in a
Last in a Series
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1961
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, ORE.
Moslems, Communists Have Some
Common Goals in Religious Beliefs
I.' 1
Worn mie&igWi J
i Editor's fioto: Followlne Is the
-second of two dispatches by Louis
Casscis. UPI religion editor, about
the Important role of the Islamic
faith In Africa.
. : By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Correspondent
Many Westerners have the
false idea that Moslems wor
ship Mohammed. But as their
1 ereea cieany
shows, they
are intensely
m o notheislic.
M o h a m mcd
i never .claimed
to be, and has
never been
regarded by
! Moslems as,
n y thing
tassels more man
a; human prophet,
.The founder of Islam was
born in the Arabic city of-
Mecca about 570 A.D. As a
' driver with a camel caravan
ho made several trips to Jeru
salem where he became fa
miliar with Judaism and
Christianity. Mohammed
drew freely on these older
faiths in formulating his own
teaching. He taught that
Jesus was a great human pro
phet but that his life was cut
short before he could com
plete all his work, so God
called forth another prophet
Mohammed to finish the
job of revelation,
The new revelations which
Mohammed said were given
to him in a cave near Mecca
were written down in a book
called the Koran. Moslems
accord this book the same rev
erence that Christians accord
to. the Bible. They regard it
as the word of God.
Changed Arab Belief
The principal religious in
sight of the Koran that
there is one God, who is a
compassionate father to all
mankind will hardly sound
like a new discovery to those
raised in the Judaeo-Chrisllan
tradition, But it was an excit
ing new thought to' the Arabs
of Mohammed's day, whose
religion was a primitive poly
theism In which the one mod
erately benign god Allah
was outnumbered by a horde
of malevolent "jinns" and
demons.
The Koran spells out a Mos
lem's religious and moral ob
ligations in explicit detail.
The religious duties are pri
marily these: -i s s
. 1. To face Mecca and pray
five times .each day at sun
rise, at noon, in the early aft-
ernoon, at sunset and at the
all of darkness.
2. To give 2't per cent of j
one's weulth to the poor each
year.- v . v '." 1 I
This is not 2V4 per cent of
annual income, but of all the
property that a Moslem owns.
3. To fast during the holy
month of Ramadan, ninth
month of the year on the Ara
bic calendar. Fasting means
going without any food or
drink not even a sip of wat
er from sunrise to sunset.
4. To make a pilgrimage to
Mecca at least once in a life
time. This requirement is
binding only on Moslems who
are physically and economi
cally able to undertake the
trip
OF SMITH & MEN
Bv Jack Smith
fc) J960 Tlmcs-Mlrror Syndicate
Taking pills has never been
one of my frailties. I don't
need anything to make me
more nervous than I already
am, and I'm scared of tran
quility. . Once or twice a year, in
moments of black despair, 1
may take an aspirin or two,
but I always live to regret it.
T Bot the stomach-ache.
Sleeping pills are out of the
question. I react all wrong.
All they do is give me night
mares until the alarm rings.
Then I get drowsy. Once dur
ing the war I took two sleep
ing pills for psychoneurosis
and slept through an impor
tant battle.
So it was something of a
catastrophe the other night
when I got out of bed and
took two sleeping pills by mis
take. I thought they were as
pirin. It was one of my semi
annual moments of despair.
I no soooner got back un
der the electric blanket than
I began dreaming I was being
thrown out of Harvard for
playing basketball without
any clothes in the girls' gym
nasium. It's one of my re
current nightmares.
Then the dog began to
bark. I've tried everything to
break him of this, but noth
ing does any good. He sees
phantoms in the night. He nev
er barks at anything substan
tial, such as the neighbor cat.
which I despise.' I've managed
to train him down from a so
prano to a baritone, though.
Now he barks sotto voice.
While I was dressing to
leave Harvard, he began this
low bark of his which sounds
like the baritone role from
the Rigolotlo Quartet. I al
ways get to humming the so
prano role in my sleep and
can t sleep. .. , .
I got up and went outside
and hit him a couple of times
with Life magazine. Then I
noticed that my old regiment
was drilling by ranks and
files in the street. I got in my
usual place, only men aia x
realize I was wearing noth
ing but my pajama top.. Gen.
Shoup, the cammandant of the
Marine Corps, was standing
under the streetlight playing
the lute. Three Harvard girls
were turning handsprings.
I went back to bed and
turned up the electric blanket.
The dog began barking. This
time it was the Rudolpho role
from "La Boheme" whore Mi
mi is dying of consumption. I
tried humming the Mimi part,
but it always sets me to cough
ing. I got up and went outside!
and sal in the patio to give
the dog a sense of security.
It dawned on me gradually
that my wife was entertaining
the PTA ladles in the patio.
They were barbecuing the
principal. I realized I was on
ly wearing house slippers.
I went back to bed and
woke my wife up.
"Can t you sleep? she said.
"I am sleeping," I told her.
I took a couple of aspirin."
"You couldn't have," she
said. "We're out of aspirin."
'I look something," I said,
sitting up in alarm. "What
d'you suppose it was, for the
Lord s sake"
'It must have been the
sleeping pills," she said.
'I'll die!" I cried. "I didn't
know we had any." ;
'You bought them last sum
mer," she said. "You planned
to put them in the dog's food
so he would sleep through the
night and not bark. . ,
just then the alarm rang. I
fell asleep.
Lsoia a
PROVIDES PENALTIES ,
... Salcm-flJPD-Sen. Thomas R.
Mahoney (D-Portland), have
introduced a bill providing
penalties for anyone who re
fers a damage claim to an at
torney with a promise of a reward.
FIFE
CD AH
IS
FACTORY REPOSSESSED MERCHANDISE
to be sold by us at near factory cost
V SOFAS SOFA & CHAIR SETS
Quilts, Plains or Plastics
MANY STYLES
In the past, devout Moslems
were forbidden to gamble.
drink alcoholic beverages, eat
pork, or charge interest on
loans, but these restrictions
have been relaxed consider
ably among liberal Moslems
today, and are widely ignored
in Africa.
Moslems, who believe in
God, and Communists, who
do not, would appear to be
divided by a basic and irre
concilable ideological differ
ence. But as Nasser has
proved in the United Arab
Republic, and as events in
the new Negro republics like
the Congo are now demon
strating, this difference does
not necessarily preclude a
certain amount of mutual co
operation. X
Moslems and Communists
have this in common each Is
convinced that his ideology
will eventually triumph
throughout the world. There
fore each is willing to enter
into a temporary accommo
dation with any body that
seems likely to further its
long-run objectives.
Islam and international
communism also have in com
mon an historically demon
strated willingness to use vio
lence, if necessary, to advance
their causes. .
More than a thousand
years ago, during the first
"golden era" of Islam, Mos
lem caliphs spread their faith
at sword's point across the
entire reach of North Africa
and into Spain. '
Threatened Western Europe
Until Charles Martel de
feated their invasion of
France at Tours in 732 A.D.,
it seemed that all of Western
Europe was destined to be
come a province of Islam.
Today Islam is no longer
winning converts as it did in
the 8th Century by confront
ing them .with the choice of
proclaiming their faith in Al
lah or having their throats
cut. It is winning them
throughout Africa by doing
more zealously the same kind
of missionary work- that
Christians are doing on a
feebler scale, and by ap
proaching the task with a
more acceptable record on the
all-important racial .issue.
But there is no reason to
believe that Islam' -has fore-
sworh violence. The Koran
does not say anything about
turning the other cheek. It
specifically condones- ven
geance against those who
have inflicted a wrong or in
jury. , '
And. it says that any Mos
lem who - dies in a holy war
is assured of immediate en
try into heaven. Thus a holy
war conducted by . Moslems
can be more, fanatical than
warfare for or against al
most any other cause.
YOUR CHOICE
Quilts
35
Plains, Plastics
0
oo
00
OPEN TILL 8 P.M.
THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY!
COMPLETE
FINANCING
AVAILABLE
I
J740 NORTH PACIFIC HIOHWAY
MIDFORD, OMOON
2 Doors from the State Police
Call SPring 3-5127
Young, Smart, Slim
' "
r I x. I
Bills Approved By Legislature
Wyynwwwi ..W.W,,.IH...
o-iy r." wJ '" ,.,,. mmt 4 ..., ii y
mm..- frk wrjiiiiii..iiriri"i-iTi?i"inir - J
SPACECRAFT CHECKED Cape Canaveral scientists get a
first check of the one ton Project Mercury spacecraft after
it was returned to the Cape from its rocket ride down the
Atlantic missile range. The quick look led the scientists to
feel an astronaut would have been safe in the nearly 2,000-
mile-an-hour ride. Above, a technician climbs into the bell
shaped capsule. i , t (UPI Telephoto)
Turn About Party Slated Tonight
White City w The annual
recognition ceremony and
Turn About Party for volun
teer workers at the Veterans
Administration, White City,
will be held at 8 o'clock to
night in the Domiciliary theater.
Manager Henry C. Herzog
announced that Charles Gus
tafson, administrator of Rogue
Valley hospital, will give the
address. .
Certificates of appreciation
will be awarded by Herzog to
more than 62 volunteers who
have accumulated 100 hours
of service;, two with 300
hours; . five who have 500
hours, and four who have ac
cumulated 1,000 hours of vol
unteer service at the veterans'
domiciliary. ' 1 : '
A 2,500-hour service ' pin
will be presented to Mrs.
Polly Offut, VAVS represen
tative of the American Legion
auxiliary, department of Oregon,-
in appreciation of her
service. ....
A Turn About program will
follow the presentation of cer
tificates, involving -members
of the domiciliary who will
entertain the volunteers. Re
freshments, will be served. by
the staff personnel at the con
clusion of the program. . . .
Salem- (UPD -Measures ap
proved Thursday:
By the Senate
SB83-Permits assessors not
to keep track of assessed
worth of. exempt property. .
SB176-Relating to teachers
' SB212-Voting on- county
home rule. .
SB313-Commercial fishery
licenses. . -
SB316-Publlc employees re
tirement. SB317-Iife Insurance com
panies. .
HJR16-Advance sheets.
. HB1031-Corporate income
taxes. . : . ;
HB1067-Motor carriers.
HB1193-Motor vehicles.
By the House
HB1038, 1039-Personal in
come tax revisions.
HB1063-Ba Hot certifica
tions., ,. , ."
HB1157-Execulion of judg
ment. HB1160-Place of trial.
. HB1163-Magistrates.
HB1188-Minors convicted
of crime.
; HB1241-Trial service for
state employes. '
HB1248-Working hours for
children under 16.
HB1356 - Appropriation of
water. .
HB1522 - Designation of
polling places.
HJR3 - Encouragement of
business and industrial devel
opment in Oregon.
NOTICE
PEAR and PEACH
GROWERS!
Lime and Sulphur
30 GAL. fi
DRUMS wU Gal.
- LIMITED SUPPLY
Jackson County Co-op
. SP 3-8464
New Hours . . .
(DIPIEM
9:00 A.M. 'Til 2:00 P.M.
Effective February 26th
fa Lumber . , -r Building Materials
Paints ' . ."k Hardware
Garden Supplies ic Unfinished Furniture
765 SOUTH RIVERSIDE
"THE BUILDITORIUM" PHONE SP 2-6211
New'61 Che
w with Jet-smooth ride !
9395 v T
14S4-2414 J . V?
New side-interest! A grace
ful tie accents the slimming
lines of this versatile two
piece dress. Choose crisp cot
ton or gleaming silk shantung.
Printed Pattern 9395: Half
sizes 14'a, 161.4. 18V4. 20Va,
22',-i, 24W. Size 181-4 requires
V,n yards 35-inch fabric.
Send THIRTY-FIVE cents
(coins) for this pattern - add
10 cents for each pattern for
first-class mailing. Sehd to
Marian Martin, Medford Mail
Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232
West 18th St., New York 11,
N.Y. Print plainly NAME, AD
DRESS, SIZE and STYLE
NUMBER.
100 fashion finds - the best.
newest, most beautiful Print
ed Patterns for Spring-Sum
mer, 1961. See them all in our
brand-new Color Catalog.
The '61 Chevy loves to go because it goes so well.
Purrs along pavements like a happy tabby. Takes
rough roads in stride and all roads in style.
Just why does a Jet-smooth Chevy treat riders
as royally as the high-priced luxury cars? It all
came about through a delightful blend of Full Coil
suspension, precision-balanced wheels, unique
chassis cushioning, and a superb Body by Fisher
insulated to hush away road sounds. All this adds
Impala i-Door Sedan Jet-smooth traveler that rirals the luxury ears in ererything but prict
up to less sway, less jounce, less dip, less dive, less
tilt, less noise, less . . . well you name it.
Now combine this Jet-smooth ride with conven
iences to pamper you and roominess to relax in.
Add a full measure of quiet good looks. Void,
you'v.e got Chevy's formula.
And the proof is in the riding. When you sample
a Jet-smooth Chevy, at your Chevrolet dealer's we
think you'll find it just to your taste.
See Ihe new Chevrolet cars, Chevy Corvairs and the new Corvelte at your local authorized Chevrolet dealer's
9th ai Bartlett MEDFORD Phone SP 2-6115
Send 35c now! , j