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at ~ Memorial . Five years ago Sunday four irre-°, ‘pldceable little girls were killed. in an explosion at a church a few blocks’, rom City Hall. 2 On the fifth anniversary of the . tragedy more than 600 persons met ¥ at the churen then marched to Wood- row Wilsia Park to hold a service in front of City Hall. ‘y’ A principal theme of the service ,was a call for law and order. order recently have grown bigger and _ louder. Regardless of disclaimers by ithe ci idates their Hsteners under- cabularies of some candi-, the words law and’ ‘stand very well that the words as now ‘ ‘used mean s foren ‘tions, sor © lent, som ething altogether dif- ctionary defini- ning to a large They do not ng true. On Sunday they rang true indeed. ‘9 Speakers to a audience gathered to girls they were a hat of al! the American “WUsed b: longest and cruclest of law and order in our “cab always has been least secu s person and in his property. me; ican has a bigger stake in esery’ ation “of, * law and order. The most recent report on Ameri-_ ne by the Federal Bureau of ” ered in this country last of the victims were the Negro community” ation shows that of all the” 5 Up something like, something vio- * strays much of the evidence than iti 12 per cent of the population, the. egro is five times as likely as the | \ ‘white ‘to be murdered. ed When’a Negro speaker calls for law’? and order in the community and hears , his call-seconded hy a niajority of his‘: audience there is nothing vague in the use of the words. He is asking for? protection’ against those who \would :destroy him and his children. Hg also | js asking that justice be done in the name of those who have been de- stroyed. 8 In the five years since the bomb went off at Sixteenth Street Baptist, Church there has been no arrest for* the quadruple murder although local, ¢ state and federal officers have been? suppased to be investigating. = Admittedly it is more difficult to | uncover the criminal whose deed de-? * to charge with auto theft the person’? caught driving somebody else's car..; “But our peace officers are paid to” ‘ “tackle and accomplish the hard Jobs along with the easy. ©. |The father who lost his only child’, inthe bombing points out that the. guilty have been brought to justice + for similar outrages elsewhere. He is entitied to an answer when he asks: “why there has been no action here. 2 . Every parent can understand him 4 when he declares that so fong as those’, “who destroyed the four children, five 2 forevery citizen. "years ago remain free, no children in} “the community are safe. +, i And every citizen should yetedite"t : ‘that when the father calls for law and .* order he is calling for the real thing ”’ a --unbiased enforcement of equal law and an order firmly based on juste wie ST {indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state. J7_ THE BIRMINGHAM poste. x HERALD e ___BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA pate: 9-17-68 Eaition: Final Author: editor Duard LeGrand BAPBONB Tithe: oe 15712352 <SF/- vt Classification: 1 Boing Investigates