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The Hospital Record

Americans as a whole. not Just Catholics can
well be proud of the great report announced last
week with the publication of the 1852 Catholic Hos
nita Directory. The astounding amount OF health
and hospital services by this segment of pri-
vately sponsored institutions in year calls for
great praise.
Opening their doors TO the sick without thought
of race color creed these hospitals served seven
and half million patients during 1851. This was
done through the efforts of 1125 Catholic hospital
and health agencies of all types During this period
particularly in our own Diocese OF Columbus these
facilities we're undergoing tremendous growth and
expansion The report for next year Will be CON
sderably greater in services rendered throughout
the nation
Americans can be douby thankful for all of this.
hev can be grateful first of ALL for the relief and
aid rendered 10 so many suffering people But they
must not fail to thank God that they live In
country where private institutions are Tree 10 opef-
ate This is a great work of mercy and charity.
II must be retained as such IL must not deterlorate
TO the level OF organized and therefore cold, char
ity II must not be taken over by any governmental
agency with the resulting loss OF love and deVouoh
in work which is not properly done otherwise.
This. surely is the opportune time to pay tribute,
and a glowing one to the thousands OF nuns VINO
Give their lives TO this work. Were il not Tor their
dedication. much Of what the 1851 report reveals
would not have been reality. Non-Cathollcs, 100,
are full Of praise for the seess service OF the nuns
in our hospitals They have in great many lnstah
ces given evidence of their appreciation by con
tributine to the work Daily the rising costs make
the administration of these institutions severe
struggle Scientific progress makes necessary ana
available new and expensive equipment, as wen as
new drugs and medicines Somehow the Sisters meet
the high costs and manage TO keep their hospitals
looking clean and neat and in good repair.
II was ST. John of God who one day saw the
sfjomata in the feet of beggar he was helping. lie
looked up to say so it is you, Lord! The Sisters
must keep this in mind as they continue their SefF-
tne of mercy and charity in our beloved country.
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Censorship of movie films in Ohio is due for a
fest The move is the result Of the u ). supreme
Court decision on ban OF the movie, "ihe NIT
acle by the state of New York. The hlgh court
reversed the decision of the New YORK Judges ana
the infamous film became available TO movie the
Atres in that state.
II is true that people do not like to be censored
And vet censorship is most necessary. We have II IN
one form or another, backed by law IN many OF our
daity activities Always ii is intended Tor our pro
lection against evil. Thus, the housewife flnds IL
nrotectinp her when she goes to buy meat In her
neiehborhood market The meat must be stamped
as having been duly inspected by the proper au
thorities as acceptable for sale ana use lhis -
great protection but it is just another form OF cen
torship Pure food laws requiring proper Standards
with arrangements for inspection tor censorng) are
accepted by everyone In fact people become angry
II they learn products, not properly nspecteda are
substituted.
II IS difficult TO understand, however, that there
g. little concern in favor of laws which would protect
people from moral corruption. People seem not 10
care about spiritual health something lar more
important than corporal webeing, II there Is cen
sorshp of books publications pictures or movie
films The word becomes cry of dersion as some
thing contrary to fundamental freedom. Somehow
or other we have got into position where we dare
NOT do ANYTHING for The cause OF religion ana NOR
altv lest we offend those who have no religion
those who are antireligious Communists must be
having heyday in this regard, The sacred prin
cple of separation of Church and State is carried TO
ridiculous extremes to the advantage Of the lrrelg
ious elements American people, on the whole, are
religious. but they being betrayed by weak gov
ernment which listens TO raucous minority group
inspired either by bgotrY or atheistlc communism
Censorship of movie films is for the moral pro.
lection of society, il should be upheld by the high
est law Of the land
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Oh. Come On Now!

one of the main, if not the main, issue of this
weeks Democratic National Convention, and one
that will remain an important consideration In the
co~~np months is the adoption Of some form of
social legislation guaranteeing fair employment
practices throughout the nation.
Such proposed legislation has been the center OF
caustic debate for some years even being part OF
the platform argued about at the last national con
vention Of the political parties In l948. While both
parties in the past have promised some action along
the lines proposed by the proposed FEPC laws pre-
cious little has actually been done TO bring about
a general countrywide acceptance of the law, Only
a few states have adopted the measure
Very briefly. FEPC is aimed at wipnp out dis
crminatory practices in the hiring of labor. To
discriminate against a minority group because of the
color Of their skin is morally wrong and an un
heard Of thing when view the democratic free
principles on which our nation is founded
No one will deny that there arc some problems
inherent in the adoption of this legislation in
Of me states. No ono should deny though that
these problems can be overcome, The example Civ
en- BY the states who have already adopted the law
Is proof positive Of this.
During the past years many arguments have
been brought forth against this law and the social
reforms IL seeks 10 insure.
We thought that we had heard them all - but
not so. Here is the tack being taken by those
who still argue against the bill
Getting clear away from the merits of the bill
itself, the arguments against IL strike not only
at the usefulness Of this legislation but even at
the practicaty of any legislation.
The new argument If you can call 1t that, Is
this FEPC won't work, they say, because you
can't drive hatred out of the human heart by laws
IT is untiinkabe that anyone could make such
statement and mean II.
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WASHINCTON LETTER
What Are The SOUiets Up To-?

dicate that the United States is
not attributing too much good
will to the recent Russian NOV
es. The State Department or
dered Russia to stop its pro-
duction of propaganda pamph-
lets in this country, and, at the
same time, suspended publica-
ton of Ameribd, the Russian
language periodical we sponsor
ed in Moscow.
One impressive fact in all this
is that it is Russia which has
been able to "cail the shots.
Russia takes some reasonably de-
cent course of action, nothing
more than has been customary
among enlightened nations, and
a wave of hope that there will
be peace sweeps through the
world. The United States per-
forms acts of friendship and
good will almost without preced-
ent in the history of the world,
and time after time, and the
world seems not one bit reasur-
ed.
This shows the position of inn
portance to which Russia has
ruthlessly risen in the world. II
also shows that it is Soviet
Russia that blocks the way to
peace, and has blocked it since
World War IT.
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every four when some millions
of Americans do a great deal
of unpaid work with enthusiasm
and gusto and considerable zeal.
II there we're a spiritual ther-
mometer capable of measuring
forgetfulness of self, it would
probably reach its highest point
in the six months preceding a
Presidential election. True, some
of the volunteer workers are
motivated by the hope of patron
age, if their candidate gets in;
but the vast majority of the
Americans who work for any
party expect no reward at all.
They are spurred on by simple
civic virtue-they are fighting
in the hope that the principles
they believe in will prevail. And
their idealism is, almost certain
ly, bound to be shattered on one
or another terrible event by No
vember IL. Either victory or de-
feat will bring a sorry cynicism
to replace their eager hopes.
That shadowy character, ''the
Independent voter, may be
swayed by the platform polit-
cal party offers him; but no.
candidate would dare risk every
thing on the independent voter.
The solid core of his support Is
always made up of men and wo-
men whose allegiance has been
certain long before the platform
was written-people who are, in
some way or another, subjected
to the control of the machine.
If this we're not true, any po-
pular hero with fine platform
would be able to run as the
choice of a Third Party, or of no
party and wind up in the White
House. The exceeding improb-
ility of this is proof, in itself, of
the fact that something more
goes into the making of a Pres
ident than the good will of so
many million scattered admirers.
One Worthy Cause
That something more" is the
phase of politics about which
many volunteers are going to be
educated in the coming months
and they will not like it. They
will discover the enormity of the
gap between platform oratory
and performance in office-and
they will discover it whoever
wins. They. will find out that
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not; that Russia decided to open
the Danube river to Austrian
shipping.
AS this is written, many people
profess to see signs of break
in the cold war. Whether it
would be a good or bad break
no one seemed ready to pre-
dict.
Although these events are all
widely separated, geographical
ly, some observers contend that,
because of the way Moscow
does things, they are all related
in some way. They could all
be parts of large, hopeful pat
tern, it is said. On the other
hand, it is added, they could
be individual instances of pleas
ing concessions made with the
thought of offsetting some un-
pleasant behaviour, either past
or yet to come.
In this latter connection, it
is pointed out that the recent
kidnapping by the Reds in Ber-
lin of a West German lawyer,
leader of anti-communist pro-
fessional group, caused a great
deal of concern in many coun-
tries.
At the same time, there was
a development which would in
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WASHINCTON LETTER
BY J. J. Gilbert

WASHINGTON Second only
to the Democratic National Con-
ton in official interest is the
question: What is Soviet Rus
sia up to?
Even before the political big
wigs of the two major parties
started to move out of this city
to make Chicago the temporary
political capital of the nation,
an air Of expectancy began to
prevade the atmosphere here.
Now is seems to have filled the
vacuum created by the pull to-
ward Chicago.
The question is prompted by
the fact that a large part of
the world wondered when the
Red truce negotiators in Korea
asked for Interruptions of the
special secret meetings at Pan
munjong; that the West rubbed
its collective eyes when Soviet
Russian athletes showed up for
the Olympic Games in Helsinki
and, more astonishingly, were
permitted to fraternize with
competitors from outside the
Iron Curtain; that Moscow de-
cided to take part in the meet
ing of the international Red
Cross in Toronto when there
was some talk that she would
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Father McG0Wan
A Big Stick Gently WdUed

acy, without religion (for long
time). without settled family
life and in a vast amount of
other and Incidental cruelty.
Eighty-five years ago they were
freed from slavery but in the
customary idea of the time, they
+ wera left pretty we'll stranded
with little protection or help
from government.
There had been much inn
proyement in the latter years
of slavery. And certainly there
has been much Improvement
since chattel slavery ended.
There has been, in fact, more i'm
proyement than was to have
been expected. But the improve
ment has Jagged far behind the
possibilities. But delaying and
tagging are an old story; most
of the early Europeans, before
Christianity, we're cruel and de-
graded peoples and did not get
even halfway on weak feet for
centuries. What | am trying to
say is that a people with the
background of American Neg
roes have long hard row to
hoe regardless of the perSecu-
ton the whites inflict upon them
and regardless of what whites
do for them.
This makes an FEPC for Neg
roes very difficult. You have
people Of the same color who
have been, as group, oppress-
ed but also have been helped
and have helped themselves.
Many of them are of extraor-
dinary character and ability but
are of the same color as those
of less character and ability
and so, they are all identified as
one. Something similar is true
of the Mexican immigrants of
the Southwest.
Lesser But Great Poverty
The Mexicans down there are
mostly Indians from northern
Mexico. Again they were once
q primitive people - as all of
us were once. Four centuries
ago they had better start than
Negroes in their contact with
the people of the Western world;
they were not made slaves and
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INQUIRY CORNER
Whom az can nnnrru?

q. WhOm dtd Cam marry!
A. In the fifth chapter of
Genesis we read that Adam
begot Seth and other sons and
daughters. In the unique circum-
stances at the beginning of the
human race brothers and sisters
must have married, so Cain like
ly married one of his sisters. God
obviously would exercise
special care TO safeguard the
earliest human beings from the
evils usually associated with
close inter-marriage. Just as di-
vorce was permitted for time
in the Old Testment for reasons
which God accepted for that
time, so this to our mind -
unthinkable situation was ac-
cepted in the beginning.
@. Did not the Sddducees loho
rejected Immortality of the soul
represent Jewish thought at the
time of Christ?
A. The immortality of the soul
was accepted by the Jews; the
Sadducees were a small minority.
They were notable chiefly be-
cause they denied it. The Old
Testment is full of references
to future life and to reward and
punishment hereafter. Our Lord
quoted the book of Exodus (3:5),
Il am the God of Abraham, and
the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob" saying HE is not the
God of the dead, but of the liv-
ing" (Matthew 22;32, 33) "And
! tell you," he declares, 'that
many will come from the east
and from the vest and will feast
with Abraham and Isaac and
Jacob in the kingdom of heaven
... /" Matthew BID.
Q. Ho1C do you reconcile private
prayer and liturgy? Does the
hturgicdL B1ovement mean the
end of deUotionS?
A. Blessed Plus K who restored
the public prayer of the Church,
the liturgy, to its proper place,
struck the center of the liturgicaI
movement with his simple state
ment, pray the Mass. In his
profound letter to priests he
states of private prayer in union
with the Mass, Nov nothing
produces and maintains this
habit of mind, this natural in
timacy with God so well as daily
meditation +" Private prayers
meditation, morning and even
ing prayer, the Rosary etc. pre-
pare the soul for participation in
the Mass and Sacraments. Popu-
lar devotions tend to develop the
spirit of prayer in common -
the ideal of the liturgy (''For
where there are two or three
gathered together in My name,
there am | in the midst of them"
Matthew 1920. Liturgical pray
er,on the other hand, guards
popular devotionS, as it does
private prayer, against danger
of excess or extravaganza The
letter of Pope Plus XII on the
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political speeches are sales talks
and vote getterS rather than
creeds, and that Parliamentary
Law is less a means of obtaining
justice than a clever sleight of
hand-when the professionals
take over a meeting or a con.
vention. They will learn that
the experts" who advise all
candidates rarely think of what
Is due the American Poles or
Italians or MexicanS. Instead
the experts" think of the
Polish vote" the italian Bloc"
the Mexican minority" For
politics is the science of the
possible and ''the possible" in
this field means the course that
will never offend anyone, how.
ever wrong-headed he may be, il
he happens to control votes.
Every four years some millions
OF ardent patriots discover that
they cannot serve the crusade
for perfect goodness by eIecting
a different man to office. They
may improve the condition of the
nation. yes; but most of them
had aimed higher. Most of the
once-in-four-years volunteers are
actually motivated by religious
purpose in their work.
Now there is only one Cause
worthy of such devotion-only
one Cause that will not disil-
fusion them nor let them down.
II is the cause of Christ in His
Mystical Body. Only one edifice
is secure from the termiteS of
compromise, and that is the Rock
Peters Rock. There is only
one institution whose PLATFORM
the Creed-has been tailored to
the measure of truth rather than
of policy. There is only one
Leader who will not betray their
highest hopes of Him.
Millions of Americans are in
different to politics, which is
too bad. But millions of others
look in politics for a religion,
which is rather worse. To ido-
lize a political party or a po-
litical candidate is to ask for
trouble; either you lower your
own ideals to the level of the
practical politicians, which is a
spiritual loss, or you abandon
the whole field of government in
sheer disgust. And that, too, Ia
unfortunate.
The Volunteers will be dis
gruntled by November. They
will then have lost their politi-
cal innocence. They will be
searching for an ideal worthier
of their service than the one
that they have served in recent
months.
You know of such an ideal,
and you might drop a word of
it to them. You might do them
a better service; you might pass
them the word.
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Father McG0tCdn

The two important arguments
for a compulsory federal Fair
Employment Practices Act are,
/ think, these:
In a country like ours a fed
eral law to protect the rights of
among others, Negroes and Mexi-
cans to work and to get pro
NOTED is necessary because the
states that need the laws the
most will not pass the laws.
Imagine Mississippi protecting
Negroes or Texas protecting
Mexicans.
The other argument is that
if there are no compulsory pow
ers in the law, the first and
main purpose of the law - edu-
cation, conciiiation and media
tion - will not have a chance.
1t is not matter of having big
stick but of waving II gently
and being able to wave II.
The gently waved big stick
is the rule in the states that
have compulsory law. Any
moderately sensible fe d eral
board would, it is argued, do
the same. A federal law, with
powers of compulsion, but large
ly unused, would supplement the
education, mediation and concll-
iation.
Fsctual Situation
The tragedy against which the
FEPC is waged is irgrained in
American history. The people
who are hurt most and most to
be protected are the Negroes
and Mexicans. But the factual
situation is mixed. So what |
will say now will please nobody.
For the fact is that there is not
only persecution of Negroes and
Mexicans but a delay of the per-
secuted to prepare themselves
more fully and to take advantage
of the rights already accorded
them.
There are reasons for the de-
lay.
Negroes were stolen out of a
relatively primitive life. were
carried over here in the holds
of slave ships, were put. most
of them, on slave plantations
and then.left to tester in litter
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Is The Gift Of Faith
Merely Emotional?

Liturgy clarifies this relation
ship further: "In fact, there are
certain exercises of piety which
the Church recommends very
much to clergy and religious. 1t
is Our wish also that the faith
full, as well, should take part
in these practices" :" He lists
meditation, retreats, visits and
the rosary as examples.
@. What is fdith7 Is 1t merely
emotional?
A. Faith is supernatural gift
of God which enables us to
believe without doubling what
ever God has revealed; we be-
lieve because God is truth and
cannot deceive or be deceived.
We know what God has revealed
by the testimony and authority
of the Catholic Church. The pre-
amble of faith, thorough ex-
animation of the rational and
historical proof of the teachings
of the Church, is the usual ap-
proach of the convert. Catholics
too can examine the evidence
and be able to give a reason for
the faith, which is completely
reasonable and not a blind
emotional acceptance.
@. Why does LdtHn h0ve to be
the language OF the liturgy?
A. 1t does not have to be. The
first Christians at Rome were
a Greek-speaking community.
and Greek was the liturgical +
language there until the third
century. For over thousand
years however Latin was the lam
guage of Christendom. 1t pre-
serves the dignity and meaning
of the Mass and other liturgical
functions. unchanging and uni
versal. 1t reaches back to the
early Christians and around the
world, while those who do not
understand ii can follow with
manuals in their own language.
It is a matter of Church law,
however, and could be changed.
@. What tUiH our bodies be like
after the resurrection of the
dead?
A. Perhaps the best notion can
be formed from reading the de-
scription of Christ in his glori-
fled body after the Resurrection.
st. Paul gives us some definite
ideas in his first letter to the
Corinthians: $50 also with the
resurrection of the dead. What is
sown in corruption rises in incor-
ruption; what is sown in dishonor
rises in glory; what is sown in
weakness rises in power; what
is sown a naturai body rises a
spiritual body" us: 42,43,44).
These four supply four qualities
of the risen man, absence of suf-
fering (impassibilitas), glorious
beauty (claritas), angelic abili-
ties (agilitaS) and absence of
physical limitations (subtilitas).
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they did become Christians.
But apart from the difficulty of
any people rising quickly under
the best of circumstances, the
Mexicans of northern Mexico
were inevitably neglected for
centuries by reason of their re
motenesS and in the last century
and half deliberately neglect
ed. Over the line they have
come in the last fifty years, in
refuge from the greater poverty
of northern Mexico into the less
er but great poverty of the jobs
on farms and railroads in the
United States.
Their general level of culture
is low. That is partly due to
persecution and neglect. 1t is
partly due to their own failures.
But like Negroes, there are
many of them of high level of
culture and ability.
So the best. of the Negroes
and Mexicans are treated like
the worst of them unless one of
them is a kind of genius. But
all of them should be govern
mentally protected in the rights
that they can live up to. For
they are human beings and
Gods children and need govern
mental protection from the per-
Secution of the whites. They
also need all the help possible,
apart from FEPC, to rise with
out legal protection. This means
an enormous amount of work by
the private organizations of all
sorts. But 1t also means
compulsory law on fundamental
rights.
Thus, they certainly need all
the help that they can get, in
line with the Christian concept
of every man helping his broth
er. They certainly need, like
every other human being, to be
assured of the opportunity of
making a living. Further than
that, those among them who
have exceptional ability need to
be given the chance to develop
it. not only for their own good,
but for the good of al mankind.
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CRETTA PALMER
The Top Of My Mind

This is the
year when the
political dilet-
tantes appear.
The President
ial e lie ction n
year, when vol
unteers rim &
doorbells and
send kilograms
and pass out
buttons. 1t is
the one year in