Bronze Reporter [Volume: 7, Issue: 47]

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SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1961 |

ED:TORIAL. +

What Con The Unemployed
In Michigan Expect?

By Alvin M. Bentley.

(This is the first part of a two-part article in ~ Mr. Bentley:.

sets ferth his views.)

we

Part |

All of us regardless of our own economic status,become
concerned when substantial unemployment persists over
~a period of time. We, in Michigan, have as much cause to
be concerned over this problem as people in any other part
of the country.

There is the natural humanitarian instinct to sympa
thize with and try to heip those people who have betome

unemployed through no fault of them own and who face
economic hardship and personal misery as a-result. There
is the even more compeiling economic impact on all of us

which results from massive unemployment. People- who
~are out of work are not good consumers and the loss of

their purchasing power is telt throughout the entire econo
*-my. Unemployment affects all of us regardless of the size

of our own income or the source from which it is derived...My remarks are not directed at those persons who
would prefer to subsist on welfare or on unemployment
compensation rather than to seek active employment. I am
only interested in talking to people who want to help themselves, who feel pride in earning nonest wages for an honest
day~s toil, who are employable and who o ony ask to be employed.

In the first place, there should only be two qualifications for employment: individual merit and experience. It
is not only a shortsighted and foolish policy but completely
un-American, to. distinguish between job applicants on the
grounds of race; éoftor or creed. A man~s background and
his ability should be the prime considerations before every
employer when faced with more than one applicant for
a vacant job.

In the second place, many employees are finding themselves displaced, not by other workers, but by machines in

- @ process known as automation. An employer cannot be
_eriticized for ~installing machines to perform part of his

operations and thereby reduce his costs of prpduction, especially if he uses such savings to offset higher costs and
thus maintain stable prices or even reduce tnem.

But those workers who are dispiaced by machines and

Who are not.readily re-employable because of age or other

factors have a right to be assisted through re-training to
qualify for other and different employment. The question
here is whether the financial cost of re-training displaced
workers should fall upon the tax-paying public at large

or upon those businesses from which they have been dis
placed. Personally, I prefer the latter approach and I think
consideration should be given to financing such fe-training
through special tax levies on the type of machinery that
thus creates ~displaced persons.~

' Every attempt should be made in Michigan, on a nonpartisan basis, to attract new and diversified industries to

our state and to retain those we now enjoy. A thorough
study should be made of those situations in other parts of |

the country that have enjoyed more success in this direction than we have, through tne offer of tax concessions

and other advantages that are attractive to industry. Every
~reasonable and normal attempt should be made to match

concessions and advantages that are offered elsewhere. If
this be done, | believe that the natural advantages which

our state already enjoys will enable us to keep our share

of American industry and business.
(Continued Next Week)

Vic Vet.
Says...

Q~How does a veteran go
about getting hospitalization when
he is living in a foreign country?
What ~sort of hospital would he
be placed in?

A~He should contact the near-:
est United Statés Embassy. To

be eligible for hospitalization.

from the VA abroad, he must
have a compensable service-connected disability for which he
requires treatment and be residing in the foreign country only
temporarily. He may be placed
in a hospital of the country in
which he -is jiving or in an
overseas hospital of the United
States Armed Forces.; Q~What are the official dates.
of the Korean War World War [I
for purposes of VA hospitalization?~

A ~ June 27, 1950, through
January 31,..1955, for the Korean
War. and December. 7, 1941,
through December 31, 1946, for
World War II.

Q~I am a World War II veteran and believe I may be eligible for a pension. What is considered income for. determining
this eligibility?

A~Income is all the money you
receive during the year. It includes wages, salaries, dividends,
interests, profits, annuities, pensions, Social Security payments;
in. fact, everything that is not
specifically excepted in the following seven items: (1) Compen
sation or pension payments from

the VA. (2) Donations by or from
public or private relief or welfare
sources, (3) Government life insurance payments and payments
of. servicemen~s indemnity. (4)
Social Security lump sum death
payments. (5) Armed Forces pay<ments of the 6month death
gratuity, (6) Proceeds of fire insurance policies. (7) _Payments
from public or private retirement,
annuity or endowment plans equal
to the amount contributed to
the plan by the individual now
receiving the payments, ~

Join The
(NAACP!

Things You Should

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ACTOR AND WINNER OF THE

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FAMOUS FOR HIS PORTRAYAL oF THE

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Chan snging Neighborhood

{BALANCE THE SCALE

Property Evaluated

ANN ARBOR~When a neighborhood becomes racially
integrated, the odds are 4-to-1.that home values will re
main stable or improve, a San
~(hursday (April zu) at The U

Luigi Laurenti, former University of California faculty memner, based--tnis finding on a comparative analysis of over 10,000
nouse sales in San_ francisco,
Vakiand and: Philadelphia cover
~ing the 12-year period, 1943-55.

Similar results have been reported by researchers in Chicago,
Philadelphia, Detroit, Kansas
City, Los Angeles, and Portland,
he said. Together, they deal a

~crushing biow~ to -the widely -

held betuef that racial: intégration invariably causes a decline
in property values.

Laurenti~s study, the~ largest
of its kind ever inade, ~Invoived
20 ~~racialiy-chatiging~ heighbor-. hoods outside the central part of

metropolitan areas. Eacn.was
matched: with a ~similar~neighborhood which remained ~all-white.

In 41 per cent of all the comparisons made, home prices in
racially integrated neighborhoods "behaved just as they did
in the all-white areas,~-he said.
in 44 per cent of the: comparisons, prices in. the~ integrated
neighborhoods rose by margins
of five to 26 per cent. above
those in all-white areas. In the
remaining 15 per cent, prices
declined by margins of five ~to
nine.per cet below those in allwhite neighborhoods. _~

~These findings applied generally across the board, regardless of whether a, neighborhood
happened to ~be high-priced or
low-priced, or whether it had
been entered by many or few
non-white families,~ he said.

~White pepulatiens have. become ~more ~sophisticated toward
neighborhood racial change over
the past two decades. While. instances of violent resistance to

non-white entry or panic. flight.

from ~invaded~ neighborhoods
have not been lacking, they appear to have been less frequent

~ than in some past periods.

~More, often than not, in recent
years, racial transition of neigh
borhood occupacy has been a ~

peaceful process.~
While property transactions in

~ the:central sector of cities were

not included in the analysis,.Laurenti said, ~It~s pretty obvious

that valués in the: central. city _.city ~areas~largely deserted by

the whites because of their rundown condition~have actually
been driven to high levels by
intensive non-white housing demand~ funneled to them by,restrictive policies in the housing:: ~
Letters to the Editor
April 13, -1961
Mrs. Betty Ellington
Detroit Tribune
$70 Gratiot
Detroit,.Michigan
Dear Mrs. Ellington, The 6th Annual Fight for Free
dom Dinner of the Detroit Branch
NAACP held last-Sunday evening
in Cobo Hall was the most successful of our efforts so. far.
Many, many people and agencies
helped to make cr achievement
possible; - ~among
~them. was pace

Francisco economist reported
niversitiy of Michigan.

market.

~Most real estate people agree
that without this demand...
vatues in these areas would have
sagged seriously.~

Supported by a $305,000 grant
from the Ford Foundation~s Fund
for the Republic, his study is detailed in the~ book, ~Property
Value~ sand Race ~ Studies in
Seven Cities~ (University of California Press, 1960).

Laurenti said his

of discrimination, encourage the
development of one large open
-housing market, and foster more

favorable lending policies: toward -

~home owners in racially integrated neighborhoods. ':
Sponsors of his talk included
the U-M Department of Economics
the Ann Arbor Human Relations
Commission, the Ann Arbor-Washtenaw Council of Churches, the
First Unitarian Church, the First

Methodist Church, and local chap-,

ters of the National Conference
of: Christians and Jews and the
National: Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

An Open Letter
To Att'y General

Hon. Robert +. Kennedy x
The Attorney General of the
United States of America
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear ~Sir:

~ I have recently resigned as an
Assistant. United States Attorney

- for the Eastern District of New

York after serving in both Civil
and Criminal Divisions for more
than seven years.

This letter is written requesting that you use your good offices to obtain increased Negro

Personnel in Federal Investiga-~

tive Agencies as Investigators
and/or Agents. May I respectfully submit the following proposals:

1) The hiring of qualified
Negro Personnel in appreciable
numbers in Federal Investigative Agencies, should be made
established policy.

2) The. Agencies ~should be
urged to obtain Negro Personnell by recruiting qualified and

dedicated individuals from Col
~ Jeges throughout the country.
' 3) Federal Investigative
Agencies should be urged to
place ~qualified Negro Investi
gative Agents throughout the.

entire United States...
These recommendations are. based on the following:

1) The need. to provide equal
opportunity - for. Negroes in
Federal Investigative Agencies.

2) The present lack.of an
appreciable number of Negro

Investigative Personnel in Fed- f

eral Agencies.

3) The large number of Ne- |
gro Defendants. apprehended
by Federal Investigative-Agen
cies, might, with greater understanding be interrogated and
handled by Negro Investigative
Personnel.

4) The benefits to the Fed
eral Agencies which wilt result _

from the hiring of skilled and

~qualified Negro _Jnveatigative {

Personnel.

~The above iiforaistion is based |
upon my experience as an Assist-.
ant United States Attorney, and 5.

findings.
strike at one of the main sources.

- -One of the main. things
for us to remember is that

- ~God is with the righteous. So,
Fe we, all of us, should strive
to be among

the righteous
in thoughts and in deeds. We
can do this through prayer,
study and. right thinkin
about our relationship with
God, and our fellowman.

- When we do our best, we

will find that God has already
done the rest. Our destiny is
in God~s care, and this should
be our common reasoning
and spiritual sense to know.

~V. The Scriptures imply. that God is All-in-all. From
~ this it follows that nothing

possesses reality nor existence except the divine Mind

and His ideas. The Scriptures

also declare that God is Spirit.
Therefore in Spirit all is harmony, and there can be no
discord; all is Life, and there
is- no death.. Everything in
God's: universe expresses

"rum. (S&H p. 331: 11-17>)

David sang: ~Lead me in thy
truth, and téach me: for thou
art: tne God of my salvation;
on thee do_I wait all the day.~
(Psalms 25:5)

in these times as in all
_ others, we have much for
which to be grateful, because
no so called problem of life
is. too hard. for God. Our
~heavenly father~s ever present divine love is our protection and in our seeming

trouble He should be greatly.

praised for His goodness,

and ~ever-lasting power.
Christian Science. teaches:.
~God creates all forms of

tk The Right:

~By ELIZABETH ELLINGTON
~Reprint from God~ s Detrom aripuue)

reality. His ~ are~
spiritual realities. So-called |
mortal mind ~ being nonexistent and consequently not
within the range of immortal
existence ~ could not by
simulating deific power in
g vert the divine creation, and
afterwards recreate persons

or things upon its own plane,
since nothing exists beyond

the range of all-inclusive infinity, in which and of which
God is the sole creator. Mind,
joyous in strength, dwells in
the realm of Mind.. Mind~s
infinite ideas run and disport
~themselves. In humility they
climb the heights of holiness.~ (S&H pp. 513-514: 26-9)
es & Me *

~Rejoice evermore.

~Pray without ceasing.

~In every thing give
thanks: for this is the will
of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

~Quench not the Spirit.

~Despise not prophesyings.

~Prove all things; hold fast
that which is good.

~Abstain from all appearance of evil.~ -

(1 Thessalonians 5:16-22)
%* * %

~The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, ve Son
of God;

~As it. is~ written in the
prophets, Behold, 1 send my
messenger before thy face,
which shall prerere thy way
before thee.

~The voice of ~one crying
in the wilderness, Prepare
ye the way of the Lord, make
~ae paths eS a (Mark i;

Kennedy Sets Record

President John F. Kennedy in ~

his first eighty days in office has
set anew record for the appointment of Negroes-to key positions
in government which has never
been*held before by non-whites,
~the Democratic Natioal Committee revealed this week. ~

Louis Martin, deputy chairman
of the Democratic Committee,
called special attention to several
of these appointments and stated
many more are pending. Martin
cited the following persons named
thus far to posts never held by
Negroes before:

_ Dr. Robert ~C. Weaver of New
York City, Administrator of the
Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency.

Hon. Clifton R. Wharton of
San Francisco, Ambassador to
Norway.

Christopher~ C. Scott of Los
Angeles, Deputy Postmaster General for Transportation.

Mrs: Dolly Lowthar Robinson
of New York City, Assistant to
the Director of Women~s Bureau,
Departmént of Labor.

Car] Rowan of Minneapolis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Publiic Affairs

Andrew Hatcher of San Francisco, Associate White House
Press. Secretary.:

Frank Whitaker of Pittsburgh,
Special -Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce.

Hobart Taylor of Detroit, Special Councel for the President~s
Conimittee on Equal Employment
Opportunity.

for Appointing Negroes

Eddie M. Williams of Memphis,
Protocol Officer in Office of Chief
of Protocol in the State Department.,

Frank Williams ofSan Francisco, Special Assistant to the Director of the Peace Corps.
Other major appointments made
by President Kennedy ~include:

Frank D, Reeves, Washington,
5. GC. Special Assistant to the
President.

George L. P. Weaver, of Washington, D. C., Assistant Secretary
of Labor.

Kermit Bailer of Detroit, Legal Chief of Housing Section of
the Civil Riights Commission.

Arthur Chapin of New Jersey,
Minority Group Consultant in the
Department of Labor.

On the White House staff is
Virginia Battle of Boston who
served as secretary to the President when he was a Senator.

Last week the President named
John Wheeler of Durham, N. C.,
~president of the Meehanics and
Farmers Bank and Howard Woods
of St. Louis, the executive editor
of the St. Louis Argus to the new
President~s Committee on Equal ~
Employment Opportunity.

The Reverend James Robinson.
of New York, Dr. Benjamin
Mays of Atlanta, Harry Beélafonte of New York City and Dr.
Albert Dent have been appointed
to the National Advisory Board
of the Peace Corps of which Sargent Shriver, former President of
the Chicago Board of Education,
is the Director.

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