1964 Awake! - Theocratic Collector.com

-What
Does It
DANVILLE, Virginia, a quiet textile
center in the United States,
with a population of about 46,000, onethird
of whom are Negroes, was recently
the scene of a protest demonstration by
some sixty-five Negroes. A fracas started,
one that should have been easily settled.
Instead, a water hose was turned on the
demonstrators, and under cover of the water
barrage the Danville police charged in
swinging their clubs. Violence erupted.
Forty-seven Negroes and whites were injured.
The commW1ity was shocked.
In South Africa troops were used to put
down demonstrations by the black Bantu
who were protesting new restrictions of
the "white supremacy" government. In
Tanganyika the army revolted and violence
reigned unabated for days. In Japan
6,000 leftist-led students tried to storm the
Parli:'''l1ent building in Tokyo. Thirty
policemen and one hundred demonstrators
were injured.
On five continents riots, uprisings and
violence of varied origin have exploded recently.
Students in Panama, France, Turkey
and other places have taken to the
streets. Rebels in Zanzibar, Algeria, Vene·
zuela and Paraguay have risen up in arms.
Workers in France, East Germany, Russia
and Poland have braved death to demon·
strate their grievances. Terrorists in Cu­
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Mean? ba, the Congo and Viet-
nam have struck against
existing government'>. By chance or by
design, violence has taken the stage from
peace talks. Everywhere the world displays
an uncomfortable impatience with
old methods of settling differences and getting
things done. It wants what it wants
and now! Yes, now. even if it means violence
and bloodshed.
Youth Violence
More often than not the firebrands of
change and violence are the youths of the
world. They have been taught that they
are as good as anybody else, that everyone
is equal, that they have a right to what
they want. They are told that they should
get jobs and work, but not all of them can
get work and others do not want it. Theil'
frustration and boredom turn to violence.
They smash windows, beat up people who
have what the youths have not been able
to acquire. They rape, torture and kill. And
there are literally millions of such youths
on the move in all parts of the world.
But it would be unfair to blame all the
mounting violence in the world on "disturbed"
youths. For it is obvious today
that the pattern of violence is not confined
to anyone nation or to anyone part of a
nation or anyone kind of person. When
violence shamed Little Rock, Arkansas, be-
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