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Show Thursday, November 1, 1973, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah-P- age !3 Commission Hears: Racism Isn't a Regional Thing Bv DAVID E. ANDERSON a hearing of the U.S. Civil Rights WASHINGTON (LTD -Commission on the racial think," said Rev John I. Qjbb, situation in the Illinois town. He had no intention of slurring "that "South' has moved all over the South. What he meant was the country." Cobb, a black minister from that there is today a northern Cairo, 111., made the comment at white resistance to integration that parallels resistance in such as Alabama and places Mississippi in the late 1950s.and through the 1960s. Cairo is not unique. The resistance has been militant in MARENGO, 111. (UPI) -- Tle Detroit (against school busing), in Chicago (against integrated Gty Council of Marengo has. decided to auction one of its suburban housing), and in (against transfer of black antiques the city jail. The two-cejail, built before .students to white schools. Where Cairo has perhaps been the turn of the century, was declared unfit for humans two unique is in the degree of years ago by the Illinois resistance and the violence that Department of Penal Institu- accompanied the push for civil rights in the southern Illinois tions. town. to used Since then, it has been Paul Good, who sifted through stolen impound stray dogs, the extensive record of the other evidence and bicycles, commission's hearings on Cairo property. and prepared a report on them, no said officials have they City it this way: plans to build another jail. put "Blacks marched, boycotted Prisoners will continue to be taken to the McHenry County and fought pitched battles with Jail in Woodstock, about 15 miles white vigilantes, and the city experienced a long night of away, officials said. 'I J 1 Jail Will Go At Auction F - - v. - New-Yor- , ? - - ll , , m "perhaps are understandable at a time when national leaders are not above using code words that are really racist shibboleths, as they practice their politics. The officials take their cue from those on top and when 'leaders' to chose lead backwards, way they do by their 'total American experience." They have been getting a message from Springfield, the state capital, and from Washington he said. "With varying degrees of explicitness, that message has been: racial equality laws are an inevitable legal outgrowth of the Constitution but enforcement will be satisfied with apparent, not essential, change." Good returned to the Rev. Cobb's words and concludes: "Racism isn't regional today and never has been." He didn't offer any solutions for the situation in Cairo --or any other northern city but said: "Whether this truth turns the American Dream into the American Tragedy depends on the national conscience and will." Mrs. George Washington, Mrs. subordinates follow." Just as important, perhaps, Thonlas Jefferson and Mrs. was Good's defense of the city of James Madison were widows Cairo. Cairo whites, he said, before they married their "have been conditioned to act the famous husbands. ihnlinwiMIMi adventurers calling themselves the Expedition beach their canoe on the banks of the Missouri River in Omaha as they cbntinue their trip retracing the original route taken by Lewis and Clark in 1806. The five are, left to right: Mike Wien, Chicago; Mike FIVE shooting, burning and disorder unmatched in its duration anywhere else in the country. That night still has not ended." While the commission hearings were meant to document racism in a particular town. Good said he found a more disturbing theme. "During the hearings," he wrote, "one listened in vain when state and federal officials testified, to hear a tone of outrage in their voices at conditions in Cairo. "But the capacity for outrage over racism seemed to have deserted them, if they ever 'possessed it." Good said their attitudes MODERN-DA- 1973 Lewis and Clark mLi Gn:;i Junction, Colo.; Clay Asher, Twin Falls, Idaho; Bob Miller, Albuquerque, N.M.; and Gary Kimsey, Independence, Mo. They hope to reach their return trip destination of St. Louis, Mo. on Nov. 19. Cochras, UPI Tclephoto Better Education Plan Proposed by Panel By CRAIG PALMER -- A (UPI) Presidential panel says schooling should not be the only path for young people to follow to adulthood. For all their simplicity, the recommendations by the Panel on Youth of the President's Science Advisory Committee represent a growing sentiment One way to increase the age mix and widen opportunities for young people would be to give them vouchers at age 16 to be used at their discretion for education or training at any subsequent point in their lives. The vouchers could be equivalent in value to the average cost of four years of college but could also be applied toward "a wide education's range of skill training as well as among higher theoreticians that new alterna- higher education." tives to schooling are needed. Panel chairman James S. These particular recommen- Coleman of Johns Hopkins dations, such as increasing the University said in a foreward to age mix in colleges and other the report on "Youth: Transiadvanced education institutions, tion to Adulthood' ' that the length are specifically addressed to the of schooling has increased to the age group. But many of the point that society should consider been expressed other routes to adulthood. ideas have the before prestigious by "This task does not imply the Carnegie Commission on Higher simple minded solution of doing Education and other "think away with schools," he wrote, tank" organizations. "nor does it suggest ignoring "More striking than the racial youth's need for education. and class segregation that exists in American high schools is the degree that these institutions act Philadelphia's Liberty Bell to segregate youth from adults and younger children, and even received its famous crack in concentrate their relations to a July, 1835, while tolling for the funeral of John Marshall, chief single age grade," the newest of the United States. justice said. report WASHINGTON "It implies rather a recognition that school is not identical to education, and that our proper goal is the creation of rich and educational rewarding environments for youth." of its young, including schooling, but neither defined treatment by nor limited to it," the report said. 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