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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-09-12
Chinese In Hong Kong Proue
Selues Firmly Behind Church
Show Open Respect For Clergy; Send Children To
Catholic Schools; 1000 Converts Yearly

More than 5000 sick persons, again
mostly Chinese. we're glad to oc.
cupy beds in the seven Catholic
hospitals here.
Refugees as we'll as established
residents are joining the Church.
A Mandarin-speaking priest, the
Rev AmeliuS Crotti of the Milan
Missions, deyotes himself TO pros
pective converts from central and
north China, who do not speak the
local Cantonese dialect. He has IL
classes under instruction. IL of
men, three of women and two of
children Under his direction, Man
darin-speaking seminarians con
duct other classes for converts on
the west side of the city.
Father Crotti baptized 80 al
Pentecost. With more Mandarin
speaking priests, there could be
still more conversions. Some oil
Father Crotti's converts make q
three-quarter hour journey on foot
across Hong Kong at night to take
instruction. and walk home after
wards.
The tragic contrast between con
ditions in Hong Kong and in near
by China is highlighted when you
ask about the Bishop
The communists arrested Bishop
Lawrence Bianchi OF Hong Kong
when he was visiting parish or
the China side OF his diocese last
year. He is still prisoner.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-09-12

HONG KONG-(NC)-The Chi
nese in Hong Kong give practical
proof every day that the people in
China are not behind the commu1-
ist attack on the Church.
The proof is the respect shown
everywhere in Hong Kong for
priests, Brothers and Sisters, the
crowded Catholic schools, the at
tendance at Catholic hospitals and
dispensaries and the fact that more
than 1000 Chinese become Cath
olics every year
Hong Kong, an island with a
stretch of the adjacent mainland,
all under British rule. is next door
TO communist-ruled China. More
than 100000 Chinese here are
exactly the same kind of people
as those who live on the other
side OF the iron curtain. but here
they enjoy the freedom that min
ority dictatorship has throttled in
their ancestral homeland.
Are Spontaneous
Here some $4,000 Chinese free
ly belong to the Church. Here
Catholic life is spontaneous and
fervent in IL parishes.
There's lot of Catholics in
Hong Kong" was the surprised
comment of Sgt. Bob Corsi Of Iron
Mountain, Mich, here on visit
from Japan. Even on weekdays,
noticed ii took two priests to give
Holy Communion at Holy Rosary
church.
Seventy-seven per cent, some
$4,000, of the pupils enrolled in
Hong Kong Catholic schools are
non-Christians and Catholic schools
are besieged by more applicants
than they can take.
Wherever priest goes in Hong
Kong, he gets friendly greeting
The clerk in the post office, the
shop-keeper, the shoe-Shine boy
the woman who sells papers on the
sidewalk, the sickly beggar at the
corner, all call him Father" OF
the Chinese equivalent, "Shen
Fu.'
Thanks TO the De La Sale Bro.
theirs, teaching boys in Hong Kong
since 1875, and the Irish Jesuits
here since 1926, you meet men in
business, professional and official
circles here who are proud to tel
you that they attended Catholic
school.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-09-12
Quints Continue
In COnrent School

NORTH BAY. Ont.-(NC)-The
Dionne Quintuplets will continue
their education this year at the
convent of the Sisters of the AS
sumption at Nicolet, Que
The Quints. who completed their
naturalization studies at their home
school near Callander, Ont, will
study subjects which are of par
ticular interest to them.
This was made known by their
father, Olivia Dionne, TO the North
Bay Nugget, local daily newspa-
per.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-09-12
FIR. Kimberly To Preach
At New Novena Series

The Rev. James H. Kimberly,
pastor of ST. Patrick's Church. juno
ton City, Ohio, will be the preach
er at the new novena series in hon
or of the Miraculous Medal to be
gin Monday at ST. Mary Magdalene
Church, Columbus.
The only sacrifice of the Mass IS
offered each Monday at $3.50 a. m.
for the intentions of those making
the Novena. Other services are held
Mondays at 10 a. m; 3, 4. 5:lo, o,
6:45. 7:30. 8:15 and 9 p. m.
Confessions are heard after each
service and enrolment in the Mir
aculous Medal.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-09-12

MONTREAL - (NC) = The
new Seminary of the Holy ApoSt.
les has been blessed by Arch
bishop Paul Emile Leger of Mon
treal. A five-story building in the
city's outskirts, 1T will be used for
the education of those who have a
late vocation TO the priesthood.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-09-12

Thousands Of delegates will
convene in Cleveland, Sept. IL
IS, for the annual convention Of
the National Conference Of Cath
Ollie Charities and the Society of
St. Vincent de Paul. Monsisnor
Eugene A. Lotus tleffl, of BUf-
fsio, is president and Monsig-
nor John o'Grsdy trishtl of
Washington, is national secre-
fsry of the Conference. INC Pho
tos)
Montana farmer-stockman., 1952-04-15

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and where needed and the quonty desired is
complete system ITSELF easy no and door-for-doIor
best voue systems the market todoy Complete
proved by thousands Of installations that giving
dependable service minimum
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. SECTIONAL drowbor
ALL-sTEEL construction

Yoa with Noble Harrow No stops ceon
dirt and weeds scroped your doWbo because oots
10 II inches off the ground Amazingly light weight yet
teey strong shock Nony have borrowing
time oneourh with Noble They find lightweight and
they pull sections with practically the
Adaptable instantly from 8-secion
p and from 7sectioh to or Tondem through eoes each
tubular section telescopes single hitch gives faster
equuizotion; TrDroft otochment provides pull
Evening star., 1952-07-08
Captive of Schemers
Who InfiItroted Ranks

But, one asks. how can it be
that the party Of Jefferson and
Jackson. which once contributed
so magnif1cently to the building
of the republic, would now Spon-
Sor and support so tragic
cleavage from our great tradi-
tions? How could it despoil
those very concepts of humanity
and government upon which
rested our past spiritual and
temporal strength? The answer
Is as clear as 1t is distressing.
That party Of noble heritage has
become captive to the schemers
and planners who have infil-
trated its ranks Of leadership to
set the national course unerr-
ingly toward the socialistic regi-
mentation Of a totalitarian
state.
To such end they have sought
to circumvent the safeguards to
our liberties wisely written into
the Constitution Of the United
States. At one stage there was
even the attempt to subvert the
independence Of our Supreme
Court by adding new members
pliable to the will of the execu-
tive-at another. the claim Of
extraordinary inherent" power
without the slightest sanction in
law. They have too frequently
regarded that immutable char
ter as an instrument of political
expediency. In the hypocrisy Of
Self-righteousness, they hail
their course as true liberalism.
Yet every move they make to
circumvent the spirit of the
Constitution, every move they
make to centralize political
power. every move they make to
curtail and suppress individual
liberty is reaction in it's most ex-
treme form.
For the trainers of the Con-
stitution were the most liberal
thinkers Of all the ages and the
charter they produced out Of
the liberal revolution of their
time has never been and is not
now surpassed in liberal
thought. Our forefathers asso.
ciatedA together into q sovereign
Evening star., 1952-07-08
Our Foreign Policy
Dominated by Others

In Europe, and indeed through
out the world, our foreign policy
approach has been equally as
vacillating and negative and, for
the most part. sad indeed to
relate, under the domination of
others. We have yielded to
selfish pressures both at home
and abroad and. IN so doing,
have unduly directed the distri-
button Of our wealth into privi-
legged channels, have taken sides
in international disputes which
were fundamentally none of our
affair, and have endeavored to
impose our will on other nations
purely domestic problems in an
imperialistic manner. We have
ignored traditional friends while
showering our favors on others,
and we have lost that sense Of
judicial fairness which for
merly characterized our relations
abroad. In our preoccupation
with Europe, we have tended to
discard from our concern those
great people of Asia and the
Middle East who historically
have sought not our wealth, but
our friendship and understand
ing. Our good neighbor" policy
with respect to the peoples of
Central and South American-of
greater strategic concern than
all others-has been largely SUBJ
ordinated. Through the pater-
nalistic attitude which has
dominated our material assist
ance abroad, we have promoted
as much weakness as strength,
as much resentment as friend
ship.
Animated by the doubtful be-
lief that with money alone we
could erect internal bulwarks
against Communism's growth,
our leaders have expended much
Of our resources on the area OF
Western Europe. Events have
largely established the fallacy
Of this reasoning. Indeed, the
history Of. mankind shows
clearly that the love Of liberty
is spiritual resource Of the
human heart which. If nom
existent. does not spring from
money alone. None win quarrel
with the impulse to do all rea-
sonably within our power to
assist the best efforts of the
peoples of Western Europe to
prepare their bastions for self
defense, but Communism with
its recently acquired strategic
frontiers in Asia and Europe
and its penetration. elsewhere
by internal minority influences.
presents q worldwide problem.
the solution of which involves !
consideration Of every point Of
possible Communist pressure.
One would be foolhardy indeed
to quench a ire in the kitchen
while leaving another room
&
Evening star., 1952-07-08

They see no sign Of concern,
hear no words Of encourage
ment, find no basis for easing
fear. Their every expression Of
hope for reduction in the tax
burden is met by the angry re-
joinder that taxes must go ever
higher. There is no plan to
transform extravaganza into
frugality, no desire to regain
economic and fiscal stability,
no prospect of return to the
rugged idealism and collective
tranquility of our fathers.
They yearn to regain the re-
ligious faith and spiritual recti-
tude Of the past. They remem-
ber the counsel Of Gen. WASH
ington when he said in his
+ farewell address:
"Of all the dispositions and
habits which lead to political
prosperity, religion and morality
are indispensable supports. In
vain would that man claim the
tribute of patriotism who should
labor to Subvert these great pill
lars Of human happiness, these
f1rmest props Of the duties Of
men and citizens"
But the people detect no heed
given this wise counsel. They
witness instead only a cease
less effort to spend and spend,
to tax and tax, only a callous
indifference to mounting dis
closures Of graft and corruption
and waste in the public admin
istration.
The religious devotion Of the
American people which has pro-
duced the universally reflected
spirituality of the American
home has been outraged by the
materialiSm and selfishness
which dominates the national
administration. Public policy no
longer is geared to the simple
determination Of that which is
right and that which is wrong.
The objective has been to build
political strength even at the
expense of the public interest.
This Is incomprehensible to our
people who understand fully the
influence religion and morality
have always exerted upon politi-
cal stability. They know from
the lessons Of history that ma
tional strength and greatness
inevitably find their true mea-
sure in existing moral and ethi-
cal standards.
Evening star., 1952-07-08
Lessons Of History
Ignored by Leaders

But the present administra-
tion ignores the lessons of his
tory. however clear and unmis-
taxable. It ignores the practical
aspect that there is a limit even
to our own vast resources. It
ignores the fact that our poten-
tial strength rests not so much
upon any natural advantages
which we have and others have
not. but upon the initiative and
vision, the enterprise and cour-
age, the sweat and toll which
alone spring from the incentive
Of freedom. Destroy such in
centive and our Nation can 60
the way of many others toward
q universal level Of mediocrity-
a standard Of life measured by
the lowest common denominator
which Is Communism's ultimate
goal.
The administration is OBJ
sessed by the idea that we can
spend ourselves into a position
Of leadership abroad, just as it
believes we can spend ourselves
into prosperity at home. Both
are based upon illusory prem
ises. Both challenge economic
and social truths, deeply rooted
in the experience of mankind.
World leadership can only rest
upon world respect. Such re-
spect is one Of those spiritual
Ideals which do not result from
gifts. propaganda. salesmanship
or any artificial means. It is not
for barter to the highest bidder.
1t Is not within the orbit of in
ternational trade. It is inf1u-
enced solely by the soundness of
the ideas by which we better
our own civilization, elevate to
higher standards our own way
Of life, and strengthen the dig
nifty Of our own citizenry. Only
through the exempliflcation of
sound ideas which in the cru
chile of experience have pro-
duced for us a better and more
serene life may we contribute in
fullest measure to the we'll
being Of others. The higher our
own standard and more stable
we become, the greater our ap-
peal to less fortunate peoples
and the more they will look to
us and our ways Of guidance
and leadership. This applies
equally to those behind the
Iron Curtain and those still
blessed by the concept of human
freedom. For the whole record
of civilization proves that the
tyranny has not as yet been de-
yised which can long resist q
sound idea. e
Spiritually and physically we
possess the resource, properly
conserved and realistically ap-
piled, to lead toward a world
freed from the exhausting wars
which have so plagued the past.
This is a practical purpose, not
visionary. For the destructive
ness Of modern war has now in
the atomic age become too
frightful to contemplate by even
a. potential victor.
This then must be the direc-
ton Of our foreign policy. We
must, upon restoration Of our
military strength and spiritual
balance recklessly dissipated in
our headlong retreat from vic
Evening star., 1952-07-08
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state for the sole and only pur-
pose of protecting their common
liberties, not of yielding them
again to a centralized Federal
authority. Their concept held
to the primacy of the individ-
ual's interest; that of our pres
ent leadership to the predomi-
nance of the state. They who
trample upon constitutional
liberty by the undue centraliza-
ton and imposition of political
power are turning back the
pages Of history and gradually
reinstituting those very excesses
and abuses for which the British
crown was indicted in 1776 by
our Declaration of Independ-
ence. They are the dangerous
reactionaries in contemporary
American r10Iitirc
Evening star., 1952-07-08
Power OF Toxotion
ReckIessIy Abused

In this march away from our
traditional American standards,
few Of our former liberties have
been left unimpaired. Rights
and powers specifically reserved
to State. community and in
dividual by Constitutional man
date have been ruthlessly sup
pressed by a creeping Federal
authority. Reckless abuse in
deed has been made Of that
most dangerous of all sovereign
powers-the power to tax. We
ind oSEselves already past the
Evening star., 1952-07-08
Failure Of Leaders
Viewed With DISNEY

Many Of the people who thus
register the depth Of their re-
sentiments do not fully COM
prehend the nature and degree
OF the policy misdirection which
has brought us to fiscal in
stability, political insecurity and
military weakness. But, they
view with dismay the failures
Of our leaders in the short after
math of victory which causes us,
the once proud and mighty
victor, increasingly to cali upon
every American mother to yield
her sons in a fight for national
survival; which causes us to
submit to extortion and black
mail for the release of our citi-.
zens unlawfully detained by
nations with which we are at
peace; which causes us to de-
prive our beloved divisions COM
mitted to battle in Korea Of
the power and the means and
the will to achieve victory-our
country's traditional military
goal.
They view with dismay the
alarming change in the balance
Of world power, arising from
the tragic decisions taken by
willful or guileless men repre-
senting us at Teheran, Yalta,
Potsdam and elsewhere. Those
reckless men, who yielding to
international intrigue, set the
stage for Soviet aScendency as
a world power and our own rela-
tive decline.
They view with dismay the
tragic weakness Of our leaders
reflected in their inability to
rebuild our strength and restore
our prestige. even after our
commitment to war in Korea
more than two long years ago
dramatically emphasized the
tnadequacy of our security prep
aration; reflected in their in
ability to conserve our resources
even while they warn Of ma
tional peril; reflected in their
tolerance Of corruption or worse
in the higher positions Of the
public service.
They view with dismay the
rising burden of our fiscal COM
mitments, the deprivations Of
the opportunity to accumulate
resources for future security and
family obligations, the growing
tendency of Government to con-
troll personal life and suppress
individual freedom.
Our people are desperate for
q plan which will revive hope
and restore faith as they feel
the oppressive burden of the tax
levy upon every source Of rev.
enue and upon every property
transaction; as they see the
astronomically rising public debt
= heavily mortgaging the industry.
the well-being and the oppor-
tunity Of our children and our
children's children; as they OBJ
serve the rising costs of the
necessities Of life impairing the
effectiveness of pensions, in
surance and other fixed incomes
and reducing the aged and in
flrm to appalling circumstances.
Evening star., 1952-07-08

afiame. The problem is global,
not sectional. Nor would the
free world be the gamer. If our
Nation which from its own con-
ception in liberty has ever stood
as a beacon Of hope and inspira-
ton should exhaust itself Of
spiritual and material resource
as to render its own survival
subject to the will Of others.
Such a tragedy would return
civilization to the darkness Of
the middle ages and the ideal
Of human liberty might perish
from the earth.
Evening star., 1952-07-08
Have Chorted Course
OF Socialist State

They have trifled with that
great American institution
free, private. competitive enter
prise, keystone to the arch of
our economic strength as a Ma
ton and prosperity as a people.
By the imposition of oppressive
and arbitrary controls upon
business and production: by ex-
haustive taxation which withers
initiative, reduces energy and,
in the end. destroys the spirit
Of enterprise; by spendthrift
policies which stagger the imag-
ination; by discouraging adj
herence to the principle Of pri-
vate ownership of property, they
have established the prerequi-
sites to a socialiStic or even later
a communiStic state. And, as
they thus chart a course with
such reckless abandon leading
toward ultimate national bank
ruptcy. they endeavor to mis-
lead and control the public
mind by a patronage of money,
by devices calculated to create
an artificial appearance of
prosperity and by a continuous
flow Of irresponsible and decep-
tive propaganda.
But the people in their in
mate wisdom are not misled
by such tactics of deception.
Alert to reality, they know that
the value of the dollar has
diminished about so per cent
and is still going down. They
find insufficient compensation
in nominally higher income.
however, skillfu1ly propagan-
died as a mark Of prosperity.
They entertain a growing fear
that the same policy misdirec-
ton which has thus debased the
dollar will in time so impair our
economy as to imperil the Ma
tion's solvency and thus destroy
our living standard. With the
dollar down, prices up and
taxes increased, higher wage
buys less today than yesterday.
Tomorrow may be even worse.
Let me read you this letter il
lustrating how millions of
American wage earners are
losing their living standard:
I'm 1941, was working as a
railroad telegrapher. as I am
today. My weekly wage was
$38.88. Substracting SLIT for
railroad retirement. I had
$37.71 tak-home pay-no in
come tax. My weekly wage now
is $71.32. But from that comes
$4.46 retirement and $10.50 in
come tax. Net: $56.36. Also, the
cost OF living has gone up 189
per cent in the meantime. My
old take-home pay was equiv
alent to $71.27 today. But my
take-home pay today actually is
that $56.36. My loss In income
is $14.9l. In other words. after
II years, and with no compen-
sation for added experience or
increased productivity due to
chronological developments, I
have actually suffered a pay cut
Of about SIS per week"
And so it is with all of us.
Evening star., 1952-07-08

point where higher taxes might
be expected to produce higher
revenue. The propaganda Of
fear is replacing our once dy-
manic initiative, well-teSted
vision and unparalleled energy
in q frantic effort to whip-lash
the country into a maximum Of
production.
This misdirection Of public
policy, which so endangers sur
vival of our traditional Ameri-
can way of life, finds its gen.
esis in an alien and foreign
philosophy. its application in
American politics designed to
further entrench a twenty-year
hold upon the political power.
It emphasizes with startling
clarity the sage warning of a
wise and farseeing democratic
leader of many years ago, SEN
ator Benjamin Hill of the State
Of Georgia. who foresaw some
thing Of what has happened, but
] dare say expected the reSpon-
sibility would be chargeable to a
Republican administration. He
cautioned on the floor Of the
Senate Of the United States:
II have said ] do not dread
(industriaD corporations as
instruments of power to destroy
this country. because there are a
thousand agencies which can
regulate, restrain and control
them; but there is a corpora
ton we may all well dread:
That corporation is the Federal
Government. From the aggres-
sions Of this corporation, there
can be no safety If it is allowed
to go beyond the well-defined
limits Of its power. I dread
nothing so much as the exercise
of ungranted and doubtful
powers by this Government. It
Is, in my opinion, the danger Of
dangers to the future of this
country. Let us be sure to keep
it always within its limits. If
this great, ambitious, ever
growing corporation become op-
pressive, who shall check It? If
1t become wayward. who shall
control 1t? II it become unjust,
who shall trust it? As sentinels
on the country's watchtower,
Senators, I beseech you-watch
and guard with sleepless dread
that corporation which can
make all property and rights,
all States and people, and all
liberty and hope it's playthings
in an hour, and its victims for
ever"
How prophetic this warning!
How far our institutions have
been yielded to these very ex-
cesses Of power which he so
deeply feared-and this, ironic-
ally enough. under the steward
ship Of his own party! Let none
say this Is but a partisan con-
cluSion. For north or south.
east or west, men and women
Of whatever political faith
recognize the tragic truth Of this
circumstance