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Tbursdsy AnTil - l SI10enIy' , on
residence. 1925 Newton st ne
EDWARD LEO SMITH. BELOVED hus..
band Of the late Ellen E. Smith;
father OF Edward Leo Smith, H.;
Mrs, Ellen 8. Rice, Capt Felix r.
NJ. Malloy; brother OF Mrs. Marcells
Thomas and Mrs Alice Kelaher.
He also is survived by 9 grandchil-
dren. Funeral from Taltavull Funeral
Home; 1903 l4th st. NV, on Mon
mass at st Anthonys Church. at
70 am. Interment Fort Lincoln
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gay, April ~, 1860, at Mount Alto
Hospital CoURTLAND SMITHERS,
beloved son Of Mrs. Isabelle smi-
thers and the late Lewis z. Smithers
Washington. D. c.. and William B,
Smithers Of Alexandria. Va. Serv-
ices at the S. H. Hines Co. Funeral
Home, 1901 l4th st NV, on Tues
Gay; May 8, at 1890 am. parking
tional Cemetery
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PALMER, ROBERT LEE. On wednes

day, April p, 1860, ROBERT IEE
PALMER Of 5005 Chesterfield I'd,
Arlington, Va, husband of Edith F
Palmer father of Robert Lee, Ir.;
son of Mrs. Gertrude Palmer of
Hardy, Va; brother OF MIS-. ANDREW
Cregger of Manassas, Va, Mrs,
Barry McAuley of Barlow, Fla. and
Mrs. Clarence Cooper of Arlinst ton.
Va; Charles Palmer of Roanoke,
va; James E. and Peyton Palmer,
both Of Arlington, Va Friends may
call at the Ives Funeral Home, 2S47
wilson blvd. Arlington, Va. where
funeral serviceS will be held IN
Mon1ay. Nav >, at 1890 m. Inter-
ment Arlington National Cemetery.
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Dfaths

HUDSON. LLOYD D., sr. A special
a COMMUNICATION Of Kemper
IN Lodge, No "a. A ? and
IN A. M, will be held in the
~NA Masonic Temple, Falls
~" Church Va. at 1880 ON
W. Monday. May 2. 1860, for
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%, 1861, at his residence, g3l2
Harvey rd.. Silver Spring, Nd,
band Of Elizabeth Shores, devoted
father Of Mrs. Edith s Surrey of
the same address and Mrs. Norma
Klayens Of Silver Spring, Nd. Also
survived by four grandchildren
Services and interment private
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4 April ~, 1860, at Naval Hospital,
Bethesda, Nd, HELEN MARIE ORR
OF $3.50 Stephenson pl NV, beloved
(retired) sister of Walter Gwinn
Of Falls Church. Va, and Mrs.
Evelyn Scruegs of Arlington, Va,
Prayers at the s H. Hines Co. Fu-
neral. Home 296I 14th st. n.w@
on Monday, May 2, at BIS am.
(paTking facilities: thence to the
Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacra-
ment, Western ave at Quesada st,
NV, where the holy sacrifice of the
mass will be offered at 10 am. for
the repose Of her soul. Intermens
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-04-08
Holy Week

The people of Jerusalem led the
way in the first centuries of Christianity
by observing the mysteries of Holy
Week at the same hours the events oc-
Cured.
In the Middle Ages, for one reason
or another, these ceremonies were often
celebrated al the morning hours and so
lost much of their original spirit.
SINCE 1856 WE have been priv
legged to return TO the ancient observ-
ance by attending these rites of Holy
Week at the appropriate times and also
by participating actively in the liturgy
of this holy season.
The response of the faithful during
the last four years has been wonderful.
From Palm Sunday to Easter, Catholics
all over the world have turned out in
impressive numbers to participate in the
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professions, prayers, and chants. In adj
dition, the increased reception of Holy
Communion must be most pleasing to
our Blessed Lord.
The time to join in these sacred cere-
monies is once again at hand. During the
next week we shall re-live the events of
Our Lords last days on earth II will not
be a return to these ceremonies for
their w sake but to make the great
mystery of our Redemption more mean
ingful to each of us.
NOTHING IN the Church Year can
take the place OF the rites of Holy Week
In u lives. Any Catholic who misses out
on them. suffers an irreyocable loss.
Anyone who participates in them, has
an opportunity for graces that are uni
que. - GAF
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@. What is meant by ths
natural law7 To what areas
does il apply in addition 10
artificial birth eontrol7
A. Arguments are often
used that man breaks the
natural law by cutting his
hair, by flying in air planes,
etc. This control of nature
has reference to the physical
laws of nature. When we
speak of the natural law we
refer to the natural moral law,
binding man to certain basic
ways of acting in accordance
with his rational and free
nature. 1t has been defined as
of code of =. necessary and
obligatory rules of human CON
duct which have been esfsb-
Iished by the Author OF hu.
man nature as essential TO the
divine purposes of the uni
verse and have been promul-
gated by God solely through
human reason" (Thomas Hig-
gins Man as MAN. Bruce.
This law which st. Paul
points out as printed on the
heart of man mot therefore
only for Catholics needs clar-
ification in the midst of hu.
man inmsturity and passion
and so positive law has clarl-
fled it (e. &. the Ten Command
ments given TO Moses. AS
stated in an article in Avs
Maria November 1852: The
ologians recognize three
classifications of command
ments written into the nat
ural law. We call them "a
the most universal principles,
otherwise known as Do good
and avoid evil; 81 immedi-
ate deductions from the form
err. such as 1t is wrong to
murder, to steal, to commit
adultery; go the more remote
conclusions. such as direct
suicide is always forbidden, a
man is entitled to a living
wage, fornlcation is wrong"
All such are wrong for all
men Of all times: they are a
part of the normal working
of human nature as God de-
signed it.
@. What is the error OF raa-
sonins that married people
can seek the secondary good
of marriage. mutual love, in
marriage act even IL they can
not leg. health f~inaneesl
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Corner
What Is The
Natural Law?
by Fir. Healey

have ehildren7 This argument
is used 10 defend the use Of
eonfrseeptive birth control.
A. People who because OF
age or other physical reasons
cannot have children may mar
ry and may have marriage re.
lationS because mutual love
and the relief of concupis-
cence are basic purposes Of
marriage. No one may seek
these legitimate detectives OF
marriage, however, in immor.
al ways e.g. by contraceptive
birth-prevention. If the mar
riage act is in accordance
with the natural moral law
the consequences conception
or not are in the hands OF
God, but the secondary goals
of marriage may not be sought
with the deliberate illustration
of the primary purpose of
the act. Just as pleasure and
social enjoyment are meant
TO go with eating, but may
not be sought in gluttony or
In the perversion of. pleasure
las in the Roman vomitoriuml
so the legitimate pleasure and
social value of sex relations
may not be sought in unnat.
ural use Of the marriage act.
@. Should | keep containers
separate for Friday for fear
of meat adhering TO them
from meals prepared Oh other
times? What about the chill"
dren washing dishes and not
getting ell particles of meat
off Sha dishes-shouId lef
them wash dishes then?
A. The penance we do in.
honor of the sufferings OF
Christ is not meant to be pet.
ty and annoying to reasonable
family life. VIZ should be care
full not to use anything which
is made Of meat but reason.
able care in the matter OF
particles on the outside of a
container or left on the sur
face of washed dishes would
seem to fulfill the law-the
spirit and the letter. By no
means should the children be
forbidden to wash the dishes
during Lent because of the
risk of such particles being
left.
Send questions to Father
Edward r. Healey, Inquiry
Corner, The Catholic Times.
Box $50, Columbus Is, Ohio.
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Husband, Wife Help each Other To Heaven

seven principal channels through which God pours
His grace to make us holy.
And marriage is a sacrament
Put that in capital letters MARRIAGE IS A
SACRAMENT.
Marriage is a special kind of sacament, too
It's the mutual sacrament-the one that is not
to be conferred by Just one person on another, but
by two persons ON EACH OTHER.
SOMETHING ELSE unusual about it is this
it is specially a sacrament of the laty.
The priest does not confer it. The husband and
wife confer it.
The husband, in marriage, gives the sacrament
to the wife. and the wife to the husband.
They are the ministers of the sacrament to each
other. This is a very particular way In which they
exercise the priesthood of the laity.
So what does this mean?
It means that as long as they live, husband and
wife are Gods ministers to each other.
Each is a flowing well of Gods grace to the
other.
HUSBAND N WIFE ought to be humanity
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Making Marriage CIick
WomenA Are More Religious
And Moral Than Men
by Msgr. Irving A. DeBlanc

Id and Invalid Catholic mar.
rlages, studied 4.108 couples
and found that the common
policy was that the mother
took all responsibility for the
religious training of the chill
dren. Approximately 65 per
cent Of the boys and IS per
cent of the girls follow the
faith Of their mothers.
When the father was Prot
estant and the mother was
Catholic, the mother took com
plete charge of the religious
education 38 times as often as
the father. When the father
was Catholic and the mother
Protestant. The mother still
took complete charge of the
religious education of the
children six times as often as
the father.
WOMEN BY THEIR very ma
ture have a tendency to ad.
vance TO heights of divine
love. Men often consider love
as an incident In their lives.
women make 1t the center of
their lives. They are more al
tuned to love than man.
Time Magazine, August 30.
l948, pointed out that 80 ner
cent Of the great mystical low
erS Of God were women. OF
the Sal known mysticS who
were ~StlgmatlStS. about 800
of them were and are women
Ii is noteworthy today that al
most three times more women
than men join the religious
life.
WHEN IT is a matter of
loving and obeying God, it
seems quite apparent that
woman's name is at the top of
the list. Continue to be holy.
devoted, generous, Mrs. E.W.
Your sincerity lifts man from
his cult of the physical. When
God wanted TO help Adam, He
did not give him a book to
inspire him but a woman.
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JOSEPH BREIG-

l take it all back, folks Not long ago l told you
that Pope John had granted a 300-day indulgence to
married couples every time they kissed the wife's
wedding ring and said this prayer, or a similar pray
Ell:
Grant, Lord, that loving you we may love each
other, and live according TO your holy law"
That's what the news dispatches from Rome said
Now it turns out that the indulgence was not granted
for every time, . or even for the wedding anniver-
sary, but only for the wedding day.
If | were Pope John, | know what I'd do at this
point. Inasmuch as the mistake was spread all around
the world, | would simply say, "AIl right, then-let
the indulgence be for every time. It's a good idea at
that
Fortunately for the Church-and for the world
as Well-Im not pope. So all | can do is to try to
correct the error which | innocently helped to propa-
gate.
BUT A A MINUTE. | can do something else.
| can say something about one of my favorite topics
49, about what husband and wife, indulgence or no in
diligence, can do about helping each other to Heaven
After all, a sacrament is an enormously greater
thing than any indulgence. A sacrament is one Of the
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they planned TO use every
legal and non-violent means to
secure full citizenship rights
SOUTHERN POLITICIANS
have been selling the North
the notion that the ordinary
Negro is complacent about seq
regatIon. Now the Southern
Negro student is selling his
Northern college confreres the
truth about his attitude to
segregation. The result is that
white college students in the
North are taking a deep inter-
est in the lunch-counter cam
paign in the South and many
students at our foremost in
stltutlons in the North are 90
ing into action.
The New York Times March
GOTH had a front-page feature
story about this sudden burst
e. campus activity. At Har-
yerd. Brown Vale. Chicago,
Wisconsin, Vassar, Smith and
other educational Institutions,
there is characterization
agitation both on and off The
campus.
FOR INSTANCE, girls from
Vassar, Smith and Bennlng-
ton Colleges picketed Wool
worth stores in their localities
because of discrimination
practiced by Woolworth stores
in the South. The National
Student Christian Federation
and The National Students AS
ISOLATION are apparently the
spearhead of this civil rights
movement which is develop
ing all over the country.
In the New York Times &C
count, | was disappointed tn
find the name of not a single
Catholic college involved IN
this crusade. do hope ii was
simply an oversight. Surely
Catholic college students must
have a deep concern about
the subhuman plight of the
Southern Negro.
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dear to each other. But in this light, they become
divlnely dear to each other, too.
They are living In a sacrament a sacrament
that is most intimately theirs. They gave it to each
other; they s~anctify each other; through each the 9TH
er receives the grace of God.
Anything that emphasizes this fact, and reminds
US of it, and makes it more visible to us, is good for
marriage, good for families, good for the Church and
good for the world,
THAT IS WHY | wish Pope John had granted
his ring-indulgence for every day, not merely for the
day of the wedding.
He didn't; but all the same. when a husband
thinks about his wife. he should see more than the
woman he married. He should see Gods instrument,
given to him in a special way for his salvation. And
that's how a wife should see her husband.
If we live up to the sacrament of matrimony, we
receive incomparably greater helps on the way to
Heaven than from an indulgence. We needn't be I'M
duly disturbed over the error made in the news dis
patches.
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Dear Editor,

Dear Editor.
Several months ago the lead
editorial in The Wall Street
Journsl (8-25-59) predicted
that the next socio-polltical
issue in the field of educa-
ton would be a battle by pub
lie educators to abolish prl-
vate schools. The Journal
based this assertion on a
statement at a meeting of
public school administrators
at Columbia University in
August, 1859, which charged
that private secondary schools
are ''wasteful' and "inher-
entity undemocratic."
My question is, what kind
Of a battle is it when only one
side fights? What are the sup
porterS OF non-puDlic, lnde-
pendent schools doing to
coanteract the flood Of news
releases, statements by pub
lie figures, magazine articles,
etc. demanding more aid for
education - PUBLIC educa-
ton? Where are the represen-
tatiyes of independent schools
when aid to education bills
are being considered by COM
mittees of the u. S. Senate
and House of Representatives?
These are not just rhetorical
questions and the answers are
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Sum and Substance:
Southern Negro Does
Want Indignation
bv Fr. John b. Sheerin, esp.

ment with his lot has been
laid TO rest.
FOR YEARS the profession
sionai Southern politicians
have been saying that the or
binary Negro accepts segrega-
ton but that the N.A.A.C.P.
and do-gooders from the
North are trying to stir him in
to action. And many Well-dis-
posed Southern whites UNI
d0ubtedly did believe that
the ordinary Negroes silence
showed he was content with
his plight. But he is no longer
silent.
The Wall Street Journal re-
ports one Negro student at
Benedict College. Columbia,
sc. as saying: The polite
lans are always saying the
Southern Negro accepts seq
regation. Well. we may have
TO endure it, but at least these
demonstrations show we don't
accept it,
THAT NEGRO COLLEGE
students should take a fore
most part in these slt down
strikes is most significant be-
cause they had been consplc-
uous for their silence on the
question of Indignation, and
their seeming apathy irked
the Negro leaders. Now they
have left no doubt in anyone's
mind as to their attitude to-
ward segregation. They resent
it and deplore it.
Moreover, they have been
responsible for speeding up
the pace of the indignation
campaign and the movement
that began with lunch-counter
sit-down strikes is spreading
10 hotels. theatres, bus depotS
and other places where Neg
roes are the victims of dis
elimination. A group of stu
dents from six Negro col
leges inserted an ad in tn
Atlanta Constitution stating
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Woman depends upon Prov
ldence for the right man to
come along. She depends upon
Providence whether she will
conceive or not, whether the
child Will be sound of limb
and normal of mind or not,
whether her sick child Will re
cover or not whether her hus-
band Will get that job or not.
MAN ON THE other hand,
Is prone 10 meet a problem by
taking direct physical action
which makes him feel he is
dependent on no one except
himself. In the home or in
the office, man tends to feel
Self-sufflclent He tends to
s9agger and TO dominate, to
he eg0eentric and to be in
dependent of humanity and
sometimes even of God.
WOMAN HAS NOT the
same restless desire for indie
pendence, adventure. sex. ag-
gression, conquest, and amass-
ing of money. She tends in
stead to vanity. TO duplicity.
10 jealousy, to pettiness, 10
nagging. Father Lucius Ger
yantes, 81. brings this out in
his excellent book. And God
Made Man and Woman.
II was once said that men
90 70 Church three times in
their lives and each Of these
times unwitlingly. The first
time he goes is when he is
carried by his mother 10 be
baptized, the second time he
is draggd into Church by his
bride. the last time he is car
ried feet first in a coffin
followed by a weeping wife
Sociologist Murray H. Lelf
fer in his study of 743 mixed
marriages found that two
women for every one man
retained their original rellg
ious adherence.
JUDsoN LANDS, who fail
ed to distinguish between val.
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Will Ike Follow Through?

may be admitted annually. Even though
the United States is participating in
World Refugee Year, we have no ade-
quate provision for refugees from tyran-
nical governments.
On March II. President Eisenhower
proposed some changes in this law. He
suggested that the annual quota be rails
ed to 300, 900 annually; that the method
of race and ethnic classification be based
upon the actual number of immigrants
accepted between 1924 and 1850; that
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The Yardstick
Amendment of Mexican
Farm Labor Program Urged
by Msgr. George G. Higgins

GRAM extended as soon as
possible and, for that reason
they welcomed the unexpect-
ed decision of a Subcommit-
tee of the House Agriculture
Committee to conduct open
hearings on Public Law rs
during the week Of March 20,
These hearings, incidental
ly, were so abbreviated and
we're scheduled on such a
short notice that many inter
ested parties Gncluding the
present writer) who wanted to
testify before the Subcommit-
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Group Asks Fair
Share For Children

in the negative. The plight
of the independent school, it's
students and their parents
has, until recently, been
blandly ignored in the secu-
lar press and in Washington.
Acting vigorously to bal.
snce this distorted presenta-
ton of our national education
problem is a new, non-sectar-
ian organization, Citizens for
Education Freedom, which il
dedicated to the principle of
freedom of choice in educa-
ton, without penalty for
choice of an independent
school, and in a fair share of
educational tax benefits for
all students. including those
in non-public schools. We
know there are millions OF
parents all over the United
States who aie as interested
as we are in the welfare of
their children attending indie
pendent schools. We invite
their inquiries for further in
formation about Citizens for
Educational Freedom and
promise them an interesting
reply.
M
Sincerely Yours,
James P. Bick
President
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NY husband refuses TO 90
TO p.r.A. meetings. He won't
90 TO Communion with the
family. He won't lead The
grace before meals. ! have TO
draa him 70 Cana Confer
eneex. All he wants is his own
sase and comfort. This is al.
ready having an effect on my
son. Ny daughters, however.
seem 10 be more pious. What
can do 10 change my hus-
hand2
Mrs. e. w.
Men are often more re-
ligious than they appear
to be They are generally
however, a bit ashamed
of their souls as they are
usually proud Of their bodies
We think il is true To say that
women are more rcllglotlslv
and morally inclined than
men Some facts point to this
conclusion. II YOU understand
this YOU will understand men
better.
THE WORLD A
Of 1859 revealed that nine out
Of every ten persons arrested
today in the USA. are men,
that more thar 10 out Of 20
who are IN Jail today are men.
MAN EVIDENTLY belongs
to the laW-breaking sex. But
how explain why from starflsh
to starllngs to stations. from
bullfrogs TO bulls, from chick
ems TO chimpanzees. the male
Of the species is the ramunc.
tious rebel Men from the time
they are little boys are more
unruly; the baby girl is con
.sistently more docile.
BECAUSE He is endowed
with more muscular power,
man is the hunter. the pro
wider, the protector. II is bas-
ically a biological reality.
Women are more readily
aware of their dependence.
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Our nation is a nation of immigrants
It has made us special among the coun-
tries of the world.
But the immigration quotas as deter
mined by the McCarran-Walter Act of
1852 would appear to ignore that fact of
history.
THIS LEGISLATION limits the an
nual number of immigrants to 154, 600.
1t Incorporates racial preiudices through
a system based on national origins
where, for example. only 1000 immi-
grants from the Asiatic- Pacific triangle
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An oasis of privilege
in a desert of racial I'M
rest" A Baptist minister
recently described his ma
tive city of San Antonio,
Texas. in these words. A few
weeks ago. merchants Of this
city agreed 10 desegregate
their lunch counters as a re-
suit of a meeting they held
with church leaders.
1T Is INTERESTING to note
that the move toward desegre-
cation Of lunch counters in
San Antonio was touched off
by Mary Lillian Andrews. a
freshman at Our Lady of the
Lake College In that city.
Weeks ago she began to send
letters to downtown stores
asking the managers TO abide
by the Bible and the ConstItH-
tion in order TO abolish this
discriminatory practice IN
your store
In a speech at San Antonio,
baseball's Jackie Robinson
said the city was setting an
example for the nation. 1T is
a story that should be told
around the world" he de
elared.
THE AWFUL TRUTH, how
ever, il that San Antonio is
only an oasis in the desert of
racial unrest. The Negro sit
down strikes are meeting with
vigorous official and unofflc-
ial opposition and most mer-
chants in the deep South re-
fuse even 10 consider any com
promise.
No matter what the event
usl outcome Of the sit down
strikes might he, one deyel-
opment is crystal clear. No
longer can whites say that
Negroes are uncnneerned
about segregation. The old
shlbboleth Of Negro content
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tee were unable to do so for
lack of time. Consequently
they had TO resort to the UNI
satisfactory alternative of pre-
senting their views in writ
ing.
THIS is NOT TO IMPLY
that the Subcommittee DELHI
erately stacked the cards IN
favor of the growers. Because
Of the preparations necessary
for various harvesting sea-
sons, the Congress could JUS
tlfy acting on Public Law 70
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