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FIRST VILLAGE
Prof Discovers
Site of World's
First Village
CHICAGO, 111.—Have you ever
wondered about the first time when
men gathered to live a community
life? Where was it? When did it
happen? What were the living con
ditions?
Dr. Robert J. Braid wood, associ
ate professor of old world prehistory
and anthropology at the University
of Chicago, can answer these ques
tions.
He recently returned to Chicago
from northeastern Iraq where he
and a group of associates spent a
year digging in what they believe
to be the earliest settled village in
the world.
“The. evidence we have collected
and brought back with us from the
expedition indicates that this com
munity, no bigger than r. city block,
is a landmark in the world's his
tory. For it was here where the]
great evolution from the hunting
to the agricultural state had taker
place," he said.
Atomic Calendar
Braidwood and his colleagues
brought back odd objects such at
tools, cereal foods, a variety oi
wheat, a kind of pea, and various
pottery pieces. They will be tested
on the “atomic calendar".
The calendar measured the arti
cles brought back from the firsl
Braidwood expedition to the place
in 1948 and showed it to be the old
est known village in the world. The
age of the village, as dated by the
“atomic calendar", is approximate
ly 7,000 years, or 5,000 years before^
* Christ.
What was life like in those days?
Not bad at all, says Braidwood.
The 300 residents, ancestors of
the people living in the Mediter
ranean area, lived in roomy three
or four room houses provided with
ovens, and complete with chimneys.
Floors were of clean mud, packed
over beds of reeds. Remains of
some 50 houses were dug up by the
expedition.
Used Large Houses
They also found one large house
consisting of six rooms, with a
courtyard. Braidwood believes the
house probably belonged to the
chief.
Food came from wheat, barley
and a kind of pea, as well as from
recently domesticated animals.
Bones of sheep, goats, pigs and a
small horse were found there.
Tools used were of the stone age.
There were no defense barricades
around the village and no remains
of war weapons were discovered, in
dicating a lack of enemies, or a
peaceful time, Braidwood said.
There already was a beginning of
artistic expression in this early
community. Braidwood’s party
found figurines of animals and of
“mother godessess." The party also
found portable pottery, which had
come into existence in the last third
of the village life.
“Although this was only a peas
ant economy, some trade already
existed, as well as a political and
moral order," Braidwood said.
—, P
| Crime in America
By ESTES KEFAUVER
United States Senator
Sixteen of a Series
How- the Laws Are Enforced
In Up-State New York
As the Senate Crime Committee trailed the national crime
syndicate across the country, evidence everywhere pointed in some
way to New York City. America’s largest metropolis, nerve center
for much of its financial and industrial life, also was a nerve center
of the underworld.
Our New York investigation, however, was not confined to
the city itself. Months earlier we had conducted closed sessions in
Manhattan, probing the workings of a vicious New York-New Jersey
gambling ring and the flagrant operation of gambling establish
ments upstate at Saratoga Springs. .
One result was that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who had refused
to go to Manhattan to see the
Committee, convened a special
jgrand jury to investigate the Sara
toga conditions.
In Bergen County, New ^Jersey,
just across the Hudson River from
New York City, gambling had be
come so notorious that there final
ly had been a partial crackdown.
At the time of our hearings,
only Anthony Guarini, who seemed
to have been the front man for
the ring, had been sent to jaiL
After our hearings, however, gam
bling indictments were returned
against Joe Adonis, Salvatore (Solly
Moore) Moretti, Arthur Longano
and James (Piggy) Lynch.
We questioned a Newark (N. J.)
certified public accountant, George
Goldstein, who seemed to perform
the same functions for East coast
mobsters that attorney Eugene
Bernstein performed for the Chi-
cago-Capone syndicate. He acknowl
edged that for some years he has
handled tax returns for “the New
Jersey gambling partnerships."
Profits from these various com
panies were shared by Guarini,
James Rutkin, Adonis, Gerais Ca
tena, Salvatore Moretti, and Lynch.
Actually, there is no way of tell
ing exactly how much they took in,
as Goldstein admitted he made out
tax returns from figures which
were not based on any real audit.
But one gambling company alone
admitted to gross receipts of $488,-
698 in its 1945-46 tax return.
Still another business-like facet
of the gamblers was their method
of converting into cash the sizable
checks taken from their victims.
Max Stark—since sent to jail—was
“check cashier" for the mob. Daily,
he would bring to the small Mer
chants Bank of New York City some
60 to 70 checks signed by losers at
the casinos. Over six months, the
checks came to about $5,000,000
Stark, conveniently, had become a
stockholder in the bank; he owned
10 per cent of the bank’s stock.
Danger Season Arrives
For Rural Pedestrians
CHICAGO. I1L—Being a pedestri
an in country towns and farm areas
is more dangerous now than any
other time of the year.
A safety engineer pointed out
that the death rate for rural pedes
trians was 42 per cent higher dur
ing the last three months of 1950
than the average of the first nine.
“With more cars on the road, the
pedestrian toll maj^be even worse
this year,” warned W. Dean Kee
fer, director of safety for the Kem
per group of insurance companies.
said the factors contributing
to the upsurge each year at this
time inaiude:
1. The shift from brightly colored
•summer clothing to darker fall
and winter shades. This makes it
more difficult for drivers to see
pedestrians on dark days and at
night, especially on country roads.
2. More traffic ip horns of dark
ness. The accident rate per mile
at night is three times higher than
in daylight
8. Holiday travel, shopping and
drinking contribute to make De
cember the worst month of the
year far pedestrians.
Keefer advised drivers to slow
down at dnsk, to travel at reduced
speed at sight and to watch out
for persons who are on foot
He urged pedestrians to walk
agMnst traffic on country roads
and to get off the road whenever
a vehicle approaches. When in
town, cross only at intersections
after looking both ways.
High School Students
Serve as Town Officials
ALBANY, Wis —As a part of a
better citizenship program and a
practical example of how a com
munity operates, Albany high
sohool students recently took over
the duties of village officials for
two full days.
Ballots were prepared and an
election held in the high school
Offices filled by the youngsters in
cluded village president, board
fee justice of the .peace,
ice and policemen.
Another New Jersey operator ex
amined by the Committee was
Willie Moretti. The 56-year-old old
er brother of Salvatore Moretti was
—and is—a big-time gambler, and.
more lately, part-owner of a big
laundry and linen supply company
Willie let slip a great many scraps
of information about the East coast
mou.
Willie’s talkativeness, apparently,
was not an isolated phenomenon.
Wnen rackets boss Frank Costello
was testifying months later, Ru
dolph Halley quoted transcripts of
telephone wire taps, legally ob
tained, which showed that Moretti
called Costello “chief," and that
Costello told him “. . . Rest and
don’t call me so much" . . . “Don’t
talk too v much; you know . .
Costello insisted he was just giving
a little friendly health advice to a
sick friend.
We took Willie through a list of
leading gangsters, and with only a
few exceptions, he knew them all.
Hailey: Aren’t these people . . .
what you would call rackets boys?
Moretti: Jeez, everything is a
racket today.
Halley: These people come
from a great many different cities
around the country . . . How do you
get to meet all of these people . . ?
Moretti: Well, you go to race
tracks and you go to Florida, and
you meet them; and the man that
is well known meets everybody:
you know that.
Halley asked him if he belonged
to any political clubs. “I don’t
belong to any. I am a bi-partisan,”
Moretti answered. The incredible
gambler went on to boast that he
didn’t “operate politically"—that
if he did, he might have become a
member of Congress—“maybe sit
ting where you are.” v ^
What about some old charges
filed by an established competitor,
a laundry in the same Jersey area,
that Moreti was . taking business
away from them by “strong-arm"
methods? It was all a lie, Willie
said; he did business in “a polite
way."
Even the firm that had com
plained about him now has merged
with his company. “Fortunately,
God helped me," he explained. The
BREAKFAST DID IT
president of the rival outfit “went
horseback riding, fell off the horse,
got kicked in the head .. . and died,
so his company became my part
ners."
Our examination ended on a
friendly note. He showed us a post
al card which he had made of what
he called “the Moretti estate" on
the Jersey shore. Expansively, he
told his attorney to give me the
.postal card. “Let him look at it,”
Moretti said. “Maybe he wants to
come down for dinner some time.”
And, as he left, he urged: “Don’t
forget my home in Deal if you are
down the shore. You’re invited.”
The situation which we uncov
ered in Saratoga Springs was this:
In August of 1947 Superintendent
John A. Gaffney of the New York
State Police asked that a survey be
made of gambling conditions in
Saratoga Springs. It Was established
that six wide-open casinos were in
operation, one of them backed by
William Bischoff, alias Lefty Clark,
the notorious Detroit gambler, and
Joe Adonis of New York city.
All this information was dutiful
ly transmitted to Superintendent
Gaffney. Gaffney put it in his “con
fidential file." Nothing at all was
done about it until 1950, when, be
cause of newspaper exposes and
bad publicity resulting from the
alleged trimming of a customer at
one of the casinos, orders went out
to put the lid on. The gambling was
throttled down. >
• • •
The excuse given us in many hun
dreds of words, for the existence of
this situation was, in effect, simply
this: Gambling had been going on
at Saratoga Springs for some time.
True, the state police were supposed
to enforce the law. But there was
a “policy,” it was explained, that
the state police enforce the law in
“rural areas,” not in cities that
had regularly organized police de
partments.
One of the most damaging admis
sions made by Superintendent Gaff
ney, it seemed to the committee,
was when we asked him:
Q. When you get to be the super
intendent of the state police, you
are supposed to have enough savvy
or understanding to leave it (the
gambling at Saratoga) alone, unless
you are told to go in; is that cor
rect?
Gaffney: Well, probably, yes, it
has been a policy over the years.
Behind the situation, of course,
was the complacence of the Sara
toga Springs police department of
23 men. We interrogated an in
credible local police chief, Patrick
(Paddy) Rox, who admitted that
he augmented his police earnings
by collecting $10 a night for taking
money from the bank to the Sara
toga raceway
Walter F. Ahcarn, the Saratoga
detective supposedly in charge of
supressing gambling in the resort
town, confessed that he, too, sup
plemented his pay—by $120 a week
—transporting the bankrolls and
gambling loot between two casinos
and the local bank every night
The gamblers—though, of course,
Ahearn “didn’t know" they were
gamblers—“were afraid of stick-
ups more than anything else,” he
said.
Next week: Costello A Co. of New
York.
Condensed from the book. “Crime In
America/* by Estes Kefauver. Cpr. 1951.
Pub. by Doubleday, Tne. Diet. General
Features Ccrp.—WNU.
Expert Predicts 50 Per Cent
Increase In Delinquency
CHICAGO—A 50 per cent increase
in juvenile delinquency within the
next ten years has been forecast
Dr. E. Preston Sharp, chief pf
the Division of Training Schools for
the Maryland Department of Public
Welfare, cited the increase in popu
lation as the cause for the rise in
delinquency.
He pointed out that the highest
divorce rate ever recorded was in
1946. Children of these homes of
the average age of five, he said,
were most likely to be the juvenile
delinquents of the next decade.
Steaks in Morning Intrigue Detective
DETROIT, Mich. -One tip on how
to be a successful burglar might
be the warning to never eat steak
for breakfast.
A dSt^ctive spotted two men and
a boy ►.indulging in T-bones early
one morning recently. The officer,
Conrad Konetshny, was impressed.
He Utdr-’t eat steaks in the morning
and didn’t know anyone else who
could afford to do so.
He then noticed the trio had bulg
ing pockets. He frisked them and
found a collection of barber tools
and $50 in quarters.
The steak-eaters then confessed,
the officer said, to breaking into a
barbershop and a filling station.
Held for investigation of breaking
and entering were Clarence Shelly,
22, John Rogers, 20, and a 16 year
old.
Crime in America
I By ESTES KEFAUVER H
* United States Senator
Seventeen of a Series
Costello & Co. of New York
For sheer drama, for wholesale peeling back of deceptive
camouflage, the New York City open hearings were the climax of
the Senate Committee’s crime hunt
Our final judgment on Ambassador William O’Dwyer’s official
conduct when he was Kings County district attorney and then
mayor of New York, was this:
. . Neither he nor his appointees took any effective action
against the top echelons of the gambling, narcotics, waterfront
murder or bookmaking rackets. In fact, his actions impeded prom
ising investigations of such rackets.”
O’Dwyer was questioned closely in connection with his han
dling, as district attorney, of the
wholesale homicide ring known as
Murder, Inc. A former O’Dwyer
appointee Frank C. Bals, one-time
chief investigator for District At
torney O’Dwyer and later the sev
enth deputy police commissioner
when O’Dwyer was mayor, was se
verely castigated by Senator Tobey.
The controversy was whether
O’Dwyer and Bals had mishandled
the case in such a manner as to
permit Albert (Umberto) Anasta
sia, aUeged boss of the murder
ring, to escape prosecution.
Murder, Inc., ’ which the gang
sters themselves called “The Corn-
times on charges ranging from
grand larceny to kidnaping and ex
tortion, but had paid only insignifi
cant fines.
Adonis is slick and smooth, an ex
pensively tailored figure with iron-
gray hair pdtnaded into a Holly
wood ty^e hair-do. His voice was
deep and gruff, but the words that
came from his mouth were mostly
wind y^. meaningless, legalistic
phrases which sounded like the
words of his counsel.
• • •
* A bizarre picture of still another
phase of underworld life was given
bination,” was a tightly run crime by the former Virginia Hill, now
syndicate whiph police believe was
responsible during the ’thirties for
assassinating between 120 and 130
persons throughout the country. It
has been charged publicly that An
astasia directed its execution
branch ahd that Joe Adonis was a
top leader. ju;* .
. • •'U, ■
The operations of Murder, Inc.
finally came to light when, through
confessions of underlings, police ob
tained iron-clad evidence against
Abe (Kid Twist) Relcfe, who later
admitted he actually carried out
the murders under Anastasia’s or
ders. Reles made a deal with
O’Dwyer to turn informer in ex*
change for leniency. Information he
gave sent eight men to the chair
and some 50 others to prison.
But before Kid Twist could testify
against Anastasia, who was eluding
arrest, the Informer met a mysteri
ous death. Reles was under pro
tective custody, not in jail, but in
the suite of a Coney Island hotel.
Early one morning while supposed
ly guarded by six policemen, Reles.
fully clothed, went out of his hotel
window and was found dead five
stories below. Out the window with
him went the case against Anasta
sia.
Bals admitted that Reles was
so frightened of gang reprisals that
it was unlikely he intended to es
cape; also that ‘lie was too much
of a coward to commit suicide."
When Senator Tobey, who later
declared he believed Reles must
have been thrown from the window,
demanded an explanation of what
had happened, Bals finally came up
with the remarkable theory that the
killer-informer must have intended
to climb down one floor on a knitted
bed sheet, come in a window and
then trot back ,up to “kid around"
with his guards, who had fallen
asleep.
• • •
Even O’Dwyer later said he could
not go along with Bals on the
“peek-a-boo” theoiy.
The fact remained that somehow,
whether through carelessness or
design, not only was the star wit
ness against Anastasia eliminated,
but Anastasia himself never was
apprehended, although the Com
mittee learned that he actually was
serving in the United States Army
—and the fact was no secret—dur
ing part of the time he was sup
posed to be a fugitive.
Moreover, another O’Dwyer ap
pointee, James Moran, then chiei
clerk of the district attorney’s of
fice, had caused withdrawal from
police files of the “wanted notice"
cards for Anastasia and other Mur
der, Inc., fugitives.
Anastasia, who entered this coun
try by illegally jumping ship now
is a partner in a prosperous dress
manufacturing business in Hazel-
ton, Pa., and lives in a $65,000
home in New Jersey. He replied,
“I don’t remember" when we asked
him to name any occupation he
had engaged in between 1919 and
1942.
• » *
As for Joe Adonis, the commit
tee found him one of the toughest,
most contemptous of all the racket
eers we questioned. Like others,
Adonis knew all the big boys of
crime, and followed the gangster
circuit of Miami in the winter. Hot
Springs (“for d’ bat’s." be told
us) in the Spring.
This man with blood-stained
hands for, years had set himself u#
as bigger than the law and was
able to get away with it—until, in
the wake of the Committee hear
ings, he was sent to prison on the
New Jersey gambling charges. Pre
viously. he had been arrested many
THING TO DO’
Mrs. Hans Hauser, the once-strik
ing, erstwhile consort of the mur
dered Bugsy Siegel and other gang
sters. The strain of the life she
had led since she ran away to Chi
cago at 17 from her little Alabama
town has taken «ts toll. Now 35, and
plumpish she no longer is the cap
tivating figure who once ,-charmed
such gangsters as Siegel: Adonis
and Frank Costelld. r
She told a fantastic story of how
she collected an annual income that
ran into thousands of dollars from
“the men I was around’’—only, she
indignantly insisted,, they “were not
gangsters or racketeers."
When she began living with the
late Ben Siegel—her eyes flashed
indignantly when Counsel Halley
referred to him as “Bugsy"—the
gifts ran into big money and even
“a house in Florida" costing
$49,000.
Halley questioned Miss Hill about
a famous six weeks she spent at
Sun Valley, where, incidentally, she
met her latest husband, a skiing in
structor. In six weeks, she squand
ered $12,000—all but $1,500 of it
paid in cash. Most of the money
came from some Mexican gentle
men whose names she refused to
reveal as Halley suggested, “out of
chivalry."
Her income tax return shows that
she used to report large winnings
from betting on the horses, any
where from $15,000 to $24,000. “I
didn’t keep any books or accounts
or anything, but I paid what I
thought was right," she explained.
When Halle? suggested that this
sort of tax reporting might seem a
little irregular to Uncle Sam, she
peevishly snapped: “Well, then,
he’ll have to take care of that,
won’t he?"
. “Uncle Sam? Maybe be will
Mrs. Hauser," Halley said.
“Well," she retorted in her tough
little voice, “that’s all right, sure.
I don’t blame him."
If Bugsy or Joe Adonis or any
of her friends would start to talk
business around her, she testified,
she would just get up and walk
away. “Whether you believe it or
not," she flared at Halley. “I don’t
know anything about their business
. , . I didn’t want to know."
Of all the witnesses from the
crime world summoned before us
in New Yoijk, Frank Costello was
thf focal point of interest.
“No, Mr. ’Halley," Costello said
toward the ?nd 'of his long exam
ination when counsel asked him if
he supported a certain judge’s can
didacy. “Since the Aurelio case I
burned my fingers once and I nev
er participated in any candidates."
• • •
It was not a convincing picture
that Costello sought to paint of his
lack of political Influence. ‘There
can be no question," the committee
concluded “that Frank Costello has
exercised a major influence upon
the New York County Democratic
organization^ Tammany Hall, be
cause of his persona] friendships
snd working relationships with its*
Officers and with Democratic dis
trict leaders even today in ten of
the sixteen Manhattan districts.”
Next week: Smashing the Crime
Syndicate.
Condensed from the book. “Crime In
America/* by Estes Kefauver. Cpr. 1951.
Pub. by Doubleday, Ino. Dlst. General
Features Corr -WNU.
Window Sills
Window sills made from dark
wood that are rain spattered and
warped are unsightly and hinder
complete closing of windows. Rem
edy this by rubbing with a coat of
boiled linseed oil.
Company Makes History, Army Refund
PHILADELPHIA—The tool mak
ing firm in the Philly area that vol
untarily gave the army a refund of
$6,126 on an ordnance corps contract
did so because it was 'the moral
thing to do.”
Harry E. Hyde, regional head of
the Philadelphia ordnance district
said that the company was Greene,
Tweed and Co. of nearby North
Wales.
Hyde said that the company had
obtained a contract for 1,200 bogu
wrench asseinblies on a competitive
bidding basis at a price somewhat
over $50 eac . The assemblies are
used by the arfny for self-propelled
artillery mounts.
The company produced each unit
for $5.18 less than the expected sum
after making what it considered fair
profit.
Clara Belle
Town's Population Zero
CLARA BELLE, Canada —
Clara Belle must be considered
a “railroad town" because it
has a station and is well known
to mining equipment manufac
turers in the United States and
Canada, but it has no inhabi
tants.
There are conflicting stories
that the town was named for a
woman or a cow. Although the
town it known to railroad men
and shippers in this country and
Britain, few persons in the
near-by town of Sudbury, in
northern Ontario, have heard of
it.
The five-man station that com
prises the town is tucked be
hind the International Nickel
Company’s smelter at Copper
Cliff.
Railroad lines funnel into
Clara Belle from seven direc
tions, and because the cars from
the smelter often carry such
high-priced items as platinum,
Clara Belle does a business val
ued at millions of dollars a
year.
Town Builds Parking
Lots Aimed to Lure
Back Local Trade
RYE, N.Y.—Like many commu
nities across the country. Rye has
had a serious parking and traffic
problem. The town has just com
pleted a major operation on some!*
of the back yards of the city’s
blighted business district that is
aimed at increasing the local trade
by $4,000,000 a year.
The program is the establishment
of “car parks", the first two of
which were dedicated recently.
They are located behind stores on
the main shopping thoroughfare.
Two more such parks will be con
structed next year.
To accomplish the transformation
the town condemned and demolished
20 residential properties and two
small commercial establishments at
a cosj in excess of $200,000. Then it
spent $55,000 to construct the car
parks. [ ,-, rt
Trees will shade each of the 270
stalls and decorative shrubbery and
flowers will be set in the stone
curbs that divide the parking fields
into small sections for easier ac
cess to particular stores. That part
of the program was developed with
the help of the Garden Club of Rye
which is contributing much of the
greenery.
The decision to rehabilitate the
business sector stemmed from grow
ing complaints of lack of parking
facilities. The main shopping thor
oughfare is a narrow traffic trap.
There were only a few isolated lots
near the stores and local residents
were going to other communities
for many items obtainable at home.
Some housewives were even doing
their day-to-day food shopping in
other communities.
With the new Car parks the mer
chants hope lost trade will return,
and they are doing their part by re
building the rears of their, shops to
form an attractive back-drop for thJ
parking lots.
To insure the continuing attrac
tiveness of the free municipal park
ing areas the town adopted an ordi
nance that not only bars commer
cial advertising signs but requires
merchants wishing to identify their
locations to submit the designs to
an architectural board of review
for approval
Taxi Driver Wins Award
For Boosting Home Town
BURLINGTON, Iowa—Pride in
his home town and a zeal for tell
ing people about it, earned a Bur
lington taxi driver a special award
from the Chamber of Commerce in
that community. Paul Brown was
the honored individual and be re
ceived an engraved fountain pen ft
luncheon with the chamber board.
Brown had as his customers re
cently two gentlemen who were
stopping overnight in Burlington
while on industrial site inspection
trip through the middle west. Bur
lington itself was not actually on
the list.
After overhearing his passengers
conversation about new industry.
Brown got in a pitch tor his own
town and did it so effectively that
he induced the men to visit die local
chamber and give Burlington con
sideration.
It is possible now that Burlington
will get the new industry.
County Board Asks Notes
Of Local Newspapermen
WAMPSVTLLE, N.Y.—The Madi
son county supervisors have estab
lished a public relations committee
and have asked newsmen covering
meetings of the group to show their
notes taken at meetings to the com
mittee.
The committee chairman said the
request was “not a formal demand"
and was designed to see that the re
porters all have the story.
Newsmen who attended the meet
ing in the community of approxi
mately 300 said they would cooper
ate “to a certain extent."
One of the supervisors hastened
to explain that the committee was
not a censorship board of the local
press. He added that it was ap
pointed to “sift and assimilate the
news and to enlighten the general
public on phases 'of the ^board’s
work."
BY DR KENNETH i. FOREMAN
......
SCRIPTURE: John
v DEVOTIONAL READING: Isaiah
1—7*
How to find Christ
for January 6, 1952
tell
N OT every one finds Christ In
just the same way. This was
true at the beginning and it is still
true. A very interesting recei.t book
is, "These Found the Way," edited
by Dav^f W. Soper. (Westminster
Press, Philadelphia,
$2.50.) It contains
the stories oi a doz
en modern persons
who have become
Christians. No two
of then! ,h*Yjl the
sazpa story to
yet there is
thing in
among a& Of them.
Each of them in Dr. Foreman
some way has
“found" Christ It ts a mistake to
think that all Christiens must bo
cost in the same mold, or that each
of us must plant his feet exactly to
the footprints (for example) of St
Paul
• * • •
Sensational Conversions
A T the beginning of John’s gos
pel we find the story of One
son after anothas, who FottOifed
Christ. Jhere is only ol
who believed In "Jesus oh the basis
of what could «be called a “super
natural" experience. This was John
the Baptist. He testified that he had
“seen the Spirit" (that is. God’s
Spirit) coming upon Jesus.
Now you cannot “see" the Spirit
in the same- way you can see a
fence-post. Even if you take the
story in the most literal w«y, and
take it to mean that the Spirit had
taken the visible' form of a dove,
tbe question still Is there: How
would John know that this particular
dove was not a dove, but the Holy
Spirit?
Whatever yon make of it,
John was an exception. All the
others in the story became fol
lowers of Jesus through some
one’s word, suggestion, invita
tion; some one introduced them
' to Christ. That still is true.
Very few people who are Chris
tians today started out with some
vision in the sky, spine vision of a
dove or an ailgel or pf Christ him
self (like Paul later on).
• • • / , , „
Simpler Cases
r UST.as likely, it was not spec
tacular at all (Most of the con
versions recorded in the New Testa
ment were not in the' least spec
tacular.) •> w
It was some one- saying, “Let’s
go te church,” or it was a Sunday
school teacher saying, “BiU, isn’t
it time you accepted Christ for your
self?" or a girl sayLg, “How can
I marry a fellow that isn’t even a
Christian?” It may be reading a
tract or it may be listening to some
one’s testimony in a prayer meet
ing, it might be reading that book
about how some in our time have
“found the way”,—or it might even
be reading this column.
However it comes about, two
things are always true. First,
some one introduces yon to
Jesus. Then, yon make the de
cision for yourself. Yon are not
likely to come to Christ unless
some one else suggests it and
helps you; but no other person
however good, and no church
however great and true, can do
for yon whpft yon alone can do
for yourself: make up your own
mind to say "Yes" to Jeans
Christ. s'
Nowadays much is said about
“Fellowship Evangelism”. There is
nothing mysterious about it.' For
instance, a man who has never
thought about becoming a Christian
and perhaps no intention of bping
one, joins (say) a men’s club at
seme church . and one thing
leads to another, and he gets ac
quainted in this way with the min
ister or with some one else who has
had a real and happy experience
with Christ . . . and presently his
heart is stirred and he toe becomes
a Christian— because he has onade
Christian friends. i
• • •
Saying a Good Word
Y ET it is a strange thing: many
people will talk about anything
else they believe in, before they will
talk about Jesus Christ.
: Suppose that from the begin
ning every one had boon as
close-mouthed about Him as
most church members are? Si
mon Peter, for one, would never
have become a Christian. If It
had not been for his brother An
drew, who knows what would
have become of Simon Peter?
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himself. First-rate things, ideas or
persons always sell themselves. But
even the finest articles in the world
need to have their story told, they
have tp be introduced, people have
to know about them. Every church,
every Christian, ought to be (in tbe
best sense) advertising Christ. Is
yours? Are you?
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