Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-28


no prayers in public schools,
This removes, also, the
baccalaureate sermon, II de-
livered within the confines
Of a public school.
Many parents will send
their children to private
schools from which God has
not been banished. In an
other case the Court limited
the Post Office in its attempt
to ban pornography from the
mails. The court mentioned
that the present moral cli-
mate wasn't offended by pic
lures Of nude men. Shoddy
souls make money out of
pornography. The courts pro-
tect them.
II the present moral cli-
mate is low, and 1t is, the
spineless courts Of the Nation
can accept some responsible
ity. A l0ud minority which
is not a part Of our stable
American tradition has
blinded the courts by falla-
cious reasoning, On the other
hand the public school, orig
inally set up, at the general
taxpayers expense, to insure
the continuance Of Protes-
tantism, has lost one Of its
main characteristics.
The religiously motivated
private school best expresses
the ideal Of education desired
by the Founding Fathers. We
can call too many of our
national fathers today the
Foundering Fathers. Too few
Of them are well-grounded
in either philosophy or the
ology. So. they founder. Too
bad, but trueI God-fearing
men and women arisel The
faith Of your children is in
danger. So Is the Nation
Arise! You are the rulers.
Matthew A. McKavitt.
What satisfaction there
must be in the Kremlin at
the decision Of the Supreme
Court of the United States to
abolish God from our schools
Nikita Khrushchev is re-
ported to have said that q
Soviet invasion Of the United
States will be unnecessary, fol
the Communist aim will be
accomplished from within by
the Americans themselves
Even those who accept such
a theory. however, could not
have anticipated the major
move being made by the
highest court In the land.
To the uninitiated the Legal
process Is an enigma. I can
not, therefore, fathom the
reasoning Of the legal minds
responsible for the decision bu'
I would remind those whose
objection to our Christian
way of life prompted that de-
cision that the trainers of the
United States Constitution
were Christian gentlemen. II
is because these Christians
lived UP to the principles Of
their faith that these same
objectors, beneficiaries ir
their day Of the faith Of our
founding fathers. enjoy free
dom of worship or not to
worship.
Those Of us who do not
need that reminder object to
having the benefits of living
in a Christian nation denied
us. Mary G. Mason
Even a slight familiarity
with the writings Of oul
Founding Fathers and with
those Of ordinary sons ano
daughters in the early day.
of our Republic will disclose
that they did indeed desire
a separation of church anc
state. But what they feared
was a designated state
church, an official religion
Utterly remote from theil
thoughts was the intention
to deny to their children g
simple expression Of the
awareness of God.
Unfortunately today, many
American children, due more
to apathy than to conviction
on the part of their parents
receive no religious teaching
whatever, either in tn ell
homes or in a chosen place
of worship. The few spir.
itual words heard in the
school room are the only one,
concerned with this basic
aspect of human dignity
which ever reach them.
Not to be overlooked either
are forces in the world
inimical to Americas best in
terest, which would have Us
become a Goddess n tion
Must our own Supreme Court
unwittingly join hands with
these2 Esther DOuty.