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An Apology to The Parson

The term 'Malthusan," though not SO com
mon now, still means one who advocates the prac
tlce of birth control Morallsts have been wont TO
cali Neo Malthusans such people Margaret
Sanger, Doctors Abraham and Hannah Stone
among contemporaries, Annie Besant and Charles
Rradlaugh in the nineties of the last century. We
are, of course not speaking of natural family
lrpitatlon but Of the use of artificial means of
prevention, The first calls for Self-conrol. The
SECOND, as Chesierson wttily observed means no
births and no control Perhaps il was the aware
ness OF this further moral weakness in their posi-
han that led all these people TO substitute for
birth control the handsome term planned par
snthood'--whch sounds so appealing but lays
sll the emphasis on the adjective
We are wandering y bit off the point We sci
crt to say that the word Malthusian is derived
from MalthuS Thomas Robert Malthus was the
stthor of the famous Essay the Principle OF
Population which gave Darwin the key idea for
his theory of evolution, caused Carlyle after read
ing il to label economics "the dismal science"
and hung an Infamous tag around the neck of its
clerical writer, We hasten TO add that gloomy
Parson Nautilus was done an injustice. He was
indeed gloomy, but he was morally good
The ESSdg purpored to show that natures
Hay was for population to outstrip all means of
subsistence Nautilus thought he had discovered
an iron law: The population increased in geo
metric proportions Il, 2 4, 3, l6) whereas food
stores could be increased only arthmetcally Ct,
q 3 4, -. The result? Famine seemed to hang
over the world as constant threat Indeed the
argument Will be familiar to us who have read
the pseudoScientific works of Vogt and Others
sheltered by the birth-eontrol wing of the UN
Perhaps should ad Immediately that the
theory has been largely discounted today by stu
dents who are willing to turn their attention To
expanding the means of food production rather
than to negative ways of stopping natural pop
ulaton inreases. We should have all starved to
death Tor our grandparents would have starved
and We would not even be- were Nautilus right
Sober figures show that, though MalthuS knew il
not the world Of his day consisted Of some 900.
100000 people, rose by half centuries TO about
800 900 in 1850 to t550 900 900 in 1900
10 perhaps 2,400.000000 in la49 On The other
hand though real difficulties face lis in produc.
Ing food consumption levels, ealorie contents,
dietary variations. and the world level of health
have significantly increased. II lies within the
realm Of positive thinking scientists TO increase
Ill these factors further
Again We tend to wander nff the main point!
The point still is that Parson Nautilus is the un.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-04-13
WASHINGTON LETTER
POntiOs Penetrating knowledge

he "exerts pressure 10 sow con-
fusion in minus." While His
Holiness did not mention So
Wet Russia, his words were TAX
en- here to be powerful de-
scription of the tactics employ
ed by communism in its ''cold
war" against the Free World.
Speaking at new conference
held two days later. us. See
retary of State John Foster
Dulles said the current down
grading of Stain" by the pres
ent rulers in the Kremlin
does not of itself demonstrate
that the Soviet regime has bas-
ically changed its domestic or
foreign policies He added that
one can hope ''for changes
more fundamental than any
that have so far been reveal
ed" but that this country
would maintain a cautious at
titude in the whole matter.
The Caster message was an
other Of the multitudinous oc-
caSions on which the Holy
Father has shown an acute and
penetrating knowledge of world
affairs on a strikingly broad
basis.
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was not said directly that this
will be an H-bomb, but the an
nouncement that it would be
"megaton range nuclear de-
t0nation" tthe equivalent of
million tons of INT, led to this
assumption,
The day after that, the Unit
ed States put before Russia
new disarmament proposal aim
ed at eventually decreasing
the nuclear threat over the
world" The proposal called for
r nuclear census providing
data of the possession of fis-
Sionable materials, the produc-
tion of such materials, the pos
session Of nuclear weapons, and
the planning of tests for nuc-
lear weapons.
The day that this proposal
was made the us. Navy an
nounced that its air-to-surface
guided missile, "Petrel," will
perform with "a degree of re-
liability considered exception
ally high"
Also in his Easter Sunday
discourse, Pope Plus XII warn
ed against the Vaccinations Of
'the enemy of peace,n saying
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-04-13
MONSICNOR HIGGINS
No Time for ErdggeraHon

Mr.. Fosters attack on the
American labor movement
serves to emphasize again
the Importance of telling
American labor's story to the
rest of the world as clearly as
possible. Foster in this country
and many other Marxists Gn-
Guiding some Socialists in Eu.
rope and Asia are determined
to destroy the influence of
American labor by identifying
it with capitalism which, for
their own purposes, they equate
with everything that is anti-soe-
ial and injurious to the vel
fare of the working people.
The only way TO counteract
this kind OF propaganda is to
take the trouble to explain-as
Meany does on the average of
once a week in articles and
speeches precisely what is
meant by capitalism in the
American sense of the word.
There are two Americans
who currently have the chance
OF a lifetime to tell the story
of American labor and Ameri-
can capitalism to the working
people of the world - Walter
Reuther, president of the Unit
ed Automobile Workers, pres
entity touring India as the hon
ored guest of the Indian labor
movement, and Charles H.
Smith, Jr., a Cleveland indus
hrialiSt just appointed head of
the U. S. Employer Delegation
TO the International Labor Or
ganization.
Delicate Assignments
Reuther may be tempted in In
dia to undersell the American
economical system by exagger-
ating its faults and imperfec-
tions, or by minimizing the
gains American labor has made
during the past Is years.
Mr.. Smith. in turn, may be
tempted in the LILO. TO exag-
gerate the merits and the ac-
compliShments of the American
economic system, and to under
estimate the merits and accom-
plishments of other economic
systems in other parts of the
world. This is no time for
either management or labor To
indulge in the luxury of exas.
gerated praise or blame of
American capitalism.
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Inquiry Corner
Father Heales

was not necessarily permanent.
Often He referred to the good
and bad fish in the Church, to
the good wheat and the weeds,
etc, indicating the Separ-
alton of good members Of the
Church tie. oil the baptized)
from the bad. In Lent we re-
call His words, And he who
does not take up his cross and
follow me, is not worthy OF
me-" Matthew 1888 The fa-
nous passage in St. James Epis.
Il can be cited among others:
You see that by works man rs
justified, and not by faith
only" (James 2:14-26)
q. Do lCe haze any Of the or
igtndl copies OF the Neao TeStd-
meat books? II not hom do t0e
knoW that 1ee haze accurate
copies?
A. We know from the Bible
as history-and it ranks with
the best historical sources
apart from its religious content
that Christ established his div
unity by public and evident mir
acles that He established
Church. We know that that
Church spoke and continues to
speak for Him and that it au'
thoritatively listed the books
of the Bible, approving them
as authentic in their substance.
We know from history too that
we have authentic copies, vert'
fled by such authorities as Pa.
pias early in the second CEN
tury to st. frenaeus (l40-202
ADJ The widespread use OF
the books of the New Testa'
ment by Christian and pagan
authors (e.g. the Epicurean
philosopher CELSIUS about 178
ADJ in the second century is
part of the proof of the authen.
tic dates and texts. People who
disagreed on the meaning and
on practically everything else
(e.g. early rebels or heretics
within the Christian Churchl
agreed on the actual texts. Mod
ern research has uncovered
abundant evidence of their au-
thenticity, with fragments going
back to the second and third
centuries. There are more than
10000 ancient manuscripts of
the four Gospels, of which al
most $500 are manuscripts OF
the original Greek and all are
substantially in agreement,
Send questions TO Father Ed
ward F. Healey, Inquiry Cor
ner, Catholic Times, Box 636,
Columbus 16). Ohio.
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q. II a person IS married out
of the Church because of q
previous marriage bat the chill
dren are being reared as ca
tholics lehat can such q person
pray for? IL seems the only So
luton is the death of the first
leife, but that can scarcely be
the object of prdyerl
A. Such situation is a com
mentary on the need for pray,
er, reflection and prudence in
choice of partner in the first
place. Many young Catholics
' i'll not accept the fact that at
tractive partners are not al
ways convinced of the perman,
ence of marriage or of Chris
tian principles for the married
state. When true marriage has
been entered upon, however,
the Catholic is then bound until
death to that union. In the sit
uation you suggest it is obvious
that there is another-although
a tragic and drastic solution
course that is called for. The
presence of children make it
niuch more difficult = and
naturally speaking extremely
unlikely but the Christian
solution is the dissolution of the
second Gnvalid marriage or at
least some kind of separation.
For sucn complicated moral
questions, however. the pastor
should be consulted. Assuming.
as we must from observation of
man. who are living in invalid
marriages, that a Catholic is so
involved and is not prepared TO
take the step mentioned above
he can only pray for Gods
mercy and hope that God will
grant him solution. He GER
tainly cannot pray for death of
the first wife or husband direct
ly, but he can pray for a solu-
tion that would not destroy the
second" family and the lives
of the children, even though
the death of the other party
tOould seem to be the only way.
q. WhGt good did If do if
Christ edeemed as If zoe can
stall be lost? | beleUe that He
meant mhdt He said: He Uho
belieree and is baptized shall
be SdUed Mark 1910.
A. The redeeming sscriflcial
death of Christ made salvation
available and possible for all,
but did not destroy mans free
dom. We have the beginning of
eternal life called sanctifying
grace in our souls by baptism,
but Christ made clear that it
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iected amendment would have
been no improvement. On the
contrary, it would have accent
uated some of the faults of the
existing system.
AS we now elect President,
the candidate who receives
plurality of the 53l electoral
votes is declared the winner,
the entire electoral vote OF
each state going to the candi-
date who polls the greater
number of the states popular
votes.
For this system the amend
ment would have substituted
optional methods of allocatlng
the electoral vote of each state
in the proportion of the pop
ular vote received by each can
didate. Each state would have
been permitted TO choose
which of the two methods 1t
wished to follow. The simpler
of the two would have given
each candidate the proportion
of the states electoral vote
that his share of the popular
vote bore to the total popular
vote.
For instance
Thus. in the state OF New
York, for example, candidate
who received 81 per cent OF
the popular vote would have
been credited with 81 per cent
of the states as electoral votes,
while his rival would have
been credited with 49 per cent.
The second method would
have made the Congressional
district the unit for allocatlng
the electoral vote. Each candi-
date would have received one
electoral vote for each Con-
gressional district in which he
had a plurality of the popular
vote. And the candidate who
received the largest share of
the popular vote statewide
would have received an addi-
tional two votes.
The Why of Change
Many arguments were adj
vanced during the Senate de-
bate as to why the election
machinery should have been
changed. But the one on which
the Senate's action really turn
ed was that the existing Sys-
tenn permits minority groups
in the populous states to in
fluence disproportionately the
outcome of Presidential cleo
tions.
A Congressman from a
Southern state. for example,
urged that the present system
sccentuates the building up
and qualification within these
states of religious, economic
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bluntneSs, which has earned
him the admiration and re-
Spect of friend and foe alike
calls for word of explana-
tion.
Mr.. Meany obviously did not
mean to imply that the Amer
ic. abor movement believes
in any old kind of capitalism
without distinctions or qualifi-
cations. Capitalism has many
different definitions. 1t means
one thing in the colonial areas
for example, and another in
the United States. Even with
in the United States il means
different things TO different
people. In the sense in which
MIR. Meany uses the term it
stands for a system Of private
ownership regulated through
collective bargaining and leg
is,ation, according to the
norms of 'deeency and NOR
ality."
What Kind OF Capitalism
On the one hand, ii means
the very opposite of Socialism.
On the other it does not mean
free enterprise in the sense
in which that much abused term
is so often used in the conserv-
ative wing of the American
press. Nor does il mean that
American labor is completely
satisfied with its present role. in
the American economy.
American labor is not inter
ested in co-management or CO.
determination in the German
usage of these terms. II is in
favor Of, and will continue to
fight for, the expansion OF col-
lective bargaining to cover all
matters directly affecting the
welfare of the workers. Those
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and racial blocs which can
and do hold the balance of
power"
The Southerner complained
that the candidates of the mas:
jor parties now are compelled
TO pay too much attention TO
the views of Negroes in the
big Northern cities, 10 the
radical wing of organized
labor, TO the Jews, the Italians.
the Irish and the Poles. These
groups in the big cities, he :
pointed out, are capable of
tipping the popular vote in ia
vor of given candidate and
thus assuring him of the states
entire electoral vote.
Populoux States
From this line of argument
it is evident that the aim of
those who advocated division
of the electoral vote in accord
ance with the division of the
popular vote, was to reduce the
influence of the so-called min
ority groups in the urban cen
ters.
AS a matter of fact, however,
the argument that the existing
system gives the populous
states undue influence in elec.
tions will not stand examin.
alton. Actually, these states do
not have as strong voice az
they should have, considering
their populations, and the pro-
posed change in the election
system would have reduced
their influence still further.
In the 1852 election, 30
states having less than half
the nations population cons
trolled 294 electoral votes,
while nine large states contain.
ing more than half the popula.
tiol. controlled only 237 elec.
toral votes.
One Party States
If either of the optional
methods proposed in the
amendment had been in opera.
tion in 1852. the net effect
would have been to reduce the
electoral votes credited to
President Eisenhower and to
increase those allocated to
Stevenson, but without affect.
ing the outcome of the cleo
tion.
Neither plan would have rec
titled the disparity between
the influence of the small az
against the large states. The
sole gamers would have been
the Southern states and few
states in New England and the
Midwest which are dominated
by one party.
With only token opposition
from the other party, these
one-party states would have
been able still to deliver all,
or nearly all, of their electoral
votes to one candidate. But the
influence of the large states
would have been diminished,
since they would have had to
divide their electoral votes
among two candidates.
Fortunately. a sufficient
number of Senators sized up
the scheme for what it was to.
block its adoption.
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that was be
fore it recent
ly for chang
ing the meth
od of elect
ing a Presi-
dent and Vice
81 d e Mt.
The present
system M a y
not be ideal,
hut the re-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-04-13

On March Ia George Meany,
president of the AFL-CIO,
stated in public address that
I'VE lin the American labor
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m O V G m ent)
believe in the
capital st / c
system -. a
mortal sin in
the eyes CT
some of our
+ ur o p a en-
friends. " This
statement
so typical Of
nj @ a n v ' a
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JOHN c. O'BRIEN
Election As Usual

No one need lament the fail
ure of the United States Sen
ate to approve the proposal
The Arizona post., 1956-09-14
Sevicemen's
Dance Is Set

The annual Breakfast sup
per dance for the armed serv'
ices will be held Saturday
night, Sept. Is.
The colorful affair, which
begins at $50 pm. at the
Center is sponsored by the
armed forces committee OF
the Tucson Jewish Commun-
ity Council. Mrs. Maurice Mar
golis is chairman of the COM
mittee.
k.ERVICEMEN from Davis
Monthan Air Force Base, Ma
rama Air Base and Fort Hua-
chuca have been invited to at
tend. An invitation also has
been extended to girls over 10
who are new in the COM
'munity.
Dancing will be to the mu-
sic of Sid KrakoWer and his
band.
SERVING ON the commit
tee are Mrs. H. Podolsky, Mrs.
Max Lukacs and Mrs. Michael
.Schaeffer. Junior hostesses
for the supper dance are
Bobby Oppman, Beverly Po-
|do1sky and Irene Foont. PFC
Harris Berger and PFC
Robert Dishler make up the
servicemen's committee at
Fort Huachuca.
The armed forces commit
tee, in cooperation with syn.
agogues in Tucson, provided
home hospitality during the
high holy days for the service
men. Last year 143 service
men spent the holidays with
Tucson Jewish families. A
greater number is expected
this year.
The Arizona post., 1956-09-14
process of construction.

process of construction.
The leukemia ward for chill
dren was so beautiful that it
looked more like a place in
DiSneyland. The children
are kept as happy as human
ly possible while they are
there. Another impressive fea-
ture was that the parents are
allowed to stay with these
children, at no expense.
ANOTHER outstanding OBJ
servation was the high cali
Der of the medical staff and
Research Scientists available
to all patients. I never saw a
more enthusiastic group of
doctors.
The City of Hope is support
ed entirely by voluntary con.
tributions and fund raising
activities of the chapters. Over
The Arizona post., 1956-09-14
Page Five

81 cents of each dollar con-
tributed goes directly to the
hospital for the purpose for
which it is given. The City of
Hope itself has no paid fund
raising program and those en-
gagged in the work are all vol
unteer workers.
There are now over 300
chapters in the u. S. Each or
ganization elects its delegates
to the national convention.
The delegates determine the
policies for the ensuing year
and they elect the directors to
the governing bo ard. The
board in turn elects the Off
GERS. Thus the City of Hope,
a national medical center for
the peoples governed by
the people.
HAVING A LITTLE time
left after our tour through
the City of Hope, we visited
several Tucson patients who
were in the hospital at the
time-one woman who had
heart surgery, one child with
a blood disorder and one can
Ger patient.
AS the Tucson c. apter
grows more and more local
patients will be admitted to
the hospitals. Volunteer work
ers are urgently needed at
present to carry on with the
work here.
The Arizona post., 1956-09-14

II before my Visit.
THE MAGNITUDE of the
City of Hope is Immediately
striking. 1t is comprised of a
group of buildings for the
care of the patients, research
and m edical laboratories,
nurses and doctors quarters,
a church, an art institute, IL
brary, and special diet kitch-
ems and dining room, all COW
ering 85 acres of beautifully
Handicapped grounds in Duarte,
Calif.,a few miles from Los
Angeles.
The far sightedness of those
who founded the City of Hope
some 43 years ago is now evi-
dent. It has become a national
medical center for the care of
those suffering from what are
known as catastrophe dis
eases, namely-leukemia, can
GER, tuberculosis, cases requir-
ing lung surgery and heart
cases requiring heart surgery.
Probably the most modern
hospital in the world for heart
surgery cases is now in the
The Arizona post., 1956-09-14

ginning at $50 pm.
REFRESHMENTS will be
available and set-ups provided
without charge. Tickets at
SIPS can be purchased at the
door or from any member of
the club.
Moe Wolf, president of the
Mr.. and Mrs. Club, has ap-
The Arizona post., 1956-09-14

pointed Harry Roffman as
chairman of the dance. Gay
decorations are being planned
by a committee of Irv Ostroy,
Hy Podolsky and Dave Sirota.
The dance, an annual affair,
is in it's eighth year and Pres
ident Wolf cordially invites
the public to attend.
The Arizona post., 1956-09-14
tucson Doctor Reports
On City Of Hope Visit
By DIR FRED SCHUTZBANK

heard of the City of Hope has everyone and
knew of free nonsecarian national medical
healing, medical research and education But spent
day the City of Hope and actually what great
stituon it is realized how little had really known about
The Arizona post., 1956-09-14
9th Annual Breakfast
Dance Slated Saturday

The colorful Breakfast dance sponsored annually by
the Mr. and Mrs Club of Congregation Anshe Israel will be
staged Saturday night Sept. Is.
Lou Broder and his orchestra will furnish dance music
affair be held in the Anshe Israel auditorium be-
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