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Lafayette Detroit 3t. Micnigen OA MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1963 AS WE SEE IT Kennedy Inches Ahead Feebly on Civil Rights jl Jft NJ VJAWT TMET new we popular. Nor are they likely to be effective in areas where abuses are worst. In Mississippi, for instance, not many Negroes seek to register to vote, simply because the threats and pressure have been applied long before the books open. Nothing that the President proposes would change that.

Nor is there much he can do about non-Federal elections, which is where the Negro could well use greater help. The states set qualifications for voters, and the President's proposals would make inroads only in Federal elections. Other areas where stronger civil rights laws are needed were not touched. The President did nothing more about housing, which he hardly touched in his recent executive order. As one critic said at the time, "His pen ran dry when he got around to signing something." He did nothing about a strong fair employment practices act, which is also left to the states.

Some, like Michigan and "New York, have good laws. Most others have none. The President's record to. date on civil rights, despite his positive pledges and claims of accomplishment, is nothing to wave the flag about. It falls far short of what he said he was going to do.

The new proposals are, at best, steps in the right direction. ON MATTERS concerning civil rights, President Kennedy is a man in the middle, battered on one side by Northern urban supporters seeking more action, on the other by rural Southern conservatives who control his party's destiny in Congress. In the face of opposition to his tax program, dissatisfaction with his handling of the Cuban problem, and a need to hold his Northern voting strength, it is hardly surprising that he took a middle of the road course in his first civil rights bill last week. The bill is good as far as it goes, but like Gov. Romney's "Ford-Canton bill," goes too far to satisfy some, not far enough to satisfy others.

The most significant requests were in seeking stronger protections for voting rights, including the appointment of Federal referees in areas which practice discrimination against Negroes who want to vote. He would also presume literacy on the part of anyone with a sixth grade education seeking to vote in Federal elections, give voting rights suits priority in the Federal courts, and ban different tests and standards for those of different races. The proposals are certainly reasonable, though they are not going to be JACK MANNING SAYS: AS OUR READERS SEE IT If State Adopts ADC-U, Taxes Rise, Morals Fall Chappie's Friends Will Shame Him With Their Praise BY JOHN C. MANNING Free Press Contributing Editor There's going to be a hi-falutin testimonial luncheon day after tomorrow at the Sheraton Cadillac which I'd like very much to attend. The reason is that it is in honor of one of the busiest little sons-of-guns I ever met.

He is Carl "Chappie" Chapman. He has spent so much time over the past three decades, galloping up and down, in and out, to exploit Optimist Club testimonial parties Intercepted Letters PRINCIPAL, MASON Clarkston High Dear Mil: HPHE revolt of the stu-A dents was more likely spring Jn bloom than lunch-room gloom. Even Communist Rivals Can't Count on Russia for other people that I can't see how it's possible for Optimist officials to lasso him and keep him seated long enough to be honored not only by a formal luncheon but by any ceremony more complex than a quick drink standing up. One of the favorite bromides of newspaper business is that you meet so many interesting people you don't mind getting less than half a million bucks a year salary. Despite its stereotyped old age the saying is Lansing know at once how you feel about adopting this ADC-U program in Michigan.

S. M. HILLWORTH Ann Arbor Chicagoan Pleads: 'Bring Back Howie9 HOWIE YOUNG is the first colorful athlete to hit Detroit since Billy Martin. Living in the unfriendly shadows of Comiskey Park 1 AT IN RED CHINA last week outraged feeling produced truth. In tones of shrill anger Peking let fly at Moscow, and the non-Communist world thereby became better informed.

It is not simply ideological differences which have caused the increasingly brittle exchanges between Peking and Moscow though there is clearly plenty of that. What finally caused Peking to yell was an accumulation of indignities at the hands of Khrushchev. These, said the Red Chinese, included tearing up contracts "not in twos or threes or in scores, but in hundreds." Besides the economic pressures put on Red China by calling home Soviet technicians, folding up Soviet assistance programs, and withholding Soviet supplies, Peking also was set boiling by the matter of jet fighters for Nehru. The Indians say that delivery of MiG fighters already has begun. The Kremlin manufacturers equip all TV sets with remote controls.

This would make it possible, without moving from one's comfortable chair, to click off all of the asinine, ridicu-1 and misleading ads. Bring on the pay TV so that everybody's nerves will again be brought back to normal. J. C. D.

Give It to 'Smogville9 Let's Build Hospitals AS A TAXPAYER I feel that I'm entitled to an expression with regard to the justification of waging a battle with Smogville, California, for the Olympics in 1968. I object strenuously to this nonsensical intercity squabble. I am not convinced that acquiring this exhibition would serve a worthwhile purpose. The physical benefits to be gained for our youth are grossly exaggerated, and only a precious few would gain financially. I am not desirous of spending one red cent to watch an overfed Russian break the high jump record.

Soldier's Field in Chicago is probably the finest stadium in the country with a population of twice that of Detroit and it is only used two or three times a year. A stadium in the Fairgrounds would lie idle except during the fair period. We urgently need additional space to house our mentally ill. It is recommended that $5 million be spent at once to improve conditions at Wayne County General Hospital. For this cause I will gladly pay my share and will be first in line.

How about starting tomorrow? H. C. DOTY Belonged on Page 1 THE LETTER, "Scholle Offers 'Political Baloney," in the Feb. 22 Free Press 13 full of good thought. I wish it might have appeared on the front page.

C.H.D. GOVERNOR ROMNEY has expressed great concern over the Increasing- Federal Intervention and control of local and state affairs. Why, then, does he urge passage of a bill to enable Michigan to participate in the program of Federal aid to dependent children of the unemployed (ADC-U) Surely everyone knows we get nothing free from Washington, so why pretend? Those power-hungry. Irresponsible spenders have already heaped on us a debt larger than that of all other nations of the world combined. Inflation, the cruelest tax of all, is robbing everyone and especially our older citizens who must live on a fixed income.

It is not difficult to understand why there is scandalous loss, waste, chiseling, fraud and encouragement to thievery in the Federal welfare program throughout the land If you read the policies outlined by a pamphlet of the Department of Health, -Education and Welfare called, "Unmarried Parents A Guide for the Development of Services in Public Welfare." This pamphlet has been distributed nationally to all welfare personnel. The simplified core of its thrust adds up to making it easier to get welfare, setting up procedures for finding new rases and eliminating road blocks to certifying them, including doing away with residency requirements; providing better medical care for illegitimate mothers; assuming a "non-judgmental' attitude with religion playing no role. Adulterers are referred to as "new partners," and forcing them to marry is wrong. Illegitimate paternity as a criminal offense should be eliminated. Legal steps against a married male adulterer might disrupt his lifet Surely this adds up to an expensive program in more ways than one.

If you agree, let your representatives in aim uic wu" has gone so far as to announce that they will be delivered early this year. This is, of course, exceedingly upsetting news for Peking right when it is making war against India. "Double dealing" was one of the milder things the Chinese had to say about it. Following all this, Khrushchev made an 87-minute speech directed at the West and warning the "imperialists" of what would happen to them if they continued their wicked ways. Into this harangue he threaded a pledge that the Soviet would fly to the defense of Red China if Chiang Kai-shek attacked.

It could hardly have flattered Peking the idea that it wasn't up to standing off an assault by Chiang's forces. The next day Peking called the Moscow comrades "cowardly as mice" and charged that they were jamming Red Chinese radio broadcasts. All this is very pleasant to behold, though it shouldn't surprise anyone. It's not in the nature of the Kremlin to put up with a rival power which it can possibly do in and another Communist power is no more welcome than any other kind. The bigger the Red Chinese talked, the more evident it became that Khrushchev would have to undercut them while the chance to do so remained.

He may be too late already, but at least he's taking measures. And in their anger the Chinese have tipped the world to how drastic his moves have been. cago oLacuum as I do, it's tough to get much news of my beloved Detroit teams. But there was one thing I could count on often during the past few months: Young The 4 Chicago papers would have a story on the Wings' Bad Boy Young. Now that he's suspended, no more stories.

It's very sad. Please, Detroit, bring back Howie Young. I'm tired of reading only about Bobby Hull and Stan MikiU. LES BRIDGES Chicago Editor's Note: Hoie, of course, went back Saturday night. Bring On Pay TV IT'S ABOUT TIME that the public demanded that TWiffltefc fe Khrushchev 2L Big Red Rivals Toward Better Justice true.

Manning So far as concerns this corner Chappie Chapman ta a perfect example of "such interesting people." The first time I met him we started glaring and calling bad names at each other. I had written a piece about circus press agents and he dropped in to point out that it contained several errors. Naturally I bristled. What did he (a little advertising chap) know about circuses even half a3 much as To my embarrassment I learned he had worked with one a full season. Aii Itchv Heel Then, rubbing salt into my wound of embarrassment, he admitted something as follows: After a few months as a Massachusetts college freshman in 1910 he jumped the fence to join a traveling minstrel show.

For the next five years he wallowed in the world of show business. They were good years because they meant travel galore and participation in every phase, including movies (1911 style), stock, vaudeville, musical comedy, circus. In less than 10 minutes that long ago afternoon we switched from enemies to friends. The amazing little fellow was anything but boastful. I learned about hi3 past just accidentally from time to time.

For instance, after a year in show business Chappie went home and started playing baseball with a semi-pro team, seven members of which, including Rabbit Maran-ville, Hal Simpson and Howie Loomis, graduated into the major leagues. Chappie almost did. He was signed up to try out as a Cincinnati Red catcher. He broke his leg, which ended his baseball ambition. So instead, early in 1912 he grabbed a job as rewrite man on the old New York Herald.

That same fall his itchy heel put him back in show business where he remained till 1916. Then he began and, after World War continued to stay put in the advertising field. Busier than a mosquito at a convention of bald heads, little Chappie kept gushing out new ideas. I heard, not from him but from a public relations rival, that he invented right after the first World War skywriting. Also he is said to have sponsored and broadcast the first outdoor sports event ever heard over radio.

It was a motorcycle hill climb out of Springfield, Mass. He introduced the first singing commercials and spot jingle ads on radio. An Apostle of Service As mentioned earlier in this item, Chappie never, so far as concerns me, touted himself or asked any newspaper for personal plugs. He became an enthusiastic apostle in the service club area 35 years ago when he happened to join the Detroit Downtown Lions Club. Naturally he assisted in initiating the White Cane law for protection of blind persons.

Around 1936 he resigned from the Lions and hooked up with the Optimist Club of Downtown Detroit. Since then he has given so much time and energy to Optimist goals (mostly concerning the help of young boys) that I can't see how he can take care of his own business. Week-ln, week-out for better than 20 jears he has bullied me and his other editorial friends to print pieces about Optimist officials or guests whom he nominated for testimonial lunches or He never once asked me to even use his name in any newspaper story. That's why I'd like to attend hi3 party Wednesday noon. I've yet to see him ashamed or embarrassed.

He will be when his friends start praising him. STRICTLY PERSONAL Mood Not Key to Creativity BY SYDNEY J. HARRIS "That was a most amusing piece you wrote the other day," remarked an acquaintance at lunch. "You must have been in a very good mood." I nodded, and turned to some other subject. As it happened, I remembered that day quite well and I had soned prosecutors under the informal assignment system.

The need for improving existing public defender operations, however, is un-debatable. Many of the nation's 110 defender offices have only one part-time lawyer. Only 10 of them have investigators, rather important to legal defense. Few public defenders can carry cases to the appeal level. Americans, with their traditional sense of fair play, have long worried about the fact that poor defendants often cannot have equal justice before the law.

This Foundation effort to do something about that problem will be welcomed across the land. The procedures outlined by the Foundation are also admirable. Plans are to lean heavily on established institutions, notably the American Bar Association's research division. And only governments willing to carry on what the original grants start will participate in the program. Existing machinery, including established law schools, will be tuned to the grand experiment.

Nobody intends to force anything revolutionary on anybody else. It is a purely American approach to a very real American concern for the rights of the individual. MICHIGAN should take special pride ajid.special interest in the Ford Foundation's newest pump-priming project. A million pilot program to improve nd. extend public defender services like fclHPoundation efforts owes its finan-tial'existence to Michigan and will bene-fitlMichigan.

Michigan is one of 15 states with no formal provision for assignment of lawyers, to defend the poor in non-capital cases. Judges in this state assign legal counsel at their own discretion. Michigan also includes three of the Itf U.S. counties with populations over 400,000 which have no public defender eystem. Thus, one of the three Wayne, Oakland or Macomb might qualify for new defender office.

Six or eight are to be established under the project. legal experts differ on the merits of public defender systems. Some contend that Michigan's method of assigning lawyers by rotation is better for he indigent. They believe that lawyers on a public payroll tend to put forth lev' effort than private practitioners, whose courtroom reputations are at ctake. contend that inexperienced lawyers are too often pitted against sea been in a terrible mood.

My cold was worse, my plane was late, and my funds were low. One of the deep and un-fath om able mysteries est and most felicitous melodies were composed while he was in the slough of despond, seriously ill, deep in poverty, utterly depressed. Glorious sonnets of exaltation have been written in prison, and rollicking comedies have come out of the most wretched personal conditions. IT IS too easy to say that the creative process acts as a compensation for reality, so that we use art to counterpoise the weight of life. For just as often, happy works are created in happy times, and tragic works in tragic times.

What seems to be true, however, is that creation is largely a process of the unconscious mind, with the conscious holding only a light hand upon the reins. And just as a horseman with a heavy hand cannot get the most out of his steed, so an artist who tries too consciously to manipulate and direct this process finds himself stumbling to a halt. The only rule In the world of creating is that there is no rule. Some work best in one mood, some in another; some need the spur of failure, others the glow of success; some require stimulation, and others solitude; some respond to the pink of sunrise, others to the purple of twilight, and still others to the blackest midnight. Every writer, composer, painter, needs to "get in the and this is effected by various magical rites and incantations sharpening a certain number of pencils, eating apples, taking a long walk, drinking copious quantities of tea or coffee, or some equally absurd (and equally effective) preparation for the deep plunge into the unconscious for the buried treasure of the mind.

But not the bad cold, nor the late plane, nor the low funds, can account for what is written or painted or composed at any given time. The forces here at'. work know nothing of such matters; they are busy translating the past into the future; and the present is quite forgotten when the dive begins. Harris the creative process (if I may use so pompous a phrase to describe my own little efforts) is that it seems to bear no direct and immediate relationship to one's mood or feeling, situation or circumstances, at the time. Most of Robert Louis Stevenson's endearing and amiable tales were written while he was writhing on a bed of pain.

Some of Mozart's gay-.