Woodlawn Booster (Newspaper) - June 22, 1965, Woodlawn, Illinois A Booster Special The following column was written by fighter Dick Gregory while he was In jail two weeks ago for participating In civil rights demonstrations in Chicago's loop was received at a press release To this editor's knowledge lit has not been published in any of this city's media I be- the parents of this community will find interest In iring a message from one who has recognized the necessity going to jail for his children and ours THE DOUBLE LL will return next week David Llorens Managing Editor he Eagle And The Rat By DICK GREGORY A RIOT is an expression of pain by a mob as a My Is a baby's call for attention It is an instinctive of suffering as well as an alarm for help and L demand for relief Pain itself is not the cause of debilitation de- and death It is the signal symptom of disease Po deaden pain is not to cure but to dehumanize the sufferer Dope drugs the brain from consciousness of destruction It does not heal the afflicted It Mily spares the unaffected from embarrassment by the screams The body politic of America is ridden with disease the sewers and the of waste material by our democratic system it It is a plague which threatens to pull down a Great Society to the Jungle of the Poor THE PLAGUE is Poverty not only material de- but the of mind and spirit lich spreads the contagion A riot is a cry of anguish by the abandoned and condemned Putting down a riot with police is as effective as smothering an infant ridden with the Pox It shortens iris suffering It hushes up the dreadful fact But it only kills the victim and does not eradicate infection is no protection from the Plague but to attack rats Discrimination is the rat in the foundations of our republic The towers of power were built on a base of slavery Slavery is predicated upon a concept of super- and inferiority of racial discrimination which human brotherhood to Negroes even to the Kramers of the Constitution who All men are created equal The rat was nurtured in the eagle's clutch Even when the slaves were freed the rat spread and prospered on the scraps of greed late is the poison on which rats feed It makes them and keeps the surface clean But the rat is a carrier of a germ most deadly of our populate our cities scourge our farmlands stop our factories evaporate our resources and destroy us all the rat triumphant will inherit our civilization WE HAVE TRIED to quarantine the disease of poverty in the slums and ghettos We have fed the poor and suffering dope to drug them of their pain is not a vaccination The isolation ward is not Ithe source of disease but its terminal location Only in the ghetto it is in the open where its running sores are futilely neglected because contagion is so rampant seems impossible reinfection certain before But the Plague is a disease which kills man but not change the rat There are rats in the walls of halls of Congress as they are in the gutters of the Ghetto When the disease of poverty breaks out but the Ghetto we rush in first aid technical and sanitation squads But the rat still lives in Ithe wasted lives discarded by the economic machine There is no cure other than rat extermination The bite of the rat causes a fever which we know as Treating it by laws of public and private restoring a normal temperature of integration is a step But a step does not stamp out DISCRIMINATION is that distinction that of determination held by Washington son yes and even Lincoln that two races Negro and are perhaps two different species dis- the one as lesser human Discrimination is the mark of education a better judgement of preference The quality of wine may be by color but regarding Man it is a false and predisposition That men are different every Igene is ample demonstration That some are brown Isome white some so-called yellow no one deny Some are also blue-eyed some are blond No one of intelligence maintains that brown hair or brown eyes e marks of an inferior capability or menu [Bntilirown skin is recognized as no more than like the pigmentation of hair and eyes there is discrimination TO SAVE OURSELVES and our society from death and destruction each man must search Volleys To Serve RACKETS BURSTING FORTH with such sweet thunder A same of love Volleys of honors to the winners These were the stages that led to the above picture Shown here Henry Patrick 6614 Kenwood chairman of Western Hawthorne Tennis Club awards trophies to this season's indoor tennis champs Ed Biernat at ter and Elliot Cabrera right teamed up to win first place in the Men's Doubles event and Don Steiner standing next to Patrick took second place with Mary Koski Patrick is the first Negro to serve in the chairmanship of the Club since its inception During his tenure membership in the Club has increased from 280 to 400 members Patrick works with a group at Western Electric that develops computerized methods of forecasting telephone equipment requirements PANELISTS TELL GROUP KEEP DEMONSTRATING Label Society Corrupt Contemptible Racist SHOULD CHICAGO be the target for civil rights this was he question put before five panelists at a World Outreach and Community Service dis- cussion held Sunday evening at the Parkway Gardens tian church 6600 South Park Yes was the unanimous opinion of the guest Albert Raby convenor of the Coordinating Council of Com- munity Organizations Mrs lie Clark The Woodlawn Charles Sherman cago Public School teacher the Rev James Mack and BOOSTER managing editor David Llorens Without a doubt the tion asked has already been said Raby The question has gone beyond School Supt Benjamin C Willis It involves all of the problems which exist in our society RABY currently in the fore- front of the city's tions cited the fact that out of 17 predominantly Negro wards in the city we have only 7 represented by Negroes He spoke of the millions of dollars of poverty money being poured into Chicago and con- tended that it is being used for political purposes Raby suggested that Mayor Daley to deal with the Negro gaining full so- cial political and economic rights in Chicago He accused society of porting people who make a year at the expense of poor people Society is cor- stated Raby and he said that Negroes must understand this A child goes home to rats sees his parents cheated by landlords and beaten by the Continued on Page 4 THE MOST WIDELY READ COMMUNITY Published at 639 E St STewart THIRTY-FIRST YEAR NO 36 WEEK OF JUNE 22 THRU JUNE 28 1965 RECEIVES POVERTY MONEY Head Will Wed In Hawaii Mrs Almita S Robinson director of the Woodlawn Community Services Agency will be married to Staff geant W Michael Woods in a military ceremony on July 2 at p m in the Chapel of the Marine Air Force Base Kaneohe Hawaii The couple will spend their honeymoon on the island of Hawaii the Mrs Chicago via jet plane at 9 45 on June 26 Present plans are that Mrs Woods will return to Chicago on July 26 She will remain in the em- ploy of the S.A for the next 18 months at which time Sgt Woods will have completed a 22 year career of service in the Marines The couple plan to make their permanent home in Natchez Mississippi native home of Sgt Woods Almost Quarter Million Dollars For T W O Seek Powell Help Again Togetherness Parkside no 18 A LUNCHEON honoring the graduates crossing guards and patrol boys of Parkside mentary school 6938 East End brought together left to right Jim safety and education section Chicago lice Dept Donald E Sparks Parkside principal Mrs line James 6732 Cornell les Adkins physical education instructor and Mrs Roxie Marie Frazier 1518 E St president Parkside Com- munity Improvement Club sponsoring organization Block Club Plans Day Of Gaiety Fun and frolic has been prom ised by the 6600 lawn Block Civic Club at their First Annual Fair and Carnival Saturday June 26 from 2 to t p m In the back yards garages and on the back porches wil be such treats as barbecue Tied chicken baki sale flower shows art tournament pony rides for the children games con cessions and other features hi house and enforce the desperation of survival on neighbor We must tear down the wall of not only around the ghettos but our must sympathetically minister to the affhc- already crippled by our cultivation of the which bit him we must care for him and him if we cannot cure him But more than that Each man must kill the rat that nests in his lown brain Planting Toward Tomorrows Society GARDENING TIPS from an expert is the scene above at last Saturday's area meeting of the Jobs For Teens Community Project Receiving tips from University of Chicago president George Wells Beadle second from Nobel Prize winner and expert gardener are area lads left to Nathaniel West 1419 E St and Jonathan Collins 6831 East End Observing the activity is Mrs Floyd Mulkey 6108 Kimbark Saturday's meeting was held in South Shore for the project that will serve the communities of Hyde wood South Shore and Woodlawn It Is sored by the War on Poverty and during the summer will emphasize lawn care A Day In The In The Struggle Pastor Aides Sponsor Program The Pastor Aides of awn church 6456 Evans have announced the tion of their 5th Anniversary program Sunday June 27 at 3 p.m in the church sanctuary Featured in the program will be Mrs O K Charles and the guest speaker will be Mrs An- nie L Dames The choir from Just One Temple Of Christ will be the guest choir for the program Also performing will be the Gospel Choir of lawn Lyric poet Mrs Mary J Cook will also be featured in the pro gram and the public is invited Woodlawn A is pastored by the Dames Rev Jonathan A By DAVID LLORENS MISSISSIPPI its beauty its people its tragic conditions was the topic of the day as Lome Cress daughter of Dr and Mrs Henry Cress 6111 Woodlawn addressed a group of about 30 teenagers Sunday m the glass house of St banus Roman Catholic Church and Calumet Lome told the group how the state she has worked in for the past year had become a second home to her She spoke of the Mississippi Negroes desire for better homes jobs and schools for a better life Their music their misery their fear each are ways of identifying black said Lome But ple who once were silent are now more vocal determined to be free determined to be heard through the ballot THE ATTRACTIVE Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com- member illustrated the need for political power Un- less the 1 man 1 vote theme is pressing Mississippi cians the voice of the people will not be heard The Rev Richard advisor to the Young Christian Students of St Columbanus commented that the kids veled at her ness her willingness to share with them not as kids She illustrated so well the chains on white said Father He recalled saying that even the inactive Negro could speak out Lorne Cress but that the whites were tally chained unable to even discuss their thoughts The Young Christian Students of St Columbanus is a group They are trying to see the world in which they live and attempting to discover their role in that said their dedicated advisor The teenagers hope to lend their support to the civil rights struggle this summer THIS REPORTER talked to Lome Cress as she marched down State street in last day's demonstration in this her birthplace She expressed satisfaction about the current protests in Chicago She appeared glad that she was able to bear wit ness in this most racist of nor them cities but her expressions changed to sorrow as she spoke of her brothers and sisters currently marching and being arrested in Jackson pi suffering was rather deep and personal but not really invisible Her emotions seemed to be asking where she belonged rather like one torn between two loves one old one new somehow different yet the same Hers was an inward struggle created by a strange and con- fusing conundrum and haps conundrums and inward struggles are inevitable when one is committed heart mind and soul to a struggle The fruits of victory seem to earn their sweetness through the bitter wines of defeat On Sunday morning Lorne shared experiences told of progress and glowed of hope But day evening she was saddened by a telephone call from her other home Mississippi SHE RECEIVED a call from Phyllis Cunningham a nurse and Gwen Robinson both SNCC workers in Jackson Mississippi They were arrested in the re- cent Mississippi tions and were just released from the Fair Grounds where 165 women and 300 men are confined They told Lorne that some people are subsisting on only bread and water some are sick with colds and intestinal ments and that the grounds are damp and filthy They told her that the turn on heat that rises the temperature well over 100 Continued on Page 6 A LONG STRUGGLE was concluded last week when it was announced that The lawn Organization's application for War On Poverty money was approved to the tune of The Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity awarded the a quarter of a million dollars to the organization whose c r i t i c i s m of the committee aroused national headlines this April TWO embattled with go poverty officials since last October traveled to ton in April and teamed Adam Clayton ell D House Education and Labor Committee chairman and accused the Chicago anti- poverty program of being tied to political PRESIDENT Lyn ward Stevenson labeled this city's program an ancient galling war against the poor He charged that the 54 member committee read like a fund raising list of the Democratic party Rep Powell demanded the names of those committee bers who were from the ranks of the poor When Deton Brooks head of Chicago's program refused to name names Powell contended you haven't got any In subsequent action Powell blasted the entire program which led to increased controversy in New York land Chicago and other cities Again seeking the assistance of the outspoken New York con- gressman the Rev Stevenson has in recent weeks been communicating with ell regarding the current tests over the retention of School Supt Benjamin C Willis An apparent outgrowth of this communication was an an- last Sunday that Powell will hold hearings this fall on de facto segregation in the Chicago Public School tem THE FIERY Harlem preach who recently ed for an- audacious black re- volution in a Chicago speech has said that money would be held from the entire city until they work out some kind of a plan that would get around de facto segregation of the ghetto The Rev Stevenson plans to meet with Powell in Washington this Thursday on the issue along with a committee led by current leader Al Raby con venor of the Coordinating Coun cil of Community Organizations POWELL'S intentions m e t with criticism from Board of Education members who voted for the retention of Willis Mrs W Lyndon Wild and Cyrus Hall Adams III I think we are doing the best we said Mrs Wild I do not think we need Mr Powell in Chicago Adams commented If I un- his Powell's ment he is talking like an idiot Board member Warren H Bacon expressed approval of Powell's plans A hearing of kind could clarify some of the issues that the school ad- ministration has been artfully dodging for some con- tended Bacon IN OTHER school action pre- sident Stevenson and Raby were among the signers of a tele- gram requesting that U.S Atty General Nicholas de bach begin his announced at- tack on de facto school gation in Chicago Two Vacation Centers In Area To play ball swim get into also get some free to a Catholic Youth Organization vacation center in your neighborhood That's the invitation to this area's boys and girls ages from 6 to 13 from the Catholic Youth which each summer sponsors the vacation centers in city parks and parish centers Two area parishes have been designated for the summer fun they St Clare 6415 lawn and St Lawrence 1349 E St More than children of the Chicago area enjoyed the privileges of a real vacation last year thanks to the efforts of the The program is supported by the Knights of lumbus who conduct an annual fund-raising campaign Camp Begins Day camp classes for 250 youngsters will begin Monday June 28 at Hull House's way Community house 500 E st The camp will run for eight weeks through Aug 20 Indoor and outdoor activities will be offered Camp will begin at 9 and last until p.m day through Thursday On days camp will be open only until p.m Indoor activities will include gym arts and crafts and tive dramatics Outdoor ings will include field trips to Lincoln park and Brookfield zoo amusement parks and to the forest preserves for outs and nature study The camping staff will con- sist of college students ate students and professional people Counselors will super- vise small groups of 10 to 15 children at a time The fee is 50 a week for each child Food Buys This Week week the Booster publishes the best food buys at your local food store as advertised in your Finest FRYING CHICKENS only Ib Whole 2 Bag Limit Wonder Food Page Choice ROUND STEAK Ib Vitos Page 5
