The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 November 1968 — Page 5

Tuesday, November 26, 1968

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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Says Jews can share in Christmas joy

Sharing Christmas customs leads people to mutual understanding, says a Jewish mother in explaining Why We Enjoy Christmas Too. Indeed, Mrs. Sonia Levitin points out, the whoop-de-do of the Christmas season ( principally the commercial emphasis and ttie decorations) brings adherents of Judaism up against major problems, especially in dealing with children. “Sometimes Jews are not sure how they feel" about it, she adds. Four general solutions for Jews are outlined in the December issue of TOGETHER magazine: (1) ignore the Christmas holiday; (2) explain religious dif-' ferences to youngsters; (3) compensate by making the Jewish Hannuka festival a gala event, and (4) enter fully into the Christmas spirit. “Even a very young child can understand,” Mrs. Levitin writes, “that every religious group has its ceremonies and celebrations.” It is important, she says, to teach youngsters to respect others. Emphasizing that it is “never easy to be ‘different,’ ” she makes it clear that no Jewish child will experience “undue pressure” at Christmas — provided that he “has been properly educated in his own heritage.” Certainly, Mrs. Levitin makes clear, “the Jewish child does not consider himself ‘underprivileged.’” But she adds pointedly that Christmas trees definitely are

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out so far as Jewish homes are concerned. “The Christmas tree is a religious symbol,” she explains, and therefore it “does not properly belong in a Jewish home.” What’s more — and this is a point for Christians to bear in mind —- Mrs. Levitin believes that the Christmas tree should “not be used as a mere ornament.” Above all, she is against any proposal to “take religion out of Christmas.” “What would be left except the sound of cash registers and the sight of wrapping papers littering the floor?” she challenges. Every practicing Jew “hopes fervently that the Christmas spirit of peace and goodwill will be nurtured and sustained, for these ideals are shared by all religions and faiths,” Mrs. Levitin emphasizes in TOGETHER, United Methodist general-ih-terest magazine that goes into almost three-quarters of a million homes monthly. Anyway, she comments, Christmas is a national holiday — “a fact of our American culture.” The only act to which Jews really object, she states firmly, is “prayers in public school,” during the Christmas season or any other time. Mrs. Levitin believes that Jews “can certainly share in the joy that Christmas brings to others” without undermining their own faith. And she suggests that Jewish parents at Christmas time explain to children the basic differences between Christianity and Judaism. 'Second Summer' NEW YORK <UPI)—A ‘second summer” program of 25 new vacation plans covering Florida, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Bermuda and the Bahamas is offered by Eastern Airlines. A “vacation planner” that lets people work out their own vacations in terms of cost and the special things they like to do is contained in a 16-page color booklet describing the package of 25 vacations.

DeGaulle enforces limits; gold rush continues

MARCHING GREENCASTLE BAND-The Greencastle marching Tiger "Cubs were one of 15 bands that particpated in Satur-

.jday's Christmas parade at Crawfordsville shown here going through their steps.

Job Corps training should start first in the home

Most Job Corps graduates find their biggest problems right where they left them at home. This is revealed by a leading denominational journal. Youths, usually from depressed neighborhoods or broken homes, need help getting started on the “right way of life. In short, Job Corps training in useful employment helpful as it is ••• is often times not enough for solving the problems of the boys and young men who are graduated at the rate of about 1,200 weekly from the Office of Economic Opportunity’s Job ^orps training camps. This is where the churchsriented Joint Action in Comnunity Service organization JACS) steps into the picture. I ACS, founded in 1967, is sponsored jointly by Job Corps officials and the Inter-Religious Committee Against Poverty,

comprised of Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders. Its members are largely clergymen, businessmen, retired executives, teachers, housewives and social workers. JACS volunteers in hundreds of communities stand ready continously to help Job Corps youths with all sorts of problems, from assisting them in traveling to obtaining proper tools, renewing a driver’s license, finding ternporary lodging, help in landing jobs, counseling and encourage, ment. Few Job Corps graduates know how to search systematically for the right kind of job, it is reported in the December issue of TOGETHER magazine. And some youths tend to give up too soon. The federal Jobs Corps program is designed to teach marketable skills to disadvantaged young persons so that youths may become self-supporting. The typical corpsman “comes from a broken home, has less than nine years of schooling, reads at third-grade or fourthgrade level,” it is noted in the United Methodist magazine. An important point for every, one to bear in mind, it is made clear in the article A Chance to Make It is that it is not always possible to find work for every Job Corps graduate.

the gap whenever a Job corpsman asks for help. The JACS is not for mere “well-intentioned do-gooders,” it is brought out sharply by TOGETHER Associate Editor Herman B. Teeter. Volunteers, he writes, need “a high degree of stability and security within themselves.” In short, compassion, sympathy and goodwill are not always enough to qualify a man or woman as

a volunteer.

The volunteers are made up largely of two types of persons., men and women who themselves have struggled up from poverty neighborhoods (who consequently know firsthand what corps men are up against); and educated, comfortably-situated persons. One of the principal tasks of JACS volunteers is to counsel and help Job Corps graduates in emancipating themselves from old associations which may not have benefitted them. “Most corpsmen dread returning to their old neighborhoods and the old ways of life,” reports Associate Editor Teeter. He quotes the plea of the majority of Job Corps graduates; “I want to work, man. I want to make it on my own.” The church-ortented JACS is helping hundreds of such youths to get a strong start making it

on their own.

PARIS (UPI)—evening his battle to save the franc from speculation and devaluation, President Charles de Gaulle today severely limited the money Frenchmen can take out of the country. He sent heavy police forces to the Belgian border to enforce the order. A government decree limited travelers leaving France to as little as $10 in francs. From Lille, a northern city where De Gaulle was born, large police and heavily armed national gendaramerie forces moved to the much-crossed Belgian border to back up customs men counting travellers’ money. Police also took positions at major airports. In the major money markets of Europe, currency exchange markets reopened after being shut for days because of the French economic crisis. But traders did relatively little business in francs. Market observers said this reflected uncertainty whether De Gaulle’s save • the - franc drive would ■work. The government journal said Frenchmen, foreigners living here and tourists can leave with no more than $40 in francs and $100 in foreign currency. The decree exempted from control the travelers checks that foreign tourists bring intc France. Acting to implement the austerity De Gaulle announced Sunday, the government also limited Frenchmen to taking no more than $10 on trips of less than a day to neighboring nations. De Gaulle's regime made one major exception. To aid the vital export trade and to get badly needed dollars, it said French businessmen would be allowed up to $400 for business trips abroad. The decrees also put under government control the iransfers of money from this country — action aimed at stopping the flow which has cost France about $1 billion in currency the past two weeks and helped bring on the economic crisis which De Gaulle refuses to solve by devaluing the franc. The journal said the controls run until year's end but may be lifted at anytime. The controls were far! harsher than the temporary limits imposed dur'ing the stimmer, when Frenchmen were limited to taking $200 out of France for a trip.

The JACS volunteers step into

Crazy Quilt Codes Hamper Housing

WASHINGTON ( U P I ) — Former Illinois Sen. Paul H. Douglas made a good case recently for the argument that building codes block efforts to expand housing construction. Douglas wasn’t arguing that building codes should be abolished but as chairman of the National Commission on Urban Problems he was criticizing the confusing and conflicting number of codes in force in cities and towns across the nation. The criticism came after the commission’s staff had con-

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ducted a statistical survey of the 18,000 municipal government units of the country through mail questionnaires and selected data. “These facts about building codes pinpoint one of the major constraints to better or more economical housing,” Douglas told newsmen at a briefing here on the survey results. The survey showed that about 85 per cent of the towns with 5.000 or more residents either had no building code, had an outdated one, or one with major variances from model standards. The survey proved what municipal government critics have claimed all along about the confusion over building code standards. Of about a dozen new building materials approved by all model codes, eight were forbidden by from one-fourth to twothirds of all the municipalities while all of them were barred by at least some percentage of the remainder. Worse Worse yet, the survey turned up an equal amount of confusion and lack of coordination in the attempts of municipali-

ties to deal with building, zoning and controlling their growth with some degree of order. “Less than one-fourth of all the jurisdictions attempting to regulate land use and building practices have any full time employees so engaged,” the staff report stated. “In only one in nine of them Is such regulation directed by a full-time employee paid as much as $9,000 a year. “Residential building standards imposed by these governments differ widely and in many instances prohibit practices that are acceptable under the ‘model’ building codes.” The staff report added that only one town in six has updated its regulations to current model standards. Even the larger cities of America are not immune from lack of coordination and even lack of facilities to enforce orderly growth. All the 52 cities with a population of 250,000 or more in 1960 had a building code; all but one had zoning ordinances; all but three housing codes; and 44 have subdivision ordinances.

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PARIS (©PI) — Speculators began a ne|v rush to buy gold on the Parts market today and the Bank* of France was reported throwing in gold from France’s dwindling stocks to hold down ^he price and combat the newest Uhreat to the franc. President Charles De Gaulle took the first step to Impose currency control regulations to prevent speculators from taking francs abrqad to dump them for safer curtrencies. He sent carloads of. jackbooted Republican Security Company riot police to the borders to enforce

controls.

De Gaullejs refusal to devalue the franc despite pressure of the worlds richest trading nations wa^j accompanied by a plea to speculators to end their “odious” aittack on the franc. That plea vient ignored today as speculatorsj bought gold. The price of a gold Ingot (2.2 pounds) rq^e 300 francs ($60) today and | would have risen higher had' not the Bank of France acted swiftly. A kilogram of iold was quoted at 6,448 francs ($1,289) Tuesday when the panic selling of francs was at iti peak. It climbed today and tjien leveled off 300

francs higher. The U.S. dollar was being unofficially traded at 5.30 francs instead of the normal 5 francs. This signified an unofilcial C per cent devaluation since sellers were getting 30 centimes (six cents) more. This dropped the franc from 20 cents to 18.8 cents. Throughout the money markets of West Europe speculators were shying off the franc and there was little if ally change. In the last gold rush hitting the franc France lost up to $2 billion of its gold reserves which were accumulated largely at expense of the U.S. dollar. It has about $4 billion left and some of this was jint on the market today. In addition, France has a $2 billion credit put up by the group of ten at their Bonn crisis meeting last week and about $950 million available from the International Monetaary Fund. Those credits were extended in general belief De Gaulle would devalue. He did not and today he enacted stringent limitations on the money Frenchinen and foreign residents will be able to take with them abroad.

Receive good pictures

By HlfeNRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW' (UPI)—The Soviet Union said:today its unmanned spaceship tond 6 gathered new information! about the rnoon’s dark side with a camera that took pictures “unique in their value” to prepare for landing a man on thd moon.

Zond 6 |circled the moon earlier this month and returned to earth. PTavda said it brought back new data on the moon’s gravity, the' physical nature of the moon’s isurface, its geology and its terrain.

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permit the! Soviets to prepare “more precise maps necessary for scientific research* and orientation during near-lunar journeys and for adjustments of the orbit Of a spacecraft to the moon’s physical surface,” Prav-

da said.

What was particularly valuable was “TTie discovery of the peculiarities” of the moon’s dark side, pravda said.

It said compared with pictures of the moon’s dark side taken by Zond 3 in 1965 the photos taken by Zond 6 “Yielded almost a thousand times more informaation.” Two top Soviet space experts, academician Georgy Petrov and Prof. Boris Rodionovj said Zond 6 used its camera to conduct “precise stereo-photogramme-trical measures” and obtain previously unavailable informa-

tion.

The pictures “have incomparably higher measuring properties” than any previously taken, Pravda said.

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The new pictures are “unique in their value and are being studied thoroughly,” Pravda said. It said the camera used on Zond 6 used film inches wide and 31 yards long. “The camera had additional arrangements for confecting the exposure and a mechanism for changing the diaphragm of its lens,” Pravda said.

Hollywood news

By VtRNON SCOTT UPI Hollyfood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — The scene: A mlfidle-class home just after dinnef when the children have been put to bed. Husband: | “Let’s take in a movie tonl^it, honey.” Wife: “I’d love it.” Husband: “Let's see, the babysitter will icost us about $4. Parking is $1. Admission is $2 each. Total, $9.” Husband 'searches through pockets and decides the tariff is a bit stiff. “Turn on the television 'set, baby, we’re staying hom|e.” Moral; Are movies too expensive tollay? Not if you're Aristotle Onassis or J. Paul Getty. But the average wage earner in the United States takes a pretty stiff shot irhen he plunks his money dowq at the box office. If you’ve a mind to see “Funny G^fi,” you can pay as much as $1.50 on Friday and Saturday night for a loge seat. Or you can get in for an upfront seat during the week for

$2.

In neighborhood theaters you can see such fare as “The Odd Couple” for about $2. Or maybe “The Thomas Crown Affair” for $1.75. On the other hand, In second, third and fourth-run houses— sometimes known as flea bags— you can see a fairly recent movie for 50 cents. Inflation, the increasing cost of movies due to star demands and higher union scales, and other factors serve to make films more expensive than ever. In a sense, the owners are defeating their own purposes by keeping admission prices high. All too often a theater will play a film to a handful of patrons who have paid $3 each to see the picture. Wouldn’t it be better to be playing to a full house if the price were brought down to $1? And there’s the rub. Theater owners have no assurance, no matter what their prices, the people are willing to leave their comfortable living rooms and the television set to see a movie — even if they threw open the doors and charged nothing.

NOBODY SEEMS TO NOTICE, what with the gusty wind and all, that ^ man is prone on the sidewalk at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in New York. He permitted himself a critical remark about someone's driving, and the driver got out and let him have it.