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James O. Henry# M.A.# Editor# Associate prof, of H¡story, Bioia Bible College
Other relief agency officials have put it this way: “ For the hungry man with a hungry family in India, it is not enough to tell him that the United States is appropriating bil lions of dollars for foreign aid. All he knows is that he and his family are still hungry. It will mean much more to him personally to give him food on a direct, personal basis. That’s exactly what the private welfare agencies are doing overseas.” Fighting w ith F ood The value of United States food donations as a powerful weapon against Communism is being empha sized by private American welfare agencies now urging the government to release more of its mounting sur plus food stores. Agency officials are stressing the advantage of distributing foreign aid on a people-to-people ba sis, so that the recipients know it is a voluntary expression of friendship and good will direct from the Ameri can people. Paul French, executive director of CARE spoke of distributing some $30,- 000,000 worth of government donated food in Yugoslavia in 1950-51. This was done, according to French, at no extra cost to the American taxpayers. The Yugoslav government provided the ships and bore the freight costs. He said, “ CARE distributed the food among some four million of Yugo slavia’s needy and they were aware that it was a voluntary act of friend ship from the American people.” As a result, he said, “Marshal Tito vol unteered the comment that it would now be ‘most difficult’ to persuade the people of Yugoslavia to become ‘anti- American’.” D elinqu en cy Fa ctors “ Juvenile delinquency is caused by alcohol, gangsters, lack of church in fluence, pinch-penny politicians and — especially—parents,” a panel of ex perts told a session of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers convention, held recently in Okla homa City. The convention closed with the adoption of an 18-point platform recommended by its find ings committee. The platform aims at better homes, better schools and better communities.
and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteous ness.” 1 John 1:9. There seems to be nothing better for the emotions than a clear conscience. The Church in China Dr. Rolf Syrdal, executive secre tary of the National Board of Foreign Missions of the Lutheran Church, told the Evangelical Lutheran Church district convention in Long Beach, Calif, that, “ . . . there is a strong underground movement of Christian ity in Red China that has not yielded to Communist pressure.” Dr. Syrdal stated that, “ Christian ity in Red China is very strong. In Hongkong and in Formosa mission aries are active. Our church sent 50 missionaries into Japan three years ago and they have been welcomed.” He said the church “ now has 250 mis sionaries in various parts of the world.” The Vanishing Ra ce “ Despite government promises of improvement, diseases that thrive on squalor continue to plague the Nava jo Indians,” Roger Davis, a tribal leader of Indian Wells, Ariz., recently told the National Tuberculosis Asso ciation. He said, “ the life expectancy among Navajos has been reduced in some instances to 17 years and that only a high birth rate among reser vation Indians has prevented tribal extinction.” Congress approved an $88,000,000 program for rehabilitation of the In dians two years ago, but for some strange reason only $20,000,000 of this has been spent. Little visible im provement in the lot of the Navajo has been seen. Davis declared that, “ the tuber culosis death rate among Navajos is 10 or more times greater than among whites generally. Among Navajo children in the 5 to 9-year age group it is 140 times that among white. Fewer than half the Navajo are in school because there are no school facilities for them. Sanitation facilities are virtually unknown. Some families have to go 25 miles for water and 15 miles for wood. It is common for 10 to 15 Indians to live in close contact in one hogan,” Davis said.
P a l t e r P laying W om en “ Do you play poker? If you do, and if you’re a woman, you’re better ad justed emotionally than those of your sisters who don’t go in for draw and low ball.” So says William McGloth- lin, a University of Southern Cali fornia graduate psychology student who completed a survey which em braced “ 31 gambling gals.” “ Playing poker,” McGlothlin said, “ takes shyness away from women and gives them a good, aggressive atti tude. In our society, many women find time heavy on their hands. Real ity begins to bring on disgruntle- ment. Poker is an escape from real ity—a kind of therapy which is often as stimulating as a champagne bath.” Most of the women interviewed by McGlothlin admitted they lost at poker more often than they won, “ but this,” he said, “ is beside thé point. The point is, that people immersed in an activity which absorbs a large proportion of their time are not likely to be maladjusted.” We might ask this graduate stu dent, to what adjustment in life does he refer. Certainly he cannot mean the adjustment to home life and motherhood. Truth Serum “ It’s emotions or feelings that make many people sick. And a so-called truth serum can aid doctors in help ing them get well,” said Dr. Zale A. Yanof, a famous Toledo physician. The drug, “ is a safe aid to induce people to tell the real reasons why they feel unhappy, anxious, worried, sleepless, fearful, or bothered.” It is used in the treatment of psychoso matic illnesses, ailments created by emotions rather than real physical troubles. Statistic show that from 50 to 80 per cent of patients seen by family doctors have just such ill ness to some degree. Dr. Yanof said the drug, “ won’t make people confess to things like murder. But it can induce them to talk sleepily and easily about things they fnay be hiding, consciously or unconsciously, . . .” There is a much better treatment for the Christian. “ If we confess our sins, he is faithful
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