European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes George april 1977 needed Way to save passengers have toe act Buchow arts Jack afro presort the a Kew Yolks comment toe pay thinking he heard my neigh Bor went to close his car actual he had heard a commonplace the making of a a woman died and a Man nearly did in an occurrence shocking but routine an automobile Acci Dent in the car veered out of control on Connecticut hit and broke in three of us arrived in emergency equipment arrived cleaning up took in this Village six Miles from the while was where washingtonians came for country it is a Small incorporated area near the Center of a sprawling adjacent to Washington City it is divided by connect Cut which passes around a traffic Circle As it in Lars Trees on the Circle arc heavily crumpling steel and crying sirens arc common sounds Here As on Many Urban american driving i the sublimated fury of persons heading or infuriating the animal spirits of persons whose lives allow Little scope for such As Daniel Moynihan wrote years the automobile is both a Symbol of aggression and a vehicle thereof it is a prime agent of risk taking in a society that still values but does not provide Many As Moynihan the social life of most americans now primarily takes the form of driving to a place where alcohol is and because traffic Laws arc widely almost everyone is a Law and the incidence of arrest in America May be the highest of any nation in repairing and replacing wrecked cars May provide 20 percent of business for the automobile the nations most such statistics arc As lifeless As the woman who Lay beneath blankets on the Omec tical Avenue median but they describe a River of sorrow flowing from monstrously irrational most Drivers frequently exceed Speed Only 25 percent use Only four percent use because Slaughter behind the wheel is deeply rooted in aggression and other irrational it is very difficult to substantially reduce accidents by reforming so government has tried to reduce the severity of injuries received in the Public and the government quickly the ignition inter lock system that prevented cars from starting when safety belts were Unias new cars just make a Brief Buzz of government May yet require passive restraints air bags that instantly in Flate to Cushion passengers in there is evidence that they would save Many thousands of lives annually and May be one answer to what Moynihan has called the seeming incompatibility of Safe driving and mass that is a considerable problem in a nation where More people drive then pay taxes or Long before the most recent Connecticut ainu a i regretted having once argued that government has no business requiring Drivers to buy and use inexpensive devices that might save them from there is a pitiless a and disrespect for in such dogmatic respect for the right of consent ing adults to behave in ways disastrous to too Many children passengers arc sacrificed on that and a Large part of the Bill for the irrationality of individual Drivers is paid by so most society desensitized itself by passively accepting so much car on Connecticut Avenue that the police operated with the weary patience which is Normal to those who Are paid to look in blindingly at what people do to go a policeman finally with barely noticeable to people milling around the go Home and watch after a we cd we Ringlon Post Roy Wilkins How will we save our blocks we have been preaching about human rights All Over the world while we have whole but not in the Southern states in this country where human rights have been ignored these Many under our Lavisse Zaire policy of the Hay Stilden we promised it will be denied that Federal troops would be not Only from polic ing the but from any activity in the area that might be construed As interfering with the souths handling of its be no one wants them to because no government should be imposed by military but there Are still questions dealing with the whole treatment of a Titis is the nations human hous employment and Public education problems rolled into what shall we do with our Black people shall we train them beyond the Shovelain Coal beyond the plow Andule and open up our neigh i columns comments Bor hoods to them one of the knotty prob lems is what organized labor has done in its considering the Obsta is it found clearly marked examples of what was considered White mans work and what was left for mistakes in policy and procedures were made on both sides Over the after with Mouths to and children growing it was easy to think that Whites wanted to keep Blacks doing the dirty work for Low or that if one did not follow this Blacks would shortly take Over the with generation after it was simple to develop a for the White Man kept them and for there was always a Specter of Black men taking mistrust was the watchword and it was fostered by Blacks As Well As a few  Blacks pressed for court action and were responsible for among other court victories the Griggs Duke Power which held Thal tests for a Job must be Jobre this aided in stopping the Mozart test in which negro applicants for a Coal shovelling Job were who was Mozart or some such silly the court action helps both sides to clarify the Issue of employment hardly had employment guidelines been Laid Down when affirmative action and this affected both employment and edit affects employment because the whole system of Union seniority is threat it affects education because it May decide that the system whereby the people who have Freer Access to higher education White males should not be disturbed to the enjoyment of their virtual Allan Bakke has charged the medical of the University of California at Davis with denying him an education in Medicine while reserving 16 out of 100 openings for minority whose grades Are lower than he Calls it re verse the supreme court will hear thanase next not Only has the Issue of reverse discrimination in education and employment been Laid but it May decide How we treat a race of it reflects health too High infant mortality poor tumbledown shacks with no water or even outdoor nonexistent health ignorance and filth if our Blacks Are Ever going to catch the White and if they Are barred from affirmative action to Correct past Dis Crimi How will we save except As servants our Black people id Reg blur Tat to Mew the opinions to pmed in the Colum in and cartoons on this  now of the aut Norl Art in no to be at representing the Vievert of the surs or the United Sutet