Long-Lived Lotus •¡t According to Dr. George.W. Harding of the National Capital Parks in Wash ington, two lotus seeds began to sprout and produce leaves last spring. These seeds had been picked out of a Manchu rian peat deposit and were claimed to be 50,000 years old. Sqme checking was done upon their age by measuring their content of radioactive carbon 14, suggesting that perhaps the lotus seeds might prove to be at least 1,000 years old. But even this makes the seeds the oldest of any species that have been known to sprout after such a long sleep. Most lotus seeds keep their vitality for only about 150 or 200 years. 25,000 See Film <£ The premiere showing of Evangelist Billy Graham’s new Christian western film, “ Mr. Texas,” has broken the at tendance record of the far-famed Holly wood Bowl. According to reliable esti mates, the largest crowd ever to go to the Bowl and the largest crowd ever to see a movie premiere witnessed the first screening of this film. Every seat in the outdoor amphitheatre was filled with hundreds waiting on the surrounding hills. In addition, there were several thousand people who were turned away not being able to get into the area at all. Higher Education High jt Statisticians have estimated the cost of securing a higher education to be 400 per cent higher than it was 50 years ago. This will not be news to fathers of college students who are already aware of this fact. Tuition is high; board and room is high and incidental expenses are high. The total at some Eastern Universities runs up to $2,000 or more a year. The only help in sight is the growth of scholarship funds but these, at best, but alleviate the high cost of higher education for only a small frac tion of the student body. Athletics a Usurper & The faculty of William and Mary College recently issued a report dealing with the general theme of the athletic scandal. Said the faculty: “ Steadily and inevitably, the inter collegiate athletic program has usurped a dominating position in the college . . . It has become a commercial enterprise demanding winning teams at any cost, even the cost of dishonest academic practice. It has demanded that admis sion requirements be lowered, and some times dispensed with, so that promising athletes can be given the respectability of college enrollment. Limited scholar ship funds which should aid young men and women of intellectual promise . . . must go to athletes whose sole recom mendation for such aid is their athletic prowess.” Bumper Crop jt This summer it seemed that God was not smiling upon the United States farmer. A late, wet spring gave a bad start, then a drouth plagued the Gulf
to Roy H. Parker, Chief of Chap lains. A total of 82,010 instructional classes were reported by the 1200 chaplains in service who also conducted nearly a quarter of a million worship services during the fiscal year that ended June 30. The total attendance at Army Chapel services in the twelve- month period was 12,682,000. Chaplain Parker also reported that Sunday school classes have been receiving particular attention of the chaplains because of the increasing presence on many posts of families with children. Ask UN Prayer Room The Winston-Salem branch of the American Association of University Women adopted a resolution recently urging that the original plan for a Prayer Room at United Nations head quarters in New York be carried out. Copies of the resolution were sent to Trygve Lie, secretary - general of the UN, and to the United States delegates. The resolution was presented after cer tain press dispatches were read stating that Mr. Lie was seriously considering abandoning the plan for a prayer room. Religious Television Channels ¿t Religious groups are expressing a growing interest in the proposed alloca tion of television channels for non-profit educational purposes. A number of statements from religious bodies and from church-affiliated colleges have been filed with the Federal Communications Commission urging that the tentative allocation of ultra-high frequency tele vision channels for education be adopted as a permanent order. A number have suggested that at least one high fre quency channel be reserved in every lo cality and allocated to an educational, non-commercial TV station. Catholic Fined tit Father J. Alfred Roy, parish priest of Ste. Germaine Boule, Quebec, was fined $100 on a charge of interfering with mail addressed to Regular Baptists over a five-month period. The charges arose when the pastor of the Regular Baptist Church complained to the post office that pamphlets sent to residents in his city were not reaching their desti nation.
By William W. Orr, D.D.
states and the Pacific Northwest, but in spite of these difficulties there was an other bumper crop, the second largest in American history. Hay, rice and grape crops set all-time records. Corn, cotton and soybeans were far above average, with oats, sugar beets, pears and apples not far behind. Would that America could realize the Source from whom all blessings flow! Church Papers Exempt ¿t The House of Representatives re cently passed a bill increasing second- class mailing rates by 30 per cent but exempted all religious publications from the increase. Included in the exemption are Sunday school papers and religious instructional material. Since the Senate had earlier followed the example to exempt both non-profit and private re ligious publications from the second- class rate increase, it appears certain that church publications will face no According to Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz, more than 40 per cent of all the arrests in Los Angeles County in the last year were for drunkenness. Out of a total of nearly 19,000 arrests booked, approximately 7,000 were just plain drunk, with *700 arrested on drunk driving charges. This is a sorry state but what makes it worse is the fact that liquor is boldly advertised on bill boards, radio and TV as if it were harm less. Where is consistency here? Immodesty In a recent resolution adopted by the Convention of New Orleans Union of Sodalities, the moving picture mag azines and TV programs that tend to belittle modesty in dress were roundly scored. The Convention declared that many of our youth display occasions of sin in the wearing of suggestive attire and called on young people everywhere not to let degraded literature or ques tionable shows induce them to wear indecent clothing. Attended by a Million «it In the religious instructional classes conducted by the United States Army Chaplains this past year more than a million were in attendance, according rise in their mail rates. 40 Per Cent of Arrests
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