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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04
BY GERALD wARING
Special Writer for tbs star

OTTAWA. - In the past 10
months millions Of words have
been written and spoken In Can
ada. the United States and Great
Britain about canadas program
10 divert is per cent OF It's United
States import trade TO Britain.
This was the idea that John
Diefenbaker put forward last July.
less than three weeks after he be-
came Prime Minister Of Canada.
His followers hailed II as q forth
right, far-sighted policy that the
nation needed. The British we're
dubious, but eager to be con-
vinced Understandably. Ameri-
cans were cool TO the idea.
The trade switch plan became
an election issue. Mr.. Diefenbak-
er's Conservatives asserted this
was how they we're going TO slash
Canada's billion-dollar-plus trade
deficit with the United States.
Liberal leader Lester Pearson
warned that Discrimination
against American goods would en-
courage the United States to in
crease tariffs against Canadian
goods. He called for trade ex-
pansion. not diversion"
'Misinterpreted'
But now, in a bit Of verbal
sleight of hand, Prime Minister
Diefenbaker says in effect that all
those words about Is per cent
trade shift utterly misinterpreted
what he had said and meant. He
now explains that the figure Of Is
per cent was merely an example
pulled out of the air. 1t was never
intended. he asserts. that this
figure should be a hard and fast"
government objective.
II this is so, he was asked, why
didn't he correct this glaring mis-
Interpretation in Parliament or
on the hastings? His reply: He
couldn't be bothered"
This writer was at Mr.. Diefen-
bakers press conference last July
6 when he said that diversion Of
is per cent of United states ex-
ports to Canada, which are readily
available in the United Kingdom.
would provide us with markets"
1t is true that he did not state
categorically that I'VE will divert
Is per cent" But he followed UP
what he did say with the grave
comment that There's the will,
the way and the need"
Discussing this with Mr.. Diefen-
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House

H. r. 12065. Temporary Unem-
ployment Compensation Act of
1858. Herlong amendment to sub
stitute for committee bill a bill
embodying most Of the admins
tration proposals. Agreed to.
223-l65.
FOR: Smith. Democrat OF virginia: Broy-
hill. Republican Of Virginia; Landlord,
Democrat of Maryland, and Hyde, Re-
publican Of Maryland.
PAIRED FOR: Harrison. Democrat OF
Virginia
H.R. 1905. Passage of amended
bill to provide Federal loans to
States to extend their unemploy-
ment compensation programs to
persons who have exhausted ben
efits under current State law.
Passed, 370-l7.
FOR, Broyhirl. smith Landlord, HYDE.
GENERAL FAIR: Harrison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04

with their silver chains Of Office
have suffered probably even
heavier casualties. It is their job
to break up the fights.
When shouted insults bring
legislators charging out Of their
chairs, the Chamber or Senate
president first bangs his gavel.
then rings his little silver bell. II
order is not restored. he sets of
sirens that bring the husky ushers
on the run.
They attempt to form holding
lines to keep the fighting factions
apart They're in the middle and
often are the hardest beset.
Most Of the fights have been be-
tween Fascists, seated on the far
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04

fighting honors. Most Of the
battlers are bellicose bantam
weights, or balding and paunchy
elders who charge with fire in
their eyes but not much punch
in their blows. That has pre-
vented serious consequences.
The Ladies', Too
Even the women legislators get
into the act.
Socialist Giuliana Nenni. daugh-
ter of Stain peace prize winner
Pietro Nenni. slapped Fascist
Filippo Anfuso N the face in a
chamber hrawl in 1866.
Staid Socialist Senator Angelina
Merlin. author Of Italy's anti
prostitution law. was aided from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04
Information
From Space

To the many known hazards OF
space travel, there has been added
another. completely unexpected:
A blanket or belt of mysterious
radiation 1000 times more intense
than cosmic rays enveloping the
earth from 600 miles to possibly
5000 miles from its surface Its
existence was disclosed by infor-
nation transmitted by the United
States two Explorer satellites and
assembled by American scientists
participating in the International
Geophysical Year.
Dr.. James A. Van Allen, Uni
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04
BY Benz PRICE
Associated Press stan Writer

FORT DIX, N. J.-By Army
standards, roughly rs per cent Of
the Nations young men are smart
enough only to dig bitches, swab
floors on polish pots and pans on
kitchen police.
At a time when advances in
Army weaponry require a large
assortment of skills. 100000 Of
the Nations $4,000 soldiers are
rated incapable of being trained
for anything but mental tasks.
Further, two of every five men
drafted through Selective Service
this year will be rejected, chiefly
on physical grounds.
To obtain 10000 able-bodied
men last year, the draft boards
rejected more than $4,000 others.
a rejection rate Of 81 per cent.
This year physical requirements
have been frightened and the re-
lection rate is expected to reach
AZ per cent. And last year the
| Army released ALTO men after
putting them through eight weeks
Of basic training because they we're
unable to learn anything of value
to the Army.
While the Army is the only
service which still resorts to the
draft for manpower, the Air
Force. Navy and Marines have
their troubles, too. OF the l76.360
men in the Marines, 31,750 are
classed among the mentally slow.
The Navy has $4,000 men. in
GLIDING 10l $40 in the marginal
intelligence group.
AS for the Air Force, a Spokes-
man said in Washington it had
never made a head count Of its
mentally slow, though one sam
ping indicated that 9 per cent Of
its $4,000 men we're in this group
roughly 10000 men.
Costly Problem
It costs somewhere in the vicin-
ity Of $1,000 to induct, or enlist,
a man. transport pay, feed and
clothe him during basic training.
This means that the Government
is spending more than $470 mil
hon to train men Of dubious value
to the Nations armed forces.
Here at Fort Dix a ruthless
weeding-out process is under way.
Under the present law if a man is
physically fit and scores as much
as 10 points out Of a possible 100
on an intelligence test, he must be
indicted. or enlisted.
Upon arrival at the reception
center here. the new men are sub
jected to nine aptitude tests. On
the average, Is per cent will show
no aptitudes for service life at all.
This percentage probably will run
higher at other reception centers.
Fort Dix draws recruits or in
ducteeS from an area where COM
pulsory education laws are gener-
ally enforced.)
In an interview, Col. Lester w.
Teter, personnel chief, said Dix
had received 1887 trainees so far
this year; that 2.738 had no apti-
tude for Army life, and that 1886
had been discharged as of no
value. Most were released after
two weeks, The wedding out proc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04

the Parliament a year ago after
she was caught in the middle Of q
slapping fracas.
Carla Capponi, 81 year old
woman leader Of q Communist
wartime partisan band, had to be
held back by Prime Minister
Adone Zoli when she tried to enter
a Fascist fist fight in
the chamber a month ago.
In these five years, a dozen
Senators and Deputies have re-
quired treatment by doctors or
in hospital after the legislative
brawls. Many more than that have
been treated in the parliamentary
dispensary.
The black uniformed ushers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04
Canada Tones Down
Its Import Cut Plan

baker the other day. pointed
out that these words left the Inn
preston that the government had
the win to bring about q IS per
cent trade switch.
"oh. well. an impression" he
said. Il can't be responsible for
impressions"
A Plotitude Remains
Following this denouement, the
only concrete facts remaining
are that the Canadian govern
ment favors reducing the trade
deficit with the United States, and
favors increasing trade with
Britain. These are so platitudinous
that they almost rank with being
against sin.
Latest trade figures show that
imports from the United States are
falling, due to the recession, and
British sales in Canada have in
creased somewhat-probably as
q result Of buy British" propa-
ganda since Mr.. Diefenbaker's
statement last July. But the Brit
ish have picked up nothing like
the $500 millions worth Of BUSH
ness which a is per cent trade
switch would bring them.
There is as yet no clear expla-
nation Of why Mr.. Diefenbaker
waited more than nine months to
deny that a is per cent cut in
United States imports was his adj
ministration's objective.
Relations Too Sticky?
The explanation could be that
relations with the United States
are becoming so sticky that he
wants to ease the situation. 1t is
no secret that the administration
here is worried by strong pressure
in the United States for higher
tariffs against Canadian lead,
zinc, copper and fish.
The explanation could also be
that the election is over and the
IS per cent idea has served its
purpose.
Or it could be that Mr.. Diefen-
baker now realizes he cannot de-
liver a IS per cent cut without
imposing import restrictions or
discriminatory tariffs.
Whatever the explanation. 1t is
bound to have a flattening effect
on the British Commonwealth
trade and economic conference
which will meet at Montreal next
September at the instigation Of
the Diefenbaker government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-04
NEARBY VOTES

The votes Of the nearby Mary
land and Virginia Legislators on
major roll calls in Congress last
week:
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07

strengthen the north's domination
of Sudan.
Communism also has been &C.
five In favor OF naturalization.
Communist leaders have will
insly supported fhe move In the
belief that with the removal OF
the Catholic Church from the
field Of education, their obiee-
fives will be more easily OBJ.
famed.
More than 100 fully qualified
teachers can no longer teach in
the former mission schools be-
cause they are Religious. The new
country's educational system has
thus taken a backward step, Cath
olics declare. They note the fact
that the Education Minister had
to 60 to England last year to shop
for badly needed teachers.
AS early as June 26, 1856, the
Catholic bishops of three south
ern Sudanese provinces declared:
There can be no question Of
surrender or transfer to any
other body Of the responsible.
ties Of educating her children
laid on the Church by Her ri.
vine Founder.
ut is our duty to organize and
conduct a Catholic education for
our Catholic people and for those
who wish to become Catholics
We cannot relinquish our duty OF
the schools in which our children
are taught"
In an effort to solve the prob
lem the Catholic bishops of Su
dan offered later to transfer
administration of the schools te
the government, providing thai
the Church retain title to the
school property, that the Pope ap
prove such a transfer, that Par
Lament enact a law covering the
terms of the transfer and that the
Catholic spirit and nature of the
schools be preserved.
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Some people are inclined to ex-
plain the naturalization of mis-
sion schools in the south in terms
of the hostility which Islam feels
for Christianity, rather than as a
strictly governmental decision in
favor of national unity.
These people note that in the
north, where the Moslem faith
has been long established, there
are many private schools in OPP
Grafton. These schools, including
Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Prot
estant, Coptic and Egyptian insti-
buttons, have not been interfered
with and no attempt has been
made to incorporate them into a
national system of schools.
Although the Ministry OF Ed
vestion argues that ~nationalix.
ing mission schools in the south
is necessary for fhe unity Of the
country, the freedom allowed
schools in the north leads some
observers TO think The move
has developed from . religious
bias. This, they say, is not
something TO which . govern
ment representing all the peo-
pie should be q partner.
Others interpret the move as a
policy devised by the government
at Khartoum to suppress racial
differences. 1t Is pointed out that
by taking over the south's school
system, the central government
is able to staff the schools with
persons paid and responsible to
government control.
Such control facilitates the i'm.
position of Arab culture on non.
Arabs, they note.
They ask: Do not the Africans
of the south have their own Ian.
guages, their own culture? Why
can't they be permitted to bring
their own culture into play in the
development of Sudan as a ma.
ture government of both north
and south?
Sudan's desire to form a united
| country, q drive often felt bv
young countries in their first
years, has often been advanced
as a justification for nationalizing
the Catholic schools.
The Education Minister went SO
far as to declare that education OF
the young is a right of the state
and not of the family. This is an
idea more compatible with a to.
t%alitarian governments way oil
thinking than with a Republics
Sudan Catholics say.
Actually the policy has caused
a poor reaction. Tribal chiefs oi
the south, meeting near Juba in
1857, protested the arbitrary seiz
ure of schools in their areas. A
few voices have also been raised
in protest in Khartoum, for many
southern leaders see the national
ization as a policy designed tt
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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07
Defend Church
From Leftists
Italian Urges

ROME - NC) - Luigi Gedda,
President of Italian Catholic Ac.
ton, has issued an appeal to all
Catholics to defend the Church
from a campaign Of calumnies
waged by Italian leftists and anti.
clerical politicians.
Writing in the Catholic Action
daily, II Quotidiano, Mr.. Gedda
said:
Every circumstance, even
those In which the chvreh's
right and duty to fulfill her
mission cannot be denied, is ex-
plotted - TO Islander, mock and
morfify ths Church in Her doe.
frine, Her life and Her hier-
Arehy."
He said that the attacks have
been launched not only by "ser.
wants of communism" but also by
. number of persons who, con-
sciously or unconsciously, strike
at her automatically 'in an unjust
and foolish way"
MI. Gedda called on "all Italian
Catholics" OF "act ~tirelessly and
intelligently to defend the
common Mother, the Catholic
Church."
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07
COd Love Your
If You're Having Troubles
Take Them To Missionaries
by Bishop Fulton ]. Sheen

" your marriage is troubled
never go TO q psychiatrisf who
Is living with . second wife; "
you are in pain never expect
true consolation from one who
has not suffered; IL you want
aid for the poor and afflicted
expect the most aid from those
who know the meaning Of povs
srfy and tears. As begssrs for
the Holy Father and his Mis-
sions we know this to be true,
as this letter from . child Of
seven bears witness:
Dear Bishop Sheen:
Mother went to the hos
pital for the second time in
two weeks. Daddy does not
come home very often. Once
when he did, he kicked Nom
my out of the house and she
had to 60 to the hospital.
Daddy is not kind but bitter,
and he treats her like dirt
and makes her feel bad. She
cries and my brother and sis
ter cry too. Mommy always
tells us to be kind and to love
him, to pray for him and new
er blame him, that God will
keep him from sin and wick
edness and save his soul. Will
you please pray for us? ! am
sending you twenty-five cents
from myself and three cents
from my sister. Give it to the
Holy Father because we know
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07
Public Tuition Payments
May Be Tested I'm Court

SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT. -
A dispute over this community's
payment of tuition for students
in UNCONVENTIONAL high schools
appears to be headed for the
courts.
South Burlington. which has
no public high school of its own,
Is permitted under a Vermont
statute to make tuition payments
to out-of-town schools chosen by
parents of high school age chill.
dren.
This practice has now been
challenged by a South Burlington
taxpayer, C. Raymond Swart, who
has asked the towns school board
to stop using tax money to pay
tuition of students in parochial
high schools. His plea was denied.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07
Sister Suffers Setback
In Be Neat paigu

ST. LOUIS, NC) - One Sister
in a parochial school here has a
problem in convincing her class
of eighth-graders that neatness
pays.
This problem was particularly
bad when the students prepared
their essays for the annual st.
Louis Sierra Club Vocation Essay
Contest.
"Tll submit this" she ruefully
told one fragrant offender, "but
it's so messy II can't possibly win"
But, the Sierra Club, blissfully
unaware of the Sisters predica.
ment, announced that the messy
essay was good enough. In spite
of its condition to be one of the
Ia top winners.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07
Sudan Reported Pushing Drive
To Complete School Seizure

The following article gives
the opinions and conclusions
of q writer who has studied
the development of the
Church In Sudan for many
years and who recently visit.
ed that country.
NAIROBI, KENYA - AS
Sudan prepares to elect a
constituent assembly on Feb.
ruary %, there are reports
in that country that its gov
eminent plans to push to com
pletion the naturalization OF
mission schools in the South
program which began a year ago.
Within a year the Sudanese
government has natl o n e d
about 300 Catholic-operated mis-
sion schools. AS of December
1857, the government had not in
terfered with schools for girls in
the country's southern region. But
the outlook for 1858 is not heart
ening, Sudan Catholics say.
The program Of taking over
Catholic mission schools. built
partially with Church funds and
operated by dedicated ReIis'
ious, is considered by Catholic
circles in Sudan as not only
unjust and unnecessary but al.
so as a step backward for the
educational system Of the
young African nation.
The Church in Sudan today ii
caught in the crossfire of relig
ious, racial and regional antago
nisms which have come to the
fore since Sudan became an in
dependent nation in January
1856.
A year after it became indie
pendent the government reversed
a long-standing policy of coopera
ton with the mission schools
Turning its back on official utter
ances, the Ministry of Education
announced on Feb. IL, 1856. tina
it would take over all southern
mission schools and incorporated
them into a national educationa
program. 1t also banned the open
ing of any new religious schools
in the area for three years.
To understand the polio,
switch, which in one year has al
most wiped out 40 years of thu
Church's struggle and sacrifice t.
build an educational system II
southern Sudan, it is necessary t.
know something about the coun
try's character.
The country is divided racially
religiously and geographically in
to two sections. In the north liv'
about two-thirds of the nation;
almost 10 million people. The.
are predominantly Moslem ant
of Arab or Arab African descent
The south, stretching along
and below the White Nile, has a
population composed mainly Of
Africans. Although the area Is
mainly pagan, II Is whore the
church has concentrated It's
missionary activity. Catholics
number about 100000. Another
$4,000 are taking instructions
and an additional 100000,
though not Catholic, are SYM
pathetic with the Catholic
view.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07

that he gives the money to
the most missionaries. God
bless you and keep you.
Frances.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07

Cut out this column, pin your
sacrifice to it and mail it to
Most Rev. Fulton ]. Sheen, Ma
tional Director of the Society
for the Propagation of the
Faith, 1855 Fifth Avenue, New
York TX, NY, or your Diocesan
Director, Very Rev. James
Kulp, 246 East Town Street,
Columbus Is, Ohio.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07

ia word from Our Lord on
the Cross was worth 50 much
because spoken out Of the full.
ness Of love which was total
surrender, then This twenty.
eight cents from these two chill
dren is worth much more be.
cause given in the midst Of
tears and . broken heart. Now
you know what we mean when
we ask you TO sacrifice for the
Holy Father--whieh you always
do when you sacrifice for his
Society for the Proposition Of
the Faith.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07

When you pray ths WORLD.
MISSION ROSARY with ito
mvIticolored beads, each dc.
esds representing . different
continent. you remember all Of
the poor Of the world for whom
we care through our $4,000 vn-
saIaried workers. Your sseri-
flee offering Of 81 for The ros-
airy helps Us TO help The mis-
sionaries who help the poor.
Send your request for the
ROSARY TO
Society for the Propagation Of
the Faith.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1958-02-07

GOD LOVE YOU to Mrs.
D.M.W. for SIS. part of this
was to be saved for my china.
However, your people need
clothes, food, etc., more than /
need dishes" . to C.B. for
81. Il was going to get a pair
of tennis shoes but ] think it's
better to give than to receive.
/ am eleven years old" l..
to WEI. for SIS. From an old
age pension benefit and for the
benefit of the aged in the mis-
sions under your care" i.
to Mrs. T.L.G. "Just had the
desire to help a little-so here's
ST."
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-12-17
Boiicna zabava
Gnijezda h. 81

Pittsburgh, Pa - Pomla-
dak gnijezdo broj 81 H.B.Z.
priredjuje svoju bozicnu "a
bavu christmas Party), ko-
ia &c sc odrzati u petak, 10.
decembra owe goidne, u pro-
storijsma Bratske Sloge ma
146 - 44th St., Pittsburgh.
zabava &c poceti u 1880 sa-
tt ma vecer sa prikazivanjem
pomicnih slika. Nakon toga
davati cemo darove djeci cla-
novima nasega gnijezda Po-
mlatka, miselimo da &c "a
dovoljni poci svojim kucama.
Sretni dobitnik te veceri &c
ponijeti sa sobom purana "a
Bozic.
Molimo roditelje cla n O v a
Pomlatka, da svoju djecu do
vedu ma vrijeme, a slobodno
povedite i onu djecu koja nj
su u nasem Pomlatku, da ih
upisemo u n ase redove. u
Pomlatku imamo raznih GER
tifikata "a osiguraciju / mo-
gu uzeti kojega zele.
Svi nam dobro doSli!
Barbara Shaginaw,
upraviteljica.