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Evening star., 1951-02-04
If We Work Tooether

Many of the letters published recently
concerned, directly or indirectly, the "race
problem There would be no "race
problem" and no need for such letters,
If those who create the problem could
by some means be shown that stub
born selishness. and sometimes varying
degrees Of ignorance. are the basic causes.
The raw truth is that our Constitution
holds all men to be equal under God.
1t specifically states that no injustice
shall be done citizen because of race,
creed or color. Yet this Constitution,
which we all bravely profess to believe
in and to uphold, is violated in thought
and deed constantly. 1t should never be
necessary to say Il am white and you
are colored.' the hidden thought being,
I am different from you and therefore
superior" Christians mioht also reflect:
Jesus did not say. Suffer little white
children to come unto me"
l am white citizen. I wish it were
possible simply to say, II am a citizen"
without the additional qualification. Why
should it be necessary? I am not radical
minded; I do not feel that equality can
be leglslated. Force will not bring ac-
ceptance. However, why should such a
law or laws be necessary, when it is
already amply covered in our constitu-
ton?
Prejudice exists everywhere in our
land, not only in the South. It still
springs from that basic desire to feel
superior. Having worked throughout
the South. and having been born and
reared in the Southwest, I believe that
the majority of the younger people in
the South are groping for the truth and
are less prone to listen in abject acqui-
esccnce TO the traditional teachings of
their elders. BIT fear prevents them
from speaking out.
No sinqle individual can CONQUER this
thing. Together we can-together, in
the fullest sense of the word.
Please, let's be real Americans! If
we are children of the Maker, we are
all in the same family. When we ad-
dress prayer to Our Father" we are
including as brothers members of all
races and faiths. And a prayer with
any reservation most likely will be un-
needed, will 1t not?
We are engaged in a fight against q
great evil. Let us fight it together
Gene Allen.
Evening star., 1951-02-04
The Oder-Neisse Treaty

Undoubtedly in keeping with instructions
from their Soviet masters, the puppet regime of
East Germany and the puppet regime of Poland
have signed new pact that Internationally
and irrevocably" has settled the question of the
German-Polish frontier. The final" line of
demarcation is the Oder-Neisse Rivers, which
means that the territory east Of that line is sup
posed to 60 permanently to the Poles.
The Oder -Neisse line was first heard of at
tie Potsdam Conference, just after the defeat of
Hitler. At that time Russia, Britain and the
United States agreed that Poland should have
jurisdiction over former German territory up to
that point, but the three powers also agreed that
the award would remain open to revision and
that the definition of a permanent German
Polish boundary would have to be deferred until
a final peace treaty for Germany was written
Accordingly, as far as the Kremlin is con-
cerned, the new pact between the German and
Polish Communists leaves no doubt that the Pots
dam agreement has been grossly violated. The
Soviet Union, in other words, has served notice
that it has intention of living up to it's promise
to postpone the territorial question until all pow
ers concerned could get together and work out
deflnitive peace settlement. Actually of course,
the promise was pretty much meaningless from
the start. For when Britain and the United
States, with great shortsightedness agreed to
the award on a conditional or temporary basis,
1t was predictable that the Kremn and satellite
Poland-having got hold of the prize-would do
their best to keep it permanently regardless of
prior pledges.
But the least significant aspect of this de-
velopment is that it offers further evidence of
Soviet bad faith. What seems much more i'm
portant is the probability that the puppet pact
will boomerang against the Kremlin throughout
all of Germany East as we'll as West. For the
German people, whether they live in the free
zone on this side of the Iron Curtain or in the
Russian occupied zone have been bitterly op-
posed, ever since the Potsdam Conference, to the
idea that territory east of the Oder-Neisse line
should go to Poland.
Nothing could be less popular to Germans
than that idea, and any among them who advo-
cate it-or who presume to bind them to it in
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Letters to The Star
Pe7-nan1es may be used If letters carry
a0riters' correct names and addresses.
All letters subject to condensation.

propaganda in the East is that America
seeks to dominate other nations by
means of her economic aid; that she
helps only those who follow her party
line" If now we refuse this aid. which
We can easily give, because India has
opposed us in the u N, we shall simply
write @. E. D. to the Communist propa-
ganda line.
If, on the other hand, we give the aid
that is asked for, in the face of what
has happened in the U. N, we shall not
only do what we should do from a hui
manitarian standpoint, but we shall give
our own prestige a significant boost in
India and the Orient in general, and we
shall nail Communist lie. Now, more
than ever, we should help India. God
grant that we shall not tumble at this
crucial time.
Conrad p. Helms,
Missionary to India.
ARLINGTON
Evening star., 1951-02-04
DR.. Corning and Mrs. Buck

In your editorial, "a Price Demanded
by the Times" (January 25), you suggest
that the Superintendent of Schools
should not be condemned for refusing
Pearl Buck an opportunity to appear
. before the graduating class of the Car
dozo High School. However, the very
system by which the superintendent
acts as a loyalty board of one in free
speaking and freedom loving community
should be the object of condemnation.
And, since he instituted the method
he cannot escape condemnation also.
Because he does not have sufficient
confidence in the wisdom of school
principals to select speakers. he secures
from the House Un-American Activities
Committee information which he admits
in unevaluated. On the basis of this
unevaluated information he decides
whether speaker may appear or not
He announces "the record is not clear"
and refuses to exnlain further.
What makes the superintendents
stand untenable in Mrs. Bucks case is
that the published dates of the alleged
information that made her record mot
clear" were the very years when we
hailed Russia as our ally in World War
II. Carried to its logical conclusion
ten years hence any one who halls Great
Britain, Canada. and France today, may
be barred from speaking in the schools if
we should have diplomatic or ideo-
logical break with those countries.
You ask, Does anyone know of
workable substitute?" If the Board of
Education insists that speakers be
screened, then it should have a COM
mittee within the board or committee
of representative citizens connected
with the board that could properly
evaluate information.
Edna Jackson.
Evening star., 1951-02-04
'Druft Them!'

May I suggest simple solution for
handling the 10000 railroad trainmen
who continue to snarl up our defense
efforts in spite of pleas from President
Truman and already substantial wage
increases from their employers?
Draft them. Draft them into the
Army. regardless of age and physical
status, and put them on their present
jobs Already the Government has found
it necessary to set in gear specialized
draft legislation for physicians, stating
that it is vital to the country's defense
Well, moving medical supplies, and food
and machinery is VITAL too
1t might even make the brothers feel
better to be in uniform. as though they
were doing something for their country
for change. Our Nation Is too near
disasters brink to tolerate these out
RACES.
Thomas Bruce.
Evening star., 1951-02-04

treaty" with the Polish ommunists-immedi-
ately take on the coloration of traitors. In an
nouncing such treaty" therefore, the East
German Red regime, far from strengthening
itself in Germany, has merely insured that the
people at large will be more. certain than ever
that it is an abject tool of the Kremlin going
through little act with its Polish counterpart.
Ironically, the East German COMMUNISTS
have announced this treaty" at time when
they are making new bids for unification talks
with the West Germans. The two moves could
not be more stupidity timed. They cancel out
each other.
Evening star., 1951-02-04
By Frederick Brown Harris
Minister, Foundry Methodist Church;
Chaplain, United States Senate.

not go to the door to pick up this news
paper. You could not assume anything;
life simply would be unlivable.
In peering at this problem of pain one,
who has thought long on Gods dealing
with man, makes this comment:
If religion got us off from penalties
and made it possible to escape the
troubles that visit other folks, you see,
religion would become an insurance
policy, commercial transaction and
you would have people paying the
premium for the sake of the insurance
And that would be the ruin of religion
and character for ever"
Remember, every time you see cross,
on an altar or on spire. that it is a
symbol that the blackest tragedy of this
earth has become the symbol of the most
dazzling triumph and that it is by that
cross that we must conquer. Kagawa
that pint-sized japanese, has not solved
the problem of pain. He is now almost
blind from trachoma contracted because
of his unselfish service in Kobe slums
He is never wholly free from pain Yet
those who have caught the contagion of
his life in America during these last
weeks realize that "he has had q career
as full of tribulation as that of st.
Paul and as fabulous as that of st.
Francis of Assist" He Is glorious il
lustration that there is something better,
far better than an intellectual solution
OF the problem of pain. There is the
thing Jesus meant when He said: "In
the world ye shall have tribulation: but,
fear not; I have overcome the world"
Certainly. the Christian philosophy is
that happiness is not mostly pleasure,
but mostly victory. 1t is that victory,
growing not out of a solution but out of
surmounting, which is glimpsed in the
chorus of hymn heard my preacher
father sing and quote so often during
my growing youth:
The cross is not greater than His grace,
The storm cannot hide His blessed face;
I am satisfied to know that with Jesus
here below,
can conquer every foe."
Evening star., 1951-02-04

point" he goes on, 'lest our values turi;
topsy -turvy."
I am thankful that we have few men
in high Office like Senator Mcmahon and
Senator Tydings. with vision and insight
enough to see our fallacies. We reap that
which we SOW. Thinking war continually
and giving in to fear-will precipitate
that which we fear.
Irwin N. Hoffman.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
Newsman Lauded
For Exposing Red
ExtOrtion Scheme

SAN FRANCISCO (NC) - The
San Francisco Association of Cath
Ollie NewSmen on Christmas Eve
announced the winner of its third
annual McQuade Memorial Award;
George de Caryalho, feature writ
er for the San Francisco Chron-
icle.
1t was Mr.. de Caryalho who
brought to the nations attention,
through a series of articles, the
fantastic communist racket of eX-
torting United States dollars from
Chinese-Americans on the pretext
of protecting" their relatives in
Red China.
For the story of his behind-the-
scene Investigations that led to
a Treasury Department breakdown
Of. the racket, the Chronicle staff
er was declared the Bay area
newsman whose writing etched
most sharply the spirit of Christ's
counsels in His Sermon on the
Mount. The award of $500 and
scroll will be presented to Mr..
de Caryslho at the annual ACN
dinner, January 27, at the San
Francisco Press and Union League
club
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
Reds E.pel l,24O Missioners
From China IN 1851; Jail 300

or secular civilian purposes. OF
2l6 Catholic hospitals, II are still
functioning as before. Most Of the
800 dispensaries no longer exist.
Those still remaining are being ad-
ministered by Chinese priests and
Sisters.
Practically all Catholic educa-
tional institutions have ceased or
disappeared completely since COM
munists have come to power, says
the Fides report. Formerly there
were three universities with 5000
students, four higher industrial
schools, 200 secondary schools
with $4,000 and 1900 primary
schools with 100000 pupils.
According to the Fides report,
despite this overall disaster and
gloom, there is still small but
steady light fed by the heroic
manifestations of faith and cour-
age on the part of Chinese Re
ligious, who show deep devotion
TO the Church and are ready to
suffer persecution. Conversions
among adults are still continuing,
the report says.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
Reds Torture
Bishop After
Hold-up Fails

TOKYO (Radio, NC) - Bishop
Adolph Paschang of Honeymoon,
China, an Americsn-born Mary
knoller, has again been tortured
by the Reds in an effort to ex-
tort money from His American
religious superiorS, according TO
word received here. :.
The Bishop was reported savage
ly beaten when money failed to
arrive after the seven-day dead
line set on November 80 by the
Chinese Reds. Eye witness re-
ports stated that the Bishop ''suf-
ferred grievous bodily maltreat-
ment. His face is still black and
blue from the blows"
The communists are said to have
threatened the Bishop with further
beatings il their demands for
money are not met. He had pre-
viously been tortured by the Reds.
Bishop Paschang is a native of
Martinsburg, Mo. He first left
for China in 1921 and was made
Bishop of Honeymoon in 1887.
Maryknoll officials have already
stated they will not fall victim
to the Chinese communist extor-
tion racket.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
Father McGOnaoIe
Receives Ancient
Dominican Honor

A prominent Dominican priest,
a native of Moxahala, has been
honored with the Office of Preach
er General. He is the Rev. Charles
Clemetnt McGonagle, o. p, who re-
Gently observed his golden jubilee.
Father McGonagIe is one of five
priests at the Dominican House
of Studies in Washington, D. c.,
who received honors recently, be-
slowed by the Most Rev. En-
manuel Suarez. Master General of
the Order. of Preachers.
The other priests honored at
the same time were: the Very
Rev. Walter M. Conlon, o. P.
Prior of the Dominican house of
Studies; the. Rev. Philip f. Mul-
hearn, o. p, regent of studies
for st. Joseph's Province of the
Order of Preachers, and the Rev.
]. Clement Kearney, o. P, teacher
at the House of Studies, named
Masters of Sacred Theology; and
the Rev. Matthew Hanley, o. p,
now in his eleventh year as no
vice master, named Privileged
Novice Master.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28

founded his Boston Quarterly Re-
UieW and it attained a splendid
reputation before it merged with
another magazine But the fear
less. versatile. pugnacious Brown.
son began his new Reuier in 1874
with the assertion that he was
nov about TO become q Catholic
and with the boast that his new
magazine would be entirely his.
it would be the product Of one
man. When he was received in
to the Church, he was requested
by the Bishops to continue his
work with the magazine.
Father sheerin said that one of
Brownson's closest friends who
preceded him into the Church was
the convert Isaac Hecker, who
founded the Paulist Fathers and
in 1865 began The Catholic World
magazine. which Father Sheerin
edits today. A year later, the
Ave Maria magazine was founded
at the University of Notre Dame.
The Messenger of the Sacred Heart
was founded by the Jesuits in 1866
and supplement to the magazine
in 1910 became America, the
present national Catholic weekly.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
Pope AlIorrs Married Minister
To Become Priest III Germany

"Ihe news OF the coming priest.
ly ordination which through the
special favor granted by the Pope
will be conferred on the Rev. Ru-
dolf Goethe, descendant OF the
celebrated poet Johann Wolfgang
Won Goethe, 1749- 1892, former
Protestant pastor. aged 10, mar
ried and convert TO the Catholic
Church, has received wide pub
licity in the press of every coun-
try" OSSerDdtore sad.
Many have asked us how much
truth there is to these press re
ports.
I'VE have learned that the news
corresponds to the truth. But it
is question of an exceptional
case and therefore there must have
been extraordinary reasons for
granting the favor. The very ex-
ceptional nature of the concession
confirms the fact that nothing has
changed in the general discipline
of the Church in the matter under
question"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
Vocation Guidance
Program Planned;
Survey Underway

A survey of the 1949 graduating
classes of the Columbus Catholic
high schools is being made TO plan
vocational guidance program for
the high schools Of the diocese.
The survey, conducted by the
Office of the Diocesan Superin-
tendent of Schools. wants to find
out what Catholic high school grad
yates are doing: what schools they
are attending, what kind of jobs
they have, how many are married
The class of '49 was chosen as a
sample group since the Superin-
tendents office believes these
young people have been out of
school long enough to have taken
definite steps toward lifetime vo-
cations.
A QUESTIONABLE on a self
addressed penny postal card has
been mailed to the graduates. They
are to fill it out and return it by
Jan. /, if possible. Postal cards
will require two cents postage, be-
cause of new rates, ii mailed after
that date.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
NY. Rejects Plea
To Stop Religious
PIays i'm Schools

ALBANY, N.Y.NC(-A plea to
bar religious plays and pageants
in New York State public schools
has been rejected by State Educa-
ton Commissioner Lewis A. Will
son.
During a holiday, such as
Christmas. which is universally
celebrated whether as religious
holiday or simply as the occasion
Of visits of Santa Claus, it would
be a strange situation if the public
schools were prevented from tax
ing any notice of the holiday"
Commissioner Wilson said.
The appeal for The order was
made by Arthur G. Cromwell OF
Poultryville, who had sought to
prohibit the school boards of three
Wayne and Monroe County school
districts from allowing t cir
schools to be used for plays and
pageants "of creedal nature"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
Vatican Saws
Celibacy Rule
Is Unchanged

VATICAN CITY, Radio, NC
The exceptional nature of the dis
pensation for a former, married
Protestant minister to become or
dained and remain married con-
firms the fact that no essential
change has been made in the
Church's policy of celibacy for the
clergy.
This point was emphasized here
by OsSerUdtore Romano, Vatican
City daily, in announcing that a
special dispensation had been
granted to the Rev Rudolf Goethe
to be ordained prient at Mainz,
Germany, on December p.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
Pittsburgh Bishop
Refuses To Appear
AT Blanshard Talk

PITTSBURGH, tNC) - Bishop
John F. Dearden of Pittsburgh de-
clined an invitation to sit on the
platform at a meeting here at
which Paul Blanshard, anti-Catho-
lie author and speaker. discussed
The Roman Catholic Challenge TO
American Democracy"
The Rev. Jacob e. Shinar, the
Bishops secretary. said in a letter
explaining the refusal that atten-
ton had been called by many per
sons besides Catholics to incorrect
and misleading statements made
by Mr. Blanshard about the Catho-
lie Church. These sound criti-
cisms have proved TO be no deter
rent to him." Father Shinar de-
clsred.
Therefore. the Bishops secre-
tary added, no good purpose would
be served by Bishop Dearden ap-
pearing on the platform. This
would be all the more true, he
said. since the Bishops presence
might seem to give support to an
undertaking which could only pro-
mote "disunity on religious
grounds in this community"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
BY Or. Max Jordan

radio, N.c.W.c. News ssrvieel
FRANKFURT, Germany Under
special dispensation personally
granted by His Holiness Pope Plus
XII, a married former Protestant
minister has been ordained a Cath
Ollie priest.
He is the Rev. Rudolf Goethe, 10,
who, together with his wife, sew
eral years ago became convert 10
Catholicism. He was ordained on
December % by Bishop Albert
Spohr of Mainz, according to an an
nouncement by the Mainz diocesan
chancery.
Under the terms of the diSpensa-
tion, the marriage of the Reverend
Goethe continues. without any con-
ditions imposed, it has been learn
ed. The new Father Goethe's serv-
ices will for the present be
used in Church administration
rather than in parish work. He has
been employed for some time in
the chancery of the Mainz diocese.
The Holy Father is understood
to have reached his decision to
grant the dispensation on the
strength of recommendations by
the German hierarchy These rec
concentrations are said to affect
various other Protestant ministers
who have become converts to the
Catholic Faith and desire to be-
come priests, but who so far had
found their marriages to be insur-
mountable obstacles.
In all such instances, the Su-
preme Pontiff has reserved the
final decision to himself personal
ly. Consideration will be given to
such applications only where mar
riages existed prior to the eonver-
sion. il has been stated.
The Holy Father has granted the
unusual dispensation in the inter
ests of Christian reunion work, ac-
cording to an article in the Mainz
diocesan weekly Faith aud Life.
Meanwhile it has been learned
that another former Protestant
minister who is married but whose
name is not given has been granted
the same permission. He will be
ordained after completion of his
studies at the Mainz seminary.
A third case is now pending in
another German diocese.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
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of several American universities
resulted in vigorous protests from
religious and other groups. He
was accused of openly advocating
companionate marriage and the
loosening of the bonds that re-
strain moral conduct" and it has
been charged that his writings are
filled with attacks on Christian
ity." (See Gretta Palmer, page
~
DR.. A. l.. kroeber, anthropolo-
gist, was attacked by a religious
convention in California, when he
was on the faculty of the University
Of California, because a textbook
he had written was held to be
"anti-Bible and anti-Christian in
its teaching"
In 1884, Dr.. Turner was dismis.
sed from the faculty of the I'm
iversity of Pittsburgh, where he
had been an associate professor
of history. This action followed
complaints by students, parents of
students and representatives of
various religious groups which ex-
tended over number OF years.
DIR. Turner's attitude was the sub
ject of frequent discussion at
ministerial conferences in Pitts
burgh, and Protestant clergymen
represented to the University of
Pittsburgh officials that ito per-
NIT him to continue his methods
would be almost criminal"
DR.. Turner went to teach at
Yale in 1914. and in his much
discussed book God and Man at
Yale" William F. Buckley, Jr.,
saws of him: MIR. Turner is EN-
phatically and vigorously atheis-
tic. An able scholar, he is never
theless a professional debunker,
dedicated iconoclast who has
little mercy either on God, or on
those who believe in Him, and
little respect for the values that
most undergraduates have been
brought up to respect"