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Bible Thou gilt Os The Week
4
The minister or pastor wno works within
the context of * local church often shares the
Impatient conscience of the activist. At the
•stews time, he has a feeling of raspomibility
uO keep in touch and contact with the people
in his church as mu Jesus of Nazareth. With
in the framework of organised church of to
day, he feels increasingly trapped into an
Editmiai Viewpoint
Thanksgiving: Member The Traditions
Thanksgiving Day and its various cus
toms have been observed for many cen
turies. We learn this from ancient history
which is unknown to many of us.
While Thanksgiving Day in its present
form is distinctively an American holiday,
it did not spring Minerva-like from the
brain of colonial Governor Bradford in
1621 as some of us imagine. On the con
trary, we may trace its origin back through
the ages and nations to the Canaanites
from whom the Children of Israel copied
many of their customs.
The vintage or harvest celebration ap
peared later among the Hebrews as an act
of worship to Jehovah and was called the
east of the Tabernacles.
The Romans worshipped this harvest
deity under the name of Ceres. Her festi
val which occurred yearly or» October 4
was called the Cerelia.
Can Methodist Ministers Contain Themselves?
A Texas Methodist theologian, Dr. Al
bert C. Outler, professor at Southern Meth
odist University in Dallas, Texas, fears
that “disaffection and mutiny are swelling
to epidemic proportions in the ranks of the
Methodist clergy.” He blames it all on the
appointive system of the high church of
ficials.
The theologian charged that the system
of pastoral appointments had these evils:
1. It degrades professional men to the
status of employees.
2. It encourages a double standard in its
absolute power of administration.
3. It causes appointments to be made on
the grounds of preference and not accord
ing to those of the founder, Wesley, which
held the conception of “spiritual gifts, pas
toral graces and evangelistic fruits.”
4. It is causing an increasing atrophy of
initiative and responsibility at local, dis
trict and regional levels.
It was charged that pastors and religious
education workers are not normally en
couraged or even allowed to employ per
sonal initiative, vocational integrity, tech
nical creativity or personal responsibility.
One of the strongest charges directed at
Draft Opposers Way Force Drastic Action
Although the Vietnam War is not a de
clared conflict, the nation is in a battle.
Its fighting effectiveness will depend upon
a steady flow of recruits into the U. S.
Armed Forces. This is a commitment to
which all of its resources must be focused,
objectors to the contrary notwithstanding.
The opposition to the Vietnam War has
become so vicious that Sen. Philip Hart has
asked the Justice Department to rule on
the Selective Service proposal that stu
dent protestors interfering with the draft
or military recruiting be subject to im
mediate induction.
While Americans have the privilege of
protesting, some of the recent activities of
certain groups involve illegal acts which
cannot be condoned.
At first a number of advocates would
say seme sort of punitive action must be
applied to restrict future anti-draft activi
ties. Even if by some stretch of the imag
ination such punitive action does not vio
late the guarantee under the First Amend
ment to the Constitution it must be ad
mitted that the punitive measures would
Musi Come To Grips With “Black Power”
■
This new movement labelled “black
power" appears to have some sort of con
nection with rioting and disturbances on
many of college and university campuses—
to wit, recently: Central State University
in Ohio. Howard University at the nation’s
capitol, Tennessee A&I State University
last summer, and many more.
Officials at Central State College at Wil
berforce in Ohio have pledged themselves
to weed out this thing called “black now
er.”
Developments on this campus revolved
around the activities of a “Unity for Uni
ty” group apparently related to the Stu
dent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC), a black power organization re
cently banned from the Central State cam
pus.
It is sdapected that black power advo
cates played a major role in the recent
campus rioting which brought the callup
of 700 National Guard troops.
Perhaps a thorough study of black pow
er activities is in order on all campuses
of higher learning in this country. Whether
off campus or on university grounds. SN
CC and Black Power proponents seem to
charge off a riot, followed by the summon
ing of police who use rough tactics and
create a bad public image.
When Stoke!y Carmichael spoke before
city audiences some months ago riots w< re
mstigated with the summoning of police
untenable- position. Even though the so-called
“pillars of the church” would prefer to rock
the boat or *iow down rather than accelerate
the pace of social change, the modern min
ister must not forget that Jesus did not avoid
the encounter with, the money changers ip
the Temple.
In England the autumnal festival was
called the Harvest Home which may be
traced back to the Saxons of the time of
Egbert.
And so being in the blood of America’s
first settlers, the custom reappeared early
in our land. It has become a day of na
tional significance, a Thanksgiving Day
when each of Us should pray and thank
God for the bountiful harvests He has giv
en us year after year and the many ma
terial blessings we take for granted.
Finally most Americans should be
thankful that they are not so gullible as to
be taken in by anti-American attitudes,
and the spirit that the Almighty owes them
a living. God gives us good health and
strength to work for the things which He
has in store for us. The least we can do is
to use all of our assets to the best possible
advantage for all concerned.
top church administration is that minis
ters are often company men, fancy white
collar workers enmeshed in a government
by acquiesence hired to implement policy
that comes down from above—like ail good
things which are perfect.
The theologian’s message terminated his
remarks with the statement that if the
Council of Bishops, the boards and agen
cies, and district superintendents sponsor
ed an idea, it will be “pushed, like hy
draulic pressure until at last the reluctant
pastor of Creekfork circuits or Joe Blow
in the inner city has finally confronted his
uncomprehending people with it, and its
price tag. Otherwise forget it.”
That the constituents of the Methodist
are not taking orders blindly is a general
trend of rebellion against absolute author
ity. The Catholic Church is facing the same
kind of opposition to time-worn practices
inappropriate to the space age.
Previously and seemingly timid school
teachers have thrown off the capes of so
called loyalty to the profession. They want**
to be considered and paid like professionals
instead of being like organization men in
business.
go so far as to erode the system which al
ready is replete with inquiries.
We must not permit our emotions to
get the best of us at this rime. There are
other questions which relate to this whole
delicate area of dissent in a time of war.
How far should the United States go to try
to put down dissent? What happens to
the dissenter who is not eligible for the
draft? How would the proposed enforce
ment reach all dissenters—not just those
on our university campuses? What kind
of soldier would the drafted dissenter
make anyway?
Remember, we could interpret campus
“interference to the draft as mere idle con
versation expressing opposition of the stu
dents to what our government is doing"?
Something perhaps should be done about
interference to the draft. But what is most
practical is the question. And Senator
Philip Hart’s request for a ruling on the
proposed punitive legislation for draft in
terferes makes good sense.
It is often good for the powers-that-be
to look before leaping.
to break them up. This is the regular pat
ent of things time and time again without
failure. Black Power, rioting, police bru
tality and disunity constitute the pattern.
The Black Power cry seem* to stir up
the emotions of people so that they can’t
think rationally. If people would think be
fore acting, they wouldn’t be so gullible
to the Black Power movement which even
causes disunity among black people.
The Black Power movement has no con
structive goal, it destroys rather than con
struct. it makes maniacs out of its subjects,
and by and large it has little to offer any
body. With so much constructive work
needing to be done, our college administra
tions cannot afford to let Black Power,
SNCC, or any other movement disrupt the
orderly procedure of education.
The leaders of the Black Power move
ment are no fools, since they know how to
feather their financial nests. Stokely Car
michael has been getting as much as SISOO
for a single lecture in which he says little
or nothing constructive. Now he is taking
a trip around the world made possible no
doubt from his lecture engagements.
Beware of these false prophets, for they
arc notoriety seekers and opportunists who
arc profiting from the masses of people
who refuse to think for themselves.
College and university officials and
state legislatures must take the bull by
the bom now or it will be too late.
Only In America
TALKING TO THE DEAD
Episcopal Bishop James A.
Pike, who makes no bones
about his religious beliefs,
has become firmly convinced
of a life after death. Dur
ing an Impromptu seance in
Toronto, Bishop Pike is posi
tive he communicated with his
dead son. The Bishop pub
licly confessed he had no oth
er explanation for the pheno
mena he experienced.
James Pike, Jr, committed
suicide in Feb, 1966. He spoke
from death his father says,
and his voice was authentic
"because my impression of
the words transmitted through
a medium was characteris
tic of the person and his style.
He referred to events, a lot
of difficulties, and seemed
very aware of things,”
One has to admire the Bi
shop’s sincerity and his cour
age in laying It on the line.
Maybe he did speak to his
son and maybe there is a life
after death.
I attended a good many sean
ces back there in the 1920 s
when they enjoyed a wide
vogue. Spiritualism was at
its height and the folks were
buying Oiuja boards as if Out
ja boards were cigarettes.
Everybody spoke to everybody
in those days. The spiritual
ists never had it so good.
There were however skep
tics, one of whom was the
great Houdini who challenged
every spiritualist to try a
manifestation, as they like to
call them then, that he could
not duplicate. If they suc
ceeded, Houdini offered a
thousand bucks, spot cash.
There were no takers.
A few of the mediums im
pressed me. There is no way
I could explain some of the
things I saw and heard at
seances. But that they were
Just For Fun
BY MARCUS H. BOULWARE
I witnessed recently two
automobile accidents that
were Ironically funny. As I
passed the Vanderbilt Univer
sity Hospital I heard the siren
on a ambulance going to the
rescue of someone in a wreck
one and one-half blocks away.
The sound brought all cars to
a stop save one driven by a
woman who turned left right
in the path of the ambulance
which tried to avoid hitting
her but couldn’t.
It knocked her car into the
entrance of George Peabody
College campus onward to hit
Other Editors Say ..
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“WE HELP OURSELVES”
Condensed from The Christian
Science Monitor
BY PAUL FRIGGENS
Just ten minutes’ ride from
the prideful new glass-and -
steel skyscrapers of downtown
Philadelphia lies a nightmar
ish Negro world: six city
wards of squalid streets arid
rotting red-brick tenements,
packed with 270,000 people and
faced with appalling want and
social decay. This area, which
Mayor James H. J. Tate de
clared had “the most crime,
tuberculosis, venerealdis
ease, unemployment and pov
erty in all of Philadelphia,'
is in fact one of the worst
slums in the United States.
Yet here, in an abandoned
police station rented from the
city for one dollar a year, a
militant Negro minister,Leon
Howard Sullivan, has launch
ed one of the most exciting
and hopeful programs In A
merica.
“We help ourselves!” is the
program’s motto and philoso
phy. Its “Opportunities In
dustrialization Center” (QIC)
the first enterprise of its kind
in the nation, is designed not
only to give Negroes new job
skills, but also to inspire
them with hope, confidence,
and a new way of looking
at themselves and at life. It
is this emphasis on attitude
which distinguishes OIC from
almost all other current Job
training efforts, and which in
just 19 months has made this
bold venture, in the words of
Mayor Tate, “a model for the
rest of the country.” Consid
er some of its significant ac«‘
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BY HARRY GOLDEN
tricks there was no doubt in
my mind, I spoke with Wil
liam James, the famous psy
chologist who taught at Har
vard and I spoke with Baron
Von Steuben, the Revolution
ary War hero. They knew the
name of the girl to whom I
was engaged and both ac
curately prophesied I would
marry her which I did, al
though as far as William
James arid Baron Von Steu
ben go, it was just a coinci
dence.
Von Steuben told me all a
bout the wars that were and
the wars to come and James
about the Freuds that were and
the Freds to come.
What bothered me, however,
the fact that I was born in
Galicia, in the old Austro-
Hungarian Empire and I didn’t
come to America until I was
well past infancy. How did
James and Von Steuben know
I spoke English? It seems
impossible that these two giant
brains in paradise were con
centrating all their energies,
attention on me.
If someone were watching me
from "out there” wouldn’t It
more likely have been a rela
tive from Galicia? Yet, in
all the seances I attended no
one who spokd" Yiddish ever
spoke to me.
I suppose Bishop Pike’s
seance gave him comfort and
it’s all right with me. He
reported what he thought
forthrightly and if he stepped
on toes before he has certain
ly proved he can survive step
ping on toes. The comfort
I worry about is the comfort
those thousands will find who
can ill afford to Indulge it.
They will rush to the seance
not realizing what Bishop Pike
realizes: that the seance is
the renunciation of logic.
a parked car in the drive
way. This started a chain re
action and damaged two other
cars which were park on the
Campus.
One of policemen as the
scene of the other wreck saw
what had happened and rush
down to the ambulance wreck.
Up at the first wreck, as I
passed, four automobiles were
involved in a chain reaction
wreck. People in Nashville
drive too close and in too
big a hurry. They are demons
behind the sterring wheels.
Their facial profiles would
make you ha--ha--haaaaaa!
* Os OlC’s first 500 “grad
uates,” who took eight-week
to one-year courses in every
thing from power sewing and
restaurant practices to elec
tronics and sheet-metal work,
a phenomenal 80 percent were
almost immediately placed in
good jobs.
* Probably one third of the
OIC trainees now taking jobs
are shifting from the relief
rolls - good news indeed for
Philadelphia, where Neg ro
welfare costs have soared
to over 100 million dollars a
year.
•In a notable innovation, OIC
giving special “pre - job”
training to some 1000 Negroes
at a time, helping them to
brush up on their reading,
writing, arithmetic, and to
improve their speech arid even
personal grooming.
Originally aiming to train
some 2500 individuals a year,
but swamped with over 6000
applicants on its opening day,
OIC is already expanding with
two branches. To house the
first, a Philadelphia philan
thropist turned over a six
story office building. This new
branch offers training in de
partment-store selling, mer
chandising, and small-busi
ness operation. A second,
recently opened gives train
ing and building - trade skills,
among other courses.
Already OIC has won the
enthusiastic support of the
Philadelphia Chamber of
Commerce and the “white
power structure.” “Busi
nessmen have come to under
stand that the position of the
Negro involves more than a
moral principle; the future of
our community is at stake,'
W, Thacher Longstreth, exe
cutive vice president of the
Philadelphia Chamber, told
me, “Either we give the
Negro tools to compete, or
we resign ourselves to per
petual handouts and uncon
scionable welfare problems.”
And, typifying the new spirit,
Sullivan declares: “The Negro
has learned to demonstrate
and to protest, but in Phila
delphia now we recognize that
he must also prepare himself
and produce.”
Table d'hote and a la Carte.
One morning recently, 1 drove
out to the North Philadelphia
slums to see this inspiring
project In action. At OIC,
l was greeted by Its creator,
the Rev. Leon Howard Sulli
van.
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GEST.
Victory gave their black communities equal responsibilities
*lb PROOF AGAINST THAT WORD FAILURE.
I'VE SEEN BEHIND IT. THE ONLY FAILURE
A MAN OUGHT TO FEAR IS FAILURE IN CLEAVING S -
: TO THE PURPOSE HE SEES TO BE BEST ' Vk
rA^ywCTANA HER
* THERE 15 NOTHING WORSE FOR ANY GROUP THAN TO HAVE POWER WITHOUT
RESPONSIBILITY, TO HAVE STATURE WITHOUT STATUS. THAT IS THE
CONDITION OF THE LARGE RES TLESS NEGRO MINORITIES IN MAN Y CITIES *
TODAY. BY THREATENING TO RIOT, THEY HAVE A CERTAIN POWER TO INTIMIDATE *
BUT SOCIETY HAS NOT GRANTED THEM A SUFFICIENT SHARE OF THE RESPONSIBILITY
TO FORMULATE PROGRAMS AND ACTUALLY CARRY THEM OUT. IF THAT VITAL SHARING
OF RESPONSIBILITY BEGINS IN GARY AND CLEVELAND,AND IS HONORABL Y
EXERCISED, ANEW STATUS WILL NATURALLY FOLLOW FOR ALL NEGROES
IN THE communities;'
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The Thought Exchange
COLOR PREJUDICE BOOMERANGS BADLY
That there are many evils in the life of man
kind today, is an obvious fact that none can deny.
But according to the matured judgment of the
late H. G. Wells one of the world's greatest
historians and philosophers, the very worst thing
in the life of the Twentieth Century world is color
prejudice. The supports for such ominous con
clusions are abundant, and can be so easily
substantiated by evidences that everywhere a
bound. Although God exhorts In the First Com
mandment “Thou shalt have no other gods before
me” a casual observation will reveal that color
prejudice is the number one god of the present
world, with the dollar coming a close second! Race
prejudice is easily the Beal of mankind in general.
It was most merciful of our God to even grant
that we might have other gods, but none should
come before Him. Today’s world is even as a
Mount Carmel, where the prophets of Baal are
vying with the prophets of The God of Abraham
Isaac and Jacob, on Mount Carmel of long ago,
the prophers of Baal outnumbered the prophet
of God 400 to 1, so we can say with abundant
assurance that today the worshippers of the Baal
of race prejudice has become an evil contagion
and a devastating moral scourge that forebodes
the earthly damnation of mankind. Great woes
must come upon a world, scourged by race
or* color prejudice, and only God in one of his
many mysterious ways, can save mankind from
the destruction that is threatening through color
prejudice.
Segregation is the darling child of race preju
dice, at whose breast it must feed, or die in
gloriously. Segregation has as surely cursed
the white man who imposed it, as it has cursed
the Negro upon whom it has been imposed.
Segregation Is % curse in particular and in general!
When our nation made an attempt to strike down
segregation in the interest of justice and survival,
the segregationists resorted to various and de
vious and dubious ways to circumvent efforts to
liberate the Negroes from the bondage of segre
gation. In order to save themselves from living
Happenings That Affect The Future
of Every Individual
National and International Problems
Inseparable from Local Welfare
Thirty years ago, the Federal Insurance Con
tributions Act, better known as social security,
went into effect. It was intended to provide a
minimum floor of financial security to cushion
the years of reduced earning power after retire
ment. It has withstood all objections raised against
lt--objections centering on its being an invasion
of free enterprise, of the employee's right to
decide how much he wished to set aside for his
retirement and to choose his own retirement
plan. Employers who felt it to be a costly and
needless additional expense to business, and not
the American way of doing things, have come to
accept it.
Social security has become the greatest social
welfare program ever undertaken involving some
180 million U.S. citizens. The apalling fact is that
most of the people now under social security, and
those paying the taxes to support it, probably do
not realize that they are not buying an insurance
policy, that they have no contract of any sort
which guarantees payment of benefits of any cer
tain amount, that funds are not set aside for the
payment of benefits and that current benefits are
paid out of current social security taxes or from
funds which the government borrows. If obligations
to pay benefits outrun the willingness of working
people to pay taxes and budgetary limitations pre
vent other financing, Congress can, at any time,
change the law to redistribute, withdraw or dis
continue benefits conferred. The fact is that the
description of the program given in the official
booklet “Your Social Security” to the effect that
9 out of 10 working people, “are now building
protection for them selves and their familiesunder
the Social Security program “and that “the amount
will depend on your average earnings” is just
plain poppycock.
Mr, Charles Stevenson, a senior editor of The
Reader’s Digest, has raised the question, “How
Secure Is Your Social Security?” This is a ques
tion that concerns every one of us. First con
sider cost. The top amount paid into the govern
ment annually 10 years ago for a covered worker
was $1.89, now it is $580,80, and presently sche
duled increases will raise this to $745.80 in 20
years if no additional changes are made. And,
judging by past history, they are almost certain
to be. This latter figure represents 11.3 per cent
of the first $8,600 in wages that a working person
takes in.
Social Security is not a good deal for the young
er workers. For example, if you're 25 years old,
the amount paid into the treasury by the time
BY GORDON B. HANCOCK
Economic Highlights
like brothers, 'door to door with their Negro
brethern. the whites betook themselves to M** 3
suburbs and fled before the prospects of receiv
ing the Negroes as brothers and neighbors.
But in fleeing the Negroes, they turned over the
cities which had been built by whites and for
whites, to Negroes with the result that Negroes
are taking over our cities, and whites of means,
are taking over the suburbs and the cities are in
great distress and on everyside calling for deliv
erance. And what will ultimately become of our
cities is a matter that disturbs our most serious
thinkers and students. Having been denied equal
opportunity, Negroes are not financially able to
handle what he has inherited. Having been so
long denied the training in statecraft which the
rulership of cities Implies, it is to wondered
whether we can handle the responsibilities so
suddenly thrust upon us. What has happened
in Gary, Ind. and Cleveland, Ohio witl; their elec
tion of Negro mayors will happen more and more
as Negroes move In as white move out 1 How
Negroes can handle efficiently the responsibili
ties for which he has been denied opportunities
for preparation, raises serious and difficult ques
tions. With adequate finances and training the
Negro could do the job; but without these, serious
problems arise for whose solution some way must
be found - and soon. What about the limited
tax base of poor people? But the two great
problems arising for the white man in his
prejudice, fleeing before the Negro, will be much
more difficult than the problem of living side by
side with Negroes. Prejudice dictated the more
baffling course for the white man. He chose
the hard! He ran head-on into the two things he
wanted most to avoid, and that is, turning over
his fine cities to Negroes and at the same tirwl
advancing the Negroes. Will the deterioration
of our fine cities, that is almost certain-if the
monied part of our population continue its flight
compensate for the white man’s loss through
race prejudice? The most that can be said is
that race prejudice is boomeranging badly. The
L r r* ed T hlte man ’ s loss conceivably
be the Negro’s gain!
you are 65 under the present social security
rules will total $19,392. For this you will be
entitled to, as Mr. Stevenson puts it, a“. . .‘gra
tuity’ of $l6B a month at age 65 if single and
$252 if married. . .” It is pointed out that the
National Association of Life Underwriters has
calculated that the same schedule of payments
would buy a private insurance policy which would
pay $312 a month to a single per son, $263 a month
to a married person”. . . with either survivor to
continue receiving $175.83 a month. , .” as long
as he or she lives.
The chance of collecting social security pay
ments 30 or 40 years from now is becoming in
creasingly questionable. It will depend on the
mood of the taxpayers of thai later day. It is now
estimated that the amount by which the promised
benefits of social security exceed what the “. , .
'insured’ persons are supposed to eventually pay
toward meeting these costs—are $350 billion.
That is a sum which exceeds the current national
debt.” ‘
In conclusion, Mr. Stevenson suggests that . .
a blue-ribbon commission could explore the pos
sibility of requiring workers to buy annuity in
surance from government-regulated private in
surance-investment funds just as some states
require motorists to buy liability insurance.”
This might be one solution. However, solid evi
dence is mounting that It may already tie past
time for a critical appraisal and redirection of
the social security program. The alternative is
that the government of the United States may find
itself unable to meet its moral obligation to pro
vide the basic floor of financial security which
for over a generation the American people have
been told they could stand on with certainty.
MORE NOISE THAN SUBSTANCE
If you do something bad, everybody always
knows about It. But, you could go to church every
Sunday of your life, take home stray kittens and
help old ladies across the street forever and
never find > yourself a celebrity. The younger
generation and most particularly the older teen
age section of it are in this position. The lunatic
fringe, the so-called “hippies,” the LSDtripperg.
and the troublemakers get all the
Everv adult should remember that this minority
of tne youngor generation is not indicauve of
the ambition, intelligence or solid accomplish
ment of the vast majority of young people.
As a publisher, Mr. Don Robinson of The
American Press observes, it might help if
publications, .would tell more about some of
the outstanding achievements of young people and
stop encouraging the mentally unbalanced by giv
ing them all the limelight.”