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pened to the world when warn
ings about Hitler were disregard
ed.
We are concerned also about
the United Nations, and Ameri-
can prestige there. We wonder
what is going to happen at those
secret sessions. Will the resem-
blance to Hitler be carried out to
he extent of peace with honor"
of Chamberlain, when there was
neither peace nor honor
Sober thoughts these which
make us realize anew that high
sense of responsibility which is
also part of our history.
What are the local problems?
And here the solutions must be
local. How do we induce people to
take on leadership, you ask. There
are people in our community, you
say, (and this applies to the men
as well as the women), who
should take on jobs which they
can handle and handle well. They
tell us they are too busy, or too
tired.
Sometimes the main work de-
velops upon few. May ! tell you
how I feel about this?. It is much
more interesting to share in the
work than to be an observer. If
you want to enjoy your organiza-
ton, whatever it may be, take
part. Become a member of a COM
mittee. Do something in it. Take
on responsibility. And you will
be delighted to discover hidden
talents, abilities, that you never
thought you possessed. Remem-
ber about that ''mute inglorious
Milton" Given the opportunity,
you can develop your potential.
Exciting? Rather.
Fun? Yes indeed.
A more enriching experience?
Of course.
And thanks again Florida.
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12
QUEEN ELIZABETH OF
BELGIUM ATTENDS YIDDISH
PERFORMANCE IN BRUSSELS

BRUSSELS, (JTA) - Queen
Elizabeth of Belgium attended the
Jewish State Theatre of Poland's
performance of ''Meir Ezofovitch'
here last weekend. The COM
pany's director, Ida Kaminsky,
presented leading members of the
Yiddish troupe to the Queen dur
ing the intermission.
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man reacts like an organization
woman ;, -.
Her remarks here can be used
as advice to any organized group
to any group Of people-to any
club It comes from an exper-
fenced hand =.
And her remarks will be of
interest to all those who live in
Florida or who think of moving
here
That the South is most hospi-
table place to visit has long been
accepted as a truisn. But to ex-
perience this hospitality is a de-
light. And my presence via this
column is just one more instance
of this hospitality. So thank you,
Teddy.
And thank you, Florida Hadas-
sab for your very warm welcome.
(And do not mean the weather.
Everywhere went, I found
friends. By this, I mean people
who once lived near Boston, or
had friends in Boston, or rela-
tives. CYes, shall try to remem-
Der all your greetings-when !
meet your relatives ''back home" y
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1956-10-12
By Ethel Teddy" Moscovi4z

(This week our guest columnist is Mrs.
George Rossyn of Maiden, Mass. . :. She
comes to Florida as representative of
Hadassah :. asked her to write this
column under the duress of time and
energy which we do not have ;. How
ever, there was more method than mad
ness here, for my dear Dorothy Rossyn
has been working hard and has travelled
much, and wondered what happens to
cumstances when she is told to let go on
a column
It is evident that the organization wo-
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More than 800 key representatives Jewish throughout the
Washington this weekend and launched intensive campaign
for the sale Of $OO Bonds between the end
Of the Responding call rae Ambassador Abba Eban for in
aid through Israel Development Bonds Ah delegates
lped plans for effort during the coming months
Among those who addressed Of the woday Conference ei
right Ambassador Dr. Abba e Silver Chairman the Board
Of Governors Of the Israel Bond Organization and Mayor Ghon Agon Of
jerusalem Other speakers included Levi Eshko Min
iser Orna PO leading Israeli Abraham Fenber President Of the
Israel BO Organizations Morris Bernstein National Campaign Chair
and Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz. its Vice President.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07

While the Advent season is commemoration
of the centuries of, waiting for the coming of
the Messias, and preparation for observing the
anniversary of that coming, His birth at Bethle-
hem, there is woven into the liturgy broader
realization of what His coming means to the
Christian The Savior was born into the world
in little Judean village, fulfilling Gods promise
and the inspired words of His prophets; there
was another coming when He emerged from the
quiet life of Nazareth to perform His public
ministry and accomplish the work of mans Re-
demption; again He comes constantly into the
hearts and lives of His people; and we know
that He shall come again, with power and
majesty" in the sight of ali men, on the last day.
With all of these phases of ChristS coming the
Scriptural selections and prayers of the liturgy
deal, setting forth the lesson of what that com
ing should mean in our thoughts and actions
The stirring consoling assurance uttered by
the great prophet lsaas, seven centuries before
Christ, opens Sundays Mass: people of Sion
behold the Lord shall come to save the nations:
and the Lord shall make the glory of His voice
to be heard in the joy Of your heart That mes
sage is addressed to u.s. today, amid our trials
and cares in world shaken and confused; we
know that, exactly as Isaias foretold the Savior
was born, and why should we doubt, then that
He will save the nations" that are so sorely
in need of salvation?
st. Paul tells us in the Epistle that the mes
sages in Holy Writ we're set down "for our in
struction, that through the patience and con-
ISOLATION afforded by the Scriptures we may have
hope; does this not tell us where we are to
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The Washington Letter
NATOMeetingg Important

WASHINGTON - The pic
ture of the world situation is
expected to be considerably
more definite by Christmas.
Whether it will be brighter or
darker depends to a large ex-
tent upon one meeting. and to
q lesser extent upon another
meeting, to be held in the in
terim.
A definite war Of nerves is in
progress. This is reflected in
the fact that newspaper stories
and commentaries on the in
ternational situation are large
and numerous. They seem al
most to challenge the Christ
mas advertisements for atten-
ton,
All of this points to the fact
that the NATO meeting sched-
uled for Dec. IL in Paris will
. be of the utmost Importance.
Five days later, India's Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is
due here to meet President
Eisenhower. Nehru will have
talked with Chou En-lai, the
premier of Red China. just be-
fore leaving India, end will talk
with him again after visiting
here. Chou En- Lai is presently
on a 12-day visit to India.
The NAT0 meeting, which u.
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pharisaically contrasted over
and over again with the de.
cadent bourgeois" Christianity
of the rest of men.
Temporary Experiment
II seems hardly necessary to
add that the present writer has
a great deal of sympathy for
the worker-priest experiment
and for the 90-odd priests who
took part in it-even, or espe-
cially, for the minority who re-
fused to obey their bishops
when the experiment was re-
examined and su ubs a ntially
modified in January 1854. TAX
en- as q group. the worker
priests were an inspiration to
all of us. They were attempt
ing to build bridge between
the proletariat and the Church
by camping out in the barri-
cades as witnesses of Christ
the barricades in this instance
being the so-called red" sub
urbs of Paris and other IN
dustrial centers of France.
Visiting the barracks - in
other words, ministering to the
more normal needs of the faith
full in established middle-class
parishes - is also important.
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solve this impasse. The extent
to which it is solved, and the
character of the scars it may
leave, will have great bearing
on the outcome of the Paris
discussions. If things should go
wrong at this meeting, Soviet
Russia - an outsider, of course
can be relied upon to exploit
such difficulties to the utmost.
1t is expected here that Neh-
ru will try to get the United
States to look more favorably
upon Communist China. This
conviction is made the more
certain by the report that Pre-
mier Chou was accorded an inn
pressive welcome upon his ar
rival in New Delhi on Nov. %,
and that Nehru will talk with
him after, as well as before,
Nehru's Washington visit.
The outcome of the NATO
meeting will have an important
bearing upon Nehru's visit
here. Its success or failure
could influence greatly the
vigor with which Nehru press
es the cause of Red China.
More important, however, its
success or failure could affect
our whole plan of defense
against communist aggression.
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Franklin Had Catholic Aides

established in Philadelphia. He also founded in
1888 the first association for extingushing
fires, and at later period the first company
for insurance against fire.
In 1857 he was sent to England to settle
some matters for the Pennsylvania Assembly,
and so ably did he perform his task that Massa-
chusetts, Maryland, and Georgia appointed him
their English agent
In 1852 he discovered the identity of cleo
tricity with lightning, and turned his discovery
to account by publishing plan for defending
: houses from lightning by the use of pointed
conductors-the lightning rod
In 1862 he returned to America; but new
difficulties arising between the mothercountry
and the colonies. which determined the Assem-
bly, to demand the establishment of a central
government, he was again dispatched to Eng
land as its agent
He strongly opposed the Stamp Act, and
was examined at the bar of the House cf Com
mons in 1866, when the repeal of that offensive
measure was proposed
Despairing of bringing about any reconcli
alton between the disputants, he returned TO
Philadelphia in TITS, where the Congress was
at that time assembled. He was elected dele
gate to it; and from that time exerted himself
to the utmost to obtain declaration of the
independence of the 13 American States This
declaration was promulgated by Congress on
July A. 1776, and Franklin was appointed U.S.
Minister at the court of France, where he sue
ceeded in inducing the French government to
form an offensive and defensive alliance with
the us. Franklin had the supreme satisfaction
OF signing at Paris, along with the English
commissioners, the treaty by which the indie
pencence of the American Colonies was assured
He died 1870.
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The Coming of the Savior

look for help and guidance In all our problems?
tering, under Gods inspiration, the promises
that give us this assured hopel How can we
fail to be exalted as we mediate upon these
glorious, mysterious truths of our faith?
Sundays Gospel introduces the figure of
John the Baptist, Precursor of the Savior, the
great and holy man to whom Christ paid the
tribute of saying that he was neither "a reed
shaken by the wind" nor "a man clothed in soft
garments"
John appeared just as Christs public ministry
was about to begin; he sounded the challenging
call to make ready the way of the Lord" and
he spoke out against the evil he saw in high
and low places. Herod, tyrant ruler whom he
denounced, imprisoned him. and eventually had
him beheaded, and it was from his prison that
he sent two of his disciples to- receive from
Christ the message that He was indeed the
Messias: go and report to John what you have
heard and seen: the blind see the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed, the dead rise, the poor
have the gospel preached to them"
Thus 1t is that we are to devote Advent to
preparation for the renewal of Christs coming
in all its phases like Gods people of the old
dspensstion we are to keep our Nhearts filled
with hope and longing; we are to prepare His
way as John the Baptist did, by resisting the
evils prevalent around us, so that we may do our
part in making Him welcome among the people
He came to save; we are to receive Him fire.
quently in the Sacrament of the Eucharist He
instituted; we are to reach out for the beauty
and holiness which the great Feast Of the Nativ.
ity presents.
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proper instruction and under
standing on the part of the
couple planning to marry. Many
other religious groups have
the same law and statistics
prove the wisdom of such pro-
lection to marriage for in spite
of good intentions and pious
protestations a great many
mixed marriages" end in quar-
rels, in religious indifference
or worse.
Q. What are the official lit
urgic1I colors and fUhut is
their Significance?
A. White signifies purity and
perfection and is used for
feasts of Our Lord, of Our Lady
and of confessor-saints. Red,
used for the Holy Spirit and for
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07

S. Secretary of State John Fos-
ter Dulles is expected to at
tend, holds first interest at the
moment. The future of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organi-
zation could depend upon its
outcome.
The Middle East crisis has
put strain on NATO relations,
and the oil shortage in west
ern Europe resulting from the
blocking of the Suez Canal has
greatly increased this tension.
The United States Government
took the stand that it could not
announce that it would make
up the shortage of oil in west
ern Europe until Britain and
France stated publicly some
schedule for the withdrawal Of
their troops from Egypt. To do
so, it was held here would lose
for this country whatever stand
ing it had left with the Arab
countries and in other parts of
the east. The French and Brit
ish governments, on the other
hand, faced severe political
repercussions at home il they
gave the promise without OBJ
tanning certain guarantees they
asked.
Steps have been taken to dis
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-07
Making Marriage Click
Women and Gods Will
BY Msgr. Irving A. DeBlanc

II is often said that il man
does not have conscience he
marries one! Today's column
will stress that woman is spir-
itualIy the aggressor just as
man is physically the aggres-
sor. This stress is by way of
emphasis and is not to be con-
strued as indicating q monopo-
ly of the spiritual or the physi-
cal by either sex.
This spiritual sense in wom-
an has been relatively untap-
ped and lying fallow II has
been developed abundantly for
religious devotionS, but that is
not what | mean by the spif.
itual sense. | am referring to
woman'S great readiness to sub
nit fully TO the complete will
of God, which consists not only
in faith, hope and charity, but
also in Justice; not only in "love
Of God" but also in love Of
neighbor. She enjoys her own
will but she prefers Gods.
Man is too often wholly alb
sorbed in his world of subduing
the earth; woman must deliver
him from the shallowness and
i6olatry Of his daily struggle
for status and success. That
is one reason | think woman
Is The great, human. cultural
influence in our lives.
Role OF Helpmste
God could foresee that man
would become absurdly preoc-
cupied with the command to
take care of the Garden of
Eden. He sent helpmate, some.
one To rescue man. This role of
the "helpmate" will always be
distinctly feminine. Our Bless
ed Mother, in response to the
Angel on Annunciation Day,
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Father Healey's
Go,ne,


@. Why do Catholics assume
a superior air about marriage
and act as though marriage to
a Protestant mere beneath
them---in a so-cdlled mired
marriage?
A. The Catholic Catechism
states the reason we'll: The
Church forbids Catholics to
marry non-Catholics because
mixed marriages often bring
about family discord, loss of
faith on the part of the Catho-
lie, and neglect of the religious
training of the children" This
has been the Christian rule
from the beginning. Dispense
tions are granted when there is
assurance that these dangers
have been made remote by
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One hundred and eighty years ago this year.
the revolutionary Congress sent commission
to Canada to try to win its support BENJAMIN
Franklin headed the group and the great Cath
Ollie, Charles Carroll of Carrolltown, went to-
gether with Samuel Chase and Father John
Carroll, distant relative of Charles and later
the first Bishop and Archbishop in the U.S.A
When the delegates returned-they had not
succeeded in winning over the French Canad
ans because of previous anti-Catholic outbursts,
Virginia was passing its religious act of
toleration and Pennsylvania and Maryland
passed theirs in the same year The long age of
intolerance against Catholics that marked CO.
lonal times was on its way out
Benjamin Franklin, who became a personal
friend of Father Carroll, was one of Americas
most interesting characters.
He was born in Boston in 1905 At the age
of IL he was apprenticed to his step-brother
James, who had set up printing office in the
place and he soon acquired considerable pro-
ficiency as a compositor. He was passonately
fond of reading, and all the time he could spare
he devoted to the perusal of books.
He early attempted poetry and when, In
1920, his brother started newspaper he con-
tributed a number of anonymous articles to 1T.
After one of the frequent quarrels with his
brother he determined to leave him; and, with
out the knowledge of his family, he left Boston
and went to Philadelphia, where he succeeded
in procuring a situation in printing office
Matters now prospered; he became the pro-
prietor and editor of a newspaper (The Ga
zctte) which attained high degree of popu-
larity, and projected in 1882, Poor Richards
Almanac, in which appeared maxims afterward
published under the title of The Way TO Wealth.
Through the fundamentally of Franklin, a
public library was founded in 1892 the first
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Early this year the British
firm of Routledge and Kcegan
Paul published a book entitled
"The Worker Priests" and sub
titled "The story of noble
and tragic cause which precipi.
tated great controversy -
the proper functions and duties
Of the priesthood" The book
was collection OF anonymous
documents purporting TO fur
nish reliable information and
checked material" on the back
ground Of this controversy.
The documents were pfepar-
cd by the dissident minority.
almost so per cent of the work
er priests. These are the ones
who, unfortunately, refused TO
obey when the bishops of
France on January 10, 1854, di-
rected them to give up their
jobs in industry, TO resign from
all temporary responsibilities
which their fellow workers
might have entrusted to them,
and TO allow their membership
In trade unions to lapse.
Dangerously Misleading
The opening sentence in the
unsigned preface to this social.
ed collective Recommendation"
reads as follows: Whether 1t
was timely, or even right. TO
publish this book is a question
that will almost certainly give
rise 10 discussion" The eoncen-
sus OF English-speaking critics
who have taken part in this
discussion would seem TO be
that IL was definitely neither
timely nor right to publish the
book. Indeed, most of them
would probably agree with
book.review columnist. Father
Bernard Theall, 0.S.B., that
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grettable that Macmillan Com
pany has now published an
American edition of the book
in spite of the fact that the
British edition was criticized as
a piece of partisan propaganda
not only in Catholic publica.
tions, such as Blackfriars and
The London Tablet, but also in
respected non-Catholic periodi-
Gals, such as The Times Liter
airy Supplement.
Tricky Apologize
M a c m llan's intentions -
like those of the British pub.
lisher-were undoubtedly very
good. Presumably they wanted
to give the American reading
public an authoritative analy-
sis of a controversy which has
aroused tremendous interest
among Catholics and non-Cath-
olics alike in the United States.
Well and good. Surely there is
a crying need for such a book
to satisfy the legitimate icuri-
oSity of American readers who,
necessarily, have had to rely
on scattered and inadequate
newspaper stories for informa.
ton on this enormously compli-
Gated problem. Unfortunately,
however, the particular book in
question doesn't fit the bill.
Far from being a scholarly
analysis of the worker-priest
controversy, II is a loaded and
indeed rather tricky apologize
for its authors. Obviously, 1t is
calculated TO put the Holy Sae
and the bishops of France in
the worst possible light, and to
portray the authors of the book
as prosecuted martyrs in the
cause of authentic lie. prole-
tarianl Christianity, which is
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Observation-Disclosures

for dying to ones self. 1t is sub
mission to the will of another.
1t is means of sanetification.
This discipline of life together
with husband can serve the
same purpose as the rules of a
Religious Order in stamping
out egoism and pride.
Like the nuns who get up at
night TO pray, spiritual wom-
an can offer up the many
times she gets up to feed the
baby, to change him, to put an
extra blanket on him, to pull
the window down, to give those
endless cups Of water in His
name. She can offer the hard
ship, the anxiety, the suffer
ing of childbearing for the sal
walton of the new soul she is
bringing into the world.
This spiritual person is not
satisfied when the children say
only their morning offering or
their evening rosary and go to
Mass and to the Sacraments.
She teaches them that suffer
ing is prayer. She reminds them
to offer up the vaccine shot at
the doctors office, the teaspoon
of unpleasant cough syrup. She
helps them to see that happi-
ness is a prayer of thanksgiv-
sing, that embarrassment is
prayer: wearing big sisters
dresses and using secondhand
books are prayers. She teach
es them that charity is a pray.
er; that holding back unkind
words, playing with a child no
one wants to play with, and do
ing ones duty are prayers; that
studying their lessons, tidying
their room, obeying are pray
ers; that service and work are
prayers, the more irksome the
more praiseworthy.
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used the perfect word when
she said, Behold thy hand
maid :" Woman is happiest
when she is this "helper."
But in the frantic struggle
for self-de v e opm ent and
equality" many women aban-
doned their role as the great
spiritual culturalizer and help
mate. AS woman became more
masculine and less spiritual,
she began TO do the least she
could spiritually, not the most
she could. She talked daintily
of two children, or maybe four.
Women with that sense of the
spiritual did not stop arbitrari-
ly at two or four or eight chill
dren - not anv more than
Judge would stop when he had
been half as honest as he could
be, or professor who had
taught his class half as we'll as
he could.
a true woman will submit
completely to Gods will and
have as many children as she
can physically, economically
and psychologicalIy. She would
not diyinely plan" her chill.
dren in the same sense that the
Planne d Parenthooders pro.
pose. One is quick to add that
we cannot always judge the
Catholicism of a woman by the
size of her family. II may take
more heroism for some to have
one child than for others to
have ten.
Offering Up
The family is woman's spe-
cial interest ~ whether she is
married or single. But she will
never completely understand
this vocation unless she devel.
ops her sense OF the spiritual,
Marriage is a natural vehicle