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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-10-24

However, public recreation is
only partially democratic. The
Recreation Board, an agency of
the District government, sponsors
a racial anomaly; facilities in park
areas administered under permit
from the Interior Department are
On-segregated; other areas are
designated for white use only
(amOng them are the District
governments two outdoor swim
ming POOLS, or for Colored use
only, or open" areas which in
practice means a new form of
segregation, since white and col
ored teams from such open"
areas may not play with teams
from areas designated for either
white or Colored use. The Recrea-
J ton Boards racial policy, unlike
segregation in education, does not
rest on any alleged statutory COM
pulsion but only on the boards
say so; like all forms of segrega-
ton it has exaCerbated racial
tensions and lowered the quality
of service to all. It's contrast with
the Department of Interiors policy
is startling.
Washington In 1852 Is stin IA
Jim Crow town. Its disc riminatOry
practices are indeed "blOt on
our nation" Yet two of the most
significant facts concerning race
relations in the District are the
ever more rapid progress In break
ing down racial barriers and the
COmmunity's acceptance Of this
progress.
Although many and substantial
barriers still exist, racial disCrim-
nation and the attitudes which
underlie it have been reCeding or
put on the defensive TO a degree
unforeseen fifteen years ago And
as the walls Crumble, both white
and colored people, Southern-bred
as well as Northern-bred, are with
considerable mutual understanding
clearing their minds Of the myths
Of raCism and the Cobwebs of seq
regation. 1t is such reorientation
of community mOres within the
tradition of peaceful, democratic
change that buoys the hope for
removal of the race line from our
nations capital.
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Rucism In CopitoI
CONTINUED from Page u

sibility OF Negroes voting in the
District was too repulsive TO those
whose presence in Congress de-
Ponds in part on Acknowledgement
of Negroes back home.
The pattern of housing for most
Negroes is still that of slums and
the ghetto. And despite the rel
atively minor gains in federal en-
ployment the overall picture Of
employment of Negroes remains
one Of rank discrimination and
woeful lack of opportunity Thus
no Negro gets a job operating
street cars or buses, or as a
switchboard operator for the tcle-
phone company. or as a sales clerk
in most department stores, or. for
that matter, in most OF the non
Negro companies or stores except
as a messenger elevator operator
kitchen help, unskilled labor, or
similar low-paid worker Even in
the District government, employ
ment opportunities for Negroes
are mired in segregation and dis
elimination.
A vigorous double-prunged at.
tack is now under way on one of
the most shameful aspects Of raci-
al discrimination in Washington
that is, the exclusion OF Negroes
from public eating places. In the
summer Of 1850 a suit known as
the Thompson Restaurant case
was instituted TO obtain judicial
support for two long unused civil
rights statutes enacted some
eighty years ago by the now ex-
tinCt Legislative Assembly of the
District OF Columbia but somehow
omitted from the District Codes
Of 1901, 1929. and 1910. Under
these statutes the keeper or pro-
prietor of certain places of public
accommodation who refuses TO
serve ANY respectable well-be.
haved person" without regard to
race is subject to a 500 fine and
forfeiture OF license for one year,
In May, 1851, the Municipal
Court of Appeals by a two-to-one
vote upheld the 1878 law, appH-
cable 10 restaurants, but declared
invalid, "at least so far as rest
aurants are concerned" the 1877
law, which applied to restaurants
hotels, barbershops and bath
houses. Cross-appeals took the
case to the United States Court
Of Appeals. The widespread public
interest in the case was reflected
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-10-24

segregate the District colored chill
dren.
That non-scgregation in Wash
ington can work is demonstrated
by the picture in public recrea-
ton. The Interior Departments
Office of National Capital Parks
administers the park system with
no racial restrictions of any sort
in its six swimming pools, tourist
camp lodgings, tennis courts, golf
courses. picnic areas, or other
facilities. Its policy is simply that
as a government agency it is OBJ
ligated to administer its public
facilities for the benefit of all
law-abiding persons who choose to
use them. Except for one minor
incident in 1919, that policy has
been uniformly successful.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-10-24


in his home state the Democratic
ticket had White Supremacy"
printed on the ballot. In his speech
Dewey praised Gov James Byrnes
as the man who drove the Ku
Klux Khan from South Carolina.
Observers here in New York say
that his praise Of the DixieCrat
killed the harm he could have
done to the Democrats. Every Ne
gro in the Empire state who can
read or listen TO the radio dcspises
Gov. Byrnes and the things he
stands for no Negro DurslOns this
year.
Negro newspaper publishers out
East here are pleased that nei-
ther party this year have set up
Negro Divisions as was the Gus
tom years ago. In Washington Of
course there is a section in each
party which concerns itself with
the Negro voters. On the COP
side and undermined apparently,
is section headed by well pre-
pared Valores Washington, who
has a full-time year around job
with the National Republican Com
mittee. On the Democratic isde
is skillfull astute william Dawson
Illinois Congressman, viCe-chair-
man of the National Committee
and a policy maker. He has set
up a Civil Rights Committee com
posed of many Of the top figures
from all over the country and his
committee seems to be doing an
effective job.
The press section Of this COM
mittee which is apparently being
advised by Dowdal Davis Of the
Kansas City CALL and John Dav-
is Of OUR WORLD Magazine has
been doing a bang-up job on get
tin the news of the New Deal
Fair Deal candidates to the vari-
Gus Negro newspapers.
In practically every Negro pap
err important or not display ads
extolling the virtues Of the re-
speCtive candidates have appeared.
The DISCRIMINATION Commit
tee of the UAW-CIO has also ran
full page spreads in the larger
Negro papers.
This reporter has visited Illinois,
New York. New Jersey, Maryland
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
and from what he can see in the
street it's going to be a close race
with Stevenson gaining every day
The Negro vote is from what this
correspondent has seen is safely
Stevenson with the possible ex-
ception Of New Jersey barring
unforeseen trends.
New Workers. all want to know
how Minnesota is going We tell
them that when we left home it
looked like close race with
Stevenson coming in ahead. We
still think we are right. Orville
Freeman has an outside chance
to beat c. Elmer Anderson for the
governorship II the Democrats get
out and vote. William Carlson has
a hard row TO hoe to upset Senator
Thye, Bill Carlson is a real liberal
but Thye is a farmer. Thye doesn't
have an unusually great record
and voted with the DixieCrats on
Cloture but the farmers we talked
to in southern Minnesota seemed
sold on him. He is the solid con
sentative type with a slight liberal
exposure some supporters claim.
Carlson fought for a bill to outlaw
private hospital discrimination
while in Legislature and for FEE
PC,
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Thy SHOULD YOU VOTE FOR HIM?
MUST STOP THIS BOGUS DEAL
A STACKED DECK

The CARDS ARE STACKED WHEN
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS PLAY THEIR
cML RIGHTS GAME.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-10-24

Help TO build the team
that will bring clear thinking
and sound action TO our
National Government!
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-10-24

NOTHING GOOD FOR NEGROES CAN
EVER CONE FROM A UNITED STATES SEN
ATE PRESIDED OVER AND CONTROLLED
DEMOCRATS FROM ALABAMA. GEoR.
GA AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
Evening star., 1952-06-29

first man steps on the moon.
But this is an era Of extremely
rapid progress. Frankly, no
body knows what's going to
happen tomorrow"
Interplonetory Societies
The interest has resulted in
the formation of space flight
groups everywhere. There is
one in the Washington area.
Perhaps the best-known, the
oldest and the most substantial
is the British Interplanetary So
ciety of which Arthur c.
Clarke, the author of this book.
is the present chairman. He
has written a fascinating and
scientifically sound treatise on
the possibilities and the diff
culties of getting OF the earth
or-which is far more practical
at present-creating an artifi-
cial satellite of this planet for
purposes of observation, rehec-
ton of television waves and the
like.
Actually he ventures much
further into realms of pure fan
taSy. such as fights to other
solar systems and even circum-
navigation Of the Milky Way
galaxy. He doesn't, Of course,
predict anything of the sort.
Evening star., 1952-06-29
A Creed for Free ENTERPRISE
BY Clarence B. Randall. (Atl

Mr.. Randall, who is president
the Inland Steel. feels that
businessmen have not been ar
ticulate enough. They have
failed to present clearly to the
public, he explains, a defense Of
the system they believe in pas
sionately. with brick and NOR
tar and stainless steel we are the
greatest builders the world has
ever seen, but our daring and
confidence seem to leave us when
we walk out of the plant into
the realm of IDEAS" Public
relations men and ghost writer's
fail to do the job, he holds; the
business executive and indus
trialist should learn to express
himself in his own way in writ
ing or on the platform.
Nor are platitudes enough to
counteract "a small group Of
cosmic experimenters" who
would destroy free enterprise.
Mr.. Randall says he is not
against unions, but he opposes
the closed shop or union shop.
"Industry-wide bargaining" he
writes. sis one Of the whips by
which we are marched toward
this strangely un-American
pattern type of existence in
industry" He adds that unions
never lose,", that, "of course, they
don't get all their demands, but
they always get something, and
in the midst of q national emer-
Evening star., 1952-06-29

course, lie SOnh Cia!ton.
boys have to leave. There's not
another job in sight. The best
professional fisherman in the
area is a Negro and when he
offers to cut the boys in on his
catch they Jump to help him.
DeodIy Trouble
The three are doing well.
Then old Keller's son, a deputy
sheriff and a leading Ku Kluxer,
stirs up the local Klan and the
colored fisherman finds two of
his boats riddled and on the
bottom Of the bay. He clears
out in his remaining launch.
To get even. Ed and Turkey
steal the Kellers' entire mango
crop one night and sell it in
Tampa. They'd never done such
q thing before. But, having
gotten away with it and made
a couple of hundred. it's easy
for them to steal again. Mae,
heady with new clothes and a
magic evening in jock joints,
wants Turkey to get more
money-she's not particular
how. She steers the boys into
her cousin Limp and his friend,
a giant of a man. a psychopathic
killer, whom Limp met in the ,
penitentiary. Then the boys
get into deadly trouble.
The real villains Of the piece,
I feel, were the Ku Kluxers. If
they'd let Ed and Turkey alone,
the boys would have kept on at
honest jobs. But no brief re-
cital of the situation can con-
vey the sensitive atmosphere
with which Mr.. Clayton has sur
rounded a grim story. Ed is
irresistibly appealing as he
touches the small pleasures he
has and dreams of travel and
the other things he's never had.
This book also involves a
merchandising expert ment.
Macmillan is putting out "Six
Angels at My Back" in an orig
inal and only edition with a
laminated paper cover at $3.50.
The publishers aim is to make
"a work of fiction of outstand-
Evening star., 1952-06-29
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART; Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
ealRtnss sabenssn 'suPsaiel srtisi
sculpture and European paintings.
Llthegraphs by Toulouse -Lautrec; .,.
NATIONAL MUSEUM nttiftion National Coiiee- see-
paintings and old masters. swedish
sHsSNiHN tsTtilss SpTinE ERi}y6,Nc SHly Division o,
Graphic Arts. Tenth street and LEI Jet-
making; through July ~ ... s
JEFFERSON drive s:W-oriental art,
paintings and prints by American
artists showing oriental inhuence:
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-. East Cap;
"Penneil Show; historic campaisn
posters, cartoons. ETC., through Au-
TEXTILE MUSEUM. $3.50 street NV.
DUMBHRSTfoiSS' N OAKS Collection. 17os
ThlTtysecond street aes
CORCoRAN GALLERY OF ART. Sew
enteenth street between New York
avenue and E street-Amefican paint
M seuiptaTe 6yuiGiH 6y LII asttinser; thFoashh h
artist members, through summer;
PAINTINGS by v Wiliam WSIon Inso1 thEsas csafls
huSuoS NLChp VA SNSeaS
paH IHPsDe MEMoRiaE EsSo I01s 1000
TTenty-fEst street Paintinss n.inf and
ARTS CLUE. 201? i street-Annual
members exhibition to open this
afternoon. remain through the sum-
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
TMo BRAmH Rn s6GSs soSe Of street the American
Pan AMERicaN a AfS TN1oN ous seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue -
Arsentine landscapes, by Ricardo
WHITE GAHIERY. SIS Connecticut
avenue NV. Critics Choice" Of
young Washington artists, through
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY. 127 Ran
temporary Americans. through sum-
TRUxToN DECATUR NAVAL Mu-
scum. 1910 H street N.W.-U. S.
submarines in action. through Sep
THE New GEORGETOWN GALLERY,
1924 Prospect ayenue-"The Circus"
by Katherine Hobbs and Duncan Cook.
IFA GALLERIES.. 1920 Connecticut ave-
nue. n. W-color Autographs by Jack
teenth street N,W.-PaintinEs and
D,ssagM dsayinss By Car Nyquist; r,v 1000
Connecticut avenue N. W.-Paintinss
by Washington art teachers. through
COLONY RESTAURANT. 1877 De Sales
street N.W.-Exhibition by students
Of James Cupoli. through summer
SILVER SPRING ART GALLERY, 9216
Flower avenue. Silver Sprine-Group
exhibition paintings and ceramics.
through September 1S
SHIRLINGION COOPERATIVE De-
PARTMENT STORE, Parkfairfax
Circle Arlington-Three artist show.
by Akerley. Mack and Van Swearin-
gen. through July u.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES, Constitution
avenue at Seventh street N.W.--Brady
Civil War photographs.
ARTISTS MART. 1881 Wisconsin ave-
nue-"Georsetown," by Washinston
aartists. through tomorrow.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. Michigan ave-
nue. NE. Salve Regina buildins-Stu-
HOWARD UNIVERSITY. Sixth street
and Howard place NV.
Evening star., 1952-06-29
The Exploration of Space
(Harper & Bros; $500
BY Arthur c. Clarke.
By Thomos R. Henry

In this generation space flight
that is, any travel beyond the
atmosphere of the earth-has
passed from pure fantasy to ex-
tremely remote possibility.
Atomic energy offers the still
far distant prospect that man
may be able to escape the gravi-
rational pull of the earth. After
that, of course, there will be no
real power problem.
This has resulted in a very
considerable amount of science
fiction" about voyages to the
moon. Venus, Mars-even, by
very long stretches of the imag-
ination, to possible planets of
Proxima Centauri, the nearest
star. From this star itself light
reaches the earth in approxi-
mately four years.
There are many problems
other than those of possible
transportation, such as the heat
generated by friction in the
upper reaches of the earth's
atmosphere, the gauntlet of
meteorS through which it would
be necessary to pass, the earth's
blanket of poisonous ozone
which may be impossible. The
present prospect is that many
generations will pass before the
Evening star., 1952-06-29

dealing with them in detail
later.
The one which closes earliest
august 14) is that by William
Walton of Georgetown. His was
a new name to me when I illus
trated in these columns his
"Marimba Players, which won
the first water color prize last
autumn in the Corcoran CAL
lery's sixth annual area exhi-
bition. The present display at
the Corcoran is his first one
man show.
Mr.. Walton was 40 when
he turned to painting (l949
after a lively career in journal
ism. Born in Jacksonville. ILL.,,
the son of a newspaper editor,
he graduated from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin School
of journalism, and subsequently
worked as staff writer for vari-
Gus newspapers and magazines;
as a war correspondent in Eng
land, France and Germany dur
ing World War II and in the
later '40s as a foreign CORE
spondent in a number of Euro
pean capitals.
Throughout these years as
writer, Mr.. Walton had painted
for recreation. His formal
training in art has been limited
to a year in a university art class
and a month of criticism with
Karl Knaths in 1850. He has
spent his time chiefly in acquir-
ing a technical background and
in searching for forms in nature
and in Victorian architecture.
The present exhibition of
about 80 paintings in oil, water
color and caSein has a diStinc-
tive character. The artist is
experimenting; his work has not
hardened into a formula. Never
theless, something all his own
is discernible. He tackles a
variety of subjects with varied
approaches. drawing his inspi-
ration from summers on Cape
Cod and a recent Caribbean
trip.
He has painted Latin Amerl-
can peasants both naturalisti-
cally and abstractly. (E.g.
Coffee Workers" and Green
Rebozo.") He shows still life,
industrial and architectural SUBJ
jects, some of the last men,
toned exploited for their angu-
lar and perspective designs.
Two outstanding Ito me- are
1.-THE Way West" and Blue
Evening star., 1952-06-29

memory such an afternoon ut a
bull ring as Mr.. Conrad de-
scribes. The place Is Sevilla.
Mr.. Conrad writes from the
inside, the way a bull fight looks
to the matador and to the
others producing the drama. He
knows. He has been a matador.
He fought bulls in Spain on the
same program with the great
Juan Belmonte. He has caught
in his book the whole panorama
of the ancient pageant - the
fear, the courage and the con-
tempt of the men in the ring,
the cruel, emotion hungering
crowd, quick to applaud, quicker
to condemn.
Greotest Motodor
The author writes of a fic-
titious matador called Pacote,
the greatest of his generation.
Pacote is retiring, but he has
agreed to fight once more.
Rusty from years layoff, old
for a bull f1ghter-he's 29-he
has no stomach for the per-
formance. He's tired alike Of
the danger. the thrill, the adu-
lation. The old fear. which no
matador ever entirely loses,
creeps over him. 1t is not only
fear Of death. but fear of a poor
showing, of disgracing himself.
He has a row with his girl and
starts drinking, a few hours be-
fore the flght-something no
sane matador does. His man
ager wants to call it of. but
Pacote viii. not hear of that. He
goes in, does miserably and is
put to shame by a coming young
matador. But then Pacote de-
mands a fresh bull, another
chance. AS he faces the new
foe he is suddenly sober and all
his old artistry returns. He is
superb.
You may guess the ending,
but you can't guess the vivid
ness with which the author
documents this battle. Blasco
Ibanez once said: 1.-THE only
beast in the plaza de toros is
the crowd" And who was it
said the fiesta bravo was "inde-
fensible but irresistible?
Like Tom Lea, Mr.. Conrad is
an artist as well as q writer.
He painted the fine cover design
and has illustrated the book
with. a number of his sharp
sketches Of matadors in action.
He is a San Franciscan and
published a previous novel, 1.-THE
Villa"
Evening star., 1952-06-29
By Miriam Ottenberd

Death Of No Lady. BY Seldom
Truss. Doubleday & Co..
Inc: $2.50)
Mrs. Bendish, one-time model
turned dowager, would show
OF her jewels. A housekeeper
made of with her diamond
pendants. she was chloroformed
for her pearls but she still in
sisted on going bedecked to the
opera. Scotland Yard encount-
ers some odd characters before
fixing on the one who wanted
the jewels enough to kill for
them. Probably the oldest
certainly the most delightful
is a sprite named Carlotta
who first appears substituting
EPSON salts for sugar at the
village lawn party.
Dead Mems Plans. BY Mignon
G. Eberhart. (Random House,
Inc; $2.50J
The death OF the Great Lakes
shipping tycoon and the arrival
of his son with a greedy French
bride precipitated discord, dis
possession and murder in the
Lake Shore home of the Minary
clan. The damsel in distress
does various silly things-in-
cluding hiding the death
weapon and going out to meet
the murderer-in this typical
Eberhart production.
The King Is Dead. BY Ellery
Queen. Gittle, Brown & Co.;
$2.75.)
Ellery Queen and his father
are forced to board a sealed
plane and fly of to the island
kingdom" of a munitions mon
arch with a fist in every nations
private troubles. The Queens are
supposed to save this character
from a would-be assassin who
coolly announces the day and
hour of the killing. A neat
locked-room puzzle is involved
here, along with some implaus-
ible but not impossible situa-
tions and a good deal Of moral
iZing.
Evening star., 1952-06-29
Roosevelt and Daniels
Edited by Carroll Fitzpatrick
Press: $780,
Reviewed by Joseph A. Fox

Mr.. Fitzpatrick, long time
Washington newsm an, has
woven together some 80 years
correspondence between Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and Josephus
Daniels, to present an informal
study of men and events in the
national scene in the period
spanned by two great wars
The account, largely. political
in nature, necessarily is sketchy,
but the correspondence, which
started when the young New
York State Senator was named
an assistant to the new Secre-
tary of the Navy in the Wilson
cabinet, often is Informative and
interesting.
The early exchanges disclose
that the youthful. head-strong
Roosevelt didn't hesitate to buck
Evening star., 1952-06-29
Benefit Opening

The Arts Club will open this
afternoon its annual members
exhibition, to remain through
the summer. The opening will
include a garden party with an
admission fee of 81, proceeds to
provide purchase prize for the
Corcoran Gallery's seventh an
nual area exhibition next win
ter. The success of last years
Arts Club benefit for this pur-
pose encouraged an encore.
Evening star., 1952-06-29
Books in Review
Two Novels Of Outstanding Quality
Emerge From the Summer Doldrums
Six Angels at Ny Back
BY John Bell Clayton. Macmillan; $1.50J
Motodor
BY Barnaby Conrad. fHoughton, Mi61tn; $2.75J
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones
Six Angels at Ny Back

Two outstanding novels pub
lished the same week deserve two
rounds Of applause. With the
spring rush of new books over,
most publishers have reduced their
output to the thin diet normally,
for some strange reason, pre-
scribed for the summer months.
The year half over has had its
peaks in fiction, though the aver
age merit of new novels has rot
been high. These two books are
all the more welcome.
six Angels at My Back" is a
first novel. Mr.. Clayton, a Vir-
ginian who now lives at Mill
Valley, Calf, near San Francisco,
has written an appealing, pathetic
drama of youth. 1t is drama
with melodramatic turnings, epi-
sodes of violence. and yet it
never gets out of hand, never
seems forced. What happens had
to happen, you somehow feel.
The UnderpriviIeeed
Ed Greaver, who tells the story,
is 19. He is a Florida boy with
very little education and no money
except what he makes at odd
jobs. He and his lifelong friends,
Turkey, 81. and Turkeys wife
Mae, who is Eds age, live in a
shack on the edge of a resort
town on the Gulf. They are
what sociologists call underprivi-
legged young persons. They've
never had anything, you might
say, and they are well aware
Of what they are missing in the
way of food, clothing and fine
cars. The millionaires who have
winter homes nearby and the
swank night spots are enough to
remind them constantly. Eds
mother is dead and his father
has gone away, Ed doesn't care
where.
Ed was always in love with
Mae. but Turkey won out be-
cause he managed to buy q ra-
dio. But the three of them get
along well.
Ed and Turkey are working
for the landowner Keller, clear