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College Degree Linked
To Symphonic Music

raised, as against a hoped-for
rs per cent at this point.
The target date for compile
ton Of the drive is April 2. The
500, 900 residential quota is part
Of a total $4,000 sought in
the overall campaign. OF that
amount, $l3l,625, or Ali per
cent has been realized.
Poll Cited
In his talk, Mr.. Keppel cited
a recent Gallup poll Of cultural
activities indicating that 38 per
cent of the college educated
went to a concert last year. as
compared with only 4 per cent
Of the grade school educated.
The commissioner saw a po-
tential helping hand for music
and the arts in the administra-
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By BONNIE AIKMAN

stage-an increasing cultural phe-
nomenon-finds expression in Wash
ington this week.
Channel will present a live
preview of the Gallaudet College
production of Romeo and Juliet" at
1890 am. Wednesday on Woman's
World.
The excerpt is the famous balcony
scene, and If you've never seen a
Gallaudet play-performed in the
language of Signs-you should tune
in for a rewarding dramatic eXpe-
rience.
Robert Rubin and Sandra Yelver-
ton will play the lovers, and Gilbert
Eastman directs. Shirley Cranwill
and Louis FAINT will be on hand as
oral readers.
The full production will be staged
at 8 pm. Thursday, Friday and
Saturday at the college auditorium,
Seventh street and Florida avenue
NE.
FACTS ONLY: The story of the
West from the historians point Of
view will finally get its day in court
in a new 20-week series premiering
tomorrow on WRC-4. Tales of the
West, from the NBC-owned stations
educational exchange program. will
feature authentic props-slides. pic
lures and paintings-and guest ex-
perts to document the facts.
Air time is $50 pm.
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ON WITH THE SHOW: Lending
their talents to the annual Hexagon
Club revue-Set for March, 1864
will be a sturdy contingent from
WMAL-7.
Bob Goodwin, assistant controller,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01

stage 1t, and c. j. Dwinnell. Of radio
production, will be Peckham's as
SiStant.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18
South Africa Should
Learn Lesson From US.
RaciaI EquaIifY Now

The minority problem in the has never had so
horoughgog an examination as recently nations first
nterfa1th assault on racial prejudice
Dispensing with the semantcs question what Ia called
minority problem In reality the problem trimmed Of all fats
and griste
Both Cardinal Meyer and Mongnor bone
OF the issue when they called for positive
the social field to those mpedents to inteaton
and human equality
The other churcmen Rabbi Protestant who participated
the fourday session. shared the
question in the context society be
solved through mere rhetoric
The Of events the race prob
lem And his enence the tone of the
ference by insisting immediate graphing issue of segre
cation.
The ded advocates Of conspicuous by their
absence This not forum who counsel
delay alternative to action There is decreasing
faacy in this assumption The Negro waiting 1853
be woven into the fabric of the American society,"
ponemen would damaging only legitimate rights and
aspirations but to the Of democracy freedom itself
Militant nagging needed If the extremist move
en In both racial infect
the American with and stir m Voence
unprecedented
AS the Cardinal declared in his opening
yet completely bged deep cleft slave econ
oy inflicted upon our society the
partially unfultled"
This collective assault religious lay leaders Of the
Protestant Catholic and Jewish faiths
initial attack on the permeter racialsm
With religion stepping its interest Of positive social
action the whole spectrum problem may now be sean
through q different prsm--CAiOAGO Daily DEFENDER
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18
Readers Think Maybe
We Could Use More
HlEnrNa R0nnSH Isko Edsk,

Editor: In the 25 years your
paper has been coming to my
home never seen you take an edi-
torial position which ever smacked
of Uncle Tomism," that survival
accommodation ruse so often used
by a few Negroes who are i'm
portant, and others who use the
technique just to get along.
In the Twin Cities I've heard
your referred to by the majority
group as an agitator, a Commun-
ist, radical, a DFL stooge, a
secret Republican tool, a black
nationalist, and some other choice
unprintable names, all uttered with
respect. But I have never heard
anybody refer to you as an Uncle
Tom"
Since you were responsible fol
me obtaining the best job ever
had with a firm where I was the
first Negro, and know many
others you got job chances for,
am forced to conclude that If you
are an Uncle Tom," as the gentle
man charged, what we need here
and elsewhere is more 'Uncle
Toms, like YOUR. G. Brown,
Minneapolis, MINI.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18

the change opinions and ideas There
time sensitive caught the southern accent
Caucasian ancestry haces slightly and the who
talked Diie-Hke then suspicious list
We gradually began the hard that the fact
might talk like US senator Mississippi not proof positive
that he necessarily racial hgot
talked with Yankee ang not ps factO believer in basic
racial equality for every soul
with Rev Kyle Haselden
southern when wanted
lost his broad Dixie drawl
but could necessary occasion turn it on and off,
first time him group, perked and
suspect list This type of
raonaing form of prejudice
prejudice complaining about
all along.
In a period grew HaseIden
relations talks
were o problem.
taught lesson frownng
with doWnhome drawP smile and hope that the
necessarily denote the with automatically
Hasden by the managing editor of the Christian
Century, worlds largest protestant church magazine
be surprised of
should enjoy the rights all other Americans
naive convince readers that what
discovered generally true but point that judgement
with southern accent sound What trying
possession southern
might about the problem
Cecil Newman.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18
Unemployment And The Reading
pHohlaHa
saturday Evening Post)

Unemployment in the United States continues
at disturbingly high level, about 55 percent. In
the age of automauon it is most severe among the
unslUilled, causing nationwide chorus of advice to
young people to stay in school Yet of the 20 million
who will come into the labor market during the next
decade, nearly third if present trends continue
will not have a high-school diploma The Bureau of
Labor Statistics reports that the 100000 increase in
unemployed late in 1862 made up almost entire
ly of teen-agers.
Among several reasons for school dropouts one
Of the most important is that the student never
really learned to read :.
Today there are an estimated three drop
outs for every two unsltlled jobs-a really alarming
figure. Among the poor readers a good proportion
have intelligence well above the average.
The dropouts are very likely to become de-
linquents DR.. MeItta Schmideberg a psychiatrist
doing research in this field says Reading retarda-
ton makes 1t almost impossible for the delinquent to
find job and unemployment aggravates his de-
lInquency" -.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18
Sales Tax Bill Is
Regressive Measure

AS expected the Minnesota sales tax bil now
in the legislative hopper proposes massive shift Of
taxes from big to small taxpayers on regressve
scale. .
In support Of the sales tax there has been a
great deal of misinformaton, bad opinion and mis-
quotation Of the experts John K. Galbraith, the
liberal economist, for example, has been cited as an
advocate Of the sales tax But many Of those who
quote him to this effect know full well that he has
advocated the sales tax in the present context
that what he has advocated is the use Of this tax
not a replacement tax but as a means Of extend
ing social spending.
1t is also worthy Of note that the Minnesota Tax
Study Committee which in 1856 made a comprehen-
sive survey Of our states tax problems and policies
fit not to include a sales tax in its detailed
recommendations for tax reform. It is evident from
the committees analysis, that there were two big
reasons for not recommending such tax: l. It is
regressive that is it takes the biggest bite out Of
the smallest income, and hits the big family much
harder than the small family or the Individual e.
Any attempt to correct the regressive feature of the
tax creates enormous difficulties and complications
in the administration of the tax, and in addition
fosters still other inequities.
Those who loudly proclaiming they want
tax reform have made 1t clear that the only IRE
form" they will settle for is the sales tax The law
just introduced proposes to neutraze the regressiv-
ity of the tax by providing for $40 annual offset
in personal income taxes, which is inadequate as
to be ridiculous.
Real tax reform, the other hand, might be
achieved along the lines indicated by the 1856 study
Its recommendations included dropping the property
tax manufacturers and farm inventories reducing
the assessment factor on other classification and
substituting monthly average inventories for "tax
day" inventories in making the assessment These
changes would correct the real fault of the personal
property tax 1t would not shift the load except in
cidentally.
The committee has made many other specific
recommendations. The only major one to be adopted
is incometax withholding. 1t is interesting that
of the committees recommendations dealt with
heavy trucks, subject covered in article in this
newspaper this week in reporting the big advantage
enjoyed by metropolitan truckers
Perhaps of the difficulties of tax reform
is that however equitable the tax the payer who is
going to get hit will object at the top Of his voice
The only answer, from a opportunist standpoint,
appears to be to hit the payer who is not watching
The politicos seem to have concluded that this
means you gentle reader.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18
The New Negro MiIitaneY
(Chester BOwles, In The Saturday ReVie

NCheSUer boWAes' In Inc SATURDAY heWeW)
After 100 years Of penitent "Yes, sirs" and mo
Ma'ams", 1t is extraordinary indeed that the Ne
groes patience has not long since erupted into VOL
ence. However, after a century Of waiting for the
courts and the government fully to implement the
14th amendment, 1t Is not surprising that many
Negro leaders are becoming persuaded that "trclle
down democracy Is much too slow process.
What they are demanding-and now deter
mined to gets not just equal rights in law but
equal slSs in fact leading to equal opportunities.
The major progress in the last few years has
been due not to the historic and magnificent su-
preme Court decision Of 1854, which acted essenti
ally as a trigger, nor to meager and long overdue
legislative handouts, but to militancy, a new
unity of purpose and above all to a new willingness
to make sacrifices
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18
Error On p. X. PetersOn's
Position On Transit

Minneapolis Mayor Candidate P Kenneth Pet
erson in letter published last week. has corrected
us as to his stand a metropolitan transit auth
ortty. We are happy to acknowledge our error and
emphasize Mr. Peterson's support for such an auth
ority. We would also underscore another point made
by Mr. Peterson, suggesting that this matter has
not received the attention and support that it should
have from public officials
The bill now in the legislature aimed at estab-
fishing an authority 10 dead for this session. Only
one ST Paul City Commissioner Dalglish, testified
before the urban affairs committee in favor of the
BILL No Minneapolis alderman appeared. Railroad
and Warehouse Commissioner Paul Rasmussen testi-
fled against it. while Commissioner Ron Anderson
appeared for it. The Twin City Rapid Transit COM
pany opposed it.
Metropolitan transit is today governed bV a
state law that out Of date and out of touch
with reality that the term bus does not appear in
the law The statute refers to street railways" and
the only place where city buses are recognized In
the Minnesota statutes Is in the motor vehicle license
section which gives the Twin City Rapid Transit
company whopping license fee advantage.
The regulating authority Is divided between the
dueS and the Railroad and Warehouse Commission,
none Of which do very much about it except to auth
orize fare increases and service reductions-and
look the other way when assets being diverted.
One reason why the gradual reduction of service
In the Twin Cities has not resulted in crisis Is that
people so far have been able to adapt through the
use Of automobiles the development Of independent
suburban lines, and other devices. But the Twin
Cities seem destined to reach the limits reached by
other metropolitan areas. At some point which Is
perhaps not too far away we are going to be face
to face with hard fact: that metropolitan areas
need mass transportation. and indeed cannot live
without 1t.
1t will save the area vast amounts Of money If
this fact is recognized before a major crisis Is
reached We hope therefore that In the city election
campaigns from now on, and in the legislative cleo
lions, this issue Is made uppermost.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18
He's Birmingham's
PrOblem-And Ours, Too

Somebody has remarked that the most appall-
ing and unbelievable thing about the South is that
it's true. How it be? How can a complex indus
trial city like Birmingham survive industrialy and
still treat the people from whom it must draw its
labor force as it does?
We are sure that many people had thought the
bloodhound as means of dealing with people had
gone out with Uncle Toms Cabin-until they saw
the photos from Birmingham, and read the remarks
attributed to Birmingham's police commissioner,
gentleman appropriately known Mr.. Bull Connor
"a few years ago used dogs in st. Paul but we
Sensibly ended the practice after near riot on
Rondo)
Mr.. Connor described as being in a state
Of high gee a result Of attacks by his dogs upon
Birmingham citizens exercising the constitutional
right of petition. He is quoted as saying That's
what we trained them (the dogs) for" He is also
quoted as planning to Jail many times 1000" dem
onstrators.
In sense, we owe a debt to this character
His flamboyance, his savagery, and his outspoken
contempt for decent law and order enforcement
help to bring to the attention of the entire country
the problems of the South. They drive home the
fact that basic constitutional rights at issue here
constitutional rights which it is the duty of the
federal government to back up and enforce.
But for Mr.. Connor's atavistc concern with VIC
ious dogs, would not have seen the pictures of
the savage violence being visited upon citizens en-
gagged in the non-voent demonstrations in Birm-
ingham.
At the time this is written the violence has
been going on for many days, but federal action
to protect the constitutional rights our citizens
in Birmingham has been reported. We hope that
action will be in progress by the time this editorial
sees print.
However, it seems to us as it seems to a great
many people that the federal authorities are alto
gether too slow in stepping into situations where
there are open defiant and violent attacks upon
American citizens by lawless police authorities, In
dagrant violation Of the Constitution of the United
States.
We recognize the difficulties facing the federal
authorities We recognize that the processes of the
law slow and deliberate. Necessarily So But we
urge the point that when American citizens are
being beset by vicious dogs trained to tear them
apart for the offense Of petidonng for their con-
stutional rights, there be some action avail
able to the federal authorities more immediate than
petition in court.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18
Our Post This Week
ClIp fOr NeErO mstor1 scrnpboo


April IA, 1775 - First abolition
society in us. was founded.
April IA, 1855 - Abraham Lin
coin, 16th US. President, was shot
by John Wilkes Booth In Ford's
theater, in Washington. He died
on the following day at age SO.
April IS, 1887 - The African
Methodist Episcopal Church began
flnctioning under the leadership
Of its founder Richard Allen.
April 15, 1889 - A. Philip Ran
dolph, president Of the Brother
hood Of Sleeping Car Porters and
AFL-CTo vice president, was born
in Crescent City, Fla.
April 16, 1862 - Slavery was
abolished In the District Of Col
umbia, by payment Of $992, ,407.3
to owners.
April 16, 1852 - Colonization
plan rejected by Negroes.
April II, 1913 - Needham Rob
erts and Henry johnson destroyed
more than 20 Germans while on
sentury duty during World War I.
April IS, 1T23-Governor Drum
mer Of Massachusetts, accused Ne
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18

dams from congregating in the
streets.
April 20, 1904 - Joe Walcott,
The Barbados Demon" lost the
world welterweight title. He Is not
to be confused with Arnold Cream,
the Jersey Joe Walcott' Of recent
boxing history.
April 20, 1866 - Fisk universi-
ty, Nashville, Tenn, was opened to
educate Negroes.
April 20, 1853 - Frances Ellen
Watkins, abolition poet and lee
turer, begins work.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18

who could so easily stay away
from battle in Miss, and yet chose
to risk life and limb and go to the
aid of his fellows who want no
more than their rights as citizens.
On the whole I thought his re-
marks were very forceful, and
pointed with his agile wit. There
were, however parts which I would
like to question as a northern lib
eral of like to think, of fair mind
and good will.
Why, as so often seems to hap
pen when Negro leaders or even in
conversation with the friends
have in race, does Dick strike out
with bitterness toward the whites,
who are on the Negroes side?
refer to his remark about the
Northern and the Southern liberals
being as tn third man in the fist
hght?' Doesn't the Negro want our
help? This is our battle too, you
know, it is our country all of us
we white people who care for
justice feel involved.
1t is painful to have always the
distrust of motive thrown at us.
I wonder If it could be that we
(the Hberals) are the ones that
you feel you can get at? For in
stance probably my relative who is
manager Of a plant down in Miss
issippi never ever exposed himself
to dialogue with a Negro. I have
had bitter words with him on this
subject and have strained family
ties for the cause Of what I be-
Ieve to be simple justice and deep
religious conviction.
Another bone to pick with Dick
Gregory Is his charge that religion
has fault. His case is pretty good
here, but I am wondering If he
knows Of the efforts being made
in this direction and the sincere
concern felt in Christian Churches
today. He would be welcome in
my church. In fact, several times
have had Negro guests with me
at our services. Christmas Eve
three friends were at our commun-
ion service with my husband and
I. I really try to put my money
where my mouth is "and my re-
lationships with my colored friends
has been a deeply rewarding ex-
perience and I hope to enlarge my
circle Of friends to include many
more Of their race.
And then I would say to Dick
thank God for your wonderful
sense Of humour, keep speaking to
us on TV and records-but don't
discourage those Of us who want
to help you-because If we help
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18

for whites.
Even in Afrikaans, how can
this position be supported? In
plain English, it is supported by
talk of separate nationhood for
each of South Africa's distinct
peoples For example, the Xhosa
nation is now being concentrated
in the Transkei, an area in which 8
million Xhosa will be citizens with
their own cabinet and parliament)
and in which any resident whites
will have no political rights. The
Xhosa have no political rights now
outside the Transkei. Fair, what?
Decades of experience with
Indian reservations finally brought
the United States government to
seek Indian integration by "ter-
minating" the reservation system.
But generations of deprivation and
dependence have made summary
termination" impractical. Now
unprecedented efforts are being
made, thru education and indus
trial development, to bring reser-
vation Indians into the national
main stream. Impounding the sep
arate Indian nations on reserva-
tons has had results universally
recognized as unsatisfactory to ev-
eryone.
We Americans know from our
own experience what reservations
are like. - Chicago TRIBUNE.
PoweIIs New Line
Called Agreeable To
White Citizens Councils
That was a peculiar pair Of
speeches Rep. Adam Clayton Pow
ell, Jr., made over the weekend In
New York. The unpredictable
Harlem Democrat said that any
organization fighting for Negro
rights should be totally owned,
controlled and maintained by the
Negro people.
This is a point Of view with
which, we suspect, members Of
Southern White Citizens Councils
would fully agree. There are few
things which infuriate them more
than to see whites working with
Negroes to obtain equal rights for
Negroes. 1t is a little odd to hear
the message from Representative
Powell. - Denver POST.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-04-18
Letters To The Editor
Thinks We Are Not An "UneIe Tom''

Editor You and will always disagree many things
times sharplyso time politician
Uncle Tom I'd like the battle
that's aren't and resent much you
exponent personal journalism good
and think the handled the story
of the profession
Congratulations Sincerely Alan Mcintosh Editor
County