Advocate Register_1951-03-02

ADVOCATE REGISTER (Designed to Read) Published by Oliver Smith News Agency (Established 1943 OLIVER E. SMITH, EDITOR Office 1453 N. Williams Ave.-EM. 7266 ATwater 2551, 3411 S. W. First Avenue, Portland 1, Oregon Free from Services of Any Special Interests The News As We See It. The Editorials Are Our Opinions IN MY OPINION My dear Oliver I hereby submit with a great deal of pleasure and honor, my views for your publication. ''WHENCE EQUALITY" By Owen J. Card Now it is obvio~s to all that the poor paraletic and cripple are not equal in physical endurance to the athlete. Nor is the immoral man equal to the moral man. That is, the physical handycaps limit the cripple and the intellectual overwhelms the moron in the pursuit of knewledge, while the moral man is superior in his practice of virtue. In one degree or another men are unequal . . . some are faster, more agile or talented than others, but there is one place where all men are equal and this is before the natural law; that is the law of God, the law that is necessary to follow to keep ,within the dignity of the individual as a creature of God. This law is inherent in the soul of man and this soul is what makes a man a man. No color, creed, or nationality changes the spiritual essence of the human nature; that is the soul of man. All men and I mean all men who inhabit this earth, are creatures of God, made to God's image and likeness, and are therefore God's highest creation on earth and are deserving of their proper dignity and respect as creatures of God. At the same time men are held responsible for their actions. If any man breaks the natural law, he is held responsible before man and God. Thereby being subjected to justice and mercy. To sum up: Equality exists in the nature of the human soul. Equality is spiritual and not material. Further to deny equality is to deny God. Yours, Owen J . Card. February9'; 1951 Dear Oliver: It was good to receive your card today. I had written you right after I received a copy of the Advocate Register but evidently the letter went astray. I like the paper very much and am more than glad that you are in the midst of things there in Portland again. I shall never forget the valuable counselling you so generously gave me when I first came there. I know that I would not have fared so well without it. We have a very sound coordinated movement going here. It was tough at first. Only 11 agencies out of a possible 45 or 50 came in. Now we have 32 members. As a result we have been able to get a housing-or rather redevelopment ordinance passed by the city council pro,Pibiting discrimination in public housing. Also we have been able to get the state commissioner of real estate to investigate the activity of realtors in the matter of arousing residents when Negroes move into the neighbor- hood. The Calif. State Employment Service has undertaken to revamp its practice of accepting discriminatory orders and we are now in the process of working out a system whereby this can be achieved. We are working with the police and · sheriff's offices in setting up a police training program. So you see with just a few items we are making progress. I am mailing you some material on our set-up. About two months ago several put on a concentrated effort to scuttle the County Conference. Franklyn Williams, NAACP Regional Di– rector, stepped in and knocked the props from under our ad– versaries. He told them that the LACCCR was the only organi– zation of its kind in the country jind that we were in a position to give invaluable assistance to agencies like the NAACP and the Urban League. He urged that we prepare to expand on a state-wide basis. That sort of hushed them-or maybe ran them "under cover". Best wishes m your new venture. We'll keep stuff coming your way. Sincerely, George Thomas. Out of 1388 families visited by the 17 Colored teachers in the recent survey in the Rural South it was found that nearly half of these families had not received a pastoral call in over 12 months. There is no doubt that all pastors desire to bring help and comfort to their listeners during the Sunday sermon. A great opportunity is missed to bring help and comfort to these same families during the week. The table below shows the number of calls received. PASTORAL CALLS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR BY 1388 FAMILIES Number of Calls No calls . One call __ Two calls ___ __ Three calls Four calls _ Five calls __ Six calls Seven calls __ Eight calls Nine calls Ten calls __ _ Eleven calls __ _ Percentage of Number of Families Total Families 656 47.3 241 17.4 2·73 19.3 63 4.5 63 4.5 22 1.6 23 1.7 8 .6 14 1.0 4 .3 14 1.0 7 .5 TOTAL 1388 100.0 The report of this Survey is being distributed by the Rural Dept., Drew Seminary, Madison, New Jersey for 40 cents a copy. The calls listed in the above table were usually made during the "revival week." One further explanation is needed regard– ing the above table. There were 43 families not listed above which received 12 or more "calls" during the year. These were the church treasurers where the pastor called to get his monthly check or the families which provided the pastor his meals at the time of his preaching appointment. The investigators could not agree as to whether or not these 43 families visited were pastoral calls. John S. Holley, Neighborhood Secretary of the Portland Urban League will write the Editorial for next week's issue. We encourage others of Opinions to write for the column and send their news stories, written on one side of the paper double spaced, preferably typewritten. (Editor's Note).