Word: citizen
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This is meant to counter the words of Colonel Charles C. Loughlin (ret.), who wrote [March 4], "The average Negro is treated like a second-class citizen because he is a second-class citizen." Remember, Colonel, there was a time when the Negro was not a citizen at all. He was a slave; then a "free" man-but without funds, without education, without anything. How could he become a first-class citizen? Of course, nowadays the average Negro has his N.A.A.C.P., but this average Negro honestly believes that what is really needed is a National Association for the Advancement...
...good citizen ordinarily is the one who plays a part in his community's political and civic affairs. But there are some who deliberately refrain from such activities in the belief that to do so makes them less effective citizens. They are newspapermen of a large and far-spread school who think that a journalist, by identifying himself with specific groups or activities, compromises his primary role as an independent observer and critic of society. Journalists are far from agreed on the matter, and there are many who argue that editors and reporters who don't pitch into...
There has long been wide agreement among newspapermen that a reporter who dabbles in politics tarnishes his sheen as a reporter (see below). But on the broader question of a newsman's obligations as a citizen, there has never been unanimity. Can a newsman take part in community affairs without compromising his position as a public critic...
...working with people, can [an editor] obtain that intimate, firsthand knowledge that makes for accurate reporting, and editorial comment and criticism that is easy, natural and fair." Wagnon admits that the community-conscious reporter gets his sympathies involved with his projects, but concludes: "But you become a first-class citizen instead of a second-class citizen who leaves the work to George...
Born the younger son of a noble family in what became Latvia after World War I, Peter von Blanckenhagen has travelled a long road to his guest appointment in classical art this spring. Naturalized as an American citizen in 1955, he holds something of a record of having been a legal citizen of four countries in succession, and at one time a citizen of none. He was Russian until the Bolshevik revolt, legally Latvian until 1941 when Latvia was annexed. Then he became German where his family had emigrated some time before as their familial holdings had been confiscated...