THURSDAY. JUNE 28. 1962
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
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Religion in Americo
Laymen in State of Confusion
About Their Part in Church
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nr -
COLLEGE QUEEN-Cecllia M. Harrison, 19, of Ccnterville,
Utah, smiles broadly after she was named 1962 National
College Queen in New York. She is a sophomore at Ulah
State University, Logan, Utah. (UPI)
Castro Shadow To
Cloud Meeting of
Kennedy, Mateos
Mexico City-(UPI-The sha
dow of Cuba's Fidel Castro
will be hanging over the
meeting between the Presi
dents of the United States and
Mexico here Friday.
Observers of all persuasions
agree that Cuba will be one of
the topics of the 48-hour talks
between Presidents John F.
Kennedy and Adolfo Lopez
Mateos.
The Castro revolution's
shift to the Soviet bloc has
caused more misunderstand
ing between Mexico and the
U.S. than the two govern
ments have had in the pitst
100 years.
But there is divergence of
opinion about the importance
of Cuba as a topic.
Some rank it as No.l, the
indispensable question which
must be settled in order to
permit agreement on other
matters within a framework
of exceptionally good U.S.
Mexico official relations at
this time.
No Formal Aganda
However, since the program
makers have repeatedly
stressed that there will be no
agenda in the two or three
private talks between the
Chief Executives, it is felt by
some that Lopez Mateos will
give preference to a range of
other matters including gov
ernment participation in in
dustry, imports and exports,
foreign investments, common
defense, tourism, business cli
mate, land tenure, Alliance
for Progress, etc.
Not an improbable topic,
either, in view of recent
Washington discussion of a
new inter-oceanic canal route,
is the often-mentioned Tehu
antepec Isthmus project to
a canal, and a recent liberal
attitude abroad on develop
ment loans has led to con
lecture that the U.S. might
help Mexico finance such a
waterway, if this country so
desires.
May Taka Iniliativt
The initiative on the Cuban
question is expected to be
taken by Kennedy in the
talks, with an effort to move
the Mexican "hands-off posi
tion" on Cuba closer to the
U. S. point of view, shared
by a majority of American re
publics. Mexico took a long stride
along the Washington ap
proach to Castro at Punta Del
Este when Foreign Minister
Manuel Tcllo expressed "in
compatibility" of the Marxist
Leninist doctrine with the inter-American
system.
Since then, without any
formal change in relations,
observers have noted a "cool
ing" of feeling between Ha
vana and Mexico City. Stal
wart Caslroltes have assailed
the Lopez Mateos government
for the "incompatability"
stand, and for a clamp-down
on entry and distribution of
Castro publications.
Nevertheless, Mexico clings
firmly to the doctrine of "non
intervention," and "self-determination,"
(economic as well
as political) in the face of all
the subtle arguments called
up to present these as out
moded by a Communist
threat to Ihe hemisphere.
Vandenberg Fires
Secret Satellite
Vandenberg AFB, Calif
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Correipondent
Christian laymen have pro-
. a grossed - if that is the right
word - from apathy to con-
) fusion about
their role in
the church. In
recent years,
they have
been told time
and again, by
the highest
ecclesiastic a I
authori ties.
J that they are
L'Bftirli supposca 10 De
leaders rather than lackeys.
They have been exhorted to
bestir themselves and become
full working partners of the
clergy in the advancement of
Christ s kingdom.
But when they try to re
spond to these appeals, they
find that many clergymen are
unwilling to move over and
make room for them. Frus
trated in their attempts to
play an important role in the
church, some laymen have
concluded that what the
clergy actually want is more
active lackeys, not real lay
leaders.
Breeds Resentment
Frustration breeds resent
ment. A noted Roman Cath
olic scholar, Msgr. John
Tracy Ellis, warned recently
that the "virus of anti-clericalism"
is beginning to appear
in America. He said it is like
ly to spread unless the clergy
can be "persuaded that pres
ent conditions call for relax
ing some of the power and
authority that they have been
accustomed to exercise."
The Protestant magazine
Christian Century reported
last week that "Protestantism
also shows tendencies" toward
anti-clericalism. It said "the
patience of the Protestant
laity is being strained" by
"clerical manipulation" of the
reins of power, which gives
laymen the illusion but not
the reality of leadership in
church affairs.
The Christian Century sug
gested that much of the cur
rent criticism of the National
Council of Churches comes
from embittered laymen who
make the council "The scape
goat for a generalized bias"
against the clergy.
Another Side
Without detracting from the
grnvity of these warnings, it
is only fair to point out that
the strain in lay-clerical rela
tions cannot he blamed i
tirely on the clergy. There is
another side to the story.
Clergymen complain pri
vately that some laymen are
trying to lake over their pas
tors' jobs, while ignoring the
tremendous task which is the
laity's rightful responsibility
in the total mission of the
church.
That task was clearly de
fined by a report from the
New Delhi assembly of the
World Council of Churches
last fall:
I'lf the Christian witness is
to penetrate into all those
areas where the work of the
world is carried on, it must
be carried there by laymen.
They alone can bring Chris
tian judgment to bean upon
all the issues of life in the
spheres of industry and com
merce, scientific research and
social organization, and all
the other activities which
make up the workaday
world."
Much of the friction noted
Unemployment
Claims Decrease
Salem IWI) State Employ
ment Commissioner David H.
Cameron said Wednesday un-
i employment insurance claims
lolaled 14.093 last week com
' pared to 18,956 Oregon claims
a year ago.
Last week's figure also was'
down from the 14.HR9 of a
: month ago.
link the Gulf of Mexico and I """I1 The third secret satellite The stale rate of insured un-'
the Pacific along a relatively i launched at this Pacific mis- employment last week was 3 fi
easily protected route. Thisisile base in the past II days per rent, versus 4 2 per cent'
country has made a detailed I was fired toward polar orbit 1 a year ago, and .1.7 last month
study in recent years of such Wednesday by the Air Force.
mmmK The booster combination
was the same as that used in
rUIPP" li' Discoverer program, hut
Duncan Favors
Medicare Plan
Albany - 0JPH- House Speak-1
er Robert B. Duncan (D-Med-i
ford) said Wednesday that pri
vate insurance programs have
failed to provide adequate
medical care for older people,
and therefore "it is entirely
proper and necessary for the !
government to Initiate a pro- j
gram that will do it." !
Duncan, Democratic nomi
nee for Congress in the Fourth
district, said such a program
is President Kennedy's medi
care plan.
"The King - Anderson bill, 1
which provides a pre-paid pro-1
gram of hospital insurance,
through Social Security, for
those over 65 does provide a
solution," Duncan said.
Duncan said the American
Medical association's a r g u -!
ment is that ','we ought to do j
nothing because we can't do!
everything'' and this falls far
short of meeting needs of the
aged.
"Of course the King-Anderson
bill does nol solve thp en
tire problem of medical care."
Duncan said. "However, il is
something that can be done
now . . ."
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DILL ;
- O MANUAL ON COMMUNISM
STEEPLEJACK KILLED Washington UTII - A joint
Turkerton 1 I PI- committee of the American
S5-ycar-(ild steeplejack wn.L, a" ,1,1 National Edit
fatallv injured in a plunge cation association has ap
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day when a discarded eiga-'iuil f guide lines for teach
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CRESCENT
,. ij
by Msgr. Ellis and the Chris- in the world
tian Century might be elimi
nated f layment understood
that their primary calling is
nol to operate inside the in
stitutional church - as leaders
OR lackeys - but to serve as
Christ's representatives in
"the workaday world."
Through their daily asso
ciations, laymen can commu
nicate the Christian message
to millions of people who are
beyond the reach of the
clergy. It is true, that many
laymen feel unprepared for
this kind of ministry. But
churches are now opening up
many opportunities for lay
men to overcome their Bibli
cal and theological illiteracy,
and to become articulate am
bassadors of the Christian
faith. The layman who fails
to take advantage of these
training opportunities cannot
be very serious about wanting
to pull his full weight in the
mission of the church.
Love One Another
But personal evangelism,
however important, is not the
only dimension of the lay
man's responsibility. By the
express teaching and example
of Christ, the church is con
cerned with the physical as
well as the spiritual welfare
of human beings. The one
test of disciplcship that Jesus
laid down was that "ye love
one another." And He made
clear that loving your neigh
bor involves such highly prac
tical matters as caring wheth
er he has enough food to cat,
a decent home to live in, and
adequate medical treatment.
The Good Samaritan didn't
preach a sermon to the man
he found by the wayside. He
bound up his wounds, took
him to t.n inn, and fed him.
Christians are sometimes
able to minister directly to
human needs. But in the com
plex modern world, they more
often find it necessary to pro
mote their neighbors' welfare
indirectly by exerting a
Christian influence "in the
spheres of industry and com
merce, scientific research and
social organization." I
Can Do More
It is no exaggeration to say
that one competent layman,
occupying a strategic position
in the power structure of mod
ern society, can do more to
"bring Christian judgment to
bear" on real - life problems
than the institutional church
can accomplish through a
hundred well-meaning resolu
tions and pronouncements.
"The laity are the church
says the Very
Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr.,
dean of Washington Cathe
dral. "If Christ's work is to
be done, they'll have to do it.
We clergy are their chaplains.
It's our job to help them
recognize Christ's work, and
to see how their everyday
jobs relate to it.
If that division of labor
can be accepted by both
clergy and laity, perhaps they
can quit bickering and get on
with Christ's work.
Estes Trial Site Moved To Tyler; Motions Slated
Pecos, Tex. -OJPD Disl.
Judge J. H. Starley has order
ed the postponed felony theft
trial of Billie Sol Estes moved
600 miles away to Tyler and
the next move will be up to
the defense on July 23.
That is the date Judge Star
ley will hear any motions by
either side on why the change
of venue should "ot be made
definite. John Cofer, Estes'
No. 1 defense attorney may
oppose the move.
Motion Approved
Starley approved a defense
motion for a continuance
Wednesday, then recessed
court to study where to move
the case. Dist. Judge Otis T.
Dunagan of Tyler said he
would hear the eight cases in
volved in the Pecos action.
Estes was on trial on charg
es he stole $162,144 from
farmer Thomas Bell through
a fraudulent fertilizer storage
tank-mortgage deal. He is un
der indictment on seven more
similar state charges totalling
$827,577.
Attorneys for both sides ar
gued 35 minutes Wednesday
on where to move the case.
Neither suggested Tyler,
which was chosen upon sug
gestion of Judge Starley.
Area Eliminated
Judge Starley said he elim
inated all of west Texas and
the Texas Panhandle as terri
tory in which to move the
trial. Most of the farm ty
coon's operation were in the
west Texas-Panhandle area.
He said he thought it would
be better to try the case in a
large metropolitan area where
potential jurors might not
have subconscious feelings in
the case.
Estes is also under a federal
indictment for fraud and con
spiracy in connection with
similar mortgage deals. No
trial date has been set for the
federal charges.
New York - iVPD - The Tax
foundation notes that the in
come tax, which produced $28
million in 1913, is counted
upon to produce about $50 bil
lion for the government this
year.
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