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TWO X? THE FUTURE OUTLOOK J. F. JOHNSON Editor & Publisher MISS EMMA P. JOHNSON News Reporter HELEN RICHARDSON BATTLE News Reporter & Bookkeeper L. A. Wist Staff Photographer Make all checks payable to and mail to: THE FUTURE OUTLOOK P. O. Box 20831 ? GREENSBORO, N. C. 27420 PHONE 273-1768 Second Class Postage Paid at Greensboro, N. C. 10c Per Copy Published Weekly $6.00 Per Year GOOD MANNERS The year 1971 should be one of the most prosperous years in the history of Greensboro. There are more doors open to job, school, and social opportunities than ever before, but one should not forget the editorial of Good Manners which we publish every year. It has always been said that good manners will carry a person further than money. That doesn't mean that a *r i ? ? "?? ? ? * - ? - - i-*egro nas u> oe an " uncle Tom" or "Aunt Hannah" or a person with a master's degree in education to acquire the habit of using good manners in the everyday walks of life. Our older parents were accustomed to wearing tacky garments when they went out to seek a job, or a bargain of some commodity which was needed. By going out in this manner, they felt that the proprietor would have sympathy and grant them a better bargain or job because their appearance showed they were in need. This is a new day. The younger generation is wiser and understands his needs without putting on ragged attire. I often see nowadays, many of the older parents uptown seeking a bargain with their teen-age jackets and misfitted suits, bowing and being submissive to some proprietor of a business firm. The first reply comes from the salesman of the firm, "Come in Auntie (or Uncle), what can I do for you today?" The customer answers. 'T am looking for certain commodities." Their appearance induces the salesman to present some cheap or store worn goods which cannot be sold as first-class materials. On many occasions, the buyer usually falls for the cheap goods and buys it at a price that he could get the same line of products at first class. The salesman tells the customer to pay ten dollars down on the price of the goods which is twenty-five dollars and pay a dollar a week for goods which are worth about ten dollars. The salesman tells auntie or uncle, "I have seen you around town, and I know you have good credit references, but give me at least three of them, and sign your name on this application blank. The buyer signs his name "John Hancock or Mary Jones" with the understanding that payment will be made each Monday following. If a payment is missed one or two weeks, she receives a letter addressed to Mary Jones. When she opens the letter, the first thing she reads is, "Mary, you have missed two weeks on your payment," or a collector may be sent to the residence requesting payment of back bills. If the buyer is able to catch up his payments and also pay a week in advance, the same salesman is back telling the customer of some new commodity on display. Before any business is transacted, he will have to tell two or three commercial jokes with reflections on some Negro, to create humor, and a big laugh. The salesman of the firm places all Negroes in the same category. The new generation is educated to the point that they are getting away from such manners. Many refuse to buy from a sales agent when they do not put a handle to their name on the contract. The customer mails a check when payment is due, and will not allow agents to come to their homes early il.. ? v m it % ? in uic morning uexore tne nousenoid duties are done m order to receive guests. May we urge our readers, please do not be high pressured by salesmen to buy commodities beyond your earnings and then be humiliated by bills and collectors at home and especially at work. Put yourselves in a position with business firms so you may be able to demand respect. On many occasions when one goes shopping properly dressed and stops in a cheap credit store he is greeted by to nang up so tne family co Getting revenge over the tel they wish, not knowing wh parties are having, such as policeman, or the manageme One should go neatly di before time to change clotl When working on constructs prietor has a dressing room firms like for their employ? and conduct. We are not writing th etiquette, but we are pointin we are criticized It has been said from til the way it should go and wt depart from it. The first step of good types of profanity that a c family squabbles, mostly fro with the child all during the is cute when it uses some pi home. Not only the child, bu congregations of teen agers men, all you can hear is all regardless of who passes. Why so many people an that the boss gives certain e he does them. They are jealo take advantage of their earn for better living conditions, them of being impetuous an because they try to tell the They refuse to work in the have to get the boss told ev good manners carry one fur prietors would rather pay i salary in advance and get r keep confusion all the time, respect. It has been said tim name is better than all richi rived from good manners. A first pure, peaceful, gentle, a mercy and of good fruit wi hypocrisy. Space and time will not | plaining the uses of comma I manners. What do you thin IE FUTURE OUTLOl THIS WEEK'S THINKING ABOUT GOD What is our concern? Each of us has a different idea of God. Man is constantly seeking to understand God, and God is forever eluding man's grasp. We almost always think of him in human terms since these are the highest categories we can use with understanding. This approach is true in the Bible also. The biblical writers know that God transcends or surpasses everything they may think about him; but if they are to speak of him at all, it must be in terms they can understand. Of all the biblical writers, the prophets are most aware of God's transcendence; yet they are the very ones who speak of him in the most human terms. a salesman as Reverend, Pro standard up with good man; business, even though you m worker. The little things that cc manners are, first: the use < If you do not have one, long unmannerly; cut your convei have a telephone. Beware of have on the telephone. I was Knmn^ o ?.1-.?.?? - - wuxuvu in a nuuac wiiere a : line, and one of the parties w DK fr SUNDAY SCH Neither the biblical writers nc we can say what God is be only what he is like. Our lang uage is always analogical. The is, when we speak or think c God in these human terms, w are saying that he is somethin like this, that this human ex pression or anthropomorphisr in a way describes him. Anthropomorphisms are neve dangerous as long as we re member that we are saying whi God is like and not what h really is. When we limit Go to our descriptions, then we ai making God in our own imagi we snau taut more about tt images of God later in the let son. Searching the Scripture The Scripture for this lesso is Psalms 42; S3; 139; Acts 1< feasor, or Madame. Hold thi aera in your transactions o lay be an ordinary industris >unt most in the use of goo )f your neighbor's telephont drawn out conversations ar rsation short, even if you d the type of conversation yoi told that three children wer family was on a three part; as using the line and refuses uld call the fire department ephone, they talk as long a tat circumstances, the othe the need of a doctor, tax; nt of one's job. essed to and from work. G ies or uniform, if requirec sn jobs, be sure that the pre with showers. Most busines ies to be neat in appear an c is story as an authority o. g out a few things for whic me to time to train a child i ten it becomes old, it will nc manners is in the home. A hild uses is picked up froi m the mother, because she i day, and she thinks the chil ofanity that he learns in th t in most cases when vou a* on the street and old dirt types and kinds of profanity b unable to keep their jobs i mployees more privilege tha us and think other employee ings and use it more proper! They say the boss accuse d contrary on the job simp! boss how to run his businesi rain, or snow and they jus ery day. This is why we sa ther than money. Many pre i contrary person a month' id of them than to have hii Good manners pay in ever; e and time again that a goo less and fine gold, and is de person with good manners i ,nd is easily entreated, full o thout partiality and withou allow us the privilege of en n sense and tne use of goo k? IDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1971 IOOL LESSON ir 15-17; 17:22-31. Selected verses it are printed below. ;- Psalms 42:1-3 Lt 1 As a hart longs for flowing ?f streams, so longs my soul for e thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsts g for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold n the face of God? 3 My tears have been my food day and ,r night, while men say to me cons tinually, "Where is your God?" Psalms 53:1-2 e 1 The fool says in his heart, d "There is no God." They are e corrupt, doing abominable ine. iquity; there is none that does te good. 2 God looks down from i_ heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any that are wise, that seek after God. in Psalms 139:7 I: 7 Whither shall I go from thy - Spirit? Or whither shall X flee 8 from thy presence? r Acts 17:22-23 J 22 So Paul, standing in the middle of the Are-op-agus, said: d "Men of Athens, I perceive that j_ in every way you are very ree ligious. 23 For as I passed along, 0 and observed the objects of your U worship, I found also an altar P with this iner?T*ir?firm 'T/% on nn_ 7 known god.' What therefore you d worship as unknown, this I proL claim to you." 5 Memory Selection: God looks r down from heaven upon the '? sons of men to see if there are any that are wise, that seek 0 after God. ?Psalms 53:2 ' How We Think ef God J. B. Phillips points out in his 8 little book Your God Is Too 6 Small that men have many false conceptions of God. Many 1 persons think of God as no more than the conscience. They feel there is a "resident policeman" ? within us who approves or, more usually, disapproves of what we do, and this is God speaking to us. The danger here is that one's n conscience can be so easily tn^ fluenced or silenced that it does not make a very satisfactory e Gody Others think of God as a grand r old man who lives somewhere up in heaven and from time to time looks benevolently down n upon his earth. He is very old g and probably old-fashioned as y well. S Others see God as meek and y | mild, like our common miimn 5. ception of Jesus, and so neither it very upset by our sins nor disy posed to do anything about >- them. But to feel that God's S love is expressed in an unwilln ingness to deal with sin is to ^ cheapen love and debase it into sheer sentimentality. a Some think of God as a reff uge to which we go to escape t the stresses of everyday life. We can, indeed, "cast our burdens upon the Lord" ? but onlv after d I we have carried them aa far aa (Continued on Page 3) i
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