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POLICY OF THIS PAPER

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~ detrimental to this policy.

-Lef~s Learn From The Dodgers |

Maybe the bateball season of sountit memory can teach us a
lesson. Here were the Brooklyn Dodgers (May they rest iri peace)
thirteen and a half games ahead of the second place team.

You could have offered twenty to one that they would win the
nant ~ and there would have been no takers. They couldn~t miss.
You said so. I said so. Everyone sad so. We were all agreed: They
couldn~t miss. Yeah! Well you know what happened. That lead was
nibbled away week after week and day after day. Then there was
no lead left. Give the Dodgers credit for a Ist ditch rally. Bui the
process had become. a force of its own that culminated in an over
__2.tawhehming last moment surge. The Dodgers lost. The greatly favored. =

~lynching law on the books. Let~s remove

| When He was dcad He was taken down and laid in a horrowe

| - Nineteen: wide* centuries have come and gone and today ~t
| within the mark when I say that all

a 5 put. together, have not affected the life of
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Dedgers who couldn~t lose went down to defeat. Lets ask ourselves
this question: Is this country~s lead ~ our lead being nibbled away?
Centainly, a parallel seems to to exist between our position now and
~the case of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

- We are as favored as a nation as the Dodgers were as a team.
Our resources are tremendous. Our technological leadership cannot
be challenged. Our political system is a democratic one. Combine
these factors and we have every reason to be accepted as the leader
in the formulation of world opinion. ~;

For a time. we were. In some respects maybe we still are.
But that leadership is being sorely questioned. The second place

country is gaining.

To some extent the Dodgers kicked away their pennant. Are we
doing the same. thing? Why is that second place ~country gaining? ~

We are failing many of the peoples of the world in their asPpirations for a life freed from warit, disease, and illiteracy. We are
~failing them because too many of us have the feeling that many of
the peoples. of the world are second class human beings.

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But a human being is a human being. He resents being considered
second class because he knows he isn~t. He will, therefore, accept as
Teaders those who accept him on the basis of equality. De we? Some
of us do. Yes, but the discrimination that ie practiced against min~
ority groups in this country is being closely watched. Every returning
traveler reports that. ":
We are losing the support of the colored peoples of the world.
~That means more than half of the population of the world is going
over to the support of the second place country. We are inshort, in
the process of losing our leadership. Lets wake up before its too late.
Lets get rid of the Dixiecrat mind set. Let~s sponsor effective fair
employment practices. Lets get rid of the poll tax. Let~s put an aitihi alt restrictive housing prac
tices.:;;

Let~s prove by deeds that we accept our fellow human beings
as équals. If we demonstrate the genuineness of our feelings of
fellowship for others, there can be no question but that we shall
retain and strengthen our leadership in world opinion. But we tan~t
~wait much longer. At a certain stage in the process there is no re-+

covery. The Breoklyn Dodgers discovered that.

~The same holds true right here in our own community: im. third
ward politics. Our pas: Commissioner discovered that when you are
elected to represent all peoples you naust represent everyone regardless of race, creed or color~or be defeated at the polls as all
others, whom do not represent all people and not a select group.

Easter Thoughts On
One Solitary Life

Here is a man whe was born in an obscure village, the -
child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village, He
worked in a carpenter shop until] He was thirty and then three
years He was an itimerant preacher.

_ While still a you
against Him. His friends ran away. Ome of them denied Him.
He was turned over to His enemies: He went through the
mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two

Mis: executioness gambled for the caly- piece of preperty |
He had on earth while He was dying, and that was His co

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grave through the pityef a friend.; wee

He is the eenter-piece of the column-of progress. I am far.

marched, and all the navies that were ever built, and all the
parliaments that ~ver sat, and all the kings

nian upon this earth
Solitary Life.
~ Attributed to Dr. Philip Schaff gxleheat:; on ae

young man, the tide of popular opinion turned }

the armies that~ ever | |

that ever reignédy igo}

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A secret grand jury investigation of Communist party activities in Michigan has been turned down by the attorney-generai.

The grand jury was asked by
state police commissioner: Don
Leonard. The attorney-gcneral... Frank Millard... said there
didn~t seem to be enough evidence
to justify setting up a grand jury.

The Leonard request was linked
by: some observers with the police
chief~s future political plans. Théy
said that Leonard may have been
playing politics when he asked for
the jury. It has been rumored that Leonard is sériously
considering entering the Republi
can race for the United States
senate.

' You remember that it was the
house un-American activities committee hearings in Detroit which
may push another Republican.. *
congressman Charles Potter..
into the same race. Potter...
who is a member of the house
~committee... 1s reported to be
testing public reaction to his role
in~the Detroit hearings before\deciding on his political future.
Another indication that politics may have motivated the Leonard request was the fact that. it
was the first time the police chief
acted on a major problem with
Attorney Genera Rejects Grand
Jury Probe of Communist Party

out consulting governor Williams.
The governor pointed out that he
favored any- effective action
against the Communist party. He
said, however, that ~as late as
two weeks ago, the commissioner
assured me there was no evidence
of law violation upon which to
act.~~

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~Tf there appears to be any
grounds for suspicion that Michigan~s anti-subversive laws have
been violated,~ the.oyernor said,

~I certainly believe that a grand

jury. should look into the matter.~

Rules Set On
Contracts For
Distress Areas

The nation~s distress
have been finally given a set of
regulations to follow in order t~
set defense jobs for unemployed
workers. The rules will give firm:
in distress areas like Detroit an
opportunity to match the lowest
bid on defense contracts worth
more than 25 thousand doilers.
The rules were handed down by
the munitions board.

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~each year.

~following the first full moon af-.

well as by day. This year the

has been in effect since 325 A.D.,
determines the date for Easter

The Council of ~Nicaea decided
1,627 years ago that Faster was
to be celebrated on the Sunday

ter the:beginning of Spring..
~The reason ivr choosing the
full moon was probably to afford
pilgrims: safe~ passage on; the
roads as théy travelled to the
Holy City for the Easter festival,~ Hazel M. Losh, assistant
professor of astronomy at the
University of Michigan say:.
The light of the full moon enabled the - pilgrims to travel in
comparative safety by night as

first full moon after spring~s
arrival comes on Thursday. April
10, thus fixing Sunday, April 13,
as Easter.

~The date for Easter can vary
over a period of about 35 days
from the time of the vernai equinox,~ Professor Losh points out.
~April 25 is the latest date on
which it can possibly occur. This~
was the date back in 1943 and
such a late observance of the day
will not happen again until 2,038
AD.

Other than Easter, Aprii will
see the red planet Mars assume
a prominence in the southeastern
sky. At the start of the month,
Mars will rise about three hours
after sunset but will continue to
rise earlier and earlicr, as well
as. inerease in brightness, as ~the
month progresses. ay

~ ~~By the end of the moth, it

will reach the mid-point. in -the

sky at midnight and will become...

the brightest object in the whole
sky, surpassing even Sirius, the
Dog Star, in brilliance,~ profes-.sor Losh says.:

When it reaches the mid-point,
Mars will be in its most favorable

point for observation, Mars takes |

~two years to circle the
areas |

Sun, the
astronomer says, and this year
will come within 52 million miles
of the earth during April. Astronomers already are looking

forward to 1956 when Mars will | ~

come within 35 million miies of /.
our globe. |
Two other bright stars deserve

attention in the southeast sky

each night. during April, Professor Losh. believes. Antares, also
red in color and bright, ae fet

} as brilliant ag Mars, will rise just
} below and to the left of '
| Rising around sunset, and ahead

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of Mars, will. be Saturn. / This
planet is only one-sixth as wright
as Mars but reaches 2 higher alti