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The Sidney herald., 1957-07-04
GumbO Flats
BY Mrs. Clifford Johnson

Mrs. Alma Hines, Harry Hagen,
George Colgan Jr., and Ed Marot-
tex transacted school business in
Sidney Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Johnson
visited at the Clyde Hines home
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Suzie Etzel transacted
business in Poplar Thursday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Marottek
ST., Mrs. Barlow Colgan and chill
dren and Kathryn Charleson at
tended the rodeo in Poplar.
The Sidney herald., 1957-07-04
I THE SIDNEY HERAL
Thursday. Jluy a, 1857
Four. Mile
Mrs. Inga Sundheim

Mrs. Inga Sundheim
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Damn re
turned last Monday from thei
trip out west. They report lots o
rain and crops look good.
Charlie Anvik and ouie Thorb.
jornson and Amund Anvik lief
for Fargo last Thursday to at.
tend Stavanger Laget. They plar
TO return Sunday or Monday.
Esther Circle held their meet
in at the home of Mrs. Ings
Sundheim last Thursday with
Florence Anvik assistant hostess
Ten members were present anc
eight visitors. Later in the eve
ming some more came. So in all
20 were present.
Mrs. Carl Anvik was a coffee
guest Tuesday afternoon at Inga
Sundheim's and Florence Anvik's,
Mrs. Ada Foss and Mrs. Karen
Hanson of Sidney called at the
home of Gerda Stordahl last
Thursday and also were present
at Esther Circle at E. Sund-
helms.
Arnold Anvik stopped in at
E. Sundheim's last Thursday to
show us a small rattlesnake he
had captured at Fairview while
loading up some fence posts. Well,
where there is one, there is a
mama and a papa and sisters and
brothers. Let's get them cleaned
out.
Mrs. Inga Sundheim, Florence
Anvik, Mr.. and Mrs. liver Sund-
helm, and Mr.. and Mrs. Enid
Sundheim and family all attend
ed the wedding of Curtis Halside
and Quell Rider at Froid, Mont,
last Sunday afternoon at Union
Congregational church. Sisters
and one brother of Halside from
South Dakota we're MIR. and Mrs.
Raymond Nigg, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Skogen, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Nigg and Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley
Halside, all of Sisseton, and Peev-
S. D.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Halside
will live at Williston where Mr..
Halside is employed by the ia
cobson Butler Building.
Erwin Stordahl and Ernest call
ed on Ed Sundheim Sunday af-
ternoon.
Jim Allen was spraying the
fields for grasshoppers at the
Enid Sundheim home last Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Lena Dahl from Seattle,
Washington is spending a few
days visiting her friend, Anna
Hammer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Golphenee
of Los Angeles, California visited
Saturday evening with MIR. and
Mrs. Fred Fehrs, also Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM Golphenee.
Jerry Fehrs stopped Wednes-
day morning at the Fred Fehrs
home on his way to Plentywood.
Inga Sundheim and Florence
Anvik were forenoon coffee guests
at the home of Anna Hammer.
Mrs. Tony Rambur, Mrs. Dan
ny Rambur and Mrs. Jerry Fehrs
motored to Glendive Friday.
Mrs. Danny Rambur leaves this
week to join her husband who
is in the service.
Friends and relatives held a
picnic at the Richland park Sun
day in her honor.
Anna Hammer and Lena Dahl
we're afternoon coffee guests at
the home of Mrs. Haley Monday.
Florence Anvik and Inga Sund-
aeim were dinner guests OF Char
lie Anviks Monday. They went
here to bring back Vern and
Jennie who had spent the week
md at their grandparents. Vern
las spent almost two weeks there.
Carl Hunter of Fairview was
| caller at the home OF Otteha
,hristianson and family last Sun
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hovey
Parshall, N. d. visited last
Wednesday at the johnson and
,tordahl homes. They returned
he same day and plan to be
,ack this week for the 4th of
uly.
Fred Fehrs called at the Ed
home Monday after
oon-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25

What Is the status Of
child's soul when il is born
dead e.g. when the doctor says
that II has been without life
for . month or so?
A. The first point in consid-
ering questions regarding the
state of soul of anyone should
be a clear statement of the
goodness of God who gives us
life Of our body and Of our soul.
The opportunity for heaven,
sharing the supernatural life,
the life of God, is a gift of God,
When the Church teaches that
anyone who is not baptized can
not enter heaven she is plainly
stating q fact, clearly taught by
Christ Himself: amen, amen,
/ say to thee, unless a man be
born again of water and the
Spirit. he cannot enter into
the kingdom of Godo John 3:5)
Adults may have baptism (of
waterl implicitly by what we
call baptism of blood or baptism
of desire but in the case men,
toned there seems no way in
which an infant could receive
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25
Making Marriage Click
Reader Asks Comments On
Birth Controllers Remarks
By Msgr. Irving A. DeBlanc

with the people who are as
voluptuous as beasts and yet
are not beasts? What to do with
children who are unwanted,
nay, mere commodities? Isn't
Japan's weird abortion laws to
destroy them her answer?
Mrs. Sanger mentioned that
she belongs to some religion.
One wonders what her defini-
ton of religion is! Ii by ''relig-
ion" she means complete sur
render to Gods will, of course,
she is in, but if by religion she
means worshipping God as she
pleases than the poor lady is a
foreigner"
When MI. Wallace mentioned
that the Catholic Church con-
sidered Margaret Sanger's type
of birth control as contrary TO
nature and therefore a sin, the
following, in part, is what he
was referring to: man is a crea-
ture dependent upon a Creator
but made to be reasonable. He
must then act according to that
nature. God decided to with
hold life and the power, over
life to Himself. Man cannot de-
stroy or prevent life merely for
his own satisfaction.
But in the practice of birth
control a person wills and at
the same time does not will the
generative act. This is repug-
nant, against reason, a contra
diction. II is very much like
eating a steak dinner, but be.
fore it is eaten a balloon is
placed into ones throat. After
the meal, the balloon and its
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25
The Yardstick
Interest Increases For Lay
Participation In Church Life
By FIR. Dennis J. Ceaney

die Ages, due to political cir
cumstances the roles of Church
and State, priest and layman,
were not delineated, with the
result that to a large degree the
clerical side of the Church alb.
sorbed the functions of the lay.
They even ceased saying
Amen to the liturgical pray.
ers of the Mass. They became
reduced to passive, contributing
members.
Historically II was the advent
OF the industrial era that point
ed up the problem. For the
first time in the history of the
world mass education became a
possibility. This widespread
search for truth began and is
still taking place to a large de-
gree outside the sphere Of the
Church's influence. The tremen-
dous advances in the social and
chronological sci &C S took
place without the ancillary
presence of the Church.
The democratic state and the
industrial world we're born
when the Church was weakest.
Karl Marx was a product of
these times and his teachings
went for | lg unchallenged. In
any case he stole the initiative
from the Church in the dawn
ing of this new era.
Add to the melancholy lit
any of the 10th century and the
population explosion of the
twentieth. thcp the Church is
asked to cope with the rising
numerical tide of peoples and
their new felt national aspira-
tons at a time when the
Church is under stated cleric
ally in some of the older Chris
tian countries.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25
Fir. HeaIey's Inquiry Corner
What Is Status of Child's
Soul, When Born Dead?

this gift of supernatural life.
Since there is no baptism of
desire there seems no possibility
of heaven for such souls. On the
other hand in the absence of
actual sin there seems no pos
sibility of punishment for such
souls and it is commonly held
that they enjoy natural happi-
ness in Limbo.
@. When a person is fatally i'll
and nothing short Of Gods will
shsf they should live will make
them do so, will envy amount
Of prayer influence Gods wilI7
Ii person has . serious sin on
his soul will that matter?
A. Prayer can prevent the
apparently inevitable course of
events. Since we do not know
the future we can only pray
with the confidence that God
has power to do anything and
resignation to accept whatever
He sends. If our request in
wolves a miracle there is am
pie evidence Of such prayers
being answered in the Gospels
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act, in frafernaI collaboration,
as instruments for gathering
data on the problem, as il aris-
es in various countries" for
circulating the resulting stud
les. and "for Transmitting ideas
exchanged as to the best meth
cd TO be adopted in such
study"
Vittorino Veronese, secretary
general of the Permanent Com
mittee for the International Con.
crosses of the Lay Apostolate,
who made the final address to
the congress, dealt almost exclu-
sively with the final resolution.
He noted that there had been
some misunderstanding as to the
meaning of this proposal and
called for unity among Catholic
elements in bringing it to an in
telligent and effective conclusion.
Mr.. Veronese said that unity
among Catholics is an essential
condition Of the apostolate. The
problem of unity consists in the
tug-of-war between two apparent
ly contradictory realities: Unity
which is not uniformity, and d.
versity which must never degen-
crate into division, he said.
Among the, many ~diversities he
noted is the diversity of culture
which is highly important be-
cause it touches on religious SEN
sibility.
Culture, the work of man.,
although elevated in itself does
not determine in any way the
life Of the Church, which is q
work Of God. II does, however.
touch our religious sensibiIify
and through this provokes sen.
sible diversities in the manner
in which Catholicism is lived"
he declared.
The Pope's call for a clear def
milton of Catholic Action and the
lay apostolate is a call for unity
and harmony, he said.
"We we're all considered" Mr..
Veronese told the delegates. "The
call was made to all as the con-
ductor of an orchestra looks into
the face of all his musicians and
now calls one or the other at the
given moment -. and, although
there are violins even first
violins - and trumpets and GYM
balls and oboes. and although
their work is different, it is inn
portant and indispensable. All
will accord their own proper tech
nique to that of the others and
so there will be harmony and mu-
sic.
"But the orchestra is his, the
Pope's and the bishops united
with him." he concluded.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25

and in modern times leg. at
Lourdes). A person persisting in
sin could scarcely ask for or
expect a miracle but confession
Tor perfect contrition with a
promise of confession) could re-
move that obstacle. Sin, even
''enial sin, certainly would make
us less deserving of special
fayors from God but in His
mercy He might grant a miracle
for the benefit of a sinner in
order to bring him to repent
ance or change of heart and
soul.
@. Is Maisis . saints name?
A. 1t is a variation of Mar
garet. There are a number Of
saints of that name from the
virgin and martyr of the third
century July 20) to st. Mar
garet Mary Alacoque of the
seventeenth October 17th).
@. Would you please list oil
the ways which q Catholic could
marry a divorced non-c catholic
and not be accommodated?
Can q Catholic for any reason
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25

contents are removed. This is
unnatural, repugant, and sinful.
If a man ever deliberately
consents to unnatural birth con-
troll, and wants to know if this is
a sin he may read the 38th
chapter of the Book of Genesis.
In this chapter Sacred Scrip
ture tells us how Oman was slain
Immediately by God because he
com a "detestable
thing" a sin of birth control.
The Church fulfilling Christ's
command to teach does not
say that mothers who can, must
have a child every year or that
she must have more and more
of them regardless of circum-
stances.
If there are proportionately
grave reasons, the size of a
family can be regulated but
nothing can be done which is
contrary TO nature and TO ga
son. On November 26, 1851,
Our Holy Father in a public adj
dress mentioned that some fam
lilies should be able to regulate
the number of children. He APP
pealed to scientists to develop
a means which would not be
contrary TO the law Of God.
Elsewhere he acknowledged
that the right use of Rhythm
could be resorted to and enum-
Grated some of the grave rea-
sons justifying it. He mentioned
poor health, economic insuffic-
iency, severe emotional disturb
ances, the spacing of children,
and others.
More to follow.
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at all be divorced and not BE-

at all be divorced and not BE-
accommodated?
A. A person who is validity
married and divorced (non-Cath-
Ollie or Catholic) cannot remar.
ry. Marriage to a non-C Catholic
who has been divorced occurs
when, after careful ~investiga-
ton (by the Diocesan TRIBUNAL
the previous marriage has been
proved invalid. For details in
such cases the pastor and offic-
ial at the Tribunal should be
consulted. Catholics may not
marry except before the priest
and all such questions must be
submitted to him in particular
instances. Only by permission
of the bishop may Catholics
separate or Tin rare instances)
obtain a divorce. When the
bishop grants permission for
such separation or divorce It
does not grant permission for
remarriage.
Send questions to Father Ed
ward F. Healey, Inquiry Cor.
ner, The Catholic Times, Box
636, Columbus (16) Ohio.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25
Observation-Disclosures

Mssr. George G. Higgins Is
In Rome to attend the Second
World Congress Of the Lay
/ Apossolste. He has asked Fr.
Csansy TO be his guest column
LIST during his absence. Fr.
Cesney is the author Of . book,
"You Are Not Your own" He
A.. also writes for several Catholic
magazines.
I, These lines are being written
\ while the 1900 delegates from
81 nations are still In Rome par.
ticipating in the Second World
Congress of the Lay Apostolate.
Ir the opening address to the
assembly the Holy Father said:
"If today the conscience OF lay
apostles has been awakened and
IL the term lay apostolatc' is
one of the mos widely used
when one speaks of the activity
of the Church, 1t is because
the collaboration of the laity
with the hierarchy has never
been as necessary nor practiced
in such a systematic way"
There is no doubt about It.
The Church is throwing its full
weight behind the lay apostle
late. II is the demands of the
times, the very urgency OF the
hour. that is pressing the
Church TO engage the laity in
combat. II is either a mobiliza-
ton OF the laity or a gradual
withdrawal from the Church's
influence among men every
where. 1t is simply an "either
or" proposition.
Decline Of Lay Action
The layman has always had a
share In the mission of the
Church. This was particularly
true in the first three centur-
les. However, during the Mid
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25
Lay Congress Ends With Pledge
To Defend, Extend Church

good will throughout the world"
the document continued.
I'VE invite Catholics Of the
whole world to share whole.
heertedIy ip the true spirit Of
service, In all such ventures,
whether in the economic, So
cial, political or cultural fields,
whether through an ~organiza-
fion formed for that purpose
or within the framework of ex-
listing national or international
organizations.
''In particular, we undertake to
work in this spirit for the attain
ment of social and economic JUS
tice, not only for every individual
and social group, but for all peo-
pies and between all peoples. We
are bound in conscience, in &C.
cordance with the Church's social
teaching, to play our part in TO-
cusing public opinion on this
problem.
"We are, nevertheless, aware
that the present crisis is above
all a spiritual crisis. Today as al
ways men hunger for God. The
solution which we must give is
not our own, but Christ's, COM
municated through the Church"
The final resolution referred
only to one problem: The Pope's
call for revision of the terminolo-
gy and structure of organizations
known as Catholic Action.
In his address, the Pope had
urged that the term Catholic Ac-
ton" be applied exclusively to
the whole of the organized move
ments of the lay apostotlate rec
ognized as such on the national
and international plane, so that
each particular movement in each
country would be designated
with its own name and character.
lied in its specific form, and not
according to the common term.
This would result, the Pope had
said, in all groups united in Cath
olic Action, preserving their
name and autonomy, and every
bishop would be free to accept
or reject the movement, to en-
trust or not to entrust it with a
mandate in his diocese.
The Congress- resolution read:
"The congress invites ma
tional and international organiza-
tons to undertake a diligent
study of this problem, in loyal
collaboration with the competent
ecclesiastical authorities.
ut expresses the wish that
the Permanent Committee for
the international Congresses Of
fhe Lay Apossoiate and the
Conference Of Catholic inter.
national Organizations, should
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25

"On a T.V. program recently,
saw Mike Wallace turn birth
controller Margaret Sanger into
a contortionist. She did manage
to exc out a statement that
gave pause. She insisted that
birth control is no sin at all,
but that having children and
not being able to care for them
is the greatest sin known to
man. Could you please use a
column for comments?"
Cannot guarantee that it will
be just one column | happened
to have heard the program. Dur
ing the performance, the story
of DR.. Abram Stones visit to
India kept returning TO me. He
had no sooner arrived to preach
his cult of birth control, than
a distinguished leader there
wrote to the U.S.A. complain
ing, I'VE asked for bread but
you sent us Stone!"
Margaret Sanger is also a
stone peddler. ! IAN think of
few IN the country who compare
with her in degrading and vul-
garizing marriage. II, is not
merely her doctrine of the un-
natural prevention of children
which makes her idea of mar
riage so vulgar. She goes much
farther. She degrades the whole
concept of marital love. II be.
comes only partial consent and
is somewhat brothel. 1t is a self
ish withholding of total person.
al surrender of which Christian
marital love is made.
Regretfully Mrs. Sanger was
not asked what should be done
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25

There is no mystery to the
fact that the current of life
does not flow from the rectory
door. 1t is a place where one
goes to arrange for a baptism, a
marriage or a burial service.
People may ring the doorbell
occasionally when they are at
wits end to know what to do
with a straying partner or an
alcoholic member of the fam
lily, but rarely do they come to
the rectory to find how the
truths Of Christ have relevance
to the economic, political, re.
creational, and educational
areas of life.
Teamwork
The lay apostolate is the an
swer. 1t is not the lay people
on their own without the i'm
spiration of the priest; nor is
il the priest calling the plays
and telling the lay people what
to- do. Teamwork Does II" must
be the slogan for the enlight-
ened pastor and the jealous lay
nan.
This means that the pastor
who ruled his emigrant flock
with an iron hand while he low
ingly protected them from the
explorations of the city slicker
must change with the times.
Changing gears for older priests
is not easy; and for that matter,
| suppose, the majority of the
laity would just as soon have
things the way they are. But
thank God there is an even
growing number of priests and
lay people sensitive to the
Church's mission in our times
and sufficiently restless to de-
sire a change.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-10-25
The Washington Letter
Tito's Latest Move Brings
Him Closer to KremIin

- Tito has
finally dropped his pose as a
fence straddler in the East
west conflict, and a lot of OBJ
servers here are tempted to
say Il told you So"
BY according recognition to
the Soviet puppet government
in East Germany - a major
doublecross of the West Ger
man government, which had be.
friended him = and by aligning
Yugoslavia solidly with Mos.
cow in the United Nations dis
armament debate, Marshal Tito
has jettisoned Yugoslavia's at
tempt to play the role of an
"~uncommitted' nation. He has
rocketed Yugoslavia back on its
rightful course as a satellite
still a maverick, but with an or
bit much closer to the Kremlin
than sputnik's
Tito's sudden announcement
that Yugoslavia would exchange
ambassadors with the East
Germany he had promised not
to recognize was an ideally
timed propaganda move for the
communist world. It came or
the eve of the first session of
the newly elected West German
Bundestag, held in West Ber-
lin to emphasize the Bonn gov
ernment's contention that Ger
many should rightfully be uni
fled. Thus instead of stressing
the need for unity, the meeting
served only to emphasize the
chasm between East and West.
Chancellor Konrad Alden
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auer's government had stated
in the past that it would sever
diplomatic relations with any
nation that recognized the East
German regime. So while Mr..
Adenauer was said to oppose
any drastic move against Yugo-
slavia on grounds that it would
prove nothing, it came as a sur
prise here when Bonn recalled
its ambassador from Belgrade.
Still in the air was the cues
ton of German aid to Yugo-
slavia. In the past year, the
Bonn government has granted
Tito a 99-year loan of about $57
million and agreed to pay over
$14 million as World War II
reparations.
Also still in the air. and very
much SO, was the question of
United States aid to Yugoslavia.
Since Tito's break with Stain
in 1913, American aid to Yugl-
slavia has come to a whopping
$1,000, 600, 900. A Yugoslav eco
nomic mission headed by Tito's
finance minister held a three
day conference with American
officials here in Washington in
the early part of October.
When Yugoslavia's recogni-
ton of East Germany was an.
nounced, the State Department
officially announced its ire
greet" and said it doubted the
move would contribute to a
settlement of the German prob
lem"
The same day, Yugoslav For
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eign Minister Koca Popovic rose
up in the U.N. General Assem-
bly, to give what he called an
unbiased appraisal of the
disarmament conflict. He
promptly asserted that the
stand taken earlier by the u.
S., Britain and France was de-
void of "real reason and thus
wholly untenable," and wound
up backing all the demands
made by Soviet Foreign Minis
ter Andrea Gromyko.
So the Tito regime is now
announced" on the Kremlin
side in all major foreign pol
icy matters - even including
support of the puppet govern
ment of Janos Kadar in Hun
gary.
When the State Department
expressed its regret over Yugo-
slav recognition of East Ger
many, it made no mention of
the American aid program. But
it was assumed here that Con-
gress will have much to say
when it returns in January.
There has been opposition for
years to aid to a government
which abuses and enslaves its
own people. But it has been
'o%verridden by p%ragmatists who
claimed that such assistance
was insurance to prevent Yugo-
slavia from again becoming a
Soviet satellite. While aid might
have served some useful pur-
pose in the past, a new day has
now come.