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Evening star., 1963-02-08
DEAR ABBY

DEAR ABBY: Today my
daughter has a long face be-
cause / refused to buy her a
formal. She is II years old
and In the sixth grade. A girl
used to get her first formal
for the senior prom when
she was II. Today they have
proms for children In the
sixth grade. I hate to see my
daughter miss out on the fun
with her friends. but we are
q medium income family and
can't afford formals and all
the accessories for 11-year-
olds. What is your opinion,
Abby?
AVERAGE MOTHER.
I'm told that the added
expenses Of extra -curricular
events In the modern high
school are becoming psyche
logically tough on have-n0t
kids. So now it's "fOrmals"
in the sixth grade? I'm
against 'em!
4
DEAR ABBY: I have q
sick-in-the-head husband
and his jealousy is driving me
out of my mind. ! am not
allowed to speak to any man
in our neighborhood or to
any other man. Even rela-
tives! If I even look at them
he accuses me of all kinds
Of dirty things. I have never
given him any reason to
doubt me. I can't just pitch
him because we have chill
dren. He tells me he is not
sick in the head. but what
else would you call it! What
am going to do2 Now I am
getting jealous. Jealous of
women who have sane hus-
bands. q
JEALOUS.
II your husband had a
tOOthache, you would get him
to a dentist by hook or crook,
wouldn't you? Well, there are
doctors who take care Of
Evening star., 1963-02-08
Sixth-Grude Prom
Gets Nom Down
BY ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

"sick in the head" people,
too. What are you waiting
for?
DEAR ABBY: ! am a single
woman Of 20 who has never
been married. I live alone and
support myself. I recently
met q very handsome man
who fell for me fast. He
talked of "our future to-
gether" and ! thought ] had
finally found my man. / was
completely bowled over last
night when he asked me for
a loan of $500. He's a sales
man and told me how well
he was doing. ! asked him
II he'd sign a note for 1t and
he said II he had wanted to
sign a note he could have
gone to a bank. Now / have
my doubts about him. Half
of me wants to continue see
ing him and half of me tells
me to quit him. I am
SHATTERED.
Better TO be temporarily
Shattered" than perma-
nentIy broke. Listen 10 the
half with the brains in II.
ROmeOs who mix moonlight
and marriage are a poor risk.
y y
What's on your mind? For
a personal reply, send a SELF
addressed, stamped envelope
to Abby In care of The Eue-
ming Star.
Evening star., 1963-02-08
WORLD ECHOES
BY Pete Wymo
North Amsflcan Newspapsr AllIanes

members, who 80 far have
been unable to block It's un-
faltering course. III Giorno.
Milan.)
VISITING TRENTO, Ivan
Nardon discovered that young
people are so eager to become
actors that are willing to pay
to appear In films. He signed
them Up for as much as $50
per person for his film,
Seekers Of Gold" Police ar
rested him when one Of the
young performers noticed
there was no film In Mar
don's cameras. But the movie
title was accurate. Ga Stam-
pa, Turin.)
CITIZENS IN Neuchatel
complained their canaries
were not doing well. Special
lists investigating the situa-
ton declared it was because
bird cages were kept too close
to TV sets. Canaries who have
been transferred to other
rooms have quickly recovered
and are singing as happily
as ever. (Nachrichten, Basle)
Evening star., 1963-02-08
Stride Rites


A ....
Evening star., 1963-02-08

A GOOD SMACK on the
nose sometimes closes the arr
gument and starts the tears.
but this is sisterly devotion.
Elinor. 2. Is with her other
grandparents at this, time,
but I assume that she too
can work UP q shrek II she
is in the mood. ~
II I had my way-a most
unlikely state Of affairsr-all
children would be born at
the age Of II, working.
King features syndicate. Inc.
Evening star., 1963-02-08

said she Just knew. that's
all. No evidence. Just q
built-in crystal ball.
Among my grandchildren-
six-they are all pretty good
criers, but they are short
term weepers. Jim will. cry II
his brother Kevin snatches a
toy from him, but it is over
in a minute. The twins,
Pamela and Robin, 4, will
carry their baby brother.
Chip, around the living room.
arguing over which one is his
real mother.
Evening star., 1963-02-08
USELESS
INFORMATION
By PAUL STEINER

By PAUL STEINER
North American Newspaper Alliance
Some people blush even
when alone, says DR.. Sander
S. Feldman, clinical professor
of psychiatry at the Univer-
sity of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry.
Evening star., 1963-02-08

Odd items from the world
press:
THE THREE SUNS, lux
ury restaurant at orley Air
port, took its name from
Lurcat's tapestry represent
ing three suns on the wall.
The restaurant was In such
a hurry to get business that
it opened Lefore the tapestry
was finished. Lurcat's fin
ished tapestry has five suns.
which makes drinkers wonder
If they've had too much. The
manager wants to change the
name Of the restaurant. t.
journal du Dimanche,
Paris.)
LATEST ADDITION to the
inter-football team in Milan
is an electronic machine that
keeps instant tab on the re-
spective merits and perform
ances of players. 1t also
passes out financial penal
ties and bonuses to team
Evening star., 1963-02-08
FOR MANS BEST FRIEND

''Show Goat" Pads eontoin cleaning
lotion for "dry bath" for dog. Leoves
coot glossy, bonishes doggy odor. Nc
cold risk as with regular both. l.SO ~
Double Feeder with breok-resist-.
ant poyethyene bowls. MetoI stondA
has rubber-tpped feet TO prevent
skidding, moring. STANDARD, 98c;
Large, Lag; Jumbo. 1873
W&L-LUgsoge, 7th Floor, Washington Store;
Chevy Chose Greenhouse and Wheaton Plczc
Evening star., 1963-05-21
ERIC SEVAREID
Showdown Foreseen in Own Ranks
Between MiIitonts and Extremists

The struggle of the Ameri-
can Negro for full citizen
ship-a true peoples revolu-
tion-is q dual struggle. Con-
tained within the obvious
black versus white showdown
in the South is the black ver-
sus black showdown within
Negro ranks.
After 50 years the Negro
intramural contest is no
longer one between the
accommodations" strategy
school of which Booker T.
Washington was the mentor,
and the "militancy' school,
led by the NAACP. The con-
test is now between the mill
fancy school and the extrem-
list school. now most loudly
represented by the BLACK
MuSlims."
The militancy of the
NAACP. whose work in Bir-
n1ingharn before the mass
rioting began was In the di-
rect line of the position taken
at its founding meeting in
1909 - absolute refusal to
differentiate the rights of
human beings"-has never
been intended to mean vio-
lence, while recognizing that
violence might occur. 1t was
intended to mean force. In
terpreted as the force Of
massed numbers, incesSant
protest, and the force Of law
employed to the hilt. The
Evening star., 1963-05-21

gain were common rights and
liberties. They did not seek
privileges Of any kind. Until
the undirected rioting began,
the distant observer, at least,
could not believe that the
privileges whites stood to lose
could be half so important to
them as the prosaic and
limited rights the Negroes
sought were to them.
The present national Negro
leadership rejects the term
"gradualism." GradualiSm as
a concept may be rejected,
but gradualiSm as q fact will
surely remain. It took 80
years of organized agitation
in this century to put an
effective end to lynchings.
We still have poll taxes. and
extralegal voting barriers.
After nine years of the school
desegregation decision only
about 8 per cent OF Negro
pupils in Southern and border
States have been integrated.
A total and sudden overturn
Of racial restrictions and
abuses in this country is not
Evening star., 1963-05-21
St0gnotion on the Personnel Front

tablished himself as a reliable
friend of his own people, and
they resent 1t.
Very soon now he must tell
the President, II he has not
already done so, his choice
OF q new Deputy Secretary to
succeed Roswell Gilpatric.
Mr.. Gilpatric brought to the
Job experience and an easy
personal touch. The new ap-
pointment will be watched as
q test Of presidential aware
ness that the personal prob
lem at the Pentagon is real
and must be remedied wholly
apart from policy considera-
tions.
The Kennedys are reward
ing friends, warm and hu-
man. So is the Secretary Of
Defense, so far as 1t has been
possible TO know him. Their
rank and file experience has
been scant or non-existent.
And that lack is showing
within the great govern
mental establishment that
reverberates to a presidential
whisper.
Evening star., 1963-05-21

conceivable to any informed
person.
The American Negro will 60
on. conquering one formid-
able height of legalism after
another. But new and mas
sive social obstacles rise be-
fore him. He has been ex-
cluded from the spreading
suburbs and now the Scythe
Of urban renewal" cuts away
shelters left to him. He has
won some painful victories
for legal equality In hiring
and now the impersonal force
OF automation sweeps away
unskilled jobs by the thou
sands each week. the kind OF
jobs left to his people.
He is frightened and he
ought to be. So ought all
Americans. confronted by the
prospect Of a permanent body
OF unemployed Of massive
proportions. What the denial
of ordinary rights brought to
Birmingham will be nothing
to what the denial of liveli-
hood can bring to many
cities.
Evening star., 1963-05-21

and his successors lame ducks
In their second terms, hurt
ing them In the exercise Of
certain powers. but it does
not affect their power OF
choice Of their subordinates.
II the present Kennedy
promotion and reshufflinss
were clear cases Of reward Of
merit, down the line morale
might still be high and even
improved. But whatever gloss
is put upon the changes by
Democrats and generous re-
porting, this is simply not
the case. and people within
the Government know 1t.
A test OF the present drift
looms In the Pentagon where
there is plainly q crisis Of
morale. Whatever the rights
and wrongs Of the Tx con-
tract, managed news and the
sudden switch in the Chief
Of Naval Operations, Secre-
tary Mcnamara has not es-
Evening star., 1963-05-21
GSA Design Chief May Reverse
'SteriIity' of Public Buildings Here

a cold and critical eye. Aes-
thetic forces are mobilizing
to make the public sensitive
on issues OF taste.
But 1t is not easy to i'm
pose taste upon the public
domain. particularly in an
area where 1t has long been
penetrated by Erasping polit-
ical fingers. In the case OF
almost any ugly structure
that has been built by the
national. State or local gov
ernments, the odds are heavy
that the architect was Sc
lected. in q process OF ls1lit-
ical favor, because he was
somebody's friend or because
he contributed TO somebody's
campaign.
The process is sometimes
more ver VI. Some possessors
OF the 20 'er to influence the
award Of architectural con-
tracts haa ! agents visit hack
firms an, offer 10 secure
public des gn Jobs In return
for a kick Ack OF part OF the
fee. Such deals are appeal
ing TO tn, hacks, who would
not otheru se be favored, and
relatively simple for the polit-
ical rascal - the fees are
fixed; no competitive bids
are involved, and the public
has proved unlikely 10 pro-
test the final product.
The public has tacitly ac-
cepted the selection Of ar
chitects for public buildings
by political preference. The
architects themselves have
been slow 10 organize as q
profession and extremely
slow 10 protest this modus
operandi, The good ones
have been busy doing Jobs
which they secured through
talent, and the mediocre ones
have been vying for the
fruits by applying political
pressure In inverse ratio 10
their talents. The reach Of
this pressure Is suggested by
the fact that the most hand
Evening star., 1963-05-21

aims have always been lin
tied to those simple human
rights common to the rest Of
US and shared within our
common society.
The Black Muslims preach
hatred Of the whites as q
race. which Is q negation of
the democratic principle of
the individuality of guilt. and
total, geographical separa-
tisrn, which Is a practical
impossibility.
For some years now, the
old line accommodationistS
among Negroes, those humbly
willing to work their way
through self improvement.
have been In sharp decline.
and the strategy concept and
staff Of the NAACP have
been in control of forward
Negro ranks. Until Birming-
ham they appeared as ex-
tremists in the eyes of many
whites, particularly in the
South; now they will appear
to everyone as the moderates.
What they have been try
ing to do, In a phrase. is
simply to undo the undoing
of the Emancipation Procla-
nation and the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, the undoinR
that was accomplished by an
intricate series Of laws and
regulations in the South dur
Evening star., 1963-05-21
Recent Supreme Court Decisions
Viewed as Not Clarifying the Issue


took issue with the other Jus
tices on the extent to which
private rights may be in
vaded.
Most significant is the
courts view that when q
demonstration leads to vio-
lence and disorder, the DEM
onstrators are not held to be
at fault. Chief Justice War;
rem said, with regard to one
of the cases, that Indictment
to disorder may occur, but
that those whose acts gave
rise to the riots or disorders
could not be punished. He
said:
But 1t is sufficient to say
again that 3 generally
worded statute. when con-
strued to punish conduct
which cannot be constitu-
tionally punished, is uncon-
stitutionally vague.
And the possibility of dis
order by others cannot justi-
fy exclusion Of persons from
a place If they otherwise have
a constitutional right
founded upon the equal pro-
lection clause-to be pres
ent."
The mere fact that the
police felt that demonStra-
tions and riots might ensue
was not sufficient ground for
the police to arrest those who
refused to obey their orders.
incidentally, the courts
comment that the law can
not intervene until an ac-
tual disorder takes place is
interesting in view of the re-
cent action of the President
Of the United States in or
dering troops to Alabama on
the theory that there might
be disorders. The power he
claimed to send troops was
based upon a threatened out
break Of violence. According
to the new Supreme Court
opinion, he presur1 a bly,
should not have issued such
orders to mobilize troops
until violence actually had
occurred.
This weeks Supreme Court
decision makes it plain that
Negroes who were playing
Evening star., 1963-05-21
Interpreting the Law on Sit-Ins

basketball In a public park
and who were themselves
peaceable could not be legal
ly arrested, and that the i'm
pact OF the incident on those
who opposed the use OF pub
lie facilities by Negroes is not
relevant.
In the South Carolina case,
where the manager of a store
refused to serve his Negro
customers except at separate
tables, the court held that,
since the city ordinance re-
quiring segregation was not
constitutional, any act based
upon 1t by an individual was
also invalid.
In the Louisiana case,
where there was no law re-
quiring segregation, the Su-
preme Court took cognizance
Of the absence OF such q stat
ute. 1t ruled, however, that,
because city officials had
publicly denounced "sit-ins"
and because the store man.
ayers conferred with those
officials and the police when
a demonstration in the store
took place, they were guilty
Of collaboration with city au-
thorities. 1t was declared by
the court that, in effect, the
store was operating at the
dictate of city officials.
The manager OF the de-
partment store In question
declared that he was main
tanning segregated facilities
In accordance with state
policy and practice" as we'll
as local custom. From this,
the Supreme Court majority
drew the conclusion that the
store officials were "coerced
by the CITY," Chief Justice
Warren said that "the State
cannot achieve the same re-
suit by an official command
which has at least as much
coercive effect as an ordi-
nance" There was no evi-
dence that the State or city
authorities had commanded
the owner to maintain q seq
regated service. But the SUI
preme Court thought a mere
statement by a city or State
official concerning a publicly
announce d demonstration
amounts to the same thing.
tCopyrisht, 1868.
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Evening star., 1963-05-21
Will Talk on Planets

Douglas A. O'Handley. an as
tronomer with the time service
of the United States Naval OBJ
servatory, will give a talk on
THE Origin Of Minor Planets
at 8 o'clock tonight at q meet
ing Of the British 1nterplan-
etary Society in the Edmond
Walsh Building. GEORGETOWN
University. Thirty-sixth and M
streets NV.
Evening star., 1963-05-21
DAVID LAWRENCE

Who knows what the "law
Of the land" is with respect
to Negro demonstrations and
resultant disorders in Bir-
ningham, Ala, and other
cities throughout the coun-
try?
Are State or city police
forbidden to arrest anyone
for melting disorder as long
as the purpose or objective
is to demonstrate for q law
ful cause?
These questions are touched
upon in one way or another
In a series Of decisions of the
Supreme Court Of the United
States which were handed
down this week. But the
opinions rendered do not
clarity the issue. In most OF
the decisions, technicalities
are intermingled with con-
stitutional principle, and 1t
is difficult to know where
one begins and the other
ends.
Thus, the Supreme Court
decided that in one city,
which has an ordinance for
bidding integration, it was
lawful for sit-in demonstra-
tors to demand service along
side of whites In restaurants.
The decision said, In effect.
that the proprietor was Or
dered by State law and didn't
segregate lunch counters Of
his own free will.
In another city, where
there was no State or city
law requiring segregation, the
Supreme Court held that
statements made from time
to time by public officials
amounted to the same thing
as a law. Hence, demon
strators were within their
rights in pursuing their OBJ
jectives and the restaurant
owner was being "coerced"
by city officials and was not
acting of his own accord in
maintaining segregated lunch
counters.
These confusing interpre-
tations were by no means
unanimous. Justice Harlan.
one of the most learned Of
the members Of the court,
Evening star., 1963-05-21
Administration Believed Come to Halt
In the Hiring of New Talent
DORIS FLEESON

The recruiting Of new tai
ent, so pronounced and ad-
mired a feature of the early
days Of the Kennedy admin
istration, has come to an al
most complete halt here. It
is one feature Of the general
stagnation for which no ade-
quate reason is apparent.
The President still is in
the first half of his third
year in office. Political Oh
servers agree that, barring
some unusual crisis or Act OF
God, he will be reelected.
With five-and-a-half years
ahead Of him, he faces many
problems which require all
the stature, prestige and i'm
agination his major appoin-
tees can bring to them.
Yet he is sinking back into
a process Of reshuffling Jobs
and bringing forward people
OF little experience and un-
proved tenacity in the
clincheS. There are excep-
tions-the hardworking vet
eran, Averell Hartman, now
Undersecretary of State - ia
one but they are few. Gener-
ally. promotions are of peo-
pie who. like Mount Everest,
are there and can get along
with the Kennedys.
II admittedly would be dif-
ficult and risky for the Presi-
dent to try to galvanize 4
Congress happily stranGlins
in its clotted web Of anti
quated institutions. There are
few signs that the public Is
alive to that situation. It
might be very easily aroused
If a creative and urgent ef-
fort were made to arouse 1t,
but that course has appar-
emily been ruled out.
Recruiting of talent is,
however, purely an executive
function and the consent OF
the Senate can be almost
taken for granted at this
point. The Twenty-second
Amendment barring more
than two terms for a Presi-
dent will make Mr.. Kennedy
Evening star., 1963-05-21
CHARLES BARTLETT
New Hopes for u. S. Architecture

some public building to 60
up In Washington since 1928
is the National Gallery of
Art, constructed by private
funds without political in
reference.
The old system will never
die until the vigilance OF pro-
fessional architects and the
risk Of public wrath make It
perilous. The best hope
against 1t appears to lie In
the rising pressure for ac-
ceptance. at all levels OF gov
ernment. OF advisory panels
that are composed OF the best
talent available and empow-
cred to make recommended
tons to the Officials respon-
sible for selecting firms to
design public buildings. Such
panels take the selection
process out Of the hands OF
the politicians.
The panel system has been
employed since 1854 by the
State Department TO choose
the architects for United
States embassies In foreign
countries. The famous en-
bassy In New Delhi by Ed
ward Stone is a brilliant
product OF the new procedure.
and the beauty OF many OF
these embassies provides an
ironic contrast TO the de-
partment building itself,
built without the benefit OF
panel advice by the General
Services Administration.
But the new man In charge
OF building design for the
GSh, harel YaSko, has raised
hopes OF a new day In Fed
eral architecture. Determined
TO quit before allowing ar.
tlstry 10 yield 10 political
pressure, Yasko is proposing
the creation OF presidential
panel OF rs outstanding arr
chitects from all over the
Nation. Smaller juries would
be drawn from this panel 10
work Al picking architects
for each project and criticiz.
ing their design. The iuries
would try 10 get the best
men and obtain the best
work Of which they are ca
pable.
Evening star., 1963-05-21

Benjamin Disraeli once
observed that no professional
group had really done It's
duty until 1t was obliged to
furnish up a victim. Sup
pose an architect were
hanged" he said. Terror
has It's inspiration as we'll as
competition"
Although 1t has not
reached the hanging stage,
public resentment is rising
at the aspect Of some OF the
public buildings for which
this generation must pay and
with which future genera
tions must live.
Certainly In Washington
the vast and sterile State
Department building, the
pompous new Senate Office
Building and the still un-
finished. increasingly incred-
ible House Office Building
are examples OF the scars that
can be inflicted upon a beau-
tiful Capitol by a casual use
OF taste at the drawing
board.
The issue was raised re-
Gently In New York by the
report OF a panel OF archi-
tects and architectural crit
les that a survey OF the civic
patterns constructed since
1858 had revealed a pattern
Of deadly mediocrity." The
survey concluded that the
city government had not built
any structure OF generally
recognized excellence since
1903.
Henry Mencken wrote 30
years ago that no one had
ever lost money underesti-
mating the taste Of the AM
erican public. But taste Is
spreading like other luxuries
TO the masses. and the past
era OF indifference is under
attack, Mrs. Kennedy has
rescued the White House
from tastelessness, and the
President views the blue
prints Of structures TO be
built under his authority with
Evening star., 1963-05-21
ERIC sEVAREID
Negro Struggle Has Dual Aspect

ing the last IS years Of the
18th Century. eliminating in
the 1898 Supreme Court de.
cision which sealed the whole
package with the stamp of
separate but equal" 1t was
the 1854 school integration
decision which tore the pack
age open again. In what
Negro leaders regard with
some right as the first off,
cial reaffirmation Of the
Emancipation Proclamation
In almost a century. If, as l
believe. we are in the pres
ence Of a true peoples revo-
luton, the history books will
most probably date its COM
buStion. II not Its origin, from
the 1854 decision.
When the Presidents Com
mission on National Goals,
in 1850. came to the matter
of the "sordid or timid tech
niques of unequal treatment
that still leave millions out
side the circle of firSt-class
citizenship" 1t added these
words:
IF this means that some
men must renounce old uriY-
ileges ir order that other
men may enjoy new liberties.
then that is the way the
knife of democratic aspira-
ton will have to cut"
That is the way the knife
began to cut in Birmingham
All that whites there stood to
lose were some old privileges,
not rights; all that Negro
leadership there sought to