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GETTING THROUGH CONGRESS


PRESIDENT KENNEDYS proposal for greater frule
in these Islands covers three major aspects: an elected COVER
nor and government secretary; more equitable representation
Of citizens in the Senate, and transfer of the Virgin Islands
Corporation to the local government. Because Of the pro-
blem Of getting all of these through Congress at one time,
separate bills may be introduced in the hope that these would
be easier to pass.
HERR IS NO doubt whatever that extensive hearings
will be conducted. That means time, money and energy, and
here is where we come in. Officers of the Senate will no doubt
have to spend time in Washington appearing before the ap-
propriate committees or Su~b-committeeS.
IT is THING to introduce bills in Congress, it is
another thing to get them through. We have the Executive
on our side, and no doubt much Of the American public is
with us. But we must enlist their support. And here is where
strategy comes in. Large concerns keep lobbyists in Washing
ton, as do some countries, for the specific purpose OF trying
to get favorable Congressional action.
WE CAN ALL upon a number Of private, but well
known and highly influential citizens of the United States.
Now is the time to seek these out, to work closely with them,
and try to do everything possible to win favorable action on
full seIfrule for the Virgin Islands.
IN ADDITION to members of our Senate, and local gov,
eminent officials, a number Of our citizens, men highly quail.
fled in every way, and fully knowledgeable on local govern
ment should 90 to Washington to testify before Congressional
committees. Now is the time to present a united front, to work
for what we want, and to which we are fully entitled Il will
take all we can do to get these bills through Congress, and
as many Of our citizens as possible should take the opportm-
iy to testify on our behalf
THEN THERE ARE natives on the mainland whose
voice could be raised in our behalf. Many Of these. head up
organizations, political and otherwise, and they could easily
make the "trip to Washington to testify But all this requires
organization, and the Senate, with its awareness OF the pro.
blem, and with the powers at its command, should 60 to work
, 1962-04-14
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09

Nathaniel Coey performed distinct service for the people this
state last week when he pointed
books slanted toward southern
He called attention text
than George Washington matter
what distinction Lee merits soldier
exaggeraon in that
his services and talents rebellion that
preserve and maintain slavery
What Mr. Coley didn't perhaps because
that Lees opposite number General US
mention In the text book which glors Lee above
Lincoln After ALL the historical finally overcome
The text book Senator
Thaddeus Stevens the chief architects
upon which all Americans white and Negro
preservation Of their civil liberties The student
gets the impression that these
at best and evil at
1t this kind Education responsible for the fact
that as found by recent Americans
fit of high school and college educans
racial view that held by those schooling
California children have right to know the By any
view Washington and Lincoln
holding who did his best destroy the Union keep
beings in bondage.-Caforna EAGLE.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09
Impressed and Saddened

College student body members of the faculty
deputy Public
Tuesday after his address at the
vocation.
watching the demonstration of appreciation of
artate the nations foreign policy position 1t
chief deooges the world
impressed but also saddened
because former colleague former fellow
lowmember of in this country which has not
position and prestige be entrusted
interpreting other Americans them white
policy today the world crisis which
saddened if it had been for the restrictions
faced before and continue today
would developed
would contribute country
constructive the nations life.
devoted primarily to the
repeating time time
high places being acclaimed their ability
knowing full we'll how difficult the climb to the place they
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09
COP. Faces Grove Dilemma


its history That with the swrng
conservatism its ranks and recape the national leadership
at the time.
Republicans with intellectual honesty frankly distressed
chance of at the polls especially the fall elections
New York city Republicans told that the
it sought epudate twentieth
Senator Jacob K Javits speaking Lincoln dinner
Brooklyn asserted that the party faced its most critical challenge
1882 developing
sentative and progressive wings
party provide
sistent with its Lnconan tradition lapse into permanent
minority status the result of negaivism"
John Volpe of Massachusetts, spoke the Brooklyn
this that
Republicans party against
things"
denying" Republican image
The Republican
the
will find opposition
at this outworn theme"
But the Republican party of the far Right and of big
living concepts;
repudated cheftans open
port of the notorious John Birch Society.
Rockefeller thought the liberal
when he added his the
shouting Kennedys Department
a Negro at its head
a single Republican party
registered opposition
cabinet post naturalization
fmsy the underlying racial
leadership fooling anybody all
We the objection to the Federal department
unnecessary"
the direction of Negro-ChicagO DAILY DEFENDER.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09


mailing titled Il Am Your Urban League The printed piece
succncy functions and Of the league with
drawings gives the office address the officers and board
members 1t is neat public relations piece
The Minneapolis NAACP issuing good
being monthly interested members This
publicity good dividends matter what other
of reaching the membership are available.
The Minneapolis Urban League purchase
protector showing films people,
the community which should be appred
an organizations psogram
Bryant Junior High School Community Center is organizing
advisory possibilities
sold to the people of that section
of Minneapolis.
Hennepin county juvenile
Minneapolis Safety Council have announced drivers who land
traffic violations will opportunity attend
their driving
effective The will be also
young drivers whether they are referred
always happens try get by"
preparation print get caught deadanded
correspondents accuracy digging
the facts essential the smallest story
every and then fail advice.
approached deadne time with completing
the second nament of summation Negro Progress
Minnesota lack of it.
year to do a to goodness
reseang job this subject and relied generally
supposed imagined general knowledge of what happen
paper reported Negroes employed
public system hurredy got
finger situation learned
Negroes teaching Sanity City
We
We have right to blame informant because
have the information files
with personnel We
called working
is nothing him. do
rsOurcng would bOhering
our
We bow humby and abjecty in the direction
public products Fact we
had taken the would
have probably brought the practically
local" teachers all personally
system.-Cecil E
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09
seIeetive Buyinq On BeaIe Street

Commenting original "sn demonstration
North Carolina College retired New England college pres
incident
engendered the spirit and letter of fundamental
laws of land.
traditions
citizenship deprive people equitable promises
humanity beginning
adventurous of
history
polling peCiv War customs the Southland
These nonVont demonstrations have taken FORMS in
challenging
seemingly opening
employment Negro nearly twosco
merchandise commodities
the participating firms also have abandoned policies of dscrmna
facilities their maintained the
toners patrons.
Following campaign period involving
sn demonstrations and "eecve buying" drives
discrimination have been disrupted No incidents
connection with the abandonment of ongand
policies discrimination segregation And along Bae (Ave
that "secve buying" figured sngly in the
suits realized
spokesman for business leaders observed that
with the community help the city peaceful
followed pattern established
of public (taxsupported) facilities.
echoes re-echoes singular
idea adventurous North Carolina school boys engndeed in the
spirit fundamental lands-IndanapOs
RECORDER.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09
The Highway Commissioner Needs
Some Good Advice

experienced
gevos human problems that proceed from great engineering
city eeways disturbing public
hbon
of the official responsible taking the ultimate decisions
highway program taking peoples forcing
they quite
the they accustomed and they obliged
problems create access problems in some
things prepared accept They are part of the
highways
bureaucra whose decision nathat arbitrary
hostile problems.
problem hospitals which
adequate access parking space by the bdeng complex planned
the junction the the
traffic pedestrian safety and neghborhood
addition of an interchange the easwes hroughway at Prior
apparently aferhoughtor the benefit of
industrial
objections highway commissioner
affect: Stop Directing, stop the whole program.
right petition right object is of course
any
highway
abridge interesting
watch how he comes out on this.
Quite this highway department
undertaking affecting
rights department
what has been offered
To take one example, the department is planning and building
without
a in numbers by sensible provisions for e will get none Of the
advantages hspeed transportation which the
will make possible provisions urnouts
access at the The bus system Will continue TO
crawl along the gdpatem streets and will keep loading
and private into the system
just point little consultation with the
people highways valuable
going to be paying for the highway indifference for
a long, long time to
Commissioner made clear his concept of
responsibility community wonder what the really
responsible authorities going to do about it. Governor Elmer
appointed that the Governor will
have long frank, hearoheart talk with him. And soon
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09
Progress Report

According to economic roundup
which appeared issue Guardian
contradict the picture
many American newspapers
Citing data from federal agencies
specialists the writer shows that
be hired and the first to be fired family
onal and housing disadvantages pepetuaed
Commission Civil Rights has
elimination"
How long the community the
answered earlier than the writer
are themselves leading the fight for dignity by knocking
racial barriers restaurants theatres
for the VOTE jobs education asking They
saying Now"
great example of this determination
gagged this fight for freedom
Macon Ca following footsteps
chosen walk instead Macon causing
the Bibb Transit Co.
running if insufficient patronage warrants a
AS result of this boycott ministers
white citizens adopted special campaign urging
folks with to leave them at
What they probably don't realize though
bus idea might help business
original boycott by the Negro people gasoline stations
And the Negro citizens of Macon anything
folks Montgomery Albany Ca come to
halt and so will segregated rides.
So despite the statistical picture which contradcts
Negro the people of marching
SENTINEL.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09

mand the fact that the present
constitution is rugged heavily in
favor of white voters who number
quarter Of million, while At
ricans, who number 8 million, are
given only minimal representa-
ton. Nkomo said if elections take
place under the present constitu-
ton, African Illustrations may
lead to disaster" Nkomo warned
that Southern Rhodesia may be-
come the new Algeria"
He asked: Must the United
Nations wait until disaster occurs
before they take action, or will
they turn their attention to the
situation now?"
THE EFFECT of considering
Southern Rhodesia as a non-self-
governing territory would be to
allow discussion of the question to
take place in the Fourth (Trustee-
ship Committee of the UN. Brit
ain would thus ultimately have to
submit reports on social conditions
in the area.
Present British plans are to give
Southern Rhodesia full independ-
ence next October after the South
ern Rhodesia elections. But this
sort of independence" Nkomo en-
phasized, was tantamount to de
livering Africans into perpetual
bondange' of white domination. D."
The zAPU was formed last De-
cember to replace the banned Ma
tional Democratic Party, which in
its turn had replaced the banned
African National Congress. Nkomo
said that the banning of the NDP
had crippled" African opposition.
I'VE must start completely anew"
he said.
A FEW DAYS later in Sails
bury, capital of Southern Rhodesia,
there was indication that any Unit
ed Nations committee would be
refused permission to enter the
British colony. This was pointed
out by Sir Edgar Whitehead, prime
minister of Southern Rhodesia. The
UN General Assembly a day earli-
er authorized a special committee
to investigate whether Southern
Rhodesia had attained "a full mea-
sure of self-Government." Sir Ed
gar said it was quite likely" the
Government of the Federation of
Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which has
juris dic o n over immigration,
would bar the United Nations
group.
Whitehead and Sir Roy Welen-
sky, the federal prime minister,
are concerned over a new constitu-
ton for Northern Rhodesia, which
they fear may lead to a transfer OF
control of the Federation from
whites to Africans.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09

other countries are only interested
in their financial investments in the
Congo. These special interest
groups, he said, were the people
who had advanced the idea that
the UN had not dealt fairly with
Noise Tshombe of Katanga Prov
ince.
SPEAKING ABOUT Africa,s
needs generally, Mboya said quite
often there are strange defini-
tons" of what is the African
cause. He said that while Africa
has many genuine friends in differ
ent parts of the world, sometimes
persons who contend they are
champions of the African cause
are only interested in their own
detectives.
Mboya, a member of the Kenya
legislative council and secretary
general of the Kenya African Ma
tional Union party, said that such
persons expect Africans to support
their causes in return for help to
Africa. However, he said the
stronger powers should not expect
Africans to follow them blindly
in whatever they say or think.
MANY would rather die than not
to be able to be man enough to
decide what is best for their coun-
tries" Mboya declared. He made
it clear that Africa definitely
needs assistance to rid the contin-
ent of poverty, disease and ignor-
ance. But such help, as other At
rican leaders have expressed,
should be given freely, without
strings.
ON THE ROTHERH HOOD
theme, Mboya said that while man
has made great scientific gains
around the world, men are still
searching for a solution to the pro-
blems of oppressed peoples. He
added that even in America, the
ideals that motivated the pioneers
were still not realized. The prob
lens, perhaps in different forms,
exist in other parts of the world.
He said progress reports and pro-
carnations about brotherhood were
meaningless without action. Mboya
emphasized strongly the point that
oppressed men should be given
their full equal rights now and not
tomorrow.
ANOTHER AFRICAN visitor,
Joshua Nkomo, demanded that the
United Nations consider Southern
Rhodesia a non-self-governing ter
ritory. Nkomo, president of the
newly-formed zimbabwe African
Peoples Union (zAPU), spoke at
press conference at the offices of
the American Committee on AZ
RIGA In New York.
He gave as reasons for his de-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09
Focus On Africa
BY EDDIE L. MADISON, JR.

TOM MBOYA, speaking in Chicago before returning to
London his role in the constitutional talks
ton with Kenya independence bid said the only realistic policy
the Congo the continued support of the Congoese
government.
Mboya, addressing brotherhood banquet the Palmer
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09
DIR Y-POINTS
BY FRED GRAM


We continuously the
who seriously maladsed
ulcers, psychoses thromboses
newscasters banty report empty
food and the Cuban people facing hunger
who is winning the cold compounded ambiguity
whom 1t is directed against
smartest way
protect their advertisers against retaliation
audience They the singing unnegbe
you can't identify the sponsors.
Several weeks Of spoigh Kieg lights eevewing phoofash
lights newsprn sicprnt radio gadgetry and
George Romney the COPS bright hope
candidate for the Presidency.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09
FEDERALISM IN KENYA

The arguments for and against federalism familiar
and bespeak the political sophcaon
Kenyas hope and its undong Only
federal system before independence political division
Yet just because the federal
constitutional issue
which opardzes the
SUM-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-09
Letters To The Editor
Reudina Pnpar For Twentv Yanr.

Editor We have been reading paper years
MIMI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
PuvIick to Get
7 rial in Florida

KANSAS CITY, Mar. q
(AP).-Richard P. Pavlick, IA,
will be taken back to Florida
for trial on a charge of threat
ening to kill President Kennedy
December II, 1860.
Pavlick, retired postal worker
from Belmont, N. H., was
judged insane after his arrest
in Palm Beach. Fla. December
Is, 1860. He has been under
treatment at the United States
prison systems medical center
in Springfield, Mo.
United States District Judge
William H. Becker yesterday
granted Pavlick's request that
he be returned to Florida for
trial.
The medical center staff said
Pavlick's mental condition has
improved.
Federal officers have said
Pavlick planned to turn him
self into a human bomb to kill
Mr.. Kennedy while the then
President-elect was vacationing
in Florida.
u. B. Baughman, former chief
Of the Secret Service, wrote in
his memoirs that Pavlick
changed his mind when Mrs.
Kennedy and their children ap-
peared with Mr.. Kennedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27

so much and conclude with so
little. :"
John M. Harlan, the other
dissenting justice in the deci-
sion, wrote: g. What the
court is doing reflects more an
adventure in judicial expert
mentation than a solid piece
of constitutional adjudica-
ton"
Justice Stewart had some
thing to say about the views of
Justices Clark and Harlan:
my brother, Clark, has
made a convincing prima facie
showing that Tennessee's sys-
tenn of apportionment is in
fact utterly arbitrary-without
any possible justification in
nationality. My brother. Har-
Ian, has, with imagination and
ingenuity, hypothesized posi-
BILE rational bases for Tennes-
sees system. But the merits of
this case are not before us
now"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-27
Literacy Test
Faces Another
Senate Fight
BY j. A. O'LEARY
Star Staff Writer

AS the Senate moved toward
an early decision on abolition
of the poll tax, a Judiciary sub
committee began hearings that
will set the stage for another
civil-rights battle over literacy
tests for voters.
Leaders hoped the 62-to-15
test vote late yesterday on a
procedural question would bring
a final roll call within a day
or two on the constitutional
amendment to ban poll taxes
in Federal elections.
Meanwhile, in the Judiciary
subcommittee, Northern and
Southern Senators disagreed
sharply over the power of Con-
gress to regulate State literacy
tests by act of Congress.
The subcommittee is conSid-
ering bills to prevent any State
from requiring more than 8
sixth grade education as evi.
dence of literacy.
Amendment Seen Needed
Senator Erwin, Democrat Of
North Carolina, chairman, ar
gued that, if the Congress
wants to lay down this rule, il
can do so only by amending
the Constitution again.
Republican Senators Javits
and Heating of New York in.
sisted Congress may deal with
literacy tests without amend.
ing the Constitution. Senator
Hill, Democrat of Alabama
joined Chairman Erwin in op.
posing the legislation.
The break in a Today talka.
thon by Southerners against re.
peal of the poll tax came lat
yesterday, when they permitted
the test vote, calling up a reso
luton to preserve the New
York home of Alexander Ham,
ilton, which is to be the We.
hicle to carry the poll tai
; amendment.
The Senate must clear tw,
more hurdles before it reache
final vote. The first is
point of order to be raised to
day by Senator Russell, Demo
crat of Georgia. against usin
the Hamilton resolution as
poll tax vehicle. This cours
was taken because leaders hav
not been able to get the POI
tax resolution out of the Judi
ciary Committee.
Overriding Expected
! 1t is expected the Russell oh
lection will be overruled eithe
by the chair, or by the Senate
itself, if the question is sub
mitted to the membership.
Next will come a substitute
by a bipartisan group of lib
erals led by Senator Javits t
get rid of the poll tax by legisla
i ton without amending tn
Constitution.
Leaders are confident the
will defeat this move also, al
though Senator Javits believe
it will get more votes than
did two years ago, when it wa
defeated SO to 81.
= The poll tax amendment
being sponsored by Senate
Holland. Democrat of Florids
with the backing of both Dem
ocratic Leader Mansfield an
Republican Leader Dirksen.