Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
81 the Associated Press.

| lowing Is the text Of the papal en-
cycIcal Nova Impendent" as pub
lished tonight in the Vatican newspaper,
OsServatore Romano:
Venerable brethren:
"A new plague nenaceS-indeed, al
! ready afhicts-a great portion Of the
flock entrusted to our care, striking
| more clearly the weaker through the
| more strongly loved-the children; the
humble and those with less money-the
workers and the proletariat.
I'VE refer to the grave pecuniary en-
barraSsment, the financial crisis, which
has descended upon every people and
with steady, frightening progress is
bringing unemployment to every land.
I'VE see great multitudeS of honest,
willing workers forced into idleness and
reduced with their families to extreme
indulgence workers who desire nothing
better than to earn with the sweat OF
their brow as the divine man mandate ate
each morning Of their Lord.
Touch Parental Heart.
Their cries OF distress touch our
| paternAl heart and make us repeat
| with like tenderness the words which
went forth from the most loving heart
crowd faint with hunger: M1sereor
super turban' Ct have compassion upon
the multitudeD.
With particular con1miseration,
however We are moved to pity at the
enormous number of children. most
innocent victims Of this sad state OF
affairs. The little ones have asked for
bread and there was none to break 1t
| unto them
In the soualor of misery they are
condemned to watch fading from their
lives the Joy and the happiness which
these ingenious little souls seek to f1nd
about them.
Now Winter approaches and with
1t the long succession of suffering and
privation which that season brings
especially to the poor and to the help
less young.
Appeals for Unemployed.
Most serious Of all however, is this
! steady aggraVation of the plague of
unemployment to which we have made
reference The want of so many fam
| lilies and Of their children, II not pro-
vided for. threatens to push them
(Which may God averD to the point OF
evaporation.
Our fatherly heart has thought with
| trepidation on all Of this, and as our
predecessors have done on similar &C.
casions-in particular our immediate
| predecessor. Benedict XIV Of holy mem
| ory-we raise our voice and address our
appeal to all who possess a sense Of
| faith and of Christian love; an appeal
for what may almost be termed cru
SADIE Of charity and relief.
Such a crusade. while it will pro-
vide assistance to the body, will also
give comfort and aid to the soul, Great
| ing again a serene confidence: olsen
numbering the mind Of those ugly
thoughts which misery implants in the
boson1s of men.
1T will quench the flames Of rancor
and Of the passions which rend men
and will awaken and sustain the fires
noble bonds of individual and social
peace and prosperity
Call All to Sacred Duty.
ut is therefore to crusade of mercy
and love, and unqueStionably Of sacr1-
| f1ce as well, that we call all, sons OF the
one Father, members Of the one and
same great family-Gods family, and
hence all participants as children in
the same family, of the JOY and pros
perity and Of the sorrow and adversely
! to which our brothers fall lot.
ITO this crusade we call all as to
sacred duty, duty rooted in that COM
| mandment so distinctly peculiar to the
evangelical law and proclaimed by Jesus
Christ as his first and greatest com.
mandment; indeed. a compendium and
mandment Of charity.
1T was this commandment to which
our predecessors Of happy memory APP
pealed repeatedly with like purpose in
the days OF hatreds and bitter war.
We invoke this most beautiful OF
commandments now. not merely as the
supreme and all-embracing duty &C
- IS-Ie& Aai q <
the high and sublime ideal Of all souls
which are generous spirited and more
finely keyed to nobleneSs and to Chris
tian perfection.
Not Necessary to Insist.
I'VE do not feel it necessary to in
sist on this with many words, for 1t
seems so evident that this generosity
of heart alone, this fervor alone OF
Christian souls with their holy impetus
toward dedication and sacrifice for the
salvation of their brethren, notably for
those most needy and those exciting
most compassion as do the throngs OF
innocent children, will succeed in over
coming by force Of unanimous concord
the grave dif1culties Of the present
hour
And since the unbridled race for
ornaments is on the one hand the eff
feet Of the rivalry among nations and
on the other the cause Of the with
drawal Of enormous sums from the pub
lie wealth and hence not the smallest
Of contributors to the current extraor-
binary crisis, we cannot refrain from
renewing on this subject the wise ad-
monitions Of our predecessor which thus
far have not been heard.
Urges Use Of All Power.
I'VE exhort you all, venerable breth- |
rem, that with all the means at your
disposal both by preaching and by the
press, you seek to illunline minds and
open hearts on this matter according
to the solid dictates Of right, reason
The thought occurs to use to propose
that each Of you act as the point of
union for the charity and generosity
of your faithful and the center Of dis
tribution for the relief offered by them.
However If in some dioceses it seems
more opportune, we see no d1mculty !
in giving the leadership to the respec-
tive pastors or to some charitable in
stitution of proven efficiency or Of your
special confidence.
We have exhorted you to use all
means at your disposal, prayer, preach
ing, the press, but we wish to be the
first to call to your faithful, begging
them In viscerious Christi to respond
with generous charity to your appeal,
following you in all that you propose
after you have acquainted them with
this. our apostolic letter