The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-07
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Mr.. Taft his large vote in Ohio"
Mr.. Sharpe said his church civic
league opposed the injection of the
religious issue into the campaign.
Mr.. Stoneburner's letter to his
fellow minister said it should be
known that Mr. Joseph Ferguson,
who is running against Senator
Robert A. Taft, is a Roman Cath
olic."
Knowing the efforts of the
Roman Catholic Church to get an
official representative to the Vati-
can and its efforts to get public aid
for parochial schools" it added, 1
thought it equitable to pass this in
formation on to ycu for what it is
worth.
"0f course you know that our
Congressman, Edward Breen, is
Roman Catholic and that he favors
public aid for parochial schools"
In addition to the statement of
religious affiliations of the various
candidates, DR.. Lamb identified a
telegram sent out to Protestant
pastors urging them to get out the
Protestant vote.
This telegram was financed, DR..
Lamb said, by corporation known
as the Spiritual Mobilization, Of
which the Rev. James J. Fifield,
Jr., of Los Angeles is the head. DR..
Lamb said Mr.. Fifield sent check
for some $2,700 to pay for 3,443
; kilograms that we're sent out. He
described Spiritual Mobilization as
composed of about 1900 Protest
ant ministers and he didn't know
how many laymen Ito mobilize the
spiritual forces of the church, and
presumably the Protestant church
for purposes of stemming the en-
croachment of communism, fas.
cism and collectivism.
DR.. Stoneburne~ told the Sen
ators that the background motiva-
. ton" for his letter 10 his fellow
ministers was the pre-occupatior
Protestants feel over proposals tc
send us. diplomatic representa-
! tive to the Vatican and to extend
, to parochial schools certain thing:
: now enjoyed only by the public
! schools.
DR.. Lamb said he has been heac
of the Ohio Council of Churches
for 80 years "and / have never
known time when the religious
: issue was not very prominent ir
/. Ohio politics"
Mr.. Stoneburner was reminded
that he had simply said Mr.. Fergu
son was Catholic and had saic
nothing about his stand on the two
issues about which so much con
Germ was felt. He was asked VIII,
! he had not inquired into Mr.. Fergu
sons stand on these issues. The
: minister replied that he had no
inquired, and because II though
: = had sufficient ground to presume
that he would follow line"
=, Asked if it would not have beeI
= fair to ascertain Mr. Ferguson
> views on the issues before Sendini
: out the letter, MIR. Stoneburner re
!, piled that perhaps that woult
y have been better procedure"
In his testimony Or. Lamb sal,
: that "the wording of that Telegram
came to me through DR.. Eversull
II was slightly changed by Bishol
: Werner-Hazen Werner is the firS
. name on the list--but understan'
by telephone conversation fror
!. Eversull that most of the wordin
: of that telegram came from F
= field"
: Identifying the names of thos
y who signed the telegram, DR.. Lam
= = told Senator Monroney: "Hszen G
n Werner, is Bishop of he Methods
= = Church of Ohio; Arthur Clippinge
: is Bishop of the United Evangelics
: Church; Henry w, Hobson is Bisf
: op OF the Southern Diocese OF tn
Episcopal Church; Joseph II. Lloy
is a pastor in Youngstown, VIII
: was, / think, at that time at tn
! head of the Ohio Baptist Conver
:. :, tion; Miles II. Krumbine is n yer
: prominent Congregational ministe
of Cleveland; A. Ward Applegat
:, is probably the most outStandin
: Quaker clergyman in Ohio; Arnol
!, Z. Kick is a very prominent clel
!, ! gyman of the Evangelical Reform
ed Church; r. Lincoln Long is a
!, outstanding clergyman from tn
: Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati
= = and he is the man who engineere
:, all this as a member of the Boar
> of this Spiritual Mobilization; Phi
~ Porter is an Episcopal minister c
II Dayton, and ] have already tol
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