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It is our purpose to give thanks for the blessings that have come to America to resolve to remove the roots of prejudice from our way of life to devote ourselves to brotherhood among men because of the fatherhood of God up it is I would purpose to strengthen the life of America both by strengthening individuals with all that is for the common good and vice strengthening the souls of men with the grace of God to strengthen liberty in America mindful that America was born in liberty and liberty was born in got to pursue happiness in this life by the fair distributions of the wealth of God's creation and in the next life by living according to God's Commandments in the spirit then of the Two Great Commandments love of God and love of neighbor let us show our love got by loving our neighbor let us save got up by serving our neighbor let us pray we beseech thee a lot to inspire our actions and to carry them on with a defining so that every prayer and weird work of us begins with the and through the is likewise ending and now May the power of the father govern and protect us may the wisdom of the son in light and guide us maybe inspiration of the Spirit Quicken and impel us May the blessings of the dry you got the space descend upon us now and remain always with us amen and then standing place is our pleasure now to hear the Star Spangled Banner sung by Miss Monica may as well as before on that wonderful service for so many times before in this maze. This Temeraire have been clergy honored guests and friends. I think it is entirely fitting that this observance of Negro History and brotherhood week should be under the auspices of the Department of Welfare and as commissioner of welfare it is my great privilege and pleasure to welcome you to this occasion I say it is fitting because the partner welfare probably touches more directly and intimately the lives of more people in the city at any one time than any other department and we touch it on a basis which calls for the truest expressions of our belief in brotherhood one of the great revolutions that happened in this country was one that happened fairly quietly back in one thousand eight hundred thirty five when the federal Social Security Act was passed because that act set up a systematic program of social insurance old age insurance unemployment insurance and public assistance which wiped out at one stroke of the pen all of the discriminatory practices which had occurred in so many parts of the country before that time with respect to the granting of assistance or the payment of insurance benefits prior to that time it was not unusual in many parts of the country for the test of eligibility for public assistance or relief to be based not just upon need but upon the racial or religious background of the applicant. And with one stroke of the pen and through the passage of that law that discrimination was wiped out completely and forever so one of the great byproduct if you can call it that and I prefer to call it a major product of the passage of the Social Security Act in one thousand nine hundred thirty five the Act under which we operate today is that there is no longer any attention paid to the color of an applicant's skin or of the church that he goes to when we examined an applicant for public assistance someone who is in need to no fault of his own today and determine that he is eligible we do it without regard to what church he goes to all what race he sprang from or what country he came from or is ancestors came from and that was a great step forward perhaps it was not needed as much in New York City because York City and New York state and generally the northern many of the northern cities and states had already accepted as a part of their pattern of living the idea that there should not be discrimination between individuals and that the objective of equal opportunities and equal treatment under the law should be applied to all but nationwide to establish the simple principle that eligibility for all age and shown its eligibility for unemployment insurance and eligibility for public assistance should depend upon objective fact doors which had nothing to do with racial or religious discrimination was indeed a great step forward I think we should not forget that and we should as employees of the department welfare as people interested in administering a part of the total social security program of the nation we should be very proud of that advance I'm happy to see so many of you here tonight this great crowd is indeed a tribute to the sense of unity which exists among employees in our department now the boys from other departments of the city and among citizens of New York generally. I am happy to see to and to welcome the representatives of other departments of the many Commissioners over here and the officials of the departments and to testify to show and it and to say that their testimony of their unity and their belief in the progress that we are trying to make in the field of brotherhood in the field of improvement of negro white relationships is it is worthwhile now we have a very great privilege tonight we have quite a big program and we have an especially great privilege tonight in the presence of the chief magistrate of the city our own mayor and Pelletier and he has come here as the first of four meetings but you must attend to night and sometimes the mayor. I think is a little unhappy about the fact that people see him at so many meetings but as he has often said to me and to others I'm sure he feels as I sometimes feel I would much rather be home with my slippers on looking at T.V. then racing around from one meeting to another and I'm sure that he being human would have the same feeling that he has for meeting schedule for tonight and we're very happy and honored that he has chosen to come to us in his first appearance this evening and to add his word to those which all the rest of us will say respecting our hopes for a further growth in the spirit of brotherhood in the city of New York and in the city the work of our various departments is with the greatest of pleasure that I present to you our own great mayor Vincent are in Pelletier thanks. Much no macaw thing reverend clergy. Thank you Jan first of all first of all I like to. So you do the copy that I as mayor of the city of New York and I know I reflect the thinking of the people of the city of New York are very happy indeed that commission member copy is back with us tonight and good health thank you this joint up servants of Negro History and brotherhood week tonight is designed to give impetus to the development of a better understanding. Among persons of all creeds and all cultures and this great metropolis I am particularly happy to participate in this program is. Right feel that it is indeed an expression of the ideals of unity. Which have motivated your city administration for a great number of yes it has been a power. Of offs to keep this city city off since brother. Where they seeds of racial discrimination. Cannot germinate and where every person wants to respect the first dignity of his name and I have reason to believe that here in the city of New York we have experienced a great measure of success I would like to reflect briefly on the historic events which formally background for this meeting tonight during the year nine hundred fifteen and Chicago Dr Carter G. What's the gather with a few like minded individuals. Founded the association. For the study of Negro life and history this association as its name denotes was formed for the purpose of a more correlated and extended knowledge of the great contribution of the Negro to history particularly. American history in nineteen twenty six the ASSOCIATION OF THE NATION. In Washington Negro History Week. Its purpose was to highlight and emphasize the continued progress of negroes in many activities including education. Business and government in nineteen twenty eight hominum laymen and clergyman of the three major faiths lobster growing prejudices and misunderstandings. Among their fellow communicants led by such really great men as childs Evans humorous you can D. break Roger a Strauss and cotton J. H. hey it's they found it the National Conference of Christians and Jews this conference was dedicated to the cardinal common belief of their respective religions the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man they set fought to discover and promulgated practical techniques and procedures. For bringing into our everyday consciousness and our every day practice this concept of brotherhood. This religious concept of brotherhood to which lip service alone was only gather to frequent in this year of nineteen fifty three they pop on the welfare of the city of New York combines the servants of Negro History Week and Brotherhood Week in one program for all of its staff and their friends here in this beautiful auditorium all of them in a simple college supported by city funds which in and of itself is I'm not ideal extraction of brother but probably of all of the city's The pop and son agency there is none which my song will be called the heart and conscience of the city as is the the pop mint of wealth. They the puppet of welfare necessarily embodies the city's good neighbor policy but here in our five boroughs with their eight million residents it is impractical even impossible to know and to adequately meet the economic contingencies of our neighbors on an individual basis therefore you. The staff of the popping of welfare who are specifically trained to meet these needs represent us the entire city you are embassador was I've got well I've rather. In your hands is a great public trust. And the quarter of a century which has passed since observation says a Negro History Week and a brotherhood week were begun through the vision and deep conviction of a few great souls. There have been numerous meetings such as this in which hundreds and thousands have participated the emphasis of the programs themselves has changed somewhat during the years we no longer. Find it necessary to one numerate as outstanding exception in an effort to prove something then names certain negroes who have used well their opportunities for training and syrups a cursory reading of newspapers and periodicals sets forth their great accomplishments in practically all fields of endeavor from the ceaseless efforts for world peace Dr Ralph Bunche to effective service in Rome and other city governments the tragedy is of a second world war and continued fighting in Korea. Had given rise to days of prayer sponsored by all of the religious faiths so here at home as well as on our far flung battleline Christians and Jews have united in common prayer and with this comes a new realisation of brotherhood. And it's an inescapable fact we no longer find it necessary to emphasize the fact of brotherhood. We readily acknowledge we've made during this week to dedicate ourselves to living rather we analyze our structure of living in order to ascertain how merely it conforms to our own beliefs we do this as a religious people for here in the United States nearly two thirds of all of the people over thirteen years of age are up really aided with some church or synagogue here. Freedom of religious worship does not mean absence of such worship but Brotherhood to be re cannot be carefully parked in front of the cathedral chapel our synagogue entrance for use only while the worship cream inside its practice must necessarily be and every day matter New York City with its teeming millions of various faiths racial origins and the pivot it provides a great laboratory for testing by delegate to the principle of brotherhood I feel that its citizens and their way of life is an excellent example of. Brotherhood in fact. There is of course Rome for improvement and improvement in human relationships is continually being made this week Brotherhood Week. Provides us with an opportunity. To really evaluate. And rededicate ourselves. As the highest ideals of mankind. I wish Godspeed to the fullest attainment of these objects the need for common understanding is greater than ever before it is a challenge which. And which shall be met Thanks thank you thank you we are indeed deeply grateful to you Mr Mayor for those words sparring to us in the work that we have to carry forward and I know that if you do have to leave before our program is over to go to the other meetings that all of us here will forgive you for that. And video other people who will be listening to you later this evening we will have some additional musical selections and the next will be again for Miss Monica mass will saying two numbers. Thank you. Another aspect that had been already it is to admit our own imperfections. To deplore our own weaknesses and through voluntary association feted by laws from time to time when necessary to eliminate and prevent the discrimination which in the past relegated members of certain groups to second rate citizenship this faith has not been bestowed by an all powerful state but stems from the universal recognition of the essential dignity of man and his right to develop in accordance with his own skills interests and talents and ours has been a fate that free man encouraged to seek the truth will build a better society by eliminating the irrational hatred is that a plague mankind throughout the aged in this effort we are not seeking uniformity but unity we're not seeking to weaken the distinctive beliefs and live trees of any group but we're trying to brand our own peculiar customs and beliefs with those of others into a theme of unity which is based upon the concept of equality of opportunity under God in our democratic system of government and equality based upon the individual's competence rather than upon his racial religion scholar national background or even previous condition of servitude but my French faith must be step in the method by works of good works it's one thing to talk about ideals a brotherhood and equality an entirely different thing to practice them in our daily living by according to and recognize the same rights and privileges in others which we demand for ourselves and the disposition of benevolence towards the children of other people as towards brothers insists. The right of an opportunity for a job a decent education housing facilities to equal access to places a public accommodations results or amusements and to fair and brotherly feet been in all the affairs of life which make for more enjoyable happy and contented living how can we bring all these things about how can we develop understanding and friendship and cooperation among all of the groups in our community that answer my friend resides in every one of us no one can present a pattern of group brand but all of us can make some useful suggests in the first place we can all work in our own on our own attitudes and prejudices and one of the most common explanations for discrimination in employment and public accommodations is that customers and employees and neighbors would have checked with the introduction of new companies in most cases just this is a groundless fear and yet you and I know that many people buy that thoughtless entente and Prejudice attitude have tried to erect barriers against them or just certain groups against people and trade into a certain occupation enjoy a neighborhood or even an educational institution we can carry out our faith by providing an example of the Brotherhood to the was in our own poll especially the children not only as we aborted the use of false generalizations and stereotypes and derogatory references to members of certain groups or up to what perhaps more importantly as we express our right his indignation when we read and hear and she discrimination practised right before or not we should come out of our shell of complacency and realize that prejudice and discrimination contribute to crime and delinquency in record Kiri. And other evils that imperil our communities and like cancers reach right into our own home yes we must carry out our fate by making history now through supporting the efforts of our turkeys synagogue private agencies and government organizations which seek to eliminate discrimination in employment and in public accommodation that if you'd like for example the resources of my commission or at least the commission that I represent here tonight in New York State Commission against discrimination and of quite the community and the individuals in the community events and their rights and obligations under that law all too often you know organizations who work hard to obtain a large That does this sometimes rest on their own or depth and important lore that time has been enacted the most perfect law would be relatively in effect unless supported and utilized by the people and for the more and less sustained by positive programs of education in our homes characters schools and civic organizations now under the law you may know that the York state commission receives investigates and passes upon complaints election discrimination in employment and since July first of this year and last year in place the public accommodations result in abuse and they combine those efforts with an extensive educational service reaches right into our schools secondary and high school religious institutions community agencies throughout the great states the job of building better Intergroup relations or our drive try to develop the job of strengthening our democratic fate is not the responsibility of just one single agency did you acquire the concerted efforts of all the growth rate of all people in the community. We cannot and we should not be satisfied with token or superficial accomplishments nor Concetta the breaks in the discriminatory pattern of the last few years as the end of our efforts rather we should consider these advances as but the beginnings of a movement to bring all qualified and responsible people into those phases of community life where they will enrich and strengthen our country by their own fine accomplishments Yes we must do more than a negative job but we must seek out opportunities to bring it to the neighborhoods and city wide endeavors members of all groups not merely as a selected group representatives carrying the burdens of the groups on their shoulders but is individuals who are ready willing and most cases able to do a real community job as President Eisenhower just a few days ago very well stated before the International Christian leadership group very sad a government such as ours hopes to produce people who are moved by sympathy by all those wonderful qualities that are implicit in a deeply felt religious faith. I'm sure that the face to which our president referred to which all of us are committed in our own way will bring to our observances next year and for many years ahead and and large meaning and a sense of accomplishment in relation to the many human relations problems that still are before us now you members of this great department of public welfare have a rare opportunity in these endeavors in your very important work you meet with all kinds of people I don't also heal economic level that's you know there are problems and difficulties and you have made. You have given and demonstrated an ability to alleviate those problems not owning in terms of material aid but in terms of fine moral counsel and encouragement and you can example for example can encourage young people and even older people to train on the basis of their interests skills and aptitude without fear of past patterns all recurrent instances of discrimination you can and I hope that you will acquaint them with the other community resources which would be of help to them in the solution of their problems not the least important which is that of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination in other words you can bring to these people a renewal of faith that despite past and even friends and inequities that theme of American life is still three quality of opportunity for all of our people I know and you will know that a great deal has been accomplished but the total task is far from completion much for the progress can be made if as you leave here tonight every one of you will be reminded the family next door for the man or woman who works next to you in the office or the people that you meet on the subway tonight or tomorrow morning your corner grocery aisle but you are there all brothers and sisters of course for those who believe in the fatherhood of God This concept of the brotherhood of man is not a difficult thing how would respect what life become for all of us if during Brotherhood Week and for each succeeding week during the coming year some of the genuine love thy neighbor as thyself spirit could be captured and put into effect in the work a day world where we gauged thank you very much for your patience and to. Thank you. The commission of pinto. We move along with our program and we will have a real treat ahead of us now in hearing from Mr Fred Thomas Mr Thomas is a baritone singer and he recently was a winner in the metropolitan auditions of the air Mr Thomas will saying two numbers life and death by Taylor and he's got the whole world in his. Thank you Thomas will be thank you Thomas will be back with us a little later thank you will be hearing from him again little later in the program was that wonderful. Thank. You and I asked Rabbi Alexander J. Bernstein rabbi of the military center synagogue to read some. Of my bones. Instead of limiting myself to one particular song I chose and three passengers to be found and he believed it you're the first selection that's from Maliki chapter two verse ten the great fifth century prop every Not all of one follow up at math one God up created us why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother how good an outlet and he is right there and well together thank you Nicky. Which inspired the ancient prayer which as we cited young the first century B.C. in the temple every morning. Made he would wear life in this house land rather Lena's and lab peace and friendship among God and man and it is interesting to note that during the same period and makea a valley where no confidence in human beings the great Cynic wrote the prince and up secure rabbi left the tenth Testament for a son called Love thy neighbor as thyself filled but love all may actually be to you a short passage from it dear son to be at peace but all the way out with Jew and Gentile must be a foremost aim and they still rest to be a light contained my son but no man and the first thing since your home must be the abode of quietude and happiness no harsh word must be heard there but overall must remain lamp Amity modesty and a spirit of gentleness and reverence this spirit must not end with a home and you're dealing with a well you must allow neither money no ambition to disturb you for go your rights and be no man but the main thing is peace shall own peace with the whole Well so long man every possible respect deal with them and the finest can take with you in faithfulness Why did not have a cook the prophet summed up the whole law in one sentence there righteous shall live by its faith. It was off my way at assemblies to raise my eyes and we got them scratching from end to end to see whether in sooth I loved everyone among them whether my acceptance of the duty to love my fellow man was genuine but God's help I assure you my son and I found that I loved all the press and even if I not noticed one where treated me improperly then without a thought of agitation but out a moment's delay I pardoned him forth with I was out to love him if my heart forced me to refuse my love I had to estimate spoken words of friendship until my heart to change I tune to my way so my son whenever I met one to my heart did not incline I forced myself to speak to him kindly so as to make my heart feel affection for him what if he were seen and even then I would not quarrel with him but I wonder whether very existence in this age the seventeenth century one was able to judge another on the other hand if I conceive that you would listen to advice I do in year two and turning towards him a cheerful countenance if I were ever I fancied that you would we send my advances I did not include. As there is a duty to speak so my son is their duty at times to be silent thank you rather than. They are going to hear again from my fine August or the police department in the selection is called It's a lovely day today. Thank you and we'll have some more of that a little later I think we can use that we have another speaker with us oh my very glad to welcome the Honorable Judge Irving Ben Cooper chief justice of the court a special sessions and I'm happy to present him to you thank you. Commission McGarvey distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen. No matter how poorly I do this evening there's a great deal of consolation in the thought that that remarkable singer. Mr Thomas will be back again for the evening Coast's. The last time I spoke in this auditorium was during the last World War. When it was my privilege to undertake to plead for blood for the bleeding in the dying and I recall up that it was my custom after hundreds of such appeals to invite the audience to put questions to me and one of the questions that was put to me in this very room best illustrates the spirit with which I come before you this evening I had explained how the blood was taken from the human being processed into plasma shot by airplane across the seas almost onto the field where the wounded and dying as now in Korea were gathered for treatment and I explained that plasma was mixed with sterile water. And injected into the veins of those who were so desperately in need of help and when I got through one of the questions put to me was something like this and I'm not marking marking him a top I'm trying to imitate him and I have a deep affection and respect for the spirit that prompted him to put the question he said you're gonna judge oh my I had a job but a Boyce has a bigger part. Why don't you put the ball as you mean cheat Gyp Yes So why did you have prices how do you make that out you know why they take your deuce a broader plan there's a power up and they make the do it up right you know why I want why don't they make that we're not going to want. And that's the way I feel about this evening I want to give you the very best best I don't want to G.P.O. I think it's a sad day really but on the other hand a great day that we should have to meet and comment about man's inhumanity to man I've been on my own before I even arrived a teenage I belong to a minority group my religion places me in that group I know what it is to receive rebuffs. Group on reasonable on warranted torment those gestures that cut deeply those condescending words. That imply that you're a second rate citizen almost pains in her acts that come not from physical violence brought from a lack of understanding and our lack of true citizenship. I pause long enough to say to you. That I now occupy in this pleasant land of ours the fourteenth post governmental post of my career can only happen in America I am grateful to the community that made it possible and as a fact finder up which I claim I am and I claim very little else. I think it no more than fair to pause long enough to tell you that the Department of Welfare. Is as commissioner Pinto pointed out a very important part. And that it is being administered by a commissionaire and his delegated lieutenants with a deep understanding. And I think you should know that their position as to the giving of welfare which is not within their power to give or deny its according to the law is being administered by a champion for all people and I mean commission look up thank you. What I deplore more than anything else is the covering up of these indignities to black white minority groups. We've got to be outspoken. None of this business of getting along at any and all costs that's wrong that's prostituting a principle when you hear something say that you know full well is un-American speak up righteous indignation is a precious thing. Speak up loud and clear and force. I don't know what a lot of the quarrel is about there's no basis for it let's be honest an outspoken Yeah we all. Sky. And simple. And present like passengers on the same ship on a brief visit all voyage through life and that excellent book human destiny There's a passage that speaks much more eloquently than I have the capacity to read and we are all like people at the bottom of the valley who seek to climb a snowy peak that dominates. US we have our eyes fixed on the same goal and we and we agree that there is but one summit to reach Unfortunately we differ on the road to take and so Guy It's come forward and we follow them some go one way others different paths all convinced that their trail is the best and all. But when the groups start from different points meet instead of uniting they seek to convince each other mutually that it is they who have discovered the best. And they sometimes end up by throwing insults and stone. At each other that I say that the religious wars and the persecution which you claim millions of victims. Throughout the centuries testifies to the sad truth. That. February is our month of us in newspapers magazines. Public addresses and other means of communication the way tribute will be paid in is paid. To the two foremost men in our history founder of the American Union and the savior of the Union in the hour of its most serious crisis the biographies of Washington and Lincoln run in two thousand. And hardly a month passed without the announcement of a new book on one aspect or another of their careers. Yet in spite of the renown of Washington and Lincoln too few Americans have more than a superficial knowledge of their character and their accomplishments they are celebrated but not appreciated glorified but not emulated their genius of course we cannot match we can only Barbara forward in or some admiration but every one of us can share to some extent the self sacrificing devotion to duty and the sublime faith in the destiny of of America which was their lives doctors the skies maybe today with the lower hanging clouds of domestic evils and apprehensions of Foreign Wars they are no doc up than they were for Washington when he shepherded it rippling and shivering men at Valley Forge. All for Lincoln when his wise patience was condemned as weakness and his firm purpose to preserve the union strike every or no slavery law or no law was branded as tyranny shall we be content to live as pensioners on the bounty of Washington and Lincoln letting their courage in the face of crisis and their very in the blessings of American democracy suffice us shall we not rather as far as in our supplies be ourselves the promoters of the purposes the names to which they devoted their lives and fortunes the program is heavy. But the lament that I feel is not as deep as it was during the years that I grew up was admitted to the bar we've gone a long way with those of us who are impatient progress are slow but it's here I've seen it I see it in one of the busiest tribunals in the world there's no question but what intolerance brings out a lot behavior the criminal calendars do not reflect that degree how. Impatient sub are nation in difference in talents that they did years ago sure there's room for improvement in some parts of our blasted land I have witnessed acts that were nuff to freeze my blood but I do say. That we've gone ahead spokesman after spokesman in large numbers come forward to denounce this on godly un-American unconstitutional behavior of people who hold themselves up as citizens the progress they're making isn't as easy as they used to certainly there's a lot of calumny let's close our ears to a lot of it and let's hear those deep throated voices of conviction and there's a lot of them out convinced that we're all Americans and that every single act that we do of the nature that I've indicated holds back not only the individual but the community and the city and the nation and that was best expressed a hundred fifty years ago in an editorial that appeared in the London town the greatest tyranny. The smallest again from precedence over love from remonstrances this. From grievances treated with ridicule from powerless men oppressed with impunity and overbearing men tolerated with complacence Springs the tyrannical usage. Which generations of wise and good men may hear after perceived and lament and resist in vain at present common minds common minds no more see a crushing tyranny in a trivial unfairness. All right ludicrous in dignity then they are uninformed by reason can discern the yoke in the. Desolation of winter in the first autumnal fall Hence the necessity of denouncing with their own wearied and even troublesome perseverance a single act of disrespect pressure let it alone and it stands on record the country has allowed it and when it is at last provoked to a late indignation it finds itself. With a record of its own ill compulsion thank you thank you thank you Judge Cooper I should like to have you all listen very carefully to the next announcement I will say there's one exception already my wife sitting over there doesn't have to listen to this particular announcement because I know it doesn't apply to her and this may sound like a gag but it isn't I die I am and has been found I hope belonging to some lady in the audience who has lost it and who will be looking for it and if so it is in the possession of. The special patrolmen at the rear of the auditorium so all of you start looking around to see if your diamonds are missing. And if one of the ladies discovers that a diamond is missing she may proceed to the back of the hall and recover it. Anyone who has missed a diamond it's a good way of keeping you see that isn't the quote conspicuous I Carstairs of only I just lay proud Well now saying to numbers for us English my beguiled by Morley. Thank. You now I have from Reverend John M. Coleman. Evan Kohlmann is rector of St Phillips a festival Church in Brooklyn which I know to be the largest church largest congregation in Brooklyn and Reverend Cullman is also a member of the Board of Education New York City we welcome you reverend called Thank You. Surgery on advanced I mean sitting there grateful for having been invited. I was cold yesterday. Evening and I knew that I would be given five minutes I want to be courteous and polite cause I want to be invited again I'm going to confine that five minutes which I'm very grateful to on the one hand saying thank you I do those of you who have come and I think of the audience as a very important pot took a mention of the cost on this stuff will foster this program and all those of all city who have made it possible and also to make a plea to you a very brief one that you come again and you have this program again also but you will like me other See evening we're going on the home of brotherhood. And make a plea for. You know interest in Negro History. I beautiful him America that's the core group song as if you remember all the touching reframed just a prat. America. Shed his grace on the OWN like good with Brotherhood from sea to shining sea. And impressed me this evening as a creed is a part of the American creed and I want you to think up and the part of the one who says I think is at the Crown well that America is America is noted for many things and many fine things about America and many great accomplishments but a clown of it all is rather. I wish I could impress that upon you as you go as a creed to the end that. I may work in one heart of man I am very proud of the role that America is playing in the nations of the world today and that she has played I was a boy in high school and early years of college and Mirka was after World War one struggling with a great concept of a League of Nations and frankly. Young student. I was terribly let down America. I am exceedingly happens that America has regained. Grammar respect for itself and the role it is playing now on the national plan and all it has done and is doing for making for brotherhood among the nations of the world. I am oh so mindful that I knew all that Iowa up. I think challenge. Being called into question and the grid do you want someone to stand that all those are winning the idealism winning the confidence of the world because Negras not practicing all that it preaches in America I name is all. Fighting us most probably gonna end up. Some of the small figures that we have but there is that great truth that I am mindful of and I want to ask you to be mine but all of the great threat to America is not from without whatever that threat may be America will never be defeated a minute from without and there isn't any weirdest right is not a big good trick and prejudice within the laws forces within that ten to seven man against man religion against religion. One group against another. That is a real threat which is dear to you and to me as Americans I plead with you to work on Brotherhood does not come by accident and doesn't come simply by having read statements on all such a book about it up comes only when men and women are convinced that that is the way and how willing to work for it we have accomplished a great deal in that respect especially in the last ten years but it is evident as all man is just saying that we must accelerate up things we must step up fast up the mouse and crease as we have and the production of last right. Franklin. That is rather. Have one more minute I want to play with you so. I had a great adjunct to that is studying Negro History negroes are not the only group in America who have suffered from and all suffering from bigotry and prejudice. And that as a group. Than in America before the Mayflower did they chant and all of the spirit of the fallen on the wall of who have produced. Top most men and women in every field. And adequate measuring rod up off to America and brought up I think you say they offer the best means of all measuring just how far up our country has gone up the truth is our enemy is using that measuring stick and a friend in Europe time of that terrible bombing in Florida mall I don't know you know I read in the papers in London about this all you read about it in New York and New album that I don't is no Negro history in America we must be true it is not only that he grows and that made this appear from our language that it may soon become meaningless but it still has a great deal of meaning means they did people pause Well it means anything to me it's like it also means the mark of a group of people who have made more progress and less the center than any of those in history. If you would. Be. A True. Fan. And I thank. Thank. The audience and thank you. I think it's obvious that Reverend Coleman has not been in that she added into the inner circle of the. Public speaking in the city because we have a little formula and when one of us. Are asked another. How long how long will you speak when we say five minutes we have an understanding that means ten minutes or. Ten minutes that means fifteen minutes but. So you didn't take advantage of your opportunity really. And now I think all of you have been waiting for something that appears on your program and for those of you who don't have programs you have an extra special treat coming up in my announcement that the next number will be a duet with Miss Monica miss and Mr Fred Thomas. Pogge and Bess. Thanks in a few moments we will receive the final of the many blessings that we have known this evening the blessings of the beautiful music. Which we have had given to us by our wonderful guest artists in the blessings of the inspiring words that have come to us from the speakers who have appeared here this evening I wish to thank all of our speakers and artists I wish to thank the clergy for helping to make this a memorable occasion our own chorus jurors are certainly deserving of thanks and we are grateful to Police Commissioner Monaghan for his cooperation and do I splendid police. Station N.Y.C. has as usual done its beautiful job of setting up our public address system and of recording the proceedings this evening which will be rebroadcast and I suppose if you watch your radio columns you will find out planned that will happen and we thank Miss Seldon and the officials of hundred college for providing us with this beautiful hall our own I shall read from the Department of Don Nice job this evening Special Patrol men in their new uniforms not only look fine but I think have been very successful in preserving a semblance of order. And the psychological effect of the uniform music and of course all of the staff who contributed to making this as beautiful an evening as it has been for all of us I think they all deserve a great deal of credit for this fine affair and now we will hear the final blessing of the many blessings we have known this evening I will call on Reverend Shelby rucks pastor of St James Presbyterian Church to bless us before we go. The lot bless you and keep you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious and you. The light of his countenance on you and give you this night and ever. Choristers and all will sing God Bless America the company by the police department. At the. With the.