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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20

Sistance to the idea of family
planning in India" was grossly
unfair.
Only this year, the Bishops of
India, after speaking out against
artificial birth control at other
times, announced the publication
of a brochure which said that
contraception violates moral
law, destroys the moral fibre of
the people and induces them to
become pleasure-seekers."
The Bishops criticized the at
titude of some of India's legisla-
tors who seem TO think that the
bodies of the citizens are the
property of the state"
In 1885, Mahatma Gandhi said
in an interview that "if contra
ceptives are reSorted to lin In
dia) as in the West, frightful re-
suits would follow. Men and
women will be living for sex
alone. They will become soft
Drained, unhinged, in fact, men,
tai and moral wrecks, if not also
physical"
When the interviewer pressed
TO know how "a poor country
like India" could afford to have
its present vast population,
which seems to increase at a
tremendously rapid pace?" Gand-
hi replied:
Mature will solve the prob
lem for us, if we allow nature
TO have free play. Contraceptives
are unnatural interference with
her laws"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20

ing "a new attitude" in the Aus
trian peace treaty, although the
pages OF the Cominform organ
indicate clearly that that treaty
is merely a maneuver to stop
West German rearmament
II is just at this moment-in
the Nelo Times of April 16-thst
Moscow chooses to give its fol
lowers full-length review OF
IFS world conquest aims and, at
the same time, to re-lnstruct
them as to how to drug the non
Soviet world with peace" propa.
ganda.
The occasion for this review
was the 85th anniversary of the
birth of V. l. Lenin on April
%. This has now become Lenin
Day for the Reds Of the world,
replacing January 10, the day
of Lenin's death.
Soviet Der Tag
Proclaiming that Len iniS m
lives and triumphs," the Nelo
Times directs attention TO his
teachings to the effect that this
period Of history is the one in
which the world Soviet dicta-
torship will be attained. II is the
period when the overthrow of
capitalism and the establish
ment of the Socialist society has
been directly placed on the or
der of the day"
No words could underscore
more strongly than these how
misleading is the peace talk
heard currently in Washington
and other Western capitals. For
Lenin has set down in his State
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20

idea of family planning in In
dia," but that there were some
in India, however, who advocat-
ed abstinence rather than artifi-
eial means of birth control"
OF course it can be argued
that certain forms of family
planning" are not necessarily OBJ
jectionable, but all through the
interview Lady Rama Rau talked
about birth control, and obvi-
ously artificial birth control, and
it is wrong to say there is no
religious opposition to that.
Lady Rama Rau said India was
carrying on an extensive pro-
gram of education on birth con-
troll; that modern birth control
methods were also introduced
and contraceptives distributed
freely in the area; that In
dia's greatest need was to find a
safe, sure and inexpensive
birth-control method that could
be introduced on a large scale"
She said there was no manufac-
ture of contrsceptives in India,
and that the average man in the
village was unable to buy expen-
Siye and imported foreign prod
ucts. She said experiments were
now being conducted looking to
the manufacture of contracep-
tives in India from indigenous
materials"
To drop down in the middle of
such an interview the assertion
that there was no religious re-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20

fray his expenses. lie may De
just another nuisance or an
other "craekpot" or the anony-
nous spokesman for one of the
extremist organizations current
ly riding the anti-communist
bandwagon-to the embarrass-
ment and discomfort of genuine
anti-communists and, presum-
ably, to the satisfaction and de-
light of the communists them
selves.
Whoever he is r. or whatever
organizations, if any, he happens
to represent-his hysterical con-
demnation of the pending ALL
CIO merger has already been
repudiated, in effect, by the Pres
ident of the United States, the
Secretary of Labor, and by the
editors of almost all the better
newspapers and magazines. Mr..
Morrison says that the pending
merger is a master plan to take
over the government political
ly." In his opinion, this is the
greatest internal danger facing
America today !" The danger,
he adds, in a crescendo of cap
ital letters, is Real and Immin-
ent" and must be exposed "NOW,
BEFORE 1T is TOO LATE"
Persons OF Integrity
Long before Mr.. Morrison's
Washington Letter was put into
the mails SurreptitiouSly without
return address Secretary Mitch
ell, whose ability and personal
integrity are openly acknowledge
ed even by his most severe crit
les, publicly expressed the con-
trary opinion that the ALL
CIO merger would be good for
the labor movement and good
for the country. "a man of less
integrity than Mr. Mitchell could
have found number of fairly
plausible excuses for keeping
this opinion to himself
Shortly after Mr.. Morrison's
letter was circulated, President
Eisenhower officiated at the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the
new building-a stones throw
from the White House-which
will be the national headquarters
of the unified labor movement.
The President took advantage of
this festive occasion to express
his satisfaction at tbe progress
that labor has made since his
predecessor, Woodrow Wilson,
dedicated the original AFL head
quarters in 1915, and more speci.
ficially to express the hope and
the expectation that labor unity
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20

will make possible even greater
progress in the years ahead.
And finally-both before and
after the appearance of Mr.. Nor
rison'S letter-the better news
papers, news services and per-
iodicalS in the United States
have repudiated the notion that
labor unity is a sinister plot or
a threat to American institutions.
Political implications
Most of those who still have
their fingers crossed about labor
unity are concerned principally
about its political implications.
They are afraid that the merger
will put too much political pow
er into the hands of organized
labor; and they claim to be
afraid that this power will be
used either selfishly or unwisely
to promote the limited interests
OF labor at the expense of the
community as a whole. A few
have even predicted that the
merger will eventually lead to
the establishment of a Labor
Party in the United States.
The latter point was handled
very we'll in recent series OF
syndicated articles on labor UNI
ity by Don Whitehead, staff writ
er for the Associated Press. On
the basis of private and public
statements by AFL President
George Meany, CIO President
Walter Reuther, and other prom
inent labor officials. Mr.. White
head concludes that Generally,
the feeling of union leaders is
that labor best can achieve ifs
aims through existing political
parties rather than bv setting M
third force in politics aimed
at complete control of Govern
ment."
The present writer on the bas-
is of literally scores of inter
views with labor officials over
a period of almost Is years.
would completely agree with this
conclusion Furthermore. he
would e inclined to think that
the pending AFL-CIO merger
will ta'-e American labor farther
away f.om, rather than closer 10,
the idea of a national labor
party
On the other hand, at least
for the immediate future
the pending merger will probab-
ly lead TO more, rather than less,
political action on the part Of la
BORN and through existing DO
litical parties This could be bad
for labor and bad for the coun-
try as a whole if ii we're carried
too far and too fast; or if ii were
to become the nrincipal rather
than the secondary. interest of
the unified labor movement.
In our opinion this Is not like
ly to happen For the majority Of
labor officials in this country are
still committed to the theory that
labor's principal function is eco
nomic rather than political. Or.
to out it another way. that col.
lective bargaining is more I'M
portant and more effective than
political action important as
the latter NAV be as secondary
means of establishing social ius.
tice.
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Parental
Guidance

Whenever important decisions are 10 he made
IN the life Of 4 man il is moi unreasonable to ex
pect that he should seek and enjoy advice and di.
reetion Even where different courses of action are
possible in the prudent analysis of situation no
one gainsay the benefits of wise counsel The
judgments Of qualified person viewing the case
of another most often in the best interests of
The latter and therefore worthy Of serious consider
alton
While doctors lawyers, teachers and host Of
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20

tiations are
seemingly to be
entered into
again just as
the followers
of Moscow have
been insisting
u p o n for
m o n I h $. In
some quarters
il is being said
that S ov ct
Russia is show
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20

of a wv ashing
ton News Let
ter signed by
a certain John
Morrison. No
body seems to
know who Mr..
Morrison is or
where he lives;
whom, if any
body he repre-
sents, or who,
if anybody, is
helping to de-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20
MONSICNOR HIGGINS
AH-CIO Mercer

An ugly diatribe against the
pending AFL-CI0 merger is.
making the rounds in Washing
ton and elsewhere in the form
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20
LOUIS r. BUDElNZ

Everybody, apparently, is now
to be made happy by the peace"
talk which is flooding every non
Soviet capital. Big Power nego-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20

the pllaF OF IRE,
Still somewhat maddened by the bombtess. our
poet turns out a simpler rhyme called
ON THE FLATS
oh, would we had the lucka
To be well rid OF Yucca,
With all its sirens wang,
With all its breezes galeng,
With H-bomb and with A-bomb
With night bomb and with day bomb
With pictures and reporters
And newsmen taking snorerS,
With hurry out al dawnng
With freezing and with yawninC
With frantic cries of all-out
TO dodge the deadly fali.out,
With Brass in bright arrival,
And towns for nonSurviVal,
With avators zoomng
And mushroom cloudets booming,
With boundesS fuss and clatter,
And endless TV chatter
Oh | would give buck-a
To be we'll rid of Yucca.
You have heard the story of the camels nose,
and of the entering wedge It's perennial fayorite
with the church h-and-state boys Well, il really ap-
plies to our poet Once started there's no stopping
him. He moves from Yucca Flats with manifest re-
lief: the smoke no loneer emerges from his ears)
to hammer at a phrase Ito wit "As matter Of
fact'0 which appears to be the current pet OF en-
Gees, panests. and commentators. He calls il
CLISHY CLISHYl
As matter of fact, as a matter of fact
If ever phrase was both hackneyed and hacked
II surely is that one. so blued and so blacked
BY countless announcers v'ho ought to be sacked,
BY preachers whose auditors loosely packed,
BY erudite donS condeSeendingy quacked
BY winners whose exploits arc medalled and plagued,
BY shysters whose arguments cannot he backed,
BY youngsters most urgently fiji TO be whacked,
That saying compact that phrasing distract
As matter of facti
Under promise that he will make no further
demands this season (Which endures "to taSte'0
the press-poet is permitted final contribution:
TO A SKULL
Behold this case wherein brain
Once thrilled to 10y or WINGED in pain;
Which Sizzed when the man was drunk
And palpitated when he thunk.
Yorck my lad Tor maybe Mind.
Was this head soothed by aspirin.
Or ssved when germs were out a-kin
BY pots Of potent penicn?
What plans or plots were codded here
What dreams of deStiny--or beer?
Perhaps this dry and bony bonnet
Was once delivered of a sonnet
old skull you hold your secrets fast
Live talk to silence fades at last
High to your credit we must lay it,
With naught To say, YOU calmly say il.
And thus you give example to
Those scientists and sageS who
Ieauacious as the chatierinr aulls
Sometimes forget that they are skulls.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20
Just Among Ourselves
Passing Comment Considered or IneonsidsraIs

There has been so much yacking about Yucca
that we are all in dither Our press-poet usually
amenatle to stern measures of repression, has got
out of control He has burst his bonds; he has
erupted into verse: he demands hearing. Not in
free willingness, but under stress of fear we give
the poet his way For have observed little trckles
of smoke emerging from his ears and gathering
above his head in the omnous shape of mush-
room To ease orr peril and spread the radiation
thin, extend to our poet the courtesy Of print.
First, he does dithyramb in Gshsrp major,
called Bio Blast. Read and perpend.
BIG BLAST
Science is certain and science is sure
equals MCsquare.
Still there is need OF Yucca or two.
Science is sure but-aw. what's 1t TO you7--
Testing is jesting, it's just to procure
Audio-vsual mushroomic fissual jngoish, wishuai
fare
For all the physicists there,
For all the busy-sists there
For all the lads who spare
Time to look up in the air,
Watching her spat
Over the flat
f. equals MC-square
Sit we in reverence. sit we in fear,
X equals TV-square
First there's blank, md then more Of the same,
Which is explained as burst of flame,
Then comes the mushroom, all crooked and queer,
Column as solemn as Soomons dolmen, tall men
and small men to scare
Billowing up in the air,
Bidding T-Viewers take care.
Bidding cur friends to beware,
Bidding our foes to despair
Sit we and watch
The blur and the splotch-
X equals TV-square
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-05-20

Now, come to think of it, our poet has done
about Informative job as the radio and elevi-
sion announcers After all there's not much room
for description when all you have to describe is
is bang and burst of smoke. What ioh some of
big.time commentators could have done in
the old days il they had been with the ISraeIites
TO tell the people back home about the cloud and
the pillar of fire
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-12-30
New Mississippi
Governor Opposes
Notification Move

Jackson. Miss AMP Three
Of Mississippi's leading whit,
supremacists have met early op,
position in their bid TO southern
states to "nullify' the antisegre,
cation decisions Of the u. S. Su.
preme Court.
Goyernor-elect J. +. Colemear
has rejected their proposal. de-
claring that there is now way tc
nullify except by secession from
the union, and the state con.
stitution prohibits that"
Coleman replied to a proposal
made Monday by Sen, James o,
Eastland ID. MissJ Rep. John
Bell Williams ID, Miss }, and Mis-
sissippi Circuit Judge Tom Brady,
In joint statement issued last
Monday, the trio said:
We think the southern states
should carefully consider the doc
trine and the presidents that a
state has the legal right of in
terposition" to nullify, void and
hold for naught the deliberate,
dangerous and palapable infrac-
tons of the Constitution commit
ted by the Supreme Court"
Their statement and Coleman's
reply had something of the sound
of the notification battle which
ragged before the Civil War,
We can't preserve segrega-
ton by defying the United States
Government or by defying any
body" Coleman told the Missis-
sippi Legal Education Advisory
Committee, the state agency
seeking ways to keep segregation,
we have to do it by legal
means, Instead of dofying the law
we must Use It for our own ben
fit, Coleman said. He will become
governor Jan. II,
He asked LEAC members TO
pour cold water on any attempt
10 have the state legislature nulli-
~ the courts antisegregation de-
cisions, The legislature meets next
month.
Coleman warned that the feder-
al government could send federal
troops. some Of them Negroes
10 police Mississippi if the state
tried to carry out the proposal
made by Easuand, Williams and
Brady
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-12-30

manuel Abraham, Ethiopian Am
bassador to the United Kingdom,
who attended the conference as
special representative of Ethio-
pia's Christian Emperor; the Rev.
Andreas Magubane of Natal,
South Africa; and the Rev. Rajo-
sefa Rakatavae of Madascar.
The two non-Africans sharing
the presidency are DR.. Frederik A.
Schietz of Minneapolis, Mimi,
president of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church and chairman
of the LIVE Commission on World
Missions; and the Swedish Bishop
Erik Sundgren of Dundee, South
Africa.
The conference delegates, COM
ing from nine African countries
as well as the United States and
number Of European countries.
spoke some fifty different
tongues, although ninety per cent
of them understood English. For
those who did not understand
English, simultaneous transla-
ton into English, Swahili, French
and German had been arranged
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-12-30
Lufherons Meet In
Africo To Ponder
Church's Problems

Marangu Tanganytka, East
Africa, --- CAMP The ia Rfri-
can churchmen and SO American
and European mission leaders
gathered here on the tranquil
slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro for the
first All-Africa Lutheran Confer
ence elected three Africans, one
American and one European as
co-presidents Of the ten-day
meeting,
The predominance of Africans
among the presidents as well as
among the delegates served to
bear out the promise voiced by
Or, Fridtjov Birkeh. director of
the Lutheran World Federation's
Department on World Missions,
the the conference will not be-
come another white mans meet
ing"
Elected co-president were En-
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Woman Convicted In Killing OF Dutch Sailor

Washington (ANP)Mattie M. guilty by
District Tuesday degree sabbng
Of Dutch sailor May L.
According to testimony standing
with two early in the morning the
Jacques Van Naamen 39year Dutch
by
and talked with the minutes
s IA
stabbed
pleaded
murder rather than degree originally
charged
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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-12-30

Typical American names found
in Antarctica include Mobiloil
Bay, Wallgreen Coast, Edsel Ford
Range, Rockefeller Mountains
Wrigley Gulf, Beaumont Bay,
Cape Washington, and of course
Little America.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-12-30

least twice q year, az Brush
your teeth after every single
neal tSl Use your dental floss az
least onee every day. Just break
of a II 20 i4-inch length. wrap
Il around your fingers and draw
!, gently back and forth 70 dis
lodge between-iee;h food parii-
eles that tooth brushing Just
can't reach, Neelec, in this de-
partmeni IS one Of the worst Of
lenses and can spoil a romance
before u starts
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-12-30

tie c tn a re
sparkling clean
a n d y 0 u r
breath S W c ct
as spring the
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thro ugh SO
,mlnd your one,
two, thre c
rules Of dental
care. (D See
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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-12-30

receipt OF invitation to attend the
VIM v. s.. Tubman Liberia, 2
Bishop Hatcher the presiding prelate
dist episcopal Church year completed
school Monrovia College in Liberia
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WORLDWIDE NEWS AT A GLANCE


First Negro Appointed To New York Cabinet Position
Albany, ~. Y.(ANp)~Deput Housing
Weaver Administrator by
thus becoming the first Negro appointed cabinet
position New York
Hartman shifted Rent Administrator Charles Abrams to the
Craftsmanship Of the State Commission Against Discrimination
Weaver Immediately
position pays $1,000 plus $4,000 for expenses
Ex-sIove, I4I Yeors Old Dies
Cincinnati oANP)An ex-slaye who claimed TO be 41 years
old led hereI week.
Nicholas Osborn observed what 11st
birthday last June IA He Cincinnati Liberty KY,
His only child Savannah Jane Williams 49, said Osborn Of
ten talked about having been born slavery Lebanon KY
intolerance corrodes RIGHTS. soys MeMu,b
Harrisburg aCANp,~sid Msiath former Arkansas COVER
told dinner guests Pennsyanas George M
recently that Islands of intolerance and prejudice
a a councils he supremacy
groups resorting to their deny
skins black"
Powell Asks Ike To Fire Dulles
Washington (ANP)-Rep. Adam Clayton joined an n
creasng Democratic attack Sec State John by
asking President Eisenhower fire the secretary
Powell grounds that
his usefulness ended when
to Gea as a Portuguese province"
Dulles has the United greater part Africa
and Asia including India part
in Morocco and Egypt" Powell said
End. Raeial Identification for N. y Drivers. License
New Yok-tANP) Governor Hartman last ordered
designations removed from state drivers licenses the
blank color win not the licenses.
The New York governor said the practice requiring applicants
to state their offensive.
rrugie Story OF Emmett Till Produced On Recording
Los Angeles (ANP)"The Of tragic
hcarrendng folk A. by
tone Recording Company being readed nationwide
next week The narration and music the parts
the record the life OF Till
the Ayear old youths brutal murder in Mississippi,
Mrs Blbrow Is widely known choral pageant
producer and song writer She civic leader and ardent work
NAAcp circles.
Dectsie Williams who heads peetone arg
est Negroowned and operated
a percentage OF the records royalties to the NAACp
He and Mrs Bbow friends many years standing
said her first thought after writing
cooperation recording distributing strongly
American folk will live purpose
Blbrow declared.
Three Drown In luke Near Los Vegas One Body Recovered
Los Angeles tANPAh hope has been abandoned
believed TO have been drowned Lake
fishing boat crushed into The body third
The three all residents gone
lake fishing trip had provisions
They identified Kgore Smith
ME Dupree The body Kgore
north of Kngman Ariz the cas-, shore OF the lake
Bishop And Mrs. Hatcher Invited To Liberia
Nashville. Tenn, (ANpl-Bshop IL. Watcher are
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BEAUTY
News s Views
10y TOM wooowAso-Ass--

IT'S JUNE IN JANUARY--or
any other month. with leap year
on the agenda, So decide on
the man you want and re-
member, the way you look
opens the door 20 romance.
You're more beautiful when
you smile that is, il your