FAIR HOUSING
Canvass asks no signatures
The fair housing campaign in Kansas City lost most of its vigor this weekend when brochure carrying pledge seekers were told not to ask for pledge signatures from residents.
The change was announced to two groups of KU students and their religious advisers who have been working with the fair housing campaign Saturday at St. Patrick's Church in Kansas City.
WITH THE AVERAGE number of pledge signers running as low as seven percent, and a drop in precinct captain volunteers from 30 to 20, the Greater Kansas City Council on Religion and Race decided on this change as the second weekend of its campaign approached.
Volunteer workers were asked to drop the information brochures at every door in the territory they covered instead of stopping to discuss the issue with householders in order to reach and inform many more people than was previously possible.
BY THIS METHOD, the council hopes to do what Robert J. Smith, West Plains, Mo., senior, referred to as pricking the conscience of the community. "The mere fact of a dialogue in the community even if it is opposing, is good in itself," he said.
The neighborhood visited by KU students was a suburban area that is still under construction. There were unoccupied houses with for sale signs in front of them on almost every street. Negroes seen there were on sanitary duty for the city health department, and they moved fast as they hauled the garbage collection in a truck.
HOUSEWIVES COLLECTED the brochures from their doorsteps with no reaction for the
most part. But one or two did not want to keep them and called at the campaigners to "take back your trash."
As predicted by drive officials, more homes were covered by the smalled corps of volunteers than under the old system within the same time period, the overall estimated gain being about four times that of last week.
"It is better to reach more people with information than to have fewer signatures and no informing at all," a Catholic priest at St. Patrick's Church said. "We will make them think," he said.
Tom Moore, Director of KU-Y and KU committee member concerned with the Fair Housing Campaign in Kansas City, said last night that the response to collecting signatures pledging equal opportunity for all in locating housing has not been encouraging. Of 54 houses he visited last weekend, 27 were out and only seven of the others signed the pledge.
"THIS APPROACH will make people think more about the problem. This attempt to promote integration of housing areas is the latest effort to solve the problem of desegregation," Moore said.
"The fair housing campaign will make possible an improvement in attitudes," he said. "Only by living sheltered lives can we hold such extreme views about people."
It is not clear if there shall be a further phase to the fair housing campaign. Last weekend marked the end of the two weekends of campaign activity.
Daily Kansan 7
Monday. March 21, 1966
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