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ity" of government employ
ment.
The great number of pro-
fessionals in the area.
The expansion of high-pay-
ing industries such as cleo
tronics and other new" manu-
featuring.
The tourist money pouring
into Washington, sustaining
it's many trade and service in
dustries.
The District figures on per
capita income are based on
residence and do not include
persons working in the District
but living in Maryland or Vir-
ginia.
The District is entirely
urban and in this list is being
compared with entire States,
all of which contain rural
areas where income is lower.
After Delaware and the Dis
trict, the States with the next
highest per capita incomes
we're:
Connecticut ($2,863), Ne
vada ($2,884), New York (S2,-
1897, Alaska ($2,735), Cali
fornia ($2,74D, New Jersey
($2,665), Illinois ($2,613) and
Massachusetts, ($2,519.
There Is Contract
Generally, over the years,
said one expert. disparity of
income among States has mar
rowed. One big reason, he
said, is that as industry spreads
out to hitherto "underdevel-
oped" States the income level
rises in that State, closing the
gap with "older" States with
already established industry.
In Utah. for instance, fac
tory payrolls shot up II per
cent, and in Arizona 9 per
cent.
BY contrast, Rhode Island
saw a decline in textile manu-
factllrinp. Kansas suffered a
falloff in aircraft production
and payrolls dropped in Ore
gon, Montana and Idaho lum-
bering.
I On the whole, earnings OF
persons in manufacturing in
creased 3 per cent from 1853
to 1860, a rate half as large as
that in non-manufacturing in
dustries.
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jold our people that what
happened in Alexandria was
the limit and he and his fam
lily are voting Republican in
November" said Mr.. Pearson.
The candidate today advo-
Gated the creation of State civil
defense advisory board and a
general revitalization of the de-
fense program.
THE present dangerous world
situation and dim prospects for
a great lessening of interna-
tional tensions in the foresee-
able future call attention to
the need for stepping up Vir-
ginia's civil defense program, "
Mr.. Pearson said in remarks
prepared for delivery to a
luncheon at the Golden Tri-
angle motor hotel sponsored by
the Tidewater r epublic a n
Women's Club.
With him was one of his
running mates-Mrs. Hazel K.
Barger, candidate for lieuten-
ant governor.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Pearson Sees G. 0. P.
Aided by Lane Ruling

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 81
(AP) Republican guberna-
torial candidate H. Clyde Pear
son says some Democrats have
been driven into the G. o. P.
camp by the handling of the
disputed July II primary vote
for the House of Delegates seat
in Alexandria.
Denis K. Lane originally was
named the winner in that race
over Delegate James M. Thorn
son, brother-in-law of State
Senator Harry F. Byrd, jr,
However, a special three-judge
election court-by a 81 vote
declared Mr.. Thomson the
winner in a recount.
Mr.. Pearson, here Saturday
for a conference with area
Republican leaders on cam
paign strategy, said the in
cident is having repercussions
in all sections of the State.
I'm one Southside locality,
the Democratic chairman has
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Tests will be conducted at
the facility on a hydro skim
mer model designed by the
Bureau of Ships.
After it has been subjected
to rigorous onslaughts of wind,
wave and weather at the basin,
the perfected model will serve
as the basis for construction of
a 50-foot skinner.
Navy officials repeatedly
hope to have it operating
within two years.
It's primary use will be mill
tary. Mr.. Golovato says, how
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Bill to Tighten
Corporation Laws
Wins Backing

A bill to tighten the rules
for the incorporation of chari-
table and other nonprofit cor
porations in the District was
backed before a House District
subcommittee today.
The, bill would require non
profit corporation to have a
registered office and agent
here.
hTe bill also would require
nonprofit corporations incor-
porated in other States to reg
lister before doing business
here. ~ r.
At present, although the city
has a number of such groups.
there is no listing of what they
are or what their purposes are.
Nor does the District have the
addresses so that legal notices
can be sent to them.
Ross ODonoghoe, chairman
of the Corporation Law Com
mittee of the District Bar As
sociation. said the bill would
improve on the present hodge
podge" of incorporation regu-
lations here. Nonprofit corpo-
ratlons would not be required
to reincorporate under the pro-
posed law but could do so.
Edmund D. Campbell, presi-
dent of the District Bar Asso-
citation, testified that the as
sociatlon's board of directors
had approved the bill and re-
quested its. introduction. The
Dis trict Commissioners also
have approved the bill, with
slight notifications. 49,.
Under present District law,
there are no provisions regard
ing such common non-profit
corporation practices as dis
solution and combination.
The bill, based on a model
law of the American Bar Asso-
citation. was introduced in the
House by representative
Mcmillan, Democrat of South
Carolina. A similar bill has
been introduced in the Senate.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
The
Rambler
Recalls Ruckety
Puckety House
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Although the capital of a
great nation, Washington
never has been a literary
center.
1t has had no Bloomsbury
or Greenwich Village.
Walt Whitman lived here
during the Civil War. Mark
Twain lived here for a year
or more right after that. One
of his early pieces, the toast
ITO the Ladies'" first ap-
peared in The Star.
One very successful author
lived here for 20 years. This
was Frances Hodgson Bur
nett.
1t was here that she wrote
the book that made her
famous, Little Lord Fauntle-
roy"
1t was the antithesiS of
Mark Twain'S Tom Sawyer"
Poor little Lord Fauntleroy
with his neat knickers and
long curlS was much more
popular with mothers and
teachers than with the
youngsters. They preferred
Tom, or his playmate Huck
Finn, every time.
There actually was a little
Lord Fauntleroy, Mrs. Bur
nett'S son, whom she named
Vivian. He had long curls
and was the model for the
famous Reginald Birch illus
trations.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Bus Rights Of Way
Acquisition Urged ]
Metro Transit
Asks Fund for
Area Strips

A Senate subcommittee today
was asked to clear the first
part of a Metropolitan Wash
ington transit development
program - the acquisition Of
land for bus rights of way.
c. Darwin Stolzenbach, ad-
ministrator of the National
Capital Transportation Agency,
is seeking $12 million in Fed
eral funds to buy median strips
on new Route 66 in Fairfax and
Arlington counties, Va, and on
new Route 95 in Prince Georges
county, Md, as we'll as land for
parking and express bus sta
tions on a Montgomery County,
Md. stretch of the George
Washington Memorial Parkway.
He testified before a SYM
pathetic District Subcommittee
T'77+rmnn. Senator Bible, Dem
ocrat of Nevada, who was in
-, mental in setting up the
congressionally-created agency
last year. But Senator Bible
said he was troubled by the au-
thority of the agency to set up
parking lots.
Parking Lots Questioned
Where do you draw the
line?" Senator Bible asked.
Aren't we going a little afield?
If you acquire parking lots in
Montgomery County, does this
mean you can acquire parking
lots all over the city of Wash
Iington?"
Mr.. Stolzenbach said a rapid
transit system could not oper-
ate without nearby lots for
parked autos.
! "Why?" Senator Bible asked.
The transit administrator
said his studies had shown it.
was essential for fast. con-
venient transit to be located
close to lots where drivers could
leave their autos. This need
is increasing as the metropoli-
tan population continues to
soar, he maintained.
The original act establishing
the agency called for specific
congressional approval of each
part of its transit development
program.
Once Congress approved the
details of any program. the
first authorizing act clears the
way for appropriation requests.
Need Is Stressed
Mr.. Stolzenbach said his
Agency contemplated taking
land enough to guarantee a
65-foot median strip on por-
tlons of Routes 95 and &c.
where State and local acouisi-
CIoIlS 90 not protect that much
space. He insisted action was
imperative now because space
now is being reserved in the
States for the freeways.
-Four proposed new members
OF the advisory board of the
agency were recommended at
hearings this morning. =
They were Presidential ap-
pointeeS Frederick Gutheirn,
Metropolitan planner of Mary
land; Donald C. Hyde, a tran
sit expert from Ohio; G.
Franklin Edwards, a Howard
University professor of soci-
ology, and Thomas L. Farmer,
an attorney. The latter two
nominees represent the Dis
trict.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
BY WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Star Staff Writer

Although the Montgomery
County Navy has never gone to
sea and never will, its fleet of
several dozen ships is destined
to have far-reaching effect on
water transportation of the
future.
At the David Taylor. Model
Basin at Carderock, where the
fleet is permanently based, the
parent command, the United
States Navy, is testing ships of
tomorrow.
Will Span Oceans
None of these vessels is much
bigger than a rowboat, although
some of the superstructures
carry scale model guns, cabins.
towers and other apparatus.
Even the storms in which they
are tested are created to scale
in the tanks of the BASIN beside
the Potomac River.
But landlocked though it is,
the basin is awash with sea-
going activity. And few ideas, a
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O02, 900, compared to $3.50, ,738,-
900 in 1859, an increase of 5
per cent.
Per capita personal income,
measured by dividing the total
income by the total population,
was $2,223 in 1860 - up $63
from 1859.
The Districts Second-highest-
in-the- Nation yearly per capita
income, $3,008. was exceeded
only by Delaware's $3,013-$5
higher.
The average for Maryland
was $2,394 compared to $2,326
| in 1857 and for Virginia 81 ,848
($1,792 in '59).
Income Scale Is Wide
personal income includes not
only wages and salaries, but
money from business profits,
dividends, rents, Government
payments of all types and other
sources.)
If you wonder whether you
really did have S per cent more
in your pockets in 1860 than in
1859, economists at Commerce
add this cautionary note:
After allowance for a is
per cent increase in consumer
prices and the growth in popu-
lation. real per capita income
was little changed from 1889"
Also, said one economist, lit
depends on where you live
the section of the country-as
to whether you we're ahead in
1860 over 1889"
Thus the personal-income
State breakdown issued by
Commerce shows that whereas
Texans, Arkansans' and Flor
idians' personal income was one
per cent higher in 1860 than in
1859. it was 5 per cent higher
for the District residents and
8 per cent for Marylanders and
Virginians.
Figures Cited
Department economists point
out that the District since 1923
always has shown a high per-
sonal-income average compared
to the rest of the nation. 1t il
true today, said one, because
of such influence as:
The high level" of govern.
ment workers salaries.
The "constancy" or "stabil-
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Scholarship to IsrueI

A one-year scholarship to
send a Northern Virginia resi-
dent to the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem is being spon-
sored by the Committee for Is
rael Scholarships.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
HyuttsViIIe Reunion

The Hyattsville High School
class of 1851 will hold a re-
union at the Prince Georges
Country Club September %.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
D. Income Second
In Stote Comparison
Nations TotuI Passes $400 Billion;
Per Cupitu for 1860 Set at $2,223
BY ROBERT GRUENBERG
star staff Writer

Americans for first time in history broke the $4o0
billion mark in personal income in 1860.
And residents District of Columbia according to
Department study had the second highest aver
age individual incomes in the Nation
of the United States personal income totaed S4OO
Evening star., 1961-08-21

MRS. BURNETT, who was
born in Manchester, Eng
land, brought up her son to
be a gentleman.
The house where he lived
in his Lord Fauntleroy days
is still standing at 1919 l
street NV. 1t is occupied by
a printing establishment and
other commercial tenants.
The Rambler was reminded
of Mrs. Burnett and her son
the other day while peruSing
the Sunday book magazine of
the New York Times. In his
column on the publishing
industry, Lewis Nichols noted
that two publishers, Dodd
Mead and Scribners, were
bringing out new editions of
one of her books long out of
print, "Rackety Packety
House"
Not many readers, he sug-
gested, would rem e m b e r
when it first appeared in
1906.
Well, the Rambler does.
He remembers the excite
ment in our house when the
old st. Nicholas magazine
would arrive with INSTALL
ments of the story.
Mother remembered that
she had dolls just like the
occupants of Rackety Pack
ETY. House. Father read us
chapters out loud and seemed
to enjoy the story.
1t was illustrated by Har-
rison Cady, the Walt Disney
of his day. He could human
ize insects as we'll as animals.
Evening star., 1961-08-21

THE STORY WAS about a
doll house of a past genera
tion that had decayed. The
dolls were wearing clothes
that were patched. Worse,
still, a new doll house had
arrived with up-to-date dolls
wearing le dernier cri. On
the eve of the arrival of a
guest, a little girl of a very
important family, Rackety
Packety House was showed
out of sight under the stairs.
Everything came out all
right, The little girl guest
discovered Rackety Packety
House and explained to her
hosts that these were "qual-
ity" dolls. So the house was
refurbished and the dolls
given new clothes.
We children didn't realize
that Mrs. Burnett was child
ing the industrial nouUedu
richie of the goth century by
comparing them unfavorably
with the landed gentility of
the 18th. But we enjoyed it
just as much anyway.
The Rambler doubts that
Rackety Packety House will
be a sensation in any house
full of children today. Chill
dren'S imagination is not
limited to the narrow scope
of the doings of dolls. Chill
dren today ride beside the
bullion box on the Wells
Fargo stages bringing gold
back from California, or
cross the Great Divide rid
ing the pony express. They
shoot 1t out at high noon on
the main street of Tomb
stone.
They lead lives like the
children in James Thurber'S
wonderful story entitled
"ThiXth." Thurber'S children
organized a posse, tracked
the bandit down and shot
the gun from his hand.
This is humiliating," he
said to the little girl leader
of the posse. You can't be
more than S."
Whereupon she drew her-
self up with great dignity
and said:
I'm thixth."
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Navy official said, no matter
how imaginative, are ever COM
pletely discarded.
Take, for example, perhaps
the basins most imaginative
project-the hydro skinner.
A Buck Rogers type affair, IL
is designed to fly, not float,
across the ocean.
This is a ship" declared
Paul Golovato, head of the
basins seaworthiness project,
which will be able to fly over
any surface, water or land"
Hence, some distant morn
ing, passengers may be able to
climb aboard a Queen Mary
sized ship in Manhattan's
North River and disembark
nonstop a few hours later be-
side the Eiffel Tower.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Two Years Away

All this. basin officials ad-
nit, is strictly a dream at
present, but they are working
to convert that dream to real
ity.
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by the board, at least as far as
voting is concerned, during the
first two generations of the in
dependent republic.
OF course we have to a great
extent continued to require re-
ligious qualifications in connec-
ton with m my of our civil
rights. So we had a candidate
for the presidency last NOvem-
Der who seems to have said that
if either candidate had been an
agnostic this should have dis
qualified him for office. 1t
would, l suppose, have made him
an ungodly Communist. The
places and the extent to which
religion Eat least nominal re-
ligion) is required of citizen
are still a disgrace in a sup
posedly free society. But such
requirements are found in all
parts of the nation and are a
sub-part of our general pattern.
AS the result of our most dew
astating civil war we extended,
by law, citizenship rights to for
mer slaves and their descend
ants. We are now engaged in a
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major attempt to put this law
into practice.
We finally extended suffrage
to women. And even more re-
Gently to all American Indians.
My high school history teacher
in 1913, an ardent woman suf-
fragist, used to say, Everybody
can vote in America except In
dams, idiots, and women" OF
course he was wrong, since idi-
OTIS had always voted.
Here we are in 1861. We have
extended voting privileges, by
law, to all qualified adults. But
we have hedged the voting priv
ilege about with so many rules
and regulations that one may
not vote directly on matters that
concern him most-matterS OF
life and death-bombs, wars,
draft laws, etc, etc. Minority
points of view as represented
minority parties can hardly get
a place on the ballot in most
states.
The people have practically
no means of helping to select
candidates for the highest Of
flee in the land. All they are
allowed is a choice between men
selected by high-powered ad-
vertising hierarchies which run
the two major parties.
And the two major parties are
one. Both are devoted to some
extent to the destruction of the
human race. Both are led by
people who still live in 1900
who believe that the world is
ruled and must continue to be
ruled by the sword. The great
revolution of the twentieth CEN
fury is not under way as far as
they are concerned. They seem
never to have heard of Ghandi
- nor peril a ps even OF the
Montgomery bus boycott.
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By Irwin Ashkenozy

Perhaps Il should say "un-
doubleday" we are in greater
danger now than we were in
1860. Then we were faced by
the question of maintaining fed
eral rule over a portion of our
territory. We engaged in a life
and death struggle to keep our
territory intact. It was typical
nineteenth-century struggle. OF
course the subsidiary struggle
over civil rights for Negroes was
more important than the one
over territory; but we are only
now concluding that subsidiary
struggle and could have COM
pleted it much sooner if we'd
never had a war.
But we are in greater danger
now because we are united. We
can be taken anywhere. Ger
many was united in the early
thirties.
We have no loyal opposition.
We shadowb0x in a struggle
with Communists in our midst"
- and well-organized ri 6 h t.
wing groups, some of them sac
rosanct arms of the government
itself, exert a steady pressure to
subvert our democratic institu-
tons. Governmental b d es
themselves often engage in blat-
ant propaganda exercises, for
example, sponsoring the motion
picture Operation Abolition"
And no one investigates the
White Citizens Councils.
Unless liberal, loyal OPP
position" develops soon, the
danger will increase. All states
have become alike. The two"
leading candidates often speak
the same pieces. viva Texas"
and its candidates for us. Sem
ate. Where are we? Who'll speak
for democracy now?
Isl Otis w. Coan
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arate entities, you are falling
into grievous error and doing a
great disservice to our country.
America is a land of many peO-
pies representative of rich va
riety of racial, religious and
ethnic origins. Our great pride
is that we have absorbed diver
sified cultures which have
formed the core of our demo-
cratic society.
The sooner we drop the ar
tificial regional barriers - sure
there are superficial differences
among the people of New York,
New Mexico, Georgia, Montana
and so on, and within those
states as well-the sooner we
will achieve the national pur-
pose of equality and justice for
all.
What interests me about your
request, and offers some en-
enlargement, is that there are
among the books you are seek
ing the writings of some emf
nent men as M. Herskovits, E.
Pittard, o. Klineberg. hope
therefore that you will bring to
bear as much scientific detach-
ment and objectivity as you can
summon, and that you pursue
the subject in the true spirit
of scientific inquiry. So often it
is a human failing to select only
that that will support our pre-
conceived views and discard the
rest.
Perhaps some day the human
heart and spirit will light the
way where the intellect of man.
kind has failed, and the vast
amount of energy that is ex-
pended in resisting our fellow
man is replaced by a simple act
of courage, faith and acceptance.
Very truly yours,
Raphael Gould
Director
American Library Service
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you arguing with man. think it's cowardly and
unfair.
told him too Mie and lot of other things. But
he didn't say word until said had to get over to
church the Womens Club meeting. When mentioned
we having card party the benefit of the missions
in Africa Henry started laughing like he crazy.
what's funny about trying to help the poor
Africans Mile? Will you tell me?
II think maybe Henry is working too hard Maybe his
mind is going.
Really Mile, he laughed like crazy"
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what he IS but it is dead
serious to those who are sub
jected to the constant possibility
of it. You don't hear about it up
there-but the rapes on white
women are up several hundred
percent in the last ten years. OF
course, the agitation for inte-
grafton is the absolute cause Of
this-as the Negroes are made
ever holder. l do pray that we
can get this thing under control
before the lid comes off.
Most respectfully yours,
S. r. Booth, Jr.
$50 West 18th Street
New York So, N. Y.
Mr.. S. r. Booth, Jr.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Sir:
I have pondered your letter
deeply; for l feel that despite
the dogmatic expression of your
views, your desire to investigate
the works of other mems minds
offers some evidence of an in
quisitive intellect
Although / do not share your
opinions on the whyfores of the
mess we are in, I do believe
that if more people were to ex-
ercise intellectual curiosity and
ventilate their minds and ex-
pand the CONSTRUCTED horizons
of their spirits; not only through
reading but by living, many of
the ills of the world would be
greatly diminished.
The first rule in approaching
a social subject logically is to
accept the basic premise that
there are no absolutes: today's
truths" are very often the
archaic myths of tomorrow.
Therefore to talk about the
african mentality" is pure
folly. Coincidentally only last
week a Negro student of the
University of North Carolina
who stood at the head of his
class numbering 100 students
(the rest of whom are white, I
believe) was chosen to be editor
of the law journal.
If it carries any weight with
you, there exists a vast body of
literature in the fields of social,
cultural and physical anthro-
pology and related subjects that
explode the myth of African
mentality. True there are books
offering an opposing view; but
then if one wishes to search far
enough, one can find support
for any theory, no matter how
outlandish.
My personal feelings are: a
little humility sense of the
smallness of man before the
majesty of nature and the uni
verse-an awareness of our very
temporary stay on earth - an
understanding and acceptance
of our fellow creatures who
only desire what you desire for
yourself: to be allowed to live
as their peers, equal under law
and under God.
When you refer to the North
and to the South as two sep