Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1943-01-01
BY Rey l.. Gillespie
"A MESSAGE FROM DIR.
BLAkELY


BLAKELY
All of us remember some Of the
things we learned at our mothers
Z knee. In all other areas of human
experience there is nothing to com
pare with these simple lessons.
! thought of many of these things
last Sunday as | listened to the
sermon preached by DR.. Blakely at
Bethel. He told the story of the
Prodigal Son who left his well
ordered home for a life of dissipa-
u ton. Then broken and deserted by
: his friends this disillusioned young
man returned home. DR.. Blakely
i did not tell the rest of the story
4 but it is familiar to all of us.
know many boys who have gone
through the same experience. Per
haps had it not been for my moth
er I would have shared such an
experience with them. have Of
ten wondered as | heard this story
N why the tears and heartaches of
j this boys mother were not record
8 ed in the bible.
Dr. Blakely also told the unfor-
gettable story of Captain Eddie
Rickenbacker and his recent ex'
& perience in the Pacific. 1t was ar
inspirational story filled with the
kind of things that make you GLAD
] that you believe in God. Now my
Interpretation of the Christian
philosophy does not accept human
destiny as being sealed by tbs
fatalistie hand of God Yet | ceuld
understand the depth of DR.. Blake
ly's thinking when he said, "The
same God that delivered Jonah
and Daniel delivered Captain Ed
die Rickenbacker from the hungry
mouth of the Pacific Ocean,
A Better Community
There was a time when the 9th
Street section Of Little Rock was
one Of the most prosperous Negro
sections in the country. The de-
preston and bad business manage
ment brought about many changes
in this section and much of the
respect that the white people in
the city had for our group was
lost.
Fer the first time since then
our group has the opportunity
to regain much of that lost pres.
tige. New defense plants are To-
Gated here and there is more mon
ey in circulation than ever before
The racial pattern has never been
bad. Aside from the yesterday
incident, the white and colored pee
pie have had no recent quarrel
Naturally with so much migration
from the rural sections of the
State. and the soldiers who are
stationed at Camp Robinson, there
have been abrupt periods Of adj
justment. How we'll our people &C.
cept the opportunities that war
has given them will be reflected in
the progress they make both in
doing their share to win the war
and the saving Of money to meet
the new period of adjustment
ahead.
wonder how many Of us ap-
preciate having colored police Off
GERS in the Ninth Street section. II
is grand experiment in spite OF
that element who resent authority
in the hands Of another colored
man. These officers are doing q
commendable job. Take Dear
johnson who resigned from the
force. He didn't really need the
job. He was working because II
would help the entire colored po-
pulation in the need. Chester
Mathews quit job that he real
lied more out Of than his present
one. In fact all seven Of these
police officers could make NOR
money in defense plants.
These things are important t.
remember because we are judged
as a group by the action of a few
Take for instance DR.. Dubois
philosophy on the education OF al
upper 10 percent to the place
where they command the respec'
of white Americans. 1t would h'