v . \ DR. RITTENHOUSE Baptist James Irwin Left A Banner On Moon When Southern Baptist, Col Janies B. Irwing blasted off from the lunar surface last month, he left a testi mony for his church. It was a photographic copy of a ban ner from the Nassau Bay Baptist Church of Houston, Texas. The first such on the moon, it was a witness for the Southern Baptist Church unique in church history. Astronaut Irwin took two These Days I Or - Behind The News From Washington John Chamberlain •: 1 Shoes the fide of the ecology movement depend on the Right or the Left? The pop u£r superstition is that the b$, had corporations which supposedly claim a right to damp their industrial poisons into the sea and air, will be Ubfe ones to throw the worst roadblocks in the way of progress toward a clean en vironment. But the popular st^ierstition could be wrong. As a matter of fact, it is now ihej Left that contends the eco logists may be overdoing things. Nobody would ever call the Fa biaft Society of Great Britain a Conservative organization. It was the fa'pian Society that gasjb such radical luminaries as {George Bernard Shaw and H. jG. Wells their first import ant! political platform in the eatjy years of the century. Sid nej{ and Beatrice Webb, who wese Fabian socialists, handed England its marching orders toMgard collectivist Welfarism by popularizing the slogan, “the inevitability of gradualism.” And when Jack London and othJ?r U. S. radicals formed the firS Intercollegiate Socialist Soi^ety iii America, it was un deij Fabian influence and with Fabian blessings. With this history in mind, I w$s astounded to come across stfnething called “Fabian ~ ict 404 for a social demo itic Britain.” The tract is toward the ecologists. Its says that “in the long run, w# can produce quieter air craft engines, pollution • free cin, clean rivers, safe pesti cides, effective waste dis posal.” Then the tract goes on t<{ make the ease for growth. Ilf the name of such things as employment for the rkfng man and good fnn the masses, the tract its to certain gung-ho ecolo and remarks, “We must of some of our snds” who “wholly neglect tlfe economic' case . . . parts o£ the conservationist lobby wfuld do precisely this.” he tract charges those whom ator Jackson in America the “ecological extrem with being “hostile to th in principle and indif |nt to the needs of ordinary pie.” And then comes the class - angled thrust. The . accuses the all-out sec of the conservationist lob lof having “a manifest class It reflects “a set of mid j - class arid upper - class he judgments. Its champions f are often kindly and dedicated people. But they are affluent and fundamentally, though of course not consciously, they want to kick the ladder down behind them. They are highly sleective in their concern, be ing militant mainly about threats to rural peace and wild liife and well - loved beauty spots; they are little concerned with the far more desperate problem of the urban environ ment in which 80 per cent of our fellow citizens live.” The tract is particularlv bitter about some “revered pundits of the day” such as Professor John Kenneth Gal braith, and it hits out at the “doomwatch journalists” who have “had the run of their lives in the last twelve months.” It scorns one par ticular roomwater for pro posing towns in which only horse - drawn vehicles would be admitted. The doomwatch er in question, a certain Pro fessor Mishan, who is un known to me, would welcome “an enormous reduction in the demand for foreign trav el.” “Yes, indeed,” so the tract remarks, “the rich would proceed in leisurely fashion across Europe to the Medi terranean beauty spots they could park their Rolls-Royces and take to a boat or a horse drawn vehicle. As for my con stituents, who have only a fortnight’s holiday, let them eat cake and go back to Blackpool.” The writer of Fabian Trac! 404 makes the good point that only a growing Gross National Product will yield the tax mon ey to clean up our rivers and our air. And he wonders why it is so terrible for his constituents to enjoy eating fish and chips on previously secluded beaches. He cannot accept a view of the environment that is essential ly elitist, protectionist, and anti-growth. Nor can Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, who thinks ecology mast not be permitted to stop economic expansion. Jackson happens to be labor leader George Meany’s can didate for President. Ameri can labor already has a Fa bian attitude toward ecology. We can expect a more vigor ous defense of the environ ment from the industrialists, who are already allotting re search and development funds for improving the water and freshening np the air. j Brevard Insurance Agency, Inc. i 20 E. JORDAN ST. 883-3J21 j-- : • - $ GIL COAN, JR. GIL COAN copies of the photo with him to the moon. One was let: there as the unusual testimony and the other was returned to earth to be copied and given to church members. lames Irwin Day The banner included a pic ture of the chnrcb and the slogan, Things Happen at Nassau Bay Baptist Church;” the inscription, Our prayers go with the crew of Apollo It;” the crew members’ names; and the signatures of all those present at the church on an earlier Sunday designated Janes Irvin Day.” Prominent in this nnlquc testimony was Dr. William Rii tenhouse, pastor of the Nas sau BSy Baptist Church and former wartime pilot himself. At the invitation cf anoth er astronaut in bis congrega tion, Lt Col. BiU Pogue, the Reverend Rii.tenhousc was present In the V. I. P. viewing stand at Cape Kennedy when Irwin and the crew of Apollo 15 left the earth for the moon mission. Former Local Revivalist A copy of the now famous banner has been received her by Mr. and Mrs. Parker Pace of Rt. 3, Brevard. Mr. and Mrs. Pace became acquainted with Dr. Kittenhome several years ago when he conducted a re vival at their church, the Pis gah Forest Baptist. They have since stayed in contact with the former flyer - minister by cor respondence. Rev. Rittenhoase’s modern church is near the Manned Spacecraft Center at Honston, Texas, and is the Home chnrch of Astronaats Irwin and Bill Pogae as well as many other people active in the space program. Daughter To Be Baptised On the James Irwin Day,” at the church, the astronaut gave his testimony f(?ur times —three times to Sunday School assemblies and once before the entire church, according to a story in the “Biblical Record er.” Dr. Rittenhonse is sche duled to baptise Col. Irwin’s 10-year-old daughter, Jill, on October 24th. The youngster made her profession of faith on “James Irwin Day” honor ing her father. Pisgah Forest Lions Club Has Annual Family Outing The Pisgah Forest Lions Club held their annual Family Night on Aug. 24. The Lions and their families toured the Eye Screening van which screened approximately 300 preschool children’s eyes in 'iraiuylvania County :n the past two weeks. After the meal, a musical pro gram, celled “Moments to Re member”, was given by Mrs. Ronnie Daniels, Mrs. Charles Hudgins and Miss Barbara Poole. Lions Ray Burgin and J. I. Ayers were visitors from the Brevard Lions Club. 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