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Scene From Top 0’ The Hill
By: Jack Kelly
I have about reached the con
clusion that what this Country
needs is to get rid of one Heck
of a lot of our “do-gooders”.
Not only our Governmental
brand but particularly the kind
who write the syndicated artic
les for newspapers all over the
USA. Quite recently, I read an
article, two, as a matter of fact,
by one of our better known and
more readable columnists, who,
properly, has gained quite a fol
lowing. I’m writing about Jim
Bishop. He’s the chap who wrote
the Lincoln’s Last Day, Christ’s
Last Day, President’s Last Day,
and many other tomes.
In that type of a book, you
must make allowances for a bit
of truth-stretching and author
interpretation. His book on Lin
coln was, on the whole, accurate
and most readable. The book on
our Savior, well, let’s face it,
it was an impossible task for
any author. Actually, it was a
confession that the material iust
was not available to a resear
cher so, Mr. Bishop compounded
the various facts of which we
are all aware, then he present
ed them in dialogue form be
tween non-existent people, as if
he had a pipe line to the actual
scene on the actual occasion.
No complaint if I say "if”—
he had presented it as a fiction
al work. But he didn't. He at
tempted to palm it off as a re
searched set of facts. As a re
sult, it was not a good book, nor
was it good reading, because it
left you with a sense of empti
ness He had not furnished what
you had a right to expect.
On his book about a day with
President Johnson, a much bet
ter reviewer than myself by
stating that with friends like
Bishop Johnson didn’t need ene
mies. This volume was one of
the most uninteresting “who
cares” volumes anyone ever
read. His latest, well, it’s just
a compendium of the newspaper
clippings, only not as well writ
ten. All of this, I could have
withstood, but, now his column,
which I always liked, has taken
a different slant.
Not too long ago he wrote one
about his mother-in-law. It gave
the impression that he was
going to praise the olu gal but,
after you got into it, you realiz
ed he was ripping her to shreds.
Now anyone, male or female,
who has ever married, tias
hundreds or even thousands of
gripes, all legitimate, about a
mother-in-lawlaw, but, to put it
down in writing for money,
seems to be a bit on the crass
side. That was the article that
made me wonder if my favorite
columnist had changed. All of
my doubts were settled on that
•core when, in the latter part of
June when I was up in Maine, I
read his "do-good” article on
Negroes in Harlem, the gigantic
colored section of Manhattan in
New York.
As a younger man, I worked
in Harlem as a Federal Investi
gator, and I know the area and
the people. Bishop really pbon
ied on this particular article.
He described Harlem as a “tor
ture.” Then he stated that IK
years ago, when he lived there,
“we didn’t have the gray slant
of rain then.” Just what a gray
slant of rain would be, I frankly
don’t know. I do know that if
they have one now in Harlem,
they also had it 35 years ago.
Then, he waxed poetic. He
wrote, of his recent visit, “There
was a moon over the clothes
lines. And gin. And watermelon
laughter.—” Now, all of us have
seen a moon over a clothesline
but gin—l don’t believe it. As
to watermelon laughter I
don’t get it. As to its being over
a clothesline, I don’t believe it.
After a few more lines that im
pressed me that Harlem used to
ba pretty good for the colored
brother he tells me that all of
that “misery has boon UwUd
for despair.” Then he tells me
that heroin is delivered by
baloons attached to a bicycle,
which, on the face of it is ridi
culous. Besides, I don’t care too
much for people who use heroin.
His finest and, to me, most non
understandable statement was
“The gray rat will learn to
work an automatic elevator.” If
you understand it, please don't
explain it to me. Next he goes
into some balderdash about one
Negro here and another placed
here or there in a big job, but
tle states “This country is still
white Protestant. It pits 90 per
cent against 10 percent. The 10
percent cannot win—.”
From his research, Mr. Bis
hop must know that this Coun
try is approximately 25% Cath
olic, 5% Jewish, and 70% Pro
aestant. He also should know
that the 10% of the population
that is Negro is about 95% Pro
testant. So I fail to see how ha
can blame the Protestant popu
lation of our Country for the
Negroes’ plight. I will not be
lieve that our Country ever Boas
up on any proposition on a 90-
10 basis. We are too big to gen
eralize. We have too many de
grees of any side mentioned:
rich and poor; Republicans and
Democrats; capital and labor;
white and black; Catholic and
Protestant, etc. If Bishop doesn’t
know that a lot of Protestants
voted for Catholic Kennedy
he is hopeless. Bishop is a “do
gooder” I can do without.
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Information
EDITOR'S NOTE: Below are
authoriative answers by the
Veterans Administration to some
of the many current questions
from former servicemen and
their families. Further informa
tion cn veterans benefits may be
obtained at any VA office.
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Hearing On
Parkway To
Be Held
WASHINGTON U. S. Rep.
Roy A. Taylor has announced
that a hearing has been sched
uled for 9:45 a. m., July 28, on
Uhis bill and companion bills to
extend the Blue Ridge Parkway
at Atlanta.
The hearing will be before the
National Parks and Recreation
Subcommittee of the House In
terior Committee. Taylor is
chairman of the subcommittee
and will preside.
Witnesses will include Con
gressman Taylor, Phil M. Lan
drum <D-00l and John V. Davis
(D-Ga), through whose Congres
sional Districts the extension
would pass and who are co
sponsoring the legislation.
Others expected to testify in
support of the proposal include
federal departmental speakers.
Governor Dan Moore or his re
presentative, and representatives
of several Western North Caro
lina development and promo
tional organizations.
Rep. Taylor said, "the exten
sion Bhould be authorized by
Congress without delay so that
the states of North Carolina and
Georgia can proceed to acquire
necessary rights-of-way before
prices increase further.”
A report submitted to Congress
in 1963 in which the extension
was strongly recommended esti
mated its cost at *87,536,000.
Taylor has stressed that con
struction can be funded from al
ready authorized annual park
way construction appropriations
and would not necessitate any
increase in present nationwide
parkway construction spending.
Q I was divorced from a
veteran a short time ago. He is
now in the hospital and is unable
to make his payments to sup
port our two children. Can I get
VA payments toward the sup
port of these children?
A— If your husband has more
than a 30 percent service-con
nected disability, and if he is
receiving compensation payments
because of it, you should contact
the nearest Veterans Adminis
tration office and discuss your
case with representatives there.
O Can the burial expenses
of a wife or child paid) by the
veteran be deducted from his in
come for pension purposes?
A— The expenses of last sick
ness and burial of a wife or
child paid by the veteran pen
sioner can be deducted from his
income for year in which
they are paid.
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BY CORNILIUS K. STAM PHIS.
BIRIAN BIBLE SOCIETY
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 6063 S
TITLE: FROM DEATH TO
BIRTH
“Bring bom a<*ain, not of cor
ruptible seed, but of incorrupt
ible, by the Word of God, which
liveth and abideth forever”
(I Pet. 1:23).
We are prone to think of
death as following birth. People
are born to live their lives and
then die.
Spiritually, however, it is the
other way. St. Peter, by divine
inspiration, says that we must
be “born again” because:
“All flesh is as grass, and all
the glory of man as the flower
of grass. The grass withereto
and the flower thereof falleth
away:
“But the Word of the Lord en
dureth forever. And this is the
word which by the gospel is
preached unto you” (Vers.
24, 25).
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This new birth is a spiritual
matter, necessitated by the fact
that by nature men are “dead in
trespasses and sins” (Eph. 2:1).
Thus believers are not bom
again in the same way as they
were first bom, but are bom
again—given new life, by be
lieving the Wcrd of God.
God’s Word, in this passage,
is called “incorruptible seed”—
seed that cannot die. Once the
Word takes root in one’s heart,
once he believes end receives
it, it never dies, but produces
in him “everlasting life.”
“The Word of the Lord endur
eth forever, and this is the
Word which by the gospe 1 is
preached unto you” (Ver. 25).
The Word of God takes root
in one’s heart only asi, he be
lieves the gospel, the good news,
about Christ’s redemptive work.
Peter himself proclaims this
wonderful gospel:
“• . . Ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things, as silver
and gold ... but with the pre
cious blood of Christ. . . " (I
Peter 1:18, 18).
"Who His own self bare our
sins in Hs own b-'dy cn toe
tree. . . ” (I Pet. 1:24).
“For Chri't alsi hath race
suffered for sins, toe Just tor the
unjust, that Ha might bring us
to G d. . . ” (I Pete- 1:18).
Believing this news Head
sinners are "bora again.”