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EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. April 19. 1957 Easter Again Finds World Groping Along Edge of Valley of Death and final article of a series by Irad lnc Protestant and Catholic theolog ian! on the meaning of Eaiter. Author of today's dtspau-h Ik pro for of hffttoriral theolocr at the Yaie I'nlverilty Divinity School, New Haven, Conn. By DR. ROBERT L. CALHOUN Written for Unitad Pratt . New Haven, Conn. (U.R) The return of Good Friday and East er this year finds the world once more groping its way along the edge of the Valley of Death. Not that this is new or strange. Men have always lived within arm's length of the grave. But It seems new, because for 150 years, except when major war was going on, we have felt in creasingly safe behind a grow ing technological screen against death. Now we are not sure whether our newest machines are more to be trusted or dreaded. And we have the uneasy feeling that 'e may never be sure about them again. One thing is sure. This anxiety of ours is not to be quieted by acquiring more factual knowl edge, better tools, bigger social and political organizations. The real tap root of our anxiety is mistrust of our neighbors, nd of ourselves. We men are the main reason the world is once again so frightening. Machines 'Giant Foes' Partly our, ignorance and weakness, partly our aggres sions, crudities, deceits, and evasions, partly our corroding and unnerving fears themselves keep the machines from being trusted servants and make them The Family Council Editor! note: The Family Council consists or a judge, a psychiatrist, tnree clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice; It merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Peggy G. I want to buy peace with my husband. Mrs. E. F Peggy should in gist on a showdown. . . Peggy G. I was married a few months ago and I have not been very happy because my husband has been nagging me about certain things in connec tion with our wedding. He and his motfier are very angry that certain friends and relatives of theirs were left off the guest list, while certain of my friends and relatives (whom he doesn t like) were invited. My husband has also been very disappointed in the wed ding gifts we got from my fam ily. He claims they are wealthy enough to have given more. I think that s true, but he should not say it. Just the same, I want peace In the family, so I've decided on a plan. My husband wants a color TV set. I've offered to give my favorite aunt the money to buy one for us. She's not one of the rich relatives and was planning to give a small gift. She says she'd do anything for me, but this doesn't seem right to do. I would buy peace at any price. Mrs. E. F. I love my niece and I want to help her get a good start in her marriage. If this gift of the color TV set would solve things for her, I'd be glad to play along, but I feel it would only makfr things worse. Peggy's husband would only expect things from the fam ily all through their married life. I feel that Peggy should, in stead, give it to her husband straight from the shoulder. She should tell him that if he mar ried her for her wealthy rela tives, he can just go packing. She should insist on a show down. Either he loves her for herself or not. I don't believe in spoiling a man. Peggy is getting off on the wrong foot by catering to his every whim. Besides, she has her mother-in-law to con tend with. She should put up a good fight now and let her husband know that she is a per son to respect. Otherwise he'll walk all over her. The Council: There must be another way. Neither "peace at any price" nor a "showdown" is called for in this common place early martial disagree ment. Mrs. E. F. sounds like a wom an who enjoys nothing better than a good fight and, with her temperament, she may have found it a very successful way of dealing with difficult hus bands. But Peggy has an entire ly different temperament and is not equipped to carry off the "showdown" fight. Combat is not required for Peggy to explain to her husband that no couple has a right to put a tax on relatives for wedding gifts. She can let him know that it is pretty petty and childish of him to demand gifts which are supposed to be voluntary do nations. As for his reviewing the wedding gift list at this late date, Peggy should totally ig nore his comments. He'll get tired of talking to himself after a time. When a man or woman is fill ed with trifling complaints and irritations in the early stages of marriage, it may be that he or she is just reflecting some of the strains of adjustment to married life. It is likely to wear off after the couple gets com fortably settled. (Copyright 1957. General Features Corp.) too often giant foes. These hu man weaknesses and corruptions, moreover, are beyond our power to eradicate . or even to control. They are built into the massive structures of society and his tory, until whole nations all nations, 'as . well as individual persons and groups are sick with their poisons. Our science and technology, our national and international organization are new. But our fundamental human plight, our bondage to our own weaknesses and faults, terribly magnified in fast growing world society is very old and very tough. The Roman world in the first cen tury was in a similar plight, with despotism on the rise, old sturdy virtues in decline, and the world clouded with darken ing fears. Will of God It was to that world that the first Christian preachers cried out their new message of chal lenge, of hope: that in the ob scure province of Galilee, and on a gallows outside Jerusalem, God himself had entered de cisively into the human plight, broken the power of death, and turned the cross itself into a promise of life, for all who would bear each his own cross in faith and love. That unlikely story, that gos pel, evangel, "good news of God," struck root in the pagan world and grew In defiance of all worldly expectation. It has continued through 19 centuries, vital and irrepressible, througn the rise and fall of empires, cul tures, and civilizations, through times of strength and times of woeful weakness among its own preachers and servants. That gospel, of God's doing and not primarily of man s, is now more than ever the needed word to a world in bondage to fear and death; the word of life and un conquerable hope. Ike's Plan Could Increase Capital To Small Business Washington U.R) - Presl dent Eisenhower will urge Con gress soon to approve a tax plan which could start a flow of new capital ' to hard-pressed small businesses, it was learned today. The aim is to take some of the risk out of small business ven- turnes for wealthy investors. Under the plan, anyone who invested in an established small business and did lose would be allowed to deduct his loss or part of it from his income tax return in a single year. This would save him literally thou sands of dollars and make such investments much more attrac tive. Can't Get Capital Small businessmen have conv plained they cannot get capital needed to help their firms grow ing in an expanding economy. Early last year the President created a cabinet committee on small business to study the problem. Last August the cabinet com mittee reported it was "study ing a proposal to help' small concerns attract capital by al lowing investors to deduct from their ordinary income a limited amount of losses, in the event that losses are sustained from investments in small businesses." An administration official who has been working on the proposal told the United Press the plan has been worked out and put in the form of a bill. He said the President will sub mit it to Congress soon. 3 SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF! RESTORE BEAUTY TO YOUR FLOORS WITH A RENTED SANDER Easy to Operate Clean and Dustiest Low Rental Rates We Handle Everything You Need for Floor Refinishing SMCMlfSTS IN HOMIWAtttl 3 West 6th St., Medford Fale of Men Trapped On Barge To Be Known New Orleans (U.R) Two huge river cranes moved into position today to ' right a capsized oil barge and reveal the fate of nine missing sailors. There was virtually no hope that the nine men were slill alive. Some 30 relatives of the missing crewmembers main tained a night-long vigil at near by Buras, La. The two big cranes moved in on the capsized barge in the north of the Mississippi river, where the huge oil craft turned turtle in squally gulf waters Wednesday as it was being towed into the sanctuary of the river. There were 15 men aboard the barge, but six were rescued by tugs that were pulling the barge. EASTER PLAY SCHEDULED "Beyond Good Friday", a one act Easter play, will be pre sented at the First Church of God Sunday, at 7:30 p.m. The five characters in the play inact a scene of how Easter changes a- rather drab, poor house into a pleasant home of love. Estella will be played by Dollie Taylor; Rosita, by Helen Noss; Orselio, by Fred Taylor; and Carl Cur tis will be played by Darold Jones; and Mrs. Romero, by Cora Hoover. The public is invited to attend. 2,000 Students Are Expected to Attend Music Contest Here Medford will host more than 2,000 southern Oregon elemen tary, junior and senior high school students April 26 and 27 at the annual Southern Oregon Music contest. The district extends as far east as Lakeview and as far west as Brookings. Students will re ceive ratings of superior, excel lent, good, fair or poor in musi cal performances. The Friday daytime session will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Medford High school auditorium and the buys' gym. Class AA and A groups will perform starting at 7:30 p.m., Friday, in the Hedrick Junior High school auditorium. Saturday Events Saturday events will take place at the senior high school auditorium. All sessions are open to the public for a charge of 50 cents for each day and 50 cents for the Saturday night perform ance. Judges at the meet are Ira Lee, University of Oregon; John O'Connor, Oregon State college; Glenn Matthews, Southern Oie gon college; Dean Geist, Willam ette university; Oscar Bjorlie, Southern Oregon college; and Stanley Glarum, Lewis and Clark college. Elmer V. Ayres of McLough- lin Junior High school is chair man of the contest. Southern State Dorcas Meet Sunday Members of the Dorcas Wel fare society of the Medford Seventh-day Adventist church will be hostesses Sunday to a group of delegates, from seven sister societies comprising the Southern Oregon Dorcas Wel fare Federation. The session will be held in the I. O. O. F. hall, 221 West Sixth St., starting at 10:30 a. m. and until 3 p. m. wltth a pot-luck luncheon served at noon.Repre sentatives will be present from Ashland, Cave Junction, Eagle Point, Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, Valley View, and Williams churches. Mrs. Bliss Hudson of Ashland president of the federation will open the session. At the meeting will be Elder C. J. Ritchie of Portland, home missionary sec retary of the Oregon conference and Elder George Liscombe, newly elected missionary secre tary of the North Pacific union conference who will be guest speaker. Reports from member socie ties will be made by local presi dents. Mrs. B. B. Blank and Mrs. Hortense Miracle are co-leaders of the Medford society, with Mrs. H. Dunlay serving as sec retary. Farewell Services Set for Missionaries Easter Sunday will be fare well to the United States for Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Stark and their three children, Linda, John and Helen Anne. Members of the First Church of the Nazar ene will hold special services of dedication Sunday beginning at 7:15 p.m. when they will hear Dr. Stark and his wife for the last time before they sail this week for their field in the back country of Africa. The Starks are members of the local church. Mrs. Stark is the former Miss Anne Scheel of the valley. The Stark family arrived this week from Canada and will spend the week end visiting with relatives and friends before leaving from San Francisco aft er Easter. The Starks have already serv ed a five-year term. They oper ate a hospital at Acornhoek, Transvaal, South Africa. BABIES HONORED Rosebuds will be on the altar at the three services of worship on Easter Sunday, at 8 and 9:30 a.m. at the church, and at the Community Easter service at Hedrick Junior high at 11 a.m., sponsored by the First Metho dist church, Medford. They will be in honor of Gina Lynette Rae. Sandra Kay Harrison, Andrea Rene Huntley, Allen Lee Per kett, Debra Marie Phillips, Mar lowe Oliver Bates, and, Laura Elizabeth Parke. Mrs. Anne J Gorby, minister of membership, is in charge of the arrangements for this recognition. COMBINED SERVICES There will be a combined Easter service of the Sunday school hour and morning wor ship service Sunday at the Pil grim Holiness church, corner of Pine at Sixth st., in Central Point. The service will begin at 9:45 a.m., at which time the Sunday school will present a ! program, "He Lives". The sing- ing of the "Price of Betrayal" will be turned into an "Offer- ! ing Of Love" in the special Easter offering for missions. The pastor, the Rev. H. Jarrfes Kreider will bring the Easter j message, "Because He Lives." Dr. Kreisman to Speak at Seminar Ashland Dr. Arthur S. Kre's- man, chairman of the, Southern Oregon college humanities di vision, will speak on "Courtly Love" at the third of a series of educational seminars spon sored by the college student council. Townspeople as well as stu dents and faculty have been in vited to attend the seminar which will "begin at 7 p.m. in the library, room 2, Tuesday, April 23. Dr. Kreisman, in addition to his professional duties at the col lege, has been appearing for the past two years on the education al television program, "Adven tures in Literature" which is telecast weekly over station KBES-TV, Medford. The pro gram is sponsored by the gen eral extension division of the Oregon state system of higher education. EASTER CANTATA Central Point The church choir of the Community Bible ' church, Central Point, will pre- j sent the Easter Cantata, "The I Glorious Galilean," Sunday at 7:45 p.m. The choir, directed by the Rev. Paul O. Kroon, pas tor of the church, will be ac companied by Miss Dorothy Lawton at the organ and Mrs. Elsie Kroon at the piano. START NOW Save BHHok EUGENE Plus Tax $g90 Msrcom untunes We're hJ- Field Day Demonstration of the Gardner's Best Friend MSFIELD POWERED GARDEN AND LAWN EQUIPMENT ALL DAY SATURDAY, AWL 20 Imagine! 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