Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1960 — Page 10
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The Indianapolis Recorder, Sept 10,1960 £DIT^)R.I ALS AND MENT«S The Indianapolis Recorder, Sept. 10,1960
“Strange As It Seems”
"In our Town"—this week the head of local manufacturing firm insisted that his employees register to vote. He even provided transportation for them to go and register on company time. And thereby hongs a tale.' Seemingly the women workers did register to vote, but Six of them quit their jobs. According to widely heralded reports -t* they inisted they had the right not to register, as well as the right to register. The best information available indicates that the heed of the firm did not ask his employees how they would vote, nor did he suggest haw they should vote. But he insisted it was their patriotic duty to register. Whereas hi the erdinary course of things following registration the prideful, patriotic citizen does vote in oil general elections. A spokesman for the group of women who quit their jobs implied that the women were mode to register against their will or Inclination. Poets, fiction writers, knaves or fools and op€re pbilosphers have had a lot to say about the "will" of the female of the species." However, we ponder over the remote possibility that it might hove been the first time — Ralph itvars, president af the Roe Company, Inc., stated, "I was flabbargastpd, I thought it was the patriotic thing to do. People have died - far the right to vote." * "Yes Sir" — Mr. Elvers., "strange as it may seem" — yesterday so to speak, and in keeping with the spirit and letter of the U. S. Constitution, souverign electors of our land sacrificed their lives and fortunes trying to mandate their rights to vote. Elsewhere over the world repressed peoples inspired by the unseen powers of repo rotary retribution hove committed their lives and fortunes to ideas of participating in govarmental affairs of the areas of their nativity or homelands. They are without benefit of the media for communicating ideas — such as our land is blessed with. However, they want to vote and take a part in this manner in govermantal affairs. Stalwart, inspired and able wqmen over our land or other lands a little while ago — fifty years — with aJ'will" were battling almost with their lives and fortunes for the right of women to vote. They won this right o little later in our land for some women to vote. They won this right a little later in ogr land for some women in some areas to vote. Whereas some women have taken up the opportunity and the responsibility associated with the right to vote. Again they have become a compelling port of and are helping to make what will happen in the evolution of socal justice and the prepress of a better humanity in our small corner or over the entire earth. However, to no end the "will"'of the female of the species" is and unpredictable thing. Opportunities Bring Responsibilities A woman educator on the Indiana scene in recent months *old on upstate audience of women that one of the most profoundly significant developments of the century has been th# emancipation of women. Again she observed that because women hove greater pppprtunities they have greater responsibilities. The speaker, in this instance, noted that despite concentration in a relative few fields women are in all fields of endeavor listed by the U. S. Census Bureau. However, she painted out that studies indicate that a majority a# working women have little ambition in regards to building a career. In comparing the higher salaries paid to men in the same pecitibns as those occupied by women, she stated that women usually are content to sit back and accept small raises. If yeomen accept a job they must also accept the responsibility that accompanies the job and build on it. The educator noted that before World War II one-third of all bachelor's dgrees were awarded to women, yet since that time there hos been no increase in the percentage. However, education affording new knowledge and bringing an increase in technical skills is necessary if our nation shall maintain its role in world affairs. In this connection the matter of responsibility and opportunity was explored os a challenge of the times. The speaker noted that women of our times ore confronted with many, many new opportunities, yet if one has new opportunities, one is confronted at the some time with new, or more responsibilities, further, she observed that if women accept thie feet es true and con see nothing to do about it, they hove no conception of the meaning of democracy. Democracy is taking the responsibility of being a part of and helping to make what will happen. The message of the Indiana woman educator delivered before a business women's club is surely fitting advice or again a manner of admonition to all the Ne?ro citizenry of the 'state and the nation. Along with the hue and cry over sundry manners of social injustice, somewhere, somebody must raise a clamour — among Negro people — seeming the shape of things to come indicates that Negro people shod need to form new concepts of the significance (meaning) of our democratic way of life. Negro people hereafter (or here and now) must commit the entire group to taking new responsibilities in being a port of and helping make all the equations of salutary, wholesome and purposeful life across our entire nation or in all areas of its influences both direct and indirect.
VOICE FROM THE GALLERY
Police Bruality Is Still The Rule
ANDREW w.
RAMSEY
MUST BE DESTROYED, IF AMERICA IS TO HOLD WORLD LEADERSHIP
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
The Wail Of A Bigot It's apparent that the next episode in the drama of school desegregation, will be enacted in New Orleans, La. The stage is being set and, the actors are responding to their cues. Last Saturday, when a three judge U. S. Court of Appeals, two of whose mmbers are from New Orleans and the other is from Montgomery, ruled against Louisiana Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion, he stalked out of the court room, telling reporters that: "Negroes are running the country." This statement and other wailings of Jack P. F. Gremillion, caused him to be cited for contempt by the court and he must stand trial for this on Sept. 12. ' We wish Gremillion's statement about Negroes running the country was true, for we certainly couldn't do any worse in running the affairs of Louisiana than Gov. Jimmie H. Davis and his Attorney General Gremillion ore doing. The action of Atty. General Gremillion is typical of Southerners when they come to face with courts that are not influenced by Dixie threatricals. They con dish out injustice with relish, but, they just can t swallow justice no matter how much it is senar coated. THE CLEVELAND CALL-POST
Man's Hope For Peace By The Union Baptist Alliance REV. J. T. HIGHBAUGH, Editor
LARGER LESSON: Isaiah 2:1-4, 9:2-7, 11:1-9. LESSON PRINT: Isaiah 11:1-9. MEMORY VERSE: Isaiah 2:4. We return to this preat question of peace. There is some comfort which comes from discussing: it, especially when we have scriptures as promising: and as comforting as these. Let’s look at it this way please: I. The Peace of the Church In the State, Isa. 2:14. II. Then The King: Marches, Isa. 9:2-7, 11:1-5. II. The Peace To Come, Isa. 11:6-9, 2:4. TITE PEACE OF THE CHURCH IN THE STATE. Probably at no other time in our day will we think of and discuss the separation of church and state as we will in the next two months. And well we should in dealing as closely as we shall with the direct intervention of the Pope in our lives. There is no such thing as real separation of church and state so long as men have any semblance of conscience and so long as God holds any semblance of purpose for the nations and individuals in them. Men are conscious of these formerly mentioned situations in history—s t a t e meets church and church meets state inevitably. Rut this fusion does not have to be a coercion. There need not be a legislative or jurisdictional administrat i o n of religion by the state or the state by religion. The necessity, and a very indispensable life, is a free church in a free state. What valiant assistance Isaiah has given to Hezekiah in this Assyrian crisis and yet without coercion! For as in America. the church is here not to frock and unfrock Presidents, but to give to the people who do frock or unfrock them the ethical and spiritual discrimination and courage to*do so. Neither is the state to frock or unfrock Popes and priests and pastors, or even congregations, but to provide the necessary machinery for their
proper functions as it does for education, business, the home, public amusements and athletics. A free church in a free state promises health to all. Here at the church the people shall come for spiritual instruction. Here the discussion of right and wrong in a free state can be adjudicated. Here a culture can be born. THE KING MARCHES. Yes this is prbphetic jargon and was fulfilled in the birth of our Lord. Truly to us a child is born, a Son is given and- the government shall be* on His shoulders, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Prince of Peace. But this scripture forecasts much more than is just portrayed to the eye. Look hard and we see more than we see. For here is a due sequence to a well balanced relationship of church and state. Just government is awakened resting on Jesus’ shoulder; light springs up out of the very darkness, and David’s throne finds justice, firmness and permanence. Americans must keep in mind that people who are afraid of moral and ethical investigation flee when no man pursueth. And he warns that the complexity of modern government grows more and more difficult of self-moral criticism, thus exposing itself to inner rot ana aecay. And before we leave here we note that this prophecy involves not only Judah, but also Galilee of the gentiles. What a ■ broadening of spirit is pictured here! It envisions the
dav of the. Lord when the common people can hear of the Lord gladly. THE PEACE TO COME. Dr. Willard R. Jewell, one of the associate workers of the Eastside Christian Center, used to tell us that Christian education was the healthy absorption of Christian facts and Ideals from the Bible, and tlje formation of worthy skills of living and the birth of Christ* like attitudes. And he closed this definition with these words: “And here- . in is peace.” Well, that was it, and so this text reveals in Isaiah 2:3 “that He may instruct us in His Ways.” He mentions the wolf lying down with the bear, the cow eating straw with the lamb, and a little child leading. Is not this the awakening of a holier and calmer nature within ? And here in Isaiah 2:4 he \ refers to nations learning no more to fight; swords being beaten into plowshares and spears into priming hooks. This involves the conversion of the skills of war into the skills of production and healthy living. This is what the Atomic Energy Commission is endeavoring to do in its Atoms For Peace projects. How necessary it is for men to learn to invoke divine aid in our United Nations Assembly. — REGISTER TO VOTE— PRINTING — io serve each or every demand or need. Work done by expert craftsmen—for every tvpe of business or commercial. private or personal and social need. Call ME. 4-1547 daily 7 p.m.
The other week when an expugilist policeman roughed up the daughter of a local minister,^ he was following a pattern that has grown to be one of his trade marks, In the past two years he has beaten up a
Negro minister and an aged Negro man not to mention the number of white citizens that he has manhandled in his role as a law enforcement officer. The chances are that if this latest violation of the civil liberties
of a citizen is called to the attention of his superiors—the Board of Captains, the Board of Safety or the mayor—he will be whitewashed as other policemen with like records have been whitewashed in the past. Why? You may ask. You don’t have to seek far for the reasons. And what happens in Indianapolis gives a picture of the national pattern. In every major city and small hamlet North and South, trigger happy and night stick swinging pelce officers are either ignorant of or contemptuous of the civil rights of those with whom they deal in making arrests especially if they happen to be members of minority groups. And in all of these communities it is very difficult to obtain redress against such offending policemen because their superiors are usually equally ignorant of civil rights and civil liberties or completely indifferent to what happens to Negro or other minority
citizens.
It happens in Indianapolis as in other communities that for the most part policemen
By Andrew W. Ramsey come from the lowest strata of society and bring with them into their new occupation the prejudices prevalent in the communities from which they come. Secondly, they are employed mainly on the basis of physical traits and not because of mental, educational, or temperamental fitness, or special knowledge of the nature of the
job.
The typical cop is often a man with sadistic tendencies eagerly looking for heads to whip or a chance to shoot some helpless victim. He soon finds that if the victim is a Negro or a member of some other unpopular minority he can use his aggressiveness with impunity Complaints by me victims usually get nowhere because most of the time the victim has a police record and very few supporters in the general population. Most citizens seem oblivious of the fact that criminals also have rights and so a former prisoner, a known gambler or a prostitute have almost no cccettse from police brutality The public is indifferent to their fate. BUT THE COP who gets into the habit of shellacking the heads of those with police records, is very quick to get the idea that he can do the same to any member of a minority group and sometimes he even goes so far as to use brute force on any person with whom he has a run-in regardless of the racial group of the victim. But even in cases where the victim U a law abiding citizen and there is a great amount of public indignation over the incident, the policeman has little to fear from his superiors. The Board of Captains in Indianapolis tends to uphold the policeman even when he is wrong for the board is made up of cops and they see no harm in a little
head whipping from time to time especially for Negroea who refuse to prostrate themselves before the white minions of the lav/. The Board of Safety, made up of supposedly fair minded citizens and headed by a scholarly educator, seems loath to overrule the Board of Captains and the municipal judges are to a great extent dependent, upon the police to do constabulary work for them. They seem willing to ignore the constitutional rights of arrested persons if doing so will assure the continued cooperation of the cops. The mayor, who is charged by state law with the direction of the police force, is usual? Jy able to hide behind the machinery of the Board of Captains and the Board of Safety, both of which are made up of his appointees and subject to his direction. He can usually rely upon the victim’s not knowing this just as the general citizenry does not know it. It would be embarrassing far the mayor of Indianapolis if all of the citizens were aware of the fact that police brutality could be successfully curbed and where it did happen severely punished if the mayor himself willed it so. Until this knowledge is shared by the citizens who want to see this form of cruelty and injustice abolished in Indianapolis, Uie mayors of Indianapolis can continue to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds. The local jnaaCP is trying to arouse the citizens of this community to do something about police brutality and it wishes the public and the public officials to know that it is tired of official whitewashes of offending employees of the local copshop — REGISTER TO VOTE —
Letters to the Editor...
Only Through Unity Con Victory
Be Realized, Minister Relates o^/mNIS OI^ ■■■ nj-TM
To The Editor:
I am appealing to the illiterate as well as the intelligent, segments of our race. We must get together. Not long ago the NAACP Youth Council sent out an appeal for our people to help with its “Back To School” drive. The Council realizes, as do most of our people, that without an education we will
be lost.
As a lover of and a worker for my race, I went early to where the Council was having a mass meeting and was surprised to see such a few mothers and fathers assembled at Phillips Temple CME Church. On my way home I heard the people singing, “You may have all this world, but give me Jesus.’’ I asked myself: Have we really got Jesus? Perhaps we will find the answer in the . Recorder. The newspaper tells us that Negroes are constantly killing off each other. Let me tell you that the more we kill the less trouble the police department will have. They will save their bullets, which cost a little over seven-cents a piece. We desire power and unity today more than ever before. If we sit and shout and allow the great white race to lift itself in numbers and power it means that in perphaps fifty
Things You Should Know
SAFETY CHECKED INDIANA ITATl POLICI INDIANA SHERIFF! ASSN. ^INDIANA ASSN. OF CHIEFS OF FOLICI AUTOMOMU DIAUM ASSN. OF INDIANA CooMftlng whfc INDIANA OFFICE OF TRAFFIC SAFETY YOUR car may be one out of each eight on Hoosier streets and highways which has a mechanical defect that could cause an accident. During the month of May, every Indiana community will provide a VEHICLE SAFETY-CHECK Program. It is free and voluntary and cao save your life or prevent injury or property damage. The Indiana Office of Traffic Safety asks you to “Check Your Car— Check Accidents.”
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years the i;egro race will be like the Indian race, almost
exterminated.
This is the danger point. What has become of the buffalo hunter? Where is the happy
hunting ground?
The time may some day come when some of us will have to run down a dog and snatch the bread from his mouth that he stole from a bakery. It is the considered opinion that the white race is making a herculean struggle to become the only surviving race. It is further considered that the yellow race under the leadership of Japan, is making a like struggle for
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And .yet we laugh at Africa. The sleeping giants are. growling now. It was itevr suspected that a white confenence would be held at the demand of a Negro. The giants are namely —Patrice Lumumba, Tshombe and Mboya. The Negroes are standing at the crossroads of
human destiny.
The Negro is at the place where he must either step forward or backward. If he goes backwards, he dies. If he goes forward it may well be the hope
of a better life.
When God created the world he handed it over to two beings. Adam and Eve. The human race has multiplied by heaps and bounds since then, and the shadow minded Negro who can see no further than his nose is now a stumbling block in the way of progress. The white man tells us that we must be satisfied with our ways and have patience but the young {people in the outh are carrying on an onward march for complete democracy Rev. George Tate — REGISTER TO VOTE —
.Every year, more than one million Americans have their tonsils removed. Most of these tonsillectomies are done oh children between the ages of three and eighe years old. .Tonsils are normal structures located in the pharynx can usually be seen when the mouth is open, Their function is said to be to absorb and destroy harmful bacteria that enter the mouth. Infected tonsils contain bacteria that often cause repeated local trouble in the threat, but also may infect the glands of the neck. Bacteria or poisons from tonsils may also migrate to remotes parts of Ahe body and cause disorder. When it is certain the tonsils are infected or when they become so enlarged even though not infected that they obstruct the throat, they are usually removed. Surveying records of 9,000 cases of tonsillectomies, three leading causes of disorder were found. Repeated acre throat attacks acoumt for 43 percent of operations;earaches or hearig impeirmet, 31 percent, and enlargement, 19 percent. Only one in every 30 patients hemorrhage after a tonsillectomy and only one in five of those hemorrhaging requires readmission to the hospital for further care. About half of the patients reported in the survey received blood-clotting agents prior to operation and the same number received antibacterials. Tonsillectomy patients customarilly spend at least one night in the hospital and have their operation following inhalation anesthesia Tonsillectomies acount for one out of every 16 general hospital cases, excluding maternity cases. — REGISTER TO VOTE —
Motorists shsnMta’t nesd this advice frost tke Indiana Office of Traffic Safety, but, “Mornag. recess and afternoon school bells entice fee youngsters onto the streets where danger larks constantly. ” The state office says, “When ehadreo dare —drivers beware.” Drive slow in residential and school areas.
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