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INEZ ROBB AI4 The Press-Tribune, Rostville. California Tuesday, August 24, The Press-Tribune Editorial OpiniOnS A Woman's Viewpoint Pjblished afternoons, Monday through Friday at 106 Judah Street, Rosevlle, California. Second Class entry at the Post Office at Roseville, California. telephone Alt Departments Phone 782 2145 The opinions and background stories on this page are designed to stimulate thinking and aid readers in forming their opinions. The views of the by-lined reporters and the letters to the editor writers do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Press-Tribune's ownership and management unless clearly indicated.

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Nonetheless, no riot In tht Negro ghettos in the past few summers has so starkly revealed the mass misery, inhumanity, despair and desperation of those ghettos. When I came to New York more than 30 years ago the Negro ghetto was then a noisome disgrace to New York. It has steadily deteriorated in the years since, with no real effort by city, state or Federal governments to attack the problem intelligently. It would be my guess that this is the history of the Los Angeles and the other Negro ghettos in the country. We, as a nation handing out billions to improve living conditions abroad, ought to be bitterly ashamed of our record at home.

The anti-poverty program is a feeble start toward restitution and reform. But it will require billions more if the problem it to be solved and the ghettos, both black and white, eliminated. Either we will solve the problem and eliminate the ghettos, or we shall surely get what we are asking for. For at least the next five years we ought to channel any billions for foreign aid, any for "underdeveloped countries," into the underdeveloped country that festers in our midst. If charity begin at home, so does compassion.

or Mrs. LBJ, that's where it would begin in the immediate future. We are stuck with foreign aid in the sum of about $3.36 billion during the current fiscal year. Of that sum, $1.17 billion is for military aid, at a time when there is much valid discussion in this country as to whether we can continue to afford both guns and butter. If $1.17 billion in foreign military aid is absolutely essential to the safety of the U.S.

then it's cheap at the price. But hand't someone at the Pentagon better look at the record and determine whether we are permitting other nations to enjoy both guns and butter at our expense, at a time when we are fighting a bitter war, with no help from any ally, in Viet Nam? The rest of the $3.36 billion appropriation is for the aid of "underdeveloped countries." Might it not be far wiser to spend all that sum on the underdeveloped country that exists within our own border and that was so painfully revealed in the Los Angeles riots? This suggestion is neither excuse nor apology for the arsonists, murderers and assorted thugs who sparked the Los Angeles orgy of theft, fire, killing and sniping. Let the law take care of them. As this is written, no American embassy has been under attack and no USIA installation burned in the past eight or 10 days. This is a surprising lull in one of the most flourishing of overseas industries.

Probably only a surly, suspicious mind would connect this pause with the final stages of Congressional passage of the annual foreign aid bill. But it is salutary to contemplate the Messrs. Nasser, Sukarno, Shas-tri Ayub Khan, Nkrumah, Kosygin, et al, passing the word down to the mobs to lay off until Uncle Sam has decided just how many filthy capitalist dollars he will force on friend and foe. We have been at the business of foreign aid so long that it has develoed two alarming aspects: To us, it has become a habit, something the United States does automatically; to the recipients, it has been transformed into a vested interest, something they automatically expect and deserve. Mention foreign aid in Washington, D.C., under any Administration and the old knee-jerk or Pavlovian reaction can be expected.

Mention it abroad, and mobs are so sure of it that they demand it even as they set fire to the Stars and Stripes. Charity is reported to begin at home. And if I were Queen, i mmmmm mm? io BsiSRfri AL KUETTNER Today's Guest Columnist (EDITOR'S NOTE: Can the nation be spared another riot like the one that hit Los Angeles? The big cities of America are watching the California riot story with apprehension. Could it happen to them? This is the second of three dispatches assessing the nation's worst Negro riots of the century). A Paper Curtain Of Our Own We sneer at the Communists for their iron and bamboo curtains, forgetting we have a paper curtain of our own.

If you have a passport, look at the fine print inside. It tells you what countries you can't visit. If you've used it recently, there's. a rubber-stamped notation that you can't go to Cuba, either. The Supreme Court has recently upheld the State Department's refusal to validate a citizen's passport for travel to Cuba "to make me a better informed citizen." In a dissent which we predict one day will become part of a majority opinionJustice Douglas delivers himself of some sensible thoughts: The right to travel, the court has held, is part of the citizen's liberty under the First Amendment.

There are areas in which travel may be banned a raging pestilence could infect not only the traveler but also those with whom he comes in contact after returning; a theater of war may be too dangerous for travel. "But the only so-called danger present here is the Communist regime in Cuba. The world, however, is filled with Communist thought if we are to know them and understand them, we might mingle with them The First Amendment presupposes a -mature people, not afraid of ideas But Justice Douglas is presently in the minority, and the State Department can forbid travel to Cuba. Its most recent and perhaps most ridiculous refusal was in the case of Bobby Fischer, America's best chess player, who was prevented from attempting an international torunament in Havana, presumably because he might be brainwashed. Fischer has arranged to take part in the tournament by telephone, while his colleagues from nations of all shades of poitical opinion sit in Havana and meditate upon American timidity.

The State Department must at all costs preserve this paper curtain it has erected. We suggest it send out a crew of CIA frogmen to cut the telephone cable out of Miami to keep Fischer and the rest of us oh, so unsullied by any contact with residents of (you should pardon the expression) Cuba. Redding Record-Searchlight By AL KUETTNER LOS ANGELES (UPI) In years of bird dogging civil rights disturbances in the United States, I have never seen destruction to equal the Los Angeles riot. Thirty-five persons dead and 875 hurt. Entire blocks put to the torch.

More than 200 buildings destroyed, some of them burned repeatedly to make certain they "Men of Tomorrow" had a friendly meeting with Police Chief William H. Parker on the subject of the Watts area. In the aftermath of the Los Angeles riot, sociologists quickly made some assessments which ran like this: Oscar Handlin of Harvard: This was not a race riot; because "it did not involve group wars between whites and Negroes." The culprit was "hooliganism disorderly elements taking advantage of an occasion for looting." Lewis M. McKillian, Florida State University: Token integration of the Negro middle class has no impact on the. daily life of the Negro masses, "creating unrest by creating new aspirations that the mass cannot re-have heard "promises of gains, the promise of a voting rights law, the whole feeling of "we're winning'.

The whole summer has in part been building up a crowd spirit, a readiness to act." Dr. Harold W. Jones, a psychiatrist with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, observed the riot in progress, unchallenged because he is a Negro. He reported he found no guilt complex among participants and a strange sense of right and wrong. "I saw a Negro looter load a truck with furniture without a Slightest twinge of guilt and then wait at an intersection for the traffic light to change," Jones said.

Tomorrow: The breakdown of Negro family groes either must all go up together or we all go down to- gether." The role of the police in dealing with minority masses mainly Negro in the cities and towns of America has become a major point of contention. Charges of police brutality and harassment are almost standard complaints. So it has been here and many police are convinced this attack on police authority is part of a master subversive plan to destroy the forces of law. Young is a Negro leader who believes the fair cop is the ally of the Negro and not his enemy. But he thinks there is much room for improving the relationship.

Young cites Chicago's Orlan-. do Wilson as a police commissioner who "believes in firm enforcement of the law but who recognized both psychological and sociological aspects of dealing people." Los Angeles Negroes complain that the city's only contact with areas like Watts is through police who have no use for the residents. City Hall, they say, leaves communications with Negroes up to three Negro city councilmen. Mayor Samuel Ysrty denies such a breakdown, pointing out that he is in regular contact with a cadre of Negro ministers in the Watts area, which has many churches. Just two weeks ago, an organization of leading Negro businessmen calling themselves HENRY MAC ARTHUR Affairs Of State ww nmM nix.

mamrs INQUISITIVE (f PEN dollar, know the effort it takes to earn a dollar, and know the effort the individual in private business must put out to satisfy even the paper demands of government, let alone the dollar demands. And they received partial answers even from the state government when a representative of the Department of Employment told them: "Little or none of the $400,000 actually will be spent on training welfare recipients. "Instead they will be trained on the job in government agencies. "The money will go towards special medical expenses, transportation, child care, and other expenses of welfare recipients and for staff." The supervisors received no assurances at all that any of the 1,800 welfare recipients trained under the program would get jobs at all. It may be a refreshing note to some people to realize a body of local governmental authority can stand up to a nation-wide bounty program and demand some answers.

It also will be interesting to see if they get the answers. SACRAMENTO Every good newspaper reporter knows the value of asking questions to get at the facts, and this process seems to have seeped through to the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, with some startling lack of answers in relation to President Johnson's "anti-poverty" program. Application was made to the federal government for $400,000 to squander on the Utopian plan of the federal administration to eliminate the poor by giving them the hard earned dollars of the people who produce. The $400,000, plus the other billions in the program, doesn't just happen. It comes out of your income tax dollar, or other taxes.

Three of Sacramento County's five supervisors refused to buy tie application until they have some specifics concerning what is to be done with the money. For this bit of temerity, they were castigated thoroughly from almost every angle, and particularly by a Negro leader. They were termed "shortsighted" and a few other un-complimentary remarks were made. At no time did any part of the community come forward, and give the supervisors a well-deserved pat on the back for exercising their responsibilities with relation to the administration of local government, and for attempting to effect some sensible conclusions concerning a boon-doggle program that appears to be a waste of the taxpayers' money before it even gets started. Instead, threats were made that the application for tne $400,000 would go ahead anyway, without supervisorial ap-proval, and with the anxiety of the federal government to launch its plans, it might just get approved.

This is reasonably clear evidence that the last vestiges of local governmental control are relics of the past. It indicates the accelerating trend to Washington control through a vast, tax supported bureaucracy, which is attempting to take over the community. The Sacramento supervisors who want answers to their questions are members of the community. They are businessmen who make a living in private business, know the value of a WW were gone. More than 700 recorded fires in five nights of rioting in the Watts Negro district of south-central Los Angeles Is there any way to prevent another such social holocaust, here or elsewhere in America? In the view of some officials, including police, there is no such guarantee.

They see it as the case of a highly-unstable segment of the population losing both fear and respect of authority. They cite the fact that the riot here was touched off by a minor incident: The routine halting of two Negro brothers in a drunk driving case. These officials think the situation actually could get worse as more unrest develops over actual or imagined grievances. They point out that only a small segment of the Negro population becomes involved in such outbreaks and they feel the first and foremost responsibility of society is to control that element with whatever force is required. Others believe, however, there is preventive medicine that can inoculate cities against such epidemics of terror.

They advocate massive treatment and cure of conditions that perpetuate crime, delinquency, school dropouts, joblessness and despair. Federally financed anti-poverty programs, operation head start for pre -school children, economic opportunity projects and many other programs are designed to do that job. Los Angeles is slated for an Initial outlay of $22 million when local and federal people can get together on who handles the money. New York is one big city going heavily into such programs. It's too early to discover whether it will have permanent results in such teeming areas as Harlem.

But Whitney Young head of the National Urban League, says tentative results are "exciting." Young joins every other national civil rights leader and an overwhelming majority of rank and file Negro spokesmen in condemning such events as the Watts riot. They view them with dismay, recognizing that they set back the entire Negro cause. Dr. Martin Luther King who came to the heart of the Watts "disaster area" (officially designated as such by the federal government), repeated aa oft used statement; HENRY SHAPIRO The Foreign Scene Days Gone By By United Press International Today is Tuesday, Aug. 24, the 236th day of 1965 with 129 to follow.

The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn. Richard Cardinal Cushing was born on this day in 1895. On this day in history: In 79 A.

thousands of people were killed and the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. In 1814, the British captured Washington and burned the Capitol and the White House. In 1932, Amelia Earhart Putnam became the first woman to make a transcontinental non-stop flight. In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt appealed to Germany to avoid war and Germany and Russia signed a 10-year non-aggression pact. Today's Almanac Forty Years Ago Mrs.

Demmlng Johnson has gone to San Francisco to meet a friend, Mrs. Grace P. Haven of Honolulu. The visitor is the wife of the Rev. E.

B. Haven, former pastor of the Congregational Church in Rocklin for eight years. Roseville's telephone girls gave a dinner party last night at the home of Evelyn Clauson on Judah Street, honoring Beth Hambey, who is leaving soon for San Francisco to enter the Stanford School of Nursing. Twenty Years Ago Contracts for supplying three buses for transportation of Roseville High School students, from outlying sections of the district, have been awarded to Crockard Chevrolet Company on a bid of approximately $11,800 for the three vehicles. "When the Irish are along, the luck is 100 per cent" pronounced Maurice T.

Mahan, who has returned, with his brother Joe and Albert Barreas and Walter Bern of Willows, from a successful deer hunt in the Sheet Iron Mountains in Glenn County, r- The party does not consider mere acceptance of Communist policy as sufficient for party membership. The Russians expect a Communist to be thoroughly and consciously indoctrinated. Among other things he must be a confirmed atheist. "Religion and communism are incompatible," is an established party dogma here, although some foreign Communist parties do admit church-goers to their ranks. Intellectuals and professional revolutionaries organized and led the Russian revolution, but the rank and file came largely from the working class.

With the transformation of society, the composition of the changed and it now is made up of 35.6 per cent industrial workers, 17.1 per cent peasants and 47.3 per cent white collar work-eri and intellectual, the peasantry and the intelligentsia who are loyal to the ideas of communism, who set an example by their work and maintain high ethical standards can be accepted." the party newspaper said. Soviet Communists claim that party members enjoy no special privileges with regard to renum-eration for work or advancement in career. On the contrary, they say, members must accept strict party discipline and a greater sense of responsibility and show higher standards of performance than ordinary citizens. It is true, however, that the key positions in the government, politics and diplomacy and economics can be held only by Communists. The most vital sensitive occupations are reserved for members of the party or the Komsomol (young Communist organUation).

MOSCOW (UPI)-Nearly half a century after the Bolsheviks seized power, the ruling Communist party is still an organization of the elite. Its membership rolls have grown from 80,000 in April, 1917 to the present 12 million out of a total population of 229 million. Although the overwhelming majority of the people were born after the revolution and take the Soviet regime for granted, only the chosen few may be elected to party membership. Rules for admission are tightening rather than relaxing. "Not quantitative growth," a recent Pravda editorial said, "but quality is needed to raise higher and higher the calling of a party member.

"Only the more advanced, the more conscientious representatives ot tht working class, We art using a tent-trailer on this trip and decided to stay in Devil's Lake State Park located 3 miles south of Baraboo, Wisconsin on State Highway 123. It is a beautiful spring-fed lake nearly surrounded by the lavender quartzite cliffs of the Baraboo Rang. There are 598 tree-shaded camp and trailer sites with tvery facility desired. The famous Wisconsin Dells is only 15 miles north of here. After making camp, we shared coffee with our Kentucky neighbors who were spending their third night at Devil's Lake.

They invited us to go along with them to see the famous Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial at Wisconsin Dells. Chief Evergreen Tree, a Cochiti Pueblo Indian from New Mexico, pleases everyone with his masterful Imitations of birds and animals. He has been a featured entertainer hert since the Ceremonial dances started in 1929. In the background of today's sketch is "Chimney Rock" one of the many rock formations found, in tht Upper, Delia,.