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THE PEOPLES FORUM RJB FrankjUn We also 'have and and gray females, a gray striped female awl a black both grown, and and a grown female three-color cat. This latter is a very pretty, gentle and affectionate cat and a friend of the Society will pay. for haaying her spayed if a good home -can be found. These are at Dr, Robinson's, on Crater Road, telephone 3-8202. Give these animals a happy Christmas by providing good homes for them.

They will reward you fty giving you affection and companionship." SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, Mary A. Gilliam, Secy. Why Woyld A Man Unbtlitf? Editor, The Progress-Index 'in. your Dec. llth paper I read an artiele H.

Franklin Wright's unbelief. Why would a man enjoy his-uh- beliefs to the extent to broadcast It? I am proud to say I am a believer, not in witches, ghost and foolish things, but in the Holy Spirit or God the Father, etc. Why? Well, I could list them, but the entire paper wouldn't be enough for the printing. Just as sure as you and I live on this earth, there is a and a God. Who, if works would cease, we wouldn't have air to breathe.

Thank God we don't have many Robert G. Ingersoll, because our land would soon become another Sodom -and Gomorrah. Yes, we have our own choice, Heaven or With the help of God, Heaven Is lay goal. I think that unless Mr. Wright can bring himself to believe, and be forgiven for trying to drag oth; ers with him, he has no choice.

I am satisfied with Jht Bible as my guide. --MRS. J. W. ROOKS JR.

Otf how To brinf the baby king; followed the gleaming star. In our Christmas celebration We hear again the manger story Of bow the angels came to sinf At His birth In all their (lory. I have always wondered how Thia humble virginmother felt When wise men canie to tribute the story told Mitor. Progress-Index; uppone that people all believed What Mr. Wright has tried to tell; That heretofore they'd'been deceived; tiat there Then, would the miserable hypo-n 'The Iron Curtain opened to permit 1 number of And "around his infant baby Did she ave a deep To cuddle.

Him and whisper His name For only a while before she gave Him to the world" to share His claim? I think that she caressed his hands And gently crooned the pretty words All to their babes have Did she; hear 5 the angels sing! the babes first cry That ecnoed as an jingel choir An A. shepherds from Was this wee cry from the newborn earth, good will to Does He it st And weave thent crite-, found In saloons. Where'he'd or sit, And guzzle Wh oter' goons. i ragged a filthy drone; 'he bum would sit and swell, Muttering in 'a maudlin tone: 'They ain't no fire in hell!" That-we fully know what's actually "here's room for honest doubt; hit whate'r you. say, or whate'r you do, don't put hell fire out.

low else could the cheat, trie liar. Je punished for all his sin, Without, the lake of burning fire 'o cast all sinners in. It is obvious that this is not poetry. It-is'intended, however, as. a sort of satire on the right -to- be-an unbeliever letter which peared in the Forum LEWIS WRENN 47 PINE, STREET, CITY a Joyous spell as Enchanting Joy is o'er earth, When Christmas comes around etch yeir on earth, good will to van" Our glsd hearts sing and angels hear.

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Is no fire in IflL SO THEY SAY Religion Behind The Iron Curtain WASHINGTON. 17 Whether- the chills a tHude towand will be dls in aU JlkeUhaad ta the ea.fl la Mafe verely moetht of the mew WMJe the spirit of was in the making, the nought eartwatly to convif the western, world tolerance prevailed UB- Red- rule. I ate ejnwHcaUwi relighMV tht ehuren arganiza- viMit to Ike Red jmliti- cal regimes. this has been accomplished. the is allow churchmen from western couh- the States.

That is; a mistake'. A man who home Is a focK should "save some for himself. Jfe would be pretty dreary for the average man unless he'could lave a drink now and then. --Judge Luige de Pasquale, a teetotaler, of Providence, R. frees man.

on common drunkard charge. to visit freely in. the Soviet Union and to observe religious activities there, An -American Baptist; leader; one of four members of his faith invited to the USSR last summer, said on 'his return to this, country that Russians "certainly have.fujji freedom worship" even if they "do not have religious freedom the way we it." A British Methodist who went to Russia in remarked that Christians "there, had been living under "relaxed c'ondi-. lions" since the death, of Stalin, which proved "some kind of coexistence" of the i i a church and atheistic Communism was possibles RELEASE FROM PRISON, of several Roman Catholic 'c dignitaries the' satellite cpun tries was 'attributed- pressure from' the Kremlin. Meanwhile, new arrests of church leaders in the Soviet orbit have fallen off noticeably.

A year ago, in November 1954, Communist Party chief Khru- schchev ordered -anti-religious propagandists in the USSR to stop ridiculing the clergy and religious believers. In general, people In Communisl 'countries are free: to worship they please and the clergy suffers little interference in the conduct of services. However, religious activity- beyond this rather a sphere is severely restricted. The church has been stripped of mosl of its educational, charitable, and n- Is se- of (Use are Cwnmuaiat attacks reUgwn not at ed a winiber of-jwivUeges. Its benefits ate won however, at the cost of servility toward the state and otheif IN largely Roman Catholic: priests must take oath of loyalty, to' 1 the "people's democracy 1 and the state defrays Thenrare 20 miilion OW Be- ieyers Xan Orthodox dissident group) 20 milHon Moslems, three nillion Baptists, and an unknown number of adherents of the Jewish' faith.

The USSR has 20,000 Orthodox churches today, compared with 46,000 in 1917- The. have 5,400 churches. There are relatively few Roman a lic churches or Jewish synagogues. church expenses In Poland a church-state provides freedom worship In return for church the regime. In Bulgaria, where the Orthodox Church is knows as "a national people's democratic church," a state bureau appoints all officials and a priests' trade union "has been set up.

i The constitutions of Communist countries as rule guarantee "freedom of religion" and equal "freedom of anti-religious in periods of -relative good will toward the church, however, the campaign guide Christian homes to an atheistic-way of life The emphasis; currently, "scien in atheism, ra thej than abuse of religion. THE KHRUSHCHEV DECBKE tin anti-religious propaganda was aimed primarily at over-zealous propagandists whose attacks on re ligion were so" harsh that, they threatened to antagonize rather than convince the faithful. i decree was hailed bj churchmen in the as an in dicatioh'tthat 'the religious spiri had remained strong in USSR despite more than a generation oppression. A Russian Orthodox prelate re cently estimated that 90 per cen Tto It, MM of the popvlatkw la the Oitaodox ttf tow Frum, Puf 4) has been eliminated long ago anc most of the letters-r answered at the White House are staff people and 'never come- to the attention of the; President. Obviously, the President is hoi personally "familiar with most pi the 'things he signs anyway, certainly hot the pardon: and mission, cases.

It does prbb able that a better could be found for 'this, without creat ing another vice presidency whicl frought with politica fireworlcs and all kinds of prob lems. The" "office of' the President ha become far removed from wha it was intended to be anyway. has to be a politician, statesman world leader, head of his chief executive of the governmen and host for every Tom, Dick an Harry who comes to town, not to mention speaking to all sorts groups and dealing with press, radio and television in a manner never dreamed of by George Washington. What can be done about it? Every future presidential candidate would like to know. We have allowed the government to mushroom out of proportion to its con- make-up and fail- to fiad a THUS MPT AWMOACM, seems to us, would be to niake an overall bi-parUsaa atwdy of kon aod come up with ways and to relieve the paper work, without resorting to the plan suggested by Mr, Hooveij.

This is a itep dangerous in the extreme because it would serve to cloud the activities of the President, and would have still further reason to question the kind of service which Sherman Adams is'ren- dering today. There should be no difficulty in clarifying Mr. Adams' role. He is, for all practical purposes, "president of the United States" in every capacity open to him by law. We need to be careful about delegating responsibilities of the highest type, but when it comes to the routine chores of the Presidency, then legislation should be requested and the public should be -fully informed on what is being proposed.

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