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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-08-22

supreme destiny; soon as he identifies himself
with the worldly mass he loses the unique outlook
which is of paramount Importance to the salvation
of his immortal soul
1T seems to me-" the Holy Father wrote, that
there is conspiracy to make it difficult for all
Christians to safeguard their personal dignity nay
even to make ii impossible"
The Holy Father then points out the cause
of this obstructive tendency'-causes which are
Immediately seen to be especially rampant here in
America He wrote:
Technology and the business of advertising and
mass propaganda in radio and motion pictures
hardly afford rest to the and prevent con.
centration on ones inner self. type of man is
being developed who cannot stand to be alone with
himself and his God for even single hour The
individual is being absorbed by the mass
The particular brand of this pernicous propa.
ganda to which the Pope refers is characterized by
the tenor of the overall offered by the world
ing for his behaviour: "Everybodys doing it." No
individual, interested in the salvation of his SOUL
afford to subscribe or fall victim to this propa
ganda. He must forever subtract himself from the
world
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Whv Mother Leaves Home

Politicians will MAKE a lot of statements during
the coming weeks about the economic situation in
this fair land of ours. We will be told that there is
no higher standard OF living in the world We will
also be told that the country is in bad condition
and needs doctor Granted that there is much to
be said on each side it might be we'll to call at
tension of the officeseekers to the fact that there
is something wrong with Americas economic sit
uation.
One of the couniry's great evils is the break
down of home life That there Is great juvenile de-
linquency is not without reason. How could ii be
otherwise with husbands and wives turning so fre
uuently to divorce TO solve problems many OF which
have come about because of an economic suatlon2
Probably al other time in our history do we find so
many mothers and wives leaving their homes for
regular employment Home after home finds father
and mother away through the day, with the chill
dren shifting for themselves or entrusted to grand
mother or an aged relative The mothers care and
love are moi there The home does not give evidence
of the quiet and conslderate mothers care.
Why, then do so many wives and mothers seek
employment The answer is simple They feel they
must do so in order to be able TO bolster up their
husbands salary to the point where they can afford
10 feed their children and provide the ordinary
forts of American living Americans do not want to
90 backward in their standard OF living Rather than
do that increasing numbers of housewives are seek.
ing part or full time employment The high cost
OF living is the cause poorly trained children ju-
vene delinquency, and estranged husbands and
wives is the result
II is little wonder that mothers long for school
10 reopen They will then know that for most of the
day at least their children will be off the streets
and in good hands Would that the politicians could
do something TO put mothers back in their homes
where alone they arc most queenly and lovabe,
Perhaps a campaign is needed to glamorize that
TO humbly when they say they arc Just a house.
wife"
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INQUIRY CORNER
Ism All Last-Minute
Repentance Unfair?

O. Does not a murderer aDho
repentS hare an advantage oUer
his Utctta tUbo may haze no time
to repent? Is not all Ldst-minitte
repentance unfair?
A. "Watch ye, therefore, be-
cause you know not what hour
your Lord will come" (Matt. "a:
42) Many times Christ spoke of
the need of being prepared al
ways, and we know that every
soul receives sufficient grace for
salvation, even in cases of sud-
den death. Generally speaking
people die as they have lived,
and often it is rash judgment
to decide how wicked a man is
who has a chance for a last
minute repentance. There is so
much good in the worst of u.s."
and God sees it and His grace
saIvages apparent lost souls,
such as the Good Thief on Cal
vary. An example of a wicked
man who died rejecting Gods
grace is given by Christ luke
1920 as an instance of the price
of presumption. No one is de-
prived of heaven except by his
own peryerse will, nor does any
one gain it except by response
to grace.
@. Is not there q conflict be-
ttDeen C1rtSt'S command to dUoid
publicity IN prayer and good
ioorkS (MGttheto 6:1) and to "let
your light shine before men"
Matt. 5:16)?
A. There is no conflict. In
another place Christ explains,
Take heed that you do not your
justice before men, to be seen
by them" (Mt. 6:D means that
our motive should be pure. In
the same Gospel mt. 23:5) he
condemns the good works of the
Pharisees because they do their
good works lin order to be seen
by men" 1t is not the public
nature of good works or prayer
that is condemned but the de-
liberate use of them for self
glorification.
Q. Is 1t correct to say that one
must foILol1 his conscience and
that ii is the last court of up
peal?
A. AT any particular moment
. person must follow his con-
science as a guide to moral con-
duct. The second half of the
statement is incorrect, however,
for conscience is the first court,
not the last. Throughout the his
tory of man it has been neces-
sary for God to furnish guidance
for moral judgments, through
parents, teachers, law and re-
ligious leaders. The last court
of appeal for right and wrong
(moral judgments) is the reveal
ed word of God, as taught by
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-08-22
LETTER
World Attention On EmigTants

to them, Pope Plus XI pointed
out that there is a continuously
increasing number of refugees
and emigrants.
1t is truly world problem, in
all of its aspects. The refugees
and displaced persons are not all
in one locality. Nor do they all
want to emigrate to any one
country the United States,
or any place else. For example,
Western Germany is bullying
with hungry and unemployed
people forced into it from the
East. But there is a huge dis
placed persons problem in Pal
estine, too, and in Hong Kong,
and on Formosa. Whereas 1t is
not a displaced persons prob
lem in Italy. Japan and num-
Der of other places, it is an al
most equally serious problem of
over-population and under-devel-
oped resources. On the other
hand, as the Holy Father points
out, the emigrants of today no
longer 90 out to some one or
two countries in Europe, or to
the United States, or to Latin
America. They 60 also to the
Philippines, TO Australia, and
elsewhere.
II is promised that ''The DIP
Story" will show clearly that
our resettlement program help
ed not only the displaced per-
sons, but Americans too. II not
only helped to alleviate the dis
placed persons situation in Eu-
rope, the report will say ii help
ed to strengthen the economy of
the United States.
Both the Pope's constitution
and the us. DIP Commissions
report emphasize the magnitude
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His authorized representative,
the Catholic Church. Among
primitive or savage tribes there
are many customs such as head
hunting and cannibalism, which
likely are followed in good
faith. Many examples occur
among children and they are
trained to do right, even though
they may be following their
(erroneous) conscience. Lying,
stealing and other selfish actions
are not infallibly seen as wrong
by conscience as we see in GER
tain evil environments where
children grow up with a twisted
sense of right. and wrong.
Q. Hot1 can st. Peter be the
rock or foundation iDhen st.
Paul sDrites:: "Other foundation
no man can lay than that trhich
IS laid, tUhich is Christ Jesus"
A. In st. Matthew's Gospel
(16:18-19) we find Christ stating:
"Th6u art Peter, and upon this
rock | will build my Church :"
In many other instances we find
Christ's commission of st. Peter
as the vicar or visible founda-
ton and head of His Church
Guke 22:31-32; John 21:15-1D.
st. Paul himself relates these
two facts in his letter to the
Ephesians (2:2O: "You are built
upon the foundation of the
Apostles, Jesus Christ Himself
being the chief corner stone"
If the place of Christ did not
exclude the Apostles as secon-
dary foundations, it cannot ex-
clude the fact that st. Peter was
chief of those secondary founda-
tions..
@. Do departed souls return
to speak at sptrittdltsttc meet
ings?
A. We read in the Scriptures
of instances of departed persons
manifesting themselves, as at
the time of Christ's crucifixion.
Such miraculous events are per-
nitted by God for grave reasons
and in fit circumstances. Spiritu-
alistic meetings certainly do not
meet the requirements, hence
they are never true manifsta-
tions or appearances of the dead.
Most of them are elaborate con-
trivances, inferior in technique
to any capable magician, by the
mediums. The power of sug-
gestion and the cooperation of
evil spirits fully accounts for
the few manifestations that cam
not be attributed to fraud. No
Catholic or Christian (see life
of Saul q Kings 28:O will have
anything to do with such meet
ings.
Send questions to Inquiry Cor
ner, The Catholic Times, Box
636, Columbus (16) Ohio.
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of these mass movements of peo-
pie. A fact that must not be over
looked is that, with verv few ex-
ceptions, they are likely to be
permanent moves. That means
that when displaced persons are
offered asylum in some new
country they are going to be as
simulated in that country. As the
US. DIP Commission report will
say, its program has brought in
to the United States human re-
sources worth over three billion
dollars in potential production"
Nor does the Pope envision the
emigrants becoming separate
colonies in the new countries.
The Holy Father says to chap
lains to emigrants: In the mean
time, however, they (the emf
grants) must take pains on Sun
days and feast days to attend
church together with the Cath
olics OF the country where they
are"
In this era of the greatest mass
movements of peop'e in all his
tory, it is fortunate that there
have been, and still are, agencies
to devote their full time to this
problem. The DIP Commission on
a national scale and the Interna
tion Refugee Organization on an
international scale are no more.
But there is PICMME provision
al Inter. governmental Commit
tee for the Movement of Migrants
from Europe) and there are pri-
vate organizations on the ma
tional level like the National Ca.
tholic Resettlement Council.
With the need recognized. and
with expert and devoted service
available, there is reason to hope
that the problem will be fully
solved.
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Dor leaders who still call them
selves socialists are beginning to
question the validity of social
ism as an economic theory. Ev-
en- as they continue to use the
language or the jargon of 10th
century socialism, they are be-
ginning to lend their support to
economic policies and programs
which are Christian rather than
Marxist in their inspiration.
The philosophy OF the class
struggle is gradually giving way
to the philosophy of cooperation
for the common good. The po-
litical strike is now the excep-
tion rather than the rule. The
naturalization of productive
property. for the sake of nation
alization. is no longer seriously
advocated as a universal remedy
for the economic ills of society.
Evolution, rather than revolu-
ton, is gradually becoming the
order of the day.
It is true, of course, that there
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WASHINCTON LETTER

WASHINGTON ~ Before the
month of August is past, it will
have seen the publication of two
documents which, although is
sued thousands of miles apart
and seemingly unrelated, COM
bine to remind the world of
heavy and pressing responsible
ity.
THE DIP Story" has been prom.
ised for publication at the end
of this month. It will tell of the
resettIement in this country dur
ing the last four years of almost
100000 victims OF nazi and COM
muniSt persecution II is the fin
al report of the Displaced Per
sons Commission.
Despite the epic character of
its message, The DIP Story" will
not mark the end of the refugee
and displaced person problem for
this country and the world. I'm
happily, too many people may
think it does.
To offset this impression, how
ever, one need only to read the
Apostolic Constitution "Exul Fa-
milia' (The Family in Exile, is
sued by His Holiness Pope Plus
XII at the beginning of August
Among the many important les
sons the Holy Father brings to
our attention are these:
|, There never was time
when the Church was lacking in
solicitude for those who live far
from their native lands (the Holy
Family of Palestine lived in ex-
lie in Egypt and in modern
times the Sovereign Pontiffs have
taken important and practical
steps to prove this interest
2. In outlining the urgent need
to provide spiritual assistance
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vision programs are playing up
religion. If a Jealous Christian,
eager to spread the Faith, pro-
duces a religious film or play or
broadcast, it may mean only that
he is willing to lose his shirt to
save his soul Ga not unintelligent
exchange). But if the owners of
the networks and the producers
on the Coast go all out for God,
ii means that millions of Ameri-
cans have begun to pray.
Warner Brothers worst enemy
or best friend would never ac-
cuse that studio of having a bias
towards conservatism and 1.-The
Right. Ii was this lot which
produced mission to Moscow"
and similar pictures in a decade
when sympathy for the Soviet
Union was popular in Washing
ton.
"The Miracle of Our Lady of
Fatima" is the name of the ma
jor film that Warner Brothers
is releasing this month on
Broadway. 1t has all the glossy
trimmings that large budget
provides: color shots, ION loca-
tion" scenes and a large allot-
ment for exploitation. Such
film would never have been con-
sidered if certain capable busi-
nesSmen had not decided that,
in 1852, God is in mems minds
and Our Lady in their hearts.
Weak On History
The picture, as you will see
when you see it, departs at sew
eral points from the bare his
torical facts of Fatima: the
words spoken to the children of
Portugal by the Blessed Mother
were not spilled out, at once
but were Withheld for years. The
Bishop did not appear, to take
a hand in the proceedings, for
the excellent reason that His
Excellency had been forced into
exile by the Socialist govern
ment then in control of Portu-
gal. The Church at Fatima was
not closed by the authorities
The parish priest who advised
the childrens parents at the be-
ginning of the 1917 incidents
had been replaced by another
Father by the summers end.
The characters shown with
boards we're, in some cases,
clean-shaven. The Immaculate
Heart of Mary, which figured
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One Alone

The most personal and individual Of all human
cooperative enterprises is the work Of saving ones
soul IL is lifetime task colorine every breath
ing moment of each individual task by its
very nature which separates man from the mass
and stands him in bold relief against the background
Of his time and world
In letter written in onghand TO The German
Association Of Catholic Women IN convention Our
Holy Father sounded warning against the "deStruc-
tive tendency to absorb the individual in the mass
This is warning essentially against "wordliness
AS soon man loses sight of his individual anc
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prominently IN the whole beau
tiful series of events, is never
given mention in the film.
Strong On Emphasis
'The Miracle of Our Lady of
Fatima" is weak on history
but it is beautifully strong on
the supernatural emphasis
which might, so easily, have
been abandoned on the floor of
some Coast cutting-room. The
sun does dance in the finland
no atheist or naturalistic evasion
of this fact is even limited at.
The Lady" does appear, and she
is reverently shown. The pro-
phecies are fulfilled, and thus
a miracle is justified. These are
the gifts from Warner Brothers
to the faithful of America and
of the world; we should be
grateful for them.
The men who chose to invest
five or six million dollars In q
film like this are not philanthro-
pists-and thank God that they
are mott For if they were, the
significance of this picture
would be immensely lessened:
its production would mean only
that a few devout men loved
Fatima - and that we already
know. AS things stand, how
ever, this picture means that
shrewd, money-seeking experts
now appraise the mood of Amer
lea as being one of hunger for
the Catholic best.
What We Can Do
Perhaps, as a single example,
we should be talking to our nom
Catholic friends about the very
topics that we rarely broach for
fear of offending Protestant SEN
sibilities: the miracles, the ap-
partitions, the saints, the relics,
the Mass.
But" you may say, 81 am
no trained apologist. / dare not
bring up the subject of the
Faith because | am badly equip
ped to answer the difficulties
non-Catholics may pose" Or,
you may say, "It embarrasses me
to drag in the question of the
supernatural to people who may,
with some justice, consider it
an impertinence for me to try to
change their views"
Very well, then: you need not
dole out scapulars, nor argue
against the Anglican viewpoint
on the Apostolic Succession, nor
wrangle the question of Bernar-
dette at Lourdes into your din
ner-party conversation. But one
thing you can do. no matter
whether you are fifty times as
inarticulate as you imagine your
self to be. You can 60 to see a
picture like "The Miracle of Our
Lady at Fatima." And you can
take with you as your guest at
least one. unbelieving friend!
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men develop loyalties to the in
stitutions they build, and tend
to see events from those partic-
ular vantage points. In Gompers,
we have a case study of the So
cialist who entered the union
movement, began to see the
American scene from that per-
spective, and changed his view
points as unionism in the course
of its development found re
spectacle place in American So
ciety."
Gompers was a very realistic
labor leader, realistic to his fin
ger tips. AS for the less reals
tic socialists of Gompers' gener-
alton, Mr.. Bell continues, life
was still a triumph of dogma
over experience.
In Europe the future belongs
to those socialists who are realis-
tic enough to follow the example
of Gompers. II is our impression
that their number is increasing.
What tragedy it will be for
Europe and the world if Europe
an employers refuse to cooper
ate with them, if they refuse to
give to trade unionism "a re-
spectacle place" in society. For
that is what made it possible
for a Samuel Gompers to trans
fer his loyalty and the loyalty
of the American labor move
ment to evolution, rather than
revolution, in the field of So
cial reconstruction.
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FATHER HIGGINS
An Empty Slogan

are still a lot of Marxist social
lists in Western Europe. Some
of them are in the labor move
ment. II is also true that some
who are no longer full-fledged
socialists in the economic sense
of the word continue to act like
i9th-century Marxists in the
field of education and religion.
sAnti-cIericalism is probably on
the decline. but altogether too
many socialists still consider il
fashionable to caricature the
Church as the enemy of human
progress.
More Realism
In general. however, there is
good reason to hope that more
and more socialists in the Eu-
ropean labor movement-after
the example of our own Samuel
Gompers, founder and first pres
ident of the American Fedora
ton of Labor-will abandon So
cialism in favor of more real
istic philosophy of social recon
struction. Gompers started out
as a mild sort of socialist in the
economic sense of the word (al-
though there is no evidence that
he ever was traditional social
ist in his attitude towards reli-
gion). But it didn't take him
very long to change his mind.
"It is an old axiom says Dan
iel Bell, the brilliant labor ed
itor of Fortune magazine, in a
new symposium entitled Social
ism and American life, that
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CRETTA PALMER
A MOUi,g Picture

One of the
h e a r / g ming
phenomena of
our age is the
fact that Hol.
lyw o cd and
the gentlemen
It h e very
practical, hard
headed gentle
men charg
ed with ar.
ranging 1 el e.
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II has been
S ug gested by
us that social
ism, in the
economic sense
of the word, is
gradually be
coming a rath-
.er empty slo-
g a n on the
C. o n tinent of
Europe. Many
f. ur opean la
The frontiersman., 1952-07-24

enterprSe is not interested in min ing at a loss, but it is the govern ment's loss if the coal mined in Alaska does not meet the Terri tory'S demands. These demands are increasing with the develop ment of essential power plants in the Anchorage area. Coal will supply the power for steam plants now in use at Elmendorf Air Force Base and Fort Richardson and the new Chugach Electric As sociation-Alaska Railroad steam plant, which will be operating by November l.
 Proximity to the Anchorage market is one of the important factors in the development of the Matanuska coal fields; another factor is the quality of Matanuska coal. Healy River coals have only three-quarters of the heat con- tent of Matanuska coal. This diff ference in bulk is reflected in low CT shipping costs for Matanuska coal. These factors together with the increases in reserves already proved through the coal develop ment program satisfied Bureau of Mines officials inspecting opera tions last week that the vital work should continue.
 Working with the Bureau of mines engineers on exploration of coal deposits in this area is Dr. Farrell F. Barnes, U. s. Geoiogi- cal Survey geologist who has
The frontiersman., 1952-07-24
Increasing Demands for Vital Coal Assure Continued Development of BitUminoUs Reserves in RubeIt Areu

Increasing military and civilian demands for bituminous coal in the Territory and the encourag- ing additional reserves revealed through the Bureau of Mines drilling program in the Matan- uska coal fields during the past three years convinced a group of Bureau of Mines officials visiting local operations last week that the drilling program should con- tinue for another two or three years.
 Inspecting the sites where drill ling is in progress or in prospect were Louis c. Turnbull of Wash ington, DC, field advisor for the Bureau of Mines; Jared A. Herd lick of Juneau, chief of the min ing division, Alaska region, Bureau of Mines; Ludlow G. An derson of Anchorage, chief of the coal branch; and Frank C. Sturges of Pittsburgh, vice-president of the Pennsylvania Drilling Go. The Pennsylvania company has the contract for Bureau of Mines drill ling work in the Matanuska coal fields.
 Before making plans for con- tinued development of coal in the Railbelt area, the officials were taken on a tour of the Bur eau of Mines operations by Robert May, mining engineer in charge of coal development work in this area. Out at Houston, where gas was hit at 482 feet during drilling of the first hole last year, a second hold is being put down. The drillers were down 43O feet and hadn't struck gas at the time of the visit. This week they struck gas at 620 feet. The gas is only incidental to present operations. The local engineers hope that It is indicative of larger coal reserV- es beneath the gas pocket. Drill ing in this hole will continue ln order to explore this possibility. There is no good estimate of the reserves at this western end of the ,oal field as yet, according to May. Proving up the geology ot