The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-11

"Unselflsh love and kindness are
inherent characteristic of mother
Her nature is essentially construc-
tive. not destructive. Gust tom
change, but human nature remains
much the same in every generation
We need not worry about the moth
erS Of today" was the mothers day
message given Sunday to members
of the Holy Name Society Of St
Margaret'S Church by State Labor
Commissioner Cornelius j. Danaher
Over 300 attended the society's COM
munion breakfast services, the most
successful in the history of the
parish. Commissioner Danahers
address, one of the most outStand-
ing of several brilliant speeches made
here Sunday, was in part as follows:
There is no happier task for me
than the task I have accepted here
today - indeed it is no task at all
but q privilege and an honor. Tc
honor motherhood, and mothers i.
something that cannot do fol
1t would be to paint the lily. Fol
countless centuries of sacrifice, tot
and unself1Sh love have cast lustrt
on the word mother, far beyond my
feeble powers.
sometimes think that one Of
the most attractive features of the
teachings of the Catholic church is
the prominent place they have
given the Virgin Mary, as the
Mother of God. She is, of course
the supreme prototype. And have
you ever thought that a religion
that honors women as saints has
also honored women as communi-
cants of the church? That is I'M
portant to remember, when so many
strange isms seem to be sWeepinl
the world, and 1t is significant that
the most goddess of them invariably
assign to women an inferior role
as mere breeder of soldiers. What
is the role of the mother in the
Shintoism of the barbaric japanese;
She Is an inferior creature What
is the role of mother in the pagan
dogma of the Nazis? She is a crea-
ture Of the kitchen, fit only to have
children for the state.
1t is only when you come to Chris
tianity that you find the Catholic
church elevating Womanhood anc
motherhood to the level it SHOULD
be.
Day of Emotion
Mothers Day should be day O.
emotion; there is, I think some.
times, too much pure intelligence
untinged by emotion rampant in thu
world. Pure intelligence will tel
you that the relationship between
mother and child is a purely biolog
ical phenomenon, having It's we'll
spring in gladular activity. Emotion
which is the stuff Of kindness ant
understanding, makes one realiz
that the relationship of mother ant
child Is more than a physiological
bandit is demonstration of wha
man can achieve in the uppe
reaches of unselfishness. Where IL
the world will you find the equa
of a mothers unselfiShness? Where
will you find the capacity for sub.
mergence of egotism, self-assertion
that you find in almost every
mother? There isn't man within
the sound of nv voice who hash,
at some time in his life pajner
at the expense of his mother. Dur.
ing his childhood there have been ,
thousand decisions to make nartic.
ularly among those of us who ver,
brought I'D on an economic marpi,
"a thousand decisions to make
and each one resolved in favor O
the child, at the expense of tn,
mother.
These are not big decisions-they
are little decisions: they may bt
merely whether Johnny gets new
shoes and mother goes without 6
hat-or whether, when somebody il
the home must go short on ration.
it shall be little Susie or mother
Need I say who it is who goes with
out the hat-who 1t is who goes or
short rations? There are a million
Nancy Hanks in America today 49,
not all of them having gangling
Abes who will grow to the presi-
dency, but they will, because o.
their mothers influence, grow to b,
respectable decent citizens because
they are having a mothers love
showered on them now.
Unsung HerOines
Sacrifices are so much a part Of