Atlanta Daily World

WASHINGTON-(ANP)- If America should put an end to discrimination based on race, color, or creed in our generation, it would set an example for the rest of the world declared Senator Wayne Morse (R., Oregon).

Speaking at the opening meeting of a two-day community conference on intercultural education held at the Interior Department Auditorium last Wednesday night, the Oregon Senator recommended the teaching of "democratic values so that they will be put into practice and not shelved as empty abstraction."

"The solution of the problem of intercultural education will determine in the last analysis whether we have peace or war," he said.

The conference was called by a group of civic leaders and school officials for the purpose of promoting a program to teach school children tolerance and belief in equality.

Lester Granger, executive director of the National Urban League described the conference as a start toward intercultural understanding, but added that he did not think that Washington was looking at or to intercultural education.

Pointing out that Washington is "still steeped in ignorance, bigotry and fear" in matters of race relations, the league executive declared that the people of this city would vote down a proposition of intercultural education if it was put before them today.

He described this nation as being a striving, blundering, groping people, stumbling toward democracy which does not even exist in the National Capitol which is naturally a reflection of the whole country.

"We need more intercultural, international, inter-people understanding. He stated that the distrust of Americans elsewhere in the world resulted from our inability to get along together in this country.

Supt. Corning, who is an advocate of separate schools, boasted that biracial meetings of school officers and teachers were sometimes held in Washington.