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TWO TILE FUTURE OUTLOOK ^ Greensboro Negro Newspaper DIAL 3-1758 PUBLISHED WEEKLY 5c Per Copy $1.50 Per Year J. F. JOHNSON, Editor & Publisher GERTRUDE BKIGGS, Social Editor HERMAN CUM MINGS Circulation Manager and News Reporter Business Office: < 505 East Market Street Address All Commuiiications To THE FUTURE OUTLOOK 505 East Market Street Make All Checks Payable To THE FUTURE OUTLOOK "Entered as second-class matter April 28, 1043, at the post office at Greensboro, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1870." The policy of The Future Outlook is to create a better understanding of inter-racial good will and harmonv. To promote the morale of all GreensboA) citizens and those individuals living in the United States who might perchance read this paper. Practice the teaching of Jesus Christ. Help build a democratic government that will serve humanity. Give our readers the outstanding values offered by the merchants. BACK TO BOOKS Within a short time school hells will be ringing and colleges will be throwing open their doors to those who thirst for knowledge. Many faces that we missed during the summer will be in evidence again. With the end of the war, the government is urging teen-agers to lay down wartime jobs and once more return to the classroom to increase tlierr store of knowledge. Many boys and girls blinded by the sight and the nos session of money will be reluctant about returning to classrooms filled with dull routine and tedious subjects. Those boys and girls at first glance will seem more fortunate than the boys and girls of the depression 30's who were fortunate indeed if they were able to find jobs cutting grass or tending someone's else children during the summer. Money was scarce, even for their parents. Most of these earlier children had to remain Idle out of necessity, but they remained on the whole, boys and girls with visIons. The boys and girls in this fast-moving time are aware of more freedom and more spending change. But their outlook is not as free and gay as in former years. Their eyes do not contain the eagerness and their minds do not grasp the meaning of the future as readily. If you observe them closely you see in them not youths with a future, but old men and women filled with disillusion. In a large measure, the war can be held responsible for this turn of events. It has put on the shoulders of youth a greater THE Ft load of responsibility and care. The boys have before them the prospect of the army, so they have become pessimistic about the future. They are not that way because they have disdain for the army, but because they, as Americans, have been taught to loathe war and all its symbols. With the end of the war, however, the picture loses some of its grjmness, because tlieso youths now have a chance to spend more time at their studies fo the achievements of man rather than preparing for the destruction of man. God has indeed dealt mercifully wtih us. The war ended in time for the government to prepare these boys and girls for classroom work and deportment. Fortunate we are that the ravages of this, the most destructive war in history, have left so few of its scars upon us, either materially, physically or morally. We do not know the horrors of screaming bombs, the moans of the dying or the terrifying sight of a city razed. Our children will go to school on schedule, well fed, well housI ed and with heads held high, filled with a sense of freedom and strength. So it is with glad ness in our hearts to know that iu a short trine the halls of learning will again echo to the feet of those seeking the oil of the lamp of knowledge. Welcome school days! INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON MORAL LEADERSHIP Golden Text: Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings.?Prov. 22:29 GOD'S NUMIlliU IS ONE Hy Halford K. Luccock A WELL-FOUNDED objection could be taken to the title printed above. A swift and true rejoinder could be made tliat "God's number is two billion." True, for that is approximately the population of the globe right now. (If we have any more world Wars ill I li re i*nn 111 i*v ! will l.n I considerably less). God's number is emphatically that of the whole family of his sons and daughters. Yet at the heart of God's revelation is his concern for the Individual. Also, history is full of impressive examples of the truth that Clod works through one person to carry forward his j>urposes. All the "Way from Abraham to Paul, all the way down to the present day, one person devoted to God and his will, has been a powerful lever for moving the mass of people. Our lesson today then, "brings needed reminders of the importance of one person. In these days of so many personal forces that is a truth easily forgotten. Consider this theme of moral leadership In two aspects: flrBt, one's own possibilities and responsibility as a leader; secondly, the obligation to give to real moral leaders of our time what is desperately needed?followers. First consider our call to be leaders. Immediately someone will say: '-'That lets me out. I haven't got what it takes to be a great leader.'' That gives one a pleasant feeling of relief. He feels that he is excused from doing anything. And, of curse, this i I fTURE OUTLOOK, GREENS] I example of Joseph is far, far away from our own situation. The story of Joseph is a great success story, ft is like the kind so popular generations ago: poor boys who became famous. Certainly we cannot see ourselves rising, as Joseph did, to become secretary of agriculture or vicedictator of a kingdom. All right, then! Drop that out. We are not training to become Josephs. We couldn't manage it even if "the breaks," as they are called, came to us. Hut notice the chief thing in Joseph's character and career. That does apply to us. He kept the moral standards of his religious training, he kept his sympathy with people in need, and he made his life count definitely for the good of others. That is moral leadership, whether the field of its action is large or small. Never forget that effective moral leadership is given wherever one person exerts an influence for good upon one other person or upon a few. Jesus i? the world's unmatched leader of humanity; hut his influence was first exerted upon a smlal group of twelve men. Last year a biography was published of a man few people had lever heard of?Mentor Graham. Does that name mean anything; to you?. Probably not. He lived and died unsung. Yet he was one of the most influential leaders of his time. How? He was an obscure country school teacher in Illinois. To hrm Abraham Lincoln owed his education. Graham saw the possibilities of one boy. He gave himself unsparingly to the job of enlightening a mind and molding a character. What is the outstanding instance of personal influence by one person that you have ever seen? 1. Joseph kept the moral values in the chief place in his life. Other standards and practices prevailed around him. His associates worshiped other gods; but Joseph did not throw over the things he had learned to be of supreme importance?his covenant relationship to God and the' standards of conduct which that involved. When a person keeps those values uncompromiscd and lets them come out in his contacts with others, he is a genuine moral leader. 2. Joseph cared about people. inai snowed rn ills wovk in preparation for famine, tliat people should not starve. It later showed in his relation to his brothers. How much do you really care about people? Enough to get your mind off the merry-goround of your own interests? If you do, then the possibilities of a real leadership ts yours. 3. That means work, caring about what happens to other people. Joseph had the mark of leadership. Have you? Are you willing to do what you can with the tools you have? Now turn to the other aspect of this question: If moral leadership is to be effective, there must also be "moral fellowship" Can you be depended on to give that? There are, thank God, In your community and state and nation men and women working to help establish the kingdom of God. Can they depend on your following them? That takes courage. When some in your community struggle for better conditions and opportunities, can they say of you, "Well, we can count on his backing, anyhow?" boro, n. c. sati i faankie c/ ~~~~~~~~~ | popular cc ano banc i??* TOOK UP AFTER BREAK HANDS IN THE A FORMER t WEIGHT STAl NEVER LOST wo^i^ l'nul robesotf, l:j$' ALL-AMERICAN END .( / & IN I9I0, ALSO WON fW.;-' LETTERS IN BASEBALL, basketball and i track at rutgers. \ ,> " l^nny \r--: ross, 103 i the radio, stage :j and screen star was a track star" < ? at vale ne won tag QUARTER. MILE IN THE PENN PELAVS IN HQ VS SECS. BUY WAR. BONDS A B?5^ ' PUEBLOMN^O j ^IsocfpaioN/ n > 'O^. f?pj i ?! ! in i9V7 was knocked our \i OF THE BOX BV CINCINNATI \ A ONE DAy, BUT CAME BACK _\'W AND SHUT EM OUT p* NEXT | | . ' LOU \ i fette yv^-= inc VUT"sTANt>)N(a ROOK)] HURLER OF 1937 THOUGH HE was 3o years old?he wo// 6 OF his first 9 starts for boston. (they were the "bees" that year, but they're the "braves' nov/.') ; buv war, ao/vos / Fonnor ANG Gal g Plans RC Forums c Luzon ? Louise Levitas, for- e ler American Newspaper GuildCIO member who was no the staff of the newspaper PM, has turned her 27 months of overseas service with the Red Cross to c good account in more than one t way. Her latest project is a se- t ries of form discussions built f around informal talks by combat r veterans, as part of the recrea- f tion program of the Luzon base b to which she ts assigned. When- t ever possible, she arranges show- e ings of army-produced pictures c to supplement the particular talk t of the evening. "The men are t intensely interested," she re- t; ports, "in such topics as the tech- t nlque for taking and processing o [trday, september 1, 1945 ^ CPORTS I X OUT OF ADAM'S HAT im^oIer. ?3sh's L. ' 1>J&$ rins1927 ^ T \/ r*\ / / r* t*i i r- A-*-**, 0m t ' 7WUAS. I nc*\ I KC .'J ^ CPORTS 2? OUT OF ADAM'S HAT 'Sfes:- ' WlPl Sg^fV " ' ' 2f^.y/'V ;v . f, ? , . .* ' W*' >V' . : _ . /.. ' ' ' - ' ; ' I XT YOUR THEATREf I ;ood pictures, tighter missions, ombat conditions and combat xperiences of other soldiers." Blood Donations End On Official V-J Day H Washington, D. C. ? Amerl- I an Red Cross blood donor cen- I ers, which have obtained more han 12,250,000 blood donations I rp the army and navy, will cease I military operations as of the oflcial V-J Day. However, on the H lasls of community needs, chap- I ers may now prepare for the opration of civilian blood douor I enters. Also, five appointed cen- I ers on the west coast may coninue to collect the special "O" I ype of blood for air shipment to I he Pacific, until all possibility f need Is ended.
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