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The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19
DrOpout Issue Noted

Citing. for instance, the fact
that "only about two-fifths of
our nonWhite population" have
finished high school-in con-
trast to nearly three-fourths of
the young white population
the President declared: "This
is the business of our country.
These young people come
West"
Citing school dropouts and
their effect on employability,
the President emphasized:
this is one of the most serious
domestic problems that will
face our nation in the next
10 years"
Citing the astonishingly large
amount of functional litter
acy" to be found among the
nations adult population, the
President said vigorously:
This is a problem that faces
us ALL"
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19

SHARING OUR FAITH

And Peter. fastening his eyes upon
him with John. said, look on us. And
he gave heed unto them. expecting TO
receive something of them. Then
Peter said, Silver and gold have
none. but such as have give | thee:
In the name of Jesus Christ of Naza-
roth rise up and walk" Acts $40.
This is The story of the lame man At
the beautiful gate of the temple. He
was one of the many bcggars TO be
found in the city of Jerusalem He
never knew what it meant To walk,
because he was lame from birth. and
had To be carried by relatives or
friends wherever he went How forum
ate, that this one day. he was left at
the gate OF The temple, where he might
not only receive Il few coins, but legs
and complete health.
This all came about because these
Splrit-fillcd men were willing To share
what they had with him--Jcsu> Christ.
No man is poor who has Christ within
his heart
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19
San Diego, Calf,

Receiving the first honorary
doctorate ever bestowed by
CALIFORNIA; state college sys-
tenn, President Kennedy called
on all Americans ito mobilize
theE aroused support behind
a national program of equal
educational opportunity for all
the nations youth.
I'VE are the privileged" he
told 1000 graduates at San
Diego State College and COM
mencement audience exceeding
$4,000 people. 1--WE should ex-
pand this privilege so that all
men and women may share it. "
For nothing in his COM
mencement address, which the
President delivered with nu-
merous extemporaneous de-
partures from his prepared
text, did he receive warmer
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19

Listen TO these words of Peter:
Silver and gold have | none; but
such as have give | thee: In the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
rise up and walk What gift, what
blessing, what joy To be able to
share our blessed Lord with those in
need. What do YOU think the lame
bcggar would rather have, coin of
silver, or legs on which TO walk?
Certainly he received much more than
he expected. a sound body and a
clcanScd heart. instead of few coins
that would have lasted but for day.
All about US today are those who
arc sick, lame and needy; who need
more than casual hand-out. They
need understanding and love; they
need the JOY of Christ in their hearts
and the peace that pas>cth all under
standing"
TO those of Us who know HIM,
who have tasted his love in our
own souls, let Us joyfully and will
ingIy share HIM with those who
reach out to US for help. May VIC
say as did Simon Peter, Such as
have give thee, in the name of
Jesus, be healed"
Somebody did golden deed;
Proving himself friend indeed
Somebody sang a cheerful song;
Frightening the way the whole day
long,
Was that somebody you?
Was that somebody you?
W. Howe Donaldson
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19
Los ANGELES

Some 20 years ago I sought and OBJ
tanned an interview with George Wash
lngton Carver. So far as know, it may
have been the last newspaper interview
the great Tuskegee scientist gave any,
one. AS the years pass, it grows in my
thought as the most impressive news
paper experience | ever had.
Yet the recent 1863 conference Of the
National Urban League, that brought
about 900 concerned white and Negro
people together here from across the
country, reminded me that what DR..
Carver did for humanity, many other
Americans, usually less conspicuously,
are doing constantly. DR.. Carver, I think,
would have said so. Whether he would
have approved the militancy of to laws
Negro leaders, l certainly do not know.
He had been i'll, and his secretary
told my wife and me, as I remember,
that we must stay with him Just five
minutes. We must not, she added, shake
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19
Education Equality
Urged BY President

applause than for his words,
I'VE have no greater asset in
this country than an educated
man or woman.
Four-Day Trip
President Kennedy reached
San Diego right on time in the
course of a four-day Far West
trip crammed with defense
base inspections and a visit to
the Air Force Academy in
Colorado. Aircraft filled the
sky as his motorcade travelled
from Lindbergh Field here
along a parade route to San
Diego State Colleges Aztec
Bowl.
He took the contrast between
CALIFORNIA; abundantly pro-
visioned educational program
and the needs of the nations
educationally underprivileged
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19
Opportunity Is individual
By KimmfS Hendrick

physicalitv and ifs needs had been re-
duced to the minimum.
DR.. Carver began by telling us that
his favorte text came from the Gospel
according TO John: "Ye shall know the
truth and the truth shall make YOU
free He went on. as l recall, to say
something very much like this Free
from what? From ignorance. And there
are three kinds of ignorance-honest
Ignorance, stubborn ignorance, and what
l call 'cussed ignorance.
OF honest ignorance, said DR.. Carver.
II can only be said that it is hopeful: it
wants to learn Stubborn ignorance. by
contrast seems practically hopeless. AS
for "cuSSed ignorance" he called it 1.-The
curse of not knowing how much God
loves you"
To illustrate this last, he told US
about Negro boy in a nearby Alabama
reform school who had taken his own
life recently. He did SO, DR.. Carver said,
because life looked worthless to him.
and he felt worthless before life. But in
that very place. the great Negro scien-
fist observed. there were clays in the
soil which. utilized, could transform the
ster known enough, he could have found
his career right there.
Sometimes people, hearing this story,
have said to me, "Yes-it shows that
opportunity is individual" Surely DR..
Carver, born slave, proved that it can
be, and won unSought honors from gov
ernments and scientific societies for his
work. We noticed, however, that he
himself had also devoted his career to
helping others find the environment in
which individuality could flower. He
told US about the boy who failed with
the air of one who regrettl d he himself
had not been there first to prevent the
chance Of failhrc.
Listening to Urban League workers
discuss the urgency of the Negroes press
ent Sltuatlon-and speaking sympathetic
cally, from their background of modera-
tlon, about radical and actiVist Negro
programs got new light on Dir.
CafVers comments to young reporter
and his wife. He did his work quietly.
by example. He seemed to retreat Wis
IDLY from self-aSsertion. Yet constantly.
IN his long career, he was helping create
favorable environments for human
success.
We thought, as we still think, that he
seemed unaware that he was Negro, that
we were white, or that color had anv
significance whatever He was too busy
to think about it. He was too conscious
that any kind of man means humankind.
To him, opportunity was like the prom
Using clay in nearby soll-the thing
nearest at hand. And he said to us in
this context, as l clearly remember.
Opportunity is never matter of COM
plexion."
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19

his hand. But when he appeared. DR..
Carver took our hands and shook them
vigorously Then he talked to both of
us for half an hour.
We had never been so moved by
human presence. He seemed to us little
and very black. He seemed to US, in
deed, almost the opposite of what we
had expected. We knew we were going
to meet man whose contributions to
the development and use of natural
products was prodigious. suppose we
thought he would look and act impos-
ing. Instead, we found ourselves think
ing, as we said afterward, that we were
IN the presence of someone to whom
thought was everything and in whom
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19
Unity Basic Principle
EDITOR

In view Of the nationwide rs we'll as
the local unrest regarding the indignation
of the white and Negro races, it seems
essential that every organization make
clear its position.
Basic in the BAHIA World Faith is the
principle of unity. That is, that all men
are created of the same substance; all
must be treated with equal justice and
mercy by their fellow men.
From the inception of the Bahai faith,
communities have been established on this
principle of unity. Those of the white and
Negro races who have had membership
in such communities have found enrich
ing experiences in their social and religl-
Gus activities. Furthermore. elected adj
ministrative bodies on the local, national
and international levels consist, as mat
ter of course, of representatives of differ
ent races.
Unity in the Baha'i world is not only be-
tween the white and Negro races but also
between various other racial as we'll as
religious, national, and cultural minori-
ties In every country of the world there
are Bahai communities in which indi-
viduals are sharing this feeling of one
ness.
From first-hand experiences, Bahals
know that fears of indignation are ground
less. The Golden Rule which is at the
basis of all religions requires complete
justice in employment, housing, school,
ing. religion, and all other facet. of hu-
man existence,
Obviously this basic principle of unity,
these experiences in interracial activities
make clear that Bahais support all et-
forts made in these communities to re-
alize complete justice in every area of
human endeaVor.
BAHAT ASSEMBLY OF URBANA
Eleanor Hutchins, Secretary.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19
Take a Hand

Remember that first day YOU went
to school. Or maybe it was just new
school in a town you had moved to-
You wondered what ii would be likf,
and whether the other children
would like you.
Up TO a certain age it was big
help If "Mommy" could go along and
hold your hand. Well, this fall there
will be some cases where even
"Mommy" would be glad to have
somebody hold her hand.
The National Women's Committee
for Civil Rights has suggested that
where schools this fall are opening
on = desegregated basis, it would be
nice for white women to take the
hands of Negro children and their
parents and walk with them into the
Schoolroom that first day.
The heads of this committee are
Mrs. Mildred McAfee Horton, former
president of Wellesley College, and
Mrs. Patricia Roberts Harris, associate
dean at Howard University.
This. to us, is one of the most
heart-warming ideas that has come
out of the whole civil-rightS discus
sion.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19
a N4se
6os Today

FoHoto righteousness,
faith, charity, peace,
,Uith them that call on
the Lord out Of a pure
heart.=II Tim. 2:22
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1963-08-19

areas to support his call 10
strong federal aid.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
Bleak Outlook Ahead
For Unframed Youths

WASHINGTON, D. ca special
presidential committee that studied
youth unemployment has reported
that the problem is desperate.
The report made these points:
Of youths from 16 to FL, one out
of nine who are out of school and in
the labor force is jobless.
The number of jobless youths in
1862 ranged from 100000 to 100000.
Unless something is done, by
1870 the number of unemployed
youths will rise to 1.5 million.
Main reasons behind youth unem-
the report said, were lack
of training and discrimination against
minority groups. 1t recommended ex-
pansion of vocational training.
The committee which made the re-
port included six Cabinet officers
and business, labor and educational
leaders. The group split over the
Administration bill for a Domestic
Peace Corps. But a modified version
of the bill won approval.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
By ANNA DAHL, Dagmar
In MONTANA Flu NEWS

| certainly hope that every eligible
woman will vote in the wheat refer
endum this year. It's not only our
right but our duty to vote wisely in
this matter which affects both our
income and our freedom.
We're hearing lot of silly talk
about freedom, by people who are
really talking about anarchy. Some
of these people-speculators, pro-
cessors, and few very large farm
ers-are in a position to profit
from another farm depression.
The so-called free market in agri-
culture led to the BLACKLIST depression
the world has ever known. A very
few got very rich, but the rest of US
suffered cruelty and needlessly. Our
young people know little about this,
fortunately for them. But they will
learn very fast if they vote to "get
the government out of agriculture.
1T could all happen again. Along with
unlimited freedom to plant would
come the freedom to go broke, to
lose the farm, to leave the land.
Andrew and | know all about the
''good old days.. He homesteaded in
Sheridan County more than SO years
ago. This was truly a land of OPP
portunity, but it was up to us to
make that opportunity unfold. God
knows it took hard work, but farm
work alone would never have got
the job done. So much of the work
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
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More Freedom to Farm
Than In Good Old Days

in those days was needless drudgery,
because we had no electric power
So much of our work went for moth
ing, because we had no bargaining
power; no laws to protect prices, and
no co-operatives to protect our inter
est when we bought and sold. The
most important work we did was to
organize grain and oil and electric
co-operatives, and a Farmers Union
to make our voices heard where laws
are made.
We do not have less freedom than
we had SO years ago. We have in
finitely more freedom. The "con-
trolls" on farming are the controls
we ourselves demanded, because we
had learned the hard way that farm
economy out of control destroys the
freedom to farm at all.
When you have lived as long as we
have, you don't expect perfection, in
farm programs or much of anything
else. You don't expect easy solutions.
You don't expect to get anything for
nothing. Andrew and | are going to
vote Eyes" for the new wheat pro-
gram, which is just a new version
of the old program we worked so
long and hard to get and to improve.
We won't be voting for Santa
Claus. Well be voting to protect
the hard-won gains of half a CEN
fury. Well be voting to preserve
and improve conditions in which
freedom can exist for American
farmers
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
Butte Case Points Up Dire Need
For Air Pollution Control Law

Rocky Mountain is building a new
plant in Garrison and says that they
must keep the Butte plant in opera
ton until July for economic reasons.
The Butte plant is the old Domestic
Manganese and Development Kiln
which is 115 feet by 8 feet in dia-
meter. The BATTLES were removed
from the three dust chambers and
the original stack which was 367
feet high was lowered 113 feet. The
phosphate product is an additive to
animal feeds but before the raw
phosphate is suitable for animal con-
sumption the $50 flourine in the
rock must be roasted out to below
O.3%.
The 500 children in daily attend
ance at Webster Garfield have been
deluged with deadly flourine gas
which affects the liver, lungs and
kidneys. School has had to be dis
missed on a number of occasions be-
cause the building was filled with the
poisonous smoke. Music classes had to
be dispensed with because of the
of the children. The chill
lren had an extra ordinary amount
If nosebleeds and sick stomachs.
see page 4
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
Opens June 20
To
Convene n
City

Election of executive officers
and board members will be one
of the interest-provoking events
at this years Montana State
AFL-CIO convention, which
convenes in Billings, June 20,
according to President James
S. TIMBER. All business sessions
of the annual meeting will be
held in the Billings Labor Tenn
pie at "a South 10Th Street.
TIMBER, president of the state fed
Grafton since 1851, has as of this
date, possibly two opponents for the
presidency. They are: Perry Melton
of the Kalispell Painters, and Bern
hard Merkel, Bozeman, president of
the State Council of Carpenters.
Incumbent Vice President Charles
Baldwin, Billings Machinist, reports
are, will be opposed by former Vice
President Joe Crosswhite, Kalispell,
business representative of Operating
Engineers Local 371.
Twelve Board posts, representing
IL districts in the state, are also to
be filled.
In addition to the election, other
matters which may come before the
convention, according to TIMBER, in
clude the possibility of constitution
al revision reducing the number of
districts.
Also in the wind are reports that
consideration may be given to ways
and means of possible streamlining |
of the organization ito facilitate the
state body in representing wage earn
ers on a statewide basis.
Yellowstone Trades & Labor AS
sembly, headed by retired Painter
James WHISKY, is in charge of con-
vention arrangements.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17

The inability of Montana
courts to handle the air pollu-
ton problem was amply de-
monstrated Wednesday at a
Supreme Court hearing on the
smoke drowning of the Web
ster Garfield grade school in
Butte by the Rocky Mountain
Phosphate roasting kiln.
In 1860, Charles R. Lee obtained
an injunction against Rocky Noun
tain Phosphate which prohibited the
operation of the plant during school
hours, and that the plant would COM
pletely cease operation on May | of
this year.
Last Friday the Supreme Court
said that RMP could continue opera
ton if it did not operate during school
hours
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
EMCOE DORMITORY
CONSIDERATION DELAYED

DR.. Gordon Doering expressed sur
prise at the Regents meeting that
Eastern Montana College in Billings
would want skyscraper dormitory
like the one in Bozeman which will
cost 1913 millions. Senator Killing
from Yellowstone wrote the Regents
that Eastern needs a library more
than a dormitory. EMCOE Prexy
H. K. Steele states that if the dormi-
tory is not built by 1865, 48O I'M
married students will have to live
away from the campus. A law was
passed by the last Legislature per-
hitting the City of Billings and the
county to cooperate with Eastern to
jointly build a library.
Attorney General Forrest Ander-
son pointed out that no funds were
appropriated for the library and told
the Regents that they couldn't stick
their heads in the sand to the fact
that there is going to be lot more
students going to EMCOE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
B0ffin,s Statement On YAF Coal
Doesn't Square With the Facts

publication, Editor Lee Edwards
listed the goals of the YAF organi-
cation. Prominent among these goals
were 'right-to-work' laws, hurry
went on to say, According to YAF's
model constitution YAF members may
belong to National YAF without be-
longing to local chapter, but if they
join local it is mandatory that they
also place their membership in the
national, which would make all mem
bers of YAF subscribe to the plank
in the national platform advocating
'right-towork' laws.
"It would appear" the Laurel
Democrat continued, "that Congress
man Battin is trying to dump the
whole onus of this thing in the lap
of the Montana YAF chapter. | won
der if he has checked with Governor
Babcock on this since the Governor
sits on the advisory board of the state
chapter. Working people would do
we'll to remember that Governor Bah
cock has been a leader himself in
'right-to-work' laws for
Montana
''It would be humorous" hurry
said, "if the issue weren't so serious
for Mr.. Battin to try to Justify his
see page 2
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
Laurel Demo Shows

LAUREL = The president of the
Laurel Democratic Club, Jim hurry,
said Tuesday, in answer to Congress
man James Battin's explanation of
his utilization with the Young Amer
leans for Freedom, "It is pity that
Congressman Battin knows as little
as he does about the organization of
YAF and their doctrines. Mr.. Battin
has denied that the national organi-
cation of the Young Americans for
Freedom, of which he is an advisory
board member, has ever taken stand
one way or the other on the question
of 'right-to-work' legislation. This
statement is not true"
(Battin's denial that national YAF
has ''right-to-work' as one of its
goals was made in a letter sent out
to the 5000 people who had earlier
signed a petition requesting the Sec
ond District Congressman clarity
whether or not he, as a national YAF
advisory board member, endorsed the
pro" right-to-work" stand. The let
ter was sent out under Congressional
crank" In other words, u. S. tax
payers paid the bill for the mailing.
--PV).
hurry said, ''In the July 1862 issue
of NEW GUARD, YAF's national
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
horf-Weight Gain
Bigger Than Fine

The Food and Drug Administrator
announced that the Quaker Oats Co.,
Shiremanstown, Pa, was fined total
of $4,000 on six counts of selling
short-weight puffed rice and puffed
wheat. The FDA said that was the
maximum fine the judge could levy,
though he was told that the short
weighing sawed the company over
$4,000 in six months"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17

NEW YORK-Recent propaganda
to the effect that "right-to-work'
states have boosted wages cat a faster
pace" than the national average have
been thoroughly refuted by Professor
Milton N. Nadworny of the University
of Vermont.
Writing in Challenge, published by
the Institute of Economic Affairs of
New York University, Professor Mad
worny cites statistics coming to ex-
actly the opposite conclusion-that
''right-to-work'' states are actually
falling behind the rest of the United
States in wages and income.
R-T-W EARN LESS
Professor Nadworny points out that
in 1850 hourly earnings in the 10
Fright to-work" states under study
averaged $1.26, 81 cents less than
the United States average of STAT.
BY 1861 hourly wages in the fright
to-work" states stood % cents below
the national average, $500 as against
1922.
In 1947, average per capita per-
sonal income for the 10 "right-to-
work" states stood $3.50 below the
national average, Professor Mad
worry said. By 1850 the difference
had increased to 1881 and in 1861
it was 1919. (The 1862 figures, I'M
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
Riqht-to-Work States Fall
Behind In Economic Race

available when his article was writ
ten, showed an increase in the dis
crepancy to 1888, proving that the
''right-to-work" states are falling
even further behind the rest of the
country.
WORSE OFF
In 1862, average per capita income
in the United States was $2,357. For
the 10 ''right-to-work" states it was
$1,974. As Professor Nadworny
pointed out, eff wages in 'right-to-
work states are compared with wages
in nom Sright-to-work' states rather
than with the national average, the
10 states which limit union security
arrangements fare even worse.''
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-05-17
CLAIM MADE COURT
ORDER DISREGARDED

Lees attorneys, Maurice F. Hen
messy and John ]. Mccarthy pre-
sented the court with affidavits from
six reputable people that despite the
courts limitations the plant continues
to operate during school hours.