The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 10, 1954, Page 10

Critical Test For Unity Seen Closer Ties Result From Church Council Editor's Note —Ameeting start- ing next Sunday in Evanston, Ill., will determine whether centuries- old divisions among Christian re- ligions can be made smaller or Must grow still wider. Here is the first of four articles on the As- sembly of the World Council of Churches, which some churchmen have called the most important religious event since the Refor- mation. By GEORG . CORNELL EVANSTON, ill. —Most of the world’s churches are moving to- ward a fateful crossroad. Which way they turn can mean either closer ties or sharper gaps in the centuries-old divisions of - Christianity. The answer hinges on the As- sembly of the World Council of GARDNER'S — PHARMACY — The Rexall Store 1114 TRUMAN AVENUE Corner Varela Street PHONE 2-7641 Churches Sunday. “It will be a critical test,” said Dr. W. A. Visser ’t Hooft, the council’s general secretary. “We shall see which is stronger — the force of unity or the ‘force of division.” The meeting will be the most widely representative Christian gathering ever held on the Ameri- can continent. In range of subjects, purposes and participation, it may well be the most comprehensive Christian assembly ever called. All things considered, said Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, head of the United Lutheran Church and vice chairman of the council’s Central Committee, “‘it is the most crucial interchurch meeting in Christian history.” Fundamental theological ques- tions, buried through the years in the ashes of denominational cleav- ages and regional aloofness, will be raised in the first such broad attempt to cement Christianity’s Scattered forces. “The assembly will deal with subjects that go to the very heart of the faith,” Dr. Fry said. “It is a daring thing to do. “The outcome can determine the lasting strength of the whole movement to bring the churches closer together and increase their effectiveness.” More than 1,500 representatives from 161 denominations. with -ap- proximately 170 million members in 48 countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain will take part in the meeting. Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, presi- dent of Union Theological Semi- mary and chairman of the coun- cil’s U.S. Study Committee, de- seribed it this way: “The most truly ecumenical as- semblage of the followers of Christ who have ever met ‘in one accord in one place’ in the 20 centuries since his life and death and resur- rection.” : Although the World Council met once previously — at its founding six years ago ih Amsterdam — it is digging for the first time into basie and potentially shattering— orconsolidating—matters of faith. The present-day ‘Ecumenical Movement,” aimed at bringing to- gether the world’s Christian churches, had its tiny beginnings at a missionary conference in 1910 opening here next at Edinburgh, Scotland. It was dreamed, discussed and designed at succeeding meetings of Christian leaders in Stockholm in 1925, in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1927, at Oxford and Edinburgh in 1937. In 1948 at Amsterdam it culminated in the World Council. The council does not seek to be- come a world church, or even to arrange mergers, viewing that as tions. But it does seek, said Dr. Visser ’t Hooft; “to be an instru- ment of the Holy Spirit for healing our divisions.” Except for the Roman Catholic, nearly every major church will be represented. Although Roman Catholic churchmen have attended some previous meetings of World Coun- cil groups, none will be present at Evanston under a ruling by Sam- uel Cardinal Stritch of the Chi- cago archdiocese. There have, however, been arti- cles and studies by Roman Catho- lic leaders on the assembly's theme. Said an American Catholic publication, The Pilot: “No true Christian at any rate will look with indifference at the hopes that are set in Evanston.” Okla. Election Board Is Sued OKLAHOMA CITY (P—A $200,- 000 lawsuit against the State Elec- tion Board was filed yesterday by a Negro lawyer attacking the re- quired designation of Negroes on Oklahoma ballots. The plaintiff, A. B. McDonald, was a candidate for the Democrat- ie nomination for U. S. senator in the July 6 primary election won by Sen. Robert S. Kerr. McDonald bases his suit on the word “Negro” placed after his name on ballots, and alleges the 1937 state legislative act providing such listing is unconstitutional and amounts to segregation in violation of federal law. WOODSMAN KILLED PARSONSBURG, Md. (#—James Moore, 58, a woodsman, was killed yesterday when a tree he was cut- ting fell on him and crushed his skull. Mexico has 163 daily newspapers. A lad named Diogenes J. Shouted, Uove! thave found il‘one day, . There’s good, honest beer {n this Schaefer can here— Now what's the Greek word for hooray 21” Only America’s Oldest Lager Beer could be that goed} cane att enthysiastic about for one very good rea- son: its flavor. Each glassful has kind of lip-smacking aie aroma, satisfying feel that beer have. The Schaefer brewers oflager beer for 112 years experts at. beings — will 'you? —just for the sheer enjoyment of it! |. SCHAEFER BREWING CO., NEW YORK y CARRIER-BASED SUPERSONIC JET FIGHTER PROVES ITSELF IN TEST FLIGHTS ove _ ea NAVY DISPLAYS NEW SUPERSONIC FIGHTER — After completing its first flight successfully, the Navy's new F9F-9 Tiger jet fighter taxis along the rua- way of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation's airstrip at Peconic, Long Island. The Tiger, Grumman's latest carrier-based fighter, is a completely new design and one of the world’s few combat airplanes capable of supersonic speeds in level flight. Knowland Predicts Senate Will Stay In Session To Act On Atomic Measure By WILLIAM F, ARBOGAST WASHINGTON — Sen. Knowl- and (R-Calif) said today the Sen- ate will stay in session—no matter how long it takes—to approve a compromise version of President Eisenhower's new atomic energy blueprint. | The two-week senate debate re-| quired before the bill was passed ; originally was the major. factor in wrecking congressional leaders’ hopes of adjourning July 31. They are aiming now for this Saturday. The House passed by voice vote | late yesterday a compromise ver- sion of the bill designed to spur the entrance of private industry into the field of peaceful atomic | power, and to permit sharing of| unclear secrets with U. S. allies. Knowland, the Senate Republi-' can leader, told newsmen he will) not offer any adjournment-recess | resolution until after the measure, worked out by a Senate-House con- ference committee, is passed. “The bill is going to be passed,” he said. “The Senate has voted 2-1 in favor of it and the confer- ence: report isn’t going to be. re- jected. I don’t know how much talk there will be on it. But. we are going to stay here until it is} assed.”” 2 Opponents who argue that some provisions of the bill would prove the way for monopoly in the atom- ic power field have said they re- gard as good the chances that the Senate ‘will vote to send the meas- ure back once again.to a Senate- House conference. The idea would be to revise provisions to which they object. The House took little time yes- terday in disposing of the bill, which it originally passed in a 17- hour session on July 30-31 while the Senate was in the midst of a 13-day talkfest. The major controversy row cen- ters on a provision dealing with patents on privately financed civil- ian developments in atomic ener- gy. The bill provides for the is- suance of exclusive patents, but requires that preference in issuing licenses for atomic manufacturing projects during the first five years be given to concerns that agree to share patents. Originally, the House voted for normal 17-year renewable patents with no requirement that they be shared. The Senate bill provided for a 10-year period of compulsory patent-sharing. Compromise provisions include: 1, The Atomie Energy Commis- sion may grant 40-year renewable licenses for private concerns to build and operate atomic facilities for generating civilian power, re- search facilities and medical pur- poses. The government alone may own raw materials and the AEC is authorized to guarantee a fixed price for seven years for plutoni- um, the source of A-bombs, gen- erated as byproduct of atomic power. 2. Exclusive 11-year patents, re- newable for the same period, may be granted on developments when the owner swears they were not conceived or worked out while he was operating under government auspices. 3. The AEC would be required, for five years, to give preference, in granting licenses to manufac- ture commercial atomic equip- ment to concerns which agreed to share patents for a fee. The AEC would have authority to require this for licenses to manufacture research equipment. A court, upon finding a patent being used to fur- ther a monopoly, could order that it be shared with all qualified ap- plicants. 4. The AEC, subject to congres- sional approval, could build full- scale atomic plants to demonstrate the feasibility of various reactors in producing power. Electricity from these plants would be sold to government agencies, public and private bodies and, “insofar as practicable,” preference must be given to cooperatives and publicly owned utilities. 5. The President is authorized to disclose information on the ex- ternal characteristics of atomic weapons and on civilian Power to foreign nations guaranteeing against secrecy leakage. 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