davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-16
Jimmy Speech
PrOds Pupils on
Opportunities

Youngsters have a choice to-
day of leaning on their handi-
caps or using their opportuni-
ties. a member of Congress told
Eastern High School students
today.
You can use the learning
process to elevate yourselves,
or you can think Of your handi-
cap and stay where you are.
said Representative Hawkins,
Democrat of California.
He addressed some LOO
members Of the student body
as part Of the Future for
Jimmy" project Of the Wash
ington Urban League which en-
lists the aid of national and
community leaders to encour-
age junior and senior high
school students to stay in
school.
All Have Handicaps
Almost every one has handi-
caps. real or imaginary. Mr..
Hawkins told the students. but
great men and great women
have risen in spite of them. He
pointed out that Congress is
working to eliminate some of
the handicapS. including those
in the fields of education and
civil rights.
IT believe in your generation
It will become increasingly
true that whatever you want
to be, you will be able to be"
he said.
But unless we have your
cooperation, your application
to your duties and your studies
unless we have you prepared.
have individuals worthy OF
these experimentation this
legislation will be Of no value
to any Of US"
Job Field Shrinking
Jobs of the unSkilled type
are becoming steadily scarcer,
and there will be great COM
petition in the future labor
market, the legislator told the
students.
Urging the students to stay
in high school and think OF
going on to college If possible,
Mr.. Hawkins also suggested
that they begin to think in
terms of specific skills for
which they think they may be
qualified.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-16

B-6 THE EVENING STAR
Stk Woshisston. D. c.
Mednesdsy. Oetobef Is. 1850
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-16

Cleaning chromolite fin
ish, pIostic-cooted to stoy
bright. Two rings, adjust
able bar. FIuted pole.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
FideI Ben Bella

President Ahmed Ben Bella, who
has done masterful Job in endowing
himself with virtually interchangeable
dictatorial power over Algeria now
SeemS'to be intent upon making himself
the Fidel Castro of North Africa. At
any rate, besides repeatedly reminding
everybody that he very much admires
the Kremlin's man in Havana, he has
been deliberately oStentatiouS in thumb
ing his nose at the French and the free
world in general
He has done this by ending freedom
OF the press and proclaiming that he
intends to carry out his Socialist revo-
luton" at the fastest possible pace,
without worrying about Western reac-
tions or down-to-earth political and
economic realities. This is the way Fidel,
with or without Moscow's instructions,
has operated in Cuba, and Mr.. Ben Bella
apparently feels that Algeria should be
run in pretty much the same fashion.
So there is nothing surprising about his
ever-accelerating campaign to nation
alize" everything from soup to nuts,
industrially and agriculturally, in Alge-
ria.
French officials, however, from
President de Gaulle on down, appear to
think that Mr.. Ben Bella is just spouting
nonsense. After all, France is supplying
Algeria with aid totaling about $4OO
million year. How can the Algerian
regime ignore this? Paris thinks the
answer is Self-evident. Maybe it is, but
AlgeriaS Fidel, who is facing the pos
sibility Of armed opposition from dis
Sident elements in Algeria, may be as
unpredictable as Havana's "a and as
foolish and dangerous.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Wolf!

We are as keen as the next news
paper for solidarity among publishers,
and all that sort Of thing. But honestly,
it's hard to work up much enthusiasm
for the battle being waged by some Of
our friends against alleged moves to
set up Federal news agency.
The details Of this controversy are
examined exhaustively elsewhere in to-
days Star, One thing this country
doesn't need is another Tass-everybody
agrees on that. But the Agriculture De-
partments marketing wire service and
the new government communications
network are not conceived as steps
in that direction. Nor do they seem
likely to develop unbidden into a Frank
enstRin monster-assuming reasonable
Evening star., 1963-09-30
The Biq Heist

Along with everybody else, we like
to believe that most Americans are
basically honest. A nation built on the
installment plan could not otherwise
exist. Yet there is strange fascination
most Of us have with crime, not petty
everyday crime, but grandiose, all-or-
nothing CANDLES for instant fortune, II
not fame.
Until a few weeks ago this country
boasted Of the biggest and neatest
robberies In modern history. Nothing
in fiction surpassed the Boston Drinks
holdup ($l,2l9,0O0) Of 1850 and 1t was
more than IL years before that record
was topped In the 81 ISL ,227 Plymouth
(Mass) mail truck job
Then, one year later, almost to the
day, our amateur criminologists suffered
their darkest hour. That was the day
Cheddington, England, literally stole
the title, beating the Americans at their
own game with the $7-million train
robbery. The coup was so daring that
our British cousins are said to have
thought at first that 1t must have been
pulled off by American crooks. The sub
sequent realization that 1t was an all
British job provided welcome lift to
their national self-esteem
Now, obviously, homegrown thieves
are trying hard to get back in COM
petition. The other day-in Chicago,
appropriately enough, three men sacked
a Polish-American museum Of 81 million
worth OF loot, including treasures Of the
late Ignace Paderewski. 1t is small
thing, but our own-and 1t serves to
remind the world that we are still, after
ALL in the ball game. When bigger and
better heists are made, Americans will
make them.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Hope in Combridqe

Mrs. Gloria Richardson, despite her
strange alliance with the segregation
lists, may help to bridge the racial gap
in Cambridge, Md, where the voters
tomorrow must approve or reject a
proposal to outlaw discrimination in
restaurants, hotels and the like.
This, Of course, is not Mrs Rich
ardson'S intention. Nor will it be the
result II she succeeds in her purpose
to defeat the proposal Whatever her
inteptionS, or motivationS, the end
toward which her efforts clearly point
is chaos, not harmony. And while chaos
may serve some personal, private am
bition Of Mrs Richardson's, 1t will be
destructive of the best interests of other
people, white and colored, in Cambridge
There remains, however, the posi-
bility and, we hope, the probability
that the charter amendment will be
ratified by majority of the voters,
whites as we'll as Negroes. If this
happens, and there are those including
such business leaders as Edward Power
who predict that it will happen, the
effect should be to pull the community
together rather than to tear it apart.
Adoption of the amendment would be
a triumph for responsible leadership in
Cambridge, for those white and colored
leaders who want to move forward in
harmony rather than fall back into
mutually ruinous strife. Hopefully, a
victory in the referendum, by the same
token, ought to serve to diScredit the
extremists and rebuff their effort to
take control in the troubled town on
the Eastern Shore.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
THE PASSING SCENE
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
Wet Nam: Solid Policy Needed

A political cloud a good
deal bigger than any mans
hand is gathering over the
Kennedy administration in
the continuing and worsen-
ing confusion as to what our
policy in South Wet Nam
really is.
The President some days
ago plainly indicated that he
did not propose to allow the
incessant liberal criticism
here Of the South Vietnam-
ese leader, Ngo Dinh Diem,
to cause the United States to
run out on that regime and
thus lose a desperately nee
essary war against Commu-
mist invaders. Some $4,000
American troops are out there
helping Diem's forces.
Eye on the Ball
The policy of the United
States, Mr.. Kennedy said in
substance, would be to sup
port whatever promoted the
war effort and to oppose
whatever might interfer e
with it. The net of it was
that, while this Government
cid not regard Diem as per-
feet and would not hesitate
to check him in what we be-
lieve to be his excesses
a against the Buddhists, we
were not going to allow his
shortcomings to cause the
war itself to be lost.
Having laid down this line,
the President then sent Sec
retary of Defense Robert
Mcnamara and Gen. Max
we'll Taylor, Chairman Of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, to
South Wet Nam to review
the whole situation. So far,
so good. 1t looked as if we
were going to keep our eye
strictly on the ball.
But now, even before the
Presidents emissaries have
had a chance to finish their
mission, the American AM
bassador to South Wet Nam,
Henry Cabot Lodge, has de-
voted his first public state
ment In his new post to a
puerile d citation of
Diem's sister-in-law, Madam
Ngo Dinh Nhu. That she has
been q great nuisance is
beyond doubt. Nor can any
American withhold resent
ment Of the latest of her idi-
ocies, her attack upon "the
little soldiers of fortune"
among our troops in Wet
Nam.
Still, the fact that AmbaS-
sador Lodge-no doubt with
State Department instruc-
tion-has seen fit to act as
though M a d a m e Nhu, and
not the invading Communists,
was the real enemy in South
east Asia is a chilling one
to those here at home who
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Patriot GoIdwoter

In 1895 President George
Washington in his farewell
address to the citizens Of the
United States of America
stated: THE great rule of
conduct for us in regard to
foreign nations, is, in extend
ing our common relations, to
have with them as little
political connections as pos
sible. 1t is our true policy to
steer clear of permanent
alliances with any portion of
the foreign world"
In short his essage
meant: Do not become in
volved with foreign entangle-
mentS.
Thank heaven we have to-
day among our midst a true
patriot who espouses the
same wisdom. None other
than the Honorable Barry
Goldwater.
r. G. TiIlett,
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Quizzes Educators

According to The Star, the
Montgomery County School
Board listened to a half-hour
criticism Of school textbooks
by Mrs. Helen M. Burton, q
member Of the county John
Birch Society.
This incident raises several
questions in matters Of pro-
priety. legality, and demo-
cratic procedure:
/. Did Mrs. Burton request
the platform of a school
board meeting to present her
views? II so, who gave her
the permission?
2. Was Mrs. Burton asked
TO present her views2 II so,
what member or members Of
the board did the asking?
g. Do Mrs. Burton's views
represent the views Of the
board members? II so, this
raises further questions re-
garding the degree to which
the crackpot John Birch So
ciety is behind the continual
irrational proposals made by
Charles Bell and other "con-
servative" m e m bers Of the
board.
4 Is 1t proper for an elect
ed school board to relinquish
a half hour OF its meeting
time to a propaganda for
the extreme right without
allowing equal time for the
extreme left2
5, Isn't 1t about time for
Mr.. Bell and his henchmen
TO let the voters OF Mont
gomery know II they (a) re-
ject the John Birch Society,
tb) are fellow travellers Of
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Advice From the West

The unqualified promises of support
for the Metropolitan Washington Coun-
Gil of Governments which were ex-
pressed the other night by three Demo-
crats-Governor TaWeS of Maryland,
Lieutenant Governor Goodwin of Vir-
ginia and District Commissioner Walter
Tobriner-Were all very heartening.
But the Soundest counsel for the Wash
ington region came from a Republican
from the Far West.
1t was the simple premise of Gov
ernor Mark Hatfield of Oregon, in his
speech at the Council Of Governments
annual dinner-meeting, that there is no
hope for effective regional programs
unless locally-elected politicians are
willing to move beyond their own
bailiwicks into the less familiar arena
Of metropolitan-area policy making.
In his own urban region of Salem,
Ore, the Governor said, metropolitan
development programs floundered, as
they have here, until the elected repre-
SentativeS Of its five major Jurisdictions
agreed to formal compact of volun-
tary cooperation" Some time ago,
regional planners sought to achieve a
better coordination of services and
facilities in the Salem area by trying to
persuade local jurisdictions to bring
their capital improvement programs
more directly in line with regional
plans. The effort had only limited sue
cess, Governor Hatfield said, because
the planners were mot able to approach
the more important problems such as
the coordination Of the scheduling of
bond and special levy elections, the
balancing of overall community expen-
ditureS =. and the many other policy
decisions which require action by the
responsible elected officials" Accord
ingly, he said:
We are now in the process Of revising the
planning operation to bring it more directly
under the guidance Of our Council of Govern
ments. Planning is futile unless it is related
to decision making. Unless such connection
between planning and decision exists, a
metropolitan area faces confusion conten-
ton and the chaos Of inaction that would
cost us dearly in the years ahead.
Governor Hatfield could just as we'll
have been speaking of the Washington
area. The current proposal of our
own Council of Governments to seek a
congressional charter which would give
its members direct voice in regional
planning policies is step in the same
direction that Salem is following.
The Governor went on to say that
In Oregon, as in Washington, local
officials have no inclination toward
super government" nor toward the
reduction of power from any existing
government. But they apparently have
reached the conclusion, as our own local
officials in Montgomery County and
Alexandria unfortunately still have not,
that practical politics on the regional
level is essential to the well-being of
everyone who lives in the regional
community.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Prove the Need

When the Montgomery County
Council refused last spring to provide
money for 200 additional teachers, it
questioned the need for them. Well,
the fall term is we'll under way now;
the sad facts and figures are finally
available. And at joint meeting to-
morrow, the county school board will
have an opportunity to prove to the
council members just how wrong they
were.
The job should not be difficult.
The fall enrolment, as predicted many
months ago, is nearly 5000 pupils above
the 1862 level And to most people,
this statistic alone would be a fairly
conclusive indication of the need for
more teachers than the school system
had last year. The council members,
however, have made it plain that they
put little stock in such generalizations.
They say they want positive proof Of
hardship. We trust the school board
has done its homework sufficiently we'll
to provide tin great detail.
The school board already has
drastically reduced its original request
for 200 new teachers. BY skimping on
the funds appropriated earlier, and
hiring greater number OF lower
salaried teachers than it ordinarily
would have done, the board has man
aged to place some 80 additional
teachers on the rolls. 1t now is asking
for funds (Which already are being
held in reServe) to hire only 80 more.
This is not, as the school board terms
it, merely conservative" request. 1t
is an absolute minimum which at best
can only partially relieve the squeeze.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Students Appeal

I am a student in senior
high school and I plan to at
tend a reputable college or
university after graduation
in June of next year. AS you
know, most colleges require
examinations before an ap-
plication is even considered
by a committee. To be prop
erly prepared for these ex-
aminations, a student must
begin to study for this bat
terry of tests no later than his
sophomore year.
However, I do not know If
I have been given a fair
chance to compete, through
no fault of mine or my
teachers. For no matter how
competent a teacher may be,
If he doesn't have modern
and informative textbooks
and enough time for individ-
ual attention, he cannot
possibly do his best. nor can
his students gain sufficient
knowledge.
My entire future depends
on how I am educated in
high school. I must not only
pass the college entrance ex-
aminations but also have a
sound foundation in order to
remain in college.
I am hoping that you will
continue to stress in your
newspaper the Importance Of
smaller classes In our public
schools. Congress must realize
that my classmates and I
will suffer greatly in the fu-
ture If something is not done
Immediately.
roroI A UI0vd
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Crusodes for Safety

Over IS years ago, because
my mother and several other
members of my family had
been injured in serious auto
mobile accidents, I gave up
my private medical practice
and became a full-time life
saving expert" I began ad-
vocating putting governors on
cars, and preaching Slow
Down and Live" Slower
Driving Means a Lower Death
and Injury Rate" Death Be-
gins at 40" and I'VE need not
license boys and girls until 2l
unless they need to drive to
make a living. Let them walk
or ride a bicycle as they do IN
Holland and other countries
where fewer people are killed
by cars"
Because I was on the ma
tional staff of the American
Red Cross, and 1t gave me
prestige, editors ard other
people listened to me. Beyond
doubt, my efforts then saved
many lives, for had convic-
tions which helped persuade
others to slow their driving
down to 40 and even 35 miles
an hour. Many governors
were put on cars then, and
they were set to keep the
driving speeds always below
35 or 40. Now people are
often arrested If they drive
at those speeds on certain
speedways.
Speed has become king Of
the highways. and editors and
drivers seem to listen only to
the National Safety Council.
But the National Safety Coun-
Gil has proven to be quite
inadequate as far as saving
lives and preventing injuries
on our highways and streets
is concerned.
We should bring back the
old slower and safer driving
habit, and put governors on
all cars and trucks II we really
wish TO save lives and prevent
the injuries that are daily
causing despair, misery and
distress in so many American
homes. We are brainwashed
by comparing one holidays
death toll with another.
/ am still advocating that
governors be put on all cars.
I still believe that so miles an
hour is the top speed limit OF
safety for all rubber-tired
automobiles. and that it is
not possible TO limit Griving
speeds TO so without using
governors.
Until we revise legal AUTO
mobile speed limits downward
all over America, no progress
can be made in improving
our inexcusably bad automo-
bile death and injury rate.
All other methods have been
given fair trials and found
sadly wanting.
Adrian H. ScOlten, M. u.
Portland. Me.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Racial Strife

The racial crisis has
reached a state where the
Federal Government should
be allowed to take over. Pub
lie menaceS are roaming the
streets amidst the turmoil
causing violence which often
results in death. Religious
leaders are afraid to call
prayer meetings in fear of
bombingS, people stay in
their houses for fear of being
shot at; there are numerous
cases Of both.
1t Is imperative that i'm
mediate measures be taken
to remedy the situation. Each
OF us has a duty to see that
an end is brought to the
racial violence which now
plaques our lives.
Lawrence Duane Sherman.
1t seems to be taking a
long time for Gov. Wallace
to acquaint himself with the
fact that he can't fight the
Federal Government. Not
long after blocking the ad-
mission Of two Negro stu
dents into the University of
Alabama, Wallace repeated
his actions by refusing the
integration of Alabama's
public schools. Again, like
before, President Kennedy
h a d Alabama's National
Guard federalized. In the
future, Wallace will cam
paign against the Kennedys,
the President and Attorney
General, whom he hates al.
most as much as integration.
Now there is talk Of private
schools for white people only.
II this goes through. the in
tegration merry-go-round of
riots and shame will turn
once more. The Negroes of
the South are fed up with
promises, promises that lead
them down the long, hopeful
road OF equality only to see
a big sign in Alabama which
reads, mo Negroes Allowed"
Bruce Yamasaki.
Evening star., 1963-09-30

support American interven-
ton in the war.
Never, surely, has the
might and m a jesty Of the
United States been drawn up
against so ill-chosen and so
absurdly small a target as the
bitter and wagging tongue
of somebody's Sister-in-law.
1t is like mounting an artil-
lery piece and then firing
through its great NAV a 90
caliber rifle loaded with
blanks. It is silly beyond
ready belief.
To attack Madame Nhu is,
Of course, not against a the
law. 1t is only a violation of
common sense and an almost
incredible malpractice in
statecraft. First of all, 1t in
flates her Importance out of
all reason. Second, and more
important, 1t raises the gra-
vest question as to whether
the Presidents directive - to
get on with the war and stop
all the nonsense - is actual
ly being followed.
Danger of a Storm
The question is not in the
mind merely of one inde-
pendent columniSt. 1t is also
In the minds - and deeply
So-of some of the most
powerful Democratic con-
gressional politicians. These
men have long been worried
by the administrations ap-
parent inability to stop the
backstabbing internal argu-
ment over Vietnamese policy
that is going on all over
official Washington. Now
they are in something like
panic, as has just been illus
trated by the little noticed
decision Of a House Foreign
Affairs subcommittee to
make an on-the-spot survey
in South Wet Nam.
These politicians, in short,
see the cloud in the sky that
the administration apparent
ly will not see. They think,
and rightly so, that If this
Government goes on endless
ly concerning itself with the
shor tcomings Of Diem's
family, instead of the perils
posed by the Com m u mis- t
marauders, a political storm
is going to break one day. If
it does, it will be a hurricane.
The administration cannot
afford - and more impor-
tantly this country cannot
afford - another mess like
Cuba or China. If we talk
ourselves out Of South Wet
Nam we will talk ourselves
out of Southeast Asia - and
then to our national interests
and to the administrations
political interests the deluge
will come.
n 1o62
Evening star., 1963-09-30

vigilance on the part of the ree-enter-
prise press, which is a reasonable as
sumption.
In our zeal to protect freedom of
the press, we must bear in mind what
happened to the boy who yelled Wolf!
Wolff" too often. One day the wolf
really came. But, by then, nobody was
listening.