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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-03
DAVID LAWRENCE
A New Rights Amendment?

a State to ratify any pro-
posed amendment to the
Constitution.
Bitter feeling has remained
in the South over the excuses
Of those reconstruction"
days. There are people in the
North who say that all this
now doesn't matter anyhow,
since the Fourteenth Amend
ment has been widely
accepted as being in the
Constitution, and since many
cases have been decided by
the Supreme Court on
the assumption" that the
amendment is legal. But it
so happens that the highest
court In the land has re-
fused several times in the
last IS years to take q single
case involving the explicit
issue Of whether the "ratifi-
cation" Of the Fourteenth
Amendment was legal.
But, apart from the con-
troversy over LOCALITIES, many
people in the South are
deeply opposed to social mix
ing and regard it as q step
toward intermarriage.
Now it is being proposed
by the Kennedy administra-
ton that all stores and BUSH
nesses be required to inte-
CRATE their customers and to
hire q certain number of
Negro employees. Economic
coercion and threats against
businesses are numerous, and
are being made by even Of
ficials of the Federal Govern
ment. This touches the indi-
vidual almost as intimately
as did the prohibition issue.
AS the Negro leaders press
their case in street demon
STATIONS and as they publ
CHE the issue everywhere, the
disturbances, especially in the
big cities in the North, will
grow. Business in many areas
will be hurt. Many law-abid-
ing Negroes will find life far
more unpleasant than it has
been in the past. In the end
the American people will get
so tired Of the whole thing,
they will adopt a constitu-
tional amendment to turn
the problem back to the
States with the hope that
"gradualism" will find its
own solution and that equal
rights" will come some day,
regardless Of race, to those
individuals who are efficient
and skillful and have moral
character.
copyright. 1868, New York Herald
Tribune. 1nc.)
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Mongers of Hate and Hysterio

Congress submit, they
the Negroes-will turn In
violence upon their country.
This is more than a libel
on the Negro race. This is
creating an intolerable either
or climate alien to all that
this Nation is.
A terrible issue Is being
approached not on such
criteria as what in fairness
and lawfulness should be
done, but rather upon what
must" be done lest they"
bring anarchy and revolu-
ton.
Let those who ceaselessly
warn" Of what must" be
done pause before 1t is al
together too late and ask
themselves:
Am I really warning" or
am I melting violence and
thus repaying past injustice
to one minority with i'm
mense and irreparable future
injustice to all Americans
and to the American vision
of unity in diversity which is
the greatest gift in all his
tory to free government?
Copyright, 1859
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-03
JENKIN LLOYD JONES
CIook-0nd- Dagger Agency

the amassing Of facts the
Russians have it easy because
people in free countries pub
lish Just about everything.
But in retrieval the CHA
thinks it's tops. II you want
to know about q Red agent
named Vladimir who lived In
Marseilles In the 40's you're
supposed to be able to press
the proper buttons and out
Of 100000 cards two or three
will drop.
How can Americans find
out II they're getting their
moneys worth - whatever
that money a amounts to?
They can't. They merely have
to assume that II the Presi-
dent and q handful Of top
officials are satisfied they
should be satisfied. too.
Under federal law the CHA,
alone Of all agencies, doesn't
have TO reveal the number,
names or salaries Of its en-
ployes. It can enter into Sc
cret contracts without bids.
1t can hide its travel ex-
penses. It can admit up TO
100 aliens a year without ac-
counting for them TO Immi-
grafton.
Strangely, we learn most
about the CHA from our en-
emies. II was the Russians
who huffily revealed that
the CHA had tapped the ca
bles In the main Russian
communication tunnel in
Berlin.
As President Kennedy said
In his speech dedicating the
new s42 million dollar build
ing: your successes are un-
heralded-your failures are
trumpeted."
Well. General Carter and
/ had q fine lunch reminis-
cling about old school friends.
Then I descended with the
security officer in the locked
elevator. passed the guards
In the great marble entry
way. When the cop az the
door called me Colonel"
again, I saluted smartly.
True, the note pad in my
pocket was still fresh and
clean. But the noon hour
hadn't been entirely wasted.
Those lamb chops were real
thick.
cOpyrishs 1893, General Features Corr
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History often repeats itself.
1t may take five or 10 years
more to reach q climax in
the constitutional controver-
sy now sweeping the country.
But a climax is inevitable.
1t is usually brought on. not
by the opponents but by the
proponents of what seems to
them a worthy cause.
The Nation today is APP
prehensive about the Negro
white conflicts reported in
every part Of the country.
Many people are anxiously
wondering what the outcome
will be. But there is a sig
nificant lesson in the expe-
rience which this country has
already had with the Eight
zenith Amendment to the
Constitution, which pro-
hibited the manufacture, sale
and transportation Of alco-
holic beverages.
Those of us who supported
this amendment in 1919 and
for many years afterwards
discovered to our dismay that
prohibition itself wasn't the
basic issue. After IA years Of
controversy, the repeal Of
the prohibition amendment
was ratified by State con-
ventions within 10 months
after its approval by Con-
gress. The country was so
sick and tired Of the con-
troversy and its disruption
of American life that people
disregarded the merits of the
prohibition question itself
and decided to turn the prob
lem back to the States,
where it had been before
Federal Intervention and
compulsion was undertaken.
Men and women of all
classes-even in Government
-patronized "speakeasies"
and "bootleggers" operating
to violate the law and the
Constitution. Gangsterism
spread throughout the land
and flourished on the Illicit
trade. All this caused such
a revulsion that the American
people swept the issue of
prohibition under the rug,
where it has remained ever
since. Today most States are
"wet," many having local
option" In the counties or
sale of liquor only in State
stores, and there are still
remnants Of the crime gangs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-03
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

New Frontiersmen contend they merit another term
"a. After all, fair-minded American ought to give
them sporting chance to discover what went wrong.
Republican leaders demand concise" statement of
our foreign policy How about this To keep haunting the
missing persons bureau until it finds friends
Politicians tend to avoid the issue Of whether to send
Americans to the The trouble there's no landing
place in between which to compromise
Q-Why do graduating college seniors those black
gowns? A-TheyTe in mourning Sudden employment
threatens to devour them all.
Sign the drinking fountain at movie house where
Lawrence of Arabia" is playing Reserved for the cames
This about the time in any Presidents term when he
wishes one Of his bright young men would think up
problem that had solution
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Stubborn Problems Still UnresoIVed
But They No Longer Divide Neighbors

to the centers Of power in
the American Government.
The Canadian Embassy
under the leadership Of Am
bassador Richie can be
trusted to use these new
opportunities. not only in de-
Tense Of Canada's interests,
but in strengthening the
larger purposes Of the Attain
tic community.
But we must not exagger-
ate the gains that have al
ready been made. Nothing
except the God has
changed. The stubborn prob
lens still remain. Fortu-
nately, they no longer divide
the two countries. Instead,
both governments are now
engaged in a common search
for agreed solutions. This is
an important advance, but
no one should be blind to
the hard decisions that face
the policy-makers in Wash
ington no less than in
Ottawa.
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Just about every common
tator who claims to be on the
ball has done a piece about
the inside q the Central In
telligence Agency. So here's
mine.
When you call the CHA the
telephone girl doesn't admit
that you've gotten through.
She merely repeats the num-
Der. That has undoubtedly
COMPOUNDED many thousands
of foreign spies.
When you drive out TO the
CHA, which is about eight
miles along the super high
way to Dulles Airport In Vir-
ginia, the turmoil is merely
labeled "B. P. r." B. p. r.
stands for Bureau Of Public
Roads, which, true enough.
has its headquarters In the
vicinity. But the modesty Of
the much more glamorous
CHA must confuse many for
eign agents. When they in
advertently wind up at the
airport, It is hoped that some
OF them will simply take the
next plane home.
One other thing - when /
arrived at the front entrance
the cop at the door greeted
me conspiratorially as Col
onel." This no doubt indi-
Gates that colonies In Army
Ga disguise themselves In
business suits and drive
around in dirty brown Chew
rolets with oklahoma
licenses.
Oh. yes. And the security
officer who takes you up TO
the executive wing unlocks
the elevator with a key. And
the lamb chops In the direc-
tors dining room are Won
derful.
This about wraps up what
! found out.
My contact" In this expo
dition was my old school,
mate, II. Gen. Marshall 8.
CPat) Carter, the GAS dep
uty director and general
manager. ! had practically
invited myself out TO lunch.
I was going TO pump him.
While waiting for the gem
eral TO appear, his aide. Col.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-03
40 Million Punch Cards Garry GA Data;
Secrecy Hides Spending and Operations

Stanley ]. Grogan, served up
the first course. I yanked the
pump handle on him q couple
Of times but nothing came
out except some fascinating
army "reminiscences.
He did admit that there
are eight major sections to
CHA and his personal pass is
good only for admission to
three Of them.
I thought he looked pretty
reliable and should have been
good for four of five, anyway.
Pat Carter came in In time
for the chops and I really
started to pillow the ground.
/ mentioned all the books I
had read about the Gestapo
and the Russian MvD and
the British MIG. Then !
adroitly specialized about the
makeup Of the CHA and how
so many people misunder-
stood 1t and that only q few
newspaperm e n, like me.
really sympathized with its
problems.
Generally. this sympathy
approach goes big and causes
people TO blubber and bawl
and tell you everything they
know. But from Pat and the
Colonel I received about the
same number Of yups and
hopes that you get out OF an
old Gary Cooper re-run.
Well, the CHA Is the only
agency Of Government tax
payers have TO take absolutely
on faith. You can't audit It.
IL draws us money from all
kinds Of vague appropria-
tions. Like other intelligence
agencies around the world
90 per cent OF It's work Is
"open." That Is, IL amasses
information from published
sources. translates, indexes
II and scores this data In
miniature photography and.
so far. an estimated 40 mill
lion punch cards.
In short. the CHA relies a
lot more on clerks and dig
gers than on cloaks and dag
gers.
It's simple 10 record q
mass Of facts, but how 10 re-
trieve them when you want
them is a huge stumper. In
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After the unpleasantness
of recent years, Canadian
American relations have
slowly begun to return to
their normal state Of friend
ship and cooperation.
The good beginning made
at the Hyannis Port confer
ence between President Ken
needy and Prime Minister
Pearson has profoundly In
fluenced both governments.
Nothing was more important
at this meeting than the
announcement by President
Kennedy that he hoped all
important problems between
the two countries would be
considered in the general
framework Of policy instead
of being left to specialists
and routine officials.
This means that the Cana
dian government, in a way
unknown in the years when
Mr.. Diefenbaker destroyed
the basis Of mutual conf
dence, will have easy access
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-03
WILLIAM S. WHITE
They InfIome Racial Tensions in u. S.;
Blockm0H of Fear Threatens Freedom

This country, which has
not in fact ever been very
strong on hatred, is being
warned, rightly if excessively,
against the merchants of
hate"
We ought, however, to be
alerted to another sort Of
merchant, too. This is the
monger Of hysteria and the
peddler of a double-think
based upon double standards
Of truth and objectivity.
All over this land he is
suddenly overstating and in
flaming, rather than sensibly
seeking to abate, the current
racial tensions Of the United
States.
To say that these are ugly
tensions Is to say the truth.
To warn" as many are do
eng as though on signal,
that these tensions are the
foreshadowings of national
revolution is to speak in
flammable falsehood. But
this dangerous falsehood can
become dangerous reality if
the hysteria monger is not
quieted or will not quiet him
self and so cease believing
"firel" In a crowded ma
tional theater.
For now he is raising de
mands" not simply for the
just vindication of the Ne
gro's actual rights. He is
demanding the creation, for
the Negro alone, Of false
rights" which are not now,
and never have been in all
the long centuries of an
Anglo : American concept
based on orderly freedom,
the rights Of anybody at all.
Fair-minded men-and be-
ing fair now requires fairness
to the majority as well as to
the minority and fairness
also to Constitutional truth
will agree that the actual
rights thus far denied the
Negro must be granted to
him. These actual rights in
clude the ballot and an equal
opportunity in all the public
facilities-the schools, the
parks, transportation and
so on.
But they do not include
and will never include-unless
the Kennedy administration
is to seek that destruction
through Congress or the
Supreme Court-the deStruc-
ton of the most ancient and
irreplaceable right of man in
an open society. This is the
right of privacy outside his
public obligations, including
the private operation, wise or
unwise, of private property.
If a shopkeeper can be
compelled by unexampled
Federal force to serve all who
appear there and if on re-
fusing his business can be
disrupted with Federal bless
ing by demonstrators swarm
ing in from the streets, the
institution of private prop
erty is finished. When the
institution of private prop
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Navy Medical Center
Planning Open House

An informal open house will
be held at the National Naval
Medical Center in Bethesda on
Friday from 10 am. to 4 pm.
and on Saturday from 8 am
to noon.
The public will have an
opportunity to examine the
Navy's experimental fallout
shelter, low and high pressure
tanks. compartments for criti-
cal measurement Of the tenn
perature Of the human body
and to observe live and static
demonstrations Of current re-
search.
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has logic on its side when it
seeks q quick Canadian de-
cision. But logic is sometimes
the enemy of a deeper wis
dom.
American defense planning
can well afford the most pro-
tracted and searching debate
in Canada, free from all
American pressure or inter
ference, whether delivered as
a public rebuke or addressed
confidentially to Ottawa. In
the end this maturity will
profit America because it will
produce a stronger partner
ship with Canada.
Its own wisdom and sense
Of the fitness Of things
should lead the Kennedy ad-
ministration to this policy.
Any doubts can be removed
by one quick look at Mr..
Diefenbaker's present con-
duct in Parliament. He is
threatening ugly revelations
Of improper American de-
mands on Canada while he
was the Prime Minister.
If Mr.. Pearson swiftly
agrees to the American posi-
ton, he will be accused Of
having yielded weakly to
pressure from Washington,
and Canadian-American re-
lations will again become
envenomed.
The course for Washington
is quite clear. 1t should deal
with Canada's case on its
merits, without illusions and
without favoritiSm. That is
all the Canadian government
wants.
The Kennedy Administra-
ton should at all times try
to avoid the impression that
it is helping Mr.. Pearson
solve his internal problems in
Canadian politics. That is the
one certain way to destroy
him.
n 1853,
Publishers Newspaper Syndicate
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erty is finished, personal
privacy is finished.
The lawyer who prefers to
choose his clients-or his
clerks-can find his law office
seized and occupied by those
he has rejected. So can the
doctor. So can any editor
or other professional man.
The employer undoubtedly
can be told whom to fire and
whom he must not fire.
Private property and pri-
vate attitudes, however sourly
run the one and however
wrong the other, are not
public utilities nor publicly
established and paid-for en-
terprises. They are not buses
on which all are free to ride
by dropping In a dime.
And take note of this:
This is no longer simply "a
problem for the South" that
region of minority economic
power, minority political
power and minority opinion
making power. So long the
South has been the very safe,
and very rewarding, whip
ping boy for the. hysteria-
monger comfortably estab-
lished far from the scene Of
tortured dilemma.
But no more. Involved
here is all Of this country
and every man in it, Of every
color. For, consciously or not,
the hysteria-monger - that
collective symbol for dema-
gogic politicians and emo
tionally transfixed opinion
molders - Is reaching for
something far different from
equal justice for minorities.
He is, consciously or not,
reaching for the end Of
orderly freedom.
And he is doing so by a
blackmail Of fear; fear that
unless administration and
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Voters Seen Changing Constitution
To Return Race Problem to States

which originated during the
prohibition era. The issue
itself, however, has not been
agitated on the Federal level
for many years now.
What happened? Were the
"drys" too extreme2 Did they
underestimate human nature
when the right Of an individ-
ual to choose his own per-
sonal habits and associations
was challenged? Did the
politicians themselves change,
and why?
Both political parties for
more than a decade supported
prohibition in their national
convention platforms, but by
1892 each party platform
moved over to the wet" side,
and the end Of prohibition
came in 1898.
Now, there was no debate
in those days over any deci-
sion of the Supreme Court Of
the United States, nor was
there any bubble about the
right of Congress to regulate
commerce among the States"
BY explicit words in the Con-
stitution and in Federal law,
the manufacture, sale and
transportation of liquor was
prohibited. "Bootlegging" in
commerce, however, flourish
ed, and the Federal Govern
ment could not recruit agent
and marshals fast enough to
arrest all the millions Of vio-
lators.
What bearing has this on
the racial controversy? First.
there are today plenty Of
legal and constitutional dis
putes over what is "the law
of the land" The Fourteenth
Amendment itself, for in
stance-the alleged source Of
Federal power today-was
fraudulently adopted" in
1868. The Constitution was :
deliberately violated after the
War Between the States
was over in 1865, when a
radical majority in Congress
took away the seats of the
Southern States Elm both
houses, and troops were sent
to compel their recon-
structed" legislatures to
"ratify" the Fourteenth
Amendment. There is Moth
ing in the Constitution, Of
course, which authorizes
Congress at any time to force
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derstand that Canada is re-
thinking its relationship with
the United States at the very
time that it has been forced
to re-examine its relations
with England, with the
British Commonwealth, and
with the common market in
Western Europe.
At the moment all these
perplexitieS and strains are
held in balance by Canada's
loyalty to the NATO commu-
nifty. But the tensions remain,
and they have never con-
verged from so many direc-
tons or with such urgency
in any previous period in
Canadian history.
1t may not always be easy
for Canada to find a wise
answer to these painful ques-
tons. Sometimes awkward
or fretful or impatient words
will be spoken. They will
never be spoken in anger
against the United States.
Wise American officials
will understand the emotion
which on occasion colors the
Canadian case, and will be
tolerant of the difficulties
created by a country caught
in the inevitable hazards of
sensitive nationalism.
Nor is it hard to know
what Prime Minister Pear
son would say to the Amer
lean government If he could
speak his mind with stark
candor and without the de-
licate limitations Of dip
lomacy.
He would ask America not
to push Canada too hard.
This plea for American re-
straint applies with particu-
lar force to defense policy.
Canadians are suffering an
agony Of conscience as they
debate Canada's role in the
nuclear age.
The United States certainly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-31
Cathedral Bells
Termed Excellent
By CoriIIonneur

LONDON, Mar. 80 (AP).-
Two representatives of WASH
ington Cathedral left for
America today after testing
and approving a British-made
carlton and 10-bell ring which
will be installed in the cathe-
dral tower this year.
They were Richard T, Teller,
assistant business manager OF
the cathedral, and Ronald
Barnes, now carillonneur to
the University Of Kansas, who
will become cathedral caril-
lonneur in September.
Both the carlton and the
10-bell peal are magnificent"
Mr.. Teller said at London Air
port. British bells are the
best in the world"
"These are the best I have
ever played" said Barnes.
Richard Dirksen. associate
organist and ehoirmaster Of
the cathedral. who accom-
panied Mr.. Teller and Mr.
Barnes to England, arranged
to leave for home on a later
plane.
Mr.. Teller said thes carillor
and bells win arrive in Balti.
more by ship in mid-May.
The carlton will be installed
in the cathedral almost i'm.
mediately and Mr.. Barnes saic
he hoped to give his first con-
cert on it in September.
Installation of the l0-bel
peal will require additional
construction in the tower anC
may be delayed in arrival unit
December.
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Sentencing of Sergeant
Her FouIt, Wife Says

planned that my husband Is
being dealt a dirty deal" by a
major not identified at the
subsequent court-martial.
"The major possesses an
overzealousness to break Dis"
she wrote, referring to drill
instructors. II just can't sit
back and not do anything to
help my husband"
TwO-Day Hearing
Gen. Shoup answered that
he would send someone to in
vestigate "and report his find
ings to me-" In January, while
a formal pre-trial hearing was
under way for Sergt. Stay and
the other three sergeants, Gen.
James Masters, base comman-
der at Camp Pendleton, arrived
at the depot.
Sergt. Stay. his wife and
Others were called in during a
two-day hearing.
Civilian Attorney John Pat
terson represented all four Of
the accused men. He said he
traded out" guilty pleas for
relatively light sentences for
all but Sergt. Stay.
IT couldn't get the right kind
of deal on Stay, so we had to
go to trial." Mr.. Patterson said.
"They apparently wanted to
make an example out Of him. +"
No comment was available
Immediately from Marine Corps
authorities here.