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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
Why Are We Here?

RUT CREATION means something
- more personal. 1t means that
we ourselves have been called into
existence by the Almighty,-no by
a god of mere sheer power, but by
the one God of infinite and all
powerful Love. Man is not here on
this planet by some trick of blind
fate, mankind is not a mere fleck
of foam tossed up by the restless
ocean of the Infinite soon to be
washed away in the ebbing tides.
Man-that means also, we ourselves
are Gods invention.
We are not now as he intend
ed us, to be sure; sin has
changed the picture sadly, as
we shall be thinking next week.
Why are we here? We are here
because God put us here. This
means that life has meaning; but
also that we cannot find that mean
ing without knowing the will of
God. Ills will is for our welfare;
only the Creator knows what is best
for his creatures. God intended this
world 20 be used by us, not abused.
Whsn any man or group of men
get the notion that this world be-
longs to them alone; or when one
generation miSuses the resources
of the lands and the waters, leaving
to their descendants a wasted earth,
then Gods will in creation is being
defied. But when we take his will
as LIES guide, we are on the way
to fulfilling his purpose in Crea-
ton,
Copyright 1851 by the Division Of
Christian Education, National C0uncH
Of the Churches of Christ in the United
States of America. Released by HNu
Features)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
SAND FLAT
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
n. l.. Haupt, Pastor

Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Morning worship. II a. m.
Evangelistic service 1880 p. m.
Revival services beginning Tuesday
night, April 3, with Rev. l.. X. Dodge,
former chaplain, Of Auburn, N. T.,
State Prison, as evangelist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
BITTINGER LUTHERAN PARISH
Curt II. Rune, Pastor

Sunday School: Bittinger, 10 a. M;
Jennings, 10:45 a. m.
Won ship: Jennings, 9:45 a. M;
Bittinger, 100 a. m.
The film, Beyond Our Own" will
be shown at p. m. in Meadow Noun
tain on Sunday; at Bittinger on Mon
day and at Jennings on Tuesday.
Luther League: Bittinger, 500 p.
m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
ST. PAUL's METHODIST CHURCH

Rev. S. II. Neel, Supply Pastor
$3.50 a. m, Sunday School, with
classes for all members of the family.
1880 a. m, Nursery for children
of pre-school age that the parents
may attend the worship service.
1915, Morning worship. Sermon
by Rev. S. X. Neei. Anthems by the
choir.
G:30 p. NJ, Watson Youth Fellow
ship.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
ENGLISH LUTHERAN
PARISH
Rev. William f. Carlson, Pastor

Grace. Friendsville-S Service at 900
a. m; Sunday School at 1000 a. m.
st. Johns, Cove Sunday School at
$3.50 a. M; Service at HOO a. m.
st. Paul's, Accident-Sunday School
at 1000 a. M; Service at 1880 p. m.
Chul ch will meet on Friday, April 6,
at 1880 p. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Eight Street. Oakland, Md.
Rev. X. L. BrOhawn, Pastor

Sunday School, 10 a. M; Morning
worship, II 4. m. Evangelistic service
1890 p. m.
Tuesday, Church prayer service,
1880 p. m.
Cottage prayer meeting this Friday
evening will be in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Herman, 18th street,
7.3O n m
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29

Federal Communications commits
sion tentatively opened up more space
for television broadcasting and
planned to partially lift the long
freeze on new station grants.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
God invented Us
Lesson for April /, 1851

HTOD INVENTED it." says C.
NJ S. Lewis about the universe.
1t is a 20th-century way Of saying
what the Bible says about God and
the world. There have been whole
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29

religious based on
the idea that God is
good and spirit is
good, but anything
which is not God or
not spirit is bad. If
this were true, then
our bodies would be
bad, and all the
physical W o r | d
about us would be
had. orr { n II c
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
The World Did not Happen

THE Christian church has changed
some of its ideas about crea-
ton, but it has never ceased to be-
lieve in creation. Very few church
es, if any, now affirm that the
world was created in precisely six
24hour days, and still fewer would
be willing to name the dates on
which creation took place.
Nevertheless he Christian
church has not given uD, and
will not give up, her belief that
God created all things. The doe
trine of creation means, first of
all, that the one God WiIled the
universe and what is in it.
The universe did not happen. it
did not make itself. It was not made
by different gods working against
one another. Zoroastrianism, for in
stance, teaches that the world was
made by two gods, one of light and
one Of darkness. Whatever the god
of light created, the god of dark
ness would make something exact
ly opposite. No, Jews and Christians
alike say, there is only one Crea-
tor, the infinitely wise and good
God.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
Ferndale Baptist Church
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH
Red House

Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Divine Worship at II o'clock. Will
liam Slice, student pastor, of Gettys-
burg Seminary, will preach.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29

munion service. p. M, High At.
tendance Day" in the Training Union
7:45 p. m, Closing Evangelistic ser
vice, with preaching by Rev. Paul S
Parker, and special solo by Mr.. Jay
Bell Of Crellin.
Ferndale Baptist Church
Bible School session at 10 a. m.
Evening meeting with Mt. Lake
Baptist Church.
Wednesday, April A, 1:45 p. M.
Closing meeting Of Evangelistic cam
paign. Special music and message by
Rev. Paul Parker of Deep Greek Bap-
fist Church.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
Natures Laws

MON RELIGIOUS philosophers
~ have sometimes said that the
world explains itself Bnt Christian
philosophers, not to mention Jew
ish ones as well, have seen that the
world does not explain itself. There
is too much evidence of purpose
and design running through the pat
terms Of the universe. Definite laws
can be discovered and to some de-
gree understood.
The same laws which govern
matter on this planet, and in
deed the very same elements,
the building blocks of the uni
verse;" are to be discovered in
the remOtest stars. If the uni
verse were an accident it would
not be tied together as it is.
1t would not be a universe of law
but one in which nothing could be
counted on, nothing expected. 1t
would be no universe but a multi
verse, a mad world, indeed no
world at all but an infinite con-
fusion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS
CHURCH
Corinth, w. Va.

WdIItT FtdStI, MINISItT
Sunday School, 1000 a. m.
Worship, HOO a. m.
Evangelistic service, 1880 p. m.
Wednesday Prayer Meeting, 7:30.
Friday Youth service, 1870 p. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
THE MAPLE GROVE CHURCH OF
THE BRETHREN
Rav Richard Crum hIinu Dactor
Rev. Richard G.

NS'' AN"iN VII ""'S' "7'"i
Worship service, 1000 a. m. Sunday
School, II 100 a. m.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday even
ing, 1870 o'clock.
Council meeting, Friday evening,
1870 o'clock.
Bethesda Church
Sunday school, 1000 o'clock; Wor-
ship service, II o'clock.
Laughlin Church
Sunday School. 200 o'clock; Wor-
ship service, 800 o'clock.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
CHURCH OF ST. PETER THE
APOSTLE

Sunday: Masses at s and 10.
Confessions, Saturday 5 to 6, 1880
to $50 p. M, and Sunday morning
before masses.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
Mercury Dips to Is

The mercury dipped to Is above
zero Sunday and Monday mornings
for the weeks low record, with the
weather moderating for the balance
of the week. Rain fell yesterday and
is continuing today Easter Sunday
was cold with some snow falling.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
Sunday Services in the Churches
ST. MATTHEW'S EPISCOPAL
The Rev. Frederick f. Meyer. Rector
The Rev. John J. Atwell, Citrate

st. Matthew'S Church. Oakland
Holy Communion at 500 q. m.
Church School at 1000 a. M.
Morning Prayer at 1900 a. m.
Saint Johns Chapel Deer Park,
Church School, 12:l5 p. m.
Evening Prayer at 1900 p. m.
Our Fathers House, AltamOnt
Church School, 1915 a. m.
Morning Prayer at 1900 a. nj.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-29
EV. UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH
Mountain Lake Park. Md.

Geo. W Simpson, PASTOR
Loeb Sunday School for all
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Evening star., 1951-03-13

people he has never left any
doubt that he himself would
not thus retire from the fray.
In fact he has indicated that
in his view withdrawal conSti-
tuted confession of inadequacy.
Perhaps he has also felt that
it was a reflection on his judg-
ment that he didn't enjoy.
1t is increasingly the feeling
among influential Democrats
that the housekeeping must go
forward with ruff1es and -four
isheS. Various portents have
not been lost on them.
One is Senator Estes Kefa-
uVer's television stardom which
is reaching it's zenith in the
New York climax to his crime
investigations. Another is the
fact that Senator Paul Douglas
Of Illinois could win second
place as a presidential posi-
bility in a grass roots poll of
State chairmen, national COM
mitteemen and other party fig
ures over the country.
Attractive political figures
often make a great reputation
here but the professionals in
the courthouses are usually
very timid about buying it.
They have especially proved
allergic to any tinge of reform
and Senator Douglas certainly
merits the crusader label.
What the poll proves is that
Evening star., 1951-03-13
Bad News for the Mi|itorv
Industrial Disorders in Spain Could Hinder
Plans Of Eisenhower for European Defense
Constantine Brown:

Disturbances are reported to
have broken out in Barcelona,
Spain's most important indus
trial city
A strike followed by street
riots in that second largest city
of Spain were caused by the in
creasing cost of living and the
prospect that about $50, 900 per-
sons, most of them employed in
cotton mills, will become un-
employed in the next few weeks
because of the lack of cotton.
While this may be pleasing
news for those who oppose the
Franco regime, it is highly un-
welcome news for Gen. Eisen-
hover and all other military
planners among the Atlantic
pact nations. Spain is not a
member of that organization
and is not likely to be accepted,
for political reasons, by Western
European nations.
But from the military stra-
tegic point Of view that country
is regarded as one of the highly
important assets in the general
defense plan for Europe. And
the military planners know that
a country which is not healthy
economically is unlikely to be of
real assistance in the event of a
general conflict with the Rus
slams and their satellites.
This was one OF, the reasons
for building up the free nations
economically and also the reason
why this country has come to
Marshal Tito's assistance in
recent months by providing him
with millions of dollars for food
when the Yugoslav crops failed.
Because it was evident that
a serious crisis may break out
Evening star., 1951-03-13

party, actually allowed him to
take his seat but with the
understanding that he was not
going to be able to hold it
if the results of the investiga-
tion were a recommendation
that he be unseated.
No evidence of corruption on
the part of Mr.. Butler has been
uncovered, nor has there been
any testimony of excessive use
of money. The only ground on
which Mr.. Butler could be un-
seated would be a political one.
This is politics at it's worst.
Also it would open up the way
to the rejection of various
Democratic nominees when the
Republicans get a majority in
the Senate, and the country
would witness the violation of
the spirit of the Constitution,
which is that the people of each
State have the right to de-
termine who shall represent
them in the United States
Senate.
When Mr.. Tydings was de-
feated last autumn. he made no
charge that unfair campaign
literature had beaten him. On
the contrary, he said that his
defeat was due to the split in
the Democratic Party in Mary
land. Now, at this late date,
for the Democrats in the Sen
ate to take up the Tydings plea
and make it a basis of political
controversy means a dangerous
precedent. On the slightest
provocation hereafter, defeated
candidates can insist on similar
privileges before Senate cam
paign committees. The House OF
Representatives frequently has
such contests, but usually dis
Evening star., 1951-03-13
Time to Put Away Childish Thinqs
Senators Should Realize That We Have Grown III
And Abandon Sport Of Twisting the Lions Tail
Lowell MeHett:

Now that we as a nation have
grown up. so to speak, it would
seem time to put away childish
things. One such thing is the
political sport of twisting the
British lions tale. Apart from
the fact that the old gray lion
amt what she used to be and
that the tail-twiSting therefore
is no longer a very brave busi-
ness, if it ever was, the world
situation is too serious to per-
NIT any deliberate fomenting
of ill-will between Western
friends and allies. AS young
and upcoming country we
could be forgiven the urge to
f1out the power Of the worlds
greatest empire, just to show we
were not afraid of anybody.
But now that we have become
the great power ourselves we
should live up to our full re-
sponsibility as such.
Yet on any dull day in the
United States Senate you are
likely to hear a Senator read
ing a lecture to the British, re-
minding them of how much
they owe us and suggesting
what we ought to do to them
if they don't begin to behave
in the manner we think they
should. There has been a rash
of this lately. Some of it has
been no more intelligent, and
perhaps no more sincere, than
Big Bill ThompSon'S famous
campaigns for mayor of Chi
cago on a platform of defiance
to King George. Some of it is
purely emotional, due to re-
sentiment of the British recog-
milton of the Communist gov
ernment of China. A favorite
starting point of the recurring
TRADES is an occasional new
report of British trading with
the enemy"-China or Russia.
These attacks on Great Brit
Evening star., 1951-03-13

in Spain, Congress last summer
approved a loan of $65 million
to Spain through the Export
Import Bank. This legisla-
tion did not please the White
House and the State Depart
ment. President Truman ap-
proved it only reluctantly and
said so publicly.
Taking the cue, apparently.
from the feelings which pre-
vailed among the Executive
branch's policy makers, the Ex-
port-Import Bank was slow in
granting the sums approved by
Congress. OF the $65 million
only $12,500,000 has been ap-
proved so far.
Because of crop failures dur
ing the last three years. Spain
is in great need of food grains.
Yet the Export-Import Bank
did not provide any portion of
the loan to be used for the
purchase of wheat or corn in
this country.
There is a surplus of wheat in
the United States. The admin
istration is anxious for Con-
gress to approve a gift of 2
million tons of food grains to
India. administration spokes-
men argue that in spite of the
Indian governments hostile at
titude in the United Nations,
political considerations must
not be permitted to affect
humanitarian actions. But it
appears to average observers
that in applying this golden
rule. what is sauce for the
goose is not sauce for the
gander.
While we do not permit poll
tics to influence our help to
Communist Yugoslavia or to
Evening star., 1951-03-13

Truman Shifts RFC Defense
Democratic Chiefs Agree That the Houseceoning
Must Go ForWord With RuffIes and FIourishes

the Democrats outside of Wash
ington know what is so thor
oughly realized here-that Mrs.
Merl Youngs mink coat is no
joke politically. They are ap-
parently welcoming the new
look and understand it's neces-
Sity.
All this is somewhat of a
change from the days when any
gathering of Democrats freely
threw off Senator Fulbright,
the RFC nemesis, as a Boy Scout
and suggested that their 1850
election troubles could be blamed
on Senator Kefauver and his
road show" Former Senator
Scott Lucas refused to shake
hands with Mr.. Kefauver when
the Senate reconvened following
the election. Senator Connally
not too long ago announced Mr.
Kefauver's absence from a re-
cent hearing with the observa-
ton that he was off chasing
crapShooters.
Both Senators Kefauver and
Fulbright are about to add real
novelty to their probes. They
will try hard to end them and
won't ask for any more money
but will insist that Congress
legislate seriously regarding the
evils they uncovered. This is
practically revolution and
what the harvest will be is a
question.
Evening star., 1951-03-13

ain, of course. are really
aimed at our own government,
which is blamed for mot doing
something about it," Britain's
representatives in this country
recognize this, but they do not
enjoy the attacks the more
for that reason. In any case
the British Embassy has made
available to American neWsmen
a statement on questions of the
day. prepared "for the informa-
ton of British officials"
Concerning the recognition
of the present Chinese regime,
the statement says, in part:
THE Chinese Communist gov
ernment is in indisputable con-
troll of the whole mainland OF
China. We recognize the fact
of this governments control,
and therefore this government,
by the same reasoning by which
we and the United States and
other countries recognize the
Soviet Union and recognized
the authority of Hitler's gov
e1nment of Germany and the
government of Japan. even
when we were at war with
those countries. The fact of
recognition has nothing to
do with approval we rec
ognize the fact, distasteful as
it may be-"
On Chinese representation in
the United Nations, the point is
made that China" already is
a member. so there is no ques-
ton of getting the Chinese in.
The question is which Chinese
representatives to recognize and
we would prefer to recognize
those which represent the bulk
of Chinese territory"
AS for trading with Russia,
the satellites and China, the
statement says: ITO stop trade
altogether would be an ad-
vanced form of economic war
Evening star., 1951-03-13
Maryland Campaign Investigation
Persistence Of Democrats in Pushing Inquiry
Into Butler Election Is Seen as Politics
David Lowrence:

With all their professions of
virtue, the Democrats give the
impression that maybe 'McCar-
thyism" is pretty good after
all and that perhaps the tactics
of the Wisconsin senator might
well be initiated for political
purposes.
This is about the only expla-
nation for the amazing persist
ence of the Democrats in carry
ing on their investigation of
the election to the Senate of
John Marshall Butler, Republic
can, who defeated Senator Tyd-
ings in the Maryland election
last fall. Mr.. Butler hasn't vio-
lated any law. But he is &C
cuSed, in effect. of being unfit
to hold his seat because some
one in his campaign committee
circulated a picture that was
plainly labeled composite" but
which his opponents called a
flake"
Campaign literature has
never before been used as
basis for an effort to disqualify
a member of Congress from
taking his seat. Hence the real
purpose cannot be to unseat
Mr.. Butler, but to make cam
paign material by the accusa-
tionS. Maybe Senator Tydings
thinks he can run again in
Maryland election and that he
might as well begin his cam
paign now. That's precisely
what Senator Mccarthy was ac-
cused of when he made his
broadside of accusations sew
eral months ago.
Mr.. Butler is held up before
the country as having done
something highly irregular. The
Democrats, voting as a majority
Evening star., 1951-03-13
Doris FIeeson:

President Truman has shifted
from active defense to a re-
served attitude regarding White
House aides and friends named
in the RFC scandals.
Democratic leaders have
agreed therefore to let nature
take its course. They would
prefer to have the President
crack down on those who have
been impairing his prestige;
some bitterly declare that all
his troubles in such immensely
important fields as military and
foreign policy stem from the
weakness he is displaying about
what they call the little things
that count.
But since apparently he will
not so move, they intend to
interpret his silence as con-
sent to grand jury and other
efforts to clean house.
The President, of course. is
acting in character. His policy
regarding controversial nomi-
nations that he sends to the
Hill has always been that he
could take the storms if the
nominees could. Repeatedly he
has refused to withdraw a
mans name because the man
was under fire; he has said he
would do it only if the man
himself requested it.
In such discussions with his
Evening star., 1951-03-13
e Grown Up

fare. Such a step would assume
that actual war was both in
evitable and imminent and
would set up new and critical
international tensions. Britain
believes that present circum-
stances do not justify this pro-
cedure.
1T should also be remem-
bered that through their trade
with Russia many of the free
countries are receiving ma
terials necessary to their eco
nomic strength and, thus, to
their ability to rearm and de-
fend themselves. 1t will be re-
called that the United States
itself has been receiving useful
quantities of manganese from
Soviet Russia"
These are only a few excerpts
from a fairly long statement.
1t wouldn't do the mischievouS
Senators any harm to read the
whole document
Evening star., 1951-03-13
Henry WcLe Len7oFe:
Athenions laugh at Charge
That Put Abductor in Jail
Henry McLenore:

ATHENS.-Much of the talk
over the coffee cups of the out
door cafes here still centers
about Costas Kephaloyannis.
AS the readers of front pages
everywhere know. Costas is the
dashing. mustachioed Cretan
who abducted the love of his life.
Tassoula Petracogeorgis. and
thereby came close to bringing
civil war to the island of Crete.
Costas is in Jail now, starting
a two-year sentence, and almost
every one agrees that he was
"railroaded," and that such a
proved "palikari" shouldn't have
been treated in such manner.
To be "palikari" means
everything to a man in Crete, I
have learned since getting here.
The word has no counterpart in
English. A palikari is tough,
without being a bully. He car
rleS a chip as big as an epaulette
on his shoulder, but doesn't dare
you to knock it off. Heaven
help you, however, if you do.
A palikari must have a dash
of the cavalier in him, and the
romantic streak in him must be
as wide as the yellow streak
isn't.
In Crete. Costas is known as
palikari No. l. He comes from
Annoghia, at the foot of Mount
Ida Legendary home of Zeus),
the toughest town in Crete,
which means just about the
toughest town in the world.
Annoghia was the center of
resistance in Crete in World
War II and the Germans. after
finding that a whole regiment
couldn't keep the handful of
palikaris under control, finally
shelled it to the ground.
Gen. Kreige, Nazi commander
of Crete, who was kidnapped by