Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 12]

1946

PAGE FOUR _ THE FLINT SPOKESMAN SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1946 _

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SUOOOYSO D0? 10 00 Kp Ahh APACER REESE RAR e ae ERTS ride together on interstate buses, whether north or south. | the Benedict alumni tendered bias last year was long overdue. | 3 eg =. - 29 a %
THE FLINT SPOKESMAN Had Senator Glass been alive when this decision was rendered, Prof. Duckett did not know how to play denerivi#ational WORLD NEW 4 Arranged By
in all probability he would have died from the shock of fear|.,,Jitics and he thereby docmed himeeclf té actepy & subsrdi- BO W. H. BONDS,
PHONES 9.5990 4,2525 that Negroes would be permitted to ride with whites in the ~nic place in the abheude of thincs. ~While this aiey Sabena ie i Gienttel Meikager
i | | South, a policy which he had fought during the long span of 7 tinier ae te "Ad ~
Puck E. Gila ~ M. Edit 1 debe ike:.: a Persona! loss to him, it was-a great gain for the cause. - | A. P. N. S.
om eo oe ai The new South is in the making. The night-shirt riders of mmnstrative duties might have deprived the classroom of one (World News Briefly Told) Newspapers
Thomas M. Terry.........-..--------se--eeeceeesteseeees elas aay City Editor the night are impotent to halt its forward march; the rantings of Ma his Ee 4 scheme The a 4. pow of Sinks ee Pca aan ae eT ae sonihinas; at~
Thomas Bolden............- Advertising and Business Manager| ~Tiger~ Talmadge are but the meows of a pet kitten~the salt) oy oi ~to five of Benedict's presidents. When colleges} THE SOUTHERN NEGRO
Gladys Johnson......-.-----2--------- Community News and Views serra - prétada ta iock Gk vay dag it lose their presidents nearly five-fourths of the professors are AND THE KU KLUX KLAN ee
Voncile Woods ss a ttt lela Feature Writer march until democracy in the land of Dixie, and white men and stung by the ~ no that as a in pew: The Southern Negro has no fear for the night-shirted Ku
Wayne Thomas...... ee ee ee reenter ee.. Sports Editor] black men, as they marched side by side, in line of battle, with ~ a ce Peeen ent is eee these unsucesare Kluers. During the days of Reconstruction, the sight of the
| aspirants betome grouchy and diagreeab'e. They become cen- heoduiak llamas 14 ales the vale 3 a. ee of

pointed bayonets, defeated Nazism, Fascism, and all other
~isms,~ likewise let them march side by. side, with ballot in hand

ti t egati nd Jim-Crowism, and democracy | ~*~: pe
he il they defeat segregation ahd J ~i But not so with Thomas L. Duckett. He worked his

ae ra heart out for the lamented Abram C. Osborn who for 16 yrs.]

I Fe served Benedict. Then came President Valentine, a ripe~
~LABOR VIEW.

scholar and teacher who had the misfortune to run into the
tein tH By GEORGE McCRARY |

Baptist fight in South Carolina. Morris colleSe and many of
i its devotees crucified President Valentine. No riper scholar

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-|NEGRO ANGLE IN STRIKE TIE-UP

i A As As is ts ts ever trod Benedict's. campus. Then the pious Antisdel and
then Starks, the business genius. Under them all Prof. Duckett
THE PASSING OF THE REVEREND | _Mr. Truman~s battingaverage with congress is still at a
R. L. BRAD BY, SR. | | ~ock bottom low. No matter how justified his proposals, Mr.

ters of discord which threaten the administration of the new

cur grandfathers, but the sons of the fathers, and what is more,
their grandsons, are not so easily frightened.

Down in Atlanta, Georgia, a short time ago, during the
revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the night-shirted boys chose ~to
march down Auburn Avenue, the ~Beale Street~~ of Atlanta,
through the heart of the Negro business district to ~put fear in
the hearts~ of Atlanta Négroes in a feeble effort to halt their
steady onrush in preparation to voting in Georgia primaries.

The Klan parade was so long
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was the same cooperating hard-working man. Prof. Duckett's
genius is nowhere more apparent than in the fine cooperation
he is giving Dr. Bacoats who has Benedict heading in the

that when the leading -Klarisman
reached famous Peachtree

' dissention among Nepro leaders in their effort to raise funds to

st \eagiyy

of the United Negro College Fund has been broken and there

In the passing of the Reverend Robert L.~Bradby, Sr., the
nation has lost a great leader, the City of Detroit a great citizen,
and the church a great spiritual leader.

Being called to Second Baptist Church in 1910, the Reyerend Mr. Bradby at once set about to build for himself a reputation as a minister and citizen. Coming to Detroit several
years before the general influx of southern Negroes into~ this
section prior to World War I; the Reverend Mr. Bradby busied

himself in aiding the newcomers in ~~finding~~ themselves.

During the pastorate of Second Baptist Church, over a
period of thirty-six years, he built up the membership from
250 to more than 4000. He established the first Negro institutional church in the Detroit area in erecting the $400,000.00
re~igious edifice known as Second Baptist Church, located~ on
Monroe and Brush Streets in the heart of downtown Detroit.
and his influence as a sound leader, logical thinker and gospel
preacher has spread throughout the nation. oe

Born in Middlemus, Ontario, Canada in 1877 and a graduate af McMaster University, he has been instrumental in instituting many and varied educational and social program among
Negroes throughout the city.

In an effort to serve the citizens of Detroit, in civic matters, while administering to hi~ people's spiritual needs, the
Rev. Mr. Bradby sought a councilmanic post in the Detroit
City Council several years ago when he almost won, losing by
a small margin.

Today the nation is saddened because of the passing of
this great spiritual leader and citizen of the first waters; and
may our irreparable loss be the gain of Heaven and may his
soul forever rest in peace. |

THE NEGRO COLLEGE FUND AND THE D.A,R.

It is to be regretted that the noble solidarity in the efforts

is much dissention among the leaders promoting this great
cause to aid Negro colleges financially, to carry on.

It seems as if the poisonous yenom of the D.A.R. fiasco
has not confined itself to its nefarious task of barring Negro
artists from Constitution Hall, but is going further in making

aid many of our leading colleges throughout the nation.

When it became evident that the D.A.R., while granting
the Tuskegee Chorus permission to appear at Constitution Hall,
would still adhere to its Jim Crow policy of barring~ Negro artists from appearing in Constitution Hall. the Washington committee, composed of men prominent in business and fraternal
circles of the nation~s capital. withdrew sponsorship and participation in the concert, and notified national headquarters
that no money gained from the concert would be accepted.
The committee suggested that the concert be changed to Watergate, an outdoor stadium on the edge of the Potomac River.
The committee readied itse!f to deliver a mass protest movement similar to the.one when Marian Anderson was refused the
use of Constitutional Hall.

When Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee
Institute, was consulted concerning the matter he held that ~~it
would be only ethical for the: choral group to keep its part of
the valid contract with the D.A.R.~

' Dr. Patterson was of the opinion that while he. as president of Tuskegee Institute. had personally completed arrangements for the famous Tuskegee Chorus to avpear at Constitution Hall. he was morallv bound to keev his part of the contract: so the Tuskegee chorus appeared at Constitution | Hall
Monday night. desnite protes's from the Washington committee of the United Negro College Fund and became~ the first
Negro choral group to appear at Constitution Hall. |

NEW SOUTH IN THE MAKING
New changes are taktng place in Dixieland. and the
Southern Negro is coming into his own. In Georgia, Florida,
Texas and in Missiseinpi and other Southern States~ Negroes
are voting in the ~~~white man~s~ primary, a political machine.

Truman somehow gets himself left out on a limb by a coalition of Republicans and Democrats.

As a wave of anti-strike hysteria swept through the country and congress last week, it seemed certain that the President would use the railroad and coal strikes, and the suffering of the public to stampede congress into voting him dictatorial powers over the nation~s labor and industry. After tempers had cooled somewhat congress passed the labor cripping
case bill which the President did not want but in the same

The labor draft failed not only because-a united labor
movement. CIO, AFL, and the rairoad brotherhoods, fought
it bitterly, but because the draft would have enabled him to
divert the profits of seized businesses into the public treasury.
Thus the proposals offended the two most powerful -political
groups in the United States.;

Nobody can say Mr. Truman doesn~t try. Brothers Whitney and Johnson of the railroad trainmen and the locomotive
engineers squealed like stuck pigs when Mr. Truman turned
on the heat. But they got little public sympathy, least of all
from Negroes who have long wanted to stretch the hides of
Whitney and Johnson against the nearest barn door..

These two gentlemen are: presidents of two of the most
prejudiced and anti-Negro unions in the world. Whitney's so
called brotherhood of railway trainmen and Johnson's spurious brotherhood of locomotive engineers not only bar Negroes from membership, but for years have been trying to
drive the Negro worker out of the industry entirely. Today
Negro trainmen and engineers on the nation~s railroads are as
scarce as hen~s teeth.

After the locomotive engineers. barred Negroes from
membership, it was not long before another spurious brotherhood, this time the locomotive firemen decided to eliminate
Negro firemen. With the support of the: locomotive engineers
the white firemen forced railroads to agree not to use on
diesel locomotives dremen who could not be promoted ~to
the engineer's position. Led by Tunstall and associates, the
case got to FEPC, federal courts and finaly the United States
Supreme court. It is still unsettled.

However much one would like to see the screws turned
on Whitney and Johnson, both the Case bill~ and~Mr. Truman~s draft proposa's must be fought. They strike at the very
heart of a worker's right to refrain from work whenever he
chooses, and to use his buying power as he pleases to protect
his interests.

To say that labor is disturbed over the situation would
be restraint in deed. The measure of labor's anger is seen in
the fact.that all over the country AFL, CIO and independent
unions are joining forces to defeat Truman and every senator
or representative who voted for the Case bill or the draft
ideas.:

BETWEEN THE LINES

By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK

Prof. Thomas L. Duckett of Benedict college is without
doubt one of the most princely professors of this generation.
There are teachers more widely known and more 8glaringly
headlined but Prof. Duckett has few equa's and no superiors
among the teachers of today.

tional schools is general obscurity and poverty. The men and
women who kave sacrilced for the survival of these schools
deserve the undying gratitude of the nation for without them
the cause of education would have been deplorably impoverished and the cause of human advancement would have been
immeasurably retarded. It has been my god fortune to sit at
the feet of some of this world~s greatest teachers but Prof.
Duckett, as he affectionately, is known by Benedict alumni,

instant killed Truman~s labor draft idea.:

One of the penalties of teaching in our poor denomina- |

right direction.

Hail Thomas L. Duckett, professional prince

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Alonzo B, Willis is right when
(in the April issue of NEGRO
SOUTH) he takes issue with
Congressman~ A, Clayton Powell~s advocacy of- immediate
migration to ~the North. But
he is right for the wrong Treason. He says the South can get
along. without: the Negro far
easier than the Negro can get
along without the South,

Editor Willis~s argument is
just what the Southern landlord and labor fleecer likes to
hear. In fact, Senator John H.
Overton, of Louisiana, liked it
so much he had it inserted in
the Congressional Recori Ap
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gents who applauded Editor
Willis for saying the Negro
needs the South more than the
South needs the Negro will
move heaven and earth to see
that the Negro stays in the
South whether he wants to or
not! os

Now, I happen to believe that
the Negro can get along without the South as easily as~as
a lot of Negroes get along without the South today. It may
by, something of a struggle to
pull up the roots. of: one~s life
and re-plant them elsewhere.
But a lot of Negroes have done
it, And no matter how~ tough
the going is, there are few Negroes who have migrated to the
North who can~t remember
times just as tough down South.
Many can remember times that
were tougher.

Nevertheless, I~m willing to
concede (just for the sake of
this argument) that the Negro
really needs the South, Even
so, he doesn~t need it one-tenth,
or one-thousandth as much as
the South needs him. And by
~South~ I mean the system of
Southern agriculture and _in~dustry and, particularly, the
beneficiaries of that system.

The Southern fleecer
needs the Negro so much that
when labor recruiters flocked
down from the North during
World Was I and II it theatened to put them in jail in some
places, In others it passed ordinances requiring exorbitaxit
license fees. The fee charged by
the Macon city council in World

rates high among them.

surreptitious in its nature of being, and tantamount to general
election. Jn other words. as goes the primarv. so goes the
election in the South. Thus the ~white nrimary~ system burdened with a heavy noll t~x duty prohibited Negroes, because
of color. and poor whites, hecause of poverty, from participating in the primaries. and thus a few whites numbered among
the classes ~~ran the South~ as they so desired.

Recently there has heen a creat ~wakening among citidens of color in the Southland.. The NAACP, other civie. organizations, and leading Negroes have carried on a ~poll tox
paying~ camnaien, throughout the land of cotton. As a result,
thousands of Negroes have qualified by paying poll tax fees,
and many have alreadv cast their votes for the first. time in
Klan-infested cities, while curious whites looked on.

Now comes the 6-1 United States Supreme Court decision.
outlawing segregation on interstate bus travel in the South!
The ruling handed down from the highest courts of the land,
simed specifically at. the unjust seeregation laws of Virginia.
but the opinion,also held that at least nine other states, with
similar laws. were subjected to the U.S. Suoreme Court rulines.

The CIO and AFL unions. have hoth taken on new life
and interest. in taking into their folds, Negroes and poor whites
of the South, and according to recent news reports, they are
makine no little headways in their efforts. oe

The late Senator Carter Glass, veteran senator of Virginia.
as a young man, was a member of the Virginia. constitutional
convention, convening in 1901. He drafted the provisions,
which ever since. have largely excluded Negroes, and illiterate
poor whites. if thev failedto naw their poll taxes, from the Virginia electorate. The U. S. Sunreme Court's ruling on the
~white man~s~ primary in the South being unconstitutional,
greatly weakened Senator Carter Glass, one of its greatest proponents: toda~ Senator Gl-es is dead. passing onlv a fortnight
before the U.S. Sumreme Court's decision in outlawing secregation on interstate bus travel, meaning that Negroes and whites

In the first place he has the temperament of a college
sense of ~grind~~ that gnaws the heart out of modern educarough. Above all he ha's a sense of humor that takes away the
vrofessor; he is studious and meticulously thorough. Above
all he has a sense of humor that takes away the sense of
~grind~ that knaws the heart out of modern education. Education should not bea burden and in the manner it is pursued
in Prof. Duckett~s classroom it is not. It is a pleasure to work
under Prof. Duckett. There is a lot of wit and humor but a
plenty of hard and painstaking work of the most exasting
sandards..;
Thirty-five years ago when science in most Negro colleges was theoretical pursuit, Prof Duckett went away to the
University of Chicago and returned to Benedict ~~laboratoryminded~~ and soon Benedict students were dealing with scientific equipment that made science a living subject. Biology
and chemistry soon took on an experimental meaning and it is
no wonder that some of Prof. Duckett~s students have become renowned scientists. The American Baptist Home Mission society owes a great debt of appreciation to this one of
its sons who has turned benefactor and as such has become
a blessing to mankind.

Few men have wrought so nobly with so little! Few men
could have smiled through the maze of untoward circumstances through which he has come down through many years.
Thomas L. Duckett could easily qualify as exhibit No. One
as a model of the Negro college teacher. Imbued with the old
missionary spirit inculculated by the Yankees who came south
in the early days of our emancipation, Prof. Duckett has manifested that sacrifice the Ne&ro critical situation demands of
the Negro teaching profession.

Somebody must sacrifice if Negroes are to advance in
things intellectual. The future of the Negro race cann be guaranteed on a financial] and economic basis. The hope for the
Nero's future is somehow bound up with the greater moral
issues of today and tomorrow. The appreciation service that

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Ciety and

War I was $25,000, Besides, the
labor agent had to be recom.
mended by ten local ministers,
ten manufacturers and twenty.
five businessmen, Up in Mississippi trains were stopped and
ticket agents who sold tickets
to Negroes threatened. And the
press launched a campaign of
Persuasion, and promised Ne8roes more schools anid better
treatment if they would resist
the blandishments of Northern
industry. -
These prodigious efforts to
stem the tide of Negro migration were dictated by the econ.
omic imperatives of the South.
ern feudo-capitalist economy,
This economy requires a mass
of human beings, ready at hand
for menial,. toil~some and arduous labor~a mass,. that is,
which is trapped in the lowest
economic strain of capitalist sowhose oppression
is sanctified by custom, tradition. and prejudice. The existence of mass of Negro workers,
inured to.low pay and wretch.
ed conditions, is the backbone
of the Southern economy not
only because it insures abun.
dant field and domestic labor
but also. because it acts as a

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even if (I should say ~when~)
the mechanical picker and other fatm technology: renders fhundreds of thousands of Negro
field hands jobless, the South
will still need the ~Negro, Reason:
i$. capitalism~s' ~most ~effective
means for hoding wages down
to a bare minirnum. ~J

Nevertheless, there is. no redemption in migration, To paraphrase Daniel Le Leon, redempton is not, cannot be in. thé
cards that leave the tyrant of
class rule enthroned; The Negro
worker in~ the North is no less
economically dependent on the
owners of the tools and. land
than the Negro worker in. the
South. Hence, migration could
not ~ alter the fundamental
problem. Finally, ~it would be
to tempt disaster to toy with
illusions. in times like these,
pregnant as they are with ~the
revolutionary forces of a new,
enlightened ~ age... -.- ce 4

Sentence
Sermons

By Rev, Frank Clarence Lowry
For ANP

i. Man, who had nothing to
do with his creation, but wholly
responsible for his degradation,
is now all too slow in yielding
himself to God~s plan of salvation,

2. He appears prone to deal
with his life upside - down, and
seems not to fully sense that, of
God~s creation, he is the crown.

3. And despite God~s constant
warnings to man that indulgence
of physical appetites cannot
stand,,man gropes along as in
despair while God pleads with
-him to become an heir,

4. The Blessed Mastef. when
on earth, seeing man could not
make it, loaded down with every
kind of human gadget, said, ~He
that loseth his-life for my sake
shail find it.~ ~ -

5. ~He didn~t mean that men
should die by surrendering - this
physical - existence, but really
start to live, by destroying every
human weakvess,

Make This
~ ~ee
our Business
Hundreds of children ~ will
come out of school this month
and the problem of getting jops
for the graduates and furnishing
amusement for the younger set
will keep the older people busy

for the rest of the summer sea..
son.

Whether you have youngsters
or not, make it your business
to cooperate in every poSsible
way to eliminate a Jarge part of
juvenile delinquency. ~ ~

This is the duty of every person in.the community.. ~

Anthony Torok, Private Invéstigator found horrors and
death that he never thought to
be possible when he went to
the Forrester estate. He also
found how dear life was te him
when-he met and fell in love
with lovely Mary Ann Forrester.

Read and shiver with the se
mighty drag on the wages of
industrial workers, the Majority
of whom are white. Moreover,

ria ~Murder Runs Amuck~ to
begin in next week~s Flint
Spokesman., U _ 99
| Uhiverse
corded,.even in its most prim
serene on this old earth.

~plicated
A glutted labor market }

~yversal opinions and pretty soon

Conquer The ~

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As far back as history is re
itive method we find that man
has been continuously pro
udging from the past improveinént and using logical reasoning, or common horse séhse,
oe t he universe
wouldn't be any more comthan Christopher Columbus~ Adventures. -
We must consider that~ our
misdérn weapons of war
stahd in the way of civilization
and its improvement, and only
with special precautions we
shall be able to exist in this
great universe of objects and
apace,

The universe, where man
nows, is composed of giant
bodies much larger than earth
and also small bodies. In the
old days the founding of the
telescope brought about more
curiosity where the universe is
concerned and man began observing and studying our surrounding neighbors.

Contacting o ur nearest
neighbor; the ~Moon with radar
was another great step~ for uni
it won't be any problem for a
jtrip to the moon ~as it is from
here to Europe; of course, we
must account for the mercy of
the atomic bomb.

Few planets like Mars and
Saturn are believed to be inhabited by some sort of life: because of their atmospheres.
Anywhere there is air and water, there is'a possibility of
life.

We hope that in the days
to come the solar system will
be only stepping stones for adventures far beyond.

Oregon Principal
Resigns After

Jother

Street, and halted the parade
for a red light, the tail end had
not yet crossed Butler Stréet,
deep in the Ne. Sills

gro section. As
the line halted,
hundreds of Necame ~&

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groes
from night
clubs, eating

places and dives
to view the parade of night- & ~
shirt Klansmen. Me:
One ~bad~ Ne. ~

gro stepped out from the crowd,| and reached in and removed the

hood from the head of: one of
the ~Kiuxers~ and stepped back
and placed it on his own head,
He then cut the ~pigeon wing,~
and capered about doing all
sorts of shines and capers, yelling, ~Now, I~m a Ku Klux too,~
Seeing that the Negroes were
having so much fun at their expense, the Ku.Kluxers stepped
on the gas and hurried from the ~
~black belt.~

"Tis needless to sav the Kians.
men have changed their line of
march to exclude Auburn Avenue,

EDUCATE BOTH AND
ENFRANCHISE. THEM:

Don~t withhold the ballot from
the Southern Negro and poor
white man, but educate both to
use the balfot and ~how to use
it effectively, oe

It was Thomas Jefferson who
said: ~I know of no safe depository of the ultimate~ powers of
society but the people themselves; and if we find: them not
enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to
take it from them, but to inform
their discretion by education.~

MAN WATCHES SEARCH
FOR HIS OWN BODY

DOWN IN LOUISVILLE, Ky.,
a man looked on while: police
and Coastguardsmen dragged the
Ohio river for his body. It was
this way: Jas. Rohe, - had~ been
swimming with two companions,
slipped away from the others |
without being noticed, When the
companions suddenly
looked around and found him
missing, they summoned police,

Book Banning

GRAPES OF WRATH,~
~STRANGE FRUIT~ ORDERED FROM SHELVES

PORTLAND, Ore, ~ ANP ~

Colin McEwen, principal of Nehale] Valley Union high school,

thinking him to have drowned

in the turbulent stream. James,.
who had slipped away just to

take a nap, returned, and watch
ed with the large crowd, while

frantic efforts were being made

to recover his ~drowned~ body

from the swirling waters,

resigned. recently _. because
he said the school~s directors
bantied two novels, ~The Grapes
of Wrath~ and ~Strange Fruit~
from the school library.
McEwen, principal of the
scheol since September, 1944,

ed to remove the two books
from the library, along with
~sevefal other novels having
words of reference that might
be construed as ~naughty.~
The school board declared ~t
had been prompted to action by
protests of the books from parents of children attending the
school. In his letter of resignation, McEwen wrote:
~It is preposterous for the diTectors to presume to dictate re.
garding the books that may or
may not be uSed, The selection
of materials for a particular
class, and for members of that
class, is properly the teacher~s
and administrator~s duty. Certainly it should not be the function of laymen who, being neither educators nor pSychologists,
have little technical or scientific
knowledge of the materials of
pupils for whom they are procured,~ a4
This view also was taken by
Gus Solomon, Portland attorney
for the American Civil Liberties
union, who said his organization was backing the principal.

~said he had officially been order-;

DEAF 62 YEARS;
CURED BY FALL! CLAUDE BERGER, | a~ deaf.
mute for 62 of his~ 65 years,
ago, Berger took a. tumble, Be.
could talk today and could hear >
the sound of his own., These were the first

~Are you all right?~ ~I feel fine,~

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CHRISTIAN RELATIONS
CHURCH BOARD
INCLUDES NEGRO:
The 86th Annual Assembly of~
the Presbyteria n Church in the
U. S. which met in Montrea
N, sa recently; has ordered a
pastoral letter calling attentj
to the ~wisdom~ of ri
1aus marrying Roman Catholics,
and recommended appointment
of advisory committees to coun.
cil pastors on remarrying divorced persons,
A Christian Relations d M
epartment was also set up, to include
a woman member, and also a
member of the Negro race.:
A budget of $20,000 was made |
and set aside to carry on this

work.:

Specific phase of Christian