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Show - ""'snip 0 to wondip, according t0 (, z t;.tes of his own convene! " vided lhat in (he exercise t -r right hp. respects the eon. l: T of others. 1Ual H 5. We believe in the ina,. and constitutional rights speech, free press, peacable'j'' S by and petition. I 5. We believe it our dnty U Public Forum This co'umn is tor readers as long as ar :fci:rr not rraT o "eWSpapeof ti e views express- with any of the v. ,H contributions are welcome .... ...u.i-umus tfindin t3 unite church and state, th ' H may enjoy the inestimable ' i..gs or civil and rellgi0ll3 In a letter written jan ' T' 1936 by President Fran?'' Koosevelt to a Dr Alvin J0 1 I the President said, "It is 0-- l fundamental principles 0f Americanism that all rellgion 'r M ' entitled to equal respect, pj for every man to woshln rv, u , cording to the mandates 7, conscience implies the Pol, ' rr social an(i intellectual tm. o which is the very foundation J I ' national life." 0,1 (j What a difference between 1 c moeracy and the totalitarian ' 11 ciples. Is America ready J' n render these rights? Sl 1 ' he . I A BLOW AT F.ELIC-IOUS LIBERTY By G. W. States , i sketches from -rsofde-TSor how many loo, not. !,gef ,as been consecrated by the blood of fifty million martyrs. The mililary dictator of Rumania a .,n ,.nmimmities must va, eate -synagogues, hospitals, schools, unless" they can establish a mem.. !"sVo of fen- hundred in ct.es ., ,w0 hundred in i ". rei,s-Tbis rei,s-Tbis means the government will rob these people of hundreds o. Iheir Places of worship, llu'f hospitals hos-pitals and their schools. Another dc-ree named small denominations de-nominations in Rumania, such as P,Mpti'ds and Adventists, and declared de-clared the wc-.-o without reiirion and would have to associate them selves with the Catholic church or some Protestant church recognized by the state. They must have a community membership of from two hundred to four hundred before be-fore they 'could be recognized as "independent church. I wonder how long it would take before a few Mormon Elders woud be able to raise up that number for their organization or-ganization in far off Rumania Does not such a decree turn the clock of time back to the intoller-ant intoller-ant age of Rome when the Christian Chris-tian religion first came into being? Is not liberty both civil and relig-ous relig-ous the very heart and soul of our democratic institutions? There is in this country a body not large but genuinely American, known as the Religious Liberty association as-sociation having a declaration of principles which it might be well for us to study n view of the rise of this monster that is seeking to destroy every vestige of liberty. Here are some of the association's associa-tion's principles: 1. We believe in God, in the Bible Bi-ble as his word, and in the separation separ-ation of chiirfch and state. 2. We believe in civil government govern-ment as divinely ordained to protect pro-tect men in the enjoyment of their natural rights and to rule in civil things, and that in his realm it is entitled to the respectful obedience obedi-ence of al. 3. We believe it is the right, |