Oh, Brother!

Next week is Brotherhood Week. This newspaper like others throughout the nation has received a request to help publicize the Week. Even Henry L. Mencken in one of his sourest moods could have found little reason to quarrel with its intent: "A rededication to the basic ideals of respect for people and human rights."

But here are some of the suggestions offered editors to publicize Brotherhood Week locally through pictures and captions:

"The highest available local dignitaries of the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths could be posed together participating in some major civic ceremony, such as the dedication of a new war memorial to our dead in Korea."

or:

"There probably is an Army, Navy or Air Base nearby. A picture and a story of a white soldier and a Negro soldier working together to clean a howitzer would be a perfect example of brotherhood."

Sometimes you just can't help feeling weary.