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Dark Merit
by
Kathryne
Favors
So you’re free? Not only are
you free, but you treat everyone
else like he’s free too, don’t you?
$ You’re a Christian too, aren’t
you? After all, you go to church
every Sunday. You pray at
night and you give money to
rallies. Those are some of the
things a Christian does, aren’t
they?
Let’s put this Christianity to
a„ test. Suppose one of your
Christian bretheren of another
race attempts to join your church.
Your’re the first one to jump up
to say that it’s against the church
laws to take in a member of an
other race, aren’t you? If that
is true, we’d better get together
and revise these laws. Who’s
the lawmaker anyway? I
a, thought God was. I’ve never read
l5| in His great Book where only
certain races of people were sup
posed to unite together to form
a church and not let others in.
We have to go over our laws and
find out whether we have a
church or just an organization
of aristocrats. If your church is
one where only a select few can
join, you’d better fling open
those doors wide and let Jesus in
for the first time.
We’re very fair when it comes
to business deals, too, aren’t we?
We sell our merchandise to any
one regardless of race or color,
don’t we? I wonder, however, if
we’re that impartial when it
^ comes to hiring personel to work
iji our place of business. I won
der if we advertised that we need
people to work immediately and
then when a person of another
race applies for the job, we say
that we’re so very sorry but the
job is already taken. We can’t
get anywhere like that, can we?
We here in Lincoln must wake
and do something about our
situation. Soon. We’ll find that
all of our fine young and talen
ted graduates of our wonderful
university have gone to the cities
where the belief in God is more
widespread. You can’t tell that
by the number of huge beautiful
churches and the number of
automobiles in front of the church
m on Sunday. The only way that
you can tell that God is anywhere
near that city is when you find
that people of all races, colors,
and creeds are working har
moniously and happy together.
There will be no necessity then
to “squabble’ ’about who’s to use
the swimming pool or what race
who will work with because God
will be there and you’ll be able
to see it too.
Shall we forget our racial pre
judices for a minute and wish
everyone a HAPPY EASTER
GREETING regardless of race,
color, or creed?
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BOOK CLUB SELECTION
FIGHTS DISCRIMINATION
New York (ANP) Myths about
labor, poverty, and “inferior”
raqes are blasted in “Man
Against Myth,” just announced by
Book Find Club as its April selec
tion. The author, Barrows Dun
ham, is assistant professor of
philosophy at Templo University.
How certain racial myths per
sist, even in people who believe
they have overcome them, is
shown by Prof. Dunham in the
following typical passage from
the book:
“Take, for example, the dis
franchisement of American Ne
groes. Our imaginary antagonist
says that he is democratically,
fond of Negroes, but that he does J
not think they should vote until
they have been educated. Very
well, let us admire his democra
tic fondness.
“But the Negroes will not be
adequately educated until they
have adequate access to schools.
They will not have adequate ac
cess to schools until there are ade
quate legislative appropriations.
There will be no adequate legis
lation appropriations until legis
lators are elected who will really
represent the disfranchised are
allowed to vote.
“Thus our friend, in postponing
the sufferage, postpones also the
education which is supposed to
qualify voters for the sufferage.
The change he says he desires is
one which he has rendered im
possible, and cynics may sur
mise that he never really desired
it.”
Man Against Myth is causing a
sensation. It has been hailed by
the scientists Albert Einstein and
J. B. S. Haldane, and by Phil
osopher John Dewey, and the
irony and wit with which it is
written has drawn applause from
the noted humorists Dorothy
Parker and Donald Ogden Stew
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