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Show WSttle Creek ' A small news item under a Kaysville, Utah, datline described what was perhaps one of the most heart-warming and encouraging incidents that has happended hereabouts here-abouts for a long time. Alice Kuro-iwa Kuro-iwa was elected "Mistress" of Davis High School's 1956 Junior Prom. Judging from her name and her picture in the paper, she is evidently of Japanese extraction. Kaysville, Utah, dateline described She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Toto Kuroiwa of Layton. According to the news report, "Alice was selected by the popular vote of more than 500 teen-age Juniors at the school. They also chose 16-year-old Gloria Hutches of North Salt Lake and 17-year-old Mary Ann Wood of Kaysville, as her attendants." In these days, when the problem of race hatred and' discrimination is headlined on the front pages of practically every issue of the daily papers; it is most heartening to learn that the younger generation is pointing the way toward toler-ence toler-ence and social equality. No doubt Miss Kuroiwa is an outstanding student at Davis High. Most American-born 'Japanese 'Japan-ese boys and girls are just that. In addition she must have earned the loyal friendship of hundreds of her schoolmates. Whatever the reason for her succes at the poles, the action of the Kaysville youngsters young-sters will reflect eternally to their credit and to the intelligence of teen-agers everywhere. Within the past few months, a young negro youth was pistol-whipped, pistol-whipped, shot to death, and his weighted body thrown into a river in one of our Southern States, because be-cause he "gave a wolf-whistle" to a -white woman. His two white murderers were arrested, arraigned, arraign-ed, and acquitted by an all-white jury, upon the plea of "killing in self-defense". This did not happen hap-pen in Communistic China or Russia; Rus-sia; but in the United States, where "all men are created free and equal." About a year ago, we were returning re-turning by bus from a vacation in Las Vegas. On the bus were about twenty Army Air Corps Officers. Without exception they were all alert, intelligent, immaculately imma-culately groomed young American men. Six of them were negroes. The bus stopped for dinner at a cafe in one of Central Utah's representative towns. All the young officers went into the cafe and sat down at the tables; the six colored boys, at a table by themselves. The white servicemen were soon served and eating; but when time came fijr the bus to leave, the negro boys had not been favored with as much as a glass of water. They were definitely and purposely ignored. Incidently, we noted that a half-dozen half-dozen unkempt and sloven Indians were eating at a table opposite the one occupied by the spotlessly groomed colored boys. Whatever resentment or frustration frust-ration rankled in the souls of the negro boys, was never revealed in the way they looked or -talked when the bus got under way. Perhaps Per-haps they were used to it. In just three days we will witness wit-ness the dawning of another Easter Eas-ter Morning. To those of us who profess the Christian faith, the advent of the Easter season each year marks the rebirth of our allegiance to the precents and example ex-ample of Jesus of Nazareth. His was a life of service, tolerence and forgiveness. To Him there was no inequality of race, creed or social position. Without fully realizing what they were doing, the youth of Davis High School, have by their simple act, preached a powerful Easter sermon for Christian tolerance toler-ance and social equality. Wouk' that the adults throughout America Amer-ica could profit by their example. So long 'til Thursday. |