JOHN T. HAMNER
Editor
WILTON MARTIN R.
Managing Editor
P. RICHARDSON, JR.
Adveceuine Director
W. E. PAGE III, Comptroller
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
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Wednesday, Sept. 7, 1966
They are to do good, to be rich.in good deeds
liberal and generous.—I Timothy 6:18,
ae
_ The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
—Marcus Cato, Roman statesman.
EDITORIALS
What Negroes Really Want .
_ .In_all the furor in recent years
‘over rights for Negroes, little real
effort has ever been made to deter-
‘mine exactly what the Negro-in-the-
-home'really wants. “Freedom Now”
has been the rallying cry, instant
‘prosperity the indication. But the
‘precise details have been lacking.
Now a survey conducted for the
‘Senate subcommittee on executive
‘reorganization—the one which has
‘been conducting hearings on the
‘plight of the cities—has made a
‘stab at finding out what the average
‘Negro family really wants. And the
‘answers are not very surprising,
‘though Martin Luther King and
niekely Carmichael probably don’t
e them.
Gee SUBCOMMITTEE’S survey,,
Goiucted by the John F. Kraft
firmprevealed that the Negro in the
7 * oh etto”:
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| ~ Isn't particularly inferested in
civil rights laws;
¥ Loathes welfare programs
x tee they force families to break
x e ¥ Isn't worried about “police
rutality” because he lives in a state
f near-anarchy, and actually wants
nore police protection;
tv Rejects forced desegregation of
schools, but wants schools that will
‘each children basic discipline,
anners and personal hygiene.
Senator Abraham Ribicoff, chair-
nan of the subcommittee, said the
rvey was conducted in carefully-
ontrolled interviews in Watts, Har-
m, Chicago and Baltimore, using
specially-trained Negro. interview-
s to overcome the “whitey”
THE SLUM AREA Negro’s objec-
ion to welfare programs is that
oorer Negroes, But where an un-
killed Negro father finds it difficult
Support his family, welfare pro-
es OE
grams help out only if he reece
away from his family. What the
Negroes of the slums want, the sur-
veyors report, is job training so they
can get off relief and keep the family
together.
Qnty,
HARLEM RESIDENTS were par-
ticularly strong in their demand for
stopping crime on the streets. Whole
neighborhoods, the surveyors re-
ported, have been virtually aban-
doned to dope addicts ready to kill,
maim or steal for a “fix.’ The
‘Negroes want more police protec-
tion, so they can walk, shop, work
and live in safety.
The results of this survey speak
well for the Negro families 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 Ameri-
cans. But the survey findings
suggest that the ae atts Jen
and the political liberals are chasing
the wrong moonbeams. i ae
—S
INSTEAD OF laws and court deci-
sions liberalizing the protection of
the individual Negro from the brutal
arm of law enforcement, the Negroes
vee more police protection.
nstead of laws and “guidelines”
forcing an arbitrary quota-system
integration in schools, the Negroes
want better education and stpieter
Shoah. in their community
ead of a dgle and a poverty
; anu 1 lent I
inte glace for some re- eteinking by all
of us—from Sas citizen to ent