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4-Uc JMtartsman, Salem, Ore Friday. July 22,' 1955
Post-War Sunday School 'Boom' Far Outstrips Growth in Church Memberships
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I By GEORGE W. CORNELL
NEW YORK UH When a
youngster today becopies a full
.'edgsd church member, be usual
ly knows what he's doing. t
"He's been soundly prepared."
raid Mrs. Alice Goddard, of Chi
cago, an authority on children'!
New Leading
Men Don't
Scare Bogart
By JAMES BACON
HOLLYWOOD m Humphrey
Bogart. a sassy 54. is enjoying his
jeatest year in the movies and
"Joriywoodi new crop of leading
men don't scare him one bit.
"Producers always are trying to
throw a scare into us oldtimers
-tvith that 'new faces' pitch. The
.public won't buy it though. And
IH tell you why:
"All these new guys and girls
"J oo all look alike, talk alike
.md act alike.: I see 'em all the
ime and I can't tell one from the
other. Howinell can the ticket buy
ers?"
" The great dissenter expounds
"They get some pretty boy, give
him a fancy name and rub their
liands when the bobbysoxers
scream. It's a different story
Tthen they start putting a couple
'millions in a picture. They want
Jmmy Cagney, Gary Cooper.
.Ipencer Tracy, Duke Wayne or
.someone else the ticket Duymg puo-
Jk wants to see.
V "And when Bogart stinks In
jtiovie, the fans know it's Bogart.
They don t say -wnaisnisname
jtunk.' "
-Stele My StafT
- Bogart admits to a few excep
tions among the young people, no
tably Marlon Brando, Aldo Ray
and Jeff Richards. His comments:
"The only thing I tot against
Brando is that be stole my stuff.
;When he came out here in a torn
T-shirt, the town went crazy for
him. I came out here 23 years
-ago with my pants seat thin and
they called me a bum."
Of Ray, who co-stars with him
n "We're No Angels:"
i "Aldo's not pretty and his voice
.sounds like be gargles with kero-
sene but the public will remember
him."
. Incidentally, Bogart, as an es
eaped convict from Devil's Island,
.turns in the finest comedy per
formance of his career in
-"We're No Angels" and com
ments: "Let's see tome of these new
faces get laughs out of a script
that has a couple of killings and
.Devil's Island as it main theme."
An M"
: Of Richards, a frequent tailing
companion. Bogie says:
. "He's all man."
Bogart leaves us with two ques
tions relative to tne new iace
notion- - - -.
I "Did you ever "see a night club
mimic do.m impersonation of
t jinr- Rivers? ' ' ' ' '
"Which would you rather have
Tad Hunter's publicity or Jim-
;my Stewart's money?
Not Major League
HOLLYWOOD ( Ethel Barry-
'more, the theater's most distin-
l guished authority on baseball,
can't see Los Angeles getting ma-
Jor league ball for some time.
"This is an overgrown village.
They're not ready for the big
leagues yet. They don't even sup
port what they've got now. (Los
, Aneeles and Hollywood have
teams in the Pacific Coast
League.)"
Miss Barrymore describe! her
elf as a baseball fan.
"That is entirely different than
a Giant fan. I like all baseball
alwavs have."
In her "memoirs, she tells why
she is not a Giant fan.
"My father was a Giant fan and
when 1 was a child he took me
to my first game at old Coogan's
Buff. The Giants lost that day and
my father (the late actor Maurice
Barrymore) clenched his fists to
ward heaven and said 'what have
, you done to us? I was so embar
" , rassed I left him and went home
by myself. Since then I have
classified myself as an all-baseball
fan."
Prefer Stewart i
HOLLYWOOD U) Peter
Graves, of all actors in town, re
sembles Col. Charles Lindbergh
the most. When Warners bought
"The Spirit of St. Louis." the
story of Lindberg's epic flight to
Paris, Graves' agent put in a
pitch for Peter.
t Graves, who is 29, was turned
down as too old for the role. The
.Lone Eagle was 25 t. the time
(f the flight.
So who's going to play the
young Lindbergh? Jimmy Stew
art. age 47.
church classes. "He has learned
what it means."
Unlike some of the hit-or-miss
elementary religious education- of
a quarter century ago, today
church educational machinery for
children is a mamnoth, highly or.
ganiiea operation. .
"Refreshing new currents have
come into the, stagnant pool that
was Christian education during the
20 s and into the 40'i," said the
Rev. Ralph N. Mould, of the Pres
byterian Christian Education
Board. Philadelphia. '
Whether it's called '"Sunday
school" or "synagogue school" or
just "religious instructiori." there
has been a phenomenal growth in
the activity both in scope and
method since World War. IL
Enrollment lip
Protestant Sunday school enroll
ment has soared from 23 million
to about 36 million in that period.
three times as fast as church mem
bership growth, which itself has
far outstripped population gains.
Special classes for Roman Cath
olic children have nearly quad
rupled in the last decade, and the
number of children in Jewish syna
gogue classes is estimated to have
more than doubled.
'There has been a stepping up
both in the quantity as well as
the quality of religious education
for Catholic children." said rather
John E. Kelly, of the Confraternity
of Christian Doctrine, Washington,
D.C.
Throughout Week
ivoi counting "released time re
ligious classes that have' devel-
oped in many public schools, the
churches and temples on the
side thave organized children s
programs that have spread out
through the week.
Rabbi Samuel Silver, of the Un
ion of American Hebrew Congre
gations, said one reason for the
rise In children's classes is that
the number of parents on congre
gational rous has "almost doubled
in the last decade."
Other factors, too, have contri
buted expanded programs, new
techniques, revised curricula, bet
ter teachers, and the high birth
rate with 42 million youngsters
now between five and 19. (Only
four years ago, the number was
33 million.) .
Next week, about 10.000 volun
teer religion teachers and officers
meet in Cleveland for the 23rd In
ternational Sunday school conven
tion an interdenominational af
fair to review progress, and
chart improvements.
Once Opposed
It's the 175th anniversary of the
founding of the Sunday school
movement in England, and it has
come a long way from that begin
ning wnen it was denounced as
"subversive" to orderly worship.'
"It will destroy family religion,"
a Scottish preacher declared then.
"It's sacrilegious to desecrate the
Sabbath with these Sunday
schools."
When the idea jumped to Amer
ica, a Methodist preacher in 1787
was dunked in a public cistern in
Charleston, S.C.. for conducting a
Sunday school for kids. It was.
folks thought, a Job for the home.
There have been rapid, and
broad changes injecting modern
teaching notions into churches, pro
duction of a steady stream of
films, records, charts, lesson helps,
project plans and procedure guides.
New Curricula . "
Many denominations " Pres
byterians, Methodists, Baptists,
Wife's Defense Successful in f Triangle9 Death
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Imogene Coca
Thinks Split
Was Mistake
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Hollywood Writer
HOLLYWOOD (UP) Imosene
Coca, a year after her break-up
with ex-partner Sid Caesar, thinks
the split was a mistake because
both learned they couldn't work as j
singles auer an.
Imogene, weanng a gay quilted
cotton dress and busily brushing
her short brown hair, curled up on
the sofa of her rented vacation .
home here to look back on a TVj
season that was a new try for her j
She and Sid split because he
thought they should work alone.
an incident that the currently-feud-;
ing Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis;
might think over.
Wound up With Partners
By the end of the 1954-55 season
both Coca and Caesar wound up
with partners on their individual
shows . and settled into husband
wife comedy serials.
Imogene admits her show "was
not what I wanted to do" and she's
through with domestic , serials.
"I. wanted to make .guest ap
pearances until f found something
I had faith in. But I guess it was
my own fault," she said with a sad
shrug. '
Show Not Right
I am so easily persuaded. The
show was just not right.
Peculiarly enough," she added,
"the rating for the show was good.
People were beginning to like it.
My two aunts who handle my
fan mail say I was getting letters j
from an entirely new audience, the
young married." ' ,
Imogene s old fans will be Te-:
lieved to hear she returns to TV
next fall doing the comedy routines
that brought her fame on "The
Show of Shows." Shell make six
"Spectaculars" but still without
Caesar.
Foand New Partners
"Oh, that would be impossible,"
she said in her usual modest, quiet
way. "Now he's a team with Nan
ette Frabray. He probably wouldn't
want to work with anyone else.
"It's funny," she reflected. "Both
of us at the beginning of the sea
son carefully avoided working with
someone. If we had started the sea
son each with a partner we would
have been torn apart.
"But Sid saw be had to work with
someone, so he got Nanette. And
I got Hal March. In the theater
you don't have to work with any
body. It's just in TV it seems you
have to have a partner.
Besides the disappointment of
her show, Imogene also suffered
the loss of her husband and her
mother recently.
"Yes, it was a rough year, she
agreed, and began vigorously
brushing her hair.
A Little Longer
; HOLLYWOOD UTi Katy Jur
ado, the great Mexican actress,
thinks she may have to stay in
Hollywood a little longer next
time. ;
An academy, award nominee for
- 'Broken Lance." and already
talked of for another Oscar bid for
her role of the mother in 'Trial,"
Katy reports:
' "I guess I'll have to stay awhile
in Hollywood so I can work cn
my English. Now I just commute
from my home near Mexico City
for pictures. There is one trouble.
By the time I finish a picture
here, my English is pretty good.
- Then I go home and speak Span
'ish all the time. When I came
back for a picture, my English is
back where it started when I first
: came here for 'High Noon. "
: She's not worried about losing
her Spanish lingo while mastering
-English. Los Angeles, next to Mex
ico City, has the largest Mexican
population of any city in the world.
And Katy. it seems, is friendly
with many of the Americans of
Mexican descent.
Grocer, Mule
To Return
Food Coupons
ALBANY, Ore. (UP) Unre
deemed food coupons by the mule
load will be dumped in the laps
of the General Foods Corp. at its
annual stockholders meeting in
New York July 27.
Earl Dickson, owner of Dickson's
Corral supermarket here, said he
would attend the meeting in an
attempt to dramatize his long bat
tie with firms that have refused to
redeem thousands of dollars worth
of food ' coupons he accepted in
lieu of cash from his grocery cus
tomers. He owns a few shares of
General voods stock.
Accompanying Dickson will be
his sullen mule, named Jim, and
several sacks of coupons.
Dickson contends the companies
refused to redeem their own cou
pons becuase "I over promoted
their promotion.
Last year Dickson saved about
$10,000 in taxes when the Bureau
of -Internal Revenue allowed him
to charge off his stock of coupons
as an operating loss. t
But be said he would rather ge
the coupons redeemed. - He said
they represented food savings tt
millions of American housewives.
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WASHLNGTON Mrs. Katherine Ana Haynes, left. Zt-year-old mother of foff children, smiles after having
successfully conducted her ova defease at a four-hoar coroner's inquest in the fatal shooting of her love
rival la Washington. Her husband, Willis M. Haynes, center, 32, a vacuum cleaner salesman, under her
questioning acknowledged he had given Miss Nancy Penton, 19, right, appliances and clothing. Hayaes
said his wife Intercepted him as he left the girl's house and forced him back at gunpoint. "Nancy bump
ed my hand and then gun went off," Mrs. Haynes said. After Inqnest she asked newsmen to pass this mes
sage to her husband: "I've lost yon, Bill, but I still love yon." (AP Wirt photo)
Disciples of Christ and Jewish and
Catholic bodies - have turned out
new curricula to make biblical
truths live in a child's world.
"They're not for entertainment
purposes at all," said Mrs. God
dard. director of children's work
for the Division of Christian Edu
cation of (he National Council of
Churches. t
"But there is more emphasis on
participation of the pupil in the
whole lesson, to meet the child at
his stage of development, and
bring him toward Christian goals,
purposes and understanding."
Not only is the new material
giving religion a more direct re
lationship to the child's life and
understanding, she said, but it is
being worked out with more care
ful attention to sound, theology.
Before-Church
The before-church "Sutiday
school" predominates in Protestant
churches, and most Jewish syna
gogues, which observe the Sabbath
on Saturday, also have Sunday
classes for children "Sunday
schools.'V
Both also have developed grow
ing week-day programs to prepare
children for confirmation and
adult service in .their faiths.
In most Roman Catholic di
oceses, the old "Sunday school"
system by which parents' had
to bring kids in elriy before mass
or wait for them to attend classes
f.
afterward has virtually vanished "
in the last 20 years.
Except in a few instances, par
ticularly in rural and some subur- .
ban areas, it baS been replaced
by religious education classes for
public school children on week
days. Saturdays, or both. . .
More than two' million Catholic
public school - children now get
such weekday religious training,
compared to about 600,000 in 1945.
Another three million get religious -instruction
in parochial schools,
and so don't need the special
classes.
For Confirmation
'Twenty years ago, the emphasii
was that a public school child only
went to classes to prepare for his
first communion or confirmation",,
Father Kelly said. "Now the ap
proach is that -knowledge of God,'
and study of religion is an integral
part of his whole education."
What gave the big boost to the
program was the organization of
the Confraternity of Christian Doc
trine in 1934, as part of the No'
tional Catholic Welfare Conference,
to put training 'for Catholic public
school children on an efficient
basis. -
For the first time, it made text
books, visual aids and other Cath-.
olic training materials available on
a national scale, and lent leader
ship to the far-flung parishes in
providing classes for children in
their flocks.
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