Bronze Reporter [Volume: 7, Issue: 37]

Herman Gibson
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which- prove contrary to the Amefican way of life, to protest
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1961

EDITORIAL

~ Editor~s ~Note:

The folowing editorials ~are taken from releases published
and~sent to us in the ifitérest of National Brotherhood Week
February 19 through demas 26.

Brotherhood The Ultimate Goal

By The Honorable Nelson D. Rockefeller
a Governor of the State of New York
Past Naftiorial Brotherhood Week Chairman

~ We many well look upon our land as one which, in
deed, is growing up to brotherhood. If we must confess
that our land is yet far from perfect, that it still has a
long, long way to go, we ~may dlso rejoice that, slowly, painfully, but truly, free men do strive for perfectidn.

And laws do serve such aims. That is why they are
enacted~to protect es | ~evil, to foster the common
good. \ fy. Seige sant

But lays alone| are not sufficient. They can be given
life and meaning only by the dictates of the human heart.

~We have ~a Bill of, Rights in America, and it is the

Magna Carta of our privileges. We have no comparable Bill
ut Responsibilities, for such cannot be written into our

erie It can only m ~ in the conscience of each one
of us.,

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What's In

By | Fred Hart Williams

Grandfather Granville Foster,
eighty years of age, found pleasure in relating stories of the
Old: South, to his little granddaughter, Ruth Foster, whenever: as ~pie

I would pose thege considerations:: she came to visit her grandThat we are our brother~s keepers: parents
Aman The | araiedehiial long since

grown into womanhood, is now
Mrs. Ruth Foster Higgins of Detroit. The following is. the best
remembered story, as told to her
by he grandfather Granville
Foster who died at Kalamazoo,
Michigan in 1910.~ \
Granville~s father was a slave
on a plantation of a rather wellto-do farmer in the State of Virginia. The young daughter of
the planter who became infatuated with this man, bore him a

That our true purpose lies beyond the plateau of tol
erance and'seeks the heights of true understanding, of compassion and~ '~orhiprehension;

That diversity is to our people what dissent is to politics, that diversity and dissent are what we nwene and have
made us what we are;

That in our diversity and ~dissent, we find a antiy of
purpose as free Americans that is created in love and:: based upon moral precept;.

~be nothing less than

And that our ultimate goal op
ood of man under the

the full realization of the bfother
Fatherhood of God!

ev as quiet as circumstances permitted. Inexplicably, as it

may seem, the girl~s father creat
ed no ial apparently accepting
the situation with philosophical
calmness. Whatever his reaction,
may only be surmised, by him
naming 3 boy ~Grief~. Stranger

was k

Faith or Fear.

By: J. Edgar Hoover
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation

still, before~ the death of the
farmer, several years later, he

ave the couple, as told by grandier Foster, a ~goodly sum~
of~money with the understanding
that his| daughter, the father
and their son, leave the South
~and never return. The family moved to Pike county, Ohio where
with some of the money given
Shema by tract of land for farm
them by the farmer, was used to
purposes. |

Granville Foster was born in
*Virginia, February 4, 1829. He
shoals of education in the

Prejudice and intolerance, hate and fear, are diseases
as infectious as a virus. The general increase in organized
prejudice is most disturbing. It includes anti-Protestant,
anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish and anti-Negro individuals and
groups. These merchants of hate, slander and insinuation
clutter the mails with their obscenity. Some of it falls into
the hands of impressionable juveniles, neurotic dupes and
moronic adults who then resort to smearing and damaging
churches, synagogues, schools and homes.

All.the various forms of the virus of bigotry exist, either

schools of Pike county. Later he
dormant or. active, in every community~large or small.

enrolled at a small educational

We must be ever alert to the evil influences of groups
whic spread. hatred and bigotry. We cannot have full

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The Detroit Free Press~

> Dr. Gore To'Head
Honor Society Meet

TALLAHASSEE ~ Florida
A&M - University President
George W. Gore Jr., has the responsibility. of organizing the
program for the annual meeting
of the Association of College
Honor Societies that will ~
at Wayne, State University ~
Detroit, February 23-25.

Dr. ~Gore; founder and eérteht.

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institution in Ohio, the name of
which is no longer remembered
by ~any of few remaining survivors of the Foster family. Gran-.
ville lived for a time in Leesburg,
Ohio,, and in 1861 moved | iwith
his family to Decatur, Michigan,
where he bought a small farm,
which~ he. worked - until illness
and infirmities associated ' ~with
old age, impelled him so) sell
it.

He moved t6 Kilatiiadoo, Michi-;. ~Alph
gan, where he died, in 1910, = Aho Mu one 64 tags, is vite.
we |, president of the: ~of

College Honor Societies. Traditionally, the. organization~s vice~president is in charge of the
convention program.

Some 32 national, honor -socie--
ties hold membership in the Association of College Honor: Soeieties, Dr. David S. Clarke of Purdue~ University is president ~of
the organization.

Interest, Dividends

* The Internal Revenue Service
issued a reminder~ to all taxpayers that all ~interest and dividends, whether: paid directly to
you or credited to your: account, '
must be included~ on your) income tax return.

R. I. Nixon,- District of Internal
Revenue, stated ~that there bem
certain exclusions and credits
which will reduée the tax liability on dividends. The Director

added that. taxpayers should. ~
check the instruction booklet NEW ~YORK, ~ The NAACP

and follow caréfully the sche- Chureh department's campaign:to
dule on the return to make sure enlist religious groups in the

I dcor- fight. against job bias was enpet benefits fe claime cor- dokéed Wiis swhak by he talawhes

Director Nixon * ~etressed that ~of prominent: church leaders. -
before signing and filing your _ According to the Rev. E. J.
return, you should make: sure Odom, NAACP church secretary,
that: the project, entitled Brotherhood

i. Your name and address is in Action,~ will involve ~~interprinted plainly. peel and oe Soe ue on

churchmen in an offensive again

2. All income ~is"properly re current practices in the hiring
and upgrading of Negro personnel. ~

Clergymen endorsing the campaign include Dr. Gardner C.
Taylor, president of~ New York

3. All allowable ~
are claimed.

citizenship for some and part citizenship for others. We
must: all work together to dispel intolerance and promote |
brotherhood among all men.

_ America was carved out of the rugged wilderness by
the heroic efforts of men and women who made great sac- |
rifices that they and those to come after them might live -

~in freedom under God. Faith, courage, devotion to a-noble
cause: these were the driving forces which spurred the ~
early settlers to blaze new trails through virgin forests,
across uncharted mountains, ihto valleys, where civilized
man ~never before had trod. ~

Our forefathers had a great vision of a nation where.
~men could live together and worship together without fear.
' Today, we hold this same vision for the future~the faith

-and determination to insure that ~America remains the bea~con.of freedom and promise for the oppressed peoples of |
- world.

4 Peuedom is not the ~absence of discipline but the use \~
~of ~disciplines which will enable us to enter into our inheritance and accomplish ~our destiny.

~When man surrenders his ideals, he dies aivteasiiy.
Only by protecting America~s God-given heritage of liberty
and Yaistive for all ~can we preserve this Republic for generations yet to come to 'live in ~freedom~s holy light.~ ~~

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City~s Protestant Council.

~The NAACP,~ he said, ~is
giving dramatic, indispensable
leadership in actualizing the
Christian doctrine of brotherhood.
This effort nee our total support. aa

Dr. Taylor was joined in his
endorsement of the ~project by
Bishop George W. Baber, of the
AME Church~s First Episcopal

District.

Bishop Baber declared:
~Churchmen throughout ~the
country should rally to this NA| portunity....~

Also commenting were Bishop
Stephen Gill Spottswood" of the
AME Zion Church~s Fourth Episcopal District and vice. ~chairman
8 the NAACP Board of | Directors.

Dr. Benjamin.E. Mays, president
| of "Morehouse College "and member of the NAACP Board of Directors.

Also Rev. John La~arge, associate editor of America and
chaplain, Catholic Interracial. Council: of New York; and Bishop Ww. J. ~Walls, of fe: First

- nati museum.

ACP effort to gb ed job op
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OUR HEAVENLY FATHER
~FURNISHES STRENGTH

in ~ +. nea ig in material

' things, which. do _not -give

everlasting profit. And for
our nation to continue to be
a country of defense, in all
our preparations, we must

not Fags a to do" tie ~will of

be éver so
pillar, with walls of safety in
the upper and lower atmos
phere, the Lord must go~ before, to sanctify and purify

I naePlamysctrong,
but to hold sway as an iron

God- furnishes man with

~strefigth for successful per
formances,. of -defense. which

will last forever. So all should

aecept the Truth, for the apprehension of - strength for

good work.
~In Psalm 91, we ~read:

~Thou shalt tread upon the

lion and adder: the young

~lion and dragon shalt thou

trample under feet.~~

~Jesus said, ~Behold, | give
unto you power to tread. on
serpents and scorpions, and
overall the power of the

~enemy: and nothing shall by

any mean hurt you.~

Wayne Watercraft
Growth Indicated

A year-end report issued by
James. M. Hare, ~Secretary - of
State, shows that Wayne County
has 54,398 of the third of a mil-~
lion motorboats registered in
Michigan..

~Total watercraft registrations,
including 11,182 beats licensed
by person residing outside of
Michigan for use in the~ Great
Lakes ct ese areata reached 343,968 dur
On Display

~
~International Prints, 1960~? is
the title of an art exhibit on
display at Wayne State Universtiy~s Community Arts Gallery
from Monday,: Feb. 13 to Friday,
March 3.

The contemporary color Nthography.display is sponsored, by
the Detroit Round Table of Catholics, Jews and Protestants in cooperation with Wayne State.

~Fifty-eight artists from 15 countries are reprented in the ~exhibit which includes selections
1 from the Cincinnati Art Museum~s sixth biennial review of
print-making. en,

The prints show an ~extraordinary*-range of subject~ matter -
and style, both representational
and abstract;~ said. Gustave von
Groschwitz, senior curator~ and
curator or prints at the Cincin~ 1
because of new materials and
methods, the printmaker today
can ~create a range of textures
which have never. been produced
before in the 500-year history
of eT

Churchmen Endorse NAA (Pp
Brotherhood In Action Plans

Episcopal District AME Zion~

Church and a member of the
NAACP Board of Directors.

Although the project is being,
during Brotherhood ~

launched
Week, Rev. Odom said his department expects church social

~action on the problem ~. é

out the year.

DRIVE SAFELY

ing 1960,~ Hare. said.

~This is a watercraft decade,~
Hare ~believes. ~As Americans
get shorter work weeks and longer vacations many more. will
turn toward the water for their
recreation.~ (

Hare attributed much of the
increasing boat registrations to
the fact that. watercraft has replaced automobile: as status symbols on many levels of Ameri:
can. life.

~Michigan as the water-Wonderland should take advantage
of this coming boom in boating,~
Hare.said. ~With expanding national freeway systems it is easy
for millions of people living in
lake-scarce midwestern areas to
put their craft on a trailer, hitch
it to their car, and roll on to
our Great Lakes State.~

The 11,182 registrations of watercraft owned by out-of-state
owners include only those belonging to boat enthusiasts who
do not maintain a permanent
moring location. in, Michigan.
Boaters. who own lake cottages or
who have marina facilities are
included in the county figure
given above, Hare pointed out.

Affluence Analyzed

Dr,. Joseph L., Fisher, president of Resources for the Fu~ture, Inc., will discuss ~Can We
Afford Our Affluence?~ at 6:30
p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the
McGregor Memorial Conference
Center.;

The meeting is sponsored by
Wayne State~s department of
economics and the Detroit Chap) ys of the American Statistical

ssociation, and is one of a series of lectures by. distinguished
visiting economists.

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