New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00021

!• ». N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS. Ut, Jan. It, 1963 Open Season Opens! ‘Next Door - - 1 II ■ By TED SHEARER While N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., Jan. 18, HM8 • U What Next In Cuba? By GERTRUDE WILSON • Amsterdam Netos C 1. POWELL President & Editor P. M. H. Savo*y, Secy-Treas. - J. L. Hicks, Executive Editoi “------‘Milan K. A. Wall. MwtlAl Dlraeur; K. M. Jacto-. “ “ S. tL Walter. Cttj MMori J. W. Wate. CUaMItod Adv«r- oration at 2340 rataai 1 jaar I7.W — • k. M W The 88th Congress The time is near. What time is near? The time is near for the fight. What fight? The fight between the Good Men and the Bad Men. Who are the Good Men? The Good Men are the Liberals. ......... Who are the Bad Men? The Bad Men are the Conservatives. What is a Liberal? A Liberal is one who wants to do what is right. What lsiright? The right is what the Conservatives oppose. „ What is a Conservative? A Conservative is one who wants to do what is right. What is right? The right is what the Liberals oppose. Why do the Good Men want to fight the Bad Men? Because the Bad Men want to fight the Good Men. . jy 'Are all the Good Men Liberals? Yes. Are all the Liberals Good Men? No. Some of them are Left Wingers. Some of them are Radicals. Some of them are mushy minded. What is mushy minded? Mushy minded Is somebody who does not make up his own mind. Who makes it up? Somebody else. Are all the Bad Men Conservatives? Yes. Are all of the Conservatives Bad Men? No. Some of them are Right Wingers. Some are Reactionaries. Some of them are Obstructionists. Some of them are Southern Democrats who vote like Republicans. And some are Republicans who vote like Southern Democrats. What are the Good Men and Bad Men going to fight about now? What they always fight about now: The rules—the Senate rules and the House - ■' \ rules. What do the Good Men want to do about the rules? Change them. Why do they want to change them? So the majority can vote on legislation op­ posed by the minority. Why do they want the majority to vote? Because the Good Men think they are in the majority. Would the Good Men want to change the rules if the Bad Men had a majority? No. " , What do the Bad Men want to do about the rules? Make them stronger. Why do they want to make them stronger? To protect the minority. Why do they want to protect the minority? Because they believe they are- in the minority. Would the Bad Meh want to change the rules if the Good Men had a minority? Yes. Are there any members of Congress who vote for what they believe is best for the country? Yes. How many of ther The majority. Why is this not generally know ’.ecause it is not interesting. On what do they bi „• a decision on what is best tat the country? A Matter of Principle. What is a Matter of Principle? It is that on which one bases a? decision on how to vote. When is a Matter of Principle not a Matter of Principle? When it is made the basis of a decision to vote the wrong way. . — How does one know when to vote the right way and when to vote the wrong way? That is what the Bad Men and Good Men are all trying to find out now. The above appeared in the Washington Star on the eve of the convening of the 88th Congress. o x Manhattan And Beyond k couple of weeks ago in the same mail I received two letters commenting on my column deal­ ing with the indictment of Joseph Mitchell, former city man­ ager of Newburgh, N. Y. In that column I expressed pleasure in the fact that a brutal opportunist who had made a national reputation for himself by the process of kicking around people un­ able to Protect GRANGER themselves, should • now be in danger of going to the hoosegow for a stretch on charges of soliciting bribes. One of the letters made me very sad, because its writer was so obviously well-meaning and sincere — and so very, very wrong. The other letter made me Very angry — because I was wrong and my anger was against myself. Angry because I found my­ self guilty of what is to me a cardinal sin for a news editor, reporter or columnist. I believe that a chap who doesn’t take pains to get ftis facts right has no business having ac­ cess to newspaper space. And when inaccurate facts result in unfairness to a rfiember of the public, the sin becomes a flag- By LESTER GRANGER rant crime—whether the unfair­ ness is by accident, sly design or careless oversight. Unfair So here I was, careless with a fact and consequently unfair to a responsible organization, and all because I pulled out a name in by-guess-and-by-god fashion instead of pulling down last year’s files and making certain to get the name right. I stated that the Bronx Cham­ ber of Commerce had invited Mitchell down for a luncheon address, instead of saying that a group of Bronx retail merchants had done so — or, better still, holding up the column until I could check on the exact name of the organization. The alert executive secretary of the Bronx Chamber immedi­ ately wrote me, correcting my error and asking for a retrac­ tion. The retraction is herewith presented, neatly wrapped in re­ pentant apology. But this doesn’t end it, for I still have to go into those files and get the right name for the organization that did invite Mit­ chell to spew his poison all over the Bronx. As for the letter that made me sad, that will have to await another column. It’s enough for now to say that .it was written by a lady living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in a neighbor­ hood settled by colored Ameri­ cans of southern or Puerto Rican derivation. • —- P No Stranger In other words, she is no stranger to people in need — in fact, she herself is a welfare case. But her letter shows abso­ lutely no understanding of the nature of the problem faced by a badly-trained family that es­ capes from a starvation, native- facist type of social order to find itself still starved of oppor­ tunity and hope in the midst of a “free” society. And if she can’t understand, what can we expect of pot-bellied burghers of com­ fortable means who know the South only from the inside of a Palm Beach hotel and who have never been hungry except for an hour, perhaps, before dinner­ time! But the lady is well-meaning, she is sincere. If for no reason other than these her letter de­ serves discussion but that must wait for another week. For it will be at least a week before I get over having made such a stupid, careless error of fact re­ garding Mitchell’s visit to the Bronx. If Executive Secretary Walsh of the Bronx Chamber is angry with me, that’s not a picayune in comparison with what I’m feeling toward myself. The Truth About Moise Tshombe Another Angle Who Got The $ S'. By JAMES L. HICKS Where did the money go? I mean the money that the city, state and federal governments spend to make things better for you and me. Are things getting any better for you? Where does the money go? I’d like to know. I think you would too. For that reason we have set up at the Amster­ dam News a “task force” - or a “money team” if you please. The people who pay taxes are en­ titled to know where their tax money is being spent. And the specific job of this team is to courteously walk into an agency, institution or office and discreetly say to the man in charge: '*■ “I represent the’’New York Amsterdam News. “We have information that the state, (city or federal government) turned over “X” number of dollars to your agency to be spent on behalf of _ the people of the city of New York. Would you be kind enough to tell us who got that money and how it was spent so that we can publish it in the Amsterdam News?” Now let me ask you something. Does that seem unfair to you? Do you see anything difficult about it? Well neither do I. And that’s why we are going ahead with it. As a matter of fact we have already started it. But if you don’t think asking people how they spend government money creates some razzle- dazzle answers . . . take a good look at the story below. Governor Rockefeller recently was awarded the Urban League of Greater New York’s-Human Relations award. When he accepted the award he stated in his acceptance speech that earlier in the year he had turned over $75,000 of the state’s money to the Urban League to be used in prevent­ ing students from dropping out of school. We decided to have our money team ask the Urban League how they spent that $75,000. One of the best reporters on our staff was as­ signed to do the asking. Now read the story below which he turned in and see if you as a tax payer are satisfied with the answer. Not Satisfied I’m going to be frank with you, I’m not satis­ fied. Frankly speaking, I can hardly figure out what they are talking about. As you read keep in mind that our questions were: Who got the money? and Wliat was it. used for? I might add that we are not picking on the Urban League and Ed Lewis. We are going to do this every week and if somebody is embarrassed a little then they just have to be embarrassed. You are entitled to know who got your money and what they did with it. Here is the story that was turned in to me. There will be more next week. Dr. Edward S. Lewis, director of the Urban League of Greater New York, has told the Amster­ dam News that “every penny” of a $75,000 state grant to work with school dropouts will be spent in the seven categories of the program. Dr. Lewis, noting that the ex- penditure of the grant would be “a matter of public record and open to audit at any time by the state government,** said there would be “a problem in getting out figures at this time, willy- nilly. It would require putting a bookkeeper and auditor on the job.’’ through a UL spokesman, that the center was working with a group of 247 youths whose names lad been sent by the state out of projected total of 500. The re­ mainder are still to come, the spokesman said. Along This Way 19th Century Roadblock _____ By ROY WILKINS One of the ankle tacklers who has dropped the Negro dead ih his tracks time and time again is a Virginian, Congressman Howard W. Smith, chair­ man of the all-powerful Rules Com­ mittee of the House. Representative Smith has made plain that he will do his best to give a vinegar flavor to the 100th year of the Eman­ cipation Proclamation. He intends to use the question of Negro rights to beat down the legis­ lative program of the President. WILKINS Representative Smith wants the President and the Attorney General to leave the Negro question alone. In a year end interview here is his threat: Q. What particular measures do you have in mind that the South won’t go along with? Smith: Any more agitation on the racial question. I don’t think the South will go along with a federal aid to education program . . . (and) . . . a reduction in taxes. Translated that means that unless the President drops the racial ques­ tion, he won’t get his aid to education program and his tax cut. Of course, JFK would be foolish to trust the Southerners; they have fought the Presidential program whether the White House has been “soft” or “hard” on the Negro question. The Rules Committee of the House is not a committee on rules. It is a committee that is supposed to pass on to the floor of the House in orderly fashion those bills that have been ap­ proved by other committees. But under Rep. Smith, the Rules Com­ mittee has become a body that decides which bills it wiil permit to reach the floor. Way He Operates Representative 8mlth sees to it that civil rights bills, if they succeed in weathering the storm in some other committee, are safely tucked away in the Rules archives. They are either embalmed there or they are trimmed to specifications after hard bargaining on other bills. Does a Northern Congressman want some bill that will benefit his state? Well, let him agree to vote against or to gut a pending civil rights bill. Chairman Smith is a man out of the Nineteenth Century who is block­ ing Negro aspirations in the second half of this century. He is 79. He was born nine years after the end of the Civil War. He was two years old when the 1876 Compromise told the South it could handle the Negro as it saw fit. That agreement has been Howard Smith’s lifetime guide. He blocks the Federal government from “interfering” with the treatment of the Negro by the Deep South and does whatever he can to preserve racial home rule. Three or four years ago Smith put together a 73-word bill which, if adopted, would have reversed the Supreme Court’s 1954 school segrega­ tion decision and forced into fresh litigation most of the gains won by the Negro in the past forty years. Not one of the 73 slick words refer­ red to race or to civil rights, but the poison was there. Smith is one of the obstacles that must be overcome or neutralized if Emancipation is to become a reality. Yoar Child’s Health Temper Control By Thomas W. Patrick, Jr., M.D. ,1 Sometimes a young mother decides to be perfect. She is not, for example, ever going to lose her temper with her child, as some mothers do. But, she’s not per­ fect, really; no one can be. There’ll come a day when, to begin with, she hasn’t slept well and feels tired out. And from the moment she gets out of bed, everything goes wrong. But she goes about all the things PATRICK she has to do carefully repressing all signs of irritation — and meanwhile the coffee boils over. Junior begins to howl. This is just about the last straw. But she shouldn’t lose her temper! Actually, she should let go for a moment. In that case she would vent her natural feelings, and immediately want to comfort and cuddle Junior; her momentary anger would be for­ gotten, outweighed by the consolation and loving attention that followed. Poppy^s Notes Boo Boo In Atlanta By POPPY CANNON WHITE Quincy ! Thats no wav to oust THE ERASERS’!" ______ f Home Plate Doing It Ourselves By JACKIE ROBINSON Recently, one of the most vital conferences ever held in this country took place in the office of the President. Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, James Fanner of CORE, Mrs. Dorothy Height of The National Council of Negro Women, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of SCLC, A. Philip Randolph of The International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Whitney Young of The National Urban League, all met with Mr. Kennedy. This top echelon of race leadership conferred with the President for the purpose of asking that more Negroes be appointed as ambassadors to other countries. ___ Of approximately 107 ambassadors, ROBi^son only two are Negroes. Considering the fact that non-white nations constitute three- quarters of the world government, this reflects a sorry situation. Recognizing the validity of the leaders mission, President Kennedy granted them a lengthy hearing and, by his attitude, demonstrated his sincere interest in the problem they sought to solve. One of the reasons we do not have more Negro people in high positions in the foreign service is that our government has been allowing other nations to dictate to us as to whom we shall send to them to represent us. There is always a great deal of fuss raised when other countries seem to feel that we are meddling in their internal affairs. If we are supposed to stay out of their affairs, • then it seems only fair that they should not dictate to us on the matter of our selection of representa­ tives. Big Step This writer believes that the Negro leaders who visited Mr. Kennedy have made an important step, it k also refreshlne to note the sympathetic atti- Unity Needed The Federal Government through two sepa­ rate agencies has allocated to the Harlem com­ munity approximately $500,000 to alleviate the lack of social work agencies to be found in the community and thereby to help fight juvenile delinquency and other such ills. •J e The two agencies selected to administer and spend these funds have become known as ACT and HARYOU. It marks the first time, to our knowledge, that such funds have been placed in the hands of, and under the control of the people of this community. But we regret to say that, at the present time, these two agencies are not performing the mis­ sions to which they have been assigned, they are not spending the money on what they’re supposed to spend it and they are not, at present, doing any Of the things for the community that it had been hoped they would do. 7 On the contrary, the men who are running the two programs, have settled down to a little Cold War between themselves in which they are * sniping at each other like two old women to the harm and detriment, not only of their own pro­ grams, but of the community as well. For we are reliably informed that if the two groups don’t stop bickering the government plans to >111 both programs. And frankly, if the present circumstances continue, we couldn’t blame the government if it did. . . >pl< It is vital that these two should act and work together and end their petty little war. We recommend that a committee of three prominent who know the Harlem community, of the of the Urban League’s Whitney Young be ted by the Mayor to bring these two warring ions together and if necessary, bang their can get on with this heads t o<ta t. hut* IM nfflg ana 1 ‘ f r - ’ of our ctimmunity. By ALFRED D. FEATHERSTONi; The current plight of Moise K. Tshombe, self- styled “chief of state” of the renegade Congolese province of Katanga, in the face of decisive United Nations military action can best be described as a thieves falling out.” By the failures of the Portug­ iug- ua our fourteen thousand mile Anv flight from Los Angeles. uese military commander in gola on Katanga's w^teMIvfron- tier and prime Minister Roy we- lensky's faction to the south, Tshombe’s mercenaries and "ad­ visors** lscked sufficient support to rally to the call for a “fight to the finish.’* h Thus, in spite, of much plotting and pledging their hopes for continued white supremacy has met with a serious, if not fatal setback In the rich mineral prov­ ince. Tshombe, the facade for their neocolonialism ambitions, cor­ rupted by greed and poweriust, now exposed — is expendible. Stripped of their backing. Tshombe’s threats become as va­ cuous as the stream of broken promises by which he deceived Africa and the world for two and one-half years. 1 went to Katanga, July 4, 1962, laboring under the conflict of my own personal suspicions and the growing myth that Tshom­ be was a victim of circumstances related closely te a communist conspiracy. 2 Weeks Her* suppression of the African equaling that in South Africa is rigidly enforced by the white set­ tlers* modern army. At the air­ port while awaiting the car which was to take us to Katanga, talked with some of these settlers about the situation in Katanga, and was readily informed by two that they had responded to the call up of reserves by Roy Welen- sky to support Katanga’s seces sionist fight against the United Nations during the conflict of September and December 1962. T^eir presence on Katanga's border Insured the flow of mer cenarles and at the same time prevented the Africans from de­ serting Tshombe. < Films Made A short while later, the car which had been assigned to us by Tshombe arrived bringing the Belgian Roget Mertens, Tshom- be's agent and an African chauf­ feur. The 600 mile trip to Katanga took us two days allowing for an overnight stay in the Ridgeway Hotel in Lusaka, North Rhodesia On reaching Katanga’s border town of Kasumbaless our guide told me they bad wanted to leave Elizabethville because independ­ ence under Tshombe was in many ways as bad as that under the Belgian colonists and they were hoping to reach the jurisdiction of the Central Congolese Govern­ ment in Sud Kasai. One young chap stated, "If the white man insult me or hit me, cannot hit him back, for they take me to jail and beat me The time and film exhausted, the rest of the team left for Los Angeles while 1 remained behind as the guest of Tshombe’s “Min­ ister of Foreign Affairs’* Evaris­ te Kimba who prior to entering politics was a reporter on one of Elizabethville’s newspapers. He was a sickly and highly frustrated maa with little to do since Katsnga’s “foreign affairs were the exclusive domain of Tshombe connected by direct tel­ etype with his “ambassadors like the Belgian Michel Streuel- ens In Katanga's Information Service In New York and coun terparts in Paris and Brussels Gun Merchants Thia relationship with Kimba enabled me to penetrate the tight curtain of secrecy surrounding the activities of the secessionist movement of Katanga. I saw the parade of gun merchants, the op­ portunists and the plain con-art ists all attracted by the dream of wealth. What started out to be s two) Mertens whisked us through im week assignment with a televis­ migrations, customs and gendar ion Independent from Los Ange­ merie roadblocks with a wave of les sponsored by conservative hit “magic paper” from Tahom Americans seeking to expose be. In Elizabethville we roceiv “Tshombe’s side of the story.** ed the full hospitality of the tita­ was eventually protracted into nic financial empire — Union Mi over flve months of Intimate aa- „iere — guesthouse, transports sociation with the secessionist government of Katanga witness­ ing heretofore unrevealed aspects spent filming Tshombe and his of the lntrnal intrigues and ma-i cabinet but efforts to ferret Olli chlnations of the European evidences of United Nations lm power cheque manipulating the proprieties proved unsuccessful despite the volunteered “informa- strings. tion" by many Europeans. tion, recreation, the works. The assigned two weeks Mereeeariee The drama of Katanga began) I talked to many Baluba. At to unfold la the drive from Saiia-i Elizabethville'a prominent hotel bury, South Rhodesia, the termin- Leopold TT, several young Baluba Across the panorama flashed a multitude of Europeans and few Americans — the unknown the known and the notorious. From the United States was Col. H. Julian, debonair and suave, who flitted on the scene briefly, capturing many lmaglna lions, thence to the United Na tlons jail in Leopoldville, for al- legedly^coMpirlng to sell guns to Tshombe. , Another American, Max Yer- gan. bannerllnes the pro - Tshom he RTjfttwtogers from New York as chairman of the American Committee tot Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters. The “Freedom Fighters’* have been exposed as Katanga’s mer­ cenaries. In Katanga, Hasom, the ubiquitous Syrian, hovers about Tshombe performing his prestidl gitations causing millions of dol­ lars to vanish and his two Belg­ ian cohorts, Madam Vermueilen, who holds the keys to Tshombe’s office as well as his bedroom, and the ultra-suave Andre Van Roey, head of the Bank of Ka­ tanga and financial czar of the secessionist movement. With these and hundreds like them, the Black facade of Tshombe’s government is sus tained. Little by little the pieces came together — the true relationship of Tshombe and the gigantic Bel­ gian mining company, Union Min- iere, conspiring to preserve ac customed supremacy over the African. (To Be Continued) Dr. z Lewis said, unofficially, that approximately half of the grant would go. to paying the sal­ aries of the seven professional workers and two clerical assist­ ants hired to operate the dropout program. "The grant, however,’does not effect in any way the salaries of the permanent staff of this of­ fice,” he added through a League spokesman. The dropout program went in­ to effect in August and will con­ tinue for a year. Dr. Lewis gave one numerical projection in one category of expenditures for the year: Work Stipend He said 111,000 was ticketed for expenditure on the “work sti­ pend” program, which" whs de­ scribed as a kind of “pre-work experience’’ for the dropout trai­ nees He did not give a figure of ex­ penditures to date but said -Don't Forget To List "Tax Account" Number Internal Revenue district dir­ ectors of Manhattan and Brook­ lyn have issued a reminder to all individual taxpayers that un­ der a recent law taxpayers are required to enter their identifying “tax account** numbers on 1962 income tax returns filed in 1963. For the average taxpayer it means the use of his Social Security number, or similar num­ ber issued for tax reporting pur­ poses If he has never had em­ ployment under Social Security coverage. Tax officials said the use of Identifying numbers tx~essential to electronic processing of re­ turns now being installed nation wide by Internal Revenue to im­ prove the service. They added that failure to show account num her may delay refunda if any is due the Individual. An Individual who seeds an account number for tax purposes and who has not previously ap­ plied for one, should call at once to their district' director’s office the tax officials said. The directors pointed out also that payers of dividends and in­ terest, such as corporations, banks and savings Institutions, are re­ quired to obtain the account num­ bers of their shareholders sad depositors and to use them on information documents submitted to Internal Revenue. They said receivers of income from these sources should com­ ply promptly when they get re­ quests for their account numbers from the paying organization. This also is required by law, and pro­ vides a 95 penalty for failure to do so unless reasonable cause can be shown for failure to pro­ vide the number, tax officials explained. Of the total current waiting list, 85 have already been processed and there are 31 active cases in process. Another 31 youths, de­ scribed as “walk-ins’* who cams to the UL for help without being referred by the state, are also be­ ing processed. What II Is The work stipend, it was ex­ plained is a program under which the youngsters are given work ex­ perience through employment in non - profit organization at 20 hours a week for a dollar an hour for 12 weeks. Each week is capped by a discussion with one of the professional staff to uncover and work out the prob­ lems and difficulties of the new worker. Those who want to return to school and continue to work are carried on a part-time basis. A spokesman said that 14 young­ sters have returned to school since the program began and ten are waiting to begin the spring term In February. The otmr categories of the program, the League reported, include: job placement, vocation­ al guidance, group and individual counseling (including work with parents). The other categories of the pro. gram, which Is directed by Ima- nuel C. Romero, are headed by Frank Braughton, youth employ­ ment Interviewer; Fredrich A. Hammonds, vocational counselor; Robert Johnson, training special­ ist; James Sampson, work super­ visor; Delores M Brooks, psych­ ologist and Helen Williams, soci­ al group worker. MF . e A League spokesman said the program was “oriented” toward developing good job opportunities and situations for the dropouts. It la one of eight such programs In the state, one in each of the five boroughs, and the only one which is trying to help get the qualified and educable dropouts back Into school. The spokesman said jhe League expected to spend atmroximately 926,000 of its own money In the program in addilion to the state grant. Boo-Boo is a word not listed in my staid, old Oxford dictionary. But there is no other way to describe the big, bumbling, stupid blunder perpetrated by the city officials in Atlanta who heralded the Christmas season by building a Wall. Not one but two barricades of steel, wire and concrete “to keep the Negroes on one side, the whites on the other!!” “Where in the heck did that thing o come from?” wails a cartoon­ ist on the editorial page of the Atlanta Constitu­ tion. He shows ’a jalopy named “At­ lanta Progress” stopped dead by the barrier on Peyton Road. POPPY Folks of good will both white and colored are dazed and horrified by Atlanta’s version of the Berlin Wall; some call it the Ghetto wall. The Mayor,, Ivan Allen, who admittedly owed his election last year to the Ne­ gro vote, may, according to Rev. M. L. King, Sr. — Martin Luth A King’s fa­ ther — “break his political heck with this buffer . . .” Atlanta’s progress’’'would seem to have been arrested at a time when the city’s prestige has reached an all time high as a haven of amity between the races. Segregation is no more in the Atlanta airport or in the restaurants, department store lunch . counters, theatres and movie houses — at least, in the main part o’f town. (Hotels? Not yet.) % ’ For the first time since reconstruc­ tion a Negro has been elected to the legislature. Economic and political power of the colored community is vast and growing. So is the Negro population which now makes up 33.9 per cent of the city’s people. Yet the Negroes occupy only 16 per cent of the residential land. There is an acute housing shortage. A few months ago city officials tried to block Negro expansion into the Southwest area of Atlanta by introduc­ ing an ordinance to extend the bound­ aries of the large Westview Cemetery. According to my Atlanta informants, “These people didn’t seem to mind Ne­ groes moving in on them as long as they weren’t alive. So what happens to Harry Golden’s theory about vertical Negroes . . .” Mayor Ivan Allen, obviously an In­ decisive gentleman, vetoed the ceme­ tery proposition and the Negroes were assumed to have gained a victory. So wishing to curry favor with the other side, perhaps, the Mayor signed the ordinance permitting the barrier to be erected. He signed at 5 o’clock on December 17th. By 5:30 he had dis­ appeared on one of the “fishing trips” so popular with southern politicians. Next morning at 7 the work crews were busy. Atlanta has been galvanized .., with constant vigils at the barricades, pickets at City Ha)’., a full scale boy­ cott of white merchants In Atlanta’s West End. Two legal actions are afoot. Five plaintiffs Ir one of the actions are white. One of these Is a woman forced by the barrier to go six miles out of the way each time she takes her children to and from school. She has four, of various ages on different shifts, so she has to make four trips a day. “And she Is as mad as a little wet hen.” However, it is vital that this matter be pressed to an effective conclusion. The President will not act unless he is subjected to pressure. His friendly words and apparent genuine interest are fine, but our leaders must follow through to see that this is translated into action. Also, we must back them up with letters to the White House, statements and endorsements from our churches, organizations and strategic indi­ viduals. This writer is happy to note that our top leaders have acted in a unified manner. Too often, the Negro leaves It up to others to state his own case. At another meeting in the Capitol a few weeks ago, a high government official pointedly and bluntly told an interracial committee that the Negro must stop depending upon white people to speak for him. A non-Negro member of the Committee had acted as spokesman and the official revealed that this same spokesman on a previous occasion had Indicated that he was much more concerned about issues of other than civil rights. We will get no where letting Oeorge do It. We will get our just due only if we are willing to be united and to protest, to make reasonable demartds and to remind the Administration that the same ballot power of the Negro which helped make him President can again be used in his behalf — or will be withheld if our problems are not recognized and handled. Cent More For Mailing The pezwy pmU*' lirrMM wMHi went tale effect ee Mon­ day la expected te yield aa addttleoal 92M mllUea. hot tMa will »«< wipe mil the deficit whea the rorreot flacal year endx no J owe M, tt was ao- annneed hy Pnotmaater Gen* eral J. Edward Day. Day aaid the poat afftce will ztill have a red figure of ahnet 94M ndlllon, almoet half ef the deficit deaplte the hike to poat- age ratea which alan apply to aecnod, third and foorth rlaaa mall. Aa af Monday, flrat rlaaa lettera c«ml live renta, pnat- rarda faor renta and airmail lettera eight renta per nance, while air mail pnotcarda root alx renta. A friend of ours is a refugee from Cuba. His name is Luis V. Manrara. Luis Manrara sends out periodic communications as President and Ex­ ecutive Director of the Truth About Cuba Committee, Inc. One of these arrived at Christmas. It contained a quotation from the teachings of Dimitry Z. Manuilsky, Lenin School of Political Warfare, in Moscow, 1930. It is as follows: “War to the hilt be­ tween communism and capitalism is inevitable, Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in 20 to 30 years. To win we shall need the element of surprise WILSON misunderstanding of the motive* and goals of the people of other nations. .»• When Khrushchev backed off the missile build-up in Cuba, his actiap was termed “shocking’ by one of our leading daily newspapers. His letter, which was not seen by the paper, was termed the work of a man in an “ex­ treme state of agitation”. The reporter virtually said that Khrushchev was cracking under the strain. I wonder if he ever read “Why They Behave Like Russians”, or for that matter, the predictions of Lenin. Like A Fox It would be far more accurate to say that Khrushchev is crazy like a fox. - •, , We never did get to Inspect Cuba to see if all those missiles and other war material are gone. We have believed the Russians, as we have done in the > The bourgeoisie will have to -be past on the basis of their past re­ put to sleep. So we shall begin by cord for lles> lt incredible that we launching the most spectacular peace believe them. But we’re judging them movement on record. by our standards, not theirs. “There will be electrifying over- Manrara points out that we are now tures and unheard-of concessions. The in a coexistence negotiation on Cuba, capitalist countries, stupid and de- despite the fact that Kennedy said, cadent, will rejoice to cooperate in “Communism is not negotiable In the —- their own destruction. “They will leap at another chance We are, In fact, guaranteeing the to be friends. As soon as their guard territorial Integrity of the Russian Caribbean satellite in exchange for the is down, we shall smash them with dismantling of known missile bases, our clenched fist.” and removal of bombers that have been seen. No mention has been made of the Russian naval bases there. ‘ American Hemisphere.” I remember some years ago reading a book written by John Fischer, en­ titled, “Why They Behave Like Rus­ sians.” It spells out, from the stand­ point of Russia and Russians, why they behave the way they do. If the bbok teaches nothing else, it teaches the reluctant American that his worst habit, judging other people by himself, can trap him into total Dear Sally Our position is ludicrous- as guaran­ tor of a Communist state. Certainly every patriotic American backed President Kennedy in his handling of the crisis, but for Ameri­ cans to be lulled now into a state of false security is sheer madness. Woman 35, Unmarried By SALLY I’m a woman of 35, unhappy, and hungry for the compan- ionship of a good woman. He says 1 could bring much happiness into his life if I would just go out with him. Do you think, under the circum­ stances, that this would be all right, especially if we kept everything on a “friendship” basis? JULIA. DEAR SALLY not married, but considered more than passably attractive, and I have a good job and am comfortably fixed financially. Re­ cently I met a fine man at a church social gath­ ering and was very much attracted to him . . . until I discovered that he is married. He explained to ine, how­ ever, that his wife has been an invalid confined SALLY to her bed for more than six years, that this has left him very much on his own, and that he is very lonely, DEAR JULIA: And how long do you think regular association with a lonely and unhappy man could be kept on a “friendship” basis? This man once upon a time made a sacred vow to cherish his wife “in sickness and in health” — and definitely now she is. in sickness. I advise you to steer clear of involvement. Uptown Upwdown. — Political Pot By JAMES BOOKER Clubhouse Row: Don’t look now, but beginning next week, former Tammany Leader Car­ mine DeSapio may be on the begin­ ning of a comeback. He and Mayor Wagner will be huddled with top Democratic brass in Washington on Jan. 18, planning the 1964 campaign strategy against Rockefeller, and from what we hear, Carmine will be given a key roll. Few doubt, however, that he will come back as a district leader. . . . Negro Re­ publicans who went to Albany for Gdv. Rocke­ feller’s Inauguration bitter over the fact that no Negro participated in the ceremonies. . . . Manhattan Borough President Edward R. Dudley wants to be quoted as saying that he has no present intention of resigning his post for a judgeship. . . . Washington wire is that a vacancy on the U.S. Civil Ser­ vice Commission will be filled by a Negro, reportedly Judge Howard Ben­ nett of Minnesota. BOOKER Top city labor leaders urging Mayor Wagner to name Acting City Labor Commissioner James McFadden to fill the post without the Acting title. He’s done a good job so far, according to the labor leaders. . . . Banker Earl B. Schwulst resigned from the advisory board of the Housing and Redevelop­ ment Board to devote more time to working with the recently-organized Mayor’s Committee on Job Advance- me.:t . . . Rep. Adam Clayton Powell expects Attorney General Robert Ken­ nedy to visit Harlem on Jan. 21 to in­ spect activities of the HAROYU and Associated Community Teams proj* ects as part of his duties as chairman of the President’s Committee on Ju­ venile Delinquency and Youth Crime. Former GOP Chairman WilliamT Phiffer rumored to be the next state chairman. . . . Governor Rockefeller slated to appoint George H. Fowler, chairman of the State Commission for Human Rights, to head an inter­ departmental committee which will seek to integrate more Negroes and Puerto Ricans into key state agencies. . . . Bronxites hear that former As­ semblyman Felipe N. Torres, who gave up his Assembly seat to his son, win be rewarded for his loyalty to Mayor Wagner by the appointment to a Family Court judgeship. . . . Another slated for judicial robes for his sup­ port of Mayor Wagner is former Coon*- oilman Daniel Weiss, who was denied redesignation by Lower Manhattan Democrats after he bolted in the se­ lection of the Borough President in 1961, after he had been thought to be in the DeSapio camp. Bar groups are fighting his appointment, however, claiming he was close to gamblers. Uptowrii Beat: New NAACP branch president Rev. Richard Allen Hildebrand decided to appoint a committee to study what office personnel are needed rather than name an executive secretary right away. . . . One of the nation’s top comedians to be hit with a pa­ ternity suit here soon. . Untitled Document file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/hello.html2/18/2007 11:01:03 AMThomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 www.fultonhistory.com