THURSDAY. AUGUST 5. 1965
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON
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Under the Act of March 3. 1879.
A Minister Views the Great Society
If I Were the Devil...
By THE REV. KENNETH W. SOLLITT
First Baptist Church of Midland. Michigan
If I were the devil and wanted to turn America into
a Communist Hell, I think I would do something like
this:
I would cultivate among the people the idea that the
individual is nothing, the indiscriminate mass of people
everything. I would also seek to convince Americans
that God and Christian ethics and an honest desire to
make one’s way in the world are old-fashioned.
I would get elected to office on the promise of help
ing everybody at someone else's expense.
Then, I'd treat the Constitution as a sort of handbook
on the philosophy of government to be referred to only
if it served my purpose.
I would increase the size and scope of government
in every way possible, going into every conceivable
business in competition with established enterprises,
paying the State’s business losses out of the Treasury.
I would try to keep hidden how this could lead at the
right time to the nationalization of industry.
I would thus create a government strong enough to
give its citizens everything they want. Thus, I could
create a government strong enough to take from them
everything they have.
By a combination of inflation and taxes, I would rob
the very people I pretended to help until, if they ever
should want to return to freedom, they couldn’t — but
would be dependent on the State.
Next, I would gradually raise taxes to 100 percent
of income (we are one-third of the way now) — so that
the State could have it all. Then I’d give back to the
people enough to keep them alive and little enough to
keep them enslaved.
In the meantime, I would take from those who have
and give to those who want until I killed the incentive
of the presently ambitious man and satisfied the meager
needs of the rest. The police state would then be requir
ed to make everybody work — and the transformation
of America from a Republic to a second-rate Communist
nation would be complete.
Do you see in this similarities to what we have been
doing for 30 years?
!
LETTERS
To the Editor
Route 1
Nvssa. Oregon
July 28, 1965
Nyssa Gate City Journal
Nyssa, Oregon
To the Editor:
I’ve never put my two-cents-
worth into print, but I’m too dis-
I gusted now not to do so.
What do you do when you've
spent most of the summer work-
■ ing in your garden because we
i feel it a necessity (we have eight
children), then those spray planes
come along with “systox" and you
certainly have no use for it?
I’ve not complained (except to
myself) when the aircraft seems
to dive-bomb me at midnight or
in the wee hours, I didn’t sav
much when our garden got defo-
bated early last year when they
were killing the hay, but now
before I hardly get started har- I
vesting my garden, they're at it
again.
Oh yes. in three weeks if I’m
lucky and the planes don't spray,
which they did again last week. I
may get a mess of something if
it’s still doing all right. But how
do I know they won’t return to
spray some evening when I’m not
at home, and then I’ll go out and
get some garden product
soon?
I was informed that if I had
children. I should watch them for
at least three days if the yard was
sprayed (which it was) for signs
of stomach cramps, vomiting and
even convulsions if the sick
ness is bad enough. The informer
said the spray is twice as deadly
as strychnine.
On the cans it says. “Bury con
tents. rinse with lye and bury
container and all at least 18
inches deep."
Do they? No. you find them
almost anywhere. The junk yards
are full of them.
What is a person to do; can’t
they be more careful? Cows
shouldn’t even eat sprayed food,
and I don’t think my family needs
to. either!
Please, spray pilots: Stay away
from the house and garden . . .
Just get the BUGS in the hav,
NOT US!
MRS HOWARD FENN
SERMON TOPIC ANNOUNCED
Pastor John Milbrath has an
nounced that “The Duties of a
Christian” will be sermon theme
for the 11 a.m. holy communion
service planned Sunday at Faith
Lutheran church.
Sunday Farewell
Service to Honor
LDS Missionary
Local Pastor Returns
After Summer Study
The Rev. Ralph A. Lawrence
will return Sunday to the pulpit
at Nyssa Methodist church after
taking graduate courses during
July at Pacific School of Religion
in Berkeley, Calif.
A special emphasis on pastoral
counseling, including that of mar
riage, small groups in the church,
theology a n d preaching were
among courses studied by the lo
cal minister.
Sermon topic for Sunday’s ser
vice at the Nyssa church will be
"Many Gifts, One Purpose. Greut
Stature."
By T. M. B.
The cold war that we wi re sup
posed to be winning a couple of
years ago has "heated up" in Viet
Nam instead of our troops com
i>, the cull has increased
ing home.
The draft i« up. spending for
weapons is up ami the time it
may last has been extended to 10
to 20 years.
Senator Morse predicts t h e
Johnson policy will fad and he
will leave office "the most dis
credited President in history "
We think hi« foreign policy
I* «till defeniible and the be«t
CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION
we have had «ince Dull»« was
PLANS SERVICES IN PARK
Tlie congregation of Nyssa First Secretary of State. It doe«
Christian church will meet Sun- teem that we ihould acknowl
I day, Aug. 8, in the state park lo- edge that we are at war and
; cated at the approach to Owyhee prepare to win it—if po««lble
dam. it is announced by the Rev. in less than 10-20 year». Then
Wallace Prowell Sunday school we people who do not have «on«
ELDER KAL UHbUN FÀHH
is scheduled at 9:45 a.m. and the or brother« fighting or in light
... To Serve in Eastern States worship service at 11 o'clock.
of the draft might become more
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interested than in the price of
A potluck picnic dinner will
A farewell testimonial service
potato»« on the market today.
follow
the
services,
the
Rev.
honoring Elder Kai Orson Farr
We are a lilieral people liberal
will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Prowell concluded.
with our beliefs with our pocket
Aug. 8, in the Owyhee LDS cha
books—with our criminals, juve
pel. The young missionary has WSCS GENERAL MEETING
nile delinquents and the poor We
PLANNED
THURSDAY.
AUG.
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been called to serve in the Atlan
may
be big - hearted to a fault
Executive committee of the
tic mission of the Church of Jesus
when we have no laws against
Methodist
Woman
’
s
Society
of
Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Communism in the United States
He will enter the Mission home Christian Service met Tuesday and send our boys to foreign soil
in Salt Lake City on Aug. 16 and morning. The general meeting to fight it there.
depart on Aug 23 for his destina will be at 2 p m. Thursday. Aug.
With our trend toward Social
12, when reports from the school
tion in the east.
ism (admittedly one step below
Elder Farr is a 1964 graduate of missions will be given.
Communism) on the domestic
of Adrian high school and at
scene — when will we arrive at
tended Ricks college at Rexburg. EXPRESSION OF THANKS
I take this opportunity to thank the point where we nre approach
Idaho, for one year. During his
high school career, he was an Drs. K. E. Kerby, Ken Pfaff and ing the ills of Communism faster
active member of the FF A chap the staff at Malheur Memorial than they arc getting toward con
ter and received the State Farmer hospital for good care given dur-1 quering us with their war meth
ing my recent surgery and con- ■ ods?
award.
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He was also presented a Duty valescence. My thanks also to
Pastor
Arthur
Skogan
and
Owy
President
Johnson
is losing
to God award for his participa
hee Community church congre-; some of his personal popularity
tion in church activities.
The youthful missionary is a gat ion for prayers offered in my but with his big Democratic
son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Farr behalf; to friends and neighbors majorities in both houses it
of route 1, Nyssa. Friends of the for their many acts of kindness does not show in any failures
to pass his legislation.
family are invited to attend the which will never be forgotten
May God bless each of you.
Sunday evening service.
The Liberals want more hl>er-
—Dorothy Nedrow.
ties . . . the Pacifists want less
LDS GIRLS. LEADERS
aggression . . . the Democrats
CARD OF THANKS
ATTEND PINE TOP CAMP
want to be re-elected and the Re
I take this opportunity to thank publicans have not agreed on
Twenty-six girls from the two
Nyssa wards of the LDS church publicly Dr. K. A. Danford for what they want so they grope in
left early Monday morning, July his care and consideration during the shadow of the president sup-
26, to spend four days at Pine my recent illness. I also want to porting his foreign policy and
Top camp near Idaho City. Acti thank Mrs. Josephine Corak and part of his domestic plans.
vities for the group included Don Moss for kindnesses extend
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ed to me. Your thoughtfulness
swimming, hiking and tennis.
DID
YOU
KNOW?
Among campfire programs pre will always be remembered.
—Mrs. Calvin Benoit.
It is a violation of the law in
sented were pirate stories, dances
New York City to serve water In
in costume, skit night and Guide
cafes unless customers ask for if*
posts along the trail.
SUNDAY PICNIC HELD
Leaders for the girls were Mrs.
Members of the Chatterbox
The Federal Aviation Agency
Solon Lewis, Mrs. Melvin Feik, club held their annual summer says jumping from an airplane
Mrs. J. Elwood Flinders and Kar picnic Sunday on the lawn at the without a parachute is a breach
ma Kesler. •
Tom Johnson home.
of regulations?
According to Today'« Health
more children l>etween the
of I and 14 dir us u result of U(..
cidenta than of the next *|»
causes of death combined- or
that over half of Oregon'* grad
uating high school students of
1965 will eventually lie killed or
seriously injured in truffle acci-
dents, unless present traffic Ul, |.
dent projection« are drastically
reduced?
• • • •
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE . . .
“Your report« aren’t clear," the
colonel told the sergeant. "They
should be written In such a man
ner that even the most ignorant
cun understand them "
"Yes sir." replied the «rrgeant.
"What part of it don't you un
derstand?"
• • • •
There was n loud explosion in
the back room of the drug store.
The pharmacist staggered out his
face stained with smoke his
glasses broken and his white j*c.
ket in shreds.
He said to the ludy customer,
"Have your doctor write out this
prescription uguin and this time
tell him to PRINT it."
• • • •
CLOSING THOUGHT . . .
For what he calls “visionaries
of the Great Society," Sen Norris
Cotton of New Hampshire offer*
this bit of homely philosophy'
A preacher wrote on a fence "I
pray for all."
A lawyer wrote underneath "I
plead for all."
A doctor added' "I prescribe
for nil "
A plain citizen wrote at the
bottom: "I pay for all."
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SATURDAY IS FUN DAY
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FIVE BIG DIVISIONS — Pets, Costumes and Floats, Homemade Soap Box Cars, Bikes and Trikes, Waqons and Doll
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