Church Group Seeks To Instigate
'Ethical Revolution' in Business
By LOUIS CASSELS
Uniled Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) The na
tion's largest church organiza
tion is trying to instigate an
"ethical revolution" in Ameri
can business life.
That is the goal of the "living
right at work" program which
the National Council of Churches
has asked its 30 member de
nominations to push during
1956.
The message the council wants
to get across to 35,000,000 Pro
testant laymen is that Christian
ity is not a Sunday morning
state of mind, but a practical
rule of life that should govern
the way we act in "our Monday-through-Saturday
jobs."
It represents a major effort
by the churches to translate into
higher standards of everyday
conduct the new spirit of relig
ious faith reflected in record
attendance at worship services.
The Question
Why the emphasis on work as
the area of life in which a Chris
tian should demonstrate the sin-
cerity of his convictions.
"America today is a business
society," explained a council
spokesman. "Often our most
meaningful experiences in life
occur at work. Also because of
its increasing competitive tempo,
our business life is one area in
which religious principles are in
danger of being excluded.
The Rev. Cameron P. Hall,
executive director of the coun
cil's Department on Economic
Life, described the program as
ethics directly to bear on a
t'.hics directly to bear on a
whole range of business and pro
fessional problems "which many
Americans persist in keeping
separate from the church."
"The problem of business
ethics and Jabor ethics and farm
ethics is crucial to the future
of Christianity in our country,"
said Hall. "If our religion only
operates only on the fringes of
our business society one day a
week we might as well stop giv
ing lip service to it."
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
G
By HARMAH
Unitad Pw
Washington (U.R) Every
time I mess around with magi
cians something happens.
Once in St. Louis the lady
champion magician, Dell O'Dell,
sat still for
an interview.
I put pencil to
pad and she
told me a few
of her tricks.
But wlen I
met Mrs. N. in
the lobby of
the Jefferson
hotel, I wasn't
wearing a tie.
Dell had
Harmon Nichol somehow
untied it. I know the touch of
a feminine hand, particularly
arounil the neckline and I don't
think she laid a pinky on me.
The next day the tie was stuffed
In the roll around of my type
writer. Well, a man never learns.
Same thing happened with a
combination preacher, enemy of
fires in the home, and magician.
A nice guy named K. Thomas
Call.
Mot Dressed for Occasion
There we were in the May
flower hotel; both of us on the
speaker's stand. I had inter
viewed Call a little while be
loro in the Town and Country
room.
When I was introduced, I
found that I wasn't dressed for
the occasion. No tie.
Call pulled my wrinkled old
neckpiece out of his pocket.
This fellow Call has done just
Hoover Defines
Presidential Aide
Washington (U.R) Former
President Herbert Hoover said
today an "administrative vice
president" could relieve the
President of 25 specific duties,
plus settling conflicts between
1,900 government agencies.
The duties mentioned by Mr.
Hoover ranged from approving
the Navy band's concert tours to
determining the quality of Army
rations.
He made his proposals in
testimony prepared for a Senate
Government Operations Sub
committee, headed by Sen. John
F. Kennedy (D-Mass.). The sub
committee is seeking ways to
ease the President's work load.
Hoover renewed his proposal
that Congress create a new of
fice of "administrative vice pres
ident" although the administra
tion was not backing the idea.
Presidential Assistant Sher
man Adams wrote the subcom
mittee yesterday that the ad
ministration sees no need for the
proposed office. But he did say
the administration would have
'no objection" if Congress de
cided to create the post.
Former President Truman
voiced outright opposition to the
proposal yesterday. In a letter
to Kennedy, he said the Presi
dent 'is the responsible head of
the government" and "it is not
possible for him to delegate any
ofihe functions of his office as
they are set out in the Constitution."
The council has urged mem
ber denominations to sponsor
both local and statewide confer
ences of laymen to discuss ethics
in their particular occupations.
A number of such meetings have
already been held. Many more
will be held next week, which
the council has designated
"Church and Economic Life
Week."
Theme of these meetings is
that every type of job house
wife, farmer, lawyer, doctor,
newspaperman, business execu
tive, labor organizer, factory
worker or stenographer pre
sents each day problems in "ap
plied Christianity."
Church leaders hope to en
courage laymen in each occupa
tion to work out their own solu
tions.
They are convinced that the
process of discussing such prob
lems will help laymen find other
ways in which religious prin
ciples should be applied to their
work, and will demonstrate the
truth of the program's motto:
"God is not truly honored on
Sunday if he is dishonored on
week days."
W. NICHOLS
about everything. He is not an
ordained parson, but he preaches
on occasion.
He once traveled with a carni
val under the name of "Dr. Gene
Okkah," posing as a Hindu
priest. He claims he could have
made a bundle if he had gone
along with a contract to tour
Nova Scotia, but his pretty wife,
Rosamond, yelled out a loud
"No."
Real Trick
So he went around the coun
try reading cards and things
the code routine. He posed as
"Tito" the clown, and is proud
to admit that his two kids,
Carole, 11, and Cindy, 7, were
born on the same day of the
same month four years apart.
"That's a good trick for a ma
gician," he said.
Anyhow, the case in point.
Call was appearing before the
Washington section of the Opti
mist club.
His theme was on the serious
side, since he represents an in
surance company, which would
just as soon prevent disaster as
to have to pay for losses of life,
limb and timber. Liberty Mutual
Fire Insurance Company of Bos
ton. '
He told the Optimists that fire
each year, destroys or damages
330,000 homes with a dollar loss
of $125,000,000. At least 5000
Americans die by fire every 12
months.
Since kids make up one-third
of this annual death list Call
makes a game out of it in his
lectures. In his talks and in a
little pamphlet called "Play For
Your Life."
Little Game
So our magician, preacher and
so forth, invented a little game.
It gives the kids an idea about
what to do when the smoke
starts to roll up the stair well.
It goes like this:
"Have the family go to their
rooms. Have them lie on their
beds. On the smell of smoke, or
an alarm, each kid and adult
must grasp the handiest piece of
clothing . . . the top of a pajama,
a pillow case or hankie . . . and
tie it across the nose and mouth."
Call goes on to say that if
the material can be wet, that is
better. Then you are supposed
to slide over the side of the bed
and lie flat on the floor, not
breathing deeply. Now you
crawl to a window, open it and
stick your head out.
Thing is, every home should
have some mechanical device, ac
cording to Call, which will de
tect smoke and touch off an
alarm in the house if fire occurs.
Something real loud. Those
things are available.
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