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Letters To The Editor
Mrs. Pefersen's Letter Praised

Editor After reading Petersen letter in the March 80
edition hearing comments about it, felt
PEELED give openly AS
Ramsey district emotions Mostly disgust
after children going school and
called else nearly months paid his
another protection getting
Of his Finally desperation he told and
talked the other
boy talked with the parents
children children that parents
shouldn't NEEDLE Most feel their children wouldn't
do these things0
This be true snguary but they entirely
different be leader to 10 followers will
encourage and laugh at everything or she does.
well dressed children with home training
everything at home the minute they home
laughs, and that is what they get
Being Negro do not things Mrs Petersen does but
the that heapd all who want children
to school with dignity pride
them called squares mandy PANTY because they aren't taught
to fight all the school and home Peeens
letter stirred lot Of people but instead of getting realize
hit because time another all
group bolster
sometimes vulgar.
nwardy wish they would Just disappear Then why can't
raise children doesn't have to wish they'd dis
Instead of getting find out why letter like
written walking driving along the the
direction children take from school, What
make realize its time this did something Then
Sincerely Field Ramsey
Mother Parent, Minneapolis,
Field
willing identity any
the situation
prior
We have her and address,.
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unskilled jobs, and because in too many areas
throughout our land the Negro has been doomed,
and limited, and restricted to unskilled labor unem-
ployment in the immediate future is destined to be
disproportionately Negro problem. 1t follows that
Negroes in areas where opportunities for training
and employment are favorable have especial re-
sponsibity to make the most of those opportunities
to develop their slills to their highest ability to
set examples and offer proofs. They should press
more sharply for apprenticeship training from which
they have been generally kept by tacit conspiracy
Advice, counsel, and assistance readily avail
able for young people who want need them. And
every young person needs them who is having the
slightest difficulty in adjusting to adulthood and
finding his way to useful occupation
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Encouraging has the activity of the Playground
ISOLATION in St which backed program
lets for the young people the Rondoxngton pro-
need the other
Oxford group to have that assistance
In Minneapolis that the South Side group
of volunteers organizing to form the South Side Athletic
whose
the ninth and enter the the League
requires money entry league and
equipment
Our friend and colleague, Percy through
Amateur Athletic association rs balls and
Is bats selling
81 memberships to further the program.
These volunteer efforts supplement athletic programs
effect at such agencies Halle Brown
Phyllis Wheatey Pbury House and Edward
Waite Minneapolis.
Such programs require fuller participation parents
the regularly constituted the
and brings
children the other youngsters community
Cecil Newman.
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Rural Dominate Legislatures
In Minnesota Friendly To
Civil Rights

There is no doubt that the is Supreme Court
ruling state reapportionment was a fair and just
ruling. 1t is not sound for sparsey populated
lions of state to have representation in the
state law-maling bodies than those districts with
dense populations.
In most states this has worked against the
enactment of civil rights legislation such as fair
employment practices acts and laws against race
discrimination in insurance and other fields.
However to the contrary in Minnesota, the civil
rights legislation which has been passed here has
had more help from the rural legislators than from
those in the big cities.
In the passage Of the FEPC law and again in
the enactment Of the state fair housing law rural
legislators much favorable to the legisa-
ton than a number of urban legislators with many
minority group constituents. Years ago when J.
Frank Wheaton the only Negro ever to in
the Minnesota legislature authored and secured the
passage of present equal Accommodations statute
prohibiting race and religious discrimination in
places of public Accommodations, 1t the rural
legislators plus a few Immigrant New England
Yankees" representing the urban districts who gave
the measure its chief support.
In many states however the situation is differ
emit, with the rural legislators being stumbling
blocks to most human rights legislation This is not
ably true in the South and true to large degree in
a state like Illinois, where the downstate rural leg
islation have voted sodly against FEPC bills year
after year In the larger urban communities of the
East, the Negro and other minority group voters
are so numerically strong, the urban and big city
legislators have to go along In many of these areas
there are an increasing number Of Negroes being
elected to the state legislatures to insure that the
problems facing the minority groups, will be aired
in the state lawmaldng bodies, and bills introduced
to relieve unfavorable conditions which facing many
American citizens seeking to exercise their basic
constitutional rights
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Problem Facing Our Youth
Who Seek Jobs Staggering

Probably our greatest failure and greatest
tragedy as a nation is failure to provide ade-
quate training for large numbers of young
people to equip them for useful life in this age of
technology.
The problem has recently been occupying the
attention of our national magazines, educators
and our social scientists Their conclusions
frightening.
The situation is especially tragic for those
young people living in the baclcwashes of econ
omy and civilization such as the vast intellectual
and moral backWoods of Southland 1t is equally
tragic for many of those who escape from this to
decayng urban centers Of the north to to schools
In locations and under conditions where the edu-
Gators have just about given up, to join the gangs
of loafers and apprentice criminals of the slums Of
Chicago New York, and other industrial cities.
Unemployment among these young people runs
35 to 40 per cent but they don't to school, either
High-school dropouts In New Yorks slum areas are
so per cent the school authorities point out. Per-
haps this is because Of the growing realization that
most of those who finish high school can't find jobs
ether-that in the words of DR.. James B. Conant,
the employment Of youth Is literally nobodys
affair"
This Is occurring among youths who, according
to Naomi Barko in The Reporter have normal in
telligence or better But almost all Of them whether
they from subsistence-level farms or big-city
surns, have parents with low incomes little educa-
ton :"
Waves of migrations from the South and from
overseas into the crowded industrial cities of the
north have complicated problem that would be
staggering without this complication.
Our problems in Minnesota less complex,
but we need not be SNUG about It. The failure Is
national one which Minnesota shares and Mime
sofa has some specific failures of its own.
Vocational education and training outside Mime
sofa cities for example, concentrates largely upon
agriculture though most farm youths are destined
to leave the farms and take up life In cities where
they are inadequately equipped for it
In the cities however, there is opportunity. St
Pauls eectronics program Is model for the nation
In field where great job opportunities are opening
up Vocational training in both Minneapolis ana 81
Paul are Of the best.
Because the jobs that are folding up are the
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The
HIGH
And Low
DOWN
BY BAnK THOMAS
The Presidents OF The
United States

Thirty-One Of our "a Presidents
were born in small towns or vii
lagos No President was an
only child; most came from large
families . James Buchanan was
the first bachelor elected Presi-
dent, and the only one to remain
unmarried John Tyler, 10th
President, was married twice and
had Is children
President Kennedy gets 100000
a year, quadrupling what George
Washington got (but what a dif-
ference in takehome) E. The only
President who didn't use the per-
sonal pronoun IT" in his inaugural
speech was Theodore Roosevelt
. William Henry Harrison en-
ployed S,445 words at his inaug-
ural, almost twice as many as any
other Chief Executive. Delivered
them during a snowfall, too
John Quincy Adams was the
first President to wear long trou-
sers at his Inauguration. added
fashion note: Adams wore the
same hat for 10 years in office)
. Woodrow Wilson is the only
President buried in Washington,
DC. E. Only one state, Washing
ton, bears the name of a Presi-
dent
Madison was our smallest Presi-
dent in stature, five feet four
inches; at six feet four, Lincoln
was the tallest President
Taft's weight varied from 300 to
1872 pounds; Andy Jackson weigh
ed in at 140 =.
Harvard contributed the most
Presidents four. But 10 were
educated at small colleges - Will
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liam & Mary (3), Amherst, VIII
liams, Bowdoin, Union, Kenyon,
Miami of Ohio, Dickinson, Hamp-
den-Sydney and Ohio Central
T lent Kennedy attended
Princeton before he got his Har-
ward diploma
Teddy" Roosevelt was the first
President to ride in an automobile.
Fifty years ago this summer, he
rode through Hartford, Conn. in
a purple-lined Columbia Electric
Victoria. First to ride in a plane,
too Tin st. Louis in 1910)
Dwight Eisenhower was tho
only President licensed to pilot q
plane Che got license No. 81, 1858
in 1887 t. At Ike's Inauguration
in '53, the most elaborate inaugur-
al pageant ever held included an
Alaskan dog team and three ele-
plants 80.
In 1918, Woodrow Wilson held
the first presidential peace con-
ference Thomas Jefferson
composed his own epitaph Che
made no mention of his presiden-
lcy) Wilson and Teddy Roose-
Welt were the only Presidents to
win the Nobel Peace Prize
George Washington owned a
ferry while President Charged
one shilling for an adult and a
horse) John Quincy Adams
was the most badly defeated can
didate of a major party. In the
1920 election, he got one electoral
vote; the winner, James Monroe,
received 231 of the 232 electoral
votes ..
President John Tyler, once a
lawyer, had a grave dug for his
horse. This inscription graces the
grave: Here lies the body of my
horse, The General For twenty
years he bore me around the cir
cult of my practice, and in all that
time he never made a blunder.
Would that his master could say
the same! John Tyler"
Our biggest state has the feweSt
people. Alaska has a population Of
only 226,913 persons Mecklen-
berg County, NC, celebrates its
own Independence Day every May
20. Declared its independence from
the British Crown in IT'S The
latest census figures show the age
of our average farmer is so
The sO-calIed free lunch program
for schoolchildren, according to
Agriculture Department figures,
costs 81 billion a year About
100000 people live in the Sahara
desert Sales tax collections
furnis h e the greatest single
source of revenue in 80 states dur
ing the fiscal year ending June
80, 1861
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A Southern Tragedy
BY HARRY GOLDEN

The US recently reported continuing Negro
migration to the North.
Mississippi reported loss in Negro
population $780, lost
170OO Negroes included Alabama Carolina
Carolina, Georgia and Arkansas
segregauonsts smile
smiling at Southern tragedy They more
Negroes from the South to other parts country
would like to submit
the Census Bureau Early 1850
of Negro colleges the two
most those At teachers cergmen serving Negro
population; several truck drivers
OF the At remaining college
the professions for which they trained
20 other
spent fortune in preparing Negro engineer working
Camden NJ j. and Negro stenographer
ington D. c.
intelligence does do to
the Negro Of the South? Suppose the Scotchsh
state had lost of their college graduates?
they have been able to build fine cities
anta?
What would have happened immigrants the
German Irish Jewish Italian
they lost thirds of their college girls? they
helped build such cities Chicago Detroit Milwaukee,
York?
Yet there Southern segregaonists gra-
ton I'VE losing Ngras" they say they
world because college graduate
behind his semihterae brother his older
domestic and his father who has arhts
Thus the costs Of separate systems
higher and higher welfare mounting figures
tragic loss not only of wasted millions but of
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DRY-POINTS
BY FRED GRAM

disciplined punds onepary press
chorsng Kennedy foreign policy nothing
policy
agree thing
Kennedy Administration.
getting that every time Nta dgs Mao Nobody
with certainty what the Communist line but it
surely
demanding eapporon-
lawang population
competent awmaing
representing overpopuaed
districts
begin suspect that television
choice of the telecase that their best eorsnaey
he by comparison.
days hearings Edwin Walker it
appears hearing Right
than
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Babies, once fondly priced as
additions, are now priced - as
observation-disclosures City, Mich,
Citizen.
ITS a tough world for the
American businessman. Every
time he comes up with something
new the Russians invent it a week
later, and the Japanese make 1t
cheaper" - Ellis, Kansas, Review.
Never have so many people
lived so well so far behind before. "
= Frieda j. MOnger, Duluth
(Minn.) Publicity.
Poverty may not be a disgrace.
But name a time when 1t was used
as a testimonial Of ability" -
Mrs. Gary HOtt, Pickens (S.C.)
Sentinel.
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ian, world famous chemist Of Chi
cago, was born in Alabama.
April IL, 1874 - Anthony VIII
liam Amo, African from Guinea,
was awarded the Phi. D. at the
University Of Wittenberg, Ger
many.
April IL, 1861 - Fort Sumter
was fired upon, starting the Civil
War.
April IL, 1945 - Franklin D,
Roosevelt, 32nd President of the
United States died.
April IS, 1883 - Francis VIII
liams, one of the first U. s. Negro
college graduates, published a
poem in Latin.
April IA, 1855 - President Abb
raham Lincoln was shot by John
Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater,
He died on the following day at
age SO.
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z. Lee surrendered to Gen. U. s.
Grant at Appomattox, Va, ending
the Civil War.
April 10, 1717 - Don Juan
latino, a Negro, taught Latin at
Seville, Spain. He died at age 1T.
April IL, 1899 - DR.. Percy Jul
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Focus On Africa
BY EDDIE L. MADISON, JR.

POSSIBLE breakthrOugh in the split between the Mon
rova and the Casabanca countries when Larb
Bennan Moroccan ambassador Accra declared that al
misunderstanding between the two groups superficial
Speaking Accra capital of Ghana Bennan said that the
ference of heads of state of the CaSanca Group take place
Cairo in May would probably study the possibility Of esab
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Our Past This Week

April 8, 1898 - Paul Robson,
scholar, singer, author and trav-
eler, was born in New Jersay.
April 8, 1865 - Gen. Robert
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Evening star., 1962-08-28
Curb on Imports
Won't Be Lifted

President Kennedy has ruled
out any relaxation of restric-
tions on imports of watch
movements and toweling of
flax, hemp or ramie at this
time.
Concessions previously grant,
ed on such imports we're with
drawn in 1854 and 1856 as the
result of escape clause" ac-
tions.
The President yesterday con-
firmed press reports that the
United States Tariff Commits
sion had determined there is
not sufficient reason to under
take any formal investigation
Of the subject at this time.
Such a probe would study
whether the existing restric-
tions could be relaxed without
resulting in serious injury to
the domestic industries con-
cerned.
Evening star., 1962-08-28

the last. 1t was announced that
the club plans to offer three or
four concerts each season dur
ing nights when the theater
would otherwise be dark.
If future events prove to be
as enjoyable as yesterdays
affair. the only difficulty 1
can foresee should the club
enter the concert field will be
finding enough seats for those
who will want to come.
The four excellent local art
lists who were presented offered
a nicely varied program of es-
Sentially unfamiliar music, for
the most part very well played.
About the best known work
of the evening was Debussy's
Ivelvety "Syrinx" for unaccom-
| panied flute. This, as well as
a lesser tidbit (also for un-
accompanied flutel by Arthur
Honegger, gave Mark Thomas
a chance to shine.
Oboist Donald Hefner was
Evening star., 1962-08-28

the soloist in a Sammartini
sonata, and I must say that
his artistry managed to tnstill
a considerable amount Of life
into what sounded to me like
a rather pedestrian and unim-
aginative piece.
Margaret Hassell and Chester
Wood Joined the winds in the
evenings main offerings by
FreScobaldi. Bach and HoV-
haness-the last utilizing piano
instead of harpSichord - and
made very pleasant music to-
gether.
The acoustics in the little
hall, which seats well under
$50 people. proved to be sur
prisingly happy for chamber
music even though spoken an
nouncements did not come
through at all clearly.
What with Arena Stage also
putting on occasional concerts
Evening star., 1962-08-28
Chi-Am Lions Hold
Festival Saturday

The Chi-Am Lions Club Of
Washington will hold its third
annual garden festival at the
Chinese Embassy here Begin
ming at 2 pm. Saturday. The
theme of this years affair is
a Festival of All Nations"
The festival is being held
by Chi-Am to benefit the Eye
Bank and Research Founda-
ton, Inc, here. Included in the
events are a Chinese opera. a
fashion show sponsored by
Lansburgh's Department Store.
and the singing of folk songs
from Italy. Germany, Yugo-
slavia and Greece.
Evening star., 1962-08-28
NEWS OF MUSIC
Theoter Club Offers
Delightful Affair

delightful Of all instrumental
combinations-flute. oboe, cello
and harpSichord was heard
last night in an unusual late
August concert at the Wash
ington Theater Club sponsored
by the Musicians Performance
Trust Fund.
This was the first time that
music has been heard in the
intimate little o street audi
torium, and it should not be
Evening star., 1962-08-28
JobsHeId
By Negroes
Rise 10 48%

After remaining practically
static for two years, the per-
centage of District government
jobs held by Negroes has in
creased slightly.
As of June 80, 48.1 per cent
of the city's 25.553 jobs were
held by Negroes, according to
figures released yesterday by
the District personnel office.
This compares to 46.7 per
cent for the same time last
year and 46.8 in 1860.
The gain in Negro employ
ment extended to all categories
of city personnel: Classified
(white collar. wage board
(blue collar, firemen, police
men and school teachers and
administrators.
The total of District Govern
ment employment rose from
24.670 in 1861 to 1858 in 1862,
a gain of about 3.6 per cent.
! In the same period, the num-
Der of Negroes employed rose
from 1881 to 1902, a gain
of about 81 per cent.
Breakdown of Figures
The number of Negroes and
the percentage Of total jobs
they held in the five main cate
gories of District jobs were as
follows Figures in parenthesis
| for previous year,:
Classified-3.812 or 38.9 g.
534 or BID.
Wage board-4,356 or 68.3
(4,181 or STD.
Uniformed firemen-l59 or
1872 G41 or 12.6).
Uniformed policemen-434 or
1873 1881 or l4.D.
School teachers and adminis-
trators-3,514 or 69.2 (3,273 or
I66.9).
The numbers Of Negroes in
the percentage of the total jobs
they hold in the various pay
groupings of the classified and
wage board service were as fol-
lows Figures in parenthesis for
previous years.:
ClasSified-grades / through
4, 2.255 or 60.6 (2,113 or 57.9D;
grades sill. 1882. or 28.2 Q,372
or 26.3); grades 1918, SIS or
7.8 (49 or 7.5).
Wage board-grades Ia. O.
587 or 88.7 (2.5l2 or 878);
grades sill, 1896 or 66.6 d.
514 or 65.D; grades 1918, l73
or l62 G55 or 14.9).
Concentration Shown
A breakdown of the number
and percentage of total posi-
tionS occupied by Negroes by
departments and gencies
shows the greatest concentra-
ton in the following:
Board Of Library Trustees,
l42 or 34.5: Board of Parole.
l9 or 48.7: Buildings and
Grounds. 325 or 42.5; Commits
sioner's Youth Council, 5 or
62.5: Juvenile Court, IS or 6l.9.
Also. occupations and profess
sions, 18 or 1913; Public Health,
1872 or SIT: Public Schools.
1850 or 68.5: Public Welfare.
l,450 or 1873: Recorder Of
Deeds. SO or 815: Recreation,
174 or 62.8; Sanitary Engineer
ing, 1876 or COS: Unemploy-
ment Compensation Board. II
or 34.5, and Vocational Rehabil-
itation. % or 39.7.
Agencies or departments with
no Negroes are Board Of Ap-
peals and Review, Insurance.
Public Information Unit. Tax
Court and Zoning Commission.
Evening star., 1962-08-28
Inter-Fuith Speaker

William A. Crawford. charter
service manager of the AB&W
Transit Co, will be lay speaker
today at the noon meeting of
the Inter-Faith group in Mem
orial Chapel Of the Washington
Street Methodist Church. 109
South Washington street. Alex
andria.
Evening star., 1962-08-28

on dark nights. perhaps we
are beginning to see a welcome
new trend in Washington mu-
sic-making. Our resident art
lists can make good use of
every reasonably decent stage,
and there is plenty Of audience
to listen.
Evening star., 1962-08-28
By IRVING LOWENS
Star Music Critic

An Evening Of Chamber Music
Participating artists Mark Thomas,
tlute: Donald Hefner. oboe: Chester
Wood. cello; Margaret K. Hassell,
harpsichord and piano. At Washing
ton Thester Club. Program: Four
CanZonl dl Sonare. FreScobaldi: :
Dsnse de Ia Chevre. Honegger:
Syrlnx. DebusSy: Trio Sonata in G.
Bach; Sonata in G for oboe and
harpSichord. SammRrtini: Quartet
No. >. Op. 1l2, Hovhaness.
Music for one of the mos
The Nome nugget., 1962-03-19
GambeIl News
By Clarence Trrigoo
Winter 1862

! 1 The people called Eskimos wer,
 used to isolation before the white
 man reached the shores of tho Eskimoland. Even the white mar himself was used to it, because early missionaries and other white set tiers in this north country lived 12
 months at a time in these most remote villages without any con- tact with the outside world. Is this still true today? Maybe not.
 What is needed most for Gam bell airfield right now is snow re- moval equipment. Just imagine men shoveling snow 24 inches deep or more on the 4,000 foot runway. They did it but for many days, but gave it up.
 The local store is almost out of fuel again this month. Local resi- dents tried to secure fuel oil through Lomens last year but dropped it when BIA told Lomens that the North Star was going to heavily stock Gambell store with fuel that following summer. What has been promised was not sstoo heavy" The Eskimo used to live without it. Where did he learn to use it?
 Two skin boats made a quick trip from Savoonga to Gambell early this month, taking advantage of warm weather and open water and south winds which prevailed for 212 months this year. Rachael Sperry the new nurse for two villages returned with them the same day. It was learned that boat trips were made to Northeast Cape also, bringing back either fuel oil or gasoline.
 Attention all merchants. When that or this bill is unpaid for weeks or even months, do this call Wien Airlines and ask them if they hac made trip to GarnbelI lately. The chances are that the answer vii
 be negative