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Evening star., 1962-02-07
Hope for a Compromise

While he Is not now a conferee on
District revenue legislation, Senator
Morse OF Oregon remains a key figure
IN the development of an acceptable
local tax bill. His remarks on this sub
ject to a group of District Democrats
the other evening are therefore of more
than passing significance.
The Senator did not commit him
self to any detailed course of action on
the Senate floor. He did concede, how
ever, that his unbending antagonism to
any increase in the local sales tax prob
ably is minority position in the Senate
- provided that other local tax-in-
creaSeS also are included in the bill. We
hope that Senator Morse, recognizing
this fact, will not filibuster against the
SaleS-tax proposal, as he had threatened
to do in the past. For surely the insist
ence Of House leaders on rise in sales
taxes requires that this be part of any
acceptable new revenue formula.
Senator Morse also indicated that
the conference bill, contrary to his own
best Judgment and desires, probably will
not include his amendment to add the
District of Columbia to the program of
aid to Federally-impacted school areas.
The Oregon Senator no doubt is right in
saying that any effort to attain this
goal through separate legislation, espe-
cially in the present atmosphere of
Congress, would be "an empty gesture"
But 1t seems to us that Commissioner
Tobriner has argued with even more
telling persuasion that the dominant
consideration now must be the enact
ment of a revenue bill, and that the
inclusion of an impacted-aid provision,
no matter how desirable, would in all
likelihood overturn the entire apple
cart.
AS he properly should have, Senator
Morse emphasized in his own discussion
the urgency of an adequate revenue
measure, without which the already
tagging program of District public works
improvements will dwindle to practi-
cally nothing in brief period of time.
We also welcome the Senator's appeal
for an early meeting of the conferees.
If an earnest effort is made, we are
confident that compromise package
can be put together that will satisfy a
majority of both the House and the
Senate.
Evening star., 1962-02-07
Withheld Dividends

A recent item on the divi-
dend withholding tax bill is
not quite accurate. Just as
in the Withholding tax on
wages and salaries, the indi-
vidual is deprived of the use
of his own money up to the
time his income tax becomes
due, and he is likewise de-
prived of any interest on the
amount withheld, which he
might otherwise invest or put
in a savings account.
This is naturally applicable
to such a withholding oper-
alton on dividends and in
terest.
If this legislation is allowed
to go through. it is quite pos
sible it will be a serious de-
terrent to investments and
savings, therefore decreasing
the Governments overall
take" in the long run.
Worried Taxpayer.
Evening star., 1962-02-07

This is to express my ap-
probation of Kitty L. Reyn-
olds' letter on the subject Of
Race and Reason" by Carl
ton Putnam. I have read
this book. It was a classic
answer to Gunnar Myrdal's
nonsense in his "An Ameri-
can Dilemma" How the Ar
lington County Library group
could agree to ban" this
book from the shelves Of
public libraries and then look
themselves seriously in the
face in the mirror is an i'm
ponderable mystery.
Now I am waiting for an
expert in genetics, or some
thing, to come along and up
set Race and Reason" It
will take some doing, for
Putnam speaks with the
calm, seasoned voice of au-
thority. Screaming and shoe
pounding will not put this
down. Donald F. Haynes.
Evening star., 1962-02-07

support a discussion OF those
astonishing confessions that
are so remarkable a feature
of the Soviet landscape.
1t follows from all this that
Prof. Vakar is unhappy with
that variety of Kremlinology
that to any great extent
draws its conclusions from
analysis Of the sacred texts
Of the Communist system.
Indeed, he propounds the
idea that these are analogous
to the oddly Enthusiastically
centered peasant religion and
are essentially talismanic in
nature. There is no room for
"doublethink" or any similar
concept in Prof. Vakar's sys-
tenn.
THE IDEA that there is
nothing to indicate that So
Wet tactics will not indefi-
nitely continue to be shaped
by the calculus of power
without the slightest prac-
tical regard for the ultimate
Marxist future" will strike
many as overstated. In the
past. the Soviets have oc-
casionally acted ideologically,
Certainly in permitting some
thing like free elections In
East Berlin shortly after the
war, they ignored evidence
and allowed themselves to
be completely misled about
the effect they had had on
the Berliners because theology
predicted that the workers
would welcome them as liber-
atorS. f
In any case, this valuable
contribution to Sovietology
offers a guide to the past
and to the immediate future.
For as Prof. Vakar points
out, the development of So
Wet society is such that the
next change of generations In
the seats of the highest power
will bring a different mem
tality to the fore, and at
this point, prediction be-
comes most difficult. )
However one may feel
about details Of the book,
there is no doubt that it is
valuable and both thought
full and thought-provoking.
It's significance for us ex-
tends beyond our relations
with the Soviet Union, for
the discussion of underde-
veloped nations shows how
foolish it is to expect Western
style democracy to arise from
patriarchal societies which
naturally and inevitably tend
to develop authoritarian In
Stitutions. s
Evening star., 1962-02-07
Diplomatic Protests

For the second time in less
than three months, the dele
cation of Guatemala to the
Organization of American
States has to resent the lack
of tact of George Sher-
man in voicing his opinions,
as if the sacred freedom of
speech would authorize news
papermen to hurt a. country
whose only fault is to be ter
ritorially small and to insult
governments only because
they do not enjoy the per-
Sonal liking of the writer.
In the issue of The Evening
Star of January 81, in the
article New Spirit Emerges
South of the Border" Mr..
Sherman includes the Repub-
lie of Guatemala among "just
those conservative oligarchies
the Alliance for Progress is
attempting to change" It
should be wise if Mr.. Sher-
man be aware of Cd that the
present government of Qua
temala is not a conservative
oligarchy; ca that such gov
ernment was freely elected by
the people of Guatemala; 90
that its origin, structure and
procedures are entirely demo-
cratic, and a. that the AL
lance for Progress has not
been created to overthrow
constitutional governments.
In the same article, Mr..
Sherman asserts that the
United States banned Castro
representatives from the In
ter-American Board as if
the board were a United
States Government de-
tendency, instead of an in
ternational or g ganiZation
where, in spite of the theory
of Mr.. Sherman about the
size of the countries, the
United States-as any other
member State-has only one
vote.
Jose Luis Mendoza,
Alternate Representative of
Guatemala to the OAS.
An article by George Sher-
man, entitled New Spirit
Emerges South of the Bor-
der" states: I'm many ways
the Latin American allies that
composed the final majority
represented the greatest en-
barrassment to the United
States here (Punta del Este.)
With the exception of Costa
Rica, Colombia, the DOM
inican Republic, Venezuela
and Uruguay they include
just those conservative oil
garchies the Alliance for
Progress is attempting to
change"
Mr.. Sherman is completely
wrong in applying the term
conservative oligarchy" to
the Government of Honduras.
Doctor Ramon Villeda Mo-
rales, who was elected Presi-
dent of the republic in 1857
with the votes of the Liberal
Party, sincerely believes that
in order to stop communism,
social and economic reform
must take place.
We are proud to have a
truly democratic man as
President Of our country.
Roberto Bues0 AriaS.
Charge d'Affaires, Embassy
of Honduras.
Evening star., 1962-02-07
A BOOK FOR TODAY
Rv DONALD MINT7
An Analysis of Russians in General

THE TAPROOT OF SOVIET
SOCIETY by Nicholas
Vakar. Introduction by
Harrison E. SaliSb
204pp. Harper & Brothers,
$4.75.
The central thesis of Mich
olas Vakar'S "The Taproot
of Soviet Society" is that the
Soviet Union is dominated by
men and concepts born in
the village society of the Rus
sion peasantry and that this
fact explains many otherwise
puzzling aspects of Soviet
behavior.
The economy of the village
is based on subsistence agri-
culture. It's inhabitants deal
with their hostile immediate
environment with the utmost
ShrewdneSs and ruthlessness
and have little interest in
and less comprehension of
events and ideas outside their
narrowly circum scrib e d
world. Most important for
present purposes, the tradi-
tional organization of the
family and. on the next
higher level, the mir "a kind
Of village counciD was rigidly
totalitarian.
The March and November
Revolutions were not, of
course, the doing of the peas
antry, whose periodic insur-
rections and riots had an en-
tirely different character,
but of a small group of intel
lectuals supported by a good
part of that infinitesimal
portion of the population
that could properly be termed
an industrial proletariat.
ACCORDING TO Mr..
Vakar, a professor at Whea-
ton College. Massachusetts,
a fundamental change came
about with the advent of
Stain and the final solidi-
fication of his power through
the great purge trials. The
peasant mentality took over
the apparatus of the state
and Communist Party. The
purges extinguished not only
Stalin's oppt uents "but the
sole bearers of urban cul-
ture."
On the basis of this thesis,
Prof. Vakar feels able to Of
fer explanations of aspects
of Soviet conduct that BATTLE
most Westerners. He finds,
for example, that the habit
of informing on members Of
ones own family IS the out
growth Of peasant n ores, and
even uses these es to
Evening star., 1962-02-07
Billboard Abuses

I wish the advertising in
dustry would sheer off from
such grandiose phrases as
"the freedom of speech which
is inherent in the medium of
outdoor advertising-a parti-
cular kind of instituted pub
lie communication"
This soapboxing suggests a
lack of knowledge of the
restrictions which are very
properly placed upon the
press and of speech by tradi-
ton and law. These are in
deed vital freedoms. as our
Government is constituted,
and they do indeed have ap-
plication to advertising.
But just as certain libelous,
obscene and defamatory words
are forbidden utterance, so
must the billboards give up
any claim to advertising
which destroys scenery, Of
fends taste or endangers
motor traffic and pedestrians.
On many occasions, travel
ing on a dark highway, I have
been overjoyed to see a bill
board in reflecting letters
announce: "23 Miles to
Murphy's German-American
Pizza Palace in East Door,
knob" This assured me that
I was on the right road and
nearing my destination, and
my blessings on proprietor
Murphy. whether I dined
with him or not. That &C
ceptable and even desirable
outdoor advertising, however,
does not justify garish signs
which obscure traffic lights,
or scenic roads ruined by con-
tinuous strings Of billboards,
or any other abuses of the
medium.
Evening star., 1962-02-07
WATCHING THE WORLD
Nkrumoh Perplexes Westerners
By CROSBY S. NOYI
Foreign Correspondent Of The Stor

peration Of both. And as a
self-appointed spokesman for
Africa's still dependent terri
tories, DR.. Nkrumah yields to
no one in denouncing the
evils Of colonialism in all its
forms. F..N
For all his extravagances
and contradictions, however,
the most experienced diplo-
mats here consider DR.. Nkru-
nah neither as a joke nor as
a lost cause. They believe. in
fact, that he represents the
future of Africa far more
than other more conservative
or compliant leaders. And that
in his own peculiar flam-
boyant way he expresses
something which sets off SYM
pathetic vibrations through
out much of Africa today.
SO far as these experts are
concerned. Ghana, having
started first, has simply
evolved faster than its neigh
bors in West Africa toward
an almost inevitable polit-
ical structure and world out
look. They believe that in
time the others will follow
as the older generation of
leaders is replaced by young
er and more impatient men.
Where No Nations Exist
What DR.. Nkrumah is try
ing to do in simplest terms
Is to build a nation in q
part of the world where no
real nations exist. BY using
African methods which in
clude lavish use of slogans
and demagoguery, his OBJ
jective is the organization of
an theological nationalism
based on a sense of partici-
patton by the people in the
creation Of the country. By
Western standards, the meth
odS may be crude and some
times shocking. But in this
nation building process,
Ghana is rated at least a
decade ahead of most of the
other countries of West AT
RIGA.
Nor are the experts given
to excessive hand-wringing
over the fate of Ghana's par
liamentary democracy under
DR.. Nkrumah's leadership.
Dictatorship in West Africa
is, after all, the rule rather
than the exception. The most
notable exception-Nigeria--
owes it's democratic govern
ment, one suspects, largely to
the precariousness of a Fed
eral structure which prevents
the emergence of a strong
leader. In most other newly
liberated countries single
party politics and one-man
rule is the alternative to
chaos.
The diplomats who have
served in Accra longest be-
lieve deeply that it is in
the Vests own interests to
help President Nkrumah to
reach his objectives. For all
the difficulties involved, they
warn against jumping to has
ty conclusions.
"The situation in Ghana
today" you are told, "looks
completely different from
what it was three months ago.
1t will very probably look
different again in another
three m on tbs" In Ghana,
predictions are dangerous.
And as long as Kwame Nkru-
nah is running things, the
final word is only as final
as the "redeemer" wants it
to be.
Evening star., 1962-02-07
ACCRA, Ghani

ACCHA, Gnana.
For confusion, complexity
and downright cussedness,
Ghana is in a class by itself
among the new nations of
Africa. I'm Ghana," the say
ing goes, "only fools pretend
to know what is going on"
The reason is that what is
going on is merely the projec-
ton of the mind of one man
the most complex, colorful
and controversial figure in
Black Africa today-Kwame
Nkrumah.
1t should be easy to laugh
at a man whose official title
is THE Redeemer" and who
encourages such other honor
ific forms of address as His
High Dedication" In a city
overloaded with statues and
monuments to "The Founder
of His Country" the over
tones of megalomania and
demagoguery are all too in
trusive.
From an address on Kwame
Nkrumah road in Accra one
returns to town by way of
Kwame Nkrumah avenue,
drives around Kwame Nkru-
nah circle, where the name
flashes in red, white and
green neon lights. Along the
route one passes a sign show
ing the progress of the
"Kwame Nkrumah Trust
Fund" drives by the en-
trance to the Kwame Nkru-
nah Club and the huge
Kwame Nkrumah House
which serves as headquarters
of Kwame Nkrumah's Peo-
pies Party Congress. In
Ghana. the cult of PERSONAL
ity is carried to lengths that
would have made Stain
blush.
Visiting Westerners are al
so apt to wax indignant over
the Presidents political meth
DDS. Since 1857, when he took
over the makings of a parli-
amentary democracy from the
departing British, the strides
toward dictatorship and one
party rule have been swift
and determined. Today, Par
lament still meets, to keep up
appearances. But the opposi-
ton United Party holds only
seven seats (out of 114) and
it is generally conceded that
there will be no more elections
in Ghana for the foreseeable
future.
Many Political Prisoners
Even DIR. Nkrumah's own
Peoples Party Congress has
been the victim of severe
purges in recent months. The
number of political prisoners
held without trial under the
Presidents Preventive Deten-
ton Act is now estimated at
between 600 and 1000, while
hundreds of other potential
opponents have found refuge
in neighboring Togo.
Equally distressing for
Westerners and Fasteners,
alike, is DR.. Nkrumah'S stub
born refusal to fit into any
neat category in terms OF
cold war politics. He is nei-
ther pro-Western like Nigeria
and his French speaking
neighbors, nor pro-Eastern
like Guinea's Sekou Toure
AS a member of the militant
"Casablanca" group of At
rican countries, he carries
positive neutralism" to ex-
tremes, accepting trade and
aid from East and West i'm
partially-often to the exas-
Evening star., 1962-02-07
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry lDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
ters are subject to condensa-
ton. Those not used iDill be
returned only tDten accom-
panied By self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1962-02-07

tanning more than a fifth Of
the worlds people and that
world disarmament will be
impossible with a heavily
armed Peoples Republic of
China excluded.
Our only concern in urg-
ing retrial for the Rosen-
bergs, by the way, grew from
our consistent opposition to
all capital punishment and
from the possibility that a
retrial in a less emotional
atmosphere might have
resulted in a just but less
severe sentence.
DIR. Dorothy Hutchinson,
President, United States
Section, WILPF.
Evening star., 1962-02-07
Disputed Book

Fred E. Galbraith,
, 1962-10-03
NOTICE

In accordance with Title Is, Chapter1, Section
1913, of the Virgin Islands Code, nominating peti-
tons of candidates for election to the Virgin Islands
legislature shall be filed not later than Monday, Oc-
toDer 8, 1862, at 500 PM.
Candidates residing in the legislative district OF
st. Thomas should file said petitions with the Gov
eminent Secretary; those residing IN the legislative
districts of St. Croix and St. John should file their
petitions with the Governors Administrative As
sistants for ST. Croix and ST. John, respectively.
Printed petition forms. are available at the Of
fices of the aforementioned three persons.
CYRIL E. KING
Government Secretary
, 1962-10-03

NV .
cial factors that had to be taken
into consideration:
(a) The sugar mill losses this
year will total some $5O0,OOO and
this money must come out OF the
local budgets. The Congress has
said that it will no longer pay for
this deficit. This was a matter OF
very serious consideration.
(b) The mill could not continue
operations past this year without
extensive repairs and the purchase
of new equipment which would
cost one million dollars or more.
There was no chance of obtaining
this money from the Congress.
. (c) The Virgin Islands Corpora
ton is no longer serving the pur-
pose of providing employment for
islanders and providing assistance
to small growers. Today, VlCorp
must import five to six hundred
foreign workers each year in or
der to harvest the crop. Also, each
year the number of small growers
has decreased. The initial concept
which brought VICorp into exist
ence was that it would provide
work for the unemployed workers
of the Virgin Islands. It is no long
er doing this. The Virgin Islands
is changing from an agrarian SUI
gar economy to an economy great
ly supported by tourism and the
introduction of small industry.
Taking this into consideration,
, 1962-10-03

/ therefore moved for the adop-
ton of a resolution which would
provide for the discrimination of
sugar mill operations on St. Croix,
after allowing one more grinding
season.
tThe Resolution was adopted
unanimously by those present and
voting"
, 1962-10-03

Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico and
coastal waters: Mostly clc.ljY with
showers today and tonight.
scattered showers and thunder
Yesterdays low 70.
, 1962-10-03

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likely continue fairly high
welding
weather
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Arizona sun., 1962-01-04

The official First Day Cover
for the Arizona Statehood COM
memorative 4-cent stamp, to be
released in Phoenix, February Ia,
will be srepruduced in multi-color
to enhance the u. S. stamp itself,
the design of which also calls for
multi-color reproduction on the
Giori press.
The Arizona Development Board
in conjunction with the Arizona
State Seni-C Centennial Commission,
has authorized the capital city's
two major stamp organizations
the Phoenix Philatelic Association
and the Arizona Society Of, Topi-
lcal PhiIateliSts--to execute the
design for the official First Day.
Cover, rand to handle the sole dis
tribution of the same.
The official design, which will
be reproduced in orange, green
yellow and brown, depicts the
tremendous growth of Arizona by
portraying a towering metropolis
amid desert and mountainous: sur
roundingS. The modern buildings
against a backdrop of a mountain
range with copper smelter against
the horizon. The copper industry
is one of Arizona's three C's. The
other two C'S are cattle and cot
ton. The cotton and citrus indus
tries are depictel by ful-color ripe
orange and a cotton boil ready
for the cotton pickers. 49,.
The stately saguaro cactus, fond,
ly referred to as ''the silent senti-
mel of the desert" appears in the
left foreground of the design. The
Saguaro bears the state flower. A
test tube completes the design
and symbolizes the relocation of
many research and technical man.
ufacturing firms to the favorable
sunny climate of Arizona. where
ratio of man-hour loss through
sickness is the lowest in the ma
ton.
Collectors desiring completely
serviced official First Day Covers
are urged to submit their orders,
accompanied by remittance, i'm
rnediately to the Cover Chairman,
w, j. Finch, 29O2 E.. Elm Drive.
Phoenix 16, Arizona. The covers
are priced at Is cents each,. and
there IS no limit on the number
Of covers that can be ordered. How
ever all orders must reach the
Committee before February IA.
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04

a.
The start of a new year is
a time for looking back-and
for looking ahead. If you find
it hard to look back because
81 is pretty much of a blank
in your family album, row's
the time to decide to give '62
better shake. Take your will
power in hand and resolve
thusly::
Resolve to keep your camera
handy, loaded, and ready for
action-not squirreled away on
some dark closet shelf.
Resolve to reach for your
camera on more than dress-up
occasions. For a change, snap
the kids the way they really
look: jam on their faces and
hair mussed. Catch dad en-
joying his traditional Sunday
afternoon nap. Picture MON
working kitchen magic with one
of her favorite recipes.
Resolve to give a good
picture situation a fair chance
of success by swapping more
than one picture. Of it.
Resolve to get your pictures
out of the camera sooner. (For
instance, give us a chance to
handle your Christmas=picture
processing before Easter
AS for us-we've already re-
solved to serve you better.