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We are also thinking of the
stand by Clements j France.
well-known Rhode Island law
yer, on behalf Of the right"
of the communists to carry on
subverslve activity To that has
been added the consistent eff
forts of a leading New York
newspaper to prevent any real
inquiry into subversion in our
educa o nal institutions, al
though the brief hearings of the
McCarran Committee on Inter
nal Security produced distin-
guished educators from large
universities who refused to state
under oath whether or not they
were communists. The reason:
such statement would tend to
incriminate them Among those
who took this position were DR..
Edward Burgum of New York
University, DR.. Bernhard j. Stern
of Columbia, DR.. Moses Finley
of Rutgers, DR. Bernard r. Reiss
of Hunter College and DR.. Gene
Weltfish of Columbia
Beyond these events, there has
also begun new series of as
saults upon ex-Communists who
testify for the government in
certain daily newspapers, giving
support to the detailed commun-
ist directives in the October
number OF Political Affairs thai
this attack should be renewed.
As though by magic, we observe
certain secular newspapers in
Chicago. Springfield. MasSachu-
setts, and other places falling
in line with what the commun-
lists desire.
Through these udrtottS sources
Of mtStnformdtion, the idea Is
kept green that the communists
arc not engaged in q conspiracy
and that they are q legitimate
section of American society. I'm
less this is refuted intelligently
and vigorously, this loose think
ing sotll lead to more disasters.
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Socialist trade unionism was
somehow more progressive. Even
though American labor was vigor-
ously anti-socialist so far as the
United States was concerned. it
had the unconscious feeling that
the socialist unions of Western
Europe we're probably more adj
vanced and more influential
American labor fortunately, in
our opinion, is now beginning 10
realize-and even the intellectu-
ais are beginning TO admit-that
there was never any valid basis
for this inferiority complex.
We arc comforted in the know
ledge that many other American
writer's of much greater compel
ence than the producer of this
column have come TO substantial
ly the same conclusion about the
relative merits of European and
American trade unionism. Two
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Double DUTY Dav

Next Sunday, February l. is day heavy with
designated titles You might say that the day is
doing double duty'-something like having Christ
mas and Easter fall the same day-seeing that it
has been chosen to be both Bible Sunday" and
Press Sunday"
II might appear that the Importance OF the two
considerations would point to having two separate
days set aside which to reflec' and rededcate
ourselves to the underlying principles behind each
celebration.
Such might be the case If the basic reason of
celebrating these days entirely different in
aspect. Apparently widely separated in scope and
intent the two, closer inspection to be
mutually complementary. They both bound
closely together
The object OF the yearly celebration of Bible
Sunday and Press Sunday is very much the same
for both. the one is TO engender more widespread
understanding and reading of the Bible; the other
is to accomplish the purpose IN regard to Cath
ole periodicals. especially the Diocesan newspaper.
We, Catholics, cannot regard the Bible as
merely great work of literature We know il as
the inspired word of God With tradition it forms
the fount of our knowledge of holy religion.
Bible Sunday is the day which all should
rededicate ourselves TO a renewed interest in and
reading Of the Bible
The Catholic press has for its primary aim the
representing to the world the teaching of the Bible
Its application to the individual problems of the
present II directs the light of Gods inspired word
upon the darkness of today.
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strate that the Stallnites have no
real strength within this coun-
try. II is the communists who re-
mind us of the great Importance
of the victory which causes
them to look for further gains
in the labor movement. They
review the Ford outcome in
great detail in their official the
oretical organ for November,
Political Affairs.
The election in the Ford To-
cal, which comprises 10000
members, took place in Septem.
ber, after the House Committee
on Un-American Activities had
exposed several officers of that
local as being communists. This
had resulted in the temporary
taking over Of the local by the
national office of the United
Auto Workers under President
Walter Reuther In the cleo
tions. the communists made ALI.
ances with certain non-commun-
lists. as is their custom As a
consequence, the so-called Unity
Coalition wonA out, putting the
communists and th cir friends
into control of the local
Twisted Slogan
From the discussion in Poiit.
tcal Affairs. we get good idea
of the why of this Red success.
The Communists played upon
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tendency to permit reported incident TO stand
alone, ignoring the fact that it has "a relationship
to something somebody else, an influence for
good or i'll upon the community" Furthermore the
Bishop said, nothing is commoner in the press or
IN conversation for that matter than the retailing
of opinion with little relation to any ordered
system OF thought"
The Catholic Press then, as the United States
enters upon Catholic Press Month .an be said to be
doing what our Chief Executive says all must do to-
day: summoning all our knowledge of the past"
Lest anyone think that these observations do not
touch upon really vital spot in world affairs it
needs only to be recalled that we are frequently
warned that the West is losing propaganda war
with the East. One weapon that he East has not
hesitated to in this combat has been the distor
ton of history With this maneuver, they have per
suaded some that Christianity has failed and that
communism is their hope
Our President has urged us to be thorough I'm
quest for understanding Catholic Press Month
is opportune time for a reminder to employ "all
wit and will" and all our traditions in estimat-
Ing mans progress in his long journey"
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INQUIRY CORNER
What Is The Story
Of The Douay Bible?

ed States the law of the Third
Plenary Council of Baltimore
regulates the clothing of the
clergy.
@. Why must money enter into
sermons so often? Isn't sdlud-
ton free?
A. BY sermons | suppose you
mean announcements before the
sermon. 1t is true that appeals
for money may pe irritating and
distracting. They do not repre-
sent the personal desire of the
priest, but represent efforts to
care for necessary activities.
Most of us expect churches to be
somewhat like modern homes
in convenience cheating, light
ing, etc. and this can scarcely
be free. Everything connected
with salvation is free, such as
the Mass and the Sacraments, but
parishes need money to care for
the Christian education of chill.
dren and a proper house of God.
st. Paul speaks of the priests
right to support Il Corinthians
9.3-14 and he often pleaded for
money for Christian charity:
"Now concerning the collection
being made for the saints, as
have ordered the churches of
Galatia, do you also" q Corinthi.
ans 16:D
Q. What should be done If d
i0edding ring Is replaced by an
other ring? The original ring
IS too tight and must be remor-
ed.
A. If wedding ring is re-
paired or replated the blessing
bestowed at the time of the we'd
ding remains. If another ring is
substituted it may be blessed by
the priest, using the form taken
from the marriage ritual.
0. Hoto old is Canon Lou?
A. AS old as the Church in
substance the current codifica-
ton of Church Law was issued
in 1918. From the time of the
Apostles it has been necessary to
explain and apply the principles
of the Gospel to particular ques-
tions. One of the first compre-
hensive collections was made by
Gratian u150 ADD, a monk and
professor at the University of
Bologna. Before his time there
were many DEGREES of particular
councils in the East, in Africa,
Spain and Gaul. Gratian sought
to bring order into these various
collections. In 1904 Blessed Plus
X appointed a commission to
bring out a new compilation of
universal Church law This book
of Laws is called the Code of
Canon Law
@. What is AdUenttSnt?
A. Not to be confused with
the Season of Advent, it is the
doctrine that the second COM
ing of Christ and the end of the
world is near at hand.
Send questions to Rev. Edward
F. Healey, Inquiry Corner, The
Catholic Times, Box 636, Colum-
bus (16) Ohio.
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FATHER HIGGINS
No PaTOniSing Stand Here

the return of fascists to power.
Pure and simple trade unionism
in Latin America cannot pre-
vent the spread of military die
tatorships, nor in Asia solve the
many problems of nations which
have only just won or are still
seeking their independence"
To balance Williams criticism
of the American labor move
ment, we could cite for the re-
cord the text of a recent state
ment by George Meany, Presi-
dent of the AF.L., on the sub
lect of co-determination in Ger.
many.
To make the A.FL. position
clear, Meany said that co-determi-
nation was not sought in the
United States because 1--WE are
able to protect and promote the
interests of the working people
through our strength in collec-
tive bargaining. However, we can
readily understand the aim OF
your organization to utilize CO.
determination as a means of de
Tending the attempts of big in
dustrial and financial magnates
to resume their domineering and
dominant position in the eco
nomic life of the German peo-
Pile"
Surely Mr., Williams would
have to agree that there is moth
ing self-righteous or patronizing
about this official statement sign
cd by the newly-elected president
of the largest federation Of or.
Eanized workers in the United
States
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every grievance of every group
of workers, and that gave them
an advantage. Bat the Big redS-
on for their gain todS the cry
of unity
The slogan which Local. 600 has
had, "the salvation of Americas S
workers lies within the unity of
labor" was worked overtime by
the communists. II is now being
employed by the newly elected
officers of the Ford local to
spread their influence among the
General Motors workers and in
to other locals of the United Au-
to Workers.
This slogan of unity is a legi-
innate and powerful one for la
Dor, but as twisted around by
the communists il implies that
they are part of the labor move
ment. Any effort to exclude
Stains agents from control or
attempted control OF labor IN
ions, in order eventually TO deS-
troy them, becomes an dttdck
on Labor unity" II ioGS this
CRY, perfectly legitimate IN It
self bat falsely applied, l0hich
deceived those Ford leorkers
,oho poted in favor of the l0orst
enemies of labor. those Who arc
IN sympathy cith Stdlin's sldue
empire
Reds Not Part OF Labor
The inability to understand
that participants In the commun.
list conspiracy are not legitimate
ly part of labor unionism is
also furthered by many books
which are being published and
by the attitude of a considerable
section of the secular press. We
have in mind such a book as
that issued recently by Profes-
sor William A. Williams of the
University Of Oregon. which
places the blame for aggression
upon the United States and re
moves all onus for its aggres-
sive acts from the shoulders of
Soviet Russia.
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RICHARD P4TTEE
DeUiGtiOn In Run1dnid

to penetrate the collective
farms" and bring with them
the despised odor of defunct
capitalism. Pauker, for some
strange reason, seems to have
been lacking in the foresight to
liquidate promptly these poison
GUS elements.
Comrade V. Luca, who occupi-
ed high place in the regime dur.
ing the first years after the so.
called liberation, is also cast in.
tc outer darkness, primarily be.
cause he failed TO see that the
Rumanian monetary reform
that is, the substitution of one
currency for another with the
ruination of most Rumanians-
was not the exact reflection of
the party line. The document at
hand devotes long pages to a
description of how Comrade Luca
wrestled with his proletarian
conscience and made superhu-
man efforts to adapt himself to
the party line, but all in vain.
In spite of the vigilance of the
party to preserve his purity of
action, Luca managed to get off
the beam on the currency issue.
The text reads: Conrad Vasils
Luca, losing all class sense, has
left the party, abandoned the
working class, surrounded him.
self with hostile influences, has
denounced the party line and has
introduced his own opportunis-
tic line the tendency of which
is to encourage the capitalistic
survivors in the cities and coun.
try to action against the State"
TrsnsitorY Glory
Ana Pauker comes in for con-
siderable attention in this col.
lection of documents intended
to prove how serious deviation.
ism has affected the Rumanian
Communist Party La Pauker
was responsible, says the text,
for holding up the collectiviza-
tion of farms and for tolerance
OF kulaks. Within the Party Pau.
ker cultivated personal rela-
tions entirely lacking in prin-
ciple." Luca and Pauker suppos-
edly agreed on certain lines of
action which were carried out
without the consent or approval
of the party. Both Luca and
Pauker considered their juris-
dictions as a personal domain
subject to supervision from no
one. They have undertaken to
create a power center of their
own outside the control of the
party"
The complete Recommendation is
much in the same vein. I found
il fascinating reading, especially
in view of the prestige of Pau
ker in the past. Sic transit
gloria naundL
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Business-industrv-
Education DaV

Today is Business Industry Education Day for the
teachers of the Columbus schools. 1t is the first
time teachers of local schools are partic
pating in this eVenta which is held every year in
many cities The purpose of the program is to in
crease the teachers understanding of the American
economic system by giving him a firsthand expert
ence with typical local businesses or
industries with an opportunity TO talk TO the man
sgement Of these firms
Teachers are often accused OF living in ivory
towers out OF contact with the hard realities faced
every day by the average induStrialls OF business
man This day is designed to forestal pronounce
ments OF the ivory tower inhabitants flowing from
ignorance about the facts of life.
Criticism OF the economic system, which Is I'LL
received may spring not from ignorance about what
It is doing, but from examination of what II is
doing in the light OF a set of principles. Business
men are properly concerned with physical produe-
ton and We are all indebted TO them for the stan
dard OF living we enjoy That is not all they should
be concerned with however.
II is the duty of the teacher IN interpreting HE
economic system to his students to remind them OF
these other goals. How they appreciate us good
points and how constructlyey critical they are OF
its defects will finally depend upon him. lie can
not afford be caught up IN the wonder OF phySlcal
production to the exclusion of all else for then we
may as we'll turn the school program into one huge
trade training school.
The American productive system is possible not
only because capital has been amassed and put to
work but because there is also favorable proiec.
tive system of laws and the presen,e OF free labor
force willing TO work in the employ OF others. Our
structure of laws is far more favorable to private
enterprise than that of many other countries These
laws express the will and the faith of the people
through their elected legislators that what they per
init and protect is for the good OF all
Labor also has stake and an interest which
Is not completely covered by the wage contract
There is mutual inerdependence between The
firm labor and the public such as 20 make lmpaus-
ible the idea that the business world is completely
autonomous and devoid of obligations TO others.
Il should be evident that this dependence should
moi be denied but become active cooperation Bus.
nessIndustry- Day will he great success
if only little education results for both the teach
ers and the business man.
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tins informing the benighted,
this side of the curtain, of the
heroic struggles of the new
workers society in Rumania to
break the last chains that tie
il to the reactionary past
Most of this literature is ex-
tremely dull. as Marxist pro-
ductions are wont TO be. | have
long contended-and the thought
may bear repetition-that people
intrigued by communism ought
to be forced to read communist
literature. | suspect that their
fervor might not stand up TO the
assignment. But among the var
iouS publications that have come
out of Bucharest, there is one
that is of the greatest interest:
collection of documents issued
hy the Communist Party con-
cerning the highest deviation
ism" within the party. This was
the event that precipitated the
expulsion of Ana Pauker from
her position as top dog in Ru-
manian Marxist circles. II may
very reasonably be a preview of
for trial for sabotage espionage
on behalf of the Vatican, anti
working class idealism, and all
the rest of the peculiar sins that
communists in disgrace manage
to perpetrate.
The Supreme Error
The major fault of the i'll
starred comrades who have fall
en- from grace in Rumania seems
to have been lack of compre-
hension of the real nature of
what the party-inspired docu.
ment calls 'the mechanism of
the class struggle in the transl-
ton period between capitalism
and socialism" Ana Pauker, evi-
IDENTIFY. was lacking in sufficient
sensitivity or perceptivity to
grasp the full implication of this
transition period. Therefore she
committed the supreme error
of making concessions to the
capitalist elements in town and
country" Koulaks-that is, pro-
sperous farmers-were allowed
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Catholic Press Holds Answer

Statements from two different sources made pub
lie here within short time OF each other may be
taken to underline sharply the observance OF Febru
Ary 1853 as Catholic Press Month.
In MS inaugural address from the east steps OF
the US Capitol President Dwight d Eisenhower
said
In the swift rush OF great events, We find our
selves cropping to know the full sense and meaning
of the times in which we live In our quest OF un
derstanding We beseech Gods guidance We sum
mon all our knowledge of the past and We sean all
signs of the future We bring all our vii and Will TO
meet the question. how far have we come IN man
long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are
We nearing the light-the day of freedom and OF
peace for all mankind Or are the shadows oi an
other night closing in upon u.s.
Also from Washington call went oul ior me
observance OF February Catholic Press Month
and the high note OF this message was emphasis up
on the fact that Catholic publications present news
and views in their proper setting
Coadutor Bishop Thomas X. German OF Dallas
Episcopal Chairman of the Press Department,
NCWC issued the Press Month cali He pointed
judgments have their roots not only IN experience
but in reason and revelation. His IS the intellectual
moral ana religious inheritance of the ages. lie
does moi need 10 begin his thinking on any current
nrohIem as If no one before him ever examined the
question before OF offered solution He Judges
in the light of human and divine wisdom come 70
him through generations Of thinkers. Ii he can
make his new contribution nc Is happy, nu
always his opinions his judgments his conclusions
are arrived at in the light of nheriled and complete
system of philosophical and theological truth.
One l. inclined to believe that President Eisen
hover was outlining what We should do In the pres
ent crisis. and not what We actually do For, A
Bishop German pointed out in his separate state
ment. in the general press there is too often
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examples will suffice for the
purpose of this discussion.
"A Better Record
1T is quite possible" DR. AL
bert Lauterbach of Sarah Law
renee College has written, that
Western European labor has
been somewhat less and Ameri-
can labor somewhat more radical
in helping reshape capitalist
society than their respective
yerbalismS would Indicate"
II is only fair to add, however,
that other contemporary Ameri-
can commentators have criticiz-
ea the American labor movement
for being too Self-righteous about
its own accomplishments and too
patronizing in its dealings with
European labor.
Co-Deierminstion In Germany
David Williams of Americans
for Democratic Action is severe
ly critical of American labor re-
presentatives in Europe for over
estimating the importance OF
higher productivity and higher
wages and Understanding the
importance of political action as
q solution to European and Latin
American economic problems.
Higher wages in France" he
writes in new symposium, IN
terprettpq the Labor Increment,
will not contribute to ending
initiation (they may even add TO
it, or cure the manifold disabilities
from which French democracy
suffers. Higher wages in Ger
many are no safeguard against
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INQUIRY CORNER

Q. Whnt IS the story behind
the Doudy Bible?
A. Ii was produced at the
English College, Douai, Flanders
by priests exiled from England.
Because the New Testament was
translated at Reims it was also
known as the Reims Testament.
The greater part was translated
by Gregory Martin, directly from
the Latin Vulgate compared
with Hebrew and Greek Texts.
In the 18th century it was ex-
tensively revised by Bishop
Challoner. The Reims New Tes-
lament was completed in 1882,
the Douai Old Testament in
1910.
Q. Why did the Blessed Vtr-
gtn hdUe to be purified?
A. II was the Jewish law. Just
as Christ did not have to be"
circumsized but obeyed the law
as sign of obedience, so Mary
presented Christ in the Temple
and was subject to the law. One
obvious reason for this conform
ity would be the need of appear
ing to be an ordinary Jewish
family. Until Ch-ists ''hour" ar
rived it was the will of God that
the Holy Family live in obscur-
ity. Among the other reasons
we might mention would be the
character of Mary as the second
Eve and Christ as the second
Adam. Sinless themselves they
assumed the fullness of human
nature. As prophesied in the
fifty-third chapter of Isaias: land
God laid on his shoulders our
guilt, the guilt OF us all His
life laid down for quilts atoning
:. many shall he claim for his
own, win their acquittal on his
shoulders bearing their guilt
bore those many sins, and made
intercession for the guilty"
Qsaias 53:6, 10-12) The Blessed
Virgin shared this representa-
tive role with Christ and like
Him Inundated herself by com
formity to the demands of un-
redeemed man.
O. Is the Roman collar norm By
priests throughout the aOorId?
A. "All clerics are bound to
wear becoming clerical garb
according to the legitimate To-
cal custom and the regulations
of the Ordinary" Canon 1856,
Code of Canon Law. According
to McCloud c"Clerical Dress and
Insignia of the Roman Catholic
Church'O the Roman collaro
known at the present time as the
rabbi was a loose breastpiece of
cloth material with a rigid circle
of the same material About
the seventh century the custom
arose of wearing over this rigid
circle a changeable band of
white linen Thus the narrow
band of white linen used to pro
tect the collaro became the stiff
collar which is called today by
the name Roman collar" The
form we know in this country
is not worldwide. For the Unit
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a n d tn cir
friends in the
huge Ford Lo
cal 500 al Riv
er Rouge.
The general
p r c S S h a 5
largely chosen
to ignore it,
since a section
of that press
is busy in try
ing 10 demon