Editorials
Riot Report in Focus
FROM CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICES
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders report
has cited “white racism” as the chief cause for the fact “that our na
tion is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate
and unequal.”
The report said that eradicating white racism, eliminating the
, ghettos and providing equality for all Americans is “the major un
finished business of this nation” and that there can be “no higher
priority for national action and no higher claim on the nation’s con
science.”
Why Riots?
The commission studied 24 disorders in 23 cities. It found:
• Riots were not the result of planned conspiracy.
* '? • Disorders were not the result of a single “triggering” inci
dent, but rather the result of built-up tensions.
• Police were involved in incidents building these tensions.
• Police were involved in half of the “triggering” incidents.
Grievances in Ghettos
The commission listed these points as highest on the list of
grievances in the ghetto:
• Police practices.
• Unemployment and underemployment.
• Inadequate housing.
• Poor education.
• Poor recreation facilities.
• Poof political structures.
The commission found that Negroes were clearly worse off than
whites, no matter where they lived, because of outright discrimina
turn by whites. The report also said that despite the 1967 riots and
some post-riot relief programs, “little basic change in the conditions
underlying the outbreak of disorder has taken place.”
The Difficult1 Path
' The commission does reject the black separatist programs of
black power and asserts that the only course to follow is one aimed
at achieving total integration. But it describes how difficult and far
off this goal may be:
• Central city Negro population by 1975 will grow from its
present 12.5 million to about 20 million.
• At the same time, the white population of the cities will
shrink.
• To create an unsegregated population distribution (in the
207 largest U.S. cities) an average of more than 85 percent of all
Negroes would have to change their place of residence within the city.
Immigrants and Negroes
The report outlined reasons why Negroes cannot be compared
to European immigrants:
• The immigrants came at a time when America needed large
numbers of unskilled laborers. When Negroes began coming to the
large cities, the economy had little use for unskilled laborers.
• Political machines were strong and growing when the immi
rants came. When the Negroes came, the political machines were
*fo longer so powerful that they could provide jobs and other favors
and were unwilling to share their remaining influence with Negroes.
• Cultural factors differed. Immigrants, not used to affluent
societies, felt no great deprivation. Negroes are painfully aware of
American affluence, and their continued lack of it.
• Family structure of the Negroes has been destroyed by
slavery and unemployment.
The Choices We Have
Admitting that the future of the cities is grim, the commission
lays out three choices facing the nation:
1. Continue present policies.
2. Adopt a policy of “enrichment” to improve the quality of
.ghetto life, while abandoning integration as a goal.
W 3. Pursue integration through “enrichment” and policies which
I will encourage Negro movement out the central city areas.
Rejecting the first two, it warns that the third choice—the only
I one acceptable to the ideals of America—will require an unprece
dented effort.
Recommendations
. It makes these recommendations:
> • Generate a new will to tax ourselves to the extent necessary
to meet the vital needs of the nation.
• New and more vital communications with residents of the
ghetto. .
• Involve ghetto residents in local government policies and
programs.
• Set up police review boards.
• Set up local neighborhood action offices.
• Open up opportunities to all.
• Provide the means to effectively take part in government
and make needs known to it.
S* Increase communications between black and white.
• Create two million jobs in three years—one million by in
dustry and one million by government.
• Tax incentives for industrial development in rural and urban
areas. .
• Eliminate de facto segregation in public schools.
• Extend pre-school programs to every poor child.
• Greater parent community participation in public schools.
• Repeal the welfare restrictions voted by Congress last year
Ifrw-which would cut aid to families with children.
• Set up standards so that every family receives an income
1 above the poverty level.
1 • Repeal laws which forbid welfare payments to mothers and
1 children while there is an unemployed father in the home.
I • Enact open housing laws covering all dwellings..
I • Expand Model Cities and rent supplement programs '
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In Current Thought
Scores Entertainment Industry
For Failing Public in Trust;
'TV is 3rd Parent in Home'
Hollywood, Calif. — (NC) -
ality here sharply criticized the
using an overabundance of que
responsibility to the public.
Two thousand persons from 1
industries gave Bob Dornan, your
ing ovation after he addressed the
17th annual breakfast of the en
tertainment industry in the Palla
dium.
Earlier the media workers at
tended a Mass offered by James
Francis Cardinal McIntyre of Los
Angeles in Blessed Sacrament
church. They heard the cardinal
extol them as a core loyal to the
foundations of morality in the
Ten Commandments and exhort
them, for the sake of the nation’s
youth, to uphold morality stand
ards.
Doman brought a gay, light
hearted breakfast program to an
abrupt halt when he began to
speak (March 3). He scored each
of the four industries represented
for irresponsibility by projecting
false notions and questionable ma
terial.
He indicted the recording in
dustry for producing “rock music
with dope and sex lyrics that
make the kids laugh because
adults can’t understand them.” He
criticized radio for broadcasting
and popularizing the records. He
indicted major magazines for glor
ifying psychedelic paranoia
through cover stories.
Dorn an called the new movie
code “useless” and said the flood
gates are open for depiction of
sadism, nihilism and hedonism.
The TV star saved his hardest
volley for his own industry.
“Television,” he said, “is the
third parent in the home. It is
the parents’ biggest competitor.
Children spend more hours before
the tube than they do at any other
activity, including sleeping,
schooling or eating.
“And what are they getting? A
diet of murders, violence and
mayhem repeated over and over
and over,” he said.
“Whose ideals are going to pre
vail? Yours or those of the tube,
the films, the books and maga
zines, the records?” he asked.
“The burden is on tbq jnedia
to regulate themselves. But. par
- An established television person
entire entertainment industry for
stionable material and failing in
he movie, radio, recording and TV
g star of Station KHJ-TV, a stand
ents must stand fast on principles
and must discipline their chil
dren,” Dornan said.
Legion of Mary
Annunciation Marks
Annual Dedication
Raleigh — When Our Lady re
vealed at Fatima the need for
penance and prayer, she made
this request: “Establish devo
tion. ... I ask for the consecra
tion of the world to my Immac
ulate Heart.”
The fulfillment of this en
treaty carried the promise that
“Many souls will be saved. . . .
There shall be peace in the
world.”
In 1942 Pope Pius XII, con
secrated the Church, and the hu
man race to the Immaculate
Heart. On March 29, 1931, mem
bers of the Legion of Mary con
secrated themselves both indi
vidually and collectively to Our
Lady and have continued this
practice annually on or near the
25th of March.
This ceremony is called the
“Acies,” a Latin term meaning
“an army ranged in battle
array.” The Legionaires gather
in a body to renew their loy
alty to Mary and to receive the
blessing for another year’s bat
tle with the forces of evil.
On March 24th the day before
the feast of the Annunciation
active, auxiliary and junior
members of the Legion of Mary
at Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill,
Goldsboro, Southern Pines will
assemble at 4:00 p.m. at the Ca
thedral here. Bishop Waters will
lead the group of spiritual Di
rectors and legionaires in their
consecration to the Mother of
God. He will deliver the Allo
cutio and the service will be con
cluded with Benediction of the
Most Blessed Sacrament.
The Acies ceremony will he
preceded by a Comitium meet
ing at 3:00 p.m. in the Cathedral
School Hall. ,
At Chapel Hill
‘Easter Awakening’
Seasnn Feature
Now at Planetarium
Chapel Hill — “Easter the
Awakening,” the Morehead Plan
etarium’s annual program de
picting the world’s physical and
spiritual rebirth, has opened for
its nineteenth season.
Th6 program begins by re
counting the story of Creation
found in Genesis, then precedes
to a discussion of the wandering
date of Easter and of calendars
in general. Months of work by
the planetarium technical staff
combine with the traditional yet
always new story of the crucifix
ion and resurrection in an un
forgettable pageant of . sight and
sound.
“The problem facing the an
cients in devising adequate cal
endars,” explained John A.
Zunes, narrator of the opening
performance, “is that of recon
ciling three periods of time: the
month, day, and year; which are
not related in any uniform way.
As a result, all calendars must
employ some elaborate system of
continuing corrections, such as
inserting leap year.”
Following the scientific part
of the program is the dramatic
and inspiring recreation of the
Easter story, which brings to
gether Biblical text, music, color
ful reproductions, three-dimen
sional tableaux and transitory ef
fects.
Although “Easter the Awaken
ing” is one of the Planetarium’s
most popular programs, the large
seating capacity of the sky thea
tre makes reservations unneces
sary. Planetarium Director A. F.
Jenzano suggests, however, that
all groups planning to attend
should arrive at least 30 minutes
before program time.
Program Honrs
Public program times are 8:30
p.m. daily; 11 a.m., 1, 3, 4 and
8:30 p.m. on Saturdays, and 2,
3, 4 and 8:30 p.m. on Sundays.
Special 3 p.m. holiday programs
are also scheduled for Good Fri
day, April 12 and Easter Mon
day, April 15. Additional presen
tations are offered at 11 a.m., 1
and 4 p.m. on weekdays for school
groups with advance reservations.
NEW ATTITUDES
Madrid — (NC) — A new syna
gogue for some 2,500 Jews is be
ing built here, thanks to the cli
mate of religious freedom now
prevailing in Spain, according to
speakers at ground-breaking cere
monies on March 10. Rabbi Sa
lomon Gaon, head of the Sephar
dim Community in Spain, presid
ed.
100% Parish
A fifth parish in the diocese
that has subscribed to total the
North Carolina Catholic cover
age of each family is St. Francis
Church at Franklin. The Rev.
Francis Korzinek of Glenmary
is pastor, Many thanks. Ed.
NORTH CAROLINA CATHOLIC
Weekly Newspaper
for Ralaigh Diocese
Second Class postage paid at Hunting
ton, Indiana.
Entered at the Post Office in Hunting
ton, Indiana, U.S.A. at the rate of
postage provided for in Section 1103 of
the United States Act of October 3.
1912 and of February 28, 1W5.
Editor
Rev. Frederick A. Koch
Address: Box 9503
Raleigh, N. C. 27603
Tel. 919-B33-5295
March 24, 1968
VoL XXIII, No. 23