'-Vs
BpiglHNCEtf RECORD#
I S*ni®t; BUßNl s' Vlll6 .-MpßTitS,arouwA^aa^--
I ESTABLISHED 1936
I EDWARD A. YUZIUK - EDITOR G PUBLISHER
I CAROLYN R. *rtJZIUK - ASSOCIATE EDITOR
I ARCHIE BALLEW - PHOTOGRAFHER & PRESSMAN
I JERRY McGUIRE - ADVERTISING MANAGER
I MBS PATSY BRIGGS - OFFICE MANAGER
I PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
I YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY
I SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNS VILLE,N. C.
I THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1969 NUMBER SIXTY-FIVE
I SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00/YEAR
OUT OF COUNTY $5.00/ YEAR
SENATOR ' ri > i
SAM IRVIN
WASHINGTON- As Congress begins the final month of
the current legislative session, the major problem contin
ues to be the enactment of appropriations bills.
Only five of the thirteen regular money bills have been
sent to the President for the fiscal year which began July 1.
Federal departments have been operating for months under
continuing resolutions which permit agencies whose ap -
propriations have not yet been enacted to continue opera
tion at the same level as last year. The five regiirmoney
bills which have cleared Congress are those which fund
public works, independent agencies, and theTreasury-fost
Office, Interior, and Agriculture Departments. Two other
appropriations are in Senate-House conferences. These
are bills providing monies for the State-Justice-Commeice
Departments and Congress itself. The military construe -
tion and District of Columbia money bills are now on the
Senate Calendar, but the tax reforms bill under debate has
delayed action on them.
Three appropriation bills are still awaiting House action
Under Congressional protocol, the Senate must defer roticn
on them until the House acts. Two of these measures are
highly controversial. These are the Defense Department
* appropriation, which constitutes the largest single item in
the fiscal 1970 budget, and the foreign-aid appropriation.
In recent years, the foreign aid bill has often delayed ad
journment.
One other appropriation bill may become the center
of controversy in the remaining days of the session. This
is the HEW money bill which provides Federal aid for pub
lic school desegregation. As written by the House, HEW
funds shall not be used to force Southern schools to inte
grate on penalty of losing Federal funds. Whether this
House provision will remain in the bill is uncertain. Pre -
vious House actions dealing with this subject have come to
a standstill in the Senate. This year, however, with Fede
ral decrees requiring more and more bussing of students in
to non-neighborhood schools, the public is intensely in -
terested in the problem. As the readers of this column
know, I recently offered a resolution to permit freedom cf
choice by parents and students in the selection of the pub
lic school they attend.
The appropriations logjam has raised questions as to
whether Congress can complete action on many other bills
These include the tax reform bill, social security
the poverty program, aid to elementary and secondary
schools, the airport-airways program, revision of the wel
fare laws, crime control bills, electoral-college reforrrp
job training programs, and a multitude of the other Ad -
ministration programs. '
The prospects are good that Congress will move more
rapidly on several of these bills. Even so, I would anti -
cipate that when the Senate completes action on essentU
appropriation bills, there will not be enough time at this
session to clear the calendar of all the pending major bill&
While this virtually assures that Congress will have a full
agenda to deal with at the opening of the next session,the
delay on some of these measures may have some virtue
Any good legislation requires thorough consideration be
fore it becomes a law.
NC Travel Industry Lucrative
Travel is North
third largest industry. In
1968, thirty** six million vi
sitors toured North Carolina
and while here spent appioxi
, •_ mately $696 million.
strELiglrt tjjsL
By Tom Anderson ;
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES-Port VII
WE HAVE ALL BUT ABANDONED THE
ETERNAL PRINCIPLES THAT MADE
THIS COUNTRY GREAT: RELIGION AND
MORALITY.
According to “Christianity Today,” October
13, 1967, vVestern Reserve sociologist Jeffrey
Hadden contacted 10,000 Protestant clergymen
in the United States, asking them what they
believed. Os the 10,000 inquiries, there were
7,441 replies. Tabulated results of this poll of
7,441 Protestant ministers is the most alarm
ing survey I have read in many years.
The ministers were asked the question: “Do
you believe in Jesus' physical resurrection from
the grave in the same sense that you believe
that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?” In
other words, do you believe that Jesus' resur
rection is ar. historical fact? Fifty-one percent
of the Methodist ministers in the United States
said they could not accept Jesus’ resurrection
from the grave as historical fact. Thirty per
cent of the Episcopal priests of America could
not accept it, nor could 35 percent of the
United Presbyterian preachers, 33 percent of
the American Baptist preachers, 13 percent of
the American Lutheran preachers, and 7 per
cent of the Missouri Synod Lutheran ministers.
When asked if they believed in the virgin
birth of Jesus Christ as a biological miracle,
60 percent of America’s Methodist preachers
said emphatically, “no,” as did 44 percent of
the Episcopal priests, 49 percent of the Presby
terian ministers, 44 percent of the Baptist
clergymen, and 5 percent of the Lutheran
ministers in the Missouri Synod along with 19
percent of the American Lutheran ministers.
When asked if they believed in Satan and in
the existence of demonic evil powers, 62 per
cent of the Methodist preachers said they did
not believe in Satan or evil, as did 37 percent
of the Episcopal priests, 47 percent of the
Presbyterian clergy, 33 percent of the Ameri
can Baptists, 14 percent of the American
Lutherans and 9 percent of the Missouri Synod
Lutherans.
But, the most alarming result of this poll
was this: When asked if they believed that the
I
By Marilyn Manion
v. k 7 ■ . ... .;
NEW MORALITY BREEDS VIOLENCE
KVt ; . k ; . . ••• ... i
“Colleges are not churches, clinics, or even
parents. Whether or not a student burns a draft
card, participates in a civil rights march, en
gages in premarital or extramarital sexual ac
tivity, becomes pregnant, attends church, sleeps
all day or drinks all night, is not really the
concern of an educational institution."
Are these the words of a young radical? No,
indeed. The paragraph above is an excerpt
from the inaugural address of Lewis B. May
hew when he was named president of the
American Association of Higher Education.
His attitude is shared by many modern edu
cators.
Might this outlook have produced our pres
ent-day campus crisis? One recent guest on the
Manion Forum radio program thinks so. Dr.
John A. Howard, President of Rockford Col
lege in Rockford, Illinois, was interviewed by
Dean Clarence Manion. When asked what
, factors he thought served to promote campus
violence, he answered this way:
“One of the problems is that we have had
increasingly outspoken commitments to vio
lence on the part of members of different
academic communities. I took part in a dis
cussion a year ago in New York, and on the
panel was one of the officers of the Columbia
University student body. The student panel was
explaining why students must be given more
power in making decisions of the university.
A man in the audience got up and said, ‘Now
wait a minute, let's call these things by their
right name. What you students at Columbia did
was to commit a series of crimes.’ And he
listed them, breaking and entering, etc.
“At that point, the student from Columbia
said, ‘Mister, let's get something straight. In
a revolution there are no crimes, and this is a
Bible is the inspired word of God, that is, if
they personally accepted a nearly literal inter
pretation of the Bible, 82 percent of the
Methodist preachers rejected the inspiration
of the Bible, as did 89 percent of the Episcopal
priests, 81 percent of the Presbyterian clergy,
57 percent of the American Baptist clergy, 57
percent of the American Lutheran clergy.
Not only have such misguided churchmen,
traitors or Communist plants, as the case may
be, been able to sell the big lie that the basis
of Christianity is Marxism, but they have been
successful in turning many ill-informed Ameri
cans against our fundamentalist Christians and
anti-Communists.
In sworn testimony concerning activities of
the party (Communist) in the field of religion,
Mr. Manning Johnson, former member of the
Communist Party, USA, stated: “The plan is
to make the seminaries the neck of a funnel
through which thousands of potential clergy
men would issue forth carrying with them, in
varying degrees, an ideology and slant which
would aid in neutralizing the anti-Commi. list
character of the church and also to use the
clergy to spearhead important Communist
projects. This project was successful beyond
even Communist expectation.”
This great patriot, a Negro, died mysterious
ly a few years later.
J. Edgar Hoover warned: “Many Commu
nist fronts have operated under the guise of
some church commission or religious body. IT
IS GHASTLY TO SEE THE MONSTER
ATHEISM BEING NOURISHED IN THE
CHURCHES WHICH IT SEEKS TO DE
STROY. . . . Any minister who cannot find
in his Bible sufficient arguments for the cause
of liberty and social justice, who has to bor
row the double-talk of the Communists, is in
the wrong profession and should be carefully
watched by his official superiors and his con
gregation.”
Os course, all atheists are not Communists;
but all Communists are atheists.—American
Way Features
revolution.’
In February of this year, Newsweek quoted
an instructor at San Francisco State, Jerry
Varnado. The quotation was, in part: ‘What
we are involved in here at State is not a reform
movement. I~hat is what the civil rights move
ment was. This is a revolution. Reformists
work within existing rules and regulations. We
will use any means necessary to uphold the
principle that people of the third world have a
right to determine what kind of human beings
they want to be, Violence is the best means....’
Now, one of the things is this acceptance of
revolution and violence within the academic
community. This, it seems to me, is simply an
extension of something that started about the
time of the end of the second World War,
where, one after another, the agencies of the
public media, the platforms in the colleges and
universities, the television, the radio, the news
papers, the news magazines— presented state
ments attacking all the institutions of restraint
upon human conduct—law, morality, religion,
marriage, etc.
“I believe very firmly that civilization has
only been possible because of these institutions
of restraint. C ertainiy they arc human, and
therefore fallible, and need to be corrected.
But it we discredit them and destroy them,
then we can't possibly live together.”
Dr. Howard has this advice for parents:
Make sure that when your youngster goes
o(T so college that it is to a college which isn’t
altogether committed to destroying the limits
on human conduct and discrediting church and
(<od, and on the contrary, stands for those
things which you believe will make a better
lile and a better world lor your child."
American Way Features