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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-11

is not ready for the industry
council system. In the United
States, he says. ''there exist
neither the real nor the moral
prerequisites for true under
standing of the idea of the 'vo-
cational order, and still less for
its realization" He says that
We still think that we can effect
lively control the capitalistic sys-
tenn and preserve the so-called
free market by a iegalistic or
or judicial" approach-i,es by
various types of antitrust or
anti-monopoly legislation. That
the spaciousness OF our territory,
the abundance of our natural re-
sources, and IAN almost naive
trust in unlimited progress" have
delayed the development of anti
capitalist spirit in the United
States and have left us unpre-
pared for a proper understand
Ing OF the industry council sys-
tenn and for its effective realiza-
tion.
Father Gundlach seems to
overeStimate our reliance on
anti-monopoly legislation and
underestimate the influence OF
organized groups in regulating
the economy of the United Sta
ties. He does not draw a sharp
enough distinction between what
We Americans SAY" about our
economy and what we do"
about it. We may say that we
have great confidence in anti
monopoly legislation, but our
actions would seem to indicate
that we really don't believe it.
Antl-monopoly legislation is
part of our national mythology.
Almost everybody claims to be
in favor of 1t, but hardly anybody
really believes that IL can effect
lively regulate the American &c
onomy and preserve the freedom
of the market.
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gish n-conscIousneSs may
be stirred by recalling this fact.
Protestant" means protesting,
and to protest is to rebel against,
not to create. Science" means
to know, not to originate; "love"
means union of wills, not a
warm emotion. And religion?
Religion" means to bind back,
and it comes from the same Lat
in root as "ligament" and
"oblige" or bind by oath.
Religion binds; it does not
scatter. II does not break things
down into their separate parts.
Its instrument is not the micro
scope, which makes tiny things
seem larger, but the telescope,
which makes gigantic things
seem small enough for us to ap-
prehend. Religion is not analysis;
ii is synthesis. 1t is a joining
and never rending, except when
separation from the less-good IS
necessary for a combination with
a greater good.
But for Joining TO take place,
two elements are always neces-
Sary 1t is hard indeed. to be in
the position Of one modern mis-
sionary who wrote of a primitive
people: How can | translate
God is love- for them, when
their language has no word for
God and none for 'iove'?" For
tunately, few pagans are so pow
erty-stricken of ideas. In most
mission countries, we are told,
there is worship of a fearful god
who must be placated with
charms and sacrifices; and there
is also human love. The mission
ary's task is to combine the two
ideas, to bind together the con-
ception of lovingkindness and
of infinite power. That is syn
thesis, and that Is religion.
Peace does not come to a soul
when il is taken apart, like an
alarm clock, in an effort to dis
cover the tick;, the tick results
only when the parts are working
together in their proper place.
Health does not come to a body
when its parts are separately
studied, with total disregard for
the whole. Indeed, it is fear of
Just this tendency to overspecial
ize in medicine which has led a
group of Chicago doctors to talk
of reviving "AristAteleian medi-
cinei-and by this they mean q
medicine which studies the pa
tient as a whole. and sees the
pain in his left elbow in relation
to his heart, his lungs. his very
mind.
Borrowed Radianes
The greatest scholarship is that
Of synthesis. The g volumes Of
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from the Vatican City radio sta
ton, conceded with the day of
prayer and reparation which
Catholics in the United States
were observing for their per-
secuted co-religionists in COM
munist- dominated lands.
Speaking to prisoners generally,
the Holy Father noted that some
of them we're led astray early
in life. Intoxicated premature
ly by the perversion of modern
society and placed in circumstan-
ces opposed to proper education,
you are perhaps more victims
than criminals" he said.
Let your condition be Sc
we're warning" the Holy Father
added, "to those who, more than
you, are really guilty; those of
the press, the theater, the asso-
Citations, and sometimes even the
schools, which for purposes of
greedy gain if not exactly of the
premeditated corruption of child
hood have trampled on the holy
innocense of the young and piled
up immense moral ruins"
It is to be doubted whether
this warning, solemn as it is,
will have much effect upon the
majority of the corrupters of
youth. 1t is to be expected that,
using as a smoke-screen free
dom Of the press" they will con-
tinue TO turn out allurements to
crime and immortality and place
them in the paths of boys and
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FATHER HIGGINS
Are Industry Councils Near?

ity of establishing the industry
council system in the United
States. We recognize the OBJ
stacles. Nevertheless we are
much more optimistic about the
American situation than Father
Gundlach, if we have properly
interpreted his point of view.
We have no way of knowing
whether or when the American
economy will be fully reorganiz-
ed according to the principles
advocated in QtLddragestmo An
no and explained SO often and so
we'll by Father Gundlach in his
scholarly articles and addresses.
But we hazard the guess - with
out any intention of indulging in
invidious or odious comparisons
- that. the United States, with
all of its handicaps, may be bet
ter prepared for the establish
ment of the industry council
system than most industrial
countries.
We hold to this opinion for
reasons expressed in the 1851
Labor Day Statement OF the
NCWC Social Action Depart
ment:
THE United States, fortunate
ly, is equipped in many ways to
meet this problem of how pri-
vate organizations and govern
ment can work together. Unlike
many other nations, we are not
so driven by poverty as to in
duce us in desperation to rush
headlong into sudden and per-
haps disastrous solutions. We
have no tradition of a strong
Socialist or Communist move
ment that would induce us to
look first TO government for our
material welfare. The free en-
terprise' of which we speak is
really not individual enterprise
so much as combination of or
ganlzational and governmental
enterprise. There is in the Uni
ted States no privileged artistic
cracy, no background of feudal
serfdom, no inflexible system
of classes. We have an optimis-
tic and democratic outlook on
life. Moreover, there is in the
United States friendship be-
tween labor and religion which
is especially helpful in setting
forth, clearly and effectively,
the rights and duties of all con.
cerned."
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precise thought which are st.
Thomas Aquinss' princely sift to
Us study no single aspect of theol-
dgy in isolation from the whole.
When st. Thomas discusses the
most minute topic-a single as
pect of the angels nature, say
he does SO IN order to link this
up with the whole vast universe
of reality. To place a thing on its
proper rung of a ladder that
reaches up to God Himself is q
supreme act of synthesis; and in
order to accomplish this the
saint is forever bringing together
evidence srcm sources no one
had joined until his time He
bound Greek thought to Christian
belief, but he also joinaf Old
Testament prophecies to Cath
olic Revelation.
Minds that study man as if
man were everything can never
have an inkling of what human
nature is - for man is like the
moon, whose radiance is borrow.
ed from the sun, from God. The
atheist whose study involves
mar-whether he he a sociologist
or a psychologist, a politician
or playwright-is bound to 90
astray because he has torn man
out of his Divine context as
child of God. He will be as baff-
led as a nadman trying to study
the 30th story of a skyscaper
without recognizing the lower
storys that hold it up; or the lun-
attic who might try to make an
automobile wheel 20 so miles an
hour in isolation from the rest
of the machine.
Joining appropriate things is
always happy work; tearing down
even an outworn building is q
melancholy thing. The good host
ess assemblies spirits that have
never met before; the good
preacher joins the minute prob
lens of modern life to the i'm.
mense truths of Eternity; the
jealous priest brings the lonely
soul and the Faith into an inti-'
mate conjunction. An increase of
isolation, anywhere in the uni
verse, is loss. The hermit in the
desert and the Carthusian in his.
cell have exchanged one form Of
companionship for another -
that of God. But where there is
true solitude, there is neither
happiness nor health.
Gods Work
Man cannot live with no bonds
binding him to others. If he loses
the true coinpanionship of the
Communion of Saints, then a
false synthesis will be imposed
upon him by the totalitarian
state. The anarchy of complete iD-
dividualism would break down
within a day, in any society. For
our choice is not between separ-
alton and synthesis, but between
a true synthesis and false. The
atom, broken down and hyper-an-
alyzed, does not remain a free
lance rebel against Gods natural
laws; its separated parts enter
into speedy pact, to ally them
selves with ravagement and
death.
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WASHINGTON LETTER
Pope Cites Corrupters Of Youth

girls. 1t is likely that those
who have made or sponsored re-
prehensible motion pictures, and
have stirred up attacks upon the
Legion of Decency and decent
people to divert attention from
themselves, will continue to do
so. Who doubts that some will
continue to organize crime as
long as the public will tolerate
it? The flippant and the shallow
will continue to be with us in
Our schools as long as the peo-
pie who support the schools are
indifferent to them.
1t is quite possible that many
OF those who fatten and grow
rich upon the moral destruction
of the young have not heard the
warning of the Sovereign Pom
tiff. Their normal pursuits would
not bring his words to their at
tention.
Surely, though, the Pope's
warning must have been heard
or read by many, many parents
and other honest citizens eager
to save their children.
1t may not disturb the mer-
chants of corruption, summing
themselves in winter resorts, to
be told that they deserve to be
in Jail rather than many of those
who are there. It should dis
turb decent citizens to know that
some few are wrecking the lives
of many, that they themselves
may live in ease and comfort.
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Practice Differs from Theory
What Father Gundlach seems
TO overlook is the fact that ours
is a very highly organized econ
omy regulated not so much by
the so.called laws of free COM
petition as by the conscious de-
cisionS of corporate management,
trade associations, and powerful
organizations of farmers and
workers. The fact that many of
their regulations are opposed to
the spirit, if not 10 the letter,
of our anti-monopoly laws mere
ly serves TO emphasize the fact
that, in this respect at least, our
practice is different from our
theory.
We have no dearth of econom-
ic organizations capable, il they
will, of cooperating in a sys-
tenn Of industry councils for the
more effective promotion of the
general economic welfare. Work
ers, to be sure, are not as we'll
organized as employers; but both
groups are sufficiently we'll or
ganized in key industries to
warrant the establishment OF a
system of industry councils if
not Immediately and in every
single industry, certainly by the
process of gradual growth in
those industries which inevitably
set the pattern or the tone for
the economy as whole.
Foreign scholars will find
little evidence in the official lit
erature Of American economic
organizations to indicate that
these organizations are even re
motely interested in the indus
try council system, Their under
lying philosophy is very vague.
However. the pragmatic, non
theological approach of Ameri-
can economic organizations could
turn out to be a blessing in dis
guise. The typicaliy American
emphasis on the practical, as OPP
posed to the theoretical. may be
a guarantee of sorts that If and
when we do establish an indus.
try council system, il will be bas-
ed on voluntary agreement all
along the line, not imposed from
the top by excessive government
al intervention.
Better Than Most
Regular readers of this column
will not accuse US of being over
~ optimistic about the possibll-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-11
BY
LOUIS +. BUDENZ

There is moral for the Amer
lean people in The removal of
John Stewart Service from the
State Department. II has to do
with the persistent character as
sassination of all ex-communistS
who testify for the government
against the Red conspiracy or its
friends.
Reluctant as | am TO do so, |
must draw on personal experien-
ces in this respect, When, under
snhnnena. | testified against SerY-
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t0ucneQ on the question of the
religious revival in contempor-
ary Spain. But substantial
number of observers do not go
along with the idea that things
religious are looking up in Spain.
Some are of the opinion that the
whole business is an elaborate
facade, and behind it is the
same old indifferentism that
characterized Spain in the past.
1t is useful, therefore, to find
some definite confirmation of
the trend of affairs.
One important index of re-
hgious Improvement is certain
ly the number and frequency
of the reception of the Sacra-
ments. Another, and it would
seem a convincing one, is the
increase of vocations. Poverty
of vocations is almost synony-
nous with weak religious life,
and the community that produc-
es few vocations can scarcely be
looked upon as vigorous spirit
ually. If this is true, then it is
worth while to examine the vo-
cation situation in Spain now as
contrasted with the past. The
evidence is overwhelming that
there has been vast improve
ment.
Sheer Nonsense
The official organ of Spanish
Catholic Action, Ecclestd, recent
ly published some figures for
1885 - the last year before the
civil war and for 1850 -
the most recent date for which
statistics are available. The re-
suits are interesting. In 1885,
for example, the number of
Seminarians of noble families
was less than one percent of the
total. The upper middle class
those with an annual income
over $4,000 pesetas, then very
respectable sum contributed
only 1.54 per cent to all the sem
inaries of every Spanish dio-
cese. Small property holders,
shopkeepers and the like were
represented by 41.71 per cent
of all religious vocations, farm
ers and agricultural workers by
some 80 per cent, and the rest
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-11
RICHARD PATTEE

A number of
S AMI IN re-
views publish
ed statistics re-
garding h e
status of vo-
cations in that
C o u n try on
t h e occasion
of the annual
m e e ting of
seminary rec
tors at Log
rono.
From time to
time / have
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-11
FATHER HIGGINS

The ell
known German
commenta I o r
on the social
encyclicals, Fa-
ther G II S av
Gundlach, Sd,
of the Gregor-
ian University
in Rome, seems
to be of opin
ion that the
limited States
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-11

Once in a
while it is good
for us to listen
to the words
we speak, to
consider what
they m e a n,
"Cat h o | C .
means univers-
al not Euro
pean, nor west
ern, but world
wide. Our slug
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-01-11

These motives led Benedict XIV to insert the
feast in the universal Calendar and from 1921 it has
been fixed for this present Sunday Each family can
strike blow at the evils Of today by redediCstion
to the principles of the Holy Family of Nazareth
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Better Than Most

Regular readers of this column
viii not accuse us of being over
~ optimistic about the possibll-
Evening star., 1952-03-22
Congress Wives
Model Dresses
OF Bog Fabrics

Congressional wives were among
those modelling wardrobe of nine
dresses made from cotton ferti-
lizer bag fabrics at a fashion show
sponsored yesterday by the Con-
gressional Club.
Among the models were Mrs
Charles Brannan, Mrs. Walter II
Judd and her daughter, Miss
Carolyn Judd; Mrs. Harry Nc
Gregor, Mrs. Thor Tollefson and
Miss Belts Nurney, Miss Annie
Laurie Rankin and Mrs. Joe
EvinS.
A special feature Of the after
noon program was the demonstra-
tion of new food products and
completely new cotton and wool
fabrics, arranged by the National
Cotton Council and the Bureau of
Agricultural and Industrial Chem
istry of the Department of Agri-
culture.
Miss Carolyn Bailey, Alabama
Maid of Cotton" was also one
of the models.
Mrs. Olin Johnston, a member
of the program committee, i'm
troduced the program and Mrs
James c. Davis presided.
Mrs. Lester C. Hunt and Mrs
Monroe Redden, of the hospitality
committee, greeted members and
guests at the affair.
Hostesses at a tea following the
fashion show were Mrs. Clarence
Kilburn, Mrs. Josh Lee, Mrs. Nor
ris Paulson and Mrs. Byron Scott
Evening star., 1952-03-22
By Katherine IA. Brooks

The Mexican Ambassador
lSenor Don Rafael de la Colina
was host at luncheon yesterday
entertaining in honor of Dr.. Man
Iuel r. Palacios. general manager
Iof the National Railways of Mex
leo. Assistant Secretary of State
Edward G. Miller. jr.. and Mr.
Jack E. Neal of the Mexican diu-
sion of the State Department
were there.
Chairman of the Export Import
Bank Herbert E. CASTOR, with Mr.
Robert L. Moorman and Mr.. John
Lynch, were among other finan-
cial leaders at the party. From
the American Railroads Organi-
zation were Mr.. c. r.. Magee and
Mr.. E. F. Bio, and from Inter-
national Trade, Mr.. Newton H
Foster and Mr.. Robert e. Flem-
ing.
Other Guests
Mr.. Malcolm L. Slaght and Mr.
w. T. Brister of the Mutual Sc
curity Agency we're other guests
at the luncheon, the company
also including DR.. Otunio Dutrie-
trez de Velazco, DR.. j. Hernandez
Lozano and members of the en-
bassy staff.
The former Ecuador Ambassa-
dor and Sonora de Penaherrers
are lingering in New York with
the latter's brother-in-law anC
sister, Prince and Princess Colon
ma, and no dates for sailing have
Evening star., 1952-03-22
Bonnets Set
Benefit Date

Coming up on the calendar is
some gayety with a purpose. The
day to be circled for many WASH
ingtonians is April 26. when the
French Ambassador and Nine
Bonnet will give a gala" This
will be in the form of ball at
the Embassy for the benefit OF
the American Red Cross.
1t will be remembered that
about a year ago last December
this diplomatic couple staged a
bazaar to raise funds for the
camp and hospital facilities fol
the United Nations Forces fighting
in Korea.
Evening star., 1952-03-22
Head
Urges Bills
Be Amended

Amendment of legislation now
before Congress to revise the pres
ent immigration laws was urged
yesterday by Mrs. Irving M. Engel.
national president of the Ma
tional Council Of Jewish Women,
in a talk before the Washington
section of the council.
Addressing the groups annual
spring fashion tea at the Shore
ham Hotel, Mrs. Engel pointed out
that the NCJW is already waging
fight against certain provisions
in the McCarran and Walter hills
now pending for action before
both the Senate ana House.
"These bills must be amended, -
she declared. "They are not what
we as Americans understanding
American concepts should allow
to go through. If passed. they re
going to change the countenance.
the profile and the soul of the
American people"
The NCJW president, who came
from her home in New York for
the occasion, called for the local
councils continued support Of
the national councils Speak Up.
Exercise Your Freedom" CAM
paign.
UNLESS freedom is exercised" !"
she declared. 'it will atrophy and
slip away"
Mrs. Engel was introduced by
Mrs. Samuel Brown, president OF
the local NCJW group.
Honor guests, representing the
United States and countries where
the NCJW carries out its projects,
attended the program and inter-
national tea afterwards. They in
cluded Mrs. Dean Acheson. wife
of the Secretary of State; Mrs.
Abba Eban, wife of the Israeli
Ambassador; Nine. Jean Pierre
Bernard, wife Of the French Coun-
selor; Mime. A. Hesselund-Jen
wife of the Danish Counselor: Mrs.
David McNicol, wife of the First
Secretary Of the Australian EN-
bassy, and Nine. Mendes Cadaxa,
wife of the Second Secretary of
the Brazilian Embassy.
Mrs. Joseph Dessoff was chair
man of the tea.
Evening star., 1952-03-22
Future Purty
Dates Set

The Israeli Ambassador and
Mrs. Abba Eban will entertain
at dinner Monday evening. March
81, in honor of the Right Honora-
able Viscount Samuel. who was
first British High Commissioner for
Palestine after World War I. Vis-
count Samuel now is chairman of
the board of governors of the
Hebrew University Of Jerusalem.
The Pakistan Ambassador, Mr..
Mohammed Ali, viii be host at a
buffet dinner this evening in the
Embassy.
Mrs. Edward Eugene Cox, wife
of Representative Cox of Georgia.
has issued invitations for a tea
wednesday afternoon, April 8, at
the Congressional Club. Her guests
are invited to meet Mrs. Walter
T.. George, wife Of the Senator
from that State, who also Is United
States delegate to the United Ma
tions, and Mrs. Roland b. Ander-
son..
Evening star., 1952-03-22
Society and Clubs
Mexicon Ambassador Host at Luncheon;
Other News of the Diplomatic Corps

been set for either the return to
Italy or the return to Ecuador.
The Embassy here, however, has
! a new Minister Counselor, Senior
IGerardo Falconi. who with Sonora
de -Falconi and their two sons
ARRIVED within the past two weeks.
They are getting settled in the
house at 363l Jennifer street with
their sons. Senior Gonzalo Falconi,
now II. and Gerardo, jr., just
1entering his teens.
Senor Falconi is a we'll known
lawyer in Quito and has been
chief of the foreign affairs divi-
lsion in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
Cretzionus Entertoin
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexandra Cretzi-
anu viii entertain informally this
levening in their Washington home,
having as their guests friends they
have made since coming to the
Capital to live and some the host
has inherited from his father, the
late Mr.. Georges Cretziano, who
was Rumanian Minister in Wash,
Iington back in the late 1920s.
Entertaining in the legation en-
Twenty third street at Sheridan
Circle was frequent and always
delightful. It was the period when
lprivate musicaleS were in vogue
and during the regime of the late
Mr.. Cretziano, he and his daugh-
ter. Miss Jeanne Cretziano, were
hosts at many dinner parties fol-
lowed by music. One of their guests
from overseas was Donna Ortenzia
Mignano, a gifted singer who al
ways gave a program for them
during her stay here. She was ac-
lcompanied by a local composer
pianist, Mildred Kolb Schulze,
whose charming songs Donna
Ortensia often sang.
Another popular diplomat in
Washington when connected with
the Rumanian Legation of those
years was Mr.. Frederick Nano, who
now lives on a farm near Fred
erick, Md. He and Nine. Nano
visited his brother-in-law and
sister. the Spanish Ambassador
and Sonora de Cardenas, shortly
before the latter returned to
Spain. It was at that time that
they purchased the farm and
settled down in this area. Still
another sister. Simone Nano Auff-
mordt, came to Washington al
the same time and lived here for
several years but now is making
her home in Paris. The former
Ambassador and Sonora de Car
denas are on the farm in Spain
where they settled after the AM
bassador retired from the diplo-
matte service.