Atlanta Daily World

VA Special Assistant In Challenge
Calls Churches To Assume Vets' Rehabilitation

WASHINGTON (ANP) Delivering his first public address since assuming the position of special assistant to the administrator of veterans affairs, John A. Davis issued a strong challenge to all Negro churches to assume full responsibility in veterans rehabilitation. In an appearance before the Baptist laymen in a Father's Day program at the Antioch Baptist church in this city, employing the theme, A Better World By Better Men the speaker said, "You can not have better men until there are better opportunities for citizenship. These opportunities involve better jobs, better housing, better civic treatment and better guidance, spiritual and secular."

Albright then electrified his audience by bluntly stating that unless the churches step right up and join the crusade to see that our veterans get all these things, they might just as well admit their inadequacy in dealing out every day religion.

Furthermore, he continued, "the veteran has every right to expect assistance from the church, the (Continued on back page)
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one organization above all others which our late military enemies that he helped defeat were determined to destroy.'
CITES DIRE NEEDS
Citing the dire need for church action, Albright stated that 'one certain way to spread the seeds of un-American isms among veterans is for the church to fail to rally around them now in their needful hour of post-war adjustment. Toward this end every Negro church should have an advisement center for its veterans, under the direction of some of its members who are well informed on laws relating to them. The spirit of religious receptivity which could be engendered by this effort is beyond calculation.'
In closing his address, the special assistant made the promise that he would do everything within the power of his authority to effectively plead the cause of the Negro veterans within the Veterans administration. He was tendered a standing vote of thanks by the audience for his 'challenging remarks.'