The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-04-13


Irving Emma. executive secre-
tary. Junior Chamber Of Com
merce, led a panel of eight speak
ers who outlined the next steps
for employment. housing, the pub
lie, religion and the law.
The panel echoed the words of
Mayor Dorothy Mccullough Lee,
who brought greetings from the
city, pointed out that legislation
does help in the matter of dis
elimination burt prejudice can
only be eliminated by the slow
process of education"
I'VE can report great progress
in Portland" Mayor Lee said.
She pointed to the increased en-
ployment of colored persons in
the city service the last five years
no colored teachers then, now
II: IL In civil service five years
ago, now 40-an example of fof-
ward strides being taken in city
government. Mayor Lee said.
Its a long road to walk-we
need start walking" Attorney
David Robinson, president, was in
charge of the meeting. Although
brief, his annual message was
far reaching.
DR.. Myron C. Cole, chairman of
the Mayors Committee on Race
Relations, said, Either the chill
dren of men will nationally and
scientifically recognize the fact of
brotherhood, or the bell will toll
tit will toll mournfully and
long"
Insurance Bars Hit
Calling for elimination of "the
un-American and vicious practice
of branding colored people as fit
and proper subjects for no (auto-
mobile) insurance coverage at all
or the assigned risk pool" said
Ulysses G. Plummer. attorney and
chairman of legal redress for the
NAACP.
Some agencies in Oregon auto.
matically place Negroes, with few
exceptions, in an assigned risk
plan at higher premium rates. the
attorney contended.
Mrs. John Catlin, Portland
Housing and Planning Associa-
ton. also denounced practices of
discrimination against any por-
tion of the population as destruc-
tive to the carrying out of a good
city plan for housing. She class
ed the supplying of adequate
housing as vital step toward
improving human relations as
well as race relations"
She asked for a professional
survey of total housing needs and
long-range plan for the area in
order that buildings may be
placed and suited to the needs of
the people who live here.
Housing Views Given
Democratic practices in housing
are the essential needs in next
steps In race relations, said Mark
Smith of the Vancouver Housing
Authority. president of the Van
couyer NAACP. HE stated the
next steps in the implementation
of sound public housing pro-
gram must include proper safe
guards against racial bias.
"Those of us who judge all peo-
pie only by their worth as human
beings must increase our numbers
and increase them rapidly" Mrs.
Will C. Davis, secretary of the
Oregon Committee for Fair EN-
ployment Practices Law, 'the
force for equality and justice it
was intended to be-"
Very Rev. Thomas Tobin, vicar
general of the archdiocese of
Portland in Oregon, said the
FEP law safeguards the moral
principle involved and provides
for the education necessary to
make 1t effective.
Hard Work Seen
e. Shelton Hill. industrial Sec
rotary of the Urban League,
warned that discriminating en-
ployers are not going to change
their policies and there will still
be hard work ahead although it
is made easier by the passage of
the FEP law.
An important step from the re-
ligious standpoint, according to
Rabbi Saul Applebaum, is for
members of each minority group
which might suffer from discrimi-
nation to take time out to evalu-
ate their inner selves. He said
1t is important to keep the cat
mosphere and climate of race re-