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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-03
Two Named to Staff

Rev. C. Custer Cromwell,
pastor of the Rockville Meth
odist Church, has announced
the appointment of two staff
members, Frederick A. Pease as
assistant pastor and Mrs. Earl
Pendell as director of Christian
Education.
A member Of the Baltimore
Conference, Pease was selected
for the Rockville position by
Bishop J. Wesley Lord during
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-07-03
Vacation Classes Set

Daily vacation Bible School
classes will begin Monday at the
Burtonsville Baptist Church and
will continue through July 10.
The program will include
classes for nursery, beginner,
primary, junior, intermediate
and adult students beginning at
$50 pm. and 1855 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
The March and Its Meaning

of August % was worth 1t in a practical
sense will be debated for long time
to come.
1t will not have been worth 1t If
the euphoria of the occasion leads to
impossible hopes. In the days speeches,
one line required again and again: 1--WE
want freedom noD" It is important
that all concerned understand what
these words legitimately mean - and
what they cannot mean. They cannot
mean that the Negro is going to achieve
full status in our system now, no matter
who wishes it. If he expects otherwise,
he is doomed to cruel disappointment.
Freedom, yes-in a formal sense.
The Negro is entitled to freedom from
legal restraints on his citizenship rights.
He is justified in insisting, with support
from all Americans, that no law should
inhibit his education, housing, public
accommodations, access to jobs, political
expression and the like. AS matter
of fact, however, he is not going to
obtain even these minimum detectives
Immediately and everywhere. And when
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when his government finally treats him
as an individual citizen, without regard
to the color of his skin-the problem
of Negroes as a group will not have
been solved. Long after legal Segrega-
ton is gone, economic and social seq
regation will remain. The only process
that ultimately can lead large numbers
of Negroes out of their trap Of frustra-
tration is the hard, slow, cumulative
process of education. It will happen,
but not now. Not this year, or next
year, or in this generation.
All intelligent Negro leaders know
this. Though no one said it at the
Lincoln Memorial yesterday, they did
sing it. The anthem Of this revolution
is: I'VE Shall Overcome - Someday."
That last word was put there by some
one who knew the difference between
truth and demagoguery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
Biggest Ydwn

Prodded by the military, the House
Armed Services Committee has author
lied almost 5000 million for fallout
shelter program. It is aimed at building
shelters in Federal buildings and pro-
viding an incentive" shelter building
program for non profit and public
institutions.
What this contemplateS apparently
ARE shelters of a sort located mainly in
cities and towns. They would be ex-
pected to accommodate about II million
people. Well, we suppose this is some
thing. If particular community is not
hit by nuclear weapons those who have
crowded into its shelters may emerge
some day to gaze upon a ruined land.
If the community is hit the shelters,
of course, will turn into ovens.
A report of a survey in the Midwest
by Cornell University was released COIN
cidentally with the committees action.
This survey showed that only per cent
of a representative group of Midwest
erners believe that fallout shelters are
absolutely necessary.
One city businessman called civil
defense the biggest yawn in town." We
know what he meant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
Planning Poppycock

Reckless attacks against the Metro
politan Washington Council Of Govern
ments by miSinformed local politicians
are one thing. The calculated TRADE Just
unleashed against the council by Jesse F.
Nicholson, the director of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, who knows better, is quite
another.
In letter directed to the proposal
that the metropolitan council, composed
Of local governing officials, take a
stronger hand in co-ordinating regional
planning, Mr.. Nicholson says it is "quite
apparent that the aim of the MWCOG
is super metropolitan government to
the detriment of local governments and
local autonomy" This is nonsense. APP
parently Mr.. Nicholson and his bosses
are worried stiff that an effective area
wide planning process might jeopardize
their own bi-county planning empire in
Maryland We think they need not be.
Ironically, the charges made by Mr..
Nicholson against the council are vir-
tually identical with those made many
times against his own commission by
those who would like to see Montgomery
and Prince Georges planning broken up
and lodged directly in the county gov
ernments. On these occasions we have
defended the Maryland commission,
which for the most part has done an
excellent job and which offers the clos
est approximation to effective regional
planning the Washington area has seen.
Indeed, 1t is precisely this record which
argues so forcefully for better co-or-
dination Of planning in the region as
whole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
Babel and u Thont

In the long Introductory section Of
his long annual report to the United
Nations, Secretary General U Thant has
struck an optimistic note. The U. NJ,
he thinks, has survived "criSiS Of con-
fidence," and it should gain steadily in
strength from year to year.
Not the least reason for this, ac-
cording to Mr.. Thant, is the world or
ganization'S progress toward univer-
salty" With rather startling rapidity,
the General Assembly's membership has
grown from the original 81 nations to
the present Ill, and more applicants
are on the way. In Mr.. Thant's judy
ment, such proliferation is good thing
that Should be maintained and encour-
aged, and should not be reversed, even
when situations arise involving deep
emotions and strong convictions"
Maybe. But this ever-growing null
tiplication Of members has In 1t the
makings Of new Tower of Babel. Most
Of the newcomers are small and rela-
lively primitive lands, but each has an
Assembly vote equal to that Of great
powers like Soviet Russia and the United
States. And each has the privilege, too,
and is fiercely intent upon exercising 1t,
Of having its representatives make long
winded speeches on any given issue-if
only for the sake of winning few head
lines, back home II not here.
This endless speech-making, in fact,
has injected a Supplying, mind-numb-
ing element into some Of the General
Assembly'S recent sessions. Certainly,
coupled with Afro-Asian bloc-voting, it
has more than once made the U. N. seem
Babel enough to put big question mark
over Mr.. Thant's optimism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29

Yesterday in Washington, all in all,
was good day. The fact that such
massive demonstration could be brought
off without serious mishap was in it
self historic. The organizers of the
demonstration, and local officials, de-
serve all our congratulations.
There was, not surprisingly, bitter
ness in the speeches. Yet the things
that seemed to set the mood of the
occasion and that stick in ones
mind today the good natured
things. The cheerful manners displayed
throughout . L. the expectant atmos-
phere at the Washington Monument as
each arriving group added its enthu-
Siasm to the congregation :. bobbing
signs on Sunlit Constitution avenue,
packed for an hour with a chanting
tide OF StrollerS tired feet being
cooled in the Rejecting Pool all
the singing-especially Mahalia Jackson,
suddenly bringing the crowd to roaring
life with her proud trumpet voice
the hypnotic swing of Martin Luther
Kings oratorical finale. And above it
all the Shadowy figure of Lincoln, pen
Sive and benevolent on his marble
throne.
The march, no doubt, gave Negroes
new confidence in themselves and what
they can accomplish; otherwise, it seems
unlikely to have much effect on civil
rights progress, one way or the other.
Not many minds were chanped-cer-
tainly not in Congress. Television watch
erS around the country who found them
selves moved by the proceedings were
not SegregationiSts when they tuned in.
Perhaps the zeal Of the marcherS them
selves, and Of other activiSts in the
cause, may have been sharpened by the
experience here. On the other hand,
surveys seem to indicate bad reaction,
in presumably sympathetic urban areas,
to the whole concept of this demonstra-
ton. Whether, on balance, the effort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29

con, who must be an officious fellow,
took it upon himself to order the map
business halted Ito protect the privacy
of the astronauts."
Cathleen'S mother, who would have
done nobly as head of the ladies' auxil-
larry at the Alamo, faced up to-and
faced down-the local Keystone. She
says her daughter will continue to sell
maps to tourists, city marshal or no
city marshal.
In appealing for Justice in the
Wakeland case, there are two main facts
that should be considered:
First, Mr.. c. Leo De OrSey Of Wash
ington, the aStronauts' legal representa-
tive Tor "mouthpiece') observed not
long ago in a Singularly ill-reaSoned
magazine article that privacy was one
of the things the astronautS had long
since given up. This stipulation by
counsel should be enough for the city
marshal.
Second, legal precedent for the SELL
ing Of celebrity maps clearly exists along
Hollywood, Sunset and Wiltshire boule-
wards in HouSton'S chief rival for pri-
macy in looniness. If anything, Cathy's
1O-cent maps are better deal than the
25-centerS hawked in L. A. At least
hers have the homes of real, live celeb
rites marked on them, while many Of
the movie star" residences are those
of Mae Busch, the late Irving Thalberg
and the third wife of Hoot Gibson.
AS long as there is so much Holly
wood in the space program, harmless
little thing like a sub-teen-ager's map
business ought to be allowed to operate
inpeace. AS for Red" Lancon, he should
go back to fighting crime-if such there
be in Taylor Lake Village, Texas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
Old Quote Timely

This quotation from Ed
mund Burke, 18th century
British statesman and au-
thor, seems particularly
timely.
Men are qualified for
civil liberty in exact proper
ton to their disposition to
put chains upon their own
appetites; in proportion as
their love Of justice is above
their rapacity; in proportion
as their soundneSs and So
briefly Of understanding is
above their vanity and pre-
sumption; in proportion as
they are more disposed to
listen to the counsels Of the
wise and good, in preference
to the flattery of knaves.
Society cannot exist I'M
less a controlling power up
on the will and appetite is
placed somewhere; and the
less Of 1t there is within, the
more there must be of it
without. 1t is ordained in
the eternal constitution of
things that men of intem-
perate habits cannot be free.
Their passions forge their
chains"
Bernard r.. DeRemer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
FOCUS ON THE NEWS
By CHARLES BARTLETT
GoIdwuter Currents, Pro and Con

winter. The Governor in
1852 was q Republican
Sherman Adams-who cam
paigned hard in Gen. Eisen-
hower's behalf. The State
now has its third Democratic
Governor since 1874 and the
junior Senator is a Democrat.
If Senator Cotton remains
above the battle, the faction
alism which has reduced the
party to its present state will
be encouraged by the vacuum
OF leadership and the di-
visions will be hardened.
To Avert Regeneration
Senator Cotton apparently
hopes, by a prompt and firm
stand, to avert some Of the
fragmentation and to lead
a Goldwater slate Of dele
gates to q solid victory that
can serve as q cornerstone
for the party's reconstruction.
1t Is clear already that he
will be opposed by former
Congressman Perkins Bass
and former Gov. Hugh
Gregg, who are ready to back
Gov. Rockefeller, but he is
expected to have the support
Of former Senator Robert
Upton, an influential Repub-
lican who led the States
delegation in 1860.
Senator Cotton's partici-
patton is prompted also by
a personal fondness for his
Senate colleague and a con-
viction that the Goldwater
candidacy can sweep out of
New Hampshire to prevail in
other primaries and dominate
the San Francisco convention.
The potential Importance
Of New Hampshire to Senator
Goldwater is affirmed by the
best Republican professional
thinking, including some that
is not partial to the Senator's
cause. His victory there on
the second Tuesday in March
would be a head start gained
in territory considered for
midable for a Western con-
sentative. 1t would advance
the effort, already diScerned
in Senator Goldwater's state
ments, to broaden his identi-
fication within the party and
present him as a man who
can win in every section.
Senator Goldwater has
been ambiguous In talking
Of his intentions toward the
primaries. He said on Au-
gust 10 that they were not
too important" and that he
would be inclined to stay out
of them if he became a can
didate. But more recently he
told the editors of U. S. News
and World Report that any
candidate would have to en-
ter enough Of them to con-
vince Republicans he could
get votes.
Conservatives view New
Hampshire cautiously because
Of Senator Taft's defeat there
in 1852 but Governor Rookie
Teller is going into the State,
and Senator Goldwater, en-
boldened by his impressive
support, seems likely to take
the challenge.
@ 1868
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
Amazed by Bartlett

I read with amazement
Charles Bartlett's interpreta-
ton of the good that Robert
Kennedy has rendered to the
country and his brother, the
President. Bartlett is appar-
emily drawing his conclusions
from the Democratic press,
the Southern Governors Con-
ference and the lay Demo-
cratic politician.
I have just finished an ex-
tended tour Of New England,
the Great Lakes area and on
to the West Coast. I was as
tonished at the low estate in
which Bobby Kennedy is held
by the lay citizens Of both
parties and the legal pro-
fession. In my opinion, these
are the people, and not the
politicians, who will elect the
next President, and 1t will
not be Kennedy. 1t is uni
versally felt that Bobby Ken
nedy's conduct has been re-
sponsible for most Of the up
heavals. For Bartlett to give
him credit as a great medi-
ator Of unsavory conditions
he creates, places a new con-
cept on greatness.
A Senator recently asked,
us Bobby Kennedy stupid or
just naive as to the interest
the Communists have in these
uprisingsp" There was a time
when the outstanding ]. Ed
gar Hoover knew and could
name the Communists who
participate in such disorders.
But, this is no longer possible
when the Attorney General is
so involved. For the Attorney
General to preach disobedi-
ence Of local laws and to fur
nish Federal legal aid to the
violators. is a new concept
OF justice. He apparently
does not believe in Justice
under Law"
Sam Goldman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29

of the lawn. Instead, I an
American citizen, do subscribe
to the United States Consti-
tuition, and, more specifically,
to its Preamble, which reads:
1--WE, the People of the Unit
ed States, in order to form q
more perfect Union, establish
justice, insure domestic tran
guilty, provide for the COM
mon defense, prom o tie the
general welfare, and secure
the blessing of liberty to our
selves and our posterity, do
ordain and esta Bills h this
Constitution for the United
States of America"
Betty White Mailman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
Affairs of State

It's too bad that the forces
Of political conservatism are
so weak and dissipated.
Under the Kennedy admin
istration the conservatives
were again defeated, and
they could not save Noise
Tshombe and Katanga, nor
Gen. Salan and French AL
geria, nor Portuguese Goa,
nor Dutch New Guinea.
The aforesaid defeats have
been in the tradition Of
China, Cuba and Eastern Eu-
rope. II the State Depart
ment has its way the tradi-
ton will carry on and be ex-
tended to South Wet Nam.
That is why the State De-
partment is out to get Presi-
dent Diem, his brother Ngo
Dinh Nhu, and Madame Nhu.
Ronald H. Harner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
PEOPLE AND PROBLEMS
The South and Its Schools
By RALPH McGHL

schools on probation. Four
have been on and off proba-
ton in recent years. Three
have eScaped-so far-with
warnings.
DR.. Wizards exhaustive
examination into the Ma
tons medical schools Illus
trates the situation with two
groups. Group One includes
the 10 medical schools with
the largest expenditures in
1960-61. Group Two contains
the 10 with the lowest ex-
penditures. Can interesting
coincidence is that each
group has six private and
four public institutions.)
In 1960-61 the 10 schools
in Group One averaged $11.3
millions per school. Group
Two averaged SIT million.
Federal grants for research
naturally-and properly
went largely to the Group
One institutions. They had
the faculty to do the needed
research. They also had the
physical facilities, or well
equipped laboratories, con-
tanning the newest machines
including computers.
Gap Widens
Group One schools aver
aged 291 full-time faculty
members, compared with So
in Group Two, despite the
fact the number Of students
taught in the top group was
only one and half times
more than in the lower. DR..
Willard warns that the gap
widens from year to year.
One Of the perpetually
painful realities in medical
education is that the costs
are great and tuition has
never been enough to pay
the bill. There are today As
private and Al public medi-
cal schools with the neces-
sary generalization. This to-
tai is 10 more than that Of
1910. The costs, however,
tell quite another story. An
nual operating expenditures
of approved schools in 1910
was $32 million. In l960-6l.
with but 10 additional
schools. annual expenditure
was $436 million.
The Southern problem, for
obvious reasons, is the most
formidable.
(All Rights Reserved)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
SIur on Library

Harry N. peterson, Llbrar-
ian of the District of Column
bia, is juStifiably distressed
by the misleading report
prepared by International
Research Associates, Inc, for
the American Library Asso-
citation. The report brackets
Washington with Birming-
ham, Alabama, in having the
greatest racial inequality in
library services.
AS a former staff member
of the District Library and
as a longtime user of its
services, I am in a position
to question this statement
and to doubt the validity of
any report which has been
SO 'capriciously prepared.
1t is, Of course, true that
there has never been Segrega-
ton in the use of the library;
the report admits that. AS to
the quality and quantity of
service to the Negro sections
of the city, I know that some
Of the largest and best
equipped branches in the
system are in heavily Negro
areas. The new branches are
being built where needed,
without regard to race. The
Central Library, with a
wealth of resources and
trained personnel, is located
in a section of the city which
is almost totally Negro and
economically under privi-
legged, too.
1t might be noted, too, that
the staff of the Public Library
has been completely inte-
grated for years.
Mr.. Peterson is fighting for
a retraction of the slur
against his fine library sys-
TEN, and he deserves the sup
port of the entire community.
Margaret M. Mulcahy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry iDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSG-
ton. Those not used tDiH be
returned only Dhen accom-
panied BY self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-29

CONCORD, N. H.-The in
stinct to seek a compromise
between Nelson Rockefeller
and Barry Goldwater is ap-
parent among some Of this
States Republicans, who are
pressed already toward COM
mitments in the presidential
primary next March.
The instinct is particularly
keen among Republicans who
consider themselves to the
left of Senator Goldwater.
They are conscious that the
basic issue Of conservative
versus liberal Republicanism,
an old and intense one in
New Hampshire, will be mud
died in a Goldwater-R Rookie
Teller contest by the per-
sisting female resentment
against the latter's divorce
and remarriage.
Aroused women are a po-
tent force in q presidential
primary, and these moderate
Republicans would be more
assured If they could tie their
cause to q less handicapped
figure than the New York
Governor. But the nature Of
the primary law makes it
unlikely that compromise
choices will be on the ballot
and the present indication is
that the States Republicans
will be required to choose be-
tween Senator Goldwater and
Governor Rockefeller.
If it were not for the re-
marriage issue, the Governor
would be q good bet in this
contest. New Hampshire Re-
publicans went four to three
for Dwight Eisenhower over
Robert Taft in the 1852 pri-
mary. The Governor enjoys
the advantages Of geographic
proximity and Of well-placed
connections that stem from
his association with Dart
mouth College.
Move by Cotton
But the polarization Of the
conservatives against him will
be accelerated by the inten-
ton Of the States leading
Republican, Senator Norris
Cotton, to employ the pri-
mary to rally his party's dis
hevelled condition. Senator
Cotton has not said whom he
will support, but Senator
Goldwater's people appear
confident that he will come
out early and hard for their
man.
Senator Cotton's willing
ness to involve himself is an
impressive indication Of the
tide that is running for the
Arizona Senator. He Is not
known for a readiness to ex-
pose himself to needless fric-
ton and some of his close
supporters, including his fl
nancial agent, Dudley Orr,
will be in Gov. Rockefeller'S
corner. He could easily seek
the refuge of the precedent
set In 1852 by Senators Styles
Bridges and Charles Tobey,
who avoided active roles in
the Eisenhower Taft primary.
But Senator Cotton Is re-
ported to feel that abStention
is q luxury which he and the
party cannot afford this