Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1962 — Page 11

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Varied Views On Prayer For Self

By LOUIS CASSELS United Pres. International ' A few hours after Scott Carpenter was picked up from a life raft in the Atlantic, a reporter asked the astronaut’s wife, Rene: “Did you pray?” “No, I did not," Mrs. Carpenter replied. “I feel the same as Scott does, that it is presumptuous to pray for oneself.” The Carpenters are church-going Episcopalians who evidently have given serious thought to the whole question of prayer. In feeling that it is wrong to offer “selfish” prayers, they are not alone. Many sih- « cere and intelligent people have the same attitude. Their reasoning goes something like this: “Since God is infinitely wise. He knows my problems and needs better than I do, and there is no reason for me to call them to

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His attention. Pleading with Him to help me is an insult to His love, because He needs no urging to do what is best for me.” This attitude is obviously grounded in a strong faith. It reflects a much higher degree of spiritual maturity than the widespread notion that prayer is some kind of magical gimmick by which men may bend God to their will. View Not Shared But when all of this has been said, it is necessary to add that Jesus did not share the view that it is “presumptuous to pray for oneself.” In the model prayer which he taught His disciples, He included as “selfish” and mundane a petition as one can imagine: “Give us this day our daily bread.” > When the hour drew near for

Him to suffer and die, He went with some of his closest friends to a little park outside Jerusalem called the Garden of Gethsemane, He threw Himself on the ground, and according to Mark's gospel, "horror and dismay came over him.” “Father,” He prayed, “all things are possible to Thee. Take this cup away from Me.” The scene is a vivid reminder to Christians that the New Testament scriptures, which bear witness to Jesus’ divinity, also insist on His full humanity. He was “a man such as we,” subject to the same fears, dreads and temptations. And in the ultimate crisis of His life, He pleaded with God to spare Him from pain and death. Hallmark Os Prayer “Nevertheless, not My will but Thine be done.” As many Christians have learned from experience, the “nevertheless” is not easy to say sincerely. But when it is truly said, it transforms the whole prayer. The petitioner begins by asking for something he desperately wants, and ends by accepting whatever Infinite Goodness knows to be right and necessary and best—even if it is a cross. The prayer which culminates in “Thy will be done” does not presume that God needs to be told what to do. It does not presume that He can be wheedled into granting special favors for those who clamorously appeal to Him. It presumes only that He is the kind of father who wants His children to flee to Him when they are in trouble, and whose arms are always open, particularly when He has to say no. Lady Anthropologist Wrecks Usual linage By GAY PAULEY UPI Women’s Editor NEW YORK (UPI) — Mention woman anthropologist and the mind usually imagines a Sturdy, tailored type digging in the ruins of an ancient civilization. Then comes along Dr. Mariam Slater to wreck that image. Anthropologist Slater has redbrown hair, large brown eyes and the figure of the fashion model which she once was. She’s five feet, six inches barefoot and weighs 115 pounds. A so rmer reporter and sometimes actress and short story writer, Dr. Slater is an instructor in anthropology at Queens College of the City University of New York. On June 30, the 39-year-old anthropologist will shed her city slicker shell complete with “little nothing” sheath dresses and head for Africa and 15 months in the bush country where khaki pants,

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Jacquie’s Culture Campaign Catching

WASHINGTON (UPI) - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy is within sight of total victory in her cam-1 paign for culture. The tow-brows and the middle-brows have not yet signed any formal instrument of surrender, but admirers of Elvis Presley might as well abandon hope that he ever will be invited to render “You’re Nothin’ but a Hound Dog” on the White House premises. Mrs. Kennedy’s culture campaign is taking hold all over Washington. An eavesdropper at a drug store fountain heard a stenographer explaining, between bites of a tuna fish salad on rye, the White House recipe for crepes suzette. At sundown the other day a youth in blue jeans stood at the comer of 13th and Constitution Ave., and kissed a girl’s hand with all the grace and aplomb of a commercial attache at the French Embassy. If somebody exploded a | plastic bomb,—you would swear you were in Paris. Issues Communique The communique announcing the triumph of culture was issued, not by Mrs. Kennedy, but by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., special assistant to the President: “In the Executive Mansion, where Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians once played, we now find Isaac Stem, Pablo Casals, Stravinsky tent and snakebite kit will be part of standard equipment. Purpose of the trip: to study the customs of a tribe called the Nyiha, which lives in an isolated area of the Nyasa-Tanganyika corridor in the southeastern coastal area of Africa. Have Little Knowledge According to the anthropologist, little first-hand knowledge of the Nyiha exists in research literature. The pioneering studies were done by Dr. Monica Wilson, whom Dr. Slater plans to visit at the University of Capetown. She does know that the trbe, beleved to number about 60,000, is seminomadic,' and that its members are cultivators who depend on millet and on milk from their cattle as their food staples. Various groups of Nyha, Dr. Slator said, follow their herds within a 70-mile radius of the village of Myeba, a territory ranging t from <the cold mountain ranges to the stifling lakeshore plans of southwestern Tanganyika. She feels that because isolation has preserved the tribe from cultural changes the outside world knows of, it offers an excellent “laboratory” for study of the processes of social changeDr. Slater, a native of Washington, D.C., is the daughter of a physician and research specialist in oxygen therapy. Her parents how are retired and live in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The anthropologist was graduated from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa., in 1944 and came to New York planning to go on the stage.' She worked as a reporter for Life magazine for a while, for the Conover modeling agency, did some s bort stories ( and finally decided that “if I were going to do any serious writing it needed more studying of people.” Studies Anthropology “That," she said in an interview at her modernistically furnished apartment in the fashionable Washington Square area of New York, “is one way of saying that I wasn’t very good at what I’d already attempted.” She enrolled in Columbia University’s Anthropology Department where one of her instruc-, tors was the famous Dr. Margaret Mead. She researched for her doctor’s dissertation by living for five months with native peoples of northeast Martinique, the French colonial island in the Caribbean. Since 1958 she has been on the Queens College staff. She’ll fly to Mombasa where she will line up her crew —a houseboy and two interpreters, one to translate the complicated Nyiha dialect into Swahili and the other to translate Swahili into English. Dr. Slgter said the tr ip had been in the “thinking stage for more than a year,” but she didn't start concrete plans until the Ford Foundation granted her $8,200 to help underwrite it. Fair Warning NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex. (UPD —The contractor at the Canyon Dam project 17 miles northwest of New Braunfels doesn’t wapt sightseers to get too close to construction work. A sign carrying the warning “Danger Beyond This Point" adds: “Survivors Will Be Prosecuted” He's Unplfltonic NEW YORK (UPI) —French actor Yves Montand’s definition of Platonic Affection 4 from —Dictionary of Love” in McCall’s magazine): “I have heard es this thing between a man and a woman. Perhaps it exists. I think not.” 4

and the Oxford Players. I think we will not leave it to the Soviet Union to discover the Van Cliburns of the future.** Schlesinger, a Harvard professor and the Galahad of the culture movement, fears no middlebrow or low-brow and smites all Philistines with fervor, including Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower who likes Fred Waring’s band and used to invite, it to the White House. Small pockets of resistance have been established by the lowbrows and the middle-brows and they are ready to resist to the death. An organization known as “Central Burlesk” has dug in a few blocks from the White House and, judging from the line outside, a young lady named Natasa is rallying the troops with considerable effectiveness. Battle Tide Turns History will record that Nov. 14, 1961, was the date when the tide of battle turned in favor of the high-brows. The previous Saturday night Mrs. Kennedy gave a party for her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill. A volunteer propaganda minister for the low-brows started a sly, cunning rumor that the twist had been danced in the White House. At first it was ignored, but it grew to such proportions that White House press secretary Pierre Salinger delivered this mortal blow: “There was do twist danced that night. I was there until 3 a.m., and nobody did the twist’’ From then on it was clear sailing for ballet dancers, opera singers, violinists, winners of the Nobel Prize and Shakespeare. The forces of culture are not arrogant and inflexible in their moment of triumph and are capable pf some graceful concessions. When Harry Truman went to dinner at the White House, the orchestra played

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“Missouri Waltz*’ and “The Caissons Go Roiling Along” in tribute to the crushing defeat Capt. Truman’s artillery company administered to the Kaiser in World War I. But after dinner it was Eugene List doing Chopin on the piano.; Can Forgive High-Brow A high-brow can be forgiven alj most anything. Not long ago Dr.

Linus Pauling, the eminent scientist, was spending the daylight hours picketing the White House in protest against the resumption of nuclear testing. One evening he changed from his work clothes and went to a party the Kennedys gave for Nobel Prize winners. Was he snubbed and scorned? No. The President greeted him: “I

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am delighted ytm are expreßripg your views in such a forthright manner.” How does one become a highbrow? This definition, uttered uy a British philosopher named Sir Alan Herbert, might be hßfotal: “A high-brow is the kind at a person who looks at a sausage and thinks M PfcassG."