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Evening star., 1962-02-15

publican nomination for Gov
ernor Of Michigan George
Romney-is such a man. At
any rate, his political philos-
ophy, so far enunciated,
sounds more like that of Lin
coin in 1860-and like that Of
Lincoln had he lived today
than y. e philosophy of some
Republicans who express
their doubts as to Mr.. Rom
ney's Republicanism. For Mr..
Romney, who has been able
to compete with the big man
ufacturers of automobiles.
and who has agreed that the
workers in his own company's
plants should share in the
profits, believes that the Re-
publican Party should be the
party Of the great mass Of
individual citizens, with their
interests only at heart. And
he further has declared that
neither big business nor big
labor should be a controlling
factor in the Government Of
this country. He believes that
the States and localities
should live up to their IRE
sponsibilities." as opposed to
merely dem ding their
rights"
Labor Rules Democrats
After the Civil Wars end,
1t was not unnatural that
the Republican Party should
be the dominant political
party, located in the
North and West, or that the
South should be Democratic.
Nor was 1t unnatural that
business and wealth should
seek to ally itself with the
G. o. P. And for q time,
because Of the Republican
support Of the protective
tariff which helped workers
in American factories and
farmers, that labor should 60
along in considerable part
with the G. o. P. Nor was
1t unnatural that when labor
believed 1t was getting the
little end Of the stick Gas it
was) the workers became
more and more allied with
the Democratic Party. And
since the depression which
gripped the country In the
1930s, organized labor has
even more firmly taken over
the Democratic Party than
did business take over the
G. o. P.
The labor laws-and the
exemption Of labor from the
operation Of the antitrust
laWs-put labor in the saddle.
And these laws we're enacted
in a Democratic administra-
ton. Mr.. Romney is against
politically-d dominant business
and against politically-domi-
nant labor. Further, he is
against big, centralized gov
ernment. All of which sounds
like the Republican principles
Of Lincoln.
The danger to the Union
today is not secession Of
States. 1t is in growing Fed
eral Government, which, If
carried on to the end, will
wipe out State lines and place
the full power in the White
House and the hands Of q
President ripe for Q Fas-
cist or Communist govern
ment, depending on when
and If another great eco
nomic crash develops. New
Frontiersmen will deny any
such possibilities. But their
outstretched hands. grasping
more and bigger political
power, and using Govern
ment resources to do 30,
raise suspicion.
Evening star., 1962-02-15
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Deep Sea Exploration Continues
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

An extensive program of
exploration of the deep sea
now is being carried out by
the Woods Hole, (Mass.)
Oceanographic Institution.
1t is an extension of the
work in this line by various
nations during the Interna-
tional Geophysical Year.
Much remains to be learned,
1t is claimed, about circula-
tion in the great abysses
where such huge masses Of
water are involved that even
movements of very low We
locity are significant. Several
concepts held in the past now
must be considerably revised,
says an institution report.
Substantial progress has
been made recently, accord
ing to this report, in under
standing how wind, friction,
heating, inertia and the rota-
ton of the earth combine
to produce ocean currents.
The Gulf Stream is a fair
example. 1t now is regarded
as a kind of boundary layer
separating the warm waters
of the Sargasso Sea from the
colder water in the north.
Earlier Woods Hole opera
tions have given a picture of
a series Of currents, some
times disconnected and over
tapping like the shingles on
a roof. Occasionally large
meanders develop. Some
break off into circular eddies
hundreds of miles in di-
ameter.
Picture Oversimplified
Now even this picture ap-
pears to have been over
simplified, according to a
recent 10-week survey by five
ships which ran II parallel
north-south lines about 100
miles apart from the conti-
mental shelf to the latitude
Of Bermuda. Additional OBJ
servations were made of cur
rents both on the surface and
in very deep water.
Results" says the report,
indicate that the meanders
are more stable and go deeper
than had been thought and
that the main Gulf Stream
itself runs deeper than the
one-mile maximum previ-
ously calculated"
Oceanic circulation also is
being examined by means of
radioactive isotopes which
serve to identify masses Of
sea water.
Eforts are being made to
isolate some Of the very
Evening star., 1962-02-15
LETTERS TO THE STAR
GrowIs on Both Sides of Fence on Military MuzzIine

soldiers who, for the most
part, are drafted and have
no attachment to a military
tradition. In an emergency
the bulk of American forces
is necessarily made up of
such men. To be effective,
they must know who they
are fighting and why. When
they don't, there occurs such
shameful spectacles as the
behavior of Army prisoners in
Korea. It is reported that
one third collaborated, to
some extent, with the enemy.
And that is why we need a
sound, troop indoctrination
program.
d. j. Hanrahan.
Is Senator Thurmond
trying to start a revival Of
McCarthyism?
I wonder If he and his
ilk have forgotten Guadal-
canal, Two Jima, Tarawa and
Korea.
Marines past, present and
those yet to come have and
always will live up to their
motto, "Semper Fidelis." Our
Nation does not stand for
such unwarranted attacks.
E. ]. Steger.
Octogenarian and always q
Marine.
A Senate investigation was
started about alleged muz-
zling Of officers Of the armed
forces who gave speeches in
which they were critical of
Communists. Suddenly, as a
result Of q questionnaire sub
mitted to q few Marines to
test their knowledge of the
Communist menace, a big
hullabaloo was raised by the
Marine Commandant, and the
publicity was diverted from
muzzling to Marines. The
Marines are not known to be
adverse to publicity. and, as
usual, they got a lions share.
Little has been said about a
similar QUESTIONABLE being
submitted to airmen at An
drews Air Force Base. Pos
Sibly, the fly-boys are not so
sensitive as to feel that by
being requested to fill out the
QUESTIONABLE their "honor
and patriotism were be-
smirched." maybe they knew
most Of the answers.)
Proba ably, many Of the
questions, as listed in The
Star, were too difficult for a
person of average intelligence.
But, the press and TV in gen.
eral placed great emphasis
on the most difficult ques-
tions, implying that all ques-
tions were unfair. However,
1t Is hardly unreasonable to
expect servicemen to know
who is the President of the
United States.
General Shoup, the Marine
Commandant, is reported to
have said that nothing was
deleted from any Of his
speeches. He is reported to
have said that he has made
more than 100 speeches and
never once used the word
Evening star., 1962-02-15
THE POLITICAL MILL
LincoIn-Like G. O. p. Is Needed
By GOULD LINCOL.

Has the G. o. P. lost its
way? And If so. can 1t find
itself again? Born in a day
Of strife and Of conflicting
interests, 1t emerged as the
party Of freedom and Of the
preservation of the Union.
The conflict Of interests in
this country today-and the
preservation Of the Union
give the Republican Party a
chance to regain what 1t has
to q large degree lost in its
century Of life. In the days
when Abraham Lincoln car
ried the torch for the new
political party, slave labor in
the South, and that sec
tion's agricultural interests,
were in conflict with the
growing industrial North.
When Lincoln came to Wash
ington as President. the
stage had already been set
for civil war. States Of the
South were asserting their
right to secede from the
Federal Union and some had
taken that step.
The young Republican
Party, in the days it nomi-
mated Lincoln for President,
was attacked as liberal" by
some and by others as rad
ical." Lincoln himself was
denounced as a radical, a
would-be tyrant. He was
neither. He did his best to
avoid war, but when it be-
came apparent there was no
other way to preserve the
Union, Lincoln stuck to his
principles. If the North had
been attempting to secede
from the Union, Lincoln's
problem would have been
terrific, for he deteSted slav-
cry, as much as he loved the
Union. The Republican Party
in those days was a minority
party, but was composed of
a great number Of people of
moderate means-and final
ly was backed by the big
manufacturers (many of
them men Of wealth., who
provided the sinews Of war,
the supplies and the arms.
When the conflict was end
ing, Lincoln urged that the
course to be followed should
be with malice toward none
with charity for ALL" And
that's the course he would
have followed had he lived.
Man Of the People
The Republican Party's
first President was a man o1
the people in a very real
sense. He also was a mod
crate" in an equally real
sense. His loyalty was always
to the people-all the people
rich and poor. His comment
however, was that God would
not have made so many poor
people If He hadn't lovec
them. But he believed that 6
man. rich or poor, must
stand on his own two feet
and make his way.
Those Republicans who to-
day are striving to make thu
party a very liberal or a very
conservative party, according
to their own lights and de-
sres, should take a look bacl
to the greatest President Il
ever gave the country-per.
haps the country's creates
ever. Now and then in tht
life of a political party, O
that Of a nation, a man arise!
with a real mission to fulfill
And perhaps the newly de,
clared candidate for the Re.
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-03-14

neat as a pin," said Mrs Padersen.
The great disappointment of
Tootsie's life lies in the book she
wrote. Slowly over the years, in
odd moments, she wrote her memo
ries of the days that were, complete
with hundreds of colorful anecdotes,
all handwritten in pencil. So when
a school teacher passing through
said his wife would be glad to type
it for $3.50 she gladly gave him
the money, also paid airline tickets
for him.
But time went on and on and, at
last, the man told Tootsie his wife
didn't have time After prodding
he finally gave her back a small
part of the manuscript.
Dirty, tattered, like the chickens
had been on them," recounts the
old woman scornfully.
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Meant Much

ut was a terrible thing said
Mrs Paterson That book meant SO
much to her and she had written a
stack of papers so Highland it
came to nothing"
Undaunted, the frontier woman
says she will begin writing another
book
A lot of the people who came to
see Tootsie were the children of
old Flat families She beamed on
Mrs. Leonard Zaiser, Mrs. Tony
Gularte and Elsie Circuit.
Il remember when you were all
babies crawling on the floor" she
exclaimed
In all these years in Alaska,
Tootsie has seldom seen another
colored person.
'sOnce | went II years without
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-03-14
END OF AN ERA AS TWO oD1ERs FROM HOME

seeing anybody of my race. Ana
when / came into the hospital thers
was colored girl, and l saio,
Come here and let me look at you,
it's been more than 10 years.
Looked In Mirror
Most of these years, Tootsl7
said, "if | wanted to see another
dark face / just looked IN the MIR
ror!'
When Tootsie and Mike Burnr
came to Anchorage on Nortaer1
Consolidated Airlines plane, they
were met by Jim Dodson and Ray
Petersen, company officials.
MY, l like to have spell when
see them exclaimed Tootsle.
"All these years, and they sale,
'Tootsie, can you still fry PORK
chops like you did,"
Continued on Page 6,
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Legs Gave Way

Well she recalled, they tried
to get me to 60 winter before last,
but | said no, / wanted to stay in
my own home. But then last fall
just started going all to pieces. My
legs give way and l couldn't hardly
walk any more.
And then it got so cold-I've
been up in the Arctic winters and
never suffered like did this winter.
Nobody to cut wood. Except there
was one or two men would come
by, but l tell you there were times
Mike and l were down to one little
stick, no bigger than your arm and
almost freezing. / tell you l never
suffered like that! And then I
couldn't keep house any more, SO
/ said I'd 60
Friends kept telling her that the
pioneers home is a nice place, just
like a hotel
WELL Tootsie said reasonably,
"Tll see now
Cared for OIdtimcr
She has taken care of oldtimer
Mike Burns for some time. He is
totally blind and in a more pre-
carious position physically than
Tootsie.
He spends lot of time dreaming
of the trail and of the old mining
ventures.
"You wouldn't believe it, I got
$4,000 in an hour, ran into a pocket
but then it was all gone
Eyes" interjected Mrs Padersen,
but when pocket goes, it all
goes"
Arrived in 1900
Tootsie was brought to Alaska
by a white family in 1900. Il had
the finest education. They treated
me just like queen" she said.
One of q children. Tootsie was
taken by the family which knew
and loved her mother. Of the 81,
Tootsie has met only four. Two of
them live in Cleveland and occa-
sionally write their sister But
Tootsie said she never answers
them. They are so far away, the
years SO many, what is there to say?
Tootsie's family are all Alaskans.
She went back Outside in 1909 but
returned in 1911 to set up 1.-The finest
bath house in Alaska.
1t was too, confirms Mis-. Pader-
sen. It was made with a pile OF
rocks which would be heated with
"a fire.
Water was poured on these hot
rocks to create a frontier steam
| bath.
Wonderful HOusekeeper
"Tootsie always was a wonder
full housekeeper. Her things were
Jessen's weekly. [volume] (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1942-1968, 1962-03-14
Bu Helen Gillette

Reprinted from the Anchorage Times
It's the end of an era in Flat,
Alaska, now that Matte (Toot-
sie) Crosby has resigned her
self and gone to the Pioneers
Home at Sitka.
Tootsie and an old-timer friend
Mike Burns, recently paused in An
chorage on their way to the south
east, and fellow pioneers flocked
to see them.
Now unable to walk, Tootsie sat
in a wheel chair and held daily
court at Providence Hospital for
her friends in the Anchorage area.
The gentle old lady has lived in
Alaska for 81 years and as she says:
Everybody in Alaska love loot
sie!''
She was so pleased to see old
friends Great day in the morning."
she declared, Il was never so happy
in my life, this is one of the great
est meetings l ever had!'
Tootsie is we'll known as an ex-
ceptional cook. Through the years
she supported herself by preparing
frontier banquets as we'll as ordi-
nary meals, both in her shining lit
tie home in Flat and in other fami-
lies kitchens
She grubstaked many miner in
the gold fever days. She made good
money on many of her investments;
other miners just went out and
drank up the grubstake. And she
bought furs from trappers, and was
a shrewd judge of furs, oldtimers
say.
But even though a lot of money
came into her hands, she has nothing
left now. She did not fritter it
away. Il never drank or smoked"
said Tootsie.
Helped Many
But she helped SO many down
and cutters that nothing was left
for her Tootsie would not have it
any other way; she simply was born
Will q llGdl H.. kOO says d
close friend of the old days, Mrs.
Lois Paterson, who now resides in
Anchorage.
Mrs. Padersen's husband, Fred,
now dead, was dredgemaster in the
Flat area for total of "a years.
I'm Flat those years we were like
one big happy family - that's the
kind of friends we WERE remem-
bered Mrs. Padersen, holding loot
sizes hand. "GAN6aGEA
Amt that the truth exclaimed
Tootsie. land the Lord surely
blessed us!'
well Tootsie, how'd they ever
get you out of Flat?" asked another
old friend
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-14
correets Report on pept. OF state EmpIOxment

Editor your local papers
reporting
Negroes the survey was
quoted by the Presidents Committee
the period govern
ment asked
the Civil Service grade classifcaons
categors such the Foreign Foreign
classfications
may breakdown on employment
1O1 through percent am
writing you because this information n
attaching table recng the
Department of State will
cited above and those appearing explain
the for this discrepancy
statistics compiled Presidents Com
ttee Foreign Service personnel
In the June 1862 report however Foreign
placed the "Other rather
Civil Service grade classification
in employment in the Civil Service grades The did
corresponding increase in the oher Pay
Of the absence Of data the
to make a comparison.
fact Is that Negro employment
Service and Foreign Service combined actually
Of 49, for through
through 1s pleased to tell that
ment OF Negro IL through
that reported in June 1852 eight additional making
total Of 81 In that category
We satisfied with
but feel that the modest that
formation that will contrary you may
that the Departments moving positive
comphment in this field would
thing possible to set the
Assistant Secretary WashInKon
DO, December T. 1862.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-14
Make Your Spending
Money Do Double Duty

Most of painfully aware Of the fact that
there are businessmen who do not want bus
mess. part of the pain Is the manner-or lack Of
it-in which we are made aware Of the fact.
We are also happily aware of the fact there are
many businessmen who do want our business. In
between, there are many who are Indifferent who
don't whether patronize them not.
Those who want business make 1t known
to US in many ways The Spokesman and Recorder
that we have many many influential supporters In
the Negro community when we suggest that the
best way In which businessmen make known
their desire for Negro business in the columns of
these newspapers.
For thing. these columns offer a sure,
Negro buyers.
For another thing, advertisers use Of these COL
umns contributes to the steady improvement Of the
Negro market by providing the material means we
need to carry the fight for equal treatment and
equal opportunity for Negro citizens.
For you who read these columns, the important
point in all this is that your patronage of those who
appeal for your patronage in your newspapers
you in important ways:
1t spares you the embarrassment Of offering
your patronage to businessmen who don't want It
You be absolutely that advertiser in the
Spokesman and Recorder wants you to trade with
him and welcomes you when you come to him with
your business.
1t makes more effective the demand of the
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-14

beginning situation
this is should
Unfortunately stessing higher opportunities
arising the higher echons political
Opportunities the
yet opportunities the lacking
What becomes of the Negroes
college is somebody's important
country being flooded with refugee
with the struggling Negroes the Negroes
should aerted to the pressing sticking
immigrant right waiting
ever job the Negro is not performing efficiently
There millions and millions of Negroes
the inside Of college there other Negroes
will not finish high opportunities
should say, lack opportunities many?
So is not the
for lot We
omic opportunities on the humber levels of life
This brings to the subject
simplest understand the language
performs at the Negroes perform
the bottom
only performance
Negro
his sterling performance gdon
basketball the
circle
The pride Of the has been boosted possibilities
illustrated But needs brought Negroes
the Negro.
understand
that the humber levels the higher performance pays
Maury Wills shoop
of the Angeles Dodgers
the National League with Willie Willie
close second. This honor is tribute performance.
This spirit performance necessity every Negro
Resentment opportunity performance Hancock
Richmond
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-14
Focus On
Africa
BY EDDIE I. MADISON, JR.

AS expected, Louisiana Sem
ator Allen j. BLENDERS pro-
segregationist remarks in Sails
bury, Southern Rhodesia, have
backfired on him and on the
US. image.
While it wasn't reported
whether Ellender had intended to
visit Uganda, that newly-independ-
ent African country barred the
southern Democrat who Is touring
the continent. The Uganda govern
ment called him ''prejudiced seq
regationist" and declared him a
prohibited immigrant" Joining
the protest was TanganyilSa, Ug-
anda's neighbor in East Africa.
The action followed statements
by Ellender that he had not seen
any section Of Africa where Afri-
cans are ready for self-govern-
ment." He told the press in Sails
bury, capital Of the white-con-
trolled Central African Federation,
that "the average African is in
capable Of leadership without the
help of Europeans" adding that he
had not seen anywhere on the con-
tinent where Africans had made
"the least bit Of progress on their
own"
Enender, an outspoken opponent
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-14

1t is true that we have received unsolicited
citations for public service from persons and organ
izatons who have observed the humble contribu-
tions we have tried to make during SO years
of editing newspapers in these communities
1t was only last year that surprised
and honored by the presentation to of the Citizen
of the Year Award" by the Twin City Council of
Clubs. We doubt that this organization representing
as it does AZ Twin City organizations feels we have
been posing "a leader" 1t probably thinks we've
been trying to be a good servant to the community
Twenty years this past October, 694 Negroes
and whites gathered at the Hotel Nicolet in Mime
apos to pay tribute to the editor of this paper for
Thirteen Years Of Public Service" in testimonial
banquet in his honor sponsored by the leading Negro
organizations in the Twin Cities. We doubt that
these organizations felt that he should be honored
for what Mr.. Williams paper claims is posing as
leader in the Negro community"
Lincoln University jefferson City, Mo-, in April
Of 1857 gave the editor of this paper Citation OF
Merit for Outstanding Performance in Journalism,
coveted award which has gone only to twelve of the
topflight figures in American Negro journalism.
This newspaper is going to keep on defending
those it feels are being "ganged up on" Sometimes
we may be right and sometimes wrong, but cause
we think is right, is going to want for advocate.
We have and will continue to have some con-
Germ and sympathy for the IT persons and % de-
pendents who will be affected by the Key Club
closing even if Mr.. Williams with his two jobs and
his two newspapers doesn't. Maybe Mr.. Williams
and the ObserverSun will find jobs for the IT dis
placed Key Club employees who face bleak Christ
mas by Minneapolis city council action, which has
been so heartily endorsed by him?
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-14

women who operate in perhaps, more sophisticated
atmosphere.
In the statement we made to the council
about the relatively few night places in Mime
apOlis, the average Negro looking for entertain
ment may go with a welcome, we were
stating the facts we know them to be.
Only those who want to fool themselves will
believe that Negro patrons are received with open
arms in all of the night clubs in Minneapolis. The
fact that the patronage is accepted in degrees rang
ing from sub-zero to tepid warmth in most places,
especially those spots which have dancing--is not
fgament of our imagination
All of the principal hotels of course should be
exempted from this criticism. We do not know of
a good hotel in Minneapolis today where all people
not made welcome.
We do not think it necessary to use space to
defend our papers record of service to the Negro
community in the Twin Cities. The can be said
of its editor That record is well known and has been
acclaimed nationally. However we had just well
set forth some pertinent facts
The editor Of this newspaper has never claimed
to be leader in the sense at which the Observer
Sun sneers
He has tried to do the best Job for the COM
munity he could do and has always been ready and
willing to do battle in what he considered the two
community's best interests If there some who
feel that in doing this he has earned prominence
this is the fruit Of service and activity
No person has ever heard the editor Of this
paper voice the claim that he Is either "leader,"
one who speaks for the Negroes Of this COM
munity area. Anyone who charges we have
made such a claim does not have the truth In him.
Leadership does not corue by personal desire or by
ambition alone. It comes from service to a grateful
people.