Show The Round Table By CHUCK AKERLOW A little pamphlet crosses my desk entitled It is put out by the Utah Citizens Organization for Civil Rights headed by Raymond The organization was founded in 1957 and is dedicated to informing the public of Utah's civil rights laws and then doing something about the whole LISTS four abuses it would like to see stamped The first is employment on account of They cite the report of the select committee of the Utah Senate to investigate discrimination which now exists within the state's industry and business a sizeable body of discriminatory Their second gripe centers On the right of access to places of public entertainment and They contend the quarters are limited on account 01 Elmer Smith in his book Negro in restaurants answering a 21 of the serve all 51 do not serve serve 14 of these do not serve 11 of the 51 do not serve 30 do not serve One serves all but In addition to the 21 already serving all 65 indicated that they would be willing to serve all races if it were common practice in the THE SENATE REPORT con tends that 33 out of 73 places of public accommodation believe that the restrictions on race cannot be removed without In other words they will not admit Negroes unless the state makes The third area of concern of the is and they cite restrictive covenant clauses and other such things as An interesting fourth item of attack is Utah's miscegenation That people are not allowed to marry according to their own Certain races cannot marry in Utah but must leave the I The pamphlet cites the Declaration of the United Nations Charter and Ralph Waldo All wants is civil Indeed a noble but i wonder how far they will IN THE our eyes are fixed on the South while we take our righteous racial policies out We in the north are indeed confident that the southerner will learn his lesson because we are prepared to teach We will tell him that discrimination embraces no human To be sure things aren't rosy in the I remember watching a huge paint store fire in segregated West Virginia when I was The firemen would spray all the buildings on three sides of the burning store with They didn't touch the building on the fourth side because it was the colored That church the paint peeled and the old colored preacher fanned his hat to its The church didn't catch no thanks to the white fire but there was Damage to the building and damage to the WE FORCED progress on those southern Today West Virginia does not segregate and is making social But what of the Are we making social Are we Are we we are We are expending our righteous energies on the South and ignoring our own back It is this back yard that needs cleaning before we can demand purity of our Utah's civil rights problems are really not the subject of pas-si ven We cannot continue to shrug off our own customs because we are too busy reforming the I think we must come to grips with our situation and reform our Once our own backyard is clean we can tell our neighbor to clean up his because he is degrading the American neighborhood in the eyes of the |