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SERIOUS DANGER WARNING ISSUED
Belgrade, Feb. 27.
The Serbian Orthodox Church has launched ju drive against what it calls the serious danger of proselytising activities by Protestant sects, who are winning over many of its believers.
! Its leaders, representing the largest church in Yugoslavia with over 6,000,000 members, maintain that any further split in the ranks of Christians ander the country's atheistic regime is deeply to he regretted.
Protestant churches, such as the Episcopalian Church The danger in their view comes not from the big in the United States, the Church of England,
or the
Lutherans, but from less numerous sects like Nazarencs Mail
and Adventista.
Serbian Orthodox Christiana, According to Orthodox priests,
not prepala a beaking tee in fact, enjoy friendly_relations the Adventists are much more
of 50 contain charged.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Indk Middle East, Afrion, Great Destin & Europe, ..
No one would suggest that the Advenusts were in any way pro-Government. Nevertheless. They have been able to obtain some significant favours from the civil authorities, id Ther church ofetals describe ¡tions with the Government
un the whole satisfactory,
Adventat schoolchildren art allowed by Government decree
school mern-to lay away from
Saturday, their day of worship. An order to the armed forces, signed by the Foreign Minister, Mr Koce
In Popvic,
The days
wor Chief of General Staff, lella with commanders to exempt Adven-land. 1 p.m. their relations
conscripts from
parades on
Today Adventist Church off cials clain about 30.000 bers with 320 churches through- out the country
The Orthodox Bishops are not in open conflet with the Com-
on
maust Government us is the when, S Colonel-General, he
Itoman Catholic However,
leadership.
the Government are fur from harmonious
tist
and the Orthodox Saturdays whenever possible.
Foreign Bishops have
observers believe that tu refused
Government, the Government-the
in order to recognise
weaken religion as a whole, is sponsored priests' associations,
favouring the At recent meeting of the interested Orthodox priests near Belgrade smaller churches of the expense the
Serbian of the larger ones.-Chan Mail Patriarch
of the Church, Vikenuje, said that the Speeni. prosely using
activities of Pro-
testant sects had become a very
serious problem.
stack now "We must stand Armly on our
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A threatened crisis
Rome, Feb. 27.
in
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Antiquated New York Laws
New York, Feb. 27.
The repeal of antiquated New York State laws which date back to what he calls the "civil war and hoopiskirt ern" is being sought by Mr Thomas Desmond, Republican Senator of the State legislature in Albany.
Mr Desmond, who is Chairman of the State Senate's Committee on 'Affairs of Cities, declared: “The statute books are loaded down with laws that are century
obsolete, laws which were adopted half A ago and are now forgotten, and laws that provide antiquated restrictions on cities, valuable only to slick lawyers in search of loop-holes."
cities.
The statutes which Mr Des- 3. A 73-year-old low forbid- mond is seeking to end affect❘ ding anyone to urge a worker not to work for or to leave the employ of a rallway because it requires that they shall wear a uniform.
CLEAR THE BOOKS
• He began his campaign when the 1955 Bersion opened by Introducing bill. "to
clear the booke" of these "outmoded” laws:
Buffalo,
B. A 45-year-old law banning the sale or transfer of tickets of the People's Institute, a pubile forum group, reported to have
years ago.
1. A 62-year-old law requir-gone out of business at least 20 ing New York City, Albany, Rochester, Schenectady, 9. A 24-year-old law requir- Yonkers and ing buildings of two floors or free Troy
establish
public more to have illuminated floor baths with running hot water, numbers on each floor, a re and open 14 hours a day.
quirement widely ignored.
Utica, Syracuse,
the government of Pre- 2. A 48-year-old law requir
10. A 50-year-olți înw requir« mier Mario
aping mayors of second-class cities
ing second tiasa cities to appoint averted
cabinet meetings of peared
tonight to call
district health oficials who heads each month when the quarrelling department
must give free medical treat- Italian Liberal Party in and keep minutes of such meet-ment to those recommended by
averseers of the poor, would accept dicated
1. A 43-year-old law pro- abolished decades ago. Signor Scelba's settlement
viding
for establishment by explosive land cities of colonies for inebriates.
of the
kt
tenancy problem.
of
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"Continued study of state lawn,"
Desmond Senator wald, "indicate far MOTO antique laws
then were previously uncovered. There amazing amount of Legislativo litter' lefs on the
Valetta, Feb. 27. Maltoso, in their beat clothes, went to Sunday the polls in a carnival-like
4. A 54-year-old law requir atmosphere today on the
of second
the island'a Meeting in a stormy Nation-ing police natrons to three election days.
al Council here to debate the commended by at least "twenty
women of good standing." Women wearing hoods and proposed land reform contracts, capes queued on one side of the the 173 delegates
the 5. A 39-year-old law fixing booths. Men In
and their best
strategic little Liberal Party at the salaries of Aldermen sandals formed
by Zea-waistcoats, and
Mayora
state law at 500 showed
signs up on the other in accordance first
dollars to 700 dollars (about with Melta's traditional segrega- knuckling down under a loom- £170-E240) for aldermen, and
Banner-decked
cars spering crisis in the govenument.
5,000 dollars to 5,500 dollars past the polling stations releas
(about £1,000 £2,200) Finally, an order of the day Ing showers of coloured elec-
mayors. tion leaflets most of them collect was drawn up proposing accep- ed by small children. They are tance of the Scelba project. It 6. A "fugitive slave" law of person not allowed to stop within a contained
face-saving civil war origin barring the sale certain distance of the stations clauses and appeared to selisty of services of a kidnapped slave
Reuter.
everyone-United Press.
or other kidnapped person.
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
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DARNED IF THAT LOOKS LIKE IT SNAPPED. MORE LIKE IT WAS OUT!
SOMETUINO EXCLUSIVE. Collee declared. Stating that
hat sects are LUTA packets ut assorted staan "recruiting members with the South help of ald parcels of food and China Morning Post Ltd Wyndham clothing
from abroad, the Street and Salisbury Road, Kowloon, Patriarch adited that the poor and also people distressed by NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES family quarrels and mishaps are
singled out as likely converts
At the same ume, he told priests not to be aggressive in their opposition to Christion sects.
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CONFERENCES
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The meeting decided Institute regular three monthly conferences to dia- curs progress in the drive sgainst what 11 esila "scetarianisin."
Bishop Vasilje of Banja Luka in Bosnia, at 47 оле of the younger and more energette Church leaders, complained in a magazine article that Orthodox priests are merely passive observers of
this proselytisation.
process
of
This
propaganda is sprend among us with great curining. We do not take any measures to For the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the
forestall or counteract the dis- semination of this sectarian CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication, spiritual poison," he declared.
Special
priests
in
Orthodox
must be their visiting Announcements more active and Classified Advertise parishioners at home to keep monte as usual.
their Orthodox faith, alive.
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Other "cobweb" laws
Desmond will try Senator repent include a 74-year-old hw authorising cities to licenso rotailing goods from boats along the canal; a 44- your old law requiring that all cornices shall be run straight Lue
ald bureaux
and smooth" in the buliding of tenements, apartments and public buildings; and e. 35-year- old law Betting up munici
provide hand-outs for indigent people and to list all unemployed, job now done by local welfare departments and state employ- ment service offices.
"This drive is part of 'Opera- tion Home Rule said Senator Desmond. We plan to try to clear this legislative refuse, which needlessly restricts cities, off the statute books, Relics of the gas-light era, products of the
hundin-bar. whers Date moustaches were in vogue, these statutes are now obscured by the cobwebs of time.
This 'Repeni Law" movement la long overdue.. Emphasis in continually on. Casting ner. statutes laws. And while now aro often needed to keep up with modern day problems, there is equal need to remove the
obsolete laws of a bygonu
era.
.:
USED TO EMBARRASS
"Antiquated laws, to tally out of step with reality und present-day living, are stiil law nonetheless. Sometimes they can be used to em- barras municipal officers or to disrupt the orderly ad- ministration of the governi ment and justice, "Almost alwaye they violated and enforced. Wholesale
Ignored,
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bf an unenforceable law lends to lessening respect for law and law enforcement agencies. Need- Icss laws should not be carried on the statute books for over. If we do not intend to enforce them, they should be repcated".
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