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Court's
Prayer Derision
Is Under Scrutiny
By Raymond J. Crowley
WASHINGTON (T — Now that
the dust has settled a bit after the
explosive argument over the Su
preme Court’s prayer decision, it
may be in order to examine the
decision's effects:
Just what does it do and what
doesn't it do?
It does not mean:
That "In God We Trust will
disappear from the coins in your
pocket;
That “In God We Trust" will
vanish from the nation's official
anthem, "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner;"
That the Supreme Court Crier
will have to stop crying: "God save
the United States and this Honor
able Court;"
1 he decision does mean:
That no government official or
group of officials anywhere in the
United States has the legal right
to make up an official prayer and
sanction its use in schoolrooms.
The decision is at once narrow in
scope and broad in possible impli
cations. It was based on the con
stitutional prohibition against laws
“respecting an establishment of
religion.”
The court majority said this
prohibition “must at least mean
that in this country it is no part
of the business of government to
compose official prayers for any
group of the American people to
recite as part of a religious pro
gram carried on by the govern
ment.”
This sentence, as it goes along,
seems to limit more and more the
scope of the decision. And it does.
But note the two words "at least.”
They imply that the establish
ment clause, in the opinion of the
court majority, may forbid a lot
of other things the justices do not
mention because they were not up
for a decision.
What about the reading of the
Bible in public schools, for ex
ample? The decision does not men
tion this. But since there are many
different versions of the Bible, not
to speak of the Koran and other
religious books, who is to select
the one to be read?
Some public officeholders, such
as school board members, or per
sons designated by them?
Would Bible reading in public
schools get by the Supreme Court
as presently constituted? It would
seem not, unless the Bible were
read as part of a course in litera
ture or history. The court deci
sion noted that “the history of
man is inseparable from the his
tory of religion.
Studying the attitude of the pre
sent court there seems little chance
that any broad program of federal
aid to education in parochial or
other church - connected schools
would get by, if enacted.
Was Not Knocking
But the majority opinion did
say it was not knocking religious
language out of “The Star-Spangled
Banner,” or interferring with many
other “manifestations in our public
life of belief in God.”
“Such patriotic or ceremonial
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JUNEAU </P — The State of
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I SAIPAN PLACED
i UNDER CIVILIAN RULE
j AGANA, Guam (.P — The Pacific
island of Saipan, scene of fierce
and bloody fighting in World War
II, is under civilian rule again
for the first time in more than
25 years.
The Navy officially Sunday turn
ed over administration of the 47
square-mile volcanic island to the
Department of the Interior.
Naval officials had governed
Saipan ever since the United States
wrested control of the Japanese
occupied island after a bitter battle
in 1944. The Japanese military had
j run the island after Japan was
i given its possession in 1935.
Saipan, with a population of
about 6,000 lies 150 miles northeast
of Guam.
occasions,” the majority said,
“bear no true resemblance to the
unquestioned religious exercise”
which New York School authorities
inaugurated in the schools and
which was struck down by the
tribunal.
Many religious people ate try
ing to find ways to preserve pray
er in public schools. Some, like
Sen. Jacob Javits, (R-N.Y.), have
suggested that each school day be
gin “with a non-compulsory op
portunity for a period of silent
prayer and meditation.”
In other words, the teacher
. might say: “Now boys and girls,
there will be a moment of quiet,
during which you may pray if you
I want to.”
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Is Christened
SEATTLE Wi — Alaska’s second
in a scries of three $3.3 million
ferries was christened Monday at
the Puget Sound Bridge & Dry ;
Dock Co. on Harbor Island.
Champagne and oratory flowed j
as tlic MV Taku — already afloat '
in a graving dock when the bottle ;
broke — was towed out stern-first
by a tug.
The 352-foot hull was christened
by Mrs. Richard Downing, wife of
: Alaska’s Commissioner of Public
i Works. A sistership, the MV Mala
| spina was christened in the same
; yard June 4.
i Both bulls were “launched” be
fore placement of engines, super
structure and other furnishings.
They are scheduled for delivery
to the State of Alaska in Septem
ber.
The 3,500-ton ferries will go into
service on the route between
Haines and Prince Rupert. Ports
i of call include Ketchikan, Wran
i yell, Petersburg, Sitka, Juneau and
Skagway.
| The vessels will carry 500 pas
: sengers, 109 automobiles and each
i will be equipped with 14 state
I rooms.
Rep. Ralph Rivers in the prin
cipal address, said:
“This enterprise, financed by
State of Alaska bonds, signifies the
resourcefulness and initiative of the
people of Alaska in creating for
Alaska’s progressively increasing
! tide of visitors a circular tourist
route for motorists traveling to and
from our great scenic wonderland.”
The new ferry system will eli
minate 561 driving miles from the
| all-highway route to central Alaska
i and give visitors the opportunity
| to travel the scenic “inside passage"
| route through Southeastern Alaska.
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WASHINGTON IT — S n. Barry
Goldwater has turned his back
firmly against creation of an All
Ri ; ublican Conference proposed as
pait of former President Dwight
D. Eisenhower’s GOP unity drive.
In a letter to Republican Na
tional Chairman William E. Miller,
I Goldwater said leaders of the pro
j posed group are “the same people
who caused most of our present
I party troubles.”
j “It is unthinkable,” Goldwater
| said, “that they should be given
| another opportunity to lead us
down the path to political destruc
tion.”
“Let’s be done with these splinter
groups,” Goldwater wrote, de
claring he could see no value and
a lot of harm as likely to flow
from creation of an All Republican
Conference, for which the wheels
were set in motion at Eisenhower’s
weekend meeting at Gettysburg,
Pa., with a croup of invited Re
publicans.
Goldwater did not attend the
session,
Nixon Jests About Campaign
COPENHAGEN, Denmark UP) —
In a joking remark, Richard M.
Nixon says that, “sometimes I
think it might be a good thing if a
Presidential candidate just dropped
dead from sheer overwork during
his campaign.”
“Then the American people
would demand an investigation into
the excessive strain suffered by a
candidate, and that might result in
lessening the burden,” he said at
an embassy reception Sunday.
The man who narrowly lost to
John F. Kennedy in the I960 U.S.
Presidential election was discus
sing the campaign demands on :
candidates.
Nixon is to speak July 4 at the ;
Rebild Festival, Denmark's annual
celebration of the American Inde
pendence Day.
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than women in the big cities. Now j
there are more women there than
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by Hussian and Japanese fleet in
the Bering Sea, the North Pacific
and the Gulf of Alaska.
Last April, simmering Alaska
resentment to this increased acti
vity reached a peak when ‘In
State boarded Japanese fishing
vessels in Shelikof Strait and r
rested their skippers.
The Japanese were charged with
violating Alaska’s territorial waters
and fishing herring commercially
without a state commercial fish
ing license. Court action is still
pending.
Alaska claims Shelikof Strait, a
long, stormy ribbon of water se
parating Kodiak Island and the
Alaska Peninsula, as territorial
Waters.
In his statement, Egan said that
while the federal government
would make the final determina
tion on what constitutes territorial
waters, because of international
considerations, the states cannot
ignore the problem.
In a governors’ conference work
ship on “solutions to old and new
problems,” Egan said that in many
states tlie question of territorial
waters may be irrevocably tied to
the basic well-being of its people.
Crucial to Future Development
The Alaska governor said that
in his state’s case, the extent of
its jurisdiction over offshore min
eral resources and fisheries is
“crucial to the future development
of Alaska.”
Before the state moved in tire
recent Shclikof Strait controversy,
Egan said, Alaska made every ef
fort to impress the US. State De
partment with the gravity of the
situation, without success.
“Throughout the entire incident,”
Egan said, “I was deeply con
cerned by what I considered the
unconcerned attitude of federal
authorities. . .
“Now it may well be that to
the State Department, Alaska’s
fisheries represent a terribly minor
problem in the overall realm of
world affairs. I can only say that
to Alaskans, as well as to countless
of fishermen from other states,
they represent a veritable problem
of existence. There are no more
important problems.”
Egan noted that the United
States, at the Geneva conference
on law of the sea in 1958. advo
cated a compromise agreement
calling for a six-mile territorial
limit with an additional six miles
for fisheries, and added:
“I am convinced that the Con
gress of the United States must
promptly enact legislation extend
ing the U.S. territorial sea.
“If this is not accomplished soon,
this nation is faced with eventual
extinction of bottom, salmon and
other fisheries resources with a po
tential value of untold billions of
dollars together with the attendant
poverty which will confront scores
of thousands of American families
in all United States coastal areas.”
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