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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1948
Page
4
Week End Editorial argues that relying on the Gallup Poll for political and moral guidance is dangerous and misleading. It condemns using polls to shape messages, urges independent thinking, and warns that opinion charts erode public conscience and distort truth.
Dr. Cecil Northcott reports on the Lambeth Conference in session at Lambeth Palace across the Thames from Westminster. About 350 bishops from diverse regions gather, led by the Anglican see at Canterbury, with the meeting lacking binding authority yet offering moral and spiritual guidance to the church.
A Moscow Pan Orthodox conference urged close ties with Protestant and Anglican Churches while rejecting any participation in the World Council of Churches Amsterdam assembly. It condemned the Vatican as anti Christian and anti democratic and charged Catholicism with fostering international intrigues. The piece notes opposition from the Russian church and optimistic Western Protestant views on Amsterdam.
Charles P. Steinmetz reflects on Emily Dickinson’s view of eternity, contrasting local life with spiritual vision. He argues that daily surroundings can become windows to higher realities and laments secularism while urging faith and the future study of God and prayer.
Protestant and Orthodox churches nationwide will ring hourly on Sunday August 22 to observe the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam. About 450 delegates will gather in the Concertgebouw for what is called the era’s most significant ecumenical event since the Reformation. The Council will meet for 14 days with leaders from many Christian traditions, including an official Roman Catholic observer.
Dr. Syngman Rhee, a Christian for 50 years, was sworn in as Korea's first president in Seoul. He took the oath before the capitol pledging to serve to the limit of his ability and strength.
Richmond Indiana leaders report a majority of 133 Quaker representatives urging defiance of the draft and refusal to register. They condemn non combatant service and push for broad exemptions for those who oppose war, urging schools to drop military training and funding. Cecil Hinshaw and 300 educators sign a pledge to counsel youths in draft defiance and accept possible jail.
An observer notes flamboyant demonstrations and festive pageantry at a U.S. political convention. He concludes outsiders may see it as juvenile, yet stresses that nominating work, platform drafting, and pivotal speeches occur after the public show.
A critical review of the book College Reading and Religion funded by the Hazen Foundation and the American Council on Education argues that required readings prejudge religion and shield students from fair factual knowledge. It claims a subtle shift through scientific language and depictions in college syllabi pressures youth to confront religion in ways that may mislead.
The Presbyterian Church in the USA reports total membership of 2,274,294 the largest in its history. Nine month period ending Dec 31 1947 shows a net gain of 39,446 with 78,144 new communicants and Sunday school enrollment rising to 1,325,088. Infant baptisms reached 60,334 and church officers include 58,209 elders and 31,395 deacons. The denomination spans 40 synods 267 presbyteries 8,534 local churches and 9,517 ministers with 80 chaplains in the armed forces and 1,446 ministry candidates. Contributions for the period total $64,776,88.
Sixteen clergymen depart New York to attend the First Assembly of the World Council of Churches opening August 22 in Amsterdam. The delegation includes Dr. Ralph E. Diffendorfer and Dr. Ralph W. Lockman. A total of 327 officials from 28 American denominations will join delegates from 150 church bodies in over 40 countries to ratify the council's constitution.
Dr. Michio Kozaki of the United Church of Christ Japan told a Los Angeles Church Federation luncheon that Christianity has grown rapidly in Japan since the war and that Emperor Hirohito may eventually accept it. He noted 85 percent of worshippers are ages 20 to 30, warned of communist influence, and planned to attend the World Council Assembly in Amsterdam starting August 22.
Chairman Lilienthal and the Atomic Commission staff push peaceful uses of fission. They doubt full world power replacement will occur within two decades. Benefits appear in medicine, agriculture, and industry through over a thousand projects. Atomic weapons remain a grim necessity, not a cause for rejoicing.
Fifteen thousand attendees at the American Library Association convention in Atlantic City pledged to resist attempts to censor knowledge. Dr. Luther Evans of the Library of Congress condemned secrecy, and seventeen state committees on intellectual freedom were formed to spread the fight nationwide.
The Gideons International at its San Francisco convention authorized a supply of 500000 Bibles for the peacetime Army. Delegates from 32 states and Canada attended the five day meeting with over 1000 participants. Since 1898 the group has distributed millions of Bibles and Testaments across the United States and military outlets.
The Chronicle rejects a New York manifesto by about 200 clergymen urging draft refusal and armed forces withdrawal. It argues early Christian martyrdom is misapplied and defends conscription as necessary to avoid catastrophe, noting the writers urge youth to sign long-term commitment papers for Leavenworth.
A century after the Seneca Falls convention, the text notes the vote granted in 1920 and discusses ongoing gender equality. It highlights women’s continued discrimination by sex, shifts toward outward participation, and the link between rights and responsibilities in shaping public policy.
The Executive Board of the Baptist General Convention of Texas approved a 10 million dollar annual budget for 1949 through 1953, a 150 percent increase over 1948. It will be presented at the annual Houston session and ends individual institution fund drives. Six million goes to nine schools and five hospitals, about three fourths of the rest to Southern Baptist Convention causes and one fourth to state Baptist causes.
The piece notes fresh experimental work on algae and atomic energy promising vast increases in food supply within a year. University of California researchers under Melvin Calvin and Andrew Benson show algae could provide all essential nutrients at low cost. Sea water irrigation could grow needed plants, reducing hunger and war drivers. Atomic Energy Commission members supported Berkeley studies and express cautious optimism on life preservation.
Sterling North’s examination in the Christian Herald warns that violent horror comics foster crime. He cites a 13 year old killer and claims Americans spend 52 million dollars yearly on these books. Publishers are labeled more dangerous to the nation than traffickers and peddlers.
A nationwide drive will raise at least 10 million dollars for an international non sectarian Christian University in Japan. The effort is led by the Committee for a Christian University of Japan, a joint venture of the Federal Council of Churches and the Foreign Missions Conference of North America. Easter Sunday, April 8, starts the drive, continuing through Pentecost, June 5, with state and city level promotion by church volunteers. Initial underwriting comes from ten Protestant denominations including NBC, Congregational Christian Churches, Methodist, Presbyterian USA, Episcopal, and Reformed Church.
Dr. Frank C. Laubach, missionary educator and literacy pioneer, comes back after a nine month tour of 11 African countries. He cites 250 million readers worldwide using his phonetic method and notes literacy classes in 63 African languages. He plans to spend the rest of the year in the United States and to visit Siam Korea Australia and New Guinea in 1949.
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