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Throwing Rocks Helps No One ROCHESTER. N. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1957 18 Dematmt an bnroirlf Without or with offenst to friends or jots I sketch your world exactly as it poes.

Byroi. White, Negro and Mixed 'Solve Race Problem By Triple Schools' By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON The big news in the "segregation-vv integration" controversy is not at Little Rock but here in the national capital. The talk now is of a "compromise" solution, though really what is being proposed doesn't require either side to give up its GEORGE It. SHOALS, Managing Editor NORRIS W. VAGG.

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icVpmI WOi wU drnis; Cjrii William, aecretary and treasurer. Herald 19-6. TELEPHONE: LOcust 2-3600 fundamental beliefs. i a yy system of parental choice. THE 1954 ruling of the Supreme Court would remain in effect in so far as it would bar any "state action" that prohibits the establishment of mixed schools.

The ruling also would apply, for example, against any one who exerted undue pressure on any parents in their exercise of freedom of choice under state Ibws. Actually, the triple system is in effect by accident of residence in many cities, and President Eisenhower himself of Sept. 11, 1956, in his press conference publicly praised virtually the same formula when undertaken in Louisville, Ky. It permits parents to apply for transfers for their children from one school to another irrespective of residence or zone. While the color question is not officially recognized as such, freedom of choice for the parents of each group is accepted despite residential or zoning requirements of the past.

Thus there are in operation in several cities already all-white schools and mixed schools. It is significant that the Nation tured him at times, his conviction that a movie or a drama should be judged on a basis of what it was meant to be, not just how a reviewer reacted to it. He knew perfectly well he was not a naive man that this stability, this lack of sensationalism, would cost him readers. But he also knew that character is the hard fiber in a newspaper's construction, and he created much of that fiber. Two generations of Rochesterians seriously concerned with movie and stage fare came to depend on his reviews.

They knew the writing was accurate, honest and based on a profound knowledge of the theater. He was a dependable guide. And beyond this, he worshipped at the shrine of proper word usage. His office associates knew only too well how he could fly into grim fury at the misuse of a word. His stewardship was excellent.

It made the city his beneficiary. Anger Is No Aid David Lawrence, the columnist whose articles appear regularly on this page, has been one of the most vehement pro-Faubus, anti-Eisenhower writers during For it now is realized in high places that mere withdrawal of the federal troops from Arkansas will in and of itself settle very little. The real question is recognized as being much broader finding some way to stabilize the whole situation throughout the country for several years to come. The latest plan which is being considered by some of the White House advisers though it has not yet been broached to the President himself is being brought to the attention of several Southern leaders through intermediaries to ascertain the reaction. THE PROPOSAL, briefly, is that a triple system be set up in the public schools based on freedom of choice.

There would come into being not only all-Negro school and all-white schools but also mixed schools. Parents would choose in which category they preferred to enroll their children. The selection and the decision, therefore, would be by the parents not by the school authorities of city, county or state. How would the Supreme Court view such a plan? The answer being offered is that the court would then be confronted for the first time with a specific act of Cpn-gress which would supersede any previous ruling of the court. The Fourteenth Amendment itself explicitly gives to Congress alone the power "to enforce" the teums of the amendment "by appropriate legislation." HOW, IT IS also asked would Congress get the right to legislate in the field of education which is supposed to be the exclusive power of the several states? The answer given is that Congress would in no sense undertake to control or regulate public schools as such but would merely appropriate money, along with the states, for public school buildings and facilities.

In many small communities, of course, the same buildings could be used by all groups, but separate classrooms or sections would be maintained for each of the divisions of Modern Farming Nears Bigger Achievemenis A generation ago when county agricultural agents first began to appear on the rural scene they were sometimes referred to, perhaps with a skeptical note as "two bladers." They were to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before! The payoff is that the "two-blader" has become a man to whom respect is due. By combining results of research with modern farming he by conservative estimates, has made many blades of highly nutrient grass grow where previously the yield was sparse. Now scientists of the atomic era have raised their sights to almost unbelievable heights as measured by old stand-As exciting as a man-made satellite has become, some of the new discoveries in the field of atomic science as it may advance agriculture and food processing are no less wondrous and the benefits are closer home! At a recent symposium at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva scientists talked of increasing yields of food and fiber 10 and 12-fold! Dr. Richard L. Meier of Michigan State University drew upon pilot operations to project developments in the evolutionary process of agriculture and the food industry.

In case you may wonder about "two-blading," he pointed to plastics we now have in place of leather, detergents in place in soaps, synthetic rubber made from a few chemicals. Maybe for a moment we should turn back more than two centuries to "Gulliver's Travels" to read that "whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Today men of science are men to watch. How near are these things? Dr. Willard F. Libby, member of the Atomic Energy Commission, told the symposium that "it is difficult to imagine that in a year or two there will not be some direct application of isotopes (radio-active elements) or radiation to everyday farming and food handling." This is the considered judgment of a conservative scientist.

It looks as if we were on the edge of bigger things than even Gulliver dreamed of. 'Why Not an East High the past few weeks. We have agreed with little 'of what he has written, but would commend his article on this page today to your attention. The easiest and least intelligent thing to do in any matter where opposed opinions collide is to begin to fight. There are movements reported to boycott Little Rock merchants in retaliation for the activities there of hate-mongers.

Given such a pitch of emotion as was stirred up in the Arkansas city, such byproducts probably are inevitable, but they are lamentable since Instead of progress, they spell small-scale war, a continuation of race troubles. Somehow the nation must get back to positive, constructive thinking on the subject of desegregation. A debate on the merits of the "triple-school system," as advocated by Lawrence, would be a step in the right direction. al Association for the Advancement of Colored People has not opposed what is being done in Louisville. THE PRESIDENT'S advisers who have been discussing the plan realize it may run up against the opposition of extremists on both sides in Congress, but the sponsors are confident it would have a strong public opinion behind it and that, if put into effect, it would someday come to be regarded as the greatest achievement of President Eisenhower's career.

In any event, it is a concrete plan for discussion and offers some hope of breaking traffic deadlock in the life of the nation. Violence by mobs or by individual agitators settles nothing and is, of course, to be deplored. To make the processes of reason effective, it is necessary that all sides of the debate be heard and that name calling, impugning of good faith and the emotional intolerance which refuses to hear opposing viewpoints be abandoned. Copyritht 1957, N.Y. Herald TribuM In.

EDITOR'S NOTE. Only signed letters will be printed. Rare exceptions are made in cases of hardship or professional ethics. Reasonable brevity by writers will help to guarantee light editing, if any. Negroes from Africa by force so that they could do the work for the whites.

Then they wanted to send them back to Africa when they increased in number. Now we have the problem of schools for these people. I don't think people realize that these Negroes fought for this country in World War I and II. Yes, they died so democracy would prevail in America. Now the people want to deny the Negroes a proper education just because they are Negroes.

SHARON CAPPON 4559 Lake Ave. Lunar Scrapyard students in keeping with the health insurance salesmen from the Aetna Insurance What was of real significance was the fact that not one union leader spoke against Blue Cross nor one employer of any number of people. A representative of local industry, who acted as spokesman for employers employing over 100,000 Rochester area people, endorsed the change as fair and necessary. Certainly it was signifi-can that Mr. McMahon of the CIO Council said, "We are all for Blue Cross and Blue Shield." THERE ARE undoubtedly people who will be upset by your long account of Mr.

Morgan's recital. He obviously doesn't know one significant fact. According to advertising often seen in this paper. Blue Cross spends well over cents of every $1 on benefits. No company can offer coverage which is less expensive than the hospital services needed by those who are covered.

The thing that counts is how much of the money going in is being returned in the form of benefits. I am one of the many thousands to whom Blue Cross is part of my way of life, like Social Security, and I have every confidence in its future, based upon years of experience in the past. MRS. CAMERON VAN ZILE 1624 Edgewood Ave. I HAVE read with interest the letter signed by Mrs.

Ott and Mrs. Champney concerning our schools. The writers' comments upon the proposed East High School are noteworthy for what they leave unsaid. The commissioners have told us why it was necessary to pay approximately twice as much for the land on which the building will be erected as the appraised valuation of the land. It is reported some members of the board tried to get the board to pay even more for this land.

Why wasn't the land condemned if it could not be purchased at the appraised valuation? Then we are given a few hit-and-run remarks obviously intended to approve the vast sums which will be expended for this school. Nothing that the commissioners have said indicates why this one building should be the most expensive building in Rochester. The taxpayers' pocketbooks are not inexhaustible. Other schools will need to be built; much could be done to make some of our present schools cleaner and more attractive. Why doesn't the board put a complete model of East High School on display? Then we, the taxpayers, can decide for ourselves how well our money is being spent.

MRS. ROSE GUGINO 267 Lyndhurst St. Djilas Book Frightened Moscow Yugoslav Anti-Red Author Gets Only Light Sentence By WILLIAM L. RYAN DELGRADE Milovan Djilas, President Tito's oue-D time comrade, got off with a relatively light sentence seven years for stirring up a hornet's nest in the Communist world. One gets the impression here the Yugoslavs were reluctant to try him at all and did so only under heavy pressure.

George David Djilas was convicted and It is not for us to accuse a University of Maryland scientist of being moonstruck merely because he suggests using the moon as a site for H-bomb tests. We no longer tag a thing as impossible; we just ask when. In fact the professor's proposal could be enlarged upon. Why not make the moon the earth's official scrapyard and place of exile? Once inter-planetary transportation is established, it won't be hard to think of appropriate passengers and cargo for one-way passage. The first load would contain race baiters, agitators, racketeers, phonies, demagogues, sidewalk spittcrs, rumor mongers, bigots, alley blockers, tyrants, dope smugglers, beboppers, dope sellers, rascals and rogues of all descriptions.

Into the moon's volcanic craters could be dumped such landscape blots as auto graveyards, industrial refuse, outmoded military equipment and slum buildings. Helpful, too, would be a piping out of the city's excess truck noise and the political hot air blowing around us. Anyone want to add to this list? The real moon holds a cherished role among lovers; ordinarily we wouldn't think of so desecrating it. But with one other moon already whirling around us, and more to follow, the idea of a man-made romantic moon is credulous as credulous as anything else we have said. sentenced on charges of cre Djilas detailed in his book.

Djilas obviously could not have any selfish interest in mind. Djilas wrote from anger and disillusionment. An Idea he lived with for dangerous years as an underground revolutionary had blown up in his face. George L. David, who was meticulous about the tone and the amount of prose he turned out in his lifetime, would want this newspaper to be equally careful in noting his passing.

So we will try to tell the truth as we saw it, simply and without the overblown phrase. Mr. David, theater critic for this newspaper for almost half a century, was a jealous man; jealous of the great potentialities of the stage and screen, and thus as full of disgust at the shoddy as he was full of praise for a fine piece of work. He rubbed shoulders with the great names of four decades of theater and screen, but never misused the friendships for personal publicity. His reviews reflected his love for a work well written and acted, and his anguish over mediocrity.

Yet through this he followed with a dedication that must have tor- 'Negroes Fought For U. 5., Too' 'j'HE question of segregation is the main topie today. I don't think many people know what this problem is doing to the people of America. Segregation defies the democratic basis on which America exists. I wish I could make the people think about this situation.

It was the whites who brought the 'West High Unhandy For Some Voters' 2JEADLINES have indicated that registration is low so far this year. It would seem, then, that every effort should be made to facilitate this important civic duty for all citizens who would like to vote. Complete apathy from the offices of both the Commissioner of Elections and the two major political parties has been encountered in my effort to assist friends and neighbors who have always voted but find it impossible this year because of a change in polling places. West High School's attractiveness is due in part to its spacious grounds. There are, however, numerous retired citizens not able to walk the distance from the parking facilities to the school, then up some stairs, citizens who could easily register and vote at either a fire house or at one of the regular election booths.

No one can blame them for objecting to pay for a doctor and a notary to certify their exact physical condition when they are not sick. I realize that the intricacies of policies are beyond the grasp of the average voter. But it would be interesting to know why, after several decades, it has been necessary to do away with the election booth at Etmdorf Avenue and Genesee Street, thus depriving a number of citizens of the right to vote without having to pay for it. MISS HELEN IREMD. 144 Sawyer St 'Long-Hair Fans: Play Records' IS A reply to Isabella Patterson Griffin's letter.

With so much turmoil in our world, it is great to turn on the radio and hear lively music such as jazz or rock and roll and radio announcers who sound like they are alive. A suggestion to longhair fans: Buy a record player and some records and leave radio just the way it is. You are outnumbered! MRS. O. A.

HOWELL 379 Bleacher Rd. Looking Backward 100 YEARS AGO TODAY-M57 Mr. Packard's Festival of Beauty, with 200 young ladies participating, will come off tonight in Corinthian Hall. 33 YEARS AGO TODAY 1922 A new theory of the nature of light, by Dr. Ludwik Silberstcln of the Eastman Kodak is receiving great attention in scientific circles.

Waterloo The village of Waterloo is preparing to take over the plant of the Waterloo Water Company as a means of reducing the cost of service. ating hostile propaganda by writing and getting smuggled out of Yugoslavia the book, "The New Class." It depicts a bureaucratic upper class in communism which exploits the masses. The court, which could have given Djilas 20 years, linked his sentence with a three-year term he already was serving to give him a new sentence of nine years. The pressure to place the former Yugoslav vice presi-dent on trial apparently came directly from Moscow. It reflects the deep worries in the Kremlin over the growing intellectual unrest all through the Red orbit READING the Djilas book, "The New Class," one felt this was a book not about Yugoslavia so much as It was ahout the Communist society of Moscow itself.

There a "new class" has taken over and does live exceptionally well at the expense of the rest of the Soviet society. "The new class" exists in all Communist countries of the Soviet orbit, but the new class is worried. Events in Toland and Hungary were clear indications of the troubles this new class has been having In keeping its control. It is challenged In an age when no Stalin Is on the scene to pass down the Infallible law and ruthless supression necessary to keep any super privileged group In firm control. Moscow could not permit An Offshoot of Atomic Explorations Scientist Predicts Revolution in Farming Double-Take By Bob Barnes for leather and various detergents for soap.

Another such transition was the substitution of synthetic for natural rubber This path Into the future implies evolution, but at a more rapid rate than has occurred in the past." nutrient solution the growth-determining limitations are removed. The growth-determining step then becomes the diffusion of csrbon dioxide in the presence of light, such as the sunlight Every grower knows that nitrogen is a determining Item of plant food in inducing growth in bis crops. Meier say it Is extremely likely that the nitrogen required for growl could be drawn from the air and made part of stepped up nutrients for the plants. Most promising organisms for this process are certain types of blue green algae. Meier said.

This algae could be produced In shallow pools and shipped to producers to enable them to step up production to heights now only in the dream stage. 'i ntrrt irJ Fly L. B. SKmiNGTON and Agriculture Editor NEW KIND of food production may revolutionize agricultural proceci as they re presently understood" This was the prediction of Dr. Richard L.

Meier of Michigan State University at the 73th anniversary ympnjm of the State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva The scientist tail bating his predictions upon what has happened with development of atomic tvrrtj and rai.a-tion. new esplorations in biological and chemical sciences, and pilot operation! date The layman may be inclined ti question some of these forecat, but the fact i that change have been taking place almost Imperceptibly. 'The situation Is one that encourages rather abrupt changes in the production of oodit uf said "Some of these traditions ready have occurred with the Introduction of synthetic fibers to Like up iht fjll growth rf consumption, the substitution of platu f.Jmi greatly accelerate that evolution. Meirr says that home "food preparation units" already are being developed that are somewhat different from conventional stoves. Using infrared and atomic rays, food will be made ready for table quickly.

Processors will have done the advance work so that packaged units will be Irradiated to keep Indefinitely. To supply demands of the processors of the future, production bark on the farms will be geared to the new age, as Meier sees It in a bit of scientific cry stal gazing. MURE STARTLING or Is It? Meier says "the photo-synthetic reaction can only reach high efficiencies when It becomes Independent of the explains that In most higher plants the growth-termlnlng step usually Is the transport of water soluble nutrients to the leaves, la many plants the rausl observer mas note thst where leaf growth Is luxuriant fruits develop quicker and better. Meier says that when some plants art Immersed la a (PodAadL By JAMES J. METCALFE My Only One Forever yOU art not the ony one My fceort has ever known Yourt art not tht only lips That ever my or Yewn are not tU That trhupertd tenderly And yours nrt not the only arms That held mt Jm "ff'y fiu! no one else in all my Uft as tree meant so much And one eht tould tvet hurt Your soft, endearing four one eould er match Tht mwe in your tyei Your than arter and all tht troys srkirH you arf Tht others mte forgeu tn, and HiiHoul the ico.t regret t.H thai yon hi been Tht int I erer met.

MM THINKS the year-round population of the farms north of the Rio Grande will decline to ahout five per sent of the population as farming becomes part of an industrial-iH form of production in which the newer sciences will accelerate natural forms of ojtput. Ily applvmg these srl- nres in the field, he said, pijtit operations Indicate that fmi rtry weight yield achieved per sere could be five to 10 times more than what could be achieved by practical agricultural methods." This means that production rtu4 be more dependent chemical factors than and tillage a we know them, farms would become "food factories" an event toward which the have been orkifi Slowly. This would 'Reporting Slanted On Blue Cross' I WAS very surprised to read your newspaper account of the hospital service public hearing. It seemed to me that Intentionally or otherwise your reporting was slanted against Blue Cross and had the effect of giving the idea that there was a of opposition on the part of a lot of people, which was not the rase. Seven persons spoke aaalnsi the Increase.

Two of these were apparently lawyers, one a small employer from Caledonia, one I could not Identify and three others, who did not Identify them-stives, turned out to be the Diilm book to bo unchallenged. Too much 1 at stake, not only In the Soviet t'nion but in all the satellite countries surrounding If. Therefore, the author of the frankly antl Communist work had to be punished. IRONICALLY, Djilas now In the same cell he occupied before World War II, when It was the roy alists who imprisoned him as a revolutionary comrade of Tito. This in Itself is telling commentary on the complaints Bible Passage weal lute the temple and kfa la cast out Ikem thai Mid and buM la the temple.

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