Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1963-07-20
The Negro Real Interests

Plans for a march on Washington appear to
be taking more reasonable form than when they
were first publiciZed. Negro leaders at meeting
in New York have emphasized that there is no
plan for anything other than an orderly pilgrim
age to the capital on the part of as many as may
turn out on August %.
Any group of people have right to present
their views to their senators and representatives
to call attention to grievances by peaceful demon
sration Were they to carry this to the point of sit
ms which mpeded the work of Congress, the effects
might be adverse rather than favorable. Good leg
iSlation is not made by mob pressure, and law
makers properly resent suggestions of operating
under intimidation.
Essentially the civil rights battle is contest be-
tween minorities. The threat of filibuster which
might be galvanized by an extreme bill of public
accommodations, is of course defensive device on
the part of Southern whites. Yet senators who are
on the fence about invoking cloture of debate may
reasonably look forward to occasions when legit-
mate interests on other mnorties might be i'm
peried.
One of the most serious apprehensions about
the present situation is that dingdong fight about
an extreme form public accommodations bill
might tie up legislation, especially in the upper
house. to the extent that virtually nothing of
pending programs would get enacted.
IT, for example, the Senator Finance Com
mlttee should decide to hold very prolonged hear
ings on a tax reduction bill assuming passage by
the House,, the present session might run into
1864 without action on that important subject And
wel[being of Negroes would be one of the chief
suffers from the delay.
One of the objects of the march to Washing
ton according to spokesman is to call attention to
the plight of the Negro worker one of the worst
suffers from unemployment. Yet the nations most
active hope for reducing unemployment in general
and among Negroes in particular is in the enomice
effect to be expected from definitve cut in tax
load on business consumers, and investors.
Through important as matter of dignity, the
number of Negroes affected by discrimination in
restaurants and hotels is relatively small.
On the other hand, the number of those who
might find new jobs or be recalled to work as
suit of a widespread pickup in business activity
could easily run into tens of thousands.
Probably all but the public accommodation
section of the administrations civil rights bill can be
obtained with backing sufficient to override an in
cipient filibuster This would include significant
projections of the right to VOTE 1t might even be
that the application to hotels and restaurants can
be SO delimited as to avert stalemate.
But if Negro leaders and rank and file think
through the matter of what will most effectively
serve their interests, they surely will come to some
helpful conclusions. Among these it may be sub
mitted is the proposition that their own long,
interest will be better served by presenta-
ton that aids the orderly handling of legislation
than by that ends in clashing of congressional
gears.
What you have just finished reading above is
an editorial from a recent edition OF The Christian
Science Monitor, one of the few newspapers pub
lished in the United States whose editorial impact
in international.
The Christian Science Monitor is published
in Boston, which is way up across the Mason-Dixon
Line
We have reprinted the editorial here for those
Negroes among us in Jackson, and in the state,
who have allowed their reasoning and logic, and
their sense of reality to become clouded by the
belief that such feelings and opinion exist only
among southern white people