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Interest Seen Rejecting Judgment
That G o. p. Needs Fresh Figure

slider Republican offers Of
support until he has had
time to learn whether he can
work effectively with Presi-
dent johnson. This could be
a matter Of some months
and the practical politicians
know that the pressureS will
be great to settle quickly
upon q candidate.
But the interest In McNa-
mara reflects the judgment
Of many important Republic
cans that the party should
try in the new situation to
find q strong. fresh figure
who can rekindle the buoy
ant appeal Of Mr.. Kennedy
and align the energies and
ideals of the younger genera
lions against Mr.. johnson.
A clear division IN the top
ranks Of the party has ap-
peared already in regard to
Richard Nixon. National
Chairman william Miller
predicted to 8 meeting Of
Republican officials last week
that the party's sentiments
will now swing from Barry
Goldwater to Nixon as q can
date whose experience could
be matched against President
Johnson's.
But the case for Nixon is
stiffly opposed by some Of
the men who worked hardest
for his election in 1860.
Many Of the strategists and
contributors who went down
with Nixon retained the Bit
terneSs Of their diSappoint-
ment In his campaign. Their
doubts we're deepened by his
defeat in California in 1862
and they are reluctant to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-03

For several months now,
the American people have
been puzzled as to whether
anyone in the Government Of
the United States may, on q
formal or official occasion,
ask people to pray to God. In
fact. ever since the Supreme
Courts decision which ruled
that public school teachers
could not be directed by
State or local governmental
authorities to use q particu-
lar prayer In the classroom,
there has been q question as
to what mention Of the SUI
preme Being would be per-
MISSILE in official functions.
It Is known, Of course, that
atheists have been insisting
that there should be no SEM
blance Of religious worship in
the public schools. but many
citizens who do believe In
God have assumed that the
Supreme Court sooner or la
ter would clarity its position
and permit voluntary prayers
in public schools.
It was, therefore, rather
significant to note the fire.
quent references to prayers
to God which have been
made in public speeches
these last few days.
In the address, for in
stance. which President Lyn-
don johnson delivered before
the Joint session Of Congress
on November ~. he said:
"On this Thanksgiving eve,
as we gather together to ask
the Lords blessing and give
Him our thanks, let US unite
in those familiar and cher
ished words: America, Amer
lea, God shed His grace on
thee. and crown thy good
with brotherhood from sea to
shining sea-"
In the Thanksgiving pro-
clamation which had been is
sued on November 4 to the
American people, the late
President Kennedy said:
"Over three centuries ago
our forefathers in Virginia
and in Massachusetts, far
from home in q lonely will
derness set aside a time for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-03
DAVID LAWRENCE
Tragedy and Public Prayers

ION this Thanksgiving
Day. as we gather In the
warmth Of our families, in
the mutual love and respect
which we have for one an
other, and as we bow our
heads in submission to Div
inc Providence, let us also
thank God for the years
that He gave us inspiration
through His servant, John F
Kennedy.
Let US today renew our
dedication to the ideals that
are American. Let Us pray
for His divine wisdom in
banishing from our land
any injustice or intolerance
or oppression to any Of our
fellow Americans. whatever
their opinion, whatever the
color Of their Skins-for God
made all Of US, not some Of
us, In His image. All Of Us.
not Just some Of US. are His
children.
And, finally. to you as
your President, I ask that
you remember your country
and remember me each day
in your prayers. and I pledge
to you the best within me to
work for q new American
greatness, q new day when
peace Is more secure, when
justice Is more universal.
when freedom Is more strong
in every home Of all man
kind"
These numerous references
to prayer and to the Deity,
coming as they do from the
highest official In the Gov
eminent Of the United
States, are bound to be re-
garded by many people as
proof that to mention God or
to refer In public speeches to
prayer Is not to be construed
as IAN establishment Of reli-
gion" in the sense in which
the Constitution uses the
phrase. Indeed, there are
many citizens who feel that
while prayers Of any kind
can, Of course. be said In the
home or In churches or in
public meetings, the recent
trend which would Danish
any religious exercises in the
public schools can only, in
the long run, mean that OPP
portunities will be missed to
teach public-school students
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-03
Need Seen to Undue School Children
More Deeply With the Golden Rule

Thanksgiving. On the APP
pointed day. they gave rev.
erent thanks for their safety,
for the health Of their chill
dren, for the fertility Of their
fields, for the laws which
bound them together and for
the faith which united them
under their God.
80, too, when the colonies
achieved their independence,
our first President In the
first year Of his first admin
istration proclaimed Novem-
Der 20. 1889, as q day Of
public Thanksgiving and
prayer to be observed by &C
knowledging with grateful
hearts the many signal ia
vors Of Almighty God and
called upon the people Of the
new Republic to 'beseech
Him to pardon our national
and other transgreSsions &.
to promote the knowledge
and practice Of true religion
and virtue and generally
to grant unto all mankind
such q degree Of temporal
prosperity as He alone knows
to be best
ION that day November
28) let US gather In sanctuar-
les dedicated to worship and
In homes blessed by family
affection to express our gra-
titude for the glorious gifts
Of God; and let us earnestly
and humbly pray that He
will continue to guide and
sustain US In the great unfit
nished tasks Of achieving
peace, justice and under
standing among all men and
all nations and Of ending mi
sery and suffering wherever
they exist"
ON Thanksgiving Day,
President johnson spoke over
radio and televiSion to the
American people. He referred
to Mr.. Kennedy's proclama-
ton and said:
Tonight, on this Thanks
giving, I come before you
to ask your help, to ask your
strength. to ask your prayers
that God may guard this
Republic and guide my
every labor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-03

the foundations Of morality
and good behavior.
Chief Justice Warren. in
his comment on the assassi-
nation Of President Kennedy,
declared 1t was "a result Of
the hatred and bitterness
that has been injected into
the life Of our Nation by
bigots." And he said In con-
clusion, May God protect
our Nation in this hour Of
crisis"
But while people generally
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-03

NEW YORK CTTY.-One
innovation to emerge from
the Republican reassess-
ments Of recent days has
been a scattered but signifi-
cant enthusiasm for the
possibility of moving to Rob-
ert Mcnamara as the party'S
candidate for President.
The luster Of the young
and brilliant Secretary of
Defense prompted some
Republican figures to discuss,
before the death Of John F.
Kennedy, a strategy Of ap-
preaching him to run against
his Chief in 1864. This was
dropped because it was fanci-
ful-a loyal bond OF conf
dence. respect and friendship
had grown between the two
men.
One functioned as a politi-
cal leader and the other as
an administrator, but their
closeness grew from the swift
precision of their minds and
their mutual sense Of the
need to be bold in making
decisions and living with
them. Mcnamara formed,
along with Robert Kennedy
and Douglas Dillon. the in
ner circle of the Cabinet.
The Secretary Of Defense
has shown an instinct. since
the Presidents death, to
press on with his Job and he
may remain beyond the
reach Of the Republicans.
But he is a venturesome man
whose absorption into FEEDER
al life might now suffice.
some feel. to persuade him to
accept a broader role.
One difficulty Is that Nc
Namara may decline to con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-03
Kennedy Deoth Viewed os Not in Vain
II 1t BRINGS People to Their Senses

the poor. those of the politi-
cal right who hate and those
Of the left.
Americans are struggling
for the soul Of their country.
A century ago the struggle
by means of free discussion
broke down. The Govern
ment broke down. the Nation
broke apart, Lincoln died.
and vengeance took posses
sion Of men otherwise good.
John Kennedy has died in
the midst Of this present
struggle for the national
soul. q kind Of civil war. in
which the cohorts are many
and the battle lines not very
clear. It Is not q complete
answer to say that one indi-
vidual lunatic was RESPONSE
BILE and that all cities, all
countries have their lunatics.
His lunaey was fortified by
its alignment with one Of
m any irrational political
mystiQues. The additional
furieS that his act released
destroyed him in turn, as the
furies released by John
wilkes Booth destroyed
Booth a hundred years ago.
The events Of this past
week have pulled aside the
curtain Of our rationaliza-
ton, our old habits Of mind
and have revealed the naked
state Of the American soul.
The history Of this genera
ton has never allowed this
people to rest and to calm its
spirit. We have been sobered
and frightened by q great
depression, radically rea-
ligned in the social revolu-
ton that followed, caught up
in two long wars, one-in
Korea-that we could not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-03

will wish TO see hatred and
bigotry eliminated from COM
munity life. they will also
recognize that such q
utopian mood will not come
about unless school children,
as well as grownups. are
more deeply imbued with the
golden rule mentioned in the
Bible and the spirit Of con-
Citation which Is 20 neces-
sary to solve the troublous
problems Of Q free republic.
GO Ip6s)
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The signed columns on these pages like the
cartoon beoD, intended to present Star readers
NTH Dtde range Of opinions on issues Of the day.
including opinions t0htch conflict Nth our otDn
The Stars UtetDs are expressed In its editorials
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-03
Theology Talk Slated

DR.. Norman L. Trott. preSi-
dent Of Wesley Theological
Seminary. will speak on train
ing ministers ct 7:45 pm.
Thursday In Forestville Metho-
dist Church, Great Falls, Va.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1963-01-19

completed United States Air
Force basic military training
here.
Airman Livingston will re-
main at Lakeland for training
and duty ~ m air policeman. .
A graduate Of Lanier Junior
Senior High School, he attend
ed Jackson (Miss.) State Cole
lege.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1963-01-19
In The Service

Lakeland AFB, Tex. - Air
man Basic Macarthur Lewis, son
Of Mrs. Ella Lewis Of Rt. 2, Ed
wards, Miss, is being reassign-
ed to Keesler AFB, Miss, for
technical training as q United
States Air Force radar operator.
Airman Lewis, who completed
the first phase Of his military
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1963-01-19

training here, was selected for
the specialized course on the
basis Of his interest and apti-
tudes.
The airman il . 1851 graduate
Of Utica (Miss.) High School.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1963-01-19

Lakeland AFB, Tex. - Air
man Third Class Robert L. Liv.
ingston, son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Marvin Livingston of 1892 Ave.
nue. "H", Jackson, Miss, ha.
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Patronixs Our Advertiser
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15

plunged into an abyss of injustice
where they experience the bleak
ness of corroding despair. You can
understand our legitimate and un-
avoidable impatience.
The Negro's great stumbling
block in the stride toward free
dom is not the White Citizens s
Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner,
but the white moderate who Is
more devoted to order" than to
justice; who prefers a negative
peace which is the absence Of ten
sion to a positive peace which is
the presence Of justice; who con-
stantly says II agree with you in
the goal you seek, but can't
agree with your methods of direct
action; who paternahstically feels
that he can set the timetable for
another mans freedom; who lives
by the myth Of time and who con-
stantly advises the Negro to wait
until a more convenient season.
shallow understanding from
people of goodwill is more frus-
trating than absolute misunder-
standing from people of i'll will
Lukewarm acceptance is much
more bewildering than outright re-
lection.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15

ible Negro students take advant
age Of it.
REZONING which Is Otter
the same as ungerrymander1ng. II
San Francisco, mostly white Grant
School lies near mostly Negrc
Emerson School in a rectangular
area cut by a horizontal attend
ance line; made vertical, the line
would integrate both schools. New
York City's school coming boss, As
sistant Superintendent Francis A.
Turner, a Negro, is such a skilled
miNmaster that balanced schools
are rapidly increasing.
THE PRINCETON PLAN, 80
called for the New Jersey town
that devised it, Formerly segre-
gated schools are rematched, so
that one school accommodates all
children of perhaps three grades,
a second school the next three,
and 50 on. This works we'll in small
communities, might do in big cities
by clustering each grade group In
several nearby schools 10 avoid
long bus trips.
RECOMMENDATION. An ex-
ample: A Negro elementary school
can be turned into a Junior high
school serving a wider area, or
into school for gifted or retarded
children, while the original pupils
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15

sky, and see her begin to distort
her little personality by uncon-
sciously developing a bitterness TO-
ward white people; when you have
to concoct an answer for a five
year-old son asking in agonizing
pathos: Daddy, why do white
people treat colored people so
mean %; when you take a cross
country drive and find it neces-
sary to sleep night after night in
the uncomfortable corners of your
automobile because no motel will
accept you; when you are humil-
lated day in and day out by nag
ging signs reading white" and
"colored"; when your first name
becomes niger, your middle
name becomes boy Chowever old
you are) and your last name be-
comes "John", and when your wife
and mother are never given the
respected title Mrs; when you
are harried by day and haunted by
night by the fact that you are a
Negro, living constantly at tiptoe
stance never quite knowing what
to expect next, and plagued with
inner fears and outer resentments;
when you are forever fighting a
degenerating sense of nobody
ness; then you will understand
why we find it difficult to wait.
There comes a time when the
cup of endurance runs over, and
men are no longer willing to be
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15

coins pupils on the whole did bet
ter, except for some who landed
in a white school that overwhelm-
ed them. Because two-fifths Of
Ldncoln's pupils chose 10 remain,
New Rochelle Is now closing the
65-year-old building assigning the
children to balanced schools, and
launching an extensive bus service
10 help keep the entire city de-
segregated.
ON THE ATTACK. The expert
ence Of New Rochelle Is a case
history in a development that Is
spreading across the Northern
US: movement against de facto
segregation Of schools. Victory In
New Rochelle spurred the NAACP
to a successful attack ON de facto
school segregation last year in a
dozen Northern communities, from
CoatesWlle, Pa, 10 Eloy, Ariz.
This summer 1t Is ''mobilizing d.
rect action" In 70 cities through
out 18 Northern and Western
states. School boards are respond
ing, and many a change will have
been made by September. All kinds
of tools are being tried. Samples:
OPEN ENROLMENT. The
most widely used method 50 far,
1t modifies the neighborhood-school
concept enough to let students Of
mostly Negro schools transfer to
mostly white schools that have
sufficient room. Open enrolment
was pioneered in New York City,
Is used or will be starting In some
form next September In Baltimore,
Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, San
Francisco and many smaller cities.
Usually only a fraction Of the elig-
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15

CONGRATULATIONS -.
To Mr.. Cecil Newman and staff Of the
Minneapolis SPOKESMAN & St. Paul RECORDER:
This 29th Anniversary, and others before
II have been a constant reminder Of your
pluck, how quickly Time passes, and how
continued progress Is made."
Charles LilIey Horn
President,
Federal Cartridge Corporation
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15

UOo long oeIayeQ Is JuSuce demed' '.
We have waited for more than
$40 years for our constitutional
and Godgiven rights. The nations
of Asia and Africa are moving
with jetlike speed toward the goal
Of political independence and we
stfn creep at horse-and-buggy
pace toward the gaining of a cup
OF coffee at a lunch counter.
I guess 1t Is easy for those who
have never felt the stinging facts
OF segregation to say "Watt!"
But when you have seen vicious
mobs lynch your mothers and
fathers at will and drown your
sisters and brothers at whim;
when you have seen hate-fined
policemen curse, kick, brutalize,
and even kiln your black brothers
and sisters with impunity; when
you see the vast majority Of your
20 million Negro brothers smother
ing in an alright cage of poverty
In the midst of an affuent society;
when you suddenly find your ton
que twisted and your speech stam-
mering as you seek to explain to
your six-year-old daughter why
she can't go 10 the public amuse-
ment park that has just been ad-
vertised on televiSion, and see
tears yelling up in her little eyes
when she Is told that Funtown is
closed to colored children, and see
the depressing clouds of inferioity
begin TO form In her little mental
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15

convicted IN q tederal court ol
gerrymandering 10 promote segre-
cation. Case in point: Lincoln Ele-
mentary School, 94% Negro.
More in hurt than anger, New
Rochelle defended Lincoln as a
typical "neighborhood school" that,
like Topsy. just grew that way,
The trial told a different story,
Back in 1880, the school board
redrew lines to make the Lincoln
district match the Negro area It
also allowed whites TO transfer out
and they did. BY 1949 the school
was 1909 Negro.
The board tried 30 bring resi-
dent whites back TO the school by
revohng transfers. Instead, whites
switched TO private and parochial
schools or moved away, making
the district more Negro than ever.
By 1850 Ldncoln's pupils In gen.
eral were academically behind ev-
cry other elementary school In
town. The board, nobly 1t thought,
got a ctty-wide vote to build a fine
new Lincoln on the same spot.
Negro parents comtered with a
federal suit on then-novel grounds;
it Is just as unconstitutional to
compel Negroes to attend a de
facto segregated school in the
North as a de jure segregated
school in the South.
Federal Judge Irving r. Kauf-
man did not decide that question
(ror has any other federal court
50 far). He ruled only that gerry
Wandering had violated equal pro-
lection under the 18th Amend
ment. The outcome logged white
minds all over the North. Given
free access 10 other schools, Lin
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15
Two Negroes Named TO
OkIohomu Rights Body;
One May Be Direefo

Oklahoma City (ANP) - Two
Negroes were named by Oklahoma
Governor Henry Bellmon to the
new nine man Oklahoma Human
Rights Commission. The Governor
named T. w. Harris, Tulsa pharm-
acist; and retired Army Major
William Rose. Rose is the Cover
nor's choice for director of the
commission.
The commission was created
during the last session of the Okla
homa Legislature.
The appropriation amounts to
$50, 1000 for a two year period. The
directors salary is $4,000 annual
lY,
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15
SECOND SECTION
are sent to other schools.

SCHOOL SPOTTING. New
schools are built only In areas Of
integrated housing. For fast
changing big cities, the latest idea
Is educational parks" putting all
new schools in one or several cent
raj clusters. Last week a New
York City board Of education men,
Continued on Page S-B)
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15
DC. Commissioners Promise
Effort To EIiminafe
hoSpifdI Bios In cunifu

Washington CANP) - Washing.
ton Negro doctors received the
promise from the District of Col.
umbia Commissioners to make q
renewed effort to eliminate dis.
elimination against physicians by
Washington private hospitals.
DR.. Mitchell w. Spellman, presi.
dent of the Medico- -Chirurgical
Society, reported the Commission.
ers' promise after a meeting with
Commissioner John B. Duncan and
Engineer Commissioner Charles M
Duke.
The Commissioners pledged tc
authorize the Washington, DC
Council on Human Relations tc
negotiate with the hospitals and
report back to the Commission In
September.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15
You'll Be Seeing
More Of This Mark

The Peavey Diamond is one of
the best known trademarks in
the Upper Midwest. Since 1874,
Peavey has helped farmers pro-
duce and market food products
for you and your family.
Recently the Peavey Diamond
has taken on this modern dress.
It will soon identify Peavey
Company services everywhere.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15
TIME MagGzine Reports On
De FaCto School
School Segregation
In Northern Cities
(From TIME Magazine, August 2, 1859

In 1860 most of the 1900 citizens of New Rochelle N.Y.
viewed school segregation disease confined distant
likes of Little Rock, Ark The towns ethnc mix-149o Negro
300 Jewish 45%O Irish and Italian Cathocwas faithfully
reflected in the high school that the Voice of America
touted shining example of ntegraed education Only
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15
Why The Negro Will No
Longer Wait For Rights
By the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom never voluntarily given the psO must demanded by the oppressed
timetable
familiarity amosa
to
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15

John A. Ash, chemist, and DR..
George Washington Carver, both
Negroes, compounded ingredients
and made discoveries that ran into
thousands of by-products.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-08-15

DR.. Spellman attended the Univ.
ersity of Minnesota and married
a st. Paul girl.
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