Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1964 — Page 10

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A great challenge quality education Only by overhauling our educational system and spending what it takes to achieve excellence can our nation meet the enormous challenge of rapid technological and economic change. This is a categorically exhortation, or warning by an eminent man of letters and/or the U.S. Commissioner of Education, Francis Keppel, issued in the fall, (1963) last year. Mr. Keppel asserted, "The nation is faced with an enormous challenge and the only way it can respond, broadly speaking, is through education—the chief mechanism of adaption. . . We must demand vital reform: better educational services, access to these services by all citizens without regard to age, race, or religion and a deeper commitment of labor, business and the public to education as a life-long enterprise," he warns. Our nation can afford the costs of high quality education, and jobs requiring greater education are increasing, but there is a "definite lag" in schooling, he declares. Nearly one million youth drop out from elementary and secondary schools each year, and 250,000 of these fail to complete even elementary schools. However, he noted that school enrollment reached 51.3 million during the 1962-63 school year. Presumably, in our population approximately 200 million over the fifty states, he asserts that only 43 per cent of adults have completed high school and only 8 per cent have completed college. Further more than 23 million youth in our land 18 years of age or older have compleated less than 8 years of schooling. Mr. Keppel ventures that the close relationship between lower educational attainment and unemployment, with its resulting personal and social costs, seems to be primarily an environmental disease. This environment disease he declared, "strikes hardest at the families of low-income groups generally from trade or labor occupations where both education and motivation are low. These people and their children must be helped to make use of the opportunities our society offers." He outlined the main goals of the National Education Improvement Act then under consideration by the Congress; to improve teacher training, to aid states in improving schools in slums and depressed areas, to raise teacher salaries, to aid in the education of the handicapped, to modernize vocational education, to improve adult educational programs, to aid students at the graduate level and to help construct academic facilities. We contemplate that in sustaining in a neighborhood world our much vaunted politico-economic ideology—we are confronted with, in Mr. Keppel's contentions, a highly disturbing challenge. The challenge involves moral or spiritual probity to be encompassed in high-principled enlightment, or opportunities to pursue the like anywhere, everywhere under The Stars and Stripes. Such opportunities should be available to the aspiring individual, the least among us, without regards to national origin, creed or race Notwithstanding the nation can afford the costs, such opportunities as presently constituted are a singular mockery of our way of life. And orthological historians hereafter might tell the story of how such high-principled enlightment was set at naught against the long way behind us of prophecies of those perfections which are yet to be.

Editorial opinions The Nation’s press THE SENTINEL, Los Angeles Negroes constitute more than 17 per cent of the total population in 30 of the nation's largest cities. There are five Negro congressmen in Washington. Happily, that sad state of affairs will change in response to the Supreme Court's June 15 ruling that all states must reapportion themselves to closely follow the dictum of "one man, one vote." Few realize the full consequence of the ruling but rest assured that better urban representation in our state legislatures and federal House of Representatives will mean better protection for the rights of minorities. Since the beginning of large migration to cities, in the early 1900's rural counties have exerted a stranglehold on the efforts to eliminate the problems in the cities in jobs, housing, education, health and welfare programs. Today, in spite of the fact that more than 50 per cent of the nation's citizens live in urban and suburban centers, "county slickers" manage to "hog" more than their share of city tax money to block or limit all legislation for the benefit of city folk. On the national level, civil rights legislation came close to defeat at the hands of the rural-southern bloc in the Congress. In our own state the rural bloc tried un-success-fully to 'bury' the Rumford Act even before it became law. Rural legislators have long ridden roughshod over the rights of minorities simply because of the fact that in northern communities minorities are by large city dwellers. County legislators don't have to fear them at election time. Reapportionment will change that by removing the deeply entrenched rural powers from important committees where seniority has kept them in. The Warren decision was based on the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment which in essence means that a right to full citizenship is a right to a full vote—not one-fifth of someone's in Orange County. y The Warren opinion stated that only people have voting privileges, "not trees, acres or corporations." Now, too, that the Court is under attack by the same voices who attacked it for the school desegregation decision in 1954, we should not sit silent and idle, like trees and acres of land. On the contrary, Chief Justice Warren deserves vocal support for his wisdom and courage—most of all for his committment to mesh Democratic ideals with the realities.

THIS MEANS YOU

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Church officers

VOICE FROM THE GALLERY The election and beyond

(LARGER LESSON: I Tim. 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-9; Eph. 4:11. LESSON PRINT: I Timothy 3:1-13. MOTTO TEXT: I Timothy 5:17. TIME: 65 A.D. PLACE: Rome.) * * * We are again endeavoring to think with Paul who is in his Roman imprisonment and has been drawn away from his many churches almost instantly. He has sent Timothy, his young assistant, to hold them together until he comes to Ephesus. Church membership was very small and organization very feeble but lives of organization had begun to appear at least in the mind of the grand old man and he was trying to pass it along to his son in the gospel. Our purpose will ba to study the great requirements for the office of a bishop and pastor, his qualifications and the closely related qualifications of deacons and their duties and our resultant duty respect for them. 1. The Duties of the Pastor I Timothy 3:1-7; Acts 20: 28; Titus 1:; II Timothy 2:2; I Peter 5:1-4; Acts 6:4 2. The Duties of a Deacon Acts 6:1-4; I Timothy 3: 8-13 3. What We Owe O u r Leaders I Timothy 5:17; I Cor. 9:115; Acts 14:20 THE DUTIES OF THE PASTOR: Our lesson really starts with the term bishop. This term has been used interchangeably with elder (Acts 20:17, 28). Elder has to do with seniority of age and position while bishop has to do with oversight or function. This places him as overseer and care taker of the church at God’s appointment through the Holy Spirit. Someone may say “we voted* our pastor in’’ but that is not too important unless you were obedient. Your vote was only publication of God’s superior will. Are you looking for a pastor or have you one serving at your church? These are the qualifications that must be predominate. All of them may not glisten as gold but they are there in the majority or if they are not, he should make them glisten or leave. And if they are not, you should ask him to consider leaving or you should leave. In congregational churches like the Baptists, there must be soul searching and character searching on the preacher’s part in his own life or else the congregation becomes a partaker of his sins. Let’s quicjdy look at these qualifications: 1. He must be an overseer of a flock. He must be prepared to supervise a church. Pastors need as much training as any high school principal, hospital superintendent or insurance company head. He should be the best prepared man in the community. 2. He should be a man with deep moral convictions, not a drunkard (Moffatt), not grafter for money (Molfatt), blameless or “above reproach (Moffr.tt). Thus, he should be deeply conscious that he is to display the life of God in his neighborhood as Jesus did in Galilee. 3. A pastor must be a steward of the word and people of God. He must feel responsible to God, to his people, to his denomination and to his city to so bring God His word and God’s people together; to actually bring to that community a higher level of life and brotherhood. 4. He must choose faithful men to pass his ideas on to

REV. J. T. HIGHBAUGH the next generation. This is essential so that if he passes off the scene, the advancement of his life may be conserved and preserved for ages to come. 5. He must feed the flock by teaching and preaching. THE DUTIES OF DEACONS: As I foretold you, the place of the p’-eacher was just gradually finding stance. You can understand why the place of this lay minister has lagged immensely. The deaconship seemed to grow up from a neglect of the Grecian widows in the distribution of the church’s benevolence at Jerusalem (Acts 6:1-8). Long before there was a state of Indiana to enact a bill for physical property, the church at Jerusalem had men who held in trust the food for thqge windows to assure them a fair share and that the preacher could be released to administer the word. Here are their duties: 1. The care for the needy members of the church as explained in “Wondows,” Acts 6:1, 2. 2. To spread the gospel as laymen or win souls for Christ. 3. It seems that they were appointed by the Apostles and put over the work by vote of people (Acts 6:3). This made them administratively helpers of the preacher or pastor. Their qualifications were to be: 1. Of good reputation and of honest report. Moffatt interprets this “of good reputation’’ as meaning he should have a good name before he gets on the board. 2. Full of the Holy Spirit. He should be God led. Daily guided Bible reading and prayer helps here. Read E. Stanley Jones’ “The Way’’ and pause for prayer. Estimate the time you spend looking at wrestling, baseball or newscasts or reading papers and give part of that time to Bible study for your own soul, Brother Deacon. 3. Full of wisdom. This has to do with the right use of knowledge. 4. Full of faith has to do with believing “because I have submitted this to God (whatever problems we have), it will turn out as I believed it would (Mark 11:23, 24; Matt. 8:13).” 5. He must be grave or as • Phillip puts it, “they must be men of serious outlook and sincere conviction. 6. Not tale bearers. Nothing is worse than a deacon who goes from member to membei carrying news or from member to pastor or pastoi to member. King James version says “not double tonguod.” 7. Not addicted to drink (Moffatt). Watch that man who has a fixed drink habit. He will not be useful to God, the church nor himself. 8. Not greedy of filthy lucre. Not greedy for money. 9. Stewards of the faith as a sacred trust.” If God permitted them to be de icons, how careful ought they be. 10. The : r wives must be of serious outlook. 11. Their wive^ must not be talkative busy bodies. 12. They too must be temperate. 13. Husband of one wife. I think this term is a threat against polygamy. In a world where men gloried in the number of wives and concubines one had and had approval of many of the pagan religions, here Paul says none of this in the church of Jesus Christ for pastor, deacon or member. However, I do not feel that Paul was putting any open door for a church divorce mill

to fon because he was saying “one wife at a time,” so to speak. 14. Acquaintance with the scriotures so as to defend the faith (Acts 6:11-7:60). WHAT WE OWE OUR LEADERS: 1. We owe all our leaders our love and affection (Rom. 13-8, 10). If we give our leaders that we will bear their burdens and even be forgiving of their errors. To love them makes it so we can not work anything against their interest. 2. A support as an assurance of living (Numbers 18: 20; I Cor. 9:7-15). In the Old Testament, the ministry wa- supported by the people bringing a tithe to the temple and tabernacle. In the New Testament, the pastor was to preach and teach be-' lief in God and trust the people secondarily that they would care for his life in the ministry. After 55 years, I am satisfied “that he that preaches the gospel shall live of it (I Cor. 9:15, 16.” 3. He is due a faithful trust and respect among the members (I Cor. 9:1-6). Paul is fighting for his right to honorable respect with the women and young women he is to move among. He is to be treated in the church as a trusted gentleman and not as a sex maniac. 4. We owe them an audience (Heb. 10:21) but more preachers have been hurt in spirit, not by loss of love, nor loss of money, nor by dwindling appreciation, but I thank God that He recommends to the community a minister of God to herald the gospel. He feels worthy making all the sacrifices involved, he gladly works for nothing. This week In Negro History Oct. 11. 1882—R. Nathaniel Dett. teacher and composer of “Listen to the Lambs,” was born in Canada. Oct. 12, 1492—Pietro Alonzo, “il Nigro” (the Negro), was one of the pilots on Christopher Columbus’ voyage

Much has been written about the importance of registering to vote in the crucial 1964 elections, but not enough emphasis has been put on the importance of going to the polls and casting one’s vote now that the registrations are closed. It is lamentable that here in Marion County about forty percent of the registered Negro voters have traditionally tailed to cast their votes even in critical elections. It has been widely reported to this columnist that many Negro Republica n s , disenchan t ed with the candidate of their party, are intending to sit this one out. This is the opinion o | most political RAMSEY . analysts is hardly smart. The main hope that the Republican party has of wresting the leadership from the Goldwater forces in the foreseeable future is for the national ticket and its main apendages to suffer humiliating defeat in the November 1964 elections. It is elementary to be aware that win, or lose or draw, Senator Goldwater will be in command of the Republican Party machinery after the votes are counted. If he makes a good showing and if many of his partisans are elected to office, the job of deposing him as the titular and actual head of the party will be herculean. If on the other hand the Arizonan and his chorts are soundly trounced at the polls, the job of ousting him from the leadership of the party will be greatly simplified. Assuming that the Goldwater forces lose their bid for the presidency and other elective offices, a new alignment

For Negro Press International The late, revered President John Fitzgerald Kennedy gave an address Sept. 1, 1957, when he was junior Senator from Massachusetts, before the Columban Fathers seminary in Milton, Mass. The text of that address was just made public "by Religious News Service. President Kennedy would not permit the release of the address when it was delivered because he was addressing a religious body and the message involved no political statements. Reading that address, it was easy to discover the spiritual depth of this Senator who became a President—a martyr. His insight into the meaning of life and man’s relationship to God is as unique as many other facets of his life for which he will long be honored and remembered. There was no other choice but to share some of his thinking with the readers of this column. Basing his message on his understanding o f Cardinal Newman’s “stern encounter” —two living principles, one within and one without religion, in total contention— JFK called attention to man’s greatest struggle. “We forget that the essence of the struggle is not material, but spiritual and ethical,’’ he said as he spoke of how this nation points with pride to the “great outpourings of our factories,” and its stockpiles of strategic materials

By ANDREW RAMSEY of parties is in order. Already the Republicans have removed from the Democrats the arch-segregationist, J. Strom Thurman of South Carolina and there is the likelihood that many Southern members of Congress from Mississippi and Alabama will either voluntarily or otherwise become aligned with the new lily-white Republican Party in the South. The nation will gain because these party switches will remove some of these rats from committee chairmanships. The Republican Party will be embarrassed unless it also can rise the occasion and make these new party members unwelcome. But no great harm will be done to the Republican Party if control of the party passes back into more responsible hands. In that event both parties will have Southern contingents for which they will have to apologize and possibly they will be forced to liberalize their Southern wings. Regardless of the outcome of the election the citizenry is going to have to watch the progress of the efforts on a national and local basis to cripple the Supreme Court and to avoid the necessity of reapportioning the state legislative bodies on the formula of one man one vote. Here in Indiana, we are faced with the problem not only of reapportionment but also of simplifying and easing the tax structure. Many of the candidates are in favor of keeping the sales tax and eliminating the gross, adjusted gross and the personal property taxes. This is a scheme of taxing the poor and giving substantial relief to the rich. In addition to these issues it is manifest that Indiana school corporations are not going to do very much about de facto segregation of the public schools and the dis-

By THE REV. EMORY G. DAVIS and nuclear weapons. This he called the material struggle “and the central problem here is to be equal to the sacrifices necessary for ultimate survival and victory.” To man’s drive to put faith in “things” he said, “we tend to forget the moral and spiritual issues which inhere in the fateful encounter of which the physical war is but one manifestation.” Refering frequently in his message to the competition between the Communists and the United States in producing implements and materials of war, he advised, “we tend to forget those ideals of faith and philosophical needs which drive men more intensely than military and economic objectives.” He interpreted the “stern encounter” as having a “far deeper significance—the very nearly silent struggle . . . with weapons far more subtle and far more damaging than canons and shells.” To him in the “stern encounter” religion is not simply a weapon —“it is the essence of the struggle itself.” He said “the Communist lulers do not fear the phraseology of religion, or the ceremonies and churches and denominational ororganizations.” These the Communists use to their own advantage to gain greater obedience on the part of their people. “What they do fear,” he added, “is the profound consequences of a religion that is lived.”

crimination against Negro school employees, teachers, janitors and clerks until the laws governing their operations are strengthened. A fourth problem facing the Negroes in Indiana is the repeal of the twice passed (1832) and 1851) law against the marriage of whites and Negroes. It is not that there are so many Negroes or whites who desire to intermarry as it is that the law is insulting and degrading. It is the only law left on the statute books of the state branding the Negro as inferior.

As the new governor and the new state officials take office, Negroes need to be ready to insist that Negroes be given more of the important jobs in the State House and that Negroes be named on all of the policy-making boards and commissions of the state. And Hoosier Negroes are going to have to insist that our senators and congressmen nominate Indiana Negroes for responsible jobs in Washington and in the U.S. Foreign Service. And we are gqing to have to find out how integration is working in our armed forces and insist that Negroes be named to the various service academies such as West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy. And we need to flood our Senators with demands that Rule 22 of the Senate be changed to allow a breath of Democracy to flow through the U.S. Senate, the most exclusive white man’s club in the world. Yes we have a lot of work to do and it is not too early to start warming up for it.

If the Communists “have substituted dialectical materialism for faith in God,” he said, “we, on our part, have too often substituted cynicism, indifference and secularism.” To the late President “the purpose of life is the future and not the present.” To him “religion itself is at the root of the struggle.” His conclusion “if our nation will recognize the spiritual and moral element of ‘the stern encounter’ ... we shall find our way easier, our success more certain in this world and our future assured in the next,” sounds like the words of the Old Testament prophets. If we have agreed in these months since that day in November, 1963, that we have lost a great political leader, a great human rights leader, a great promoter of the arts, then, after having heard such profound religious pronouncements, we will have to agree now that we have lost a great religious leader. Many thousands of varied races and clans have knelt at the “altar”—his burial ground —in silent, reverent respect to his memory. How many of us are ready to kneel at the “ALTAR OF OVERCOMING FAITH” where the encounter between living principles within and without religion has ended in our complete allegiance to the principles of the “GOOD” in the struggle between GOOD and evil.

IUms You Should Know

o America. Oct. 12—Day of African Uonement. Oct. 13, 1863—War Departnent ordered enlistment of •iegroes for Civil War serv- Ss ce. • ^ Oct. 15, 1870—The Colored now Christian) Methodist * *??? Episcopal Church was organ- £ zed in Jackson, Tenn. Name s yas changed in 1956. ; Oct. 16, 1859—Sherrad ^ ,ewis Leary, Negro follower »f abolitionist John Brown, iras killed at Harper’s Ferry, t., (now West Virginia). Jrown’s raid took place on he same date. Five members f the original party with Irown were Negroes. Oct. 17, 1898—North Caroina Mutual Life Insurance Company was organized in )urham, N.C., by Dr. A. M. Vcji/fc/P*' loore and John Merrick. Oct. 17, 1888—The first Nero savings bank was estabshed in the U.S. Capital.

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