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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1966 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE THREE LUXURY LOOK—Decorative cotton percale sheets and pillowcases spark up bedroom decor in elegant new pat terns. Inspired by a formal French garden, this ensemble combines a floral design with a ribbon-like scroll motif. In pink, blue, or gold on white by Wamsutta. Tom Dorr F1NM-LY' DID IT MYSELF. GOLLY—) FKTWER^ IS RIGHT. —..YOU TALK YOURSELF ^IKITO THINGS, MOTHER. HALF - PAST 1 At Retail Food Stores, Edisto Dairy Stores, or from your Edisto Milk Man. . LOOKING AHEAD Nearly all of the “Civil Rights” spokesmen and some of the press have advanced and/or accepted the widely proclaimed causes of Negro rioting in cities throughout Americal to be “ghetto” con gestion and deprivation of Negroes. One of Americas leading journalists, Geo. Schuy ler, a Negro who lived for years in Harlem, site of some of the worst rioting, rejects such factors and labels them as self-serving. The primary cause of-the rioting, he says, are agitation and incitement, and he blames in part the “leaders” of “non-violent” marches. How Propaganda Started In a recently published auto biography, entitled “Black and Conservative” Mr. Schuyler columnist of the Pittsburg Courier, biggest circulation Ne gro newspaper in America, tells about an “in depth survey of actual conditions in the Har lem area” which he personally conducted in another period when similar propaganda had made the largely Negro-popu lated district in upper Manhat tan “the most maligned com munity in the United States.” How Propaganda Started “The data we uncovered was most interesting,” he reports in his book. “We found, for in stance, that far from being more congested, Harlem, in 1948, was less congested (by 100,000) than in 1910 when it was largely populated by white. The ill-famed central Harlem area had only 10,000 more in habitants than it had 40 years before, but there were now thousands more dwelling units and more schools. There were more owner-occupied dwellings than in any other district in Manhattan, not excluding the midtown East and West sides. “ Since Harlem was clearly less congested than it had ever been when its inhabitants were overwhelmingly white people, I wondered how the fiction of over-crowding came into being despite all statistics to the contrary. Its genesis arose partly from a picture in Look showing buildings on the west side of Lenox avenue between West 135th and West 136 streets with the windows and even the roofs crowded with Negroes. There was no men tion of the fact that the photo graph was taken in 1919 when the 369th Infantry, the first allied unit to cross the Rhine, returned triumphantly from France after having been in the trenches longer than any other regiment. The photo graph was used endlessly as “proof” of Harlem’s conges tion. Furthering Sordid Picture “Similar pictures could have been taken on midtown Fifth Avenue during great military parades, proving the ‘conges tion’ of that silk-stocking, high rental area. When swarms of sociologists and anthropologists descended on Harlem to find ‘proof’ of degeneration and de terioration, they sought out and photographed the worst blocks and alleys to be found; SHOP EARLY something they rarely did for the Low^er East Side of Man hattan, Hell’s Kitchen on the midtown West Side or the slums of Greenwich Village. “ If any district or city on earth depicted only its seamier side and failed to show any thing else, the tourist business would rapidly decline and the city’s reputation would greatly suffer. This has been the case with Harlem. I have had on several occasions to take news paper and magazine editors to task for carrying whole pages of pictorial displays of a Har lem which most of its residents do not recognize because they live on blocks comparable to the best in Manhattan, attend some of the largest churches on earth, maintain all sorts of charities, and have never run afoul of the law.” The Harlem riots of 1965, he said, were created by agitators and “the loudest of these agitators were known Communists.” A Challenge to All The Negro journalist, who has written for the Courier for 35 years, for a nationwide Ne gro readership, has constantly admonished Negroes to work for improving race relations by improving themselves and their acceptability. He found in 1948 the Association for Tolerance in America, dedicated to the purpose of enlightening Amer icans on the “positive” assets in the Negro community and the good attributes of Negroes as fellow citizens. Its literature challenged Negroes to “live up” to the ideal presented by ATA. Addressing Negroes di rectly in his ATA work, George Schuyler said: “Race relations are being worsened by public discourt esy, boorishness, uncleanliness, obscene language, garish dis play of drunkenness of a small minority of Negroes—and the whole group is judged by the uncivilized behavior of a feW. It is felt that tolerance is not only furthered by educating the white masses, as the Associa tion does with its bus and car cards, but by educating the colored masses also.” Mr. Schuyler’s book, we might add, is as great a chal lenge to the white population as to the Negroes whom he seeks to inspire to greater self-achievement. sCUr. Special Memo to our Friends! On December 30th we will distribute $475,000.00 being our 66th Semi-Annual Dividend to our 10,300 Investors ... If you requested that we mail your Dividend, you # » will receive it on December 30th, otherwise, it will be added to your account. You are a part of this association, and we want you to know that its success has been due to your patron age and friendship. This is evidenced by the fact that we have paid more than $900,000.00 to our Investors v f. " ' ' i in Dividends this year; and, have increased our assets $1,500,000 since January 1st, 1966. * + * gpltligi Nil : ■■•A :v:iVv ■V,' AVINGS 'A.N'D Lo&N A.SS O GIATION MEMBER Federal Home Loan Bank System Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. United States Savings & Loan League S. C. Savings and Loan League Savings and Loan Foundation f Jl* 4'