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Page Two Friday, March 6, 1953 PORTLAND CHALLENGER Lenten Season Offers Chance For Renewing Spiritual Bonds BY REV. JESSE L. BOYD M in ister, B e th e l A M E C h u r c h .. . An Independent Newspaper In accordance with the Lenten season the Portland Challenger offers this, the first in a series of pre-Easter spiritual messages, as W IL L I A M A. H IL L IA R D an inspirational guide to a better life. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER THE BEST PRESCRIPTION to his office. "Well,” he said, TED BURGER R IC H A R D B O G L E JR. MANAGING EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Some years ago a lady went to smiling as he looked at her face, consult a famous physician. She “I see you are an obedient pa 3300 North Williams Avenue, Portland 12, Oregon MUrdock 4092 was a women of nervous tem per tient, and have taken my pre ament, whose troubles had w or scription faithfull. Do you feel as SUBSCRIPTION RATES and excited her to such a if you needed any medicine now?” 10 Cents per copy «dCTTiU, 26 $2.50 per year ried ________________________ pitch that the strain threatened “No, Doctor, I don’t,” she hon her physical strength and even estly said. “I feel like a different her reason. She gave the doctor person, but how did you know symptoms, only to be aston that was just w hat I needed?” The school board is going ahead with its decision to build her ished at this brief presciption: | For an answer, the physician the New Eliot school on the Flint avenue site and its deci “Madame, what you need is to turned to his desk. There warn sion leaves many a parent unhappy in the so-called Williams read your Bible more.” and marked was an open Bible. “Go home and read your Bible “Madame,” he said with deep avenue district. The Portland Challenger certainly doesn’t an hour a day,” the great man earnestness, “If I were to omit approve of the Flint avenue site but understands that there reiterated kindly authority. my daily reading of this book, is a definite need for a new school in this district. To flail the “Then come with back to me a month I should lose my greatest source school board’s decision would serve no useful purpose. from today.” And he bowed her of strength and skill. I never go Parents of the children in this district knew months ago out without possibilty of further to an operation w ithout reading that the three schools serving the community. Holladay, Boise protest. At first she was inclined my Bible. I never attend a dis Then she reflected tressing case w ithout finding help and Irvington, were becoming overcrowded. If they were tak to that, be at angry. least, the was in its pages Your case called not ing an active part in the betterment of the community in not an expensive prescription for medicine, but for sources of one. which they live and were active members of the PTA, they Besides, it certainly had been j peace and strength outside your should have known of the school board’s plans to build a new a long time since she had read own mind, and I showed you my the Bible regularly. Worldly own prescription, and I knew it school. Planning for the New Eliot structure began some 16 months cares had crowded out prayer would cure.” Works Wonders and Bible study for years, and ago. At that time no site had been chosen. The school board though she would have resented “Yet I confess doctor,” said his decided on the Flint street site because it was geographical being called an irreligious wom patient, “that ly suitable and because of recommendations from the city an, she had undoubtedly become not taking it.” I came very near planning commission and park bureau. a careless Christian. She went “Very few are willing to try it, home and set herself conscien I find,” said the physician smil True, the proposed site is located in an environment that is tiously ing again. “But there are many, certainly not inducive to better civic upbringing, but the par edy. to try the physicians’ rem many cases in my practice where ents of the children in this community should have objected Feels Different it would work wonders if they to this site long ago. Once the school board had made its de In one month she went back would take it.” ~ Better Your Community The above story is a true story that could be and is repeated day after day. God’s word is truly “a lam p unto our feet and a light for our pathway.” Through constant read ing and study of God’s Holy Word we become acquainted with the will of God and how we might interpret that will. “Acquaint now thyself with Him and be at peace,” we*e the words found in Job. A cquaint ance with God and doing His will —brings peace. This Lenten Season gives to each an opportunity for renewing our faith; rebuilding our spirit ual strength; and a closer walk with God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer. School B ia s Cited (Story on page 1 also) Edwin C. Berry stated that “some teachers are without sen sitivity and stereotyping that they do is not malicious.” Berry cited the example of the Japan ese internm ent during the sec ond world war when Americans had so convinced themselves that all Japanese were not to be trust ed simply by indulging in ster eotyped thinking. He also hit at stereotyping of other groups by Negroes. Berry said that a lot of people came by stereotyping by the prevalent idea about the group and not by actual contact. cision, it was too late. Housing segregation is definitely to blame for the Williams Minority Workers Lack Confidence avenue district’s plight. Too a large extent the people in the district are also to blame. Since it is hard to find housing out In FEP Law, Claims Mark Smith side the so-called Williams avenue district—and it isn’t as is is th e f i f t h a n d l a s t a r tic le in and two if they attended prayer one out of every one hundred difficult as many people talk it to be—why not better the dis a T s c h rie s dealing; w ith f a i r e m p lo y m e n t p ra c tic e s in Oregron. A u th o re d meeting. sixty job opportunities was in a trict itself? by M ark A. S m ith , d e p u ty c o m m is Applicants for work who clerical occupation. Today, one s io n e r o f la b o r fo r th e s ta te of O re Why not rally around the New Eliot school and make a de gon , th e s e a r tic le s c a n be o f v a lu a b le smoked, got shaved at the bar out eight job openings cent community out of your neighborhood? The best way to a s s A is re ta c n o c rd e to o f th th e e m fiv in o e rity a rtic jo le b s se is e k e on r. ber shop or attended public places is in of this every field get good and quick results is to organize and do something file a t th e P o r tla n d C h a lle n g e r o ffic e . of am usement or danced were More Jobs Available about the problem. Build a better neighborhood for your YOU AND INCREASED JOB viewed with suspicion. Not only are there increasing OPPORTUNITIES — Have you We have passed into an era, at children. Petition against new taverns and industry in your heard job opportunities in the fields of what happened to Coretta least in the state of Oregon, neighborhood. transportation, McRae Boyd? Miss Boyd had where employers are more con and clerical work communication but these jobs It’s high time many of us stop kidding ourselves and earn just finished two and a half years scious of ability, competence and provide the longest continuous estly work toward a better community and city. There is no ! of college at Fayetteville State personality and less of one’s pri steady employment. reason on earth why the so-called Williams avenue district Teachers College, Fayetteville, vate affairs. Few non-Vhite workers are North Carolina. That was in 1948. Today, well over a hundred pursuing shouldn’t carry the respect of a decent community. But the She the vast new job op about a job opening non-white persons are employed people have got to act. They have got to grow a pride in their with heard portunities that have been opened life insurance company. at Carson’s in positions from dis since passage Oregon’s law home, the street they live on. Make the neighborhood a good She a knew absolutely nothing play artists to office supervisors. against discrim of ination in em-( residential district. about the insurance business but Not only, during these years of ployment in such occupations as When you find it tough climbing to the top, make the best she will willing to work and to social and economic development, railroad train, engine and sta learn. So Miss Boyd applied for have non-whites come into these tion service; street railway and out of what you have until you get there. new job opportunities but most the job. Make something out of your community. Become active in and She got started bus drivers; pharmacists and as a billing clerk of them have only recently come drug clerks; longshore and ship your child’s school’s PTA. Organize community clubs with but in less than two years she into being. ping; lum ber and logging; fac adequate supervision. Make your neighborhood a better place was made the company’s trav Discoveries Made tories and founderies; nursing and eling agency cashier. Here is a to live and rear your children. health service; social work and job that sends her about the New discoveries and inventions, country. It’s fun. It's exciting. bringing with them many new And besides, it pays a good sal kinds of job opportunities, are Many mothers and fathers of children in the so-called Wil ary. being made almost momentarily. liams avenue district expressed disapproval and disappoint On the other hand most of the Sounds Like Miracle old assumptions about the cap ment in the sanction given the Flint street site for the new acity of non-white persons to Eliot school by the Portland Urban league, and a justified It sounds like a miracle and it satisfactorily fill certain types if is. But miracles don't just hap dissatisfaction this is. jobs have already in pen Every day somebody is mov Up until the time of the February 26 meeting of the school ing up from just a job to a “po many communities. disappeared New careers board, the Urban league had disapproved of the proposed lo sition.” Every day new job pp- | lie before us in an ever-widen catio n of this school. To alter their position came as a sur portunities come our way. You ing variety of fields. The num can duplicate the experience of ber and types of jobs in which prise to supporters of a more favorable site. Coretta Boyd if you are so in- j minority group workers may find Morally, we can see no reason for the switch taken by the dined. increasing greaty. Urban league. Although the Portland Challenger is 100 perl If you should choose to be jobs The are nation's industries are re cent in favor of the aims of the league—and every Portland moan your job opportunities to quiring in increasing numbers citizen should be we feel that the league could have best j day, you may find a bit of con workers skilled in m anufactur served the community by standing by its original decision. solation in the foregoing account. ing and machinery. The need It is understandable that the school board has no jurisdic A condition of employment at the for transportation service has original Carson, Pirie Scott & sharpened the demand for work tion over housing segregation. Their job is to provide a school. Company 80 years ago ers in local and long-distance The league’s objection to the site was basically the same as demanded of a Chicago “maid of all work” hauling and in warehousing. that of the parents. The environment just does not lend itself or a “jack of all trades” capable In the elctronics industry, to the presence of children. of doing everything from sweep which includes radio and tele Much credit is due the Urban league for better race rela ing th floors to clerking behind vision equipment manufacturing, sales and services, presently our counter. tion in Portland. To dilly dally back and forth on an issue the Employees fastest expanding industry, we were required to be as close and as important to the family as this Eliot school on the floor from 6 in the moan discover for question hurts the league’s program. Their reversal at this ing until 9 at night the year women are that close opportunities to half as go>d date without a better explanation lends a waver that does round. Mon employees could have as are the opportunities for men. one evening a week for courting When grandfather was a boy only unity harm. Urban L eague Shift teaching and retail trades and services. A stubborn false pride is a barrier to some. There are many part-tim e workers in many over crowded fields who could be sit uated in steady jobs if they were more inclined to go into a new field. Our town is full of “white collar” job seekers too “proud ’ to take a good paying “factory” job. Fear of failure is anothei stumbling block to some. Our elementary schools are literally crying for teachers, yet many a capable and intelligent teaching prospect rem ains an unhappy housewife or handym an simply out of fear to try. Afraid to Try Being afraid to fail keeps many promising career persons from undertaking a new job in which they have interest and could suc ceed admirably. Inertia, apathy, unconcern and just plain lack of interest in the tremendous possibilities in the in creased job opportunities under (Continued on page 4)
