resting place. The chinch was built in A.D. 59 and altered several times, but the altar has remained in place 1894 years. P oten tia l A lcoholics “Anyone can become an alco holic,” says an Ohio psychiatrist. Dr. Harrison S. Evans adds that the only known way to avoid alcoholism posi tively is: “Don’t drink.” Dr. Evans who recently addressed the delegates of the National Association of Pri vate Psychiatric Hospitals, of which he is president, told the convention that, “All of us are carrying around some pathological mental character istics. Alcoholism, drug addiction or insanity may be only a few steps away.” Fam ou s Founda tions C riticized America’s most famous foundations —Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Rus sell Sage, Alfred P. Sloan—will be portrayed as radical and subversive forces here and abroad under the program planned by Representative Carroll Reece, Republican of Tennes see. The expose promises more sen sations than Senator McCarthy’s Crusade against Communism, and will assail the use to which so much of the nation’s accumulated wealth has been put by its heirs and ad ministrators. The Ford Foundation which tops the other enterprises in assets will be a special target of the investigation, principally because of its founding figures—Paul G. Hoffman, former head of the Economic Co-operation Administration, and Robert Maynard Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago. Representative Reece points out that Hoffman once headed the Civil Rights Congress, which has been listed by the Depart ment of Justice as subversive. Mr. Reece insists that Hutchins rims the Ford show, and for him he reserves his severest criticism. He says, “The University of Chicago, under Hut chins has distinguished itself as the only institution of higher learning which has been investigated six times for immoral or subversive acti vities.” In criticizing the work of the Rockefeller Foundation, Representa
tive Reece says, “The Rockefeller Foundation . . .must take its share of the blame for the swing of the professors and students of China to Communism during the years pre ceding the successful Red revolution there. For two generations the Rocke feller Foundation played a guiding role in higher education in China.” He said, “ I am greatly concerned with what is being done with Ford Foundation millions in India. That nation is a potential ally of the So viet Union, and if the Ford Founda tion projects foster a pro-Soviet atti tude in India, the consequences may be disastrous to America.” M oon sh in e F lou rish es “Moonshine bootlegging today is a bigger business than ever, and the capacity of illicit stills is as great or greater than the spirits output of legal distillers.” This was the report of Benjamin Josephs, president of the Nationa l Retail Liquor Package Stores Association at a recent four- day convention of the Association. Josephs said, “We get reports that ‘the boys’ are busily dividing up the big cities to peddle their illicit stuff. The capacity of stills seized is equal ing or even surpassing the capacity of the legitimate distillers.” The Association has a powerful lobby in Washington trying to get a tax reduction on their product. They contend that the liquor tax which in some cases is 1000 per cent over production cost, is destroying their business and gives the moon shiners an open field. They are seek ing a cut of $4.40 per gallon federal tax. These same men who advocated repeal of Prohibition as a means of stopping bootlegging and moonshin- ing now tell us that it is the high tax on distillers that is responsible. F ly in y Saucers In terna tiona l People who claim they saw flying saucers, people who wrote about them, and painted them, convened re cently in Hollywood for a three-day convention, the first meeting of Fly ing Saucers International. $cience artist-exhibits, models, and books on the saucers were on exhibit at the convention. Discussions and lectures were also conducted.
P roh ib ition in Pakistan Pakistan will go completely dry next year, excise officials have stated recently in Karachi. Plans are being worked out to introduce prohibition throughout the country and a draft bill will probably be laid before thé Constituent Assembly next January or February. It is understood that for eigners will be allowed liquor on per mits. Until now there has been pro hibition in the Munjab, East Bengal and, to a lesser extent, in the North- West Frontier Province. In the rest of Pakistan, including Karachi, the sale and consumption of liquor has been allowed every day except Fri-> day. Our Prin ting B ill The debates of the members of Congress and the things they wanted printed during the recent session filled 16,211 Congressional Record pages. The printing cost was $1,371,- 724. The record itself, reporting on all but the last two days of the session, gave the figures indicating that House members talked a little more than four hours a day, Senators more than six hours a day. D isc o v e r y o f Garm en t W o r n B y V ir g in M a r y Discovery in Syria of a sash be lieved to have been worn by the Vir gin Mary was announced recently by American Archbishop Mar Athana sius Yeshue Samuel of the Assyrian Apostolic Orthodox Church. He said he learned of the discovery in a letter from Mar Ignatius Eph- rem I, Syrian Patriarch of Antioch and all the East. The letter said the sash was lo cated in a fragile glass case beneath the altar of the centuries-old Church of Our Lady of the Girdle of the Virgin Mary in Homs, Syria. The glass casing disintegrated at touch, according to the report. The letter also said that church leaders in April uncovered a docu ment written in the Aramaic lan guage in use at the time of Christ. It said the sash was buried beneath the church altar. An ancient legènd said the sash was in the church but specified no
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