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Someone in the City of Rochester ought to be told that they cannot alter the fcts of Western New York drainage any more than Canute could control the waves. This is a way of noting the folly of the city attempting to go its own merry, inde pendent way in solving sewage disposal problems, insted of joining a county or regional sewage program. It is absolute nonsense and an incredible waste of funds for the city to plan on one sewage system, for the towns to work on another eventually, and for neighboring counties in the Genesee drainage basin presumably to develop their own systems. Sewage transmission and disposal should be handled by a single grid of sewage lines and related treatment plants. This is the opinion of any and all sewage authorities. But because the city won't give up pat ron- age, residents of the city will be forced to spend millions for a less than desirable sewage system. Undoubtedly, the city would retort that they can \do it better than the county,\ or that the county is political and uncooperative. These squabbles don't interest us at all. The basic fact @ That the city is phnnmgm” 19> to-mkethis action, -an actio®that make sense engineering wise or financially When is someone going to forget politics and do the right thing? Brave Four In the rush of events of the past several weeks, one very courageous and significant actuion in the race situation was overlooked by many. This was the action of four noted Negro leaders in asking for an end to the violence and for the prosecution of the criminal clement involved in the ricting. These men included Roy Wilkins of the NAACP., Whitney Young of the Urban League, the Rev Martin Luther King, and A. Philip Randolph, noted Lebor leader. These men cannot be called unaggressive and non militant. And,. as realists, they know that it is difficult, often suicidal, for moderates to try to brake the course of a revolution. In past months, they have been criticized by some for not doing more to halt black extremists They also have been called \Uncle Toms® by the more radical Negro groups riots, they issued their powerful stat In effect, it said use of viclecrce is immorad and impractical-a dead ohd ractal progress. It obviously took a good deal of to tissue such a sutement, but i gentlemen probably aren't looki: thanks ° Ya all segments of the marion, including whites and blacks, do have a way of partial repayment All of us can listen carefully to what these men have been saying, and we should ty to understand it fully, no how unpalsmble. The have more than proven their right to be hasard. w Gamble Col . Pittsford, N.Y. * “'nmwmr ODOQQ-Ofiw-flwwhshin-nup-n-oonnoo a» an as as as as as an ap as ao a» ao g + ~f “flQfl-§fl§Q--.-.--'.-.“-‘--b-‘fl.-..-.fl.-.-1-----.--..- wmdfiwuww P di i com.. Reports _- C. tug maxim mm Everyone is familiar with \the. trends, whether he knows to frightening detail what the statistics show sbout the crime rate In this country. Everyone has his own ideis should be done. If everyone . is distrubed, most people are pessimistic and are changing their habits on the assumption that they must moke .extra efforts to protect themselves from - stealthy and violent crimes since a deteriorating social order no longer affords them the same degree of pro- tection ss the quiet past. Dealing with this problem in & free and responsible society Bot an easy matter. The quest is complicated by the separation of powers, which frequently puts the legislative and fudicial branchkes march» ing down divergent paths. The Judiciary Committee of the House has been struggling for some weeks now with what has been called the \Safe Streets\ bill, the Administra- tion proposal for fighting a war on crime. In essence it is another federal ald bill, providing matching furds for local police activities equip ment, recruitment, training and innovative facil- ities. Potentially expensive, it also raises the old bugaboo of centrallzation, stnce fit puts the federal government firmly in the field of state and local law inforcement Although the payment of salaries with federal funds was specifically excluded by the committee (though rot the original Administration pro- posal), once we start down this road there is little doubt in my mind that many of the administrative decisions of our local constabulary will be made in Washington. You will hear a good deal more about this bill. * hat hat Some time ago I1 reported my appointment to a Repub- ican Task Force on Crime. We have been considering ways in which we can be helpful in this perplexing area. So far, the Task Force has brought out legislative pro- '~*{pOBRHPIA tho (MHowirg areas: . goverpment prosecutors the right of appeal from lower court rulings suppressing evidence on the grounds it had been im- properly cbtained. «-- Providing survivorship and disability benefits for law enforcement officers hurt or killed while trying to erforce the federal criminal law. -- Permitting wiretapping urder court orders in certain Imited circumstances. -- Providing, in an Omnibus bill, for Improved procedures in such areas as searches and seizures, gathering of ovi- dence, witness immunity, obstruction of investigation, no-knock entries, etc. --F stablishing a Joint Can- gressional Committee on organized crime. Although most of these matters may seem to bepert- pheral, I hops as the Session wears on that woe can bring Into Legislative focus proposals that will further our belief that pessimism is not the only answer to the sharply in- creased crime rate, The \Safe Streets\ bill will have a stimulating effect on this effort, because It represents the first major effort Congress has made to deal directly with law enforcement. - Wordlore ORIENTAL Man has always sought to go nis secaording to fized points, e.g., besvenity badies like the North Star. Theo words ORIENT, ORIENTAL aro dGorived from Latin vorb which mornt \rise become visible\ erd which came to apply specifically to tbe awe. Por cbvitous reesors, tay pssumed the seose \Esamsi Eexter®\ ond in Hme care to refer to Asia stzrceo it Iay goc- grepMiosily eos of Ecrope. Compare the cpittet given to Jepan, \the bard of the ristag 5:33:00 however, wo cen ecpigy Cs verts CRIEMT, tn the serseo cigplec» trg wilh regard to fissd ecompass points, Lo., wo om \CENT\ tart and sucts. D fest woes GHIEHT oorsscives, le., \l= to cow mess sotto Irit Ewing; coftrairs. - Cortsta» DUS Y Cm aeg a Sun Treng s \YOUNG MAN, YOU'VE GOT NOTHING THERE BuT webs /\ In August when the rush of haying is over and a farmer relaxes from the pressures that accompany farm life through plowing, planting, cultivating and haying, a 12 year-older also gets a welcome break. H he has kept the woodbox filled, the garden in reasonable trim, and has worked well until three o'clock, father is likely to say, \Son get your swim and then bring home thecows.\ A funire citizen feels his He asd snep Adets dy dds - dow swimming hole. In the shade of the willows a lad and his dog recuperate pleasantly from - eighth manth heat and - humidity. After a long, leisurely swim, a young man who has deter- The Countryman: Getting the Cows mined to be a naturalist and to travel in distant lands for some great city museum, starts for the cows. There are woodchuck dens to explore, and a big gray cone of a hornet's rest to in- spec on the gray birch near the pasture spring. A big black snake is often sunning itself on a flit rock and the old wood turtle with the numbers \1890\ carved on its shell is firqumdy meditating by the rook “a? a / Cx £0 % Shep pokes around un hurriedly in the brush and usually starts up a rabbit which the dog watches with resigna- won. From long experience, Shep knows it is futile to chase Long Ears, On a hot, humid August afternoon when flies and mos- quitoes are thick, the cows are almost certain to be in the evergreens at the swamp's far edge. When the day's explora- tory period is over and a lad has satisfactorily checked es- sential points, he sends Shep to the green grove for the cows. With patient, phlegmaric treed and with swaying udders heavy with milk, the cows file along the path to the pasture bars. Gating the cows is just a daily ruoirire task to afarm lad. But there are men today who look out office windows and remember the long ago days when they visited the old swim ming hole and then went for the cows. By Paul McFarland The - residents of sedate French Road were treated to a brief, - but highly dramatic strip-toase and exotic dance event last week. One of our conservative neighbors, mow - ing his lawn on a Sunday after- noon, suddenly forsook his power mower, leaped high in the air, shed his shorts with a single deft gesture, and gyrated wildly about his hack yard, slapping himself violent- Iv on legs and thighs and uttering profane exclamations of pain. The mower hed disturbed a minuscule real estate develop- ment recently taken over by a colony of hornets, and the in- habitants were rioting. Their assault technique was, I thirk, typical; their main atteck was conrentrated on the victim's legs, under his skorts. Yellowjackets seomtospectal. ize in andercover work. They scorn to employ their stings on exposed flesh H a garment is available for thom to craw} under. Exort sriontific dota are - larkirg, but - mavbe The porpore of the kare and poss Hiss onl tke wywfinmgfimwmm mmfimmm - McFarland Writes Tales Of Poison the safest place, in a general horret blitz, is a nudist camp. I've been stung many times by - yellowjackets -- always on an under-garment basis. As the youngest and skinniest of our brothers, I inevitably inherited shirts too big for me, and up the sleeves and down the necks thereof hornets --some of them angry, some merely - curious-- inevitably wandered. Ore of my most vivid mem- oriles involves a yellowjarkeot who started at my collar ard then leapfrogged down my spire, stitchirg a seam of floyy pain from shouilfer to waist. I was wearing a belt, fortunately, else he would have cortinzed his journey of tor- ture right down to the snkles. As I recall, a sting is pot so painful as that of a hoHikybee. But a can Inflist several verom-filled wourds, - whereas a bee goncrally can stirg but once; ber stisger remsatss in the flesh and is torn from the beo's abicmen. kte dies, but the severed stinger keeps on Mmmmm tD onl pats protect stinging, discharging poison until removed. The boneybee's favorite hu- man target seems to be the eyelid. When I| was in high school we had several hives of bees in the backyard. They jeff the rest of the family alone, and concentrated on me. . Bees normally operate on the I ve- and- let- lve principle, and use their stings mainly for defensive purposes. But they ganged up on me, con- centrating on my right oye, which, except during the win- ter months, was swollen shut for mest of my high school carcer. Rural folk generally regard bee, borret, ard wasp stings as necessary ovils and pay little sttention to them. But they can be deadly, A man I know was stung by a mcrod-wasp. It wasn't particularly pain- ful, and be pold Httle sitertiton to It--until, in sbout 15 minutes, his fase ard bards started to puff up. He was berdly able to talk when be got to the telephone erd called his docter. The docter erder- ed kim to have somebody teko him to tke drogstore ai high spored; bo'd cell tke pharma- cist, be sald, ard bave some medicito reafy for bMime--fhkat be was to take immediately. BR doveloped that he was alergic to the wasp versom. Delay bave been f:tal The mp Mest member of the bee family is the tomblebes, with a sting that reslly perks a wollop Bot somo cortry boys msrtain thst the real champ of the stizrgers is roa an frsoect at all, bit a fis- the exorolert The tolltew! wears Pis stHizg on Mis teal, a shire Ost is Isafed «ite peats. frrtcr-a«ly exs=\t when a groer\*sra srfler trize rerhsmp of» frem ao Est t! s thllread bea wings. . me, Catesct to read New Yaw}: & slave mm? Mast New Yorkersarerather | superior in theitattitudeonthe histmyofslzmyinglmllnimd. © Suts, and think smugly of | slavery as a Southern insti- mion. ‘ But a slender volume which recently came to hand tells us that we needn't be quim so pmud * *% x - It's titled \A History of Negro Shivery in New York Ste\ and it was written by Edgar J. Mc- Manus, a professor at both Queens College and the New York Law School. Surtlingly, he points out that from the earliest days of Dutch settlement until full emancipa- tion in the early 1800's, slaves totalled from cight to 15 per cent of the population, and their labor played a key role in the early development of what was first a Dutch colony, but later became a British depen- dency. In 1746 Negroes, most of them slaves, tomlled 9,107 in a population of about 60,000. In 1786, they were 18,889 in a population ofabout 240,000. New York slavery, it is true, differed in many ways from that of the South. Lacking the plan- tation system, New York slave owners did not own Negroes in large numbers. In 1755 in the entire province only seven persons owned more than 10 slaves. *k * x* Later, the numbers grew , but even the greatest land-owners had only from 40 to 60 slaves. small numbers, indeed, com- pared with the labor forces on some of the great Southern plantations Author McManus minimizes in no way the wrongness of the New York slave system, buthe does note that it lacked much of the brutality of the Southern system. And he notes that the New York system had a different economic meaning. \This broadly hased pattern of ownership inturnpromated the adaptation of slavery to every possible labor need. Slive workers from the start showed proficiency field of human endeavor. Those em ployed in the towns worked as coopers, tailors. bakers, tan- ners, goldsmiths, navatcarpen ters, blacksmiths, weavers, bolt ers. - sail mak ers, - mullers. masons. candlemaken, tobaxc- comsts, caulkers, carpenters, shoemakers. brushmakers. and glaziers. Many of these skilled workers, partzularty the gold- smiths and naval carpenters, mathed - the best - skills possessed by the white artisans And they were as proficient in the country as in the towns In the Hudson Valley, estate owners relied heavily on skifled slaves to keep the estates self- sufficient. In skill and occups- tonal diversity, slave labor had most of the artribuies of free bbor. - All that really dis tunguished thefreeworker from the slave was that the latter derived almost no benefitfrom his labor.\ *- % 0 # Slavery | in - New - York continued full force until the Revolution. The war played a key role in the emancipation of New York Negroes since both sides offered freedom in return for military service And in 1777 in New York's first Canvertion, opponents of gained a majority. In 1781 the Legists- ture votrd to free all staves serving with the armed forces lif¢'s Darkest Moenent tow aD Do Yes in virtually every . ~ In the we: yhits otthemcn-e ‘ msfwmingaholm vfgim ceaselessly. And it was curious that some of theoppo- sition to the various abolition proposals came from persons who felt that the proposals did not guarantee enough civil rights to the freed: Negrocs. In 1799 the Legislature de creed thar all Negroes born in slavery after July 4 of that year would be freed, males at age 21 and females at age 25. But i was sot until 1817 that a law was passed that pro- vided for freedom of thoseborn before July 4, 1799. And this did not become operative until July 4, 1827. Author McManus noted, however, thatafter 1790 slavery dwindled rapidly becauseofthe increasing cost of slave labor as contrasted with free labor. , * % * What happened after emanci- pation in New York Stute is summarized by McManus in some telling paragraphs: \ Emancipation did not bring real freedom; it brough: only the exclusion of Negroesfrom the occupations and skills they had mastered under slavery. The slave system in New York was characterized by a high de- gree of specialization and dive sion of labor which enabled Negro slives to compete effec- tively with white workers. ' \These skills were systemati- cally destroyed after emanci- pation as Negroes were excluded trum one occupation after another Thus the Negro was deprived of what he had so painfully achieved under slavery the opportunity and the ability to earn a livelihood for himselt The denouement for the Negro mocked the freedom which emancipation was ex pect- ed to bring \It is ironical that the struggle of the Negro for equal rights in the North today is largely a struggle to regain the place in the ecoromy that he once occupied upder slavery. The creation of a racially integrated labor force would hardly rank as an innovation, for full occupational mobility regard- less of race existed in New York throughout the colonial era. Slivery did not prevent Negrows from acquiring econo- mk - expertise rather; free society prevented them from using their skills and talents after emancipation. The end o_ slavery thus marked the be ginning - of a much more diff ult journey for the Negro toward real emancipation * * hd \For the first treedmen this rourney was hard and biteer. along a ruad heaped with the obstacies of implacable racial hosulity ~ In Western New York slavery was limited. and the Abolition ist - fervor o¥_ the mid 19th entury caused people toforget thst such a thing had existed here But there were slaves in this area 150 years ago It's something to think about when we tend to blame the South totally tor the evils of the slave system FIE LD TRIALS PLANXEKEED The first Field Trial of the newly-organized - Rockeoster Monroe Fleld Trial Associa- tion will be held Sunday, aug. 13, st 8 p.m. coa the Germaam - Shorthair Trail ground off Routes 1041, cast of Brockport. Dogs first will compote in a handicap trial. This will be followed ty a spante] trial L
