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.
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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.
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TUNIS . . "1
turned to tTNJ
through 1 1 ?1
. The only i.
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were dug in only 20 yards from i the police couHr N
a Red bunker were singing to demonstrate. ""ted
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"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"
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French troop.
The death
fLtemoreC
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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.
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