Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-11

ment costs The total actual ASSESS
ment would be $4,000 and interest.
which if spread over the entire city
could hardly be Objectionable in the
face of the results obtained.
Now this plan, so simply stated,
would get results, if our neighbors
on the west side would recognize
their Christian obligation in the
matter. I shall leave to others to
voice the civic and economic as
poets. I think now of the anti-So-
cial, un-Christian rejoinder so Of
ten heard Il had to pay for my
pavement, let them pay for theirs.
Aside from the fact that certain
percentage of all tax monies, city,
county and irrigation district, even
tually share in all our civic i'm
proVementS (and we east siders pay
these there is this more import
ant aspect: Any segregation OF
expenditures of funds which ignores,
to the extent of fastening mill
stone about their necks, any con-
siderable portion of our citizens, is
as detrimental to the progress and
well-being of our whole city as q
dead man would be at the bottom
of our water reservoir. We are ire
vocably joined together in the build
ing of a great city
May l suggest that whenever and
wherever. let us say, two groups are
attempting to live side by side, the
one a dominant group and the
other a subordinate group, the ma
jor challenge for social betterment
and goodwill faces the dominant
group. To them, also, comes the
great temptation" to Shun their
| full social responsibility. Usually, by
| sheer force and its allies, the SUBJ
ordinate group is made to contrib
ute it's share to communal goodwill
and betterment and through the
! same combination the dominant ele-
ment has often contributed less thar
is required and very frequently il
happens that there is a washing
of hands" by the official descend
ants of Plate. z.. -s--
1t is against this that a Christian
conscience ought to speak out. AL
of the economic and social revolu
ton of history may be traced to adj
! venturouS souls, who believed in tn
eternal and essential dignity ant
value of the human personality. Ant
wherever it has been cramped, fet
tered, exploited, debilitated or Gle
hauched men and women OF taltl
have had to arise, who possessed al
unconsenting conscience, who be
lieved in the religion of Jesus, ono
the religion about jesus and Wit
dared collide with entrenched pri
vilege in the interest of social solid
arity and Well-being. If there ar
enough of these kind OF people Il
El Centro, we will find way to re
medy this too long neglected Wront
Unless we can have this kind OF
social awakening, the politician wi
win out. But no amount of palllat
ing and bargaining can silence tn
eternal ought" in the breasts c
modern men of faith. Like Ban
cuo's ghost, it will not down.
Tuesday our thoughts will tur
to Abraham Lincoln, the one Amer
ican whose fame suffers not b
comparison with the world figure
of all times. Would that the cha
ienge of his unfinished task, til
enancipation of America, were
seize US like an epidemic. We woul
then know this "unconsenting cor
science" and dare to take unto oui
selves, each one personally, the ne
cessity for remedying the condi
ton, so ably presented by the Com
mittee of Salton Sea Lodge.
Respectfully,
(Signed) j. l.. CASTON, Paste
| Second RaDtist Chllrcl