The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-02-14
THE UNGODLY

Last week we witnessed the unmasking of a
handful of traitors who are attempting to few
misguided Catholics in order to win foul victory
in the Sojourner Truth controversy. They have
sought to enlist the sympathies and support of Cath
Ole leaders in Detroit in order to work sinister
and diabolical plot against the rights and privileges
of the Negro people. What is more alarming, how
ever is that their treacherous design has been too
successful.
Three Catholic priests who have been blinded
by the racial prejudice of their parishioners dared
appear before the Common Council and the Mayor
of Detroit and publicly urge that the Negro de-
tense workers be denied occupancy in the Sojoulner
Truth Homes. They dared to stand up in our dem
ocracy and urge that city fathers of this arsenal
of democracy acquiesce in the fascist plot to violate
the constitutional rights of struggling majority.
They dared to repudiate the Christian principle of
the brotherhood of man and give their satanic bless
ing to racial discrimination public policy These
three Nazi-minded priests have damaged the Cath
olc faith and have struck democracy foul blow.
They stand naked and ungodly in the eyes of the
world.
They found fawning co-conspirator in the
Common Council Gus Dorais, who dared assume
the leadership in this vile design after having con-
Cured previously in the just and democratic pro-
pleaded innocent of racial prejudice but proceeded
to carry out the fascist proposals of his misguided
fellow Catholics. These four Catholics have abused
their religion and resorted to measures which be-
come only the Nazi heathens
We are Christian people, and ours is demo-
cratic nation. As these lines written millions
of Americans are on the march in the defense of
our cherished ideals ready and willing to give their
lives in order that the principles by which we live
might be strengthened, that these ideals might not
perish. While the very existence of the nation is
impered by an array of armed might that the world
has never before known, these four Catholics and
a handful of ignorant and greedy Hitherto stooges
have dared inflame the populaee, create disHnity
and thwart the program for the defense of this land
Racial prejudice is sinful luxury in time of peace,
but it becomes sheer treason in time of war.
Too many of us in America today strut like
proud fools, drunk with illusions of our own gran
deur, while the enemy prepares with sinister eff
cheney the fall of our civilization We remain divided
people in the face of a common enemy. We seek to
choose our neighbors and indulge our bgotry in a
democracy of the living, while the enemy seeks to
lay waste the land and prepare US for the democracy
of the dead The petty connivance of these traitors
within ranks is the advance guard of the forces
abroad which are wagng war against us. Be they
Catholic, Protestant, alien native born the time
has come for America to rise up in God-like wrath
and strike them down. This is not task of the
Negro people, it is job for all America, for who
shall say that our democracy can live diseased with
in and attacked without?
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY