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Editorial Comment VOTE FOR D.C. 160 years, residents of the District of Columbia have the right to vote for their president. And President Kennedy has hailed it a major step in the right direction." But Kennedy noted that the 23rd Amendment, approved by two-thirds of the state legislatures, by no means gives district dwellers home rule--direct control over their own governing body. Kennedy's statement said "I am hopeful that the Congress, spurred by the adoption of the 23rd Amendment, will act favorably on legislative proposals to be recommended by the administration providing" the District of Columbia the right of home.rule." That not was struck by many of the comments on the ratification of the constitutional amendment Wednesday by New Hampshire and Kansas, making up the 38 states needed to make it official. At present Washington is governed by a board of commissioners chosen by the President.

Congress enacts its laws and in effect its board of aldermen. The final approval of the amendment was big news in Washington. The Washington Star in a front page editorial exulted: "New Hampshire having broken the deadlock it is all over but the shouting! So let's begin to shout!" The paper added: "this becomes one of the brightest days in the history of this city." The Washington Post's editorial today said "Yesterday was an historic occasion for the District of Columbia." It added, "However significant this restoration, of the ballot box to the nation's capital may be, is a beginning rather than an end." Sen. Thurston B. Morton of Kentucky, Republican national chairman, called it a great day "for the general principle of suffrage-for-sll in the United States." His statement made no mention of pressing on for lionie rule.

The Democratic national chairman, John M. Bailey, however, said "While this is a great step forward, it does not carry us to the goal to which the Democratic party is pledged in its platform of 1960. We need to permit the eligible voters of the district to elect their own local government and we also need to provide for voting representation in the Congress for the district." Some members of Congress have been opposed to th home rule idea because Washington has a Negro majority--nearly 54 percent. Washington's total population in the 1960 census was 763,956. District residents have been frozen out from voting for president since itsi diamond shape was carved out of And It Was the Third Maryland and Virginia in 1802.

The Constitution provided for presidential electors only in the states. Washington residents voted for president in 1796 and 1800, but they did so as residents of Maryland and Virginia. And 1800 was the last time, because the federal city was created before the next presidentia election. The 23rd Amendment got the second fastest ratification of any constitutional changes to date. Congress completed action on June 16, 1960, and Kansas "Wednesday became the 38th state to.ratify.-Only' the 12th electors to vote separately for president and vice president was ratified more quickly.

Mirrors of Washington By DOKOTHV Anirrii-an Neiv-imppr Alliance Washington--For the first time in many years, log fires have been blazing in every single fireplace at the White House at party time. President and Mrs. Kennedy, both deeply imbued with the his- tory of the Home of Presidents, like the felicity and link with the past which the bright fireplaces of o'her days give to their new homes--the White House and their week-end retreat in Middleburg, Va. The President, who has been Naming Indian Commissioner Ends Inter-Tribal Rivalry By RALPH A. DO.NHAM North American Alliance A.

A i Ariz Appointment! of John C. Crow as acting corn-) missioner of Indian affairs has! at reservations and had to be ar- reslcd the officers no cooperation from white law enforcement who were supposed to them at the reservation run the federal bureau. sleeping in the Lincoln Room while the private presidential apartments at the other end of the upstairs are being redecorated has left a standing order that White House butler start a blazing fire in the fireplace there early each morning. John F. Kennedy likes to imagine himself back in the days when Abraham Lincoln used that room.

Lincoln never slept there. It was his office where he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Jacqueline Kennedy is as much of a bug about history as her Pul itzer prize-winning husband whose best-selling book "Profiles in Courage" gave a historic appraisal of Brave men in the United States Senate. Mrs. Kennedy delights in all the tradition that surrounds the Queen's suite across the Indian to run the bureau since 1871, when Col.

Eh' Samuel Parker, a Seneca, was commissioner. He got the job from Ulysses S. Grant as a reward for "services during the Civil War. Crow has been an employe of the bureau of Indian affairs for 28 years. According to the White House announcement this week end, he is three-fourths Chippewa TM TM-, a 01 reau action.

ail the '1 could do was escort trouble-makers Lo the boundrj'i and turn them loose. Since the Indians are spending money to establish recreation areas to attract the patronage of white fishermen and hunters this hampering of their efforts to maintain order is disastrous. This, the Indians believe, is a case calling for bu- one-fourth Cherokee, and a graduate of the Haskell Indian' 1 Institute in Lawrence Kans Crow is but one of several By 1957, it has been charged, oureau restrictions on were GIFTED WITH FLOWERS The new first lady is taking her DREW PEARSON Washington Merry Go-Round World Today By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy's problem with communism, is like a man to dinner and then trying to make sure he doesn't stick the silverware in his pocket. Even a not-likely-soon American-Soviet agreement on disarmament and nuclear testing--some thing the -optimists would like, to -think means peace--won't keep the Communists from doing what they're doing. They're men with a mission and what they're doing is trying to take over the world.

Since they're convinced they have time on their side, they're-not in a hurry. If they can't do it all at once, they can try a bit at a time. For instance, don't bet that peace, if it comes to Laos, will last long. The shooting by the Russian-backed guerrillas in the north would not necessarily start up soon. But the Communists-would be infiltrating the rest of Laos, trying for a grab from within.

Or, they could try it with shooting if they first create a crisis somewhere else to distract the West and take up its energies. And even' though things quiet down in Laos indefinitely, there are always other places. Southeast Asia and the Middle East, for example. Southeast Asia is "til of such places. At the moment Kennedy's prestige seems high in the world.

He like a quietly tough young man who has nothing but good for the rest of mankind but Von't stand stOl to be The.Russians BUd Red Chinese Ican't stand too much of that, Any- itime Kennedy begins to look like! much of a world-persuader-- persuading away from 'communism--they'll try to give jhim the miseries. In this case it would mean cre- ating for him a series of crises, rocking and socking him, keeping busy, distracted, and running around with a fire-hose to put out blazes in a dozen places. A tremendous Red Chinese attack on Formosa--creating concern in this country not only for Formosa but over the prospect of getting into war in China--would be a nice distraction for a push somewhere else. True, Kennedy is doing all he can to lay the ground for friendly dealings with Premier Khrushchev. And maybe they'll meet and get along fine.

And maybe the next time a brushfire war starts up some place there won't be a Russian in sight. That won't mean the Russians and the Chinese Communists aren't working out of sight. They don't have to fire a shot. They can seduce with economic aid, by sending in industrial advisers who become political advisers, by bringing students from sackward countries to Moscow and returning them home well- trained. The West has no illusions and can do the same.

Qf course. To some extent it will" try. An example of trying is Kennedy's for- sign aid program which he of- Congress a few days" ago, He has no illusions about the uture. That's why he told Con- jress in his defense message he wants an armed force that can ight limited wars, as well as big ones, including guerrilla fighters or the brush-fires. In the end the greatest weapon either side may turn out to determination.

-There's always the chance the Russians and Red Chinese will out. From behind the iron curtain they've let out stories about Chinese squabbles with Khrushchev because he's top soft. WASHINGTON To understand he bizarre chain of human relations set off by the secret confession of vicuna coat-giving Bernard joldfine collected such big-shot the big Boston industrialist was a collector of VIP's. He collected important persons in the same way some- people collect stamps. And it's the manner in which Soldfine collectde such big-shot riends as Sherman Adams, assistant to President Eisenhower Senator Bridges and Cotton, New lampshire Republicans; and ex- Gcv.

Foster Furcolo, Massachusetts Democrat, that has now caused the lid to blow off the Gold: ine-Sherman Adams scandal. It ias sent the FBI up to the Senate to interview the senators involved and has brought Adams scurry-! ing to Washington from his re- 1 treat in New Hampshire. Behind all this was the fact that when Goldfine carne to Washington he liked to call at the White House, tell friends he lunched one table removed from Eisenhower. In return for being seen with big shots, Goldfine gave handsomely --coats, suits, rugs, free liquor, free hotels, free travel, and sometimes generous amounts of cash. This would all have been quite innocent were it not for the fact that simultaneous with his gift- Jiving, Goldfine expected favors in return.

For instance, he got Sherman Adams, second most powerful man in Washington, to intervene at the Federal Trade Commission when the Goldfine woolen mills got into trouble for violating the wool-labeling act. Even more serious, Goldfine stopped paying income taxes about the tune he began collecting big shots. He seemed to think that association with top men in government made-him immune from which others have to ollow. And-it's his income tax i a recently postponed from March until May which probably induced him to make a con- 'ession. Prior to that, his svelte, efficien Friday, Mildred Paperman iad been deluging the VIP's who lad been the recipients of Goldfine generosity with frantic phone calls.

She would wake Sen, Styles Bridges late at night with desperate, threatening phone calls. "You've got to do something for Mr. she would scream. 'You're a big shot. You've got nflueuce.

Don't tell me that a senator can't go down to the Justice Department and do something. for the Goldfine woolen mills and a director of the corporation, so that his position was somewhat different from that of Sherman and near great in the halcyon days of the Eisenhower adminis tration. When his daughter was marriec in Chicago, Goldfine insisted that Sherman Adams and. Senator anc Mrs. Cotton fly out to Chicago for the wedding.

"I want people to see who my friends are." he urged. "You've got to do this for me." And shortly after Furcolo was elected governor of Massachusetts Goldfine gaW a party for him al the Mayflower Hotel at Plymouth Mass. Both Senators Bridges anc Cotton were guests, with -the big woolen manufacturer paying their expenses to the tune of about $175 each. Senator Cotton was quite frank in telling the FBI that when he was about to depart on a trip to Tokyo and Hong Kong. Goldfice insisted that he take with him.

"We have a superstition among Jewish people." he explained- "We believe in presents. Bring me back a present from Hong Kong." Again, when Cotton and his wife left on a trip to Panama and Mexico City, Goldfine had dinner with them in the Parker House in Boston and gave the Senator 1,000. Cotton at that time was attorney I You've got to do something for Mr. after all he did for you." A Republican senator, however, doesn't have much influence in a Democratic administration, and Sherman Adams today doesn't have any. Furthermore all the VIP's whom Goldfine once collected no longer want to be seen with him.

They have run for cover. So the genial, generous son of a Russian immigrant who called Sherman Adams 43 times in six months and once kept President Eisenhower waiting almost an hour while he haggled over a textile contract at the Pentagon, found himself friendless and alone. Being alone, he decided to share his grief with his former friends, the VIP's. He shared it by talking to the-Justice Depart- Here is the kind of relationship That makes him--comparative- jGoldfine enjoyed with the great y--look like a good guy. might Hobbs Daily News Sun CXprcu 5-2123 McCRATH Fallsher Editor i 1 OF THK ASSOCIATED PHKS5J M.

1 Oyt Shannon A Awcfrtyt. North MleWfim QUcno JL OL jar te Adtmnc. oun only) Hobtw--1 Mootfe ftbwwtMre I Ymr Dl tn even induce the West to make concessions to encourage nice guys. But experts on communism say this is thought out. just an act.

well If this is a gloomy look at what is ahead--not only for Kennedy but for presidents after him--it remains for someone with a rosier view to come up with indisputable information to the contrary. Kate SlOO S.OU Six March ft, S3K' professional connection. As long as Cotton, as a senator, did no favors for Goldfine with the government or made no representations to the government on of Gold fine, he had no conflict of interest. Adams, however, was not in that position. This is why the new attorney general, Robert Kennedy, may have one the hottest criminal cases in a good many years dumped into his lap.

What Kennedy can do or may do will be reported in an earlj 'column. Hal Boyie By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Curbstone comments of a Pavement Plato: What age in life is really best? If you could relive all or any part of life in any way you chose, where would you "begin? What would you like to be? These questions are s.ophomoric, of course, as no one yet has found a way to turn back the calendar and wish-granting fairy godmothers, are few and far between. But probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age 'm his existence and living a different kind of life. It is perhaps mankind's favorite daydream. The subject came up recently at a cocktail party I attended.

Most of those present were in the middle-age, or upper middle-age bracket. Some of their choices of how they'd change their Hves, if offered a chance at a second go- around, were surprising. Childhood is usually regarded as the golden time of life, but none of those present expressed a desire to begin again as an Infant. None wanted to be a teen-ager either. Not even the ladies wanted to be "sweet 16" again.

One woman, whose family Is reared, said, she'd give anything go back to the time when her children were young and dependent on me, and we were all under Stewart Udall had been consider-! ing since his appointment as secretary of the Interior was announced last December. It was considered a certainty that an Indian would be appointed since John F. Kennedy several months ago told a conference of the national congress of American Indians in Denver several months ago: "It is time an Indian is named commissioner of Indian affairs." Other Indian complaints include Uncle Sam from tying up money the Navajos fight to precent due their tribe for oil and gas leases: the San Carlos Apaches' determined battle against a federal order requiring the tribe to pay for hydroelectric power used in pumping irrigation water on the reservation, arsd organized chores as housekeeper at the White House very seriously, deed. She treks up and downstairs all day long. She figures this domestic marathon comes to a five-mile walk daily.

She is concentrating, too on making the White House less like a public institution and more like a home. The day of (he Kennedy's first eception for Washington's diplomatic corps. Mrs. Kennedy had a finger in every single flower arrangement in various rooms. She combined multiple bright colon in informal vase groupings.

The effect was so distinctive that Mme Herve Alphand, wife of the French ambassador, made a pungent comment. "You can tell that a different 4 UlgitliiicQ a Vlinment court fights among many western! er on lives said Malame 1 1 A i 2 7 Jt tribes for more liberal water ThP i ioi more noerai water aJ aI schools, and reser- gestion to matter around council fires and concluded their own executive secretary, J. Maurice McCabe, was the logical man for the post, if and when such great honor should come to their people. And when their friend and fellow Arizonan, Udall, acceded to (lie cabinet post of secretary of the Interior they took immediate action. The same wire carrying their congratulations to Udall on his appointment also advised him of the tribal council's iinanimous vote to present McCabe's name as the Navajo's candidate for the commissionership.

Other tribes backed the Navajo choice. J. D. Garcia, chairman of the Jicarilia Apache council and Francis McKinney, of the "Uintah tribe at Fort Duchnesne, Utah, gave their 'endorsement and the Dakota Siouxz later went along. U.

S. Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mexico also backed McCabe. Paul Jones, chairman of the Navajo tribal council, sent a message to the Papago tribal' council which met the day after Udall's appointment at Sells, The 87.000 Navajos in New Mexico, Utah and Arizona, now that they are beginning to prosper from oil revenues, have carried to on more than one occasion relief from the federal restrictions "preventing them from becoming firstclass citizens." Among other things they cite state literacy tests which disenfranchise them at the polls. One of their biggest problems, according to Glenn L. Ernmons, president Eisenhower's commissioner, is the "the population exceeds the land resources." Speaking at the university of Arizona some months ago Emmons said that "government policy has too long been that it would take care of the Indians and has iiofc trained them to care for themselves." He added that "some groups have instilled an inferiority complex (in the Indian) through the idea that he would fail in any attempt to leave the reservation." The government, Emmons said, the Papaga "capital" 50 miles wil1 eventually have to set a west of here: Idate for ending trusteeship of "There are many Indians dian lands." Today are Jones told his brothers to acres of reservation southwest, "qualified to be In- Iands two dozen states Kennedy's proposed fireside chats have stirred up a rumpus in the radio and TV industry.

"Republicans are demanding equa time to answer, but radio-TV networks don't know whether to use Nixon, Senator Dirksen, conservative Senator Goldwater, or liberal Gov. Rockefeller to answer Kennedy. Whoever they select would have a leg up on the 1964 nomination which puts the networks in the position of materially helping to nominate the GOP candidate The Air Force is qubtly circulating portions of the Steve Canyon comic strip to its information officers showing how been handling British opposition to American radar construction. A Toronto newspaper canceled the strip because of the radar story. But the Air Force, in a bulletin to information officers, happily pointed out that the paper's own editorial staff raised such a how' the Steve Canyon strip was reinstated.

Hair Tinting Suit Settled for Cash LOS ANGELES (AP) Connie Gilchrist. a character actress who considers herself most photogenic as a blonde, received $5.000 Wednesday in settlement of a suit, over a tinting job she chargedf ivent wrong. Miss Gilchrist, 57, asked $50,000 Jamages in her suit against the House of Westmore and hair dresser Ralph Wallace. She complained that her scalp was permanently damaged when she trio, to have a i dyed light brown for her role as the governess in the movie, "Auntie Mame." She contended thai: she now is A A OPTOMETRIST 523 N. Linam Appointments Preferred Dial EX.

3-4326 "Those seemed like hard and Tying years then, but now I realize they were the most rewarding ever know," she said. "I'd liked to be anywhere between 30 and 40. Those are the best years for a woman," a career woman said, is old enough to have Jained experience and confidence in her work, and she is still young enough to be attractive. And her worst wrinkles still lie ahead her." Most of the men, on the other land, agreed that for them the ideal age was 25, a period when they recalled they were largely free of major debts, ulcers and paunches, still had most of their hair and felt strong enough to whip the world. One harried executive-type wry- dian commissioner.

In many of my contacs throughout the country I have found this confirmed and that public opinion endorses this concept of giving the Indian his opportunity. I come to you as a member of an Indian tribe hopeful that all Indians will unite to make this a reality." But the wouldn't buy McCabe, a full-blooded Navajo. Instead, they told the Navajos they were supporting Richard F. Harless, a former Arizona congressman who befriended them. Moreover, the Papagos won foj- their man the backing of the majority of the Arizona tribal council.

The Apaches, too. finally decided to put forth their own candidate, Harry Stevens, for six years the assistant area director of the Indian bureau. Stevens is a fuu- blooded Apache, a grandson of the famed Cochise and a protege of Clarence Wesley, council chairman of the San Carlos Apaches and president of the national con- une namea executive-type wry- ly remarked he didn't care about gress Indians. Ainrf T-k Al fVlP TnriJOne being any particular age--just so he could be a bartender. "A bartender has this big ad vantage--no matter what his own private worries may be, everybody he serves seems to have more troubles than he does.

This can't but make him feel more content with his lot. That's why bartenders are so smug," he said. "I'd like lo be a 25-year-old bachelor with $2,000.000," a mousy, long-married little man broke in eagerly. "Life today runs backward for the average man. He starts poor and works hard until he is 65.

When he retires, even if he has saved any money he is too worn out to enjoy it. "With that two million bucks I could have a tax-free income of $50.000 a year. On that could Lravel everywhere, do everything in life haven't been able to-really live it up. "Maybe at about 75 I'd get tired of being a playboy, so I'd settle down and marry- a pretty young nurse and let her take care of me in my old age. But I'd still my that original two million bucks in the bank." He looked coyly over at his middle-aged wife and asked, "What would you like to be, dear." "Me?" said the wife grimly.

'I'd like lo be that pretty young nurse. confined to grandmotherly roles because her scalp will stand no more dyeing. She'd like to be a Blonde again, but she can't, the actress said. Although the Indians weren't able to unite behind a candidate, they are now expected to cooperate fully with secretary of the Interior Udall in his plan to reorganize the Indians affairs bureau. They feel that any change will be for the better.

Few deny that the last eight years have been trying one for the red men. Their trouble stems back lo 1953, when congress ap- end to federal protection of In- proved a resolution urging an dian rights and property "as speedily as possible." Friends of the Indians say it was the intent of Congress 'that this should be merely a long- range goal but that the Indian bureau, interpreted it a mandate for, immediate "desertion" of the tribal people. The ensuing confusion has worked hardships on the Indians rf the west. For instance in January 15V58 the Arizona supreme court ruled except in cases where the federal government specifically reserves such authority, stale courts have jurisdiction within Indian reservations. About the same time the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that the state "lacks jurisdiction over Indians within the state until and unless the title of the Indian or Indian tribes (to their land) shall have teen extinguished." Reservation Indian police officials began to complain that when obstreperous whiles came on the CAMMACK'S EX.

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At that time armed Apache guards turned back at gun point, a posse of Phoenix lawmen sent by a superior court judge to arrest the entire Apache police force for contempt of court in the matter of litigation over water rights. The Litigation, instituted by a white cooperative, the Salt River Valley Water Users Association later bogged down over the question of state vs. federal jurisdiction, an issue which has proved tremendously frustrating to the tribal people in establishing their citizenship rights. John 0. Crovv is slated to head any new agency that emerges from a reorganization of the Indian affairs bureau.

Until the reorganization is completed, he will serve as acting commissioner. This is in line with a statement secretary' Udall made here in his home town shortly after accepting his cabinet post. Udall observed that when he was named secretary of the Interior "I said I sort of would be my own commissioner because of my long Alphand, and then added a final compliment. "The flowers are arranged the way the French women do them--natural and even a little wild, and not looking as if a florist had sent them." What with Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs.

Dean Rusk, wife, of the secretary of State, designing" their own inaugural ball gowns, this new administration seems to believe in design-it-yourself gowns Now comes Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the new chief of protocol, who can afford anything that the most expensive foreign couturier could dream up for her. For her debut last week on Washington's party circuit, she wore an evening gown she had designed herself. It was mad from a pinky beige Chinese silk which her husband' had brought from Honk Kong. She took it to her New York tailor, who also makes women's dresses, and sketched out her ideas.

The creation is a sheath, high in front, with plunging back de- colletage, worn with a mink collared bolero. SORE MUSCLES The first family's first weekend at Glen Ora, the 400-acre estate they have leased in the heart of Virginia's hunt country at Middleburg, was a great success. It had everything, which included a horseback ride for the first lady, her first in a whole year, and some very muscles next day. In fact, those sore muscles, plus a cold, kept Mrs. Kennedy home last Sunday morning when the President attended Mass for the first time in the auditorium of the Middleburg Community Center.

There is no Catholic Church or resident priest in. Middleburg. A priest conducts noon Mass each Sunday there by communting from his regular parish in Lessburg 15 miles away. Services are held in the buff- colored Community Center which, architectually. faintly resembles French i i a Glen Ora a mile and a half away down Middleburg's back roads.

Views of this famous fox-hunting area, its thoroughbred stables and hounds, its historic landmarks and fine homes are the subject of four paintings by artist Madeline Hewes on permanent exhibition in the front hall of the Center just before you enter the auditorium. Baltimore-born Miss Hewes was commissioned to do these Gran-ma Moses type paintings Paul Mellon, one of the Kennedy neighbors in nearby Upperville six --o A i i a a i 1 5 I interest improving their lot. For. miles away and son of the late this reason the person to whom Lhe appointment goes will have to be most carefully selected." Udall himself is well liked by Lhe Indians. He was born and up in St.

Johns, just beyond the northern edge of the large Apache reservation, and just below the southern edge of Lhe even larger Navajo reserva- SHIP SAILS AGAIN LE HAVRE, France (AP)--The rcnch Line freighter La Coubre, leavily damaged when its muni- ions cargo blew up at Havana March 4, I960, arrived Thursday night to resume service. The.ship, argcly rebuilt, sails Saturday vith general cargo for the West "ndies and French Guiana. TROY DAVIS Formerly of White's Barber Shop, Has Purchased THE VILLAGE BARBER SHOP 1700 N. Jeffenon And Will Take Possession April 1st No Parking Meters TV, TOO! Di.l IX. 3.3011 secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon.

'Mrs. Kennedy has been to the Community Center before and seen those paintings. Two years ago as a Senator's wife, she was asked to present the prizes at a fashion show at the Center. Always prompt, shs got to the Center ahead of the committee. She was found sitting on the front steps, hugging her knees like a little girl, waiting to be let in.

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