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By The Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.,
Minister of the Riverside Church, New York City
Against a grim background of tragic events a little group
Of men in an upper room in Jerusalem kept the Passover nearly
boo years ago. Of all that happened that night in the vast
' Roman world nothing could have seemed at the time less impor
; tant than that Last Supper. Yet, while even the Roman Empire
itself has fallen, that Passover
meal, a living reality still, goes
on.
What if again, in our lime,
when the events of the world
are huge and obsessing, the real
ly significant factors are to be
found in something that the cas-
ual eye misses, or seeing thinks
'. too small to count!
At any rate, to us living amid
thunderous events, that Last
Supper says at least two things.
First, that vitality is strong
er than size. In the long run,
a vital seed growing can split
a rock. Vitality was in that
upper room, and what is vital
lasts, and grows, and spreads,
and as Jesus said, "The Gates
1 of Hell shall not prevail against
" Wnen 'n's Plane' was young,
O-ige volcanoes blazed, while
along the edges of the prim
eval seas the first living cells
appeared. , Who could have
guessed that not to the vol-
i canoes but to those living cells
the future belonged? He who
lets huge and terrible events
discourage him does not know
history. When they have passed
away, the vital, germinal, spirit
ual forces will still be going
East Salem Neighborhood
Club Guest at Ricket's
East Salem, April 21 The members of the Neighborhood
club of Garden Road met at the home of Mr. and-Mrs. Frank
Ricket on Garden Road. There were 10 members and four guests
present for the afternoon. The
program for the afternoon was
a very clever memory contest
ft ranged by the hostess. Guests
were Mrs. Noby Zeller, Mis.
Ruth Compton and Mrs. Paul
Rasmussen of Salem, and Mrs.
Evangelicals to
Conduct Campaign
The First Evangelical church,
Marion and Summer streets, is
. conducting a "Home-Front-For-Christ"
campaign this week.
From Monday through Wed
nesday special church workers
. are calling upon the families of
Salem with which the church
has had previous contact.
These homes are being in
formed of the services to be held
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday at the church. The hour
Ql the evening services is 7:30.
le "Back Home Hour Male
Quartet" is to provide the spe
cial music on Thursday eve
ning. For the remainder of the
week the church has brought
back to Salem Robert Johnson,
tenor soloist from Whitworth
college, Spokane. The pastor,
the Rev. J. Kenneth Wishart,
will preach each night. His
themes are: Thursday, "Fol
lowing Jesus, Where?"; Friday,
"The Joy of Being Remembered"
and candlelight Communion ser
vice; Saturday, "What Would
You Do With Jesus?"; and Sun
day, "The Power of God."
Switch-Over Hampers
American Industry
Portland, April 21 VP)
American industry is being dis
located temporarily because of a
switch-over from defensive to
offensive production.
So asserted Frederick C.
Crawford, president of the Na
tional Association of Manufac
turers, in an Oregonian inter
view. "It means a rebalancing of
war orders, a cutting down on
defensive orders, like anti-aircraft
guns, and an increased
peed for aircraft and ships.
There will be a continuing
jhortage of labor on the Pacific
coast, if labor is not skillfully
Utilized, while in sections of the
cast many people may be out of
work temporarily," he said.
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strong.
Second, that Last Supper says
to us that great consequences
can come from small beginnings.
Everything worth while on earth
started as a quiet, inconspicuous
idea held by an unnoticed mi
nority in some upper room.
Such vital ideas make no con
temporary headlines, or if noted
at. all seem hopeless against
their powerful foes. History,
however, in the end, changes
the perspective. Oaks do grow
from acorns. The stone that
the builders rejected does be
come the head of the corner.
The crystal slipper fits despised
Cinderella's foot and not her
proud sister's. The last do be
come first, and the first last.
Today, in a turbulent genera
tion we need this message. The
faith of that upper room has not
collapsed; rather, its alterna
tives, substitutes, and antagon
ists have landed us in world
wide catastrophe. The final
word belongs to good will, to
liberty, democracy, justice, de
cency. Between that upper room
and Easter stood the Cross, but
for all that Easter Day came.
Lillian SeRine, a new resident
on Garden Road. .
Mr. and Mrs. F. W.. Strawn
of Auburn district spent the
week-end at Toledo visiting at
the home of his sister.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Baker and
family moved last week from
East Center street to West Sa
lem. Their two daughters in
Auburn school were Coretta in
the sixth and Nioma in the third
grade.
Born last Wednesday to Mr.
and Mrs. David Bates of Swegle
district, was a son, weighing
nine pounds. He has been nam
ed Allen David. Monday Mrs.
Bates was taken home. The lit
tle boy has one sister, Nancy.
Mrs. William Judson of Red
mond spent last week visiting
in the home of her parents, the
Earl Woods on Sunnyview ave
nue. Mrs. Walter Swingle left
Tuesday morning for a two
weeks' visit at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Harry Jennings, in
Spokane.
Consolidation Loses
In San Francisco
San Francisco, April 21 VP)
For the second time in less than
six months, San Francisco voters
have defeated a proposal to con
solidate the city's' street rail
ways by purchasing the privately-owned
Market street system.
The total semi-official vote in
a special election yesterday was:
"Yes, 53,441 ;.No, 87,399."
The election was on a revenue
bond proposal to buy the Mar
ket street system for $7,950,000.
Sponsors Included Mayor An
gelo J. Rossi and the city board
of supervisors. A similar pro
posal lost last November by a
margin of 3500 votes.
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Pardon Granted
Mrs. Southard
Boise, Idaho, April 21 W)
The last strings that attached
Mrs. Lydia Southard, convicted
poison slayer of the fourth of
her six husbands, to the Idaho
prison, were severed Tuesday.
The state pardons board made
final a conditional pardon grant
ed Mrs. Southard 18 months
ago.
The middle-aged woman has
spent her free months quietly
on her sister's farm at Nyssa,
Ore.
Mrs. Southard's prison career
included an escape over the
walls and freedom for 30 months
during which she married a
sixth time. Husband No. 6 ob
tained an annulment after her
arrest.
She was convicted of poisonr
ing Edward Meyer, No. 4, at
Twin Falls, in 1921. Her first
three husbands also died while
she was married to them. No.
5 obtain a divorce after she was
arrested.
Pierce Talks
On Japanese
Eugene, Ore., April 21
VP)-
"Alien Japanese must go back
to Japan when this war is over.
There is no place for them here,"
Walter M. Pierce, former Ore
gon governor and congressman,
declared here Tuesday in a talk
before the Rotary club.
Pierce charged that in spite
of the fact that the U.S. is at
war with Japan, agents ropre'
senting alien Japs are extending
their holdings of land In Mai.
heur county and in the sugar
beet lands around Ontario and
Nyssa. The lands are being pur
chased nominally through chil
dren and corporations, but alien
Japs control them, the former
congressman averred.
To those who propose that
Japanese in the U.S. be "Amer
icanized or Christian
ized," Pierce said flatly "it
can't be done."
He also warned that at the
conclusion of the war something
must be done about the dual ci
tizenship situation. He said the
United States has done much for
the Japs but in turn they have
abused privileges granted them
and "have tricked us."
Pierce called attention to
what he termed the "rabbit
rate" of Japanese population in
creases, and warned that a con
test looms to see whether the
Pacific coast will remain white
or turn yellow.
Twelve rubber tire factories
are now operating in South
America.
CANDLE
LIGHT
COMMUNION
SERVICE
Thursday, 8 p.m.
FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Chemekeia and Winter S(s.
HEAR
(Robert
Outstanding Negro Tenor
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY
(April 23, 24, 25 7:30 P.M.)
and
BACK HOME HOUR MALE QUARTET
With Instruments, Thursday, Same Hour
First Evnngelicnl Church
Marlon and Summer Strcela
i J. KENNETH WISHART, Minister
YOU WILL RECEIVE A HEARTY WELCOME
A recent visitor at the Evangelical church said, "Because we like
your spirit of unity and warm Christian fellowship, we want !o
attend and take an active part
feel the same wav. Come
tait,
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Blue Coupons
Will Buy More
Washington, April 21 W)
Blue ration coupons will buy
about twice as much frozen
fruits and vegetables and can
ned and dehydrated soups start
ing tomorrow. Dry black-eyed
peas will be ration-free.
A slash in the point values of
these goods was announced by
the office of price administra
tion to prevent warm-weather
spoilage and relieve a clogging
of storage space resulting from
slow sales.
It was the second major
change in coupon costs of ra
tioned fruits and vegetables, and
came as the OPA was consider
ing an overhaul of some of its
meat points, including possible
reductions on luncheon and oth
er ham and an increase on beef
hamburger. These meat changes,
if made, probably will come at
the end of the month.
Fanciers of frozen foods re
ceived what officials described
as obvious "point bargains,"
primarily to clear commercial
refrigerators of the remnants of
last year's pack and make way
for this year's. When the new
crops come out, they are likely
to be point-priced again at about
the old levels.
The one-point size of frozen
fruit was cut from 13 to 6 points,
one-pound package of frozen
baked beans from 8 to 4 points,
and the customary 12-ounce size
of other frozen vegetables from
a 8-10 point range to a flat rate
of 4 points.
The customary 10M ounce
can of tomato soup was cut from
6 to 3 points and other canned
soups from 6 to 4 points. For dry
or dehydrated soups, the new
values are only a fourth of what
they started out to be when pro
cessed food rationing began on
March 1. The points were cut in
half March 29, and again approximately-
in half, effective
tomorrow. The 2Vz -ounce pack
age will take a single point.
The south, where black-eyed
peas are popular, will hail point
freeing of this dry vegetable.
Other varieties of dry beans,
peas and lentils were unaffect
ed and remain at 4 points per
pound.
Next month's blue coupons,
which are G, H and J, may be
used starting Saturday. Thus,
during the last week of the
month, both April and May
stamps will be usable simultan
eously. Great Fir Log
Has Police Escort
North Bend, Wash., April 21
ffl The biggest Douglas fir log
ever taken out of the North
Bend area by truck received a
state patrol escort yesterday to
a Lake Washington boom.
The 200-foot giant, felled a
month ago, was 10 feet in di
ameter at the base. It was cut
into 20-foot sections for the
long haul. The four marketable
sections went to the Elliot Bay
Lumber company for plywood.
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