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by Janies O . H en ry Chairman, H istory D epartm ent, Biola College up schools in these areas, although their churches are allowed to func tion. A new drug that holds out hope of relief from a disabling heart dis ease was described recently at the fourth World Congress of Cartiology. The drug is for use in cases o f an gina pectoris, a condition in which hardening of the arteries around the heart causes severe pain. This fre quently disables those who suffer from it and often contributes to heart at tacks. Its use was described by Dr. Robert E. Leslie of Ed Campo, Texas, former president of the Texas Heart Association. Dr. Leslie said that ex periments over two years had shown that 85 per cent of persons treated “had experienced marked relief, and the majority became almost symptom- free within a few days after institu tion of therapy.” The drug is called AY 6111 in its experimental form. It is not available commercially. It at tacks in a new way the heart pain of angina pectoris, which is produced by lack of oxygen in the heart cells be cause of blood shortage due to hard ening of the arteries. Soviet May Adopt a Profit Motive to Spur Industry A revolutionary overhaul of econ omy-planning procedures appears to be in the making in the Soviet Un ion. It is designed to increase the productivity of industry by stimulat ing the profit motive. A discussion under way for more than a month in Pravda, the Communist party news paper, centers on proposals made by an economics professor in Kharkox in the Ukraine. The proposals pro vide for greater autonomy of plants and factories in striving for higher output at lower costs. Although varied viewpoints are being expressed in the newspaper debate, there is general agreement that the present planning procedures fail to stimulate produc tion in industry and that radical re forms are needed. This would indicate an admission on the part of the Soviet Union that their vaunted planned economy is failing. New Drug Cuts Pain in Angina Pectoris
Anglican Assails Church Efforts “ It’s a goody-goody Holy Joe, pasty- faced approach to life,” said an An glican cleric from South Africa, “ and to the man in the street it means nothing.” In a recent interview, Rev. Andrew Kay said he was talking about the ineffectual way most cler gymen tried to present the Christian message to those within and without the church. “ Christian doctrine,” he said, “ has something important to say about many problems of today, and the church has the responsibility of making this doctrine felt. But,” he said, “ the church w ill insist on using a pink, sugary, mid-Victorian confec tion as its image.” Mr. Kay said he believes this is meaningless in an age conditioned to listen to only the most modem, simple kind of professional “ sell” whether from cigarette adver tisers in magazines or political per suaders on television. Mr. Kay said, “No one should meddle with the Gos pel because its message is eternal. It is its presentation that is wrong.” He feels that the problem is not one of fighting disbelief, atheism or agnos ticism, but one of indifference on the part of Christians who feel that the church is irrelevant. He says the church is relevant but it has failed to make its impact felt. “To correct this,” he says, “ the church must get its people involved in religious action — a stewardship more important than the stewardship of financial contri butions.” Curb on Schools Scored in Colombia Colombia’s top law-enforcement of ficial has issued an opinion that the ban on non-Roman Catholic schools in much of the nation’s territory is unconstitutional. The opinion is con tained in a report by Andres Hol guin, the Procurator-General. Mr. Holguin, besides supervising the na tion’s public prosecutors, gives his opinion on the legality and constitu tionality of acts by government offi cials. A convention signed in 1953 with the Vatican gives the Roman Catholic Church the right to super vise all public and private schools in areas set off as mission territories. Pro testant missionary groups have gen erally been denied permission to set
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