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Evening star., 1953-11-22
Dignity and the Body

Such a process of degrada-
ton is viciouSly at work in our
own country, where the deifica-
ton of the flesh continues to
enlist new devotees. Through
its liturgy of advertisement,
entertainment, and literature,
this cult bids fair to corrode
our national sense of decency.
When reason abdicates it's
sovereignty over bodily ener-
gieS, their purpose is destroyed;
and, by a sort of instructive
vengeance, they themselves be-
come destroyerS. Like wild
animals. these energies are
h ard to tame, and remain
dangerous even when tanned.
But whatever lawful use an
animal may serve, it is not wis
dom for man to accept as his
master the lion who seeks to
devour him.
The Catholic Church, how
ever, has never failed to &C
cord the human body an i'm
mense measure of honor. She
affirms that it was originally
created by God; in one in
stance actually assumed by
Him; in every instance meant
to be on earth His special
temple. and destined eventually
to rejoin the soul in His -beati-
f1c presence.
Whatever is uncompromis-
ing in her teaching about the
body stems from her realism
on two points: The body,
though good. is not the high
est good; and the undisci-
plined body is notoriously bad.
Other sacrileges against
personality flow from errors
less crude perhaps, but hardly
less injurious. Such are some
prevailing misconceptions
about society, liberty, eco
nomicS, labor and education.
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Dignity and Liberty

The Christian view, then,
avoids the opposing extremes
of individualism and collectiv-
ism, both of which are
grounded on false concepts of
liberty-either the unfettered
liberty of individualism, which
gives the individual" the
right to ignore society: or the
unfettered liberty of dictator
ship. which gives the govern
ment the right to ignore the
person by absorbing him into
a race or class, thus destroying
his freedom of choice. The
false liberty of individualism
wrecks society by defining
freedom as individual license;
the false liberty of Dictator
ship wrecks humanity by de-
fining freedom as the right of
the dictator to nullify the per-
soma right which he claims
to derive from social necessity.
Concerning the results of
such false notions of liberty
Leo XIII issued these warn
ingS: "The true liberty of hu-
man society does not consist
in every man doing what he
pleases, for this would simply
end in turmoil and confusion,
and bring on the overthrow of
the State +. likewise, liberty
does not consist in the power
of those in authority to lay
unreasonable and capricious
demands upon their subjects.
a course which would be
equally criminal, and would
lead to the ruin of the COM
monwealth.
Liberty in political life may
be described as the condition
in which the individual finds
himself unhampered in the
discharge of his duties and in
the exercise of his rights.
Liberty, however, is something
more than political phe-
nomenon as tyrannical dicta-
torship contends; it is more
than an economic phenome-
non as some disciples of free
enterprise maintain. It is
something more mature than
that dream of rights without
responsibilities which historic
liberalism envisioned; it is
certainly different from that
terrorism of responsibilities
without rights which commu-
nism imposes. 1t is something
wiser than free thought, and
something freer than dictated
thought. For freedom has it's
roots in mans spiritual ma
ture 1t does not arise out of
any social organization, or any
constitution, or any party,
but out of the soul of man.
Hence to the whole tradition
OF the Western world, liberty
does not come essentially from
improved conditions of living.
either political or economic,
but Is rather the spring out
of which better conditions must
flow. A free spirit creates
free institutions: a slave spirit
permits the creation of tyran-
nical ones.
Evening star., 1953-11-22

now make things and shape
events to- the image and like
ness Of their own ideas. The
marriage of mans intelligence
and will with the material
world and the natural forces
with which he is surrounded
becomes a fruitful union, and
from them is generated a
culture.
Evening star., 1953-11-22

rights which no society may
violate. The state is a creature
of man. but man is a creature
of God; hence the state ex-
lists for man, not man for the
state.
Evening star., 1953-11-22

percept1ve enough TO see that
Democracy is based on the
principle Of the sovereign
worth of the individual, which,
in turn, is based on the dream
of Christianity that man has
an immortal SOUL" (Mark-En-
gels Historical Critical Edition,
Karl Marx Institute, Moscow,
Vol. I, No. I, p. 5900
Ignoring the testimony Of
both reason and revelation and
believing the dream" to be
only a dream, modern men
have tended to concentrate
almost exclusively on economic
security and to pursue it at
times with the fervor of reli-
gious devotion.
Often the hope is voiced
that man will turn to the cul-
tivation of the spirit after all
his economic needs are sup
piled. We are reminded of
the deluSion of Jean lacquer
Rousseau that man, good in
himself, has been corrupted
only by society. Marxism,
changing the formula, gives
the same false primacy to ex-
ternal circumstances - mans
goodness will depend upon the
economic system under which
he lives. But the exclusive de-
pendence on economic Secu-
rity and social reform to right
the wrongs of mankind is by
no means confined to Marx
ism. 1t affects the thought Of
great masses of men who re-
ject the fundamental tenetS
of MarxiSm.
While we have deep SYM
pathy with all people in their
craving for economic security
and while we acknowledge, the
evils, individual and spiritual
as well as social, which often
flourish in a society when
many are forced to live in con-
ditionS of degrading poverty,
yet we cannot refrain from
pointing out the fact that
mans goodness is from with
in. 1t depends upon mans
personal convictions and upon
his efforts aided by Gods
grace. Economic and social
reform, to be effective, must
be preceded by personal re-
form. The perfection of a
society may not be measured
by the moral goodness of the
individuals who compose it;
but the goodness of a society
cannot rise above the good
ness of its members.
The position of the Church
relative to the economic order
is based on the principle that
the rights man possesses as
an individual and the func-
ton he fulfiIls in society are
inseparable. Many of the
rights of the individual depend
upon the function he fulflls
in society. Capital and labor
from this point of view are
related and made inseparable
by the common good of soci-
ETY.. This is a prime principle
of social justice. The right of
the capitalist to his business
and to his profits and interest,
and the right of the laborer
to his wages and his union,
are both conditioned by their
service to the common good.
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moral content through the
movement which is known as
secularism. It has been we'll
said that the education of the
soul is the soul of education.
Therefore when education
tries to thrive in a religious
and moral vacuum, and does
not aspire to impart a set of
principles and a hierarchy of
values, it degenerates into a
dead and deadening juxtaposi-
ton of facts.
And even worse. For though
1t tries to thrive in such a
vacuum, education can never
really be neutral in practice.
1t has been truly said that
Men must be governed by
God or they will be ruled by
tyrantS." Similarly, education
must inculcate a religious and
moral outlook, or it will in
culcate a materialistic one.
And there is no word for dig
nifty in the vocabulary of ma
terialism.
Conclusion
Every day in holy mass,
Alnninhfu God ir nddrnrrnA
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Dignity and Labor

It is only in the light of the
spiritual worth of man that
the dignity and Importance of
labor become evident. Labor
is not something detached
from the rest of life. Econ
nomically, it is bound up with
capital as a co-partner in pro-
duction. Socially, it is bound
up with leisure as an avenue
to cultural enrichment. Spir-
itually, it is bound up with the
souls development and with
salvation. The worker is not
a hand, as individualiStic cap
italism contends; not a stom-
ach to be fed by commissars,
as communism thinks; but a
person who through his labor
establishes three relations:
with God, with his neighbor,
and with the whole natural
world.
First OF all, work uniteS us
to God not only by its ascetic
character and through the dis
cipline it imposes on man by
subjugating his lower passions
to order and reason, but prin-
cipally because, through the
intention of the worker, the
material universe is brought
back again to God.
Second, labor is also the
Evening star., 1953-11-22
Conclusion

Every day in holy mass,
Almighty God is addressed as
He who wondrously estab-
Evening star., 1953-03-29
THE HIBERNATIoN OF GWENDOLEN FITzADAM
Costi''''ed from page sine

at last she spoke. Il think I'd like
some cofFee," J" she said dreamiIy,
"and a large dish Of scrambled
eggs"
1t was almost as interesting
the following autumn. The spe-
cialists did their best to earn their
fees and had prescribed several
bottles of medicine which they
hoped would prevent any reclr-
renee of the trouble and which
Gwendolen duly poured down
the sink. Cub hunting began.
Gwendolen went out with the
hounds once or twice, rode as
beautifully as ever. and her par
ents began to look a little hap
pier. The 18th of November
passed without incident, and the
18th and 18th. and even the 18th.
On the 18th there was a north
wind blowing and a few fakes of
snow. They were all going to a
Hunt Ball that evening. and the
cars were already at the door
when Gwendolen suddenly de-
cided to 60 up and change her
shoes.
She was rather a long time in
coming down. In fact she didn't
come down. When they went up
she was already On the bed
wrapped m the eidadown with
her pulse and temperature drop
ping. The second hibernation
had begun.
FRoM then on it happened
every year some time before the
end of November. And ] dis.
covered another thing about hi
bernation which / had never
known before. It was extremely
good for the skin. Gwendolen
woke up each spring with a
creamy, velvety complexion and
a color that was a joy to zee.
Naturally she came to be known
as The Sleeping Beauty.
But there was this difference.
The Prince might kiss her till he
was blue in the face, but she,
wouldn't wake up. or ask for
scrambled eggs. until the weather
was reasonably warm. As a mat
ter Of fact one nice romantic
young man did Try it. He tiptoed
into her room when no one was
Evening star., 1953-03-29

looking and kissed her on the
lips Il was just - vel for him
that it didn't work. She would
undOubtably have smacked his
face If it had. !.
ANYWAY by the time she was
nineteen GwendOlen was an ex-
tresnely beautiful young woman.
and the young men were buzzing
round her like flies. / don't know
why she picked on Michael
Suicton. He was very good look
ing certainly and said to be an
upand- coming young barister.
But there was something / didn't
much like about him. A lack of
redeeming weaknesses perhaps.
Or maybe it was just that / adj
mired Gwendolen too much my
self. / was very fond Of her al
though l had wanted to wiring
her neck.
It was a rapid oourtship. A
dance or two, a whispered word.
some flowers, a little moonlight,
a kiss; and there they were. !
don't think anyone was better
pleased than Sir George and
Lady Fitzadam. They had been
hooking forward to Cwendolen's
marriage for years. Nothing could
quite remove the stain on the
Fitxadam escutcilecn: but mar
riage would at least remove it to
a comfortable distance.
Theygaveaverys slap upparty
as an engagement celebration. It
was August. and there was a full
moon and dancing as wen as
champagne and q magnificent
supper.
/ BELIEVE 1t was just after sup
per that Michael and Gwendolen
wandered out on to the terrace
hand in hand and stood leaning
on the balustrade looking ut the
moonlight shining on the hy-
drangeas. Gwendolen was feeling
suitably sentimental and she
squeezed his hand and spoke
softly.
Its sad to think that / shan't
be with you all the time. darling. :"
What do you mean?" Michael
asked - almost sharply.
COntinssed on ssexf page
Evening star., 1953-09-21

has ordered Shirley Homes and
four other Federal projects in
Arlington vacated by next July.
There are now 425 vacant
homes in Shirley, out Of q total
Of 813 dwelling units.
At George Pickett Homes,
Columbia pike and South Court
house road. 100 units are vacant
in the 493-unit project.
Also scheduled for closing in
the program that win result in
tearing down of 1900 apartment
units are Carver Homes, South
Thirteenth and Queen street;
Stuart dwellings,, 1925 South
Kent street, and Early homes,
SOL South Twentieth street, near
Route /.
Two years ago, about 5 per
cent Of all children in Arlington
schools came from these projects.
School officials said another
factor in keeping enrolment be-
low 81 900 is curtailment of the
educational program for 5h-
year-old children.
A total of 259 boys and girls
are entered this year in the pre-
primary classes, compared with
$50 year ago.
The reduction is the result of
a $450,000 cut by the County
Board in the budget recon-
mended tor the current school
year. according to School Board
members. They said there was
not enough money in the ap-
proved budget to carry the full
pre-primary program and give
teachers a salary increase.
There are 13,024 children in
the first six grades in Arlington
schools. and 1852 in grades
seven to IL, forecasting a coming
need for more secondary school
facilities.
Evening star., 1953-09-21
Group Will Meet
With Hyde on Fate
0f3 Post Offices

Representative Hyde. Repub-
lican, of Maryland, and a repre-
sentative of the Post Office De-
partment's Bureau of Operations
will meet with a group of Upper
Montgomery County residents
Thursday to discuss the forth
coming abolition Of three Of the
areas rural post offices.
The meeting is slated for 8 pm.
at Sherwood High School audi
torium. Sandy Spring.
Mr.. Hyde said he had received
a number Of inquiries concerning
the closing Of the Spencerville,
Brinklow and Ednor Offices.
Whether a post Office at Sandy
Spring will be closed is in doubt,
Mr.. Hyde said. This Office will
lose its independence, however.
and will operate as a branch of
the Silver Spring Office.
Three post Offices at Derwood,
Olney and Brookeville. original
ly slated to close, will be kept
open.
According to Mr.. Hyde, 284
families in the area who formerly
did not get delivery service will
be served soon.
Evening star., 1953-09-21
Arlington School Enrolment
Falls Below Earlier Estimate

More than half of the Federal
housing units at Shirley Homes
have been vacated. reducing the
total enrollent in Arlington
schools below an estimate Of Feb
ruary, the Arlington School
Board has announced.
Total enrolment in county
schools reached 20.186 last week,
an increase of 1,123 above the
number of students a year ago.
Last February, school officials
had estimated there would be
about 81 900 students by now.
Public Housing Administration
Evening star., 1953-10-29
Britain SoIuted by Symphony
In First international Night'

ceded it. The fantasy which FL
gar has transmitted into these
musical portraits of his friends
range from the poignant to the
vivacious and the ebullient. This
composition and Strauss Don
Juan" gave the orchestra occa-
sion for some stirring bravura
playing while endowing the Tyr
ical moments with tonal beauty
and well-graded dynamic effects.
The first local performance of
Walton's "Orb and Sceptre,"
composed by request for the
coronation of Queen Elizabeth
II. formed a brilliant finale to
the program. DR.. Mitchell, who
had led his men through a wide
gamut of musical shadings in
the previous works, called out
the full resonant volume of the
orchestra for stately and daz-
zling reading of the march. The
work is impresSively constructed,
yet what StirS the blood is its
spirit, vital, fiery and dignif1ed.
Three and four recalls for the
conductor after each number
was the acclaim he shared with
his Musicians. The stormy
weather did not deter a large
audience from hearing the pro-
gram, which began with the
playing of the national anthems
of Great Britain and the United
States.
Evening star., 1953-10-29
Daily Buzzer Tells Staff
President Is at Desk
By the Associated Press

A loud buzzer echoes through
the White House offices at am.
each morning. sounding like
"reveille at West Point"
1t confirms to the staff that
President Eisenhower has ar
rived at his desk and the work.
ing day has started.
That picture of working proce-
dure in the White House was
given by Bernard Stanley, White
House special counsel, on an ABC
radio program last night.
Mr.. Stanley said the White
HouuSe staff on occasion has
reused the President from bed
after midnight. He did not in
dicate the nature of these stu
ationS.
Evening star., 1953-10-29
Sir Adrian Prepares
To Sail Saturday for
Baronetcy in Scotland
By the Associated Press.

TIMORE, Oct. 90
Adrian Ivor Dunbar, the wiry
little Maryland farmer and house
painter, was all packed up today
and ready to sail Saturday for
Scotland, where he will become
Sir Adrian, 18th baronet of Dun
bar.
He and Lady Dunbar will sail
about noon Saturday aboard the
Holland-American Lines Mas
dam from a pier in Hoboken,
N. j.
They are due in Southampton
about November 8 and from there
they will go to Mochrum in
rugged Wigtownshire in the
south of Scotland, to the crum-
bling old stone mansion house
that is the family home. It has
been deserted for years and is
overrun with weeds. There are
about 1000 acres in the estate.
The death of two baronets in
two days last January left Adrian
Ivor Dunbar in line for the
title.
He came to the United States
"a years ago via Australia, the
British army in World War I,
and Canada. In recent years he
has lived on a three-acre farm
at Upper Fairmount on Mary
lands Eastern Shore, making
modest living at farming, paint
ing houses, and doing odd jobs
for neighborS.
They will be leaving behind
two sons, 19 and IT, who elected
to remain United States citizens
and join the army. They have
been getting their basic train
ing at CamD Lee Va
Evening star., 1953-10-29
News Of Music
By Alice Eversmon

A salute to Great Britain was
reason enough for Constitution
Hall stage to take on the festive
character last night that palms,
British and American flags, and
broad silver stripes against the
background curtains can give.
Centered in these colorful sur
roundings, the National SYM
phony Orchestra, under Howard
Mitchell's direction, played the
first of it's international nights
concerts and the first of the
Even series.
It seemed last week, when the
impossibility of Astrid Varnay's
arrival in time to be soloiSt on
the program was announced,
that the brilliance of the con-
cert would be dimmed. But DR..
Mitchell and his men seized the
occasion to present more varied
list of numbers, eXcellently
played, and ending with the gor-
geous and exciting music of Wal
tons coronation march. "Orb
and Sceptre." If there remained
any disappointed patrons of the
Even series because of Miss VAR
nays absence, the assurance is
made that the Metropolitan OPP
era soprano will appear on De-
cember 2.
The necessitated change in
part of the program allowed DR..
Mitchell to make it almost ex-
clusively of works by British
composers. The exception was
Strauss Don Juan" Yet that.
too, was appropriate. for it was
one of the tone poems played
at the festival of his works in
London in u1947 where Strauss,
almost penniless, had gone to
earn money to pay the rent of
his home in Switzerland. The
festival was staged by Sir
Thomas Beecham, with the 81
year-old composer himself con-
Quoting the Philharmonic Or
cheStra in Don Juan" among
other of his works. This was
his last visit to England.
The orchestra gave immediate
evidence of it's f1exibility in
varied nuances in the Bach
Walton ballet suite. "The Wise
Virgins" This lovely setting of
excerpts from Bach's cantatas
requires a delicacy of treatment
which the orchestra achieved
easily last night.
Lord Hear My Longing" the
chorale from "St. Matthew Pas
sion." was exquisitely toned and
played with feeling, as was also
the beautiful song, "See What
His Love Can Do" The rushing
scale passages in "Ah, How
Ephemeral" were clearly and
f1eetly done by the violins, and
the velvety tone of the concert
master, Werner Lywen, graced
the recitative opening of Sheep
May Safely Craze" before the
melody was taken by the cellos.
DeliuS' Over the Hills and
Far Away" one of the substi-
tuted numbers, goes back to the
folk lore of some sections of Eng
land and, as simple and charm
ing as it seems, it's interpretive
requirements are as eXacting in
their way as are those of Cigars
Enigma Variations" which pre-
Evening star., 1953-10-29
Fine Seed Potatoes
Exported by ireland

DUBLIN.-Ireland has built
up a valuable export trade in
recent years in the sale of certi-
fed seed potatoes, which are
grown under strict supervision
from scientifically tested seeds.
These potatoes are shipped to
Spain, Portugal, France, Malta,
Cyprus, the Canary Islands and
Great Britain.
Evening star., 1953-10-29
One Way to Learn
If You're Too Fat
By the Assoeiaied Press

TAMPA, Fla.-Want to know
if you're fat?
Dr.. Olaf Miekelsen of the Ma
tional Health Institute at Be-
thesda, Md, told Florida public
health workers in a speech here
of this test for any one who
wants to know if he is over
weight:
Slightly pinch the skin, fold
thickness just beneath the lower
ribs. If the fold measures half
inch, or even one inch, you are
normal. If it is over an inch,
you need to do something"
Evening star., 1953-10-29
Tux-Exempt Institutions

CHICAGO.-All 48 of the
States grant some form OF prop
erty-tax exemption to institu-
tionS maintained for educational,
religious or charitable purposes.
Evening star., 1953-10-29
EurIy Tire Potent

AKRON.-The pneumatic tire
principle was patented in Eng
land in 1845. and two years later,
in l847, it was also patented in
the United States.
Evening star., 1953-10-29
Garnet Center in U. s.

ALBANY. - The Adirondack
regions of New York and New
Hampshire produce almost the
entire output of garnet for the
United States.
Evening star., 1953-10-29
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Evening star., 1953-10-29
Eye Use Takes 5 Years

CLEVELAND.-Complete CO.
ordination of the eye muscles is
not believed attained by human
beings until they have reached
at least their fifth year.
Smyrna times., 1953-01-29
This Weeks
Social and
Personal
Events

Mrs. Louise H. Burslem and Mrs.
Henry C. Webb spent last week.
end in Philadelphia and attended
the Philadelphia Orchestra at the
Academy of Music on Saturday
night, when Pierre Monteux, for
mer conductor of the San Francis
co Symphony Orchestra, con-
Quoted.
Mr.. and Mrs. George N. Short
and Miss Bess Matthews attended
the surprise birthday dinner in
honor of Mr.. John Dulany, at her
home at Fruitland, Maryland last
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Biggs en-
tertained Mrs. Margaret MacDon-
aid and Miss Ethel Wilds at the
Wayside Inn on Sunday.
Mrs. Bertha Pierce had as her
guests for the weekend Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph D. Justice, Jr., and
daughter Carol Ann of Morrisville,
Pa. Mrs. Edith Riggs returned to
Morrisville with Mr.. and Mrs. JUS
tiee for a visit.