Panel Ends Reliqious Week By DON SMITH The YWCA-sponsored Friend ship Festival opened, and Brother hood week closed on the campus with a panel on “Religion and Officer Tells Vet Restriction Veterans who transfer from one school to another for any reason Require veterans administration approval in advance, if they wish to continue receiving subsistance and tuition. , This GI bill restriction was em phasized today by Richard Men gler, VA training officer in charge in this area. T Eligibility Certificates Although supplemental certifi cates of eligibility are essential several hundred students have moved to different Oregon schools this term without them, Mengler Said. All of, these had to be in terrupted on VA payrools, and large number are running into 1 difficulty qualifying for clearan ces. I* Best pass to a new certificate is a statement from the first school attesting to the veteran’s "satis factory progress.” If a veteran I completes one course and wishes to ? enroll in another, the school’s re ,'port of completion clears the way I with the VA. r “A veteran who is flunking out in his studies and wishes to tran sfer has a harder row to hoe,” Mengler explained. ‘‘If he feels that a change of course at another -school will put him back on his feet, he must talk it over with the VA’s advisement service before he can be cleared for a supplemen tal certificate. Campus Floaters I “If he has flunked out and wants to atend another school which has -a lowerr.scholastic floor, he must do so without VA assistance. This rule is aimed at ‘campus floaters’, and it may be set aside where ill ness or other hardships have caus ed a veteran’s failure, or later, af ter a notable comeback.” “Easiest way to clear the decks for a transfer is before leaving the present school,” Mengler advised. “All transfers go through several separate actions in the VA’s re gional office, and the only way -that delays in payments can be avoided is to notify the agency well in advance that a change is planned.” , A BONNY PLAID FOR SPRING Hailes ^APPAREL—1044 Wffl, World Order.” Rabbi Leo Trepp, Bishop Francis McConnell, and Father Leo J. Linahen discussed the topic before 75 townspeople-and students in alumni hall of Gerlin ger. Biorg Hansen, YWCA president, introduced the speakers and was moderator. The need for courage in man to overcome the fear that he will fail in his search for security was stressed by the Rabbi. The immedi ate result of religious action should not be foremost, he avers, but em phasis must be put in the final out come. “Too many people,” warned the rabbi, “try to find in religion a sed ative for frayed nerves and an es cape from responsibility. Religion does not remove responsibility, but gives us a challenge to go out and work for final peace and security.” One of the appeals of commun ism, he told his audience, may be in the belief that a person can lose himself in a mass. This running of persons toward the safety of a mass gives it a tremendous power, making it a force of destruction. He who puts his faith in God will not fail,” claims the Rabbi, “because he participates in the causes of world events as a serv ant of God. Out of this true appli cation of religion will come a bet ter world order.” Immediate Necessities First Immediate world necessities must be attended to first, Bishop McConnell contended. First, the people of the world must be helped to their feet, leaving the other problems to be settled later, he said. “The people of the world are hun gry,” declared the Bishop “and if a new world order is to result, the countries must draw on the re sources of the United States.” Quibbling over whether or not the people will know how to use the goods and materials sent them is, in the opinion of Bishop McCon nell, a waste of time. “Most any hungry man knows how to use food,” he declared. “If we lay now a foundation in human kindness and good will, we may furnish something of a solution to the prevailing condition.” The essential and inalienable rights that follow upon, the accept ance of religion as a dominant fac . i tor in shaping the new world order was the topic discussed by Father Linahen. He enumerated the right: to serve and worship God in public and private; to protection of just law without discrimination as to race, creed, or religion; to freedom of expression and of information and communication; of education; to petition the government; of as sistance from society. Claiming that the family was a unit of society that was deserving of special consideration he claimed the right of persons to bear chil dren, be properly housed, to live in a community free of immoral conditions, and to have religious education for children. “If these rights are not given the people in this country,” stated Linahen, “it is vain to think of in ternational order.” World Government Favored Rabbi Trepp said that the aim for a world government should not deter the people from doing imme diately what has to be done to at tain it, but rather the aim should be a challenge. Anyimng mat will help out in mutual respect leads to a world government,” Bishop McConnell said. “It is a long process to attain a world government, but we can take the first step now.” Father Linahen expressed the belief that a federation of world states is not possible but it is to be wished, hoped, and prayed for. He said that some functions of a world government, such as a legal basis for deliberation between countries, are absolutely necessary at the present time. CAMPUS CALENDAR 6 p.m.: Married students potluck dinner at Westminster house. 6 p.m.: Scabbard and Blade meet ing at alumni hall, Gerlinger. Uni forms. 8 p.m.: One World club meeting at the Side. 9 p.m.: Jive night at Wesley house. Julius Caesar designed the first calendar 2,000 years ago. YOUR INVITATION to Spring Yes . . . we invite you to attend our open-house SPRING FASHION PRE VIEW— r THURSDAY AT 7:30 P. M. 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