Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1962-03-03

Democrats voted for the Presi
dents plan and only Ii P'epub-
licans voted for it.
Chairman John M. Bailey OF
the Democratic National Com
mittee said Wednesday: "The
House vote against the proposed
Department CT Urban Affairs
and Housing, which would have
been headed by Robert c. Weav-
er, shown clearly how blindly
obstructionist the Republican
Party has become under the
Miller-Dirksen Halleck Gold
water leadership which calls the
tune for the Republicans in the
Congress.
at shows not only that the
Republican Party is the again
st party" but it also shows what
the Republican Party is again
st-against a sensible proposal
TO give the 70 percent of Amer
leans who live in cities and sub
urbs the help and recognition at
the federal level which has long
been given to the rural popula-
ton - against the aspirations
of minority groups who hoped
to see a qualified member Of
such group become the first
Of his race to sit on the Cabi-
net"
The text of the Presidents
remarks follows: "Well, | think
there is going to be an Urban
Department some time. There
is not going to be one now, but
there is going to be sooner or
later. You have too large a
percentage of our population liv-
ing in the city, 70 to rs to 80
percent. They face many prob
lens. The mayors of the coun-
try and others who are most
concerned with them have sup
ported this proposal. We are
going to have an Urban De-
partment. 1t may not come this
year, but in my opinion it will
become as necessary an newt
able as the Department of Ag-
riculture or HEW.
"The difficulty, of course, is
that many of those who do not
live in Urban areas are opposed
TO it. But if we in this country
began to adopt the system that
everyone who lives in city
area voted against those things
which were of assistance to
the farmer, and everybody who
comes from rural areas voted
against those policies which
provides better life for people
in the cities, and everybody who
live outside the Tennessee Val
lev voted against the Tennessee
Valley Authority, and everyone
who lived in the east voted a.
gainst the development of the
Northwest, development of nat
ural resources, this country
would come to a grinding halt
$50 / am hopeful that after
a longer look is taken at this
proposal, and it is analysed on
it's merits, that in my Judge
ment the Congress of the Uni
ted States will support an Ur-
ban program. l believe it vital
ly important, and / regret that
Congress did not see fit to a
dept it. l don't think it is so
much the administrations loss
as it is loss for the city and
the country.
"In regards to DR.. Weaver,
he would have been admirably
qualified, as the head of the
largest division which would
have been included in the Urben
Department. / see now that va
rious people who opposed the
Urban Department are now
ready to support him for any
Cabinet position he wishes, De-
tense, State, Treasury, every
thing else. / consider him ad-
mirably qualified for this par
ticular position because he has
long experience in it, and while
/ am sure he is grateful for
those good wishes for a Cabinet
position where there is nc va
cancy, think he feels that he
would have been this coun-
try would have been better SER
we'd to have voted for an Urban
Department, and permitted him
to continue his service in that
capacity. Mr.. Weaver will get
along alright, but / think the
question is the people in the
cities are the ones who have
been defeated.