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The following
p ETITIO N

Lie
was forwarded to the Hon. Ste
wart Udall, Secretary of the In
terror on October 20, 1862.
This petition comes from the
Sugarcane Growers, their families
and dependents and with the sup
port of the people of the Virgin
Islands of the United States OF
America whose lives are affected.
The Petition is addressed to the
Board of Directors of the Virgin
Islands Corporation through its
Chairman, the Hon. Stewart L,
Udall, Secretary of the Depart
ment of Interior. Copies will be
sent to the appropriate Commit"
tees of the Congress of the United
States, The Legislature of the Vir-
gin Islands and to other persons
or organizations directly concern
ed.
The purpose of the Petition is
to request the active and full con-
tinuance by the Virgin Islands
Corporation Hereinafter, referred
to as VICORP) in the growing
and processing of sugarcane UNI
til a. least the expiration of its
present charter in 1863.
Immediately after the VICORP
Board meeting which was held in
Washington on September %, the
Governor of the Virgin Islands,
the Hon. Ralph M. Paiewonsky,
publicly announced that on mo-
ton made by him, and finally I'M
animously approved, the Board of
Directors of VICORP decided not
to guarantee the operation of the
Sugar Mill beyond the 1868 har-
vest. The strange and vague word
ing of this decision, the absence
of any concrete plan to replace
the sugar industry, the lack of
notice to the Sugarcane Growers
or any tangible consideration of
compensation for their invest
ments presently in sugarcane, has
created confusion and a feeling of
help1essness and abandonment
among all. In a word, the situation
is choatic.
There have been a great num-
Der of misstatements by many
persons. They are too numerous
to attempt to correct Or refute
, 1962-11-10

tently encouraged private growers
to expand and improve their
sugarcane cultivation up to and
including this year, in fact up un-
til this past September. that
presently and for a number of
years the Local Government has
encouraged and promoted the
growing of sugarcane by a special
incentive program.
There are $40 acres of new cane
planted this year GAO by VICORP
and 200 by private growers) in
excellent condition, which cannot
be harvested for the first time
until 1864.
That the investment in these
new paintings cannot be recover
ed in all probability before 1865.
That there is presently in sugar
cane cultivation in the island be-
tween VICORP and the private
growers nearly 5000 acres Of land.
That unless the fields r har-
vested and the cane milled into
sugar for at least the next four to
five years tremendous losses will
be involved and wanton waste
created.
That the production of sugar
cane has provided a livelihood for
the growers for many generations.
VICORP itself from its sugar grow
ing operations made a net profit,
over the past seven years, of $46,
26O INCLUDING DEPRECIATION
AND INTEREST CHARGES. VI
CORPS losses have occurred in
the milling operation largely due
to a lack of adequate volume.
That no sale or other form of
disposal should be made or even
considered Of any VICORP lands
which would reduce their sugar
cane growing area until a new
agricultural curse is clearly de-
fined and established.
That if another type of crop,
although none is presently known
or proven, is to be grown in place
of sugarcane, it will require large
sums of money to destroy the ex-
listing sugarcane and prepare and
plant the unknown new crop. Also
it must be remembered that it will
take several years for any tree
crop to come into full production
and to build up an adequate mar
ket system for any such crop.
That it would be necessary to
provide compensation for the pri-
vate growers, not only for their
investments in sugarcane, but fl
nancia1 aid to initiate any new
activity and to carry the growers
until TIE new activity is producing
income comparable to that now
received from sugarcane.
SUMMARY
The losses actually incurred by
VICORP's sugar operations have
hnon nrn64l enumerated and the
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lilo CADSlIOAtulS PAOoOSSo Oh oVSA
age annual direct income of $1,565,
578. If this were judged by the
yardstick of Foreign Aid, it
would be the first time that so
much was done for so little.
In a normal year the gross in
come from the Sugar Industry
runs between $1,5OO,OO0 to $4,000.
900 which dollar turns over
between five and six times, result
ing in an economic impact of some
where from $7,500,0OO to $4,000,
600 to the people of the island. The
abrupt cessation of this cash be-
fore there is a proven and estab-
lished replacement would be dis
astrous, not only to the farmers,
but to our whole economy.
The Virgin Islands and its peo-
pie, including for all economic
purposes the imported workers,
purchase the vast majority of their
requirements from the United
States. Nearly all of the income
created, generated or produced in
the Virgin Islands ultimately ends
up in the United States. The sugar
industry is certainly the largest
single activity that creates this
trade.
The Local Government derives
a very substantial portion of its
income from the rum industry
which is tied in with the sugar in
dustry through its need for and
use of molasses. 1t would be realis-
tic and fair for them to bear some
substantial portion of V1CORP's
annual loss provided VICORP con-
tinues its operationa1 responsible
ty as set forth in its Charter. There
is already precedent for this since
Local Government funds were
used during the last two years to
make up VICORP's losses.
UNDERSTANDABLE, because of
their many other duties and res
possibilities, VICORP's Board of
Directors have not spent and can
not spend sufficient time in the
island to become properly ac-
quainted with the ramifications of
the problems which will be Great
ed by abruptly abandoning the
sugar industry. Nevertheless, a
careful and clear study by a group
of competent persons who will
take the time to make a practical,
con the spot" approach, working
with the Sugarcane Growers Elk
ecutive Committee particularly
and interviewing businessmen and
other affected persons, is a prere-
quisite to so1drastic a decision. No
problem has ever been solved by
abandonment or wishing it away.
A careful survey would reveal,
among other things, that: The
Sugar Mill does not need the re-
mored million dollars spent on it
to continue to operate properly.
The housing facilities for the
, 1962-11-10
SUMMARY

The losses actually incurred by
VICORP's sugar operations have
been greatly exaggerated, and the
benefits, both to the growers and
to the local economy as a whole,
have been minimized. Unless en-
ough notice is given to allow the
growers to recover their large in
vestment in cane in the ground,
and unless time is allowed to de-
velop new, substitute crops, solve
the problems of growing and mar
CONTINUED On Page Il
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Summer Reading

Another favorite type OF
story is the summer or winter
adventure which brings about
a change Of fortune. Grand
parents. uncles, aunts. and
variety of interesting settings,
from Maine to Scotland. con-
tribute to the strong appeal
of these family adventures:
THE CABIN ON GHOSTLY
POND, by Marjorie Reynolds
GHarpers: $29.5.
SALTWATER SAM, by Kay
Avery (WaShburn; 1920.
CATHIE AND THE PADDY
BOY, by Nora MacAlvay
Viking; so. .r
THE TROUBLE WITH
JERRY, by Joan Lexau dial;
$3.50.
Summer vacations bring
romance and new values to
a French Canadian girl in
SUMMER IN VILLE-MARIE,
by Paule Daveluy III oft;
1925 and to a Quaker girl
in Atlantic City tpre-Civil
War in SEASHORE SUM
MER, by Adele Hall liar
pers; $685.. These books are
far above average in story
and style.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-01
Mountoinso fAsheviIIe
Bockdrop for FoIktoIe

all existing rose bushes and
starts out with a fresh hun
dred. When he gets bored
with green Christmas trees
he designs a revolving pink
one with blue lights. l Sus-
pect, however. that there is
more to the story than the
author realizes. 1t would be
illuminating to hear fathers
side of some of these family
situations. Like the time his
daughter-in-law trapped him
into going to a neighbours
house for a dinner cooked in
its entirety by a aluminium
salesman! Is Mr.. Kraft, jr.,
100 per cent certain that Mr..
Kraft, ST., regretted it when
the newlyweds finally moved
out and went to New York?
1 think he's living in a dream
world!
RUTH HUME.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-01
For Six to Eight

Six-year-olds will share
Larry's delight in learning
how to be a lobster fisher
man in LOBSTERMAN, a
symphony of yellow oilskins
and blue waters by Dahlov
Ipcar CKnopf; $3.50. For
landlubbers, BURBERRY
PIE, by Louise and Richard
Floethe (Scribner; $2.95). is
equally full of delicious sum-
mer sights and sounds.
For slightly older, up to
eight, SUNNYVALE FAIR, by
Alice Goudey (Scribner:
$3.50, is especially successful
in catching the cheerful con-
fusion of pets and prizes at
a county fair. For the serious
young gardener, Meindert De
Jong interpretS one small
boys experiences in NOBODY
PLAYS WITH A CABBAGE
tHarperS; $2.75).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-01
Held the Kew
Too World
WithoutWur
FRANK BUCHMAN'S Sc
CRET. BY Peter Howard.
doubleday; S2.75.)

Doubleday; $2.750
This is the story of a man
who tried for half a CEN
tury to remake the world
by changing" men-the in
dividual man-to live as
God would have him do. DR..
Buchman'S successes have
had their influence on mil
lions of people and their
rulers in many nations in
North and South America,
in Europe, in Asia and in
Africa. His personal influ-
ence fell upon laborerS ana
on millionaires, on politicians
and on statesmen, on pro-
fesSional men and on men
of the armed services. No
great orator, a simple and
direct man always in his
thinking and in his speech,
he took no credit to himself
but gave it all to God. That,
and his great faith that If
men listened to God they
would change always for the
better, was his secret.
When DR.. Buchanan died
in August. 1861, messages
came from % heads of state
and prime ministers all over
the world. He was the origi-
nator and head, first Of the
oxford group, and then Of
Moral Rearmament. Mr..
Howard, who worked with
DR.. Buchanan for nearly a
score of years, describes the
wide extent of DR.. Buch-
mans labors for peace, for
juStice-and over the years,
against communism. Buch-
mans secret, Howard wrote,
brought him love-and hate.
1t brought him into contact
with men all over the world.
THE last challenge he gave,
a few hours before he died"
Howard said, was I want
to see the world governed by
men governed by God"
Thousands enlisted in the
cause represented by DR..
Buchanan and Moral Rearm-
ament. In conclusion, Mr..
Howard wrote: THE world
talks about peace and pre-
pares for war. DR.. Buchanan
saw that peace was not just
an idea. but people becoming
different. and that the true
peacemakers were there will
ing to pay the price by giving
the i: lives to bring millions
under Gods control. That
was his life and his secret"
GOULD LINCOLN.
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Mr.. SuIzberger
Reveals DjiIos'
Grim Punishment
Observation-Disclosures. BvCv.

i
rus Sulzberger. (Harper;
$685.
A tragic aspect of Milovan
Djilas' imprisonments is now
told.
DjilaS, a Montenegrin poet
and political leader, was re-
arrested April IL in a contro-
versy with Yugoslav Com
munist officials following
publication of excerpts from
his newest book, Converse
lions With Stain"
The excerpts appeared
April 2 in The New York
Times in a dispatch from
Europe by Cyrus Sulzberger.
Publication April IL of The
Resistentialists" by Mr.. Sulz-
berger reveals the travails of
three Europeans including
Djilas' most loyal supporter,
Vladimir Dedijer.
Djilas and Dedijer were
early associates Of Marshal
Tito, but became rebels
against elements of Tito's
regime. When Djilas was
imprisoned for views in his
earlier book, The New
Class" published in 1857.
Dedijer was the only member
Of the Yugoslav Communist
Central Committee to defend
him.
Mr.. Sulzberger reports that
the subsequent harassment of
Dedijer in Yugoslavia was as
severe as Djilas' imprison-
ment. 1t resulted in the sui
eide of Dedijer's 13-year-old
son. Branko.
Shortly after the death of
this child. or perhaps because
of the death, Djilas was
paroled - with the under
standing he would write only
literature and other nom
political works. That was a
scant Is months ago in jan
uary, 1861.
MARY FAITH WILSON.
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a tree, and that's what the
boys did. They searched
nearly a hundred clumps of
cottonwood trees. called
bluffs" in Saskatoon. They
saw plenty of gophers. crows,
and mallard ducks. They
found seven crows nests. a
red-tailed hawks nest and
three magpie'S nests. Finally,
when their sneakers we're full
of thistles, the boys found a
horned owls nest. That was
just the beginning of the
story.
Bringing Owls Home
Before they brought any
owlets home. the boys had to
convince their parents that
their family menagerie of
gopherS, garter snakes,
pigeons. and white rats should
be expanded to include owls.
Farley Mowat is a Cana
dian author who understands
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-01
IN FICTION
THE TALL WOMAN.

HE TALL WOMAN. by
Wilma Dykeman. Holt,
Rinehart. Winston: $4.95D
"A tall woman casts a long
shadow" says a folk proverb
of the mountain country in
which this inspiring story is
set. In her devoted zeal for
her family during the hard
poSt-Civil War years, and in
her later efforts to bring a
school to the local children.
Lydia Mcqueen is indeed a
tall woman in the sense of
the proverb. The author. who
was born in Asheville, North
Carolina, does an impressive
job Of conveying the speech
and the atmosphere Of her
native mountains. This is her
first novel. In collaboration
with her husband she has
written two notable non-fic-
ton. works. Seeds of South
ern Change" and Neither
Black Nor White"
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woman" that she thinks they
are living lin a sort of sexual
madhouSe."
And, indeed, Annals exist
ence deteriorates to that.
Her Men
She takes in a series of
different women and keeps
briefly as a lover. a boarder,
an American who pretends
she is a different woman.
and who leaves her almost
daily for other women. He
is replaced by another Ameri-
can who cannot sleep alone.
but who cannot enjoy sleep
ing with a. woman he likes.
Miss Leasing writes with
great honesty and power.
She spares her reader and
her characters nothing. The
elements of maSochiSm and
perverSity are ever present
in her haplesS heroines. Her
women have no identity ex-
cept as sexual beings, giving
her book, which is related in
the blunt terms of the pool
hall and the clinic, a ter
rible monotony and grimneSs,
like the lives of the free
women" she is chronicling
Anna and Molly are victims
of their times, perhaps.
and of their politics but
mainly of a whole world in
which humor, grace and
consistency have been replaced
by the conditioned reflex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-01
Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

CROSSWORD. columbia;
$3.50 The French, drama
haw been influential in
this century as it has been
earlier. Prof. CROSSWORD
discusses some of the lead
ing French dramatists.
THE UNIVERSE AND DR..
EINSTEIN. By Lincoln Bar
nett. Mentor; so centsD
A revised edition of Lin
coin Barnett's slim book
brought up to date to in
clude recent discoveries in
nuclear science.
AN AGE OF KINGS. The
historical plays of William
Shakespeare. pyramid
Books: rs centsD Eight
famous historical plays of
the turbulent reignS of
seven English monarchs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-01
In the Fond Interest
OfMr. Churchi|I's Apes

something to die out, it rarely
did.
On September 8, the same
year, a second directive was
dispatched to the effect that
every effort should be made
to restore the establishment
of the apes to the number
of "a.
None of this interest on the
part of the P. M. was because
he has any known fascination
for Barbary apes. which are
vicious and mischievous
beasts not VIGOROUSLY
popular with anyone but
biologists and other Bar
barry apes. 1t was because
there is a legend that the
British will be expelled from
Gibraltar when the last ape
shuffleS off this mortal soil.
Mr.. Churchill, it is supposed.
did not wish to arouse any
untoward ambitions in
Franco Spain with the ape
population tapering off, so
to speak, on the rock so i'm
portant to England and that
American insurance COM
pany.
So much for the facts. All
that follows, Mr.. Calico con-
fesses, is the widest imagina-
ton. The efforts of the great
empire to locate more apes,
with German agents cagily
buying them up all over the
Atlantic littoral are the story.
1t is very funny and is largely
about Scruffy, the last sur
vivor amongst the apes and
doubtless the creature to
whom England owes it's exist
ence today.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
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Dog and Pony

A dog whose chief talent
seemed to be for digging up
turtles is the unusual hero of
BRISTLE FACE by Zachary
Ball Holiday House: $2.95).
Bristle Face was well-named,
an odd-looking dog with
briStly hairs like porcupine
quilts all over his face and
eyes like gray marbles. Hes
got hound ears, all right"
Bert Fogerty said. but no
hound dog ever looked like
that less he just crawled out
of a nettle BUSH"
In "Bristle Face" Zachary
Ball has written a saga Of
the rural South which will
invite repeated readings. The
foXhunters and their hounds.
the lazy Storekeeper. the
widow-woman who picked up
a l00-pound sack Of shelled
corn and Graded it in her
arms like a baby" All these
friends of the orphan Jase
are etched in word and deed
as sharp and clear as the
hunters horn on a moonlit
night.
Two pleasant stories Of
traditional pets will satisfy
younger children. A PONY
IN THE FAMILY by Judith
Berrisford REILLY g. Lee;
$685. is full of helpful hints
for beginning riders and
owners. HERE DUKE by
Rosemary De Camp Mckay;
$685. is the story of a
miSchievous Irish Setter, a
rare combination of humor
and easy reading. II the
humor verges on the slap
stick, the youngsters will
laugh more easily and more
often. Fathers who have sur
vived similar household pets
can afford to laugh too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-01
Prophet
In q New
Dimension
CAMUS: A Collection q

CAMUS: A Collection of
Critical Essays. Edited by
Germaine Bree. prentice
Hall; hard cover. 1895;
paperback. $1.95D
Albert Camus was a proph-
ct in his own country,
France. and a seer with
tragic precision regarding his
birthplace, French Algeria.
His impact also on American
readers, and their reaction
to his untimely death in 1860,
plunged deep.
"Camus continues and ex-
pounds a humaniStic ethic
that stresses effort more than
success. and that unwittingly
nouriSheS the ascetic spirit
still alive in America in spite
of the cult of success and
well-being," French Critic
Serge Dubrovsky postulates
as a reason for CamuS' great
response here.
Germaine Bree has culled
a variety Of essays. written
both during Camus' life and
after his death, which high
light and clarity his thought.
and express the thinking Of
his contemporaries not only
regarding CamuS but about
the intellectual. political and
artistic life of our era.
Thus. for instance. in his
essay. "Sartre versus CamuS:
A Political Quarrel" Nicola
Chiaromonte has brilliant
and biting words about the
SNUG assurance of the anna
teur Communist who sticks
safely outside the Iron Cur
tain while touting theoretical
communism.
Camus. who briefly inves-
tigated for himself and soon
rejected communism, and left
the sunny safety of Algeria
in 1912 to fight Nazism in
occupied France. concluded:
None Of the evils that
totalitarianism claims to
remedy is worse than the to-
talitarianism itself"
This epigrammatic state
ment, as many other Of
Camus' terse remarks quoted
in these various essays. Is
from his journalistic writing
with which those of us who
know Camus mainly through
The stranger" THE
Plague" or his play "Caligu-
Ia" may be unfamiliar. Thus
this collection presents new
dimensions of one of this
century's very great writers.
-ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE.
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PIoy Boil!

Summer is also good time
for books about baseball, its
hows, why's. and personalities.
For the youngest players,
Matt Christopher has written
CHALLENGE AT SECOND
BASE. little. Brown; $2.95)
There's good baseball chatter
in the book. with a touch Of
mystery involving an older
brother and sister.
BAT BOY. Lothrop; So
Robert Sidney Bowen gives a
new twist to a rookie "suc-
cess story" The bat boy is q
braSh youngster determined
to prove that he can make a
place for himself in a major
league.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-01
Historical Novel
1st of New Series
THE HOODED FALCON. BY

HE IlOODED hLSOAN' ~
Prudence H. Andrew. New
Authors Guild; $3.50
Simon de Beaumont, 18th
century English lord, defends
his fathers border lands from
an armed attack by the sub
ject WelShmen. He achieves
manhood and responsibility
through a series of SOUL
searching events that in
clude an affair with a Welsh
maid of patriotic if weird
department. Chief value of
the book is the authenticity
of detail in the colorful de-
scriptions of life in those
times. This is the first lis
torical novel under the i'm
print of New Authors Guild,
a division of G. P. Putnam's
Sons. H. A. LYON.
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acquaint students, teach
ers and the general public
interested in higher educa-
ton with the nature of the
peculiar profession" col
lege teaching.
PRINCE OF DEMOCRACY:
James Cardinal Gibbons.
BY Airline Boucher and
John Tehan. Oh anoV
House; $4.95J The life of
James Cardinal Gibbons,
Archbishop of Baltimore.
THE AX-GRINDERS: Crit
les Of Our Public Schools.
BY Mary Anne Raywid.
Macmillan; So An inves-
tigation of some of the
charges leveled against
public schools and of the
people who bring them.
ANTHOLOGY OF CON-
SENTATIVE WRITING IN
THE UNITED STATES,
1932-196O. Edited by A. G.
Heinsohn, ir. (Regnery;
Sl0D This anthology brings
together selections from
the writings of a group of
men who may be roughly
classified as "conserva-
tives" on such subjects as
bureaucracy, taxation. for
eign aid, labor unions, in
flation - and "R ay OF
Hope"
THE SHADOWED VALLEY.
A solace for the bereaved.
By Hyman Judah Schach-
tel. (Knopf; S3.75.' Coun-
sci on how to meet the
inevitable event with cour-
age, intelligence and faith.
START WITH S10O. BY j. J.
Brown. putnam, $500
Based on a management
consultant'S lifetime ex-
perience in the science and
techniques of investment,
this book analyses both
the common and Sophisti-
Gated vehicles of invest
ment.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
Bob Ruork Goes at 1t
zzAqoin, Tooth and Nail
By DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

UHURU novel by Robert Ruark McGraw-Hin $3.50
Robert Ruarks latest novel, "Uhuru" an unrsadable
book Imagine navigating SIS of prose like this she
walked off to the looking
attractive in her wecut Stacks from the did
from the 'front.' which certainly attractive enough for
long Safa He just hoped that between them
and sister could keep whatever eating her contained
and not saddle any of it onto him"
But reliability isn't always everything. While
that most writers try communicate superior
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-01
Far Too FuncifuI
For Fiction
REFUGE IN AVALON

X f + u u L IN A v A l. y N.
BY Marguerite Steedman.
doubleday; $3.50
Did Jesus of Nazareth make
a journey by sea to Britain in
the company of a kinsman
named Joseph of Arimathea?
In this novel about the man
who begged for the body of
Jesus and placed it in his
tomb. there is much so
fanciful as to be beyond the
role of fiction. After the death
of Ibis granddaughter" the
wealthy Roman Jew came to
a belief he did not hold in the
lifetime on earth of Jesus
and, according to the story,
found peace in Avalon.
H. A. L.