Thinking people desire to meet and help others meet postwar problems wisely and successfully. But in order to lead others in the right path, one's own vision must be clear.
Pre-eminent among the predicted aftermaths of the recent war are those of aggravated racial disturbances. Laudable efforts are being made to devise ways and means of quelling such disturbances after they occur, but such efforts are based on the assumption that they are unavoidable; that, at best, preparations must be made —as nearly adequate as possible—whereby to meet these dissensions when they break out in violence and destruction. But why wait until carnal beliefs have assumed undue and unwarranted proportions?
All racial animosities are predicated upon the belief in an unequal distribution of good, inequality of advantage and supply, incompatible and conflicting interests; in short, upon the belief in minds many. Entertained, these errors of thought arouse antagonism, hatred, and bitterness, often resulting in lawlessness and violence. To attempt to meet them in kind is to thwart one's purpose; but to refuse to accept them as belonging to man, because God did not make them, is to meet their false assumptions intelligently and scientifically.
