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Friday, December 28, 1945
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PAID ADVERTISEMENT
(Anchorage Times)
It can scarcely be denied, in a day when the press
agent has practically inherited the earth, that even the
church could use a little more spectacular promotion
than it has been getting. At least the Church of England
seems to be convinced of that fact when it decides to
spend $4,000,000 on an advertising program.
Some may think that “spectacular promotion” is an
ill-chosen, irreverent phrase to apply to the church. But
it should not be forgotten that the spectacular had its
part in winning many early converts to Christianity.
Today it is the scientists, not the saints, who are per
forming the miracles. Their’s seldom have any such emo
tional impact as did the miracles of the saints. But for
the type that can be explained though seldom under
stood, the scientists’ miracles are wonderful. They can
kill or cure us, save us time and labor, make us more
leisure of a more and more luxurious type.
But they can’t make us better men and women. Chris
tian ethics can. However, the church’s gently persua
sive message to that effect keeps getting drowned out.
It is just too quiet to be heard above all the shouts of
praise about the wonderful, push-button, vitamin-en
riched, postwar world into which we have emerged.
So the Church of England is going to get right into
the arena and battle it out, slogan for slogan. What tech
niques the church will use remain to be seen, but they
have made known their intention of using radio and mo
tion pictures as well as periodicals and newspapers.
We sincerely hope that the campaign will be so well
done and successful that the idea will spread. Perhaps
over here the advertisers of more mundane things might
even pitch in and help, just as they helped the govern
ment in its various war drives.
Certainly something has got to be done to make the
human race slow up and let its behavior catch up with
its material progress. Four million dollars spent by the
Church of England won’t put on the brakes. But it
might be a start.
If the church could trumpet through Christendom
and beyond the indisputable fact that men must mend
their ways and develop some genuine charity and hu
mility and good will if they want to survive on this
planet, and if the church could trumpet it loudly enough
to make all men listen, maybe the push-button world
ahead would be as pleasant as is promised.
ESSAY ON EDITORS
(Anchorage Times)
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A Kansas school boy wrote the following essay on ed
itors, which was published in the Belleville, Kansas,
Telescope:
“I don’t know how newspapers got into the world, and
I don’t think God does, for He never mentioned them;
in the Bible.
“Maybe the editor was one of the fallen angels, for he
seems to fall for about everything that people tell him.
If the editor makes a mistake folks say he ought to be
hung; if a lawyer makes a mistake he appeals the case;
when a doctor makes a mistake they say nothing be
cause they don’t know Latin, and they couldn’t read his
writing if they did
“An editor makes a mistake, there’s a lot of hollering,
cussing, and a libel suit, while when a doctor makes one
there’s a funeral, with flowers and crying and perfect
silence.
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make any difference if he knows what it means for folks
will think he’s educated, while an editor has to be able
to spell any word he uses.
“if a doctor goes to see another man’s wife he charges
for the visit, while if the editor goes he gets shot. People
that call the doctor and get well think he’s a great man.
If they don’t get well they’re dead and can’t say any
thing.
“Two-thirds of the folks in town are sore at the edi
tor all the time, either because the paper said some
thing about them they don’t like or said something nice
about somebody else.”
RECREATION ON TOMORROW’S TRAINS
Movies while you travel will be commormla^e on to
morrow’s railroads, reported Charles W. Wright, v;ce
president and engineer of the Pullman Standard Car
Manufacturing Company. Engineers and designers are
giving more thought to passenger comfort during the
waking hours on long trips, he stated.
“We have a new recreation car that is* a conventional
observation-lounge car by day, but at night it can be
converted into a miniature theater and club, so that you
can see movies or dance while you travel. It includes a
refreshment bar, as well as tables and seats that fold
back to provide dancing space. Observation chairs can
be shifted to face the movie screen. In the dining cars,
traditional rectangular tables have given way to diag
onally placed tables with deep cushioned chairs and al
cove divans,” Mr. Wright stated on the CBS program
“Adventures in Science.”
The diagonally-placed tables in the diner will reduce
aisle congestion and permit more efficient service, he
pointed out.
For safety and comfort, Mr. Wright declared that to
morrow’s trains will have intra-train telephone systems
that will permit train crews to keep in constant touch
with each other. Insulation, cushioning, and sound dead
ening will permit the control of temperatures within
the cars, and eliminate noise and vibration. New elec
trically-controlled brakes will make smoother stopping
possible in shorter distances. Soft springs and shock ab
sorbers on the trucks of cars will give floating comfort
ride.—Science Service. _
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—(i^P)—
President Truman’s radio report to
the nation will be made between
4:00 and 4:30 p.m., Nome time,
January third. The White House
made the announcement and said
the speech would be carr ed on
all networks from the first floor
oval room of the White House.
“It will be a sort of a report to the
people of his overall program,”
press secretary Ross said.
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WAITING?
A farmer friend of mine, accom
panied by small son, took his well
used truck and drove over the
river to the county seat on a re
cent wet Saturday. He did the
week’s shopping, treated the boy
to a “western” and started home;
but no- The road was under rising
water on both sides of the brd'.m.
Returning to town he engaged a
night’s lodging and tried to tele
phone home.
Service on his party line ’r !
grown steadily worse since Pearl
Harbor, especially on rainy days.
Now the instrument at his ear
crackled like cold breakfast food
and the ringing signal suggested
Central America. He feared the
worst. Strangers menaced him,
wanting something—the telephone
maybe. At last the operator cut
in with her impersonal “Waiting?’’
—and the farmer exploded.
Congressmen Likewise
Most peoDle have had such ex
periences. They seem to overtake
us easily when we’re waiting for
advice from home. Congressmen
in Washington know the feeling
well, I am told. They, most of all
public servants, want to hear from
home. They don’t consider them
selves rulers, merely units out of
far-away communities, hand-pick
ed to represent their neighbors
who elected them.
Most of our legislators are com
petent and eloquent; handle their
work well, but they want to be
faithful representatives. Not pre
tending to know all the answers,
they try earnestly to get word
from the electorate. Pressure
groups menace them, wanting
something — their votes maybe.
Their deliberations are belittled
by frantic executives saying
“Waiting? Why the delay?” •
What's Your Pleasure?
What do you thing about paying
$25 a week for 26 weeks to Tom,
Dick and Harry? Do you favor
America’s helping the Russians
build bigger and better atomic
bombs? How do you feel on the
subject of compulsory military
training? Do you believe Con
gress should guarantee govern
ment jobs for all unemployed?
Your representative would really
like to know your wishes in these
matters.
Hon. Carter Manasco and a
score more Congressmen recently
listened to test:mony for more
than 30 days on the question of
guaranteed jobs. They invited
every citizen with an idea on the
subject to come and testify and
especially urged many to appear.
They were most liberal with time
for preparation and time to testi
fy. The House Committee o,n Ex
ecutive Expenditures deserved
much credit and took plenty of
panning for that cautious job.
Genuine Cooperation
It was just a year ago now that
| sixty citizens of Batesville, Ark.r
I met voluntarily to study a piece of
proposed legislation about to be
[ considered by the House commit
tee of which their Washington*
representative was a member.
They deliberated thoughtfully,
reached a conclusion and mailed
Hon. Wilbur D. Mills a brief
j statement of their wishes and a
list of their names.
I wish the back-home friends
of every Congressman in Wash
ington would hold such a meeting
soon on one or more vital, nation
al issues. It would twist the lever
from the hand of pressure groups.
It would clear the atmosphefl?
along the Potomac. It woull
strengthen the morale of Con-f
gress which is the individual cit
izen’s only citadel from oppres
| sion.