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for whiskey, beer and wine.
Why haven't Christians been
more successful in dealing
with this problem in our own
community?
Wide public sentiment is de-
handing that effective steps
be taken to stop this destruc-
ton of health, morals and man.
hood.
DR.. D. Leigh Colvin of New
York is scheduled to speak on
the religious aspect of "Gov-
eminent and the Liquor Traf-
fic" on Saturday, May 20, at
1870 p. M, in Zion Youth For
Christ Hall on Sheridan Road
near 9th Street.
There will be testimonies
from ex-alcoholics from this
City, telling of Saving Faith in
Christ.
DR.. Colvin is one of the
worlds leading authorities on
this subject. He has a vital
message. Come and bring your
friends.
The Children's Downtown
Bible Hour next Saturday at
2:3O, will be conducted by
Mrs. E. T. Deeder and Mrs.
Bondeson. Remind the children
of these programs.
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are proud grandparents. John,
Jr., and wife Charlotte have a
little son, Richard Finley, born
May 10th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Shu-
maker now have eight grand
children. Mr.. and Mrs. Law
renee Shumaker have a son
born April 9th.
Mollie and Willard celebrat-
ed their 39th anniversary on
May 21st.
Clayton and Margaret Nogle
in Arizona are celebrating
their seth anniversary, May
23rd.
On May 18th, Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. J. Hire celebrated their 50th
anniversary quietly at home.
Many greeting cards were re-
ceived.
We were sorry to hear of
Arvid Detienne's accident, son
of Lewis Deteinne, who broke
both heels.
Also Mildred Lee Nagels
little son broke his ankle.
We earnestly pray for these
little boys.
On May 18th, Arthur Hack
er and Marie Salica were mar
ried in Friedens Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Kenosha,
Wisconsin.
Mitchell Siepkoski visited us
today and attended Bible
School and the Worship Ser
vice, and went with Lester to
the Passion Play. He enjoyed
the day and returned to Chi
cago at eight o'clock.
Elder Wright has returned
from Chicago. He visited lit
tie Stewart Nagel in the hos
pital and found him much bet
ter.
May God richly bless all
who are in trouble and dis
tress.
From the Folks at Home,
Mrs. Arthur A. Wright,
2918 Edna Boulevard.
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Marland J. Stielow y
Donald r. Strombeck
Eudora Louise Struck
Wendell Gordon Studebaker
Clarence F. Summerford
Gaines Vernon Summerford
Lillian Susie Swan
Millicent Edith Talon
William w. Thomson
Ernest R. Verne
Harry F. Wagner, Jr.
Ben V. Walker
Everett Leonard Walters
Janet M. Weber
Betty Ann yelling
Ralph w. Westerman
Robert William Whiteside
Gerald Wesley Wienke
Helen M. Williams
Arlene Annette Wise
Beverly June Wolf
Oliver Wendell Wright
George Friedrich Youngren
Dorothy M. Zoehler
Mary Louise Zweizig
mt with the State Department of
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1948 GRADUATING CLASS

Continued from page p
Wilburn Perkins. Jr.
Orlo D. Peters
Thomas Peters
Gloriette Marlene Peterson
Kenneth Walter Peterson
Barbara Jean Raper
Robert Bruce Remillard =
Clarice Ellen Kendall
Ronald G. Kendall
Howard Calvin Revis
Donald Wayne Richards
Maynard John Richardson
Yolanda Jean Robinson
Alison Rae Roy
Glenn S. Rundblom
Dolores R. Schulze
Thomas A. Shaffer
Norman w. Sherman
Laura Colleen Short
Charles Edward Sieloff, Jr.
Betty Lou Simpson
Martha Elizabeth Sims
David l.. Smith
Thelma Eulene Stanfill
Graduating through special arrans
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TO OUR FOLKS ABROAD
noor Fa1Ec
Dear Folks

~ OON FOLAS A6NOAD
Dear Folks
Peace be unto you!
Overseer Lee gave a good
address this morning - "The
Urgency of the Hour" Yes, it
is later than we think!
= Arthur and Lois Branson
with their son and daughter
from California were in
Church with the William
Schmalfuss family. They arriv-
ed last Wednesday and will re-
turn on Thursday.
Miss Cora Tilbury is home
from Florida and is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Blanche Bishop.
Elder and Mrs. Donovan and
their niece, Esther Pefley, ar
rived Friday evening from Fl.
Lauderdale, Florida, and are
staying at the Joseph Pefley
home.
Lillian Edwards arrived
home Friday after visiting with
her sister and family in Jack
sonville. She also met other
Zion people in Ft. Lauderdale.
Mrs. Grover Wise has en-
joyed her visit with her COT
sin in st. Petersburg and they
are expected home this week.
Hazel will drive Edna Fink's
car, and Edna will visit in Zion
before going on to Beloit, Wis.
Several entertainments have
been held for Mrs. R. Stuck
and Mrs. J. Dolan, who left on
May 20, for New York where
they boarded the Queen Mary
enroute to Scotland, the land
of their birth.
It was ten years ago that
Mrs. Mattick and I sailed on
the Queen Mary for England,
our old home. Mrs. Mattick is
now in our heavenly home.
Overseer and Mrs. Darms
and Mr.. and Mrs. James Drey-
er were guests in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Dreyer on
May 18th.
Mrs. Frieda Carlson of Zion
Home celebrated her Goth
birthday on May 10Th. Her
granddaughter, Adrienne Nor
an-Reisner, brought a lovely
cake, and Grandma wished to
share it with the Bethel Tea
Room folks and asked Mrs.
Paulger to order ice ceram for
all. Adrienne and her little
son are visiting her sister-in-
law in Highland Park, also rel
atives in Zion for two months,
as lack has been transferred
to Boise, Idaho, as district
manager, supervising stores in
five states for Montgomery,
Ward and Company. They are
planning to make their home
there in July. Little Jackie is
walking and growing fast.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Meredith of
the radio Family Bible League
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ATTENTION

All parents whose children
sing in the Community Chorus
es-please have children come
to the Zion Home Dining
Room at seven o'clock, Friday
evening, May 18th.
All parents, guardians-plan
to come and enjoy this even
ing with us. A social hour fol-
lows this program with Mr..
and Mrs. Clark Pitcher serving
refreshments.
Looking forward to meeting
you all.
Yours for Happiness
through Music.
Zoa Pearl Park, Director
YOUTH FOR CHRIST
America is now spending
more than $2O,OOO,OOO per day
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Education
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The Progressive Party

Justification for the formation of the Progressive Party was
that would be free Of the reaonay influences that
weight the councils both Republican parties
These reaconay influences sometimes make impossible to dis
nguish between Harold Knuson R Mimi and Eugene
3D. Ga They both have snguary
voices that constantly demanding
While the Progressive Party by
interests does be free of influences which
g not concerned with making the pro-
test This ably demonstrated in the broadcast the
convention last Sunday
convention floor to ask for amendment
His specific criticism that the Progressive
the United States and completely absoved the
blame in the crisis His motion
was booed for offering it, Former Representative
Washington offered his opposition would be a
treat in the face of what he called red batting honest
gent American citizen truth that present mpasse
foreign affairs has its origin solely policies Truman
mnaton for the Soviet Union
TO the present by its policies Roumana Czecho-
oVaka No onenot the ardent champion new
Progressive Farcan justify position that directs
at the Administrations foreign policy emitting any criticism of the
Soviet Unions foreign policy.
Opponents Progressive Party attribute this situation 70
the dominant role they played Communist
Party They claim that these accept any criticism
OF the Soviet Union mild by the gentle
man from vermont Regardless of the the Progressive
by its action the motion has given measure Of
validity.
The influence big business major parties
except for few during the Roosevelt Administration has
success the indifference rather than ignorance American
voter The knows that business have voice
the government than that assigned democratic
tees In periods Of crises where the insecure whether
because Of events the domestic foreign scene he will
sharply and with authority
Third Party in political pattern essentially party of
Proteprotes against both major parties II successful it
must effective protest in times Of crises
but with the unwse action Philadelphia complete with the
political atmosphere where very unattractye color the
party VIII appear anything but that November
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Caucasian opposes because he de-
sires a superior race, about all he
can do is to put as many obstacles
as possible in the Negroes path.
This will slow down the advance
but will not stop it. 1t has been
tried.
II the Caucasian desires a pure
race, first, he can only regret. His
greatest mistake was bringing the
Negro here in the first place, be-
cause America was founded upon
the love of freedom and built by
the sweat and blood Of peoples
searching for freedom; as long as
she is SO pledged to the cause of
freedom as by our Constitution,
the Negro will belong to America
and America will belong to him.
Secondly, if the Caucasian de-
sires a pure race, he must give up
certain other desires. For with
all his laws against race mixture,
thousands of American mulattoes
certainly were not dropped from
heaVen-nor are they found pre-
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of whatsoever persuasion. The
subtle planning to permanently
Subjugate and humiliate the Ne
gro is at cross purposes with God
and Time and Right and in this
respect is abortive and will in
time come to naught.
The present frenzied efforts of
the old south to kick against the
priCks of moral advancement are
pathetic and ludicrouS. The white
leadership has not kept the south
abreast of the improving moral
quality Of civilization. Lothrop
Stoddard wrote his Revolt
Against Civilization" a few years
ago, in which he deplored that the
criminals were nothing more than
revolterS against civilization.
When the south flauntS defiance
at Christianity and throws down
Inc gauntlet TO righteousness and
Swears eternal vengeance against
the friends of Negro advance, it
does a dangerous thing. 1t is re-
voting against civilization.
To allow itself to be maneuv-
cred into such untenable position
will go down in history as one of
the major tragedies of the GEN.
fury. The white leadership that is
responsible for the launching of
"DiXiocracy" in an effort To de-
feat Democracy is proving itself
recreant to a high and holy trust
The south itself deserves a better
fate and is being thus consigned to
a series of tribulations that will
bring woe that will work havoc
with the peace and prosperity Of
the region.
II the leadership Of the Dixie
Gratis were wise they would see
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dominately in the North. Some
one, when asked if she approved
interracial m arriage, quipped
quite wisely, They might as well
make it legal" And that is
food for thought. It's a losing bat
tie at any rate, short of a race
war, which would undoubtedly
prove to be the end of the Ameri-
can dream. Still freedom would
rise and march on; nurtured in
another land probably, by another
people.
Yes, the hottest issue in to-
days campaigns is, oddly enough,
NOT a crisis. The South affirms
this belief by trying to stop civil
rights gislation. Ironically
enough, the reason there is no
crisis is because nothing can stop
the march of freedom.
OF course this includes freedom
Of speeCh-plainly spoken.
Marjorie J. Bryant.
Indianapolis, Indiana
July 81, 1913
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The South Versus Civilization
BY GORDON b. HANCOCK

Civilization is a social process
with worldwide ramifications. 1t
marks the high tide of human
achievements and is marked itself
by a refinement in human behav-
ior. Christianity has had a deCid-
ed and marked effect on the civil
izing processes the world over and
promises to ultimately emanCipate
man from those baser passions
and impulses that characterize
mans inhumanity to man that, as
Bobby Burns so aptly said,
makes countless thousands
mourn"
Particular civilizations have
come and gone with startling fire.
quency but the general tide of
civilization keeps rising and
sweeps before it certain outmoded
ways and means Of life. Slavery
met its gradual defeat before the
forces of civilization which are
now arrayed against racism and
the pernicious doctrines thereof;
and in like manner race prejudice
and determinations and the evil
concomitantS thereof will 60 down
to ultimate and utter defeat before
the onrushing tide Of civilization.
Time Is with civilization. Time
Is against raciSm and its kindred
prejudices. Evolution Of which
civilization Is but n phase Is like 4
great steamroller hatteninE all be-
fore It. To defy II Is to be crushed
sooner or later!
The white leadership Of the
south has Numbered badly in that
it has not faced up to the fact that
Time and God and Right are ar
rayed on the side of the oppressed
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The importance of Executive Orders

President orders setting commission
equality treatment and opportunity for Negroes in
the Armed other establishing FEPC within the
Federal received contradictory reception The
Negro prominent Negroes have hailed the orders
usherng the American Negro few have termed
usherng only the current political campaign
where doubetalk is the fashion.
who hail the orders ushering in grossly
aggeate Importance those who term them political window
dressing overlook their strategic importance the Negroes continued
fight for democracy
Negroes generally fall into two when confronted with the
which these orders First they become too
their importance good illustration
the Gm report issued by the Army 1t
hailed Negro papers surng better treatment for Negro
soldiers close examination of the report easily
veaed that the designed permit the Army
pretend democratic body and the time continue its
old undemocratc practices
The second that Negroes fall into evauang the
situation Of their political bias The Executive Orders
issued have been hailed by which supports
him. the greatest the Emancipation Proclamation Another
which intends support Dewey ukewarm Negroes
belonging the Third Party call the orders campaign tricks off
the popularity which Henry Wallace enjoys
But these Executive Orders important they inn
porant despite the Presidents dbeak intending
segregation right They important
seriously about practices
fifteen million Americans They important because their
stence makes possible for them be used millions
of Americans who determined that day these United
States enforced racial segregation will be thing of the
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the handwriting on the wall In
the way other sections combined
to defeat them in their feverlSh
and frantic efforts to prevent the
nomination of Truman.
We are indeed witnessing one
of the major events Of history
when we see the north and east
and west combining their efforts
to defeat the south that is commit
ted to defeating a man for no
other reason than that he was
proposing to make of democracy
living philosophy of national life
instead of a mere dead platltude.
II would be well for The Dixie
Gratis to know that not only are
the several regions of the nation
arrayed against them but civlliza-
ton itself is against them. All the
forces of right and righteousness;
all the preachings and teachings
of Jesus Christ are against them;
the word of God as handed down
to Moses from the smoky SUBMITS
of Sinai are against them; Time
in its onward fight is against
them.
The old south is about to give
up the ghost and what is needed
now is not a shot in the arm but
someone to lower its head. A new
south is crying to be delivered
and the stern if subtle opposition
that is being manifested against
the new Dixiocracy by certain ele-
ments in the white south is suffi-
Gent proof thereof. Henceforth
the south must take the defensive
against the titanic onslaught that
civilization and its liberating in
fiuences will launch against it,
The south is like a beleaguered
city. The Dixiecrats are not more
determined than were the cham
pions of slavery; but slavery
passed and so will DixioCracy, be-
cause it is set against civilization.
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that freedom must be for all or
lasting peace for none at all; that
even when none have freedom il
is only temporarily impaired and
waits like a Pickering light to be
picked up and tended and put to
work again. Thus, throughout
these many years, nothing has yet
been able to completely stop the
progress of this great force and no
interception has been very effec-
tive save war or slavery.
Today in America, there is no
war or legal slavery. No matter
what the South agrees upon in
matters or racial segregation; no
matter If the North, in an effort to
gain votes, pushes forward civil
rights legislation; the Negro's adj
vance in the march of freedom
will push forward with that of
all the peoples of the world. With
the world desperately searching
for peace, he is in the midst OF a
now worldwide re-surge of mans
eternal struggle for the good, the
just and the right. A struggle
which demands that human free
dom cannot be ignored, cannot be
segregated, cannot be convent
enced, and cannot be compro-
missed.
Today in America, the issue
over civil rights is bringing to
Light Causasians who oppose the
Negroes advance herein. II the
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Herbert BrOWnell Is on deck IN
Washington to mastermind the
Republican congressional strate-
gy. He knows that the outcome of
the whole campaign may depend
on the Republican behavior in the
special session. The Republican
majority in Congress can no long
er afford to act as a legislative
majority. under its own leaders
like Taft and Vandenberg, Martin
and Halleck. 1t must now act as
the mouthpiece of a presidential
candidate, Governor Dewey, and
Of his mouthpiece Brownell. 1t has
become the shadow of a candi-
dates shadow.
Two Achilles Heels
In this shadowland atmosphere
of stealth and cunning, its tactic
will be to shove aside the issues
Of anti-inflation, housing, mini
mum wage, social security, the
DIP law, public power, federal aid
to education, and concentrate on a
single one Of the eleven points
civil rights. For just as the Repub-
lican congressional bankruptcy on
all eleven points is the Achilles
heel of Tom Dewey as candidate
so the Dixiecrat hatred is the
Achilles heel of Harry Truman as
candidate.
By bringing up the civil rights
issue, in the form of anti-poll tax
bill, as the first order of business,
the Deweyites can use the Dixie
Gratis to destroy the whole Truman
program. The Dixiecrats are all
set for a prolonged filibuster on
the anti-poll tax bill. The Republi-
cans, joining with the Trumanites,
can break the filibuster, but what
is to prevent them from letting it
go on numerically and then
breaking it at their own sweet
leisure? Thus they can get credit
for virtue from the Negroes, even
while they are the allies Of the
Negro-haters.
An uneasy Alliance
BY the time the filibuster is
broken, there will be little time
left for anything more than
wrangling and shadowboxing over
the other ten legislative issues. |
Let meat and milk prices go high
er, let the desert of housing re-
main a desert, let school children |
and teachers go on the straitjack |
ct of inadequate local funds, let |
the DPS rot in their DIP camps, to |
Dewey and Thurmond these are |
secondary matters, just so long as
states rights are preserved for
one and Truman is destroyed for |
both. The alliance of the Dewey |
ties and the Dixiecrats, is, no
doubt, an uneasy alliance. But it |
has the crucial cement Of any al |
liance-the will to destroy COM
mon enemy.
My readers know | am not a |
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great Truman partisan. Yet in the
campaign issue of civil rights anc
the whole ll-point special session
program, | stand steadfastly witt
Truman against both the Dewey.
ties and the DixieCrats. | know
that Truman is trying to get the
Negro vote. That's fine with me
When politicians are thrust into
the position where they must APP
peal to the Negroes or the work
erS, the sChoolteachers or the low
income housewives, or any other
of the diSpossessed and neglected
groups, that is the dynamics of So
cial progress. That is how we
move ahead in this democracy of
pressure groups.
OppOrtunism and Jim Crow
The Presidents executive order
to end Jim Crow in the armed and
civil services is, of course, an OPP
pOrtunist move. But then all of
politics is opportunism. | like OPP
portunism on the right side. The
order will only partially be car
ried out. 1t does not ban the prin-
ciple of segregation itself, wholly
and specifically. And segregation
wherever it occurs is the key to
the bias problem, the heart of Jim
Crow. But the Presidents order
will push the segregation line
down from the company to the
platoon in the army. We can, with
more pressure, push it from the
platoon to the squad, and finally
push it out of existence. Only then
will the Presidents hands be
wholly Clean-and our hands as
well.
President Truman has gone far
enough to start a new war Of the
secession. Governor Thurmond is
trying bravely to keep the war
Squarely on the issue of states
rights, and to keep his cause from
becoming wholly the case of
Southern racism, raCketeering and
reaction. He will not succeed. For
when a movement is born in hate
and intolerance, it gets out of the
hands of whatever tolerant lead
erS may try to hold it back.
When l say the DeweyiteS have
become the allies of the Dixie
Gratis, l don't mean they share
their views. Obviously they don't.
l do mean they are willing to use
whatever weapon is at hand. And
l mean also something deeper. The
DiXleCrats, in their way, are fight
ing a Southern liberalism which is
still in the agonieS of birth. The
Deweyites, in their own way, are
also fighting a nationwide liberal
ism which was born in the Amer
lean revolution and has had to be
reborn in every great crisis. The
alliance IS, after all, a deeper one
than appears on the surface.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Nothing Can Stop
the March Towards
Freedom, Reader Says

Nothing Can Stop
the March Towards
Freedom, Reader Says
Editor:
Speaking of freedom
The hottest pepper in the po-
htical pot in America today is
civil rights. Under the subterfuge
Of states rights, the South is de-
termined to offset what it terms a
mixture of the races" Both
Democrats and Republicans in the
North are determined to gain the
Negro vote with their age old
promises Of equal rights. The Ne
gro looks at both sides and where
in the past he would have been
afraid Of this open hostility Of the
South, where he would have been
influenced by these glib promises
Of the North; today he can laugh
at or pity both sides.
Freedom Is one Of the greatest
and strongest passions of life. His
tory has well-proven it foolish to
suppose that one can demand
freedom for himself in one breath
and deny II to others in the next,
be they superior or inferior to
him, without eventual repercus-
sions.
Century after century, wars,
revolutions, and rebellions amply
testify, sometimes without intent,
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National Bank recently loaned the Jewish community quarter Of
million dollars The money the Minneapolis
gift the Jewish Relief OF the the loan
forthcoming of Minneapolis St Paul and
other city where they live believe giving to help their less
fortunate brethren they help Jews but they
have heavy to help people
period In honorng Mr. Joseph the Jewish Federation proxy
for the entire which grateful to him for of work
ing and giving the interest of human needs.
We hope the Negro communities will by thrifty building
of both moral able borrow quarter of
million dollars the need itself
Cecil Newman