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Evening star., 1962-01-31
THE WORLD
New Touch in Summit Confusion
By CROSBY S. NOYI
Foreign Correspondent Of The stor

meeting a reporter may run
into trouble trying to pick
his way between claims and
accomplishments, between
the ballyhoo and the reality.
Usually, however. he has at
least a pretty good idea who
is attending the meeting and
why. And after the opening
scramble he is likely to have
a reasonably coherent pic
ture Of what, If anything, is
going on.
The Lagos meeting, how
ever, has added a completely
new dimension to the normal
confusions of summitry as it
is practiced in Europe. Sew
eral days after the opening
of the meeting here it was
still completely unclear how
many of the % invited heads
OF state were actually in
Lagos, how many others still
intended to come, or how
many had been here and al
ready left in a huff.
Information Chiefs Problem
AS for what is going on,
the atmosphere was we'll il
lustrated by the perform
ance Of Cyprian Ekwensi, the
Nigerian director of informa-
ton. After a hectic day, in
the course of which three
successive press conferences
were called and Cancelled, Mr..
Ekwensi appeared before the
reporters in a high state of
agitation to announce that
his second draft communi-
que of the days proceedings
had been torn up at the di-
rection of the Nigerian For
eign Office. Henceforth, he
said. he would have nothing
to do with the problem of
keeping the press informed.
The results have been ex-
actly what might have been
expected. The local press has
evidently been as bemused by
the situation as everyone else.
On some days the four daily
papers have appeared with
four completely contradictory
interpretations of what hap
pened the previous day and
where the conference was
likely to go from there.
Even the delegates them
selves, their ministers and
assorted high officials gath
cred in the elegant lounge Of
Lagos Federal Peace Hotel
have been able to add little
to the general enlightenment.
Each of them, it seems, has
his own private estimate of
what is supposed to happen
at this conference and why
it was called in the first
place. And the opinions
about what has been accom-
pliShed so far run the gamut
from stark calamity to his
toric progress.
All of which leads the Wis
itor to wonder whether sum-
mitry as a modern diplomat
ic device will prove to be any
more effective in solving the
problems of Africa than it
has been in putting an end
to the cold war. To judge
from what has happened
here, the achievement of At
rican unity will be a long
and often painful process, no
matter how fervently the
various leaders may proclaim
their devotion to the ideal.
And along the way the false
hopes and empty promises
which summit conferences
always produce are likely to
do more harm than good.
Evening star., 1962-01-31
On Buyinq u. NJ. Bonds

In asking congress Tor authority
and funds to purchase half of the 5000
million in bonds to be issued by the
United Nations, President Kennedy has
not exaggerated the urgency of the
organizations financial plight. The
trouble, Of course, stems mainly from
the fact that all too many of the men,
ber Substantially the Soviet bloc, most
Arab lands, and such Western countries
as France, Belgium and Portugal-have
Steadfastly declined to pay the assess
mentS levied against them to support
U. N. troops in the Congo or the Middle
East.
AS result, to cope with the threat
ruptcy, the General Assembly has voted
to float the bond issue, which is to be
repayable at an interest rate of 2
per cent over a 25-year period, with
the annual repayments to be assessed
against all members as part of the
regular U. NJ budget. This action has
received the Presidents strong indorse-
ment as something that promises to put
the organization in "a vastly improved
financial position" and thus enable it
to carry out peace-keeping tasks of
vital Importance to the American people
and the world at large.
Further, in urging Congress to act
favorably on his request, Mr.. Kennedy
has asserted that failure to do so would
- serve the interests of the Soviet Union.
which has been particularly opposed to
the operation in the Congo and which
voted against this bond plan as part
OF the consistent Communist effort
to undermine the United Nations and
undercut its new Secretary General"
With certain reservations, we think this
is persuasive line of argument, and
the Senate and House will have reason
to respond to it affirmatively If the
World Court-which has been asked for
an advisory opinion on the matter
determines that the United States and
the majority of the U. N. are correct
in holding that delinquent members
must pay the special assessments or
lose their right to vote in the General
Assembly,
In any event, it seems to us that the
legislation sought by the President
should be conditioned on what the
World Court may have to say about the
obligations of the states in arrears.
Beyond that, another important ques-
tion Of principle has to do with the
purchase of the balance of the bonds if
our country buys half. The congress
sional hearings to be held on the subject
presumably will look for firm evidence
that sufficient number of other U. N.
members will join Britain-which plans
to invest $12 million in the project
in taking care of that balance. Ger
tainly, without such evidence, our out
lay of $100 million would be venture
of dubious wisdom.
However, If the court rules against
the delinquents and if buyers are
assured for the other half of the total
bond issue, favorable congressional ac-
tion will be warranted To be sure, under
normal circumstances, this kind of
financing would be hard to defend, but
it can be justified now as a stop-gap
emergency undertaking to keep the
U. N. from going broke and entering
upon decline that could be fatal.
Evening star., 1962-01-31
Book Critic

Reviewers for the Arling-
ton County libraries have de-
cided to eliminate Carleton
Putnam's book Race and
Reason" from the library
shelves because they claim
sit will not quite satisfy either
the John Birchers or the
Citizens Councils"
Here we have the left-wing-
ers doing just what they have
been accusing the conserva-
tives of doing. They have
been screaming that the con-
servatives are afraid to look
at the liberal side of a ques-
ton, and have accused them
of book k-burning. Who is do
ing the book burning now?
We conservatives have al
ways believed that truth can
only be aScertained after both
sides have been heard.
While the Arlington re-
viewers take a dim view of the
book, there are others who
think very highly of it. DR..
Albert j. Lindsey, Minister,
First Presbyterian Church,
Tacoma, Washington, says:
"This is a tremendous book
and should be fully studied
by every leader in the land" !"
The Manchester New Hamp-
shire News writes: Sane and
thoughtful :. without doubt
an important contribution to
this vexing subject" DR..
Ruggles Gates, British ex-
pert on human genetics, says:
"It is the ablest and most
convincing book that has been
written" Senator Strom
Thurmond says: "a challenge
to objectivity which no
American, regardless of color
or status, can afford to ig-
more" Westbrook Pegler
thinks it is one of the most
important books of the day.
1t would be interesting to
know how Without Mag
nolias" passed the reviewers
rigid censorship and got on
the library shelf.
Kitty l.. REYNOLDS,
Evening star., 1962-01-31
River Bend Dam

I congratulate you on your
excellent news article in The
Star of January "a titled
Coop Aide Urges Dam at
River Bend" j. C. Brown, jr.,
co-ordinator of the Potomac
Basin Association, and your
paper have rendered a great
public seIvice in bringing to
your readers information per-
Evening star., 1962-01-31
LAGOS, Nigeria.

To a reporter raised in
the gentle traditions of Eu-
ropean summitry there are a
number of new and rather
startling features about the
meeting Of African leaders
that is under way here.
For color and confusion
the essential ingredients Of
any successful summit meet
ing-the Africans have set
something of a new record.
Probably never before have
SO many notable and arrest
ing personalities been FORE
gathered with more pomp and
ceremony and to less appar-
ent purpose.
There is, to begin with, the
color of the city itself, set
among the mangrove swamps
and coconut palms of the
West African coast. Lagos
hardly conforms to the
standard American notion of
a town in darkest Africa. An
imposing city built with
characteristic British disre-
gard for civic planning, it
sprawls for miles over a Sc
ries Of islands linked by q
series of narrow causeways.
In comparison, Paris and Ge-
neva seem like compact little
places easy to get around in
and keep up with what is 60
ing on.
The problem is complicated
further by the sporting in
stinct of Nigerian taxi driv-
ers. We had always believed
that Paris taxis were in a
class by themselves, but now
we know better. According
to the local press, the Nj
gerian Motor Transport Un-
ion issued an appeal to all
taxi drivers to behave and
obey traffic regulations" for
the duration of the summit
conference. 1t is interesting
to speculate what goes on
in normal times.
The standard operation of
a Nigerian taxi, it seems, is
at breakneck speed with horn
going full blast. The pre-
ferred moment for passing
is when another car is ap-
preaching rapidly from the
other direction. At this point,
the car passing, the car be-
ing passed and the car ap-
preaching are all expected to
blow their horns simultane-
ously and the ensuing bed
lam gives an almost hyster-
ical flavor to the festive at
mosphere of the city.
The Government Waits
Add to this the color pro-
vided by the delegates in
their flowing varicolored
robes, the excitement of doz-
ems of motorcycle escorts
roaring around town, the
booming 21-gun salute as
President Tubman of Liberia
arrives on his cleaning white
yacht, the suffocating day.
long vigil at the airport,
where the entire government
and diplomatic corps awaited
the arrival of the gathering
Summiteers.
Given all its natural ad-
vantages. it may seem
strange that this conference
does not add up to the mon
umental show that its pro-
moters hoped it would be.
All summit meetings, of
course, are apt to be con-
fusing and perplexing exer-
ciSeS. At the best organized
Evening star., 1962-01-31

MEDICO, created by the late DR.. Tom
Dooley and DR.. Peter Commanduras, has
supplied medicine and medical care to
communities in far places. BY consoli-
dating the two agencies, efficiency
should be improved and money saved.
The combined operation merits whole
hearted public support.
Evening star., 1962-01-31
LETTERS TO THE STAR
Wed Better Sturt BuiIinq! Y

Pen names may be used If
letters carry 1DriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
ters are subject to condenSG-
ton. Those not used 1DilI be
returned only ,Dhen accom-
panied BY self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-07-13
Africa At A Glance
GIFT OF BOOKS


Plains (ANP)-"Operadon Bookshelf"
scarsdae womans Club just completed
shipment pounds Enugu
Nigeria
reading material to be used in Africa
PARALLEL DEVELOPMENT
(ANP"Paralel development suggested the
solution problem the coestence the black
Republic South Africa The suggested
appears Another Africa
author Paul Gniewsd
SEPTEMBER LAUNCHING
London (ANP)-A ship be to Ngerian
September when the NV Nnamd Azwe launched
Kingdom Expected sail next February
the ship the first of two to be built for Nigeria
THUMBS DOWN
Salisbury (ANP)-The city baking
cooperating Townshpthe administered the
ready Rhodesan government being
petition council recommending that
Harare be given local government status instead
TOBACCO BUYER
Ejura Ghana (ANP)-Eectve August Agricultural
Produce Marketing board will become the sole buyer OF the
tobacco through the United Ghana Farmers council was dis
recently being taken stable market for
locally produced tobacco
FOREIGN SCHOLARSHIPS
(ANP)-A coordinate educational
organizations dealing with scholarships
recently by Mboya acting for
sagtn presently non-pocal
which all promoting
scholarships will sending students abroad
COCOA ALLIANCE MEETS
Lagos (AP-The first meeting cocoa-prouc-
held this month to study the problems Of
the world market Membership in the
Alliance Nigeria Brazil Ivory Coast and the
nearly 80 percent of the worlds
MONEY PROBLEMS
Salisbury ANP)-The school, selfhelp community
school begun by number sympathetic
have close its doors for lack of funds to continue
operation officially by the because the
pupils not children of home owners in ghield African
township offspring additional dsadvant
age being regarded private zAPU training ground for Africans
MORE GIN
Accra ANP)-A boing installed by the
daily number Of cartons of the
trped currently being produced In add
plans produce brands Of alcoholic beverages
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US. Mint Al
PhiIIY Accused
Of lob Bios

Philadelphia CAMP - The Phil
adelphia branch Of the NAACP
last week charged in a complaint
to the Presidents Committee on
Equal Employment Opportunity
that the us. Mint here maintains
a "modernized slave system" and
that the supervisory staff is 5000
per cent white.
Phillip H. Savage, area secre-
tary Of the NAACP, made the
charge in behalf Of the Negro en-
ployes Of the mint. His complaint
stemmed from the mint's alleged
refusal to upgrade Negroes to
supervisory status.
Savage charges that rampant
forms and practices Of racial dis
elimination are blatantly engated
in by the mint.
He alleges that the mint does
not hire Negro electricians, car
penters, or machinists. Also, there
are no Negroes working in the
payroll, accounting, time-keeping
engraving, and purchasing depart
ments, Savage said.
Citing an example Of what he
called discriminatory practices at
the mint, Savage said a Negro
woman sought a promotion to as
sistant supervisor, but failed to get
the position which was later given
to a white employee with less ex-
perience and seniority.
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NEGRO Doctors Assn.
Heads Weigh Merits
Of Gore Plans

Houston, Texas CAMP - The
Ker-Mills law providing medical
care for the elderly is potentially
much better than the proposed,
Social Security financed King-An-
derson bill - but, unfortunately,
in too many instances it is in the
hands of men who are not actually
interested in seeing it work, a
physician said here last week.
Too, loophoies in the law allow
discrimination against patients,
Negro and white, and against doc
tors, Negro and white, he said.
This is the reluctant opinion of
DR.. Vaughan C. Mason of New
York City, president Of hte Ma
tional Medical Association and a
member of the American Medical
Association.
Unless the Kerr-Mills bill is
made to work equitably to provide
medical care for all elderly medi-
cal indigents - not just financial
indigents - and without discrim-
nation, the only way out may be
a compromise Incorporating some
aspects of the King-Anderson bill,
he said.
please be assured that I feel
this bill (King-Anderson) is still
Objectionable, but where discrim-
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Alleged Orgies
Bdred white
Slavery" Gases

Philadelphia CAMP - Sensa-
tional accounts of wild sex orgies,
including love making between fe-
males, were barred here last week
phia detective, accused Of operat-
in the trial of a former Philadel-
ing a sprawling vice ring and with
white slavery and violation of
the Mann Act.
A long string of witnesses, testi-
flying for the government, gave
spicy and lurid testimonies of sex
acts they INDUCED in as call girls
for Howard Brown, the former de-
tective, and his girl friend and &C
complete, Irene Brighton.
All those testifying last week
were girls, who came from as far
as Baltimore, and from other
points such as New York and New
Jersey, allegedly to solicit for pay
for Brown and Miss Brighton.
The spiciest testimony was given
by an unidentified long distance
telephone operator, who said she
paid more than $500 over a period
of several weeks to five female
prostitutes obtained for her by
Brown or Miss Brighton.
The woman, who is white ad-
mitted that she and the girls en-
gagged in sex acts. She said the
girls were paid to come to her
Drexel Hill home where she would
indulge in intimate relations. with
them.
Some Of these acts Of lesbianism
took place within full view Of her
lboyfriend, who watched the un-
conventional proceedings through
a trick "one-way" mirror In her
living room, the woman said. The
mirror enabled her boyfriend to
watch the acts without himself be-
ing seen, she explained further.
The girls testifying often re-
ferred to themselves and their as
sociates by names usually associ-
ated with prostitution, such as
Madame Spurrier," etc. Among
them were prostitutes from New
York, New Jersey and Baltimore,
ranging in age from the young to
the more settled "madames."
One young call girl, identified
as Shirley Haslet, told Of working
for Brown for two weeks, but re-
fused to give her present address
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nation exists or where the song
of state poverty is sung, this might
be the only solution" DR.. Mason
told an audience at Texas South
ern university.
Social Security would be about
as impersonal a matter as con-
ceivable and one that probably
would not be under the aegis Of
any discriminatory practices"
The 47-year-old obstetr1cian and
gynecologist, a graduate of McGin
University College of Medicine In
Montreal, said that the national
Negro medical association voted
almost 4 to 1 in 1861 in favor of
the Kerr-Mills law after a thor
ough study.
But members of the groups
legislative committee, which pre-
scented the proposal to the national
delegates, had some misgivings
about enforcement, as I did-and
these have been borne out"
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for fear he would seek her out
later and take revenge.
Another government witness, the
one called Madame Spurrier,
said she operated a call girl broth
ell in Baltimore and had several
girls from Philadelphia "giggling"
for her.
Still another Witness was John
Matthews, who was convicted and
is now serving time in prison for
operating a house of prostitution.
He was brought to the courtroom
from Jail and testified that he
once worked for Brown.
The government seeks to prove
that Brown and Miss Brighton
transported women across state
lines for immoral purposes. The
prosecution, therefore, has SUBJ
poenaed more than 80 witnesses,
many of them "madames" and
their call girls, to testify against
the ex-detective.
The government has been trying
to trap Brown for some time on
vice charges. Two previous trials
in Philadelphia Common Pleas
Court ended in hung juries. A third
trial conducted without a jury re-
suited in acquittal.
So far, Atty. Robert N. c. Nix
Jr., representing Brown, has sue
ceeded in getting the judge to dis
miss six counts Of the 11-count in
dictment against him. The judge
has also taken under advisement
two Of the five remaining counts.
Nix last week refused to dis
cuss the case with the press, say
ing: II don't like to try my cases
in the newspaper"
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What African
Leaders Are
SuVinq TodoV

President x W a m Nkrumah,
Ghana: $50 long as colonialism
exists in Africa, Africans cannot
help talking the way we do now,
and mankind cannot escape the
constant threat Of war. The great
est dangers facing Africa are dis
unity and the inability to see that
the realization Of our hopes and
aspirations of total African indie
.pendence and future progress and
prosperity are inextricably bound
up with the necessity to unity our
policy and actions :" DR.. Kofi
A. Busia, eodled leader Of the
Ghanaian Opposition, teaching at
the University of Leyden, Hol-
land:
There should be freedom Of as
sembly and association, including
the freedom to organize opposition
parties, and to propose alternative
governments. The view that OPP
position parties are merely des-
tructive and should not be allowed
is a very disturbing one. Such
trends are fostering the develop
ment of unmistakeable authori-
tartan patterns whcih only pay lip
service to democracy :"
DR.. William c. Naude, South
African Ambassador to the US:
Amid the unstable and iI-pre-
pared nationalism Of other Afri-
can states, South Africa is Great
ing the opportunity for mature self
rule by Negroes. There is no ques-
ton Of the populations mixing to
the degree that there is no racial
distinction. So the only course left
is independent progress. We call
it creative withdrawal :"
DR.. Antonio De Oliveira Saalzar,
Prime Minister, Portugal: The
wars forced upon us out there dis
regard not only history but the
rights and the real interest of the
peoples involved in them In
Africa, we are carrying out our
historic experiment which will en-
able a comparison to be made be-
tween the results of an undertake
ing carried out for the general
good by nations bearing fruits of
culture, and the results of aband-
onment, heavily financed it is true,
to which the African peoples will
be doomed :"
Mr.. ]. S. Gichuru, Finance Min
lister, Kenya: The basic solu-
ton to Kenya's economic difficult
ties lies in the revival Of invest
ment, financed either from plow-
ing back profits and other domes-
tic sources or from new money
brought in from overseas :"
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He watehed' Too Closely

st. Louis (ANP) - Mulus Pow
ell, Jr., elevator operator and night
Waterman in the Mississippi VAL
ley building here, has admitted the
theft Of $40 from a law office
in the building, police reported.
The money was stolen June 8,
from the office of Armstrong,
Teasdale, Roos, Kramer and
Vaughn on the fifteenth floor. The
safe door was open at the time
of the theft.
Powell was charged in a war
rant with stealing more than $50.
Police said the Waterman admit
ted stealing $32 from three Of
fees in the building In the last
six months.
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THIS NJ THAT
By Hazel Underwood
my CHURCH,

my CHURCH.
Have you thoughtfully asked yourself the question?
If not, perhaps, it's swell suggestion.
What kind of church would my church be-
If all the members were just like me?
You can sit there at home and smoke your pipe
Find fault with the officers, censure and grippe
Or, you can be one always CALL
Both ready and willing to carry the ball.
To your fellow members you will soon be known
AS true loyal worker-or else a drone;
You seek out job, you refuse
To take any part beyond paying your dues.
You can sit in the side-lines jump in and play
Attending every meeting or just stay away;
You can visit his home when a Brother is i'll
Or leave all the calling to Joe or Bill
Whatever your talents, job you do,
So, say to yourself as the past you review;
What kind of church would my church be,
If ali of the members just like me?
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