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From Moral Re-Armament News Bureau
There are two ideologies bidding for
the world today. One is Moral Re-Arma¬
ment, which believes that God’s Mind
should control the world through human
nature that has been changed; the other
is Communism, which believes that man's
mind should control the world through hu¬
man nature that has been exploited.
God’s ideology will win. William Penn
put the issue clearly—“Men must choose
to he governed hv God or they condemn
themselves to he ruled by tyrants.”
Time is running out. No man or na¬
tion can escape the choice—Moral Re-
Armament. or Communism. Khrushchev
offers the false alternatives of co-exist¬
ence or war, disarmament or nuclear an¬
nihilation. MRA’s task is to make the
whole world conscious of the true choice.
MRA offers A m e r i c a and the
whole world a superior ideology that will
cure the causes of both Communism and
war and create the incorruptible men
and women that will make democracy
the most effective idea in the world.
This ideology works and will win. The
evidence during the last months alone is
conclusive. Archbishop Makarios, the
new President of Cyprus says, “I have
followed closely the work of Moral Re-
perhaps THE hope.”
‘AGE OF THE SHODDY
From The Industrial News Review
“Thi« was the era, domestically, when
everything was half done; the era. in
foreign affairs, when nothing was done
right because nobody seemed to care
enough to exercise the foresight and
take the pains to see that it was done
right. This was the time when the
job on the car was always half finished,
the suit came back from the cleaners
half dirty, the yardwork was overpriced
and underdone, the bright new gadget
broke down a week after you got it home,the
prices climbed higher and higher as the
oualitv got less and less, and the old-fash¬
ioned rule of a fair bargain fora fair price
was indeed old-fashioned, for it never ap¬
plied to anything. The great Age of
the Shoddy came upon America after the
war, and Everybody Wants IIis became
the guiding principle for far too many.”
Thus Allen Drury describes the post¬
war era, in his remarkable novel “Advise
and Consent”—a work in which he uses
the vehicle of fiction to present an extra¬
ordinarily revealing picture of Washing¬
ton’s political, diplomatic and social
worlds.
The accuracy of his indictment is unde¬
niable. Yet. in the immediate post war
years, it was possible to find seemingly
valid excuses. The relaxation of war
tensions resulted, naturally enough, in
emotional and financial excesses. An at¬
titude of “live for today and never mind
tomorrow” became general. On the pure¬
ly material side, the lifting of wartime
restrictions on industrial production cre¬
ated an eager and apparently insatiable
market for almost anything, no matter
how poor the quality or exorbitant the
price.
Had this sorry situation spent itself
in a reasonable time there would have
been small cause for worry. But who
can honestly deny that the dark picture
Mr. Drury paints is still—in the funda¬
mentals, if not all the details—the pic¬
ture that obtains in this country?
The problem, of course, is a moral
problem. The Protestant Episcopal Bish¬
op of Michigan, the Rt. Reverend Rich¬
ard Emrich, speaks for churchmen of all
denominations when he says: “Every¬
where I travel I hear arguments, hut I
never hear a moral argument, with some¬
one saying, ‘this is wrong, or unjust, or
dishonest, and 1 will have nothing to an
New Year Opens
“Soaring Sixties U Huiet .
Atlanta, Dec. 28_If the
can be called the
Twenties,’ the 1960’s h-ave
prospect of being called
‘Soaring Sixties, ”
Commissioner of Labor Ben
Huiet said here today.
“On the eve or another New
Year and a new decade, Geor¬
gians have every reason to be
optimistic. The year I960
»ee more Georgian^ with
contribution to the solution of the Cyprus
problem.”
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of Ger¬
many writing to Frank Bachman recent¬
ly said “You know what great signifi¬
cance I attach to the ideological fight
which MRA is waging in the whole world.
Unless this work is carried forward peace
cannot he maintained.”
Prime Minister Kishi of Japan says,
“The leaders of the free world must nav
serious attention to the work of MRA thru-
ont the world if we are to win in the de¬
cisive struggle for the future of mankind.”
Moscow’s steoped-uo attacks against
MRA in the last few weeks reveal their
concern. These attacks have come from
Tuss. Moscow’s official news agency,
Pravda, Radio Moscow and in a three-
column front-page editorial in TTumanite,
the organ of the French Communist
Party.
Moral Re-Armament is curing the
causes of division, economic injustice,
fear and hatred on which Communism
feeds.
It is rapidly multiplying the secret of
God-centered unity without which civili¬
zation will destroy itself.
In the words of Gabriel Marcel, the
great Catholic philosopher, “It is a hope—
with it.’ I think we are floundering as
a people.”
And there lies the tragedv. For the
basic strength of any nation is its moral
strength. All the weapons, all the pro¬
ductive capacity, all the monev on earth,
cannot save a people from ultimate de¬
struction if their moral fiber decays,
their national character rots, and they
sink into an abvss of material cynicism,
indifference, selfishness, avarice, greed.
A short time ago the television scan¬
dals. centering around rigged quiz shows,
eanfnred the national headlines and were
publicized the world around. The Satur¬
day Evening Post has devoted a full-page
editorial to the matter in which it makes
a big and often overlooked point. Tt of¬
fers no excuses for the deceit—“these
who have been damned by the revelations
deserved to be damned.” But. the Post
also says “. . . we believe that the import¬
ance of their guilt has been wildly exag¬
gerated, the significance of their guilt
almost wholly overlooked . . . What is
important is that we recognize the tele¬
vision scandals for what they are—a
symptom of the declining standards of
moral behavior in the United States,
that twinge in the national hellv that
warns of deep-seated malignancy in the
(body politic.” And those declining
standards, it goes on. can be found in
some form and in some degree virtually
everywhere—in schools, professions, the
labor unions, business and the govern¬
ment.
So much for the indictments. There
is a bright side. It is found in the fact
that more and more people, in public
and private discussion, are talking about
the problem, thinking about it. worrying
about it. An astute English observer
of the American scene observed that the
television mess may prove to he of
enormous benefit—by awakening the
American people to the extent and char¬
acter of moral decay, and removing the
blinders from their eyes. The Amer¬
ican people have been awakened to many
kinds of dangers in the past, and have
<met them with wrath, with courage and
with understanding.
And that is the hope—that there will
he a moral revival in this country, a
cleaning of dirty houses. Failing that,
everything else is doomed to fail.
income to satisfy more wants
i than ever before.
The year just ending saw
million sa in . rne August / and ^ stay ^ there %
to the year's end.
’We can expect a seasonal ,
drop m non-farm employmen
during the winter months.
the general trend will continue
upward in 1960 as more and
industry a nd commerce move
Georgia,” Huiet continued.
National forecasts show that
farm income will likely drop in
LACK OF STRONG LEADERSHIP CAN ALSO MAKE US THE VICTIM
Birth Control: Weapon
By Dick Jarrett for ANP
The birth control furor, given
so much publicity in recent
weeks, has olaced Kennedy on
the defensive for the presi¬
dential nomination, outraged
Catholics, peeved Eisenhower
and given publicity to two
Englishmen, Huxley and Dar¬
win, two adventurers seeking a
reputation.
As long as they are discuss¬
ing the method to control
births, they are neglecting the
real issue. Who has this method
and why is birth control advo¬
cated to control the birth rate?
The argument for birth con¬
trol is mainly economic. They
say there is only so much
bread. If there are too many
people, soon there won't be
enough bread for everyone and
somebody is going to starve.
This argument takes on many
•forms.
In America, you need money
to buy a house for your child¬
ren, give them an education
etc. In India, they say there
isn't enough food to feed the
now starving masses much less
more people. Birth control is
advocated to bring about a
higher standard of living for
everyone. But does it? ,
T’le people advocating birth |
control are the people in pow¬
er. They are the topdogs, or
those who hold land, money.
weapons and other instruments I
of power. In advocating birth
control, they are telling the
people to work within the ave¬
nues now open to them with
the present topdogs in the
saddle.
They do not tell you, that if
thev advocated children,
Year will introduce a decade
in which many records will soar
to unprecedented heights thus
the ‘Soaring Sixties.’.”
“The population surge has
only begun for Georgia and will
soar even higher as more and
TZJtsu ______________ ssrsr
es and excellent business di¬
mate.
"The Soaring Sixties belong
to men and women of intelli-
gence, vision, adaptability, cour¬
age, initiative and hard work.
These qualities have long been
the heritage of all Georgians as
demonstrated a hundred years
a *°> bcfore duril 'g ’ and after
the War Between the States.”
Huiet concluded that as
;; .ia’ s non-farm employment
I creases, the number of
abl >' unemployed will
’ increase.
“Catastrophe, over-inventory,
model change-overs and lack of
business will naturally ,
a ec
more and more people, simply
because more people will be
working. These causes for un¬
v have always been
with us and we see no re.a
son to expect them to disappear
under conditions of greater em-
plovment. miip The ripva»ha4Jnir devastating
________
fects of unemployment on
the individuals concerned and
the general economy have just
the New Year.
Georgia’s non-farm growth, is
source of hope to the state’s
farmers. In the absence of a
national program to solve the
plight of the country’s farmers,
Georgia’s industrial and com-
growto growth in ni ^O^Ul 1960 will £ of-
ier moie supplemental wage in
come to many who fail to break
e J en on bbe blnn in t!u
' iear
-
“Not only will 1960 sec
high levels of industrial and
business growth, but the New
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
NINETEEN SIXTY
By William Henry Huff
Ah, Nineteen sixty, here you
are—
You know what we are praying
for.
| We know you'll be a happy year
Tf all the people far and near
Discard all hate and do their
part,
Beginning at the very start
And never falter, never cease
To pray for justice and for
peace.
Since you have come, since you
are here,
Be thou to us a happy year.
would lose their positions for
’oWf*; as new methods and
and consequently new
leaders would have to be de-
velopcd in order to solve the
population problem.
In other words, a landlord
cannot charge twice as much
rent for quarters whicn ht
does because he is aware that
both wife and husband are
working.
Also, prices would be set
by the income of the husband,
not the way it is now set, tak¬
ing into account both incomes.
How many wives would like to
quit their jobs, but cannot
because the husband doesn’t
make enough money to pay for
the house, car and Other essen¬
tials. Drug companies can only
charge 7000 percent for a bill
when they know the money is |
coming from the higher in¬
comes of husband and wife
combined, not the husband's
alone.
For the ty’egro, it is worse. It
is the college trained and pro¬
fessional Negro who can wi¬
derstand the complexities of
contraceptives, etc., and it is
those who are limiting their
families. It is from the above j
that Negro leaders when
aren't any children.
Birth cont: ol is not the so¬
lution to the social problem,
because it only leaves the op-
pressor in power; the oppressor
who has created the situation
in the first place.
Birth control is only the ea-y
solution, an inadequate solu-
tion which will create greater
social problems making the
painful adjustment more pain-
and horrible.
about been nullified, though, i
by the income-spreading effect
of job insurance which tempo¬
rarily sustains purchasing pow¬ |
er in short-term unemployment.
The ***'- General ---------- Assembly has — wise- i |
j ly kept Georgia's Employment,
! | s? scene,” To,,, Commissioner m Huiet UiP,
I said.
E. P. VVaters Named
EdiTor of AN?
CHICAGO— (ANP i — Enoc P
Waters, Jr„ has been named
editor of the Associated Negro
Press, ANPi "Negro" nation’s oldest and
largest press service,
Announcement of the ap-
intment was made this week
c!aude A Barnett who foun-
thf , news a in Chira .
4f) a?0 and now serves
as its director.
ANP serves almost every
gro newspaper in the
including all but a few of the
major publications. In addi¬
tion. its subscribers include a
large number of publications
in foreign countries particular-
ly Africa- In all. more than 100
P ut,lica,!on ' rely upon ANP
| regulaily.
'ears Expi, * ntt
Waters is veil tr;vned .or his
new position \ Rn a newspaper
background extending back
more than 30 years to his high
school days in Philadelphia.
Now, 50, Waters has covered
almost every type of editorial
assignment. In addition to re¬
porter. he has been editorial
and feature writer, columnist,
war correspondent and editor.
Beginning with the Philadel¬
phia Tribune while in high
school, Waters first full time
newspaper employment was
with the Journal and Guide in
Norfolk, Va., after his gradu¬
ation from Hampton Institute
in 1££3.
For 23 years he was with the
Chicago Defender and helped
and launch the Daily De-
fender which he was serving as
executive director when he re¬
signed last year.
World War II Correspondent
As a war correspondent de¬
ing World War II, he spent two
and a half years in the Pacific
accompanying American forces
from Australia to Japan. He
was aboard the Battleship Mis¬
souri when the Japanese for¬
mally surrendered in Septem¬
ber 1945.
In addition, the new ANP
editor has made a number of
tours of the nation and has an
intimate knowledge of the race
problem in the South.
In his new assignment Wat-
ers W jp ]j e ch ar ged with carrv-
ln s out a Droaa nrMrarn program
which has been outlined by
Barnett.
Albert C. Barnett, (no rela-
tion to Claude) another veter-
an newspaperman once city ed¬
itor of the Chicago Defender
who has been with ANP on and
off for 30 years will continue
as chief of riie copy desk.
My Neighbors
;
|
j
! out—if the union
“Figure it
shared their profits we d be
making $40.00 an hour on this
jobir
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, lf)«0
2)o Strops
By R. W. Gadsden
Are Negroes sincere about want¬
ing first class citizenship? Is the
persistent pressure for it repre¬
sentative of the wishes of Negroes,
Uhe masses of them, or is it lep-
i resentative of the ambitions of a
‘ small group of persons who hap¬
pen to be aware of the meaning
of citizenship because of a bet¬
ter social and economic back¬
ground, who assume to speak for
I the masses on the theory, all things
’ being considered, that every person
1 is entitled to it?
When you think of the failure
; of Negroes to register, vote and
maintain their right to vote, the
answer to the question appears all
too obvious. Various well-known
leasons legal and extra legal, did
not encourage Negroes to register
and vote to an extent
ate to their population. However,
they did manifest an amazing
amount of interest and courage in
citizenship during the early days
of Reconstruction and before the
southern states enacted the restric¬
tive legislation exemplified in the
I notorious Black Codes of that peri-
' od. During the following two
j | three decades, the fear endangered
by intimidation and violence, and
their frustration resulting from all
J sorts of diverting devices,
sufficient to discourage the more
timid and made disfranchisement
an easy accomplishment.
Up to and through the
1900’s, it would be unfair to
j of Negroes in that period
they were insincere about their
sire for first class citizenship.
is noteworthy that it was
Reconstruction that Negroes
members of state
Between The Lines
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
•?« **•»*«*V»*. .V*}**?***«»*.» ?.*%»?■• »*•*?••*••?•»*♦•%♦*•»*♦ .*• .*• .»•
THE POPULATION EXPLOSION INTERPRETED
In 1798 there appeared on the
horizon of economic
An Essay on the Principle of
population by one
Thomas R. Malthus, an English
clergyman, whose close contact
with the hungry masses led him
to the serious study of popula-
tion,.. .. . .........
His work has become a plas-
sic and its fundamental thesis
that population tends to
run the food supply has never
successfully controverted. Be¬
cause his outlook was pessimis¬
tic, there have arisen many
economists who sought to dis¬
credit his findings and conclu¬
sion, but without success.
The current talk about pop¬
ulation explosion is but the
vindication of this economist
who wrote more than a' hun¬
dred and fifty years ago. As a
student of economics, this writ-
er has been Mathusian in his
populations! outlook but has
ways looked askance at the
control remedies proposed as an
ZZ"‘‘TJosln "ralS ^
Many years ago the Hearst
newspapers had a celebrated
columnist, the late Arthur Bris¬
bane who once wrote that all
of the people in the world
could be placed on Long Island,
enough food raised in state of
Texas to feed them.
That was another way of say¬
ing that there was room in the
world for billions and billions
of people then unborn.
The real trouble then, is not
that the present piescuu world wunu is is
over-populated, but that the
of subsistence _____ are .... not
properly distributed. If it were
possible to distribute more equit-
ably the means of subsistence
available the populations would
not be in a state of
It is explosive because some
ting too much and some
ting to little! Moreover this na¬
tion has made a fetish of
high standard of living.
We Have made
the ideal of plain living
j high thinking and have
j ized the notion of plain
ing and high living and
commended such ideals to
world through our example.
The high living
which we have set before
world does not answer the deep
er question the souls of
have asked, are asking now
will ever ask.
Tire misery of mankind is
\ much .a matter of
; tion as a matter of
distribution of wealth.
ratio at which this
wealth is distributed is
icrux of the situation and if
members of the United States
Congress as House Representatives
and as Senators, and their records
as such were no less creditable
than other members of said bodies.
The case is quite different now.
Negroes in this day of more schools
and higher rate of literacy, have
no represej toU oU in governmental
affairs at local and state levels.
Except iff' a,‘few instances, they
show inconsequential v o ti n g
strength, !j\yjiiie some states still
have the poll tax, five southern
states to be exact, and while some
have enacted restrictive and pro*
hibitive legislation, making it diffi¬
cult and in some cases impossible
for Negroes "to regster and vote,
there are other places where such
obstacles do not exist. In Chat¬
ham County, for instance, no un¬
usual difficulty attaches to reg¬
istration and voting. This has
been true since 1946 when the
number of Negroes registered
reached 19,900, an all time high.
At present there may be 10,000
on the books, a figure approximate¬
ly 10,000 short of what it should
be. Ask anybody who is supposed
to be wise in such matters, why
this is so and they proceed to give
the stock answers; one of which
is, “we need incentive—an issue.”
But this answer and the rest of
the reasons are not sufficient to
explain why Negroes in this coun¬
ty fail to register. People who
know the value of citizenship, who
really want to exercise it, would
not let any such invalid reasons
keep them from performing a duty
*o vital to their welfare. Are they
j sincere about their desire for first
class citizenship?
could be propprly adjusted the
world could clothe and feed bil-
lions more than now live up the
earth. l(j /.!)>',
Improve the lot of the masses
to a sta § e of decent livin S and
j ihe Population automatically
checks itself, so the question
arises why we do not apply this
j method of checking the popu¬
lation instead of going directly
at matter of disseminating birth
control propaganda and tea'ch-’ 1
ings? E-m’4 iot
.lo/htuini:
When we go in for birth con-
trol we are tampering with the
biological balance instead of ad¬
justing the matter of wealth
distribution, which is the real!
cause of our present popiila- '
tional uneasiness.
The late Dr. Norman Himes
of Colgate University was lec-
I turing before my classes in
economics at Virginia Union and
was advocating the dissemina-
tion of birth control information
We differed sharply on
whether we approach the mat¬
ter from the indirect way of
j finding another ratio of wealth
distribution, or go in for the
spread of birth control infor¬
mation, the direct way.
He admitted that the chances
of getting another ratio of
wealth distribution were so re¬
mote that the direct approach
would be more hopeful. My
opinion then as now is that we
ought to deal with the cause and
not the effect.
It matters little whether we
have three billion people in the
world as of now, or ten billion
as of tomorrow, we run into the
same trouble unless men be-
, come brothers with the live and
let live spirit, of the Golden
Rule of the lowly Nazarine.
Moreover, if we study the
birth control movement and its
advocates we find that at its
heart is the white supremacy
ideal. The white supremacists
know that the multiplication of
the colored peoples with their
lew living 'Standard will in time
take over the world if allowed
to go unchecked, as against the
whites with their higher living
standards and lower birth-rates.
With bftd white supremacists
it is far easier to recommend
birth control than to readjust
ratio of wealth distribution,
Birth control is also the line
of the plutocrats.
i vnr irvmv*
] ] Paralytic than polio one-third cases in 1959
rose more over
1058. One reason is failure to
get a single shot ol Salk polio
vaccine.