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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, March 5, 1968
Newspapers voice opinions on civil disorders findings
By United Press International
American newspapers have hailed the report of the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, but a number of them voiced doubts editorially on whether it will stimulate legislation to stem urban rioting.
Several papers criticized the commission for failing to condemn rioters and their espousal of the philosophy that being disadvantaged gives them the right to flout the law.
The Chicago Sun-Times Sunday called the report "a shocking document," which "sounds a note of warning Americans cannot afford to ignore or take lightly. . . To ignore it is to court disaster for the nation, for ourselves, our children."
Those who ignore the report, said the Los Angeles Times, "Are turning their backs on a crisis that could destroy us. The cost of saving the nation will be high and will require sacrifice. But measured against the wreckage of a shattered society, no price is too great to pay for survival."
The Washington D.C. Star, noting the report's condemnation of white racism, said the authors "strangely enough find no comparable basis for indicting black racism. It is regrettable that the report does not put as much emphasis on forthrightly condemning riots and rioters as it does on offering excuses for them."
In Oklahoma City, the Sunday Oklahoman said that what the report "doesn't emphasize is a circumstance widely regarded as being a foremost source of the frustrations and resentments being experienced by the urban 'disadvantaged.' This is the repeated encouragement given them
to expect more of the federal government than it possibly can deliver."
The report, "awash with tears for the poor, oppressed rioters," said the Chicago Tribune, "evades the principal cause of the riots.
"Much of the blame must be placed on those who have been preaching anarchy, telling people they can violate laws which they feel are wrong and encouraging Negroes to believe that all their troubles are the fault of somebody else," the Tribune said.
But the New York Times disagreed. It said the commission members put "the responsibility where it belongs—on white racism. Whites have created and enforced an inferior status for Negroes; whites cannot now shy away from the evil consequences."
The Philadelphia Bulletin said the report was correct in calling for a change of attitudes in America. "The most haunting, most memorable and finally the toughest of its antidotes is this: 'From every American it will require new attitudes, new understanding and, above all, new will.'"
The Dallas Times-Herald said the report "ignores tremendous strides being made in many communities. It calls for massive federal expenditures that only dreamers could finance in these times; it calls for new taxes and it calls for a frontal approach on housing."
"The role the Negro is supposed to play in the avoidance of disastrous clashes between the races is not emphatically spelled out in the report. No program, or programs, will work without the total effort, understanding and acceptance of both races." the Times-Herald said.
Barnard says surgeons need greater authority
SAN FRANCISCO—(UPI)—Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard said Monday, surgeons must have the right to withdraw supporting therapy from dying patients whose organs are destined for transplantation.
"Doctors are asked to cure, not just keep alive," the 44-year-old South African heart specialist said. "They must have the right to withdraw the therapy when there is no hope for the patient."
Barnard, who has performed two of the world's six human heart transplants, told 500 Commonwealth Club members he finds moral objections to heart transplantation unconvincing.
"The authority to decide legal and ethical implications in cardiac transplants rests with the medical profession alone," he said. "Doctors have one obligation—to treat their patients until no further means are available."
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Civil rights march to be peaceful, no violence—King
ATLANTA—(UDP)—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday, his "massive civil disobedience" campaign in Washington, D.C., begins April 22 and black power militants have promised not to provoke violence during it.
King will dispatch 3,000 trained demonstrators to Congress and federal agencies, demanding immediate meetings and approval of a list of costly and controversial civil rights and economic measures.
From there, the 3,000-member "cadre" becomes supervisors for "tens of thousands" more marchers King predicts will flood into Washington to stay through the summer if necessary to win approval of the campaign's goals.
"If nothing is done, we will face dark nights of violence," King told a news conference.
"Talk of guerrilla warfare can increase and even become a reality."
King praised the report of the President's Commission on Civil Disorders and said it, "reveals the absolute necessity" of the campaign, which he called a chance "to bring the commission's recommendations to life."
King said he begins a nationwide tour beginning next week to add impetus to recruiting of demonstrators. In the past several weeks, he said, meetings with black power militants including Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown have been held.
King said Brown's Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) has agreed, "not to interfere," with King's avowed nonviolence tactics in the Washington campaign.
He also said Carmichael and the black United Front group of Washington Negroes he heads agreed to lend housing and food support to the campaign, but not to join any demonstrations.
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