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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1947)
Forum. Contributions to this column must be confined to 300 words and signed by writer. Nation Wide Program Adopted By Churches for Christian Charity Pittsburgh, Feb. 21 UP) Delegates to an experimental Protes tant conference on economic problems today carried back to home churches a proposed nation-wide program which one leader called n important step toward "a more Christian society." About 350 weary laymen and clergymen at the national con ference on the church and eco nomic life, sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, wound up three days of warm discussion last night with a stand they hoped their churches would ac cept. Chairman Charles P. Taft, of Cincinnati, declared the con ference exceeded his hopes and added: "We have set in motion a pro cess within the Protestant churches which .should in time lead to widespread study and discussion by Christian laymen of the application of their reli gious faith to the problems they face in every day living." Taft, who also is president of the federal council, said the next step was to "bring recon ciliation to the fields of conflict and progress toward a more Christian society." The adopted program advan ced these highlights: 1. A Declaration that society "cannot tolerate" monopolies in business or labor. 2. The statement that while profits are defensible, Chris tions should subordinate profits to serVice. .3. The stand that Christianity belongs to no particular econo mic sysytem but that its prin ciples apply to "the organiza tion of society" as well as per sonal relationships. 4. An assertion that property is held in "trusteeship under God" and that further experi ments should be made, where public regulation is difficult, to study "forms of private, coopera tive and public ownership." The delegates, two-thirds of whom were laymen,, declared society as a whole has the re sponsibility of providing "the opportunity to work," suggested theology students be given train ing in economics, and urged the church to sharpen its know ledge of industrial relations. Portland Air Base Drops Training Washington, Feb. 21 VP) The air reserve training program at the Portland, Ore., army air base will be discontinued im mediately. The war department told Sen ator Cordon (R., Ore.) that bud getary limitations force it to re duce the reserve air training program from 70 to 41 detachments. To the Editor: Every nation worthy of the name is in the same financial fix our own na tion is in, so if we were called upon to pay up or fight we'd be sunk, unless we could negotiate a new contract, and then we would still owe the debt we could not pay when it again be came due. Every nation in the world is in the same dilemma none can pay now or within the next 100 years, so why should we load the future generations with our shortcomings. In the beginning, according to the Bible, the diplomats of the few known nations wiped every debt from the ledger and all started over anew every 57 years. The present civilizations have been operating for more than 2000 years and keep on getting deeper in debt and we now have a debt we cannot pay for another century or longer and history proves we cannot, for wars have come so fast that we cannot catch up with war's march on us. Since this last war has taken practically all the re sources of each nation (friend and foe), why not try the plan of our forefathers of more than 2000 years ago. All our states are head and heel in debt which adds untold billions to the na tional indebtedness. There are 55 or more nations in the present set-up of the new world movement, and each of these nations is sparring for some way to get from under the load they will have to carry if and when peace time should come to pass. Each knows they cannot do it with nothing to give them a safe start and save themselves from a revolution within when one starts the rest will follow suit. What I am lead ing up to is to urge the UN in the assembly soon to be held to take up the question of wiping the debts of each nation from the records and that each nation pass comparable laws to our own, and we should so frame the laws that they really make us one world. The elimination of the debts would not hurt any nation, because we would still retain what we already have in the way of wealth. This reason able plan would really make all! peoples equal throughout the! world. Our system of taxation is the most confusing enigma ever de vised for raising taxes. The men we elect to take care of that routine for us are incapable of working out a fair tax wherein every citizen is conscious of be ing a taxpayer the income lax is an example: the income tax is made large enough so that a considerable part is rebated back to the big taxpayer; every con gress and state legislature raises salaries of politicians but it takes a union of the common employees to get a small raise All of these should be taken in to consideration when and if the plan suggested above should be adopted. As now in vogue in our state, our views are for the sales tax, it is the fairest tax of any ever proposed in this state it makes - all of us taxpayers in fact, for we know that we are taxpayers when we make a pur chase. In time, this tax would take care of all taxes and would eliminate all businessmen from adding double taxes on all their merchandise' when sold over the counter and the customer would then begin to save on his pur chases. I. V. McAdoo To the Editor: Protest ban on fireworks. Ex pect' to break law Fourth of July. Committee should be tried for un-American activities. No joy so great, with less fatal re sults than any pleasure known to America. David J. Ferguson Mill City. New Citizenship Council Organized .Dallas For the purpose of honoring new citizens after they receive their citizenship papers, an Americanization council was organized Monday evening in the Dallas chamber of com merce rooms. Mrs. H. D. Peter son who was instrumental in organizing the new council, pre sided as chairman. Representatives were present from the Dallas post, VFW, and auxiliary, the American Legion, Dallas Woman's club, Chamber of Commerce, Lions club and Ladies of the GAR. Officers will be elected and committees ap pointed on March 3 at the sec ond meeting of the group. Mrs. Appleby Hostess Mt. Angel Mrs. R. O. Appleby entertained at dinner at her home Sunday in compliment to Dr. and Mrs. J. Taylor of The Dalles. 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