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o BIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, January 30, 1956 merican Protestants Wake Up Need Off m issioiiary Work ;Ri ghtH ere at wome Editor's nott: Despite the overall boom in church construction, the number of Protestant churches in the downtown areas of America's bis cities has dropped sharply. The following dispatch tells why church leaders con sider this trend "alming' and what t?y hope to do about it. By LOUIS CASSELS Uniied Press Correspondent Washington OI.R) American Protestants, who spend more than 5100,000,000 a year to send missionaries to the far corners of the earth have discovered a new and sorely neglected mission field, right here at home. It is in the downtown areas of America's big cities. According to the National Council of Churches, Protestant ism has all but abandoned the slum-ridden central sections of the cities in a headling flight to the plush and prosperous sub No overall figures are avail able, a council spokesman said, but checks show that "Protest ant churches are disappearing from inner city areas at an alarming rate." A survey in one unidentified "t y p i c a 1" city showed there are less than one third as many Protestant churches today as there were a half-century ago. The trend cannot be explained on the basis of dwindling down town population. Despite the much publicized "movement to the suburbs," census figures shows that the U.S. urban popu lation has actually grown by some 6,000,000 persons in the past decade. Moreover, there has been no comparable disappearance of Ro man Catholic churches from in ner city areas. A spokesman for the National . Catholic Welfare Conference said a comparatively few Catholic city parishes have been crowded out of existence by commercial or industrial re development that left them with no residential neighborhoods to serve. But, he said, it has been Floods Reflect In Financial Report San Francisco (U.R) Losses suffered during the Christmas week floods were reflected Sat urday in a financial report by Western Pacific Railroad Com pany. The railroad said gross rev enues dropped nearly $200,000 to $3,752,494 in December com pared with $3,940,015 for the same month in 1954. Net in come for the month was $9,639 compared with $359,085 in De cember, 1954. Despite the December revenue drop, the railroad said gross revenue for 1955 was $53,747, 777, up more than five million dollars from the 1954 revenue of $48,1184?49. Net earnings in 1955 were $4, 605,540, representing earnings per share of $6.86. The 1954 earnings were $4,313,953 for $5.62 per share. Catholic policy to keep city par ishes functioning "as long as there are any people to come to mass or any children to come to school." Protestant leaders privately acknowledge the superiority of the Catholic record in minister ing to inner city and slum area residents. Indeed, one of the rea sons for current Protestant con cern is the realization that mil lions of people, who moved to cities from rural areas where protestant traditions prevail, now find themselves faced with the alternatives of going to a Catholic neighborhood church, or no church at all. Why have Protestant churches so largely deserted a field in which they have millions of ac tual or potential members to serve? Main Reasons A recent study by the Home Missions Division of the National Council of Churches pointed to two main reasons: 1. Many churches have fled from "changing" downtown neighborhoods to all-white sub urbs to avoid facing the issue of racial integration. Council offi cials hope that the "run-away" trend is now gradually being reversed. They report that a small but growing number of city churches are choosing to stand fast and serve their mixed communities on a "color blind" basis. 2. American Protestantism has a long history of attachment to "traditional middle-class val ues." It has not easily learned to TheyH Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Waxib has been skiing since HE'S BEEN knee-high to ah icicle AtiD HAS NEVER GOT 4 SCR4TCH tg jJjj-plli , ''V jjgS "30lgSy " 1 " C IM, ICING FEATURES SYNDICATE. !nt., WORLD "gHTBERVEdI Today he stepped out of the chalet on the nice.cle4n side walk bah6' sixteen stitcmes Place of Bathtub in Human History May Always Be Subject of Diehard Discussion By H. D. QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York (U.R) Almost no body can take a diehard stand on the place of the bathtub in numan history and make it hold water. Some people say Rome fell be cause Romans spent too much time in their baths. Some say the empire would have gone down the drain anyway. Some people say the Romans' Trainees Take Tip From Moviegoers Munich, Germany (U.R) American military police train ees of the local MP battalion take a tip from moviegoing youngsters in one phase of their training. They shoot at the bad men on a movie screen only they use live ammunition. Old gangster films are used for the pistol practice and an electric plate behind the screen records the hits. Oil IP I Radio Free Europe broadcasts have Puppet Reds running in circles Work practically stopped in a large Hungarian electrical plant after a Radio Free Europe truth broadcast exposed inefficiency and corruption. Red bosses ran about accusing each other to the workers' amusement. Don't Stop Now Truthful Radio Free Europe programs like this one hold Communist Satellite leaders up to ridicule before their own people. The truth proves Com munism is not invincible . . . and it keeps alive hope and contin uedresistancetoRedoppression. Only you. can keep the Satellite Reds on the run. Send your Truth Dollars today to CRUSADE tor r 7 co Local PostmostBr Heavy Damage From 'Burning Wafer' Fire Los Angeles (U.R) Firemen estimated Saturday that a freak "burning water" fire caused S3,000,000 damage to the giant Ford assembly plant at Long Beach Harbor. The fire, which swept the plant Friday, was set off by burning gasoline floating atop flood waters from Southern Cal ifornia's worst storm in 20 years. The blaze ' started with a series of explosions and inflicted burns and injuries on some plant of ficials. Firemen from three commun ities using regular equipment and fireboats, brought, the fire under control after fighting it for several hours. Misunderstanding Ends In Rush To Meet Plane Minneapolis, Minn. (U.R) A slight misunderstanding sent photographers, newsmen, a doc tor and an ambulance to meet the" landing of an unscheduled Northwesi Airlines plane at Min neapolis airport. Everyone on the ground was interested in the baby they un derstood was born on the Chi cago to Portland, Ore., flight. It turned out, however-, that the pilot had radioed he had a "burn" case on board, not" a ".birth" case. Stella Green of Portland was treated for minor burns from spilled hot coffee. Tokyo Rose Leaves Federal Prison Alderson, W. Va. (U.R) Tokyo Rose, the American girl who turned traitor for the Jan anese in World War II, was re leased from prison Saturday and showed no repentance for the broadcasts in which she taunted American troops with swing music and talk of home. After six years in prison Mrs. Iva Toguri D' Aquino said "All I ask is a 50-50 chance to get back on my feet." But the fed eral government made the one time Japanese radio propagand ist's future uncertain by threat ening to deport her from the country she betrayed. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 ajn Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 brevious day. I MARKET 1202 North Riverside 3 OPEN EVERY NIGHT TIL MIDNIGHT strength was in their baths. They even built portable baths, for their legions in the field and kept their conquests clean. Back home, Roman men joined the local bathhouse gang and even transacted business in the public baths. Some Roman ladies, in their private . baths, wallowed in don keys' milk. Others bathed in a luscious goo made up of "20 pounds of crushed strawberries and two pounds of crushed rasp berries." The Greeks had a word for bathing that is translated "to drive sadness from the mind." The Greeks are said to have been fond of a home-style tub shaped like a modern birdbath. Part of the glory that was Greece lay in esiing and drinking while bathing which is a nice trick if you can do it in a birdbath. No Soap The Romans, who didn't have soap, used a scraper to cleanse their skin while bathing. Oddly enough, the barbarians who brought the Dark Ages to Eu rope also brought in the first soap, but on the subject of bath ing they .were 'rather wishy washy. And the plain fact is that in the Dark Ages people were as some philosopher has said wishy but not overly washy. Well, as you might have imag ined, it remained for the Ameri cans to bring the bathtub to full flower. Benjamine Franklin is alleged to have brought the first formal bathtub to America a tub in the shape of a shoe, with a grate in the "heel" to heat the water With that start, American imagination ran amok. There were shoe tubs, hat tubs, wooden showers, fold-away closet tubs, and convertible furniture tubs in this country in the 1880's The Association of American Soap & Glycerine Producers, Inc., a trade organization now in convention here, has gathered up 14 of these antique tub-uglies and put them on display in a "bathorama" at the Waldorf- Astoria, a hotel which has a bath for nearly every room. Even Extras Probably the most fascinating item of the display is the Vir ginia stool shower, beleieved to have been used around 1830-40. It's a walnut gadget with a re volving piano-stool-type seat be side which is a wooden lever, The bather worked the lever back and forth sending water up a hose into a nozzle and onto himself. The lever action at the same time worked an old-fash ioned stiff-bristle scrub brush up and down the bather's back: An 1880 closet tub, framed in pine, folded up into its own closet, and thus was camouflaged as a wardrobe when not in use. It had its own hot water heater. A Victorian soft tub 1880-90 doubled as an overstuffed, liv ing room sofa of carved, scrolled walnut and gold brocade, with a curved armrest. The sofa top was removable, disclosing a full- length metal tub composing the bottom half of the piece. It was advertised as "the common sense invention of the age." 5 B' Fastest sesrvhe o M H SAN FRANCISCO m hrs. jf f NEWYomihrs. m ! 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