Stephanus Saris, 34, a headwaiter by trade, is the kind of man who gets interested in far-off causes. In 1956 he raised $93,000 for Hungarian refugees. Recently, at the Roman Catholic boys' club in Rotterdam that he helps run, he showed the boys a newspaper clipping. It described how two Negro boys in Monroe, N.C.—David Simpson, 8, and James Thompson, 10—had been sent to reform school for having kissed a white girl (TIME, Jan. 26). Saris' young friends got as indignant as he did.
Taking turns at the Mimeograph machine, they ground out letters to pupils all over the country....