Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1968-01-27 J. A. Beauchamp Don't Judge Christianity By Its Mistakes, Cleveland E. Earl Cleveland, a leading Seventh-day adventist evangelist, has warned hit fellow Negro ministers and lite church's leaders not to yield the field of religion "to a new generation of young pagans who would judge Christianity by its mistakes." Cleveland, who has held Adventist evangelistic crusades on four continents, said that with a knowledge of Christianity's contributiens to the civil rights movement "we can face the long, hot swner of 1968, and may it be Christianity's finest hour. Comented Cleveland: "In the ghettos there is a growing awareness of the necessity of self-development and self-improvement. This internal revolution within the Negro community to being accompanied by a new awareness of the dignity and worth and significance of the individual. "With this development it appears that the Negro has gone full cycle from the dehumanizing, depreciating effects of salavery to absolute belief in his own equality and humanity," continued Cleveland. "As with all revolutions, there are negative aspects of this positive development, and as ministers who must labor in the ghettos, we must understand the throat to Christianity that is inherent in some of the fringe areas of the movement." Cleveland said some of the new breed civil rights leaders have no knowledge of Christianity's "positive and lasting contributions to the dignity of man." In fact, he said, they make "a distinct effort .... to label anyone who belongs to a Christian church a lackey and that the doctrine of Jesus, 'love your enemies' is out of date and impractical. "These apostles of violence and lawlessness must be respected as individuals". said Cleveland, "but their ideas certainly must be answered with the facts.' Cleveland then outlined briefly Christianity's, contribution to the anti-slavery movement, beginning with William Edmundson's 1967 tract, "A Remonstrance Against Slavery and the Slave Trade," throught the Quaker, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Methodist anti-slavery leaders of the 18th and 19th centuries. "John Byington and Joseph Bates of Seventh-day Adventist fame were well known anti-slavery advocates," explained Cleveland. Byington, who served as the first president of the denomination, from 1863 to 1865, owned an underground railroad station and refused to give it up when he became president, of the church. "Mrs. Elien G. White, a spiritual founder of the denomination, was one of the most out-spoken antislavery advocates of her time," continued Cleveland. In 1862 she wrote of slavery as an institution 'that was a thousand times worse than the tyranny exercised by monarchial governments... In this land of light a system is cherished which allows one portion of the human family to enslave another portion, degrading millions of human beings to the level of the brute creation. The equal of this sin is not to be found in heathen lands.' Cleveland pointed out the importance of Christianity to the mid- 20th century civil rights movement: "Even the present-day activist movements that stop short of looting and burning and the destruction of property were spawned and nurtured in churches and the revival atmosphere One need only go back in his mind to 1955 and 1956, when the demonstrations began. It was in churches under the leadership of ministers that the appeal to conscience had Its birth." Cleveland is an associate secretary of the Ministerial Association at the world headquarters of the Seenth-day Adventist Churches. He has held eyangelistic meetings in such cities as Chicago, New York, Dar es Salaam Johannesburg, and Warsaw. In his program of evangelism and conducting workshops and institutes for seventh-day Ad ventist ministers, he has circled the world twice and totaled nearly a million miles of air travel. Cleveland took hit ministerial training at Oakwood College, a Seventh-day Adventist liberal arts college in Huntsville, Alabama. Before transferring to Washington in 1954, he served at a pastor and evangelist to the Booth. He lives at 915 Lawrence St S. E., Washington, D. C. Who Needs Money When You've Got A Mercedes Benz Fifty cents looked like a fortune to half a dozen New York youngsters so they traveled in style. The two girls and four boys aged 12 to 15 years "borrowed" a red, shiny 1968 Mercedes Benz in New York, and drove it here. A Cop who figured the He luxe car and its passengers didn't add up nabbed them at dawn Monday then they halted for a traffic light. They explained to Juvenile Aid Division Police they, just "took a joyride" after picking up the car Sunday afternoon. 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Hoving recently announnced that the dis tinguished Citizens he heads who support a Public Television system in this country now number 119 persons. "In the less than three weeks since planning for the meeting began, we heard from 95 per cent of our membership as to whether they would be attending," Mr. Hoving. said. "An astounding 83 members already have said they will be there, with others still trying to untangle themselves out of certain prior commitments so they can come, too. If this fantast Lie number of affrmative replies on the part of some of the busiest leaders in their fields in this country doesn't tell a lot of people who ought to know by now that there's an incredible demand for a second service in television, I don't know what will — except perhaps for the straightforward, firm recommendations I am sure the members will make at the meeting itself." Mr. Kubasik said that what is expected as a result of the meeting "will be a definitive Citizens Report on public Television. We will be in close corespondence with our members this month toward what will be happening at the meeting it self, with the intention of having a long, thoughtful look al what some of the roadblocks are to obtaining a truly strong independent Public Television system in this country. And as citizens, we would be expected to make pronouncements on actions that ought to be taken to remove whatever stands in the way." A major factor that the Citizens will consider at the meeting is what the relationship of the National Citizens Committee for Public Television will be to the Corporation for public Broadcasting once the Corporation becomes operable, Mr. Kubasik said. Other items certain to be on the agenda include how Public Television can be permanently financed; what system of workshopseminar and attendant apprentice ships can be arranged to make qualifiable ghetto and otter under privileged youths for careers in broadcasting, and the further establishment of state and local citizens committees for Public Television to work in association with the National Citizens group. Members will be receiving memoranda and work papers during the coming month detailing the subjects that are to be discussed and evaluated at the February 11-12 meetiugs, Mr. Kubasik said. The contents of the material sent them is to be kept confidential by the members, though Messrs. Having and Kubasik said they encourage members to discuss among themseles, wherever possible, the subjects for the meeting and to make recommendations for items they would like to see taken up at the gathering. "Arrangements are being worked out to keep closely in touch with those members who for one pressing reason or another are not going to be able to be with us in New Orleans," Mr. thinking — just as though they were there — on everything that is being considered, by those who are physically present." The Citizens Report, if there is clear unanimity on the floor of the conclave, could very well be made public at the close of the meeting, Mr. Kubasik said. Otherwise, he said that the Citizens Report would be published as soon after the close of the meeting as possible. Hoving and Kubasik chose the New Orleans site give added meaning to the diversity and differences that are intended for an American system of Public Television. "It is a Southern city, which has a Public Television station (WYES-TV) that has only recently come brilliantly alive under inspired leadership, and it is midcountry — not New York or Washington, where some people thought the meeting should have been held," said Mr. Kubasik. "The citizens undoubtedly will have their impact wherever we meet." Kubasric reiterated what Mr. Hoving and he have said consistently as to the purposes of the National Citizens Committee for Public Television: "The citizens intend to gain sweeping national support for a powerful, politically untainted system of public Television in the United States. We expect that the citizens will not stop short of looking into any area of communications policy as it affects Public Television." 1866 Stature Used To Curb Housing Bias The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, jointly with three other organisations, has called upon the United States Supreme Court to validate the right of Negroes to purchase property on the same terms as other citizens under an 1866 Federal statue. The National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Birith and the American Jewish Congress joined the NAACP in filling a friend-of-the-court brief, Jan 17, with the supreme Court in support of a suit by Joseph Lee Jones and his wife who, solely on racial grounds, had been turned down when they sought to purchase a home in a huge, private housing development in suburban St. Louis in 1965. The joint brief argues that the Civil Rights Act of 1866, passed shortly after the end of the Civil War under authority of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibits discrimination because of race in the sale of real and personal property even though no state action is involved. Further it argues that in the present instance involving the construction and meantenance of an entire community there is sufficient state action to warrant relief against discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment. The case is before the Supreme Court on appeal from an adverse decision handed down last year by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The Supreme Court agreed to review the case last Dec. 4. It is expected to hear argument during the March term. In addition to this joint brief others filing similar briefs include the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, National Council of Churches in the United States, National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, American Jewish Committee and seven national and 81 local Jewish organisations affiliated with the National Community Relations Advisory Council. American Civil Liberties Union, Missouri Commission on Human Rights American Federation or Teacher AFL-CIO. and U. S. Representalive Henry S. Reuss (D., Wisc.) TOOTHACHI Don't suffer agony, Get ORA-JEL, In seconds you get relief from throbbing toothache pain, Put on - pain's gone. Until you can see your dentist, do as millions do — Use ORA-JEL Rcommended by many dentists. Ask pharmacist for * Body Of 39th Victim Found In River The body of the 39th victim of the Silver Bridge collapse was recovered Sunday from the Ohio River. He was identified as Harold Condiff of Winston-Salem. N. C., who was a co-driver aboard a tractortriler. Police said Cundiff was asleep at the time of the collapse His partner swam to safety. The recovery was made by the Brookfield, Ohio, Volunteer Fire Department. Rescue units from six states entered their second day of an all-out effort to locate persons still missing from the Dec. 15 tragedy. Volunteers found two bodies Saturday, the first recovered since Dec. 27. Seven persons remain missing. NAACP Leads All Rights Groups Once again, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been rated No 1 among civil rights organizations by an independent poll of Negro opinion. In a survey of Negro high school youths, 13 to 19 years old. in Atlanta, the Southern Regional Council found that 75 per cent of them approved the NAACP with 2 per cent disapproving and 23 per cent expressing no opinion Clasc behind was an Atlanta-based organization with 73, 4 and 23 percentages, respectively. The results of the survey are published in a booklet entitled. "Black Youth in a Southern Metropolis. "The study was conducted by Dr, James E. Conyers and William J. Farmar with the assistance of Dr. Martin Levin. Only 55 per cent of the young people approved the third organization; 49 per cent, the fourth; and 37 per cent, the fifth. Nearly two thirds — 66 per cent — approved non-violence. Black power and riots were approved by 15 and 12 per cent, respectively. Good Example Best Training For Children Time-tested virtues are much better thin make-do ethics, says a poet-grandmother. And it's what mothers and fathers do that makes the sharpest impression on children, she adds. Even though "teaching total integrity to a child is virtually impossible," Alison Wyrlsey Birch thinks that parents ought to try — through their own example. Mrs. Birch, author of three volumes of poetry, marshals cases pointing up how little "white lies," dodging creditors, looking the other way, salving consciences, glossing over guilt and other fill-in-theblank ethics — all on the part of "respectable" parents — ultimately led to harmful escapades by teenagers. All those brought out that moral laxity was the girl's or boy's "birthright by example." "When does moral decay turn into crime?" Mrs. Birch challenges in the February issue of TOGETHER magazine. Blasting proponents of situation etlUcs and permissiveness, she makes it plain that "the oldfashioned virtue of honesty" never depends "on the moment, the place or the reason — nor that deceit depends on the situation." "Integrity is essential if life is to have harmony and meaning," Mrs. Birch states flatly in her article, Study in Black and White. Touching upon myths, she comments "maybe George Washington did not realty cut down that cherry tree and admit it" and maybe Abraham Linncoln did not walk miles to return an overpayment to a shopkeeper, but she states pointedly): "What two dead statesmen might have done does not hold a candle to what two living parents can do." What everyone ought to keep in mind. Mrs. Birch thinks, is that "we all contribute in small ways to the universal condition, good or bad." Writing in TOGETHER, Methodist monthly magazine for families, she expresses the hope that "we have given the world square citizens who really know the difference between black and while." She considers it important that old-fashioned virtues be taught — and practiced — because history is full of examples where situation ethics and rationalization brought on persecutions, wars and other woes. Atlanta University Counseling Center Begins On Feb. 5th The Atlanta University Counfitng Center will begin operation on Monday. Feb. 5. Dr. Huey E. Charlton, Atlanta University School of Education, has announced that all elementary and secondary school students, who wish to participate in the counseling activities, are invited to telephone him at 5236431. ext. 304, to make the necessary arrangements to visit the Counseling Center which to located On the third floor of the Rufus E. Clement Hall on the University campus Parents may make arrangements for their children. The counseling services are designed to help young people with problems related to choice of careers, testing, study habits, educattnal planning, personal adjustment, sexual relations, choice abilities and interests, military services, summer employment and similar matters. Anti-Work Fad' Gains Momentum Repetitive Jobs Are Blamed "We have too many people in this country who think they work eight hours and sleep eight hours in the same eight hours." Calvin Dean Johnson, customer relations director for Remington Rand Office Machines and Office System Co., delivered this indictment of a growing number of workers, at a recent national convention. An apparent "anti — work movement" in America is approaching critical stage, an natiowide survey by the Family Economics Bureau of Northwestern National Life insurance Co. indicates. The crisis comes at a time when industry is fighting foreign competition and tight production schedules. Twenty - five to thirty per cent of the work force dislike their work. according to stdies cited by Dr. Charles S. Dewey. Dr. Dewey is a consulting psychologist in Chicago and professor of industrial psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. "Our problem is that so many of our people have been working at such a slow pace for so long that they don't realize they aren't doing a good job.' said the training director of a transportation company. "We have become so accustomed to mediocrity that we accept it as normal.' Absenteeism, a symptom of estrangement from work cost American industry $10 billion in lost but paid - for labor in 1966. An averase of more than two million employers are absent every day. The hnura they don't work are three to six per cent of the total possible work hews, says Jerry D, Adams. management consultant in San, Antonlo and an expert on abseteeism. Nearly three million employees stretched their weekends by an extra day least summer, according to a national survey. An estimated one-half of them were only sick character-wise. An "incredible correlation" exists between absenteeism and major sports events, according to Indsutrial Relations Counselors, Inc., New York A study in an oil refinery in the southwest uncovered an inverse relation between mean daily temperature an dabsenteeism rate. Even when they're at work, many employees arc "absent." A personnel man calls this phenomenon "on-the-job absenteeism." In a cartcon the boss is saying to an employee who has asked for a raise: "I know you've been with us 30 years, but how long have you worked here?." In many offices, factories and stores, the surest way to be blackballed is to voluntarily do more work than required. By their laziness, employees often are counteracting the effects of routine, isolation and oversimplification produced by modern industrial methods the Northwestern National Life survey report stated. Nevertheless, most people must work, whether they like it or not. J. Pleper gave one reason for work in his book. "Leisure, the Basis of Culture.' "One must work if not from taste, then at least from despair." he wrote. "For. to reduce everything to a single truth, work is less boring than pleasure.' Millions of Amreicans would disagree. Nothing, they would say, is more boring than work when it is sliced up into trivial, repetitive tasks as many jobs are in our technological society. This is the basic reason why some people are "non - oriented to productivity.' as a certlan Irish industrialist describes his lazy employees. One reason for waning work motivation is an increase in job and pay-cheek security that reduces the urgency about providing for physicial needs. A tight labor market makes it possible for an employee to risk laziness. He feels sure that if he gets a pink slip with his paycheck, be can walk down the street and get another job. Many people are "distracted" by pleasure and leisure, says Dr. Dewey. Too much leisure and comfort tend to suppress interest in work. The "good life" leads people to expect more than boredom from their work, but boredom is all many of them get. So, they turn to leisure - time pursuits for satisfaction. Some people actually are allergic to work in a medical sense. According to a report submitted to a recent medical conference in Caramanica, Italy, muscular activity can release an exessive amount of histamine, a powerful chemical stimulant, into body tissues, causing rashes and allergies. "Young rebels" in the work force seem to be especially cursed with work alienation. A minority of new male employees are "rebellious youngsters who don't care much about work, but care intensely about making trouble for those who do," says a labor relations vice president. Robert Newcomb and Margo Sammons, husband and wife who operate a Chicago firm that speclalizes in employee communications; report that they "fairly often encounter the cynical, sometimes even belligerent new, young employee." They seem to feel that the world owes them a living. Many were raised in affluent families in which they enjoyed luxuries and privileges they didn't earn. When they begin their first jobs and find that they must work for their rewards, they rebel. Despite the visibility of laziness in America, hard work hasn't gone out of style. Some people still grieve that each day has only 24 hours. They relish challenge and achievement or they are moticateri by altruism or a social consciousness. It never occurs to them NOT to bolt down their meals and leap out of bed in the morning so they can get on with their work. They would disagree with Jerome Jerome. English humorist and playwright who died in 1827, who said: "I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." They would agree with Voltaire she French philosopher. who said: "Not to be occupied and not to exist amount to the same thing." Nevertheless, the anti - work movement, the insurance company study concluded. Presumably, this development doesn't bother Richard Bellman of The RAND Corporation who predicts that" ... two per cent of the population . . will, in the discernible future, be able to produce all the goods and services needed to feed, clothe and run our society with the aid of machines." Few people believe that the machines will take over soon. Therefore people still are important, as Organization Development, a new management philosophy, recognizes OD, a fad in American industry today, holds that one of the basic causes of employee dissatisfaction in large corporations is monotonous, routinized jobs. OD would take the, monotony out of work and restore challenge and human interest. Workers would be masters of their machines instead of accessories. Another good solution to the laziness problem seems to have occurred only to Calvin Johnson who advised: "Let's gel back to work." ACCEPT CHALLENGE The city put up a sign proclaiming a new public rest room was vandal - proof. Police reported Monday that vandals accepted the challenge an dinflicted extensive damage to pipes, glass and fixtures. "I SAW OTIS REDDING DIE" First-hand report of man who witnessed death of 'soul man' He put his money where his mouth was. Talented comic gave a fortune in money to fight for civil rights and jeopardized his life. Gregory, who normally weighed 160 lbs, went on fast and went down to 105 lbs. All types of "snoop" gadgets are being sold to rob you of your privacy and expose your love affairs. New twists in "bugs" are being discovered daily.