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The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1961-04-20
ECHOES &
EkCORES
by
Irwin Ashkenozy

My friend, Ben the barkeep,
is q scholarly conservative who
always shakes his drinks by
hand, refusing to use the me-
chanical mixer.
Machines are slaves" he
says. "They have no sense Of
art. Depend on them and they
become your masters"
The other day a scientist
friend from Caltech's Jet Pro-
pulsion Lab joined me at Ben's
bar for a beer. He told me how
his colleagues at the Bell Tele-
phone Lab in New York were
teaching a mechanical brain to
read. In q few months it will
be able to absorb all the knowl-
edge 1t has taken the human
race six thousand years to &C
cumulate. Within its teeming
transistors lie the mechanics Of
logic, the patterns Of reason. It
will have everything we have,
only In superhuman measure.
Everything, that is, except love,
conscience, morality. These, of
course, my scientist friend points
out, are superfluous Injuries,
although they might be built
into a deluxe model at extra
cost.
Still and all, ! have a bunch
that when it learns to under
stand what it knows and repro
duces little machines like itself,
we're In trouble. Ben the bar
keep agrees. My scientist friend
feels that a world ruled by log
ical robots would be dynamic
experience. Ben the barkeep
diagrees.
Experience" he says gloom
lily, lis the name you fellows
give to your mistakes"
l agree.
Note: ben" and his bar are
names that have been changed.
He'll get a kick out of it, though.
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ably certain that the main rea-
son for the big majority was the
fact that almost no Representa-
tives dare have it appear on the
record that they voted against
the Committee.
Unfortunately, it is almost
impossible for most persons to
discuss the Un-American Activ-
tiles Committee calmly, objec-
lively and nationally.
Since the Committee has chos-
en- to behave as though COM
munism were the only un-
American activity which exists,
there has developed the delu-
sion that anyone who is against
the Committee is, perforce, a
Communist or a llow-traveler.
There are a great many loyal
Americans who regard denial OF
q persons right to vote because
of race or color as un-Amerlcan.
Many consider 1t un-Ameri-
can to permit the unemployed
or the elderly to 60 hungry or
in need of medical care they
cannot afford.
Maintenance of slum dwell
ings, denial of entry into schools
or other unsupported institu-
tons because of color, race or
creed, denial of the right OF
assembly or petition, illegal
search and seizure proceedings
(including wire-tapping) and
abrogation of the protection OF
the Bill of Rights are also among
the things which millions con-
slider un-American.
Yet not only does the House
Un-American Activities Com
mittee totally ignore such as
poets of un-Americanism but,
by a monstrous distortion of
logic, those who do oppose such
Things are often branded as
Reds.
This is because, for their own
purposes, Communists and Com
munist-fronters, have also de-
nounced these practices. There
fore, by a strained guilt by as
ISOLATION of IDEAS" anyone else
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THE BILL OF RIGHTS

Fwho agrees with this position
has to be at least a Communist
sympathizer!
Justice Black pointed out
that since the Un-American Ac-
tivities Committee had pro-
duced no evidence, other than
it's own accusation, that either
Frank Wilkinson or Carl Brad
en-, the two charged with con-
tempt, was a Communist or a
fellow-traveler, the 5-4 vote of
the Court in effect lends legal
sanction to the idea that any
one who criticizes the Commit
tee is subject to be summoned
before it, excoriated, questioned
without limit, and branded as
a subversive and disloyal.
This idea also was echoed by
Justice William o. Douglas in a
separate dissent. Under this
doctrine, Justice Douglas wrote,
II see no reason why editors
are immune. The list Of editors
will be long, as evident from
the editorial protests against
the Committees activities, in
Guiding it's recent film Opera
ton Abolition"
This is the edited and patched
together motion picture, cur
rently being widely III o w n
around St. Petersburg, purport-
ing to prove that the student
march against the Un-American
Activities Committee, then sit
ing In San Francisco, was Com
munist inspired and directed.
In fact the march was spon-
sored by q group Of religious,
educational, professional and
labor organizations of unim-
peachable integrity, none even
remotely connected with COM
munism.
Although the National Coun-
Gil of Churches - and the st.
Petersburg United Churches -
have presented evidence to the
fact that Operation Abolition"
has been so edited and spliced,
by a private firm, but with
HUAC's blessing, as to present
a totally false picture, so In
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high standards which prevailed among the Mississippi
people of those years."
Now, that's important, truly Oh, yes admit it
darned important, that keep wondering thered be
any value in showing to all Americans value of
courage and high moral standards which prevail among
NOW In line possibly to have equality under the law
to justice done when murder and lynching happen
in short feel would be of value to reon the Union
has been hundred years now, you know.
Well, enough Of this the truth is, I'm not too sure
what my objection to the whole affair u.s. but the next
time apply for commission in the Confederate Army
they'd darned well better get it done Immediately AS mat
ters now stand I'm having to settle for cheap uniform
including unic trousers and hat for $3.50 That's okay
actually long my adutant deals with the Mississippi
Manufacturers Committee.
The Mr. H. b. Sissel sent letter recently and in
lit he wrote: "A true story you may enjoy" and it went
like this:
Cecil Poole, Negro Governor Pat Browns staff
moved with his family into white neighborhood in Cali
fornia steady parade of white neighbors beat path to
his door, wishing him well and welcoming him into the
community After WHILE with his privacy gone, this got
to be pretty old. -,
IF these inside agitators don't stop 60
ing around stirring up good WILL I'm going to have to leave
the neighborhood."
Harry Fleschman, whose column Lets Be Human"
appears in this paper when space permits wrote recently
Of "The Eye of A Needle" Harry wrote:
Larmer Mellon heir the famous fortune 81
when he first heard of the medical missionary Dr. Albert
Schwetzer Leaving his old life behind Mellon returned to
college.
He received his medical degree at the age Of A and
with his wife, Gwen set out for poverty whipped and
diseaseravaged Haiti Pouring their wealth and energy
into their work. they created the Albert Schweitzer
Hospital which now treats over 1000 patients week and
dispenses tons of medicine clothing and blankets The staff
teaches Haitians to read and write well to observe
basic health and sanitary rules.
st. Matthew said "It is easier for a camel to 20
through the eye of needle than for rich to enter
into the kingdom of God" But don't think
should have too much difficulty.
Another story reported by Harry had do with
who asked Dr. Robert M Huchn President of
University of Chicago sarcastic question "s
being taught at the University" Dr. Hutchns reped eyes,
and cancer at the Medical School, too"
stakes in preserving the Bill munis should throw
of Rghtsand the public the freedoms which the
orally need do far while munists Destroy
there is yet time. would be historys most tragic
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jor stakes in preserving the Bill
of Rights-and the public gen.
orally, need to do far more while
there is yet time.
If, In thinking to fight COM
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THE ROMAN FORUM (
| Here entered trumphoI rulers in choriot (
And here plod Christion martyrs.
[ Here dweIt the Vestol Virgins guarding the scored
light ond purity \
+ And here rolled the heods of the coptive
Here sot senotors in Curio ond sove to the world
code of low
I Here Antony eulogized ossossinoted Coesor.
Now columns sheltered triumphoI orches ond broken
VOLS stond mute
\Secretng the history they know.
( Aconthus leof relief Corinhion column copitoIs
Peers down at oconthus freely oushing by the broken
VOLS
| Wild red peoples nod to the cremotoy where boiled Z
\ CoesoTs blood.
Cultured roses moke froeront the cir ond coptve fish
swim in centuries old pools &
Mute broken stone sees little now in its confines
But SEEN Proud tourist feet hurry ond zzords scury
Unknowinq men perceive not the knowing stone.
CHARLES GENE MCDANIEL
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munism, we should throw away
the freedoms which the Com
munists seek to destroy, it
would be history's most tragic
irOny.-St. Petersburg Times.
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Another story reported by Harry had do with
who asked Dr. Robert M Huchins President
University of Chicago sarcastic question s communism still
being taught the University" Dr. Huchns repled eyes,
and at the Medical School, too"
Evening star., 1961-04-15

The Rev. Alden B. Kelley,
professor of Christian.
ApOlOgetics and Ethics at
Bexley Hall, the Divinity
School of Kenyon College,
will give the ZabriSkie
Lectures Mon day and
Tuesday at the Virginia
Theological Seminary. DIR.
Kelley will speak on the
general subject, "The Min
istry of the Laity," at
1880 pm. Monday and at
$3.50 and 1880 am. and
1880 pm. Tuesday.
Evening star., 1961-04-15
Guests Will Preach
At Several Churches

Guest speakers will appear tomorrow before number Of
Washington church congregations and other religious
groups.
The Right Edmund Morgan, who recently retired
Bishop Truro England preach at 80 and
Evening star., 1961-04-15

Delegates to the annual con-
vention of the New York Con-
ference. Augustana Lutheran
Church, will vote next week on
whether the national body
should merge with three other
Lutheran groups to form a new
3 million-member Lutheran
Church in America in 1862.
The conference, with 300
ministerial and lay delegates
representing $1,000 Augustana
Lutherans in 125 congregations,
will open Tuesday at 8 pm. in
ST. Marks Lutheran Church,
Springfield, Va. The denom-
ination has churches in New
York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, Ohio. Vir-
ginia, Florida and the District
of Columbia.
DR.. ThorSten A. Gustafson
of East Orange, N. j.. president
of the conference, will preside
at the sessions. They will be
held all day Wednesday and
Thursday and conclude at 1890
pm. Friday. The Rev. Duane
H. Carlson is pastor of the host
church.
The proposed merger, If ap-
proved by the constituency OF
each church body, will bring
together the United Lutheran
Church in America, Suomi
Evening star., 1961-04-15

Methodist Church, 5616 Oxon
Hill road, Oxon Hill.
Miss Arlene Harris. of Phil
adelphia. will be guest speaker
at the II am. service of Miles
Memorial C.M.E. Church, lilo
Third street NV. which is
observing its annual Women's
Day.
Ian Cramb, formerly chief
stone mason at the Iona Com
munity, Iona, Scotland, will
speak on the Iona Com
munity and the Rebuilding of
ticeship" at II am, tomorrow,
Western Presbyterian Church,
1906 H street NV.
DR.. Hunter B. Blakely, jr.,
secretary of the Division of
Higher Education of the Board
of Christian Education, Pres
byterian Church, U. S., will
speak at 9:45 and II am. serv-
ices of the MunsOn Hill Pres
byterian Church, Leesburg pike
and Glenmore drive, Falls
Church, which is observing
Christian Higher Education
Sunday.
DR.. Matthew les Spetter
leader of the Riverdale- -Yon-
kers Ethical Society, New York,
will speak on Pain and Af-
Fiction: The Human Appren-
ticeship" at II am. tomorrow
before the Washington Ethi-
cal Society, 1922 Massachusetts,
avenue NV.
DR.. Samuel H. Miller, dean
of the Harvard Divinity School
Cambridge, Mass, will speak
at the All University Religious
Service at IL am. in Andrew
Rankin NJ e morial Chapel
Howard University.
Evening star., 1961-04-15
CHURCHES ON THE AIR

II am, WFAX-The Rev.
A. w. jackson speaks during
Cherrydale Baptist Church h
service.
IL am, WEAM-Dr. Rich
ard c. Halverson speaks on
"Only God Can Forgive Sin"
from Fourth Presbyterian
Church.
II am. WFAN-FM-The
Rev. Jack F. Coffey speaks on
"Rediscovery of Our Faith"
from the observation-disclosures
cry Hills Baptist Church.
4:30 pm. WPIK-"The Fu-
ture Revealed" a discussion of
Bible prophecy by DR.. Dale
Crowley. Washington adio
minister.
$50 pm, WWDC-Dr. Hal
verson speaks on Man of Like
Passions" from Fourth Presby-
terian.
9 pm, WEAM-"The Hour
of Inspiration" with DR.. Crow
ley.
9p.m., WMAL-"A Nation in
Prison." a discussion of prisons
and prisoners by Catholic chap
lains of the District Depart
ment of Corrections.
$50 pm, WMAL - THE
Hour of Power" from the
Central Union Mission.
9:45 pm, WOOK and
WFAN- -FM-"The Faith of Mil
lions" Catholic program mod
Grated by DR.. Paul Cooke of
District Teachers College.
Evening star., 1961-04-15
Auqustunu Church Group
Will Vote on Merqer Plan

Synod, American Evangelical
Lutheran Church and the Au-
gustana Lutheran Church. A
vote on the resolution approx
ing the union will be taken at
the Wednesday afternoon Ses-
sion.
DR.. Malvin Lundeen of Min
neapoliS, president of the Au-
gustana Lutheran Church, will
address the gathering on the
issue Wednesday morning fol-
lowing. DR.. Gustafson'S con-
ference presidential message.
The terms of all conference
officers expire this year anc
they will be proposed for re-
election at the Thursday after
noon meeting. Those to be
nominated, including DR.. Gus.
tafson for a 18th consecutive
term, are the Rev. Glen A
PierSon of New York, vice pres
ident; the Rev. Earl Mattson Of
Staten Island, N. Y, secretary
and Floyd D. Peterson of Wash
ington, treasurer.
The New York Conference is
one of 13 regional conferences
in the Augustana Lutheran
Church, which has more thar
100000 members in the United
States and Canada. Will Baatz
of st. Marks Church, is serv.
ing as general convention
chairman.
Evening star., 1961-04-15
Churches Plan
Special Rites

Three nearby Maryland
churches will celebrate land
marks in their building pro-
grams with special services or
ceremonies tomorrow.
The congregation of Adelphi
Presbyterian Church will
break ground for its first build
ing on a site at Riggs and Buck
Lodge roads, Adelphi, after an
IL am. service in the Buck
Lodge Junior High School
where the church now meets.
DR.. Arthur Romig, general
presbyter, and the Rev. Charles
Carson, director of church eX-
tension for the Washington
City Presbytery, will partici-
pate.
The first unit, costing some
$4,000, will be a combination
chapel-fellowship hall, seating
1870 for worship and $50 for
dinners. 1t also will contain
several clasSrooms, a church
office and pastors study. Ell
lott and MacIntyre are the
architects and c. M. Hale is
builder.
Faith Lutheran Church will
hold a cornerstone laying serv-
ice at 2:30 pm. for the first
unit of its new structure at
5201 Livingston road.
DR.. ]. Frank Fife, of Balti-
more. president of the Evangel-
ical Lutheran Synod of Mary
land, and the Rev. J. Leon
Waines. director of missions,
stewardship and evangelism for
the Maryland Synod, United
Lutheran Church in America,
will speak.
The structure, designed by
architect Milton L. Grigg, in
cludes a chapel seating 200,
five classrooms and a parish
hall. 1t is due for June COM
pletion by the Duncan Con-
struction Co.
The Most Rev. Patrick A.
O'Boyle. Archbishop of Wash
ington, will bless and dedicate
the new st. Michael'S Catholic
Church at Baden, BrandyWine,
Md, at 10 am.
Preaching at the Mass of
Thanksgiving will be the Right
Rev. MSgr. John S. Spence, di-
rector of education for the
Archdiocese of Washington.
The Rev. George v. Joyce, pas
tor of st. Michael's will cele-
brate the mass.
The brick church, designed
by Walton g. Madden, will seat
$50 persons. 1t was built by
Capital View Construction Co.
The parish's old church,
built in 1922 when the parish
was founded. will be converted
into a parish hall for st. Mi
chaers more than 600 parish
toner's.
Evening star., 1961-04-15
First Services
At Churches

Two new churches just or
ganized, will begin holding
services tomorrow in Mont
gomery County.
A Lutheran Church to serve
the Bethesda Potomac area
win hold its first service at
4 pm. tomorrow in the Burn
ing Tree Elementary School,
Beech Tree road, Bethesda.
DR.. Theodore E. MatSon, of
Minneapolis, will be guest
preacher for the first service.
DR., Clarence T. Nelson, presi-
dent of the National Capital
Area Council of Churches and
pastor of Augustana Lutheran
Church, also will participate
Beginning April %, the new
congregation will begin holding
services in the school at 10
am. with a simultaneous pro-
gram for school children.
The new church is being
developed by the Rev. Fred
eric E. Reissig, former exec-
utive secretary of the National
Capital Area Council of
Churches.
The North Weaton United
Church of Christ will hold it's
first service at 10 am. to-
morrow in the Georgian For
est Elementary School, Regina
drive off Georgia avenue.
The Rev. Leonard Ebel, as
sistant minister of Christ Con-
gregation Church, Silver
| spring, Will pe guest minister
for the first service. The con-
gregation will operate with a
series of supply ministers until
a permanent man can be
secured.
The congregation intends to
select a building site in the
area to the north of Glenmont
Colesville road and east of
Georgia avenue extended.
An informal pot luck sup
per at $50 pm. tomorrow in
the Glenmont Recreation Cen
ter, Bluhill and Randolph
roads will follow the first
service. .....
Evening star., 1961-04-15

The following television and
radio programs will originate
from Washington area stations
tomorrow:
TelevisiOn
$3.50 am. WTOP-9-Col. Or
monde S. Brown, of Lakeland
Air Force Base, Texas, will
speak on The Good Hearted
Man" on the program Air
Force Chapel of the Air"
9:15 am, WRC-4-"How
You Can Have Divine Guidance
in Business" on the program
"How Christian Science Heals. "
10 am, WRC-4-"The Mass
for Shut-Ins," celebrated by
the Rev. William P. Anderson,
director of the Catholic Tele-
vision Guild of Washington.
Radio
7:45 am, WAVA-'How
Christian Science Heals"
7:45 am, WDON and
WASH -FM-The Rev. Lloyd w
Wineberg spea ks from the
Chillum Heights Gospel Chapel
8 am, WOOK - Bishop
Smallwood E. Williams speaks
from the Bible Way Church
9 am, WDON and WASH
FM-The Rev. Walter H. Kirk
speaks on the Wheaton Bible
Church Hour.
9:15 am, WDON and
WASH-FM - UNITARIAN
Speak," with the Rev. David
Macpherson of the Unitarian
Universalist Church of Silver
Spring.
Evening star., 1961-04-15

ll:l5 am. masses OF st. PauPS
Episcopal Church, 2430 K
street NV.
The Rev. DR.. William j.
Crowder, director of the De-
Ipartment of Missions and Evan
gelism for the District Baptist
Convention. will speak at II
am. and 7:45 pm. services of
the Northside Baptist Church,
1924 Rhode Island avenue,
College Park.
DR.. Noel Quixote King, ar
Anglican priest of the Province
of West Africa and professor
of divinity at the University
College of Ghana, will preach
at the II am. service of st.
Colunba's Episcopal Church,
Forty-second and Albemarle
streets NV.
The Rev. Luther w. Meinzen,
missionary to India for the
L Ut heran Church. Missouri
Synod, will lecture on his work
in that country at 4 pm. in the
Ascension Lutheran Church,
7420 Ardmore road, Landover
Hills, Md.
William Woodfield, of Gales
vile, Md, Methodist layman
and businessman, will speak al
I8:45 and II am. services OF
McKendree Methodist Church
2421 Lawrence street NV. The
services mark the opening o1
the church's Stewardship EN-
phasiS Program.
The Rev. . Andrew Leigh
Gum, pastor of the Indiar
Head Methodist Church, viii
speak on THE Growing Men.
ace of Gambling in Maryland
at 1880 pm. in the OxOn Hill
Evening star., 1961-04-15
zeon to Dedicate
z New Toroh Scrolls

tendons of an animal con-
sidered kosher" under Jewish
law.
The entire process may take
up to five years for one scroll
all to insure the closest possible
conformity with the scrolls of
Biblical times.
Rabbi Brandriss says the
original Torah Scrolls must
have been similar to the re-
Gently discovered Dead Sea
Scrolls, which have been dated
at about 200 B. c.
Tomorrow's dedication cere-
mony begins at IL am. in the
synagogue at 1910 University
boulevard west. MARYLAND
State Controller Louis L. Gold
stein is the scheduled main
speaker.
Evening star., 1961-04-15

Two priceless religious docu-
ments representing years of
pious labor and centuries Of
history will be dedicated
tomorrow at Congregation Har
Tzeon, Silver Spring, md.
The Conservative Jewish con-
gregation has been presented
two new Torah Scrolls-Juda-
ism's intricate and sacred Book
that cannot be printed.
Ten families of the congre-
cation contributed one scroll
to the synagogue's Junior Con-
gregation of children aged 10
through 13. The other scroll
was presented to the Youth
Congregation, for ages IA
through 18, by Mrs. Hyman
Lipsett, of Cambridge, Mass.
a sister-in-law of the congre-
cations former president,
Charles Potter.
In Ancient Hebrew
Hand-written in ancient
Hebrew script, the scrolls con-
tain the five Old Testament
Books of Moses Genesis, Exo-
dus, LeviticuS, Numbers n d
Deuteronomy-sometimes called
the "Pentateuch" by Christians.
"Torah" means law" in
Hebrew. Legend says Torah
Scrolls relate the basic Jewish
laws received from Sinai by
Moses, passed on to his sue
cessor, Joshua, and thence to
the elders of each succeeding
generation.
To indicate the Importance of
the scrolls, Har Tzeon's Rabbi
Joseph M. Brandriss quotes the
following from the Jewish
prayerbook:
For any community Of
people to be and to remain
Jewish, they must be brought
up from their tenderest child
hood to regard Sofer Torah
as the title deed of their birth
right and pedigree, which they
are religiously> to hand down
unaltered from generation to
generation"
These instructions are
followed faithfully by the
Sofers, professional scribes who
spend their lives in Jerusalem
copying new Torah Scrolls
from old ones.
No Iron Pens
What is believed to be the
original text of Moses is copied
on a continuous sheepskin
parchment. The written Hebrew
contains no verse or phonetic
markings other than vowel and
consonant signs.
Quill pens must be used,
because. as Rabbi Brandriss
explains, Iron is symbol of
war. Since Torah breaches
peace. no iron pens may be
used"
AS a final step, the completed
scroll must be bound with the
Evening star., 1961-04-15
SodoIity Symposium

The Washington Profession
al Sodalities will spencer their
second annual symposium on
The Profession Sodality" at
1:30 pm. tomorrow in the
G ormon Diagnostic Clinic,
Georgetown University Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1961-04-15
Ids to Open Class
For Non-Members

The Arlington ward Sunday
School of the Church Of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints
will open a class for non-mem-
bers who are interested in
learning about the denomina-
tion at 8;45 am. tomorrow in
the Arlington ward chapel,
Sixteenth and Inglew o o d
streets, Arlington.
The class, taught by former
Senator Watkins of Utah, will
continue at the same hour for
five successive Sundays.
Evening star., 1961-04-15

Leaders participating in the annual New
York Conference, Augustana Lutheran
Church, meeting here next week at ST. Marks
Lutheran Church, Springfield, Va, will in
clude Qeft to right DR.. Thorstne A. Gustafson
of New York, conference president; DR. Malvin
II. Lundeen of Minneapolis president of the
national church, and the Rev. Duane H. Carl
son of Springfield Va, host pastor.
Evening star., 1961-04-15

ITALIAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH