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. 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