Uintah Basin Standard | 1960-10-06 | Page 2 | The Need of Spirituality

The need of spirituality BOTH CANDIDATES for the exalted office of President of the United States President Richard M. Nixon and Senator John F in campaign have called for greater spirituality among the American and is it any ONLY ONE OCT OF 12 AMERICANS attend church with any degree of Only one out of seven actively supports any church at SEVEN OCT OF EIGHT CHILDREN quit church and Sunday School attendance before they reach the age of Americans spend eight times more hours in movie houses than at Sunday ON NATIONAL we spend up to on liquor and to every given to church AMERICA TODAY HARBORS three times as many criminals as college students The FBI reports that three major crimes are committed every 40 There arc 60 suicides in our country every There are more barmaids m America than college THE VICE PRESIDENT and the Senator do well to remind us of our waning spirituality- our anemic regard for moral principles suppose all of us who have endorsed the policies and platforms of the adopt the one with which they are in perfect accord a program of developing a greater spirituality among American people