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...fraud, a terrible waste of tax money." . . ."It's a damned outrage [said Rutland's Mayor Dan J. Healy], an outrage being perpetrated not only on the taxpayers of Vermont, but the entire U.S." . . ."The whole thing is a fraud [said Burlington's Mayor James E. Fitzpatrick], a terrible waste of tax money and our time. We're coming home...
...Father Fitzpatrick put on the record his blunt views...
Bringing their habits and values with them, the immigrant Irish, Germans, Italians and Jews became strangers in a new land, suffered from the cultural conflict, found it hard, at first, to escape from slums. Now this is the Puerto Rican plight. Says Fitzpatrick: "The poverty of Puerto Ricans, their language handicap, their lack of sophistication about mainland city life, leave them, at this moment, particularly exposed to exploitation. The things that gave a man or woman dignity and honor in a Puerto Rican village are greeted with ridicule in New York...
Racial Intermarriage. Fitzpatrick sees the Puerto Rican migration as a real boon to New York and America. Unlike the previous immigrants, the Puerto Ricans bring with them a history of rack-tolerance and a tradition of social intermingling that lets them marry people of other skin colors, from Negroes to whites...
...study last year of the behavior of Puerto Ricans in six Catholic parishes in New York," Fitzpatrick reported. "I found that 25% of all the Puerto Rican marriages involved people of noticeably different shades of color. It is my own hope that they will make explicit the principles of human brotherhood, of universal respect for men and women, that have been implicit in their culture. If they do they will have brought a priceless contribution to the life of the mainland...