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The Indianapolis Recorder, June 23,1962

Our Great Challenge Education of Youth Our glorious land today, 'Neath Education's sway, Soars upward still. Its halls of learning fair, Whose bounties all may share, Behold them everywhere, On vale and hill. —Samuel Francis Smith Surveys in very recent months reveal that hundreds of thousands of high school students graduating during the month of June have ended their formal education. Only about one of every three high school students graduating in June has any plans to attend college, according to a recent report of the U S Labor Department. However, among the hundreds of thousands of students not planning to pursue higher learning, a great number are qualified without any stint for schooling on a higher level, and some greater promises. A vast number of such students in keeping with their economic plight may not have either the inspiration or otherwise the resources to pursue higher learning. But the greatest problem confronting them involves finances. In keeping with the report of the U.S. Labor Department Negro youth over the land fell behind in their plans for higher learning by approximately the percentage they represent in the total population, about 10 per cent. Elsewhere a recent survey indicated that only 20 per cent of the children of service or semi-skilled workers planned to attend college and only 28 per cent of the children of skilled workers, compared to 64 per cent of the children of persons in professional or executive occupations, and 43 per cent of persons in small business. Ordinarily this means the children of lower income families may not pursue higher learning because no funds are available. Again other factors contribute to the problems of children of low income families. Sometimes the sex of the student, place of residence and the educational attainment, of the parents, otherwise distort plans on pursuit of higher learning. Many of the nation's most widely acclaimed educators are now consistently urging more extensive facilities, and more compelling courses in the nation's halls of learning. Many, many leaders in all fields of exemplary endeavor now concur in the same ideas or views. More often than not such ideas or views, among other things encompass meeting the summary challenges of the "outer-space" age. It follows that we may have to lead, if not set the pace in such affairs. And leadership will require a myriad caravan of youths trained in all the technical and scientific skills of the world of tomorrow. In keeping with this outlook no worthy student should b ileprived of the opportunity for higher learning because he c she may not be able to finance the same. Notwithstanding over all of our glorious land today, the halls of learning fair all may share—"are not there." Anon—the situation afford one of the greatest challenges confronting the architects c .,ur glory or despair, here or hereafter. Baptists Urged to Face Racial Issue Speaking recently in San Francisco before the Southen Baptist Convention, Rev. C. E. Autrey, Dallas, Tex., told hi audience, "We must do something about our Christian ethics.' He is the evangelism director for the denomination or church Dr. Autrey urged the pastors of the convention to face up to the race issue and follow the example of Christ, rather than be "curbed and guided by the cruel convictions of men." Again he declared, ". . . We cannot ignore the race issue ... if there was ever a time when Southern Baptists needed to live the gospel they preach to make it effective, it is now." The Rev. Charles A. Trentham, pastor of the First Bap II ♦ist Church, Knoxville, Tenn., told the convention the churcf I is fragmented because Christians have forgotten that thej.1 church belongs to Christ. i Rev. Trentham asserted, "We have forgotten that thel heart of Christianity is a person, not an institution. Chris B builds the institutional life of the church only as we follov.1 Him." •, I Otherwise he declared that if Baptists spent less (| time in committee meetings debating ecclesiastical structures and organixational procedures and more time n close to the people, the world could feel again "the great compassionate heartbeat of Christ." More compelling Dr. Autrey in his address, warned hi audience that unless there is a world-wide spiritual revival it this generation, the world's population will outstrip the growtl of Christianity and produce a pagan world by the year o

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Further he warned that Christians must be more dedicate, in their fight on Communism, and must "out live and ou sacrifice and out die them, if necessary." He pointed out, "the writings of Nikita Khrushchev sole and distributed last year among non-Communist countrie alone, amounted to 100 million volumes—while the tota distribution of Bibles was only 55 million." We contemplate that the racial istue has interposed a flaw in exemplary manifestations of the tenets of Christianity throughout our way of life and times. But Dr. Autrey admonishes his fellow-churchmen that they should follow the example of Christ, rather than be curbed and guided by the cruel convictions of men. Further he admonishes that Southern Baptists need to live the gospel they preach to make it effective . . now. Equally or more striking if all Christians are parties to c common spiritual way of life, Dr. Trentham charged tha "Christians have forgotten that the heart of Christianity is < person, not an institution, and Christ builds the institutiona life of the church as we follow Him." Finally we ponder implications that the whole truth i: v/anting about Christianity where men debate ecclesiastica structures and organizational procedures rather than a feelinc of "the great compassionate heartbeat of The Christ." Yet i does appear that by far and large the truth is obscured in thai institutions finally are curbed and guided by the cruel con victions of men.

Press Creedfhe United States or Americc on best leod the world away from racial and nationaf antago •tism when it accords every man, regardless of race, cola* jf creed, his human and legal rights. Hating no man, fear ig no man, the Negro Press strives to help every man ir firm belief that all are hurt so long as any one is held back.

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INTEGRATION WILL REMOVE THIS SOURCE OF HATE

Letters to the Editor..

Reader Says Divorce Is One Of Greatest 'Monsters' Today

To The Editor: One of the greatest and most destructive monsters in this city, state and nation is DIVORCE, which occurs day after day. Last year the six courts in Marion County granted 2,332 divorces, and Heaven alone knows how many children were involved. One Marion County judge said he was almost tired of trying divorces, and what happens here is just a drop in the bucket to what is going on everywhere.

They trump up a good looking lie, stand before the judge, drop a few tears and the case is settled—the man is deep in debt and out the door. Many Sundays I look at the congregation and there are 10 women to every two men. I wonder where the “grass widow’ ” husbands are. So many of these “widows” are heading clubs and as long as they can bring in the mighty dollars, we preachers never bother to find out how they

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trouble is all we see is dollars, while the children are going out on the streets to destruction. Preachers should stop awhile and remember the Bible says the only reason for divorce is adultery. All we do is go to the divorce machine, turn the handle and out jumps a divorce paper. Then we marry the next day, stand in the pulpit and preach to the same woman, and after awhile we get back sweet with the first wife and the second wife doesn’t know it. The first wife is laughing at the second wife and the little children have to suffer.

Indiana law provides for a 60-day cooling off period after the divorce is filed before the case can be tried, but this state is weak in the protection it gives the marriage institutions and the innocent children victims. No compulsory marriage counseling is required after the suit is filed. Marriage is cheap, but divorce is expensive. It is not only costly because of what the community must spend on the children’s behalf, but because of the downhill trail which some young people drift into leading them to delinquency. I told an inlegrated Jeffersonville P.T.A. gathering that delinquency starts from divorce, since no man is going to love another’s child as he would his own. I feel if a couple would take a little time and look at their children and question themselves, they would reconsider and realize that marriage is a “give and take affair.’’ The trouble is some are determined to take, but when it comes to give, they are ready to throw everything overboard. Love brings about true marriage, but many young people marry to get away from home or because they see a person with a little something and before saying “I do” they start scheming on how to beat' that person in the courts.

If we had counseling, many a manage could be saved. The

Rev. George Tale 1908 Mansfield

Defends City Sanitation Workers, Questions Boswell

To the Editor: This article concerns the problem currently facing the men presently employed at the City-Sanitation Department. It seems to be that the routes have been increased somewhat in order to better accommodate the residents of the Indianapolis area. However, in view of the fact that it may be an effort to better serve, this situation causes a hardship on the men who have to do the work. This article is calling your attention to the statement appearing in the Indianapolis Star and News last week, by Mayor Boswell. seemingly threatening these men with the possibility of losing their jobs if they failed to put in a full eight (8) hours work day. SINCE MAYOR BOSWELL is an official of this city, I personally, do not think this statement was made with wisdom or consideration, because some individuals have already lost their jobs because of lack of understanding and applica-

ble knowledge of the situation at hand by persons directly involved in the change that is in effect at the present time. Since most of those persons are persons of color and in the event some of these men did lose their jobs, as indicated. they would not be able to obtain other employment, mostly because of educational limitations. In that respect these persons are the people who will virtually “work themselves to death” in order to keep from losing their jobs because they have families to feed, children to clothe and try to educate decently, to try to bring them up in a half-way decent community life, which is a problem in the first place, because as men they receive salaries that do not compensate for the type of labor involved. There is seemingly no consideration whatsoever for sick leave, vacation or any other advantages that effect other places of employment. Let any male citizen considering himself a man work one day running behind a moving

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VOICE FROM THE GALLERY

Twenty-Five Years With One Woman By Andrew W. Ramsey

Twenty-five years is either a long time or a short time according to what one’s frame of reference is. It is more than the lifetime of a longliving dog but it is a mere fraction of time in human history. In the life of a man or a woman 25 years represents a considerable portion of the whole, and in the duration of modern marriage it is a long time especially since people are marrying more now and enjoying it less. All| of| the foregoing was a prelude to the statement that 25 years ago—on the 24th of June, 1937 to be axact, I gave up single cursedness for marit a 1 blessedness. Many things h a ppened in 1937, but of all the things that happened i n that year, 1

ANDREW W. RAMSEY

can remember most vividly struggling to get a ring on the finger of my bride and the sound of the preacher’s voice saying “I pronounce you man and wife.” Since that very warm June day in 1937 a quarter of a century has somehow staggered by like a drunken beggar in the rain, yet my bride of that eventful day is still with me, and I sometimes wonder if it would not be fitting for me to give her a gold medal for her patience

and her good nature. Each anniversary of our marriage finds 'her still trying to reform me and to change my many faults for which she evidently married me. So far she has been completely unsuccessful but she is persistent. I was elated at first to find that my wife had deliberately married on her birthday because I thought that I would have to buy only one gift for the double celebration* * but to date I have never been able to get by with thatNot only do I have to get two gifts, I must also choose them and they must be of a personal nature. And after 25 years of making an annual journey into the women’s apparel departments of thedowntown emporia, I still feel a little awkward and a little embarrassed. Yet I have discovered that I either have excellent taste or my wife is one of the world’s leading diplomats for she always gets ecstatic over the things I give her on this annual occasion. At first I was egotistic enough to believe that it was my excellent taste, but in recent years I have been inclined to think that my wife just does not care to stick a pin in the balloon of my ego and that I shot the wad of whatever taste I might have possessed when I chose her to be my bride. ONLY ONCE in the quarter of a century of our togetherness have I attempted to give a party for my wife, and while she seemed to enjoy that, she gave me to under-

stand that she would rather not be made over in such a public demonstration gain. And when it came to the matter of celebrating our 25th anniversary, she put her foot down on it. She does not feel like obligating our friends to give us gifts, and she is not overly fond of polishing silver. . She is not particularly anxious to publicize the anniversary until after it has passed and so it is that I have violated one of the traditions of this column by writing this piece in the first person. She will settle for my painting the kitchen, buying the usual gifts and taking her out to dinner. But before I go out to dinner I shall have to ■spend a day or two in the family doghouse for writing this piece. And I owe an apology to the regular readers of this column for dealing with matters completely personal at a time when so much is happening when there is so much about which I might write. But after all I am merely human, with all of the problems that most people have, taxes, debts and family concerns. My mind is too occupied with the problem of choosing a couple of gifts and of selecting a suitable place to take my bride out to dinner that I cannot concentrate on the problems of race and nation or of inner and outer space. FOR THE NEXT few days I need to review the 25 years which I am to celebrate, and then celebrate fully.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON The Kingdom Triumphant

REV. (LARGER LESSON: Rev. 21:22. LESSON PRINT: Rev. 21:1-8, 22-27. MOTTO TEXT: Rev. 11:15. TIME: 96 A.D., PLACE: ISLE of Patmos). Our lesson setting is heaven during the culminating days of time and the beginning days of time and the beginning days of eternity. Suppose we preview our lesson as follows: I Who Belongs to the Kingdom Now? (Matt. 25:1, 11, 12, Luke 13: 28, 29). II. Heaven and Who Is Not There. III. Heaven and Who Is There (Rev. 21: 1-3, 5-7, 22, 24-26). WHO ARE IN THE KINGDOM NOW? Often we are confused here as to who belongs to the Kingdom of God. As unreal as we are, we seem to want others to shine as the real thing and have no dross. We want to know who really belongs to the Kingdom of now. Jesus, when discussing the New Birth with Nicodemus, assured him that unless a man is born again, he could not either see (understand) or enter (become a citizen of the Kingdom of God. He assures each of His disciples that the Kingdom of God is

truck, emptying large cans or boxes or whathaveyou and usually filled to the very top and sometimes overloaded; steadily for one eight hour period and see just how long he can take it. Some of these men have been doing this very thing for many years, day in and day out, facing snow, sleet, rain and any weather conditions (not to mention having to work ev- * ery holiday except Christmas) which after a while could run down any man’s body. But what thanks, do they get, except to be told that this wasn’t enough, that they would have to be out eight hours a day under these conditions, or lose their jobs. I don’t think when the statement was made that full knowledge of the real reason or truth of the situation at hand. IT WAS STATED that the men were ankered at having to work longer hours, consequently leaving some work unfinished or “left down”. The truth is that the routes given was so large that one truck couldn’t possibly pick up everything, even in an eighthour period, so here you have the reason spme routes were left unfinished. If a man can lose his job for something like this, what kind of government are we supporting; after all, the fault does not lay with the men, but with the persons responsible for makup the longer routes. Also, the statement made wouldn’t be proper in the first place, because it involves mostly people of color, who also as citizens of the Indianapolis area support the local government. For instance, there is one person working for the Sanitation Department who is almost old enough to retire, and

J. T. HIGHBAUGH, to be their constant quest, and all other things would follow secondarily. It seems that the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God are carefully contrasted in the Schofield Reference Bible, and implies that all nations, kindred and tongues will be in the Kingdom of G$d, and they will be the real, the true and faithful. Their loyalty will not be done for show, but will be of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. HEAVEN AND WHAT SHALL NOT BE THERE. Our lesson for today seems to have its occasion in the heavens. What John saw was a new system and order, both of values and arrangements, than this present order, and instead of being built up around avarice and pride and competition as was Babel(Gen. 11:1-9, it will come down as a gift from God and He and His Son, The Lamb, shall be the very glory of it. John is very explicit of what won’t be there, which may mar our present world. Let us name them and you apply them to your own world of influence. There shall be no more tears, death, sorrow.

even this man has been put “on the ground”. You can imagine what this would do to a man his age after possibly a few weeks. If you citizens will recall, when the men worked shorter hours, at lease there were fewer if any, complaints, and I am certain that the Mayor did not have a reason to show up on the Sanitation grounds. There was nothing “left down” as the men worked with nothing on their minds but getting the job done. Now there is dissension among the men and their employer which isn’t good at all. To the Mayor let me say this. Perhaps an effort should be put forth to have these men work under the Merit System at least, which does offer more advantages, and will surely ease some of the dissention now in the department. BACK TO THE RE-ROUT-ING. The persons who are responsible for this route increase, should at least give the men involved and opportunity to work this matter out for themselves. After all, they are the ones who have the full knowledge of the route, and the best way to pick it up; the approximate weight of the cans and boxes, or what ever has to be picked up, and just about the time it takes to clean up the streets. Incidently, when a person does work eight hours a day, this usually entails lunch hours and breaks. In this case, that would be almost two hours when nothing was done at all, and when time can to go home, as in any place of business, what doesn’t get done today, will have to wait until next time, and in this case, it would be the next week, or over-time pay.

Editor crying, pain, sorcerers, liars, fear, unfelief, abominations, mur d e r e r s, whoremongers, idolaters, defilement and sin. To read of the ending of these things is to assure us of hope and gladness HEAVEN AND WHAT IS THERE. Also He gives John a list of things that are there including: new heaven and earth. Holy City, God on the throne. His people around the throne, the beginning, the end, fountain of living water, an endowment of all things, Lamb center of worship, lamb is the light, kings bring their glory to the temple, and glory of the nations brought together. And His last picture was one of Eden reclaimed. I think this 22nd chapter is both fact and poetry realized. Especially read the first five verses of this fine piece of poetic masonry and be alive with hope. In a land of fadeless day Lies a city foursquare It shall never pass away For there is no night there God shall wipe away all tears There shall be for us no fears And they count not time by years For there is no night there.

ALSO IN THIS state, I believe that there is a law stating that a person is not to work over two hours without a break. A good employee is one worth keeping, because if the employee is pleased with his work and does the job well, and to the best of his ability, the employer is satisfied and consequently has little or no worries. Have a little compassion for these individuals concerned, and see if there is something that can be worked out, because I am certain that there is a solution to this problem if you take the time to work it out, because after all, right is right, and there certainly is no effort being put forth at present to solve this problem, and it is a problem. Mr. F. Gilbert Praises Hoosier Hospitality At '500 Activities' To The Editor: I had the pleasure of visiting your beautiful city for the recent “500” Festival an d Memorial Day Race, and I wish to hereby express my appreciation to all my wonderful friends—both old and new —for their hospitality. A vote of thanks to the Mayor and Police Department for their unique traffic control system. No other city can compete with yours in the speedy and courteous handling of traffic. Thanks again for an enjoyable time. John P. Greer. Publisher Oregen, The National Negro Market Newsletter 31 Frederick Avenue Roosevelt, L.I., New York