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St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21

House were FRANKIE Of the S7t
Pennington Speaker
House. Chlgen,
paper publisher.
relatively fight way through egsa-
against openly
vicious about it. at least at the capital
community the Minnesota Builders St.
Home builders the Apartment House Owners of both cities
tempted by well circulated petitions to alarm the whites the Twin
by appealing o prejudice
opposition
taking position enough
Minneapolis Realtors which organization years
has attempted an educational program against was
fight passage did
clearly visible role for against the measure
spontaneous support the bill groups
elsewhere this reflection this firmly
heVes In the basic desire of Minnesota people to treat their neigh
bOs fairly and squaey which tradition in this state.
1868 years
legislature enacted statute fobddng segregation Minnesota
public
practices political
prominent nationally rights problem
which prestige
the world nation dedicated justice freedom and human equality
lawmang
enacted the Housing law acting the best tradition
state which has been leader the forefront justice for from
time of the Smelling Dred Scott until Thurs
when SO members the state Senate reamed best d
tons by voting for passage of the Fair Housing bill
lengthy single
organizations victory possible
fitting organized
place struggle taking stand for the bill
All three major faiths cOOperaed and urged support by their
members and this a decided factor.
Negro community regular human relations
and rights organization all nterraca there
usual dedication but this proudst of all of the Twin City
Council Negro Organizations which demonstrated its interest
going receiving
dimes dollars with dollars financing
the Fair Housing
executive surrounded by the authors of the signed the bill
into law.
bit self congraulaton permissible
and grateful congratulations to all participated
the smallest to the victory for equal opportunity.
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21

frustrating aspects job being reporter
publisher inability pass great
aspects contemporary parc
work has exposed
No matter adequate reporter is no matter much
personalities
great interviewed depth
the behind political which
listened which have changed the events locally and
in few instances nationally
opportunities chiefly
this but also because active
beyond the call of duty and job At first activity the
of subty reminding the white that the
munty interested facet community
progress group naturally problem
permeated the community as a whole.
newspaper person
majority group apparently
Negro community
should
cities there outstanding
Goth could
the community policy making Happily today there
community serving
credit on community
brought activity
much Of the import things which individual
by which do better job of getting of what
people, but the important information
complex skilled
translate and interpret to the newspaper reader.
Illustration find time
report things
participated Care must be taken to not appear to be blowing ones
ho calculated risk should be willing to take whether it is
comfortable position O
duty honest yet ouspoken in
things places and people to which he
matter and talented he often
scratching sharing many
striking glad depressing deplorabe things with which he
had contact pursuit of
daily ego
satisfaction able the public the
things that happen writer's life, the dis
appointing rendng experiences
this occupation who slightly
beings This from much
Of mind body spirit the woeu lack Of
material of people land
reporters the fortune attract
balls products modern society
believe pronged
role edopubHsher and reporter meet than
disgsed
probably in the so-caled odd ball" class,
1t true that neso especially those executive capacities
attract characters than those
ares o
newsfolks authors write
with characters getting paid the
the time took listen digest and rid them
and then Of the aforementioned individuals
oddes with something really worthwhile to add
education
both
thinks he's talking to a crack-pot or not
Looking accumulated notes the backs
of envelopes desk appalled, things
reporting perhaps
well deplorabe experiences which form of the
individuals journey along the road of hfeCec Newman
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21
New Image, Sacrifice & Responsibility
While Casti

While casting off his old the
former virtues illusions
patience years
improved
the hearts of changed Overnight
At the present rate will
segregate Southern schools alone
answer will pave
the better understanding between the
violent to ntegaton entered around institutions
the
obscenies at little children Southern
students education has
the voice Of cowardice not instrument
Behave yourself you get along start
his faith the word of the white To ask for higher
better living conditions demanding
plight made him a troubemaker.
Negro impatient delays dlusoned by rewards
promised loyalty obedience nothing
finds that he also nothing began fight
his rights his image began change The stopped being
good old Negro day he a
The image created by the New
South to This cognzant rights
strength ready sacrifices
responsibilities of citizenship Not only Negro taking
personal sacrifice.
Housing Administrator and
Carl Rowan Assistant considerable
cuts in income jobs other Negro
An of have been insisting Negroes
sponbly in all walks of American He said
has preached this theory would be remss duty
unwilling make sacrifice accented
this job opportunity that there of
United willing only personal sacrifices
to their country but also to it we'll"
Assuming Patterson received
written before his third ngemar
$4,000 would forfeited Negro was
segregated at the fight hotel restaurant public place
Miami Beach Negro doctors restrict
and limiting appointment hospital stas
and the admittance Of Negro patients Negro
thus League Soon after
Hamilton Holmes and Chayne awhte
Atlanta University by police father
doctor grandfather newly golf
and made hoein-o -one-EBONY Magazine.
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21
Puerto Rico q BRIDGE

Puerto cos emerging role the bridge to
derstandng described by Mnoz he told
elite of his parys leaders that there dist
standing between the halves hemisphere which
eliminated Puerto Rico is ideal spot to help
Latin America struggling dissolve intellectual conflicts raised
the Cuban revolution Fdl his bid
Latin American mind both his
the Communists But evolution to raise living standards die
aors and yrans tradition Spanish ended
century and half ago.
The United States said Mmoz Marin responsibility along
with responsible Latin American leaders explain clearly
faces of the Cuban upheava and help people achieve
true democracy
The us and these responsible leaders not speak with
the believing
this Latin history
Columbia University returned recently reported
Communication between nteeuals Latin
America has broken down because neglected them.
I'VE have lost the role of leadership who concerned
with freedom justice it. This cannot
increasing material benefits be by reasserng
leadership of free men."-Mami Herald.
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21
Another Dream Comes True

years frantic expectancy the dream of baseball
team has been realized BY
time this will be heading by the
Stadium to welcome to communities
League they make their
debut
Many long into bringing about the
baseball Of this Much money has
the Big League stadium suitable
and secondly get team to
dapponments but the persistence OF
those who faith and courage has paid off
venture that
towns The scoffers and the doubte
must hardy souls who have abored
world that the Twin Cities and this
ready prepared support the Minnesota Twins
a turnstiles
Of pleased that the Minnesota Twins
have both US brand and imported
The American League play will have
players and DID, which Will give
some Metropolitan stands to cheer the
teams and players.
Of the country both happy
challenge We hope all out at the opening
the entire season! looks like we've
got a good club-ets really support them!
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21
Peace, It's Wonderful!
BY Loren Miller in the California EAGLE

raries; they labor under the belief
that when a Negro reads a book
in a library set aside for whites
he reads the letters right off the
page and the page itself turns
black.
1t has something to do with the
theory that one drop of black blood
turns everything black. Never
mind the details. I just mention
it to explain why the chief Of po-
lice who arrested the students was
so Mortified. 1t stands to reason
that there's as much sense in
maintaining the Sanctity of White
Pagehood as the Sanctity Of White
Womanhood. White is white, any
way you look at it.
See where am now? Our Peace
Corpsmen march into the Jackson
Public Library and send for the
chief. He watches while a white
corpsman reads a book. Then a
Negro corpsman rushes in from
the stacks where he has been hid
den and reads the same pages.
The thunderstruck chief sees that
the pages don't turn black.
Shock Treatment
The hope is that the corpsman
can then read the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution and
the Supreme Court decisions CIV
ing Negroes the right to use pub
lie libraries and that the dazed
chief will repent the error of his
ways. If he does, our corpsmen
can move on to Laos, the Congo,
South Africa and Portuguese An
COLA with the certainty of success.
OF course the whole scheme may
fail. But all won't be lost. The
corpsmen will have gained valu-
able experience which will come in
mighty handy when they run up
against Witch Doctors who are
as hell-bent to safeguard their
own rackets as white supremacists
are to preserve theirs. I can't think
of better training for coping with
ignorance in any part Of the world
than a bout with racial prejudice
in Mississippi.
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21
DIR Y-POINTS

: FRED GRAM
The cociy Russians that they have pioneered
Dragging giving
better Washington
major disadvantage Of keeping with
assessor who follows attentively right behind
This is the appreciate
supghways On his market they him
he loses in the mud getting to them.
The legislative purple
Minnesota legislators theory
expressed by the Of artistic mpoldc language
Still the biggest for all these
days is the achievements mechanics of
communication.
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21

don't care what anybody
else says. Pm all for Pres. Ken
nedy's Peace Corps. l think it's
just dandy to get our young
folks together and send them
around to the underdeveloped
places of the world so they can
show other people how we live and
how democracy works. You can
always show people better than
you can tell them.
AS I understand the plan, the
Peace Corpsmen viii also pitch
in and work side by side with
those among whom they choose to
live. They viii help them build
houses, raise, soy beans and do
whatever else is necessary to raise
the standard Of living and dispel
old notions that keep people back
ward.
First Objective
If you're with me this far, I
am sure you'll agree that one Of
the first things on the Peace
Corps program should be a sa-
fari to Mississippi. The fact that
Mississippi is underdeveloped is
demonstrated by the fact that
they keep on sending James East
land to the United States Senate,
which is about on a par with put
ting our Space Monkey in charge
Of our guided missile program and
compares with the Asian practice
of plowing with a crooked stick.
What put Mississippi on my
mind was the news that a dozen
Negro students got jailed for try
ing to read books in the jackson
Public Library. Now Jackson is
no ordinary city; it's the capital
Of the Great State of Mississippi.
Any state, or country, where a
citizen can get jailed for wanting
to read a book needs help and
needs it badly.
LO, The Poor Chief
That's where my Peace Corps
visit comes in. understand that
Mississippi authorities have what
they believe is a sound reason for
barring Negroes from public lib
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21

heights Of outer space the Whlte
House reaction is quite different.
Some newspapermen dubbed Rus
sia's astronaut Christopher Col
umbus'', while trying to figure out
how to pronounce his name. Other
wise this was no joke.
At most, according to the best
information available, we are only
three or four weeks behind the
Soviet scientists, compared to the
fizzle and flops after the first
Sputnik was launched.
But this was small comfort. One
of the wire services interviewed
a us. scientist at Cape Canaveral
and asked for his comment on the
Soviet achievement. 1T makes me
sick" he replied.
What makes many of us sick,
of course, Is not that Soviet
scientists are capable men-but
that such achievements can be ac-
complished under a dictatorial re-
gime.
We used to wonder how Nazi
scientists, many of them men of
great intellectual capacity, could
justify working for such an op-
pressive government as Hitlers {?
Were they not ashamed? ? The same
question may be asked about the
Soviet scientists. Are they not
ashamed to make their contribu-
tons to a regime that Is brutal
and anti-humanitarian?
Obviously national pride or a
wish to humble the United States,
hitherto chronological leader Of the
world, are also elements playing
an important role in each Soviet
scientists decision. Also, self-in-
terest is a factor. Reports often
come back that while the Commm-
lists squelch authors, like Paster-
max, they give great freedom to
scientists.
Inside Russia the scientists be
longs to n privileged class and
he probably likes 1t.
The political behavior of Soviet
scientists has not always been as
grand as their outer space achieve
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21

ments. The silence about Paster-
max, at best seems to reflect an
attitude Of, Am I my brothers
keeper"
STEADY, MEN - For those
who feel too downcast about the
Soviet achievement I would rec
ommend reading Of DR.. Ralph e.
Lapps book MAN AND SPACE"
(Harpers, 1873 PIP. $4.95). It was
published before the Russian as
tronaut went out into nowhere and
came back. But Lapp makes a
point that may help us keep our
sense of balance, as we try to
catch up.
The main value of sending a
man into space is psychological
rather than chronological, in
Lapp's Judgment. 1t may be the
only value.
"The real reason" he writes,
why the United States is dipping
so deeply into its Golfers to sup
port space research is that space
spectaculars have become SYM
bolic of chronological supremacy.
Sending a man into a quick
orbit around the earth has little
scientific value and less urgency,
but the United States committed
over a third of a billion dollars to
this chore. Such Is the price tag of
space status"
Since Lapp has long been a critic
of federal lassitude, and his COM
ments were made before the Rus
slams got their man into outer
space, his observation ought not
be dismissed as sour grapes.
Just because the Russians have
set pace, we ought not automat-
ically assume it Is the right pace
for us. When the Soviet leaders
show as much interest in caring
for men on earth, as they do for
their man in space, then we will
be impressed.
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21
WATCH
on the
POTOMAC
BN RoRERI q. SPIXAcK

ngton.-RUSSIA'S CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Spunk sailed into orbit the White House reacted
y Sherman Adams repeatedly unmpressed He only
of many say that not in with Russia
who could send baskebas into outer space That
the general attitude.
But now that the first Soviet has scaled the
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21
HE SAID A MOUTHFUL

Throughout country must only produc-
v but also Of the gains to
Of lower prices rather than having exclusively labor
higher to higher cNiarin
Jr
St. Paul recorder., 1961-04-21

Copyright, 1861, Robert G.
Spivack).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
His Own Man

Joseph Rauh, the acting chairman
of the District Democratic Central Com
mittee, says it is a wonderful thing"
that Commissioner Tobriner intends to
support an increase in the District sales
tax, even though the Democratic Com
mittee, of which Mr.. Tobriner is q
member, opposes it. For this proves,
according to Mr.. Rauh, that Mr..
Tobriner is going to be "his own man"
as Commissioner.
Well, we fail to see the occasion
for all the wonder In the first place,
Mr.. Tobriner has amply demonstrated
through his actions in number of
capacities over the years that he is
"his own man." And in the second place,
the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia know very we'll that, like it or
not, they have to find more money and
are already scraping the bottom of the
barrel in their search for it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
Space Prospect

The Senate Committee on Aeronau-
tical and Space Sciences has just re-
ceived striking outline Of what our
country plans to do in the high heavens
during the next decade or so. ST.,
AS presented to the committee by
officials of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, the report on the
prospective projects may seem fantastic
at first glance, but the projects them
selves are nonetheleSS realistic. Besides
the Mercury AStronaut program (Which
may achieve human orbital. flight this
year,, they range all the way from
relatively modest lunar shots to probes
far into space in the neighborhood of
Mars and Venus.
Among these undertakingS-Whi
are to be carried out wholly apart from
the launching Of numerous weather
and communications satellites into
orbit around the earth-Will be several
shots involving vehicles designed to hit
the moon and send back television
pictures Of it. These vehicles will vary
greatly in weight and versatility. Five
years from now, for example, one of the
heavier of them-or so NASA hopes
will conduct lunar exploration by land
ing ''jeep" that will move automatically
over the moons surface with TV eyes
far-ranging enough to photograph the
environment up to distances hundreds
Of miles from the point of landing.
In addition, beginning next year,
there will be a series of shots in the
direction of Venus and Mars And
between 1866 and 1870 NASA will put
big vehicles into orbit around these
planets, and both will be hit with 1000
pound capsules equipped to send back
to earth exploratory data of immense
value. AS for human flight, our country'S
plans call, among other things, for the
round-trip lunar orbiting of a three
man crew in 1869 and for landing a
manned craft on the moon two years
later.
All this constitutes only a very
Sketchy picture, but it is enough to show
that the United States is embarking on
truly breath-taking program in space.
We cannot afford to do less, of course
without exposing ourselves to the i'm
menSe danger of losing the race to the
Russians, whose latest recovery Of a
dog-carrying satellite indicates that
they are moving fast toward manned
orbital flight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
Back to Spells System?

Chairman Johnston of the Senate
Post Office and Civil Service Committee
has proposed strange way to obtain
the management talent so badly needed
TO bring the American postal service
out of chaos and make it the efficient
operation we all have right to expect"
He will seek to do this by Scrapping the
merit system and reverting to the
patronage plan for filling all postal Jobs
paying $4,000 or more year.
Senator Johnston did not put it
quite that bluntly, of course, in a Senate
speech. He said he would sponsor
legislation to require Senate confirma-
ton Of all appointeeS to such posts. He
explained that he thought the time has
come for the Senators to take a "flrner
hand in passing on the qualifications of
the persons who will be in charge of this
gigantic (poStaD operation"
1t is not surprising that Civil Service
Commission officials and other pro-
ponentS and guardians of the career
merit system of selecting Federal
employees are strongly opposed to the
Johnston proposal. For most of the
SlO,000-up jobs are under civil service
placed there to keep them out Of the
hands Of the patronage boys. Post
masters, however, still are picked by
those assigned to the duty Of rewarding
the party faithful.
If the postal operations are chaotic
and inefficient under the merit system
as Chairman Johnston charges without
Recommendations is difficult to see how
return to the spoilS system would make
everything orderly and efficient. Sad
experience in the past has shown that
Just the reverse is true. The Johnston
plan deserves to be consigned to waste
basket
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16

a televiSion interview, he does not wish
to see further split within the non
Communist area.
Actually, from the time of his
designation last summer as the party
candidate for Chancellor, Mr.. Brandt has
concentrated his belligerence entirely
on West Germany'S foes, not upon his
political opposition at home Toward
Chancellor Adepauer and the Christian
Democratic Party, Mr.. Brandt has
turned no political invective His
campaign issues, thus far at least, have
centered upon domestic social programs
health, education, highway conStruc-
ton and similar detectives, goals not
unlike those defined in the new
frontier" campaign in this country last
autumn. Within these boundaries, the
forthcoming West German campaign
should evoke interest but not alarm in
the months ahead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
No Public Control?

II Representative Mcmillan wants
TO turn over WaShington'S parking
Sltuatlon-lock, stock and barrel-to
private operators, If he wants to elimi-
nate any future possibility of effective
public parking programs, then he is
firmly on the right track For these
are the precise effects of the new park
ing bill Mr.. Mcmillan has introduced
legislation which would thoroughly
Skeletonize the District Motor Vehicle
Parking Agency and put its S3-million
parking fund" into the eager hands of
city highway officials for purposes which
GEAR no relation to parking.
1t is all too true that the agency
thus far has presented few constructive
proposals. But this has not been the
fault of the basic legislation. Partly
especially in the paSt) it has been the
fault OF an unimaginative agency staff.
Partly to blame have been boards of
directors, some of whose members,
ironically, have been wholly out of SYM
pathy with the agency'S purposes. Prob
ably most important of all, there has
not been compelling need up to this
time for vigorous public parking pro-
grams to supplement the generally
commendable job which private industry
has done. The point, however, is that
this need is very likely to develop in the
future, as problems of the downtown
city increase
Just two programs in which public
sponsored parking could play vital roles
are the rejuvenation of the downtown
Shopping-buSineSS district and the pro-
posed development of a balanced free
Way-tranSit system. How extensive
these roles might be, no one can tell
now. But surely 1t is foolish to arbitrarily
cut off the power Of the Parking Agency
to participate in such projects, and I'M
wise at this time to divert the So million
which already has been built up in
parking-meter receipts. ga
Mr.. Mcmillan says he would not
want to abolish" the agency, but that
the District critically needs funds for
street improvement and snow removal.
OF course this money is needed. We
hope, however, that the Commissioners
will oppose the moves to take it from
the parking fund. Rather, they should
concentrate on strengthening the Park
ing Agency, problem they will have an
opportunity to attack this year when
the terms of several members come up
for reappointment.