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paign among employees Of
Eastern Air Lines. Flights be-
tween San Juan and the Vir-
gin Islands were arranged by
Caribair.
After chatting with Cover
nor Rockefeller and delivering
to him a letter Of greeting
from Governor Ralph Pale
wonsky the boys received
pens and trinkets from the
Governor.
During the tour by the Viz
gin Islands boys they stayed
with Fresh Air Friendly Town
families in New Jersey and
Westchester County, New
York, made a sightseeing tour
of New York City which in
Guided the Empire State Build
ing, the subways and high
ways, the Broadway are, etc.
The boys also were guests for
ten DAYS at Camp Marks
Memorial, one of the Herald
Tribune Fresh Air Funds
camps in Duchess COUNTY
New York. Here they mingled
with boys from all parts Of
New York in a complete
camping program.
Each came back with a har-
monica, gift Of the Fresh Air
Fund.
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PROPOSED

plan would be a negotlated
sale which may be derived
from the current book value
of the assets involved. The CO
operative could not afford to
bid against major ~off-island
investors or corporations, nor
could it afford to bid against
the local government. It could
pay a fair negotiated price ;
but its very nature as a locally
organized non-profit coopera-
tive effort would prohibit its
competing in price with finan-
cial giants.
1t is requested that at the
time Of sale that Vicorp allow
very reasonable credit terms.
1t is suggested the down pay
ment be about so and the
term of payment as long a
period as the Board deems
practical. If this is not accept
able then other mutually &C
ceptable arrangements can be
made. In the short period OF
our exploration of the feast
bility of the coop plan suffi-
cient indications Of support
have been received from inter
ested citizens to convince US
that the funds for the go
down payment would be forth
coming from widespread COM
munity backing of the stock
subscription plan.
This plan of a local coopera-
tive is. sound from every as
pect, morally, philosophically
politically, and commercially.
In addition to these positive
reasons, the negative reasons
alternatives if we, the citizens
on st. Croix sit back and let
others look out for us-are
not attractive.
The first alternative as it
now stands would probably
be for the local government to
take over this operation. No.
ore, not even those in the
local government who are
willing to take it over, claims
that they would be able to run
it efficiently or properly. All
OF US have sorry memories OF
our telephone system three
years ago when it was operat-
ed by the v. /. government.
Now we do have an efficient
system operated by private
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ing off-isIand corporation, fol-
lowed by higher power rates.
Even if the local government
could run it as well as a pri-
vate coop, our community
would suffer seriously in
other areas were the Power
Division sold to our govern
ment. Our government simp-
" cannot afford the purchase.
Funds would have to be divert
ed from the capital budget.
Only last month when discus
sions occurred regarding the
possibility of government pur-
chase high Administration Of
ficials stated that our com
munity capital Improvement
program would have to come
to a halt until the power prob
lem was solved. This halt can
not be. We need these various
capital improvements-they are
the rightful job Of the govern
ment. We as citizens cannot
do those jobs; but working CO.
operativelv we can take the
responsibility Of the power
operation, and free the Gov
eminent to do the other
things that must be done to
keep pace with our rapidly
growing community needs.
We will, however, need the
assurance of the local govern
ment that the franchise for
electric distribution will fol-
low the power equipment and
their cooperation in other
ways.
Nothing in this proposal
should hold UP any plans Of
the Board; whatever plans,
purchases or other commit
ments Vicorp has made, or
will make, will be taken over
by the cooperative.
All we are asking for is an
opportunity to help ourselves
we are not asking for char
.ity, donation, or aHotments or
grants. We need and are ask
ing for cooperation and help to
help our community. We are
fully confident that we are
capable Of taking the respon-
sibility, if the Board will give
US the necessary preliminary
aid.
It is respectfully requested
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
Welfare Reform

In his persistent and productive
harping on the administrative mess
within the District Welfare Department
last year, Senator Byrd of West Virginia
pointed up the utter inadequacy of lead
ership at the top. One aspect of this
inadequacy no doubt was organization
al. The director, for one thing, was so
directly burdened with operating re-
SponSibility that he became engulfed in
routine. Accordingly, team of GAO
and District management experts now
have proposed, and the Commissioners
tentatively have Endorsed, the estab-
liShment Of three deputies, having direct
responsibility respectively in the fields
OF administration, welfare institutions
and public assistance programs. These
are logical divisions of authority, and
we think that requests for funds to
establish the new jobs deserve the SYM
pathetic consideration Of Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
De GouHe's Voice

The hands which held the speech
were the hands of Alain Peyrefitte, the
French Information Minister. But the
voice was Enthusiastically that of Charles
de Gaulle.
Reporters had been alerted that
Mr.. Peyrefitte's remarks would be the
French reply to President KennedyS
Frankfurt speech in which the PreSi-
dent reStated the determination Of
the United States to defend Europe
even though the commitment might
mean that American cities would be
brought under nuclear attack.
The response from General de
Gaulle was nonSensical and almost in
credible. It recalled that the United
States in 1914 and 1899 had been slow
in coming to the rescue of France. This
is true. But it is also true that there
was nothing remotely resembling
commitment on either occasion. The
Associated Press dispatch commented
that the French statement overlooked"
the point that the NATO agreement
now in force guarantees United States
support from the first day of any
aggression against Europe. We think
that to say that this was Overlooked"
is too generous.
Even more incredible was the
second point Of the De Gaulle comment.
The French government it said, "has
never doubted the resolution of Presi-
dent Kennedy this comes as a bit of
surprised but it may well ask what
the successor of President Kennedy
may say in 10 years time" Comment
on this need not be lengthy. The
French government, meaning General
de Gaulle, does not know who will be
President of the United States 10 years
from now. Neither do we But we think
that this future President, whoever he
may be, will honor a commitment made
repeatedly by American Presidents un-
less the French, in the course of their
NATO-wrecking operation, destroy the
whole basis on which the commitment
rests. VIA @ f#
This brings us to a final point.
Some American commentators are sug-
costing that President Kennedy must
be wrong and General de Gaulle, in
some i'll defined concept of the fu-
ture, must be right. Walter Lippmann
summed it up the other day when he
wrote: II have come to think more and
more that the revival of the Western
Alliance depends upon a very good
understanding of the new ideas that
are coming out of France" Well, judged
by this latest sample, the new ideas
coming out of France simply are not
worth the effort involved in trying to
understand them. They have the mark
of Senility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
Order Must Prevail

Your editorial Order Must
Prevail" was weak. ] consider
this a re-affirmation of an
old doctrine called white is
right" There is no order in
this country. Order means "a
society Of people united by
some common rule Of obliga-
ton or honorary distinction"
The United States is in dis
order because many Of its
citizens are and have been
denied their rights. I am no
racist but I do know this
country was won by the ami
hilation of one culture, the
Indians and the enslavement
of another, the Negro. Yet,
white people love to think
that Indians are treacherous
and Negroes are lazy.
So, you see order is upside
down if there is any order in
this country. If America
wants order it will have to
stop standing on its head. 1t
is not a race riot when Ne
groes kick back. Negroes are
only trying to get the white
mans foot off the back of
their neck to bring order to
this disorderly America.
Ronald e. Stone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
Voting in Liberia

Am ASA d or S. Edward
Peal of Liberia recently used
your columns to excoriate
Senator Ellender of Louis
lana, and at the same time
piously to deplore racial dis
elimination in the United
States. I wonder how many
of your readers realize that
the Ambassadors own coun-
try extends the franchise
only to persons of Negro
blood. His undiplomatic dia-
tribe is the more invidious
because, whatever our short
comings, we do not by law
forbid Negroes the ballot.
Perhaps the Ambassadors
objection is that we allow
white people to vote, too!
Before pointing his fin
ger at others, the Ambassa-
dor would do well to set his
own house in order. More
over, he should take warning
that the United States is
clearly of a mind to withhold
aid from countries that do
not grant full civil rights to
all persons, regardless Of
race, creed or color.
Macon Fry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
Who Needs Him.?

One Of the very few governments
in-crisiS that the Presidents itinerary
planners somehow missed is the Austrian
one. The problem in Austria is posed by
Otto Won Hapsburg, exiled son of the
last emperor, who wants to come home
He has complied with the legal
requirement of loyalty oath to the
republic, but large part Of the Parlia-
ment thinks he doesn't mean it. He has
not foresworn his family's claims on the
rest of east Europe and some observers
think his return to old Vienna can only
bring trouble from CzechoSlovakia, Hun
gary, Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia and
even bits of Italy and Russia which once
belonged to his ancestors.
Mr.. Won Hapsburg himself has talked
vaguely of a pan-European Christian
federation, presided over by a ruler
"above politics." Guess who.
From the point Of view Of tourism
there's something to be said for having
the top Hapsburg in Vienna, a kind Of
Mozart Festival for people who don't
like music. But for ourselves, we sup
port the opposition to his return and
take a firm anti-Hapsburgian stand.
With the Berlin Wall and Polaris, with
Russians in Cuba and Americans in
Germany, East and West have their
hands full Both are entitled, in the
l96Os, not to have to worry about the
return of the Hapsburgs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
Toward AtIontic-Hoppinq

To be able to fly to London for the
price Of, say, three cases of scotch
whiSky-that would be a pretty fair
deal. Which is how Pan American World
Anyways feels about it, too. But nothing
is quite that simple on or off the ground
Pan Am President Juan T. Trippe must
have known he was throwing a shocker
at the competing European airlines with
his new proposal while also giving
United States carriers something to
think about.
The $3.50 thrift fare would trim $103
off the new economy-claSs rate which
takes effect July 16 And for those who
prefer Hawaii, the airline proposes flat
500 fare from California, a $33 reduc-
ton. The only hitch is what the other
airlines, the Civil Aeronautics Board and
the International Air Transport Associa-
ton have to say about the unprecedent-
ed slash proposals. The Hawaiian plan is
strictly domestic and could be effected
by November if the CAB concurs. The
European thrift package is knottier.
In addition to CAB and Trans World
Airlines, which has rate-cutting plans
Of its own, the competing European
airlines have say in the matter.
This spells trouble at the fall meet
ing of the IATA, the international rate
making body. One unfavorable vote
by any Of the European members will
block Pan Ans proposal. Only this
spring the British threatened to seize
American planes in a dispute over a
mere per cent fare adjustment. SO
it would be surprising indeed II Pan
ANS bargain rates sailed through I'M
opposed. What will happen is uncertain.
There could be compromise which still
would give passengers a lower fare
break. Or Pan Am could conceivably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
Past Is Dead

One has only to live under
Naziism - not above it as
Hitler did, but under it - to
learn of its despicable ma
ture. We cannot condemn
the Germ ans of today,
though they lived during
Hitler's Reich, for the Nazi
ideals just as we cannot con-
denim the Britons of today
for England's attitude during
our 18th century. Yet a let
ter to The Star asks a school
in Germany to mind its own
business (because of Ger
many and World War III,
after the students wrote to
America to ask for a solution
to the racial crisis. We
should realize that our racial
conditions look like huge,
gaping sores to the rest of
the world and cannot be rep
resentative of our stands on
human freedom. The past Is
dead; its only value is in
knowledge, experience, learn
ing gained and applied to-
day.
Jon Weissman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
Our Educational Dilemma Studied
By DONALD MIMI
AMERICAN .

AMERICAN EDUCATION
TODAY. Edited from the
Saturday Reviews Educa-
ton Supplement by Paul
Woodring and John Scan
lon. 292 PIP. (McGraw-Hill
Book Co.; $3.50
Henry Taylor, former pres
ident of Sarah Lawrence Col
lege, sees a division between
what he call liberals" and
conservatives"
&c. There is merit in the
criticism Of the kind Of false
liberalism that tries to over
come intellectual and social
inequality by smothering II in
sentiment" he writes. There
are differences in the capaci-
ties of children and there are
differences in their social sta
tus. They know it, their par
ents know it, their teachers
know it. :"
Yet "the conservatives pro-
gram of higher academic
standards and more subject
matter misses the entire
point; the problem of the
slum child is a total problem.
:. The problem is poverty,
poverty of every kind-cul-
tural, intellectual, economic,
and emotional"
For the purposes Of these
few sentences, DR.. Taylor has
obviously chosen to attack
the extremists on both sides.
He has chosen to strengthen
the attack by toying with
those loaded and not very
helpful words liberal" and
conservative"
1T WOULD BE NICE to
say that the expression of
these sentiments in the public
prints is an insulting waste
of everyone's time. But 1t
would not be true. And that
in itself is a measure Of the
seriousness of our current
educational dilemma.
American Education To-
day" is a contribution to-
ward understanding that di-
lemma. The book consists Of
articles that have appeared
in the Saturday Reviews
Supplement between 1850 and
1868. Though a few of the
essays are directed against
each other, the total impress
sion is that Of a series Of
monologues in which none Of
the basic Technology has
been defined.
Not that most Of the ar
ticles do not make sense in
dividually; most do. What
makes no sense is a good
deal of the debate that auto
matically arises when they
are printed together; each OF
the participants speaks a diff
ferent language and no trans
lators are at hand.
Moreover, there is one sec
ton Of the book (headed I'm
novations"D in which each in
dividual article is deeply de-
pressing.
First, Lester w. Nelson,
treasurer Of the Fund for the
Advancement Of Education,
delivers himself of some foun-
dalton prose whose meaning
is impossible to probe.
Then Jonathan King. sec
rotary of the Educational Fa-
cilities Laboratories, expounds
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far beyond voting. American
men have become so accus-
toned to being dominated by
their women that the word
"henpecked" must now be
regarded as a quaint ana
chroniSm. This probably is
not a bad state Of affairs.
The point here is only that
1t is the situation that ex-
lists.
To repeat, men and women
do not think alike. Harking
back to Miss Beale's salute
to Valentino, 1t surely must
be beyond the comprehen-
sion Of any man why the
highest ambition Of the
charming. and competent
Liz Carpenter, an assistant
to the Vice President Of the
United States, should be to
wander at will through the
premises of the National
Press Club. To equate this in
explicable desire with the
conviction that the United
States should send a woman
into space has to be consid-
cred an almost ludicrously
typical example Of lady logic.
One is baffled; at least one
is II one is not a lady.
Miss Beale and her fellow
saluters seem to feel that It
is better to be a woman b 4
Soviet Russia than in tlR
United States. But the OBJ
vious suggestion that comes
to mind will not be offered
here. For whereas the ladies
quoted by your columnist
are asking for Justice. we
men are pleading only for
mercy. Booth Mooney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01

@. Is there q difference
between cement and con-
crete?-R. d.
A. Yes, there is a distinct
difference, although people
frequently say cement"
when they mean concrete"
Cement is a finely powdered
substance which has strong
adhesive powers when COM
bined with water, Concrete
is made by mixing cement
and sand with gravel, broken
stone. or other aggregate.
@. Can a hippopotamus
stay under water very long?
B. H.
A. A hippopotamus can re-
main completely under water
for about IS minutes with
out coming up for air. The
animals nostrils are
equipped with special flaps
which close down when It
goes under water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
Wilson on RIGHTS

In his column, Putting
Rights Program Through"
Richard Wilson argues that
President Kennedy is too
late with too much. He con-
tends that Mr.. Kennedy has
been playing politics with
the rights Of Negroes and
therefore that is why such
legislation cannot be passed"
1t is saddening that a
great moral issue concerning
the rights of American cit
liens and involving the con-
science of a great nation
should be contorted by the
spokesman for the mot now"
proponents into a political
contest between a President
and the Congress.
If Congress fails to do
what is just and right,
that is, sense the changed
attitude in the Nation, then
well may ''the blame go
where it ought to" - on
the Americans who no longer
believe in the great moral
ideal Of democratic equality
for all citizens.
w. C. FIippen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01
Ability to Govern

Senator Ellender recently
stated that Negroes, in this
country and overseas, were
not fit to govern themselves.
May I, as an American who
remembers with gratitude
his twelve and a half years
spent in the Republic Of
Liberia, record his views on
this controversy?
Granted that some Of the
facilities which contribute to
our pleasant way of life in
the United States are still
not universally available in
Liberia, this should not re-
fleet on their ability to gov
ern themselves. What should
impress the unbiased trav-
eler is their sturdy spirit Of
self-reliance which enabled
them for nearly lie years to
sustain and defend their
own sovereignty.
We have problems enough
in world affairs to cope with,
without having our atten-
tions distracted by racial
prejudice, which transforms
good friends into reluctant
adversaries.
L lived happily with the
Liberians in a position Of
major responsibility which
brought me into daily cou-
tact with their most power
full leaders and humblest
citizens. I trust that Senator
Ellender will appreciate the
fact that his own brief visit
to Liberia could hardly COM
pare with my long residence
there. My close association
with the Liberians has con-
WINGED me that they deserve
our friendship, are fully
qualified to govern them
selves and should be &C
corded the same respect
shown any other nation.
Donald H. Inskip,
Former Port Director, Free
Port Of Monrovia, Liberia.
50
With reference to your
editorial, Grave DiSservice,"
what the 40 African dip
lomats" cannot understand
(Since freedom is lacking in
their own countries) is that
this is still a relatively free
republic, and we-whether
public figures or not-can
generalize, be prejudiced,
rail against the government,
ETC., whenever we want to.
Most thinking people con-
cede that 1t is not good logic
or reason to generalize;
however, one asks when may
one reach a reasonably valid
conclusion in the matter Of
whether Negroes, when left
alone, can govern them
selves? Haiti, Liberia,
Ghana, the Congo (if one is
realistic) make rather poor
examples of Negro self-gov-
eminent. Regarding the lat
ter, why are we spending
millions in this country (the
Congo, If the Negroes
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Betty Beale Is always en-
PERTAINING and never has she
been more so than in her
June % salute to Russian
Astronette Valentino. 1t Is
fascinating to observe the
workings of the literate
female mind on the subject
Of "women's rights"
Happily, the concept Of a
war between the sexes is
held only by those women
possessed of an inferiprity
complex sufficiently pro-
nounced to cause them to be-
lieve whimperingly that men
regard them as second class
citizens. other women, less
obsessed with making the
world admit they are good
as any man." understand
that men and women are
not merely different sexes
they are, indeed. different
species. Just as the giraffe
and the elephant are differ
ent species even though both
are animals.
Men and women do not
think alike. They do not act
alike. or react alike. This
is not to say that the think
ing and the actions or re-
actions of the one are supe-
rior TO those Of the other. It
Is simply TO say that they
are different.
Miss Beale and the ladies
she quotes apparently con-
slider that this difference
places women in thraldom
to men. But In what does this
thraldom consist?
In the average American
home and In the guidance
Of children, women surely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-01

there are capable Of self
government?
In my view, your editorial
reveals the liberal syndrome,
whose symptoms include a
failure to realistically APP
praise the Negro.
j. Mason Grove.