Chicano Times (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1970 Page: 4 of 8
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Many of us have been taught that poli-
is a dirty, despicable part of life that
should be shunned by decent people, that
politicians and anybody having anything
to do with politics in any manner are a
scruffy, venal, lot of human beings, whom
we should stay away from.
This is partly true, and this precon-
ceived notion--accepted by many--is to
blame for many of the ills that plague us
This attitude is most
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I’ve been reading the Chicano Times
and am very interested on the movement
de la Raza but, I think I have not had
enough reading on the problems that con-
front the Chicanos. I would like to be
given a chance to do my share, please,
Mr. Rodriguez, send me some addresses or
literature on the matter and possibly
some pamphlets.
I’ve heard that all Chicanos have to
help one another in order to prosper.
Keep up the good work.
Carlos Sanchez Dominguez
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timos todas las personas que formamos par*
te de el grupo que en conjunto publicamos
Chicano Times, y damos las mas cumplidas
gracias al publico que con tanta amabili-
dad h^recibido el fruto de nuestros es-
fuerzos, el florecimiento de nuestros
anhelos, el deseo cumplido de tener un
periodico NUESTRO, una voz independiente,
sincere y limpia.
Chicano Times es un periodico escrito,
publicado, repartido, por personas humil-
des, pobres, quienes uniendo sus esfuer-
zos, sus ideas, sus sufrimientos, han su-
mado sus desmedradas fuerzas para forjar
con sus necesidades y sus penas, un ins-
trument© de comunicacion, un lazo que
sirva para unir aquellas personas--de to-
das clases y colores--que tienen sed de
justicia y tienen la ilusion de hacer de
este San Antonio de nuestros pecados, un
San Antonio mejor.
Un sueno, una quimera, imposible que
nacio en el espiritu juvenil de Jose Luis
Rodriguez, un estudiante de veinte anos
de edad, in quieto, emprendedor, batalla-
dor, ha llegado a ser una realidad en es-
ta tercera edicion de Chicano Times.
Entre el grupo de personas que colabo-
ran con Jose Luis Rodriguez en su labor
periodistica, estan Yolanda Luna de 17
anos, Samuel y Daniel Sticklebault, de
18 y 20 , Raquel Roel de 19, Frank Serda
de 20, Frank Hanlon de 23, Reymundo Ro-
driguez de 10 anos, Frank Zavala de 21,
David Garcia de 18, Jose Alfredo Laurel
21, y otros mas.
Reumundo, hermanito de Jose Luis, va a
la escuela Grant Elementary, en la calle
Norte Elmendorf. El no sabe escribir en
maquina, ni hacer reportazgos, pero ayu-
ua a enrollar y repartir el periodico.
Frank Hanlon conocido carinosamente en
el barrio como “Pancho”. Un joven de 23
anos. uno de los muchos hermanos nueat-ms
con la inteligencia retardada, para qui-
nes no hay escuelas especiales suficien-
tes.
Pancho tampoco sabe escribir en maquina
ni dibujar, pero es valiosisimo cuando se
trata de enrollar VEINTE MIL numeros de
Chicano Times, pues es rapidisimo en esta
labor, y su ojo certero y su fuerte brazo
sirven grande mente para arrojar el pe-
riodico haci a los escalones de las casas
de nuestros queridos lectores.
Ya veran ustedes como Pancho, al igual
que los demas miembros del grupo contri-
buye en la medida de sus fuerzas, y con
las habilidades que Dios le ha dado. In-
cidentalment e- -si ustedes, al iqual que
nosotros patrocina el hermoso y amplio
Super-Mercado de la familia Centeno en la
cuadra 2300 de West Commerce, para com-
prar sus abarrotes y alimentos, podra ver
a nuestro companero Pancho, muy alegre y
risueno, llevando las bolsas y cajas lle-
nas de alimentos de los satisfechos
clientes de Centenos Super-Market, a los
automoviles de los compradores.
Es muy bueno y compasivo el senor Eloy
Centeno al dar trabajo a nuestro hermano
Pancho y debe darsele alabanza a la fami-
lia Centeno por darle oportunidad de ga-
narse la vida.
Mucho deseamos que el publico lector,
tenga para este humilde editor, y todos
nosotros que con ahinco trabajamos para
hacer de Chicano Times un periodico digno
y estimado. Dispensen--le rogamos—los
muchos errores de ortografia, lenguaje, y
demas. A veces, el trabajo es demasiado
para hacerlo con esmero por la falta de
personal, o de tiempo. A veces, se esca-
pan palabras algo mal-sonantes para espi-
ritus cultos, porque andamos atareado con
los anuncios, el telefono, etc., y luego
nuestros ojos, fatigados por la edad, por
los Sesenta y Dos diciembres, que carga--
mos en las espaldas, no alcanzan a distin*
guir con rapidez los errores, ni medir
claramente con certeza, el alcanze de con-
ceptos escritos por otras personas.
Ningun pago recibimos por nuestras la-
bores, nuestra cooperacion es voluntaria,
porque esta es la unica manera en que po-
demos sostener nuestra--y de usted tam-
bien--publicacion. Si a ustedes complace
en algo, nuestros esfuerzos, le pedimos
corresponds a ellos comprando y patroci-
nando a las negociaciones que se anuncian
en nuestros columnas, pues sin su ayuda,
no nos seria posible continuar publicando
Chicano Times.
Por favor--pretty please--siempre que
compre algo a cualquier de nuestros anun-
ciantes, digales “Muchas gracias por a-
nunciar su negocio en Chicano Times”.
(Editors note)
The above was received on a piece of
toilet paper.We hope our reader is more
learned than what she may think of us.
We respect all opinions and criticisms.
Since most of our readers have strongly
voiced their support, we will continue
to print the paper for we know that
it is badly needed especially in the
areas of the south and west side of
San Antonio.
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you in regards to an
incident which happened this past Tuesday
June 30, as i applied for a job at Lack-
land Air Force Base, Texas. Upon seeing
the personnel mamager, a Mr. Crooks, I
realized not only that I would not be gi-
ven a job, but more important, that I was
not respected at that place.
The attitude with which Mr. Crooks re-
ceived me was, to say the least, hostile
and racist. He started by saying; ’’ The
first thing I’m going to tell you young
man is that you need a haircut. Nobody
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will hire you like that. You think you
look pretty with those sideburns, don’t
you?” To that I replied that hairstyles
were a matter of tasted and that mine was
acceptable to some people and objectiona-
ble to others. Then he asked “How ofted do
you shampoo your hair anyway?" I regret
that I answered him. But then I added that
it shouldn’t matter to him asthat was a
personal question and besides the matter
had nothing to do with the efficiency with
which I could manage a job. When next he
told me of a regulation which required my
hair to be shorter, I told him that I
would get a haircut if I was hired but
otherwise I saw no need to. “Does length
of hair determine a persons character”, I
asked him. Then out of the blue he accused
me of being like those hippies--”you have
no respect for law and order. "I then told
him I resented being called a hippie and
attributing to me such characteristics as
being unrespectful of law and order. "I
have not been in your office five minutes
and you are telling me what I am! You do
not know me personnally, sir so you can’t
make those accusations," I told him. Then
he proceeded by saying that he "knew" such
was true as he had interviewed thousands
of rebellious young like me before and I
was like the rest of them.
In dealing with my employment record, he
asked in a hostile manner, c,What are you
qualified to do?" I told him of my pre-
vious experience as a stockboy and busboy
to which he replied, "Well anybody can do
that. Tell me of any special training
you’ve had." I then answered the question.
Then no doubt in order to embarrass me
and to suggest that the style of my hair
was the reason for my not having found a
job so late (?) in the summer, he asked
me, "Do you know why you haven’t found a
job yet?" My answer foiled his plans when
I told him that the college I had attended
had let out only three weeks before and
that the jobs I was qualified to do were
now unavailable on account of the local
schools being completed earlier.
Then he repeated that I was of the re-
llious type who never listen. Then he
shoved the application form at me saying
that he would be ashamed to refer me for
an interview. The said that I could fill
out the application or throw in the waste-
basket.
So, sir, I would like to reccommend the
immediate removal of the afforementioned
Mr. Crooks, because he is imcompetent for
his job and a racist. The hair issue is
not the main issue as I told him I would
comply with any haircut regulation if I
wer hired.
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harmful. IT must be examined and changed
because the actual situation we find our-
selves in, is very serious. We must all
understand that politics, is EVERYBODY’S
business, that POLITICS affects very
deeply and seriously every single facet
of our life, and may be the deciding fac-
tor in whether our nation survives as a
nation or not.
In later articles, we will try to point
out to the reader, in some detail, that
politics is what you make it, that rascal
thrive in the political field, mainly
because men of strong moral beliefs, of
decency, abandon the field by default, to
those of very low moral standards.
If you own a bank, and refuse to over-
see its operations, to work at administer-
ing it, and see that the money in it is
safeguarded, a white-collar crook, a
gangster like Al Capone may gain control
of it, and soon you won’t have any bank
to worry about. And you can’t blame Al
Capone, but yourself. Putting a fox in
charge of the hen-house will result in a
very fat fox, and no cackling chickens in
the hen-house.
So it is imperative that you, mister
man, and you, beautiful lady, get busy
and learn about politics. You must learn
to use your own brain, your own judgement
to take an active part in the running of
your community, to-decide, with others,
how your tax-money is collected and spent
how the city's (which ueans yours and
mine, and everybody else’s) property is
handled.
Being a good citizen is a duty which we
must all obey, citizenship is a privilege
which obligates everybody to exercise his
civic duties and thus fulfill his duty to
his fellow men, and--most important--to
his children. 1^—x,
Recently the Bexar County Support L.
Your Local Police Committee announced Sm
that they would wholeheartly support
Mayor W. McAllister for exposing the
Communist cry of "police brutality"
during the recent NBC program focused
on problems in the Mexican-American
barrios. They went on to say "We have
been trying to expose the Red hand in
the revolutionary activity for quite
some time, and we understand the harras-
-sment you have recently experienced."
The closing remarks were quoted as
follows; "Keep up the good work and on
behalf of the hard-working, lawabiding
citizens of this community, we extend
to you our best wishes." The committee
also asked the mayor to become a member
of the sponsoring committee since they
were both working for the same goal.
The committee has attempted to cover-
-up or justify some of the key phrases
of the mayor’s comments made to NBC
reporter Jack Perkins and showned nation
-wide on July 5 and 6. They are trying
to show that the mayor was talking about
Communist when in reality he was talking
about Mexican-Amerleans and their prob-
-lems in San Antonio.
Anyone that has lived in the barrios
can tell you some of the "tactics" used
by police officers,there are scores of
people that will testify to that. They
definitely know what "police brutality"
means, they have experienced it enough
times.Most of the people that complain
about "police brutality" know nothing
about Communism. How can they! Most of
never went to school and very few of
them ever finished high school. To imag-
-ine that all of a sudden these people
have acquired a brainstorm and are stir-
-ring up the people is beyond us. Police
brutality in it’s raw form is "Police
brutality" any way you cut it. It does
not take much intelligence to know that.
The committee has chosen instead to
play up the patriotic gesture of being
"lawabiding citizens" thus making people
think that "police brutality" is all
right as long as you are a good citizen.
The committee completely ignored the
key issue which were the comments made
by the mayor that "Mexican-Americans
were not as ambitiously motivated as
the Anglo." This was the reason that
caused all the harrassment.
Fortunately there are still some of
us in the Mexican-American community who
can see through the smokescreen and will
expose such tactics to our people. To
ignore the real issue is "gross ignorance
on the part of the committee but to try
to take us for suckers is worse.
WE ARE NOT ASLEEP ANYMORE!!!!!
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