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Evening star., 1961-05-25

NEW YORK, May Is (AP.-
The United States Justice De-
partment says the plan submit
ted by the Board of Education
of suburban New Rochelle
N. Y, for desegregation on ar
almost all-Negro elementary
school is defective in a number
of respects"
"The fact is," the department
says" that the plan
contains many of the undesir-
able features of very stringent
assignment plans which the
courts have found inadequate
to guarantee pupils the right
to a desegregated education"
The department criticized the
boards plan in a brief filed
yesterday with Federal Judge
Irving R. Kaufman.
The judge had invited the
department TO AID MIN IN draw
ing up a final decree putting
into effect his desegregation
order of January "a.
GuideIines Offered
The Justice Department Of
fered ''guidelines" for desegra-
CATION of Lincoln School, which
is in a perdominantly Negro
neighborhood.
The departments sugges-
tions were drawn from expert.
ences in Washington, D. c.;
Baltimore, Oklahoma City anc
Louisville, KY. The department
said the free-transfer system
employed in each of these cities
should "be a criterion for car
rying out the orders Of this
court in New Rochelle"
This procedure, the brief said,
Evening star., 1961-05-25
Gov. Putterson's Service to South

students who decided to test
the law, it is necessary to
keep in mind that they did
not provoke any disorder.
They passed through several
other Southern States with
out incident. It was not until
they reached Alabama that
mobs gathered. In neither
Admission, Birmingham nor
Montgomery did police pre-
vent their concentration
about bus stations ahead Of
the arrival Of the travellers.
The students are merely pas
sive passengers in the bus.
All Alabama had to do was
allow them to arrive and de-
part. Other States had done
so. Alabama chose to answer
with mobS.
The students are entirely
within the law.
Yet Alabama threatened to
arrest them and the United
States marshals. Mob mem
bers are still at large.
There Is here a deadly
parallel. In time, not even
Gov. Patterson can be too
comfortable in Endorsement
Of 1t.
The Christian church may
not be comfortable II it notes
one aspect Of this story. AS
Of this writing, not a single
white church congregation
has held a protest meeting.
Only a Negro congregation
protested and 1t would have
been mobbed but for United
States marshals.
Let the Southland the
Nation-look we'll.
There are Just two paths
to take. One Is that Of law.
The other Is that Of mobs,
brutality, attempted murder,
tear gas and troops.
There is no way to pass
by, like the Pharisee, on the
other side.
Evening star., 1961-05-25
DORIS FLEESON

The fight in Congress
against the tractors for
prisoners" exchange with
Premier Castro of Cuba is
now a fight against Kennedy
administration policy. 1t
may not die, therefore, but
it will certainly lose much Of
its steam.
The President acted quick
ly and openly after protests
mounted in Congress against
Castro blackmail." In the
presence Of Special Counsel
Sorenson, Assistant White
House Press Secretary Hatch
er traced the Presidents
course for reporters in some
detail.
The President did ask Mrs.
Franklin Roosevelt, Walter
Reuther and DR.. Milton
Eisenhower to organize the
tractor-prisoner swap and
raise funds for it. He acted
after hearing that a number
Of committees were spring.
ing up for the same purpose
which he supports as a char
liable effort, worth making
for itself and for its impact
within this hemisphere.
He had first asked if it
would be a violation of the
Logan Act forbidding individ-
uals from negotiating with
foreign governments and was
told it would not. He also
satisfied himself that con-
tributions would be tax
exempt as are other funds
given to charity and that
export licenses in such mat
ters were routinely granted.
Mr.. Hatcher capped this
package with the observation
that it appeared likely the
President would himself con-
tribute as a private person.
The President talked first
to Mrs. Roosevelt, who was
already exploring means of
being helpful as a private
person. When she mentioned
tractors, he thought of Mr..
Reuther and he. himself,
added DR.. Eisenhower, both
for the sake of bipartisan
ship and because DR.. Eisen-
hover has been a successful
envoy to Latin America.
What the President seems
to have neglected--and it is
odd because he was in Con-
gress and has gone to extreme
lengths to conciliate his
Evening star., 1961-05-25
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Speaking of political status symbols, Alabamas Gov
Patterson of the Democratic bgwgs who has yet
to boast of his direct line to the White House
The Treasury may print currency in various colors
Debtors claim they've into the red white blue
Reports of rift between President Kennedy and his
brother. Bobby insists that Nixon can't be prosecuted
refusing to demand a recount.
Dixie officials feel the the bus problem is
big Federal road building program the South-w4th
separate but equal highways.
Both Kennedy and Khrushchev hope for better under
standing" after their Vienna talks. Question s who'll be
under-and who'll be standing?
Evening star., 1961-05-25
Challenge to u. S. in Alabama Called
Revealing to All but the Prejudiced

make UP their collective mind
to do What is right, then
they can thank Gov. Patter-
son for showing them the
other side of the coin.
Gov. Patterson has re-
affirmed his States deter
rnination. in defiance Of
Federal law, to select those
citizens who may travel on
buses in his State. His troop
ers will inspect buses and
eject, presumably arresting.
those whom they decide are
not eligible.
Here again we see a Sou
thern State committing it
self to a position it cannot
long sustain. There may be
more mobS. Her toughs may
conspire in other States. But.
in the end. the right Of an
orderly citizen to travel on
a bus will prevail.
Gov. Patterson illustrates
the dilemma of other deep
South Governors. He is, in
a very real sense, a captive
of all his previous criticism
Of the Federal judiciary and
his pledges to maintain State
laws which are in conflict
with Federal laws.
The toughs, hearing a Gov
ernor make such heated
charges, cannot be other than
encouraged in their own
forms of lawleSSness.
The loud cries from Ala
bama for law enforcement
also require study. 1t is not
clear whether they mean en-
forcing only Alabama laws
which defy the United States
Constitution, or Federal law.
Whatever views one may
have about the wisdom of the
Evening star., 1961-05-25

torney for the Southern Dis
trict Of New York.
The Justice Department was
invited into the case as a
friend of tn court" after Judge
Kaufman severely criticized
several major aspects of the
school boards plan on May 10.
The judges final decree is ex-
pected to be filed within a
week.
The brief said the school
board plan would permit trans
fers Of pupils out Of Lincoln
School only upon approval by
the classroom teacher, the prin-
cipal and the superintendent
Of schools. 1t also noted that
the plan calls for annual re-
examination of the status OF
transferred pupils.
Evening star., 1961-05-25
Opposition Expected to Lose Steam
As Anti-Kennedy Policy Effort

former colleagues in other
ways - was to tip off Ley
foreign policy lieutenants en-
the Hill. Their indignation
over being left out of Cuban
invasion policy was never
exactly a secret. Now, before
those wounds have had time
to heal, he has done it again.
Reliable congressional a |
sources say the President
gave his Senate and House
leaders no inkling that he
was so deeply involved in the
Roosevelt Reuther Eisen-
hover Committee when he
met with them as usual last
Tuesday. The Castro offer
was mentioned, but only in
passing.
1t is hardly likely that Mr..
Kennedy did not realize
what a tempting target the
three Americans he selected
are to the right wing, both
Republican and Democratic.
1t is automatic for the more
inflammable members of that
group to be against anything
Mrs. Roosevelt, Mr.. Reuther
and DR.. Eisenhower are for.
Once they began to COM
plain, the President had no
choice but to speak up as he
has done. The wonder is
that he did not foreSee it,
alert his allies on the Hill
and above all, keep his own
staff in line.
For it is reliably said that
Richard Goodwin, his chief
Latin-American adviser in
the absence of an Assistant
Secretary Of State for Latin
American Affairs, was the
Evening star., 1961-05-25
DAVID LAWRENCE

The Kennedy adm1nlStra-
ton now faces the acid test
of consistency with respect
to its announced willingness
to go to the courts to assure
civil rights" for all citizens,
irrespective of race or creed
or color.
For, if it is unconstitu-
tional, as President Kennedy
has stated, to give Federal
funds to elementary and sec
ondary schools where reli-
gion is taught, then the lat
est piece of evidence which
shows what is happening in
a large number of public
schools presents a challenge
to the Department Of Justice.
In the May-June issue of
Religious Education, the Of
ficial publication of the Reli-
giouS Education Association
an organization in which
all creeds are represented
there has just appeared the
results of a survey conducted
by R. B. Dierenfield. asso-
clate professor of education
at Manchester College, st.
Paul, MINI. His article, en-
titled The Extent of Reh-
gious Influence in American
Public Schools" is based on
the answers to a question
naire recently sent to 1000
public-school SuperintendentS
in all parts Of the country:
Some of the questions and
replies are as follows:
"Are Gideon bibles dis
tributed in your school syS-
tenn? Results: 42.74 per cent
yes; 57.26 per cent no.
Are baccalaureate services
conducted in connection with
high school graduation? Re-
suits: 1854 per cent yes;
1915 per cent no.
Are homeroom devotional
services held in the schools
of your syste m? Results:
1915 per cent yes Gall schools
in the SYSTEM; 17.06 per
cent yes (Some schools in the
SYSTEM; 1915 per cent no.
rs Bible reading conducted
in the schools Of your sys-
TEN? Results: AHA per cent
yes; 1925 per cent no.
Are religious holidays OBJ
served by any kind Of ac-
tivitieS in the schools of your
system? Results: Christmas
1892 per cent; Easter 57.82
per cent; Thanksgiving 1915
Evening star., 1961-05-25
New Survey on Religious Practice
In Schools Called Federal Challenge

per cent; others 8.04 per cent.
"In your school system are
any public school classes held
in church buildings? Results:
7.76 per cent yes; 92.24 per
cent no.
Are there any members Of
religious orders teaching in
the public schools of your
system? Results: 5.76 per
cent yes; 94.24 per cent no."
Several questions were
asked as to how far teaching
about religion should go, and
the authors summary reads
in part as follows:
Many of the practices
which are employed by school
systems to deal with religious
influence might be called into
question in the light Of legal
decisions on the subject.
"The American public
school cannot be charged with
being a Goddess institution.
Religious influence does
exist in the schools in vary
ing kinds and amounts, de-
pending on the section Of the
country and size of commu-
nifty. This report has covered
only the highlights of infor-
nation gathered by the sur
vey. 1t does provide facts and
figures to replace Surmise
and uncertainty about what
public school systems do in
handling religious influence.
The survey also indicates
that religious influence in
public schools plays a larger
part in predominantly Prot
eStant sections of the country.
The subject is pertinent
today because, in the pending
bills before Congress to rem
der Federal aid to education,
the administration seems to
think it's all right to provide
Government funds for col
leges and universities, even
though sectarian, but not to
such schools at the elemen-
tary and high-school level.
A few days ago the Su-
preme Court of the United
States added to the puzzle
ment on the subject by de-
clining to review a Vermont
case in which, although a
1915 State law provides that,
where there is no public high
school in the district, tuition
grants shall be furnished for
attendance at schools Ito be
selected by the parents or
Evening star., 1961-05-25
Tractors for Prisoners Dispute

source of flat disclaimers that
the White House was involved
in the tractor-prisoner swap
or that the President had re-
queSted Mrs. Roosevelt, Mr..
Reuther and DR.. Eisenhower
to take over.
Evening star., 1961-05-25
Pool Atop Gym

TOKYO, May rs (AP).-
When officials at Hitotsubashi
High School found they had no
space available for a swimming
pool in a new gymnasium, they
had one installed on the build
ing's roof.
Evening star., 1961-05-25
RALPH McGILL

Gov. John Patterson, of
Alabama, has done the South
a timely favor. BY the brazen
preposterousneSs of his public
position, and by the added
political hypocrisy Of his
threat to arrest the United
States marshals, he has shown
all but those whose eyes are
blinded by the cataracts of
unreality and prejudice, the
one alternative to the pro-
cesses Of law. In addition, he
has focused world attention
on what choice the States of
the South will make.
The White Citizens Coun-
ellis and KlanS shout, in
ignorance and arrogance, that
they do not give a damn if
the newspapers of Africa,
Asia, South America and
Europe are looking at pictures
Of mobs beating students with
lead pipes and clubs. Nor do
they give a damn what the
radios and televisionS of the
world are saying and reveal
ing. And they don't.
But the fathers and mothers
of the South and the Nation
do care. The men who direct
the future of this country
care. The legendary grapes of
wrath and grief are being
trampled out.
The South should make
up its mind on the basis
Of morality-and not because
its brutal roughs have, for
a time, taken over areas Of
three Alabama cities and
carried out their violence all
but unmolested until police
belatedly arrived. But, If
Alabama and other States
which will be tested cannot
Evening star., 1961-12-26
Gold in Your Attic
Satire on CoIonists Valuable
By VAN ALLEN BRADLEY

would try instead to wait
until I sincerely had some
thing to say to him or to
ask him about. Then a letter
might be justified. and if he
accedes to your wish and
signs your book it will mean
a great deal more to you than
it would otherwise.
R. T.: Wright Howes' bib
biography "U. S.-iana" (New
York, 1854 was published
originally at $3.50 and now,
seven years later, is bring
ing as much as $50 in the
rare book market. I under
stand he is planning a wholly
revised new edition. 1t. too,
will become a collectors item.
Mrs. G. H. X: Your Harry
T. Peters "Currier and Ives,
Printmakers to the American
People" Garden City. 1920 !,
is a very scarce book. Fine
copies sell at around $50 in
the retail market.
Selected reader questions
1UiH be dnSWered in this
column. Address Van Allen
Bradley in care OF The EUe-
ming Star.
Copyright, 1851,
General Features Corp.)
Gold in Your Attic appears
Tuesdays.
Evening star., 1961-12-26

One of the rarest of all
English books about the
Plymouth colony in MaSsa-
chusetts is Thomas Morton's
New English Canaan"
printed in Amsterdam, Hol-
land in 1887.
The author was an Eng
lishman who came over in
one of the early companies
of settlers, but for some rea-
son he was baniShed from
Massachusetts , by his COM
patriots. His book has been
described by one photograph
er as "a sort of satire" on
the residents Of New Eng
land, their manners and Gus
toms, and it did not please
them.
The title page of the rare
first edition reads, in part:
NEW ENGLISH CANAAN OR
NEW CANAAN. Containing
an Abstract of New Eng
land. Written by
Thomas Merton of Cliff
fords lime gent. . Printed
at AMSTERDAM in
the yeare 1887.
A complete copy is worth
around $1,000, possibly more,
at retail.
Evening star., 1961-12-26
MASON ON EDUCATION
Best Teachers Seem
Born to the Role

camps, in swimming pools or
with youth groups are likely
to become the kind Of teach
ers we are talking about.
II they do not enjoy work.
ing with children, 1t Is well
for them and for children
they might have taught-to
find it out early.
Too often these students
enter their final phase OF
training, st u d e n t teaching,
only to realize too late that
they do not enjoy working
with groups of children. But
in. many cases they feel that
they must continue teaching
since their investment is
great. Both they and the
students suffer.
In the days Of the little
red schoolhouse," a teacher
unable to manage upwards
to SO pupils in all grades
delegated teaching chores to
promising students. Young
SterS with teaching talent
went ahead and became
teachers; those without tai
ent fell by the waySide.
Something Missing?
BY that method. teaching
was practically self-perpetu-
ating. Did we lose something
when the little red school,
house" lost out to the mod
ern school?
Many high school students
do volunteer as helpers on
Fairgrounds or for swim
ming classes. They get the
experience of working with
successful leaders and teach
ers. They get the thrill Of
helping some child learn and
develop skill.
We need more opportuni-
ties of this type.
We need continued effort
by the Future Teachers of
America" clubs in helping its
members find such opportu-
mites.
We need the help Of par
entS, teachers and counselors
in encouraging young people
to give such an experience
a try.
The more such programs
we can set up the more
young people will have a
chance to discover that they
are born" teachers!
Thursday: Hurry Up" Teoehers
Evening star., 1961-12-26
FAMOUS FABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR

GOLF: President Woodrow
Wilson played golf almost
daily. on orders from his per-
sonal physician. Frequently.
he was accompanied by his
wife, Edith.
Mrs. Wilson never did be-
come proficient at the game,
reports Alden Hatch in Edith
Boiling Wilson, First Lady
Extraordinary"
"Once. at the Spring Lake
Club, one of the club mem
berS was carrying her bag.
She was in terrible form and
he was plainly disgruntled.
Hoping to appease him,
she asked his advice about a
close approach shot.
lido you think I can reach
the green with a midiron?'
"Sourly, he answered:
eyes, if you hit it often
enough"
Evening star., 1961-12-26
DEAR ABBY
Those Who Will Not Hear
By Otto o. Binder
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

with someone who doesn't
love you. I know for sure that
was in love with someone
who didn't even know I was
alive. I'm no youngster. Abby,
I am old enough to be your
mother. Please either retract
your statement or explain it.
] don't get it.
SEVENTY PLUS.
1t is possible to "lOve"
someone, but in order to be
"in lOve"-it must be mutual.
= 4 =
DEAR ABBY: I am married
to a man who was married
before. He keeps all of his
ex-wife's letters, their mar
riage certificate and an al
bum full of pictures of them
together taken while they
we're still married. I feel that
either he should send these
things back to her or throw
them out. but he refuses to.
l am very hurt and jealous
over this and it bothers me
a lot. We have agreed to go
along with your answer.
SECOND WIFE.
Your husband obviously
does not want to part with
these souvenirs yet. ComprO-
mise. Ask him to bundle up
all the memories and store
them out of sight. To insist
that he destroy them would
be a mistake. When he's
ready to do it on his own, he
will.
Are things rugged? For a
personal reply, tDrite to Abby.
in care OF The EUening Star.
and don't forget a stamped,
Selt-GddreSSed envelope.
For Abby's booklet, Hon to
Haze a LoUely Wedding"
send SOC to Abby, Boz 1865,
Beverly Hills, Calf.
Evening star., 1961-12-26
Have q Question?

Mrs. j. M: In the first
edition of James Branch Ca
bells 1.-The Eagles ShadoW"
New York. 1904, three is a
dedication reading ITO M, L.
P. B." In later issues dated
the same year, the dedica-
tion carries a full name. A
fine copy of first issue should
be worth at retail around
$40.
Miss F. N: Your undated
first edition of Paul Laur-
ence Dunbar's Majors and
Minors" CToledo, 1880, is a
$50 book at retail if in fine
condition. If you sell to a
dealer, you must expect less
perhaps no more than half
the estimated retail value.
r. j.: In the first edition
of Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The Autocrat of the Break
fast Table" Boston, 1889.
the scarcest copies are those
in red or blue cloth. A fine
copy sells for around $50
to $50 at retail.
B. K: Your undated first
edition of Ring Lardner's
"Gullible's Travels" Gndian-
apoliS. 1910 is mildly scarce.
l note a recent booksellers
listing of $25 for a fine copy
in dust jacket.
Mrs. N. r.: Simply writ
ing to an author to seek his
signature on a book seems
to ne to be unforgiyable. I
Evening star., 1961-12-26
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Nervous One Needs Faith
By DR.. PETER J. sTElhcRoHN

He thinks it is ordinary ar
Thrills. A barrel Of aspirin
won't help because he hap
pens to have gouty arthritis
for which we can bring you
specific help.
I agree that all cases Of
oSteoarthritis or reheumatoid
arthritis can't be helped as
easily and quickly as we'd like.
But the patients job is to
find out as soon as he can
just what kind of arthritis
he has.
He may save himself years
of intense and unnecessary
suffering If he knows the
true diagnosis. Corticoste-
roids, ultra sound therapy
and other new methods Of
treatments attest to the fact
doctors aren't raising the
white flag in surrender to
arthritis. We're learning more
every day. And aspirin. al
though useful, isn'S the only
defense against the arthritis
attack.
4 4
DR.. SteincrohnS ledtlet,
"HoW to Overcome Tension
and Fatigue" i0ill be mailed
on receipt OF a stamped, self
addressed enUelope and 10
cents in coin for handling.
Address DR.. Steincrohn in
care OF The EDening Star
CBell Syndicate Featured
Tomorrow: The Elderly.
Evening star., 1961-12-26
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Evening star., 1961-12-26
BY LESLIE ]. MASON
Professor of Education,
University OF Southern California

university OF southern CallIofnla
"A born teacher!"
Sometimes - not nearly
often enough! we hear
those words.
Most of us can look back.
with gratitude and affection,
to an inspired teacher who
taught us a subject capably
and imbued us with a life
long thirst for knowledge.
One such teacher in a life
time probably is par for the
course. Any adult who re-
members two is fortunate in
deed.
Are such teachers born?
And how early can good
teachers be discovered?
Probably the gift for
teaching is born in one. the
same as one may be born
with a great gift for art, for
music, or for literature.
Discovered Early
The gift of teaching, in
any appreciable degree. can
be discovered when the po-
tential teacher still is in
grade school. She pushes
away her dolls to help a
schoolmate or a younger
brother or sister with his A,
B, Cs. Or a potentially fine
man teacher puts down his
bat or boxing gloves to help
a pal conjugate verbs or
learn history dates.
If the young learner says,
"Oh, I understand! I see it
when you explain it to mel"
you have before you a boy
or girl who someday is 60
ing to make a crackerjack
teacher.
These potentially good
teachers should be nurtured.
The educational world needs
them.
Selected programs give
young people a chance to
find out early whether they
enjoy working with children.
or if children get on their
nerves; whether they can
impart knowledge. or if their
instruction falls on deaf ears.
These programs are a ma
jor source of happy, well
trained teachers. ung
people who successfully do
volunteer work on summer
Fairgrounds, in SUNNI e r