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Page 1 6 Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Mon., Jan. 21, 1952 Parliament of World Religions Dr. Wright Urges: listen and Weigh' A Portland clergyman Sunday night urged the 700 persons who attended the opening session of the "Parliament of World Re ligions" to make the four-day ses ion "a part of your personal lives ... as a starvilg man who is looking for food." The speaker was the Rev. Paul S. Wright, pastor of the first Pres byterian Church in Portland. He oDened the Parliament, which in the four days will attract speak ers representing the world's major faiths. Listen and Weigh He reminded his listeners that "your interest is to know the truth, even if it wrecks the religion you now have." He said he hoped they would "listen and weigh." The Presbyterian pastor said he was a Christian because it was "the best truth yet to me." But, he said, he hoped he was honest enough to "follow a further vi sion," if the truth should appear to be other than what he now be lieves. In hearing the speakers, some of them of world-wide reputation, Dr. Wright asked his listeners to consider two questions: ' 1. Who am I, and what is my significance? Pointing out that "Religion starts when you ask ultimate questions," he observed that man is more than just a vas cular system, or an animal crea ture, or the head of a business or the member of an organized so ciety. "What," he asked, "does it mean to be a human being?" 2. "What la the universe in which you live?" Admitting that the universe in which you live Booklet Raps UMT Proposal 'Based on Theory War Is Inevitable' WASHINGTON P) The (See Story Face 1) basic aim of universal military . . . , . . I training is mihtaristc dominance "may be your undershirt and may iover the minds of the nation,s be the starry universe above, he unB . th Nationai Council asserted -me universe was not Against Conscription said Sunday, "merely moral order, but is alive, Tne plan now pr0posed, it as- uuu pciauiiui, Willi a smuudiu of right and wrong." He traced what he said was the growing recognition of religion in Business Outlook Report Has Political Tone By J. A. LIVINGSTON WASHINGTON The Govern ment Printing Office has duly completed its allotted task of grinding out the President's state-of-the-union message, the econo mic report, and the buget. Yet mic report, and the budget. Yet ors, take those thousands of words too seriously. This is a Presiden tial year. Despite President Truman's re quest, Congress won't tighten the mid-century. Natural scientists, he pointed out, know now that smashing the atom is not enough, but that they must also "be re sponsible for use of the new in ventions." Lamenting that it often ap peared this is a world of "nuclear giants and moral invalids," he appealed to the "ethical conscience of each person." , Anxiety Complex The renewed interest in religion, like the great rash of wars and revolutions, he attributed to "a gigantic anxiety complex," world wide. Jane Simpson, student chairman of the Parliament, was mistress of ceremonies. Speaking briefly at the opening of the first session, were Dr. Perry John Powers, sec retary of the faculty committee sponsoring the event; Dr. Robert Clark, assistant dean of the Col lege of Liberal Arts at the Uni versity of Oregon; and Mervin Hampton, Portland, vice-presi dent of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. 4j u iu : -i M""i - r1"; " ,'. ., jf",. j Defense Production Act, vote and virtually destroy the chances of preventing a Third World War. It said the proposal works on the theory that "war is inevita- ble" and leaves no room for any Innlipv fltmpH tn "pliminatp the conditions of poverty or the BEWARE OF BUDGET DEFICITS $5,000,000,000 of increased taxes, or authorize the Federal Reserve Board to increase reserve require ments of banks. Truman knows that. His advisers know that. The reports are for the record for the campaigning in the fall. sources of hatred like imperialism upon which both Communism and Soviet foreign policy thrive." 'Conscript or Convict' It denied every major argument The President's economic re port of Congress added nothing new to the business outlook. The estimate of an $8,000,000,000 de ficit in the current fiscal year and advanced in favor of UMT tart- '-"of lug vu uy u,MSi:..1g w.u. u. d fi u gre notoriously too hlgn. basic assumption that the United Th.rpfnpp . h,in- Lively Time: Fans Arrested At Armory The customers got into tne act even a little more than usual at the wrestling matches Saturday night, and two of them wound up under arrest for disorderly conduct. First, thera was Lloyd Leon Curley, 24, of 146 S. 19th St., Springfield, who, although not a regular salesman, was buying and reselling peanuts at the Armory Saturday. He would sell awhile, then give the rest of the peanuts away, police said. Then, up in the balcony dur ing a preliminary match, Curley began throwing bags of peanuts ' at the wrestlers. When he ran out of bags, he threw the box they came in, police said. It landed on "several citizens" in the bleachers below, police re ports stated. Curley is being held for Clackamas County law enforce ment authorities for questioning in another case. Then, during the main event at the Armory, Dade Marsden, 1707 H St., Springfield, was arrested on a disorderly conduct - charge after he jumped from his seat, ran to ringside, and tossed a cup of soda pop in a wrestler's face. Marsden posted $50 bail and is to appear in Municipal Court Wednesday night. Building Woes Af Oakridge OAKRIDGE A "showdown" ac counting on expense of building Oakridge's new addition to the high school is expected to produce headaches at the special school board session Tuesday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m. at the high school. Board members have expressed fears that the accounting will find the building fund sadly depleted or non-existent, with the building only about half completed. The heavy construction is done but the finishing, windows, some siding, etc., remain uncompleted. Recent resignation of John Barker, con struction superintendent, adds to the board's woes. Barker has been employed by the school district for about four years, starting as building Inspec tor on the grade school, then un der construction. He was later made superintendent of construc tion when the contractor failed to finish the (grade school) building on time, and has carried out the school district's building program ever since. At Tuesday evening's public meeting, the board will have to decide on whether or not to let one contract for finishing the building, or to use the "cost-plus" method of contracting. States is really "unprepared." In summation of its arguments against the plan, the council as serted that it would force every American boy "as a matter of permanent national policy, to be either a conscript or a convict. In either case freedom is lost." 40 Page Booklet The criticism appeared in a 40- page booklet circulated to all members of Congress as a reply to the report of the National Se curity Training Commission. The commission, under an as signment from Congress, has pre pared a plan for the actual oper ation of UMT and is now present ing it to the House Armed Ser vices Committees. The Council Against Conscrip tion lists Dr. Harry Emerson Fos dick as honorary president. Alon zo F. Myers is chaiman of the executive group, WHY DETROIT WORRIES Slow demand (rather than limits on output) drops new car registrations to 1948 levels. Tn , 1 720 Mw FaMonga Car Registration VVieM I m l4o y x 1 560 -v -p-5i 400 y5aO Nwgg 40ol 1 520 jtfV -sr- 320E 840" M FEB klAR APS MAY JON JIM. AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC ImtLMklCt J. A Livingston Yanks Stymie Music Critic With Serenade WITH THE U.S. 7th INFANT RY DIVISION, Korea (U.R) Singing GIs were amazed Mon day when they got some compe tition from a Communist soldier turned music critic. Members of Company E of the 32nd "Buccaneer" regiment who Home Burglary Probed State police Monday were In vestigating the Sunday burglary of the Marie Jagcr home, 3365 Coburg Rd. Taken were a .410 gauge shotgun, a table radio, a woman's coat, several pairs of hose, a Canadian dollar biH and a small Japanese chest contain ing pictures. Here's Your Auto, Sir A local man's auto, apparently stolen early Sunday morning, was returned to him by police before he knew it was gone. City police noticed a pre-war auto parked with lights on and keys inside on W. 13th Ave. about 2:40 a.m. Sunday. Presuming that the owner would return shortly, they left it. But it was still there an hour later. When the registered owner, Robert Charle Lyford, 1390 W. 8th Ave., was phoned, he said he left the car about midnight in front of his home with the keys inside, Billfold Lost The loss of a billfold containing a $100 bill, two $50 bills, four $20 bills, and one $10, was re ported to city police Sunday William L. Hushka, 102 Alberta St., told police that the last time he had seen the billfold was at 5 a.m. when he and some friends bought coffee at a local drive-in restaurant, according to police re ports. operations, don't be on a deficit fostered inflation. The Council of Economic Ad visers to the President says as much, thus: "The outlook now is that there will be some increase in inflationary pressures, but that it will be held to a moderate magnitude, even with rapidly ris ing defense spending, if the brakes upon inflation which were applied in 1951 are not relaxed." Apparently, the Council is ex tending the present into the fu ture, which is a safe tactic, Ihe hardest thing in economic proph ecy, as in weather forecasting, is to predict change. When the sun's shining it's safer to predict that the sun will continue to shine. If you predict rain, you might have to go on predicting rain for a long, long time before you're right. In other words, as in the Dow theory of forecasting the stock market, you stay with the trend. PREDICTION FITS THE TIME This makes good politics for the President and the Council. If the President or the Council declared that armament would inflate the economy and necessitate higher taxes and tighter controls, Con gress might turn around, in an election year, and cut deiense ap propriations. Thus the Council s forecast fits the time. Immediate business pressures are not inflationary. Some 130,000 workers are reported unemployed in Detroit because of cutbacks. And Detroit's worries go beyond government controls. New pass enger car registrations have de clined fairly consistently this year. In November, at 332,000 they were 50 below the peak of August, 1950, and well below November, 1949 and 1950 (see chart). This was because customers, not cars, were unavailable. There's no in flation there. In textile's, the story's pretty much the same. Men's clothing is being offered at big markdowns to clear inventories. Some woolen manufacturers, following the lead in hosiery, want to reduce wage scales. The major inflationary impetus if there is one must come from defense. And defense schedules are picking up only moderately. Only last week, Air Force procurement offices informed airfraft manufac turers that orders were being held up by anticipated budget cuts. De sign changes also are delaying production. BUSINESS FUNDS TIGHTER Not only that, but business men are running low on funds, too. You'd not realize that from head lines which said. "Working Assets at New All-time High." True, the SEC reported working capital at $79,200,000,000, a new top. But the working capital ratio tne figure which measures the degree of freedom corporations have financially is down. A year aeo. corporations naa oi quick assets for every aoiiar oi liabilities, wow it s ?i.ua to one, What really hurts is this: Cash and government securities held are about the same as a year ago $47.6 billions versus $46.4. But notes and accounts payable plus tax liabilities has increased to S67.4 from S52.6. That explains why credit men say that collections are a little bit slower. When business men are flush with funds, they pay promptly and are expansive. When they re not, they pay less promptly and don't make long - term commitments freely. Right now, they're just like everybody else in an economic lull. 1 JimmerlY 'fit TUNIS . . "1 turned to tTNJ through 1 1 ?1 . The only i. T w" fron S'N were dug in only 20 yards from i the police couHr N a Red bunker were singing to demonstrate. ""ted ........ i.t-tMA . ' . 1 uvuuii; tiiiib. jri Tunis I "You can imagine our sur- bv ih. .. . el!.t! prise," said Cpl. James Ruther- appeared il'T !J ford, of Ivanhoe, Cal "when shorn and . . 1Vt id this Communist gives out with however. Pol ""l Aiie iciincaace ivAuft in gooa auced and n 1 ' U1U iiuci iaii abjic. The GIs decided to return the serenade with "God Bless Amer ica." The Reds didn't have a comeback for that. General ,., F" 'ch troops. 1 French troop. The death fLtemoreC BECAUSE THEIR DOLLARS 60 FURTHER WITH OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES! Chief Petty Officer Assigned To Govern Lonely Pacific Island HONOLULU (U.R) Life on a lonely island appeals to Fred Pobst and his family. Pobst is a chief petty officers in the navy who has been assigned to Chi Chi Jima, in the Volcano islands, as the American military government representative and his nearest neighbors are in Yoko suka, Japan, 500 miles away. Chief Pobst is the first navy en listed man ever to hold such a post. As the only American on the island he is its governor, busi ness adviser, lawyer, judge, schoolteacher and agriculture ex pert. The Pobsts were left on the tiny speck of rock and vegetation sev eral months ago. Pobst reports to the navy in Hawaii that lie is get ting along quite well in his new job and has been "pretty busy." Early Progress Made So far he's increased the is land's fish exports, built a new school, introduced farm irrigation and started an industrial expan sion program. The Pobsts, including Mrs. Pobst and their 12-ycar-old daughter, Carol, live in an American-style home that housed the Japanese weather station before the war. The cooking is done on an American range, but from there on out the similarity with modern living ends. Groceries are shipped from Guam, 1000 miles away, by ship and the service is monthly. The ship arrivals are headaches for Pobst. He must declare a holi day whenever the vessel arrives. Irrigation Set Up The Navy selected Pobst for the job because of his unusual Jack-of-all-trades qualifications. Being somewhat of a farmer he has taught the natives how to irrigate their crops and increase the yield, lie also is carrying out experi ments on the growth and develop ment of various sub-tropical and tropical fruits on the islands. Being a bit of a mechanic, the navy chief rigged up a refrigera tor plant for the island's fisher men, enabling them to increase their export of.fresh fish. The odd part about Pobst's charges are that they are des cended from Americans and Euro peans who settled in the islands in the 1800s. A i OPENS COLD-STUFFED, ii BREATHING PASSAGES Hi Every breath of medicated steam brings DEEP-ACTION RELIEF from coughs, stuffiness of colds. No matter how choked-up or miserable a cold makes you feel, here's a tome-proved treatment that relieves the worst stuffiness and makes breathing easier ast . . . two spoonfuls of Vicks VapoRub in vaporizer or bowl of boiling water as directed in package. It's taiyl You just breathe in the steam! 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