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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1949
Page
3
A Week End editorial condemns incessant war talk as dangerous propaganda that inflames public sentiment for military buildup. It cites headlines, officials, and global tensions, argues shortages of war likelihood, and urges responsible policy and restraint to prevent reckless defense rhetoric.
Roger Babson argues churches act as a major economic force with about 60 million members and 200000 buildings in the United States. He says church activity sustains industry through values, honesty, thrift, and credit, while churches push a new aggressive unity against modern evils. He highlights global church activism, World Relief Council funding, and opposition to Communist suppression of religion.
Sunday night radio has reached an all time low with drivel defining most offerings. Cheap vaudeville stunts inferior music and loud evangelists dominate Sunday evenings. Call for reforms to provide general profitable interest and curb insults to listeners. A protest against puerile mouthings on the air grows overdue.
A U S Christian Science Monitor account recalls 15 Bulgarian Protestant pastors indicted by the Communist government on treason, spying, or irregular currency charges. The piece honors their faith, notes past persecution under pro Nazi and communist regimes, and laments closures of churches, schools, and missions while urging continued support for Bulgarian Christians.
Dr Bart Cranston formerly head of religion and ethics at Dartmouth College has begun duties as dean of the USC School of Religion. He succeeds acting dean Floyd H Ross after 18 months. The school is interdenominational and one of ten US seminaries sponsored by the Methodist Church to train candidates for the ministry.
The National Council of Presbyterian Men closed its first annual Chicago convention vowing to recruit 80,000 new members to aid the church in the United States. Charles J. Turck of Macalester College was re elected president. Representative Walter H. Judd criticized Mindszenty’s trial and warned of renewed war fears amid Iron Curtain tensions, blasting Soviet policy in the United Nations as obstructive to peace.
Christian churches nationwide unite for a radio program titled One Great Hour to aid suffering Europeans and Asians. Written by Robert Sherwood, the broadcast on March 26 during 10 to 11 pm aims to mobilize faith and material support, with a hopeful appeal for gifts on March 27. The effort targets over 50 million listeners from about 75,000 churches to fund overseas church programs.
A Warsaw issued Polish mission report describes the Roman Catholic Church as in excellent condition with about 90 percent of Poland s 24 million people members. It notes widespread Catholic newspapers, religious classes in all schools, and that the church voices influence on cultural and political topics.
Geneva report from the World Council of Churches warns that freedom of religion and conscience is eroding worldwide. It cites government control, military policy influence, and minority rights infringements, risking the disruption of church life in various regions. The statement lists measures aimed at forcing churches to withdraw from public life or serve secular policy. Meanwhile Bulgaria indicts fifteen UEGC members for spying for the United States and England, and Romania imposes broad control over church property, funds, and religious art.
Polly Jo Anderson, 19, Oberlin junior and national vice president of Pilgrim Fellowship, urges giving youth a larger role in Congregational Christian Churches. She says elders should trust youth with real duties and notes broad support for uniting Evangelical and Reformed with Congregational Christians.
Bishop Brenton Thoburn Badley longtime head of the Delhi area of the Methodist Church in India died in Delhi Hospital after a brief illness at age 72. Born in Gonda he studied at Simpson College Ohio Wesleyan and Columbia and served as editor of The Indian Witness before becoming a bishop in 1924. He retired in 1944 and spent years in India and Dehra Dun lecturing on Indian and Christian topics.
A Bulgarian Romanian push targets Protestant and Roman Catholic churches as enemies of the totalitarian order. Mindszenty’s Hungary case marks a peak in East–West church-state struggle, with Pope Pius XII urging Catholics to stand firm. The decree in Romania and actions against Lutheran leaders show broad clampdown on church groups, including over a million Protestants.
The Council of Relief Agencies Licensed for Operation in Germany CRALOG shipped 111,981,608 pounds of food clothing medicines and other supplies to Germany over three years. The goods valued at 60 million dollars were distributed by 14 member agencies including War Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference Mennonite Central Committee Church World Service American Friends Service Committee Lutheran World Relief International Rescue and Relief.
Geneva, N. Y. Bishop Paul Neff Garber of the Methodist Church in Europe rejects Bulgaria s claim that he acted as a contact for 15 Protestant leaders indicted for espionage. He calls the arrests a deliberate violation of religious freedom and notes his sole visit to Bulgaria was in November 1947 for religious meetings in Sofia.
Harold E Stassen president of the University of Pennsylvania and head of the International Council of Religious Education calls the Mindszenty trial a travesty on justice predicting post trial rioting behind the Iron Curtain in Poland East Germany and Czechoslovakia He says Communism cannot succeed with or without religion and that the injustice will fuel a yearning for freedom. Dr Everett R Clinchy also denounces the Budapest proceeding as a travesty and New York State lawmakers urge UN action over religious freedom abuses in the Mindszenty case.
At a Columbus meeting of the International Council of Religious Education delegates from 40 denominations urged discouraging Protestant parochial schools as a threat to public education and democracy. They proposed teaching religion non sectarianly in public schools and continuing weekday religious instruction on a released time basis.
Leaders of more than 35 million American Protestants are called to a national conference in Cleveland on March 11, 1949. The National Study Conference on the Churches and World Order, summoned by the 27 denom Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, will assess moral use of American power in the UN and in relations in Europe and the Far East. Limited to 400 delegates, the event will gather clerical and lay representatives from organized Protestantism, with invitations extended to Federal Council denominations, other churches, interdenominational agencies, and about 175 state and city councils of churches.
A British Weekly survey finds twenty percent of Britons attend church regularly, challenging the belief that only 10 percent are regular churchgoers. It notes no clear sign of a compelling church life and highlights a gulf between clergy and congregants as deep as that between trade union officials and members.
The United States seeks UN intervention over Hungary's rights abuses revealed by Cardinal Mindszenty's trial. Secretary Acheson supports UN action, backed by a unanimous House resolution. The piece links Mindszenty to broader persecutions under Communist rule and refugee exoduses.
An editorial argues Americans must judge Communist influence and decide on legality of the Communist Party. It urges firmness in confronting Communism at home in government schools press and labor unions and declares the fight has just begun.
At its annual board meeting Church World Service projected a total requirement of 18,427,388 for 1949 to meet overseas relief and reconstruction needs. Over the past three years relief supplies were valued at 23,557,561, with 14,270,546 spent in 1948 on goods and cash. Of this 10,920,729 covered 32,918,767 pounds of Europe, Asia, and Africa aid, while 3,349,728 went to other cash assistance. largest contributors were Protestant Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., and the Digies of Christ.
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