The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-23
State House Beat
FRANKLY SPEAKING

the other how he attained Christian
belief under the conditions imposed
by the penal punishments. 1t leaves
you in doubt as to whether Mr.. Noble
is happy about his faith.
He is very concerned about the is
to % million people in prison "slave"
camps in Russia and the satellite ma
tons. There are more than five mil
lion Americans in prison in America.
Why doesn't he try to do something
for them? The ratio of imprisoned to
populations is about the same.
Noble intermixed the John Birch
Society platform planks with his
rambling narrative of his adventures
after World War III The Social
Security system is destroying the
incentive of the youth-''man made
security is blind and foolish"
The Peace Corps is foolish also, all
we need is God and patriotism
The disgrace in our churches" is
the glorification of the United Ma
tions He wanted to get this
nation on it's knees before the Com
munists do, while the Socialists and
Communists take the first ship out
of the country.
The three hundred then hummed
"What a friend we have in Jesus"
just like they do in the coal mines
of Russia. 1t reminded Noble of the
100000 worth of factory prop
erty his father had lost in Czecho-
| slovakia.
While the cottage cheese buckets
were being circulated questioned
were asked from the crowd.
On the Castro tractor trade Noble
would rather trade Eleanor (Roose-
velt) for the 1900 prisoners.
No, he didn't have any figures on
the number of Communists in Mon
tana but if you want details of how
to spot one, come to the school in
the morning. For dollar can learn
what a Communist looks like-this
definitely shows the extravaganza in
government. Years of training in
political science, huge civilian and
military expenditures by the spy sys-
TENS. when all that was needed was
a spare morning and a dollar.
| II
The June Is issue of TIME Maya
zine carried a story in their religion
section about the commencement adj
dress to Princeton's fledgling preach
ers by DIR. Samuel Howard Miller of
Harvard. Baptist Miller called for
radical revolution in religion. A
radicalness that is directly opposed
to the radicalism expressed by Noble.
If, said DR.. Miller, religion can not
cope with: (1) the Freudian probe
which has unveiled can abyss within
Man, full of new embarrassments and
new error" or (2) the space probe
with the danger that mans new pow
err to colonize the stars will turn
demonic and destructive, coupled
with (3) the interdependence of the
chronological world in which humans
must somehow live in a new in
timacy,' although as races, religions
and continental blocs, we simply do
not know the first ABCs of under
standing each other" should
then in decency get out of the way
so that men will not be tripped up
by it's frumpery or fooled by its
solemnity. There is serious work to
be done, lest the world descends into
darkness deeper than we have ever
known before
1t was very dark inside the cottage
cheese boxes.
Miller continued on atheism, for
which Noble indicts Russian COM
munism, eff atheism marks the hon.
est recognition of insufficient repre-
sensations in the light of new dimen-
sions of reality, then atheism is not
by itself an irreligious stance. 1t is
the movement of the spirit by which
religion itself may be saved from
itself. Nothing could be more tragic
than to find our own sanctified, even
psuedo- Christian idol, blind and hos
tile to the living revelation of Gods
mystery in our own time"
This kind of religion, said Miller, is
one which is radical enough to en-
gage in this worlds basic troubles.
If it cannot do that, then it can do