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ARIZONA SUN
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W. A. Robinson Associate Editor
Registered as Second class matter July 2,1948, at the Postoffioe at
Phoenix, Arizona, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
ARIZONA WILL MISS HIM
In the passing last week of Dr. Lacey A. Eastbum,
Arizona lost a dedicated educator with superior professional
training. Dr. Eastburn’s educational philosophy was funda
mentally that of the best educational tradition in the nation.
He was willing to fight for what he believed in, and he
believed that Northern Arizona was a part of the State of
Arizona and should have a college that adequately and real
istically cared for the needs of the area. We should give Dr.
Eastbum credit for seeing that the area was provided with
a collegiate institution of which all could be proud.
WHAT IS URBAN RENEWAL?
We will be hearing a lot about URBAN RENEWAL in
the days to coim(e and we should understand something about
it. Don’t be decieved ‘into thinking that because you do not
live within the limits of thfe area which you have read, will
be involved, that you are not concerned. Urban Renewal will
affect all of us in many ways. It will affect our schools; it
may affect the coirtmunity in which we now live, if the people
displaced in the area are not properly relocated in standard
housing. It will decide whether or not the “renewed” area is
going to be within a few years just another area needing
renewal.
It will certainly have some effect upon whether or not
Negroes are forced to live for several more generations in
ghettos that are neglected, poorly policed, and exploited by
all of the unsual kinds of exploiters. It' behooves all of us
to become informed as fully as possible.
From a pamphlet, “URBAN RENEWAL—-What It Is
which can be secured upon request from: Housing and Home
Finance Agency, Washington 25, D.C., I quote:
The Urban Renewal Plan: Each urban renewal project
requires a locally developed plan for the ar*ea which indicates
the physical changes to be made, the proposed use for each
portion of the area to be cleared, and the improved street
arrangements, utilities, and other supporting facilities re
quired within the area. Federall funds can be advanced for
this planning.
The plan provides the blueprint for concluding agreements
for Federal assistance to the community, including portions
of the area to be cleared or rehabilitated and disposal of the
land to private of public use. The community must have a
RELOCATION PLAN TO ASSURE HOUSING OF FAM
ILIES DISPLACED BY PROJECT ACTIVITIES.” (emphasis
ours).
The SUN is inclined to think that relocation within the
CITY LIMITS can be demanded.
Has such a plan been made? Who knows about it? Who
will approve it? Somebody should tell us these things.
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EDITORIAL PAGE
ARIZONA SUN
b Comment /
By James W. Douthat.
Editors Note: “No Comment,’’
should not be regarded as nec
essarily reflective of Nationals
Association of Manufacturers po
sition or policy, for it is a re
porting of incidents and conver
sations which its author, Ass’st.
Vice President Government Re
lations Division thinks might be
of general interest.
WASHINGTON. The deter
mined effort by the Eisenhower
Administration to hold govern
ment spending to S7O billion dur
ing the next fiscal year definite
ly brightens the prospect for tax
reduction.
Admittedly, there are a num
ber of “ifs” involved. But tax
cut advocates point out that a
reduction would still be possible
even if the Administration does
not completely reach its objec
tive.
A S7O billion spending pro
gram for next year (the fiscal
year beginning next July 1)
would be $2 billion under the
amount the Administration ex
pects to spend during this fiscal
year.
However, the normal growth
of the economy should increase
by at least $3 billion each year
the amount of tax revenue re
ceived by the government.
So, assuming normal economic
growth, taxes could be lowered
and the government still would
receive sufficient revenue to
meet its needs.
This is the basis of legislation
now pending in Congress which
was introduced by Representa
tives Sadlak (R-Conn.) and Her
long (D-Fla.). Their proposal
would lower personal and cor
poration income taxes to a max
imum of 42 per,, cent by a series
of annual reductions spread
over five years.
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THE POISED AXE
Ever-increasing wage demands
upon American business, made
by the unions and backed up by
their monopoly power and punc
tuated with strikes or threats of
strikes, are like an axe held over
the head of our economy.
The union leaders dictate—
they do not bargain, they dic
tate—wages, hours, and working
conditions in most of our major
industries. They impose their
will on employers, employees,
and the public alike.
If employers could grant high
er wages each year, and without
raising the prices of their pro
ducts, that would be one thing.
But how long would they be able
to stay in business —and how
long would their employees have
jobs? There’s an old fable —but
a painfully modem one about
the man who killed the goose
that laid the golden eggs!
FACING THE FACTS
W. A. Robinson
Two editors have very differ
ent opinions regarding the deci
sion of the Supreme court on
integration. We know that the
editor of the Arizona Republic
seems to regard the decision as
an unwarranted and dangerous,
perhaps illegal infringement up
on states' rights. On the other
hand, Ralph McGill, editor of
the Atlanta Constitution, has a
different opinion. Mr. McGill
was a former sports editor on
the Constitution’s staff, who, be
cause of evident early promise
as a realistic southern inter- /
preter of the news, was saJect
ted by the General Education
Board for an unusual training
experience and in time, became
the editor of this old and en
fluential very southern news
paper. Editor McGill expressed
himself recently in this manner
before an Emory University
(Atlanta) lecture forum: The
people of the south “have been
sold a phony bill of goods by
those who say integration will
mean amalgamation of the
races”. He labeled such beliefs
as “an insult to both races that
only segregation “is keeping
them from running to the mar
riage courts." He noted that des
pite the tremendous outbursts
against the 14th Amendment by
southern politicians, “it’s still
there and it’s valid.’’ Mr. Mc-
Gill stated to the forum in this
southern white University that
“we should" not decieve our
selves that the Amendment will
be taken out” and warned that
“most of us wouldn’t want it
taken out," and he emphatically
insisted “that we ought not to
listen to the people who say
the Supreme Court has violated
the Constitution it can’t be
cause the Supreme Court was
created to interpret the Consti
tution."
Neither of these editors has
lived as long as I. I have seen
the nation expecting doom' on
several occasions. There were
those who at one time predicted
with great hopefulness that the
American Negroes would die out
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1957
in a few decades from tubercu
losis. Booker T. Washington had
to try to allay the fears in the
south and in the nation general
ly that education would spoil
the Negro completely for any
useful purposses. Editors both
north and south predicted that
the victory of a Negro heavy
weight fighter over a white
champion would cause such ar
rogance among Negroes and
such resentment among whites,
that there would be race riots
all over the nation. President
Eisenhower was evidently con
cerned that the “social experi
ment" of integration in the arm
ed services would reduce the
effectiveness of the American
military offence. More recently
(only eleven years ago) Com
missioner of Minor League Base
ball, W. G. Bramham, at Dur
ham, N.C. said regarding Jackie
Robinson’s proposed entry into
organized baseball. “The general
impression in this city is that
the Negro player will be so un
comfortable, embarrassed and
out of place that he will soon
get out of his own accord.”
And Alvin Gardner, president
of the Texas League, said, “I am
positive you’ll never see any Ne
gro players on any of the teams
in organized baseball in the
south as long as Jim Crow laws
are in force." If you just live
long enough none of these great
“racial crises” in America seem
so critical. The steady advance
of the American Negro toward
full American citizenship con
tinues, because American demo
cracy and hard headed realism
has continued uo win out over
plain, disgusting prejudice.
The Supreme Court, the Con
stitution, and the nation will
also survive the Court’s inter
pretation that American justice
extends also to communists —or
to persons so accused —inspite
of profound editorials I, n, Etc.,
in the Phoenix ladies.
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