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Buptists Split: Others Merqe

There going to be another split in the ranks Bapsts
in the United States regretted
of the nations leading religious
its influence.
Already another National
Baptist Convention In addition engage
foreign missionary activity up city week.
One of the quoted Biblical inmctions
dd against itself cannot stand Negro Bapss should
they immune dctum
This tendency to augmentation especially regrettabe
noted that other religious United seeking
minimize their theological differences
meaniugfu Christianity program
This Episcopal Church agreed
study the possibility of merging with three
Several other similar past
years.
At time like this Negro Bapists splitting thing
is that there be likelihood getting together
hundreds Of church leaders, the standing
helpless on the idelnes- Philadelphia TRIBUNE.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20

Langston Hughes Simple selected by
published by NY The cloth bound
paper of the American
Series may be had for $165
Many readers may know Jesse Simple homey philosopher
Negro foways creation of Hughes and the
central character Hughes been doing for the Chicago
DEFENDER for sples sayings some wise and others
culed from the book follows:
gets example he starts giving
good advice
If colOred folks can survive white Mississippi they
survive anything
right wrong order to have the
right to be right
at of Justice Justice
don't run no bar.
A man with getup-and-go will always go out and get
The best thing about getting sick is getting well.
for sex what would you be sorry being
glad about being about what glad abou'
It is beautiful prejudice just keeps
producing colored folks.
Midsummer bring winter
not make her a lady,
straight ta1gate.
There way for a bgamy without being
To take wife down. a
first make his mind
do not have good time years you might
not know how to have good time in your years.
living history-but you blame
them for not improving on
Men, if you COOL be careful
Who Was Confused? Last this space bnthey
Third District acregor getting
AS usual this stint hurredly prepared moment
and there
that because Congressman Nacrgor
first William" injury
him "NTcGregor" instead of MacGregor.
from his office with give
slightly
quite appropriately ut looks like
said the Congressman Touche!-Cecn E. Newman
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Editorial Notes

a great big by becoming
so million Aeri
Is this good bad?
Big threatens leave state,
somebody's the CUTS to Good
byew
sold The demand
that people to be
constantly to watch their health.
young member Massachusetts
critical analysis Of Ngean living
business that country trying
help people probably
Chicago found comparable qualor
right home
liquor licensing under con-
wrong Minneapolis city council studying the
regulations modelling the Minneapolis code
the Sanity City?
departments announced plan to have
carried There substitute for beat
the and he serves 1t
protection of homes and families
the law abiding citizens
both cities bending
daily the Twin Cities but none
suggestion about where anybods
the eight millions Of dollars needed to finance
daily for the sake of having another daily
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20

the President In the conduct OF
foreign affairs.
AS a responsible minority" Mr..
Miller argued that it was the Re-
publicans' duty to criticize the
Administration where policies are
in the formative stage and where
I'VE think the Administration is
wrong. AS examples he cited the
possible admission Of Red China
to the UN and de facto recognition
of East Germany.
Then Mr.. Miller went on to say:
Berlin is a political issue. 1t
could turn out to be an issue in
the Democrats favor, If the nego-
tiations come off satisfactorily.
But If they turn out like Laos,
Cuba and Vienna, they will be an
issue for us. 1t is going to be an
issue for or against us depending
on the ineptness or efficiency of
the Administration in handling it."
When Mr.. Miller speaks Of IAN
issue for US" he is, of course,
thinking about the party that he
heads. Unfortunately what might
turn out to be an tissue" for Mr..
Miller could prove to be disaster
for the rest of US.
I would not for a moment
suggest that some recent Demo-
cratic National Chairmen have
been above this sort of thing.
The present chairman, John
Bailey, Is still an unknown
quantity and the big political
decisions, for the most part, are
being made at The White
House.
Nor need we dismiss as insignif-
icant the normal Republican de-
sire for revenge in light Of the
low bipartisan level Of the 1850
campaign. The "revanchist" spirit
among right-wing Republicans is
especially strong because they be-
Ieve that 1t was the middle
road, rather than the extreme
tactics they favor, which cost
Richard Nixon the election. They
are angry with their fellow-Re-
publicans and the Democrats.
All these factors lend some val
idity to the aggressive line that
Mr.. Miller has been pursuing. But
there is also a built-in contradic-
ton in the approach he employs.
He may want to see John F. Ken
nedy fail. But If Kennedy does
blunder will this help the cause of
freedom and democracy?
Mr.. Miller, like all the rest Of
US, ought to be praying for Ken
nedy's success. What Is at stake
now Is more than an irrigation
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project in the farm states or an
' appropriation for a highway in
Texas.
THE POWER OF POSITIVE
THINKING - The enemy Is
Khrushchev not Kennedy. During
all the difficult times that still
lie ahead Congressman Miller, Sem
ator Goldwater and even the Birch
ties ought to keep that in mind.
We all know there is no simple
solution for the problems that have
developed over the years.
So the Job Of a responsible
opposition at this critical point
in American history might well
be to come up with some useful
suggestions on how we deal
with the Communist threat.
Since the immediate problem ap-
plies to Berlin, what do we want
there?
1t is just as important for Mr..
Miller to answer this question as
for the President and Secretary of
State. Shall we advocate a united
and neutralized Berlin? Are we in
favor of German Identification and,
If so, on what terms? Shall Ger
many be rearmed or disarmed?
Republicans like Senator Javits
have come forth with some ideas,
which merit discussion and
thought. But JaWts and others like
him realize that words like stand
firm" or "appeasement" are not
policies. Mr.. Miller does not make
this distinction.
Some Republicans argue that
the job Of the President and the !
Secretary Of State is to formu-
late policies; they shrug off
playing any role except that Of
critic.
Others insist that If the ideas
are good the Administration will
steal them, in keeping with an
cient political custom, but that Mr..
Kennedy will get the credit, not
the Republicans. So they won't
help. OF course they may be bar
rem Of ideas. That is always a
possibility.
What practical" politicians do
not understand these days is that
many Americans no longer think |
Of themselves as Republicans or
Democrats. They are not nearly
so much concerned with who gets
the credit but that Berlin remain |
a bastion of freedom while we !
avoid nuclear war.
(Tny,r,-i..kk ~. Dokz.k ~ e-a--
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State Department are showing the way.

State Department showing the way.
Negroes that employers contact Negro press
agencies the Urban organizations NACP
Negro churches seeking employees then such employers
their desire employ all workers the their ability
produce and they not just complying with another noous
regulation.
We salute Vice President johnson stute appraisal what
accomplish the real detectives Of the job Of
discrimination opporiesLOs Angeles SENTI
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British Learn Hard Way

Apparently according to Graham Hovey STAR and TRIBUNE
foreign correspondent the British party finally ordered its
government leaders for immigration curbs by law
These crbs admittedly aimed at reducing the migration
the Commonwealth the British migra
Negro population greatly
India Pastan also furnished migrants
England lived centuries off the toll sweat Of millions
blacks their freedom
the mother better education
opportunity As long they to obtain schooling alright
but recent blacks from the impoverished West Indian
countries been flooding Britain and bringing with them the
which nation proudly boosted did not have
With several Of the Commonwealth nations black brown
nations the tide Of immigration Of coored people
the at best shay
monwealth.
rghwng British Tories who like ngers almost
egaonss at hearts believing with all their hearts
superiority be the by which the unique British
Commonwealth, is burst asunder.
Jamaica Prime Minister know the story it is and will
limit the United Kingdom Of
entry denied the basis of
attitudes the entire world the question of the color
and caste system undergoing genuine overhang
Americans that Of the problems which
solved beginning plague Of national
smpahze much with
the us and its race problem
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WATCH
on the
POTOMAC
BY ROBERT o. SPIVAcK

Washington-POLITICS AS USUAL-You almost al
ways count the national chairman of political party
what obvious but usually in tones that make profound
Rep William E. Miller, the Republican National Chair
man. is proving exception to this rule.
In interview recently the New York congressman took
the charge that certain Republicans hampeng the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20
ARGUMENTS OVER THE srr.Ns

ARGUMENTS OVER STT-IS
arguments
sound like variation of the old segregaon theme Indignation
the order the South all rights limited
public
whether Negroes rights freedoms enjoyed
white citizens Constitution guarantees POST
DISPATCH
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20
DEMOLITION IN GHANA

The internal politics Of Ghana that cots
and questions of United States foreign aid policy judged
different standards than the virtue lack of it,
ruler But Mr. increasingly
resembles Observation-Disclosures POST.
Evening star., 1961-03-20
Indefinitely Is Fine

We have no way OF knowing how
much thought he put into it, but J.
Rowland Snyder, the chief architect
for Government buildings, used pre-
cisely the right word in describing the
present status Of the 80-year-old
State, War and Navy Building. The
building will stand, Mr.. Snyder said,
indefinitely"
For in this word there is solace for
everyone, those whose spirits are lifted
by the bizarre architecture of the
massive old building, and no less those
who view it as monStroSity whose
demolition is merely matter of time.
In short, the controversy stands where
it stood four years ago, when presi-
Dental commission recommended that
"Old State" be razed to make way for
an expansion of the White House
grounds and for smaller, more fitting
adjunct to the Executive Mansion.
For our part, we are just as happy
that indefiniteness prevails until the
first-priority recommendation of the
presidential commission-the construc-
tion Of new executive Office building
on the west side of Lafayette Square
is completed. There will be time enough
then to renew the battle, with full
assurance that emotions on neither side
will have been dulled by the delay.
Evening star., 1961-03-20
D-Doy for Dhohron

There is little purpose, and perhaps
little need, in deploring the decision of
the Saudi Arabian government against
extending our military airbase privileges
at Dhahran after April, 1862.
Located approximately half way
down the Persian Gulf, the American
built Dhahran field was started during
World War II and has since been ex-
panded into combination military and
civilian facility. Basically, the present
operational agreement on the military
side was reached in 1945 and has been
renewed in 1851 and 1857. In brief, the
terms have been that we would maintain
and operate the technical facilities at
the field while directing the training of
Saudi air force personnel. During most
of this period, the job has been done by
our Military Air Transport Service with
no American combat planes stationed
there. For MATS, the field has been
useful as re-fueling and emergency
repair base for long intercontinental
flights but even this usefulness has di-
miniShed with the constantly longer
range capacity of transport planes.
Potentially, of course, the field has
had strategic value in event the East
West cold war erupted into something
worse. In the framework Of this stra-
tegic concept, Dhahran has been part of
the complex Of air installations stretch
ing from North Africa eastward to
Turkey and down the Persian Gulf.
Months ago, however, it was agreed that
we would surrender the base rights in
Morocco by 1868 and termination of the
Dhahran agreement is another step in
diSmantling this overseas defense struc-
ture. The best hope is that war will not
come, in which case loss Of the outposts
will matter little. Presumably, civil air
operations will continue as usual.
Publicly, at least, the Saudi govern
ment offered no explanation for its de-
cision. BY and large, the authorities In
Riyadh have stood somewhat apart from
the more aggressive Arab nationalist
position expressed most often by Presi-
dent NaSSer Of the United Arab Republic.
There has been speculation, however,
that King Saud has been under increas-
ing pressure to curtail foreign influ-
ence" and that the enforced departure
OF American military personnel fits this
demand. Whether or not this is the
case, either party (Saudi Arabia or the
United StateS) has the right to let the
agreement lapse on its expiration date
next year-and it is their choice to do so.
Evening star., 1961-03-20

championship, Ingemar has been advised
by. our Internal Revenue Service that he
can't travel until he settles up little
accounting problem-a two-year tax bill
that adds up to $1,0O9,801.
Presumably Ingemar has benefit of
counsel and in due time this imbroglio
will be resolved. But if Ingemar is out
matched in this case, the explanation
may lie in the fact that our almost
brand-new Internal Revenue Commits
sioner, Mort Caplin, is identified as a
real cagey" former middleweight box
ing champion at the University of Vir-
glnia. Other things being equal, good
big man usually can lick a good little
one. When other things are not equal,
however, it might be a good time to call
in the lawyers, Ingemar
Evening star., 1961-03-20
Suspects oPIot

The proposed minimum
wage Of $1.25 per hour would
amount to $50 per week for
a 40-hour-week. However,
the minimum wage-earner
seldom puts in a 40-hour-
week. After taxes of all de-
scriptions. how can anyone
live on less than such a
minimum with our initiation,
aggravated by big steel and
a certain political gentleman
prior to last election?
Is not industry up to one
of its old tricks in its op-
position to this proposal:
Letting the general taxpayer,
through relief payments, in
directly help finance the
free enterprise" system and
thereby increase industry's
profits? / am a conservative,
but I have learned with good
reason to suspect the motives
Of the pSeudo-conservative
businessman. From the zon-
ing manipulation in Arling-
ton to Dixon Yates, they
have one thing in common
cupidity.
William M. Burdette, jr.
Evening star., 1961-03-20
Intro-FomiIy Feud

There is nothing on the record at
this point to reflect unflatteringly on the
political aStuteneSS of President Kennedy
or his brother Bobby, now Attorney
General. AS family team, they COM
bined their talents to win "the big one"
last fall and since January 20 their
exercise of political instinct has been
impreSSively good.
Even so, the role of leadership, the
combination of power and responsibility,
inevitably carries built-in. risks. The
Kennedy brothers are facing a political
test of this sort in New York State, the
Number One political prize in the Nation,
where their Democratic Party is deeply
and emotionally divided. It was so long
before the November elections and even
a Democratic statewide presidential
majority Of approximately 100000 votes
did not conceal the fact that there was
regular VS.. reform rift in party ranks.
AT one point, it was reported that Robert
Kennedy had intervened personally to
seek settlement of the feud between
the regulars headed by State Chairman
Michael H. Prendergast and Tammany
leader Carmine De Sapio and the
irregulars headed by former Senator
Herbert H. Lehman and Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt.
No real settlement ever was reached,
and President Kennedy himself has now
moved openly into the dispute. A few
days ago, Peter ]. Crotty, Erie County
IN, ~ Democratic chairman, and Mrs.
Crotty, were received by the President
at the White House. With or without
authorization, political friend of the
CrottyS explained that the latter were
so honored because Mr.. Prendergast was
on the way out, Mr.. Crotty was on the
way in, and that's the way the Ken
nedys want It," This Interpretation of
the White House social goingS-on was
supported, in effect, by a stubborn
sounding statement from Mr.. Prender-
CAST, in Miami Beach, that "I will not
step aside at anyone's request"
1t is not for us, fortunately, to sit in
Judgment on the deeper merits of this
intra-family Squabble. AS noted, New
York is important politically in every
presidential year and will be important
in 1862 If, as expected, Republican
Governor Nelson Rockefeller seeks re-
election as possible prelude to bidding
for his party'S presidential nomination
in 1864. To the Kennedys, the poten-
tial risk in intervention lies in the hard
to-predict reaction of State voters
toward any suggestion Of political dicta-
ton from Washington" President
Franklin Roosevelt, for example, found
out how such intervention could
boomerang in his unsuccessful purge
efforts OF the middle 1930s. MeSsrs.
Kennedy, John and Robert, may or may
not have better luck.
Evening star., 1961-03-20
BRIGHTER in AIqerio

The outlook for peace in tormented
q Algeria has frightened markedly over
the week end. The reason for this is that
the rebel regime in exile has announced
at its headquarters in TuniS that it has
taken steps" to bring about official ne
gotiationS with France to put an end to
the tragic and basically SenseleSS war
that has ravaged the country for more
than six years past.
These steps are in response to mag
unanimous and realistic offers made by
President Charles de Gaulle and his gov
ernment to abandon arms and resort to
the conference table in an earnest effort
to achieve ceaSe-fire and work out
peaceful settlement on the basis of a
formula of unqualified determine
ton. This formula would permit the
Algerian people approximately million
Europeans and million Moslems) to
make one or another of the following
choices:
(1) To "Secede" from France on
completely independent, go = 1t alone
basis. (2) To remain as an integral and
inSeparable part Of France. Or (3) to
associate itself with France as member
Of the French Union" or Community"
General de Gaulle, of course, has made
clear his personal conviction that de-
ciSion in favor of secession and absolute
non-co-o operative independence would be
catastrophe for the AlgerianS, politi-
cally, economically, militarily and other
wise. And there is good reason to feel
that an overwhelming majority Of the
country's Moslem population-the mod
crates who have long since grown weary
Of Algeria'S fratricidal Strife-agree with
him and favor peace that will perpetu-
ate, even If in greatly modified form,
their generally profitable ties with Paris.
These ties have been in effect for
more than 130 years, during all Of which
time France has regarded Algeria as
part of itSelf-body and soul, so to speak.
That is why great numbers of Algerians
are in complete agreement with the
eloquent appeal General de Gaulle made
to the rebels in 1858: why kill? You
should make people live. Why destroy?
It is your duty to build. Why hate? What
is needed is cooperation. End these
absurd combatS, and Immediately hope
will blossom once more through the land
of Algeria"
Although they are likely to be diff
cult and protracted, the negotiations
that are now to be undertaken by the
rebels and the French promise to elimi-
nate "theSe absurd combats," and to
that extent they most definitely encour-
age bloSSoming Of hope in Algeria.
Evening star., 1961-03-20

A headline states, Tooth
Decay Cut go Per Cent by
Fluoridation Here" But when
one reads the statistics pre-
sented he learns how flimsy
the basis for this claim.
Fluoride Is a by-product Of
the aluminium industries. OF
course, the industries like to
sell their by-products. Fluo-
ride is fine for rat poison.
That is what it should be
limited to. 1t is no good in
the stomach Of a human
being. When a man is pos
sesSed with disease and in
firmitieS innumerable, inside
and outside, he would like
to know whether his tor
mentS are due to fluorideS
in his drinking water or to
his own vices.
In and around Washington,
D. c.. we find the business
Of selling spring water flour
ishing. They take it to stores,
offices and homes. These
purchasers don't trust the
drinking water. You didn't
see such sale Of spring water
before they put nuorides in
drinking water. It is mass
medication, undemocratic,
despotic, murderous, to put it
honestly and bluntly. Chem
lists have said it, too.
The rank and file, Door
people, who cannot afford to
buy spring water, have their
rights. Let us call upon our
lawmakers to protect them.
p II
Evening star., 1961-03-20

During the Eisenhower ad-
ministration you were always
referring to Just where the
President was playing golf,
suggesting that he was ne
glecting his duties as Presi-
dent of the United States.
If I remember correctly
Mr.. Eisenhower, when he en-
tered the White House, spent
no time entertaining his
grandchildren during office
hours in his office.
1t seems to me all you
print in your paper is news
and pictures Of the President
and his daughter. He GER
tainly spends a great deal Of
time entertaining her.
Since her mother has three
secretaries she should be the
one to look after her daugh-
ter.
So in the future please
print more constructive news
for your readers.
Disguised.
Evening star., 1961-03-20
Has Money, Can't Travel

According to the experts on such
matters, Ingemar Johansson put on a
pretty good show the other night when
he traded knockdowns with heavy
weight boxing champion Floyd Pat
terson. Unfortunately for Ingemar, he
ended up down too long at the wrong
time-which meant that he could not
take the championship back to his
native Sweden, or even to his business
address in Switzerland.
For fighter, or anybody else for
that matter, this might be considered
punishment enough, but 1t was not the
end for Ingemar. Even without the
Evening star., 1961-03-20
For SinqIe FiIino

I have just prepared my
Federal income tax return.
Now I have to start all over
again to prepare my State
income tax return, which is
similar but just sufficiently
different as to make it con-
fusing.
West Virginia has just en-
acted a simplified State in
come tax law. based on Fed
eral income tax rather than
on income. That States in
come tax is simply an amount
equal to 6 per cent of the
taxpayers Federal income
tax.
Other States and the Dis
trict of Columbia would do