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The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-03-03
Wutch On The
POTOMAC
by
Robt. G. Spivack

Civil Rights, Politics, and other
businessmen. Spessard Holland
(D-Fla.) was talking with news
papermen the other day about
the debate on civil rights, now
getting under way in the Senate.
Everyone was guessing how long
the talk would 60 on = three
weeks, four weeks, six, eight?
Holland said he was prepared
to do his share of speechmaking.
"But I don't think the country
will like it if this debate goes
on forever. There are other i'm
portant thinks in the world" he
said.
Holland is, of course, strongly
opposed to any tough civil rights
bill But, he continued, the mood
is for legislation of some kind.
So he more or less resigned to
getting it over with"
His was scarcely an inspired
approach to a problem which
troubles millions of white Amer
leans and hundreds of millions OF
the worlds colored peoples. But
inadvertently Sen. Holland gave
away the frame of mind in which
some Southerners now approach
the problem of equal rights for
Negroes. The old do-or-die-for
Dixie spirit is gone, and probably
will not be missed.
X X X
Hollands conversation was
elaborated upon in panel show
put on by News Associates, a
new service for radio stations
that originates in the Capitol. In
the give-and-take with reporters
several things emerged. He ex-
poets Senate Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson to water
down civil rights bill until it is
palatable to the Old South.
If Johnson does not do this,
Holland warned, then those 300
delegates he will be taking with
him to the Los Angeles Demo
cratic convention may begin
slipping away. But Holland was
completely &c onf d mt" that
Johnson would not yield to "un-
reasonable" Northerners.
X X X
The Forand Bill - When Hol-
land spoke of taking up other
important business during the
current session of Congress, he
became a little vague. AS con-
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NV qpes have often included fe Stupidity Of matters mill
ary too waste in that OF energy time and money I've
never been able understand the effort which goes into ways
and means killing not in view OF the great and humane need Tor
ways and of saving human lives Last week received from
Peter Charlton of Los Angeles who Chairman Of the Committee
for Sane Nucear Policy there piece he'd written along the
line Of nv qpe about that bit of waste and stupidity.
Peter Informed me that land hope every American citizen
learns of these facts and mus them for the sake OF san
1.-THE United States has spent half trilon dollars on mill
tary endeavo the end Of World War H. The World spends
on military efforts each day the amount Of $274o0oOoo nclud
ing Christmas and Easter!
In the piece written by Peter he quoted Bertrand Russell
from speech made in Manchester earlier this year. having
sdd
Man. like other meat eating animals is considerably addict
ed erocy and always has been but unlike most carnvor
his erocty mainly directed against his species think
that the past although people have been ferocious they
knew how and have done each other much harm they
could there were limits their skill and the harm they could do
to each other enough to wipe out the Species But now
tnu are different now that degree OF feocioUs feeling
which has always existed capable Of wpng out the whole hu
man race And we've to face therefore, the fact that unless
we can learn feel less hatred for each other cannot go
The cannot survive unless learns greater degree OF fo
Grafton and mutual kindness"
And then Peter proceeded the economic meat by pointing
out:
I'VE talk brotherhood and and prepare spend
forty billions Of dollars this country during the present year for
massive violence in order prevent it. What we took sub
santia part Of the forty billion dollars and put to construct
i've use atons? What we took tiryou billion dollars and
put them to use? What could we do with them?"
Peter Charlton who in high finance and knows about such
things said the money would give U.s.
I. 10000 new high schools
z 10000 new elementary schools
g. 10000 new University buildings
T. 10000 college dormafories
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Rebel Of East Carolina College.)
Interviewer: Do you feel that
recent developments have borne
out the wisdom of the Supreme
Court decision concerning inte-
grafton?
Mr.. Green: I talked to Carl
Sandburg about this. I said, carl
let's get out a statement" He
said, Hell, letum fight, letum
fight" He said. people gotta
bleed, you know, kill each other
and so on" And he said, I'm
busy" Like old Archimedes, he
was drawing some figures in a
tub of sand. He invented all kinds
of things, discovered specific
gravity. And the Roman soldiers
captured the town and there was
shadow behind him. And he
said, "Please stand out Of the
light Well, it made this Roman
soldier mad, and he killed him,
you know. Well, I told Carl,
Don't you see him?" Well, he
said, II got my poetry to write. "
"Still there is Roman soldier in
the room with spear. He's here"
NO." he said. mo" l told Carl,
Don't you see him?"
Well, it's question of right
and wrong. I remember talking
to the President of the United
States once as a humble citizen,
and he said you couldn't settle
things today on the basis OF
right and wrong. said, What
do you settle them on?" He said,
"Expediency." So / figured to
myself wouldn't vote for him
next time, because I remember
ed George Washington who said
that nation was like man,
that it should have some code OF
honor, its obligations were sacred,
it's word was it's bond. So here
was the President of the United
States saying you can't do bust
ness that way. You've got to be
expedient.
Well, what's right? Was the
Supreme Court right? It was right
it was right. Then the events that
follow something that is right
may be the events caused by
people who are wrong. So, when
you ask me, 'Have the events
borne out the wisdom?" | have
to answer that there are certain
events. Some were caused by a
man named Faubus. His events
did not prove the unwisdom of
the Supreme Court but proved
the foolishness, the narrownesS of
Faubus.
Put, it is right that a man is a
man. Jesus Christ said so, and l
believe it. When he said, Suffer
little children to come unto me
for such is tie Kingdom of Heav-
en-" he didn't say let the brown
ones stay back or the black ones
hide, bring on the white ones.
When Charlie Aycock said, Il
want to educate all the people, !"
somebody said, "Godamighty,
you mean all?" He said, II mean
ALL" The Governor of North Car
DINA, not too long ago, told me
right in there, 81 believe the way
you do" l said 'Why?' he said,
81 have to play it the other way"
He's told me that twice. He be-
lieves, but he says we have to
go slow. l said, How Slow"
Three hundred years we have
been here; 1860 North Carolina
started down there in the Curri-
tuck Peninsula Over twelve mil
lion Negroes have lived and died
here. Not six have reached their
full potential. They work out
here for me.
Some with voices, they talk
down around low C. Great voices,
Lawrence Tibbetts in the Metro
politan. Could be, but never will
be, until the Supreme Court has
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-03-03
As An American
Paul Green Speaks On The South

uldOc ltS IullIlS. ~ we LUZ AO
body but ourselves. A fellow
came over here from Kinston
said, Jesus Christ, we people
down in Kinston have built
four hundred thousand dollar
school for the Negroes" said,
eyes, and I'm sure tired of build
ing for the Negroes; l want them
to build for themselves. Pay their
own taxes, get up from here. $50
l told Luther Hodges, "No won
der you go hunting for industry,
but if over a million Negroes in
North Carolina got good wages,
were lawyers, doctors, owned
farms, you wouldn't have to hunt
industry
About the time you fellows
were ten years old, they had in
North Carolina black arithmetic
and white arithmetic. A Negro
teacher with an A certificate
couldn't get as good price as a
white teacher with an A cefti-
ficate. Well, now they get the
same pay with an A certificate.
Nobody's been hurt. So, right
here in Chapel Hill, there are
three or four hundred Negro boys
and girls, fine bright minds but
will never go to college, will
never realize their full potential
because they haven't got money
to go on. But they could go here,
they could work on Saturday and
at nights, they could somehow,
they could borrow from the loan
fund. So what a stupid thing,
when a person just because he
happens to be darker than some-
one else has to sue for his rights.
And Thomas Jefferson said that
the purpose of Government IS
to see that the talents of its peo-
pie come to fruition. The Negro.
race is talented race. So, every
time we kick them down we rob
not only them but ourselves.
Of course, we are losing the
confidence of the world, because
we have been so slow. This hor-
rible thing down in Mississippi,
Emmett Till and this Parker boy
You young fellows gonna see
things done right. You see, we
wear this Christian religion as
something in our lapel. We don't
really believe in Jesus Christ. We
go to Church and we pray to
him and we adopt him as our
folk God to fit our folk mores.
But if you really believe what
that Man said, Brotherhood: |
am my brothers keeper" why
yes, yes, yes. Jesus Christ didn't
know this prejudice. And He
would have been the first to
have said, Yes, the Supreme
Court is right, but bit slow.
But, thank God, they have given
the truth, that is that no man is
to be denied his rights because
of his color. So the events have
simply bubbled up, some due to
prejudice, some to ignorance. So,
as the Attorney General said to
me, Green, you're reckless"
And l said to him, "Yeah, and
you are too damn slow" So we
had quits. Some due to reckless
ness, some due to hardness, and
so on. So, it has got to be, it's
got to be, and we have got to
come to it. We have got dull,
dead fellow up there in Washing
ton named Sam Erwin. / was in
school with him and / asked my
self, What did they teach Sam
Erwin here at the University"
They didn't teach much. Some
how, they didn't reach him. So
he fought this thing all the way
down. was in Asia and saw the
results - the reaction of Asia to
the Supreme Court. It made
tremendous difference.
Evening star., 1960-01-20

were Foreign Minister Ali
chiro Fujiyama, Mr.. Mitsu-
jiro Ishii, member of the
House of Representatives and
chairman of the board of the
Liberal Democratic Party,
and Mr.. Tadashi Adachi,
president Of the Japanese
Chamber of Commerce and
Industry.
The huge horse shoe table
was adorned with masses of
flowers in the Japanese ma
tional colors-white chrysan-
themums and snap dragons
and red carnations. The
famous Mayflower gold SER
vice was also used for the
state occasion.
Other American guests
were Undersecretary of State
and Mrs. Merchant. Deputy
Secretary of Defense and
Mrs. Douglas, Army Chief of
Staff and Mrs. Lyman L.
Lemnitzer, former Under
secretary of State and Mrs.
Robert Murphy and United
States Ambassador to Japan
Douglas Macarthur, II.
Completing the list were
Assistant Secretary of State
and Mrs. J. Graham Parsons,
Assistant Secretary of De-
Evening star., 1960-01-20

Prime Minister Honored

AS his historic visit draws
to a close Japanese Prime
Minister Kishi will be hon.
ored at a dinner this eve
ming given by Secretary of
State and Mrs. Christian
Herter at Anderson House.
Earlier today the schedule
called for Prime Minister
Kishi to be honored at a
luncheon given by the Ma
tional Press Club followed by
a meeting with members of
the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Com mittee at the
Capitol.
Last evening the visitor was
honored at a dinner given by
Japanese Ambassador and
Mrs. Asakai at the Mayflower
Hotel.
Ranking Guests
Among the ranking Ameri-
can guests were Secretary of
Defense and Mrs. Gates, Sen
ator and Mrs. William Full
bright. Senator and Mre
Everett Dirksen, Senator and
Mrs. Prescott Bush, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Walter
Judd and Representative
Clement j. Zablocki.
Leading the japanese group
Evening star., 1960-01-20

ticles for the display tables
is Mrs. Glen Long, an Army
wife and member of the hard
working Decorating Commit
tee.
In keeping with the inter-
national theme there will be
leis for the honor guests and
wanda orchids as place cards
on the horseshoe shaped
luncheon table.
Gold pagodas will mark the
center of the table and on
the two mantels of the large
room doll collections will be
on display.
Honor guests and speakers
at the event will be Mr.. and
Evening star., 1960-01-20
SERVICE NOTES
SERVICE NOTES
Wives Plan Luncheon
With an Eye to Future

A mere male Is no match
for a designing wife, even
though he be student or fac
ulty member at the high
est educational level of the
armed services-the National
War College.
This is borne out by some
skillful hints to be dropped
by Wives Club members at
a luncheon planned for
Wednesday, February 3 at
the Officers Club. Fort Lesley
]. McNair.
1t will have an interna-
tional theme and husbands
have been invited to the So
cial hour preceding the /
o'clock event.
Going Overseas
In March the student hus-
bands will leave on trips
overseas. Divided into five
teams, they will visit five dif-
ferent geographical areas of
the world. So - the wives
have arranged to have five
Evening star., 1960-01-20
Counts
Daughter
To Wed

Mrs. Macmillan E. Gevers
of New York announces the
engagement of her daughter
Miss Anne de Baillet-Latour
to Mr.. Fergus Reid, Sd, SON
of Mr.. and Mrs. Reid, jr., Of
New York and York Harbor,
Me.
The bride-elect is also the
daughter of the late Count
Guy de Baillet-Latour Of
Brussels, Belgium.
She is the granddaughter
of United States Ambassador
to Italy and Mrs. James
Clement Dunn of Washing
ton and Rome. Miss de
Baillet-Latour is the niece Of
Mrs. Laurance Armour and
of Mrs. A. Watson Armour of
Lake Forest, III.
Mr.. Reid is the grandson
of Mrs. William Marston
Seabury of New York and
the late Mr.. Seabury, and of
the late Mr.. and Mrs. Fergus
Reid of Norfolk, Va.
Miss de Baillet-Latour was
graduated from Miss Porter's
School. Pennington, Conn,
and attended the University
of Madrid. Spain. She was
presented to society in Ma
drid and in Lake Forest in
1855.
Mr.. Reid attended st.
Paul's School, Concord, N.
H, and was graduated from
Yale University in 1855,
where he was a member Of
VOLTS Head Society.
He served as a lieutenant
in the Army in Germany for
two years and is presently
associated with the firm Of
Dick and Merle-Smith. Mr..
Reid is a member of the
Racquet and Tennis Club
and the Meadowbrook Golf
Club.
Evening star., 1960-01-20

display tables down the CEN
ter of the clubs Crystal
Room. Each table will be ar
ranged to show items it
would be nice to receive as
gifts from one of the five
far-away areas.
Navy, Marine and Coast
Guard wives are in command
for this party with Mrs. Ray
Calhoun as chairman. Senior
hosteSses are Mrs. Bernhard
Bieri and Mrs. Glover Fergu-
son.
Display Tables
Junior hoStesses are Mrs.
Carl ANIME, Mrs. Edwin Bell,
Mrs. Don Brown, Mrs. Dun
can Campbell, Mrs. Paul Van
Leunan, Mrs. George Rine-
hart and Mrs. Stockton
Strong. all Navy wives. Also
Mrs. Victor Croizat and Mrs.
Louis Metzger. Marine wives,
and Mrs. Harold Strong Of the
United States Coast Guard.
Collecting the coveted ar
Evening star., 1960-01-20

Mrs. Harry Overstreet, whose
recent book on the USSR has
been receiving wide attention.
Others will include the COM
mandant and deputies and
their wives-Lt. Gen. and Mrs.
Thomas L. Harold, Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Richard Phil
lip, Mai. Gen. Jared v. Crabb
and former Ambassador and
Mrs. Selden Chaplin.
e. M. D.
Evening star., 1960-01-20

fense and Mrs. John N. Irwin,
II, Mrs. Wiley Buchanan,
whose husband, the Chief of
Protocol is in South America
making arrangements for the
Presidents tour; Acting Chief
Of Protocol and Mrs. Clement
Conger, President of the
Japan America Society and
Mrs. Clarence Meyer and Mr..
and Mrs. David M. Bane of
the State Department.
Japanese Guests
Members of the Japanese
House of Representatives
who are also in the Prime
Minister'S party and who at
tended the dinner were Mr..
Kikuichiro Yamaguchi, Mr..
Etsusa buro Shiina, Mr..
Tokuyasu Fukuda, Mr..
Shunichi Matsumoto. Mr..
Junya Koizumi, Mrs. Harue
Yamashita, Mr.. TakaZo Kato
and Mr.. Morio Sasaki.
Members of the House of
Councillors in the party were
Mr.. Seiichi Inoue and Mr..
Keikichi M asuhara. Also
present was Mr.. Shuzo
Hayashi, director-general of
the Legislation Bureau Of the
Japanese Cabinet.
Evening star., 1960-01-20

There still few reservations available for omor-
rows pm. Bridal show in the Couturier Salon. You
are invited to stop by the Bridal Salon and pick up
yours.
Evening star., 1960-07-01

morning and look at the
mess around me, I Just get
sick. I rush around getting
everyone breakfast and by
the time George leaves the
house I feel exhausted. /
don't think I'd do a thing
all day if the kids didn't
scream for attention.
THE COUNCILS VIEW
Adele should accept the
fact that her home cannot
be a showplace while she
has tiny children. She should
set a few reasonable, mini
mum standards. If she can
not keep up with those, she
should lower the standard a
bit.
Psychologists find that
most Of US can overcome a
feeling Of being overwhelmed
by simply tackling the most
urgent jobs first. With three
small children, laundry is
probably a big problem.
Adele should get that out of
the way with her early
morning energy. Then she
Evening star., 1960-07-01
JIM BISHOP:
REPORTER
A Duel in the Long Branch

Dodge City was a rough
town in the 1S70s, A dusty
road was called Front street.
There were hitching rails,
some boarding houses and
shops, and a place called the
Long Branch. A sign in the
middle Of the road said:
THE Carrying of Fire Arms
Strictly Forbidden" Under
meath it said: "Try Prickly
Ash Bitters."
In the latter part of the
decade, as the Kansas His
torical Quarterly reminds me,
william B. Bat" MaSterson
was sheriff. He was paid $75
a month. He wasn't great.
In the summer of 1878, Dep
uty Marshal McCarty was
shot in the Long Branch.
Fannie keenan,, alias Dora
Evening star., 1960-07-01
DEAR ABBY
Free-Looders Need a TeIIinq OFF
sy ABIGAIL VAN suREN

DEAR ABBY: I have q
bunch Of free-loading rela-
tives who pile in on my poor
old mother every Sunday.
Cars with as many as eight
Of them drive up and they
all stay for supper. Ma is in
her 80s, and that is a lot
of work for an old woman to
do all by herself. Nobody even
stays to help her with the
dishes.
I can't get over there every
Sunday to take some of the
load of her. These relatives
are so cheap they don't even
bring anything towards the
meal. so Ma has to dig into
her deep freeze. She is too
good-natured to tell these
freeloaders what she thinks
Of them. Pa almost blew his
top last Sunday when the rel
atives brought some of their
friends. Is 1t my place to say
something or not?
DAUGHTER.
You bet it's your place.
Tell them OF, and do IL be-
fore next Sunday.
y + y =
DEAR ABBY: How can I
get my wife to remember
what she should remember
and forget what she should
forget? When I take her to
the grocery store she forgets
what she went in to buy. But
she can remember when I got
drunk at the Elks Club dance
New Years eve in 1922. She
is 76 and I'm n.
HENPECKED.
Forgetting what happened
yesterday and remembering
what happened 40 years ago
is not uncommon in folks
your age, and it's not serious.
Just remember to thank your
lucky stars every night that
you still have each other.
DEAR ABBY: When I
married Alfred 18 years ago,
he was a widower with two
tiny tots-one daughter and
one son. I raised them both
to adulthood and saw them
married. I prided myself on
being a good mother and
everyone will tell you I did
a fine job.
Last year Alfred's daughter
fell victim to a fatal disease.
I nursed her night and day
until she died. 1t was a great
shock and loss to all of us.
What ! want to know Is,
when do stepmothers start
getting a little credit along
with the hard work of raising
another woman's children?
Evening star., 1960-07-01
FAMOUS FABLES
By E. E, EDGAR

LETTER: Finnish COM
poser Jean SibeliuS could not
bring himself to hurt an
other musicians feelings.
One night, he and a friend
were listening to a broadcast
of one of his symphonies.
The performance was so
inept that it moved even the
gentle composer to anger.
I'm going to write a let
ter to that conductor" he
growled, telling him what I
think of such a slovenly per-
formance."
The following week. the
friend met the offending
conductor.
You know, I received the
most wonderful letter from
Sibelius," said the conductor.
"He sent it to me after hear
ing me on the radio last
week"
The friend looked at the
letter, the very one Sibelius
had threatened to write in a
fit of anger. But there we're
no angry words in it. Instead,
it was filled with praise for
the conductors accomplish
ments.
ENJOYMENT: Like all
playwrights. George Bernard
Shaw suffered from opening
night jitters. Once. at the
opening of one of his plays,
he was seated next to a lady
who applauded vigorously
when the first act curtain
came down. Then she turned
to him and said:
why aren't you applaud
ing? Aren't you enjoying the
play?" ,
II didn't come here to en-
Joy it," growled Shaw. I'm
the author"
Evening star., 1960-07-01

the entire population in the
United States will have been
protected by this simple
method.
Only the "new" makes
news. Don't let's forget
about the victories over the
great scourges: Smallpox,
typhoid. diptheria. tetanus
and many more. These were
once considered too strong to
defeat, too.
SOM EBAY WE WILL
overcome cancer and post
pone heart disease.
And even the common
cold, Mr.. D. No kidding!
Dr.. Steincrohn'S ledfet,
Maybe Your Heart Trou-
ble'S Imaginary" Uill be
mailed on receipt of a
stamped, Selt-nddreSSed en-
uelope and 10 cents in coin
for handling charges. Ad-
dress DR.. Steincrohn In care
of The Euening Star.
(Released by The Bell Syndicate)
Monday: Pain.
Evening star., 1960-07-01

Hand, was also shot and
killed.
CITY MARSHAL Edward
j. Masterson was slaughtered
by drunken cowboys. On
October q. 1877, George
Wilson. the only man in Jail,
escaped. The most exciting
news occurred on April S,
1879, when Frank Loving and
Levi Richardson dueled with
guns in the Long Branch.
The Ford County Globe re-
ported the story as follows:
There is seldom witnessed
in any civilized town or coun-
try such a scene as transpired
at the Long Branch saloon.
in this city, last Saturday
evening, resulting in the kill
ing of Levi Richardson, a
well-known freighter, by a
gambler named Frank Low
ing.
For several months Loving
had been living with a wom-
an toward whom Richardson
seems to have cherished ten.
der feelings and on one or
two occasions they have
quarreled and even come to
blows. Richardson was a man
who had lived for several
years on the frontier, and
though well liked in many
respects, he had cultivated
habits of bold and daring,
which are always likely to
get a man into trouble. He
was young and strong and
reckless.
Loving is a man Of whom
we know but very little. He
is a gambler by profession;
not much of a rowdy, but
more of the cool and desper-
ate order, when he has a
killing on hand. He is about
25 years old.
"As stated in the evidence,
they met, one said: I don't
believe you will fight The
other answered: Try me and
see,' and Immediately both
drew murderous revolvers and
at it they went, in a room
filled with people, the leaden
missives flying in all direc-
tions. There is no telling
how long the fight might
have lasted had not Richard
son been pierced with bullets
and Loving's pistol been left
without a cartridge.
Richardson was shot in
the breast, through the side
and through the right arm.
1t seems strange that Loving
was not hit, except a slight
scratch on the hand, as the
two men were so close to-
gether that their pistols al
most touched each other.
Eleven shots were fired, six
by Loving, five by Richard
son. Richardson only lived a
few moments after the shoot
ing. Loving was placed in
Jail to await the verdict of
the coroner's jury, which was
self defense and he was
released"
DODGE CITY must have
been a great place. Much
tougher, I would guess, than
Greenwich Village.
(copyright, 1860, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)