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Sincerely yours,
lSgdl H. B. Mccoy
H. B. Mccoy
Administrator
GOVERNMENT OF
THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES
Insular Department Of Social Welfare
November II. 1859

WdICEI J.. W. IIUugE -. -
President, V. ]. Legislature
ChriStiansted
st. Croix. Virgin Islands
Dear Sen. Hodge:
The Golden Anniversary White House Conference on
Children and Youth will be held in Washington, E. c.,
March II April 2, 1860. The Virgin Islands has been al
delegates.
At a recent meeting of the Citizens Advisory Com
mission on Children and Youth, representation from the
various agencies and organizations working with children
and youth was discussed. The following were indicated to
make up the Virgin Islands delegation:
Three youth delegates tone from each island
Seven Commission Members
Department of Social Welfare two.
!. Department Of Education two tone from
Recreation)
Continued on page a
, 1960-06-28
sgd Apolinaire Heyliqer
Apolinaire Heyliger

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF H INTERIOR a
Office of the Secretary
Washington IS, D.C
Air Mail
October 28. 1859
, 1960-06-28

President Walter /. M. Hodge
The Legislature Of the Virgin Islands
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
Evening star., 1960-06-22
No Mixed Reodinu

The people of Danville, Southside
Virginia city, have voted by decisive
margin to close their public libraries
for both white and colored rather than
permit integrated use.
There are some unusual circum-
stances in the Danville case. Jefferson
Davis held the last full meeting of the
Confederate Cabinet in the white Ii
brary building, and Negro demonstra-
tors, by accident or design, staged a
"Sit-in" on the anniversary of the flight
of Jefferson Davis from Richmond. This
injected an added charge of emotion
into the campaign which followed a
Federal court ruling that the libraries
could not operate on segregated basis.
So now they are closed, although
the assumption is that private library
will be opened soon for whites. This,
by any measurement, is a depressing
state of affairs. Even if allowance is
made for the unusual factors in DAN
vile, the outlook for improvement in
race relations in the South is dim if
grown-up members of an advanced
community are not willing to accept
mixed use of library facilities.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
LBJ Territory

President Eisenhower carried Texas
in 1852 by about $4,000 votes and in
1856 he boosted his winning margin to
approximately 221, 900. So we suppose
that Richard M. Nixon's "nonpartisan"
political venture into the Lone Star
State was at least worth the price of
admission. Texas might prefer him to
some of the Democratic hopefuls.
1t seems to us, however, that the
blue ribbon for the years understate-
ment should go to Thad Hutcheson, who
heads up the Republican organization
in Texas. Mr. Hutcheson says it would
be very hard" for Mr.. Nixon to carry
Texas against Senator Lyndon Johnson.
Anyone who doubts that this is true is
just one jump removed from the luna
tic asylum. For Texas is Lyndon Baines
Johnson territory, and let's have no
nonsense about it. All Skeptical in
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Suburbio on Brink?

Three years ago the follow
ing appeared in the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram:
County Commissioners are
scheduled to perform two
pleasant tasks next week. The
first will be to reduce the tax
rate from 80 cents to SO cents
on the $100 valuation. The
b second is to burn $500.000 in
road bonds that have been
retired. The feat, rare in
these days of big government
spending, also marked the
end Of the county's (Tarrant)
indebtedness"
Tarrant County's streets
and super-highways are not
surpassed anywhere, and her
schools are the best. Popula-
ton of the county has in
creased nearly 100000 in the
decade just ended.
Why, then, are taxes nearly
four times as much in coun-
ties suburban to Washington?
I built a large home in a
suburban county but when
the tax tripled, I was glad
to sell and return to Wash
ington. Methinks suburbia is
irresponsible and will go
bankrupt with the slightest
depression.
E, r. Russell,
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Fiscal RESPONSIBILITY

The Senate has shown what Ma
jority Leader Lyndon Johnson aptly
called fiscal responsibility" in voting
to increase, rather than reduce, tax rev.
enueS in this critical period of inter-
national tensions. 1t took considerable
courage of the political variety to resist
the temptation to ease the voters tax
burden in an election year.
Not only did the Senate reject the
recommendation of its Senate Finance
Committee that nuisance" excise taxes
on communications and travel be re-
pealed but it closed several So-caIled
loopholeS in present tax laws. Thus, by
defeating the repeal move, a threatened
tax loss of $3.50 million was averted and,
by Tightening up existing laws, an eSti-,
mated $3.50 million in additional rev.
enueS was gained.
A persuasive argument against his
own committees proposal to repeal
Korean War-Spawned excise taxes was
made on the floor by Virginia'S Senator
Byrd, chairman of the Finance Commit
tee. These taxes" he said, "were i'm
posed to meet emergency war conditions.
If we have been closer to a war emer-
gency situation since Korea than we are
now, don't know when 1t was. can
find no justification for elimination of
emergency taxes under present condi-
tionS." He pointed out the danger of
reducing taxes in the wake of the Sen
ate'S decision last week to increase mill
tary spending by more than 81 billion.
Senator Johnson, with a vigorous dis
play Of typically effective leadership over
fellow Democrats, warned that "inStead
OF decreasing our revenues we ought to
be thinking of where we're going to in
crease them" so as to meet new spend
ing levels"
The Senate also voted to extend nu-
merous other emergency" excise taxes
the repeal of which had not been
asked by the Senate Finance Committee.
How the Senate'S plan for increased rev.
enueS through closed "loopholes" will
fare in conference is uncertain. We ear
neStly hope, however, that the House
will forget politics and manifest the
same kind of fiscal responsibility" as
that demonstrated by majority of the
Senate.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Costro's CoIors

It should be obvious to all
Americans by now that a
worse mistake than that of
the U-2 is the permitting of
a Communist government in
Cuba. And nobody is to blame
but the Government of the
United States and the leftist
press of this country.
While for Is years every
one in Latin-America knew
that the Castro brothers were
agents Of the Communist In
ternationale, the American
public was kept in the dark
about it and this same Amer
ican public was made to be-
lieve by the leftist press that
Fidel Castro was a freedom
lover, a friend of the United
States fighting against ty-
ranny and for ideals COM
mon to both nations. The
U-2 incident was, of course,
disastrous to the hopes of
peoples everywhere, but the
Communist base in Cuba is
a major disaster to the
American people. What will
happen to the prestige and
interest of the United States
over all Latin-America? How
many countries there will be
forced into communism
within the next 10 years
once communism is estab-
liShed in Cuba?
Joseph 1. Puente.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
SoIutes Senator

When the seth Congress
adjourns, our Nation will lose
from the Halls of Congress
one of the most talented and
brilliant lawyers ever to be
elected to that able body of
fine men. I speak of Senator
Joseph c. O'Mahoney, of Wy
oming, a man devoted to our
Constitution and the inter-
ests of citizens of every walk
of life. His many years spent
in the Senate are filled with
good works for our Govern
ment, but one of the most
outstanding was his oppoSi-
ton to the packing of the
Supreme Court" He is a man
with courage, ability, integ-
rity, fairness, will, wisdom!
understanding. justice and vi
Sion-a friend of man.
Margaret Hopkins WOrrell,
National President, Ladies
of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Red Tide Rises

Now that the Communists
have shown who is boss in
Japan, Mr.. Khrushchev's plan
to lay fodder in the Demo-
cratic lap and get a nice,
agreeable, negotiating chump
in the presidency for the next
(and maybe last) go-round,
would seem to be making
great headway.
Let's make the blame a two
party affair.
The Americans had a COM
mander in the Far East who
successfully kept every Soviet
mission out of Japan and
kept the local Reds under
ether. Harry Truman re-
moved him. Mr.. Truman's
successor spoke of him in an
inferential tone of superan-
nuation, as my former COM
mander," instead of putting
him back where he could
stand as a bulwark against
the Red tide that has been
rolling over the world.
And then, besides the par
ties. why not blame the peo-
pie generally, for not realiz-
ing what they were up against
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Abuse of q 'Rioht'

The United States Court Of Ap-
pealS for the District of Columbia has
made 1t plain, in series of contempt
ot-CongreSS cases, that while the Con-
Stitution extends certain rights of refuge
to the citizens, those rights are limited
and may not be abused with impunity.
More specifically, the court has warned
that the freedoms guaranteed by the
First Amendment do not necessarily in
clude the liberty of defying an investi-
gative committee of Congress.
In affirming the conviction of six
defendants for refusing to answer proper
and pertinent" questions of two con-
gressional groups, Judges Washington,
Burger and Bastian of the appellate
tribunal upheld the right of such inveS-
tigators to probe into the private asSo-
Citations of individuals in pursuance of
a stated legislative purpose. None of
the six defendants had claimed immu-
nifty under the Fifth Amendment, rely
ing instead on the freedom of press
and-speech guarantees.
Judge Burger, writing the opinion
in the appeal of Robert Shelton, copy
SNA0OA OAA OAAC ANCW GO1A 4IIIIcS, VIII IldQ
refused to say whether he was a COM
munist, gave this succinct opinion on
rights accorded by the First Amend
ment: 'The Important right of the press
to be free and independent is not i'm
paired by an inquiry into possible abuse
of the right which is directed at de-
Stroying the very freedom the First
Amendment assures. Inquiry into
generally protected areas must be. sub
ject to careful judicial scrutiny but the
rights are not protected absolutely and
they must yield to the superior right of
Congress to know whether there is a
dangerous abuse of those rights"
The court stressed that the congress
sional committee must, of course, stay
within its legitimate authority in gath
ering information on which to base pos
sible legislation. And it must make
its questions clear and pertinent. Be-
cause, in the courts opinion, congress
sional subcommittee in the contempt
cases of Mrs. Goldie Watson, a former
Philadelphia teacher, and of Mrs. Mary
Knowles, librarian at Plymouth Meet
ing, Pennsylvania, failed to make clear
the purpose of the investigations and
questions, the convictions of the two
women were reversed.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Fate of Dictotors
A recent neWspaper photo

A recent newspaper photo
of Khrushchev shows a cruel,
brutal and vicious man with
his appraised clenched fist de-
flying the world, threatening
everybody everywhere and
practically saying, "You will
do as I wish. or else!"
When I first saw this photo
I thought "Oh, shades of Hit
Ter and Mussolini" and I re-
called how much I laughed
at the latter when he stood
on balconies in Rome look
ing down upon the masses of
people beneath. He was re-
splendent in his snowy uni
forms, shaking his head in
his helmet with elongated
plumes or oversize pompoms,
while raging and ranting at
the world.
Is it possible that Khru-
shchev doesn't know that
history repeats itself, or has
he forgotten what happened
to Hitler, Mussolini and the
German Kaiser, too? Down
the centuries brutal dictators,
swollen like poisoned pups,
come to no good end. &.
Lillian Sinclair Large.
Evening star., 1960-06-22

and for falling for all that
ham actor" and other dele
terious bunk and not electing
Macarthur President.
One thing for sure about
him: There never was any
doubt about where he stood.
He knew what was just. And
he didn't like Reds. Neither
do I.
Earl Scoop Shutz.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Second Stossen'

Perhaps Gov. Rockefeller
can explain why he prefers
to run on the Republican
rather than on the Demo-
cratic ticket. Certainly his
own program and his criti-
ciSm Of the Eisenhower ad-
ministration harmonic with
the so-called liberal branch
of the Democratic Party.
1t will be interesting to see
whether, despite the warning
in the unhappy result of
former Gov. Stassen's ef-
forts, the New York Cover
nor will now himself continue
down the same road. Mr..
Rockefeller may not find it
flattering to be known as a
second Stassen. Perhaps he
will prefer to have it said
that he pulled a Rock"
Lloyd Buchanan.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Journeys End

Secretary of State Herter has been
admirably candid in conceding to Sen
ate Majority Leader Johnson that the
administration relied on bad informa-
tion and showed poor judgment in con-
nection with the dismal events that led
to the cancellation of President Eisen-
howers planned visit to Japan.
The American people have reason
to welcome this frank admission. They
have reason, too, to welcome the Secre-
tary'S assertion that Mr.. Eisenhower
plans no more goodwill tours during the
remainder of his term of Office and that
Increased emphasis should now be
placed on traditional channels and pro-
cedureS of international contact, rather
than on more informal methods" Tokyo'S
Communicated mobs have taught us a
bitter lesson in that respect by bringing
about a situation that has been humili-
ating to the President personally and
most damaging, at least temporarily, to
our national prestige.
But it does no good to cry over split
milk. The harm has been done. Although
it may be considerably less disastrous
than some alarmistS fear, it has been I'M
deniably injurious to us in a way that
may be seriously troublesome to our
country for months to come and there
is no great comfort to be derived from
the tremendous receptions accorded the
President in countries like the Philip
pines, Formosa and South Korea. The
questions raised by this presidential
journey serve to point up one thing
above all. This is that personal di-
plomacy, carried out at the highest
level on spectacular tours, is practice
Of dubious value which presents more
hazards than hope.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

"You are a fraud, Temp"
we said, as we met Mr.. Jones,
suntanned and jaunty as ever.
Templeton Jones grinned.
whats the matter now?"
he asked, soothingly.
ITO look at you, suntanned
and all, people might think
you are an athlete, but you
never go farther than the
bench in your back yard"
"Tan," said Jones, "is a
status symbol, now. You don't
even have to sit in the sun
any more" he said.
Temp went on to explain,
in his pedantic way, that the
great pharmaceutical indus
try has come up at last with
lotions to work this miracle.
OF course, he admitted,
some say that you will get
eruptions, if you use these
things, and when they fade
out, big white spots are left.
We asked Jones If he had
ever used them.
afraid of them" he said,
succinctly. "The latest one
promises to give you a good
tan with or without sun.
That's a good line! With or
without sun. Why bother
with going through the CEN
tury-old process of exposure
and reaction?"
Jones says he is going to
stick to the sun, once wor-
SHIPPED as a god, for his crop
of suntan and wrinkles.
Actually, they are not
wrinkles, but dark spots.
Youngsters never have to
worry. They perch in the sun
and come up with a soft
cleaning tanned skin, even
all over.
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Older people get spots.
They are called age spots,
but the sun does it.
During the summer, these
spots melt into the surround
ing tan, but when winter
comes on apace, they show up.
Even here, Jones says, the
cosmetic industry is as busy
as a bee. 1t doesn't desert
you in your need.
There are creams just for
these age spots. Whether they
work or not, Jones says he
doesn't know.
We asked the old man Che
wouldn't like that what he
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Retaining the Capital

BY its heartening restoration of
funds for three new Federal Office build
ingS in Washington, the Senate Ap-
propriations Committee has frightened
irnmeasurably prospects that the long
delayed program of permanent Govern
ment construction will at last swing into
high gear this year.
The District, through number Of
programs, is doing what it can to cor
rect other deficiencies in the Nations
Capital. But the disgraceful state of
the Federal Governments own physical
plant is the business of Congress-, and
for too long Congress has ignored it.
The new buildings to be financed under
the committee bill are urgently needed
to replace SubStandard, inefficient and
costly facilities now occupied by the
Civil Service Commission, the Food and
Drug Administration, the National Aero
nautics and Space Agency and the Fed
eral Aviation Agency. AS well, they are
an essential part of the reconstruction
of the Southwest, badly needed at the
moment to help stimulate private con-
Struction. Last, but by no means least,
their construction would set in motion
full-Scale demolition of the deplorable
tempo shacks which have defaced park
areas of the Capital for so long.
Only legal technicality derailed
these important buildings when the ap-
preparation bill was considered in the
House. That problem has been resolved,
however, and no further reason to delay
them exists.
AS part of the same bill, the Ap-
propriationS Committee also advanced
the authority to plan two other COM
mendable building projectS-a new Fed
eral courthouse and the long-planned
Executive Office building on the west
side of Lafayette Park. All in all, this
is noteworthy package. We hope that
the Senate, and then the House, will
approve the appropriations bill as it was
reported by the Senate committee.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Adoms-Morqon Plan

l do not question the ac-
curacy of your , article
"Adams-Morgan Project
Gets Go-Ahead." But there
are some statements given
to your reporter by the Plan
ming Commission that I feel
should be corrected.
The Adams-Morgan DEM
onstration Project has un-
doubtedly accomplish e d
much good along the lines
that it was supposed to work.
(Who couldn't with $780,
000?).
However. the statement
that the residents themselves
voted to put the entire area
under urban renewal de-
serves closer scrutiny as to
the voting process. OF the 26
block groups that voted for
urban renewal only 6 are in
the triangular area that has
come to be known as the
"Kalorama Triangle" where
a restoration society is do
ing a wonderful work in
finding purchasers for fine
old homes.
True. some of the block
groups in this triangle have
voted for urban renewal, but
that was some time ago at
meetings held in members
living rooms and dominated
by the paid organizer of the
demonstration project.
Many of these block groups
are in areas which the
Adams-Morgan people deSig-
mated as "slums" to get their
appropriation. That's their
word, not mine. Why do they
not conf1ne their urban re-
newal to those areas? And
why should the residents of
those areas have a vote in
forcing urban renewal on
areas which don't need it and
don't want it? Is that de-
mocracy? Dictatorship is a
better word.
This action was taken by
the Planning Commission at
a meeting at which citizens
were allowed to be present,
but not allowed to speak.
Russia is getting closer all
the time!
G. M. KOOckOgey
Evening star., 1960-06-22

quirieS should be addressed to those
Democrats who undertook to challenge
the Majority Leader at last weeks con-
vention in Austin, and who wound up
looking about as ridiculous as it is
humanity possible to look.
Evening star., 1960-06-22

is going in for this tanning
season. This superannuated
tanner always has some new
gadget or plan for the sum-
mer.
In this way, he keeps him.
self from growing old, he
says.
Now the secret is out
Temp Jones is going in for
a new plan of summing he
read about in a woman's
magazine, of all things.
The women's magazines,
Jones says, are strictly for
the women, not the birds
or the men, either.
Evidently one must be a
woman to appreciate them,
with their gaudy two-page
displays, and their ads.
And the stories!
Jones positively bushes
when he thinks about the
stories one reads in the
ladies' magazines.
The suntan plan is as fol-
lows:
Spend is minutes in the
sun as is.
That is, no suntan lotions.
Then go back into the
house, and industriously ap-
ply a lotion, preferably one
with the now famous lanolin
in it.
Emerge into the sunlight
again, and remain for half an
hour, or even a full hour, but
no longer. The exact time
will depend upon the reaction
one gets.
For the benefit of the
ladies who are ambitious of
getting a good tan, Jones has
the following advice.
He does not include the
males in his instructions, be-
cause those bozos, he says,
haven't enough sense to bene-
fit. They insist on getting
burned, not tanned.
If you want to tan, not
burn, Temp says, take a bath
Immediately after the sun
ming, dry carefully.
And then apply what the
cosmetic industry calls a
hand and body lotion.
This is the thing that
keeps one from peeling.
Peeling and blistering, he
says, are unnecessary, and
what Is worse, old-fashioned.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Imported Labor

The House of Representa-
tives will shortly consider
legislation which is shocking.
1t is H.R. 1916 and concerns
the Mexican farm labor i'm
portation program.
H.R. 1916 actually harms
our Nations farm workers,
the poorest of the poor in
our society. 1t would con-
tinue, without change, Pub
lie Law 78 for another two
years. P.L. 78 provides for
the mass importation of Mex
ican farm workers. Under it
some 437,000 Mexican farm
workers, or braceros, were
imported in 1859.
AS a result of this mass i'm
portation, a vicious compe-
tition for existing jobs is
established. The laws of
supply ard demand, as far
as farm labor wages and
working conditions are con-
cerned, are blocked. If cor
poration farms cannot get
sufficient workers at low
rates Of pay. they need not
raise wages. They simply get
some imported braceroS. This
is a major reason why DOM
eStic farm workers earn an
average of only $761 a year
for their farm labor and why
they can get an average of
only 1913 days of farm work a
year.
Four distinguished consul
tantS to the Secretary of
Labor studied the operation
Of P.L. 78 for six months
last year. They found that
P.L. 78 has an adverse effect
on domestic farm workers.
They urged that P.L. rs be
renewed only if additional
protection were provided
dom e site farm workers
against unfair competition
for a livelihood. H.R. 12176
rejects their recommended
tions.
H.R. 1916 would deny the
Secretary of Labor his pres
ent authority to establish
standards for wages, trans
portation and housing of
farm workers recruited by
the U. S. Employment Ser
vice. These standards do not
cover all farm workers; they
cover only those who have
been recruited by The U. S.
Employment Service at the
specific request of growers.
These standards do ppt raise
wages; they simply seek to
prevent the operations Of the
U. S. Employment Service, a
tax-Supported, public en-
ployment agency, from un-
derc u tting existing area
standards.
This is an attempt to force
a government agency to re-
cruit farm workers to under
cut existing area wages and
other standards - just as
Public Law 78 already does.
This legislation is sharply
opposed by religious groups,
civic organizations, conSum-
er groups. small farm groups,
and labor unions. The Eisen-
hover Administration also
opposes the measure, urging
that no action be taken on
P.L. 78 at all this year. P.L.
78 does not expire until June
80, 1861. Yet a Republican,
Southern Democratic coali-
tion on the Agriculture
Committee and the Rules
Committee pushed HR. 1916
forward. The measure will
come before the House for
debate shortly.
An opposing measure, H.R.
11211 by Rep. George Nc
Govern, Democrat of South
Dakota, was completely dis
regarded by the majority of
the committees. This measure
provides for the enactment of
all of the specific recommen-
dations of the previously
mentioned consultants to the
Secretary of Labor.
Vera WaItman Mayer,
National Consumers League.