The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
ROUND TABLE
MEETING HELD
AT A N THO c H

fELLOW SPHlNGS, Ohio-Race
and color are not local problems or
United States problems but world
problems. This was the conclusion
OF over thirty speakers and round
table leaders at the ten-day Insti-
tute on Conditions for an Enduring
Peace on the Antioch College camp
us. July Sis
Speakers like Dr.. Rayford w.
Logan OF Howard university. Pres
ident Charles Wesley OF WILDER
force. the correspondent and news
paperman. William Henry Chan ber-
lin, Haridas Muzumdar the friend
end biographcr OF Gandhi, and
Richard J. Walsh. the editor of
Asia, were unanimous in their con-
demnation OF racial discrimination
and its accompanying evlls,-im-
perialism and the empire system.
Color May Cause War
In fact. Dr. Arthur F. Morgan.
engineer and expert on the small
community and William Henry
Chamberlain agreed that color may
we'll be the cause OF World War III.
Mr.. Chamberlin. in panel on
'Color as World Problem" the
same DAY declared. The only APP
prosch 10 the problem OF color and
race discrimination in the world Is
unqualified admission OF racial
equality Unless this approach is
adopted. the upshot could very well
be third world war. when the
peoples OF India and China acquire
SUFFICIENT technology TO meet the
Western peoples on equal terms.
The solution 10 the problem, all
speakers agreed. is two-fold The
first is working on the problem of
race relations in America spe-
c hcally." Mr.. Chamberln said.
"abolshing immigration LAWS ex-
GLIDING Orienta!s by reason of race
OF color. and admitting these peo-
pies ny quota. Ike the rest Of the
world Il means getting rid ~ Jim
Crowlsm. and Of our poll tax laws
Proxy Wesley
Pres dent Wesley of W!lberforce
pointed out that While once We III
tbs country could 81 behind our
oceans and not care what others
thought" today. with the world so
closely united. our treatment ~
colorod people IN Amer ca could be
world scandal affecting or in
tcrrdtonal rclat. ons And Or.
Ravford W Logan. IN his speech
JGlv 10 on The Good Me- -hbor
Policy. ported out nat one of the
greatest obstacles ~ The way OF
such a policy IS our failure TO live
up % the ideals Of the Declaration
Of Independence and the clear in
tent of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments
The second part OF the problem
cons SIS in getting rid 81 the en-
pre- system. which Mr. Chamocrlin
called that great oulwark OF belief
in racial superiority.
DR.. Logan Speaks
DR.. Logan reminded the institute.
however. that the problem OF color
Is no; a simple one While slavery
may AT first have been only eco
nom.c inequality. the resulting ra-
tonaliza,ion that Negroes were en-
shaved because they we're inferior
has taken firm root Today this
idea o., infcrlor.,y IS c0,rcnchod in
our Nar,h as NC. as r our South
IN Europe, Lain Amcrica. Asia. and
Africa
~. LOGAN also 20 ntod out the
rxrloltatior ~ Negroes by other
dark-sk nncd pcoples and even by
other Negroes The Negro aristoc-
racv IN AoySS.nla. Liberia. and
Haiti exploits nc black masses Ard
IN tho United States some far
skinned Negroes Try 20 gam adNan-
.ages FOR themselves that arc denied
10 black Negroes These racial at
tTtudeS arc so decp-Scatcd that the
removal Of economic inequality VIII
rot | fear. produce Immediately the
racial equality without which there
can DC no luSt and enduring peace.
Perhaps the institutes overall
vleW on race relations was best
summarized by Mrs Eleanor RooSe-
volt. who spoke JulN II on The In
dividual's Rc>ponsIb lity n De-
nocracy" In response 10 a qucs-
ton. Mrs Roosevelt SAID Race dit
fcu.t.cS after the MAR can be
avoided BY the strength and pa
tencc OF the minority groups and
the willingness Of others To see their
problems Bu, most important we
mus, sec that this IS problem
reach hg beyond our own shores. II
ISN'T lust question between TIN:
tense group and that IN America
The point IS. We have people who
are different ali over the world
And race and culture problems VII
continue. Mrs Roosevelt said, unit
people are secure enough 10 reearc
other people IS pcople-aS indVid
uals-inStcdd VI different or be
longing to a different race.