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Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-01-17
The ''Sales Tax Three"
Become Specific

The promise (by the Minnesota Taxpayers As
sociation, the Chamber of Commerce and the Min
nesota Farm Bureau) that sales tax bill will be
introduced in this session of the legislature is at
least step forward 1t will be helpful to have some
thing specific to talk about in the sales tax debate
instead Of just the assertions and claims-often wild
and fantastc-of the sales tax propagandists.
To be sure, the advocates have in announcing
their pan again ndulged in fantasy in their claims
for what the sales tax will do to and for us. But
their formula is reduced to specific piece Of
legislation that we know what they are really
talking about, 1t will be possible to reduce these
fantasies to their ultimate absurdity.
Up to this time and including the current
proposal the sales tax advocates have persisted in
selling the plan on its proposed exceptions and ex-
emptons. The exemptions are supposed to make the
plan palatable by removing the obnoxious and vici-
features of all general sales taxes but this is
nonsense The tax to do the job wanted by its ad-
vocates has to raise revenue. You can't pass a
"non-regressive" sales tax and raise the money
needed to relieve big business of millions of dollars
Of tax obligations.
And this Is what the Sales Tax Three are after.
They propose eliminating the corporate surtax and
the personal property tax on business. And they
want to believe that this is going to cost the
rest of US hardly anything.
There is a curious aspect Of the Farm Bureaus
part in all of this The Bureau, supposedly represent
ing the farmers Of the state, Is supporting tax
that will shift enormous burden to the shoulders
Of the farmer, who will be unable to escape (as
business does) the sales tax much of the pro-
duction supplies which he must purchase.
Another curious aspect of the current proposal.
Of its predecessors Is the way in which the spon
accompany their proposal with a slanderous,
destructive and largely untruthful attack upon
great state.
For example, there Is the tattered old argument
that Minnesota has poor climate" for business.
The Sales Tax Three and their allies have been
advertising this false propaganda to the entire
country for many years. Evidently discriminating
businessmen and industrialsts know how to evaluate
the sources Of this type Of propaganda, because
Minnesotas industry continues to grow faster than
that Of other states In the region-and In the fields
such as electronics that the most desirable.
Moreover there Is a direct relationship between
income tax, described by the three second high
est in the nation at the $10,o0o-a-year level and
third highest at the $5o0o-a-year level, supports
our remarkable system Of public education which
Is powerful magnet in attracting elite industries.
But the shabbiest argument is the claim that
presumably because we don't have a sales taxi
10000 people year leave Minnesota for jobs In
other states AS If the migration Of people in this
migratory a one-way process for Min
nesota!
If the Sales Tax Three want to be taken seri-
ously they would do well to get in touch with few
Of today's realities.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-01-17
DRY POINTS
BY FRED GRAM

The formalities Of organizing
are over, and our lawmakers across
the country are lnuckling down
to the hard work Of legislating, to
the accompaniment Of often Utu-
perative debate. After the swear
ings in, the cussings out.
A disquieting thing about many
Of the underdeveloped countries Is
the overdeveloped interest their
political leaders take in the weap-
ons Of aggression and total des-
tructon.
Phone users are organizing to
oppose the digit system Of dialing.
They complain that phone books
get out Of date fast enough any
how, and now are becoming hardly
moro permanent than a world
atlas.
A food chain has won the right
to operate It's own drug stores,
thus establishing the principle that
you don't need a pharmacists
license to run an establishment
selling books, hardware, appliances,
hosiery, groceries, paint and wall
paper. phonograph records, beer,
and aspirin tablets.
Idle thought, while inspecting
me Of the country's redsveloped
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-01-17
FRANKLY SPEAKING
By Everett Luoma

Occasionally a reporter appears
on the American scene who takes
the duties Of reporter seriously.
He feels an obligation to his read
ers to report the news as he sees
it despite restrictions that may be
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-01-17
Our Past This Week
up for Negro History scrapbo

Cip Tor Negro History Scrapbook
January IS, 1869 - First con-
vsntion Of Negro labor in the US.
January IS, 1922 - Col. Charles
Young. West Point graduate, died
In Africa.
January Is, 1873 - c. c. An
tome became lieutenant governor
to W. p. Kellog in Louisiana.
January IS, 1941 The Four
Freedom proclaimed by Great
Britain and America.
January IA, 1928 - Bishop Ben
jamin T. Tanner, AME church
leader, died.
January II, 1907 - Jamaica
earthquake occurred.
January 10, 1881 - Dean Will
liam Pickens, author and NAACP
field secretary, was born in An
derson County. s. c.
January IS. 1s41 - Professor
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-01-17

placed upon him.
Such a report
er Is William
Worthy, foreign
for
the Baltimore Az
fro = American,
who was sent
enced to three
months in prison
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-01-17
PICAYUNE
DOMESTIC PEACE CORPS

The remarkable success Of the
Peace Corps in the countries in
which it is operating has raised the
question: Why not have a similar
organization to help those In econ
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-01-17

courts or by the several states.
Gov. Ross Barnett Of Mississippi
is urging that the Congress ar
range for a referendum to deter
mine what the people actually
want in this regard.
AS much as we would like to
see the governors urging achieve
success, we doubt that the voters
are going to be given any chance
to express themselves on the ques-
ton Of who should control the
schools. The supreme court and
other federal courts already have
spoken on the subject - in a way
which this newspaper did not ap-
prove. - New Orleans TIMES
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-01-17

downtowns: when are they going
to bring In the elephants, bareback
riders, and peanuts and popcorn?
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-01-17

years past But this does not excuse the santed
portage that has already started In the daily press
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-01-17

Idle thought. while inspecting
me Of the country's redeveloped
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The Shine BOY HAS THE DREAM
lContinued From Page y

good whites" as to the Negroes.
Negroes retained faith in the good
whites" who could be counted on
TO behave correctly and swing
their weight in favor of justice
when showdown came. Did they
not quietly tell the Negroes of
their disapproval of the racist
DULLES, of their shame?
But all of this has changed, Is
now changing. The changes are so
drastic that those who knew some
thing about the South ten years
ago or even two years ago, are
m;sinformed if they rely on that
information today.
Negroes, particularly youn G
Negroes, have lost their illusions
about the "good whites" They
have seen good whites equivo-
cate endlessly and finally grow
silent in times of crisis when.
issues were bare and words OF
protest or sanity would have
sounded the clarion clarity. A
good whites" quiet words aimed
sympathetically at a Negroes ears
don't mean anything now; they are
part of the mockery. A cracker is
a cracker. The good ones are
lust less bad than the bad, bad
crackers. They won't join the mob,
but they belong to that mob that
sees the Negro individual as
nothing but the stereotype; that
talks to him about "your PEOPLE"
and your problems" and tells him
how much it admires "the Negro
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Continued from Page y

arts, in the sciences and even in
the more complex sorts of bust
ness the children of the later i'm
migrants are running away from
the descendants of the early sett-
lers. To call the roll of Americans
eminent in almost any field of
human endeavor above the most
elemental is to call a list of strange
and often outlandish names; even
the panel of Congress presents a
startling example. Of the Ameri-
cans who have come into notice
during the past fifty years as poets,
as novelists, as critics, as painters,
as sculptors and in the minor arts,
less than half bear Anglo-Saxon
names, and in this minority there
are few of pure Anglo-Saxon
blood. So in the sciences. So in
the higher reaches of engineering
and technology. So. in philosophy
and it's branches. SO even in in
dustry and agriculture. In those
oil eds WhCIC tilC "
tween the new and the old blood
streams is most sharp and clear
cut, say in New York, in seaboard
New England and in the farming
States of the upper Middle West,
the defeat of the so-called Anglo
Saxon is overwhelming and I'M
mistakable. Once his predomi-
nance everywhere was actual and
undisputed; today, even where he
remains superior numerically, it is
largely sentimental and illusory.
The descendants of the later i'm
migrants tend generally to move
upward; the descendants of the
first settlers, / believe, tend plain
ly to move downward, mentally,
spiritually and even physically.
Civilization is at it's lowest mark
in the United States precisely in
those areas where the Anglo
Saxon still presumes to rule. He
runs the whole Southland in the
whole South there are not as many
first-rate men as in many single
city of the m grel North.
Wherever he is still firmly in the
saddle, there we look for such
pathological phenomena as Funda-
mentalism, Prohibition and Ku
Kluxery, and there they flourish.
1t is not in the northern cities, with
their mixed population, that the
death rate. is highest, and politics
most corrupt, and religion nearest
to voodoOism, and every decent
human aspiration suspect; it is in
the areas that the recent immigra-
tons have not penetrated, where
"the purest Anglo-Saxon blood in
the world" still flows. / could pile
up evidences, but they are not
necessary. The fact is too plain to
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THE ANGLO-SAXON

be challenged. One testimony will
be sufficient: it comes from two
inquirers who made an exhaustive
survey of region in southeastern
Ohio, where "the people are more
purely Americans than in the rest
of the State:
Here gross superstition exercises
strong control over the thought
and action Of large proportion Of
the people. Syphilitic and other
venereal diseases are common and
increasing over whole counties,
while in some communities nearly
every family is afflicted with in
herited or infectious disease. Many
cases of incest are known; in
breeding is rife. Imbeciles, feeble
minded, and delinquents are
numerous, politics is corrupt, and
selling of votes is cmomon, petty
crimes abound, the schools have
been badly managed and poorly
attended. Cases of rape, assault,
and robbery are of almost weekly
occurrence within five minutes
walk of the corporation limits OF
one of the county seats, while in
another county political control is
held by a self-confessed criminal.
Alcoholic intemperance is ex-
cessive. Gross immortality and it's
evil results are by no means con-
fined to the hill districts, but are
extreme also in the towns.
AS 1 say, the American of the
old stock is not unaware OF this
steady, and, of late, somewhat
rapid eterioration-this gradual
loss of his old mastery in the land
his ancestors helped to wiring from
the Indian and the wildcat. He
senses, it, indeed, very painfully,
and, as if in despair of arresting it
in fact, makes desperate efforts to
dispose of it by denial and con-
cealment. These efforts often take
grotesque and extravagant forms.
Laws are passed to hobble and cage
the citizen of newer stocks in
hundred fantastic ways. 1t is made
difficult and socially dangerous
for him to teach his children the
speech of his fathers, or to main
tain the cultural attitudes that he
has inherited from them. Every
divergence from the norm of the
low-cast Anglo-Saxon is treated as
an attentat against the common
wealth, and punished with eager
ferocity.
1t so happens that I am myself
an Anglo-Saxon-one of far purer
blood, indeed, than most of the
half bleached Celts who pass I'M
der the name in the United States
and England. / am in part Angle
and in part Saxon, and what else
Continued on Page ~
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| This lag in communication
means that we are at least two
versions behind 1.-THE New Negro"
He is not the race man" protest.
ing through Hip-not the hipster.
That came and went. He is not
the loud flash out to impress the
white. Not any more. He is the
! informed, polite, rockhard, no.
nonsense man who says that by
damn this is something worth
diving for and none of your soft
white-man words are going to fool
us ever again.
How many whites realize this?
Few. as far as l can tell. To most,
the Negro is still the handkerchief
head, the uncle tom, Or perhaps
the hipster. A Negroes actions, his
demands, are therefore, misinter-
preted. They bewilder and brighten
many Negroes. The new Negro
is going to do extctly what proud
white man would do in his place
either stand up and die Or else
get the rights that are being with
held from him, so that his children
won't have to take the garbage
they've always taken; so that his
children won't have to despair.
This new Negro says: "Nothings
worth that. I'm going to be a
man." You call him niger when
he shines your shoes in a barber
shop and he'll never show up for
work there again. The word has
spread. The shine boy has the
dream, too.
Southern white men-white men
in East Texas-will react against
this, too; will deny it. They know
Negroes, see them every day, ana
although they are more sullen
perhaps, they are otherwise no
different; don't have these complex
personalities, these dreams. White
men must realize that they do not
know what goes on in Negroes
homes at night, what they say and
think and discuss. Complex as the
situation is, in sense 1t is desc
latingly clear. Even a concerned,
svmpathetic white knows practl-
cally nothing about Negroes or
their real problems because he
seldom stops looking upon Negro
as one of the Negroes. A Negro
snatches a purse and this is all
Negroes. A white man rapes and
murders, but he is an Individual
white.
On the other hand, Negroes can
not believe any longer that WHITE
men are simply unaware. Five
years ago, Negroes saw Little ROCK.
Last year they saw Oxford. They
saw that they were identical IN
pattern. Five years have produced
nothing.
The are not edited by Southern
moderates or liberals who are
scarcely better informed than the
masses. Moderates are calling for
such rare items as justice and
compassion as though they were
ingredients in soup-a bit OF one
here. a bit of another there; and
when some little something is
accomplished we think the soup
is beginning to smell and taste as
though it were cooked by Christ
and Thomas Jefferson-a real,
American nourishment. But since
we whites are not obliged to eat
it, we don't realize that to the
Negroes it is thin swill. We
further err in thinking that they
should be overwhelmingly grateful
to us for it and bide their time
while we good whites" think OF
something else to help them, some
| now INGREDIENTS for the SOUP.
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shows that one way or another a
crasker is cracker, more or less,
and they'll never realize in time.
They won't learn really to love
before Negroes learn really to hate.
The new, new Negroes, the ones
today, are products of this painful
disillusion. They see that gradu-
alism as practiced by southern
whites is going to stretch on into
eternity. They see that their chill
dren and grandchildren will have
no more hope than they unless
they do something about it now.
They see that their actions and
reactions are judged not as those
of humans defrauded of their rights
to grow as humans, but as "nigger
reactions - art-alecky, cocky,
DISRESPECTFUL.
These American Negroes have
learned to be bitter. They see that
America is not America, that we
have cheated and beaten the
American Dream to death. They
are sure that if we had time this
dream could come to be something
great again, but daily events, daily
abuses of justi C e, daily COM
promises of principles tell them
that time is running out, and they
say now that since they were born
with rights, they will not 60 on
being patient while the System
defrauds them of those rights.
Most Southern whites see 1T
differently, of course. They hastily
construct slightly better school
buildings with brick veneer and
with no inside finish and one toilet
for hundred students. Separate,
not equal, but better than before.
They say, why don't you look at
these good things we are doing for
you? Why don't you look at botn
sides of the question?
Negroes laugh and say our tax
dollars helped pay for that; we'd
give more tax dollars if you allow
ed us to earn fairly; our tax dollars
also go to support State Sover-
eighty Commissions, to pay Tor
misunderstanding state-sponsored
books that seek to prove we are
intrinsically inferior and should be
deprived of our rights of citizen
ship; our tax dollars also go to sup
port public beaches and parks that
we are not allowed to enjoy. Our
tax dollars, Sir, are used to pay
for the rope that lynches us Now
why don't you look at both sides
of the question; We have been
shoutin "Whatever you DO
against me you do against your
self, against this country. And l
cannot carry the load forever. You
cannot expect me to go on fighting
to protect Americas freedoms
abroad and not fight for them at
home" You do not hear.
Perhaps the greatest source OF
Illustration is the fact that more
and more we have two groups OF
citizens with two different sets OF
know Wedge and information.
Negroes are fully aware of the
many current instances of rank
Injustice and violation OF civil
rights, but the non-Negro masses
are not aware of them. Unin-
formed, the national conscience
cannot manifest itself.
For example, have spent most
of the autumn ma national lee
ture tour. The McComb, Missis-
sippi, scandals, which have shaken
the Negroes, are almost wholly un-
known to the non-Negro popula-
ton. In speaking to thousands OF
interested and concerned whites, /
fonpd Oply one DorSOn a professor
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Raymond Massey, TVS DR.. Gil
leSpie, viii be In town tomor-
row, not next week, as noted
here yesterday. That was a
thoughtful booking by Johnny
Carson Tuesday, incidentally:
aymon d and his handsome
son, Daniel, who Is starring on
Broadway in the smash bit,
"She Loves Mel"
(Not that it matters, but
really didn't think the resem-
blance between father and son
was that striking.)
Cheerful Bob Adams, OF
WTOP, reports that Jim Ma
bOrs, the Conner Pyle Of the An
dy Griffith series. will be visit
ing Washington next week. -.
Jim'S Conner is the kind of gas
station attendant we all seem to
get when the car breaks down
out of town. (HelpleSs,
mean.)
Divided Press: The reaction
to the Robert Drew documen-
tary, "Crisis: Behind a PreSi
Dental Commitment" Monday
on ABC-7, was predictably
sharp and varied. The Her
ald-Tribune's man still insists il
was "a milestone in film jour
nalism. Jack Gould, of the
New York Times, said: "His
I(Drew's) presentation surely
will stand as a prime example
of governmental surrender t
the ceaseless and often thought
less demands Of the entertain
ment world"
We agreed with the latter
view.
What troubles me is that oul
judgment Of the people and the
events should now be further
affected by the degree of so
phistication demonstrated il
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0AA0 k@A kSO1( oAAAf Vi AONAA~A~N
not be visualized without the
kind Of macabre awareneSs
that makes almost any tone the
wrong, unctuous one.
The added problems caused
by the bitter controversy over
JeSSica Mitford's best seller,
''The American Way Of Death, "
was no help. The TV study
handled the pro and con so q
started to write "gravely")
delicately that it kept slipping
out of focus. Miss Milford, in
cidentally, writes much more
sharply than she speaks.
The part Of the show that did
speak for itself was a film
from Forest Lawn, with its
statuary, its huge gates (the
largest in the world and other
unbelievable features. The
terms used by a spokesman
for the industry, like "griei
therapy," and the statements
contrasting practices in other
countries were also revealing.
A historical look at the fu
neral in this country and how
it changed, and developed, wa:
lacking, however. Much Of the
hour seemed to be saying thu
same thing over and over.
An examination Of the burial
society that has grown up il
America in answer to the in
creased costs and subversion Of
values by some undertakers
was probably the hours biggeS
bulletin to average viewers no
only unaware of their existence
but of the controversy itself.
In short, the program, rec
commended by TV Key Pre-
views and W. W. Chambers, il
a full page ad in Tuesday,
Evening Star, went by with tn
zip Of a cortege.
VISITING T-VIPS DEPT.
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ON THE AIR ~
Funeral Slips Out of Focus

their use Of the cameras that
were in attendance. -. Gov.
Wallace obviously overplayed;
the Attorney General smartly I'M
der-played. -. What does this
have to do with the issues?
It reminds me Of a Bob New
hart Skit. in which two Revolu-
tiOnary soldiers are grumbling
about the Delaware crossing.
How about that nutty George
standing up in the boat" one
said. "Yeah-and how about
that nut in the other boat who
was painting his picture?"
Gosh how ! wish Newhart was
back. I'd trade any combination
of five new shows this season
for his.
Child Psychology Corner: DR..
Bruno Bethlehem, writing in
the November issue of Redbook
magazine, discounts the effects
of TV on children-but his argu-
mentS are based, almost exclu-
sively, on that already much
quoted 1861 British report. .
What DR.. B. seems to be
saying to parents, in the main,
is to straighten out their own
thinking before they attempt to
bring up their kids. -. Fair
counsel-but how fuzzy can you
get? -. For example, here's
DIR. B.:
&c. AS an adult, l can't stand
this (The Three Stooges) fine
| it asinine. But / remember thai
l loved it as a child. And
didn't grow up to be depraved
So you make a very important
point; namely, that it might give
the child the idea Of doing it t.
others. Now, it never gave me
the idea to do it to others, anC
hence my question. You whit
have this anxiety, and yoI
whose children have watched
this program-have they tried i
(eye-poking)?"
DR.. Bettelheim's m alb a {
should be building In the weeks
Ito come.
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TODAY'S GOOD
MUSIC DIAL

7:00, WMAL-FM (IO7.3)-Heri-
tage Concert. Lists "Ham-
let," Paris Conservatory
Orchestra; Brucner's Sym
phony No. 8 in c Minor,
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Hamburg Philharmonic State
Orchestra.
100, WHFS-FM (10z.3 Mc.)-
Stereo Concert Time. Schu-
bert's Rosamunde; Beetho-
ven's Symphony No. 4 in
B Flat.
SOS, WASH-FM (S7.1 Me-
Symphony in Stereo. Wal
toms johannesburg Festival
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24

mandy, conductor; Rudolf
Serkin, pianist. Schuman's
Credendum; Schumann's
Piano Concerto in A Minor:
PrOkofiev's Symphony No. 5
in B Flat, Opus 100.
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Overture; Relationships
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor.
$50, WGMSFM $50 Kc. and
1855 Me.)-Orchestral Capt.
tails Of the World. Philadel-
phia Orchestra, Eugene Or
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ON THE AIR
By BERNIE HARRISON
star TV Critic

One only hazard guess about the national reaction,
but 1t anything like mine the audience for last nights
CHS Reports documentary, "The Great American Funeral
(WT0P9) must have set record for disappearing.
This Of those programs which set out with good aim
and and fndered because the story simply could