THURSDAY. OCTOBER
Religion in America
Methodists Taking Closer
By ROBERT M. ANDREWS
United Press International
The Methodist Church, for
years (irmly opposed to alco
holic beverages in any form,
has taken a closer look at its
followers and discovered a
shocker: Many Methodists
drink.
Four surveys, including two
nationwide, indicate that adult
Methodists who drink range as
high as 85 per cent. As few as
59 per cent agree with the
church's demand for total absti
nence. In view of this, the church
has drafted a new policy state
ment on alcohol for Methodists'
study and comment. Final ac
tion will come at the church's
worldwide general conference
next May.
So sharp is the statement's
break with the past that church
officials freely predict that a
major denominational contro
versy will explode soon, sparked
mainly by Midwestern and
Southern congregations.
Old Principle Reasserted
The proposed new stand reas
serts the old principle that
Methodists should abstain from
drinking completely. But it
takes a milder view of those
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who don't, and
number of long-cherished rea
sons for abstinence , cited by
traditionalists.
. The statement was explained
this week by Roger Burgess,
associate general secretary of
the Methodist Board of Chris
tion Social Concerns, which ap
proved it.
Burgess questioned, among
other things, the idea that
Methodist founder John Wesley
preached abstinence. Wesley
actually drank beer and wine,
he said, while Biblical scholars
agree that Jesus Christ drank
fermented wine.
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Burgess also noted that
nence has been "traditional"
only for about 100 years. Be
fore that, he said, Methodist
leaders in temperance socie
ties were not dedicated to a
complete ban on drinking but
only to "temperance," mean
ing moderation.
'Wrong Arguments'
All these historical reasons
are "wrong arguments" today,
Burgess said. The Methodist
case for abstinence must be
based on other considerations
besides morals, especially the
emotional and mental effects of
alcoholism, he said.
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Abstinence
absli
The statement itself urges
bsiJes abstinence, an attack by
noni'rinkers on the problems of
alcoholism and a bigger effort
to help those with a drinking
problem.
"We recognize that there are
Methodists who use alcoholic
beverages," the statement says.
"We also recognize that sin
cere Christians may differ on
this question. The Methodist
Church has always upheld the
right of individual conscience."
Burgess said many Metho
dists prefer the Presbyterian
stand, which he said encourages
abstinence but gives "tacit ap
proval to the practice of social
drinking.
But Burgess favors re-stating
the Methodist stand "more
clearly for the benefit of drink
ers and abstainers alike."
As another official put it:
"Good Methodists don't drink
but we don't necessarily con
demn a fellow Methodist just
because he does."
Roman Catholic officials are
predicting massive new mis
sionary aid for Latin America,
already in the midst of what
they call a "genuine religious
revival."
Father John J. Considine,
head of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference's Latin
Ameriean Bureau, said the U.S.
church is expected to send
5,000 priests, brothers and sis
ters, along with more than
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CORVALLIS - Efforts to con
trol smog in the United States
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lic Health Service.
The grant will be used to
study the presence of oxides of
nitrogen one of the ingredients
of polluted air as they pass
through an automobile exhaust
control device.
Heading the OSU study are
William H. Paul, professor of
automotive engineering, and
John. G. Mingle, assistant pro
fessor of mechanical engineer
ing. With more than 80 million
motor vehicles on America's
roads and about 3 million cars
added each year, air pollution
from automobile exhaust is a
l major hurdle in the battle to
J halt the increase in smog in
most of the country's large cen
ters of population, Paul noted.
I Could Be Formed
OSU meteorologists sav that
conditions exist for serious air
pollution in the Willamette val
ley. The only aspect of smog
now missing, especially during
the summer and fall, is the high
emission of pollutants. As Ore
gon's population increases and
more cars are prevalent, smog
could be formed, they warn.
Smog begins to form when a
temperature inversion occurs
and a layer of warm air blankets
existing cool air and circulation
is s'opped. In addition, smog
occurs when there is sunshine
and where there arc large
i amounts of unburncd hydrocar
l bons and oxides of nitrogen such
as are produced by auto engine
exhaust.
. Within the last few years.
many public and private organ
izations have studied air pol
lution. Devices to fit on cars are
now being tested with the hope
of reducing smog-producing im
purities from engine exhaust.
California is especially interest
ed in air pollution research be
cause of that state's large num
ber of automobiles and ideal
smog-forming temperature in
versions and sunlight.
The OSU study is concerned
Demands
1,000 laymen, to Latin Ameri
ca before 1970.
In addition, he said in a
Washington, D.C., speech, U.S.
church sources are spending
more than $10 million, chiefly
for personnel there.
Father Considine said the em
phasis is on fair wages, higher
living standards for peasants
and improved social legislation,
similar to the goals of the Al
liance for Progress.
The' weekly Baptist Standard
told its readers that American
missionaries may be forced to
leave newly independent Afri
can nations if church members
in the United States do not
clean their own houses of ra
cial prejudice.
The Dallas, Tex., magazine
said many Christian leaders in
Africa are talking about taking
over mission churches and send
ing white missionaries home.
"If we expect our missionaries
to be welcome there, then we
must change our attitude to
ward their kinsmen over here,"
it said.
The Presbyterian Board of
World Missions tells the story
of Dr. Floyd O. Woodward, a
late convert. Dr. Woodward, 71,
is a Methodist doctor who had
retired after 30 years' practice
in Des Moines, Iowa. He be
came restless and volunteered
for work overseas.
His new post: A Presbyterian
mission hospital in South Kasai
in the Congo.
with testing one of these ex
haust control devices to see how
much the oxides of nitrogen may
be decreased.
Procedure for the exhaust gas
research will be to attach a di
rect flame afterburner to a test
engine. Gas analysis instruments
will measure the components of
engine exhaust while the engine
is operated under controlled con
ditions similar to actual driving
practices.
An adsorption spectrophot
meter, constructed especially
for air pollution research at
OSU, will be used to rapidly
measure oxides of nitrogen in
engine exhaust. A great number
of analyses can now be made
within a short time and at low
cost.
Working with Paul and Min
gle will be two graduate stu
dents, Gary Jaros and Neil Par
kin. Facilities and equipment
now at OSU make the School
of Engineering one of the finest
in the West for training future
research engineers in the auto
motive and air pollution fields,
Paul believes.
The results of the OSU smog
study during the next two years
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could produce answers which
may give relief to one of the
most baffling and irritating prob
lems facing a modern nation on
wheels, he added.
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