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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-09

the American and the nazi and
communist ways. Contrary to CO
operating with religious author
tiles "by adjusting the schedule
of public events to sectarian
needs, Hitler and Stain began
early to fix compulsory state
and party demonstrations at
times that conflicted with relig-
ious events. Their purpose was
to discourage and prevent at
tendance at religious ceremon-
les. This is not the American
purpose, It never has been, and
the Supreme Court has called
attention to the fact again.
"The government must be neu-
trail when it comes to competi-
ton between sects. It may not
thrust any sect on any person. 1t
may not make a religious OBJ
servance compulsory. 1t may not
even coerce anyone to attend
church, to observe a religious
holiday, or to take religious in
struction. But it can close its
doors or suspend its operations
as to those who want to repair to
their religious sanctuary for wor-
ship or instruction"
The secularists, who have been
very much on the offensive, may
not be stopped but only temper
arily halted. However, the pause
could provide breathing spell
during which ProteStants, Jews
and Catholics who believe in the
American way could regroup
their forces for the defense of
democracy.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-09
WASHINGTON LETTER
LETTER
TOP Court Hits SecuLdrisnp
Mary's

WASHINGT0N-The United
States Supreme Court may have
put a brake on an aggressive
and growing campaign on sec
ularism in this country.
If it has, the decision uphold
ing the released time" program
of the New York City public
schools is truly one of the most
important in the history OF our
highest bench.
The decision in Zorach V. Clau-
son, as the released time" case
is technically known, came at a
time when secularists were def
initely on the offensive. Some
were saying the First Amend
ment to the Constitution meant
not merely that there could be
no established religion, but that
the Government could not have
anything to do with any relig-
ion or all religions. There could
be no cooperation at all. That,
of course, is only a step removed
from hostility to religion.
Others were saying religious
and private schools should be put
out of existence. One suspects
that they really meant to say re
ligious schools should be put
out of business, and threw in
the private schools as a sort of
red herring" In any event, the
religious and private schools
we're accused of being "diyisive." :"
The. were "divisive" because
they were not secularist. Moth
III & was said about the secular
ist schools being "divisive" be.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-09

cause they we're not religious.
Still others belabored Prot
estant clergymen and laymen for
their efforts to support and ex-
tend religious instruction, eth
er through released time" or
other projects.
In the majority opinion in Zor-
ach v Clauson, Justice William
o. Douglas said I'VE are a relig-
ious people whose institutions
presuppose Supreme Being"
end that 1--WE find no constitu-
tional requirement which makes
it necessary for government to
be hostile to religion and to
throw its weight against efforts
to widen the effective scope of
religion"
Justice Douglas also said; I'VE
guarantee the freedom TO wor-
ship as one chooses. We make
room for as wide a variety of
beliefs and creedS as the spirit
ual needs of man deem neces-
sary. We sponsor an attitude on
the part of government that
shows no partiality to any one
group and that lets each flourish
according to the zeal of its adher-
ents and the appeal of its dogma.
When the state encourages re-
liaious instruction or cooperates
with religious authorities by
adjusting the schedule of public
events to sectarian needs, it fol-
lows in our best traditions"
These words throw into strik-
ing relief the contrast between
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-09

That is, in fact, the situation
in which millions of men and
women find themselves today.
They cry, with Arthur Koestler's
hero, the tragic words, 'Oh, for
the perfect cause for which to
live and die!" For lack of it they
waste themselves on trivia, or
bind themselves to some single,
narrow goal, binding their eyes
to every other value or beauty
IN the world. The loss in human
happiness is immense; the loss
in spiritual achievement is be-
yono our calculations.
And out of this curious mis-
conception of life-this odd idea
that monomania is the sole road
to success-has arisen an even
stranger and more dangerous no
ton: the belief that religion is
the business only of the few.
Tragic Paradox
Tell the average non-Catholic
today that you consider as your
goal on earth to know, love and
serve God, and he will label you
a professional religious: for that
conception of life is to him a
specialists conception. No mat
ter how broad-minded he may be
no matter how willing to ac-
knowledge the spiritual values
unless he is a most unusual mod
ern, he will think that you have
expressed an attitude towards
life that is appropriate only to
a small band of professional as
cetics.
But we know better. We know
better because the catechism has
assured us of the fact that every
man and every woman has as his
primary vocation a religious vo-
cation-that marriage and moth.
erhood, earning a living and be-
ing a father and a friend are all
to be evaluated in terms of their
assistance or destruction of the
souls main aim: the knowledge,
love and service of its God. ANY
other goal in life is, in compari-
son, constructing and shockingly
narrowing. The soul, made for
slavery to the Divine, suffers
more sharply than any organ of
the body when it is bound into
limits tighter than its needs. To
force a Chinese girl-child's foot
to remain five inches long for
ever was a cruel thing, when it
was done a half century ago;
to force mans soul to confine
itself to smaller goals than those
of God is more cruel.
And that is why, by an odd and
tragic paradox, broadmindedness
is harsher than even the least
tolerant heresy: for it is mar
rover. The man who worships
God he misunderstands, through
some fault of theology, is at
least submitting himself to a God
Of some kind-to Someone larg-
er than himself. But the man
who serves speciality, a temper
al goal, an ambition bounded by
this earth, has made himself the
slave of a single portion of his
own finite mind.
For anything worth doing at
all is worth doing badly. And the
world needs m lions of amateurs
whose vision is so large that il
will not scorn doing a different
task each day to serve its Lord.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-09
Dangerous Business
GRETTA PALMER

Whatever is
worth doing at
all, /" said G. K.
Chesterton, "is
worth d DIN g
b a dly." He
used the para
dox as a de
fense of that
much abused
creature, the
un-career wom-
an, who man.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-05-09
LOUIS f. BUDENZ
Enemies OF Free Labor
LOUIS r. BUDENZ
Oddities new

Oddities new
er end, and no
better evidence
can be found
h an in the
strange way so
m a n y people
accept the slo
gans or argu
ments of the
communists.
This fact is
b ou 2 h [ TO
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could well offer a prayer that no such sighting
and immoral action will be taken and that the in
stitution of motherhood will retain its exalted
position in the minds and hearts of all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
By Charles E. TroceweN

periodical cicadas. more commonly To-
Gusts.
There is an 11-year type, and a 13-
year type. and others.
All Of these have been studied and
mapped by scientists, so that 1t is known
very accurately just when they viii re-
turn, and just where.
The Brood K, the big one, will start
boring holes next spring and early sum-
mer.
OF the millions that went UNDER
ground, some will have died in the cycle.
Others will not be able to find their way
up, owing to various circumstances, but
1t is not likely that street or sidewalk
would stop them. They simply would
run parallel, until their instinct told
them to start up again.
This emergence in numbers win be
accompanied by some little damage to
small trees and shrubs. but not enough
to cause any worry. although next year,
as always, various householders win grow
red IN the face at the damage" as they
call it.
Actually, the amazing manifestation
far, far outweighS the little trouble and
damage caused. But this time. as before.
it win be recognized as wonder OF ma
ture only by those happy persons who
believe that God shows Himself in the
little creatures as well as the big, in the
strange insect as wen as In the strange
man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
This and That

a locust with 17-year life cycle. and If
this is the year for them to return?
Sincerely yours, II. M. B., IT."
There is, indeed, 17-year locust,
properly cicada, but this ID not the year
for their return in this vicinity.
Next summer is it.
This will be the famous Brood x,
which went into the ground IL years
ago.
Some Of them started up this summer.
but not in this vicinity, though In parts
Of Western Maryland.
Next year win see the real emergence.
and then our correspondent win sud-
denly find his interest In insects re-
newed, for this is real experience.
Sensitive persons thrilled to the cicada
music, that great roar. rather than buzz,
with musical overtones and undertones.
Seventeen years ago 1t swelled high.
then suddenly stopped. as If great
conductor in the skies held his baton
in certain way.
Something orchestral there was to
that insect music. something that
thrilled the human soul sensitive to such
things. Sometimes ct the seashore. when
the waves crash In q certain way. with
clouds above and hard salt wind blow
ing, they win have q thrill run down
the spine. Or some simple sight. that
somehow strikes chord. has this effect.
So with real cicada music.
There are various breeds Of these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
New Atomic Frontier

The average person will have difficulty in
comprehending either the explanation or the
significance of an epochal atomic development
reported to be in prospect at the Atomic Energy
Commissions pioneering Brookhaven National
Laboratory on Long Island. Although official
announcement of the development has been
withheld for the time being, William L. Laurence
gave general description Of it in last Sundays
New York Times. In brief, American physicists
are said to have discovered a method Of ac-
celebrating atomic bullets" to even more
fantastic speeds than is possible with existing
cyclotrons. The high-energy particles thus
could open the way to frontiers hitherto closed
to explorers of this atomic age.
A cyclotron is defined by the dictionary as
"an apparatus for imparting high speeds to
electrified particles by electromagnetic and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
CHEVY CHASE, MD.
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
During the month Of August, 1885.
the trees of Washington were filed with
locusts, or cicadas, whose buzz was heard
necessarily during the daylight hours.
and the ground was dotted with holes
from which they emerged at the begin
ming of their above ground sojcurn.
when they had finished buzzing they
returned to the ground level, and appar-
emily died natural death. collected
a great many and kept them preserved
in several large jars for number OF
years.
cat that time these bugs were referred
to as 17-year locusts, and while some Of
my older friends, fifth and sixth graders.
claimed that this was q miSnomer.
I calculated the 17-year span and looked
forward to the return of these strange
things, at the same time wondering how
anything could stay underground that
long and what would happen to those Of
the next generation that found them
selves under streets and sidewalks that
had been laid in the interim.
"Now that the year 1852 is here and
almost gone, am less interested in
insects, but ! noticed some few
locusts are wit They seem more
plentiful than H. ones we have every
summer, but they are not as numerous
as my memories of 1895 led me to expect.
Can you tell me II there is. in fact.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
Transit Company Errors

Capital Transit Co. has been harping
on the theme Of mass transportation VS..
private cars. Theoretically. the idea OF
preference for the mover Of many is
correct. But CTCo. Is gradually
strangling the possibility of that solution
of Washington's traffic problem by
ever-increasing fares and deteriorating
service.
It is true, of course. that auto travel
costs from to 10 cents mile, when
all investments are taken into consider
ation But, MIR. Auto Buyer spends his
$4,000 for the convenience and pleasure
of car ownership. probably thinking
mostly of long trips. Then, his compare
son of costs with CTCo. is based on gaso-
line and parking prices.
With even token fares at the startling
level of 15c each, the little woman" and
the two kids spend total Of 80 cents for
q round trip downtown. TAKE the car"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
Corthy Victory
Newcomer.

In it's editorial wisconsin Land
slide'' The Star picks itself of the floor
and in dazed, bewildered manner tries
to analyze what happened.
was particularly amused at this
sentence: "The seamy side of the Nc
Carthy record was fully publicized
throughout the State" Wisconsin voters
quite obviously smelled the seamy side
Of the anti-McCarthy smear and acted
accordingly.
In the same issue the Associated Press
posed question as to how far Eisen-
hover should go in supporting Senator
McCarthy's reelection. Seems to me
they have the cart before the horse.
Mccarthy doesn't need Eisenhower, but
the General may well be hanging onto
McCarthy's coattails come November.
G. r. Simcox.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
Remembered Roses

When yellow roses bloom. Gee her
stand,
The morning sunlight on her
gentle face,
Offering sprays OF roses NTH q hand
Nude lonely By the Citt-Gnd-ctver's
There tuds IN her stceet simplicity.
Which fingers NTH me noD past all
the years,
For she gaze loDinC kindness. fun
and free.
Clipped from thorny bush NTH
garden shears.
pns pig-tatled child but knew then
That she sDds motherly and Utse
and good;
/ fear her like iciu not be seen again
In any busy city nei0bborhood.
She pns 1ny mother-that Is HON I
k7s0U
How past all touch of time her roses
groiD.
Anobel Armour
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
Saving on Deliveries

On returning from q trip ] have
SKINNED over some copies of The Star
I failed to read In regular course. and
I want to tell you that heartily agree
with the tenor of your editorial on post
office mail deliveries. Even without q
deficit such as you name, hardly see
the necessity Of more than one delivery
a day to householders. speak as one
getting on an average 20 pieces Of mail
a week who finds himself as well off
now as when he had two daily deliveries.
If we are ever to balance the budget,
or what is more important, cut down
some of our gigantic debt, we must
economic somewhere. and no matter
where it is done there will be some
complaint. It is an economic war we
are engaged in, no less than a military
one; and war requires sacrifice Of COM
fort and convenience.
It is easier to stand one delivery
day than to have sales tax. which is
bound to come If our deficits and debts
continue to grow.
Herman Felter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
ak on JeweIry

Not long ago I received a personal
property tax return blank from the
District of Columbia. In filling it out I
carefully included SIS in the column for
"Jewelry owned or held by taxpayer
etc." Now. doubt that jewelry in my
possession is by any stretch of the
imagination worth that much. It's a
matter of pride to me that a self
respecting woman should own jewelry
amounting to approximately that.
Well. got notice from the Office of
the Board of Personal Tax Appraisers to
the effect that owed $3.50 on the $75
item. My furniture comes well under the
500 exemption figure.
For my own satisfaction, went to
the District Building to find out what
my bill would have been if I had de-
clared no jewelry. was told that in such
a case. the Office automatically estimates
that an individual filing a return is
credited with 500 worth of jewels. The
tax in that case, presume, is 50.
Since I am Westerner and have not
been in your fine city long. am wonder
ing if I should list my jewelry at sos
next year (allowing for corrosion and
deterioration) or at $50 assuming that
it may be of more value in light of
antiquity by them.
When arrived in Washington in
January, 1851, I had brooch valued at
$500. At this point am almost grateful
that lost it along with a purse on a
So bus one evening last February. Per-
haps the finder is one Of the District
residents who received no personal
property tax blank.
Newcomer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
By Josephine HemphiIl
q. 8. Department of Agriculture

U. q. Department OF Agriculture
THE OTHER DAY WHEN I saw a
L picture in the paper of the Re-
publican nominee for President talking
with DR.. and Mrs. David Fairchild of
Coral Gables, Fla, was reminded
of piece of escape literature" that
has been on my desk for some time now.
It's PLANT Inventory Report" Of the
u. S. Department of Agriculture.
DR.. Fairchild, as everybody knows.
is a famous naturalist and plant ex-
plorer. It was he who organized. in
1898, what is now the Office of Plant
Exploration and Introduction Of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture, which
issues plant inventory reports.
Whenever read such report wish
that I had been a plant explorer. #
such had been my happy fate, might
have been asked to join such a group
as the Fairchild-Archbold Expedition.
and helped to collect seeds and bulbs
of exotic trees and shrubs that grow
in the Dutch East Indies and the Philip
pines.
Such trees for example, as the silt
palm, Is feet tall. with fruits Of brilliant
lacquer-red, found on Karekelang
Island of the Talmund Group or the
shrubs with fragrant, trumpet-like flow
ers. white striped with purple. four
inches long and two inches across, that
grow on Dagasoei Island.
These are two of the 355 items in
"Plant Inventory No. 145" which lists
seeds, bulbs, plants and trees received
by the Division of Plant Exploration and
Introduction during the last three
months of 1910. ct takes some time for
the Department of Agriculture to catch
up with the printing of plant inven-
tories, suspended during the war years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16

In your issue Of September 8, there
Is photograph captioned Partly COM
pleted German jets-Heinkel 1925, in the
650-m.p.h. class-found by the Ameri-
can 9th Army in salt mine near Engel,
Germany, in 1945."
With all the news items current about
aerial combats between American F-86
Sabrejets and Russian Mig-15s, you GER
tainly should realize that even these
very modern aircraft have O maxi
mum speed Of only $50 m.p.h.
While the Heinkel 1852 was very re-
markable product Of German science.
its maximum speed was onlyG 200 m.p.h.,
which, indeed. made it the fastest war
plane in the world at the time d945).
William Rich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16
DANGERS of a Polluted River

Health Officer Seckinger has made it plain
that the movement to reduce pollution in the
Potomac River is not directed merely to the goal
Of making the river safer and more pleasant for
recreation. OF far more Importance to the COM
munity is the menace which the river today
presents to the health of all who live near its
shores. With huge quantities of raw or partly
treated sewage daily being emptied into the
Potomac the danger of infection, by either direct
or indirect means, is threat which has been
too much ignored or discounted
Dr. seckinger and Harold Kemp, District
director of sanitary engineering, warned of this
threat at a meeting of the Interstate Commission
on the Potomac River Basin. The commission
has taken leading part in the fight against
pollution in the Potomac River and its tribu-
tarieS DR.. Seckinger pointed out that the exist
ence Of polio in community inevitably means
that the virus of this dread disease is present in
sewage dumped into the river. The danger of
infection comes not only from direct contact
with the water but from disease-carrying flies
and other insects which have had contact with
the river or its tidal mud.
The disease threat decreases proportionately
as treatment Of sewage increases. Washington's
treatment facilities are inadequate today but
they are being expanded and improved under a
1ong-range program. Virginia's facilities are in
cities have joined in plan to survey the problem
and do something about it, either jointly or in
dependently. At present all of Alexandria's sew
age is going into the river in its raw state.
Arlington has a treatment plant but needs
another. Fairfax County is building plant and
considering an additional one. A firm of engi-
neerS has recommended partial joint facilities
for Alexandria and Fairfax County and the two
communities are studying this plan. The engi-
neerS are continuing their studies, with view
to determining the best treatment program
throughout the nearby Virginia area.
Behind this encouraging progress on the
other side of the river stands the State Water
Control Board, holding over the counties and
cities stern warning that definite steps must
be taken without delay to abate pollution in the
Potomac. Fortunately, these jurisdictions are
fully aware of the seriousness of the problem and
may be expected to deal with it promptly and
effectively without undue prodding. Criticism Of
the type which board member has aimed at
Alexandria is unfair. There was time when
Alexandria, like other Potomac communities was
dragging its feet" on pollution control-but that
is past. In fact, all of the people in this area
have become properly concerned with the health
hazards which their sewage has created and
there are good prospects that the near-septic
condition of the river will be cured by gradual
process. The process does seem to be alarmingly
slow, however, when the potential hazards to
public health are as serious as DR.. Seckinger
represents them to be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-16

electrostatic means, used especially for lombard
ing the nuclei of atoms to produce tranSmuta-
tions and artificial radioactivity." It's atom
splitting powers have enabled Government SCI
entsts to explore more fully the mysteries of the
atom-and hence of the universe. The Brook
haven cyclotron, given the special name Of
cosmotron, is the worlds most powerful as of
today. It is capable of speeding up atomic parti-.
cles until they produce an energy Of % billion
electron volts-highest energy ever produced by
a man-made machine.
But even such enormous energies would be
small compared to those which might be pro-
duced with the aid of the discovery, according
to the Laurence article. BY means of a new
method Of focusing the magnetic field so as to
guide the whirling atomic stream of the cosmo-
tron, energies Of as much as 100 billion electron
volts would be possible. The energies could be
developed without any ponderous increase in the
size OF the electronic- bullet apparatus. And the
cost would not be prohibitive, it is said. There
are no plans at present for building such
machine but the potentialities are so great that
such plans probably will not be long delayed.
The Importance of the discovery may be
sensed from the fact that the cycotron is helping
nuclear explorers to penetrate further and
further into the mysteries of mass and energy.
These findings not only are Of value in Harvesting
the atom for destructive purposes but in con-
trolling it for peaceful uses-power, medical
research, agriculture and so on. If the destruc-
tive uses could be minimized or eliminated by
mutual consent, enforced by. adequate guaran-
tees, and the constructive uses could be magniied
with the aid of the new discovery, building
of a supercosmotron would be a worthwhile
investment.