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Evening star., 1963-05-31
JOSEPH KRAFT
Civil Rights Persuasion Program

stigmatizing segregation as
immoral. That seems to be
the view of at least some
Negro spokesmen and some
white liberal leaders.
"It is incumbent upon
Washington now" James
Baldwin said the other day,
ito take a moral position and
stop playing politics."
And a leader Of the Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action
declared that the Presidents
efforts to win Southern
whites to a more tolerant
position were the equivalent
of fixing tickets.
No doubt the issue is moral
to the core: a classic case Of
mans inhumanity to man.
And the President has said
so-most recently in his civil
rights message. But there Is
no evidence that making
speeches opens schools, or
jobs, or even hearts. What It
surely does do is to harden
the resistance of the South.
ern whites who command the
posts Of congressional, State,
local and private power
through which efforts at
both legislation and persua@
sion must pass. ~
It is the moral line. indeed.
which represents playing
politics in the dirty sense
which is playing fast and
loose with the destinies Of
human beings.
Evening star., 1963-05-31

halls II for opening UP part
Of the human mind where
prejudice and convention had
formerly reigned in dark
ness"
The President. one year old
when British women began
TO vote, only three when
American women followed
suit. may perhaps wryly re-
joice that he was spared poll
itical leadership In that
struggle. The women had TO
bear the harsh fire Of ridi-
cule. but they were not easy
on the men. either. including
their own allies among them.
Their drive for equality
was. OF course. different in
many aspects and In the con-
text OF time from the war
for racial status which has
engulfed the President. But
II is still relevant 10 the
present.
Rights for women seem
now a piece Of natural Jus
tice. elementary and obvious.
Even the Jokes about II ap-
pear contrived. But the rights
had 10 be won, they were not
largeSse freely dispensed. Too
many women, having now
what they want in status,
seem strangely disinclined TO
plunge into the racial strug-
Evening star., 1963-05-31
DON2 rLEE2ON
Women Achieve Another Riqht

gle in all the confidence
promoting, good neighbor
ways open TO them.
That same indifference on
the part Of the mass Of
women hindered their pio-
neers and led 10 q leadership
by extremists which held
them back at critical mo-
ments when II appeared their
cause could be won without
violence. The so-called mod
crates also too often stood
aside.
President Kennedy thought
he had time. He has hoped
by symbolic moves. court
pressures and appeals 10
reason 10 ameliorate and
finally 10 solve racial In
justice. History has. how
ever. caught up with the
United States. abroad and at
home.
II the bulk OF public opin-
ion here stands aside, as Mr..
Fulford reminds Us II did In
the suffrage struggle. like
curious Romans watching the
lion enjoy It's Christian din
ner," events may not always
prove 10 be under the Presi-
dents control.
He IL being urged 10 COM
NIT himself faster and more
deeply than no had expected.
II he Is compelled TO stand
very much alone. except for
the Admonitions Of the
clergy. only the extremists
will profit.
Evening star., 1963-05-31
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Nosser Overreoches in Mide0st

Nevertheless. for all the
reasons cited here, Nasser's
wave has long been the wave
Of the future. Hardly q
month ago, while an open
military aggresSor In the
Kingdom of Yemen-an ag-
gresSion instantly forgiven
him by the United States be-
cause, after all, Yemen as .
pathetic little monarchy was
not forward-lo oking-he set
out to create . new Pam
Arabic bloc to be formed Of
Egypt, Syria and Iraq.
Since he Is undeniably and
heavily armed with Soviet
weapons introduced by Soviet
'technicians," there would
have seemed something
rather sinister In this new
reach Of NaSSerism into the
Middle East. Still. the West
encouraged rather than dis
couraged him. And so 1t had
looked a. though nothing
could stop this new instance
Of forward : looking revolu-
ton.
Now, however, Nasser has
overplayed his hand with
Syria and Iraq. While
they were willing TO enter
this new association, they
soon found the inevitable
that Nasser wanted them not
as honest associates, but as
stooges to himself. Right
away, pro-NaSser plots in
tended to take away their
sovereignty were discovered
In both Syria and Iraq. Now.
Syria and Iraq are reported
busily preparing q two-na-
tion unity aimed not to
spread the glories Of the new
Pan Arab movement, but,
rather. TO defend themselves
against NaSserism.
(CopvFiahk. Iek1l
Evening star., 1963-05-31

It begins to appear that
the West Is after all to be
spared the formation Of Q
powerful soviet-armed "neu-
tralist" bloc In the Middle
East--but certainly not be-
cause Of any very sensible
action by the West itself.
The founding father Of this
enterprise, Col. Abdel Canal
Nasser Of Egypt, is current
history's pet. He is the dar-
ling alike Of "anti-colonial-
ists," Of Communists and
pro- Communists and Of good
but deluded anti Communists
who believe the best way to
preserve peace In the Middle
East Is to make big and
power-hungry Arab states out
Of little ones.
The "anti colonialists"
love Nasser because he long
since got away with kicking
the British around and be-
cause he proclaims his move
ment to be q revolution. I"
These types are automatical-
ly enchanted with "revolu-
tionary" movements, particu-
larry in an old and dusty
area like the Middle East
where there has been much
ancient injustice. For, to
them, revolutions necessarily
have the cardinal recommen-
dation of being forward =
looking" whereas. Of course.
the maintenance Of tradition
or traditional powers neces-
sarily is backward looking.
The good but deluded anti
Communists of whom the
American State Department
has more than q few-have
Evening star., 1963-05-31
Specific Legislation and Indoctrinotion
Indicated, but No Preaching Job
JOSEPH KRAFT

The major lines Of the ad-
ministration's post-Birming-
ham civil rights position are
now clear. Proposals for new
legislation will be combined
with an intensive semi-public
program Of persuasion. What
has not yet emerged Is the
spirit that will clothe the
administrations efforts. But
all the odds are against the
kind Of evangelistic preach
ing campaign being urged
upon the President by the
liberals and the professional
civil rights groups.
The need for new legisla-
ton Is obvious. All across the
country Negroes are Justly
demanding equal rights in
access to such privately
owned public accommoda-
tions as restaurants, hotels
and theaters. Because there
are no established legal means
for asserting these rights
through the courts, the Ne
groes have, in effect, been
obliged to 60 into the streets
and demonstrate.
Last week alone, the JUS
tice Department counted 43
incidents in IS different
States arising from such
demonstrations. Unless some
legal channel for these de-
mands can be opened. racial
tension will boil into q kind
Of nationalist revolt.
The type Of legislation re-
quired is equally clear. Al
lowances may have to be
made for the right Of an in
dividual to his prejudices;
also for isolated incidents
that do not add up to obvi-
Gus patterns Of exclusion.
But basically the Govern
ment will need the right to
enjoin privately-held enter
prise, Of large and middle
scale size, from practicing
systematic discrimination.
By itself, however, the leg
islation accomplisheS little.
In the face Of deliberate and
wide = spread resistance, 1t
Evening star., 1963-05-31
KipIinger to Head
Cornell Cumpuiqn

The major gifts committee
for Cornell University'S centen-
nial campaign in the Washing
ton area win be headed by Aus
tin H. Kiplinger.
Mr.. Kiplinger. . Cornell trus-
tee, Is president Of the Kip
linger Washington Editors, pub
fishers Of the Kiplinger WASH
ington Letter and Changing
Times magazine.
The Nationwide campaign
which has q $73.2 million goal,
win end during the university's
centennial observance In 1865,
Evening star., 1963-05-31

would be almost impossible
to enforce the law, or even
to process the cases arising
under it. The prime purpose
Of the law is to spell out the
kinds of things private
groups will have to do, or re-
frain from doing, by volun-
tary action. Getting the ac-
ton Is the office of the
persuasion program the
President and Attorney Cen
eral have recently under
taken.
1t Is an immense and diff
ficult job. 1t embraces not
only access to public accom-
modation, but schools, en-
ployment, housing, trades
union practices, and patterns
Of executive hiring.
The White House meetings
will have to be repeated all
across the country. For the
aim is to bridge the chasm
that now divides the white
and Negro communities Of
the United States into near
ly separate worlds. The es-
tablishment Of communica-
ton which Assistant
Attorney General Burke
Marshall achieved - with
such difficulty-in Birming-
ham, is now being attempted
on a national scale.
I'VE need" one White
House aide put it the other
day. 5000 Burke Marshalls."
There remains the question
Of whether the President
ought to sharpen the issue
further and more dramati-
cally in q series Of public
statements and speeches de-
signed to win the confidence
Of the Negro community by
Evening star., 1963-05-31
West Seen Spared SOviet-Armed Bloc
As Syria and lruq Guard Sovereignty

gone along with Nasser In the
notion that II he Il allowed
to develop his region" he
may become less intimately
dependent" upon the Soviet
Union.
Finally, though Nasser Il
a sworn enemy Of Israel
the only out-and-out and ef-
fectively faithful Western al
ly in all the Middle East
there has been In recent
years q sharp turn In the
view Of American and Brit
ish liberal intellectuals to-
ward the Israelis.
Once, to these people, the
Israelis could do no wrong;
now they can do little that is
right. The reason for the
turnabout seems to be that
the toughly realistic Israelis
persist in looking upon the
cold war a. . truly tough
enterprise, not really to be
won by lofty talky-talk or
even by endless concern with
"underprivileged areas" and
newly emerging states"
The Israelis. in Q word. have
lost their membership In the
club Of the forward-looki
for two reasons. They are
not the least confused about
the true motives Of inter-
national communism. And
they don't at all accept the
idea that the way to win
over pro-Soviet "neutralists"
is give them more and more
aid-as we have long given
Nasser-and more and more
sympathy in the hope that
all this will turn them TO
our side.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-07-18
Africa At A Glance
sO7 GRADUATEs Ar Adds ARABIA

Adds Ababa C) The Halle selase First University two
yearoId United institution learning
institution comprises the formerly existing colleges
ery College accounting graduates
Building college 49, the Agricultural and Mechanical college SO;
Ondar Medical college, and the Engineering college, S2 David A.
Talbo).
NEW SIERRA LEONE
AP)F1ve single-dex buses year by
Department
Leyand Motors Limited will be shipped shortly
by Director Traffic L. Robinson
Robinson said win replace the which
large for the pnnsuar roads In addition Titan double
city
DODGERS
tNP)-The prosecution persons
lodging including cabinet minister and House
last week An earlier probe revealed business
operating in Liberia had been evading taxes.
PLAN TO HELP DISABLED KENYANs
Nairob (A)A scheme help rabiHate disabled persons
Kenya government by N.
minister Of labor social services Men who returned here
Gently
sresg that the oge pension plan could not be supplemented
Mena added that the unemployment problem must be solved
might years
operation
CALLED ABSOLUTE DISASTER
(APThe racial discrimination problem
absolute disaster declared William Lawes
in Gna Lless speaking at Cape Coast western Gana said
that horrible practice" possible
a peaceloving nation US. (Kvaxu Adisam).
PLAN ONTTSHA AIRPORT
Onttsha Nigeria (AP)-work will begin the Onitsha
a acquired
completed according Mbaz Amec minister
Tin Eastern Ng occupied strategic position for all planes
between Caabar Harcot the
determined
ha so that the airport could land and take off there at time
MOSCOW FLIGHTS TO HAVANA STOP IN CoNAKRY
CAMP air liners longer fly
Moscow (ANP)-Russan liners longer fly
Havana according to lass the Soviet said
with capital agency
liner would make the flight in 81 hours so minutes
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-07-18
ALL IN A DAYS WORK

Detroit (ANP) - Lucius Bel
finger was arrested in a down
town department store and charged
with larceny In q warrant issued
by the Wayne County Prosecutors
office.
Store Detective Maxwell Brown
said he observed Bellinger remove
SO pairs Of women's hose from a
rack and conceal them In q shop
ping bag and attempt to leave the
store without paying for the stock
lngs, which have n retail value Of
$22.se.
Brown quoted Belinger as say
ing:
'T am broke. I stole the stock
ings to sell 10 raise some naoney."
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-07-18
Police Murders In
Miss. UndiScIoSed
SNCC CHARGES

Greenwood, Miss. (ANP) - Of
ficials of the Student Non-Viol-
ence Co rdinating Committee
charged last week there have been
three undisclosed murders Of Ne
groes in Mississippi during the
past six weeks in addition to the
sndper death of Medgar Evers,
NAACP field secretary.
The slain were identified as
Foster Sanders of Pamela County,
Willie Joe Lovett Of Holmes
County and a man named McKin-
ley Of Tallahatchie.
SNCC spokesman Bob Moses
also alluded to the development
Of a ring Of killers for the pur-
pose Of numbering militant Miss
issippi Negroes.
Lack Of information concerning
the murders of Sanders, Lovett
and Mckinley was blamed on the
two major news services, that were
accused Of burying the stories.
According to the SNCC, all
three victims were killed by white
policemen. Levett was shot by
deputy w. o. Moore. Shorty Watts,
a highway policeman, Is accused
of the staying Sanders. Mckinley
was shot sitting in his car by
County Sheriff Sagan.
In q telegram to the Civil Rights
Commission, the SNCC requested
a fun scale hearing on the civil
rights Of Negroes In Mississippi.
The Telegram noted that "the
Commission has an unacceptable
obligation to expose the full range
Of NEisdssippi's contempt for the
laws Of the country Only a hear
ing Of the full Commission can
command the authority to present
these FACTS to the country"
Noses telegram charged that
the Department Of Justice lacks
the necessary man-pOwer, legal
equipment and Judiciary to fulfill
it's obligations to the State Of
Mississippi and the country In the
area Of voter registration
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County Bar Group
In North Caroline
Drops Race Ban

WinSton-Salen1, NC. CAMP -
The Forsyth County Bar Associa-
ton voted almost unanimously last
week to admit Negro lawyers to
membership If they are other
wise" qualified.
There was only a smattering OF
opposition as the policy change
was overwhelmingly approved on
voice vote. The few mo- votes
were scattered.
Weston P. Hatfield, bar presi-
dent, told the members he was
authorized 10 submit the change
as a unanimous recommendation Of
the 11-member executive commit
tee.
The question: do you favor the
admission Of otherwise qualified
applicants to membership In the
(asSociation) regardless Of race,
creed or color?"
Only two Bfief speeches were
made George w. Brady spoke
emotionAlly against the question
william y. Womhle, foEUner legiS-
lator, spoke for the proposal.
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Negro N0Ened Asst.
Superintendent Cook
County Schools

Chicago (ANP) - Joshua John
son, 40, is the first Negro educator
to be chosen for two important
administrative posts in Illinois.
He is the first Negro to be ap-
pointed assistant superintendent of
Cook county schools. The appoint
ment was made last week.
Five years ago, he was the first
Negro to be named assistant to
the state superintendent Of public
instruction.
His two sisters and a brother
are educators in Pennsylvania.
He has been assigned to the
west side division of the Cook
cUnty schools and will supervise
the work of 20 suburban school
districts in Lyons, Worth, and
Stickney townships. There are
more than so elementary and high
schools in the division.
Noble J. Puffer, superintendent
of county schools, said in announc-
ing Johnson's appointment.
Mr.. johnson knows our county
schools. AS a state administrator
assigned to northern Illinois, he
was a member of an evaluation
team which visited nearly every
suburban school in Cook county.
1--WE are fortunate to have him
now because of his wide expert
ence and background"
Johnson also is known in the
sports world. A professional base
ball player for IL years until he
entered military service in 1914,
johnson recalls:
IT earned the cost of my educa-
ton through sports" Johnson, who
was a catcher, still looks like an
athlete. He is feet 2 and weighs
GAS POIAlAS'
While a student at Cheyney
State college in Pennsylvania, he
met Verna Taylor Of North Caro-
lima. They were married 16 years
ago. They have an adopted son,
Eugene, 10.
Johnson's father, now IS, moved
his wife, Elizabeth, and six chill
dren from Evergreen, Ala, 10
Pittsburgh when the children were
small. He became a steel worker.
The mother died when Joshua was
6 years old, and one brother and a
sister died in their youth. Joshua
and the other three worked their
way through school.
johnson holds a masters degree
in education from Penn State univ
ersity and is a captain in the
army reserves.
He was a high school principal
IA years in Madison, Ill
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Delivers After
Eree-FoT-AN

Port Harcourt, Nigeria CAMP
Trouble arose between a 30
year-old pregnant woman, Beatrice
Igwe, and another woman over
who should buy a special bundle
Of firewood, at the Diobu market
The disagreement soon spread
as other women took sides In the
dispute. Before long the two
groups of angry women were en-
gagged in a free-for-all. The bund-
les Of firewood in the market area
provided easy weapons for the
women as they used the loosened
pieces of wood freely.
Many Of the women who took
part in the fight left the scene
with battered clothing.
The pregnant woman, although
she looked weak after the battle,
was taken to a maternity home In
Diobu where she delivered a
bouncing baby boy shortly after
wards.
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1cal OF the other groups, attributed
to him in a wire service story were
taken out of context and ignored
the audience to which he was
speaking.
The wire service had quoted
Wilkins Of telling 800 persons at
a meeting in the Carver Theater
at Alexandria, Va, that other
groups furnish the noise" while
the NAACP pays the bills in the
civil rights fight. Wilkins was also
quoted in the story as saying to
his audience, Don't go giving
them (the other rights organiza-
tions) your money when it should
be given to u.s."
The service contended that the
charges by Wilkins confirmed sus-
picions Of a longtime split in the
ranks Of Negro leaders fighting
for racial equality.
Addressed Closed NAACP Meet
However, Wilkins said that he
was addressing his remarks at
the Alexandria meeting to men,
bers of the local NAACP. He said
it was a closed meeting. 1t was
the chapter members he was urg-
ing to give their money to the
NAACP, he said.
NAACP Still Active Wants
Support
Wilkins said in the telephone in
terview:
The public can send its money
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They are here today, gone tomor-
row." Wilkins said, according to
the wire story.
Cites Joint Efforts
Also, according to the report,
Wilkins cited a joint NAACP-
CORE drive in Louisville, KY, sew
eral years ago, when, he said, the
NAACP was forced to foot the
81, 1000 bill. He said that out Of
267 demonstrators arrested, only
IL were CORE members.
In New York, James Farmer,
national director of CORE, refused
to comment on the alleged charges
until I have Mr.. wilkins full re-
port before me-"
DR.. King was not Immediately
available for comment.
May Stir Reaction
Despite the move by Wilkins to
smooth the ruffled feelings caused
by the disclosure Of his statements,
there was the general feeling that
his speech may stir unfavorable
reaction between the groups.
There has been a feeling, partic-
ularly among young civil rights
advocates, that the younger and
more vocal groups have forced the
NAACP to assume a militant
stand in the civil rights fight
However, 1t is undeniable that the
NAACP has borne the brunt Of ex-
pensive civil rights legal fights
and provided legal aid and bail fol
all.
Wilkins himself was arrested for
demonstrating In Jackson, Miss,
recently, and some observers view
ed it as rejecting a chance in the
NAACP approach from reliance on
fighting chiefly in the courts.
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where 1t pleases. was talking to
the chapter. My talk was telling
the NAACP members that the
NAACP Is still active in the fight
and wants Its support.
This does not apply to the gen.
eral public. 1t can buy pink Cadil-
laos, throw its money down the
drain or do whatever 1t wants to
with its money"
No Breach
Concerning the alleged breach
between his organization and the
other groups, Wilkins declared:
Were not splitting with any
body. We want to have everything
clear. I came back from Medgar
Evers' funeral with James Farmer
and talked to the Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr., while in Jack
son."
The wire story claimed wilkins
had said that the NAACP Is the
only organization that has con-
sistently sponsored civil rights
throughout the country and fol-
lowed up civil rights action since
the 1854 Supreme Court school
desegregation ruling. He was also
quoted as saying the NAACP Is
the only organization capable of
handling a long sustained civil
rights fight.
IAN the rest start a little and
then rush off somewhere else.