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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-12
TUESDAY, JANUARY IL, 1860
Rosy Pictures

president Eisenhower p a n t e d a
rather rosy picture in his "State of the
Union address last week. Peace had been
maintained among nations; the steel strike
had been settled; prosperity was high, and
the next budget could be balanced with
81 billion surplus, which could be used to
reduce the national debt. That is the state
ment from ringmaster No. in the two
ring circus now about to open.
Governor Lindsay Almond gives his
= estate of the Commonwealth address this
week when the Legislature Of Virginia will
open its biennial regular session. Governor
Almond has proposed per cent sales
tax to the Legislators of Virginia in letters
to them No doubt he will officially propose
this additional tax in his opening address
Wednesday. Virginia, of course is in an
era of prosperity, on the eve of industrial
development, and is one of the few states
in the union not burdened with debt In
fact, Virginia has no obligations which can
not be paid from current assets That
probably will be the report from the ring
master of ring No g
Nhen congress gets to work there Will
be many divergent opinions as to the ac-
curacy Of the Presidents message. Senator
Stuart Symington, of Missouri, told tele-
vision audience on Sunday that the Pres-
dent had been misinformed about the strong
defenses he reported. United State defenses
are inadequate to meet the threat of the
Communist combine in the world. we
fro{h how.
vices, Army, Navy, Air Forces, are bicker-
ing, and the research in missiles is suffer-
ing, he indicated.
This point should be carefully brought
out in Congress. If the President is correct
IN his estimate the people should know it
definitely. II Senator Symington is correct,
no suberfuge should be used to hold the
fact from the people of the United States.
We do know that dangers lurch every
where. Particularly is this true in the
western Hemisphere. Cuba, 80 miles off
the coast of Florida, is definitely becoming
a Communist stronghold. On Cuba is
Guantanamo Bay where the strongest
American naval base is most strategicallv
located. This has to be protected in all
events, as it is the key defense for South
America, the Caribbean and the Panama
Canal
Russia and the Communists NAV be
willing to operate in an atmosphere of
peace, but it IS certain that they will also
operate to weaken the free nations through
political strategy, infitration and intrigue.
We DO not know whether it is best to meet
the attack headon or continue to live under
unceasing threats and pressures Russia
needs time to consolidate its present posi-
ton. An atmosphere devoid of war and war
threats, does not necessarily mean peace.
The Communist apparatus will continue
the cold war" psychologicaly, through
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-12

not a single Negro shall ever be
admitted. We must approach this
;;..step" with elear-headed OBJ
jectfHty now that its alternative is
being made the closing Of public
schools. as in Georgia.
II token Indignation means
eventual mass migration. We must
be prepared 10 see the schools
closed, am certain, But if ii does
not, and If the court ruling shows
1t does not. then We must be ma
ture enough to consider whether it
may not be a temporary and face
saving device to which Negroes
themselves vii! soon refuse to SUB
scribe.
Meanwhile Prince Edward IS OH
Exhibit A in psychology and cool
determination, with Virginia 5
placement flaw ruled out.
FROM THE NINTH GRADE at
OceanWay School in Jacksonville
Fla, Miss jeanette Rice writes al
the suggestion Of her civics teache!
to ask me ''as member Of the
Democratic Party what you think
the Democratic Party stands for. =
don. want to be cute With q
serious young woman 50 I'll say
that THE pparty as 4 whole has
been standing for -four parts the
Workingman. the Negro. the city
people and the South But trying tt
be whole with such incompatible
parts is causing explosion erosion
and compound fractures.
Where there are only two parties
each much include differing points
Of view. But there is supposed Il
be a common bond In tie past thu
Democrats had in common thu
masses. The Republicans had tht
classes. Originally. too, the Demo
Gratis cor their equivalents Wer;
for a strictly limited government
while the Republicans wanted {
loose construction of the C9nstitu
ton which lei the government Ok
| much more
TODAY THE SITUATION Is lie
! Versed in both cases.
It is the Democrats who are foI
the classes. who think in terms @
pressure groups, Of putting then
all together willy -nilly ITO MAKE
majority Republicans tend to gen
eral appeals to all the people Al.
today It is the Democrats Who wan
a lot Of government. not the Re
pubIcans. Especially a lot Of GOV
eminent money to spend
\ ASK MISS RICE AND her civic.
teacher. pplease ma ans, to consider
/ that so-called Southern Democrat.
constitute today a new party o.
third force in politics They are
nearer Republicans than Democrats
nationally, and 50 vote il Congress
| Their combined vote represents
now the majority of Americans. Til:
combination is called The Coalition
with capital C.. Sooner or later
it will come to be recognized fol
what it is, new lineup within
the two party system.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-12
John Temple Graves
The Public Lost Steel Strike
rs THERE A DOCTOR IN THE

HOUSE?"
The issue is, unresolved.s he
threat is multiplied.
The union says the steel settle
ment isn't inflationary.
The companies say it isn't.
The government says it isn't.
But We-the- people know well. as
do the three principle parties. that
it is. What we don't know is what
to do about it this side of ma
tional socialism and bankruptcy or
a corporate state The monopoly
power Of a vast and Well-heeled
union has forced an immense new
burden on the national economy
its wage costs. its, prices, its for
eign trade The monopoly power of
the steel companies acting together
will pass the wage increase on to
the peple after decent interval
Of respect for the dead American
principle of competition.
is THERE A DOCTOR IN THE
HOUSE?
Or, rather. is there a peoples
advocate in the House? Or Sen
ate? Or Presidential lineup?
In spite of his part Richard Nixon
was boo-ed at the big Buffalo labor
victory meeting. And shortly he
may be boo-ed by the public. too.
eventually. He came with set
tlement, not a philosophy.
There is still time for him to
know he'll never have labor's vote
or to show a profile of courage
the profile Jack Kenney wins a
Pulitzer prize for a book about
but doesn't show when shoW-downs
come. The steel settlement is not
a settlement. There had to be an
end and its makers deserve credit,
but the humiliating nature of the
end goes on the air. now. II
shouts for a congressional end to
the basic evil monopolistic. die.
tatorial labor.
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY is
b o t h unflinching and unfailing
Without flinching it closed its pub
lie schools when ordered to in
tegrate. But it has not failed its
colored children in doing all that
can be done to meet the resulting
crisis. If the NAACP won't ! e /
these colored children take ad-
vantage Of the proffered help. the
proffer is in the record anyhow
Meanwhile the NAACP has pass
ed around nuts, fruits and candies
to the children.
Prince Edward stands as Exhibit
A for the placement acts psych-
logical criteria. 1t is evidence Of a
psychology 50 adverse that educa-
ton under it is impossible. Surely
whatever makes education irnpos-
sible can be rejected under the
placement law. The legal considera-
ton is not that Negroes are being
refused but that the psychology
created by Negro admissions is be-
ing recognized. It's the psychology
not the color. "See general
Myrdal'' as Chief Justice Warren
would say.
COMMENTING ON AN NAACp
pamphlet called Target for 1863"
Editor Barrye Wall, of Prince Ed
wards Farmville Herald, sees a
proposal for ultimate obstruction
Of two great races the white
and the Negro changing that
which God in His wisdom has es-
tablished, and making the people
of America mongrel nation
Insofar as so-called token inte-
grafton is a step to this or any
traction OF this 1t must be opposed
as resolutely as massive integra-
ton. The NAACP doesn't approve
of token integration. But even if ii
did. the mere fact of its place on
an NAACP program should not fix
the South's own position. Nor should
the SOutfr's position be fixed by
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-12

Japan has employed HON Dewey for one
year with his fees and expense account
amounting to 100000. In some ways, any
how, this beats being former President.
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
A 'help-mate' is wife who can walk
right up to a medicine cabinet and find a
box of aspirin you said wasn't there.
Wayne County (Miss.) News.
When one of the most satisfying feelings
you can get is to take off something tight,
you amt as young as you used to be-Pike
County (Ga.) Journal.
Only in TV western can horse 90 full
tilt for an hour or SO without even breath
ing hard.-Memphis Commercial Appeal
Evening star., 1960-06-17
Police Release
Staying Suspect

Police have been unable to
find evidence linking a IT.
year-old suspect with the Siay-
ing last Monday of Druggist
J. William Umhau.
1t, Charles Burns of the
homicide squad said the youth,
who has been questioned in
termittently since Wednesday,
He was arrested in a Seventh
street movie theater as a pos
sible suspect in the fatal beat
ing and robbery of the &C.
year-old druggist. Mr.. Um-
hau was beaten to death with
a blunt instrument in his drug
store at North Capitol and I
streets.
The District of Columbia
Pharmaceutical Association to-
day offered a $500 reward for
the capture of the person or
persons who committed the
crime.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
Youth on Murder
Charge Ordered
ToSt. EIizubeths

John S. Sweeney was ordered
taken to st. Elizabeths Hospi-
tai for 80 days today against
his will for tests by Govern
ment psychiatrists, after the
judge learned he had refused
to talk to them while awaiting
trial in Jail.
The youth is charged with
first degree murder in the fatal
stabbing of 20-year-old Judith
Hubbard, an American Univer-
sity freshman.
The case opened a new aspect
of the Districts constantly de-
bated insanity law. The law re-
quires chat the Government
must prove sanity beyond a
reasonable doubt once the de-
fendant has produced some eVi-
dence of mental illness.
Sweeney is being examined
by three psychiatrists and a
psychologist appointed py his
parents. On advice of his 1T
torney, he had refused 80 talk
to the clinical director of st.
Elizabeths in District jail,
where he has been held with
out bond since the April 26
stabbing.
Chief Judge David A. Pine
ruled today, during the Dis
trict Court hearing, that the
law is designed to bring cut
the truth and should not be
designed to impede these pro-
cesses."
Defense Attorney Myron G.
Ehrlich had protested that
Sweeney could not be forced
into a mental institution be-
cause there had been no evi-
dence so far that he was men,
tally i'll, as required by law.
Evening star., 1960-06-17

DAUMIER, a great modern
artist, might have leveled his
tremendous power of satire
on the English jury system.
But had he done so, there
would have been IL jurors in
the box.
On the right of the jury
is a two-faced person, the
judge or prosecutor or both.
On the left there is a mo-
ronic looking female wear
ing a black tent.
An interesting purchase
has not yet arrived. Howard
Cook, a successful American
muraliSt, was commissioned
to do a wall in the new build
ing of the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, MINI.
The theme is professional
integrity. One section had to
do with the law. Judge Beard,
using the m arriage fee
money, has purchased the
artists preliminary sketch of
that part of the mural.
So far the Judge has spent
a little more than $4,000 pur-
chasing, for the most part,
the work of local artists.
The diScouraging thing is
lack of origins ality. The
artists all derive from Ameri-
can disciples of the French
impreSsioniStS. Here is a
Maurice PendergaSt, there
a Childe HasSam.
A recent acquisition is a
pin-headed PicasSo by a local
artist. 1t is on exhibit in the
room where litigants pay
court fees.
The public is asked to COM
ment.
Unaware that the picture
is purchased from matri-
monial fees foregone by the
judges, the public reaction
is:
What a waste of the tax
payers money!"
Evening star., 1960-06-17

Mr.. Estabrook, whose son,
Carl, jr., president of the STU
dent council, was not admitted
to the society charged that
teachers had used the society
as "a punitive measure" The
parents feel, he said, that the
society "is being used to keep
the students in line" and that
admission is denied to those
who do not conform to ad-
miniStration policy"
Mr.. Estabrook said there was
a disagreement between his son
and the school administration
over conduct of the student
council.
so Students Selected
Only so were selected for the
society out of the schools grad
uating class of $50, he said
when 100 could have been ad-
mitted under the groups by
laws.
One speaker, who said his
daughter had been admitted to
the group, defended the society
and said he was disturbed
that these parents went to such
lengths" in attacking it.
The society is a part of the
National Honor Society. Mem
bers are chosen by a nine
member faculty committee after
all students in the top 20 pei
cent scholastically have beer
graded by the entire faculty or
character, leadership and serv-
ice.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Outing Could Turn
Lee From Trouble

Lee is bad only when he's out
of her sight, his mother ex-
plains.
Even then. she says, the trou-
BILE he gets into is "just boyiSh
pranks."
But welfare workers know he
is headed for serious trouble
and possibly a life outside the
law.
His "boyish pranks" have
called him to the attention of
the police and court at least
four times.
Both of 12-year-old Lees
parents work hard all day to
make a decent home for their
seven children. Even so. they
barely manage.
Lee found a friend in the
court probation worker. He
asked her after a hearing to
take him to the dentist. The
worker suggested that one of
his parents would be a more
appropriate companion for such
a visit-but they never found
the time to go along.
A trip to camp would be a
chance for Lee to see adults
close up whose first concern is
for him. Their warmth could
draw him away from a future
on bleak, vagabond road.
Evening star., 1960-06-17

crashed into their automobile
in the 3700 block of Military
road NV.
Dead in one of the worst
crashes in District history were
Constantine J. (Brother Gus)
Poulos, 55-year-old restaurateur
and three of his employees, Ed
ward F. Johanek, Charles v.
Williams and Julian Thompson.
Police were chasing the stolen
car, driven by George E. Wat
son, 10, when it plowed into the
restaurant men, who were driv-
ing in the opposite direction.
Watson suffered a serious skull
fracture in the collision. A ju-
venile offender, he faces four
homicide charges if he RECEIVERS.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
1860 Democratic Split
Recalled in Sunday Star

THE STAR STORY-One hundred years ago. the DEM
ocrats were holding their convention in Baltimore
where, for the second time in two months thew
began trying to pick a presidential candidate To
md out how the news of the event appeared in The
Evening Star of the day, see SUNDAY The Star
Magazine This is another in SUNDAYS series of
stories of events leading up to the Civil War;
BLUEPRINT FOR DISASTER"-South Africa is the
number one racial tinderbox in the world today
What is happening there? Why? The answers to
these and other important questions are given by
Smith HempStone in his 9-part SERIES entitled
Blueprint for Disaster" on-the-scene report
which starts this Sunday in The Star.
AN ENVIED SUMNER JOB-Many D. c. area students
have summer jobs but one of the most coveted is
that of teen-age counselor at boys camp. On
Sunday, TEEN brings you closeup of some of the
young outdoorsmen who'll be working at this job
this summer
THE GREAT WESTERN MIGRATION-Beginning in
The Sunday Stars color comic section, read the next
episode in "The Old Glory Story" This new sequence
brings you the story of DR.. Marcus Whitman and
how he touched off one of the great migrations of
history-one which saved the present States OF
Oregon, Idaho and Montana for the Union.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1960-06-17
YELLING WARY
TWoCunnon
Will Assure
Sewer Boom

Brig. Gen A. C. yelling il
a resourceful man who learns
his lessons well. That's why
the Districts Engineer Com
missioner will have two cannon
instead of one to celebrate the
opening of a Potomac River
sewer construction project
June 20.
Too recent of memory is the
flasco of last April, when moth
ing but a laundering silence
followed the attempted firing
of a cannon marking ground
breaking for the Theodore
Roosevelt Bridge.
Today, Gen. yelling an.
nounced there will be not one
but two cannon for the forth.
coming ceremony. AS addi-
tional insurance for success
the Engineer Commissioner
personally will inspect the can
non, the ammunition (blanks)
and the crew.
The ceremony will mark the
start of construction on the
city's $75 million Potomac Rivel
interceptor sewer. Work or
the sewer line, which will rur
from the District line to the
treatment plant at Blue Plains
will get under way below two oi
the east approach ramps to the
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge.
A tentatively scheduled fea'
ture of the affair, to be held al
II am. near the intersection
of Constitution avenue anc
Rock Greek parkway, woulc
mark another first.
This idea J, is to bring in g
mobile water publication uni
and let the more hardy spec.
tators line up for a sanitary
if not appetizing, drink.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
CAMP FUND
FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp
Fund. Mail to The Evening
Star, Second street and Vir-
ginia avenue Sc, or bring
cash to The Star cashier.
A receptionist in the lobby
will direct you to the cash.
ier's Office.
The cost-$39.30 for IL
days. $19.65 for six days.
All funds received by The Eve
ning Star Summer Camp Fund
will go to Family and Child Serv-
ice Of Washington. a United Civ
ers Fund agency, for the use Of
its Summer Outings Committee.
Family and Child Services is
registered under the District Of
Columbia Charitable Solicitations
Act, No. 6-07-151.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
D. c. Area Jobs
Decline for MAY

The number of persons en-
ployed in the Washington Met
ropolitan Area declined slightly
last month, the United States
Employment Service said today.
Fred z. Hetzel, USES director
for the District, said 709,600
persons we're employed here in
May, 800 less than in April.
Unemployment last month
totaled 14,900, a decrease of
2,400 from the April figures.
Mr.. Hetzel said the jobless
percentage of 1.8 remains
smaller than in any other ma
jor area in the Nation.
Evening star., 1960-06-17

ly ready to make a climactiC
point, said nothing.
Faces Grass Roots
PUT him face down." said
Mr.. Winfrey.
Mr.. Bryan still tried to make
his point, his face pressing
heavily into the soft grass. To
experienced political reporters
it was sickening.
"He thought these men were
his friends" said cne.
HE thought he had support"
said another, looking at thte
crane.
II don't think he's heard
about the box" said a third.
He should have entered the
primaries" said a fourth.
Evening star., 1960-06-17
The
Rambler
Finds Art
Through Mutrimony
By GEORGE KENNEDY

In the church, matrimony
is a sacrament. In the law, it
is a contract. In the courts,
it is a nuisance.
The law Of the District of
Columbia is similar to that
of most of the States.
Marriage calls for a
license, a matter of registra-
tion for a small fee, and an
appearance before a clergy
man or a judge.
In Washington, those who
want the civil instead of the
eccleSiastic ceremony, are
usually sent to Municipal
Court.
Some are quite Stalwart
about this goddess ceremony.
Some are pathetically ro-
mantle. The bride may be
wearing a white wedding
gown.
The judges of Municipal
Court have agreed on a sim
pie ritual. 1t attempts the
social role of the church. But
there has been no reading of
the bans. And when the
Judge asks if anyone knows
any reason why the two be-
fore him should not be
united, it may be to an
empty chamber.
The usual fee offered the
judges is nothing.
However, there are those
who pay a stipend.
The judges are entitled to
keep this.
It's a custom as old as the
judiciary.
Evening star., 1960-06-17

AFEW YEARS AGO, Judge
Edward A. Beard of Munich
pal Court suggested to his
colleagues that they con-
tribute their fees for mar
riageS to a fund to buy
paintings.
Municipal Court occupies
two buildings and has a
great area of bare wall.
Yesterday Judge Beard
showed the R a bier his
acquisitions.
All were representational
art-no abstraction.
All were modern and all
were interesting.
Especially Trial by jury"
which was painted on COM
mission by Joan Erbe, a
young Baltimore artist who
won top honors at the Cor
coran's regional show a
couple of years ago.
1t is a strange picture for
a courthouse.
1t is on a wall of one of the
administrative offices-not in
a hallway where it might
disturb litigantS.
The picture shows 10 per-
sons, male and female, all
somewhat disturbed, in the
jury box.
The Rambler has been
quite a gallery trotter. He is
all for modern art. He real
fzeS that in this instance the
artist found that 10 persons
in the jury box gave her bet
ter composition than IL.
But it is just little things
like this that make him real
ize that he is not a critic but
a journalist.
Evening star., 1960-06-17

| dbdIluOllCu OllC pOo1IlOll 1lC IL
pedestal between the Rock
Greek parkway and Twenty
sixth street NV.
But it was not Immediately
made clear why the golden
throated, silver -tongued, lion
like. bronze headed, former
Secretary of State was toppled
from power. The statue
weighted, at one time, as much
as 18 tons.
Historic Words
At a strange meeting down
by the river today, Mr.. Bryan
would only say, You shall not
press down upon the brow of
labor this crown of thorns; you
shall not cruelty mankind upon
a cross of gold"
One spokesman said this was
in reference to the three per-
spring chiSelers who banged
away at his bronze feet for
over two hourS this morning.
Others explained the poll
tician's remark concerned his
uneaSinesS over the ropes and
cables placed about his body
and attached to a waiting
crane.
But it was learned that the
statute was being moved by
men working on the spaghetti
approaches TO the Theodore
Roosevelt bridge. Presum-
ably, they were Mr.. Bryan's ole
enemies: Republicans who may
believe in evolution.
Falls Prey to Chisel
One of the men in the grour
announced he was o. r. Win
frey, SO, of Winfrey Bros.
Knoxville (Tenn.) stone ma
sons. He explained they had tt
chisel Mr.. Bryan off the ped
estal because if they tried tC
pick him up with the stone
foundation, everything might
crumble.
They sure put him here tt
stay" said a wry man, banging
away with a sledge hammer
trying to uproot the champion
of the agrarian struggle against
Eastern high finance groups.
A man in a tin hat explained
the statue had to be moved Il
traffic was to approach the
Roosevelt Bridge from that
angle. He would not comment
politically.
The crane operator said Mr.
Bryan was being pulled off the
base of the statue because
I've got to get him under the
Fourteenth bridge"
An aide explained that Mr.
Bryan was moving to a piect
of property on Hains Poill
where National Capital Park
plans to place him in a boz
until a new statue site is Sc
lected. The route would taxi
the statue under the low Four
zen street bridge.
| Me- Get a Hacksaw"
Get a hacksaw," yelled
man, looking at Mr.. Bryan
right foot.
You shall not press dowr
upon the brow of labor" some
one said.
At five minutes to II o'clocl
the statue suddenly swung free
suspended on the cables. Mr.
Bryan was up in the air. so tt
speak, and the end of the con
ference was drawing near
Swing him around and pu
him on the ground" said MI
Winfrey to the crane operator
Lay him on the ground"
Mr.. Bryan, his right hant
poised above his head, seeming