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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Voice of Sanity

Representative Selden's remarks in
the House this week on coups, dictators
and democracy didn't attract much
attention. This is too bad. For what
he said made SenSe-a great deal more
sense than some Of the overly-excited
commentators who would have us
believe that the end Of the world is
heralded by the upSets in the Domini-
can Republic and Honduras
Mr.. Selden, who comes from Ala
bama, is chairman Of the House Sub
committee on Inter-American Affairs.
In this capacity he has access to the
information essential to an informed
judgment.
He says there is no doubt that the
best interests of the United States lie
in the existence Of a democratic and
economically stable Latin America. But
he doesn't believe that our interests
would be served by dispatching gun
boats and the Marines to the Caribbean
every time a military coup is staged.
1t is strange, as Mr.. Selden points out,
that so many people who recoil in
horror from the prospective use Of
force against a Castro are eager to
smash the military regime which ousted
Juan Bosch in Santo Domingo. And
1t is also foolish.
Mr.. Selden thinks we do not really
know as yet whether the events in
Santo Domingo and Honduras are not
in fact serving the long-range interests
Of the people of those countries. And
1t follows that we do not really know
whether our own long-range interests
are being served.
Both Mr.. Bosch and President
Villeda Morales were guilty at least of
temporizing in the face of internal
Communist threats. They did not head
strong governments. AS Mr.. Selden
aptly put it, democracy was doomed
in the Dominican Republic and Hon
duras not by its strong enemies but
by its weak servants"
Now that these weak regimes have
been toppled, the United States must
make a decision. We are suspending
aid and diplomatic acceptance, pre-
sumably pending an evaluation of the
AAOSAAOAO1lo VI IlIC MILITARY people VINO
have taken control. Aid and diplo-
macy can properly be used to obtain
maximum democratic concessions from
them. But they cannot bring back a
Bosch or a Villeda Morales.
This being the case, is it in our
interests to squeeze hard enough to
induce the collapse of the existing
governments? We do not think so, for
the alternative would very probably be
Communist governments on the Castro
pattern.
Mr.. Selden summed it up this way:
Let me put it bluntly-a dictatorship
is odious. But If driven to a choice I
prefer dictatorship seeking our sup
port and friendship rather than Com
muniSt dictatorship capable of furnish
ing missile emplacementS to those who
would bury U.S."
This last may be a bit on the
rhetorical side. But the basic thesis
should appeal to anyone in his right
mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11

say. the corporal who counts
the underwear In the supply
room.
Why, then, has Bobby been
allowed to resign2" Well, It
turned out recently that In
his life outside the Senate he
had developed tough and ur-
gent private business inter-
ests, complicated in nature
but wrong or evil if-and
only fit can ever be estab-
hshed by any trace Of COM
petent evidence that he made
improper use Of his Senate
position to forward those in
terests.
Intelligence Officer
The evidence" against
him so far, to the best Of my
a bility to grasp something
that Is rather like q moon
beam in a dark room, seems
to lie in certain accusations
made against him In q civil
law suit by an angry ex-asso-
ciate. Men filing lawsuits In
business quarrels are not
commonly supposed to be alb
Solutely fair and objective in
what they say. Moreover, the
common American notion is
that q fellow is not deemed
guilty, or otherwise at fault,
unless and until the court
itself has made some such
finding.
Bobby, however, has not
been found either guilty-of
whatever it is he Is supposed
to have done under the
vaguely sinister but lmpossi-
bly, loose term of wheeling
and dealing"-or not guilty.
He has Just been let 60,
without any proper chance to
tell his story to that full
Senate he has served so long.
1t happens that I am very
fond Of the institution Of the
Senate. But I am Just q trifle
less fond Of 1t today. I think
a man Of the Senate-even
though not actually q mem
Der deserves q hearing by
his peers before his career Is
left IN dust and ashes. II he
has done wrong. let him be
punishe d. But do let him
have his say.
And I think the Senate
where hardly q single menu
Der is innocent Of the histor-
ic crime Of having outside
business interests viii re-
greet the manner in which 1t
has disposed Of Robert G.
Baker. For this is the form Of
justice expressed in the
phrase verdict first-evi-
dence later" And this kind
Of justice does not become
the Senate Of the United
States.
Q 1893
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Dixie's Detroctors

I don't agree with either
william 8. White or with
Leroy Collins. former Cover
nor Of Florida, about the
Southern Senators who are
supposed to have lost person.
al prestige and national in
fluence as q result Of the
bombings in Birmingham.
No doubt many people
blame these bombings on the
South as a whole. 1t is not
likely to occur to the average
citizen that the hoodlums
who committed these crimes
could have been motivated
more by q desire to show
their contempt for q deSpised
Attorney General than by
any wish to please the Gov
ernor Of Alabama or any Of
the other white Southerners.
Certainly the people who
bombed the church could not
have been diSSuaded from
doing so had the Governor
set them a better example, or
had the congressional rep
resentation from the South
deported itself in a manner
which the former Governor
Of Florida might have con-
sidered fit and proper.
There are, to be sure, a few
characters" a ongst the
Southern contingent in Con-
greSs who do the South no
good on those occasions
when they are hand-picked
by the networks to appear on
radio or television, but there
is nobody in either house Of
Congress who is more highly
respected than the gentle
men referred to by MesSers.
White and Collins. The Pres
ident himself, in effect, said
just this of a typical member
Of that group at his last
press conference.
Charles II. Derry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used II
letters carry tpriters' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers dre subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used lDiH be
returned only Dhen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Finger-Pointing

Senator Young of Ohio has
joined the Columbia Broad
casting Co. in trying to sup
press free speech here. The
former wants to run Madame
Nhu out of the country. The
latter has Cancelled her
broadcast appearance. Con-
gresham Conte has made a
big speech wanting to with
draw money used to help
fight communism.
We are in no position, this
democracy In progress, to
point q finger at any nation.
Before we point we should
try to clean up the corrup-
ton in high places and in
low places and we should
spread democracy evenly
throughout the land. We
should hang our faces in
shame until this is &C.
complished.
These Senators, Congress-
men, newspapermen, others
in communications, are play
ing into Communist hands by
badgering Wet Nam. Finally
we should remember that a
monks robe does not make a
monk and suicide is not ad-
mirable. Communism is the
enemy, not Wet Nam.
AS for Madame Nhu she is
defending her country from
subversion, from within and
from without. This includes
those who connlve with the
opposition to embarrass the
Wet Nam government.
NNnkkKnn-u NHnKn-lAk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
CULTURE AGAINST MAN.
BY Jules Henry. 495 PIP.
(Random House; $7.95.)


(Random House; $7.95O
The observer enters a fifth
grade classroom in a sub
urban school. The teacher
says, which one of you nice.
polite boys would like to take
(the observer's) coat and
hang it up?" The hands are
marsh reeds Swaying In a
high wind.
What does this tiny, COM
mon vignette indicate?
"One Is impressed :"
writes Jules Henry, with the
fact that although the teach
er could have said. Johnny,
will you please hang up (the
observer's) coat2' she chose
rather to activate all the
boys, and thus give them an
opportunity to activate their
Selves, in accordance with
the 'alienated Selfhood OBJ
jectives of the culture. The
children were thus given an
opportunity to exhibit a fran
tic willingness to perform an
act of uninvolved solicitude
for the visitor; in this way
each was given also q chance
to communicate to the
teacher his eagerness to
please her in front of COM
pany.'"
DR.. Henry, professor of an
thropology and sociology at
Washington University, st.
Louis, uses some strong words
in that paragraph. Exhibit, |"
he writes. Yet what is this
incident If not an exhibition?
Further Explanation
But "alienated Selfhood
detectives" requires further
explanation.
DR.. Henry continues: THE
mere appearance of the OBJ
server in the doorway sets
afoot a kind of classroom
destiny of self-vahdation and
rehabilitation of pupil-teacher
communion, and of activa-
ton of the cultural drives. In
the observers simple act of
entrance the teacher per-
ceives instantly the possibil-
ity of exhibiting her children
and herself, and of proving
to the visitor, and once
again to herself, that the
pupils are docile creatures,
eager to hurl their company
Selves into the suburban
American tragi comedy of
welcome. From behind this
scenery of mechanical val
ues, meanwhile, the most
self centered boy might
emerge a papier mache Gala
had, for what he does is not
for the benefit of the visitor
but for the qualification of
the teacher and of his own
culturally nodded Self. The
large number of waving
hands proves that most of
the boys have already be-
come absurd; but they have
no choice. Suppose they sat
there frozen?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
A BOOK FOR TODAY
An Observer in the Classroom
By DONALD MINTZ

This Is q tiny episode from
q book that analyses the cul-
ture Of the middle-cleass ele-
mentary school. the structure
of teen-age society in q lower
middle-class suburb, the cul-
tural implications Of the be-
havior of the families Of In
stitutionalized psychotic
children, the treatment of
the aged in hree different
nursing homes and hospitals,
what Prof. Henry calls "Ad-
vertising as q Philosophical
System" and the role and
fuction Of irrational fear Gas
opposed to prudent distrust)
Of the Soviet Union.
At the end Of the thought
process Though at the be-
ginning Of the book, Prof.
Henry defines the essential
characteristics of a society
that can produce the Outland-
ish situations and behavior
patterns that his and his stu
dents detailed research has
brought to light.
The drive of technology, he
says, has imprisoned US. Work
in and Of itself has no per-
sonal value except for q small
number Of elite Craftsmen and
thinkers. For 40 hours q
week, the Self is suppressed
and Inundated. Success Is
measured not by the social
and personal value Of work
but by the amount Of take
home pay which must be
made palpable in the form
of highly visible possessions.
The economy must expand. It
cannot export In significant
amounts. 1t can only make
the machines of death and
meanwhile stimulate its work
ers to want more and more
and still more consumer goods
New Definition
There is small room for ira
ditional truth in this system.
There is a new definition:
That which sells goods is
true; that which does not sell
goods is false.
The discussion of the cpl
sode in the fifth-grade class
room shows in principle how
Prof. Henry arrives at these
conclusions. He does not
consider a phenomenon or set
of phenomena as bad, devi-
ant, or anything of the sort,
no matter how infuriated
he may become or how pejor-
atively he may express him
self. Rather, he sets out to
deduce the cultural system
in whose context the observed
ebhavior is congruous. It is
a brilliant and fruitful ap-
proach for it vastly increases
the precision with which that
which is Objectionable can be
identified and comprehended.
Prof. Henry freely admits
that he has written "a book
of violent prejudices." No
matter. We do not ask the
diagnoStician to tell us about
the parts of US that are
healthy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
Killing Two Birds

Perhaps the fact finding
mission that Is being readied
by the United Nations to in
vestigate persecution of Bud
dhists in South Wet Nam
can stop in Moscow on the
way to investigate repression
of Jews there.
Paul B. Wolfe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11
THE PASSING SCENE
Bobby Bakers Side Still Untold
BY WILLIAM S. WHIT

Large and troubling ques-
tions have been raised
around the small. sad, and
presently all but friendless
person Of Bobby Baker. who
has Just involuntarily ended
q years of almost incredibly
devoted and skillful service
to the United States Senate.
Baker. in the euphemism
OF that cruelest Of all profess
sions, politics. has been "al-
lowed to resign" as secretary
to the Senate's Democratic
majority, meaning its princi-
pal executive agent. It Is a
post which can mean any
thing or nothing much, and
in his case 1t has meant a
very great deal, indeed.
For he happens to be that
rare human article, an au-
thentic-if rough diamond
parliamentary genius. He is.
in fact. far ADLER than many
Of his late senatorial masters.
for all his humble rural South
Carolina background and his
little nights C hool law de-
gree. And to his country, to
his party, to the Senate and
to them. his late masters, he
has contributed much more
than the public can ever pos
sibly know.
Deserves a Hearing
For Bobby Baker, now at
the less than advanced age
Of IS, came to the Senate as
a 14-year-old page boy and
remained there to become a
tireless and implacable force
for decent legislation decent
ly arrived at. He did those
quiet, endless chores to bring
that understanding and con-
sent among contending par
ties and factions-among all
Of which he was respected
and among most of which he
was loved-which is essential
to producing the informed,
civilized consensus that is leg
lslation at its best.
He was, of course, q Demo-
crat, and a loyal one at that.
But he was much more. He
was. at the last end Of it, q
man Of the Senate and an
unelected but brilliant leg
islator humorous. tolerant,
fair but principled-over and
above any partisan feeling or
theological hair-splitting. He
had as many friends among
the Republicans as q ong
the Democrats; for he played
the game in the Senate on
the level and on the square,
and everybody knew it.
He was, IN short, the until
tied intelligence officer Of
the Senate, as far above q
secretary" in the ordinary
meaning Of that word, as an
Army divisional Ga Is above,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-11

to hold the income Of D. c. General
doctors at their present levels. There is
no better time to do so than today,
when hearings on the city Health De-
partment budget open before the Senate
subcommittee headed by Senator Byrd
of West Virginia.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-08-15
Death HaIts Promising
Career Of Distinguished
Daughter Of State

The death of Jean De Louis Brown, Minneapolis
born government attorney who was on the staff OF
the US. Department of Justice, antitrust division
in New York shock to her family and the
people who knew her during her childhood, her
school days and later she went East to school and
became of the most promising members Of the
bar in New York.
Miss Brown, the daughter of a pioneer Mime
sofa family, which boasts three generations of phys
Clans only "a years old She had just served as
of the principal prosecutors in recent govern
ment antitrust action against s. watch companies
in connection with the alleged price fixing by Swiss
watch firms and major us. firms.
A hardworlxer, perfectionist, Miss Brown gave
to each Of the important positions she held after
passing the New York bar devoted service which
may have contributed to her untimely death
She one Of the states most distinguished
daughters This newspaper joins the many friends of
her parents DR.. and Mrs. Brown, Sr., and the i'm
mediate family in extending condolences on the
passing of the young attorney.
Miss Browns death cut off what promised to be
most distinguished career in law, a career which
had already assumed real proportions.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-08-15
A New Scheme To Subvert
The Bill Of Rights

1t seems apparent by that the Council OF
State Governments and its reactionary allies are
falling flat their faces in the effort to amend the
constitution to perpetuate present inequities of
representation in the state legislatures and subject
Supreme Court decisions to political review and null
Hficaton.
But don't get the idea that the fight Is over
The forces that determined to water down or
destroy the Bill of Rights not giving up We can
expect 10 see all kinds of maneuvers to accomplish
the results sought by the Council of State Govern
ments
We predict that the next move will be an effort
to get Congress to declare the Supreme Court un-
constitutional with respect to its civil rights de-
cisons, beginning with its decisions outlawng polit-
icaly dictated religious rituals in the public schools
The method to quote one Of the right-wIng
extremists, would be to Let the Congress employ
the simple expedient Of a resolution affirming its
own understanding of the Establishment Clause
1.-THE constitutional provision forbiddng the estab-
nshment Of religion by the government) and en-
couraging states that share its views to deal with
religion thenceforth in accordance with that under
standing"
In other words, get Congress to invite the states
to ignore the Supreme Court and the Constitution
and to do anything they please with respect to the
establishment of religion and the installation Of
hturgical ceremonies in the public schools! This is
St. Paul recorder., 1963-08-15

against cloture to end filibusters
on civil rights"
THE POST-DISPATCH, st. Louis
"One Of the by-products of the
governors conference seems more
constructive than most of the con-
ference products are likely to be,
considering the political atmos-
Iphere in Miami. The by-product is
the creation of a Conference of
Midwest Governors, representing
IL states from Missouri to the
Dakotas and from Kansas to Ohio.
Gov. Dalton was one of the
leaders in this move and 1t should
be useful. Most other regions have
similar conferences; they seek
common regional grounds on ma
tional policy and for economic de-
velopment. The Midwest group will
emphasize the latter, particularly
in research cooperation. Many of
these Midwest states, Missouri in
cluded, have been losing ground
against the national average in
population and economic growth,
I'm joining the Midwest group,
Gov. Dalton is resigning from the
Southern Governors Conference,
which he says he joined for lack
Of a Midwest organization. ."
St. Paul recorder., 1963-08-15
Letters To The Editor

that tanks might have difficulty
breaking out of, at finding that
there are people on the outside
working for his release.
There were, of course, also many
local people in Florida working for
my release. Forty six of these
were arrested while I was in Jail,
and there have been many more
arrests of Freedom Fighters in
Ocala (seat of Marion County,
since. Most of us are out on bond
awaiting an August 28th trial.
In the meantime we are work.
ing, with our lawyers and through
peaceful demonstrations, to estab-
lish the rule Of justice under law
where it has not previously existed.
With your continued support for
us here as well as for Twin Cities
CORE and other civil rights groups
there, we shall Thank
full sincerely, Zev AelOny, CORE
Task Force Field Worker, KOinOnia
Farm, Americus, Georgia, Aug. l.,
1868.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-08-15
Nothing New About
Job Color Preference

When Curtis c. Chivers, president of the Min
neapolis chapter Of the NAACP with tongue-slight-
ly-in-cheek suggested August g. that Negro job ap-
phcants should have from to Is per cent prefer
ence, he set off storm of discussion. One would
think color preference for job applicants was some
thing new under the sun. 1t isn't!
Mr.. Chtvers was testfying at the Minnesota
Advisory Committee of the us. Civil Rights Com
mission hearing the administration of justice for
minority groups which was held August and 9Th at
the US Courts Building in Minneapolis.
When committee member asked Mr.. Chivers
if his suggestion similar to the veterans pref
erence system which is in vogue, he replied in the
affirmative.
Mr.. Chvers could have pointed out quite cor
recty that the system of color preference has been
working for white applicants for jobs in all areas Of
US employment since the founding Of the country
and still is, except its application is more COW
ert
Even if the suggestion is strengthened by fact
that veterans and whites do receive preference this
newspaper could not with good conscience favor it
If we did decide to favor this type of discrimination
in reverse we would be completely changing our oft
repeated claim that the Negro wants only equality
of opportunity and real chance.
The Elusive idea that the majority group which
has all these years been clearly responsible keep
ing the Negro down, and back, is going to agree
to give him preference because of the bad treatment
meted out to him for the past 100 years and the 24O
years of slavery is at best most wishfu thinking.
Theoretically it could be argued that the Ne
gro has been the victim of as much damage as the
veteran who went to the wars and therefore should
have the same special status and job preference but
the practically and realistic examination of the sit
uation demands that any program of this type be
rejected
It's the kind Of suggestion that racist enemies
Of civil rights for Negroes gleefully exhibit to show
that Negroes want special favors in the American
body poihc-that their quest for equality is in real
Ity, quest for special privilege beyond that ex-
tended other Americans
While it will not be generally admitted or under
Stood it will be necessary leaders like
whitney Young Of the National Urban League have
pointed out 10 exert special forces and programs to
place the Negro in the position 10 begin to catch UP
with the whites In all Of productive life This
in confines Of narrow thinking could be called
Negro preference, but unlike the job preference idea
ting more consideration than a white man because of
his color. No need to point up again that the very
practice Of color preference the average white man
rejects, he has had going for him all these years
Right at this moment the US Postoffice is
under fire In Dallas Texas from southern members
Of Congress- because three Negro workers who
should have been promoted years ago except for the
practice Of white preference" have under the Ken
nedy administration received the jobs their color
prevented them from receiving under other admins
trations