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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20
Lest We Forget
By A. y. LoCKHART, in the Trestls Board

None Of
OF spread
sent into the heather lands cucd
spend too millions and sacrifice many
the frherance evangelism let's first
example that recommends Christianity 10 the pagan
There's for lot OF missionary right
those who frequently take the
God whom He should guide
and counsel There's Outstanding
home who do necessarily worship the their
Of fire countless heather idols
lot Of folks this
they superior TO millions
divine exploit all other
quit stealing lying unftng anderng violating
ncees before they undertake morality
lofer Of morality
sent to convert them There
who want to complain about the black
Charity isn't the only virtue that should
who have TO chsianzs primitive jungle
do well to first examine their right
lot Of prayeu people prayerf when they
audience and all too confuse pretsnse with pIety
As sO-called Christian enlightened
learn There isn't much humility these
exempfy the faiths they profess and
has violated single law Of the land held
abythere would be jas In this country schools
churches ophanages hospitals asums garages
-TrrstIs Board
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20

Editor proposed
legislature very unfair form Of taxation II based
ability
To the Of who necessity spend
practically their whole the living
nat living
This win indeed injustice majority working
people farmers and the Thousands who dependent old
pensions and security
The sales tax viii be the industries
and the large corporate organizations all sacrifice the
average Minnesota citizen.
Also what nuisance II would the merchants;
hardware
for such tax sincerely John r. wadrOn Hopkins
Minnesota
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20

Legsors with sappng another taX On
beer ~ revenue and viii mean
either the glass Will be cut down price
up
Beer has hong been known poor champagne and
the worngmSns drink and why they
Psnased because the evidently Of channels
Beer whether know II farming II has
always been a matter Of
tact has been pointed that Christopher
been In America ON his voyage America so2
Columbus found that
America Yes beer had play making Pilgrims
land Of Plymouth Rock 1890 entry Mayfowrrs diary
dated peccmber IA not now take time
Tor further search consideration being spent
especially
beverage with that history behind hay,
It's place in the lives Of mankind repeatedly nut u IN
class with higher liquors Of reach Of the
man Les Nelson MapH Lake Messenger
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20

problem In the United States
compare with the race problem In
South Africa ?" answered that
question In four parts.
II IL admitted that on the
whole, our situation in the United
states Is improving AN too
slowly" said. but getting
better" People who know South
Africa agree that the situation
there IL growing worse, They In
sisted ON proof that things are
improving, cited that disappear.
ting Of segregation in the armed
forces: the right to vote in the
South: the abolition OF segrega.
ton on the diner: the abolition Of
Il in some instances in interstate
coach travel; the admission Of Ne
groes TO study in several Southern
universities, AMI new jobs In in
dtlstry.
II was difficult for them to I'M
dsrStahd segregation In the church
and in the District Of Columbia.
told them that Il Was equally DIFF
fcult for me 10 understand segre-
CATION In the church and In Wash
ington where the Federal Govern
ment has complete control
made II clear, too, that in
South Africa Il was the Federal
Government. the Malan regime,
that was expressing Bantus, In
dams and colored people, But in
United states Of America the Ne
gro could find some real protec.
ton In the Federal Constitution
and in the Y. s. Supreme Court,
Everywhere the non-whites turn
in South Africa they find nothing
but Illustration.
Although admitting that segre-
cation was rampant in the
churches in the United States OF
America. nobody sought tn Justify
II by quoting scripture and theo-
logy as I had seen done by South
African Christians. Finally |
pointed out that although the Ne
grcss had mostly taken the IN
iuativr to better their condition,
there had always been some sup
port from liberal minded whites
The final question put TO me
was what more needs 90 BE-
done 20 consider the problem
solved in the UsA.T" answered
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20

that in four parts.
I. We need 10 abolish segreEa.
ton by law wherever 10 exists. I
told these Indian reporters that
segregation by law was the great
est stigma Of all and that In
seventeen states and the District
Of Columbia some segregation ex-
lists by law.
2. The Church. North and
south, must open lts door for
worship and membership TO all
regardless Of race. pointed out
20 them that segregation In the
Church Of God IL the great scan.
dal.
3. The third step We need to
take to solve our race problem. I
told them, In 20 abolish dlscrin-
nations In employment,
Z. To eqnaliEe educational Op.
pOrtunIties for all Americans. II
these four things could BE- accom-
plished, We would consider the
problem solved.
was speaking 10 a group Of
teachers and distinguished citizens
at the Central College for Women
at Nagpur. The chairman Of the
board Of trustees, a former high
court judge, in presenting me re-
lated an unpleasant racial expert
snce he had in Atlanta in 1887. It
Is embarrassing to have to apollo
gize for your home city In a for
eign land.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20

WHAT DOES all thois mean
II means that not only India, but
one billion colored people in Asia
are watching every racial move we
make. II WAS difficult 10 make
them believe that lynching IL rare.
The quicker We clear up this racial
mess in the U. 8. A.. the better
Il viii be for the world
But there ~ something contra
dBctory in all this The Indian
people are not as willing to criti-
CHE caste in India a. they are 20
criticize our racial policy in the
United States The caste system
in India. Apartheid IN South Afri-
ca. segregation and discrimination
based on race in the United States
are all deadly evils and should Be
honestly faced and abolished.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20
UNITED NATIONS
NEWS
nv Samuel 2. Very. r.

In Northern Rhods.ia and NyAs.
alSnd the African congresses OF
the two territories have been &C.
tive in REGULATING literature pro-
testing against the decision to set
into motion the assessment Of
European opinion towards the pro-
posed Central African Federation
which would include Northern
Rhcdesia. Southern Rhodesa and
Nyasaland
British administrative officials
In the threr territories have lost
the confidence Of the Africans BE-
cause they have been advised by
the London Colonial Office TO sup
port the Central African FedeFa-
lion idea.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20

Africans are beginning to indi-
cate incorporation In the en-
torcement of the well -tn,sntioned
regulations Of game. forestry, and
fisheries departments"
In fact. African fishermen in the
LuaPula Valley recently defied
government fishing regulations
and moved north to Kawamhwa.
closer TO Lake Mweru. Chief
Kambwah whose people live On
the lake shore has been suspended
after allegations that he sncour.
aged his fishermen to defy the
rVgulAtionA- An inquiry BY Brit
ish authorities 10 TO be held
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20
Indians Critical OF U. S.
Race Policies But Not
Their Own Caste System
by BENJAMIN Il. MAYS

Shortly after my arrival in Lucknow requested to
hold conference, agreed Several days later
dian reporters descended upon They kept for ninety
minutes They interested in thing onyhe prob
lem in the United States last week about South Africa
The first question they put How the Negro
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20

TIE saFSAeF you Ert year news
itruaA into eur SffSre the ecttrF q
b fOr TIE lt~n and tAs paper.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-03-20

United
country viii usually concee when pressed that the
relation 20
occupying rowing
in hrSctiOn-Chr4stian Maalto
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served on convoy duty, because
I thought ] ought to do some
thing to help my adopted coun-
try"
Meanwhile, in knocking about
the world, he lost his Australian
identity papers and was, in effect.
q man without a country.
Stays Put Five Years.
With his war service in mind.
Mr.. Watt, wrote a letter in 1851
to the United States Attorneys
of1ice here. explaining his pre-.
dicament. He was advised 70 re-
apply for citizenship. which he
did.
This time, with his sailing DAYS
over, he stayed put for the neces-
sary five years. However, the
habit of a lifetime is not easy to
break. Mr.. Watt is land-locked
but not entirely divorced from
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An old salt who set out 68
years ago to tie his fate to the
American Ship of State dropped
anchor yesterday in Federal
Court.
David Watt is 80 years old,
but his blue eyes twinkled as he
stood before Judge James w.
Morris repeating the oath of
citizenship with 81 others in
naturalization ceremonies in the
U. S. District Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The incident marked the end
of an effort Mr.. Watt, of 1893
Longfellow street NV, set IN
motion in 1885 at San Francisco
when II took out my first
papers"
Begins on Windjammer.
His saga of citizenship, the
spry, old sailor said, actually
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he said: II got fouled UP back
in 1906. Before I could COM
plete those peSky residence re-
quirementS, San Francisco was
destroyed by the fire and earth
quake and my records went up
in smoke"
ROams Over World.
Having by this time come to
consider himself an American,
Mr.. Watt said he coasted along
roaming the world in ships Of all
nations until World War II
broke out.
He attempted to enlist in the
American merchant marine, but
was turned down nat because of
his 70 years. The Norwegians
weren't so choosy. They knew
a competent hand when they
saw one and hired him.
Until the end of hoStilitieS, he
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began when he was Is and left
his native Australia to serve as
cabin boy aboard a windjammer
bound from Sidney to Portland.
Oreg. The few months he spent
ashore on the West Coast in
stilled in him a desire to become
an American citizen.
His trade of seaman, however,
made the job difficult. He was
never between ships long enough
to satisfy residence require
mentS. Nevertheless, he took
out his first papers while ship
ping over at San Francisco.
The short, spritely man. who
spent q of his years sailing be-
fore the mast before transfer
ring to steam, chuckled and ran
his hand through his heavy
shock of snow-white hair. His
weather-creased face crinkled as
Evening star., 1953-04-15
Counterfeiters Profit
By Free Exchange
BY the Associated Press

SAC PAULO, Brazil.-Brazil' s
new free exchange law, permit
ting the exchange of dollars at
an advantageous rate, already
is attracting counterfeiters.
Sac Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
police now are seeking a gang
which has put a small amount
of "bad" dollars in circulation
in the two cities.
Previous to the free exchange
law, effective February 81. dol
lars could be exchanged legally
only at the rate of 1872 to one,
Now, free" dollars are bringing
as much as AZ to /.
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Mileage, Gasoline Use
Set Records in 1857

CHTCAGO.--Gasoline consumed
by motor vehicles and mileage
travelled rose last year in the
United States to new records.
The national total of 500 billion
miles Travelled compared with 4S3
billion in 1851 and 458 billion in
1850.
Cars, trucks. and buses used
about 40 billion gallons of gaso-
line last year, about two billion
gallons more than in 1851.
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the sea. He now operates the
.canteen at the Montgomery
County Junior College, Takoma
Park. where most of his custo-
mers are young men enrolled in
the Seamen's Naval Training
program.
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Big rugs, big values, big saw
ings. Perfectly woven heavy
cotton low-loop twist pile is
modern; all with fringed ends.
Latex-back to insure non
skidding and lay flat. Colors:
green, gray, red, blue, rose,
gold. For every room.
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Joined the battleship South Caro-
lima. -Four years later, when the
Navy sent out its first postwar call
for Academy graduates to take flight
training, he applied. Following flight
training at Pensacola, he was des-
ignated Naval Aviator No. 1896.
After instructing at Pensacola.
Radford moved to the Bureau of
AeronauticS here in 1921 and be-
gan his long war against the battle
ship admirals. He still curses them
in his quiet, emphatic voice. AS a
scout plane pilot attached to the
battleships Colorado and Pennsyl-
vania he learned the admirals cared
little for the airplanes they were
forced to carry. The planes splashed
up the ships clean decks; they were
nuisance to pull out of the water,
and it was absurd to pay the pilots
extra money for flying.
In 1929 Admiral Radford trans
ferred to one Of the Nays first
carriers, the Saratoga, and within q
year became commander of Fight
ing Squadron One. a group famous
for its exhibitions Of precision aerial
acrobaticS.
He had . variety Of sea and shore
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(NKVD) and took over the police
system. He has been described as
Stains heir apparent. Up to the
present time, although he may be
slipping, he still controls both the
Ministries of the Interior (MVD)
and State Security (MGB).
The Ministry of the Interior de
reefs the regular police function,
which. in the Soviet Union, includes
administration of correctional la
Dor" camps, the administration Of
highways and civil airports. and the
registration of vital statistics. The
Ministry of State Security controls
the counter intelligence system in
the armed forces and both foreign
and domestic espionage activities.
Who Will Win?
Beria's greatest rival for the sue
ceSSion to Stains post is thought
to be Georgi Malenkov, who worked
his way up as Stains personal sec
rotary, as did Yezhov. 1t will be
interesting to see who ultimately
wins-the secret policeman. the
friend of the boss or a dark horse.
But. whoever wins. purges will go
on. The secret police, the most i'm
portant single instrument used to
maintain a totalitarian government
in power, has become a weapon in
the hands of those who seek to at
tain power. But it is a multi-edged
weapon. 1t can be used to strike
down real or fancied opponent, q
factional rival or can be turned
against the man who Yields It.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-15
Using, but ReWording, to the New Lown1oker

wardly Somnolent but inwardly ever
alert bachelors. the Speaker, Joe
Martin Of Massachusetts. and the
ex-Speaker. Sam Rayburn of Texas.
Everybody likes them, and everybody
who wants to get anywhere had
darneds well better. In similar
fashion the Senate, though much
less cohesive, vibrates to the brusque
statements of the majority leader.
the volatile Mr.. Taft, and the sleepy
shrewd comments Of the soft
spoken minority leader, Mr.. Lyn-
don johnson. Certain warning sig
mails guard the shoals for the new
conner Danger! Bob Bites! !.
Use Brakes! Sam Ahead! but once
those are memorized. you get along
with relative ease. And of course If
you should show signs of rebellion,
somebody can always point to that
other sign denoting the dark and
troubled region where bad boys go:
rUncharted, Watch Out for Drifting
Morse!"
Virtues, Too
AS the days pass and the newness
wears off and you get deeper and
deeper into the swing OF things, you
begin to realize that the Congress.
body Of great faults. is also a body
of great virtues. Its delays, you
find, may be infuriating on one is
sue, yet they are vital to liberty on
another. It's confusionS and in
eficiencies and uncertainties. Some-
times so senseless to the casual
viewer, possess certain basic pat
tern consistent within itself. Pres
emily you understand what the pat
tern is. It is the pattern of free
men, working out their own destiny
in their own way.
They can't be 100 per cent ef-
ficient, because nobody is. They
can't be 100 per cent perfect. be-
cause nobody is. All they can do Is
the best job possible-and this. as
you soon come to see, is what the
majority Of them manage to achieve.
Constituents poster them "a hours
a day, their emotions sometimes run
away with them under the pressure
of events, they're overworked. under
paid and far from being the knights
in shining armor the civics books
would like them to be. But they keep
plunging along. You, accepting the
pattern, follow suit.
Someday, years from now, show
ing some visiting fireman through
that rotunda from which you began
your first tour of the great building
which by then will simply be part
of you, your guest will hit a remi-
niscent note and you will respond
expansively.
"Now, when first came here"
you will begin, with faraway ex-
preston in your eyes and the
weight of the ages resting lightly on
your veteran shoulders.
And however long it may have
been, it will seem that it has gone
by in a flash, so busy have you been
and SO deeply involved in the mar
velous mechanism for freedom which
is America.
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Nays Foir-Hored Boy Is Giving ChiIs to Air Force

Back in 1851 the late Admiral
Forrest Sherman was asked to
recommend an officer to succeed him
as Chief of Naval Operations should
the President elevate him to the
Craftsmanship Of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff-a move which never ma
terialized because of his death.
The admiral named two officers
but then quickly added that one Of
them probably would be unacceptable
to President Truman.
The men recommended were Adj
miral William M. Fechteler, COM
mander in chief of the Atlantic
fleet, and. Admiral Arthur w. Rad
ford, commander in chief Of the
Pacific fleet. Admiral Radford, as
was expected. did prove completely
unacceptable to Mr.. Truman. ADJ
miral Fechteler got the job.
Smoke still filled the air from the
famous battle of the Fancy Dan"
admirals against the Air Forces
B-36 bomber. Admiral Radford had
led that fight, calling the B-36 "a
billion-dollar blunder." and his
name was anathema to Mr.. Truman.
It most certainly was q cuss word
to the Air Force.
But now, less than two years later.
Radford has bounced back. It is
being widely Speculated that PreSi-
dent Eisenhower may name him to
a high post, perhaps Chief Of Naval
Operations or even chairman Of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
At the very least, it appears crystal
clear Admiral Radford will play an
important role in setting future
Pacific. and particularly Far East.
policies. He already has paid one
visit to the White House.
Eisenhower Sold
"Raddy." say his old friends and
admirers, certainly sold himself
to Gen. Eisenhower during Ike's
trip to Korea in December"
Before his flight out to the Far
East and the leisurely trip back to
Pearl Harbor aboard the cruiser
Helena. Gen. Eisenhower had known
Admiral Radford only slightly. Their
paths had seldom crossed. as the
general gained his reputation in
Europe while the admiral fought
In the Pacific. But during the
Korean trip. Admiral Radford fire.
quently was closeted with the
President-elect.
When Gen. Eisenhower boarded
his plane at Pearl Harbor for the
flight home he turned to Admiral
Radford and cordially commented.
I'll be seeing more of you."
That remark started the specula-
ton that the Chief Executive plans
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the executive department to exer-
else discretion in the application Of
the principle of protective tariffs so
as to serve the best interests Of the
Nation as a whole. BY eliminating
the necessity for large-scale foreign
aid spending, taxes could be reduced,
and through the expanded import
program the cost of living could be
reduced The plan would retain
adequate safeguards against reduc-
ton in the standard of living Of
Americans.
It would also present free hand
to American business and industry
to solve economic problems here and
abroad through normal trade chan
nels, with Government assistance
limited to a few specific fields where
short-term arrangements must be
made to care for immediate needs.
This all sounds good to the new
Republican administration, but will
the Democratic report be released?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-15

opposed to the seniority system and
you go around telling everybody that
Something Should Be Done.
Ten years from now, moving
steadily up the ladder with the rest,
the Craftsmanship of your favorite
committee at last in Sight-if you
can only manage to get reelected
about four more times and if old
aWhosit either retires or drops dead
you will find yourself taking a
different. view. Right now. however,
it hurts, and you get impatient, and
you join the annual movement to
Get Rid of Seniority. But seniority
stays, and so do you, and presently
the two Of you get together nicely
and you say nothing more about it.
Poles a Mile Apart
In much the same practical
fashion the political situation also
takes care of itself. You swiftly
realize that your world has two
poles, separated by approximately a
mile of Pennsylvania avenue. Of
at the other end Of it there is a
personality and a residence you can
never forget. If you're in the mi-
nority you sometimes find yourself
moved to say rather nasty things
about the personality, and the resi-
dence becomes cuss word.
1.-THE White Housed" you say vio-
lently; or. in moments of greatest
disgust, 1.-THE White House!!!". If
you are in the majority, life can be
beautiful. You may even get invited
down to lunch, and afterward your
picture will be taken on the steps
and Somebody will give big grin
and maybe even put his arm around
your shoulders, and the papers back
home will give it terrific play.
On the Hill, you find the planets
more numerous but the orbits just
as rigidly defined. In the House
things revolve around those two out
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duty in the 1930s. but always con.
centrated on improving the tech.
niques Of carrier flying. A week be.
fore the attack on Pearl Harbor, he
took over the Nays air training
program and was made rear ad.
miral.
The Navy needed mass production
of high-quality pilots and Admiral
Radford inaugurated a vigorous
program. In two years 1t was run
ming like clockwork with flight
training at universities and primary
training at inland centers. Some Of
his airmen got their first carrier
practice on the Great Lakes. Twenty
thousand pilots were being turned
out annually within two years.
Commended Carriers
In 1943 Admiral Radford took over
command of carrier division in the
Pacific. He fought his first major
battles in the invasion of Tarawa
and Maxim.
The admiral returned to Washing.
ton in 1914 as Assistant Deputy
Chief of Naval Operations for Air.
Returning to the Pacific in few
months, he became q carrier task
group commander and joined the
first carrier strikes after Gen.
Jimmy Doolittle's - against the
Japanese home islands.
A man Of charm and an able,
forceful lobbyist, Admiral Radfcrd
returned here in late 1945 as Deputy
Chief Of Naval Operations for Air
to participate in negotiations over
the uniflcation act. The creation Of
q separate Air Force and the merger
Of land. sea and air forces into a
Defense Department was approved.
But Admiral Radford remained
diehard. He saw dire possibilities Of
damage to the Navy. more particu.
larly to its air arm. and to the Ma.
rine Corps.
He was sent out Of Washington
to command an Atlantic task feet
but In 1913 returned as Vice Chief
Of Naval Operations under Admiral
Denfeld. When Admiral Sherman
succeeded Admiral Denfeld follow.
ing "the revolt Of the admirals" the
next spring. Admiral Radford was
sent to his present job at Pearl
Harbor.
There above the glistening harbor.
the admiral and his wife live on
beautiful Makalapa drive in big
nouse-the one in which he enter
tanned Gen. Eisenhower 49, nestled
among palms. and tropical shrub.
berry. All Is peace and calm.
But things certainly will be hop
ping Il the scrappy admiral shifts,
his base to the Pentagon.