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write one unalterable clause into its constitution or charter, and that should be to vrohibit min-isters from receiving any compensation lor political activities.There Is a growing cynicism among young people and the most obvious cause of this cynicism and of the growing drift away from the church Is the open selfishness of some ministers of the Gospel.Added Sorrow for Negro War MothersThat Sherman was not only right when he said that war is hell,” but that war makes brutes of those who engage In it, is .certainly demonstrated by the action of those in the War Department responsible for adding insult to the sorrow that Negro War Mothers must ftel when they kneel at the graves. of their sons who died to make the ’world safe for democracy/*The most perverted and unnatural thing a man can do is to deliberately Insult a woman; and when it is a woman who has borne a son and has sacrificed this son in war, it becomes a disgraceful procedure which eliminates the 'Tman from the order of gentlemen.No military blunder will be more costly than the action of those responsible for burying this stllleto of racial prejudice Into the already bleeding hearts of American Negro War Mothers, for there is not one single Negro youth who must ’ficht in any future war whose hand tnls act will not weaken and whose aim it will not dull.It lt;s not human that men, even Negro men used to insult, can forget an act like this. Certainly white men. used to the sacred and deep-seated retpect which they give to their women, ought to understand what feelings they should have if their War Mothers were insulted by another nation, to say nothing of a portion of their own citizenry.We may be mistaken, but it is our opinion that there are few white War Mothers, even those from the far South, who would not gladly grasp the hand of any one of these-Negro Mothers and welcome them on any boat. We believe that white motherhood, especially those who know what it means to bend over the grave of a butchered son, could not sink to tho unnatural reaction to racial prejudice to this degree. The fact Is. wo have been somewhat surprised that these white War Mothers themselves have not
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, May 24, 1930
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Rebecca P.
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