Churches to View Racial Progress
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This Sunday many white congregations will find Negro ministers in their pulpits, and many Negro congregations will hear sermons by white clergymen.
By Louis Cassels United Press International
In a message which will be read from many pulps Sunday, the National Council of Churches says the basic Christian teaching about all human relations—including race relations—is found in the words of Christ recorded in John 13:34:
It happens every year on the second Sunday in February, which has been designated by the National Council of Churches as "Race Relations Sunday."
THE STATED PURPOSE of this annual observance is to get church members to take a look at their own practices in the controversial field of race relations.
This means, the message says, that it is not enough for a Christian to hold the "right ideas" about race relations. Nor does his obligation end with seeking "justice" for all men.
"A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another."
"IF A PERSON IS A DISCIPLE of Christ he goes beyond justice—he loves. He loves all of God's children for whom Christ died."
Few Christians are likely to dispute this doctrine, since it is based on the unequivocal words of Christ himself.
Differences arise, however, in applying it to specific problems such as segregation.
There are church members in the North as well as the South who believe that separation of the races does not violate the commandment to "love one another."
THERE ARE OTHERS, IN ALL geographic sections, who feel that segregation is inconsistent with Christian love because it places a stamp of inferiority upon Negroes and operates in practice to deny them equal opportunity in education, jobs and housing.
'Antigone' Set For Feb.12-20
Tickets for "Antigone," the fifth production in the Experimental Theatre Series are now available at the University Theatre box office. Performances will be given Feb. 12 through 20th.
first produced in 1944, during the last six months of the German occupation of France in World War II. The play reflects the troubled times. Anouilh's "Antigone" has been called a "witness play that sets before the bar of humanity a picture of the whole inevitable degeneration that living in this world must incur."
The play, by Jean Anouilh, contemporary French playwright, is a modern view of the ancient Sophocles play of the same name.
Sue Dillman, Independence, Kan,
graduate student will direct the
play, which is being given its first
performances at KU.
John Welz, Webster Groves, Mo. senior, as King Creon; Sara Maxwell, Columbus senior, as Antigone; Kay Carroll, El Dorado junior, as the Nurse; Francis Cullinan, Springfield, Mass., graduate student, as the Messenger; Steve Callahan, Lawrence graduate student, as the Chorus.
The latter view has become the official teaching of most of the nation's major religious bodies. It has been voiced repeatedly in recent years in pronouncements from the Roman Catholic hierarchy and the national conventions, councils or assemblies of many large Protestant denominations.
Patti O'Berg, Leawood junior, as Ismene; John Magill, Shawnee Mission sophomore, as Haemon; Rick Friesen. Prairie Village freshman, as the Page; Terry Kovac, Wichita sophomore, as Guard 1; Ken Baker, Helmetta. N.J., graduate student, as Guard 2; Carl Bentz, Peabody junior, as Guard 3, and Julia Callahan, of Lawrence, as Eurydice.
These pronouncements have laid heavy stress on the duty of churches to "set an example" for society by eliminating racial barriers in their own institutions and activities.
Some local churches have already done this, and others are working at it. Bi-racial congregations, which were so rare 15 years ago they could be counted on the fingers, today are numbered in the thousands.
KU students with ID cards will be admitted for 50 cents. All other tickets cost $1. The University Theatre box office is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays, and 7 to 9 p.m. on performance nights.
IT IS STILL, HOWEVER, the exception rather than the rule for Negro and white Christians to worship together. For every congregation that includes members of both races, there at least 10 that are all-white or all-Negro.
Racial separation in worship continues to be the prevailing pattern even in northern and border states, where secular facilities, such as public schools, have long been integrated. This fact was brought to the nation's attention by a recent episode in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City desegregated its public schools, peacefully and quietly, in 1955.
Last month, two of the city's largest Protestant congregations — the First Baptist Church and the Lincoln Terrace Christian Church — rejected membership applications from Negroes.
SPOKESMEN FOR BOTH churches emphasized that the Negroes were not turned away because of their race, but because the churches felt they had not applied for membership in good faith.
Art Display Reception Set
The Roman Catholic Church has gone farther than most Protestant bodies in eliminating racial divisions. But it is by no means free of them.
A reception introducing a new display of silver and ceramics will be held Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Museum of Art.
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BIG BUY
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WALLABY is Coming!
Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the new instructor in the department, Miss Nancy Corwin. Miss Corwin recently arrived from Seattle, Wash, and is teaching an advanced seminar in the decorative arts this semester.
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The reception will also offer visitors an opportunity to view this month's exhibition of a Japanese printmaker Utamaro's collection entitled "The Fickle Type" which depicts women.
WATCH FOR HIM!
A KU professor and sculptor flew to St. Louis today to judge entries in the 8th Annual Competition of Religious Art in the City Art Museum.
Frazier to Judge Art
Bernard E. "Poco" Frazier, sculptor in residence and associate professor of architecture, is known by Midwesterners for his "Doors of Memory" and "Doors of Kansas' which appear in the KU Memorial Campanile.
Other works by Prof. Frazier are displayed throughout the country. Among them are the 15-ton limestone bear in front of the Missouri state office building and the sculpture on the State Office building at Topeka.
Pulitzer Winner to Read At Poetry Hour Next Week
Friday, Feb. 9, 1962
"Resplendent in castoff Navy costume, great head of hair and flowing beard, and properly abstracted poet's eye."
This was how a fellow student (Donald T. Torchina in "Northwestern Tri-Quarterly") saw W. D. Snodgrass when he arrived at the State University of Iowa after having served three years in the U.S. Navy.
Mr. Snodgrass, 36, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, will read at the poetry hour in the Kansas Union next Thursday. He is described in "Current Biography" as being a man to whom "the happy family, as an ideal for the individual parallels a peaceful world as an ideal for nations.
"IE HOLDS that man can best deal with the predicaments and uncertainties of life by evaluating them fearlessly and by doing what he can to resolve them.
domestic relationships as both practical and desirable.
"Lyrical in feeling and moral in impact, his poems underscore his belief that individual responsibility for every act is a cardinal principle."
Some critics have pigeonholed writer Snodgrass as a bourgeois poet because he looks upon normal
OTHERS, such as Stanley Kunitz ("Harper's Magazine," Sept. 1960) find in Snodgrass "The gift of transforming ordinary experiences, including domestic, into a decisive act of imagination, remarkable for its pace and clarity and controlled emotion."
He has taught at Cornell University and at the University of Rochester. The Pulitzer Prize in poetry for 1960 was given to him for "Heart's Needle," his first published volume of poetry. Among his other national honors are the Ingram-Merrill Foundation award, the Longview Literary award, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a special citation from the Poetry Association of America.
Do not fight against two adversaries—Catullus
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult,
and to put one's thoughts into action
is the most difficult thing in the
world.—Goethe
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