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January 15 marked the 51st birthday of slain civil
? rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. who was killed
by an assassin's bullet April 4, 1968 in Memphis, . I
v Tenn. Today his work 4nd dedication continues' in
~ the minds and hearts of the American peoptei1
Dr. King was born Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Ga.
* His crusade based on the Christian philosophy and
^ non-violent tactics ot Mahatrna Gandhi, won him the
Nobel Preach Prize in 1964.
He was the son of Rev. and Mrs. Martin Luther
King, Sr. He grew up in Atlanta and attended
Morehouse College. He also graduated from
predominantly white Crozer Theological Seminary in
Pennsylvania and attended Boston College fcv
graduate studies.
While at Boston College he met Coretta Scott, a
* voice major at the New F.noland Conservatory. They
married in June 19S3 by* Martin Luther l?ing, Sr.
That union later produced four children.
In 1954, King became the pastor of the Dexter
Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala. It was
in Montgomery that the heart of the civil rights
movement began.
.On Dec.l, 1955, in Montgomery, Rosa Parks, a
seamstress refused to give up her seat on a bus to a v
white passenger. She was arrested and because of
her arrest blacks of Montgomery began a year long
boycott of the city's buses. The boycott continued
until city officials agreed to their demands.
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The bus boycott was followed by the Prayer ,
Pilgrimage for Freedom at which 37,000 marchers
from all over the country assembled at the Lincoln
Memorial, rallying to the slogan, "Give us the
^ ballot."
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There is a time tor some things and a time tor
other things; a time for great things and a time for
^small things. There are mountains and there are
Galleysi there arejittle streams and there are great oceans;
there are small islands^ and there are great
continents surrounded by oceans.
No matter where we look there are contrasts. To
the degree that we bring the principle of contrast to
life>t0 that de?rf* shan i *
Kijoythe^vof ?f Hfe? ?We need to kno* how to use *
r the principle of contrast in such a wholesome way
- that it will contribute toward the development of all
I our powers.
It seems the onlysane way of living is to do in the
present what needs to be done - and do it in the most
? intelligent and constructive way possible.
: There is one thing about this world in which we
live, it never quits business but keeps oil moving, no
matter what the weather may be, and if you do not
keep up with it you are left behind. You cannot go
forward by looking back. The loss of one day seems
trifling, so does the lose of one hair from your head,
but the trouble is that the slighting of the work of the
day becomes a habit, the hairs come out faster and
faster, the next thing you know you are bald.
To achieve something
worthwhile, a person
for day by to
reach that goal. You will
fincf that when you do
your work today in the Naoilli McLean
way it ought to be done, / ,
the door of opportunity
will open for you.
Few people realize how much of their happiness is
dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they
are kept busy. Happiness comes most to people who
seek it least and think least about it. It is not an
object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It
must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
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ffiessea is ine man wnv has svmv wu^vuioi
work, some occupation into which he can put his
heart and which affords a complete outlet to all the
forces in him/'
Trying for superiorty in any one thing means only
that you are going up, and if you are not going up
you are going down. You are either progressing or
retrograding: you cannot stand still. The moment
you begin to lose your interest in that one thing, first
you go down and then you go out.
It is practical to say that we have to look below the
surface if we want find the real meaning of life. Life
need not be commonplace and routine to anybody.
Everybody can make his life flow with meaning and
beauty. Common things can be made stimulating
and uncommon. Dull facts can be invested with the
lilt and lift of vision.
* The fullness of life grows out of a combination if
- ' - ' ideaHsm attd realism, emphasizing strongly for our
daily bread and the necessities of life-work is
important.
There are too many young people who fall back on
the stale statement "the world owes me a living
4 anyhow so what is the use of worrying about work?"
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Certainly, I wish to offer stated that you were deteryou
and your staff my sin- mined to establish your
cere congratulations on paper so that the paper
successfully completing the could compete in the .marrequirements
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staff are to be congratulated.
T;C. Jervay
Next time I am in Win- Owner-Editor
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Thanks For
Dear Editor: holiday mail volume withThe
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has just completed another success also was due to our
successful Christmas mail- dedicated postal employees
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rights area. The executive branch has not mounted an
all-out vigorous enforcement program and Congress has
j not corrected the weakness of the Fair Housing Act."
According to the chairperson of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board, Jay Janis, only the "privileged few"
can afford to buy new homes in metropolitan or urban
areas. Mortgage rates for new homes have increased
form 11 percent to 14 percent since this summer, and
construction loan rates to homebuilders exceed 16
percent in most states. Only ten years ago, most people
speift about 18 percent of their disposable income for
housing. Today the figure has jumped to'36 percent, and
continues to climb. Janis stated that only one American
family out of six could even qualify to purchase a
medium-priced, new home.
Let's"look at the problem of rising mortgage rates in
human terms. The difference each' month between a
$55,000, 30-year mortgage at 9 percent interest vs. 13
percent is $160, or almost $2,000 per year. A home
costing $65,000 that carries a 14 percent mortgage would
cost the consumer $732 per month, or $8,784 per year
The median annual income for a black family today is
less than $12,000. Only one black family intwenty earns
more than $36,000 annually.
How many of our people, living in the inncrcitv, coulc
afford to pay even half of $&,784 towards a new hom<
mortgage? How many black families will never be abl<
* to afford decent housing of any kind?
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a I am happy to join with the Negro lives on a
you today in what will go lonely island of poverty
down in history as the in the midst of a vast
greatest demonstration ocean of material profor
freedom in the his- sperity; one hundred
tory of our nation. years later, the Negro is
Five score years ago, a still languished in the
great American, in corners of American sowhose
symbolic shadow ciety and $nds himself in
we stand today, signed exile in his own land,
the Emancipation Proclamation.
This momen- I say to you today, my
tous decree came as a friends, so even though
great beacon light of we face the difficulties of
hope to millions of Negro today and tomorrow,M
slaves who had been still have a dream. It is a 4
seared in the flames of dream deeply rooted in
withering injustice. It the American dream. I
came as a iovnns riav. a?i?
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break to end the long day this nation will rise
night of their captivity. Up and live out the true
But one hundred years meaning of its creed,
later, the Negro still is 4 4 We hold these truths to
not free; one hundred be self-evident, that all
years later, the life of the men are created equal.''
Negro is still sadly crip- i have a drekm that one
pled by the manacles of day on the red hills of
segregation and the Georgia, sons of former
chains of discrimination; slaves and the sons of
one hundred years later, former stave owners will
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Sincerely, program and receive
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be able to sit down black boys and black
together at the table of girls will be able to join
brotherhood. hands with little white
1 have a dream that boys and white girls as
one day even the state of sisters and brothers.
Mississippi, a state
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sweucnng wiui mc ucai nuu Tfnvu mu
of injustice, sweltering pens, and when we allow
with the heat of oppres- * freedom to ring, when. .
sion, will be transformed we let it ring from ever^ \
into an oasis of free- village and every hamlet
dom and justice. I have from every state and
a dream that my four every -city' we wil1 be
little children will one able to speed up that flay
day live in a nation when all of God's chil|
where they will not be dren, black men and
Judged by the color of white men' Jews and
their skin,, but by the gentiles, Protestants and
content of their charac- Catholics will be able to.
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I have a dream that Negro spiritual: "Free
one - day down in at 'as*' ??ree at 'as''
Alabama - with its vi- Thank God Almighty,
cious racists, with its We are *ree at 'ast'
Governor having his lips Speech courtesy of Mardripping
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interposition and nul- ter for Social Change;
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