TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, January 12, 1958
Churches Must Learn What Interests People, Evangelism Director Declares
New York CU.R) Dr. Rob
ert W. Spike i3 one minister of
the gospel who isn't cowed by
tradition. One of the first things
he did when he took over a new
congregation In Manhattan was
xo abolish the women's society,
the men's club, the adult Sun
day school and the "family
nights."
"The reason was simple: No
one was attending any of their
meetings.
Church Popular Concern
Today the once-flagging Jud-
son Memorial church is a popu
lar, going conecrn in Greenwich
Village, and Dr. Spike is moving
out as pastor to become direc
tor of evangelism for the Board
of Home Missions of the Congre
gational Christian churches.
At 132, he is perhaps the
youngest man ever to hold such
a high post in American Protes
tant circles.
And what he is now setting
out to do in the tradition-bound
field of winning souls promises
to have churchmen- of all faiths
Expedition To Probe
Amazon Engravings
New York (U.R) A young
fellow who is the grandson of
John Jacob Astor and the son of
a Russian prince a blend of
cool cash and warm royalty
that's hard to match is mount
ing a rebellion against the ten
der bypaths of wealth and so
ciety. He's going to hie himself tq
the tributary headwaters of the
Amazon by helicopter, if pos
sible, and if not, by burrow and
llama to take a crack at prov
ing the existence of a lost, pre
historic civilization. '
Feeling About Symbols
Ivan Obolensky, son of Serge
Obolensky and Alice Astor, has
an intense feeling about certain
carved symbols and inscriptions
on granite outcroppings found
in the high rugged country of
the Aymara tribe in Bolivia and
Peru. '
"The same undeciphered mes
sage recurs and recurs in these
stone engravings," he said in an
interview. "It's as if there had
been a concerted attempt to
leave something for posterity
a sort of time capsule thing.
We're dealing with a mystery,
and we may break it. Our deci
phering program has progressed
to a point where we have great
hope."
When he says "we," he means
the privately financed Amazonia
Foundation, Inc., of which he is
vice president and which is
headed by George Michanow
sky, an archeologist who already
has charted half a dozen loca
tions of the inscriptions and
hopes to find more in an expedi
tion to get under way this
spring.
Old Civilization Sought
They hope to find evidence of
a civilization much older than
anything previously credited to
South America. The Aymaras,
an Indian tribe, do not write.
But they have a word in their
language meaning "writing" and
that word refers to the stone en
gravings. Indeed, there is one river, so
deep in the interior fastnesses
that it isn't even on the maps,
that the Aymaras call "the river
of writing." The mysterious
writings are said to occur in its
valley and the expedition will
search there for them.
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
VP""''
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Aline Mosby
Hollywood (U.R) Holly-!
wood's latest organization is
called "The Rat Pack," a cele-
" 9 brated group
devoted to
poking a lit
tle .fun into
this sometim
es lifeless
community.
Some years,
the movie col
ony appears
headed to
ward being
everybody's small town with
Tony and Janet posing in aprons
in the kitchen and glamour
queens claiming they are like
the girl next. door.
'.- But a handful of senior citi--zens
of the community are keep
ing some color in the plaster
city. They have formed "The
Rat Pack."
In some communities a rat
pack means a gang of juvenile
' delinquents, but this gang hangs
around an old kidney-shaped
swimming pool.
Mansion Turns. Clubhouse
Their "clubhouse" may be a
member's Palm Springs mansion
and they roam around in Bent-
ACCUSED Mrs. Dolores
Zeithlin, 25, was accused in
L - Angeles court by her ex
husband of having engaged
in improper conduct with
Charles Chaplin Jr. Irving
Zeithlin, 40, contended she
is an unfit mother and asked
that he be awarded custody
of their adopted son, Barry, 2.
Paratrooper Lands in
Prineville Hospital
Prineville U.R) Barry Mac-
Donald, 21-year-old paratrooper
who survived last June when he
fell 1300 feet after his parachute
failed to open, was in a local
hospital today with a broken leg
suffered when he fell, on an icy
street in Bend last week.
His leg was broken last June
and in the fall last week he frac
tured it again in the same spot.
MacDonald was home on a 30
day leave. Earlier he had been
a patient at Fort Campbell, Ky.,
recovering from the jump injuries.
Last June 2, MacDonald jump
ed out of a plane on a maneuver
but his chute failed to open. He
struck a tall tre, and plunged
leys and Cadillacs instead of hot
rods.
Members of this organization
are Frank Sinatra, president;
Judy Garland, vice president:
Humphrey Bogart, in charge of
publicity (an art he knows well);
restaurateurs Mike and Gloria
Romanoff; composer Jimmy Van
Heusen; agent Irving Lazar and
Lauren Bacall, the den mother
of the pack.
So far the rat pack has roam
ed in only two directions. Last
summer, members chartered a
bus (with a bar), and startled
the citizens of Long Beach by
showing up there to see Judy
Garland's stage show.
Club Stresses Fun
"The club is just for fun, sort
of a gag," explained Miss Bacall.
"You have to breathe a little life
into this old burg now and then.
We're a jolly group of people
and we like us better than any
body."-
The club has a coat-of-arms
and a charter. Members, howev
er, cannot release this informa
tion yet as they can'ti agree on
it. So far the club has one qual
ification ' for members: "You
must be a true rat."
The club's logan: "Never rat
on a rat." -
The club's full name is "The
Rat Pack of Holmby Hills," as.
the Bogarts live in that elegant
suburb. Other celebrities wish to
join, but so far membership is
closed:
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taking notice.
His approach may startle some
of the congregational ministers
it is his new duty to advise. For
one thing, he isn't carried away
by statistics indicating a great
revival of religion in America.
Type of Religion
"Our churches are faced with
carrying on in ' an expanding
luxury economy," he said in an
interview at his new office.
"This thing called the American
way of life is alm5st a religion
in itself. We need to examine it
and point up some of the dan
gers in it."
Dr. Spike mounted the pulpit
in the Judson Church for the
first time six years ago and
found all of five people waiting
to hear him. Today the church
counts 125 active members in a
neighborhood famous for its
fleshpots, expensive apartments
and highflown art and intellec
tualism. "Working in Greenwich Vil
lage taught me how far removed
most of the pronouncements of
the church are from the real
problems people face today," he
said. "But it also taught me how
applicable the gospel is to those
problems when it isn't burdened
down with church3' talk."
Instead of inviting his con
gregation to ice cream socials
Dr. Spike organized a study
group in the novels of Dostoev-
sky, another in the theories of
modefh theologians Karl Barth
and Reinhold Neibuhr.
Packed House
He drew a packed house for
a Christmas program featuring
poet W. H. Auden reading from
his works.1 Last month the
church staged a recital of ob
scure medieval and renaissance
music.
Dr. Spike isn't saying the
same type of thing would go ov
er anywhere outside Greenwich
Village but he believes the idea
is a sound one. The churches
should find out what people are
interested in, and then become
interested in those things, too.
"I'm a bit puzzled about tele
vision," he said. "I do think the
most effective programs from a
religious point of view are those
that aren't tied up with a church
or labeled as religious pro
grams." He would like to see clergy
men encourage writers to tackle
theological subjects in their nov
els and plays. Painters could be
stimulated to work on religious
themes.
, "The idea isn't for the church
es to act as judge or censor but
to provoke religious, thinking,"
he said. "Artists have to be free
to create. The churches have a
responsibility to produce live
and exciting material for them
to work with."
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nois livestock specialist.
The first submarine which ac
tually sank another enemy ves
sel during wartime was the Con
federate Hunley during the Civil
War. The Union frigate Housa
tonic was the victim."
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