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at Liberia for their example.
In the second place, as regards
the click rule, he pointed out such
a charge could be easily made, but
the facts are that there was not
enough trained and educated peo-
pie to fill the country's needs in
the beginning, there are not
enough now, and those available
must be always at work. thus Civ
ing the impression to the casual
observer of the existence of some
kind of ruling class click.
Directing his remarks to the
1861 Graduating Class he said that
the great need of his country was
for trained leadership. He pointed
to the "open door" policy of Lii
IBERIA as regards immigration, and
said that Liberia would especially
welcome American Negroes COM
ing with the ability to help pro-
mote the progress of the country.
In a press conference Saturday
morning the Consul General re-
viewed the progress and history Of
the country for new men AMI
answered a number of questions
put to him, but always with diplo-
matte reserve.
In response to the question re-
garding what he thought about
current racial unrest in Jackson,
and the race relations situation in
the United States in general, he
answered, mo Comment. He
did point out however, that Lii
IBERIA had severed diplomatic re-
lations with the Union Of South
Africa because of its race policy.
The principal speaker at the
Banquet was DR.. Herbert A Will
son, a 1916 graduate of the Col
lege, who also delivered the COM
mencement address at the College
park Auditorium Monday night.
The Alumni Banquet drew the
largest crowd in it's history with
a large number of visitors from
outside the state.
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King WILL.
Continued from Page One)

the famous boycott that 1--WE will
takes these cases all the way to
the Supreme Court if necessary,
We will not let these freedom
fighters down."
The closing session of the Con-
ference passed a body Of resolu-
tions, among them was one that
sharply criticized President Ken
nedy for back-tracking on civil
rights legislation. at appears that
the Chief Executive is now being
influenced by what is called real
istic politics." "The passage of
the Federal aid to education bill
with no anti-discriminatory clause
will be a tragic mistake. Once
more the Federal government will
become the chief investor in per-
petuating the ills of segregated
schools"
Other resolutions blasted the
summary dismissal CT Theodore
Brown from his AFL-CIO post.
"Mr. Brown has been an out
spoken critic of discrimination in
any form. This is a sad recon-
pense for the courageous fight he
has waged. The AFL-CIO has Sc
verely damaged its image in the
eyes of the Negro community"
The Board of SCLC, in another
vein, commended the Attorney Cen
eral for his intervention in the
Prince Edward County case, for the
filing of cases by the Justice De-
partment against voter registration
Irregularities in the Deep South,
and for his honest and courageous
speech on civil rights at the Uni
versity of Georgia.
The two-day meeting in Mont
gomery, Ala, was .hosted by the
Montgomery Improvement Associ-
alton, of which DR.. Ralph D. Aber-
nathy is president. Wyatt Tee
Walker, Executive Director of
SCLC announced to the Board
SCLC's support and participation
in a city-wide Voter Registration
Drive in Atlanta, Ga.
atlanta is the most strategic
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African -.

Continued from Page One)
State College to Hon. David Mes
rye Thomas, Consul General of
Liberia, stationed in New York
City, onetime Liberian Safe De-
1artment Official, onetime Chief
# the Bureau Of Information and
Cultural Attache to the Liberian
Embassy in Washington, ID. c.,
Onetime High School Principal and
Instructor in the College of Lii
IBERIA, and Baptist Minister with
pastoral experience in his native
land.
In presenting the Citation DR..
Reddix told of his meeting the
Consul General while he was a
student back in the mid-1940's
when President and Mrs. Reddix
spent several weeks in visiting Lii
IBERIA. The President told of how
he had watched the rise of the
young student that he first met in
a Liberia high school from one
high position of trust and honor
70 another always rising higher
and higher.
In his acceptance and response
to DR.. Reddix, the Consul General
expressed his depth Of gratitude
and appreciation for the citation,
and paid a glowing tribute to DIR.
Harry H. Jones, the Jackson Col
lege graduate, and Baptist Minis
ter who went to Liberia in the
early l900's and established Mis-
sion where he spent the remainder
of his life until his death about
four years ago in helping christ
ianize and educate the natives Of
Liberia.
The Consul General also took the
occasion to point up as false some
of the propaganda, as he called it
about the backwardness and click
rule in Liberia. In connection with
the first he pointed out that the
former American Negro slaves who
left the United States to establish
the Republic of Liberia, as the
first free and independent Negro
nation of Africa, had to start from
scratch, and to work often with
opposition of the European Col.
onial power in Africa, especially
up until a few years ago. Now
he pointed out Liberia is making
great progress, and most of the
new African Leaders are looking
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-06-03

Official installation by The Hon.
orable P. E. Harrill, Chairman,
Board of Regents for the Okla
homa State University and the A
& M Colleges Of DR.. William Henri
Hale as tenth President of Lang
ston University.
DR.. Hale, q native Of Oklahoma
is the first alumnus elected to the
presidency of this land grant col
lege established in 1897.
The Inauguration was held be.
fore an audience of 1900 including
delegates from more than seventy
institutions of higher education
from all sections of the country.
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See West Indies
Continued from Page; One)


Premier CT Trinidad, DR.. Eric w
liams; and the Premier Of Jamai
Norman Manley, as well as a IA
degree of anxiety and petty je.
cusy among many Of the less
politicians from other islands.
But the conference produced &c
eral agreement and the Govern.
General of the West Indies, Lo
Hailes, sent congratulatory me
sage to the political leaders ma
ing special mention Of the estate
manlike spirit of compromise"
necessary to meetings of this kline
Nevertheless, there are mike
feelings throughout the 100000
population of the scattered arch
pelago on the subject of feder,
ton. Very strong anti-federatio
feelings exist in Jamaica, and whe
Premier Manley arrived from Trir
idad, recently, he was greeted no
only by cheering crowds but b,
leaders of the opposition party an,
their followers carrying banner
proclaiming Away With Fedora
ton"
Jamaica is committed to a ref
crendum on the quetsion Of fedora.
ton and it will be no easy victor,
for Mr.. Manley and the profed,
eralists in their struggle to keel
Jamaica from seeding.
Main opposition to federation for
Jamaica comes from Mr.. Manley's
colorful opponent Sir Alexander
Bustamante whose argumests
against the federal ideal stem from
economic motives. Mr.. Bustamante
argues that Jamaica's forward
moving economic industrial devel-
opment will be hampered by the
drag of the other less-developed
islands.
Other anti-federal arguments are
based on the belief Of jamaica
incompatibility with the people of
the other territories.
On the other hand, Mr.. Marley
asserts that economic development
in the future of Jamaica may be
more difficult alone as a single
independent island with the sole
burden of the responsibilities and
cost of it's own independence. He
points cut that it is the natural
role of Jamaica to work together
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the West Indies may be, it is GER
tain that more important chapters
are about to be written.
In Jamaica particularly, the
Bustamante opposition is getting
into high gear for a full-scale
challenge to the Manley govern
ment when the referendum is taken
later this year.
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city in the entire South. What
happens there will determine the
climate of acceptance all over the
South"
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provided the ALL
Rights Field Richard
who's oHc inN Nashville
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Mr.. ShipIey Goes Overheard

Carl Shipley, the District Republican
chairman, went off the deep end in
suggesting that a future Republican
Congress might repeal the newly-won
right OF Washingtonians to vote in
presidential elections if too many of
them should vote Democratic three
years from now. In the first place, we
do not think Congress would do any
such thing. And in the second place,
Mr.. ShipleyS remarks are a gratuitous
affront to the intelligence of those he
seeks to impress. The citizens of Wash
ington have waited long and eagerly
for the opportunity to participate in
national elections. We have no doubt
that the criterion which most of them
will follow in 1864 will be to vote for
the. man whom they individually con-
slider to be the best fitted to be President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Name Chonqe

Now that Josef Stains remains
have been removed from the great
Lenin tomb on Red Square in Moscow,
a systematic effort is being made in
the Soviet Union to do away with his
name wherever possible. The most
striking example of this is the fact that
Stalingrad- site of one of the greatest
battles of the Second World War-no
longer exists; overnight, in keeping with
Premier Khrushchev's de-apotheosis of
the old tyrant, it has become a place
called Volgograd.
This is typical of what is now going
on throughout the USSR. Clearly the
word Stain is to be obliterated; what
remains to be seen is whether the word
Khrushchey will gradually replace it.,
and for how long, as a name for parks,
towns, cities and whole regions Of
Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Graceful Loser

I wish to express my heart
felt appreciation to the many
voters who supported me
in the election and all those
who worked so hard in my
behalf. I regret that I failed
to win for them and the
Democratic Party reelection
to the next General Assem-
bly, of Virginia, wherein many
issues vital to Fairfax county
and our Commonwealth will
be determined.
Now that the people have
recorded their decision by
democratic process, I trust
we will unite in support of
all our elected representatives
so that the people of Fair
fax County and the cities of
Falls Church and Fairfax
may obtain the consideration
Of their problems that is
their due. Because Of my con-
Germ for the satisfactory So
luton to these problems 1
shall continue to endeavor to
serve Virginia, my commu-
nifty and the Democratic Par
ty in any capacity for which
my experience is of value.
Dorothy McDiarmid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Utter Folly

Here are some words that ought to
be read most carefully by all who have
been making extravagant statements,
or feeling extravagant fears, about fall
out from atomic hydrogen testing. The
words are. from a Detroit lecture, en-
titled Health PerSpectives in our Radio
active World" by Dr. John C. Bugher,
an internationally renowned biophysi-
cist:
1t is utter folly to reach a judgment
concerning the continuation Of nuclear testing
on the basis Of the degree of hazard involved.
We know that whatever it is, it represents
very small increment in the similar risk
which is associated with all life [such as
driving an automobile or being trapped in
smogJ The real problem is question
Of judgment, fundamentally in the political
and social areas, involving the weighing of
possible although very small increases in risk
of some kind against the possible conse-
quences. some Of them Of catastrophe pro-
portions, of not pursuing military develop
ments with visor.
These are sensible words They put
in perspective the nature of fallout from
nuclear experimentation danger that
has been grossly and irresponsibly ex-
aggerated in some quarterS-aS against
the enormous perils that could be our
undoing if we adhered indefinitely to
an unpoliced ban or moratorium on
tests. In that direction lies national
suicide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Congo Policy

The report that the United States
believes the Congolese government
should be provided with small but
effective air force" to help deal with "a
separate Katanga" sounds like the first
step down diSaStrouSly wrong road. For
1t can only mean that warplanes flown
by United Nations pilots would help the
Congolese Army Subdue Katanga - an
undertaking which ought to be repudi-
ated and abandoned before it ever gets
under way.
Peace in the Congo is not being
jeopardized by Noise Tshombe'S Katanga
Province. Katanga is the victim, not the
instigator, Of aggression. And certainly
the violent outrages which have shocked
the conscience of the civilized world can
not, be laid at TShombes door. Why in
heavens name should the u. N. use
armed force in an effort to drive Ka-
tanga back into Congo which is in
state of anarchy? Is the placation Of the
Afro-ASian bloc in the U. N. worth this
qualification of the legitimate U. N.
purpose?
We do not think so. The only ra-
tional course in the Congo Is to strive
for a federation, as proposed by Mr..
Tshombe, in which his province would
retain substantial measure of indie
pendence. This offers some hope of
settlement under which the Congo might
survive. To resort to force, no matter
how it may be wrapped in disingenuouS
words, would not only be morally wrong:
it quite probably would also be self
defeating so far as the true interests of
the West, not to mention the Congo, are
concerned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
FROM THE STAR FILES...

maker that I ever saw. He
looked first at the money
and then at me, turning
alternately pale and red,
while his eyeballs protruded
from their sockets as if they
had been showed outward by
some hydraulic pressure
within. At last, just as I was
about to cry 'Fire!'. or run
for a doctor, or something of
the sort, he spoke: You are
from the country, amt you?'
l answered that I was. And
from a heck of a long way
in the country, too, airi't
you?' 'Tolerably deep I re-
piled. I thought So said he.
Them boots is Is dollars.
I didn't say another word. I
sat down and pulled off
Them boots is 10 dollars
than in anger, drew on my
own, and walked out of the
shop. I threw my Saddlebags
across my horse and started
home, fully convinced by the
experience of the day that
the small grocer of whom I
purchased four pounds of
candles at SO cents per pound
was correct when he re-
marked that things has riz. >"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
so Years Ago

Seventh street merchants
wanted their shopping area
better lighted so years ago,
even if they had to foot the
bill themselves. The Star said
on November %, 1911, that
store owners with shops be-
tween Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
had met at the Chamber of
Commerce to discuss the
matter. An organization was
formed with Isaac Cans at
his head. Mr.. Cans ex-
planned that the Commits
Sioners had agreed to install
100 : candlepower incandes-
cent lights at 65-foot inter-
walls along Seventh street
providing the property own
ers would stand an extra
expense of about 5000 a year.
Each merchant will be asked
to contribute, the amount to
be prorated according to the
front footage of his estab-
lishment. 1t is estimated
that the cost to each mer-
chant will average less than
SO a year. A committee ap-
pointed to draw up an APP
peal to the merchants for
contributions consists Of j.
P. Hermann, Isaac Golden
berg and A. D. Prince. :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
100 Years Ago

Inc iron boot OF war was
beginning to rub the South
raw a century ago, but the
citizenry for the most part
accepted hardships, economic
and otherwise, in good
graces. Confederate troops in
the field chomped corncake
and fat bacon and Sweetened
their peas with molasses
brought from home in Jugs.
They joked about it, Just as
they later would grimace but
grin at a meal of dry. I'M
cooked corn or a brace of
wormy green apples snatched
from a tree on the march.
Most Of life's necessities were
still obtainable in Dixie, but
the North was Tightening the
blockade and rising prices in
Dictated the demand exceeded
the supply. The Star of No
vember Is, 1861, under the
heading lone Candid Fellow
Among the Confederates,"
reprinted a letter from
George Washington Bricks,
which had appeared in the
Nashville Patriot. 1t read: II
have visited the city twice, to
get some Shaker seeds and
fish hooks, and once last
week to sell a few bushels
of wheat and lay in my
winter supplies. you are
aware that with the Presi-
Dental contest Of 1861, my
political hopes and aSpira-
tions expired, and that I re-
tired to my Sabine farm.
where I proposed to spend
the remainder of my days
in cultivating my few acres
and in endeavoring to marry
some young lady of rich but
respectable parentS.) My
wheat brought me at John
McCann's new mill just
$23.25, and as this was all
the money I could command
or was likely to soon COM
mand, I had no other means
of paying for the CARLOAD
of things I felt myself COM
PEELED to have to render me
comfortable for the winter:
Coffee, soap. sugar, hat,
candles, boots, etc. How
many of these articles of
prime necessity I bought for
the money you can easily
determine by the simplest
process of mathematical
calculation. Suffice it to say.
l expended all but $40 of
the amount, and had got
neither hat nor shoes and
deucedly little Of anything
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Social Dynamite

President Kennedy, in setting up
special committee on youth employment,
is trying to cope with serious social
economic problem.
Even a nation as wealthy as our
own in so many forms of material and
spiritual resources cannot afford the
waste, or risk the potential for danger,
inherent in the fact that nearly one
million young persons, roughly between
the ages of 16 and 81, are neither in
school nor at work. In many cases,
certainly, it is not the fault of these
youngsters that circumstances have cut
short their education, leaving them with
meager opportunities for embarking
upon gainful period Of life.
The alternatives which too many of
them face-of dependence upon others,
of Illustration that may be only a
step from desperation, of idleness and
boredom that easily may breed delin-
quency-contain the making of in
dividual and national tragedy DR..
James Bryant Conant, former president
of Harvard University and vice chair
man of the new committee, was not
exaggerating in recent reference to
this group as representing social
dynamite"
It is particularly fitting that Sec
rotary of Labor Goldberg, who took the
initiative in publicizing this problem,
has been named chairman of the Presi-
dents committee. Mr. Goldberg has, on
his own accord, already taken steps to
increase the services in his own depart
ment for finding work opportunities for
these young people. The new committee,
in turn, has been asked to undertake an
immediate study of the location and
qualifications of this sector of the
population, to encourage helpful action
on local and State levels and to make
whatever recommendations 1t feels
would be constructive to the Congress
early in the next session.
Obviously, the problem will not be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
For q Free LotYio

On November Is, 1918, the
Latvians proclaimed their
Nation to be a free and in
dependent Republic. Twenty
two years later, in an open
breach of all binding agree
ments and in an act of I'M
provoked aggression. in June
1910, the Soviet Union oc-
cupied and annexed not only
Latvia but also her sister Re-
publics Estonia and Lithu-
ania. The Soviets deported
and killed hundreds of thou
sands of Baltic nationals.
But they did not succeed in
killing the spirit of resist
ance, the will for freedom and
ever-burning aspirations for
the restitution Of the ma
tional statehood of the Balts.
Believing in the ultimate
prevalence of justice, believ-
ing in the resurrection of a
free Latvia, the Latvians
commemorate proudly their
Eighteenth of November -
secretly in their en- shaved
homeland and freely on this
side Of the Iron Curtain-by
invoking Gods blessings on
Latvia with the words of their
National Anthem: "Dievs
Sveti Latviju" God bless Lat
VIA. There is no force in
the world which could eradi-
cate the Eighteenth Of No
vember from the hearts of the
Latvian people.
ZuZanna ID. Kalnins.
President. Latvian Womens
Club Of Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
Halls WoIkout

1t is my earnest prayer that
the tramping of feet started
by School Principal Margaret
Walsh of Sayreville, N. j.,
will gather force as they go
forward until they lead us
back to some sort Of saneness
in this mad world.
For years movies have be-
come increasingly degener-
alive, and current plays and
books are such that parents
dare not give them to chill
dren without first screening
them.
1t is good to know that at
least one group Of school
children are being taught the
fundamentals of clean and
wholesome living. I want to
convey to the group the APP
probation of right-thinking
people everywhere that they
were willing to give up their
expected evening of enter
tainment and walk out of
that which could do nothing
but harm them.
Mrs. E. L. Sheath.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
ALexundriu's Charm

My home city of Fort
Worth has bulldozed the
town to pieces. The city is
now as sleek and repulsive as
Washington's new State De-
partment and / 900 others.
The Robert Lewis column
"Cities and People" in The
Sunday Star enraged me with
the intelligence that the city
of Alexandria could even
dream of destroying its heart,
its very life blood. Ye gods;
it takes me two hours to walk
from Washington street dow
to the foot of King at the
waterfront. Every brick, ev-
cry pane thrills me. There,
indeed, is the heart of
America. Downtown Alexan-
dria is possibly the most
truly American area on our
continent, yet Americans do
not know. 1t is far more
beautiful and charming than
the rebuilt Williamsburg. 1t
ought to be advertised, for
Americans simply do not
know of their heritage that
exists there. Indeed, Wash
ingtonians themselves do not
know.
Why does not the Alexan-
dria City Council authorize
a freeway down King Street,
on stills above the street?
Just beside that, a few sky
scrapers. some supermarkets,
an arcade or two, and many
glass and steel hamburger
joints.
Let the City of Alexandria
keep in mind that If its down.
town section means nothing
to it, it Is nonetheless a
treasure Of all of America. 1t
is sweetly ancient, sentiment
ally American.
MelbOurn Jackson.