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Evening star., 1963-02-03
Tawes' Program Gains Little
In Assemb|y's First Month

Slot machine legislation ap-
pears likely to be the most con-
troversial Of all. Many legis-
lators have said a specific plan
should have been introduced
early to avoid the vote trading
that attends the latter part of
the session when all the bills
are in.
Slot machine legislation has
tended in the past to be more
prone to trading than most.
On congressional redistrict-
ing, Gov. Tawes said at the
beginning of the session that
he didn't have anything spe-
cific to offer on the slots, but
would look at what came in to
see If he liked any of it. Ap-
parently he didn't like any of
several bills that have been in
troduced and has appointed a
committee to draft a plan.
That may be forthcoming
shortly.
Road Plans Stymied
1t appears now that there
may not be any new roads pro-
gram this year.
The State Roads Commission
was supposed to present its
year-long needs study to the
General Assembly in January
but now it repeatedly won't be
submitted until the middle or
end of February.
Roads officials have been
saying for the past two years
that money from the old roads
program is about exhausted
and that another measure must
be enacted without delay. But
when the Roads Commission
ran up against Gov. Tawes' re-
luctance to raise taxes this
year, the roadmen started
braking.
Now it is reported that roads
officials think another years
delay might not hurt after all.
That would give the lawmakers
a chance to null over the man.
moth study which is expected
to show a need for about 81
billion worth Of State and
county roads in the next 20
years.
To finance a program Of this
size. even with Federal aid,
probably will require an in
crease in the gasoline tax and
maybe some others too.
Unit Voting End Near
One important bill which
wasn't on the Governors pro-
gram but which he embraced
after it was introduced, has
been sailing smoothly through
the Legislature. This is a bill
to abolish Maryland's system
of unit voting in party prima-
ries. a system that has favored
the rural areas for more than
so years in selection of candi-
dates for Statewide offices.
1t was the Governors strong
support Of the measure which
gave 1t the boost necessary tC
put 1t In position Of almost
certain enactment. 1t has beer
approved by the House and
given approval the first time
around in the Senate. Final
Senate action is expected this
week.
Evening star., 1963-02-03
CIV Debuters Win

BALTIMORE. Feb. 2 (APD.-
George Washington University
swept first place honors In the
Johns Hopkins 18th annual
intercollegiate debate tourna-
ment today. The top ten teams
included Howard University.
Evening star., 1963-02-03

em of higher education, has
cleared a Senate committee
and will come to the floor
for a preliminary vote this
week.
More Colleges Sought
The key feature Of the
Curlett plan is the conversion
Of State teachers colleges into
full-fledged colleges Of arts
and sciences. The other two
units of the plan are the Uni
yersity of Maryland and the
junior colleges.
So far, the administration
has provided no details for
getting rid Of slot machines,
revising congressional dis
tricts or establishing a new
roads program, three Of the
major items mentioned by the
Governor in his state of the
State message on opening
day.
The Assembly is floundering
around on motor vehicle in
spection in the face Of con-
flicting views from the Gov
ernor's office.
Gov. Tawes strongly urgec
enactment of an auto inspec-
ton program. At first he in
dicated he favored a State
owned and operated plan pro-
posed by the Legislative Coun-
Gil. There was considerable
criticism about the multi-mil.
on-dollar cost OF the program
and the Governor himself de.
cided 1t was too expensive.
Committee Named
The Governor last week ap.
pointed a committee Of legisla,
tive leaders to draft q plar
from the welter Of measure,
suggested from various quar-.
terS.
The Governor thought he wa.
going to get some guidance
from a commission he appointed
last fall on how to get rid o.
slot machines. He didn't gel
much and now he has asked
the attorney general to draft
a bill.
Evening star., 1963-02-03
Delegates
Seek to Cut
Rood Costs

ANNAPOLIS. Feb. 2 (AP).-
A bipartisan move will be
launched In the House of Dele
gates Monday night to investi-
gate ways Of cutting the cost
Of right-of-way purchases by
the State Roads Commission,
A resolution will be intro
duced asking Gov. Tawes to
appoint q commission to study
the feasibility Of making funds
available so properties could be
bought before prices spiral up
ward.
In testimony before the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee last week, q top legal
aide of the roads commission
estimated that right-of-w ~
purchases five years in advance
would reduce costs by one
third.
Based on an average Of 81
million q month spent for such
properties. advance purchases
could save about $40 million
over q five-year period.
Three members Of the COM
mittee. after hearing the testi-
mony. acted quickly to estab-
lish a special fund that could
save millions Of dollars.
Delegate Harry ]. McQuirk,
a Democrat from Baltimore's
9Th district. Joined with Repub-
licans j. Glenn Beall. jr.. OF
Allegany County and Charles
s. Bresler OF Montgomery
County. TO draw up a resolu-
ton calling for q study.
Evening star., 1963-02-03
Ministers Wife
Attucker Sought

The search for q man who
raped and robbed a 55-year-
old minister's wife In her
Northwest Washington home
Friday evening continued yes
terday without success.
Capt. Charles Burns Of the
sex squad said 10 men from
his squad, the robbery squad
and the sixth precinct were as
signed TO the case.
Being sought was q Negro in
his early 20's. 5-feet-S inches
tall and weighing about $50
pounds. His victim. who is
white. said he was wearing light
gray or blue work pants.
Evening star., 1963-02-03
DC. Pupil Costs Found
SIS Over u. S. AVERAGE

ties say salaries here are on
competitive footing with ma
tional averages. although
slightly below those in the sub
urban Maryland and Virginia
counties.
Average teacher pay through
out Maryland will rise TO $6.l68
this year, according TO NEA
figures, Virginia teachers, how
ever, will average slightly be-
low $4,000.
40 Million Pupils
National public school en-
rollment, the report says. has
passed the 40 million mark. or
these students. 26.4 million are
at the elementary level with
more than 1876 million in Sec
ondary schools.
The total cost OF educating
them. the NEA says, Is Sl9.l
billion per year.
The educational group esti-
mates that the District will re-
ceive more than SO million for
schools from the Federal Gov
ernment this year, Of 1877 per
cent OF the total cost Of their
revenue. The figure should in
crease significantly. however, II
Congress approves President
Kennedy's request to designate
the District a Federally i'm
pacted area. This action would
provide more funds on the
basis Of the number Of parents
here who are employed by the
Government.
Virginia, with several de
pressed areas" in the SOUTH
ern part of the State. is to re-
ceive $40 million in Federal
funds this year for elementary
and secondary schools.
Evening star., 1963-02-03
Rubber, Tin Lead

KUALA LUMPUR. - Rubber
and tin account for rs per cent
Of Malaya's gross national
product and for 80 TO IS per
cent Of exports and re-exports.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01
Heuvns Yes Those
OPPRESSIVE PRONOUNS

and spelling, and grammar-were
invented. 1t smells of the old
Adam, the theory that woman was
made from his rib, the oppression
of woman. 1t does not reflect the
present accepted view of the equal
dignity of the two sexes.
No man would be willing to re-
fer to the citizens rights as her
rights when clearly they included
his own. Why then should we ex-
pect women any longer to say,
1.-THE citizen must assert his rights, y
when they are thinking of them
selves, too?
All words have had to be in
vented by someone sometime-and
so why shouldn't we invent the
pronouns needed for such bi-sex-
uaI nouns as citizen, capitalist,
communist, author, editor and
inevitably in the nd-astronaut?
To start the creative process, !
venture to suggest that E be the
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01

nominative pronoun for all such
nouns.
E appears in both he and she,
it is their main sound, their COM
mon voWel-and it has the vir-
tue of being as short word as
possible. We use a single vowel
for the first person, I, and though
there are three letters in the Sec
ond person, you, it is really SIN
gle vowel sound. Why not E
then for the double person nom
NATIVE. And by much the same
process of creating why not er for
the double person possessive, and
i'm for the double person accusa-
tive?
AS for the citizen, it is time f
asserted (his-whoa!) - er COM
petence to invent pronouns, Or
what will become of i'm in this age
of equal rights?
And now let's have few more
candidates for the office of candi-
dates pronoun and then Gal
lup poH!
Clarence STREET. in Freedom &
Union
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01

We keep on inventing nouns
but not pronouns. Since when has
any pronoun been added to the
English language -. Or to any
other?
Three new pronouns are badly
needed now in English. They are
needed to stand, sexlessly yet
humanely, for such nouns as per-
son, citizen human being.
We have he, his and him for
males; she, her and hers for fe-
males; and it, it's and it for the
inanimate. But we have no spe-
cial pronoun to refer to living
being who may be of either sex,
as may be person, child, writer,
politician to mention no more.
We now use for this purpose the
masculine pronounS.
The use of he as the pronoun
for such a noun as person Or cit
izen is a relic of the primitive
period when too much language
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01
A BOOK REVIEW
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ourselves welcome to his formula
for inner peace? What is steal
ing but proper homage to the SOW
ereign self? The temptation to
release Barabbas, and kill what
stands in the way, is very great
How nice it would be to have great
mental health and wealth, and the
benefits that 60 with both.
II am opposed to the propo-
sition that religious man is
one who obtains inner peace at
any price, above all at the price
of self alienation. Faith de-
mands certain renunciations, but
not the remuneration of intelli-
gence, exploration, spiritual and
cultural renewal, profound So
cial concern, and the defense
of ones inner integrity"
So opposition we have, but not
frustration-yet. Our friends the
Russians have warned us against
the opium of religion, and we aim
to try some anyhow. All we have
to do, the man seems to say, is
avoid self alienation." How?
A californian whisper comes out
of the night about us. You can
be grand seigneur and steal
without getting caught if you car
ry toad's heart in your pocket"
Does it work? That is all we ask.
Yep, just like stump water for
warts" Well, what do we have to
lose that is not lost already?
What did we do? Was that the
devils contract? Will man mock
God? Well, he can try. Both ways
to cheat, and to simulate. So
maybe we had better throw away
that dried up toad's heart, and
shed compassionate crocodile
tear for the meaningless sacrifice.
1t was a childish trick anyhow.
Back to self alienation" which
is an awful thing we want to
avoid, and we try to do so by
whooping it up for Justice" (and
its fringe benefits). Justice is
something that ought to go over
big with everybody. Then we
find there is catch to it, and
hell is place where justice is
supreme. A court Of equity is no
Sunday school picnic. In equity
we fry.
Before it is all over a child is
born, with the face of a toad, and
the heart of a reptile, or both.
That is the limit, too much for
human endurance.
Thomas Merton has written a
very disquieting book 1t speaks
to our guilt.
w. w. STOUT
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East Side
CONTINUED from Page u

of view with to their respective Coos
Without any knowledge of DR.. Freud Tor whomever OF
that bunch this toy think my regard respect
feeling directed to father image and in view OF the
origin Pope that doesn't too arfetched
I'm afraid never gave much thought to the fact that
this kindly The Pope; did give thought TO the
fact I've sad that here man most patlent, most
kind forgvng most sincere and with great sense
humor in short, here man OF good WILL ana the
Father of all must surely know how badly we need
such men.
had occasion to visit with John Griffin on the day
of Pope Johns death can only say that felt gloom
sadness and with both of usthough far apart IN re-
ligous matters two bea very personal loss
The tributes paid Pope John pleased me greatly Some
of the contained in stories and magazine
articles jotted for my pleasure think, per-
haps notes for still another reason: that rope
John would remain in my mind and heart as the great
and good he man. as human beng
One quote I liked by Joseph Roddy, writing in
LOOK:
1--WE have to be careful about how we say it, one
Jesuit said but in sense the Holy FaCleI "S
something of a socialist"
And from article in LIFE the Pope was quoted as
having once said Italy there three OF losing
ones money women, gambling, and farming My father
the most boring OF the three He became FARMER
And in the London Telegraph, Douglas Brown wrote:
His strength in being the kind of man that every
one would like his parish priest to be-.
I failed to make note of this EXPRESSION but from
my point of great tribute Pope John tried
to make his church Catholic and less Roman.
Without doubt of the finest things written about
the Pope article by Morris West that appeared IN
LIFE on June 7th entitled BUILDER OF BRIDGES FOR
US POOR DEVILS. Mr. West ended his piece with the
following:
will they canonze him and make him. officially,
saint the calendar? In way hope not For part
do want to him dealzed by Vatican painter,
lit by thousand candles in ST. Peters, reproduced in
plaster and gilt and sold to pious pilgrims want to re-
member him what he has been-a loving simple
priest good pastor and builder of bridges across which
we poor devils may hope day to scramble to salvation
Personally, am convinced that Angelo Giuseppe Ron
CALI would smile and be happy to any of Gods chill
upon the bridge he was building. Personally again,
that bridge not not for chosen few; his bridge
belongs to the world-to all mankind
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01
The SHINE BOY HAS THE DREAM

such scandals simply does not
make the local newspapers and
therefore usually is not picked up
by the wire services; or if it is,
many newspapers choose not to
run it. Newspapers are reluctant
to deal with real controversy or
indeed with anything that might
offend popular prejudice and
therefore cause them to lose sub
scribers or advertising revenue
This lag in communication
means that we are at least two
versions behind "the New Negro"
He is not the race man" pro-
testing through Hip-not the hip
ster. That came, and went. He
is not the loud flash out to inn
press the white. Not any more.
He is the informed, polite, rock
hard, no-nOnsense man who says
that by-damn this is something
worth dying for and none of your
soft white-man words are going
to fool us ever again. '''
How many whites realize this?
Few, as far as I can tell. To most,
the Negro is still the handkerchief
head, the uncle tom, or perhaps
the hipster. A Negroes actions, his
demands, are therefore misinter-
preted. They bewilder and fright "
en- many non-NegroeS. The new
Negro is going to do exactly what
a proud white man would do in
his place-either stand up and die
or else get the rights that are be-
ing withheld from him, so that his
children won't have to take the
garbage they've always taken; so
that his children won't have to
despair. This new Negro says:
'Nothing's worth that. Pm going
to be man." You call him
niger when he shines your
shoes in barber shop and he'll
never show up for work there
again The word has spread The
shine boy has the dream, too.
Southern white men-white men
in East Texas-will react against
this, too: will deny it. They know
Negroes, see them every day, and
although they are more "sullen"
perhaps, they are otherwise no
different; don't have these COM
pick personalities, these dreams.
White men must realize that they
do not know what goes on in Ne
groes' homes at night, what they
say and think and discuss. Com
pick as the situation is, in sense
it is desolatingly clear. Even
concerned, sympathetic white
knows practically nothing about
Negroes or their real problems
because he seldom stops looking
upon a Negro as one Of the Ne
groes. A Negro snatches a purse
and this is all Negroes. A white
man rapes and murders, but he is
an individual white.
On the other hand, Negroes can
not believe any longer that white
men are simply unaware. Five
years ago, Negroes saw Little
Rock. Last year they saw Oxford.
They saw that they were identi-
cal in pattern. Five years have
produced nothing.
They are not edited by South
ern moderates or liberals who are
scarcely better informed than the
masses. Moderates are calling for
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01

cracker is a cracker, more or less,
and they'll never realize in time.
They won't learn really to love be-
fore Negroes learn really to hate.
The new, new Negroes, the ones
today. are products of this pain
full disillusion. They see n
gradualism as practiced by south
ern whites is going to stretch on
into eternity. They see that their
children and grandchildren Will
have no more hope than they un-
less they do something about II
now. They see that their actions
and reactions are Judged not as
those of humans defrauded of
their rights to grow as humans,
but as "nigger reactions"-smart-
alecky, cocky, DISRESPECTFUL.
These American Negroes have
learned to be bitter. They see that
America is not America, that we
have cheated and beaten the
American Dream to death. Ihey
are sure that if we had time this
dream could come to be something
great again, but daily events, daily
abuses of justice, daily compro-
misses IF principles tell them that
time is running out, and they say
now that since they were. born
with rights, they will not go on
being patient while the System de-
frauds them of those rights.
Most Southern whites see 1T dit
ferently. of course. They hastily
construct slightly better school
buildings with brick veneer and
with no inside finish and one
toilet for a hundred students. Sep
arate. not equal, but better than
before. They say, why don't you
look at these good things we are
doing for you? Why don't you
look at both sides of the question?
Negroes laugh and say our tax
dollars helped pay for that; wed
give more tax dollars if you al
lowed us to earn fairly; our tax
dollars also 60 to support State
Sovereignty Commissions, to pay
for misunderstanding state : spon-
sored books that seek to prove we
are intrinsically inferior a n q
should be deprived of our rights
of citizenship; our tax dollars also
20 to support public beaches and
parks that we are not allowed to
enioy. Our tax dollars, Sir, are
used to pay for the rope that
lynches us. Now why don't you
look at both sides of the question?
We have been shouting: What
ever you do against me you do
against yourself, against this
country. And cannot carry the
load forever. You cannot expect
me to go on fighting to protect
Americas freedoms abroad and
not fight for them at home" You
do not hear.
Perhaps the greatest source OF
Illustration is the fact that more
and more we have two groups OF
citizens with two different sets of
knowledge and information. Ne
groes are fully aware of the many
current instances of rank injus-
tice and violations of civil rights,
but the non-Negro masses are not
aware of them. UNIFORMED, the
national conscience cannot mani
fest itself.
For example, I have. spent most
St. Paul recorder., 1963-10-31

Knott. Before going home she will
spend a few days In Chicago.
Visited Mother And Family:
Mrs. Carl Wade, 1921 Fourth Av.
s., lett Friday, October 4th, for
Corinth, Miss, to visit her mother
Mrs. D. D. Combs and sister, Mrs.
Adrdenne Webb. Mrs. Wade was
accompanied as far as Chicago by
Mrs. Fred Jones, who was on her
way to visit her sister. Mrs. Wade
stopped in Chicago and helped Mrs.
Jones' sister, Mrs. Victor PruItt
celebrate her birthday, October 5.
Mrs. Wade also visited her sister
in-law, Mrs. Olivia Combs in Jack
son, Tenn. On her return home,
Mrs. Wade visited, Mrs. Nina Pat
terson in Chicago.
Hostess To Club: Mrs. Fred
Jones, 1892 Fourth Av. S., was
hostess on Saturday evening, Oc-
tober 26 to the Thirteen Duchess
Club. Games were played and
prizes were won by Mines. An
thony Mazingo, first; Tommy Daw-
son, second and Marie ReddiclI,
third. The next meeting will be
held Saturday, November % with
Mrs. Theodore Jones, 1922 Third
Av. S. hostess.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-10-31

736 Carroll Av., Donald Earl Thorn
as, Michael Harris, 430 Rondo,
NiI1ld Starl1s, $50 Rondo Av.,
Matthew Ellis, 997 Iglehart Av.
November - Alice M. Lawson,
400 West Central Av.
November 5 - Viola Christine
Williams, 408 Carroll Av., Obedia
Hunt, 9O8 Carroll Av., Arthur
Hell, S3s Carroll Av.
November 6 - Kemuel Ellis,
2S3 w. Central Av., Jean Durand,
1882 Iglehart Av., Patton Robin
son, 766 Carroll Av., Justin Mann,
656 Iglehart Av., Willie ]. Rora,
Sr., 954 Iglehart.
November 7 - Frank Harris,
495 st. Anthony Av., Lawrence
Tarver, 603 st. Anthony Av., Mrs.
KDthe Jeffrey, 40 Virginia Av.,
Royal GoOden, s17 Iglehart Av.,
St. Paul recorder., 1963-10-31
BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
MINNEAPOLIS BIRTHDAYS
November s November 8

NONCLADCE d = NONClHDCE .
November 3 - Katheryn Turn
er, City; Denise Elizabeth Car
michael, 3744 Fifth Av. s.
November 4 - Mrs. Doria Olds,
1900 18th Av. s., Ed. Carr, 4O44
Fifth Av. S., Richard Temple,
1914 Fifth Av. S., Michael Corey
Breedlove, 622 Fremont Av. N.
November 5 - Mrs. Oscar Gates,
1929 Clinton Av., Bert Dawson,
3715 Fourth Av. s., Reuben B.
Warren, 3645 Clinton Av., Thomas
Brown, City; Kevin Eugene Craw-
ford, 5526 Knox Av. N.
November 6 - Frank Mitchell,
5629 Nicollet Av., Rex Allen True
4128 Fifth Av. s., Ardena Louise
FHppdn, 3943 Third Av. s., Andrea
Skinner, NY. City, Richard Cook,
4436 Clinton Av., Schon Elaine
Wade, 1920 Fourth Av. s., Ran
dolph Gregory Webb, 1929 Third
Av. s., Deborah Denora Cobb,
4O51 Third Av. S., RoSalind Car
ter, 1920 Third Av. S.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-10-31


Ramon L. Stsson, 1929 Portland,
beft by plane Saturday, October
10, for RuleWlle, Miss, because Of
the illness Of their brother, Her
man. They returned home Thurs
day, October "a and reported their
brother Is somewhat improved.
Attended NIece's Funeral: Mrs.
A. Steele, 1913 Fremont Av. NJ,
has returned home from Tulsa,
Oklahoma where she attended the
funeral services Of her niece Mrs.
Oliver Tsaacs. Mrs. Isaacs had
been a teacher for 80 years and
died suddenly.
Houseguest: Mrs. Henry Knott,
Detroit, Mich, returned to her
home, Tuesday, October % after
spending ten days with Mrs. C..
Lytle and her sister Mrs. Anna
Lewis, 3545 Fourth Av. s. Mrs.
Knott was a classmate of Mrs.
Lytle in Kentucky. Many social
courtesies were extended Mrs.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-10-31

Does change of life leave you so
weak, irritable you feel older than
you really are? Sufocated by hot
flashes, constantly tense, so you
can't be the affectionate wife Of old2
Don't despairl LYDIA PNKHAMs
COMPOUND can relieve that physi-
al distress and tension both
n doctors tests using Pinkham's
Compound, woman after woman
got glorious relief Without costly
shotsI Hot flashes quickly sub
St. Paul recorder., 1963-10-31

November 7 - Percival Baron,
1929 Portland Av., David Guy
Hubbard, 1925 Third Av. s., Mrs.
Wanda Tate, Chicago.
November 8 - Clarence B. Pat
rick, 1881 Bryant Av. N, Ellz-
abeth Prater, 523 Humboldt Av.
NJ, Mrs. Odessa Harris, 2911 18th
Av. S., Mrs. Ora Jones, 1046 Bry-
ant Av. NJ, Robert Landry, 1852
Fourth Av. s., Richard Kelley, SO
st. Mary's Av. Sc.
November 8 - Helen Harris,
4110 Third Av. s., Mrs. L. c. Har-
r1s, 1912 Smelling Av., Travette
Bailey, 1905 Fourth Av. s., Mrs.
Mabel Hrnes, Kansas City, Mo.
ST. PAUL BIRTHDAYS
November s = November 8
NoventheF 2 l. M O'Neal