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DAVID POLING
Keep Holy Land Peaceful:
Challenge to U.S. Churches
By DAVID POLING
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
The 1967 war in the Holy Land will have an effect on this
country that reaches far beyond the military, political and
geographic considerations now being discussed.
What will emerge is a whole new look at our policy for the
Middle East. Israel has struggled for 20 years to gain accept
ance in a hostile Arab world, always with our blessing and
sometimes with our support.
But the question that remains unanswered is the avenue of
approach to be taken by the Christian churches. In short,
will the church now offer leadership and show moral concern
for the broken Arab community? The Christian’s love for
Israel must not exclude compassion for the Arab states.
But as churchmen plan their strategy for the whole Middle
East, note the traditional mood of the Christian community
in the United States:
• An emotional attachment to Jerusalem, Galilee, Naza
reth and Mount of Olives where Jesus was first known.
• A historic interest in the lands of the Old Testament,
tracing the ancient sites of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
• A fellowship of Jewish and Christian scholars in archae
ological projects and a continuing excitement in the theolo
gical meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
• A pilgrim’s desire to be in Bethlehem at Christmas and
to spend Holy Week in Jerusalem.
• A deep moral commitment to insure the future of a
Jewish homeland.
Now the victory of Israel over the Arab states has brought
tremendous change to the thinking of Christians in America.
Israel is do longer a frail, struggling state in a hostile Arab
continent
Conservative religious groups in this country have seen the
Jews as objects to be prayed for, pitied and prosletized. The
hard core of this group slips into antisemitism and the lunatic
fringe does it eagerly for fun and profit—all in the name of
Christ! Fortunately, the. main line denominations in this
country have discredited this pseudo-evangelism.
The tour business to the Middle East is for the moment
dead. Christians tour Jordan and Lebanon as well as Israel.
These frontiers will probably not be settled for some time
and the tour business has no real substitute.
Archaelogical activities are suspended. Although there are
Hebrew scholars “in residence,” a tremendous amount of
money and manpower has come from as far away as Japan
and America. This cannot go on during periods of crises or
conflict.
A reawakening to the Arab plight with emphasis on a
solution for the 1.5 million Palestinian refugees who have
been rotting in relief camps for 20 years. What will the
churches do? Will it be more overseas aid, more personnel
for health and assistance? Does it means a large relocation
program in this country for those Arabs willing to resettle?
Would Israel be encouraged to absorb these people into her
culture? (already there are 300,000 Arabs living in Israel).
Whatever the answers, the next decade will be a point of
real testing for the Christian church. If the problems we
have mentioned are not solved, then the Holy Lands will
ignite again and again. Surely a good part of the failure will
rest with those who did not respond in the Middle West, the
heart of America.
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Skills acquired over a lifetime, often wasted among the
old, have been awakened to a new purpose in a Jewish
rest home at Atlanta, Ga. Women residents spend Friday
of each week baking "chollah," a braided bread eaten by
Jewish families at dinner on the Sabbath.
Success of the weekly
baking is evident in the en
thusiasm with w h i c h it is
done. The sense of depend
ency and futility which so
many rest home residents
feel is eased by the feeling
of usefulness among the
ladies, who prepare the
bread for their families out
side. The bakers include
Mrs. Kate Weinberg, 102,
who bakes for her "boy," who
is in his 80's. Some do the
work at the table while sit
ting in wheel chairs. "Come
Friday they're ready and
anx io u s," says George
Landsman, director of pro
gram and development, "ft's
like being at home again,
baking on Fridays," chortles
one of the ladies, while an
other says nothing, just sings
and smiles as she braids the
dough.
Guard Called Out To
Quell Fire Bombings
CAIRO, 111. (UPD—A detach
ment of National Guard troops
were called out today to help
quell a wave of fire bombings in
a racially mixed section of this
town of nearly 10,000 persons.
The news secretary for Gov.
Otto Kerner said in Springfield,
111., that 50 men from the Ist
Battalion of the 130th Infantry
had been ordered in to aid Cairo
police.
Molotov cocktails were hurled
Malta’s Economy
Hurt By Israeli,
Egyptian War
By GERRY LOUGHRAN
VALETTA, Malta (UPD—
This sun - splashed Mediter
ranean isle has become one of
the casualties of the Arab-
Israeli war.
Specifically, the loss of
business at its ship-repair yards
has dealt Malta a second
savage economic blow this year,
following Britain’s decision to
cut down its armed forces on
the 17-mile-long island.
When the slx-aay war flared
1,200 miles away last month,
one effect was to close the Suez
Canal and send cargo ships and
tankers round Africa’s Cape of
Good Hope.
The situation took on the
proportions of a national crisis.
The drydocks are the largest
single employer of Maltese
labor and give work to 5,000
men in the Island’s 320,000
population. Most are engaged on
ship-repair work.
At this time of year, there
normally would be most work,
with tankers coming in for
repairs in the summer months.
Attempts are being made to
ease the situation.
Prime Minister D.R. George
Griffin Hospital Care
Association, Inc. •
(Sponsored and approved by
the Griffin - Spalding County
Hospital.)
Paid claims in the amount of
$15,575.24 during the month
of June.
F. L. BARTHOLOMEW, JR.
Secretary
Jn eyes and accidents
Eye accidents occur at the rate of
IK about two a minute during every
IjCS. working day. Accidents caused as a
■ result of poor vision are also very
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in the night, setting fire to one
store owned by a white man
and a lumber yard.
Officials said nearly all of the
fires appeared to have been set
by Molotov cocktails and that
many of the blazes were just
the bombs themselves.
Police refused comment.
Preston Ewing, head of the
Cairo chapter of the National
Association for the Advance-
Borg Olivier told the House of
Representatives that the British
government will send a royal
fleet auxiliary tanker to refit in
Malta instead of to a British
yard.
Dockyard officials said this
would provide 500 men with
work for a month. For the other
shipyard workers, there is little
chance of work. Unemployment
is a chronic Maltese problem.
There is potential damage to
other sectors of the economy.
Exports to North Africa and
the Middle East already have
been hit and are unlikely to
return to normal until the
Middle East crisis has been
settled.
A rise in oil prices would hurt
the island.
Oil companies are paying
vastly increased freight rates
for chartered tankers and an
increase in prices would be one
way of offsetting these costs.
The main question for Malta,
however, is how long the canal
will stay closed.
Mad for Mode
NEW YORK (UPD — The
“Mod” mood in home furnish
ings no longer can be called a
fad, but is a “full blown wind of
change.” So reports one organ
ization, the Latex Foam Rubber
Council, which keeps tab on fur
nishings trends “Mod” has
brought “fresh air . . . new
verve” to designs in textiles,
wallpaper, floor coverings, fur
niture and accessories, says the
council. “Mod” shows in elec
trical colors, bold splashes of
black and white on shiny surfac
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ment of Colored People, said
. the trouble began about 9:30
p.m. and the area was quiet by
early today.
“I can’t understand why they
have called out the National
, Guard,” he said. “If you bring
those armed men in here—that
could be a bad situation.”
Ewing said the trouble was
not started by just a single
incident Tuesday, but was a
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continuation of the trouble
which began with the death
Sunday of a Negro soldier being
held in the jail for the Army on
charges of being AWOL.
“We have reason to think that
he did not hang himself,” said
Ewing, “but that he was a
victim of police brutality. They
had him out of there and
embalmed before anyone was
told he was dead.”
Ewing said the trouble area
encompassed about 10 square
blocks in a racially mixed
section bordering the Negro
community.
He said most of the unrest
that has gripped Cairo, capital
of the cotton-growing district
stemmed from housing discri
mination.
CIGARETTE WARNING
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (UPI)
— Federal Communications
Commissioner Kenneth Cox
suggested Monday that Congress
eventually may ban all ci
garette advertising.
Cox told the annual conven
tion of the South Carolina
Broadcasters Association that
health warnings on cigarette
packages “have had no effect”
on the public and self-imposed
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Cox based his information on
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cigarette advertising.