Dodds in Korea
Non-Communist Korea will have the opportunity to see and hear Gil Dodds, America’s champion miler and youth speaker. In a recent exhibition run in Japan, Dodds showed his heels to fifteen o f Japan’s top middle-distance runners. Along with Bob Pierce, Dodds is con ducting mass evangelistic rallies in each of Korea’s six free provinces. A Depressant For years drinkers have been ex cusing their drinking by arguing that alcohol gives them “ a lift,” aids diges tion and helps them in making a speech in public. All these are just poor ex cuses according to the current journal of the American Medical Association. Alcohol is not a stimulant but a depres sant. While in the body’s central nervous system drink may masquerade as a stimulant, giving the drinker a false feeling o f well - being, unfortunately along with this goes a loss o f judgment and a retarding of the ability of self- criticism. The depressant action of drink operates first on the higher centers of the brain allowing the more primitive parts of the brain to dominate the drinker’s actions. The journal concludes with the statement, “ This apparent stimulation [in the mind of the drinker] has been aptly compared with a car on a hillside. Alcohol releases the brakes but does not cause the car to run bet ter.” Catholic Church Loses •S* In a recent law, unanimously passed by Poland’s Parliament, the Roman Catholic Church was stripped of all its large estates totaling 700 square miles of land. At the same time, a church fund was established to be financed by pro ceeds from the land and state grants, and to be used for maintenance and reconstruction of churches and other things. One o f the sources of friction between the Catholic Church and gov ernments has always been the rather surreptitious acquisition by the church o f more and more land and property. This process is going on continually in our own country. Dr. Aaron J. Smith announced plans today for another expedition to the top o f Mt. Ararat because he is thoroughly convinced that he will some day find Noah’s ark. This announcement was made coincident with the publication of Dr. Smith’s fifth book on the subject and revealed that permission is being sought from the Turkish government for an other try at the nearly 17,000 ft. peak. Dr. Smith is 62 years old and former dean of the People’s Bible College in Greensboro, N.C. M A Y , 1 9 5 0 Another Ararat Trip
William W. Orr, D.D.
Pre-Humans Stood Erect
MacArthur on Annihilation
For a long time certain scientists have taught that man’s earliest ances tors possessed ape-like bodies and moved around half bent over as apes do today. Apparently this idea is on its way out with the discovery by anthropologist Raymond Dart, of the pelvis of an early ape-man he calls Australopithecus. This hip joint looks remarkably human ac cording to Dart and leads him to sug gest that these ancient men possessed bodies very greatly resembling those of the present day. All this is interesting, and is a swing of the pendulum of scientific thinking in the direction of confirmation of Bible truth. The Scripture states, of course, that man as he is today was created perfect and complete by the hand of God and that apes are in no wise re lated to the human family. I f this be the truth, and we are sure it is, we need not budge an inch to compromise but will patiently wait for God’s truth indelibly written in His creation to prove it. 90% of Blame •S* Judge Lewis W. Clark, Merced, Cali fornia, in his semi-annual report to the City Council places at least 90.6% of the misdemeanor cases handled by the City Court in 1949 at the door of liquor. He stated that the cost to the Merced city taxpayers for that current year was not less than $100,000 and probably nearer $150,000 with the lion’s share of this cost due to intemperance. Judge Clark further reported 71.9% of all ar rests are for intoxication with probably most of the arrests for vagrancy due to the same cause. Other crimes are in fluenced heavily by drink, including assault and battery, bogus check writers, thefts, drunk driving and miscellaneous. This is indeed tragic but how much worse when we remember that, far from discouraging drink, the American nation by advertising and by wide availability almost criminally encourages it.
Seventy-year-old General Douglas MacArthur, hero of the Philippines and Occupation Chief in Japan, is a man that has great wisdom and whose words ought to be carefully noted. He reports: “ Arts and sciences have progressed more rapidly than character building. If we had achieved the heights in char acter that we have in the other fields, all would know that war is no solution. “ With present weapons, there no longer is any advantage to winning a war. Everyone loses with the victor only losing a little less than the vanquished. Even in this past war, we found that the destruction requires us to carry new burdens now. “ From the time of David and Go liath, war was a gladiatorial contest. Even when I joined the army, a Colt .45 and a rifle were primary weapons. To day it is not a contest between men, but machines and super bombs. “We will have to find that either war must go or mankind will go.” Sunday School Week In Springfield, Missouri, the week of March 13 to 19 was proclaimed Sunday School Week, according to Hart R. Armstrong, Co-ordinator for the Com mittee. A feature of this week was the reading aloud of a unique hand-written Bible from Seattle, Wash., valued at $2,500.00. The reading was done from the window o f a downtown store on the Public Square with a public address system carrying the words of the Bible outside the store as each reader took his fifteen-minute turn. The week also in cluded a National Sunday School Con vention with a great parade held on Sat urday morning. The parade featured thousands of Sunday School members marching with their Bibles and the week culminated in a rally day with every church in the community working for increased attendance. All of which is a splendid and helpful event for a most noble institution, the Sunday School. Pa^e Seven
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