Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1961 — Page 6

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Religious Bodies Fight Labor Import

By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International The sharp division among America’s major religious bodies over federal aid to education has been widely reported. But little publicity has been given to another legislative battle in which Protestants, Catholics and Jews are fighting side by side as allies. The issue which has united churches and synagogues may seem, at first glance, remote from religious concerns. It is a bill to extend the statute, Public Law 78, under which thousands of Mexican farm workers are annually imported into the United States to help with harvests. Religious groups contend that this labor-importation program is hurting U.S. farm workers by depriving them of jobs and depressing their wages. They say it works a particular hardship on native-born migrant farm workers, whose wretched living conditions the churches have been trying to improve for

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the past 40 years. ’’This is a humanitarian cause g in which all of the major religious is bodies see eye to eye,” said the is Rev. Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer, Washington director of the Nationn al Council of Churches. “We are e working together in an effort to :s protect the interests of a misery ably underprivileged group of Americans who have no political j power and no one to lobby for y them.” a Religious Spokesmen Protest i When the Public Law 78 exten- ; sion bill came up in the House ; of Representatives earlier this . year, spokesmen for religious orI ganizations presented testimony to show that the massive importat tion of Mexican “braceros” is s beneficial primarily to the big . corporate farms of California and . the Southwest, and that, by creating a labor surplus, it helps to hold the wages of domestic farm workers at a bare-subsistence level of about S9OO a year. They urged Congress either to let the law expire as scheduled on Dec. 31, or at least to write restrictions into the extension bill to safeguard the rights of domestic farm workers. The Kennedy administration supported their stand. But the churchmen found themselves up against the most powerful lobby in Washington. The American Farm Bureau Federation and other organizations representing big agricultural employers opposed any change in the bracero program. And their will prevailed in the House. On May 11, it voted 231 to 157 to extend Public Law 78, as is. Now the battle has shifted to the Senate. Religious leaders believe they have a better chance there, for two reasons. First, many senators have been alerted to the plight of the do- 1 mestic migrants through the hearings of the Senate subcommittee on migratory labor, headed by Sen. Harrison A. Williams, D-N.J. Ask Popular Support 1 Second, the churchmen are not relying this time solely on the power of moral suasion by committee testimony. Through denominations, local church councils and other religi- . ous channels, they are appealing for grass roots support from church members all over America. The word has gone out that now is the time for all Americans 1 who care about helping the migrants to call, write or wire their senators. < ! The unity of religious bodies on this issue will be dramatized soon by a joint statement from t the National Council of Churches, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and the Synagogue < Council of America. i “We are all pulling together on this thing,” said Fr. James L. Vizzard, S.J., Washington director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. “We are con- . vinced that this is a clear - cut moral issue, and we are asking all Americans to stand up and be counted on it. “The wholesale importation of Mexican laborers harms not only the two million American migrant and season farm workers whose wages are depressed. It also hurts the thousands qf family farmers, who are trying to compete against the huge factory farms which hire labor at bargain prices because of Public Law 78.”

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X. few The Rev. Norman Salmons, above, Nazarene missionary to Africa since 1949, will speak at the Decatur Church of the Nazarene tonight as a part of the fburday missionary convention now in progress. He was born in London and after serving two churches in England, completed Portuguese language study, and since has pa stored Nazarene churches and done general missionary work in Johannesburg. Acornthoek, Letaba, Rehoboth, Cottondale, and Tete. He will describe the country and its people, using colored slides. Rev. and Mrs. Salmons have three children, all born in Africa. Rural Churches ST. LUKE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Honduras L. C. Minsterman, minister 9 a.m.—Church Service. Sermon by the pastor. 10 a.m.—Sunday School. Monday 7:30 p.m.—Girls Guild, at the home of Eva Mankey. ST. JOHN UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Vera Crux L. C. Minsterman, minister 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School. 10:30 a.m.—Church Service. Sermon by the pastor. Thursday 7:30 p.m.—Senior choir practice. Friday 7:3o—Vacation Bible school program at Poplar Grove school. ZION LUTHERAN (Friedheim) A. A, Fenner, pastor Divine services at 9 a.m. Holy Communion will be celebrated June 11. Sunday School at 10:15 a.m. .Tuesday Walther League will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday All day meeting of the Tabea society. Friday Adult club will meet at 8 p.m. ANTIOCH UNITED MISSIONARY C. W. Wilson, pastor Homer Brubaker, S. S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:20 a.m. Evangelistic Service 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m. Following the worship service we will have a carry-in dinner at the fellowship house. This, is the Wilson’s last Sunday with us, as they are leaving to take over anpther pastorate, so it will be 1 a farewell dinner in honor of them. UNION CHAPEL EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN “Serving this Community for over a Century” Kenneth P. Angle, pastor Tom Gaunt, S. S. Supt. 9:30 am.—Church School. “A search for life’s meaning” will be the theme. Divine Worship—“ Communion.” Communion meditation: “The greatness of redemption.” Communion solo: “How Great Thou Art.” (Swedish tune). 7:30 p.m.—Vacation Bible school evening program. We invite the public to share with us. Come and back the children and the teachers. Monday Hie pastor and Mrs. Angle will go to the 117th session of Indiana Conference North, which will convene at Oakwood park, Syracuse. Wednesday " 1 “The Hour of Power Service.” Song fest, prayers for the sick of body and soul, and a very timely Bible study are just what we need to share in today. Bring your Bibles. Friday 7:30 pm.—The closing service of the annual conference. Elders will be ordained and Bishop R. H. MueHef Will" read' ‘ the* statidtfihg report, assigning ministers for the new year. THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK ' “Sin itself must be confessed or it will fester.” RIVARRE U. B. CIRCUIT Stanley Neuenschwander, pastor MT. VICTORY Chalmer Brodbeck, S. S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 8 p.m. MT. ZION Jim Bebout, S. S. Supt. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Class Meeting 10:30 a.m. C. E. 7 p.m. Evangelistic Service 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday 7 p.m. — W.M.A. At home of Bertha Daniels. Tuesday _..A YPMB at Roman Sprungers.

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The Bobo Community Bible school starts at the local school at 9 a.m. and lasts ’til 11:45. It will run from June 5-16. Send the children, age 4 through 15, even if they are not registered. The United Brethren in Christ general conference will be from June 6-11. Plan to attend some of

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Bible Material: Nehemiah 8 through 10; Ecclesiaitei 1:12-18; 3:1-14; 5. Devoll.nal Reading: Psalm 42:1-8.

What’s It About? Lesson for June 4, 1961 WHAT’S it aU about? Once in a while we sit down and ask ourselves that question. It’s the biggest question there is,—or it can be, depending on what you mean by the little word “it.” A football stadium with 22 men run-

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school, a hospital, and so forth, you can understand them after a fashion. They fit in, they make sense. But does life make sense? Bits and pieces of it do. But what’s life aU about? Does life, my life, your life, the life of mankind, fit into any conceivable pattern, or is it a meaningless madness in the midst of an empty universe? A Strange Book The strangest book in the Bible was written by a man who was haunted by this question. Does life make sense, and if so, what? The book called Ecclesiastes tells of this man’s search for the meaning of life, and of his conclusions. What makes the book strange is not the question. It is the answers' that are strange, or rather the answer. For his main conclusion is that we don’t know. The writer of Ecclesiastes is what might be called a tired cynic. He had tasted the cup of life and found it bitter, or rather he had tried to drink arid found the cup empty. One mournful refrain comes over and over,—“all is vanity and a striving after wind.” Vanity — not meaning to say pride, but emptiness. Life is like a man trying to catch the wind. He can’t do ih and even if he could, he would st ilk have—nothing. The wheel of life goes around and around till "all The Bible is a very frank and outspoken book. There are parts of the Proverbs that plainly say the object of wisdom is to “preserve you from the loose woman.” This might mean a professional prostitute, or it might not. Theo, as now, the “young man without sense” (Prov. 7:7) is easily taken in by the wrong kind of woman. . No amount of warning, no amount of law-making, no good example,—nothing will keep a young man from being fatally foolish here unless he is self-disciplined from within. And yet, while some people think that the "loose woman” is the one real danger to youth, the book of Proverbs would make us aware-that there are other dangers. There is anger, for example. How many murders are committed out of anger, only God knows. But you may be pretty sure that the fit of anger which brought forth the murder was not the first to which the killer had given way. Some criminals will even put up as excuse the fact that they were emotionally disturbed. Such an excuse should deceive no one. A fit of anger may be irresistible when you are in the middle of it; but it is possible to work on yourself so that you know the signs of anger coming up, and you can nip it in the bud before it starts. Diplomats and politicians can do this, and they don’t claim supernatural help; how much more should a Christian, by the help of the Holy Spirit, be able to discipline him-, self away from acting like a barbarian or a spoiled child! Again. we say, laws and good advice can perhaps prevent murder, but they can’t prevent anger, the seed-bed of murder. Anly sett-discipline can do that. Red-Eyed Woe One other trouble which is common in mankind is liquor. The writer of the 23rd chapter of the Proverbs gave as good a description of a hangover as you can read anywhere. It’s nothing less than red-eyed woe. Now all the troubles of the drinker, whether he gets to the stage of being an alcoholic or not—all his troubles are actually artificial troubles. They are real, to be sure, but they are not natural. Sex and the acquisitive instinct and anger are all natural, however we may control them; but the taste of liquor is not born in any one. The way not to hav* the drinker’s problems is ■imply not to drink.

. the meetings at the Huntington College. The softball team will play Bluffton Saturday evening, and Decatur Monday evening at the McMillen diamond. / ST PAUL MISSIONARY CHURCH (2 mi. East and 2 mi. North of Monroe) Robert R. Welch, r»»wr Sunday 9:15 Morning Worship 10:15 Sunday School 7:00 Evening Service Wednesday 7:00 Practice for jug-breaking service. 7:30 Prayer and Bible Study WREN CIRCUIT E. U. B. A. N. Straley, pastor BETHEL 9:30 a.m, Sunday School Lesson: “A Search for Life’s Meaning” Election of Officers for 1961-62 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship Sermon: “Commencement” WOOD CHAPEL 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Prayer Service Nq evening Service due to the Eighth Grade Commencement at Crestview School THURSDAY BETHEL: 7:30 Prayer Meeting WOOD CHAPEL: 8:30 Prayer Meeting and Youth Fellowship. SALEM UNITED CHURCH OF CHURST Evangelical and Reformed H. E. Settlage, Minister 9:00 Sunday School. Classes for all age groups. , 10:00 Worship Services. Sermon, “Christian Love.” Tuesday 7:30 Women's Guild Meeting. Saturday 10:00 Children’s Choir Researsal. -—. —_ — MT. PLEASANT METHODIST Geo. D. Christian, Pastor Sunday School — 9:15 a.m. Divine Worship — 10:15 a.m. Vacation Bible School will continue each night during the week from 6 to 8:15 p.m. The closing exercises will be next Sunday night June 11. MONROE METHODIST Willis Gierhart, pastor 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship.... 10:30 a.m. Church School Monday 8:00 p.m. Education Commission Wednesday Prayer Sludy Groups Friday 7:30 p.m. Closing Program For Daily Vacation Bible School PLEASANT DALE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN John D. Mishler, Pastor 9:00 a. m. Sunday School with Mr. Edwin Bryan as superintendent and Mrs. Harold Henschen as the children’s director. 10:00 a. m. Morning Worship. The pastor will speak on “The Measure of Giving and Getting.” The Junior choir will sing. 2:30 p. m. The annual Mass meeting will be held at Camp Mack with Rev. Ora Huston as

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the speaker. Services will be held at 7:30 p. m. also. The Men’s Fellowship of Northern and Middle Indiana are sponsoring the meeting. 7:30 p.m. The worship service will be planned around the items for consideration at the Annual Conference at Long Beacn, California, June 20-25. The Church World Service truck will pick up relief materials at the parish hall June 5. Wednesday 7:30 p. m. Bible study and prayer fellowship. 8:30 p. m. Choir practice. Friday evening the closing program for the DVBS will be held at the school house. CHILDREN OF TODAY Rev. James R. Meadows The type of the church of tomorrow is determined by what is instilled into the hearts and lives of the children of today. There is no greater agency in this land in which charactor is moulded into the lives of children that the church, the Sunday Schools and the Daily Vacation Bible Schools. Parents should see that their children are enrolled in Sunday Schools and

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