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VOL. 26, NO. 45 GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1967 PRICE 10 CENTS
Meany Warns Americans In Labor Dav Message
American Society Must Take On
"New Look" Or Face Consequences
by
President George Meany
AFL-CIO
This Labor Day finds the
American people at mid-point in
a great period of national de
cision.
It is not the kind of decision
that is immediately expressed at
the polls, although a political
choice will be the ultimate re
sult.
Instead, it is a process of re
thinking ? of taking a new look
at American society as it is and
as it ought to be, and a new
look at the role of the United
States in world affairs.
These are the two main chan
nels in which decisions are being
made, on a whole range of sepa
rate but related issues, in the
minds and hearts of all Amer
icans. These two rivers of
thought will eventually con
verge, and will blend into the
great decision that will deter
mine the shape of American life
for many years to come, and
perhaps the future of the world
as well.
Let us first consider them one
by one.
Recent years have brought
sweeping changes in American
society, stemming from a re
birth of idealism and keyed to
the vision of America that most
Americans cherish.
Beginning in 1901, and contin
uing at an accelerating pace
through 1966, the American peo
ple ? through their elected repre
sentatives, supported by a na
tional consensus ? launched an
unprecedented campaign to ex
terminate the remaining evils
which blurred that vision.
This campaign drove into the
darkest corners. It went under
all the rugs where problems had
been swept for generations. It
dared to make a frontal attack
on the "gentlemen's agreements"
that had sustained racial dis
crimination for two centuries. It
boldlv struck and overthrew the
fearsome barriers to greater ed
ucational opportunity. It proud
ly proclaimed that poverty was
not a natural state for any free
man, and declared a war to end
it.
And this wasn't all. Ugliness
In every form became an enemy
? the pollution of rivers and of
the air we breathe; profiteering
on essential drugs and the cal
lous promotion of dangerous
ones; extortionate interest rates
and consumer deception; des
poiled forests and littered streets
?these abuses and many more
were suddenly matters of nat
ional concern.
Since the end of 1966 the
camnai-m has slacked off. The
elections that November in
volved no national Issue and
showed no consistent pattern,
but they were interpreted by
many members of Congress as
evidence that the voters wanted
to pause a bit; not to stop the
campaign, but to slow it down.
We believe this interpretation
was wrong. And by accepting it
as a guide for action, or inaction
? as we in the AFL-CIO repeat
edly warned ? Congress made a
serious mistake.
It was a mistake because the
campaign that began in 1961 was
still only a beginning. It had
identified the needs, and had
started to meet them. But in so
doing it opened the eyes and
awakened the expectations of all
Americans who suffered from
the abuses at which it was
aimed.
The result of the subsequent
slowdown has been disillusion
ment among many and disorder
by a few. The disorders, In turn
? with calculated and cynical
assistance from the enomlea of
progress ? have led some Amer
icans of good will to question
the basic concepts of the cani
naigrv *tself. '?*?
To put it bluntly, the consci
ence and idealism of the affluent
majority is being tested in the
crucible of reality. It is one
thing to overflow with good will
toward the disadvantaged who
live a thousand miles away; it is
quite another thing to recognize
the comparable problems of
those in the same city or the
next block, especially if they are
not asking favors but demanding
? rights.
I It would be an unthinkable
tragedy if conscience and ideal
ism failed to meet this test. The
mindless riots of this unhappy
summer cannot be condoned.
Arson, looting and murder have
no relation to civil rights; they
are criminal wrongs, and an af
front to the very ideals which
| motivate the quest for a better
society. But neither do the riots
| offer the slightest justification
for calling a halt to programs
that strike at the evils which
breed riots.
Yet this is precisely what the
reactionaries would do, and un
fortunately there are troubled
citizens, norm all v of good will,
who are tempted to agree. They
do not openly renounce their
principles, but they are beset by
doubts.
So they give no more than lip
service to the unfilled needs ?
not only to civil rights proposals
as such, but to all the hopeful
new programs to overcome pov
erty, ignorance and despair.
There is a strong, cold under
j current running against the
idealism and the vision of recent
years. Measures designed to help
the poor are looked upon as
measures to appease the rioters.
This is a terrible untruth, but
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H. N. Strange Promoted
By Humble Oil and
Refining Company
New York ? Humble Oil &
Refining Company has promoted
H. N. Strange, Jr., to its market
ing staff for Esso oil heat and
equipment in the company's
New York City sales district.
Mr. Strange handle sales
oi combustion equipment and
home-heating fuel' In a territory
that includes Queens, largest of
New York City's five boroughs,
and some nearby areas in the
Brooklyn borough and Nassau
County, Long Island.
He and his father were SAAB
automobile dealers in New York
before he joined Humble Oil
early this year. The son shifted
from autos to the oil business
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NEW QUEEN NAMED
Miss Liza Morgan, the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Morgan of 508 Haywood St., has
been named Queen of New Zion
Baptist Church. She is a mem
ber of the Sunday School Clasj
and a member of the Junioi
Usher Board.
CIRCLE NO. 2 TO MEET
Circle Number Two of the
United Institutional Baptist
Church will meet on Sunday,
Sept. 3 at 5:00 o'clock at the
home of Mrs. Lena Wilkins, 1804
Nelson Street.
Mrs. Hollis, reporter.
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Mrs. Rosa Timmons, age 72,
died at N. C. Cancer Institute,
Lumberton, N. C. Tuesday, Au
Mrs. Rosa Timmons
gust 22nd following several
weeks illness. Funeral service
was held Sunday, August 27th,
1:00 P. M., Trinity A.M.E. Zion
Church. Rev. Cecil Bishop, pas
tor, officiated. Burial followed
in Maplewood Cemetery. The'
body remained at Brown's Fu
neral Home until the hour of
service.
Survivors include one niece,
Mrs. Aleane Leak, Greensboro.
BROWN'S FUNERAL DI
RECTORS IN CHARGE OF
ARRANGEMENTS.
Mr. Wallace Crump
Mr. Wallace Crump, age 55
died Sunday, August 20th at
Moses Cone Memorial Hospital
following a brief illness. He
lived at Route 1, Box 201, Mc
Lcansville, North Carolina.
Funeral service was held Sun
day, August 27th, 3:00 P. M. a'
Frown's Funeral Home Chapel.
R:.'V. Cecil Reid, pastor of True
Holiness Church officiated. Bur
ial followed in Piedmont Memo
iv.l. Park. The body remained at
S owi-.'s Funeral Home until the
' in* of service.
S irvivors include his wife,
T'carl Crump; six daugh
ters, Mrs. Virginia Plater, Win
s' on-Srlem, N. C., Mrs. Dorothy
T/v'n -ston and Mrs. Geraldine
Bullock, Greensboro, Misses
Maltio, Vera and Shirley Crump,
McL-eansville, N. C.; five sons,
Robert Crump, Greensboro,
C'irtis Crump, Ft Lauderdale,
Florida, Wallace, Jr., Bobby and
David Crump, all of McLeans
ville. N. C.
BROWN'S FUNERAL DI
RECTORS TN CHARGE OF
ARRANGEMENTS.
Mr. Jack Frazicr
Mr. Jack Frazier, age 57, died
August 21st following a brief
illness. He lived at 71 1 Gibson
Street.
Funeral service was held
Tuesday, August 29th, 4:00 P.
M., Brown's Funeral Home
Chapel. Rev. Herbert Parks,
Baptist Evangelist officiated.
Burial followed in Mapli_\vood
Cemetery.
The body remained at the
funeral home until the hour of
service.
Survivors include one son,
Jackie Frazier, Jersey City, N.
J.; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth
Jackson, Steelton, Pa., and Mrs.
Altonese Anderson, Greensboro,
N. C.
BROWN'S FUNERAL DI
RECTORS IN CHARGE OF
ARRANGEMENTS.
Mrs. Mackic Thomas
Mrs. Mackie Thomas, age 81,
died at her home, 1845 Spencer
Street Friday, August 25th fol
lowing a lengthy illness.
Funeral service was held
Monday, August 28th, 4:00 P.M.,
New Light Baptist Church. Rev.
S. G. Griffies, pastor, officiated.
Burial followed in Maplewood
Cemetery. The body remained
at Brown's Funeral Home until
f the hour of service.
Survivors include one brother,
George Motley, Danville, Vir
ginia.
BROWN'S FUNERAL DI
RECTORS IN CHARGE OF
ARRANGEMENTS.
Mr. John W. Evans
Mr. John W. Evans, a former
resident of Greensboro, died at
N. C. Cancer Institute, Lumber
ton, North Carolina Wednesday,
August 23rd following several
months illness.
Funeral service was held Sat
urday, August 26th, 4:00 P. M?
Browr.'s Funeral Home C' a el.
Rev. T. D. Wooten, Baptist
evangelist, officiated. Burial fol
lowed in Piedmont Memorial
Park.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Lillie Mac Evans; two chil
dren. Shirley and J me Evans of
'ho home; one brother. Rev. Jos
eph Evans, Greensboro; ore s s
I ter, Mrs. Pearl Mae Brown, To
ledo. Ohio.
BROWN'S FUNERAL DI
RECTORS TN CHARGE OF
ARRANGEMENTS.
Mrs. Annie I aw Foster
Mrs. Annie L. Foster of 1308
Sloan Street, daughter of the
I late Bertha and Watson Law,
i passed away at L. Richardson
Memorial Hnsnital Sunday
rriorning, Aitrust 27, at 63 vears
of age. She was a native of
Greensboro and received hrr de
gree at Barber Scotia in Con
cord, N. C. She taught in the
schools of Guil'ord Countv for
several years before rece'v'ng
I her master's degree at A&T
| College. She had a total teaching
, experience of more than twenty
I years. She was a staff member
of the Metropolitan Nursery
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