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that’s your environment We’ve sat at home and watched our earth rise over the horizon of the moon. R civilization that can accomplish that should accomplish anything. Wouldn’t you think we could keep Earth unspoiled for ourselves and future generations? We can begin by refusing to litter. UNITED STATES BREWERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 905 International Life BIcig , Austin, Texas 78701 **, civilian employee with the U.S. Air Force in Okinawa. Sindermann, who also raised the ire of the OC administration by his activities as president of the Texas Junior College Teachers Association \(most notably his urging the Legislature to pass a statement his case in federal district court and now has the matter pending before the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The NEA is paying legal fees and costs for the Sterzing and Sindermann suits, is providing some subsistence for Sindermann, and is aiding in the cases being brought by the two San Jacinto teachers. Hardings Rebuttal Church of Christ ministers and members are circulating copies of the Observer’s Jan. 23 article on Harding College, which is affiliated with that denomination and is the home of a prolific right-wing propaganda center. 10 The Texas Observer Texas H. Stevens, a Houston minister, was given permission by the Observer to reproduce the article along with a reply, Dobbs, also a minister of the denomination in Houston. Dobbs notes that Dudley Lynch, the Observer writer, has described Campus Evangelism, which Lynch recently joined as communications director, as a project that seeks to recruit college students “to look for viable religious approaches to today’s social ills.” Dobbs objects to the use of the word “evangelism” in the title of the project saying that term is misused if the organization Lynch is with intends to address itself to social ills rather than the spreading of the gospel. Much of Dobbs’ reply is derivative of Lynch’s syntax. Dobbs explains that the Bible counsels us to “answer a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.” Dobbs says that Lynch smears Harding and its former president, George S. Benson in the article. “After Lynch wipes the gore from his hands and face, he will come off looking both sad and pathetic,” Dobbs writes. He concludes that “I am sincerely concerned for the safety of the soul of Dudley Lynch and admonish him to `repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.’ ” Lynch’s article in the Observer was written last summer and submitted last fall, while he was living in Austin and before Lynch joined the staff of Campus Evangelism. But the publication of the article, roughly coinciding with his assuming his present post, has led to Campus Evangelism’s coming under attack particularly for its purpose as described in the Observer, that the group would “look for viable religious approaches to today’s social ills.” Dobbs said in his article that this goal indicates that Campus Evangelism is socialistic in purpose. “When men live the righteous life, social ills are cured,” he added. Lynch counters that “Harding College . . . has betrayed its role both as an educational and as a religious institution by embracing an extreme political view that is a discredit to Christianity . . . and a barrier to genuine education . . . Mr. Dobbs’ attitude is one reason why Campus Evangelism exists. Our college-aged young people refuse to buy the traditional religious approach that we’ll save your soul, brother, but you take your rent problems, your rats, your hungry mouths, and your empty hopes to the 0E0 or somebody whose purposes aren’t so lofty.” The Observer article also was rebutted by Dr. James D. Bales, a veteran Harding faculty member, in the Gospel Advocate, a paper published at Nashville. Bales warned against letting Lynch into Churches of Christ or other church-related schools to recruit students to work for Campus Evangelism. Outcast Sam Sarah McClendon, who writes out of Washington, D.C., for several Texas papers, reports that Sam Houston Johnson, Lyndon’s brother, ‘was to be excluded from an event being planned in Washington, D.C., by the Texas State Society to honor recent or upcoming Texas authors. Sam Houston’s book, My Brother Lyndon, was not approved of by LBJ, if reports frequently heard on the matter are accurate. Mrs. Liz Carpenter was to be mistress of ceremonies at the function; her book, Ruffles and Flourishes, is far more acceptable to LBJ, to say the least. Ronnie Dugger, reviewing the Sam Houston Johnson book recently in the New York Times Book Review, called it a lightweight work that in reality, despite advance billing, spills few beans about LBJ. Prominent Houston attorney Leon Jaworski has become president-elect of the American Bar Association.