When Will Pulpit and Press Realize This Necessity
Poetic fragment questions when clergy and media will recognize a needed duty and strive to do their best. Reflects on education and public responsibility with a call to action and moral obligation.
31 Jan 1952
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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1952
Page
1
Poetic fragment questions when clergy and media will recognize a needed duty and strive to do their best. Reflects on education and public responsibility with a call to action and moral obligation.
The Council on African Affairs urged U S officials at Liberia president Tubman's inauguration to reveal truth about his regime. It pressed questions on election manipulation, repression, foreign military presence, and U S business control of Liberian economy and port facilities, hinting at broader implications for U S policy.
A March of Labor letter to the People's Press editor condemns a November 8 cartoon titled It Never Fails as anti Negro propaganda. The CIO voices in New York City and President Murray are cited as opposing bigotry. The letter urges an apology and pledges continued fight for Negro rights in industry and the labor movement.
The International Workers Order named Jacques Isler and Dorothy Day as speakers for the January 26 Save The IWO Conference. Sponsors include Leon Straus Rabbi Max Felshin Ewart Guinier Joseph Navarra Russ Nixon and Albert Kahn. The IWO, a fraternal insurance group with 160000 members in 1600 lodges across 18 states, is appealing dissolution proceedings.
Assistant County Prosecutor William N Lovelace named as an alternate at large to the Republican National Convention marks the first Negro from Hamilton County to serve as a GOP delegate or alternate in 70 years. He and Dr L Howard Schriver Vernon Manor Hotel were chosen by Ray C Bliss as alternates to Willis D Gradison and Myers Y Cooper, with ten delegates and ten alternates-at-large named to appear on the May 6 primary ballot backing Taft.
Governor McKeldin announced the appointment of E. Everett Lane as Northwestern District Police Court magistrate to succeed John L. Berry, effective February 1. Lane, Baltimore native, son of George M. Lane and Mattie G. Lane, is a 1922 Howard Law School graduate and Maryland bar member. He leads Monumental City Bar Association and serves on several local arts and labor boards.
Detroit hosts NNPA 13th annual convention on June 19 to 21 in St Louis where Publiner J. K. Miteneil of the St Louis Argus will receive a special citation. Over forty publishers editors and executives attended the Mid Winter Workshop at the Gotham Hotel.
Albert Kahn of the Jewish People Fraternal Order hailed the January 26 Save the IWO Conference as proof Jewish groups will not be eliminated by law or policy. A quarter million New Yorkers were expected to attend, with delegates returning from Florida after meetings with the governor and attendance at Mrs. Moore’s funeral.
Cincinnati health commissioner Dr Carl A Wilzbach reports measles continues to run high with 360 cases in 1952 by midyear versus 6 in the same period of 1951. He warns the very young are at risk and urges keeping under threes from exposure and home confinement for children with cold or fever.
William Patterson Defense Committee reports Paul Robeson and others address a large mixed audience in Paris at the United Nations event. Governor Dewey pledges continued fight against racial and religious discrimination. A Negro History Week proclamation targets February 10 17 in New York State. Evelyn Cronin, former Tallulah Bankhead aide, receives a suspended sentence for embezzling funds and forging checks.
William L. Patterson, national executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress and noted Negro leader, set for a second contempt trial January 28 in Washington. He returned from Paris amid UN petition activity and long history defending civil rights including the Scottsboro cases and campaigns for Willie McGee and the Martinsville Seven.
Last week Carl Vitz learned Library Trustees raised his pay by 976 dollars and said the amount was too large, leaving acceptance undecided. He had refused a raise last year as well, with a flurry of quoted exclamations reflecting his mixed reactions.
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