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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-16
Cubs Will Trim
Tree for Home

A Silver Spring Cub Scout pack
lis meeting tonight and tomor-
row to decorate q Christmas tree
and take the tree and toys the
group has collected to children Of
the Junior village In Washing
ton.
Cub Pack 24s, which meets
regularly at Grace Episcopal
Church. Georgia avenue and
Grace Church road, win assem-
bic there at $3.50 o'clock tonight
to help trim the tree with home
made decorations and to turn in
the gifts. Tomorrow. q convoy Of
the scouts. led BY Packmaster
Milton Henry and accompanied
by their fathers. win leave the
church In private cars for Jun
ior Village.
The 46 boys in the pack win
hold their monthly awards ses-
sion tonight also, starting at 9
O'Clock. Their parents also win
attend the ceremony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-16
William T. Dovies
Named Director for
|UCS Membership.

| Appointment Of william r.
Davies as director Of United
Community Services member
ship department was announced
today by executive director Isa-
dore Seeman.
Mr.. Davies. former field d.
rector for a Chicago juvenile
protective association. viii re-
place Mrs. Lucia Whittemore.
who resigned to become super
visor Of adoptions for the Dis
Itrict Department of Public Well
fare.
A native of Philadelphia, Mr..
Davies is a graduate of the
University of Virginia and took
graduate social work at the
University Of Chicago.
He Is the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. J.,H. Forshew Of Annapo-
lis. is married. has q daughter
Lynn. Q. and resides at 408 Duke
street, Alexandria.
The UCS membership commit
Itee reviews applications for
Chest funds from health, well
fare and recreation agencies In
1.-THE District.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28
With the Ink of Charity

One cannot help but think of st. Paul's great
letter to the Corinthians when the purpose and
method OF the Catholic Press is the topic for con
sideration In the thirteenth chapter of that great
epistle st. Paul gives his glowing tribute to char
ity II the Catholic editor we've to paraphrase the
words OF that chapter putting himself in the place
OF the Apostle the famous quotation might run
somewhat in this fashion,
If were to write with the pen of men and of
angels, but do not write with charity, my publlca
ton becomes sounding brass or tlnkllng Gym
bal And If write with prophecy and publish all
mysteries and all knowledge and if | write full
Of faith strong enough TO move mountains, YET my
written lines do not have charity, my writing is
nothing. II | give all my royalties and profits TO
feed the poor, and if ! deliver my body TO be
burned yet do not have charity it profits me moth
ing
Would that every printed word, every written
line every published book could pass the test
Of these next words in that letter of St Paul to the
PEOPLE of Corinth Charity is patient is kind; char
ity does not envy, is not pretentous is net puited
up is not ambitious. is not sefseeking Is not pro-
voked thinks no evil does not rejoice over wicked
ness but reoces in truth bears all things, believes
all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Charity never fails
No one will deny that hatred is the great sin,
the prevailing disease of the mld-twenheth cen
tury, - hatred among nations and between lndi-
vduals II is the bounden duty of the press, espe-
clally the GathOle Press 10 nFlnB the Wtssase VI
love of charity TO mankind. The human heart
Graves for love- it is made to love. II must be fed
that which il Graves. Every medium of lnforma
tion should breathe love, hatred suspicion deceit
half.truths have no place in the printed word
Too much history has been written without intel
lectua honesty; dishonest searching for truth has
given rise to many false PHILOSOPHERS and ioeologes
propaganda, which is another word for masked
truth Is the by-word of the hour.
Truth is beauty, and beauty, truth To behold
The beauty of truth is to love IT with such intensity
"a To want to share il with others whom we love
This Is the purpose Of the Catholic Press TO share
the Truth which is Christ with all men Ours IS
not to condemn our feowmen; ours is TO extend
10 them the hand Of love. Ours is not to criticize
the action of our neghbor, ours to help him con-
uuer the temptations that asSa him. Ours is not
10 be puffed up; TO be gratefully humble with
our treasure and 10 endeayor TO let others share
Ii with us.
AS We love you, dear Reader, viii you not JON
us in our love of your neighbor and ours and share
with us the sweet yoke Of bringing to him the
Truth of Christ Who is lover
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28

President Taft had some press
conferences, but not like today.
President Wilson started off to
have press conferences, but the
practice was largely given up
when the clouds Of World War
] began to gather. These times
gave rise to the white House
spokesman" routine. BY this
practice, a fayorite person was
called in and told what the Pres
ident wanted to say. He then
went out and was interviewed
by the reporters.
Being newspaper publisher
himself, President Harding start
ed out to have press conferences.
But he committed a blunder or
two at early press conferences.
One of these embarrassed the
State Department over a treaty
that had not yet "jelled," and
after that the press conferences
didn't live up to their early
promise.
In the administrations Of
Presidents Harding, Coolidge and
Hoover, old news hands say, an
other practice developed to an
extent not known before. This
was a procedure whereby White
House correspondents they
were in the White House by then
wrote out questions and sub
mitted them to the Presidents
secretary. A little later - may
be a matter of hours and maybe
a matter of days - the cor
respondents were invited into the
Presidents office. There, the
President would answer such of
their questions as he chose to
consider.
President Franklin d. Roose-
welt established the press con-
ference as regular White
House practice, At these meet
ines, maybe 200 or more cor
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28
Monsignor KelIerman

The death of Monsignor Kellerman early this
week takes from the ranks Of the clergy of the Do-
cese Of Columbus one Of the finest examples Of
priestlness and spiritual dignity in the history Of
the Church in this Stately in appearance he
was always the priest; princely in character, he
was ever humble: urbane and genteel he was
known for his kind and sympathetic interest in the
lowly and needy
That almost all Of his life in the Holy Priesthood
was spent in the comparative obscurty of a little
Ohio mining community in way detracts from
the ability and accomplishments of this Prelate
Of the Church. More than once he declined what
might have been called promotions to greater obli-
cations in the Church, preferring to remain with
the humble people he loved in southern Perry
county But his qualities as a priest and as man
have always been the admiration, if not the in
spiration of all who came to know him. Because
of this his influence was quiet and unnoticed but
nonetheess real and widespread for the good of his
feowman and for the glory of God.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28
Inquiry Corner
Father He0ley

years after his death when his
tomb was opened. Their respec-
tive feast days: January 10th,
May 10th, July 10th,
Q. If God made everything,
did He make eUil?
A. God made everything. Evil
is not thing in itself. 1t might
be compared to darkness. the
absence of light. Evil is the
lack of some perfection IN Al
THING MADE BY GOD FOX A
CERTAIN PURPOSE. Evil needs
explanation, and we have ii in
original sin and in Gods con-
sequent permitting of evil. Moral
evil tSiD@ is the worst, actually
the only serious evil, but 1t il
a eorollary of freedom. God
permits man to abuse his free
dom here on earth. To keep
man from using his freedom. or
rather from abusing it, would be
to take away the basic gift by
which God made man free and
responsible creature. God made
all things and they are all good.
Only in the abuse of them is
there evil e. e. gun may be
used to hunt game for food or
it may be used to commit mur-
der. Is the gam evil in the second
case?
O. What is the meaning of The
striking tert about pluckinq ont
an eye or cutting off a hand
Mark 9:42-46)?
A. There are many of us who
say that we wish to do Gods
will, but remain inconsistent in
clinging to people, places or
things which conflict with love
of God. Some Catholics insist
upon marrying a certain person
IN spite OF the fact that the per-
son has been previously mar
ried; some cling to a career
which involves immortality or to
business practices which they
consider essential to their pros
perity and happiness. These are
among the modern examples of
things which seem as precious
as an eye or hand. 1t is as
difficult to give them up as it
would be to pluck out an eye
and Christ's admonition to give
up such things is made clear by
this shocking example. NO
MATTER HOW PRECIOUS A
PERSON OR THING MAY BE
we must always prefer God and
His law if there is a conflict.
Send questions to Father Ed
ward F. Healey, Inquiry Corner,
The Catholic Times, Box 636,
Columbus (16) Ohio
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28
LOUIS r. BUDENZ
Since Stains Death

Sponsible for our impotency to
rescue our own military person
mel in Red China, held as prison
ers in violation of international
decency and international law.
We have sent General Secretary
Dag Hammarskjold on a pur-
poseless mission across the
Pacific, and he has returned
worse than empty-handed. For
Mr.. Halhmarskiold declares that
lChen international tensions are
eaSed' he has hopes that our
flierS lUill be released.
lffy and Tricky
There is a catch in that dec
laration. Dictator Malenkov has
stated quite clearly that the first
condition for 'the easing of i'm
ternational tensions" is the re-
cognition of Red China.
II you wish refresher on that
assertion, you should look up
the address made by Malenkov
to the Supreme Soviet on August
g, 1853. Premier" Chou En-Iai
of Red China has recently re-
peated that condition, adding TO
it the necessity for the United
States to compel Chang Kai-shek
TO surrender Formosa. If Mr..
Hammarskjold's words mean
anything, they are laying the
foundations for nea0 attempt
to betray the interests of the
United States IN the Far East.
This whole matter OF the men
held by Red China is much more
than just the fate of IL Amerl-
can airmen. Our inability to
bring about their release quickly
will affect the morale of our
armed forces. ] have had this
brought very sharply to my
attention in my classes on the
Techniques of Communism, both
in New York and Philadelphia.
Loyal young Americans, ready
and willing to serve their eoun-
try, have asked me this embar-
RAISING question: "Why is it that
the United States cannot protect
the personnel of its own fighting
forces2" And that is being asked
IN many American homes al the
present hour.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28

authoritative and wise body of
leaders composed of disciples
and comrades-in-arms OF Lenin
and Stain has continued 10
lead the Communist Party and
the Soviet people firmly and con-
fidentIy slons the feminist path
TO new victories"
Call for New Fury
But this Soviet tstruggle for
Communism" is part and parcel
of the achievement of world
liberation which, for those who
understand the Red jargon, is
the world Soviet dictatorship.
Above all, the comrades lin the
capitalist countries are remind
ed that it was Stain in October,
1852, who called them to new
fury in their battle "for bourge-
oiS civil liberties" call which
heightened in the United States
''the battle against Mccarthy
ISM"
Thus the comrades of the
world, reading intensively these
words, have driven home to them
the understanding that Stains
wisdom" still dominates the
Kremlin. And within our own
borders, the members of the
international conspiracy learn
again that it is Stains cali of
October, 1852, that must spur
them on to denude the saith Con-
greSS of any poWer to took into
Red vaccinations against the
United States.
Worse Than EmPty-Handed
Out of these new revelations
by the Kremlin's organ, these
questions bluntly confront us;
Just how much longer do we
Americans intend to be blinded
by the Soviet dust thrown into
our eyes? How much longer
will we yield to peaceful CO.
existence which child's mind
should see is made worse than
futile by the Stalinite goal of
world conquest? When will we
appreciate fully the havoc
wrought to our Security by the
Red successes in athe battle
against McCarthyism"2
Peaceful coexistenee' is re-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28

respondents would troop into the
Presidents oval-shaped office at
the White House and arrange
themselves before his desk. The
President answered the great
preponderance of the questions,
but some he turned aside, and
others he seemed deliberately to
ignore.
President Truman kept up the
conferenees-on a Once-a-week
basis, to which they had settled
in the latter days of the Roose-
welt administration = but trans
ferred the sessions to the old
State, War and Navy Building,
now the Executive offices Build
ing, across the street from the
White House There, in the
Treaty Room" there were fold
ing chairs for the correspond
ents and each writer was requir-
ed to rise and state his name
and paper into a microphone be-
fore he asked a question. This
is the procedure today.
President Eisenhower keeps
the conferences pretty much as
President Truman had them. But
now he has added cameras. How
this will work out remains TO
be seen. 1t is not anticipated
that entire press conferences
will be shown on TV or in the
movies. Just "shots" from the
conferences. But there are some
technical difficulties involved.
For example, even now, news
paper correspondents are not
permitted to quote statements
of the President directly, unless
specific permission is given for
a particular question. How will
this be worked for the TV and
newSreel cameras? If the rule
is relaxed for them, will it be
relaxed for the newsmen?
Life can be complex in Wash
inEtoni
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28
WASHfNCTON LETTER
WASHiNGTON LETTER
Presidential Press Conferences

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-Pres-
ident Eisenhower has admitted
newsreel and television cameras
TO his press conferences on an
experimental basis.
Since you will be seeing
"shots" from conferences on your
TV and motion picture screens,
the background of these meet
ings may be interesting.
just when presidential press
conferences began is hard to
nail down. AS known today
large in size and regular in
occurrence - they date back to
the first days of President
Franklin D. Rooseyelt's admin
iStration.
Abraham Lincoln saw the
Washington correspondents, to
give them news about the Civil
War Other presidents after him
undoubtedly talked with the
press from time to time. and it
is believed that most of them
had a favorite correspondent or
two, through whom news was
passed along to the other writ
ers.
Correspondents did not have a
room at the White House until
after the turn of this century.
Before that, they congregated at
the portico of the Executive Man
sion and questioned visitors com
ing out from meetings with the
President.
President Theodore Roosevelt
is credited with having had press
conferences, but not as they are
known today. Periodically, half
dozen big shots" among the
Washington corr pom d n ( S
would amble up to the White
House after S o'clock in the af-
tenoon. There. while President
Teddy Roosevelt was being shaw
ed, he would talk with them.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28

the IL states which have already
adopted it, and the defeat of SIM
liar legislation in the several
additional states in which it is
now pending.
Isolated Passage
BY this time readers of the
Catholic press are aware of the
fact that Catholic spokesmen in
most of these states have taken
a strong stand in opposition to
the enactment or in favor of the
repeal of "right-to-work" legis-
lation. 1t is not so we'll known,
however, that their arguments
all derived, ultimately. from
the social encyclicals-are now
being challenged in the name of
one of these same papal docu-
mentS. An isolated passage from
Leo Kills encyclical Rerum No
varum is being cited, completely
out of context, as an argument
in opposition to the Union Shop
and, by implication at least, in
favor of 'right-to-work" legis-
lation.
This excerpt from Rerum No
yarum was first cited several
months ago in a newspaper adj
: yertisement sponsored by a
group of IS Catholic laymen in
New Orleans. Their advertise
ment took issue with Archbishop
Rummel of New Orleans on the
subject of "right-to-work" legis-
lation and, in effect, repudiated
his teaching authority in the
field of industrial ethics. More
recently the same passage from
Rerum Novarum popped up
again, completely out of context
lin a new booklet entitled Eth
les, Economics and Church" by
Noel Sargent, secretary of the
National Association of Manufae-
turers.
Out OF Context
Since we are likely to be hear
ing more about this disputed pas
sage from Rerum Noyarnm dur
ing the current nationwide de
bate on 'right-to-work' legisla-
tion, it will be just as well to
meet the challenge directly and
explicitly now rather than later.
The excerpt from Rerum No
varum, as It is being quoted out
of content, reads as follows:
There is a good deal of evidence
which goes to prove that many
of these societies (unions) are
in the hands of invisible leaders
and are managed on principles
far from compatible with Chris
tianity and the public well-heing;
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28

@. Cdn American Catholics be
members Of the Rotary Internd-
ttonpi?
A. There is no restriction upon
Catholic laymen to such mem
bership. The Consistorial Con-
gregation stated that il was not
expedient for priests to join
Rotary. The same answer was
given and made stronger in 1851.
Such a decree as that forbidding
clerics to join does not constitute
a condemnation of the society.
Since priests are official repre-
Sentatives of the Church it is not
fitting that they be members OF
an organization which tends lat
least in some parts of the world
to religious indifferentism or
excessive emphasis on humani-
tarianism.
@. In q recent dRSWer ia the
Inquiry Corner 1t UdS stated that
a pope may retire bat that "the
dignity and poloer resides until
death" Is 1T possible for tqoo
men to haze the poDer to act
and speak as Vicar of Christ i.e.
the retired pope and his success
Sor?
A. The dignity and power re-
ferred to would be that of inner
ent episcopal dignity and power
and not the jurisdiction of the
office of Vicar of Christ. Recent
ly the Catholic press carried the
story of bishop in Iowa who
retired, and there are instances
in every diocese of priests who
have retired from active duty.
The dignity of the priesthood
and especially of the fullness of
the priesthood, resident in the
bishop - would remain. In the
case mentioned as historical in
1894 when Pope Celestine V
resigned his office) of the pope
retiring his successor would
have the power to act and speak
as Vicar of Christ.
@. is there q st. William?
A. There are many. A French
Cistercian monk who became
Archbishop of Gourges in 100
A. d. was so admired and ven-
Grated that he was canonized
eight years after his death. In
the same century there was an
EngliShman who lived a hofy
life at Pontoise in France, whose
tomb became a shrine visited by
many pilgrims. Another st.
William was the son of famous
Breton family, whose great zeal
and kindness were matched by
his personal modification. He
was Bishop of st. Brieux and
his body was still incorrupt fifty
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-01-28
HIGGINS
NO. L ObiectiUe

and that they do their best 10
get into their hands the whole
field of labor and to force work.
men either to join them or TO
Starye."
Mr.. Sargent-who, incidental
ly, takes even greater liberties
with Scriptural texts in a frantic
effort to canonize the NAM
philosophy of free enterprise
explicitly states that these
words of Leo XIII are an argu-
ment against the Union Shop or,
in other words, an argument in
favor of the "open shop" The
same Interpretation was placed
on Leo's words by the Louisiana
Catholic laymen. referred TO
above.
The fact is that this isolated
excerpt from Rerum Novarum is
: completely irrelevant to the sub.
ject of the Union Shop as we
know it in the United States.
Refers TO Anti-ReIigious Societies
The particular societies" (or
unions) referred to in this pas.
sage from Rerum Novarum were
anti-religious, Marxist unions
which either controlled or we're
controlled by anti-reli gious,
MarxiSt political parties. Obvi-
ously such unions were a danger
to the faith of Catholic workers
who, for that reason, were in
Structed by Leo XIII to withdraw
their membership and ito form
their own associations and unite
their forces in such a way that
they may be able manfully to
free themselves from such in
justice and intolerable oppres~
sion"
To pretend that this passage
from Rerum Novarum refers to
the trade union situation as we
knew it in the United States is,
in effect, to say that the Ameri~
can Hierarchy has universally
failed to carry out the instruc-
tions of the Holy See. This, OF
course, is not true.
The American Hierarchy, with
the full knowledge and with the
approval of the Holy See, has
always taken the position that
American unions - with few
exceptions which prove the rule
are neutral =, in the good
sense of the word. as to religion
and philosophy, and that con-
sequently American Catholics are
perfectly free to belong to them
and, indeed, are encouraged to
do SO.
If Leo XIII really meant TO
Say--as Mr.. Sargent and the 65
laymen from New Orleans inter-
pret him as saying that the I'm
ion Shop is immoral, the Bishops
of this country would have no
choice but TO put this teaching
into effect over here. The fact
that they have not done SO, and
the further fact that some of
them have explicitly defended
and approved the Union Shop,
ought to make Mr.. Sargent and
his Louisiana counterparis re-
consider their own interpretation
of Rerum Novarum. Surely it can
be presumed that the Bishops
are. better qualified than they are
TO interpret the meaning Of papal
documents.