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ifiAo 1111(011 n 111 olvv t July 22, 1969 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE LAKE UNION CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Volume LXI Number 28 tifkg, WYWOK Vol. LX, No. 20 GORDON 0. ENGEN, Editor JOCELYN FAY, Assistant Editor MRS. SUE HENSON, Circulation Services EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: F. W. Wernick, Chairman; W. F. Miller, Vice-Chairman; Gordon Engen, Secretary. CORRESPONDENTS: Eston Allen, Illinois; M. D. Oswald, Indiana; Xavier Butler, Lake Region; Ernest Wendth, Michigan; Melvin Rosen, Jr., Wisconsin; Mrs. Lois Zach- ary, Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital; Horace Show, Andrews University. NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS: All articles, pictures, obitu- aries, and classified ads must be channeled through your local conference correspondent. Copy mailed directly to the HERALD will be returned to the conference involved. MANUSCRIPTS for publication should reach the Lake Union Conference office by Thursday, 9 a.m., twelve days before the dote of issue. The editorial staff reserves the right to withhold or condense copy depending upon space Entertainment was provided at a rally on the campgrounds before the march to the available. Michigan capitol began. ADDRESS CHANGES should be addressed Circulation De- partment, Lake Union Herald, Box C, Berrien Springs, Mich. 49103. Always give full name, old address, and new address. If possible, send address label from an old issue. Please allow of least two weeks for change to become effective. NEW SUBSCRIPTION requests should be addressed to the treasurer of the local conference where membership is held. Conference Directories LAKE UNION CONFERENCE Box C, Berrien Springs, Mich. 49103 (616) 473-4541 President F. W. Wernick Secretary-treasurer W. F. Miller Auditor E. J. Gregg Associate Auditor Arthur Opp Educational Secretary G. E. Hutches Lay Activities Secretary A. W. Bauer Sabbath School Secretory Public Affairs Secretary Public Relations, Radio-TV Gordon Engen Religious Liberty, Ind. Rel. Publishing Secretory J. W. Proctor Missionary Volunteer Secretory t Ed H. Webb National Service Organization Secy. Medical Secretary Temperance Secretary J. P. ‘A'inston A.S.I. Secretary ILLINOIS: W. A. Nelson, president; Elton Dessain, secre- tory-treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 8:30 o.m.-12:30 p.m. Office Address: 3721 Prairie Ave. Mail Address: Box 89, Brookfield, III. 60513. Phone: (312) 485-1200. INDIANA: R. L. Dale, president; Larry Davis, secretary- treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.; 1-5:30 p.m.; Fri., 8 a.m.-12 noon. Office and Mail Address: 1405 Broad Ripple Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. 46220. Phone: (317) 251-9292. LAKE REGION: C. E. Bradford, president; M. C. Van Putten, secretary-treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., Newsmen record the scene as pallbearers with a casket containing the skeleton 8 a.m.-5:15 p.m.; Fri., 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m Office and Mail Address: 8517 S. Stab?. St., Chicago, Ill. 60619. mount the steps of the capitol. Phone: (312; 846-2661. MICHIGAN: R. D. Moon, president; J. L. Hayward, secre- tary; L. G. Wort.ok, treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:00 a.m.-5:15 p.m.; Fri., 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Office Address: 320 W. St. Joseph St. Mail Address: Box 900, Lansing, Mich. 48904. Phone (517) 485-2226. WISCONSIN: K. .1. Mittleider, president; G. H. Crumley, secretary-treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 7:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m ; Fri., 7 30 a.m -12:30 p.m. Office Address: 802 E. Gorham St. Moil Address: Box 512, Madison, Wis. 53701. Phone: (608) 257-5696. Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office, Berrien Springs, Mich. Printed weekly, 50 times a year (omitting the weeks of July 4 and December 25) by the University Press, Ber- rien Springs, Mich. Yearly subscription price, $4.00. Single copies, 10 cents. Postmasters: Send all notices to Lake Union Herald, Box C, Berrien Springs, MI 49103. COVER Elder J. P. Winston of the Lake Union Leon Simmons of Andrews University delivers a temperance oration on the steps of Conference and John Glass, assistant pastor the capitol. Behind him, at the left of the picture, Governor William Milliken, and at of the Battle Creek Tabernacle, place a pack of cigarettes in the hand of a skeleton the right is Joanne Velting of Benton Harbor, who presented one of the prize posters symbolizing the American smoker. to the governor. 2 LAKE UNION HERALD Youth Petition Michigan Governor For Stricter Anti-Smoking Legislation by Ernest N. Wendth One thousand juniors and teen-agers from Michigan's your lungs—smoke"; "Smoke, and make your doctor 101st camp meeting staged a march on the capitol at rich"; "Smokers have everything—cancer, emphysema, Lansing in an anti-smoking crusade. They presented heart disease"; "Smoking pays—the tobacco company, Governor William G. Millikin with a petition signed at the hospital, the undertaker"; "Stamp out old age— the campgrounds by 5,302 Seventh-day Adventists call- smoke"; "Smoking makes you real gone—about eight ing for the fostering of legislation to restrict the advertis- years sooner"; and "Smoking stinks." ing of tobacco over radio and television. It also called for Governor Millikin, a nonsmoker, was very warm in ex- education in public schools to point out the dangers of pressing his interest in what the youth were doing. He smoking. said that their campaign would have a "strong effect" on Before the march, hundreds of signs were prepared and those who work with the problems suggested by the buttons were distributed. Each one carried a catchy petition. anti-tobacco slogan. Some of them read: "The family Prior to the governor's remarks a trio presented special that smokes together, chokes together"; "Sock it to music using a parody on cigarette slogans. Leon Simmons of Andrews University followed with his prize-winning temperance oration to the crowds gath- ered on the front steps of the capitol. During the 10-block march from the conference office to the capitol and back, the youth presented a good image to the public. They marched behind six solemn pallbearers carrying a symbolic casket of the American I Hi smoker. It was opened to reveal a human skeleton which F AM" THAT clutched a pack of cigarettes in its bony hands and had a SMOKES cigarette between its teeth. TO it R Responsible for carrying the program to the successful CHOKES conclusion were Gary Stanhiser, youth pastor of Flint, TOGUTHER and Leslie Neal, pastor of the Detroit Oakwood Boule- vard church. Good radio, television, and newspaper coverage of the march the day before, the day of the march, and the day after, resulted from their efforts. July 22, 1969, Vol. LXI, No. 28 3 Union Educators Challenged P.R. MEN ATTEND COUNCIL By G. C. Secretary's Speech AT PINE SPRINGS RANCH Lake Union Conference educators were among the 240 Union and conference public relations secretaries for delegates attending the North American Division Quad- the Lake Union Conference cast their votes in May in rennial Council on Secondary Education, June 22 to 26 favor of an expanded message-oriented use of modern on the La Sierra campus of Loma Linda University. communications media. Delegates included academy principals and teachers as Gordon Engen, Eston Allen, Xavier Butler, M. Dono- well as conference educational secretaries from the van Oswald, Melvin Rosen, and Ernest Wendth were United States and Canada. among some 120 official delegates attending the Public Dr. Charles B. Hirsch, secretary of the General Confer- Relations Quadrennial Council at Pine Springs Ranch in ence Department of Education, challenged delegates in southeastern California, May 18 to 22. The location of his opening night address by asking the question: "Are the council, far from the smog and distraction of city we cocoon-wrapping our students, or are we preparing convention centers, brought a warmth of fellowship and them to meet with strength the chaos and immorality closeness to God and the true goals of the church that that mark our day?" were unmatched in past councils of the PR delegates. The church official urged: "Our work must keep High on the priorities list for future action was a abreast of the times. We must not find ourselves an message-centered use of modern communications media. anachronism, using last-century methods and trying to This became the focal point of the program of action adapt them to the present-day scheme of things. Our outlined for the next four years. It was agreed that far schools exist so that youngsters can maximize their too little use had been made of the electronic media to learning, both sacred as well as secular." interpret the church to the world. "When the press has Congressman Jerry L. Pettis of California addressed been served, this is not the end of our task," declared the council on the first full day of meetings. He spoke of one public relations man. "We should be giving the same the four R's of "respect, responsibility, restraint, and information to the radio and television stations. Theoret- religion" which are needed, he said, to counteract the ically we are doing this, and in some places in practice, sour R's of "rant, riot, and ruin" which seem increas- but it is not enough." ingly in vogue. Means of stepping up service to the news media was The congressman expressed the opinion that the "sev- studied with the use of Telex as a valuable avenue for enties will be a time of special testing for church-related reaching editors and saving the precious commodity schools. I believe," he said, "that in spite of all the trials time. and problems, they may now be entering their finest Public relations directors of colleges and medical insti- hour, for the intrinsic worth of their distinctive systems tutions were among those present for the council, and will be seen." daily sectional meetings were held in which these spe- cial-interest groups could discuss their own particular concerns.