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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, September 13, 2006
For a guy who missed being a Baby Boomer by two
years, I still get solicited by so many businesses to buy
their shirts, pants, shoes, furniture, knick-knacks, camp-
ing equipment, greeting cards, magazines, fruit and jelly
beans that I could burn the catalogs and generate
enough power to light the valley for a day or two. At
least, that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
Actually, it’s kind of entertaining to peruse the cata-
logs and laugh at the thought that I’d actually spend that
much money on stuff I don’t want, although getting so
many mailings is rather annoying. And when you roll up
catalogs to swat flies they’re not nearly as effective as
say, a rolled-up copy of this newspaper.
Somehow that brings me to the point of remember-
ing items that many of the real Baby Boomers are not
familiar with. For example: curb feelers for cars, not to
mention chromed spotlights, fender-skirts and steering
wheel knobs. Of course, I still remember premium gaso-
line for 25-cents a gallon, and Jack In the Box burgers
for 22-cents. Man, that was a long time ago.
Oh, and coffee was 5-cents a cup, all you could drink.
Went up to 10-cents; then a quarter, and now you have
to plunk down plenty’o cash for coffee. But we do it.
And how about those first TV dinners? Yes, we still
have them, but they are mostly edible. Those first efforts
were nasty. I mean, you could eat the box and get as
much flavor as from the food. And remember TV trays?
Yeah, TV and eating: It was the end of real family to-
getherness; no more sitting together around a table and
talking politely while we ate.
What about those wide white-wall tires? I thought
they looked good, but cars were different then. And we
don’t even have some of the cars many of us knew
growing up: DeSoto, Studebaker, Edsel, Packard, Hud-
son, Rambler -- to name a few.
I remember elevator operators. Always thought that
was a job with lots of ups and downs. (Sorry). And there
were many milkmen making home deliveries. Plus dry
cleaners would come to your door, as well as some bak-
eries and produce stores. Long time ago.
In case you can’t tell, I enjoy reminiscing. This is not
seen as a good thing by some who love me because
they feel it’s much better to live in the present and let the
past be passed. They’re correct. But I still lapse into re-
calling The Olden Days. Maybe I’ll get over it some day.
Hey, remember all those 45 rpm records, 10-cent
comic books, and three-bedroom homes for $12,500?
Oops -- guess today is not the day.
For a bright future,
Start @ the Library
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About prayer in schools,
& other public locations
From Dr. Carroll
Bierbower, pastor
Redwood Congregational
Church, Cave Junction
We are all familiar with
“the separation of church and
state.” We have been so bom-
barded with this statement by
the media that it might come
as a surprise to know that this
is not in the Constitution, but
was first mentioned by Tho-
mas Jefferson in an 1802 letter
he wrote to a group identify-
ing itself as Danbury Baptists.
While Jefferson’s letter is
often cited to prove that the
original intent of the 1st
Amendment was complete
separation of church and
state, when actually it was to
guarantee religion the free-
dom to exist without govern-
ment influence, it makes no
mention of the government
being wholly separate from
all religious activity.
Recent decisions by a
liberal Supreme Court have
wrongly interpreted the 1st
Amendment to mean no reli-
gious activities, instead of
freedom of religious activi-
ties. The amendment actually
reads, “Congress shall make
no law respecting an estab-
lishment of religion, or pro-
hibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the free-
dom of speech, or of the
press; - -.” No mention is
made of the separation of
church and state.
A public prayer is not the
establishment of religion but
the free exercise thereof. The
purpose of this constitutional
amendment was to grant free-
dom from having a national
established religion such as
England, France and Ger-
many had at that time.
However, our Supreme
Court actually made the un-
constitutional term, “The
Separation of church and
state” the law of the land. By
this action the Supreme Court
has given liberal judges a free
hand in ruling against any and
all appearances of Christian-
ity in schools and in all places
of government property.
In schools, prayer is no
longer allowed; and students
and teachers are even forbid-
den to wear any symbol that
represents Christianity.
Teachers are also forbidden to
mention anything related to
the Christian faith and have
been fired because they had a
cross on their necklace or
lapel pin.
In contrast, our schools
allow the Islam religion to be
discussed, Mohammed can be
mentioned, but it is a crime to
mention Jesus.
In fact, one California
school actually taught the
students how to pray to Allah.
This is only paving the
ground for the expansion of
the Islamic religion that is at
present the fastest-growing
religion in our country.
This persecution of
Christianity has now entered
the U.S. Navy. A Navy judge,
Anita K. Blair, recently ruled
that a Navy chaplain preach-
ing a sermon with a Christian
content in the chapel on U.S.
property is a “punishable of-
fence.” Chaplain Klingen-
schmidt is up for court-
martial for concluding his
sermon with a prayer in the
name of Jesus. When I was in
the Navy during World War
II the chaplains all preached
the Christian faith.
In contrast to all this
court interference with our
freedom of speech or our
expression of the Christian
faith, it is interesting to ob-
serve that our Congress daily
opens every session with
prayer. The minister who
offers it is paid for this ser-
vice by our government. See-
ing that it hires one to offer
prayer in Congress while as-
sembled in a government-
owned building, then why has
it become unlawful for the
Christian to have prayer on
public-owned property?
The practice of our Con-
gress having daily prayer, and
what most presidents what
they call “breakfast prayer
meetings” in the White
House, thus shows that they
ignore the lower liberal courts
decision forbidding prayer in
government buildings. Their
activity leads one to believe
they have a different under-
standing of the Constitution
that the liberal judges.
When the courts legislate
unconstitutional laws against
our freedom of speech con-
cerning the Christian faith,
this becomes a very important
issue. Unless the Christian
community arises to the occa-
sion, the courts will continue
to rob us of our religious free-
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