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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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A Religious Resurgence?
By ROBERT MORRIS
Editorial Commentator for U. S. Press Association, Inc.
WHEN JOHN F. KENNEDY passed my office window on Main
Street in Dallas on that fateful November day, I, like many
others, reflected some random thoughts. 1 am sure that they were
the thoughts of thousands of others; yet, they were mine and I
recall them now.
There is the sunlight, in the motorcade, was a man of great
personality and glamour — the President of the United States.
He was a man of great material wealth. He had enormous power.
He walked with kings. Lie was articulate. He was, moreover,
enjoying to the limit being President of the United States.
Not mam men in history' have possessed what John F. Ken
nedy had on that afternoon.
Yet, five blocks later, he was dead. Shortly thereafter his
earthly remains were put into a bronze box.
It is hard to conceive a more striking dramatization of the
transitory nature of human life than that tragedy which stunned
the nation.
1 thought immediately of another national tragedy — Pearl ,
Harbor — and hoped that the present investigations would not j
be a repeat of that inquiry which is a subject of controversy
to this day.
That night, 1 found myself quoting what Thomas Gray wrote
many years ago: "And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
awaits alike the inevitable hour: the paths of glory lead but
to the grave.’’
This tragedv must have made a deep religious impact on people
everywhere. If it has not, it is difficult to comprehend what will.
Many a man immersed in the pursuit of material blessings must
have experienced some second thoughts when he beheld this dra
matic assertion of the fleetingness of human glory.
If, then this judgment about the religious impalt is an addurate
one we can hope that there will be some great changes to come.
Perhaps the trend toward banning God from the national con
sciousness will be arrested. Perhaps the judges, the educators and
even the churchmen who have been laboring to secularize our
society will experience some second thoughts as they contemplate
this thunder-clap of fate.
Perhaps the slow moral decay, the soaring crime statistics, the
drive to make atheism the state religion, the double standards of
our political spokesmen, the unmorality of our international tri
bunals, and the shocking indifference to the organized enslave
ment of men in China, in Cuba and other sectors of the world will
be reversed in the months and years ahead. There is more bondage
in the world today than ever before; and yet, the chastisement is
directed not against those who are responsible but rather against
those who raise their muted voices against it.
If this lightning that struck Mr. Kennedy has ignited a new
spiritual glow, it may reverse all of this.
As I write this, powerful champions of the old order are
thundering against any such reawakening. In fact, they are actually
using the present crisis to perpetrate the old evils. When you
analyze it, they are calling the meagre and inadequate indignation
at spiritual decay and the grow th of human bondage "divisive forces
of hatred’’ which should be eliminated from our political blood
stream. Because their voices are so powerful, they are experiencing
great success. To make their indictments stick, they are actually
calling white, black.
I have before me a newspaper which flatly states that the
President was killed by a "right winger.” This is the new theme
being pressed upon us. These powerful voices tell the citizenry that
it was not a Communist, a security-risk shamefully coddled and
overlooked, who assassinated the President; instead, we are told
that the deed was somehow done by one who counseled resistance
to the moral decay around us.
Can the 'big lie” technique prevail in this country, or will
the tide be reversed?
(Copyright: U.S. Press Association Inc., Washington, D.C.)
Grassroots Opinion
EL DORADO, KANS., TIMES: "Conservation practices em
ployed by the petroleum industry have made possible the recovery
of untold billions of barrels of oil which otherwise w’ould have
remained trapped forever in the earth. A few decades ago oilmen
could recover as little as 10 per cent of the petroleum in a given
field. Once the natural pressures which forced the oil to the well
declined, the field was abandoned. Today . . . between 40 per cent
and 80 per cent of the petroleum in a field can be made available
to meet the nation’s growing energy demands.”
Letter
To The Editor
I
To The Editor:
Last Thursday three children
were bitten by a stray dog. Once
more, this brings to everybody’s
attention the possibility of serious
injury and infection by rabid
dogs. The number of actual cases
of rabies each year in the United
States is quite small, but the ser
iousness of this disease is such
that even the possibility of such
an infection is a serious concern.
This disease is even more of a
problem in our area where the
wild life is known to harbor rabies
and where there is a large num
ber of dogs kept in town. Unlike
some of the infectious diseases,
there is no evidence that cold cli
mates inhibit this disease in any
way.
The specific medical measures
to be used in the control of ra
bies cannot be put down in black
and white. As in many medical
problems, good judgment by the
physician seeing the child who has
been bitten cannot be replaced by
a “rule of thumb.” You can be
assured, however, that every per
son seen by physicians because
of dog bite is taken seriously and
a judgment is made at that time
as to the best treatment.
It should be general know
ledge that, unless it is necessary
for its capture, any dog which
might be rabid should not be
killed. Such a dog should be
penned or tied away from other
animals and observed for a period
of fourteen days for evidence of
illness. If the owner is unable to
do this, the City Police Officers
will see that this period of ob
servation is carried out. If the
animal becomes ill during the
perid of observation, a Police Offi
cer or the hospital should be noti
fied immediately. If, however, the
animal remains healthy and well
through these two weeks, it may
be considered safe at the end of
this time.
The general steps in control of
rabies can be outlined: All dogs
left free to roam should be picked
up by city authorities. All cases
of dog bite should be reported to
the City Police. Each dog owner
should make every effort to have
his animal vaccinated against
rabies. These general measures
have not always had the full sup
port of the community, and most
of us are concerned only after our
child has been bitten or damage
done to our own property by stray
animals.
Certainly, this is a time for all
of us to support our local police
officers in their efforts to make
our streets safe.
ROBERT E. FENSTERMACHER,
M.D.
City Health Officer.
The greeting card industry re
ports that more 50-cent ‘to my
wife” Christmas cards are sold
than 50-cent *to my husband”
cards. . . . When buying a card to
send to their hubbies, most wives
prefer to stay in the 35-cent or
under range.
Corps of Engineers Adds Hydro Plans
After Many Years of Harbor Projects
ANCHORAGE (Special' — In
1 52 years the Corps of Engineers
has completed 32 harbors and
other civil works projects in Alas
ka costing $15,878,865, about the
price of a medium sized deep sea
harbor.
The program started at the
mouth of the Yukon River in 1911.
The river mouth job was for
navigation safety during the gold
rush days. The channel was used
by the picturesque sternwheel
river boats making the run to
Dawson City and back, in a month
or less, loaded with golden gla
mour.
Between then and now are the
completed harbor projects at Cor
dova, Craig, Dillingham, Douglas,
Elfin Cove, Juneau, Iliuliuk, Ket
chikan, Kodiak. Metlakatla, Nome,
Pelican, Petersburg, Port Alexan
der, Seward, Skagway, Valdez and
Wrangell, a total of 18.
Also there have been eight
completed navigation projects at
Dry Pass, Egegik River, Gastineau,
Naknek, Rocky Pass, Wrangell
Narrows, Neva Straits and the
Apoon Mouth of the Yukon.
Flood control projects were
completed at Fairbanks, Juneau,
Seward and Hyder.
This year four projects were
virtually completed at a cost of
$2,470,000. Harbor basins were
dredged at Homer, Juneau and
Seldovia and an anchorage basin
neared completion at Wrangell
Narrows.
The year 1964 will mark a new
departure for the Corps of En
gineers Civil Works with the start
of a hydroelectric project at Snet
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where it will meet a growing de
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Snettisham will mark a signi
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