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U. A. OK?

In announcing a goal of So, $50, 213 for this Falls
campaign, the United Appeal In Columbus last week
also announced that this amount was 1912, 900 less
than the member agencies had requested. Another
method of computing the figures shows that il is
$483,000. less than agency boards consider the mini
mum need.1
WHATEVER CORRECT figure. the goal is
far below the amount that is needed. However, it is
$179, $50. more than the United Appeal raised last
year.
The question that faced United Appeal was how
to raise the most money this fall. Would a goal of more
than So, 600, 900 discourage giyers and workers so that
they would not do their best? Would a lesser goal
be more of an incentive to raise the most money?
Evidently, the United Appeal Board considered
the latter to be true : and maybe they are right. The
question that remains is how the agencies can provide
for people If enough money is not raised.
ON THE C T.. FRONT PAGE last week. our lead
story quoted Monsignor William E. Kappes, Diocesan
director of Charities, who said that a lack of money
has forced the Catholic Welfare Bureau, a IA. mem
Der. to reduce services to children and adults who need
help
This problem is repeated in agency after agency
because money is not available.
THE INABILITY to raise sufficient money is the
reason why a number of national health agencies have
disassociated themselves from United Appeals and
why they conduct separate campaigns.
We think that a single campaign for health, well
fare and recreatlonal agencies has much in its favor,
but we also see the polntof view Of those who are pres
sured by the need for additional funds to conduct
their own campaigns. We wonder whether the stress
ing of selfish motives for giving to United Appeals
has not worked against the success Of its campaigns.
WE BELIEVE THAT people are generous. We be
lieve that givers and workers do more when they are
offered charitable motives for giving. We think that
there is need for stressing the assistance that the
agencies give to needy people and the harmful re-
suits of not providing enough money. We believe that
more people will give generously if their help can
be personalZed in terms Of people who are helped,
and if motives of love Of ~neighbor are stressed.
WE HOPE THAT the promises of Mr.. Davis.
President Of United Appeals. of Mr.. Elan, Chairman of
the Screening committee, and of Mr.. Hicks, Executive
Director OF the United Appeals will be fulfilled this
fall, that the Campaign organization will not only try
TO reach IFS goal but that it will seek to raise the
greatest amount of money possible so that minimum
needs of agencies and people can be met. WEEK.
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Vincent de Paul

Last January a number of our readers saw an old
French movie. called Monsieur Vincent at a Column
bus. theatre. Unlike many biographical films. this story
about St. Vincent de Paul did not need the script
writer's imagination to lVen up the scenario.
VINCENT DE PAUL led such a dramatic life
that many films could be made from it, and indeed,
the movie IN question portrayed only a few of the
events that marked the greatness of the Saint.
NEXT TUESDAY we celebrate the Feast of st.
Vincent de Paul. The day has special meaning this
year because 1t is the Booth anniversary of his death,
Vincent de Paul was one of those figures in
history who combined the soundness of past belief
with the techniqaeS Of to-day III his service to God
and fellow man. In fact, St. Vincent was a man in
advance OF his time. His contributions toward the
relief of poverty and need changed the course of the
history of charity in the life Of the Church.
HE FOUNDED an organization of lay women.
known as the Confraternity of Charity, to care for the
poor and sick. He organized a program To aid the
galley slaves; established hospitals, set up soup kit
chens, cared for refugees.
HE ESTABLISHED a congregation of priests de.
dicated to mission work for the poor of the country.
With Louise de Marllac he founded the Daughters of
Charity which was 10 be the first successful order Of
religious women devoted to works of charity outside
the cloister.
ST. Vincent de Pauls work endures today on a
tremendous scale IN the labors of the priests Of the
Congregation of the Mission, in the work of the various
Sisters OF Charity who were inspired in their toun-
dalton by his spirit, in the apostolic zeal of the laymen
who belong 10 the Society of 81. Vincent de Paul. and
in the f~ar-flung welfare work done by the Church
throughout the world.
WE HERE IN the Columbus Diocese have good
reason to honor ST. Vincent de Paul because we are
the henefiGarieso of the work of the Nincentian Fathers
in Groyeport; of the orders of the Sisters of Charity
who teach and care for the sick: and of the excellent
81. Vincent de Paul Societies found in our parishes.
Add 10 this the activities of our Catholic Welfare
Bureau and Catholic Charities Office and it is as if
Vincent de Paul Is still in our midst CAT.
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DETECTIVES 60 into &C.

DETECTIVES go into &C
ton.
The mayor and the police
commissioner demand results.
Newspapers roll off the
presses, with big black head
lines.
Editorials are written.
Radio and television broad
cast bulletins.
Photographers set up their
cameras. The teller is inter
viewed. So is the bank man
ager. So is the chief of po-
lice.
Authorities all around the
area - perhaps across a state,
or several states-are alerted.
EVERY RESOURCE of law
enforcement is thrown into
the effort to capture the hold
up man.
The hand of society is turn
ed against him. He is like a
hunted animal.
He has no apologlsts.
Nobody says that after all,
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all he did was to steal some
money.
Nobody argues that bank
robbery cant be defined.
Nobody says that laws for
bidding holdups are unconsti-
tutional.
Psychiatrists do not rush
into the public prints with
statements that there is some
thing to be said for theft
that maybe people need a bit
of stealing for the good of
their psyches, or something.
When the man is caught. he
is brought to trial.
He has an attorney to de-
fend him, but the prosecuting
attorney presses the case re-
lentleSSly.
SOCIETY MUST be pro-
tected.
Property rights must be in
sured.
Citizens must not have guns
pointed at them; their lives
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must not be ruthlessly threat
ened.
The evidence is heard. Guilt
is established. The prisoner is
ordered to stand up for sent
enclng.
The Judge is severe. The
court brooks no doubletalk.
There is no hesitancy about
Furnishing the offender.
The jurist has public opln-
ion on his side, solidly and
unanimously, and he knows
it.
The offender is ordered 10
prison. Swift retribution
that's the ticket. That's what
we must have if we are to pre-
serve civilization.
1t is so with drug-peddling
With burglary. With drunken
driving. With any number of
things.
BUT SUPPOSE the man is
not a bank robber, or a dope
peddler. or a drunken driver.
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Sum and Substance:
Many Don't Realize
Need For Religion
bv FIR. John b. Sheerin, esp.

AT one point In the film
On The Beach we see a
Salvation Army meeting.
A sign announces There
is still time, brother" Yet
nobody seems TO be in any
hurry to turn TO religion.
The end of the world is Just
around the corner, or rather
the end of humanity--but the
last human survivors 90
about their daily lives with
out showing any concern
about God, religion or the
life TO come.
SOME vlEWESS were
shocked and scandalized by
this movie. especially by its
casual attitude toward the
suicide pills given out by the
government for use when
the time comes" Yet there
are all around us in daily
life many men and women
who have no sense of their
need for religion. We are not
shocked by them. Some of
them are our best friends and
though we don't understand
them. we just take them for
granted.
Now there are some preach
ers and apologize writers
who claim that you cannot
fail to be unhappy if you have
no belief in God. | think they
are doing a great dlsservice.
For the fact is that there are
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a new Job, never go on to
more education. we are then
going to develop a coy, un.
imaginative. unadventuresome
generation of female men at
a time in history when a
vigorous, dynamic people like
the Chinese, the Indians. the
Russians, are planning the
future of the world.
Besides the search for
security, another main factor
In early marriages is the con.
cept of many that love is an
idol, an aim, a goal, a little
golden calf. If it were true
love of God and man, that
would be all to the good, but
this "love" is a silly inslpid
emotion to quench the thirst
of loyesick adolescents.
These youngsters are fol-
lowing the pattern Of the
moment. They are not think
ing it out for themselves or
for the future. They do what
others do. They do not even
propose marriage anymore.
they just start talking about
it. This type of love is Just
another interest along with
automobiles, rockets and rock
and-roil.
THE THIRD FACTOR in
the early marriage approach
is the concept frequently .ex-
pressed by some parents. IF
our marriage does not sue
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taste for God"
Oftentimes the unbellevers
are without moral fault in
their lack of receptivity to
the arguments. Through no
fault of their own, perhaps
back in childhood. they de
veloped attitudes to religion
that now are obstacles TO the
grace of faith. The very men
ton of the word God" is q
signal for them to shut up
shop and put out the lights.
AS FENELoN SAID, The
merest glance reveals the
hand that has made every
thing" The simple proof for
God the Creator has immense
probatiye force but contem-
porary education has in many
cases persuaded students that
there is no god but Man.
Such a student, even after
graduating from college, al
most instinctively closes his
mind to any arguments for
Gods existence.
81
Father DeLubae says that
if the taste for God were to
return, we would soon find
that the proofs would recover
their prestige and would
seem what they really are
clearer than daylight. For
everywhere there are traces
of God In the world around
US, almost everything we en-
counter is in some way a &C.
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Suppose what he is attack
ing is not property or health,
or life and limb, but the very
humanity Of human beings
the thing that distinguishes
them from beasts and worse
than beasts.
Suppose the man is a por-
nographer.
Suppose his business is
making degenerates and lech-
ers out Of decent peoples
pecially young people.
Suppose he is shaking money
by proving, like a iackal, like
a hyena, like an obscene vul-
ture, on his f%eliowmen.
Suppose he is stirring fiend-
ish passions that emerge in
weird lusts. in crueltles, in
proving viclousness.
HE is doing
what he can to make it I'M
safe for a woman to walk from
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-07-15
Making Marriage Click
Early Marriages A New
Hazard To Manliness
by Msgr. Irving A. DeBlanc

"B Babies have ensrossed
women for thousands of years
and that is good. But now il
seems they are going TO en-
gross men, too. MY question
is, is anybody going to have
time TO pay attention TO any.
thing else?" TheIma
Margaret Meade has re-
Gently commented on this
very situation. This is no
doubt a greater problem
than it may at first APP
pear. American boys and girls
are marrying earlier now
than any time in our record
ed history. AT the University
of Illinois, 4,408 students are
married among the 20,219 who
attend.
1T is NOT that students
fail to work hard and an
dustriously. The problem is
this. college is no longer for
many an occasion to think
and to find oneself. 1t is a
place to become qualified for
some job job which gives
security and which permits
the student TO support a
family.
Many are just working for
a grade and not for the
subject matter. They want TO
gel through in a hurry be-
cause they want to get a job
so they can support a family.
Some are uncomfortable be-
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a great many very happy peo-
pie in this world without a
trace of religion.
A MAN NEEDS RELIGION
but yet he can be happy if
he doesn't realize his need.
Every man needs a balanced
diet and yet a South Sea
islander can be quite happy
even if he lacks important
elements in his daily intake.
There is a big difference be-
tween needing something and
realizing you need it. As the
old expression had IT, None
so happy as the ignorant"
| have known certain un-
believers who regarded re
ligion as just a matter of
opinion and they preferred
not to have any definite opin-
ion about it. Others thought
of religion as a matter of
feeling and they didn't hap
pen, to feel anything where
God was concerned. Others
are not impressed by the
traditional arguments for His
existence. They just do moi
have any interest in God.
Why ARE THEY not in
terested? That | think is .
question fcr psychologists
rather than for theologians.
For there is nothing wrong
with the proofs for The ex-
lstence of God. AS Father
DeLubac said in a recent
book, What is lacking is the
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cause their wives support
them, even though. only
temporarily. They feel this
turns a wife into a mother.
INTELLECTUAL LIFE is
vitality important. II is too
basic, too difficult, for most
students to combine il with
early family life. They just
do not have a chance for full
intellectual developm t.
They have not time to really
dig into a library. to expert
ment, to think. They need to
retire into some reasonably
protected environment TO
study, discuss, explore, change
their minds, develop.
This concept is important,
not only for the boys them
selves but also for the future
of our Church, our country.
Every man has a dual career.
Family life is one and it is
vital. But he must also enter
into society as a career man.
II is men who have written
great works, who have built
up scientific systems, ocean
liners, airships, empires,
bridges. There is a danger
now that we may have both
men and women devoting
their interest TO domestic
chores. This could be tragic
especially at this time,
If OUR MEN SETTLE down
IN early marriages and they
never experiment, never try
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point but then, instead OF
exercising charity, she i'm
plies, in the rhetorical qtles-
ton which follows, that my
motives are. perhaps, less
than ideal. have no defense
against this assumption other
than to present a personal
apologize and that would hard.
~ be pertinent.
! mention the virtue Of
charity because the burden of
her letter deals with the duty
Of all men. Catholics In partI-
cular. to strive for perfection
| respectfully remind her that
the bond of perfection is char
ity, and it is the greatest Of
the virtues.
But in appealing TO per
fiction she is ~treadlng on
very thin ice. In the first
place, we are debating mat.
tiers of precept, and what is
of perfection is not necessarily
Of precept. Yet, even granting
the relevancy OF her argu-
ments, does she not see that
she has gratuitouSly assumed
that her way is the better
way to perfection? Indeed,
she implies that il is the only
way. more than that, that ii
is the Church'S way. ! need
only caution her To reflect
on her earlier statement that
there are many ways of do.
ing this The easy transition
by which a person can con-
fuse prediction with the
teaching of the Church has
been responsible for most of
the hereSies in The history
of our Church. More often
than not they have been led
by very 'devout' persons.
SHE THEN NARRoWs her
argument to the virtue OF
obedience, and here she is
on even thinner ice. Obedi.
ence is not 10 be confused
with abiect compliance to any
one and everyone.
St. Thomas Aquinss left the
University of Paris. on re.
quest, rather than obey its
Rector and Faculty.
ST. Joan of Arc went to the
stake rather than obey a
Bishop who claimed to speak
for the Church.
And may | allude a more
contemporary anaiyogy to our
present discussion? There has
been a bitter debate raging
IN the pages of The Catho-
lie World IN recent issues
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THE SOCIAL SCIENCES"
he says, seem to have taken
over from the natural sciences
the old idea that any addi-
ton to human knowledge is
a boon, regardless of its SEEM
Ing pertinence or relevancy"
This kind of objective" nom
utilitarian research. he con-
tends, may well qualify as
pure" but 1T is a kind of
purity which society-parti-
cularly a society in an age of
change-can overyalue."
MIR. Heckscher hastens to
add that a social scientist
should not manipulate facts
TO support a predetermined
thesis. On the other hand.
he contends. the social scien-
list may not be indifferent to
the needs of society; he must
have a sense of involvement
and moral responsibility,
"A PIECE OF RESEARCH"
Mr.. HeckSeher concludes,
may fail, it may be late in
coming or wide of the mark
in its reSults-hnt let it not
be said, at least. that It was
begun without wanting to in
fluence what men do"
Mr.. Heckschers provocative
essay is merely one more I'M
stallment in a controversy
which has been going on
among social scientists for a
long time and presumably
will never be resolved TO
everyone's satisfaction. ! have
no intention Of getting in
volved Indeed it would ba
impairment for me to do so
In this particular forum.
SHOULD MERELY like to
suggest that ii is most I'M
fortunate that American
Catholics. by and large. are
on the outside of this con-
troversy looking in. Our trou-
BILE is not that we are carry
ing on too much irrelevant,
1vory-tower research. but
rather that we are doing too
little research of any kind
whatsoever in the field. of
social science and. more
specifically, in the field of
religious sociology.
There are, of course. some
notable exceptions to this
rule. Several of our univer-
sites are turning out a GER
tain amount of research ma
terial, some of which is very
good. For the most part, how
ever, American Catholics have
yet to distinguish themselves
in the field of social science.
ONE OF THE MANYtres.
Continued on Page 1N
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Courts Can Define Some Crimes, Why Not AL

a neighborhood store to her
home.
Suppose he is something
crawling out of a filthy
swamp. a shameless. droollng
being. .
on, well, then that's differ
ent.
Then the police say. what's
the use in bringing him in;
he'll get off.
Then the prosecuting at
torney says, what's the sense
in bothering: the courts will
go around and around in CIR.
cIes. saying. who can define
obscenity. The judge won't
sentence him-or if he does,
a higher eoure will reverse
him.
And so this vile enemy OF
man and of society plies his
low business-and not a siren
is heard, not one black head
line is seen in the newspas
pers.
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over the matter of he habits
worn by Religious Communi-
ties of Women.
II stems from a suggestion
made by the late Plus XII
some years ago, that these
communities modify their
garb 10 be more in keeping
with modern life. The com.
plant has been made by
various individuals. from
bishops on down. that few
Of the communities adopted
more than a token compli.
ance. Keep IN mind, please,
that IN this instance the
virtue Of obedience could
have been brought into play,
for these women have bound
themselves by a vow of obedi-
ence. Yet so great was the
respect of the Holy Father
for individual rights that he
did not command. He sug-
gested and many people
feel that his suggestions we're
all but ignored.
AS FAR AS | Ana concern
ed, my opinions on the garb
these communities choose To
adopt count for nothing. II is
their business, and | could
preach about the spirit of
obedience-but it would not
affect their right in the least
way, That is the same free
dom | seek for myself:
Finally, she importunes me
TO loin my fellow Catholics
in a good custom That is
the point at issue. | repeat,
that a custom which con-
travenes a natural right is not
a good custom.
Respectfully and sincerely,
LEO G. BYRNE
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The Yardstick
We Lag In Social
Science Research
by Msgr. George G. Higgins

tons and one Of the most
productive in terms Of
scholarly publications. of
the opinion that much of this
research is, for all practical
purposes, a waste of time
and energy.
In his Foreword to the 1859
annual report of the Twen-
tieth Century Fund. Mr.. Heck
scher complains that there is
a growing tendency on the
part of the scholarly founda-
tlons to divorce their research
In the social sciences from
policy and action.
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In recent years there
has been, a Sizeable In
crease in the number of
[ a x-exempt foundations
in the United States.
Thanks in large part to this
development, more scholarly
research is now being carried
or in the social sciences tas
we'll as in other academic
disciplines) than at any other
time In our national history.
MR.. AUGUST HEckScHER,
Director Of the Twentieth
Century Fund--one of the
oldest of the research founda
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Uniforms
Just Remove
One Worry

Please allow me the oppor-
tunity to reply to the unhap-
py father who wishes to exer-
else his natural rights on
the school uniform issue. My
original reply was unfortun-
ately written In snatches at
the kitchen table. Surely | had
twenty Interruptions from our.
children from ages IL wears
down eight weeks. and con-
siderlng this fact and natur-
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Joseph Breig

A man goes into a bank.
He hands a note to a tell
er.
The teller reads, and
pales.
Not wishing to be shot, he
hands the man the money de-
manded.
The intruder departs quick
ly He jumps into a car and
speeds away.
The teller touches a button.
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Editors Note; These
will be the last letters
we will publish in the cur
rent exchange OF the pros
and cons on school uni
forms. We're still accept.
ing letters on other topics
though, really we are
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Bells clang
frantically.
Warnin & s
go to police
hea dqua r
ters.
S n S
s c r G a m.
From every
direction po-
lice
converge on
the crime eci
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Obedience Not
'Abject Compliance
crime scene.

The comments of Mrs. H S. re; my position on
school uniforms, as published in the July 9th issue
of the Catholic Times are an unfortunate mixture of
assumption. confusion, and contradiction.
SHE ASKS, for example, why this is such a sore
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al limitations, the logic suf
fered.
THE IS
sue, as | understand 1t, is
that this parent simply does
not want to be told what his
children wear to school. He
apparently does not feel that
an imposed" jumper and
blouse, cheerfully endorsed by
the parents of a child, can in
Continued on Page 10Y
Smyrna times., 1960-02-25
New Az Economist
Added AT u. of ID.

DR.. Russell L. Childress has
recently been appointed research
professor in agricultural econ
omics at the University of Della
ware, according to an announce
ment by DR.. William E. McDan-
iel, chairman of the department
of agricultural economics.
DR.. Childress earned his Ph.D.
degree from Cornell University
in 1850. The following two years
he was associate professor of
food marketing at the University
of Maryland. Since 1858, he has
been with the Federal Extension
Service of the us. Department
of Agriculture. He has given
leadership to the training and
development of specialists in the
State Land Grant Colleges and
Universities conducting educa-
tional services with food brok-
ers.