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LEGISLATIVE RECORD

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Continued From THURSDAY.
MI. LAWAETZ: Mr.. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Senator Lawaetz.
NH. LAWAETz: Mr.. President, / merely want to
remind you Of the Public Hearing we are going to have
next week Tuesday and Friday. Has Mr.. Thompson been
informed Of that meeting? | think he would like to be
present.
T-HEPRESIDEN The Executive Secretary will SO
inform Mr.. Thompson. Also, he will request from the Gov
ernor a copy Of the Report on the selection Of land to be
purchased in Estates Altoona and Demerara-
Mr.. DE LUGO: MI. President, this is Just to remind
YOU of the letter to the Commissioner of Public Works to
get the bulldozer out at Estate Dorothea.
THE PRESIDENT: Senator Maduro.
Mr.. MADURO: There's just one thing I'd like to say,
Mr.. Chairman. I have listened to all the Senators talking
about the Emergency Housing situation here. And, there
is just one thing I wish to say about that.
We've appropriated money to build these temporary
units. The money is there. There's no problem in getting
the land, if the governor wants to get the land. But, feel
that lin the letter that Senator Gomez has asked the Pre-
sident to write to the Governor) you should add in there
that we are interested, Mr.. Chairman, in quick and speedy
action in getting these pre-fab houses over here and hav-
ing them constructed as soon as possible because this
money has been appropriated almost a year ago and
nothing has been done. Before that time money was appro-
priated and very little was being done.
think the situation is serious enough to demand
quick action on this housing situation. ask, Mr.. President,
to include that request in your letter.
THE PRESIDENT: If there are no Senator
Gomez.
MR.. GOMEZ. Mr.. Chairman, speaking about the
prefabricated houses, now is the time that we need the
Houses more than ever. And would nearly bet that
nothing is being done on them-lets say this week and
now is the time when they should speed them up.
Mr.. Chairman, / can understand that the first build
ING would have taken some time because the people had
to become conversant with the manner Of erecting the
r4ool ~,n+,rn T nt1c So orr manila UJnrn. not nnfirAlV
acquainted with all the techniques involved. But after
the first building was erected, Mr.. Chairman, / think
they should have obtained sufficient knoW-hoW from
that to permit them to put up the others in a much
swifter pace than they are now doing. TO me the pro
gram is at a standstill, Mr.. Chairman. We are not getting
action by the Public Works Department on the pre-fab-
ricated houses.
believe what we should do is give them out on con-
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MRS. MILLIN: Mr., President.
THE PRESIDENT: Senator Millin.

MR0. MlLLlN. JuSL OuG WO1u IL .W1ldL 0CudSO1
Gomez said. I know that the Public Works Departnls4ll
IS Tying its best because / was around the area WA~-s
they are erecting those houses q couple weeks ago, At
I saw someone on the job from Puerto Rico who was
brought up to help these men; he's already on the joo
trying to speed up the work. | think that with his guild
ance-Mr. Adams was showing. ~ne-they were moving
much sWifter than before.
So, they have tried to get outside help but not in the
form of a contract.
THE PRESIDENT: Are there any further discus
sionS? i would like to inform members that the Members
from Saint Croix must catch an early plane today. they
have moved the time up an hour or SO, and / would ike
that we go into Committee of the Whole to discuss this.
Bill-1217, and since it is the opinion of the Legislature
Mr.. DE UGo: Is Bill l2lz the one which Senator
Ottley spoke about?
TIL PRESIDENT: Yes.
Mr.. DE LUGO: / think we should also take up the
bill providing relief for the farmers on Saint Thomas.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. We can take up that bill.
We will take up Bill 1911 and Bill 1217. These two Dis
will be considered in the committee OF the whole.
INTRODUCTION & ASSIGNMENT OF BILL
The following bill were introduced and assigned to the
Committee Of the Whole.
BILL No. 1915 Resolution Respecting and Lnplc-
,~mentation of Section 8 () Of the Revised Organic Act IF
the Virgin Islands to Provide Funds for the Construction
of Hospital, Recuperative and Commercial Facilities in the
Virgin Islands. Proposed by the Committee of the Whole.
BLLNo. 1916 Act to Authorize the Purchase Of a
Concrete Water Storage Barge for Saint Thomas, to
Amend Act No. 431 BILL No. 945) Third Legislature. Re
gular Session 1859, Approved June 4, 1859, Providing
Funds for Essential Public Projects, and for other Pur-
poses. Proposed by the Committee on Public Works,
Safety and Trade.
BILLING. 1217- Act to Authorize a Program Of Emer-
sgency Housing within the Island Of Saint Thomas, Virgin
Islands; to Authorize the Establishment of an Aided Sell
Care Housing Program; and to Create a Special Temp-
orary Committee Therefor, and for other Purposes. Pro
posed by Senators at Large Earle b. Ottley, John L.
Maduro, Walter I NJ Hodge, Candida r. Guadalupe and
Senators for the District Of Saint Thomas Percival II.
Reese and Joseph "A. Gomez.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE:
The House resolved itself into the Committee of the
Whole and there discussed, amended and reported Bills
Nos. 121I and 1917.
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COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE:

The House resolved itself into the Committee of the
Whole and there discussed, amended and reported Bills
Nos. 1211 and 1217.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-07-28
Potomac

The simplicity of his election
system doubtlessly makes it i'm
possible for Khrushchev to APP
preciate fully the complexities OF
our own. He is accustomed to a
single platform and a single, pre-
fabricated public opinion that ac-
cepts that platform without ques-
ton.
Here in America our candidates
vie with one another in depicting
the better life, the greater area of
success and opportunity, that
their election to office will assure.
The better life is one of the
best guarded secrets in the Com
munist world. Khrushchev, of
course, would be reluctant to adj
NIT it, but the most popular and
widely used home appliance in
the Soviet Union is powered en-
tirely by muscle and is known
as the Soviet Wife.
In Russian elections, unlike
those in America, there is no
need to wonder how the farm
bloc will vote, whether the work
ers will go along with mini
mum wage law, how much unrest
there is among the citrus grow
ers, or whether taxes can be
raised without lowering hopes
for victory.
This removes all necessity for
election debate. And on election
night nobody is obliged to stay
up, wondering, hoping or pray
ing. Their goose is not only cook
ed, it's pre-cooked.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-07-28

The oldest wooden house still
standing in the United States
and in good conditions bellev-
ed to be the Fairbanks House IN
Dedham, Mass, built in 1886.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-07-28
East Side /. /. :

eoe Dr. Ovid Futch along wtw Of his Students was threat.
ened with physical violence by doorkeeper R. Smith ne ala
not leave the Georgia House of Representatives The account OF
the incident said Dr. utch sitting much too close TO his STU
dents even rope did divide the seating and even door,
keeper Smith did tell utch to sit where he was seated at the time
he was threatened to be thrown out bodily
The incident overheard by legislators on The floor and
upon his return from escog the professor and two students
out of the capitol building dookeepe Smith was heered by the
DISTINGUISHED and honord lawmakers of Geogas House OF Rep
resentaves If was to make lump in ones throat from
pride in his fellow dixiecrats, to be sure
Outside the RENEGADE professor said the doorkeeper used
abusive LANGUAGE Personally wonder what the professor thought
our boys were cheering about anyway Also Dr. Futch said
was born and raised and educated in Florida and Aanfas
Emory" WE'LL maybe So but sort of doubt it, frankly Had the
professor had the full benefit of being 00 dxecra soUher
ner he'd have understood our way Of life somewhat better than he
did, Yes were he true souherne with cornpone running out his
ears he'd have known just sort OF make the rules as we co.
no matter if we really aren't going anywhere
Oh indeed TOO cheer dookeepe Smith but not too long
nor too loud.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-07-28
The South

world.
And while we should not need
any other incentive than the re-
hinder that we are our brothers
keeper, there is very impelling
additional reason why we in the
South should be concerned.
The truth is the South still has
a long way to go. AS great as its
gains have been, there is still yet
much to be done. Even with all
its new-found industrial balance,
the South remains this nations
own largest underdeveloped area
The South has much in COM
mon with every area of the globe
which has been slow to develop,
And we might as well face it:
until we do have a peaceful
world-one without the massive
drain on every single citizen to
support war economy-cold or
hot - no underdeveloped area,
whether it be in Asia, Africa,
Latin America, or in the South
ern part of the United States, is
going to be able to achieve Its
full potential.
There are forces at work in the
South-men and women who do
not have their faces turned to
bygone era-that have much to
offer the world in this present
day crisis.
Rapidly advancing educational
opportunity, developing tech
niques of cooperation, industrial
ization of an agricultural econo-
my, elimination of disease and
poverty, the peaceful solution of |
racial problems-all these and |
many more are taking place right |
now in the South.
They do not receive the head
lines and public notice which are
accorded the more sensational ex-
amples of lack of progress. But
tremendous progress IS being
made in the South. The region is
on it's way toward achieving its
rich fulfillment. And in the pro-
cess, experience is being gained
techniques are being developed,
lssons are being learned, and
leadership is being forged-all of
which can and should be brought
to bear on similar problems
throughout the world.
+, Southern Responsibilities
Leadership in the South-bus-
mess, professional, educational,
and political-instead of being
rejected out of hand nationally
should be regarded as valuable
resource in the role which Am
erica must play in meeting the
challenge of history.
But I am not one of those who
would berate the rest of the ma
ton for oversight
Let's be honest about this. Too
many of us for too long have al
lowed the South's own worst enc
mics to speak for it.
We have allowed the advocates
Ct racial and economic reaction
the very ones against whom we
have had to struggle on a local
and state level for every inch of
progress we have made-to speak
for the South, simply because
they have made the loudest noise.
And because such Southerners
fitted neatly into the stereotype
which many people had formed
as typical of the South, these
voices were accepted and record
ed as representing the South.
Some politicians in the North |
and West contend the South is
region of America incapable of |
producing national leadership Ca
shibboleth perhaps calculated to
lessen their competition), and
there are even some Southerners
who parrot the same fallacy.
Well, / say it is high time we
rid ourselves of this political in
feriority complex.
2 After all, where was this re-
public founded?
Co ,,,,1ob IF II came from tha
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-07-28
HICHLICHTS
FROM READING
by
Mary Einsel

cite Chute's Shakespeare VI
London:
When William Shakespeare
came to London in the 1905, it
was still in many ways the medi-
eval city that Godfrey Chaucer
had known.
The wall that surrounded the
city was still intact, and the only
concession the authorities had
made to the increased traffic was
to open new gate, called
Mooregate, which gave access to
the fields to the north.
In every way the tight little
medieval city was pushing again
st its combining walls under the
pressure of an expanding and in
creasingly excitable population.
The fall of Antwerp had made
London substitute commercial
center and the religious wars on
the Continent had doubled the
foreign population of London in
thirteen years.
Meanwhile the city government
went on CALAMITY trying to en-
force medieval code of be.
havior. The mayor and aldermen
were heavily handicapped in
this attempt by the fact they got
no support at all from Queen
Elizabeth.
When a bill to restrict Sunday
pasttimes was passed by both
houses of Parliament in 1885, it
was promptly vetoed by the
Queen, who herself went to
shooting matches and plays on
Sunday and saw no reason why
her subjects should not do like
wise.
A new spirit of curiosity had
developed. London no longer liv-
ed in comparative isolation but
was beginning to feel all the in
fluences of Renaissance Europe.
Above all, it felt the stirring Of
new winds from Italy.
To the average Londoner Italy
was still the place of strange
poisons and passionate love af-
fairs, to be mistrusted as the
home of the wicked Machiavelli;
but English architects travelled
in Italy and brought back new
designs, English sportsmen did
their riding and fencing in the
Italian manner, and when a poet
wrote love songs he initiated
Petrarch.
There was a fury of translation
from the Italian of novels and
plays and poems, and the bril-
liant Italian actors penetrated
England and flourished for at
least a season in London.
Many London shows cost the
happy population nothing at all.
No one had to pay to see the
Lord Mayors show and cheer the
wicker-work giants or to see the
water games on the Thames.
Queen Elizabeth, that great
amateur Snowman, was given to
making sudden, spectacular ap-
pearances by torchlight, an d
when she opened Parliament she
was carried through the streets IN
red velvet cloak and a gold
crown, while twenty-four glitter
ing maids of honor rode in single
file behind her.
Queen Elizabeth was in her
sixties when Shakespeare's COM
pany faced her from the stage in
the Christmas season of 1894.
The Queen probably made her
entrance about the time that the
actor who played the Prologue
began pinching his cheeks to get
some color into them, and when
she came in even the most ex-
perienced member of the acting
company might be permitted the
cold clutch of stage fright.
For Queen Elizabeth was the
golden and glorious sun about
whom all of England revolved.
Even the greatest lords approach
ed her kneeling, spoke to her
kneeling, played cards with her
kneeling, and she moved in a
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-07-28

without regard 10 geographic coii-
siderations. l believe the nation
is just as eager today, despite all
of the sage political forecasts that
only men from this state or that
region can win national affection
and provide leadership for our
country.
In our troubled country and in
this nervous, hungry, worried
world, where better can quality
leadership be developed than in
the South? Yes, where better
than in the classrooms of its own
institutions?
For right here in the South, In
one generation, have we not be-
come experienced travellers along
that road the world must take if
it is to journey out of chaos and
away from destruction toward a
better life?
Our country is in trouble. 1t
has right to expect the best
from all of us, regardless of
where we live. And just as it is
wrong for anyone, including some
Southerners, to sell the South
short, by the same token we have
no right to go off in corner and
sulk.
The South has much to offer to
the nation and to the world. In
stead of complaining about our
lot, we should be seeking oppor-
tunities to make whatever gen.
eral and unique contributions we
can to the national good.
Our nation in this critical world
crisis seems without goals =
without direction without
knowledge of fundamental causes
and effective remedies.
It is impossible to visit around
this country without gaining the
feeling - which is at once heart
ening and saddening = that the
American people are yearning
and seeking with little satisfac-
ton, for such leadership.
What is missing in the picture
is feeling of hope and strength
such as Franklin Roosevelt gave
to the world when he proclaimed
the four freedoms to which Am
erica was dedicated: freedom of
speech, freedom of religion, free
dom from fear, and freedom from
want.
The world took heart and set
out with boundless enthusiasm to
accomplish these goals, to insure
these freedoms.
But in the years that passed
something went wrong we lost
the vision, we got off the rail.
And, so far as most of the peo-
pie on this planet are concerned,
freedom of speech, freedom Of
religion, freedom from fear, and
freedom from want are still illus
DRY, far away goals.
We must get back on the track.
Again we must seek to achieve
those four freedoms for all man
kind. But this time let us strive
for even more. Why not raise our
standards also to encompass free
dom from ignorance - freedom
from disease - and freedom from
prejudice?
This in turn requires American
leadership which understands the
struggle against poverty, against
ignorance, against disease, against
racial turmoil and prejudice.
1t requires leadership which is
not committed to a heartless
game of cold-war power politics
- both abroad and at home.
1t requires leadership dedicat
ed to underwriting the causes of
war by improving the daily lives
of people - regardless of where
they are.
1t requires leadership that can
make it clear that the public in
terest is not the sum total of
special interests.
1t requires leadership that
knows the difference between
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-07-28

One fellow hid his cash and
Bonds in a coal burning stove.
Came the first frosty morning
of Fall-he hurriedly fired up
the stove-and sent his saw
ings up in smoke. Unfortu-
nately there was no way to re-
place the cremated cash. But
he got every one of his Bonds
back promptly. From this sad
experience he says he learned
two important lessons: L.
Bonds are safer than cash; 2.
Almost any place is safer to
keep them than a coal burning
stove.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-07-28

This country has had prosperity long that scarcely any
body under 40 has ever rolled cigarette.
One Of the most expensive things does to make his
tory
"The good die young and according to inscriptions on
tonbstones, the bad never die
X x X
Worry will kill person quicker than work will" says
physician This because person works harder at worrying than
he does at working. ss.nk
x x X
Mule for sale; reasonable" Classified ad There amt no
such animal -
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-05-06
Open House
Sunday At
St. Anthony

In conjunction with all hos
pitfalls in the United States.
st. Anthony Hospital will OBJ
serve National Hospital Week,
May 8-14. st. Anthony will
hold open house on Sunday
from 100 to $50 pm. Re-
freshments will be served.
st. Anthony's is a 200 bed
General, Medical and Surg
ical Hospital located at 1850
Hawthorne Avenue. The hos
pital is approved by the Joint
Commission on Accreditation
of Hospitals and is a member
of the American Hospital AS
ISOLATION, Catholic Hospital
Association and the Columbus
Hospital Association.
This open house will pro-
vide an opportunity to learn
what goes on behind the
scenes and to see what is
necessary to make a modern
hospital facility operate eff
ficiently. There will be ex-
hibits exemplifying the var
ious facilities in the hospital
and a tour of the hospital and
the st. Francis Nursing School
which is operated in conjunc-
ton with st. Anthony.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-05-06

has been named by Pope John
to succeed Bishop F. B. Cialeo,
OPP, DID,, who has moved to
new Diocese of Lyallpur. The
Bishop will be consecrated
Sunday in st. Peters by Pope
John.
The Dominican missionary,
a native of Philadelphia, Pa,
attended st. John the Baptist
school there, Aquinas High
school, Columbus, and Prov
idence College, Providence,
RI. He will celebrate the 25th
anniversary Of his ordination
this June.
The Bishop-elect has five
brothers in the Carmelite or
der two priests, three lay
brothers,, a brother who is a
Dominican priest, and three
sisters in the Dominican or
der.
BISHoP-ELEcT Schoeerer
has spent seventeen years in
China and one year at the
Tala Leprosarium in Manila,
P.I. During the last four years
he has been in Pakistan.
The Diocese of Multan has
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-05-06

Street and north of Broad
Street, Monsignor Apologize
said.
In addition plans are being
studied for a new secondary
facility directly south, Mon
signor Apologize said.
"E EXPANSION IN THE
southend will eventually
necessitate added high school
claSsroomS TO take care Of stu
dents in that area" Monsignor
Apologize pointed out.
POPULATION G WITH
in the eastend may well in
dicate the need for additional
facilities in that area at
Bishop Hartley" he added.
COLUMBUS Is NOT UNI.
QUE or exclusive in these
needs and plans" M~onsignor
Apologize noted, "the expan-
sion of High School facilities
in terms of new buildings, ad-
ditions, and planned con.
solicitations continues in every
deanery of the Diocese" he
said.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-05-06
BY oliver Bsrre$

Ed Note: Mr.. Barres is a
staff member of the National
Office Of the Society for the
Proposition of the Faithl
The fifth of the earth's
surface called Africa is
afire for freedom. Subject
peoples from CapetoWn to
Algiers are striving to
SKATER the colonial pat
terms of white supremacy.
THEY ARE INExPER-
FENCED in the ways of indie
pendence, but they want to
run their own affairs and
make their own destiny deci-
sions. AS they reach for this
right of self-determination,
they are saying to the white
nations of the world: do you
still favor white supremacy in
Africa, or do you believe in
the black mans right to indie
pendence? Stand up and be
counted
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-05-06
Continent on the Moue !.
AFRICA-W Orld Challenge

independence today means
chaos tomorrow" some At
rican experts insist. Colonial
ism has brought many good
things-Christianity, schools,
hospitals, communicat i o n S,
legal codes, capital invest
ments-and should not be
jettisoned so abruptly. Black
Africa is not yet ready for
full freedom"
READY OR NOT, the Black
African, except in a few back
washes like Angola, will take
white orders no longer in his
own land. BY peaceful press
ure as in Tanganyika, or by
terror as in Kenya, sooner or
later he will gain control of
his continent.
A century of Christian mis-
sionary teaching is the root
inspiration of this revolution
1t has deeply inculcated both
the power and responsibility
of the individual and a spirit
of moral activism. The Black
African feels that juctice is
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-05-06
Chessnlan
For Better

SAN FRANCISCO, NC)
A priest who was with
Caryl Chessman 45-minu-
les before Chessman died
in the San Quentin gas
chamber said the convict-au-
thor changed for the better
in the II years durin" which
he fought to save his life.
Father Edward j. Ding erg,
Catholic chaplain at S9n Oh
tin, said also that Chessman,
a convicted sex criminal. vert
to his death with dignity and
calm" The priest and the
convict had known each other
II years.
According to the priest,
Chessman had asked that he
and a Protestant chaplain he
with him as the time for his
execution approached. But he
told the two clergymen: Il
had hoped it might be pos
sible for me to accept religion.
But | can't do it at this point.
1t would be hypocritical"
The two chaplains wee
with Chessman at 9:15 am.
May q when word RACED
him that the US. Supre~2e
Court had rejected his final
appeal for a stay Of exec IN.
"At 9:15 am. he heard the
news on the radio that to
Supreme Court had turned
dom his appeal the pr;c-t
said. "'This is it, Chessm~1
said. Now I'll get ready" He
was executed As minutes
later.
Chessman told Father hing-
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