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Arizona sun., 1962-06-14
rnE NEGRO PRESS CREDO

The Negro Press believes that America
can best lead the world away from racial and
national antagOnisms when it accOrds to every
man, regardless of race, color or creed, his
human and legal rights. Hating no man, fearing
no man, the Negro Press strives to help every
man in the firm belief that all are hurt long
as anyone is held back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
Poor Timinq

In the area of city planning, no
single factor is more important than
the location and function Of highways,
which is the primary reason that an
official Of the Federal Bureau Of Public
Roads sits as member of the National
Capital Planning Commission. Even
tually, for precisely the same reason, it
might be desirable to add to the COM
mission the head of the National Capital
Transportation Agency, which is devel-
oping rapid transit system for the
region.
We doubt, however, that this is the
time. For this is an extremely delicate
period for the transit agency. It's ten
tative proposals are still being drafted.
To materialize, they will need all the
political understanding and support
they can get, particularly from govern
ing bodies and planning agencies in the
Maryland and Virginia suburbs. In our
opinion, the agency director, c. Darwin
Stolzenbach, can go about the job of
mastering this support much more eff
fectively If he is not thrust into a
position Of constant public controversy.
Nor is there any reason, In the in
tereSts Of the transit program, for Mr..
Stolzenbach to sit as a commission
member. The NCPC, in the first place,
was responsible for the creation Of the
transit agency. Certainly 1t is wholly
in support of its goals. Moreover, neces-
Sary liaison between the two agencies
can be handled perfectly well, at least at
this stage of the game, by existing
administrative machinery.
No doubt the vocal minority within
the Planning Commission which is seek
ing to scuttle new highway construction
in Washington feels that it would pick
up vote with the addition Of Mr.. Stol-
zenbach. But nothing could be more
damaging to the prospects of the tran
sit system than the current divisive
campaign against highways. The fact
Of the matter is that both freeways and
rapid transit are essential for the fu-
ture well-being of the National Capital
area. Mr.. Stolzenbach can serve his
cause best by concentrating on his own
side of the problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
To Preserve the Historic

A committee of architects has
joined with civic groups in urging
the Navy to reconsider its tentative
decision to expand the Naval Academy
into a historic section of Annapolis.
The architects proposed a number of
alternatives which deserve careful study,
with view to keeping intact the old
homes which otherwise would have to
be moved or destroyed.
While the Navy has stated that it
would preServe-presumably by moving
them-Several of the more historic build
ingS in the area sought by the Academy,
the fact remains that the character Of
that part Of the old city would be vastly
changed. The architects understand
ably feel that every possible effort
should be made to save the area from
becoming a part of the Academy
grounds.
Toward that end, they have sug-
geSted half dozen plans which, if
found feasible by the Navy, would pro-
vide the additional acreage wanted by
the Academy for new buildings, with
out disturbing the historic area. These
include a land-fill operation at the
mouth Of Dorsey Greek, relocation of
certain activities within the grounds and
conversion Of several athletic, club or
other areas to academic uses. Similar
alternatives have been advanced by the
Citizens Action Committee.
Some of these proposals may al
ready have been explored by the Moreell
Commission, which studied plans for
Academy expansion. But the Navy De-
partment should satisfy the defenders
of Annapolis historic houses that there
is no practicable alternative to the COM
MISSIONS plan for annexing one of the
older sections of the Maryland capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
Party VS.. Country

Whether they voted for
him or not, every patriotic
American must have been in
spired by the words of Presi-
dent Kennedy when he said
we should think not what the
country can do for us, but
rather what we can do for
the country.
I wonder when the Presi-
dent is going to begin living
by those words? Trying to
pocket the normally conserv-
alive vote of the elderly citi-
zens in order to perpetuate
Kennedy control of the execu-
tive, may in the opinion Of
the President be doing some
thing for the country, but to
many it must seem to be the
other way around.
Allen PattiSOn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
Tax Cut Talk

Since the administration, Just few
days ago, was severely frowning on tax
cut suggestions, it is not surprising that
Secretary Dillon'S announcement in New
York has touched sensitive Republican
nerve-that SenSory fiber which reacts
automatically to political stimulation.
The Treasury Secretary said that
"top-to-bott tax reduction is in the
works, and that it will be presented in
a general way to Congress this year, al
though the detailed plan will not be
ready until January. This procedure is
unusual But this is an unusual year
at least in the sense that congressional
election will be held in November. Mr..
Dillon, as we read his remarks, is saying
that the Kennedy administration wants
the taxpayers to understand, in advance
OF the election, that the promise of
lower taxes is coming from the Demo-
Gratis, and that these same taxpayers
should vote accordingly in November.
The G. o. P. thinks, and we agree, that
this is a form of partisan politicking.
But there is not much the Republicans
can do about it. Certainly they are not
going to oppose proposed tax reduction
in an election year.
Since no details of Mr.. Dillon's
promised tax cut were submitted in the
Secretary'S New York speech it might
be Just as well for the taxpayers, both
individual and corporate, to await the
actual unwilling of the plan before join
ing the cheering section. The plan may
be filled with hooks and gimmicks. In
all fairness, however, it should be en-
phaSized that this speech was not
tub-thumping political harangue. It
was a sound, serious address in which
Mr.. Dillon was trying to talk sense to
two elementS-thoSe investors who think
the gyrationS of the stock market mean
that the country is going to the dogs
and those businessmen who fear that
they are about to be drawn and quar-
tered by the Kennedy administration.
The tax-cut business, though news
worthy, was more or less incidental to
the main theme of reassuring and
thoughtful address. What if the adj
ministration did toss in the tax cut in
this fashion in the hope of harvesting
some votes in November? That is hardly
without precedent, and a Republican
administration would have done very
much the same thing with the same
opportunity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06

@. How are the Declaration
Of Independence and the
Constitution guarded at
night? R. z.
A. During the day the
priceless documents are on
display in Exhibition Hall of
the National Archives Build
ing. At night, at the press of
a button, the display case is
lowered into a huge steel
safe which is 20 feet below
floor level. The safe has walls
Is inches thick, and 5-ton
armored doors.
Q. Do the States provide
pensions for their retired
judges2 If so, on what basis?
". E.
A. The States do provide
pensions for judges who have
retired because of age or dis
ability, but the basis on
which the pensions are
granted and calculated varies
from State to State. In some
cases the annual retirement
pension is a fixed amount, in
others it is computed by some
kind of formula based on
salary or years Of service.
Some States also provide
lump-Sum benefits or some
kind OF pension for widows
of JUICES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
Mediocre Politics

I have been q subscriber to
The Star ever since I came to
the Washington area in 1913.
I have always found your ed
itorials enlightening and fair.
I believe you missed a point
in your May 81 editorial on
medicare. Several Republican
Senators, you state, accused
Mr.. Kennedy Of trying to fool
the people by plugging his
disqualification plan as a med
ical care plan. You 60 on to
say they noted that the bill
does not provide for the pay
ment Of doctors fees.
I feel that you were remiss
in not quoting the definition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
LETTERS TO THE STAR

spending our money can be
seen at Madison Elementary
School where the heating
plant is in dilapidated condi-
ton. Also, money set aside
for the athletic field at
George Mason High School
was spent for special services
and to hire special teachers
the council admits they have
no room to house.
Schools are not the entire
answer. We should set our
goal as the best education
possible. Many brilliant men
received most of their educa-
ton in a one-room school,
house. r. L. BEETLE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
First Hurdle Crossed

In winning the California Repub-
lican primary, Richard Nixon has
cleared the first obstacle on the rug
ged political comeback trail. 1t was one
of those victories, however, which
doesn't tell much about the shape of
things to come.
With less than half the precincts
counted, Mr.. Nixon had won about two
thirds of the votes Ordinarily, one
would think of this as a comfortable
margin. But in the special case Of Cali
fornia, If the dopeSters are right, it is
too close for comfort from the Nixon
point of view
The significant fact is that roughly
one-third of CALIFORNIA; Republicans
voted for Joseph Shell, late starter
who ran as an avowed conservative.
For these voters, the Nixon brand of
RepublicaniSm is too liberal, and it is
this which poses the next problem for
the former Vice President.
If he is to defeat Governor Pat
Brown, Mr.. Nixon must have solid Re
publican support while winning over a
substantial number of Democrats in No
vember. But the liberal" approach
which may appeal to the Democrats is
anathema to those Republicans who
voted for Mr.. Shell. These latter, of
course, will not support Governor
Brown. But they may stay home on
election day, and If this happens Mr..
Nixon will be in real trouble.
In short, the comeback trail, never
easy, is particularly difficult and dan
gerous as it winds its way through the
political jungles Of California. Mr..
Nixon, an experienced hand, may be
able to negotiate it. But If, as indi-
Gated, his sights are set on another
presidential bid in 1868, he has a long,
long way to go.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
Venezuela and the Reds

The loyal armed forces of President
Betancourt's government now have put
an end to Venezuela'S latest uprising,
this one at Puerto Cabello IS miles west
Of Caracas. The abortive revolt-the
third and bloodiest in a year-was
staged by marine garrison with the
full backing of the Communists and
other extreme leftiSts seeking to over
throw the moderately Socialist Betan-
court regime and replace it with a
tyranny comparable to Fidel Castro'S in
Cuba.
This undoubtedly will continue to
be the objective of the Reds in Vene-
zuela, and there may well be additional
SubverSive upriSingS. What is Signifi-
cant, however, is that the army, navy
and air force have remained overwhelm-
ingly loyal and that the labor unions
and the peasantry have stood solidly
on the side of the government in each
OF the revoltS attempted thus far. AS
result, Mr.. Betancourt has been able
to act effectively, with speed and firm
ness, in putting down the rebellious
forces, and there can be little doubt that
he will have popular support if he moves
to outlaw both the Communist and Rev.
dictionary Left Parties.
There are indications that such
action may be taken in the near future.
The freely elected Betancourt regime
has strongly upheld individual and
group liberty throughout the country,
and it will, in effect, be defending that
liberty if it legally suppresses the Red
organizations that are bent upon de-
Stroying Venezuela'S constitutional de-
mocracy and supplanting it with a
Communist CaStroite totalitarian die
tatorship. Certainly the Caracas gov
eminent merits the encouragement and
support of the United States and all the
free Americas in any appropriate meas
ureS it takes to guard against that
danger.
Beyond that, acting through the
Alliance for Progress, our country has
reason to do whatever can be done to
help the VenezuelanS deal with some
of their more urgent problems, including
unemployment. Economically, politi-
cally and socially, the BetancourtNre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
In Appreciation

1t is my pleasure to write
you about a paper route
with a heart"
My son, George, who has
delivered The Star in SPRING
field. Va, for six years, be-
came i'll two months ago
with rheumatic fever. The
people on his route, out of
the ge n crosby of their
hearts, all donated and gave
him a very generous gift.
Words cannot express the
gratitude for such wonderful
people. Perhaps each time
his younger brother delivers
The Star, they will know a
lot Of gratitude and thanks
is also being delivered.
Mrs. B. White.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06

Although I am a registered
Republican, I have been
apathetic regarding the
activities of the Republican
Party of the District of
Columbia. This, perhaps, IS
true of many Republicans
and is, to a great extent.
responsible for the present
plight Of the Republican
Party.
Mr.. Kennedy has made the
leadership Of the Republican
Party acutely aware Of its
lack Of interest in the Negro
voter. He has, undoubtedly,
been instrumental in making
more substantial appoint
mentS to qualified Negroes in
the first year of his admins
tration than was done by Mr..
Eisenhower in his eight years
as President. 1t is, I think,
for this reason that so many
Negroes are leaving the Re
publican Party and are align
ing themselves with the Dem
ocrats. Every person has, by
virtue Of this democracy, the
right to choose his political
affiliation but it would seem
that in this instance, it is
being done solely for per-
sonal reasons, i.e., better lob
opportunity and, perhaps, a
greater opportunity to gain
public office heretofore
denied him.
1t can, perhaps, honestly
be said that Mr.. Kennedy's
interest in the Negro is parti-
ally political. Mr.. Eisenhower
had the opportunity to be
politically interested in the
Negro but failed to consider
the Negroes Importance as a
voter. 1t is most interesting to
note the acute interest Carl
Shipley, chairman Of the Re-
publican State Committee for
the District of Columbia, is
now showing in the Negro.
He has, perhaps, in the last
year, appeared before more
Negro groups, had his picture
taken with more Negroes and
Endorsed more proposals for.
the benefit of the Negro than
any other chairman of the
Republican State Committee
for the District. Although
Mr.. Shipley was COP.
chairman during Mr.. EiSen-
hower's administration, his
activity in the interest Of the
Negroes needs and problems
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
Falls Church Affairs

The attitude toward Falls
Church city officials was re-
Elected by the lack Of ap-
plause as they passed in re-
view in the Memorial Day
Parade. This silence was a
complete reversal from the
preceding year and shows
the council has lost the con-
fidence and respect Of our
citizens through their recent
acts, for the total disregard
for majority rule when they
carried out the wishes of two
groups, the school board and
the c. B. c.. in so doing they
flouted the democratic prin-
ciples on which our govern
ment is founded.
We should not have any
tax increase until q complete
analysis Of the school situa-
ton can be made by the
State Of Virginia, which
drafts the standards for pub
lie schools and under which
plan we would know without
any doubts our needs.
The councils conduct is
further aggravated by the i'll
judgment used in appropriat-
ing funds for the new fiscal
year, in which two of our
most vital governmental serv-
ices had fund cuts: The Fire
and Police Departments. 1t
is apparent the council has
become a machine operated
for and by a few individuals.
The poor judgment used in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
THE PASSING SCENE
Need for Healing Pause in Politics
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE

Every present major factor
in the world suggests that
the time has come for a
creative and healing pause
in routine politics in this
country.
If this notion is right, then
Congress should quit picking
fretfully at a mountain of
Second-priority work on a
calendar which could keep it
here until the snow falls. 1t
should simply act on two or
three really big disputed
matters-final approval of
the Presidents low tariff
world trade program and
perhaps enactment of some
relatively rational farm sub
sidy plan - and then go
home.
Likewise, President Kenne-
dy should halt presSures for
a good deal of doubtful well
farist legislation, including
additional medical care for
the aged. He should thus
content himself with a con-
greSsional record which
would be long on quality, if
not on quantity.
This would be a "do-noth-
ing" course only to those
who believe that unless Pres
ident and Congress are for
ever doing something" how
ever dubious that something
might be, they are somehow
not providing national lead
ership."
In some circumstances ma
tional leadership can best be
fulfilled by taking the long,
calm view; by concentrating
on the essential and skipping
the secondary and overly ar
gumentative. Such circum-
stances, one suggests, now
surely exist.
Relieving the Fever
Item: Business anxiety at
what much of business be-
lieveS is q hostile climate
within the administration is
an undoubted reality. Justi-
fled or not-and this COL
umnist personally believes it
to be based more on the
academic rhetoric Of lower
placed functionaries than on
any action or purpose of the
President-the fear is there.
The best way to relieve the
fever is to get Congress out
of town and to let up on
administrative clamors for
more welfare legislation.
Most Of it wouldn't pass
anyhow if Congress remained
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
Too CIuttered?

About forty-five years ago
when your humble serb e
shook the dust off his shoes
from the thoroughfares of
Gotham, and landed in the
bucolic village of Washing
ton. he peered through the
iron ratings at the White
House with awe and en-
chantment.
It has been my privilege at
the time 1t was being reno
waited to visit every room in
that famed edifice, also to
ramble around on the roof
and explore its subterranean
cellars.
Back in the horse and
buggy days, Westinghouse
loved to saunter into the
White House during the New
Years receptions and shake
hands with the Chief Execu-
tive and his wife. In recent
years, however, it has
become a sort of motel, a
stopping place ad interim
between jaunts around the
country and the wide world.
A few days ago, 1t was dis
covered that the inspiring
landmark had been converted
into a museum in direct COM
petition with the Smith
sonian. Your scribe has Wis
tied a goodly number Of art
galleries at home and abroad,
and it is his candid opinion
that the Green, Blue and Red
Rooms have too many paint
ings in them and other items,
and look Cutlery.
Sic transit gloria mundi!
A TIaIaud
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06
DepIores G. o. P.,s Neglect of Neqro Voter

ship which through its leth-
argy during the time it was
in power now suddenly awak-
ems and makes rash promises
as to what should be done
or what will be done when
it returns to power. Perhaps,
the defeat of the Republican
Party in the last election will
serve to point out that every
individual carries to the polls
a vote for the individual
and or the party from which
he expects to get the greatest
consideration. The Republi-
can Party having failed to
consider the Importance of
the Negro vote and above all,
the needs of the Negro, is now
placed in the position of at
tempting to regain the con-
fidence and respect of the
Negro by resorting to lip serv-
ice and dishonesty to the ex-
tent that they have failed
wretchedly in their interest
to all citizens.
The League of Republican
Women in the District of CO.
lumbia has consistently ig-
nored the Negro woman voter
and does not allow her mem
berShip in that organization.
Here again the present lead
erShip of the Republican
Party pitiably failed to rec
ognlze the potential of the
Negro vote, particularly the
woman voter in contrast to
its Democratic counterpart.
1t now becomes almost OBJ
ligatory that the Republican
leadership be straightforward
and candid and that the Re-
publican leadership in the
District of Columbia should
commend Mr.. Kennedy for
his forthrightness, his sim
cere interest in the human
dignity of man. Should such
a commentator come forth,
I, like many other Republic
cans, would be proud of the
leadership of the party with
which we have aligned our
selves.
The political future of the
Republican Party depends on
a more active participation
to the end that the present
leadership of said party be
changed and the new leader
ship be consonant with the
ideals of the human dignity
of man.
4 Robert J. Harlan,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-06

until Christmas; but that Is
neither here nor there0
Item: The pre-conditions
for a massive leap forward
in the American economy do
in plain fact exist. First,
there is the approval of the
House Ways and Means
Committee by vote of 20 to
5 of the bill to give broad
and flexible tariff cutting
authority to the President so
he may bargain usefully with
the powerful European Com
mon Market. 1t is not In the
least fanciful to say that
once Congress as a whole has
said yea" to this bill, Ameri-
can business will find a world
market vastly richer than it
has ever known.
The only thing that could
now beat the bill would be a
progressive enlightenment of
relations between business
and the administration.
And second, there is the
promise of a "top-to-botto
income tax cut for next
year. This could be an i'm
mense spur to expansion; it
could not be otherwise un-
less the sensitive factor of
business confidence" should
intervene.
The Threat From without
Item: Every reliable indi-
Gator points to the gravest
of economic troubles in Red
China and to hidden un-
rests within the Soviet
Union. Though this is good
news for the West in q way,
it is dangerous news, too.
For relationships are far
more likely to strike out
when times are bad at home,
if only to divert the people.
This being so, the most
ordinary prudence counSels
us on this side to two things
most of all: Steadily to i'm
prove our economic-and our
deeply interrelated military
posture. And carefully to
avoid all avoidable divisions
and anxieties and cross-pur-
poses within the Nation.
Indeed, the hour of the
acid test for Mr.. Kennedy's
Presidency may be approach
ing-the test of his capacity
to govern, as distinguished
from merely to stay ahead in
immediate popular favor, in
times when vague fears and
discontents and intimations
of emerging shifts and
changes walk this land and
the world.