The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1966 Page: 4 of 8
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Pfeffe Four
Friday, October 28, 1966
THE MEGAPHONE
MEGAPHONE
ESTABLISHED
It is the duty of the press to protect free expression of
ideas and promote freedom of intellect.
Temporal vs Spiritual
Last week’s issue of Life Magazine carried an article entitled,'
“Churches Take a Cue from Show Biz.” This particular article
showed the new trends in worship from a folk or jazz Mass to a
dialogs with a ventriliquist’s dummy.
Without a doubt there will be a stirring among the conservative
churchmen and fundalmentalist churches. No longer are the
church walls a barrier to the life of the twentieth century. No
( longer can one go back in the Golden Yesteryear through the re-
ligious time tunnel In the modern church the Christian is faced
I with his present way of life even in the dark recesse sof God’s
House.
Today’s young people are finding little if any meaning in the
slow monotoned sermons of yesteryear. To them the Church is as
antiquated as the horse and buggy and is to be looked on as a relic
but not as a living vital force in their fast moving generation.
Jesus told his disciples to go out into the world ancTpreach and
teach the Good News; he did not say how to go about doing it. The
Church has the idea that if anything is done long enough somehow
it becomes sacred and should not be changed or questioned.
The Church is a growing, living organism and to try to stop its
growth and change is to kill it. What is 'being done in today’s
churches is not a changing of the Christian message but rather
its old form of presentation. The church must relate to its age and
as it stands now the Church is trying to relate to the nineteenth
century.
John Wesley met the people of Englnad where they were in the
streets, in homes, anywhere he found them. He was a revolutionary
in the stale Church of England. Yet he was successful where as
the Angelican Church was not. Now Wesley is practically a saint.
Malcolm Boyd goes to a night club and talks to an audience. He
meets the people where they are— he is classified an outcast by the
little white church on the corner. One wonders if the Church 'will
ever learn from history.
"If they put on a little more weight, I'll be able to touch them . . ."
U.N, 21st Anniversary
This week marks the twenty-first anniversary of the ratifica-
tion of the United Nations Charter. The representatives of 51
nations met in San Franciso and signed the charter on October 24,
1945. The career of the IJN has been a stormy one. It has been
called both a success and a fail ire.
The foundation of the UN was laid in the summer and fall of
1944 at the Dunbarton Conference in Washington. Representatives
of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and
the Nationalist Republic of China met to establish an organization
of nations for the maintainence of world peace.
The background of the United Nations goes beyond the year
1944. Its basis is found in the desire evidenced throughout history
to maintain the channels of open discussion whose existance is a
major deterrant to war. For war is the result of a breakdown of
communication— it is the lowest form of debate. The desire for a
world body to promote peace is found in the Quintuple Alliance of
1818 and later in the League of Nations.
The United Nations has run the gaunlet of political bigotry dur-
ing its twenty-one years of existance. It has been the whipping
boy of those who are unable to comprehend the purpose of the
world body and its function as a war deterrent.
Unfortunately many citizens of the United States— and Texas
in particular— have been quilty of fostering blind unreasonable
hatred toward the United Nations.
In October 1963 former UN Ambassador Adali Stevenson was
spat upon and attacked by an unruly crowd in Dallas. Such ex-
pressions of bigotry are not things of the past. Tuesday night UN
Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg was met at S(MU by what was de-
scribed by the Daily Texan as a “huge, yelling crowd.”
There is a growing understanding of the new role of the State
in the Nuclear Age— it is found in the halls and conference rooms
of the United Nations and among the next generation on college
campuses. This understanding is expressed thru the many Model
United Nations organizations in the American university communi-
ty. In Texas there are such student organizations at Texas Christ-
ian University, the University of Texas, and among several
of the larger high schools. Southwestern University counts itself
among this list.
The new role of the State in the latter half of the twentieth cen-
tury is co-operation. It is a role of co-operation among the de-
veloped and undeveloped nations— large and small, regardless of
political belief. We have done so much to end religious bigotry—
now we must deal with political bigotry. The United Nations is the
avenue toward this end.
President Kennedy and Johnson both made this point clear—
there will be no victors in another world war. Nations are no long-
er can afford the luxury of suspicion and fear of one another. Con-
trary to Clausewitz, war can no longer be used as an instrument
of national policy.
The United Nations represents the hope of man's survival as a
civilized rational being.
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Texas, 78626. issued weekly during the school yeai except for official recess.
Entered at the post office at Georgetown, Texas 78626 as second class mail matter
September 26, 1906. under special prevision of Act of March 3, 1879, and ac-
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