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the cmmmsm WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JUNE 17. I.STI 4 WORDS OF WORSHIP If yoa tanks a «lcase study cl the ministry of J«as* Christ. f®s will fee surprised to note boar different his method was from that ©f those who preceded him. They spake to con demn whatever seemed to them to be wrong f,rji to instruct in the ways they considered to be right. Their purpose was to preach. In contrast to this. Jesus sought to communicate. Editorkd Viewpoint Great Leaders Must Be Good Followers Somehow leaders in many walks of life have sprung up all around us. Some are self-appointed while others have the belief they are called to lead. To wit: Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr , and many more. In business we call the leaders “execu tives”; in education, we call them “admin istrators.” and in civil rights we designate them simply as leaders. A good leader is aware that he must be a good follower when the time comes. No better illustration comes to us at this time than a study of the life of Jefferson Davis, only president of the Confederate States of America on the recent 164th anniver sary of Ms birth. The lesson we learn from this military leader is apropos at this time is view of the fact that two Army court martiais have recently attracted public at tention. One of the things which gained Davis a certain notoriety was his predilection for playing the role of an arm-chair strategist, and delivering severe, often unfounded, criticisms of General Robert E. Lee, & mil itary leader of great stature. President Davis was a graduate of West Point, as was Lee. and the Southern presi dent felt that he was qualified by training and experience to exercise a direct hand in the conduct of the war by Confederate Forces. In this belief. Davis was appar ently the spiritual forerunner of many ci vilian officials who now inhabit the na tion’s Capitol. The imment Lee, a great leader, was also m follower. He realized his position as a leader and subordinated his. personal pride fey accepting the harassing comments, crit icism and inept suggestions in silence and with dignity. Any executive knows instinct ively the value of silence, and the art of saying nothing which convicts enemies of their foSy. It’a Performance Os RespomsiMlities Which Counts This is the season, of grachiation and commencement, the time when former graduates meet for reunion, and a time for alumni to renew friendships grown dim by the years. We often wonder what makes the occasion apropos, when it occurs hun dreds of times each year in communities *2 around us. Graduating from, high schoo! vr college is momentous, since it marks a period when graduates are crossing the threshold of new vestures ht life. It is no wonder that a fam ous educator remarked that “Education is HfC. We think of commencement as the be ginning rather than the end.. The direct successors to the class reunion celebrated are ks a reflective snood when they receive their diplomas during the early half of th ; * IDwASth. The reunion graduates like to attend commencements because they ere reminded of the time when they too walked before the crowds to receive their diplomas- In fact, the excitement of the reunion season itself will serve to stir up memories of their warn occasion. when they entered a world erf doubt and fears. In one sense, the 196~ graduate knows tensions and threats that wouM have been entirely foreign to a class of a generation ago and which now dis turbs the academic world. For instance, the Viet Nans War and the most recent conflict in the Middle East. Many of the graduates Will become sci esJtirtss. doctors, nurses, business employees. Eight Mam, At The Right Time And Eight Place These words of Lyndon B. Johnson. as I* anomanged. that be had ebosaa Tbugiood Manhaß to be a member of the United S&stes Sqprmie Court, «B ring timmggk She «®cs Use thane biblical words, "Who hsows. tsut what he was selected far m fisae She this. Posterity wil cherish the of Lyndon 11 Johnson Hke this gmeratk» dmfcha mmm She Clearer Waritingtoa wad .Msmkrnn Uaaaekt- We «r tact to© awe to astern to §pw the VdMß* accolade, Jcfearas ©r Marshall. Whan said he cfesws the right man he wi amr m right Yhoqgood Marshall » dedkafed to the crose off right sad j«®~ See wad mate ms> tee® steal, it. Ilk de wfes to the te®al profeM® and Ms be*m- StaS hmanMtee of the las and the cm «*SWS«s» pleat Mss* m |ood tfeead. Certahi- Jo&wa ptehsri the right smss—« eaf»~ *hle man* a Sesstew mmm mm S m mtm «te* la*rtjnd wNLaiie wrapped m Bxm of ¥«» rids was the ‘Hew. Js-kwms ®*a» CHthSgsi to Che wind. sed warned as ** heast. Chet if America m firing to Ik the mrntm'i of dsweowey. ft mmt use the dem~ His manner was alwayr that of a friend, al most of an intimate. Even when his words rang out m fury, one feels his effort to ex plain. hit hanging to have his listeners un derstand. His purpose in other words, was not t© Instruct them as to wfaa* they they ought ~to do. but to help them in the growth that they wanted to make. By training, experience and character. Robert E. Lee was outstandingly superior to Davis, and he could have flaunted this fact in a self* ghteous manner, which like the modern day dissenters, and demanded that his ways be accepted. Such action would have hastened the downfall of the Confederacy, and so Lee did none of these things. Recently, a private at Fort Sill, Okla homa. was convicted of disobeying a di rect order which he felt was a violation of his freedom of speech. He maintained that he was a socialist, opposed to die war in Viet Nam and exercising his right to main tain and propagate that point of view. Perhaps the young private wanted to influence others to his way of thinking. Un fortunately, he will probably emerge from tliis experience feeling persecuted aad sor ry? for himself, and he will probably act realize that a citizen must leant to follow and obey before he can lead and dircet- Rofeert E. Lee learned-the lesson well and practiced “following’" throughout his life This explains why he is remembered with affection not only as a formidable military leader but a great -man among great men. Davis is remembered as a lesser individual. Moses had another fault as & leader, since he tried to do everything himself. Had it not been for his father-in-law. Je thro, he would have suffered a nervous breakdown. But when his father-in-law counselled him to appoint assistants to hear minor matters, he had learned the great lesson of relying upon the advice and help of others. Samson could do wonders single handed, but be could not organize the people into some worthwhile sendee. In other words, Samson could nether lead nor follow. Some leaders are to© officious and vain to play the role of good foOowen. public school and university teachers, and what have you. Students of the classics., especially, like to think of the “office of teacher** as synonymous with “duty”, that education is “to lead out”, and that leader ship is finally dependent upon ability and wißing-tess to to set the example. Doctors set the example by their alle giance to their Oath and the faithful pur suance of duty. Yet they do not become a slave to that Denson of Duty, for there comes a time when they ose lobbyists to their own best interest- The politicians, the industrialists, the la bor unions get theirs, but the world has come to think that the teacher is duty bound to remain a slave to whatever salary schedule and fringe benefits are handed out to them. The public thinks teachers should never protest for' they will be taken care of if they only have patience. On the whole, the average teacher is a dedicated person, but dedication itedf won’t pay the bills and cost of living 'which are constantly rising.. Teachers have been forced to learn that the “wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one which gets the grease.” The politicians and news reporters say to teachers who have been warned to stay off jobs in states where FEA sanctions, have been invoked, “that the performance cf duty is not “unethical.” This is diifv to the public, but the public must not forget that' teachers also have s duty to them, selves. ©crate processes erf getting the right man in the right place at tee right time. With Vietnam ©staking with gua fire. Roxbury. Mass., digging out of a conflict caused by hate and bigotry, with teymtets drawn in Alabama. and ns rampant iss Tamps. Fla,., the image of America needed to be lifted above the dis and fag of these atroci ties. Yes, Washington was the sight place. If it 1* to be realty tee citadel of world jus tice, certainly it needs a mm im its fewest ©assart, whose credo Is justice, whom, design, » right, and whose ambitiM is the adapta tion of 'tee taaefe of the second greatest dacamseH* ewer p«b£*ted--THE CCKNSTI- Ttmm m tee ran© states— who* tenets wore fata, .ten tee gmtet baafe-THR BXBJL We ©ppteid ter ©warage of Johnson, the slaty erf Manfeafi ni the mete of the detromk hada of mm of the people In AnaesSea, M aocMariag ft the «®we «f the ««a»«y« Mr. Jotaw*, me agree tot fthe iihht mao. M the tone Mat m me f hase. Oslf li Anifict BY HARRY GOLDEN YIDDISH WORDS AND PHRA SES I had (t houghs to inform ray readers about some Yiddish •words aad phrases. For In stance, the word “pitpel*’ means an argument about no thing. A “pipuT' is for an example the theological ar gument over whether God Is right handed or left hand ed. A “pUnti!" is usually re solved by the decision God is ambidextrous. What Inspired this woold bc column was my receipt of the new Yiddish dictionary. I tore open the heavy cardboard only to find It is a Yiddish dictionary printed in Hebrew, which 1 don't read at all. That does not mean, how ever, I don’t have a thought or two of which to divest my self. My feeling a boot Yiddish is that American Jew s are too coy about it. Certainly, It’s a reputable tongue, an argot derived from several middle- European languages, but tor all that serviceable enough. It has proved itself service able by virtue of the fact that several words have made their way Into English. Everyone knows what “sch lemeH M Is: he's a dope, totd a dope with a vengeance. And everyone should know *vhat a ‘ ‘m.eshugganah” is: a dope who is crazy. A *'siicate^s ,> is “a pleasure,’ agratuitous pleasure, like the smell of fresh flowers an a city street or meeting a £ year old girl dressed up for Sunday ser vices. “Hocking a chisig” is “beating a tin cup.’ People who “hock a efetelg*’ are us ually wives adept at henpeck tug. I use Yiddish words when Jilt hr fm BY .MARCUS H. BOOLWARE ART OF ANSWERING QUES TIONS Last week, a stud ml major and I had some “cross-fir*” concerning her paper, desig nated as test number 3, In the first place, a 5 question test was .answered by the stu dent In less than coe page. I considered this impossible, but no araoof reasoning coaid get this student to accept her errors. One question asked: “'Un der wfeal conditions do child ren develop voice disorders? The answer was “ swallowing an object In she larynx.”* Swallowing am object does not necessarily cause a voice problem, hoi it may. The answer might have car Other Editors Say... FH CHIEF CAUTIONS HOT SUMMER” In the current Issue at fee FI Law Enforcement Bulle tin, distributed monthly to law officers, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover's “message*’ deals Witts the threads of a ‘Tang, hot ssasmer. 1 ” He makes this petal. ’'Souse so called leaders .seem to Now bat sad cold wife rise same breath. They elate to sngipart noorMence, tm do they'? Far Instance, to publicly pinpoint cities where riots and detee may occur seems to be incoasls” tent witfa the doctrine of bob violence. ■‘Rather, M is more Mte as opass tovttatta. to hot-heads and rabble-rousers te ISsase a reas to set ck cue. 1 pots them on notice that they we expected to riot. Where are the reason and judgment to this type of leadership?*' And it isn’t only Dr. Mar tin Luther Klag, who to ef fect has doomed 1© cities to summer trouble, or Stokeiv Carmichael,, who has threat ened fee «afctoml capital, who are egging on these dismal prospects. Some otherwise responsible politicians have been in the act. Mr. Hoover also said: “All citizens have an sn deniable right to petition and demonstrate for causes they support.*' Bsa that doesn't gire them a license to Mil, mate, de » CStMttot *Xjovereng But CawtoMuf” »VWWh*<l fey m* Cwite OMRWWqr SIX E MattOm Street Hau-tcit.. s c. nan ISastos anßUres* S*. O. Bex CM > c. arvsntt SecuMl Clt» V&i'&fv JPswd at R»- te-siis X c rss s RATES Syx Man*)M ®S.S Sales “fa-v .... S& TOTAL *M One Vcar MB tblK* Tax . M wm mi PtoviiMte m Ash-ane*. AtMvmm «5i OMinunr nans and *nsXe ail c*»ccie» ana rr.-.r-.,. j «Wn ptjrßk ? ' THE CABCUMUUC A .»*■* .\* *»*1« a PuSCiiHer* Ine.. 35" %J«5. A" 'tm Sta Toric 1?. S ¥ 3C*t««as*' Advertising B«- j-seserotatare anti isM-mfccr ®f fee X»-.*bA4 SSh[tj Prerss. asset toe UnttcU Pews teematwaud Pl»»Si*t Service TTc Pwate«Sser il, no* rrzptsKSSttt# *w »*•* !**«*«» of tmrnti mmnk. Sttctmunas or sferaartoSag espg outew eeeesewy iposMwe acecnK s».«ues Use <nucr. Clpißiwß* expnMNMl Sj? ea®®***- -*s- tw limes m-wsmaer mm ww ■etMHnis# mpvtmrm !3*s pnOw «£ s&ss» nu*t. there is no English equiva lent. Which is what I mean when I say a great many Yiddish-speaking Jews are coy. They will often use the Yiddish words when perfectly good English words will do as well. There’s no difference between “drunk" and **shlk feer,”* so I prefer drunk. No other language has the equivalent of the English word, “coffee break." B is a phrase coined by the urban white col lar class. Farmers didn't take coffee breaks and blue col lar workers tend to drink coke and ginger ale aad linger by the dispenser rather than retire to a cafeteria for a 10 a.m. repast. It's words ill® “coffee break" which convey a whole way of life that makes English a stDl vibrant, vi gorous language. Yiddish oa tfee other hand is a dying language and ‘may scorn be just a dead as Greek or Latin. Greek aad Latin, however, still wield a pro found influence on English and exs the Romance languages, French, Spanish, Italian and Russian still spells Its words with a derivative of the Greek alphabet. Yiddish can exercise no si milar influence. Neither in flexibility nor in literature did it ever match the Romance languages but still it is a language whit* grew ©ts* of axi urban complex, tlse ghetto really tfee first middle class neighborhood. 1 am no etymologist cm phi lagist but that part of our lan guage now emergent comes from slang; aad it Is as a subtle slang that Yiddish of ten proves helpttal to the ar ticulate. ried some wight if she had said: “For example, If a child accidentally gets something lodged in his voice box, It may damage the edges of the vocal bands so that they can not approximate and produce a musical tocse. The usually-accepted an swer is that children develop voice disorders during play when they holler, yell, and scream, thereby Injuring the vocal bands. The results might be a hoarse voice, etc. This same student said “pitch” was a voice disorder . She- should have said unnatural pitch, moraopitch, pitch that is too high or too low, etc. One word never conveys a clear Idea. stroy, loot, or riot. The leaders who keep yell ing for the 'Tong, hot sum mer*' would do their cause ter more good if they would fol low toe example of toe Chi cago Daily Defender, a lead ing newspaper designed for Negro readers, which is of fering prizes fear the best ideas os tow to “keep a cod sum mer.* - THE SUNDAY COUR SER * PRESS, ARE ALL WEALTHY CHIMIN’ AII? ‘SICK 9 ? Washington, B. C-, has been the scssse to recent weeks of the murder of two young wo rse® wfs© ware employed as secretaries to the caftan's capital. There was some mys tery as to toe murders. Bowevur, one young mm, whose family is rather well placed to Washington profes sional circles, was arreted arad accused of one of tfee.se murders. It was interest lag to note the alacrity with wMs± the daily press began to lay toe groundwork tor dealing kindly wife the accused, to the same story that told of Ms arrest, it was stated that he had a history of "psychiatric trou ble.” Had the accused been cue of toe Capitol’s underprivi leged, Ms arrest would hare bee© greeted wife all the de rogatory adjective; he would have been iabled “savage,*’ a “beast” who should be put out or existence, the "scum of the earth” and so a©. When, however, his family ranks high to social circles, the accused ts handled wife rerial “Md gloves.”' He has, so reads toe store, "afeistorr os psychiatric trouble.*" - THE PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE. m wm mm a m 'wk nMn^rs.. MiKKHi Forces of hate on the offensive again! it Alter Cili BY EMORY G. DAVES, D. D, NEGRO PRESS INTERNATIONAL NO Cl The probability of renewal in the "Vganized church is quite remote. Albeit that there are a few isolated examples of “change* in a specific church here and there, t expect at-ross - the - board denominational change i- ■ meeting too much. The Ecumenical Institute, based in Chicago drawing ministers and lay people from through out the ttatiem - is dedicate to the proposition that revolution in the church car. be achieved by training and developing a fe r - revolutionaries, who, hopefully, will go back to their individual churches and begin the renewal process. Indicative of the seeming impossibility of re newal within the structure of a given church denomination is the experience of an Episcopal church ero«s) in New York - the Renewal Group - headed by fee Rev. Raymond T, Ferris. He admits that the Episcopal church, is ‘down right conservative...a kind of refuge for people who don’t want to face upheaval.” Despite the fact that in two years the group can account for “a loose association •*{ some 45 Episcopal clerics and laymen” the loader still believes that the church can rone--, itself, by the prodding of goups sue! a- the Renewal Group, and become “a cutting edge for change.” The most formidable opposition 0-change is the vested interests in the church body p- litic. Those who, with their money and influence, have attained The Legatf Os Racism ■ In the days after “fee Surtender” in 1865 one of the common sights was that of newly liberated slaves walking the roads empty hand ed or carrying small parcels of their pitifully meager belongings. Others -- ere simply on the move, determined to seek a tetter life to “freedom.” In a roadside encampment of lib*; ated slaves, north of Atlanta on the road toward Chattanooga, was a slender, handsome young woman. Her grandmother, Mandy, was with her. The young woman was ok her way to the Tennessee city be cause she had heard there was a school there to which freed slaves might go ar.i learn t read and write. Later this young woman married a man who had papers that declared him to have been a tree man. They came back to Georgia and rented a 19-acre farm to Calhoun County. It was sear the place when the young v oman had been a slave. This month in Brookline, in Boston, and gener ally about Massachusetts there are celebrations of toe 80th birthday of the son born to that mar riage., Roland Hayes, one of this country’s great artists, was 80 years old on. Jteie 3. Brookline had a celebration on Ma;. 29. It designated it as “Roland Hayes Day..” On the evening of June 3, a reception at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum honored Roland Hayes. There will be other commemorations during the mouth. Roland Hayes, born in the then heavily forest ed area is the Flatwoeris Section, out from Dalton, went on -to be acclaimed in the courts, palaces .and capitals off Europe. He sang, quite literally, all over fee world. He «as famous in his owr country, though the South and his native state, themselves isolated by the s: stem of segreg - tion, never really kne him well. Roland Hayes traveled a long hard rov. ...from the 10-acre farm to north Georgia tv Chattanoo ga and a foundry job. There he took singing !es Twenty years ago. as anniversary articles: recall, a French ship exploded causing America’s greatest peacetime fire disaster at Taras City. Hospitals and community blood banks .in many states rushed blood and plasm® to the 3,000 injured. As an ex ample of how good can sometimes mailt from ill. the institutions involved later or gamred the American Association of Blood Banks with a view toward being better prepared for any future disasters. The As sociation. whids now has 4,025 members its the 50 states and 25 foreign countries, maissriffiiss in Gsiesf© a central file of rare ted itears. This file has saved the lives of tmmy Americans sad HI patients in other cmitriet % fitarißng rare mafccfriag blood wM®. ytesded.. . ~ . Ilt«f ■$ BM places off power and control will always resist and oppose any change that might deplete their power. The wealthy, for example, who use the power of their money to influence the pastoral selection j. anti the church policy are seldom, if ever, concerned about the kind of renewal that puts the church in the front line of the battle' against social injustices. It is in the metropolitan area.' where a vi gorous, socially-awakened church could be . helpful in solving many of our urban pr. blems. But, here is where the decay is most evident. The New York group indicates that li Episcopal churches in Manhattan and the Bronx, are no longer sell - supporting, due to the influx of Negores and Puerto Ricans. Big, white money from the suburbs supports these “churches” insisting upon maintaining the typical, conservative, middle class, status - quo traditionalism. Negroes in the toner city are caught in the trap... happy to have “Mr. Charley’' big, beautiful, white-elephant church’ in which t* get happy, but never counting the cost of lost freedom nor the sub-equality leadership Inner city problems require the Altar: Free s ree off fee usual t radit ional denorn in at ion coot ro! s. If dark skinned people are to be free, it will re quire a power-force more meaningful than the usual hide-bound institutional church. sons at 50 cents a lesson from the choir leader of the Foundation Baptist Church. He moved on to Nashville and Fisk University, entering the lower school with a fifth grade education. He sang with the Jubilee Stagers off Fisk and got the oppor tunttu to go to Boston. There he .• as able to bring his beloved mother (“Angel Mo”) and begin a career which is exexcelled in courage, integrity and artistic quality. Roland Hayes, always a gentle king and com passionate man, never hated. He had a liking and a love for the South, to 1323 he came back to Georgia and quietly bought the farm where his mother had been born a slave. '(The wi iter re calls attending the annual meeting off the Georgia Press Association at Dalton to the 1930 s ami going to a church concert where Hayes gave a pro gram. to assist poor children to the communi ty ‘ He and his wife visited Georgia annually for many years. One steaming summer day Mrs. Hayes went to a sbor store in Rome, Ga. They were known there as regular customers. A new clerk was to charge. There was an, electric, bladed ceiling fan over the front row of seats used to try cm shoes. Mrs. Hayes sat gratefully under the fart. The clerk ordered her to the rear, saying “niggers” could not sit to front. She said’ f she was a regular customer. The clerk called police and had her arrested. Roland Hayes and his wife went quietly hack to Brookline. The farm was sold. He did not try again to come back home. At 80 years of age, he Is being honored by Massachusetts, with a Roland Hayes Day. Messages of congratulations have come from a round fee world. (The moral of this is that fee harvest of segregation is varied ami great. It separated the South from kindness, artistry, industry, and education. It left memories such as ihqt of fee shoe store, rather than of compas sion, and humanity). It has a system of regional laboratories for identifying rare blood types. It has es tablished standards for blood banks and a voluntary inspectiosi and accreditation system. Most irapmtsjrt it has organised a national efetoiagteuse system for tee exchange of blood and blood credits in L„ which 'tee Red Crum cooperates. This per- ’ asits blood giwirs totally to be credited to a patent in a testant city and enables thou* J sands to save os medical expenses. But, before blood csss be used or rashed somewfeape, «Mbody must give it. If you are between It sasd S 9 sad in good health, yets, cm fike a pssui of Mood rega'tarfy at yam bkml hmk or colectem center. ¥om donation of blood may help save a life— ypusr ja®.
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