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THE SUN NEVER SETS ON ITS READERS Published each Thursday by the Arizona Sun Publishing Co. 4014 South Central Avenue Phoenix 40, Arizona Telephone: BR 6-6302 Subscription Rates: 1 year—s 3; 6 months—sl.7s; 10c per copy Managing Editor - Alton W. Thomas Associate Editor W. A. Robinson Photography Cloves Campbell “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4:6' No Civil Rights Legislation In Congress'First Session Recently a Republican friend cited to me the fact that the first civil rights legislation in 80 years by Congress had been passed during the Eisenhower administration. He offered this as proof that a Republican Administration was better for Negroes than a Demo cratic Administration. I admit that I had hoped for a while that civil rights legislation would be introduced in President Kennedy s so called “honeymoon” session. After so much attention had been called to the southern situation by the Sit-Ins (The Freedom Riders operated in the latter part of the session) and the expressed interest of candidate Kennedy in the Negro cause in America, all Negroes had hopes for such early legislation. Naturally we are aroused and impatient. Here in Arizona we are making but little progress also It is the business of the NAACP, and has always been since those early dark and restless days of the first decade of the Twen tieth Century when the NAACP was born, to work unremittingly toward complete equality for Negro citizens in America. One could expect Secretary Roy Wilkins to press continually for legislation when Congress is in session. But I am sifre iiow tfyat,> not only would Civil been talked to death, ; ps the extension of the Civil Rights Commission almost wag, but President Kennedy would have failed to get through Congress much Os the critical legislation which the conservative Republicans and tjheir coalition southern supporters fought so desperately; The foreign aid, wijtyi the new idea of helping the JLatin American Nations solve some of their critical social problems, and new nations in Africa and the East to avoid some of these same • democracy stifling problems, were critical to prevent other “Cubas” developing. Alio many of our own American social problems were critical. "Certainly the cause of Negro citizens in America was also critical, not only to salvaging our own self respect as a democratic nation “under God,” but to the direction in which the rising darker colored nations of the world would turn for leadership. So President Kennedy had to find away of escaping a do-nothing session of Congress dead locked by conservatism and race prejudice over civil rights, and, at the same time breaking down the old stereotyped image of the Negro as ignorant and stupid, incapable as a group, of service to the government and to industry and science, in the same way as are white citizens, and unfit for association with respectable people, AND, as happy in poverty and impotence in which they have spent several centuries. We can all thank heaven that he early decided that there was as miuch force for doing this and securing the legal rights of Am erican citizens of African ancestry in laws already passed and pow ers already vested in the U. S. Presidents. Negroes had always looked upon Pres. Truman, because of his appointment of Dr. Ralph Bunch to a high position in the United Nations and his somewhat hestitant but determined beginning of desegregation of the armed services, as the President who started and ultimately pushed ahead a breakdown of segregation by govern ment. Many of us felt that President Eisenhower, who seldom, if ever spoke out publicly for Negro rights, and whose Committee head ed by Vice Pres. Nixon did practically nothing to implement his Presidential Order on employment, had finally offered the creation of the shaky Civil Rights Commission as a Republican come-on. If it was, it didn’t work. On the other hand, Pres. Kennedy began his official duties acting like the President of all Americans. He lifted our hearts and our hopes when he appointed Dr. Robert C. Weaver because those of us who knew Dr. Weaver were confident that he could do as wise and as efficient a jbb in that position as any one in Am erica. It didn't stop with Dr. Weaver, as it could have, like the gesture of good will it could have been with A less determined President. Other high appointments followed and are still being made. We have read with admiration and pride of the first ap pointment of Negro U. S. Judges in some of the highest categories. We read in the press of the diligence with which employment with in the government is being upgraded and increased and, in some de partments, begun for the first time. These things were done evident ly because President Kennedy believes that all Americans capable of doing so should enjoy service to the government and the emolu ments of that service. Just recently within the space of three days there appeared in the Negro newspapers stories about several appointments. Sec retary of Agriculture, Orville L. Freeman, announced the appoint ment of the dean of the Tuskegee School of Agriculture, -Lawrence A. Potts, as a special consultant on his staff. Dr. Samuel Davis Westerfield, Dean of the Atlanta University School r of Business Ad ministration, appointed to a high position in the Treasury and Presdent Benj. E. Mayes of Morehouse College named teethe Ad visory Committee of the Peace Corps. On the matter ot the voting privileges in the South, Pres. Kennedy has used the powers of the Atty. General and the Civil Rights Commission in and do things that were never done before: And, in of firms holding government contracts, Lockheed in Marietta^Ga. r has been rrytking government airplanes for more than twenty years, but who as far away as Arizona ever heard of Lockheed before Pres. Ken nedy began to use HIS Executive Order to straighten out things there? In the same three days of news was also the story of the first election of a Negro as a member of the three-men slate of business agents for the Machinists Union at Lockheed Aii Ciaft Corporation. President Kennedy has stirred things up in the nation outside of Washington as well as in Congress. This is just the be gining. Speed-Up Inventory Os Public Lands Seen By U. S. Land Office A speed-up inventory of public' domain lands is in the offing in Arizona according to the U. S. Bureau of Land Management’s of fice in Phoenix. Additional specialists are being assigned to land appraisal and land examination duties on the 13 million acres of National Land Re serve in the State. Their work will also help reduce a backlog of pending land entries and applica tions, a BLM spokesman said. James O. Wyatt who has been v/orking in the special lower Co lorado Land Use Office of the De partment of the Interior at Yuma, has transferred to Phoenix as re viewing appraiser. Wyatt will over see Bureau of Land Management appraisals in Arizona. A native of the Texas panhandle, Wyatt is a graduate of Colorado A&M college. Be later attended numerous special training courses in land manage ment and appraisal. Besides work with the U. ’S. Soil Conservation Service in Colorado and Texas, the BLM appraiser worked for pri vate concerns in Mexico and Texas before joining the Bureau of Land Management in California and later transferring to the special office at Yuma. Land examiners transferring to the Lands & Minerals Division of the Bureau of Land Management’s Arizona office in Phoenix include John W. Lahr, who has been sta tioned at Arches National Monu ment at Moab, Utah, and Bruce Powers who has been with the Soil Conservation Service in east ern Arizona. A. L. Simpson, Chief of the Lands & Minerals Division, said that the recent assignments follow a gen et al reorganization this Spring and are in keeping with directives from Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall to obtain a more thorough inventory for multiple use man agement purposes and to reduce an accumulated backlog of pend ing entries and applications. T- ■ • LET'S DISCUSS Arizona Law (This legal column is issued under supervision of the State Bar of Arizona, and is written to inform, not to advise.) On the golf course you have learned to have a great deal of respect for the term “fore” and you are well aware of wat er hazzards, but what about legal hazards of the game There are certain legal as pects to golfing. The golfer has the responsibility to keep on the lookout for stray shots, but the fellow hitting the ball has an obligation to give a “timely warning,” which is the legal term for “fore,” to anyone he knows is in line or close to the line of intended flight of the ball, before he takes his swing. Courts have recognized that the average golfer cannot al ways control the destination of a golf ball. For this reason a golfer must as sume the risk of being hit by a ball sliced or hooked into the fairway on which he is playing. Courts also have held that where it is impossible to antici pate that a fellow golfer might be injured by a shot, there is no liability. The important point is that you should watch players a head of you on the fairway which you are playing. If any one is obviously within range, it Is your responsibility to hold your shot. If another twosome or foursome is on the green you’re aiming for, wait until they have holed out before you hit. A shouted warning to any one in the obvious danger zone is not sufficient, no matter how impatient you may be to get on with your game. Courtesy. Is the best safe guard in golfing, just as it is on the highway. Generally, if yot/iearn the official rules and customs of golf, and follow “them, you’ll avoid the legal hazards as well as the water • hazards. Why doesn’t the Department of Internal Revenue offer us our money back if we’re not satisfied? YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL By JOSEPH STOCKER Arizona Education Association Are Europe’s schools better than ours? Bring together any three or four reasonably well-informed people who have at least a passing interest in the quality of American education, throw out that question and you’re almost sure to see the fur fly. In the great and continuing de bate over the schools, few’ is sues evoke wider disagreement or send temperatures higher. The affirmative side of the question has been argued with vigor by some of those in America who criticize the American public school system. They s a y—among other things, that European schools.. generally attach more ance to pure scholarship ana educational excellence, waste less energy on trifles, don’t spread themselves as thin as do our schools and, overall, turn out a superior product. Our educators, say Vice Ad miral Hyman Rickover, one of the most vocal of the critics of U. S. schools, simply are “refusing to face the main facts about where we stand in the international market of brains.” The other side of the argu ment is not necessarily a blanket defense of the Ameri can system. Thoughtful U. S. educators acknowledge that there is much to admire in the European system. But to com pare the two, they say, is like comparing potatoes and arti chokes; Both are vegetables but one is used one way; the other, another. , Europe (runs this argument) views the educational process as selective while we regard it as comprehensive. In the state-supported schools of such countries as England and France, there is a continuous and rigorous weeding-out of the less competent through still examinations. These youngsters are funnelled off into vocation al schools, there to remain un til they complete their voca- tional training or until they reach the legally permissive age for quitting school. Eighty per cent of Europe's young sters go to work by the time they are 14. Those going to college con stitute a small minority of young people clearly superior in intellect and attainment and receiving Considerable assist ance from the state in com pleting their education. More over, their education is spec ialized rather than compre prehensive. A British universi ty student, for instance, has little choice in subjects, and a choice of but three or four curricula. m Jtnaricate m appeoeeh -has been different because Ameri ca’s historical background and educational concepts are dif ferent. We believe in equal op portunity for all. From the very beginning of our nation, we wanted to create an Ame rican social situation in which everyone with talent and dili gence would have a chance to improve his lot in life. There has thus been encouraged in America an upward mobility which many Americans believe is a prime source of our na tional strength and dynamism. Hence the broad-gauged American system of education in which 70 per cent of our youths are still in high school at the age of 17 and nearly 60 per cent to go on to college. Hence also a variety of cur ricula geared to different tastes, needs and intellectual levels. Some Europeans say (and some Americans, too) that this ‘“comprehensive” approach to education causes us to waste money trying to educate the uneducable. Perhaps so. But, as one authority expressed it after a study of both systems, “we also get some very good, sometimes startling, returns. We believe—and act on the belief—that human nature is such that no one can tell at a given stage whether or not an educational spark may be struck later.” While there are Americans of Admiral Rickover’s persua sion who are not satisfied with American schools, it is only fair to observe that there are Europeans who are not satis fied with theirs. A very vocal opposition developed recently to the French system of ex aminations, and steps are now being taken to open more wide ly the doors to secondary schools and universities. And in Britain demands are being heard to extend benefits o f higher education to more young Britishers. In the long run, therefore, it would seem—as many ob servers of the educational scene now agree—that there is real answer to the question, “Are Europe’s schools better than ours” The famed French author, Andre Maurois, essay ing such a comparison between education in the U. S. and in France, came to essentially that conclusion. “It would be madness,” he said finally, “to ask either nation to act or teach according to the tradi tion of the other.” FACTS ABOUT DENTAL HEALTH (Following is the tenth in a series of articles on “Your Dental Health” being presented by the South Phoenix Round- Up, in cooperation with the Arizona State Department of Health and the Arizona State Dental Association. Today, Flu oridation—cost and benefits.) * * * Fluoridation of a community water supply is shaping up as the best public health bargain of all time. For less than 15 cents per per son per year, the ravages of tooth decay are being reduced as much as 65 per cent in communities throughout the United States. The cost of a single filling would pay for the fluoride for one person for many years. The late Doctor John G. Frisch, of Madison, Wisconsin, a chair man of the fluorine committee of the Wisconsin State Dental Society, which pioneered in the procedure, used to say: “There can be no question as to whether a city can afford it, but whether any city can afford to be without it.” There are to date nearly 2,000 communities which have rallied under the banner of fluoridation to protect the future health of their children’s teeth. , In many of these communities, the leadership came from the pub lic—women’s clubs, parent-teach er associations, churches, labor unions, civic groups. They wrote letters to health departments and city officials. They formed citizens’ committees. They were able to show that ad justments of the fluoride content in a water system was feasible from an economic standpoint. Cost of equipment has been found to range from several hundred dol lars for a small town to several thousand dollars for a medium sized city. From an engineering standpoint, according to a water works asso ciation, the mechanism of adding fluorides to the water supply is no more involved than adding chlor ine. Fluorine is not a medicine any more than chlorine. It is not a cure-all. It cannot eliminate tooth decay. It can do nothing about teeth that are already decayed. It is a preventive which in some com munities has reduced the incidence of tooth decay by two-thirds. Where objection to fluoridation of a water supply has been raised, the principal objectors usually have been drugless healers, members of a religious group who believe flu oridation constitutes medication and those who fear an economic threat to the sale of such items as vitamin and meneral preparations. According to the Arizona State Dental Association, those oppos ing fluoridation for the most part have used “false, misleading and emotional charges” based on “un documented and unscientific sup porting material.” By Chailes T. P.rry Maybe it’s no more than simply organizing your best color slides into a logical se quence, but the word for it is showmanship—and it’ll trans form even a slightly bored group of guests into an audi ence of eager spectators. Best part of it is, with the right projector, YOU can enjoy the show as much as they do. Do your organizing before hand-then slip your slides in to a smooth-running Kodak 500 Projector, Model B. This pro jector takes 36 slides at one easy loading. It gives you big, bright, screen-filling pictures thanks to its top—flight con denser system 500-watt lamp and reflector, and 4-inch F— -3.5 lens. The handsome, rugged, self cased design makes setting up and storing the projector a snap—and there’s a preview screen built right into the case lid for “organizing” sessions before the guests arrive. Three different changers are available for this unit, too. Come in and see the Kodak Projector, Model B. Be sure to bring a few of your slides— and I’ll prove it’s easy to be a real slide showman. i^SNOWDihP! Barber Shop ) Choice Haircuts & Facials 1 2104 EAST BROADWAY / OPEN BAMto BPM \j Science Topics Jet noise studies, now under way at major airports, are expect ed to provide valuable data on land use, airport planning, and noise abatement procedures. Read ings are being taken in areas ad jacent to airports used by the lat est jets, turboprops, and turbine powered helicopters under daily field operational conditions. The project will be completed in No vember, says federal Aviation Agency Engineers’ Salaries are at a new high. Mining and metallurgi cal experts are best paid, with a median income of $11,720 Better Diagnosis is blamed for the “in crease” in lung cancer deaths. A British pathologist says 20 cases of lung cancer “are correctly la belled now for every one correctly diagnosed 50 years ago.” Scarcity of pure water is fast becoming a major problem for growing municipalities. By 1975 this country will be using 88 per cent of all available water, says the Population Reference Bureau, compared with the 8 per cent used in 1900. And cities, many of which already have water shortage prob lems because of growing popula tion, are expected to experience a total population increase of 35 mil lion by 1975 ...Combat TV. recent ly developed for the Army, will enable soldiers to see, move, and fight in the dark without telltale signals. Unlike the World War II sniperscope, the new unit does not rely on infrared rays which can be detected by the enemy. A half dollar and a half hour is all you need to assemble a new sports buggy for two. The small car goes 20 miles an hour, and cain be taken down for storage in an auto trunk, boat, or airplane Plastic Piping is easier to install now because Os a new portable heat tool developed by Tube Turns Plas tics, Inc. In seconds, the unit fuses pipe and fittings together in a leak proof bond without need for threads or cement Sharks had a busy season this last year. Thirty un provoked attacks on humans were recorded, and there were 11 in stances in which a shark was pro voked and attacked. Most of the victims were fishermen; one was a skin diver who was bitten by a shark he had speared, and one lifeguard was knocked off a surf Asthma Relief may be possible through relatively simple neck surgery. In experiments on 67 suf ferers at Tufts Nniversity. symp toms disappeared immediately in four out of five cases, it is report ed... Freight Cars are becoming scarcer. During 1960, more than 70,000 were scrapped, but only 46,000 new ones were put in serv ice. And the trend is accelerating The “Flat Earthers,” a British diehard society of stubborn nonbe lievers, reports, “The trouble with the world is that it’s bogged down with propaganda about globes.” ski. All survived. My Neighliors * e* §GtfIYA-W IT! I More Printing From . . . SAGUARO PRINTERS “Custom Work for Smart Customers” PHONE US FOR ESTIMATES ON YOUR NEEDS 4014 S. Central Ave. Phoenix 40 BRoadway 6-6302 October 12, 1961 Well, Folks: Did you know ftiat today, Oc tober 12, is an anniversary at REDDY’S CORNER? We’ve had so many anniversaries that I’ve sorta lost track, but it was on this date in 1934 that DY’S CORNER had its begin ning. Twenty-seven years is a long time. Many of our or ignal customers are still with us. It is them and the many more loyal customers like . yourself that have kept us op erating all these years. 0 m now shooting for 50 years. With your continued loyal support, we should make it if I can 'hold out that long and I certainly hope to, be-* cause I enjoy doing business with you. As always, Fishing Isn’t Up To Par * Fishing reports this week indi cate lower angler success ift jnany major areas of the state, but ,a few local reports indicate improved fishing in certain areas. One of these is Rose Canyon, where trout fishermen averaged .75 fish per hour last weekend. Rose Canyon has not been providing good fish ing during most of the year be cause of unsuitable water condi tions. Another specific spot that offers good chances of success is Tonto Creek, which was heavily stocked with creel sized rainbow* when a recent flash flood swept through the area and washed out some of the hatchery’s holding ponds in the creek. In other waters, Roosevelt has improved this week and bass fish ing there is listed fair to good with live bait; while catfishing is listed as good on the Salt River end. Apache is rated fair for bass and poor for other species, while Can yon gets a fair to good rating on bass. Saguaro is rated fair Jor bass, and the stripie fishing is fair on both Saguaro and Canyon# Bartlett is poor. Carl Pleasant has also improved somewhat since the last report, with bass fishing list ed as fair to good. 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