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DECEMBER 28, 1946 Page Eleven The Hartford Chronicle BILBO TO BLAME WHITE PRIEST TESTIFIES Jackson, Miss. Special Four years ago two-fisted Fath er George T. Strype, S. S. J., white priest of Pass Christian, Miss., solemnly vowed that he would devote his life to helping Negroes achieve their humariM rights ; and he has been lighting ever since. Now pastor of St. Philo mena's Catholic Church in Pass Christian, Father Strype told the Senate Investigating Com mittee here that although he had counselled his parishioners it was their duty to be good citizens and vote, they were barred from the polls in Pass Christian on July 2 in the pri mary which renominated Theo dore Blibo for the United States Senate. Noting that some of the Ne gro veterans in his Catholic congregation had voted without incident in the municipal elec tion of June 4, the priest quoted from an Associated Press dis patch in which Bilbo was quoted as having said that the participation of Negro voters in the Pass Christian municipal election was "the most damn able demonstration of demogog uery in the history of our South land". Between that, election and the primary the temperature alter ed in Pass Christian, Father Strype said. The Negroes who had been on the rolls as Demo crats were suddenly switched over and listed as Republicans. Election officials had told him, he said, that they had met and decided that No Negroes were going to vote in the white Democratic primary. In answer to questions sup plied by Bilbo's attorney, the priest freely " admitted that he had encouraged his people to vote. ."I have taught them to fear God and be good citizens," he said. "And I have told them to vote to see that they are governed by right-thinking, straight-living officials. ' ' The priest noted that the Pass Christian voting officials and the mayor are close personal friends of Bilbo. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Fr. Strype attended Epiphany Apostolic College, Newburg, N. Y., and St. Joseph's Seminary, Washington, D. C. Since his ordination to the priesthood in 1942 he has been stationed in Pass Christian. He is also in charge of St. Stephen's Church, De Lisle, Miss., and Our Lady of Chartres Church in Delmas Dedeaux. The .only Christian clergy man to testify at the proceed ings, Fr. Strype is a member of the Josephite Fathers, Catholic priests who minister, with a special vow, only to Negroes. INSIDE RUSSIA . .Washington, D. 0. Russia has a class distinction un qualed in any capitalistic coun try and disparities in income and rations that must shock any equalitarian-minded person. This is the indictment made against the Soviet Rulers, who staged the Bolshevik revolt in 1917 professedly for the ideal of a classless society, by Hugh Chevins, industrial correspond ent of the London Daily Tele graph. He recently completed a six-week study of conditions inside Russia, and gave his im pression in three articles in the American Federationist, the of ficial monthly magazine of the American Federation of Labor published here. The author states that, ap parently, Russia's "extremely complicated rationing system is crisscrossed with disparities, but by and large those whom the Kremlin favors do best." Over and above the basic ra tion card, the author says, va rious other devices have been evolved for insuring bigger and better rations for the new rul ing class." He adds: "If you have contrived to find your way into the higher ranks of the army, the theatrical world, journalism, or other so-called in tellectual branches, you may becojme possessed of supple mentary ration cards" and also of "concessions under two cut rate food purchase systems." Chevins found "many grades of shops in the Soviet Union. Each person is assigned to a different shop, according to his or her employment," he writes, and "the type of shop to which arailway porter is assigned has, in all likelihood, a smaller and inferior range of foodstuffs for sale than the shop chosen for an architect." Another aspect of Russian life that "throws class distinc tion into relief," is housing. Chevin writes: "I doubt that anyone in Moscow outside s the walls of the Kremlin has com fortable apartments and is able to live a life of privacy as judged by Western standards.," The common people ' 'live . in basements, kitchens, bedrooms, anywhere in dilapidated build ings in the suburbs often at the rate of four families per room one family per corner." Chevins found in Russia "an emphasis on materialism , that ven Marx eschewed" and "that most hateful of all forms of government a dictatorship, not by the proletariat, but by a remote group of men whose power derives from the police More than 200 of these priests are caring for almost 100,000 parishioners in the "United States. Some 125 churches in the South are under their care, and more than 20.000 Negro children are being educated in their schools. state which they have created." He adds: "The Union of Social ist Soviet Republics is a police state, and life in a police state is restricted and uneasy, bereft of human dignity and free dom." The Article declares that "censorship is no less harsh now than in wartime." Though travel is unrestricted, "it is a risky business for anyone, par ticularly a foreigner.", This suspicion of foreigners is evident in other phases of Rus sian life, Mr. Chevins discov ered. "To secure a seat in the theater a foreigner must make formal application on a docu ment which must bear a rubber stamp," he stated, and "inside the theater foreigners are seg regated from the rest of the audience under the eyes of the police." j DINING CAR WAITERS WIN LONG STRUGGLE Chicago The U. S. District Court brought to a close recent ly the long, arduous struggle of the Dining Car waiters on the Santa Fe Railroad against the company. For nine months the employ ees organization has been strug gling to get the company to make certain advances. The U. S. District Court solved all of this by granting $400,000 to the Dining- Car Union, which means that some 1557 employees will receive approximately $225 in cash payment, providing he has been with the service as a regular for at least five years. In the same award the company agrees to pay an increase of two and one half cents per hour to be retroactive to May 'ZZ, 1946. Wilsons Variety Shop 1770 MAIN STREET HARTFORD, CONN. It is perhaps fortunate that human nature has the inclination to forget those experiences that bring heart ache and suffering. But as yet it is too soon for millions of people to have forgotten the dismal, unhappy Christ mases of '41, '42, '43, and '44. So we are happy this Christmas when families and friends are once more re-united to sincerely hope that this was one of the happiest and that the New Year will bring an abundance of joy and prosperity. 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