The Columbian from Vancouver, Washington • 19

i THE A SUMMATION The Columbian Dixie Whites Caught in Second Revolution Of Sweeping Change That Often Unnoticed Wednesday June 30 1963 Section 3 Page 19 (Cdtftr'i Nil! Dtiriiif viiit ft Hit Stwfli Hit tdlttr tf United PrtM International compared note wiffc UPI corrtipon denis editors ond other tn the HHw tf Hit civil rights mtwmtnf Following It fir "I ably helped many to surrender more rapidly to change Other powerful but unseen factors are at work Integration could not have proceeded even as far as it has if the movement had not coincided with a period of great prosperity Had joblessness among whites been widespread competition from Negroes could only have led to greater strife The businessman's desire to more baldly the profit has been a factor of overwhelming importance Negro organizations recognized this in the beginning with their strikes Sit-ins boycotts and demonstrations In many a southern community caught in this turmoil it has often been the business key segments of the stalled power structure-who have been the catalysts in breaking deadlock and introducing change LAW RESPECTED But with or without economic motive the average southerner tas an innate respect for law and order that is providing the Negro with another ally in his fight for civil rights This feeling for foe law is widespread even among southern whites who prefer segregation as a way of life and make no secret of it It is typified by a business- dressed simply as Sam Jones or Martha Jones Tallahassee Fla foe state capital legislators who once championed segregation eat lunch at Morrison's Cafeteria a table or two away from Negroes rOOIS INTEGRATED Columbia SC Charlotte NC Atlanta Miami and several other places municipal swimming pools have been integrated and it is no longer a rarity to find Negro and white swimming together Rut in Jacksonville Fla city owned pools have been closed since 11 In Griffin Ga the local N'AACP has fought pool segregation by placing pickets at the Negro pool and trying with only partial success to keep Negroes from using Montgomery Ala Dot's Employment Agency wants Negro girls to work locally as maids 20 per week eight hours a day no room and hoard The Garner Agency is looking for girls who want to work in the New York area up to 6246 per month room board and uniforms furnished" The Negro in the South still has a long way to go to equal the civil rights status of foe Negro tn the North Then like the northern Negro he will concentrate on economic and social betterment That phase of his struggle can only be longer and harder than the present one The economic and social gap between the northern Negro and the northern white ia great In foe South It in Rights Act is an unjust law past performance the city as a whole will obey it In Mississippi the state Economic Council which senes as a chamber of commerce is urging employers to comply with the law and many large firms have announced they will SKEPTICAL MEW Negro leaders are understandably skeptical The law requires an employer to hire the best-qualified job applicant regardless of race color religion sex or national origin Rut it gives the employer the final word as to which job-seeker is best qual- ified Glimpses of much that has changed in the South and much that has not can be seen in any city In Riloxi Miss a businessman is advertusing for boys from 13 to 18 to do summer work Ills ad stipulates please" Atlanta which many deep southerners relegate to the North white and Negro women lunch at adjoining tables in the city's mast fashionable department stores Four years ago when the stores decided on integration many white women turned in their credit cards and vowed never to return They have Rut "white only" signs have not disappeared completely even in Atlanta And neither has the Ku Klux Klan Anderson SC a department store is now addressing its Negro customers to the first time as Mr or Mrs when it mails out bills and circulars Heretofore they have been ad man in an Alabama town of 35000 who also makes no secret of the fact that he is no hero and prefers anonymity His place of business was bombed once because his advocacy of law and order put him on the Negro's side "Look" he ill tell you Tm not for integration I don't like foe Civil Rights Act and I hate a lot of things the Supreme Court is doing But I am for law and order Without that we'd be in real trouble So if it is the law of the land that the Negroes have these rights then I am for upholding the law" That this feeling is widespread in the South is shown by the degree of compliance with foe Public Accommodations Section (Title 2) of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in its first year of operation The headlines have gone mostly to the Lester Maddoxes who have defiantly closed down their restaurants or turned them into private clubs rather than sene Negroes HUNDREDS CHANGE Rut literally hundreds of hotels motels and restaurants that were closed to Negroes last year are open to them this year This is particularly true of the bigger establishments in the larger and it is happening in Alabama and Mississippi as well as elsewhere There are defiant holdouts too particularly in rural areas and civil rights organizations are trying to pick them off one by one in the courts Another major provision of the Civil Rights Act the Equal Employment Section (Title 7) goes into effect July 2 It will afford the southern Negro great hope of job opportunities how effective it will be in actually getting him jobs remains to be seen Seminars have been held throughout the South on the meaning and application of the new law In Montgomery Ala the home of Gov George Wallace the Alabama Journal has been running a series of articles on the law and its provisions likely" the opening article said half the people of Montgomery think the Civil EFFECTIVE TRAFFIC COP Wiving i most effective "stop" sign baby striped skunk meanders across a road near Seattle and wins respectful attention from motorists The youngster eyes still closed stalled (raffle for nearly five minutes as wary motorists hesitated to arouse his temper One hardy soul finally came to the aid picked him up and delivered him to a veterinary for care Only the odor of exhaust fumes marked the scene (AP Wlrcphoto) Grass Fire Now Blamed On Arsonist Green Garb Marks Driver Examiners MARRIAGE VOIDED ON PILL ROLE By ROGER ATARI AN Editor United Press International ATLANTA (UPI) There are two revolutions under way in the American South today One is foe battle for civil rights This is foe open revolution that has reached from Selma Ala to the halls of Congress The other is a white revolution You have to look harder for it But it is there and it is just as significant as the other one This is the revolution of men adjusting themselves and changing old concepts and old customs that have gone unchallenged for generations It is revolution of white men call-g a Negro instead of or of a wfcite child sticking a tentative toe in a pool whrre the young Negro is ahead'-' swimming It is a revolution that develops around family dinner tables or between neighbors and communities as they weigh each new thing they are asked to do: TO share schools churches motels hotels jobs and the ballot box with to share them equally with no strings attached DIFFICULT TIME It is as difficult for the southern white to accept these changes as It is for the Negro to be satisfied with foe pace of his struggle to close the enormous gulf between himself and the white man The southern white is not accepting these changes easily or happily At best it is with resignation More often it is with bitterness But he has started to accept them and the American South in this summer of 1965 is not quite the same place it was even a year ago In some respects it is dramatically differ ent from the South of five or 10 years ago The acceptance of change has been greatest among whites in the bigger cities Some rural areas remain untouched and unchanged in open defiance of new federal civil rights laws And there are still occasional white juries that invoke a strange double standard in murder trials The red necks who burn crosses by night or fire rifles at passing cars still exist They have not lit their last cross nor fired their last furtive shot But they are heroes to fewer and fewer besides themselves IN CONTEMPT A large layer of the white probably a majority regards them with foe same contempt as does the northerner The southern apostles of violence have unwittingly given a push to foe acceptance of change by many whites who may share their fcclinp about Negroes but not about violence The law respecting and church-going whites in communities scarred by beatings shootings and bombings have become disturbed and angry to find themselves identified in the outside world with the pep petrators This has unquestion Have It Done by the Experts LAWN MOWER SHARPENING MOTOR TUNE-UP AND REPAIR HARRY'S OLYMPIA (AP) State Land Commissioner Bert Cole said Tuesday a preliminary investigation indicates a weekend fire that swept across 315 acres near Met how In Okanogan County was set deliberately Cole said his office is working with the sheriffs office in foe search fra: the arsonist At foe same time Cole said unless Western Washington gets some rain in the next three weeks state could be in the most critical fire season in The amount-of rainfall has been well below average to spring and early summer in western Washington Cole said about 20 men are still at foe scene of the Okanogan County fire The blaze which started Sat- ing track of drivers and vehicles This was done under the administration of former Gov Albert Rosellini The current reorganization is coming under Gov Dan Evans State Patrol Chief Will Bach-ofher who is giving up 105 examiners in the process said foe only problem from his standpoint is foe loss of a means for recruitment of prospective new troopers The patrol has used the license examining function as a training ground to size up potential candidates for commissioning as troopers But Bachofoer said Toms has assured the Motor Vehicles Department will try to hire examiners who would fit the patrol requirements so they could still move into the patrol ranks later if they wished DENVER (UP1)- A Judge granted a University of Denver student an annulment of his marriage of three months Tuesday because his wife refused to take birth control pills as she promised Denver Dist Judge Richard Ott granted the annulment to Donald Aishman 28 on grounds of representation Alshman said his 18-year-old wife Rita went back on her word in refusing to take birth control pills after their marriage March 24 Judge Ott ruled that Mrs Aishman's refusal after promising to take the pills until he completed his college education constituted representation going to the essence of the marriage" Mrs Aishman is a Roman Catholic but earlier testimony revealed they were married in a civil ceremony 693-9121 2309 Mils urday was concentrated on rocky hillside with some scattered pine trees grass and dead trees Civil Rights Units Blast Alabama Charges Thief Snacks As He Rides From Scene OLYMPIA (AP) Applicants for driver licenses will see the same faces In the same places when they show up for driving tests Thursday Only the uniforms of the 105 examiners will be different A state law goes Into force at that time transferring the examiners from the State Patrol to the State Department of Licenses and renaming the agency the Department of Motor Vehicles The examiners will continue to work from SO State Patrol offices around the state although some may be moved to separate quarters later Only two persons will move their offices at first Lt Robert Koch the patrol's chief examiner for driver licensing will take his files and an assistant from the patrol headquarters here to an office in the Highway-Licenses Building across the street He will also give up his patrol rank GREEN GARB The examiners will put aside their blue patrol uniforms meantime and don dark green garb with billed caps They'll also have new telephone numbers New signs will be installed to advise the public of the Motor Vehicles Department driver licensing offices They win be lettered in green and colors chosen by the reorganized department Director Douglas Toms said the reorganization was designed to consolidate all the motor vehicle licensing functions in a single department under a single command with the belief it would be more efficient and less expensive The rally function outside the department now will be the field work in handling registration of automobiles and other vehicles This is done by county auditors as agents for the department It is the second major move to upgrade the department in recent years The department eliminated rows of file cabinets and put in a system of electronic computers to take their place in keep MONTGOMERY Ala (AP) from a typical Southern legisla false" and The report labeled Dr Martin Luther King Jr the head of SCLC and top figure in civil rights efforts in Alabama recently as one engaged in promoting the Communist King in turn blasted foe report as attempt to evade the fact that democracy does not exist in Alabama" NASHVILLE Tenn (AP) -Nashville police say a man who stole a vehicle from a downtown street Tuesday night must have a passion to ice cream The thief's target was a motorized ice cream wagon with pink and white stripped awning and tinkling music Officers report the vehicle was last seen moving slowly down one of Nashville's main streets claim of a special com mittee of the Alabama Legislature that three civil rights groups a repromoting the Communist cause has drawn immediate answering fire from foe groups' leaders A report by the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace was released Tuesday charging that the Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality are Communist inspired Reactions from leaders of those groups included "witch-hunting" typical response -HOLIDAY SAL Border Truce For the Long Week-End Ahead THESE SHOES ARE TREMENDOUS VALUES Accord 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