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Food for Thought

So Khrushchev now says
the Red flag" will be flying
over the United States one
of these days. Well, here is
a little food for thought to
all those nations who are and
have been the recipients OF
our huge SURPRISES, and who
still cast longing eyes towards
communism.
Today, not one of the Com
munist countries or countries
dominated by the Commu-
nists Is able to produce
enough food to feed its peo-
pie. Here in the United
States we are and have been
for many years producing
more food than we could ever
use. We are now feeding a
vast number Of people
throughout the world.
Do any Of our friends" or
So-called friends think, were
we under the Communist flag
we would continue to be so
prolific? Isn't it apparent
that the Communist way of
life does not make people
work for things they get no
benefit from?
So, dear friends" think
well and you might pray ev-
cry night Of your lives that
we remain the land Of the
free or there will be an awful
lot Of starving people
throughout the world. And
wouldn't it be nice If just a
few Of them were q little more
friendly towards us instead
Of casting their eyes slyly at
the USSR?
Isabelle A noIan
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Racial Policy

AS q Negro, and Senior
Vice Chairman of the D. C.
Republican Committee, I
wish to answer Mr.. Harlan's
complaints about the COP.
1 agree that President Ken
nedy deserves commentator
for merit appointment Of
qualified Negroes to some
high positions in government.
However, only two, Assistant
Secretary Of Labor George
LIP. Weaver and Administra-
tor Of HHFA Robert C. Wea-
yer, are in policy-making pos
itions. No other Negro Is even
in the "little" cabinet.
Moreover, all Negroes
should remember that it was
COP President Eisenhower
who gave us the bipartisan
U. S Civil Rights Commits
sion, and tried to make it
permanent. 1t was the COP
that brought us the civil
rights legislation Of 1857 and
1860, the first such legisla-
ton in about 80 years. 1t
was the Republican Party
that established q Civil Rights
Division in the Department
Of Justice. And it was the
COP that made the Presi-
dents Committee on Govern
ment Contracts an effective
instrument in the struggle
for equal opportunity.
While these things were
being accomplished, President
Kennedy, who was then a
U. S. Senator. was strangely
silent, and gave no leader
ship. Attorney General Bob
by Kennedy was not only
quiet, he was understanding
the late Senator Joe McCar-
thy, as a member of his staff.
Later Bobby moved to the
staff Of Arkansas U. S. Sena-
tor John Mcclellan, an en-
envy Of Negro rights. No one
heard from public-servant
Bobby Kennedy while the
COP was accomplishing these
things.
Lastly, we Negroes will not
forget President Kennedy'S
broken promise to issue an
executive order barring racial
discrimination in housing, or
his lack Of forceful leader
ship in the field of civil
rights legislation. Yes, Pres
ident Kennedy deserves praise
for appointing Negro judges
and other officials but that
is about all. He deserves con-
domination for his failure to
deliver in the far more i'm
portant areas of legislation
and executive action.
T. Franklin Wilson
Senior Vice Chairman, Re-
publican State Committee
for the District Of Columbia.
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1000 Acres of Parks

With the expiration Of Federal aid
to acquire parks through the Capper-
Cramton Act a few years ago, the sub
urban Maryland areas of the Nations
Capital were dealt severe blow. Now,
however, the acquisition program of the
Observation-Disclosures Capital Park and
Planning Commission has been given
a massive shot in the arm through a
$2.1-million grant from the Housing
and Home Finance Agency which will
pay 80 per cent of the cost Of 1000
acres Of additional parks in nearby
Montgomery and Prince Georges Coun-
ties.
Fortunately, the political machinery
already exists to raise the necessary
10 per cent local share through bond
issue, to be financed through the liberal
bi-county park taxes which the COM
mission administers. Thus the value
of this regional organization, one of the
first Of its kind in the country, has been
demonstrated again. The present 1000
acre bi-county park system has been
developed over the last IS years. In a
single stroke, it now will grow to II, 1000
acres. Eventually, the commission hopes
to preserve great deal Of additional
land in low-density use through new
forms Of coming controls. The advan-
tage Of having large sum of money
available now, however, is that desirable
park land which is in danger of i'm
minent development can be purchased
Immediately to serve as backbone of
the total system.
We wish that nearby Virginia areas
were in similar position Unfortunately
the local jurisdictions of Northern Vir-
ginia awakened only recently to the
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Thanks Park Police

Three cheers for the Park
Police!
Last Sunday, June IT, it
was my misfortune to have a
flat tire while driving
through Rock Greek Park.
About five minutes after the
accident, two mounted police
came to offer assistance and
change the tire. Not having a
wrench, this they could not
do; however, they gracious
1y offered to make the call
to the American Automobile
Association. While waiting for
the AAA, along came two
additional scout cars, Park
Police, offering their assist
ance.
My deep appreciation and
congratulations is hereby ex-
tended to the efficient ham
ding Of a most unfortunate
experience. Again thanks to
the Park Police Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
A District MOtorist.
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Jets for India

The charges and counter
charges between India and
Communist China concern
ing territorial rights could
in the long run develop into
an embarrassing situation for
the Russians, particularly if
the proposed sale of super
sonic jet fighters by the So
Wet Union to India is con-
cluded.
Such a transaction would
undoubtedly be interpreted
as an unfriendly act by the
Chinese, and would further
increase the tension between
the two Communist giants
who are already operating
under strained relations.
Herbert SOmmers.
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Our FoirCir

AIIC al BuIll6IlIS IOT Tree
ways within the District
amount to agreement by the
proponents to encourage the
use Of cars, a belief that cars
have the right to more and
more land space, and a be-
lief that the rights of the
District residents are imma-
terial alongside the demands
for more roads within the
District.
My belief is that the
amount Of land necessary for
transportation must be limit
ed. Beyond this limit, no
matter how large the suburbs
become, and no matter If the
megalopolis along the East
ern Seaboard engulfs the Dis
trict completely - no more
roads. The limitation for land
for transportation is a condi-
ton which the District must
determine some day. Even
now, aside from the problem
OF families being displaced
by freeways, streets are be-
ing widened to the extent
that pedestrians walking on
sidewalks in opposite direc-
tons can only pass each
other by walking in single
file. In transforms pedestri-
ans are forced to close or
tilt their umbrellas to one
side as they pass. Cry this
some time in the rain on the
west side of Nineteenth street
NV. between F and g.
Surely the pedestrian has at
least as much right to a thor
oughfare as anyone!
This letter is not to be
construed as an argument for
a specific kind of transpor-
tation. It is not an argu-
ment for dense population
within the District. If any,
thing, it is an argument both
for optimum thoroughfares
and the low-level appearance
of Washington. The beauty
of Washington is In its vistas;
the uncommon view of q
broad. beautiful sky in a big
city, of sunsets and sunrises,
of trees and grass and parks
in unxpected places, of the
feeling that nature is beauti-
full and that man has here
subordinated his structures to
harmonic with it. Admitted
ly Washington has not COM
pletely achieved this appear
ance. Yet I feel that Wash
ngton can, and that the
cities Of the future viii de-
velop a subtle combination
Of natural surroundings and
man = made objects and
structures.
In the efforts to settle the
District transportation plans
we should remember that
Washington is unique in its
physical layout as an Amer
lean city, unique in its limi-
tation on the height of build
ings. unique as the National
Capital and unique to the
people Of this country. Its
uniqueness has given Wash
ington a charm which no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-27
THE PASSING SCENE
Byron White and the Constitution
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

personal wishes. To act as q
detached referee and not to
go down into the playing
field and make its own laws.
To decide what the law is,
not what 1t ought to be by
forcing its own moral and So
cial-and lately also political
views upon the country,
the Congress and the Presi-
dent. So
The Minority's Fight
A minority Of the court,
led by the ailing old Mr.. Jus
tice Felix Frankfurter, for
years has fought a lonely
and largely losing-battle on
precisely the principles now
newly proclaimed by the new
and young Mr.. Justice White.
This minority has argued
roughly as follows: Since its
whole influence and its
whole integrity-must rest
upon its wisdom and re-
straint, the court has no
right lightly to brandish its
ultimate weapon, that of de-
stroying State laws by call
ing them unconstitutional.
Equally, it has no right to set
itself up as a legislative as
well as a judicial body.
How far this sort Of court
intrusion now goes was never
better illustrated than In the
New York case. Here was the
offending prayer: Almighty
God, we acknowledge our de-
pendence upon Thee, and we
beg Thy blessing upon us, our
parents, our teachers and our
country" The courts major
ity, led by such figures as
Chief Justice Earl Warren
and Associate Justice Hugo
Black, was somehow able to
find that this prayer-though
no child had to say it and
though no teacher could COM
ment when a child did not
say it-amounted to estab-
fishing a religion. ~
What the Constitution for
babe was not religion as such
but rather the establishment.
the setting up, of one religion
over another by State or Fed
eral power. What the court
has not yet forbidden is this
invocation, used in its own
sessions: God save the
United States and this hon.
orable court" It has not yet
said that mention Of God in
the Star Spangled Banner, in
every Presidential tnaugura-
ton in history, and in every
invocation in every session Of
Congress, is unconstitutional.
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A BOOK FOR TODAY
The Amateur in Politics
By DONALD MINTZ
THE AMATEUR DEMOCRAT. refractc

THE AMATEUR DEMOCRAT
Club Politics in Three Cite,
by James @. Wilson. 378 DID.
illus. with maps and tables
University Of Chicago Press
$685..
Last year, Manhattan's re-
form Democrats unseated a
fair number of regular dis
trtct leaders and even Tam
many's so-called boss, Car
mine De Sapio. In Chicago.
various insurgent groups
have alternately treated and
tilted with the Daley ma
chine. And In California.
the club movem emit has
gained a considerable though
controversial amount of
power in the party's councils.
These three movements are
the subject Of a scholarly
book in plain though dis
tinctly inelegant language,
"The Amateur Democrat" by
James @. Wilson, q lecturer
in the Department of Gov
eminent at Harvard.
Older reform and good
government" movements were
largely the work Of wealthy,
often socially prominent citi-
zens. They made no attempt
to capture the machinery of
either m ajor party but
sought rather to throw the
current villain out Of office
by creating a new organiza-
ton, contesting an election
and bringing a reform mayor
to city hall.
The new reformers, &C
cording to DR.. Wilson, are
men and women of an entire
ly different sort. They are
almost invariably middle
class intellectualS or semi
intellectuals, they are COM
mitted to liberal programs as
well as to ethical reform and
they work from within the
Democratic party. They are
devoted to intraparty democ-
racy and opposed to tradi-
tional party organization
which is essentially hierarch-
ical.
These new politicians as
sumo that "voters should be
modified by appeals to some
set Of principles or goals"
Since traditional politicians
assume that candidates will
be selected on the basis of
electoral appeal" and tissues
will be avoided except in the
most general terms or If the
party is confident that a ma
jority supports its position"
there is a vast disagreement
about the entire approach to
political action.
Amateur politicians, "
writes DR.. Wilson, thus seek
to alter fundamentally the
way in which the functions
of parties are carried out. In
stead of serving as neutral
agents which mobilize ma
jorities for whatever candi-
dates and programs seem
best suited to capturing pub
lie fancy, the parties would
become the sources of pro-
gram and the agents Of social
change"
THE LARGEST PART OF
THE BOOK Is devoted to de-
tailed studies of the activities
of these amateur Democrats
in the three cities in which
they have been most success
full in making their influence
felt, New York, Chicago and
Los Angeles.
DR.. Wilson has attempted
to make his work "as com
parative' as the maddeningly
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value Of obtaining publicly-owned open
spaces to break the solid sprawl of
urban growth. 1t is gratifying, however,
that the Northern Virginia Regional
Park Authority also has applied to the
Housing Agency for a grant which
would enable it to double the size of
two regional parks. We hope the re-
quest is favorably considered, for the
need is great.
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JFK VS.. Ike

President Kennedy con-
stantly complains that he
does not get the support
from Congress that President
Eisenhower was favored with.
At times, he even implies
that there exists some kind
of a vendetta, which is mott
waited by those, who seek to
discredit HIS administration
and Illustrate the present ad-
ministration's political eff
forts.
A closer look at the pro-
grams Of the two Presidents
would provide the answer.
The Eisenhower program
which found favor with the
Congress was a program for
all Americans and conse-
quently drew support from
many quarters in both the
House and the Senate.
President Kennedy's pro-
gram by comparison is mar
rowly conceived to appeal to
the extreme liberals of both
parties to whom he unques-
tionably owes his election.
The payment of a political
debt in such tender would be
logical If such a program had
any support elsewhere. Clear
ly it does not. The defeat OF
the urban affairs post legis-
lation by members of both
parties bears strong testi-
mony to the resentment in
general to this kind of poll
tics.
At a time when millions Of
Americans are fearsome Of
big Government, the admin
istration supports legislation
which would enlarge an al
ready gargantuan Fe deral
Government.
At a time when the pur-
chasing power of the dollar
is at an all-time low, the
administration favors legis-
lation which would inevitably
force it lower, through infla-
ton. This would wipe out
those of modest means, and
more and more people in
this category are beginning
to realize this every day.
At a time when our ma
tional debt stands at astro-
nomical proportions we still
have political economis t S
with us who say that it is
possible to spend your way
out of debt.
At a time when our en-
tire economic system, based
on free enterprise, is hest
tating, the President spares
no effort to ALLEVIATE and dis
courage the very business
men and investors who alone
can provide the capital, the
confidence and the know
how for the future. This has
unfortunately spread to af-
feet the judgments of for
eign investors without whose
support there can be no eff
fective unified Western eco
nomic effort.
Owen Allen Keen.
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Those intellectually and
morally beleaguered Amer
leans who are trying to give
the Supreg7e Court the vener-
alton it used to deserve can
surely take no heart in its
last session Of this summer.
AS the court adjourns until
fall, however, they can find
one ray Of rational hope.
This ray arises from the
first clear Indication yet
given Of the general attitude
on great constitutional ques-
tons Of the newest man on
the high bench, Byron White.
Because he had not been
on the court when the argu-
mentS were heard, Mr.. JUS
tice White did not participate
in its 6 to ] decision that
even a totally nondenom-
national and wholly volun-
tary public school prayer
daring to mention God was
unconstitutional, q violation
of the separation of church
and state"
He was able, however, to
put in a vigorous mo" to
another in the frightening
list Of unexampled interfer-
ences by the court with what
used to be the rights Of the
States and Of people locally
to conduct some of their own
affairs In their own way.
When the court ruled that
California had no right to
define narcotics addiction as
a punishable crime, Mr..
Justice White Ono relation to
this columnist) refused to 60
along. What he said here,
in his first dissenting opin-
ion, was far more important
for its future implications
than for the case immedi-
ately at hand.
Conservative" Approach
The court. he declared, had
departed from its wise rule
OF not deciding constitutional
questions except where nee
eSsary and from its equally
sound practice Of constituting
State statutes, where pos
s1ble, in a manner saving
their conStitutionality."
MIR. Justice Whites whole
approach. in this one notable
opinion at any rate, seems to
put him in the small COM
pany Of Conservative
judges-conservative in the
sense that they believe:
The courts business Is to
interpret the Constitution,
not to remake it to its own
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry tDriters' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSa-
ton. Those not used iDiH be
returned only Uhen accom-
panied BY self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
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refractory nature of the data
permits" He may go some
what too far in this direction.
The reader must always bear
in mind that the situation in
New York is complicated by
the existence Of the Liberal
Party, that in Chicago the
statewide Independent Voters
of Illinois Is partially anal
agous to New York's Lib
erals while the Democratic
Federation Of Illinois also
has downstate connections
which influence its activities
in Cook County, and that
party organization in Cali.
fornia makes it next to i'm
possible to study a single
city-even one as large as
Los Angeles-as a more or.
less discreet unit. =
DR.. Wilson of course knows
this. But he does not en-
phasize it as often as he
might, and there are times
when he seems not to give
these factors their full due.
The discussion of the spe-
cific political activities of the
amateurs in these three cities
their ideas and the ways
in which they did or did not
gain power or influence over
traditional political groups
is all that one could ask. It
is clear, highly detailed and
extremely penetrating with
regard both to political tao
tics as such and the psyche
logical orientation and UNI
spoken assumptions which lie
behind them. Z
IN HIS CONCLUDING
CHAPTER, DR.. Wilson dis
cusseS the value and future
Of the amateur groups. Like
everyone who has thought
about these organizations,
he is aware that their orien-
tation and procedures are SO
thoroughly middle class that
they have no hope of attracts
ing a significant number of
people from other Socio-ec-
onomic groups. Their attitude
is such that they would not,
be very happy If workers
merely voted for them at,
general elections without
participating in intraparty
activities, and they may not
even have attracted much Of
this kind of election day sup-
port.
But DR.. Wilson goes much
further. IF the test of a
democracy is its ability to
offer simple but meanagful
choices to the general cleo
torate, that test may be best
met if both parties are in al
position to field strong or.
CARNATIONS backing their
candidates :. A party which
is internally democratic and
lacking in such resources as.
patronage is not equipped
with those sanctions neces3
sary to enforce the party.
mandate-i.e., its program
on those whom it elects to
office" (
He feels that a politics of
principle is fundamentals
unsound in America and that
the amateurs in q curious
circular fashion may be self
defeating. While he calls on
West Europe for support of
his preference for the tradi-e
tional approach he does not
explain why the relativelv
disciplined and monolithicy
parties there have generally
managed to keep the tone of
public life and the calibre of
elected officials much higher
than have their American
counterparts.
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other American city possesses.
1t would be a shame if the
proponents of the freeways
prevail to the point that
Washington comes to look
like any other city.
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Neteran's Questions

Here are authoritative an
sWers by the Veterans Admins
tratlon to ques, ons from former
sefuccmcn and heir families:
Q l am a veteran on the VA
pension rolls l have been
awarded food Clothing and shell
ef following the recent storms
that damased my home on the
coast Now. l hesitate to accept
furds for the restoration OF my
house because they would raise
my income above n limit per-
Missile to draw my pension.
A Any assistance in the ma
ture OF restoration Of housing.
food clothing. Shelter. med cal
care, etc. TO victims OF disas-
tiers IS not considered as cone
Tor the purpo Of determining
eligibility 70 VA pension.
@ May two Or more periods
CT marriage between the sane
two people be tackad 'osether 50
as 10 satisfy the marital require
nent for tive OF more years
when widow seeks pension?
A No Where a woman and a
veteran We're married and d.
1orced and married to each ol.-
er again after which he died.
only the date o: their last mar
mage Is considered in determin-
ing whether the widow of the vet
eran comes within the require
nlents relating to marriage for
five or more years.