European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday May 31, 1963 resist reds9 Chu by John o.  West Berlin proles Liml Church Berlin a the Lender officials ship of the protestant Church it is the most sensational in East Germany has directed move made by the rust Gor its subordinates in a sensation Man protest tint Church in re Al document to resist All inter Cint times Ference in Church affair Liy the some Western experts have communist regime. Cone so fur us to compare the the Church according to Tho document with the famous bar a acumen recognizes the scr Lac men declaration of 1934 in since the Benros of Sruti Power remain in the mind  but he Church must not condone any misuse of this Power even if by Muni suf  it wild. The document which contain10 sections was unanimously adopted by n Church conference in East Germany last March a copy wha obtained by the associated press and its authenticity was confirmed by which the Church announced its Buttle against the nazis. We would act in do shed once to god if w do not sound up for truth if we remain silent when state Power is abused and if we Are not ready to obey god More than human beings the Church declared. Thai document directed Al pastors to help actively those who Are under or Casturo fro the regime because not to do Rich Telic this would be a violation of god s will and a violation of the commandments dealing wit the love of fellow Man we would also be disobedient if we silently condone the sins of our times the directive wild. This was interpreted to mean that the Church must speak out against the Wall of Berlin which div Lech thousands of loved ones. On shootings of refugees and the imprisonment of those who disagree with the regime. We act in disobedience if we silently accept that Justice is abused or destroyed because of political or economic considerations and if we do not stand up for those and suffer with those who arc threatened the Church declined. The Church also said it will $ e. Zone work toward obtaining n Law for the Protection of those who refuse to serve in the armed forces on religious grounds. The communist regime docs not recognize conscientious objectors &o.tkq&x4 jul i Tiv a up and imprisons All those who re fuse to serve in the military. The aim of the communist regime is to Force the Church out of Public life and confine us activities behind the Wall of the churches. To do this would be Irrell pastors gloss the Church said and it will therefore resist All communist attempts to restrict 1u activities. The Church in the Section entitled Tho Hopes or the Church rejected the ideology of comm. Elsm and expressed Confidence that world communism is not the end of the development of humanity. Whatever the future hold for us has already been decided by the Victory of Jesus Christ the Church document concluded. Although Church officials Heresi Iid they know that the East German communist regime was. Fully aware of the existence of the document the communist party has not yet commented on it. To worry figures on draftee illiteracy can be . Image j � Sanfrancisco Dpi James c. Hagerty vice president of the american broadcasting company has warned tha America must improve the image of itself that soon will be Broad cast instantaneously to living room television sets around the world. We in the news business Panhandle the editorial judgment he said. We can handle the mechanical problems. But its unto All the people to determine the image that will be  Hagerty was former president Dwight a Eisenhower s pres Secretary and now is Abc s vice president in charge of news Spe Cial events and Public affairs. The Day to quickly approaching he said when technology will permit the regular transmission of live television broadcasts around the world. One of the worst blemishes on the image of America he said is the racial violence of the South and other areas. People overseas Are already devoting a great Deal of attention to newspaper accounts of . Racial problems Hagerty said. What do you think the reaction is going to be when they see it live and in color he asked. Improving this image to the Job o every single american he said. This kind of broadcast ing is something that s going to happen. It s happening now with Only three communications Satel Lites. What do you imagine ingoing to happen when there Are 3s Saull test by Louis Cassels Washington up peo ple who View with alarm the current state of America s schools Are fond of citing draft rejection statistics As proof that a Large percentage of us. Youth Are pretty  technique was demonstrated last month by Secretary of labor w. Willord Wirtz who declared at a conference of Citi Zens seeking greater financial support of Public schools that 38per cent of the Young men called for the draft were rejected be cause of illiteracy. When Weru got this figure la a mystery to selective service and defense department officials but it s a familiar kind of  defense of the present generation of Young men and in the interests of accuracy it s time to put the facts on the record. Pact no. 1, according to  d. Karpinos of the army surgeon general s office is that it is wrong to assume that draftees Are a typical Cross Section of american youth. This Assumption is implicit in most of the hair Rall no statements made about rejection , or. Karpinos pointed out draftees represent Only on segment of All youths liable to military service and for various reasons they constitute a biased or unrepresentative Seg ment. Most american boys discharge their military obligation by vol usury enlistment or by signing up in various Reserve programs. Tho better qualified a lad is the Mure Likely he is to take this route rather than to wait to be Musk a Jed wow to Wiedli Bob Hope who till gom ilk. Fortyl Artmud of sixty a a pm teshe4 the the Moon Mark in Hollywood a. Quipped j i m at the a now when the candles Cost Mon the tto  portrait at right we made unit a Tew Daya ago while the a teem at left How Hope w Yean Ajro do tag one of his first net work by Douma Lor Abc. A photo  thus a sort of Cream skimming has taken place before the draft Board has a go at whats left in the manpower  into account All Ameri can youths examined by the armed forces enlisted and reservist Volunteer As Well As draftees or. Karpinos found that in recent years 13 per cent Hove been turned Down for fail ure to make a sufficiently High score on mental tests. If draftees alone Are considered the failure rate on men Tal tests is 23 per cent but another fact needs to be stressed at this Point falling the mental test does not mean that a youth is  Basic mental test administered to draftees and enlistees wily Yuga peasants upset red planning an a special report by Allan jacks Belgrade a after 18 the City years of communism the Tough yugoslav Pessant Stilt survives As a ruggedly Independent relatively successful free Farmer. Early efforts to Force him into collective or cooperatives  More recent efforts to buy him or otherwise entice him into them have been almost As unsuccessful. Today More than 5 million peasant. Still work on their own holdings. Compared with this there Are Only about 340,000 peas ants employed by cooperatives. And neither the consumer no communist party officials Are Happy about the performance of the latter. The Independent peas ant is still meeting Moat of Yugo slave a s food requirements wit higher Quality produce Belgrade s evening news afternoon edition of the govern ment Organ Boru complained recently that shoddy cooperative produce is lost on the Bel Grade Market in a sen of Rich counters of private  this situation is not new. It has been the Case Ever since the frustrated government abandoned forced collectivization 10 years ago. But it has taken nil of the determined peasant s shrewd enter prise to maintain his position. The government has thrown upon Roadblock after another but the peasant initiative has go around Over or under most of them. The abundance of his produce on the Belgrade Market is a trib Ute to his initiative since More than a year ago Belgrade barred Alt horse drawn vehicles Fronen tearing the City. It explained they created traffic and cleaning problems. The peasants now arrive in an assortment of ancient cars with trailers acquired nobody quit knows where. More recently Belgrade health authorities prohibited the inde pendent producers from Selling milk in the City. They promptly turned to yoghurt and butter. Then banned these items also for hygienic reasons. Although the government no longer attempts to pressure peas ants into collectives or cooperatives it has been trying other methods such As the sharing of proceeds or lifetime pensions to achieve this end. But none has had much effect. Private producers although limited to a maximum of 39 acres still own and work 27 Mil lion acres. Collective and Cooper Nelves hold less than 5 million acres on which Only 240,000 farm ers work. Is called the armed forces mention test aft. It ha�3 been used since 1960 and is fully designed to test not a Ion s in or How much he Learned in school but rather thu ability to absorb my Loury i ing within a reasonable of  the army refused to give i Sample questions to indicate the j relative difficulty of the test Bot a a spokesman said the test slots of 100 questions equally a i cd 41341 Ici ran a it 1c Otlm-1047c 511717uoiici am a 7vo047ici u � a Klui my Miji i Iii my nun