Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR 'COOL APPROACH' Today's intellectual leaders were the enthusiastic radicals of yesterday. In the 1930s, they had the thrill of being young Socialists and supporters of Norman Thomas,...
...Attorney Edward M. Turner, President of the Michigan Conference of the NAACP, served as the treasurer...
...Rabbi Morris Adler, Vice President of the Jewish Community Council of Detroit...
...Do we really have cause to display eagerness in the fight for needed social reforms which in turn spawn giant bureaucracies that tend to degenerate and slip from our control...
...No, Mr...
...Marvin Meltzer of the Michigan Labor Committee for Human Rights and the Jewish Labor Committee served as the secretary-director...
...He assured the legislators of his signature on a good and workable FEPC Art...
...Some of his statements are most provocative and need further elaboration, i.e...
...Hamilton...
...Hamilton described, and the law properly is dubbed "the Cramton Act," there were other important elements in the campaign...
...Actually, the FEPC Law passed by the Michigan State Legislature this spring had been the subject of an intensive campaign for the last 11 years, rather than just the 6 years referred to by Mr...
...Bishop George W. Baber of the AME church...
...Disaster may mean that "the stars are against us," but by no means can it signify that God is not with us...
...The Michigan Committee on Civil Rights, founded by the late Roman Catholic Bishop of Grand Rapids, Francis J. Haas, supplied such a roof...
...and Msgr...
...Isn't it curious that this "pacifist" opinion didn't induce any concessions from Eisenhower...
...Is there a bandwagon to hop on in the important fight to keep the West armed, when we know that arming subjects our democratic institutions to tensions and may destroy them...
...Frank P. Madsen...
...Sister M. Barbara McCarthy, S.S.J...
...D. W. Nicklas While we thoroughly enjoy each and every issue of The New Leader, Mr...
...Schoenwald, our generation has no choice but to be "cool...
...the Detroit Jewish Community Council, with 335 affiliated organizations...
...in his Moscow negotiations, the fault must rest with the immense pressure of pacifist opinion which the spirit of Geneva has unleashed...
...And while the role of the venerable Judge Louis C. Cramton, former U.S...
...This is painfully borne out in the apparent about-face of our foreign policy in connection with the Armistice Agreement and the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission in Korea...
...The law calls such untoward events "an act of God...
...If Mr...
...All national agencies wholly or partially in the community-relations field helped unstintingly with advice, materials and information...
...The long, hard campaign finally resulted in change in attitude among the legislators who privately referred to the FEPC bill as "the church bill...
...Great Neck, N.Y...
...the Prince Hall Masons...
...We have forgotten too soon the horrors of Dachau, Lidice, Vorkuta and the oilier "unmentionable" names of the past...
...John Dewey's concept of creative intelligence made them tingle and quiver with feeling of power...
...September 26], Christopher Emmet says: "If Adenauer has appeared to weaken...
...San Francisco Robert Twayne MICHIGAN'S FEPC I recently came across Howard D. Hamilton's excellent article "Michigan's New Fair Employment Law" [NL, June 20], and I should like to add a few facts concerning its passage...
...In addition, the Democratic minority in the Legislature refrained from introducing its own FEPC bills, not wishing to make the issue a partisan one...
...I pray that it will meet this latest seeming trial...
...Have our liberal leaders performed so well in positions of power that unrestrained cheering is in order...
...The New Leader, under its excellent editors, has certainly weathered many great hardships...
...Arthur F. Bukowski, President of the Aquinas College at Grand Rapids, served as co-chairmen...
...I pray that you will continue to have His blessings on your work and life in the cause of truth and justice...
...Orchard Park, N.Y...
...No one should he surprised at our apparent indifference toward our Asian allies, for we Americans of varying nationalities feel very little kinship even with our European brethren behind the Iron Curium...
...Marvin Maurer Does Mr...
...Detroit B. M. Joffe GREATER GOOD Please accept my expression of sympathy for the recent flood disaster which engulfed your printing plant in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania...
...Polish American Congress...
...Michigan's four-term Democratic Governor, G. Mennen Williams, stated repeatedly that he considered the matter of passing an FEPC Law "a non-partisan, all-American requirement...
...Today it is not polite to care more than a little...
...It would be wonderful to go all-out for civil liberties, but we must be wary of the insidious forces which have breached our security...
...If we believe strongly in our heritage of freedom for all men, then we should speak out with great warmth, not coldness, with the ultimate prospect of freeing the poor wretches of Eastern Europe and the Asian mainland from their tormentors...
...Nazareth, Mich...
...Can our generation really find cause to feel thrilled with politics today...
...For us, Richard L. Schoenwald has overlooked some very pertinent points in his generally well-taken article, "The Cool Approach" [The New Leader, September 5...
...Max H. Doner 'PACIFISTS' In "The Economics of Coexistence'' [NL...
...Schoenwald's article imply that we are to prefer peace at any price to avoid the mushroom in the sky...
...Perhaps the chief element in the successful conduct of the campaign, however, was the fact that a heterogeneous group of good civic forces was able to work together, under one roof, for the passage of the FEPC bill...
...the Archdiocesan Catholic Women of Detroit and Michigan, and the United (Protestant) Church Women of Michigan...
...Eden and Faure...
...Direct and indirect participants were such major Michigan organizations as the Detroit and the Michigan Council of Churches, embracing some 16 religious denominations with over 1500 parishes throughout the state...
...the CIO and AFL...
...In the 1930s, they had the thrill of being young Socialists and supporters of Norman Thomas, or they had energy outlets derived from the vast governmental expansion inaugurated by the New Deal...
...Schoenwald's article has indeed warmed the cockles of our hearts...
...Are the Democrats such angels or the Republicans such villains...
...Quite neglected, however, is the postwar generation of those with intellectual leanings...
...Their local affiliates actually participated in the fight...
...In 1955 it was succeeded by a coalition known as the Michigan Coordinating Council for FEPC, under the chairmanship of the President of the Michigan Lutheran Synod, Dr...
...Olive R. Beasley was the executive director of this committee...
...Can we still be enthusiastic and bubbling over with righteousness in the continuing fight for Negro emancipation when this emancipation means the Negro must be a strict conformist and demonstrate he is a "good sport" in order to show himself deserving...
...This implies further that, ultimately, untoward happenings are for some greater good afterward...
...This implies the Providence of God, which implies that nothing happens without the permission of God...
...Schoenwald speaks the truth, then we will not let ourselves become excited over the troubles that beset our staunch Asian allies...
...the Federation of Women's Clubs, and many others...
...Congressman and now member of the Michigan State House, is all that Mr...
...Mrs...
...Woodside, N.Y...
...the Consumer's League...
Vol. 38 • October 1955 • No. 39
