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Nearly every state legislature this years finds a bill before
it which has to do with what is called “fair housing.” Gen
erally, these bills would penalize an owner of real estate who
rejects an offer to rent or sell his property to any person
because of that person’s race or color.
The public is sharply divided on the desirability of this
type of legislation. Allegations of racial prejudice and civil
rights tend to obscure the basic legal and economic issues
involved in these proposals.
Certainly there may be things about segregated housing
that are bad, which integrated housing would help to cor
rect, but the objections raised to the proposed legislation to
force integration in housing are not based on the belief that
integration will decrease property values, or that permitting
negroes to move into white neighborhoods will ultimately
prove to be merely shifting a segregated neighborhood from
one part of town to another. The real basic objection to leg
islation of this kind is based upon the belief that every man
who owns property should have the right to rent it or sell
it to whom he chooses.
Ordinarily, in a criminal action, the defendant is presumed
to be innocent until the State proves him guilty beyond a
reasonable doubt. In legislation such as most of the proposed
“fair housing” laws, the exact opposite is true. A man offers
to sell his house, and he interviews a negro who wishes to
buy. The owner refuses to sell to the negro but does not give
any reason for the refusal. It may be that he questions the
financing, or that they cannot agree upon a date for possess
ion. But if the negro complains to the housing authorities,
that agency can demand that the owner describe the reasons
why he refused to make the sale or rental. Normally, it
would be up to the complainant to prove that the seller's
reason was the buyer’s color, but in the housing legislation
the seller would have the burden of proving that the contrary
was true, and that he had another valid reason for refusing
to make the transfer.
One significant thing about these so-called “fair housing”
proposals: every time such questions are submitted to a
popular vote, they have been defeated. This was shown by
the results of such voting in Seattle and Tacoma, Washing
ton, last year, and by the overwhelming vote in the State of
California in the general election in 1964. The question should
be put to a popular vote in each state and the legislators
should then follow the mandate of the voters on the matter.
Such results would decide whether the right of a property
owner to do as he wishes with his own property as long as
the right was not taken by eminent domain under Constitu
tional proceedings, is equal to the right of minority races
to live where they choose to live, regardless of present owner
ship of the property into which they might decide to move.
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Germany declared war on Poland, August 30, 1939. The first
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BATTLEFIELD REPORT
DEATHS
World War 1 53,402
Korean War 33,629
U. S. Highways In 1964 48,000
According to the latest estimate of the Na
tional Safety Council, 1964 was the worst
year in history for highway fatalities. The
personal and financial repercussions will last
for years.
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insurance placed in companies of which you
know little, can add only to the misery and
hardship in case of accident. Just buy the
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THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1965
Looking Ahead
...by Dr. Gtorg* S. B«nson
PR ESI DENT—NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
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THE SEETHING WORLD
The cauldron is bubbling in the Congo, the flames are
crackling in South Vietnam. Chaos, if that is the word seems
imminent in each place. Yet, the idea goes out from the
pundits that negotiated arrangements ought to be encourag
ed so as to produce “peace.” Opinions float down from high
places, some tied to the usual “trial balloons,” that we ought
to let Africans straighten out their Congo mess and leave
Vietnam to the Asians. The world understands well enough,
apparently, that President Johnson has wanted to push the
cold war chiefly on television.
Not much of this seems to make sense, in this seething
world that appears to have lost its reason. Mr. Johnson can
no more reason with the Russians on the TV than he could
save South Vietnam by sending Mr. McNamara to view the
jungle from a helicopter.
Victories in the U. N.
The rebels in the Congo also are being supplied with Soviet
and Chinese arms through Algeria, Ghana, and other Red
sympathizers. An all-out assault could be coming, and it
could be too much for the few mercenaries Premier Tshombe
has been able to assemble. His unfriendly neighbors know
they have him surrounded. These nations are some of the
ones Mr. Johnson wants on good terms with so as to win
“victories” in the U. N. But “disengagement” appears to be
the key idea in the developing American policy towards
Africa.
These “victories” in the U. N. look mostly like vilifications
and humiliations to the rest of the world, but they may give
a clue to our Congo intentions. (This kind of reading is about
the only way one can find any U. S. policy.) We should, a
U. N. Security Council resolution insists, force Tshombe to
take some of the rebel leaders into his government. This
would not end rebellions. There can and will be rebellions
anytime the Communists, with or without Gbenye, promise
the ignorant Congolese their pie in the sky now, without
any effort, time or sacrifices on their part.
A Flurry of Sense
Despite that one little flurry of reason in the House in late
January, when strong objections were raised to foreign aid
for Nasser, there seems hardly any hope that the State De
partment will want to divert aid from ..such ..enemies., as
Nasser, Ben Bella, and Nkrumah, so as to favor a really
staunch friend like Tshombe. This strange idea, moreover,
will never meet the approval of any appeasing statesman
who is blind to Communist infiltration and incitement. Sp,
the CIA continues watching swarms of Reds assemble around
the borders of the Congo Republic.
And in the U. N. we endure the spectacle of amoral dem
agogues, backers of canibalism, attacking a Congo mercy
mission as imperialism. And then we dignify the attack with
a lame reply. Do we not see it clearly, including the U. N.
diatribes, as part of the Red conquest? If we must retreat,
someone ought at least to blow the bugle. Then we could
withdraw officially, leaving Asia and Africa for the Com
munists to colonize. Co-existing, we should find our interests
merging with those of the Soviets. In the meantime we could
prepare for survival by devoting ourselves without inter
ruption to socializing the U.S.A. and the hemisphere.
We are reaping what we have sown. The year 1965 brings
troubles that we are not morally prepared to handle. ; In
Britain there is economic foolishness and political knavery
to be restrained. Europe strains at the tether, wanting to go
her own way. American power, on which we have spent $660
$100 billions, our influence is suspect by some and taken for
$100 billions, our influence is uspect by some and taken for
granted by others. Our 25,000 state department employees,
augmented by scores of other agencies that spend billions,
swarm over the world reaping no victories.
Little attention is paid to foreign crises by our President,
who proposes to build a Great Society in which the govern
ment’s role in the life of Americans is dominant. He has
indicated that he interprets the purpose of the people as
wanting to peacefully co-exist with the Communist world.
With iSecretary Ausk, he seemingly believes most of our for
eign problems will go away if they are left alone. This is a
beautiful life for the Reds, who rush into any power vacuum
that developes, exploiting the UN claptrap and reaching for
control of continents.
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