Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-07
DaUid Hume Says Ta,ves
Is Lax In His Duties
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erty right is involved; that for them, economic
Sderations based on the fear of boycott very
real and that at this time it is unfair for to expect
them to assume the duties which they might other
wise undertake
5-"We must examine our present situation in
the light of what is taking place today not only in
Maryland but in the rest of this nation and of the
world.
IF we recognize that we are in cold war,
leading the way because no other nation is strong
enough any longer to fight the Communist,
eff we recognize that the attention of the world
has suddenly been focused the discriminatory prac
tees which exist in our State,
that what happens in Berlin Of necessity
must affect us in Baltimore,
that what happens in the United Nations af-
fects every individual, not only in Maryland but in
the United States and in the world,
that with the earth still fresh and the orig
nal flowers not yet wilted the grave of Dag Ham,
marskjold, the fate of each of us may hang in the
balance in the next few weeks during the time that
his successor is chosen
that now more than ever the friendship and
respect of the Asian and African nations voting
In the General Assembly of the United Nations, is of
crucial importance to survival and, even more inn
portant, to une ultimate victory that we seek,
eff we recognize that in the final analysis the
ultimate responsibility falls each Of as an in
dividual, must know that inaction, or any other
attempt to hide from the ISSUE forces President
10 Dy The absence OF SCdte lead
ership and puts us in the position Of new form Of
secession secession by default not only from the
United States, but from the human race.
George Curtiss asked a question over a hundred
years ago during the Kansas ebraska controversy
which we might study now:
"Would you haze counted him friend of An
Gent Greece, loto quietly discussed the theories OF
patriotism on that Greek day. through tUhose
hopeless and immortal hours Leonidds and his 800
men stood at Thermopyae for Hbertys Was John
Milton to conjugate Greek verbs In his library, or
talk Of the liberty OF the Ancient Shmanites, sOhen
the liberty Of EngIisbmen a0as nlperiIeds"
"And there are other questions we might ask of
ourselves at this time If this be moral issue and
certainly we must recognize that it is are we to
tell our religious leaders that will listen to them
on the day set aside for worship and they must re-
main silent the remainder of the week? s-s
"Shall we say to those to whom we entrust our
spiritual lives and our very souls that as repre-
sentatives earth Of whatever God we may worship
in our religious freedom but certainly the same God
proclaimed the of all rights in our Consttu-
ton that all dogma, all principle all tenets Of
hgious faith are to be thrown into trash heap Of
contempt for six days out of the week and resur-
rected for few hours on the seventh only?
What course of conduct are we now to follow?
Though can speak at this time only for my
SELF let me suggest that each of examine the issue
and that we enforce upon ourselves selfdiscipine
that will enable to discuss it freely and openly.
Because the Governor has refused to act, let
me suggest that five of our leading educators - Dr.
Eisenhower of Johns Hopkins, DR.. Ekins of the Uni
versity of Maryland DIR. Jenkins of Morgan State
College, Dr. Weige of st. Johns College and Dr.
Pullen, Superintendent of the Maryland School Sys-
tenn meet with the religious leaders of our major de-
nominations and select three representatives from
each county in the State and from each district in
the City of Baltimore, to quickly as pos
sble and present to the Governor recommended
course of conduct.
THE stakes are too high for us to do less"