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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. Covers were also placed
for Mr. and Mrs. Robert Apple
by and children Gary and Pa
tricia of Union Creek, Ore., and
Rex Appleby.
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