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BIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, January 30, 1956
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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roll up its sleeves and tackle the
grubby problems of poverty, ju
venile delinquency, drug addic
tion, moral and physical squalor
that of en characterize life in the
big city slums.
If there is a' bright spot in this
picture, it is the fact that Pro
testant leaders have developed
a sharp pain in the conscience
and are now trying to start a
"back to the cities" movement.'
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