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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-18

emphasized by every Papal document that treats of
the reunion of Christendom 1t has been emphasized
almost much the constant reiteraton: PRAY.
pray pray :" which is urged upon Catholic
and non-Catholic alike
AS Pope Plus XI put it: There is only one way
in which the unity of Christians may be fostered,
and that is by furthering the return to the one
true Church of Christ of those who are separated
from it; for from that true Church they have in
the past fallen away The one Church Of Christ is
visible to ALL and will remain according to the will
of its Author, exactly the He instituted it,"
The Chair of Unity Octave begins today, the feast
of st. Peters Chair at Rome and lasts for eight
days ending on the feast of the conversion of st.
Paul Ii is important TO realize that work of any
supernatural character achieve It's purpose with
out prayer All human eloquence and wisdom is vain
unless the Spirit of God move and accompany all
human efforts No conversion is ever accomplished
without the grace OF God.
Millions of Catholics will be doing their part to.
ward the reunion of all men in the Church of Christ
by recitng the following beautiful prayer during
the Octave:
Antiphon: That they all may be one. as Thou,
Father, in Me and in Thee; that they also may be
one in Us; that the world may believe that Thou
has sent Me. John, xvii, 2D
v. I say unto thee thou art Peter;
r. And upon this Rock will build My Church.
Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, who saidst unto Thine Apos-
les: Peace leave with you, My peace give unto
you; regard not our sins, but the faith of Thy
Church. and grant unto her that peace and unity
which are agreeable to Thy will, who liyest and
reignest God forever and ever. Amen.
Daily intentions for the unity octave are
jan 18-The return of all the "other sheep" TO
the one Fold of st. Peter the one shepherd.
Jan 19-The return OF all Oriental Separatsts
to communion with the Apostolic See.
Jan 20-The submission of Anglicans to the
authority of the Vicar of Christ.
Jan 21-That the Lutherans and other Protes.
tsnts of Continental Europe may find their way
back to the Holy Church"
Jan 22-That Christians in America may be-
come one in communion with the Chair of st. Peter.
Jan. 23-The return to the sacraments of all
lspsed Catholics.
Jan. 24-The conversion OF the Jews.
Jan, 25-The missionary conquest Of the world
for Christ.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-18
FATHER HIGGINS
The Freeman Swings Wildly

ton. at leaSt-at the recent enl-
ergency convention of the Unit
ed Steelworkers Of America in
Atlantic City. The editors of
The Freeman (whose New York
offices are only an hour and a
half by train from Atlantic City,
were not among those present.
More's the pity, for 1.-THE work
ing rank-and-file" were there in
great numbers-2500 to be ex-
actor the sole purpose of dis
cussing labors current demands
for better wages and working
conditions. II would have been a
golden opportunity for these ed
itors to discover just what the
boys from the mills arc really
thinking.
The present writer has attend
ed lot of labor conventions
five or six a year for the past
ten years-but never one that
so deeisively contfadicted the
editorial opinion of The Free.
man. There is no question about
The fact that the rank-and-file
delegates to this emergency con-
vention were more radical and
more militant in their demands
than were the officers of the
unlon-none of whom, inciden.
tally, is influenced very much
IL at all, by suggestions thrown
out in classrooms or by radical
writer's. Dozens of rank.and-file
delegates, competing with one
another for recognition by the
chair, stood before the conven.
tion and, with considerable
emotion, urged their officers and
fellow delegates TO fight to the
finish for better wages and
working conditions.
Their Own Thinking
This was the most militant
labor convention we have ever
attended. We came away from
1t more convinced than ever
before that the working rank
and-file, wisely or unwisely, are
prepared TO make more radical
demands upon their employers
than are their national officers.
We arrived at this conclusion
not merely by listening to the
spirited discussion from the
floor, but also by engaging many
of the delegates in private CON
versation between the acts. All
those who spoke from the floor
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-18
Hislory's Warming TO
Planned ParcnlhOOd

The Planned Parenthood League of Ohio has an
nouneed essay contest in Ohio colleges the
purposes Of their organization Add to this reports
that Judge Of central Ohio has given court orders
Psrenthood clinics and one has pretty good
10 conclude TO the effectiveness and extent Of
the propaganda Of the League One might also con
cude as TO the extent of the money which has been
placed behind this movement to cut down our pop
ulston.
Aside from the immortality OF acts which would
thwar the law Of nature. and hence the law of God
Himself II might be we'll for the people who give
themselves 10 this foul and evil work 10 consider
what they will eventually be doing to their country;
that is If they are interested in their counrys vel
fare. BY way of evidence they can turn to Australia
where the Planned Parenhood people have already
wreaked their sad tragedy prominent doctor IN
that country has Just warned that birth control leads
only TO great unhappiness and remorse with the re
suit that mental instability and disorder become
common, Many mothers he said. consult psyeh-
artists about their problem children" but the treat
ment often needed is that Of the problem mother
who has too much of theory and not enough Of prac
tcc in the rearing OF children.
Australia is now obliged TO import inhabitants
from abroad, and has reached national decay much
faster than any other nation In women the practice
of birth control has led to number of neuroses
Neuroses IN women hoping TO avoid children has led
TO unfaithuneSs and divorce. out of every 100 d
vorceS rs of the couples concerned have only one
Ahlu INT uhg itaHN nappy Nohen are lnoSc WIN
large families Tho most unhappy arc those who
practice birth control
When the practice OF birth control swept the
Roman empire il resulted in rule of the family
hv Children state oI society which is common 10.
day The ultimate fate OF the Roman empire is
known 10 all Students Of history have but TO com.
pare 10 draw their own conclusions
Some day the people who arc concerned with
promoting Planned Parenthood may come to realize
The evil they arc doing Let us hope this will be
end that they viii have the courage to fight the real
problem which they claim to be solving, namely, the
had economic condition of some families This is not
the result Of TOO many births IL is the result of an
evil society which countcnances injustice in com
merce IN labor in business in industry and in GOV.
ernment. That family cannot be given a living
wage. guaranteed on annual basis is of the
weaknesses that leads to tho problems which the birth
controllers claim to be solving, Instead they hut
bringing on the maledctlons Of Almighty God for
opposing His law
Some day LEI US hope more and more people will
come 10 realize the beauty and value OF an immortal
soul, and endeavor 10 bring many possible into
an existence which has Heaven ss It's eternal destiny.
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see genocide covered by mere
paragraph in Code of Of
fenses against the Peace and Sc
curity of Mankind. or by some
provision TO refer it to the Gov
enant of Human Rights.
Less than two months ago, del
egates of eight organizations
claiming to represent 100000
Americans of Polish, Hungarian,
Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvisn,
Lithuanian, Czech and Slovak
descent or origin Joined in
petition to the American delega-
tion to cite to the UN meeting
in Paris cases Of genocide that
have happened in lands Of their
ancestry.
Upon her return to the United
States shortly before Christmas,
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, one OF
the u. S. delegates, was quoted
AS saying of the genocide charge
that UNLESS you can prove it,
there is no use bringing it up"
How could you prove it," she
was quoted as saying. Il am not
sure you can prove it"
Americans with ties TO Euro
pean countries arc quick to re-
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During these streSslng times, when each days
news carries many reports Of the worlds peace
being fractured and the peaeerovers, the little
people OF the earth, being trampled under foot in
the march o. the wouldbe world conquerors, we
take comfort IN the knowledge that all Godfearing
nations united in their purpose of keeping the
world free from the scourge of atheistic commun-
ism.
The issues are we'll defined. Even those who
could not give adequate philosophical defense of
their own, attack on the cnemys position
know that all they hold dear is in jeopardy as long
the Communists endeavor to force their Goddess
philosophy on the world
The nations have been banded together in this
common cause against Communism and have form.
cd organization to direct and represent this bond
This organization is the United Nations.
The UN has been given trust In it embod-
led the hopes and ideals for the saving OF world
peace. We like TO think of 1t as a bulwark, seam
less solid front against aggression.
1t is dlscouraglng, then with this trust we have
placed, TO tnd this body which is spokesman
and representative, doing something to belle that
trust The whole Communist philosophy is wrong be-
cause ii is Goddess. The things that do not like
about the Communists, their untruthfulness, their
utter disregard for human life their hatred of free
dom-all these things are the direct result of the
Communist denial of God and His law.
What to think, then, when uN agency,
the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cul-
tual organization appoints man who is known as
"emphatically and vigorously atheistc" and "a ded-
icated iconoclsst who has little mercy either God
or those who believe in Him" to edit the forthcom-
ing UNESC0 History OF Mankind"
II is difficult impossible even, to reconcile the
ayowed purpose of the UN with this present action.
Among the jewels they have chosen to head the
S600000 Commission which will have five years TO
write defnitve history OF mankind are men who
known TO be atheists and who have been dis
missed from important positions in secular unversi-
ties throughout the nation because of their teach
r. Huxley
DR. A. L. Kroeber and Bertrand Russell.
In view Of this choice of editors made by the
uNESCo we would like TO ask Just whose side
are you on"
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ply that they believe the charge
can be proved readily enough.
They point to the document
Human Freedom Is Being
Crushed" recently published by
the Central and Eastern Euro
pean Conference meeting in this
city. This document, signed by
persons long distinguished in
countries now behind the Iron
Curtain, charges that millions
of people are missing from these
countries, because they have
either been murdered on the
spot or shipped to slow deaths
in Siberia or some other place.
These deaths and deportations,
II is charged, all follow the pat
tern OF the so-called Serov In
structions of January 81, 1941.
These take their name from the
Soviet Deputy Peoples Commits
Sar OF State security Serov, and
are held by some to be more CON
vincing evidence than anything
presented at the Nuremberg
trials of Nazi war criminals.
The Serov Instructions realize
that the family is the basis of
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RICHARD P4TTEE
They're Fighting, Too

tirely to the good. I have been
enormously impressed by the
fact that both American and Brit
ish audiences react pretty much
the same way to the same prob
lens, with this slight difference:
the evil to which each attributes
the whole mess is likely to be the
opposite side of the Atlantic.
No Frontier skirmishes
It might be well for our peo-
pie to have a more detailed ac-
count, from time to time, of the
simultaneous wars being fought
in Indo-China and Malaga. It
seems to me that our public opin-
ion is not taking into account
sufficiently that the Korean war
is only one sector of the larger
struggle; that in Asia it is being
presently fought on three fronts,
and that on two of these fronts
the French and the British are
bearins the full brunt with no
aid in manpower from abroad.
Time magazine informed us
recently that France had spent
something like two and a half
billion dollars in the Indo-Chi-
nese affair since its inception.
The news has recently come out
that each communist fighter in
Malaga put out of commission
costs Great Britain some sixty
thousand dollars. These are no
frontier skirmishes, out on the
edge of the known world. They
are an integral part of the whole
process of containing commur-
ism. / think it is high time that
we recognize that Britain and
France, in the light of their re-
sources and abilities, are carry
ing as heavy if not heavier load
than we are and are engaged in
exactly the same task. 1t is
scarcely fair to epect a large
French force in Korea when ev-
cry bit of energy is going to hold
off the Wet Mimi in Indo-China.
Epifhet-T ossing
| suggest, too, that a little
more publicity be given to the
assistance of Canada in the COM
mon task: munitions and arms
manufacture, forces in Europe,
financial aid to Britain, the re-
ception of displaced persons,
and the like. No one ever seems
to realize that the Canadian con-
tribution comes from country
with one-twelfth the population
of the United States. To demand
equal participation would be
folly.
To recognize that others are
not entirely lacking in compre-
hension of the times in which we
live might curtail the name-call-
ing and epithet-tossing which
only help to create confusion and
4 lack of confidence among the
allies.
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pies minds, especially those mat
tiers which are the cause of very
special perplexity to our people.
If | were to pick out the one
question that looms the largest
in the minds of what may be call
ed, for the sake of a better term,
the rank and file of Americans
at least those / came in contact
with from Minnesota to Kentucky
and from Maryland to Massachus-
etts-it would be the apparent
absence of allied support of the
United States fighting forces now
in Korea.
Again and again in the ques-
tion periods that inevitably fol-
low lecture, someone would
raise the question of what ex-
planation could be offered for the
fact that other nations are drag
gins their feet so badly, that the
armed forces in Korea under the
banner Of the United Nations are
in reality nothing but a United
States army plus token or sym
bolic representation from
France, Britain, Ethiopia, Thai
land and the rest.
Two Sides To atlantic
I observed that the strongest
sentiment is against Great Brit
ain. 1t is no exaggeration to say
that one of my very definite i'm
pressions all over the country
was the existence of deep-root-
ed. often passionate anti-British
sentiment sometimes veiled,
sometimes quite open. 1t some
times took the form OF a certain
curiosity as to why the British
seem to be notably absent in
Korea. At other times it was fill
ed with an emotional feeling
that the United States Depart
ment of State was sort of ad-
junct of Downing Street.
| sometimes answered the lat
ter query by pointing out that
during some lectures in Britain
last year, the audiences there in-
variably wanted to know why
the British Foreign Office was
such a notorious adjunct of the
American State Department, and
did | think that this taking or
ders from Washington was en-
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and would vote against ii if
given an opportunity TO do so.
What happened to that very un.
realistic assumtion is now a
matter of public record. The
overwhelming majority of work
ers voted in favor of the union
shop in hundreds OF unnecessary
and very costly elections carried
out under the terms of the Taft
Hartley Act. The sponsors of
the Act, to their credit, finally
admitted that they had made
mistake and thereupon coop
Grated with the opposition in
amending the union shop pro-
visions OF the law.
In the light of this experience
II is somewhat surprising to find
the editors of The Freeman
the new bi-weekly periodical
dedicated to the cause of free
enterprise-blindly n repeating
the same sort of mistake; indeed,
building their whole approach
to the labor-management prob
lem around the discredited the.
sis that the rank-and-file of the
American workers are out OF
sympathy with the collective bar.
gaining demands of their elect
ed leaders. Labor's demands,
The Freeman states in a years
end editorial summarizing its
official policy, come, not from
the working rank,and,file. but
from labor leaders following
suggestion thrown out in some
college classroom or by some
radical writer /"
Golden Opportunity
We cannot disprove this state.
ment scientifically any more
than the editors of The Freemdn
can prove it. We can say, how
ever, that il was dramatically
disproyed-to our own satisfac-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-18

pleas TO buy the spiritual equlva-
lent of those electric belts once
offered as a cure for cancer,
Indian tonics once sold as cures
for every human malady. There
is no Pure Food and Drug Act
operating in the field OF spiritual
ills.
Want to sleep better?" asks
the tantalizing headline. If you
do, science" has found out
things to help you-just send
for our book and learn how to
apply 'the simple, safe and
scientific principles of hypnosis
to Subjectively Controlled Slum-
ber." But perhaps insomnia is
not your trouble? Never mind:
there is a book for every i'll.
Think and Grow Rich" is one
title. And here's a volume whose
ad begins, How to get what you
want" and goes on to say,
Whatever you want in 1852
a new home, a happier marriage,
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here is remarkable method
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clvtehing AT Straws
But perhaps you have an even
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sion-Way of Action, Way Of
knowledge, Way of Love. A
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the book after 10 days, money
back guaranteed.
When men and women are
miserable and frustrated. they
will welcome any authority"
who promises TO bring them
happiness. We are all a little like
the man who spent every Sat
urday night in gambling house
notorious for its crooked wheel.
Asked why, he said, Its the
only wheel in town" To millions
of Americans the postage-pre-
paid-money-back.in-10-d ays vol
umes Of self-help are the only
strawS at which, as drowning
men, they know how to clutch.
They have never been told that
their misery stems from their
lack of Faith. They have never
been given a chance. in terms
they understand, to be converted
to the Church.
Take any newspaper or maya
zine that is lying around the
house and run your eyes down
its columns until you find some
expert sounding off on the
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and all those with whom we
talked privately made 1T abun-
dantly clear that they are doing
their own thinking in the light
of their own experience with
initiation and their own growing
dissatisfaction with what they
interpret as a deliberate refusal
on the part of the steel indus
try to bargain collectively IN
good faith. They may be right
or they may be wrong; but,
right or wrong, they certainly
are not being victimized by
Philip Murray and the other of
ficers of the international.
The m c m b ers of the steel
workers union have very pro-
found respect for Mr.. Murray,
as even the most cynical report
er would testify but they are
not being led around by the
hand like a bunch of children.
They respect Mr.. Murray be-
cause they are convinced that
he is a man of unquestioned i'm
tegrity and that he is honestly
working for their best interests.
So great is their respect for
his judgment that they were
willing TO accept his recommen.
dation that their strike be post
poned, as requested by Presi-
dent Truman, pending decision
by the Wage Sterilization Board.
Workers Were Willing
II Mr.. Murray were being in
fluenced by radical writer's"
presumably he would have call
ed for a strike Immediately.
Many of the rank-and-file dele
gates-who, according to The
Freeman, are more moderate
and more sensible than their
leaders-were obviously willing.
if not anxious. to vote for such
a recommendation.
The editors of The Freeman
ought to get to know the rank
and-file of American workers
little more intimately before
trying TO drive a wedge between
them and their elected repre-
sentatives they ought to get
to know Phil Murray. He is real
ly great man. He comes from
the working rank-and-file and
unqueStionably knows more
about the hopes and aspirations
of the rank-and-file than the ed.
itors of The Freeman can ever
hope to know.
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That They All Nav BE One

The central theme of many Of the Protestant
church conventions has been that Of unity NonCath-
Ollie church leaders arc increasingly worried over the
effects of divided sectsm and arc earnestly striving
to bring about coalition Of the many sects making
up the Protestant world Of today.
This desire for unity by our non-Cathoe breth
rem is good and wholesome thing and in referring
to IL the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office dc
rsres "Assuredy 10 The children Of the true Church
this is Of holy JOY In the Lord we'll as an
inducement 10 lend their assistance to all who arc
sincerely seeking the truth by enireatng light and
strength for them from God IN fervent prayer"
We can also aid them by pointing out the fact
that the reunion of Christendom can never he real
lied by coaescence of secs but by return TO the par
eut Church alone. never by comprehension" but
only by conversion. This point has been consistently