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gion 'Very Important' Average Americans eoendent Survey Shows joKGE W. CORNELL , foKK i AP) ? Today's | inurican believes in God, | religion "very* impou nd- church at least twice ! and minks he'll go to hen he dies. ire among a few of the f probably the most coui t survey ever made of re bels and practices in the ates. t first time such a study made in the United I laid Kr. Paul Bussard, I the Catholic Digest. "On erj subject covered, the never been recorded be last eight months par ts of the survey, made jependent reaserch firm Dnwide basis, have been in the Digest with some till to be reported. ? ? * IS the first consolidated ol the main points so Dined about the faith lip of adult Americans: I' all of them?99 per rve there is a God, al per cent of these aren't but like to think God 1) 1 per cent flatly don't I believe. Among men, I per cent are atheists, but among women, the number of nonbelievers doesn't amount to even one half of I per cent. College graduates included 4 per cent atheists. Baptists and Catholics had the fewest doubl-rs ?virtually none. Most people?*7 per cent?think the soul lives on after death. A slightly lesser majority ? 72 per cent?believe there is a lleaven. where the good are eternally re warded. However, only 58 per cent think there is a Hell, where the bad are everlastingly punished. Just a scant lew 12 per cent ? see any possibility whatever of their going to Hell. * * * THE PREDOMINANT concep tion of God?held by 79 per cent of adults?is a "loving father who looks alter us," while 17 per cent consider God "some kind of super natural power you can t describe." The other 4 per cent either are un decided or don't believe. Strong belief in God as a "lov ing father':?91 per cent?was in the East-South-Central States of j Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. The lowest?62 per LAFF-A-DAY ?? : ?- i aren't doing anything wrong. But your kid was making faces at me through the rear window!" GOOD AIM AT VFW CONVENTION CAL BACKUS, at Baltimore, one of 7.000 delegates to the convention in Milwaukee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, playfully threatens a woman with hi* trusty popgun, .'he 54th annual encampment of the VFW opened with memorial services honoring tl.e 25,000 Americans killed in the Korean War. (International Soundphoto) cent?was in the Mountain States of Montana, Idaho. Wyoming, Col orado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and Nevada. Only 32 per cent of people go u> church each Sunday. Counting these, a total of 68 per rent go sometimes, most oi them at least twice monthly, while 32 per cent never go at all. Highest weekly attendance is in New England?45 per cent?and the lowest?22 per cent?on the Pacific Coast, where a big bloc of oO per cent of the people never go ^o church. However, 75 per cent of all adults consider religion "very im portant," 20 per cent say it's "fair iy important,'' and only five per cent say it's "not very important". itegard for religion isn't so high among college graduates?only 67 per cent count it "very important" ?or in big cities, 68 per cent, in rural areas. 84 per cent rate it tops. An overwhelming proportion oi adults, 90 per cent, believe Jesus actually lived. Only one per cent don't think so, while three per cent don't know. A smaller majority, 80 per cent, consider Jesus either God or the Son of God. Again, Catholics, 95 per cent, and Baptists, 91 per cent, had the highest percentages of this opinion. Belief in the divinity of Jesus was strongest in the East-South Central states of Kentucky, Ten nessee, Alabama and Mississippi, 91 per cent, and lowest in New England. 64 per cent. It also was low in big cities, 72 per cent, among college graduates, 65 per | cent, and high among fanners, 91 per cent. Among all adults. 12 per cent consider Jesus Just another great religious leader. This idea is held widely among college graduates. 27 per cent: throughout New England. 23 per rent, and among Jews, 66 per cent. Paradoxically, however, a ma jority of Jews, 62 per cent, say they bdtleve "in the Trinity?Uu Father, Son and Holy Ghost". Al though this is not formally a part of Jewish theology. AMONG ALL FAITHS, the portion accepting the Trinity is 69 per cent. (The doctrine is most fully held by Catholics, 98 per cent, and Baptists, 95 per cent.i A high ratio of women, 91 per cent, subscribe to the concept, but only 86 per cent of, men. As to what people should strive ' hardest to ,'frcomplish in this life. ' | only a slim margin, 51 per cent say preparing for an existence af ter death should be the main ob jective. Many, 22 per cent, say ' attaining a comfortable life on earth is a principal duty, but 23 ' per ce.nl say working for the pros- : ent and the hereafter should get : equal attention. Less than half higher - income : people, 42 per cent, and the ' proprietor - management execu- 1 I tivees, 44 per cent, think primary devotion should be to getting ready for the hereafter. A big 1 portion of them think living com fortably has first call. But while more than half of all 1 people feel that life hereafter i should be their major concern, only 21 per cent of them think Swift. hushed an!ne jinui-r ... easv, sure-footed xto/tpin/l poicrr . . . effort" less, sure-control lurnitift ftouiv . . . you'll find nil these liipli-|Htv?ercal thrills at the wheel of a dashing; new Ohlsinohile! (Ionic in i/ri'iv a "honor* ous Su|K-r "88" or Classic Ninety Eight. See how the l(s> hp. "Rocket" Engine teams with llvdra-Malic Su|?er Drive* to level the hills, com mand the straightaway. How Power Brakes* ease yon to a faster, safer stop w ith just a toe-touch. How easily you'll park, turn and maneuver with Brawny Power Steering* to lake over 80% of the work! No wonder the new Oldsmohile ap|H'als to men and women alike! It's the car you should try tnfirthcr. So see us soon for a douhlc-date with a "Rocket 8"! *Optimnal al rxlrn tint. halio U BY VIVIAN BROWN J VP Newsfratures * Lois of kids have been treading ,he states, judging by ineir mourn ,ut wails. What lo do about a new-found pound seems to be the question. One gat asks: "Should I starve myself tor the rest of the summer ? Should 1 go on a diet of black .otfee?" . Heavens to Betsy?what s all the excitement over a little pound hire >r there. So many books have oeen written about dieting and ^ streamlining the figure that a . ouple of ounces begin to look like Cat-lady circus proportions to some ^ids. It is perectly natural to gain a few extra pounds during the sum mer months when so much stren uous exercise is likely to make us ravenous. As soon as school be gins and worries about calculus mid French take the upperhand again, pounds will roll off no doubt iii the meantime, relax. II pounds exceed normal weignt oy four, there is something you might do just to make that bathing suit fit soomthly for the balance | uf the summer. Just try the substitution theory. Instead of eating creamed chick en eat a hamburger if you have a choice. Preferably without the aun. . When you are being coaxed lo ihe soda fountain settle for a lime ade without sugar or a big glass of tomato juice or orange juice. If you are on the picnic-plan ning committee in your set talk up the hotdogs ibeefi, hamburgers or clams and salad, raw vegetables wonderful to-munch-on cauliflow er carrots, radish, scallions) in stead of spaghetti, chilli, macaroni -alad and devilled eggs. When Dad suggests ice cream for the family in the evening, pre tend you didn't hear as you go out I he back door. Encourage Mom to serve fruit for dessert and to skip those lus cious pies and cakes. Candy and nuts and other treats that you just nibble on because I hey happen to be there should be put out of Sight Ditto potato chips, cookies and buns. Instead of any of those sweets eat a piece of fruit. An apple, orange, pear, tangerine, grapes. | . .aches and cherries are delicious nt this time and chock full of vlta m Whatever happens in your home made diet Plantdontgveup 1 hose daily health foods-miilk but ler. vegetables, meat or flsh, chctst. fruit, wholewheat bread. If vour hips are showing a few humps?a little exercise will go . long wav to buffing them down, providing you watch your diet. Swimming, bicycling temnis and hiking are a ^evv t which help keep weight down to | oar. v5t State Survey Rates Waynesville and Canton Bus Stations At 99 Waynesville, Canton and Chero kee were rated 99 for cleanliness in their bus stations in a report on 12 communities by the State Utili ties Commission this week. The scores are based on condl lions found at the State's bus sta tions by the Commission's field in spect >rs Twenty-two communities received a top grade of 100. These included: Belmont, Brevard, Burlington. Chapel Mill. Chimney Rock. Con cord. Durham.-Elizabeth City, Fay etteville, Fuquay Springs, Greens boro, Henderson. Kannapolis. Lexington, Moorcsvillc. New Bern, Oxford, Raleigh. Rocky Mount. Sanford, Thomasville and Winston Salem. Louisburg ranked second from Ihe bottom with a score of 73.5, and Wadcsboro fell last with a score of 72. hey actually follow this rule. A majority of ihe others, city people and country people alike, ihe educated and uneducated, the Protestants, Catholics and Jews, rrankl.v admit they give most of their time and energy to getting ihcad in this world?and not the next one. Wife Preservers ts t OEO Ueerre j A convenient place in which to (tore a aeclional ladder in a email, einjile (rarajre is under (he center of the car ao that tha ?tnor. lie e.<X)oig jcrfl iv iliniq Children For Adoption Shortage Grows Acute By JANE EADS WASHINGTON?There are just not enough hoys ana girts 10 go around tor all the American Unt itles who want to aaopt cnnaren. "There are many more lamiues, about to to la tunes as many, as mete are children legally relin quished by their parents lor auop tion, and the number ol orphans is infinitesimal." Jo Evelyn siuitn ot tne U. s>. Children s Bureau lold me. Some ttu.uoo families each year nie petitions to auopl a child. Miss ?>1111111, consultant on adop tion, tosier Home and day care lor cnuoren, says tnal adoption has be come increasingly popular as more cnnaren have been placed and peupte see their friends happy 111 their new lamily lite. Miss Smith says that unless Congress passes pending legisla tion to let foreign youngsters in on a non-quota pasis, lamiiies can not hope to find a child to adopt in that field either. She says she receives many letters from people wno wish to adopt children from abroad, especially American-fath ered children born out of wedlock in Japan and Korea, of whom she says ihere are many. Current im migration laws permit only a total quota of 185 persons a year for Japan and 100 lor Korea. For Ger many, howevqf the quota is much mgher and between 700 and 800 children have been adopted from there since the war, mostly by Americans stationed in that coun try. Greek and Italian quotas also are higher. Englaiftl and Ireland have tightened their adoption laws, Ireland permitting children to go abroad only (with their parents\ consent and England limiting adop tion to British citizens or rela tives. "Most countries are unwilling to. let their children go," Miss Smith explained, "because they wish to keep the youth to strengthen and build up their own population. At, any rate our new immigration laws prohibit the majority of the would be adoptees from coming into this country. Last year, she said, 435 "private bills" were introduced in Congress on behalf of individuals who want ed to get children in on a nun quota basis for adoption. Of tluse only 220 passed. Until last year some 2.838 or-1 phans were admitted to the U.S on a lion-quota basis under the Displaced Persons program and 200 children were brought in hy the U.S. Committee for the Care of European children Both pro grams have been dissolved. A FARMERS TIP ON FILLING SACKS One of the most difficult jobs around ar:y farm is a one-man assignment to fill sacks. Here's a comparatively simple solution. Cut the bottom out of a bucket and fasten the bucket to the wall with a suitable bracket. Drape the sack around the bucket with hooks suspended from the bracket. Sack after sack can be filled f'oni this funnel with hardly any effort. c Sets Channel Mdrk "" ABDEl IATIF ABOU HUB, 23, of F^ypt, set a new record for the England to France Channel swim by making the crossing from Dover in 13 hours, 43 minutes. ' The old record, set in 1948, was 13 hours, 33 minutes. (International) Fifty per cent of Qermans living in Great Britain become natura lized compared to 20 per cent of Russians and 13 per cent of Poles. OWER, POWER EVERYWHERE ! to Double ^ Your Driving Car lllunrut?i. Suffer "HH" l-honr SmAiff, <4 (jenrrui Motor 9 V ulua. I I !e a DOUBLE-DATE with a "Rocket 8" OLDSMOBI LE SEE your nearest oldsmobili dealer WATKDiS MOTOR CO. 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Goodrich DEFIANCE TIRES 7 N I 6.00-14 f) fj I yC and your old tiro I 7395 " 6.70-15 J Plus tax and your old tiro ' ciTi U*T 5ALI 5IZI PRICK PRICK* 6.40 13 $15.75 SM.65 6.50 16 19 65 11.45 7.10 15 18.35 1 6.95 . 7.60 1 5 20 05 1 8.75 IB. F. Goodrich TUBELESS TIRES , ? thaVlw XTskMs!" , FOR FORD CHEVROLET- $7095* PLYMOUTH - NASH 47"f mch FOR MERCURY-PONTIAC- $2295* ? STUDEBAKER - DODGE 7 ,*7 f ACH ? FOR BUICK -OLDSMOBILE - 52*95* DESOTO-HUDSON 7407,7.ach ? for Chrysler-Cadillac- $2Q95* | LINCOLN-PACKARD ..p^f ??ch 1 ff *p1u< tax and your old tire Arc You Getting Maximum Performance From Your Car? ^ ou May Not Re If You Have A Weak, Rundown Rat tcry In Your Car, You Are Not Getting | J The Rest Performance From Your Automobile ? You're Not GellinglfjHtie Mileage You Should, And Your Car .{$ Sluggish. Come In Today And Let Usflw Check Your Battery 1 pi I, CHARLIE'S TEXACO SERVICE?'; I Claude Woodard, Owner 1 Dial GL 6-4971 Opposite Pet ?PIUS TAX AND YOUR 010 TIRI
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