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Our Perilous Times
By Dean Gordon B. Hancock
for ANP
It is just as well that we face
the ugly fact, that we are face
to face with catastrophe. Perilous
times are upon us and whether
we sink or swim, live or die, sur
vive or perish, are matters that
are delicately poised in the scales
of destiny.
With World War III upon us,
we are being forced to concede
that what we thought was the
prospect of a lasting peace proves
to be merely an illusion. The na
tions are not putting their trust in
God and Right, but in deadly
weapons. The terrible atom bomb
is being brandished with aban
don, and that there will be re
sort to it is almost one of the
certainties* of the crisis that is
upon us.
It is a fearful price that the
nations are willing to pay for the
specious privilege of godlessness.
However reluctant we may be ad
mit it, we are living in a world
where might is right as Neitszche
long ago taught the Germans.
This harking back to the Dark
Ages is calamitous to say the
least. But the end is not yet.
Nations stand upon the dry
bones of former nations and peer
into the solemn future with hope
that by and by a nation will rise
up and rule in righteousness.
“Righteousness exalteth any na
tion but sin is a reproach to any
people” is an admonition that the
nations thus far have rejected, but
one, and the only one, that has
hopes of a better tomorrow. Our
vaunted civilization is on the eve
of doom and the hands of the
clock of history are about to be
turned back. Mankind must be
brotherized or it will be brutal
ized.
This is the grim fact that we
Season’s Greetings
To All Our Friends
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Botts
and Joo Ann, 2041 S street.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Peter
I son, Donna and Jerry, 334 No.
B 23rd street.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams,
I sr., and Joyce, 2236 R street.
The Shark Club, Cecil White
bear, president.
Mr. and Mrs. McKenley Tarp
ley, sr., 1944 You street.
Mr. and Mrs. William Burns
and Ernestine.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Reed and
Sunya Gale, 2042 S street.
Mrs.s Sara Walker and Vivian
Mrs. and Mrs. Frank Williams, '
jr., Roger Bruce, Frank LaMont
and Derek Wayne.
Mr. and Mrs. Hobert Botts, 944
Whittier street.
Mrs. Rachel Fields, 2024 S street.
^j$otes of Interest
Mrs. Jennie Edwards entertained
members of the stewardesses at
an afternoon Christmas party at
her home on Monday, Decem
ber 18.
Theodore Sorensen is reported
111 and confined to his home at
press time. I
loathe to face but grim fact it is.
Will the hurling of the atom
bomb atone for a nation’s sins?
What will the loosing of the atom
bomb settle aside from the ques
tion of who is momentarily the
master of destructive power?
Must peace lie slaughtered on
j the plains of the Twentieth Cen
tury a victim of man’s inhuman
ity to man? When will the na
tions grow up and put away the
childish thing called war? Are
we shortly to see go up in smoke
and utter destruction all that has
been built in sweat and tears and
blood?
Is the atom bomb way the only
way to stem the tide of commu
nism? This is the most potent
question ever laid before the
councils of this nation. Such '
question demands that its answer
come of prayer and fasting and
agonizings of the spirit. When
! will the nation turn in righteous
ness rather than in wrath to God
for cleansing? Jericho and Jeru
salem were walled cities but they
fell before the invaders because
I their hearts were not right with
God.
France lived smugly behind her
I Maginot Line but the Germans
got behind it and destroyed the
. flower of her manhood. The Ger- ]
mans found ease in trusting to
her Seigfried Line but the allies
got behind it and Germany bit
the dust of defeat. Will our con
fidence in the atom bomb be shat- j
tered some day by means more
foul and devastating that will !
make of the atom bomb a by word
among the people? The survival
value of weapons has been tested
and found wanting.
Great armies and navies and
great walls and great lines have
all failed to save the unrighteous
nations. When will the nations
! put their trust in righteousness?
If ever this nation of ours has
prayed it needs, to pray ppw that
the deliberators in the UN may
be guided by Almighty God into
the paths of peace. The impend
! ing human slaughter makes the
heart sick to contemplate and
whether the slaughtered are
Russians, Chinese or Americans
the ^results are the same, the
brutalization of the nobler sen
timents of mankind.
Will our earth soon be turned
into a Twentieth Century Sodom
and Gomoyroh? Whose will be
the gain and whose the loss?
These are perilous times! “Be
hold I stand at the door and
knock, ’ saith the lowly Jesus, j
and the nations will turn him
away at their peril. Does this j
world need economic stability or ■
does it need a great revival to !
turn men back to the ways of
the Lord. We have spurned the
Faith of the fathers; but their
faith seems to be the only anchor
in these times of stress and strug
gle for survival.
So long as salvation is in the
final analysis a personal matter
there is hope and peace in the
knowledge that personally our
hearts are right with God. It all
may sound foolish in the premise
to talk about rightness with God;
hut it certainly does not sound
Masonic Bodies
Elect Officers
For New Year
January 9, the Lebanon Lodge
No. 3, A.F. & A.M., will install ■
its officers for 1951. Elected to i
succeed himself for a third time
as Worshipful Master is Jewell R.
Kelley, Sr., 2641 So. 9th Street.
Mr. Kelley has sponsored an ac
tive social program during the
year and has been active in other
, areas of community life. Other
officers elected were:
Senior Warden, Estelle Powell.
Junior Warden, Fred Nevels.
Treasurer, Leroy Brown.
Secretary, John Irving
January 2, Amaranth Chapter
No. 3, Order of Eastern Stars,
will install Miss Francis Lewis,
1941 T Street as Worthy Matron
for her second year in that post.
Besides her OES activities, popu
lar Miss Lewis is well known for
her community and church work.
Other elected officers to be in
stalled are:
Associate Matron, Beulah Bradley,
Treasurer, Wilma Todd.
Secretary, Maude Johnson.
Conductress. Dorothy Lewis.
Associate Conductress, Janice Kelley.
Warden Jennie Edwards.
‘Few Negroes
Lean Toward
Communism’
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (ANPJ.
: —An opinion that “no appreciable
! number of Negroes are presently
influenced or inclined toward
; Communism,” was expressed here
at Indiana university recently by
Atty. Henry J. Richardson Jr.
Addressing the founder’s day
banquet of Alpha Phi Alpha fra
ternity, under the subject of
“Education and Citizenship,” he
said:
“Though fhe Negroes limited
opportunities, oppression and so
cial subordination wounds them
deeply and makes them suscep
tible to any political phobia that
promises symbols of rope, funda
mentally the Negro has a demo
cratic soul and loves America . . .
and will die to protect his integrity
and precepts. This has been
proven by his enviable war rec
ords in all American wars.
“The question is how long can
; the Negro continue to endure his
! present unholy and unfortunate
j lot of a abused stepchild and stave
! off the influence of communism
that bounds him and is being pre
meditatively channeled in his
' path?
“The answer to this dangerous
question lies the hearts of all
Americans — brotherhood, human
dignity and equal opportunities of
development for all Americans
without racial or religious barriers
will sterilize the seeds of com
munism.
“Then communism will have no
appeal to the Negroes of America
. . . or the masses anywhere in
the world, once the minorities
and the masses are assured of
stable, and consistent improve
ment of their condition in life.”
more foolish than trusting to ma
*erial power that has always let
he nations down.
A New Year's Message
Each New Year we make some
new choices, otherwise it would
just be the old year transplanted.
We make resolutions with our
minds, but we never put our will
and our all back of these resolu
tions and so either we leave them
in the things that we plan on
doing, think that we should do,
or else we half-heartedly make
a start but never really follow
through with all of the resolutions
that we pass at the beginning jf
the year.
Our choices can determine the
kind of a year it will be. Sup
pose that we decide to choose a
new mood, one of friendliness,
faith, hope and carry it over into
the New Year. Then the on-com
ing days on the calendar will
contain new friendships, new ad
venture, and a way of fellowship.
Each one of us chooses the at
titude and the mood in which we
live.
It can also become a New Year
through the things that we love.
What we really love determines
our very life. Life is always
molded and patterned after our
secret desire. There are so many
worlds in which an individual
may live. Here are the Chapters
of the Old Book of Books and the
story of man’s pilgrimmage in the
search for God’s truth and also
God’s search for man until the
two meet in the sterling Personal
ity of Christ. Think of what a
difference it makes in life as one
really comes to love the characters
in the Book of Books and allows
the Spirit of the matchless Christ
to become theirs.
It becomes a New Year with
CHARLES M. GOOLSBY
Charles M. Goolsby, regional
director of the Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity for Nebraska and Iowa,
will be one of the more than 600
delegates from all over the U. S.,
Jamaica and Bermuda who will
converge on Kansas City this
week for the annual general con
vention of the Greek organization.
Also in Kansas City will be the
national meetings of the Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity and the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, '
which, together with the Alphas,
represent about 25,000 college
men and women. This past year
the A. Phi A.’s won a favorable
decision from the Supreme Court
in the Henderson Cast, first filed
in 1942, granting Negroes the
right to eat in unsegregaed din
ing cars on southern railroad*. ,
the fine gift of new affections. If
we go on loving the same old
, things in the same old way, we
j can never have a New Year. It
is only as we make room in our
hearts for some new affection,
: some ne& love, that th£ world
! grows and becomes larger and
| we, in reality, discover a New
j Year.
When we look at our world
i and do not enjoy what we see,
we know that it will not be
changed except as individuals
bring into the world a new spirit.
We have high hopes for peace,
but it will only be a peaceful
; world as there are individuals
who have peaceful hearts. We
may look at our own community,
wherever we may live, and have
the desire that the community
may be a bit more friendly, more
closely knit as a neighborhood
and do not enjoy what we see,
j kindness. Well, too, this will only
come about as there are neighbors
who, in their own relationships
’ with each other, decide to carry
the Christ-like Spirit out into life.
Let us make it a new world of
good will and brotherhood by the
gift of a new affection, a new
love and a kindlier heart.
There are homes also that could
profit by a New Year. One of
the most glorious sights in all of
, life is that of some fine couple
living together throughout the
years until their interests in
| reality become as one. The Spirit
of love and beauty guides that
1 home. Such a home is not left to
' a chapter of accidents, but it
j comes about as members of the
family grow in affection and re
gard one for another as they make
their ideals live through the
i gracious word, the kindly deed
and the loving act.
Watch Meeting
At Quinn (iliapel
Christ Temple, C. M. E. and
Quinn Chapel, will hold joint
services Sunday night, Decem
ber 31.
A covered dish luncheon will
be served in the dining room be
fore the services which will be
gin at 10 p.m. The public is in
vited to attend.
Riifht to Speak Out
NEW YORK.—“The voice of
Carl Marx was not heard until
two and one half centures after
Negroes began fighting for the
rights which democracy promises.
The fight for Negro rights be
gan when the first slaves were
brought to America in 1619. The
battle for Negro rights cannot
therefore be labeled Communist.”
With the stirring pronounce
ment, Hazel Scott elicited an
avalanche of applause at the
packed and jammed Crusade for
Freedom rally last week at the
Majestic Theater.
Notes of Interest
Word was received by Mrs.
Julius Miller of the death of a
cousin, Mrs. Edith Moore of To
peka, Kas., Tuesday, December
12. Mrs. Moore who formerly
lived in Lincoln was the wife
of Will Moore.