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St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17

Gram the pubcs of the phy DRY Points
which appear on this editorial page had unique manner of saying
from his home which labeled THE
Creamery some of the best paragraphs he had written during the
While every
for his New Years struck worth repnng decided
to do it right
Wrote Gram
A real estate developer a is to
mission of hattenng the landscape and elevating its
The houses todays market chronological marvels
electromagnetic dust and odor sedung climate
trolls switchboard lighting faucets with
matte everything Also handy manual on what to do till the repair
n a o
industry: sagger the commercials on a
schedule that will let programs
The Russians outraged bewded delegates
elderly festival induged
and demonstrations against their rannies This illustrates the diff
ncultes of communication this very
difficult to understand language and impossible
their
happy planets by
poets rather than scentss
done a
Venus but at Planet SO?
Regarding government lone
might proferae all country somebody
the
movies on Tv tells us that the
later it is, the earlier they
hunting many hunters
chickens
Commentary advertising thinner maga-
is, the thicker
experts investigated report conditions of outer
congenial mankind
finite genius for overcoming all obstacles has not given up surely
this obstacle will be by the time
is little more than an eyewinl in eternity.
That rebel yell from Dixie a
The mpote
libel Just predcaby hour follows
lows day. thirteenth will eway
pause to let you out of a parking space.
Mr. KS intelligence nfable
he had rockets Cuba and
Business item arpane makers
precarous position They still making
to drive them.
Higher education in Mississippi
out of Lewis CarrOl Keeling Wrting RecrminaiOn Ugan
Distraction
Today's movies famed critic
things anything absolutely
still be dirty?
TOdays novel study
shock the dayhghts of
in the first chapter
Regarding
produced by the farmers stockp produced
Electric, General Motors, General Macarthur
India surprised indignant invasion
her face Is not red a It
The Mcclellan Committee accomplished
failing establish working
prostitutes.
The arguments between many
expert confused nothing
is that the Party Line looks
While the cold sometimes
baseball continues off,
the brush back pitch instead Of the beanban.
Status symbols a guy by
he any.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17
Letters To The Editor

Editor: In the Publishers Corn
er in the Thursday, Jan. 10, '63,
Spokesman and Recorder is a dis
cussion about the term "pickanin-
n.y."
I have two different dictionaries,
viz Webster's New Collegiate Die
tionary, copyright 1853, based on
Webster's New International Die
tionary, second edition; and Web
ster's New World Dictionary of the
American Language, College Edi-
ton, copyright 1860, based upon
and including material from Web
ster's New World Dictionary, En-
cyclopedic Edition.
In the former dictionary pick
aninny is defined as: "a small
child; - applied in the United
States to a colored child" In the
latter dictionary pickaninny is de-
fined as: "a Negro baby or child:
a patronizing or contemptuous
term"
From the nature of these defini-
tions it seems quite clear that pub
lie usage Of the appellation in con-
versation is to be avoided, except
in proper circumstances, in order
not to offend or hurt people in
general. doubt if most white par
ents would like to have their small
children called little "ofays" in
public.
Discussion and study Of word
usage is interesting and enIghten-
ing, but the open public use of
seemingly or really derogatory
terms in conversation, or in sour
rilous print, can only create con-
fused and sometimes outright bad
feelings in various people who lis
ten or overhear what Is spoken
Sincerely yours, Quentin ferguson,
622 18th AV. S., Minneapolis,
MINI.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17
Chains And Links OF
Communication

Jane Jacobs, in THE Death and Life Of Great
American Cities (Random House, 1861.
When my sister and first came to New York
from small city, used to amuse ourselves with
a game called Messages suppose we were try
Ing in dim way, to get grip the great be-
wildering world into which had come from our
cocoon. The idea to pick two wildly dissmilar
individuals-say a headhunter in the Solomon
Islands and a cobbler in Rock Island nlinos-and
assume that one had to get a message to the other
by word of mouth; then would each silently
figure out plausible, or at least possible chain
of persons through whom the message could go.
The one who could make the shortest plausible
chain of messages won. The headhunter would speak
the trader who came to buy copra, who would speak
to the Australian patrol officer when he came
through, who would tell the who was next
slated to go to Melbourne leave, etc. Down at
the other end the cobber would hear from his priest
who got it from state senator, who got it from
the governor etc. We soon had these close-to-home
messengers down to a routine for almost everybody
could conjure up but would get tangled in
long chains at the middle until we began employing
possible to skip whole chains of intermediate
nections. She knew the most unlikely people. The
world shrank remarkably. 1t shrank right out Of
game, which became too cut and dried.
city district requires a small quota of its
own Mrs. Roosevelts-people who know unlikely
people, and therefore eliminate the necessity for
long chains of communication (Which in real life
would not occur at ALL
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17
i CALLED BAD TASTE
VIEWS & OPINIONS
THE WORLD OVER
EMANCIPATION CENTENNIAL

Historians who like to bubble
can easily show that the Fourth OF
July is the wrong date for cele-
brating the Declaration of Inde-
pendence Independence was de-
clared on July 2, 1776). So like
wise, historical spoil-sports can
make light of today's centennial of
President Lincoln's emancipation
proclamation.
They can point out that slavery
was not actually abolished on a
national basis before the adoption
of the Thirteenth Amendment
(Which took place in 1865, two
years later).
But the popular reading of his
tory brushes aside such cavils,
just as it clings to the Fourth of
July as the birthday of independ-
ence. Mankind needs symbols to
live by, and once established a
symbol can have more reality than
mere fact. Historians to the con-
trary, the emancipation proclama-
ton freed the slaves and so is
one of the turning points of our
history.-BaItimOre SUN.
Now, 100 years later, emancipa-
ton continues. There are no longer
slaves in a legal sense. But there
are men and women In this nation
where equality is proclaimed who
still suffer discrimination because
of their color. This anniversary OF
a noble act Of government is a
good time to resolve that Lin
coins full aim must be attained
with all possible speed.-Milwau-
kee JOURNAL.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17

s. H. Archer, president Of More
house college, Atlanta, died.
January 16, 1S46 - Convention
Of New England workers at Lynn,
Mass, adopt resolution against Ne
gro slavery.
January II, 1708 - Benjamin
Franklin, supporter of anti-slavery
movement, born.
January 18, 1856 - DR.. Daniel
Hale Williams, first doctor to per-
form a successful heart operation,
was born in Pennsylvania. DIR. Will
Iams, a Negro, was the surgeon
who helped found Provident hosp1-
tai in Chicago. He died Aug. 4,
1881.
January 10. 1918 - John H.
johnson, publisher Of Ebony, Jet,
Tan magazines, was born in Ark
ansas City, Ark.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17

omically-depressed areas Of the
United States?
Many Americans may not be
aware that the need for such help
exists in this richest of nations,
but it does. In city slums, in de-
pressed mining areas, on Indian
reservations and elsewhere, people
are living under conditions similar
to or scarcely better than those in
places where members of the Peace
Corps are working.
Whether the program would
work as well in this country as it
is working in foreign countries
could not very well be known un-
til tried, but it would be well for
Congress to give it earnest con-
sideration. Any substantial reduc-
ton in illiteracy, poverty and ig-
norance in the United States would
result in great benefit to the
country as a whole. - Houston
POST.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17
GOV. BARNETT, THE
SALESMAN

An out Of state governor flew
into Chicago the other day and In
Wited a group of bankers and in.
dustrialists to lunch in an effort to
induce them to invest in his state
His state, he said, is a good place
to build factories and to do bus
mess.
If the governor is serious about
Turing outside investment, he had
best start - as many of his home
state businessmen have been tell.
ing him - by proving that he be-
lieves in the law of the land and
will uphold it.-MiIwauIxee JOUR
NAL.
It would be well, in our opinion
if the American people could be
permitted to express their prefer
ence, by secret ballot, for control
of the public schools by the federal
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17

courts or by the several states.
Gov. Ross Barnett Of Mississippi
is urging that the Congress ar
range for a referendum to deter
mine what the people actually
want in this regard.
AS much as we would like to
see the governors urging achieve
success, we doubt that the voters
are going to be given any chance
to express themselves on the ques-
ton of who should control the
schools. The supreme court and
other federal courts already have
spoken on the subject - in a way
which this newspaper did not ap-
prove. - New Orleans TIMES
DWT a URTArr
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17
FRANKLY SPEAKING
BY Everett Luoma

Occasionally a reporter appears
on the American scene who takes
the duties Of a reporter seriously.
He feels an obligation to his read
ers to report the news as he sees
it despite restrictions that may be
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17
DRY POINTS
BY FRED GRAM

The formalities Of organizing
are over, and our lawmakers across
the country are knuckling down
to the hard work Of legislating, to
the accompaniment Of often vitu-
perative debate. After the swear
ings in, the cussings out.
A disquieting thing about many
Of the underdeveloped countries is
the overdeveloped interest their
political leaders take in the weap-
ons of aggression and total des-
truchon.
Phone users are organizing to
oppose the digit system of dialing,
They complain that phone books
get out Of date fast enough any.
how, and now are becoming hardly
more permanent than a world
atlas.
A food chain has won the right
to operate its own drug stores
thus establishing the principle that
you don't need a pharmacists
license to run an establishment
selling books, hardware, appliances
hosiery, groceries, paint and wall.
paper, phonograph records, beer
and aspirin tablets.
Idle thought, while inspecting
one OF the country's redeveloped
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17

placed upon him.
Such a report
er is William
Worthy, foreign
correspondent for
the Baltimore Az
fro = American,
who was sent
.enced to three
months in prison
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17
DOMESTIC PEACE CORPS

The remarkable success of the
Peace Corps in the countries in
which it is operating has raised the
question: Why not have a similar
organization to help those in econ
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17
Our Past This Week
Clip for Negro History scrapboo

Clip for Negro History ScrapbOOk
January 13, 1869 - First con-
vention Of Negro labor in the us.
January 10, 1922 - Col. Charles
Young, West Point graduate, died
in Africa
January 13, 1873 - c. c. An
tome became lieutenant governor
to w. P. Kellog in Louisiana.
January 13, 1941 - The Four
Freedom proclaimed by Great
Britain and America.
January IA, 1928 - Bishop Ben
jamin T. Tanner, AME church
leader, died.
January IA, 1907 - Jamaica
earthquake occurred.
January IS, 1881 - Dean Will
liam Pickens, author and NAACP
field secretary, was born in An
derson County, s. C.
January Is, 1941 - Professor
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17

downtowns: when are they going
to bring in the elephants, bareback
riders, and peanuts and popcorn {?
St. Paul recorder., 1963-01-17

Idle thought, while inspecting
one OF the country's redeveloped
Evening star., 1963-04-28
ART AND ARTISTS
ART AND ARTISTS
Corcoron Show Gives Modern Art
New Roots in American Legend

lie pTONlIlCldl CneSlS COL
lapses completely when you
turn around and see that not
only did Americans produce
modern art, they even pro-
duced abstract art move
ments complete with mani
festoS. There on the wall are
four extremely attractive
small works by Morgan Rus
sell and Stanton MacDon-
ald-Wright, the Synchromists
of 1912.
Stronger Than Ever
BY the time you enter the
second room of the show at
the Corcoran, you forget all
about the thesis. More i'm
portant things engage you.
The show reminds you that
not only was there modern
art in America way back be-
fore the Big Dripper, but 1t
flourished and grew strong
throughout the period cov-
cred, 1900 to 1910. 1t had i'm
menSe variety and still does,
for that matter: many Of the
artists represented here re-
fused to lie down when Sold
that they were dead. Many
are still working and their
art, brilliantly reviewed at
the Corcoran, now seems
stronger than ever.
The scope of the show is
more readily defined by what
is missing. Absent are the
Eight and their heirs, except
for Prendergast and Kuhn;
American Realism except for
Edward Hopper; Social Real
ism except for Ben Shahn;
Symbolic Realism except for
Peter Blume. What is left is
the forty-year achievement
of American artists in seeing
their country anew with new
artistic means suitable to the
new world that was emerg-
ing in those years.
A Contrast
This concern with the new
world makes all the differ
ence between this art of "The
New Tradition" and the Eu-
ropean art on which, in some
ways, some of it is aestheti-
cally based.
In the new art Of Europe
there was a single-minded
concentration on the art it
self, hence the use of tradi-
tional subjects, most notably
the still life arrangement;
hence, too, the simple-min
conclusion drawn by some
observers that in the goth
century subject doesn't count
any more. 1t counted a great
deal with the Americans Of
the New Tradition.
Start with Marin, who was
painting distractions some
years before Kandinsky. The
Russian followed his abstrac-
tions into pure theory where
he believed he found the key
to pure art. The American
didn't. He absorbed the ex-
perience of abstraction and
was out of it before Kandin-
sky was in. Marin's DISPOSE
tions of water color on paper
are beautiful to see; they are
also records Of the artists
actions, until lately thought
to be the point of painting;
but they are also lyric. lovely
views of the American coun-
try from the Delaware to
Maine.
A Stunning Work
Evening star., 1963-04-28
Smithsonian

The graphic arts division Of
the Smithsonian is currently
exhibiting a dozen and a half
Autographs by early masters
Of the art. Inevitably. several
of the artists are more impor-
tant as early than as masters,
but there are nice things in the
show.
Thomas Shotter Boys is In
with one Of the first colored
Autographs. a Paris street
scene. There's a late Goya bull
fight Of great interest and q
very sensitive Bennington view
Of Paris with light and shadow
nicely contrasted. OF interest
on several counts is a self-por-
trait that may be by Demon,
Napoleon's art-forager
who became director of the
Louvre. The artist used litho-
graph as II 1t were engraving,
falling back on the patchwork
lines that engravers had long
before developed as a kind of
net cast over form.
For Gericault with Napoleon
in the Alps. and for Ingres with
an odalisque in the harem, the
lithograph was clearly just a
handy device for giving their
painting images wider circula-
tion.
AS practically every exhibi-
ton in the department does
this one demonstrates anew the
appalling fact that in all Of
Washington there is not ade-
quate exhibition space for
prints. AS he often does,
Curator Jacob Kainen has
produced show OF great in
terest and II is all but lost
in the corridor he has for
space.
Evening star., 1963-04-28
BY FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

For the last dozen years
the canard has been more or
less aSsiduously put about
that modern art in America
began only when Jackson
Pollock successfully dripped
automobile enamel onto su-
pine canvas: that before that
peak in Darien our artists
were not only slaves to
brushes, oil paint and canvas
stretched and upright, but
they mostly painted buffalo
in the style of Bierstadt or
sylphs in that of Sargent.
One of the aims of THE
New Tradition" just opened
at the Concoran Gallery of
Art, is to expose this bit of
folklore for the provincial
nonsense it is. The aim is at
tained as you enter the first
room and see the first pic
ture, Joseph Stella's Spring"
a rising, graceful, swirling
Evening star., 1963-04-28
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven
teenth street and New York avenue
NV. Daily 10 am. TO 4:30 pm,
Saturday, = am. to pm: Sun
day and holidays, 2 TO pm.
closed Monday.
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH IL
BRARY AND COLLECTION. 170(
Thirty second street NV. Closed
indefinitely.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and jefferson drive S.W
Daily, Q am. to 4:30 pm,
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINI
ART, Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily. 8 Am. TO 4:3C
pm,
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Consti,
tuition avenue at Sixth street NV
Daily, 10 am. to B pm; Sunday
pm, to 10 pm.
PAN AMERICAN UNION. Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue NV
Daily, 10 am. to PM; Sunday
. to 5 pm.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION. 1912 Twenty.
first street NV. Daily, IL am. Il
9 pm: Monday, 2 to pm.
WASHINGTON GALLERY OF MODERN
ART, 1903 Twenty-first street NV
Tuesday through Saturday, IL am
to @ pm; Sunday. to B pm.
closed Monday. Admission, 80 cents
Evening star., 1963-04-28
TODAY'S RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS

$3.50, WIDOW - Camperama.
Live broadcast Of the folk
singing event in Wheaton,
Md, celebrating "the great
outdoors" The station will
cover the event in 20 five
minute interviews through
out the day.
9:15, WMAL-Over the Gar
den Gate. DR.. Betty Bloom
offers tips on early spring
garden and landscape care.
1:55, WTOP-Baseball Wash
ington Senators VS.. the
Kansas City Athletics. From
d. c. Stadium.
2:O5, WRC - Youth Forum.
what Is the Answer to
School Drop-Outs?" is dis
cuSsed by Ersa Poston Of
New York States Division
of Youth office.
$500, WMAL - The Shadow.
Drama. Death Rides High. "
Refugees trying to enter the
United States find their lives
endangered.
6:3O-Meet the Press. Senator
Symington. Democrat OF
Missouri.
7:35, WTOP Capitol Cloak
room. Senator John @.
Tower Is guest.
$500, WAVA-FM tI05.I Mel
Music Americana. Songs by
the Kingston Trio, Odetta,
the Swagmen, Bob Gibson
and Bob Camp.
$3.50, WAMU-FM 1885 Mc.)-
Folio. Performance OF the
drama. Mrs. Simoon," a
comic version OF the Faust
theme.
$3.50, WGAY-FM (99.5 Me- -
Joseph Conrad. Louis Rob-
erts Of Northeastern Univer-
sity discusses the writer and
his major works.
1000, WAMU 1855 Mc.l -
Story Behind the Theater
1.-THE Director" Interview,
with Lee Foley, director Of
the Equity Library Theatei
for Children and Ann Gut.
dici, who staged THE Auto.
mobile Graveyard"
ll:OO, WMAL-Adlai Steven.
son Reports. Misc Pavicevic
Yugoslavian Ambassador II
the United Nations, is guest
Evening star., 1963-04-28
jefferson Place

Colin Greenly has a new
exhibition at the jefferson
Place Gallery and It's worth a
visit II only for historical rea-
sons. AS far as Is known Mr..
Greenly is the only Washing
ton artist working in the Sas-
katchewan style practiced at
the university in that Cana
dian middle west province.
Within the general limits OBJ
served at Saskatoon. Mr..
Greenly has created his own
manner and the work Is
pleasant TO look at.
Evening star., 1963-04-28
A Stunning Work

Or take Georgia O'Keeffe's
stunning work of 1919, From
the Plains" It's an abstract
composition and a beauty;
but it is also a statement
about the American land
comprising clouds billowing
over distant mountains, the
deep blue of space, the edge
of the earth'S curve and the
pursuit of nights shadow by
cutting daylight.
Maurice Prendergast SINH
larly uses a high developed
personal way of painting as
if he were weaving; but of
the warp and woof Of his
art comes an American scene
of quiet, public leisure, the
figures, the trees, the very
air held still for our con-
temptation.
The Goth Century
The goth century as subject
matter was largely ignored
by the great Frenchmen. For
their Italian disciples, it was
all speed and Fascismo. But
at the Corcoran now 1t is
pure delight to follow such a
goth century theme as in
dustrial production. Start
with Sheeler and within his
work, start with that austere
classic, Bucks County Barn. "
The simplicity of the forms,
the cleanness of the surfaces
will turn up in the artists
industrial landscapes. but he
found them first in the old
American workaday world.
The qualities are present
In a couple of Sheeler's in
teriors as we'll as his indus
trial scene. Charles Demuth
who was witty In his titles
calls one industrial scene
incense OF a New Church, .
but the artist himself Is q
member OF the congregation
The rising smokestacks dc
suggest banked organ pipes
the clouds OF smoke those
Of incense, and yet both
painter and viewer are forced
to admire. II not TO wor.
ship. the new power achieved
by the goth century indus.
trial American.
Variations on a Theme
The theme has many vari.
ations In the show. Its cul.
mination can be taken TO bC
the full-size Alexander Cal.
L.. ...AlN- HNRNt sst-a !
Evening star., 1963-04-28
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