negroes Should Have Preference Bv JEANNK KEMPK , " " equal basis. She suggested minority minor-ity and white friends visit each ether's homes. "They (white friend) will learn to stretch money a little further and be a higher middle class," she said. Need Motivation Mis. Pierce also told the audience, audi-ence, "You can come down and tutor our children, but you'll find we've got some pretty smart children. chil-dren. They just haven't found a reason to apply learning." Mrs. Pierce also thought Mexicans Mexi-cans and other minority groups should be included in the tutoring programs. According to Thompson, " 'We' are never going to do anything. 'We' never has and is not going to do anything." He said change will only come about if you, the indi viduals, want to make it como about. Thompson noted the increased interest in-terest in civil rights after the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King. He said up until that time lie" had never been offered a job over Si. 2.) or $1.50 an hour. "It's a bad rea son to start doing something." he said. Miss Monroe saw the racial proh lems from another point of view. She is a Negro without any physical negroid characteristics. "I hear a lot of things they (other Negroes) don't," she said. Her message was to "stop asking ask-ing and start doing." "We're sick and tired of hearing 'what can we do?' If you sat back and did nothing, you caused the problem, too." By JEANNE KEMPE Clironicle Staff Writer A panel of local citizens involved in civil rights told University students stu-dents last week Negroes must be given unequal opportunity now for equality later on. The panel, sponsored by Action in Racial Crisis (ARC), included Robert Freed, Salt Lake businessman business-man and chairman of the Utah Advisory Ad-visory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights; Juanita Pierce, neighborhood worker work-er with the Central City Community Commun-ity Action Program (CAP); Glen Edwards, a Negro Salt Lake realtor; real-tor; Grover Thompson, president ; of SOUL; and Nancy Monroe, a member of SOUL. The Rev. John Wade moderated. Should Have Preference "I think Negroes should have preference now," Mr. Freed em phasized. The other panel members reechoed re-echoed this statement in a question-answer question-answer period. Mr. Edwards compared the racial rac-ial situation to two persons running a race. He said you put a 100 pound weight on one of the runners and later on in the race when you remove it, he still gets further behind, because he was tired from the beginning. "We must give unequal opportunity opportun-ity now for equality later on," Mr. Freed declared. Encourage Employment Mr. Freed suggested encouraging encourag-ing employment of Negroes and en- ' couraging realtors and neighbors to accept fair housing, and associating associat-ing with minority group members. Mr. Edwards told the audience, "We do have a problem in Salt Lake City" in housing, with schools and wherever a Negro wants his inherited rights. He said, "There are many people who are just darn tired of it. They are not going to allow the country to exist unless they obtain citizenry as they know it. Many of us have had a chance to have middle class things and we are not going to go back." We don't have Negro teachers in Salt Lake City schools, according to Mr. Edwards. "Most come from Brigham Young University, and you know what they are taught there," he said. "Everything that would cause a white child to drop out is thrown at the Negro child." The realtor suggested the "institution "insti-tution that could do most immediately immedi-ately in the area of civil rights is the LDS church. It could instruct its members to work just as hard to get rid of racism as to elect candidates. Most problems could be solved immediately if they knew racism is taboo." Housing Discrimination As a realtor, Mr. Edwards related re-lated the housing situation for Negroes Ne-groes in Salt Lake. He said a Negro can't buy the house he wants at the price he can afford. He said influential community people go to the neighborhood, consolidating opinions op-inions to keep the Negroes out. If that fails, they go to the banks and threaten to take their business elsewhere, else-where, if they give a Negro a loan. "If he does get in, he is treated as a nice colored fellow and not as a man. "Nobody has shouldered his responsibility re-sponsibility in my opinion," said Mr. Edwards. Mrs. Pierce stated the "best way to conquer the problem is getting people to know each other. When every person can look at another person not in regards to race, creed or color, but as a human being, that will be the first step." She suggested the best way to do this is to put a friendship on an