WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAVIR VpR'VV WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1965 THE 3IICIIIGAN DAILY I~ A f1t~ p31TT~tE, A C1~AZ~. ~Z1Z~.LL VAIUL TUREE 5 L eaders Cha By The Associated Press ty but human ability-not just WASHINGTON-Civil rights ac- equality as a right and a theory, tion took place on several fronts but equality as a fact and as a yesterday as leaders of the move- result," he said then. ment met with government off- On the eve of the planning ses- cials to chart a course for fu- sion's start, the American Friends tore efforts. Service Committee and the Na- tur efors.tional Association for the Ad- M e a n w h i 1 e, in Minneapolis, vancement of Colored People's Le- John A. Hannah, presidentdof gal Defense and Education Fund Michigan State University, told a released far-ranging recommen- convention of college administra- dations for further enforcement of" tors that they have no choice but Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights to lead the fight for civil rights Act to speed school desegregation. in this country. Some civil rights leaders have The Washington sessions will indicated there is little more that make plans for the White House can be done by legislation after conference scheduled next spring, enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights "to fulfill these rights." The con- Act and the 1965 Voting Rights ference takes as its theme Presi- Act. dent Johnson's statement in a But many of these same leaders speech at Howard University last voice concern over slaying of civilj June 4. rights workers in the South where "We seek not just freedom but alleged perpetrators have gone un- opportunity-not just legal equi- punished. rt Future. of Civil Rights The report said there is a "po- cies--not all our community re- tential danger in mounting des- lations commissions, not all of our pair with democratic processes legislatures, not all of our federal when Negroes see federal laws, government-can master such an regulations and court orders fla- array of brilliant and useful tal- grantly or subtly violated and ob- ent." I- I A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM The Civil Rights Commission's recommendations are designed to improve this situation. Conference leaders say the two- day sessions will be the first time all civil rights groups, from the most radical to the most conserv- ative, have sat down with gov- ernment officials and said, in ef- fect, "What do we do now?" "This country is past the point of, no return in civil rights," ex- plained Berl I. Bernhard, former staff director of the Civil Rights Commission who heads the plan- ning conference staff. "There is a definite commitment to secur- ing equal rights for all. The ques- tion now is how to do it." Bernhard said the plan is to have both open sessions and clos- ed "brainstorming" meetings where all sorts of ideas will be tossed about. "We won't rule out anything in the discussions," Bernhard said. The recommendations on school desegregation were made in a news conference and were directed to Secretary of Welfare John W. Gardner. They came as a result of a study by the American Friends Service Committee and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The organization said the gov- ernment's enforcement of Title VI so far has resulted in "paper compliance and continued segre- gation." They said their study supported the finding of the Southern regional council that "fewer than 6 per cent of the Deep South's Negro pupils are in desegregated situations. This ist not just a statistic. This is a hu- man tragedy." 'a R u 'h 't( I , ItI serve federal officials too timid, Hannah also emphasized that inwilling or powerless to enforce the land-grant institutions were 'hem." established more than a century In Minneapolis. Hannah, who ago "specifically to serve the un- also is chairman of the U.S. Civil derprivileged of that day - the Frights Commission, said, "Public sons of formers, and mechanics universities would disown their and shopkeepers who were being heritage and deny their purpose denied equal opportunity for lib- f now they were to remain aloof. eral and practical education." [hey are and must be in the fight That, he said, "should give us o the end." all of the justification we heed In an address to the annual con- for undertaking this new assign- vention of the National Associa- ment." ion of State Universities and Hannah said, "a year ago. 42 Land-grant Colleges, Hannah said major public institutions of high- )nly the public and private uni- er learning were segregated. By versities have the resources to do latest count, only seven have now he job that needs to be done. failed to assure the federal gov- "No other combination of agen- ernment that they will not dis- criminate in the admission or treatment of students." The real problems of civil rights are to be found in the East and fl~North and West as well asin the South, Hannah said, and they must be dealt with on a statewide' basis. "The civil rights problem must - be solved where it is," he said. "This throws the problem di- rectly back to us in the state S universities and land-grant col- S leges, to us who boast that the u r i s boundaries of the campus are the, boundaries of the state, and that we are the servants of all of the people." SOPH SHOW '65 1:'f Good Tickets Available For Thursday Night 1.50 1.75, 2.00 Johnson Seeks Legi Si To G . Bishops Pass Statement on Birth Control Ecumenical Council Clears Declarations On Racism, Atheism VATICAN CITY (P)--Key decla- rations on birth control, racial discrimination and atheism clear- ed major hurdles yesterday at the Vatican Ecumenical Council In a series of votes as they rushed to wind up work on their controversial scheme on modern world problems, the council fathers meeting in St. Peter's: -Approved a statement on birth control that stresses con- jugal love in marriage as an ele- ment important not only for bringing children into the world but as a physical expression of mutual love between husband and wife. -Accepted a strong declaration: against racial discrimination. The w declaration rules out gradual ap- proach to the elimination of the! problem and insists that discrim- ination must be "crushed and re- moved" as an offense to God. -Quashed an 11th-hour con- servative demand to include an open condemnation of commu- nism in its approved text on atheism. The text calls for a dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and all nonbe- lievers, and pointedly singles out neither Marxism nor Communism by name. The part of the birth control statement emphasizing conjugal love has been considerably ex- panded from an earlier version. Council experts said it incorpor- ates views of Paul Emile Cardinall Leer of Montreal. Last year and during this coun- cil session, the Canadian cardinal spoke out for a new view of mar- riage to accept the idea that physical love is an essential mar- ital element, by which couples express their love and respect for each other. Many theologians regard this concept as pointing the way to acceptance in the Church of the idea that sex in itself is a funda- mental good in marriage. A{ couple's canner of acting together1 must be based not only on good intention but on "objective cri- teria founded on the dignity of the human person to achieve mu- tual love and procreation." 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President and Mrs. Hatcher A ' ' ' r4 Ml i 1 1 He spoke to delegates here to plan for a White House civil rights conference next spring. Johnson described the jury as "the cornerstone of our system of justice," adding: "If its composition is a sham, its judgment is a sham. And when that happens, justice itself is a fraud, casting off the blindfold and tipping the scales one way for whites and another way for Negroes." Johnson noted that the govern- ment has already moved to join in three suits which, he said, chal- lenge a biased system of jury se-j lection. These actions include one in Lowndes County, Ala., and are based on the contention that Ne- groes have been deliberately ex- cluded from jury service. Then he said he has asked the attorney general "to prepare jury legislation that is clear in itsI purpose and specific in its aim." Johnson said the work of the civil rights conference "will affect the future of over 200 million people." The President said that "each life lost through racial hatred, each life diminished by blind prej- udice, saps the strength of a great nation." While more -than 200,000 Ne- groes have been registered to vote under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Johnson said many hundreds of thousands have not.; House Minority Leader Ap w RAL OR (R-Grand Rapids) addresses the University Community Thursday, Nov.,18 in the Michigan League Ballroom at 8:00 p.m. N World News Roundup i I i i i By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-The govern- ment and the major producers reached general agreement yes- terday on the disposal of the government's 1.4-million tons of surplus aluminum, the Defense Department announced. The Pentagon said that repre- sentatives of the General Services Administration, Defense Depart- ment and the producers agreed "in principle that the industry will purchase the surplus aluminum at an average rate of not less than 100,000 tons peryear or the defense requirement, whichever is greater." 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