Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1960 — Page 8

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Students Take Action In Current Crisis It is interesting to note that students here and there about the world are taking a hand at resolving the current crises. Negro students in the United States are trying their hand at resolving the crisis in race relations. Students in Korea and Turkey are on the march and ^y|'<igrgye|r we find a crisis we find students up to their necks in ways and means of trying to find a way out. That at times these students make trouble for the entrenched forces of oppression and repression and suppression is a healthy sight. It would be a tragedy for the younger generations, for which students are the spokesmen, if they remained passive to the problems that vex the Twentieth Century world. There are indications that more ond more the younger generations must have a say-so in the matters that pertain to their future, or their futurelessness, even the lurid spectre of war. So long as the younger generations are called upon to make the supreme sacrifices of war then they should have a part In making the supremer decisions, upon which war and peace depend. We are living in a crisis-torn world. We are always in the midst of international crises. Nation is rising against nation and devastating war is always in the offering. The Apostle Paul spoke about the change that comes in the "the twinkling of on eye."

Atomic warfare that could easily mean the wiping of mankind from the face of the earth could be a matter of the "twinkling of an eye" — the hunch of some power-mad creature who has been lifted by circumstances into some dictatorship. Religion is fast being ruled out and power and force are being ruled in and the prospects are not assuring. When conscientious souls mention the brotherhood of man, as a possibility to save mankind from itself, they are laughed to scorn. And the gory prospects remain that the "twinkling of the eye" of Destiny is always impending. Then there is the explosive crisis in race relations throughout the world with color prejudice rampant. Incubated for the most part in the British Empire, and spread to the uttermost parts of the earth, it is calculated to destroy hopes of peace on earth and goodwill among men. It is easily the most brutish and borrid spectre in the world today. There are three areas where forces are being engendered to liberate he world from the thralldom of race prejudice, the Church, the school-room and the athletic field and we may add the stage. 4 We must not become too cynical to note the often silent pressure of the Church. Some of the loudest and most insistent voices agdirVsf the curse of race prejudice emanate from the Church. n'-r. Race prejudice is largely a matter of ignorance, and wherever a child's mind is enlightened by learning there we will find a potential threat against the curse of race prejudice. Even the millions for education being spent by the Old South will eventually result in removing not only the blight of ignorance, but its concomitant, race prejudice. When therefore we see students in many lands becoming articulate in matters which affect the destiny of mankind, well may we take heart for it is a sign that tomorrow will be a better day. "Watch the student" will become a potent slogan of tomorrow, and when the whole student world rises up and resists the tyranny of the body and the spirit, we are going to get somewhere in the realm of race relations. 3 a The voice of the students is the voice of a better Tomorrow. The stir among the students of the world is a good sign for the oppressed everywhere. Then there is the athletic field where Negroes are rising from obscurity every day to amaze a startled world. The Negrophobes of the Old South have tried to legislate the Negro out of interracial athletic contest but these contests going on in other ports, are a great attraction to the devotee of the newspaper, the radio and television. Something happens daily when millions see a Negro knock the baseball out of the park or snag a fly ball that "saves the game." Students are more responsive to these things hence the student revolt. Students and the current crisis. By GORDON B. HANCOCK — ANP

Were You Counted? The enumeration of Americans in the 1960 Census is now almost finished. As you know, it is very important that the Census be complete and correct. It is the duty of every citizen to respond. The facts revealed in a Census are vital to our government as a basis for making future plans for the well-being of its citizens. If you believe that you were NOT COUNTED contact the U. S. Census District Office immediately. It is located at 352 South Illinois Street, Room 501.

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WILL IT RESPOND WITH A SPIRIT OF DETERMINATION?

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON More Than Conquerors By The Union Baptist Alliance REV. J. T. HIGHBAUGH, Editor

(DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Romans 8:31-39. LESSON AT LARGE: Matt 13:3135. MEMORY VERSE: Matt. 5:16>. When you accepted the Christian way of life and enroTed as a citizen of the Kingdom. or course you begann to wonder “Now Lord, how am I coming through all this? What will it cost me, and by what means shall this new experience become something rich and rewarding to God, to my neighbor, and to myself?” This lesson will shed abundant light along here. View It from these viewpoints and grow in grace: 1. Happy are they that suffer. Matt. 5:10-12. II. Christians, hold on! Matt. 5:13-16. III. Grow deep, my soul, grow Jeep. Matt 13:31-35. HAPPY ARE THEY THAT SUFFER. This is such a paradox in a world which is platonic and looking for pleasures. The goal of our Western civilization is to find pleasure and good times. This is quite hedonic but is explained as the goal of our lives. Thus we end up in quest of a thrill he~e, a chill there. It is so sordid and disappointing that we are hurt more by this than helped. So Jesus announces this breath taking statement and then tells why. Look at these two ideals set forth in these two verses: “Happy are ye when men revile you and persecute you for goodness’ sake,” and Blessed are ye when men shall denounce you and persecute you for My name’s sake. Exult for joy, for your reward is magnifi- * cent in Heaven.’\(Matt. 5:10-11, Moffatt). He seems to say that goodness and the name of Jesus are one and the same. First he says if you want a picture of what Jesus meant by goodness, look at Jesus, then adopt His principles and practices as the hearthstone of your life. Stand up for them at the price of death and you will find joy in Heaven. This is joy galore because it is that outspring of human living which satisfies man’s deepest desires—the desire to know God and Jesus Christ and to bless others. It has always been preceded by selfsurrender, therefore, it seeks the good of others. As God is a giver He has become a giver and has the power of the universe behind him. CHRISTIANS, HOLD ON. Hold on to your avion your courage will be the salt of ihe earth. When people expect more of you than you can possible give, hold on If you let go the whole cause will scatter and the whole world will spoil and rot. Hold on, for you must give zest to our human living and convince us that life can be beautiful if we live it rightly. I was in Memphis last week and a hand was on my shoulder as I was crossing Main Street telling me, “Highbaugh, walk with the light for to walk against it you walk at your own risk and to the probable hurt of others.” I caught on and waited for the green light. Jesus is here telling me and you to walk by the real light; Someone is following, let him follow you to a safety zone. Or listen at Him tell us that we were lighthouses on the hill to some pilgrim or that the family needs a light at home, get it out from under the bed. GROW DEEP MY SOUL,

GROW DEEP. There is a little poetic tid-bit that goes like this: Grow deep my soul, grow deep. The seed that thou shall hold Was made for bough and nests and birds lo keep, * Grow deep my soul, grow deep. Grow deep my soul, grow deep. This inner yeast shall not sleep. Till throughout thee thy safety it keeps. Grow deep my soul grow deep. (Author Unknown* This soys what these two parables teach. The first of these parables, that of the mustard seed, teaches that the seed of the Kingdom is quite insignificant to us who worship bigness. We gape at skyscrapers, atom bombs and champions to the moon and throw away the grains of wheat while millions

Reader Says Thai Neighborhood Store Won't Hire Negro To the Editor: We, the residents of the Eastside, are confronted with a problem. There is a grocery store now located at 1702 Roosevelt named Weber and Son. Just this week they moved next door from 1704 to 1702 into larger quarters. The store is operated by Mr C. Weber, his wife and son. They have a white woman who lives two blocks down the street come in every once and a while to relieve. She is not related to them at all. The Webers have operated a grocery at this address for more than 25 years. There are three other stores in the vicinity and they all have colored help. The Webers have more trade than the three others combined, with the majority of their trade being colored. Why can’t they employ at

hunger But God has in the mustard seed made it to fit the moistured earth, respond to sunshine and air and grow and grow and serve* and serve the little birds till summer is gone. Look what ihe Kingdom has done in size and influence the w’orld over T he second parable tells of growth less observable to the human eye, yet equally as powerful as the power behind the skyscrapers. It is like the electron, unknown, unseen, yet illimitable someways in power of the pow er of steam to tremble the kettle lid or move hte engine down the track. Let the leaven lift and build in thee a Christian integrity equal to Job or Daniel or Peter or Paul or C. T. Walker or Frank F. Young or P. S. Wilkinson or Boyd or Morris or any great soul who is surrendered to the Christ within.

least one colored helper? If you cannot do anything about this situation would you please contact someone who can? I speak for all residents in this vicinity. Mrs. Alberta Costner, 1733 N. Arsenal.

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(AN ANP FEATURE) - MT ■ " MAY 8, 1884 — Harry Truman, under whose administration as president armed forces of the United States became officially .integrated, born. MAY 9, 1800 — John Brown, abolitionist and leader of the Harpers Ferry, W. Va., rebellion born. MAY 10 # 1919 — James R. Europe, regarded by many as father of American jazz, given first public funeral for a Negro in New York City. MAY 11, 1895 — William Grant Still, noted composer ond conductor, born. MAY 12, 1951 —Oscar DePriest, first Negro to be elected to Congress from a northern state, died in Chicago. MAY 13, 1914 — Joe Louis, former world's heavyweight boxing champion, born in Alabama. MAY 14, 1800 — African slave trade declared a crime of piracy by international agreement.

VOICE FROM THE GALLERY

• * Northern Industry And Business ^ Have Key Southern Discriminations^ By Andrew W. Ramsey

An unpublished and little known fact in the current Southern secession from the Union is that Southern industry consists largely of branches of national concerns whose headquarters are in the North.

The student sit-ins have e m p hasized that the large dime store chains are run from Northr ern headquarters and they have demonstrated that the owners, who operate on a more d e m ocratic plane in the North, wink

their eyes at the prejudice of their managers in their South-

ern ouptlets.

W’hat is true of the nickel and dime emporia is equally true of the industrial plants which have mushroomed throughout the South in the past few decades. The same outfits which own steel mi'ls in Gary, Indiana also own such mills in Birmingham, Alabama. The top men in the Gary office are apt to be ‘ friendly and even generous to Negroes in Gary, going so far as to contribute to things like the Urban League and the National Negro College Fund, while quietly ignoring ,he 'act that their Alabama plants bend over backwards to appease the ^Southern white mores. They build plants with separate toilet facilities and separate drinking fountains for the white and Negro employees in the Southern plants and hire on a purely discriminatory Till: PRIME LURE for Northern industry to go into the South is .he promise of cheap labor and this cheap labor rests principally on the

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system of racial segregation. It is almost axiomatic that w'here racial segregation is particularly virulent, organized labor is largely absent or relatively small. Though few Northern corporations have decided to buck the Southern industrial pattern, those that have done so have not been denied the right to locate in the former Confederate States. Douglas Aircraft, for an instance, recently opened a plant in Charlotte, North Carolina with the prior understanding that they would hire on a non-discrimi-natory basis. The city of Charlotte was glad to welcome such an important industry on whatever terms and Douglas Aircraft is operating there on its own terms. THE EXPERIENCE of Douglas makes it plain that the Northern corporations which go into the South do not have to do so on Southern terms. They accept the terms merely because they are looking for spots where there is not likely to be trouble in the way of strikes. But recently they have seen that other types of trouble can be just as costly to business. For example, during the school crisis in Arkansas no new industry located in Little Rock, which was beginning to be a Mecca for the location of industrial plants and industry is now very heitant to locate in area where racial strife is either prevalent or looming Harold Fleming, Director of the Southern Regional Conference, is of tiie opinion that Northern corporations going into the South “have it within their power to make a tremendous impact” on racial segregation. “For the mcU part,” Mr. Fleming says, “the corporations which come down he.e are interested only in avoiding conflict.” WHILE A SMALL number of outside forces have been

operative in the conflict now going on in the South, the Northern corporations, which are among the few' outsiders who could make a dent in the ' pattern, are giving aid and: : comfort to the cause of white supremacy. These corporations are working hand and glove with the Chambers of Commerce, from whose ranks come the leadership of the white citizens’ councils. Many of these Chamber of Commerce leaders who double as the leaders of he ■ white citizens’ councils refuse flatly to allow unions in the plants or businesstn which, they operate and yet they hire Negroes—as reduced wages. The Southern managers of the branches of Northern corporations are truly alarmed at the current wave of lunch counter demonstrations not her cause of the alleged “social equality,” which thev might bring in their wake but because of the possibility of the idea spreading to all discriminating businesses and consequent economic boycotts. THE JUDGES OF Southern courts, who owe their offices to the money and influence of the industrial and commercial leaders of the communitiesare doing yeoman service to the cause of white supremacy by imposing heavy fines and jail sentences on the youthful demonstrators. The only trouble is that fines and jail sentences have not served to stop the demonstrators, and the ulcers which the Southern managers of Northern corporations are beginning to have may soon be transmitted along the economic communications lines to the smug Northern owners. A little prodding on the part of Northern Negroes would speed up the process immensely.

Voice Of The People Reader Disagrees With Ramsey;

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To the Editor:

In the Voice From The Gallery last week Mr Ramsey lamented the paucity of leadership in the Negro community. I should like to bring to your attention the following men who a'e doing a splendid job in many leadership areas: Dr. Joseph Taylor, program director of Planner House, is a teacher of Sociology at 1. U. Extension, co-author of ‘'Housing and Minority Groups.” and also vice-president of the Indianapo’is Human Relations Council, to mention just a few of his activities; Starling W. James, assistant principal at

School No. 2(> and president of

the Federation of Associated Clubs; Spurting Clark, president of the Businessmen’s League: Oscar Banks, president of the Co-op League: John Preston Ward, executive director and general counsel

of the Indiana Civil Liberties

Union and prominent attorney, and Willard Ransom, general manager , of the Walker Manufacturing Company, first president of the State Conference of NAACP Branches and a member of the board of managers of Fall Creek YMCA. These are only a few oi the

Local Leaders dedicated leaders in our community. I would appreciate your doing a series giving credit to the many leaders who are working long and unselfishly .toward the betterment of India-

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Anna E. Richardson. Negro Employes Not Invited to Company Picnic To the Editor: How my rights were bought for a rabbit. Back in 1948 I got my first job with a grocery chain whose policy was to give the employees a picnic every year. I will not mention this company by name because I later found out that it was not altogether their fault. 1 had been with the company only a few months when I heard some whispers about the coming picnic from some of the union brothers but nobody gave the date or place where the picnic was to be held. One Friday evening all the Negroes we r e told to stop by the frozen food locker. I thought this was a little

strange but I followed the crowd. We were given a rabbit a piece. Monday morning everybody was talking about the picnic, that is, everybody but the Negroes. I had never felt sicker over anything in ^ my whole life. Today I don't* eat rabbit. My mind was made up. The next year we WOULD go to the picnic. In the meantime. there was a segregated ‘eating place in the building that I just had to eat in. After the rest of the Negroes saw that no one bothered me they too started eating in the place. When picnic time came around again 1 immediat- __ ely began talks with union and company officials, and aft« er two weeks of getting nowwhere I sent word by my supervisor io ihe superintendent and this was his deply: “It is not the policy of this company to have segregated picnics,. ' but we felt there would be trouble with the union mem-.,, hers who have made it know r ri that they prefer a segregat-* ed picnic.” Of course we went to the, . picnic in spile of the union, members (not CIO* and theirV' 1 bias thinking. This may help some young person to under- * stand a little better how to liva in this—Democracy? William J Boker.

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