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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-26
Good Going Battey & Green; Nuts To
Bill BOni

speaker at the baseball dinner jan IT. at the Prom
poor Negroes bacbd Mime
Battey Lene left the head table
against the insult They did just right
Both Batey to be congratulated their actions
those who think Negroes ought to sng
take any insult, any old time
The BatteGeen waout the sensation Of the banquet yet
while the banquet fully reported by the daily sports pages not
whisper the about the incident until Friday
practically hid at the bottom
obquey reported the incident 1t quoted
Bay saying which him to leave the
banquet "vVere out of place."
quoted Battey that made
apologize about leaving the banquet circumstance
seriously doubts The TRIBUNE did not mention
whose remarks caused the two Negro players
banquet which would naturally give readers who had
been incident feeling that there effort at
a cover-up TRIBUNE sports desk.
Only KDWB bOadcaster the
public the resntng the blacbrds" story
blasted the speaker Rosy Ryan who happens to be
An old the daily sports kept quiet
Finally Saturday afternoon the daily edition. which has the
smallest leadership executive sports editor Of both the st.
Paul DISPATCH and attempted justify the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-26

get an adequate education for a
Negro child in Chicago?
AS recall 1t, Secretary of Labor
Goldberg was the first man to open
this Pandora's Box, in an oblique
reference to the Metropolitan Club
which shuts its doors to African
diplomats. For bringing the issue
to the fore, the Secretary deserves
congratulations.
1t would be interesting now to
find some man high in the Admin
istration who was willing to take
on a more substantial issue, viz.
how to get federal funds for the
public schools.
At his recent news conference,
the President talked about getting
more scientists to keep up with the
Russians. House Speaker McCor-
mack, who had big part in killing
the public school bill last year, now
says he will go about for the rela-
lively non-controversial bill to aid
colleges.
But neither the President nor the
Speaker will promise to go all out
for a bill that aids public educa-
ton. The word" on Capitol Hill Is
that such an effort is hopeless.
Possibly it is, but until a real eff
fort is made to do something we
shall never know.
AS an example, the President
and the Speaker might call on
Congressman James Delaney of
Queens, who blocked action last
year. Cardinal Cushing of Boston
has already made some construc-
tive suggestions. But no one seems
to be picking them up or doing
anything except to say how "tou-
chy" this subject is and why school
aid Is too hot to handle"
OF course, this is a difficult is
sue. The feeling of Catholic Church
officials that rising costs are pro-
viding an unbearable burden is
completely understandable.
But the basic fact is that while
a man may wait for another year
to be admitted to a private club-a
youngster cannot wait for another
year to go to school. If the
youngsters who are now six, seven,
eight and nine years old are "edu-
Gated" in rattle-trap buildings by
unhappy and underpaid teachers,
the damage Is done.
When the Administration be-
stirs itself in behalf Of public
schools, as it has in opening priv
ate clubs, then the rest of the
country may come to feel that the
District of Columbia is not enemy
territory.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-26
Letters To The Editor
Council President Thanks Well Wishers

Editor would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank
the
wishes Council
Clubs The calls congrauatory letters
and makes all the determined to this job the
very best that capable of doing.
However realize that in order to make administration
require cooperation organizations
presently affiliated with having
dedicated
obtain the whoeheared support the affiliated
develop
symbol of unity purpose communty-Alfred
City of Clubs Minneapolis,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-26

terWeWlng each other and that
many in government are "out of
touch" with popular sentiment.
On the other hand, the spokes-
man said, President Kennedy has
avoided this pitfall by travelling
around the country, by meeting
local editors and by reading re-
ports from the Democrats regional
conferences where the politicians
get some idea of what concerns the
general public.
1t is always good fun to pick on
Washington because the huge bur-
eaucracy lends itself to the role of
scapegoat. Anyone who has ever
had to fill out a federal form hates
the bureaucrats with their tricky
questions. OF course, everyone who
has paid his income tax automau-
cally detests the government any
how.
So to picture Washingtonians as
remote, distant and theoretical sat
isfies a popular prejudice and real
ly hurts no one.
Right now the city is in turmoil
because some obstreperous people,
like Attorney General Kennedy and
others, insist they will not belong
to private mems clubs that bar Ne
groes and other minorities. De-
tenders of the status quo have been
quick to call this the new dem
agoguery" and even to note that
the President has been an honorary
member Of one club that has been
racially restricted for years, with
out anyone voicing concern about
it.
This dispute makes good news
paper copy. 1t confirms the widely
held feeling that Washingtonians
are breed apart who are not only
ignorant of the facts of life, but
snobs as well.
Disturbing a self-satisfied man
in his private club is always a
pleasant exercise. The Union
League Club Of New York was for
years the special target Of cartoon
lists. That Washington clubs, whose
membership is comprised of so
many men Of eminence, have SEEM
ed out Of spirit with the times
gives everyone else a chance to feel
virtuous.
The Administration is now clear
ly on record as opposed to stuffed
shirts. This is all to the good. Now
let's go on to something that af-
fects the whole country.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-26
NO DISCRIMINATORY GIFTS

University Wisconsin regents recently made difficult
on that does them credit They adopted policy Of refusing gifts
requests hereafter that restrictions based
creed.
policy the university harmony with the American
quality
must be that 1t will discourage
considering offensive restrictions
s help the university its
spirit Of the regents polcy-Miwaukee JOURNAL
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-26

the creators of the automobile
for the planned obsolescense of the human body
Ngeans reported migrating numbers to New Yors Sums
they writing living conditions in America they
parenty doing post
hardly
hasc
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-26
WATCH
.on the
POTOMAC
BY ROBERT @. SPIVAcK

WaShingtOn-PRIVATE CLUBS AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
- spokesman for the Kennedy Administration described
Washington recently nsuar city" far removed from
political reality with high officials and alike nsuat
ed" from popular opinion around the country.
There is dsputng the fact that Washngtonians tend
become inbred that newspapmen spend much time
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-26

I wonder, If there is not an ele-
ment of "insularity" in all this
furore over the private clubs ?
After all how many people DE
long, to such clubs? Suppose that
Carl Rowan is admitted-will that
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-26
Fraternity Bias Now Ended Officially,
That Is

the completion its campaign to racial bias
University fraternity bylaws of Students
Williamson explained I'VE don't want to take Negro
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-01-26
DRY-POINTS
BY FRED GRAM

BY FRED GRAM
Godwater has writing political rhapsodes and
influence shines through his Con-
a socialist a communist
electronc efbeatng
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Copyright, 1862, Robert G.
Spivack).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03

thereafter, Red China slowed
down the flow.
Formosa is not one of Peiping's
markets. No refugees there would
be fed with Red Chinese food; no
food sales to Taipei would help
rectify an imbalance in Red Chi
nese trade.
Nationalist China has not Of
fered to accept any Of the 1.3 mil
lion "old" refugees in Hong Kong;
her offer applied only to the new
ones who came in April and May.
If Taipei did take some Of the
older ones, Peiping would have
still less opportunity to exploit
human misery.
But Formosa Is already a
crowded island. The United States,
Canada and Australia, among
other places, are much less
crowded.
The Hong Kong government
could clamp an embargo on Red
Chinese food. But shipping in al
tentative supplies from a distance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
BY WILLIAM r. FRYE
Contributing Writer

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-The
tide of Chinese refugees to Hong
Kong, now temporarily in abey-
ance, is more than a human trag-
edy. It is an absorbing. If cruel,
economic and political drama.
What is happening is this:
Red China sells Hong Kong $87
million worth of food every year.
Her balance of international pay
ments, exclusive of this trade,
shows an $87 million deficit. Red
China's food sales to Hong Kong
exactly cancel out the deficit.
For Hong Kong to have pro-
gressively more mouths to feed.
therefore, is money-making
proposition for Red China.
The figures cited are for 1860
but essentially the same thing has
been happening for IA years.
Ever since 1948, pitiful Chinese
fugitives have been slipping across
the Kowloon border. or smuggling
themselves to the Portuguese is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03

the park. Anniversary celebra-
tons are frequent and emphatic
in the Soviet Union and the
flags are still up from yesterdays
observance for the Pioneers, a
youth organization. Aesthetics
gather in the evening for the
ballet. a regular presentation
whose splendor and quality re-
fleet a state subsidy that is far
from met by the price of the
tickets.
Subsidies Available
Subsidy is, Of course, the factor
which makes all these diversions
possible. The Importance at
tached to these cultural and rec
reational activities is indicated
by the close attention they re-
ceive from local and national
central committees Of the Com
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03

might cost sis million more q
year. Proportionately, this would
be as If the United States were
to spend $210 million more each
year for the same goods 1t now
imports.
And Hong Kong must live con-
stantly under the shadow Of the
Chinese dragon. 1t would take
brave man to needle the dragon
very often. One lash Of its tail
would destroy Hong Kong-and
the world quite possibly would be
in atomic war.
Hong Kong's refugees are among
the most miserable human beings
on earth. That they prefer this
life to Red China is eloquence
beyond words.
I visited one Of the refugee set
Elements a few weeks ago. It was
on a steep, barren hillside. Tum-
ble-down Shacks perched on thin
wooden legs which seemed to defy
the law of gravity.
Girls were carrying water up
the hill in buckets balanced at
either end of q bien-dan, the ira
ditional wooden pole which Chi
nese carry on one shoulder.
Ragged children scampered and
slid down the hill through filth
which had been heaved out the
windows. Hunger and despair
hung heavy in the atmosphere.
Blight on Conscience
It is a blight on the conscience
of mankind that so little has
been done to resettle these people.
Many countries, including the
United States, have restrictive
laws which all but forbid Asian
immigration. Exceptions now
being made will not be numeri-
cally significant. Nationalist
China, which could have taken a
good many, made its first move
last week, IA years late.
Everyone has been ready to let
someone else take care of the
problem. AS with refugees from
Soviet communism, the free world
has often encouraged them to
come out and then turned its
back on them when they came.
At the same time, there Is this
hard fact: that if every refugee
were resettled tomorrow, Red
China would have it in her power
to create the problem all over
again the next day.
For this, the only visible an
swer is to make the exodus so
damaging to Peiping's pride that
she will want to cut it down. This
the West has been trying to do.
The refugee flow last month was
major propaganda asset to the
free world in Asia, just as the
flow from East Germany was an
asset in Europe before the Berlin
wall.
How much effect this kind Of
pressure will have. and is hav-
ing. on Peiping is uncertain. She
values face" very highly. U. N.
diplomats believe pride played a
part in Red China'S decision to re-
strict the flow last week.
But Peiping also values the
hard cash she can earn from
the Hong Kong market. Few here
believe she will turn the spigot off
entirely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03

munist Party. Most administra-
tive functions are left to the local
governments but the Central
Committee runs the theaters,
circuSes, and other aspects Of the
cultural life.
One major cause for this close
attention is evident in downtown
Kiev where Sunday throngs that
have bypassed the diversions are
pressing from counter to counter
in the open stores. The crowd
moves In a restless, steady surge.
They are not buying much-only
about one in is comes out with
a purchase-but they are looking
hard. Their interest is in prices
and new items and their zeal sug-
gests their pressure upon the gov
eminent to meet consumer de-
mands.
1T is all relative" the Russian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
Dollar DevoIuotion
Key in.Conodo Races

A second course of action the
post election government may
follow is to increase interest rates
sharply. This would have the eff
feet Of attracting foreign invest
ment capital into Canada - for
example. If United States dollars
could earn more in Canada than
they could in the United States,
they would come to Canada. In
order to be put to work at a
high Canadian rate Of interest
they would have to be exchanged
for Canadian dollars. This would
strengthen the demand for Ca
madam dollars and create an up
ward pressure on the Canadian
monetary unit that has been
lacking ever since the start of
the year.
High Interest Rotes
The big objection to this course
is that interest rates high enough
to attract foreign funds in sub
stantial quantities would auto
matieally result in q return to
tight money conditions in Can
ada. Both parties are campaign
ing on planks of opposition to
tight money. They are pledged to
policies Of easy credit In order to
encourage the investment Of cap
ital in ways that viii provide jobs
for the unemployed.
The third course Of action is
the most drastic Of them all: a
return to wartime and postwar
control of foreign exchange and
restrictions on imports and for
eign travel. With the election
campaign on, no party dares so
much as hint at thiS-but econ
omists and financial experts fore
see that a current falling off Of
export sales coupled with a con-
tinuing billion dollar trade def
icit would require drastic action.
What mainly depresses the Ca
madam dollar is the need for Ca
nadians to buy United States dol
lars to pay for their import sur
plus. Restrictions In imports
would ease this drain on the
strength of the Canadian dollar.
Indirectly, devaluation would have
a similar effect.
Each panacea is unpalatable to
government and to the people. All
three would reduce the Canadian
standard of living and encourage
more Canadian emigration to the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
BY GERALD WARING
Contributing Writer

Is OTTAWA. - The once-proud
Canadian dollar has been bump
ing along through a series of
small crises in the month since
it was devalued and pegged at
92h United States cents. The
difficulty has been to keep it
from sinking below the peg.
The Canadian government has
been bolstering the dollar by using
United States dollar reserves,
but this is only postponing until
after the June IS election the
need to make a more basic at
tack on the problem of restoring
confidence in the dollar and the
Canadian economy.
Whichever political party, Con-
sentative or Liberal, forms the
government after the election
it probably will be forced to take
some strong action quickly. But
a weighing Of the pros and cons
of the three courses Of action
open to the new administration
makes clear that there Is no easy
cure for Canada's monetary ILL
ness. The chickens Of q decade
of dollar generalization have
come home to roost.
One possible course Is further
devaluation. The present Con-
sentative administration could
knock the dollar down to q lower
peg without waiting for the cleo
ton, but such action before poll
ing day might be political suicide
for the Tories. Already their
Liberal opponents have made
gains in the campaign by thun-
dering about what the Con-
servatives did to your dollar"
Borrowing Move Seen
Therefore most observers be-
lieve Finance Minister Donald M.
Fleming will use the govern
ment's foreign exchange reserves,
and If necessary will borrow from
the International Monetary Fund,
to support the dollar at the pres
ent pegged rate until after the
election.
However, the need is not to
keep the dollar at 9212 United
States cents, but to restore inter-
national confidence in the Cana
dian dollar. And any government
weighing the alternative courses
of action must recognize that a
second forced devaluation SO soon
after thaYof May 2 is unlikely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
By SIDNEY WISE
Contributing Writer

Contributing Writer
MEXICO CITY. - Behind the
preparations for the United
States-Mexican summit" meet
ing here on June 80, lie high
hopes for revitalizing the tagging
boom economy Of Mexico and
making Of it q rough model of
how the Alliance For Progress pro-
gram might be applied to the
rest Of Latin America.
When President Kennedy meets
the 52-year-old Mexican chief Of
state, Adolfo Lopez Mateos, for two
days of talks, the spotlight will
be on cordial embraces and high
sounding words Of mutual friend
ship.
However. without follow-up pri-
vate investment and Government
aid under the Alliance for Prog
ress, some observers here believe,
these words are apt to acquire q
hollow ring and the Alliance to
seem like Q meaningless phrase
not only for Mexico but for most
of Latin America as well.
These observers feel that II the
Alliance For Progress cannot be
made to work in Mexico, which
long ago carried out the reforms
demanded by the Alliance, then
the likelihood Of it working else
where in Latin America would
seem to be slim.
Progressive Moves
In land reform, economic d.
versification, freedom from mill
tary dictatorship, balanced in
dustrial growth and basic demo-
cratic practice, Mexico stands
heads and shoulders above the
other big nations Of Latin Amer
lea.
With this record and its posi-
ton Of leadership in the hemis-
phere, Mexico, In many ways, can
become the key to open the feudal
gates in much Of Latin America
to successful augmentation of
the Alliance.
For 1t Is to Mexico, rather than
Castro, that most Latin American
countries look in their plans and
ambitions for the future.
Mexico's industrial growth and
modern social reforms have taken
1t out Of the under developed ma
ton category into O status Of
"semi-developed" country with a
burgeoning middle class.
Up until last year, its rate Of
growth was one Of the healthiest
and fastest In the Western
world.
However, o sudden flight Of
about $125 million In local capital
plus the increasing pressure Of
one Of the worlds fastest popu-
lation growths last year, con-
siderably slowed down the rapidly
expanding Mexican economy.
On the surface, all that the
Mexican boom needs to start
getting up steam again is a heavy
infusion Of capital.
Lack Of Confidence d
However, financial analysts
here believe that underlying the
current lack Of capital in Mexico
is something far more funda-
mental, q lack Of confidence
which the Castro scare precipi-
tated In this country.
Restore confidence in the lush
prospects of Mexico's business
future and the capital will come
streaming In, is the prevailing
view not only Of many banking
circles but of the Mexican gov
eminent itself.
The most effective way to re-
store this confidence, they feel,
would be an Endorsement by the
United States Of Mexico's bright
and stable economic future.
Paving the way to bring this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03

decision to create an additional
market for sales to Hong Kong
one of the most cynical acts in
modern history.
For Peiping to be selling food at
all is incredible. How many of
her own people are starving, or
near starvation, no one knows;
but the estimates run into the
tens Of millions.
Now she has been maneuvering
to sell more.
Nationalist Chimes Role
This is one reason why Britain
turned back many of the new ar
rivals. 1t would have been playing
Peiping's cruel economic game to
have admitted them. This was not
the only reason for the closed
door policy, but it was an i'm
portant factor.
One effective blow was struck
at Peiping when Nationalist
China offered to accept the new
arrivals. Almost Immediately
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03

will say with a shrug in discus
sions Of the prices and inven-
tories available to Americans.
But except for staples like bread
and sugar, the price of which is
set in Moscow, and very basic
items. the prices are startlingly
high by Western standards and
the range of goods extremely
limited. The average monthly
wage is estimated at rs rubles
($82.50 in United States cur
rency) but it is nonetheless a
sellers market. IF could just
have a small store on a remote
corner and sell only little things"
sighed one Arab diplomat in Mos
COW. 81 could still make a for
tune"
The small Russian car, the
Volga, is comparable to United
States compact models and sells