WEBVTT 00:00:01.740 --> 00:00:05.436 Good 00:00:05.469 --> 00:00:10.156 morning radio Friends. This is Austin Coleman for the Ragsdale mortuary 00:00:10.189 --> 00:00:15.586 where funeral services began at $195 complete. And the Valley Life and 00:00:15.619 --> 00:00:19.576 casualty insurance company offering new policy service at a new low 00:00:19.609 --> 00:00:24.037 premium rate, bringing you another in a series of sunday morning programs 00:00:24.070 --> 00:00:28.227 that have been designed for your listening pleasure By this time. Each 00:00:28.260 --> 00:00:32.997 year many of us have made our resolutions for the year. It is my hope that 00:00:33.030 --> 00:00:38.237 we resolve to give more of our services to mankind. It has been said by a 00:00:38.270 --> 00:00:43.167 great organization that the service to humanity is the best work of life. 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:49.927 Let us do the best work we can in 1960 for our program this morning will 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.626 feature the women of the Valley Life and casualty insurance Company who 00:00:53.659 --> 00:01:01.659 are working week after week to serve you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:02:59.250 --> 00:03:05.346 that's what he's done for me. Being sung by the sally martin Singers. Our 00:03:05.379 --> 00:03:11.416 first selection this morning will be by MS Mahalia Jackson. How great thou 00:03:11.449 --> 00:03:14.837 art! 00:03:14.870 --> 00:03:22.870 Oh 00:03:35.150 --> 00:03:43.150 my! 00:05:10.339 --> 00:05:18.339 Oh! 00:05:22.069 --> 00:05:30.069 Oh, 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:50.240 the 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:59.656 first lady we would like to pay tribute to this morning is mrs Lillian 00:06:59.689 --> 00:07:04.366 Brown. Mrs Brown is a member of the Wesley Methodist church and president 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:08.877 of the Women's Society in that church. Mrs Brown is director of debits at 00:07:08.910 --> 00:07:12.777 Valley Life and casualty Insurance Company and has some 15 years 00:07:12.810 --> 00:07:17.127 experience in the life insurance business. She has been with our company 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:23.366 for over five years and has done a remarkable job. We salute mrs Brown for 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:27.127 her fine achievements this morning. And we would like to dedicate our next 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:32.036 selection to the pastor, the reverend Rollins Winslow and members of the 00:07:32.069 --> 00:07:35.137 Wesley Methodist church, 00:07:35.170 --> 00:07:43.170 The roberta martin singers. He's using me 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:57.496 when you see me walking, 00:07:57.529 --> 00:08:05.529 you hear me talking 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:27.837 when you see me, do my best. 00:08:27.870 --> 00:08:35.870 When you see me stand my 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:45.399 giving up the right. 00:10:02.539 --> 00:10:10.539 The 00:10:39.730 --> 00:10:43.437 next person we would like to honour this morning is Miss Maybelline Walker 00:10:43.470 --> 00:10:48.266 , the youngest lady on our staff at Valley Life and Casualty. Miss Walker 00:10:48.299 --> 00:10:52.577 is the 1960 graduate of the South Mountain High School and has completed 00:10:52.610 --> 00:10:56.657 two years at Phoenix College. MS walker has been with the company for over 00:10:56.690 --> 00:11:01.537 six months and in that time she has done a remarkable job. She served the 00:11:01.570 --> 00:11:06.116 south east broadway area. She is a member of the Pentecostal Church where 00:11:06.149 --> 00:11:10.557 the reverend mrs ruby Mac is pastor and at this time we would like to 00:11:10.590 --> 00:11:15.506 dedicate a selection to the pastor and members of that church. MS Mahalia 00:11:15.539 --> 00:11:23.539 Jackson. My God and I wait 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:42.136 together. 00:11:42.169 --> 00:11:50.169 Wait 00:12:00.169 --> 00:12:08.169 our 00:12:14.789 --> 00:12:18.297 my go 00:12:18.330 --> 00:12:23.766 go 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:31.799 through 00:12:34.269 --> 00:12:42.269 a 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:08.519 Yeah, we 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:21.447 would like to pay tribute at this time to mrs Flora Mae smith, a mother of 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:25.937 eight young Children. Mrs smith has been with the Valley Life and casualty 00:13:25.970 --> 00:13:30.736 insurance company for a period of six months. She is doing a fine job in 00:13:30.769 --> 00:13:35.276 the Northeast broadway district. She is a faithful member of the Union 00:13:35.309 --> 00:13:40.386 baptist church for the Revenue Alison Di Reed is pastor. We would like to 00:13:40.419 --> 00:13:45.246 offer a selection to the pastor and members of that church, the Alex 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:53.279 Bradford singers. Do you know jesus 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:53.879 everywhere 00:15:45.539 --> 00:15:53.539 he makes me 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:29.337 mrs 00:16:29.370 --> 00:16:34.126 Freddie Mae Regan, the newest lady on our valley life and casualty staff 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:39.337 has been with the company for just about two months in that period. Mrs 00:16:39.370 --> 00:16:43.756 Reagan has led the company in production and won the annual christmas 00:16:43.789 --> 00:16:50.557 contest. Mrs Reagan says the outline areas of Stanfield Maricopa, casa 00:16:50.590 --> 00:16:55.236 grande, E and alloy. She is a member of the Pentecostal Church located at 00:16:55.269 --> 00:17:00.417 18th street and East Buchanan. The reverend bishop flooring is the pastor. 00:17:00.450 --> 00:17:05.367 We would like to dedicate our next election to the pastor and members of 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:11.377 Mrs Reagan's church and all of our listeners in Maricopa Stanfield casa 00:17:11.410 --> 00:17:19.410 grande E and alloy. The original five blind boys walk together Children 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:34.640 together 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:57.599 one morning singing Yeah, 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:51.516 uh huh. There 00:19:51.549 --> 00:19:55.907 are other women at the Valley Life and casualty insurance company. They 00:19:55.940 --> 00:20:00.556 are our office personnel who serve you in the coming weeks. We will 00:20:00.589 --> 00:20:05.986 feature our officers and office personnel this morning. We wanted you to 00:20:06.019 --> 00:20:10.127 become acquainted with the very fine ladies who served you as insurance 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:15.086 agents with the Valley Life and casualty insurance company to all ladies 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:19.576 listening. Mrs William Brown has asked me to extend to you the sincerest 00:20:19.609 --> 00:20:25.036 invitation to become a life insurance agent with a very fine organization. 00:20:25.069 --> 00:20:29.536 The Valley Life and casualty insurance company. You may call mrs Brown 00:20:29.569 --> 00:20:34.207 for appointment at 2545323. 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:39.056 Please call 2545323 00:20:39.089 --> 00:20:44.717 and ask for mrs Lillian Brown 00:20:44.750 --> 00:20:47.586 at this time. 00:20:47.619 --> 00:20:54.467 We want to allow a great man to speak to you briefly about another great 00:20:54.500 --> 00:21:02.500 man. Let us listen to our friend Lincoln J. Ragsdale. Thank you. Mr 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:09.316 Coleman. The year of 1963 00:21:09.349 --> 00:21:16.046 was perhaps the most important year of our history and particularly the 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:21.746 history of the Negro in Phoenix Arizona, because we have made more 00:21:21.779 --> 00:21:27.907 advancements in the last 12 months, and we did in the last 12 years here 00:21:27.940 --> 00:21:35.940 because you became interested in yourselves and you joined together and to 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:43.736 help to kill old discrimination, to run old jim crow out of town. 00:21:43.769 --> 00:21:48.056 And you joined together to tell the handkerchief heads and those who were 00:21:48.089 --> 00:21:53.107 holding back the progress of our race that you were not interested anymore 00:21:53.140 --> 00:21:59.457 in them because you are somebody and God cared about you and you cared 00:21:59.490 --> 00:22:04.717 about yourselves and you wanted to help change the situation and you march 00:22:04.750 --> 00:22:10.226 downtown against El Rey cafe and you went down against world Worth in 00:22:10.259 --> 00:22:15.607 other stores in these stores. In turn hired your boys and your girls and 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:19.726 My daughter and your daughter were able to get a job for the first time in 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.847 the history of Phoenix 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:27.586 and the year of 1963. 00:22:27.619 --> 00:22:33.786 An angry demand and patient examples. We've made some great significant 00:22:33.819 --> 00:22:39.377 advancements in the field of science, in the field of education, in the 00:22:39.410 --> 00:22:47.177 field of medicine. We have been able to exert our power and come forward 00:22:47.210 --> 00:22:52.217 because we had a great man as president, a man who recognized the 00:22:52.250 --> 00:22:58.016 importance of all of God's Children, president Kennedy. 00:22:58.049 --> 00:23:04.306 And then we had another great man in our own race. Dr martin Luther King 00:23:04.339 --> 00:23:09.967 and Time magazine recognized him, has been the greatest man in America 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:18.000 regardless of his color. And despite the fact that a negro was born in a 00:23:18.230 --> 00:23:26.230 small home in Birmingham Alabama in january 15th 1929. Just a few years 00:23:27.470 --> 00:23:33.246 ago, 35 years. This man has such a wonderful mind that he finished high 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:40.677 school at the age of 15 and he graduated from college at the age of 19 00:23:40.710 --> 00:23:43.937 and he went on to Theological Seminary and graduated from boston 00:23:43.970 --> 00:23:47.407 University with a doctor of philosophy. 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:50.127 In the 1955. 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:55.776 He got involved in this great movement to free his people, the black moses 00:23:55.809 --> 00:24:01.496 and the modern moses of our time. Dr. Martin Luther King has been stabbed 00:24:01.529 --> 00:24:07.486 in the chest because he was out there fighting for you. His home has been 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:12.726 bombed three times when his wife and Children were there. He's been 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:18.226 physically attacked and has been put in jail 14 times because he wanted 00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:23.347 you to have your rights in this Sunday morning, we're gonna honor Dr. 00:24:23.380 --> 00:24:29.546 Martin Luther King because he's a man of the year, selected nationally 00:24:29.579 --> 00:24:34.806 above all other men in the United States. Dr martin Luther King and he's 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:40.076 gonna give you a few words of encouragement, but you want just to be the 00:24:40.109 --> 00:24:45.076 best or whatever. We are probably a cleaning floors and sweeping up 00:24:45.109 --> 00:24:50.266 restrooms, are driving a bus or doing anything. Let us be and he tells us 00:24:50.299 --> 00:24:56.016 to be the best of whatever we are. Let's listen to this special program by 00:24:56.049 --> 00:24:59.447 dr martin Luther King, 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:04.617 a 00:25:04.650 --> 00:25:09.117 prophet, this great leader in the struggle for human dignity, reminds the 00:25:09.150 --> 00:25:14.006 american negro of things to come in the future. New opportunities which 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:21.276 defy them to sink into lethargy. These new 00:25:21.309 --> 00:25:26.137 opportunities have opened within the last few months and this will be even 00:25:26.170 --> 00:25:30.847 greater all over the United States doors will be opening that have not 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:36.276 been opened in the past. The negroes and the great challenge that we face 00:25:36.309 --> 00:25:44.309 is to be ready to enter these doors when they open graph Waldo Emmerson, 00:25:45.140 --> 00:25:48.026 Ralph 00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:53.056 Waldo Emerson said in a lecture back in 1871 00:25:53.089 --> 00:25:58.687 that if a man can write a better book, a preacher better sermon or make a 00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:03.657 better mousetrap than his neighbor. Even if he builds his house in the 00:26:03.690 --> 00:26:10.397 woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. This will become 00:26:10.430 --> 00:26:17.256 increasingly true. nine means that we're going to have to work hard. We're 00:26:17.289 --> 00:26:21.677 going to have to burn the midnight all sometime we're going to have to 00:26:21.710 --> 00:26:27.496 take advantage of new opportunities. But we must set out to do our life's 00:26:27.529 --> 00:26:34.677 work so well that nobody could do it better. We must set out to do a good 00:26:34.710 --> 00:26:40.407 job and and we must not seek merely to do a good negro job. If you're 00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:45.167 setting out to be a merely a good negro doctor or a good negro lawyer, a 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:50.197 good negro teacher, a good negro preacher are good negro skilled laborer, 00:26:50.230 --> 00:26:55.387 good negro barbara, good negro beautician. You have already flunked your 00:26:55.420 --> 00:27:00.367 matriculation exam for entrance into the University of Integration. We 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:06.316 must get ready. Yeah, we 00:27:06.349 --> 00:27:14.246 must set out to do a good job and to do that job so well that the living, 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:21.556 the dead of the unborn couldn't do it better as I've said so often if it 00:27:21.589 --> 00:27:27.336 falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out in sweep streets like 00:27:27.369 --> 00:27:33.357 Michelangelo carved more sweep streets like Raphael painted pictures, 00:27:33.390 --> 00:27:39.177 sweep streets like Beethoven composed music and like Shakespeare wrote 00:27:39.210 --> 00:27:43.397 portrait sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will 00:27:43.430 --> 00:27:49.157 have to pause and say he'll lived a great street sweeper who swept his job. 00:27:49.190 --> 00:27:57.117 Well this is it. Yeah, yeah, you 00:27:57.150 --> 00:28:03.486 can be a pine on the top of the hill. Be asker been the valley but be the 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:08.397 best little scrub on the side of the real. Be a bush if you can't be a 00:28:08.430 --> 00:28:14.607 tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can be the sun, 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:20.917 be a star for it isn't by size that you win or you fail be the best of 00:28:20.950 --> 00:28:25.647 whatever you are Again 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:31.016 in behalf of the Ragsdale mortuary and the Valley Life Insurance Company. 00:28:31.049 --> 00:28:39.049 We want to thank all of our many friends who sent in cards letters in 00:28:39.049 --> 00:28:44.056 reference to this emancipation program that we have brought to you for the 00:28:44.089 --> 00:28:49.806 last 12 months. We asked many of you who have written us to write us again 00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:56.026 and sent us in a special request and continue to let us know that you like 00:28:56.059 --> 00:29:02.236 our program or tell us what you want us to do and to criticize us in order 00:29:02.269 --> 00:29:07.816 to help us. We are new at this field, but we have sincerely enjoyed it. 00:29:07.849 --> 00:29:12.157 And we ask you to send any correspondence you have to the right scale 00:29:12.190 --> 00:29:19.127 mortuary. 1100 East Jefferson Street. Uh, leave it at the Valley Life 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:26.717 Insurance Company at 11 40 east Washington. We'd appreciate if you stopped 00:29:26.750 --> 00:29:32.336 in and visited with us and come and look over your home office at the very 00:29:32.369 --> 00:29:38.296 life insurance buildings. And we invite anyone to stop in and compare the 00:29:38.329 --> 00:29:42.907 services at the rights. Don't mortuary with any other mortuary in this 00:29:42.940 --> 00:29:49.107 area. Come and compare the prices of our funeral services and come and see 00:29:49.140 --> 00:29:55.286 what you get for your money and come in and see the sympathetic and kind 00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:59.687 services that we try to offer to our many friends and until next sunday 00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:03.336 morning in behalf of the rights. Don't want to wear in the Valley Life 00:30:03.369 --> 00:30:10.407 Insurance Company. We want to urge you to tune in to us. In the meantime, 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:15.256 visit the Church of your choice today and let us all keep working together 00:30:15.289 --> 00:30:23.289 and playing together, and someday we shall overcome. 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:40.839 Oh!