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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-08-24
Ringing The
BELL
BY Jesse Bell

Whle we IN the TWIN Towns are
in the mist Of a torrid baseball
season, the folks north of the
border are settling down to a
long football season. We are keep
ing our eyes cast northeast to
watch the ventures Of the Mont
real ball club. So far this season
the Allouettes' have a very pre-
sentable record and most Of this
success can be accredited to their
fine new quarterback Sandy
Stephens.
Sandy in the league opener
threw two touchdown passes, and
ran for a third touchdown. His
team beat the Toronto Argonauts
28-1O.
Sandy is proving to all that he
can play quarterback, and direct a
big time professional football team.
Many of the skeptics, professional
football scouts and sports writer's
have doubted whether Sandy could
make it as a passing quarterback
with the pros. am not one to
doubt the ability of our scouts or
sports writers, but maybe they
should look at the record.
Sandy was a dandy in our town
but never received the credit due
him by our local sports writers.
wonder if those skeptics are
scratching their heads and ponder
ing over Sandy's ability as a pass
ing quarterback.
Still on football: To date the
only bright spot in coach Van
Brocklins second year club has
been the stellar defensive play Of
rugged Jim Marshall. The big ex-
Buckeye is here to play football.
Juan Marichal the nifty right
handler from the Dominican Re-
public is proving that he is the
leader the San Francisco Giants
must have if they are to overtake
the Los Angeles Dodgers. On Aug
ust IL he defeated the down state
rivals with a blazing four hitter.
Marichal proved that he can be
the man who will bring a pennant
to the Golden Gate City"
Big Don Newcombe and Larry
Dolby have signed to play with the
Nagoya Dragons. Don once the
idol of Brooklyn, and Larry the
old reliable Of the Cleveland In
dams were given contracts report
eddy amounting to $4,000, plus
travelling expenses from New Jer-
sey to Japan and return passage
for themselves and family.
Newcombe and Dolby are the
most popular players in Japan.
Shortstop Maury Wills Of the
Dodgers stole two more bases on
August 8 uping his season total
to go. Maury now thinks he can
beat Bob Bescher's record of 80
which he established in 1911.
Frank Robinson last years most
valuable player is humping the
ball as If he owns it. In the first
16 games in the month Of August,
the young Cincinnati slugger
pounded out % hits in SO official
trips to the plate and drove home
"a mates.
He has hit 43 doubles as Of Aug
ust 10, and Is a cinch to break the
old club record of At held by his
room mate Vada Pinson.
Hammering Hank Aaron hit the
100 mark in Ribs August 1Sr
for the sixth time in nine major
league seasons and the fourth sea-
son in a row. He already had
reached the 80 home run figure
for the sixth straight year.
Twins catcher Earl Battey was
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-08-24

Hammering Hank Aaron hit the
100 mark in Ribs August 1S,
for the sixth time in nine major
league seasons and the fourth sea-
son in a row. He already had
reached the 80 home run figure
for the sixth straight year.
Twins catcher Earl Battey was
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-08-24

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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-08-24

Editors Notes l. Brock BrOckenbury suffered q
while travelling with the Los Angeles Angels His column is being
written this by LA Sentinel sports editor Pye J)
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-08-24

shortstop Maury Wills Of the
Dodgers stole two more bases on
August uping his season total
to go. Maury now thinks he can
beat Bob Bescher's record of 80
which he established in 1911.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10
Battle of Hearts

. money problems: it is unbelievable how completely
ill-eouipped some married people are to handle money.
. in-law trouble: this has been exaggerated, but it is
an element in too many b~reak-ups. Families should stay
out of marital problems.
. mixed religion: unpleasant as it may be to some,
statistics show that the chances for divorce here are two
and one-half times greater than when spouses share the
same Faith.
. s~elfishness and lack of sacrifice: husbands who
think only of themselves and wives who will not concede
anything even to save the home.
. drunkenness and immortality which is condoned or
even encouraged.
Most people who obtain divorces say they have learn
ed their lesson but again experience proves most remarry
the same kind of person and usually doom themselves TO
another marital failure. Even many Catholics who know
they can never remarry while ones spouse is alive, rush
to the divorce court, pressure the Church for permission,
get involved, and end up in a civil union outside the
Church, living in sin and deprived of the sacraments.
This is most serious. 1t is not merely Of concern to
churches. 1t affects our government who must care for the
children OF broken homes, it affects the taxpayer who
must support those children and many mothers, it affects
society which sees its moral fibre c%rumblng.
In every civilization that has dsintegrated, the fam
lily unit has first been corrupted. This should serve as a
warning to us: we must do something about ~solidifying
family life or suffer the consequences.
We Catholics stand almost alone in unfolding the in
dissoluble sanctity of marriage. But the world has made
inroads into our lives and attidues. We must stand with
morality to protect our nation and our own homes and
families as we'll. CAT
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10
EVERYMAN'S FAMILY
There is no more of me to offer

said, There is no more of me to offer
for her
"That must be what Christ meant
when He said, 1t is contaminated He
must have meant there was simply no
more of Him to offer for the world.
"And that was surely the way l
felt. ] was blessed in that only two
weeks later I was privileged to see the
fruit of the suffering when my friend
came to me and said she had just gone
to Father and told him she had al
ready waited too long and that she
wanted to set the date for the Bap-
tism. AS she was leaving the house,
she told me the date of her decision.
After she had driven away | realized
it was the same day as my last bitter
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10

One of the songs popular during
the First World War asked a ques-
ton that went like this: How you
gonna keep 'em down on the farm
after they've seen Paree?"
Today the question that gravely
lists is, How you gonna get 'em to
leave the farm"
FOR NEARLY half a century
Congress has been wrestling with the
so-called farm problem.
In its simplest terms the problem
is that too many people continue to
work or farms and produce more than
the market requires. Excess produc-
ton depresses prices farmers receive
for their produce, while the prices of
non-farm products the farmers have
to buy continue to rise.
To rescue the farmer from this
squeeze, Congress has authorized a
variety of schemes. While they have
differed in detail, their general APP
proach has been to support" the
prices the farmers receive by having
the government buy up surplus pro-
duction. Hand in hand with the sup-
ports, the government has tried to
force or persuade the farmers to cur
tail their production.
But none of the schemes has
really worked. Prices of selected crops
have been supported to a degree, but
production has not been reduced.
When the farmers cut down on the
acreage in tillage, they intensity pro-
duction on the reduced acreage by
generous use of fertilizers and inn
proved methods of tillage. Year after
year, it has been necessary to spend
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10
THE BACKDROP
Force 'en off the farm?

more and more of the taxpayers
money to buy up and store surplus
production.
MERELY TO find storage space
for the surplus crops has become an
almost insoluble problem. And the
fees paid for storage amount to a
sum larger than the total annual
budgets of most of the bigger states.
Recently a drastic solution for
the farm problem has been proposed
by the Committee for Economic De-
velopment, a private research organi-
Zation. Many of its suggestions are
not new. Similar proposals were made
by experts of the Department of Agri-
culture during the Eisenhower adj
ministration. And Congress recently
rejected the farm plan of the Ken
nedy Administration aimed at cutting
down government buying of SURPRISES.
Basically, says the CED report, the
trouble with American agriculture is
that too many people r trying to
make a living from the soil. The re-
port proposes that in the next five
years the total agricultural force be
reduced to about one-third-two mill
lion workers.
IN RECENT years, the CED
points out, the total amount of re-
sources = land and labor = that are
necessary for agricultural production
has fallen rapidly. AS in industry, SO
on the farms machines produce more
efficiently than men. This means that
only the large scale farm using ma
chimes can operate profitably; the So
called "family-size" farm worked by
the farmer and a few hands is be-
coming obsolete.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10

A recent program on the Armstrong Circle Theatre
called Battle of Hearts portrayed some of the factors
that contribute to the shocking number of divorces in the
United States.
This is not a theoretical question for Ohioans as we
have one of the most disturbing divorce rates. Franklin
County, for example, reported recently that half of the
brides end up in the court of Domestic Relations seeking
a dissolution of their marriage.
What causes these divorces? A survey of legal, well
fare and religious authorities pinpointed one cause as the
great number of early marriages, which in turn is a con-
sequence of teenage steady-dating.
Statistics bear this out for they indicate that the num-
than for those who marry in their twenties.
One suggestion to counterfeit this problem was TO eX-
tend the waiting period before marriage and tighten up
the divorce process, especially by making counseIing man.
datory.
This is in line with the procedure Of the Church which
normally requires six weeks of preparation before mar
rage and will not grant permission for a civil divorce
without serious attempts at reconciliation.
These procedures, however, do not deal with the main
problem of immaturity or at least the presence Of an inn
mature attitude that marks so many marriages.
Long-range training is the only real solution. Young
people must acknowledge that it is dangerous to date to
that marriage is a lifelong contract and that it binds to
permission for marriage licenses, and even earlier must al
low steady dating, it is their responsibility to refuse both
on most occasions and not weaken in the face of social
pressures or the immature importunings Of their children.
Other factors that contribute to divorce are:
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10
Leisure-what, where, ,Uhen is it?
by Msgr. George G. Higgins

book, Leisure: The Basis Of Gull
ture," was published in 1852 with
an introduction by the British poet
and essayist T. S. Elliott by Pantheon
Books, Inc, New York.
PlEPER'S BOOK is a good intro
ductlon-but hardly more than that
- to a u b e which, for some
strange reason, seems to be of much
less interest to Americans than the
subject of work. | dare say, in this
connection, that for every American
book on leisure there are a dozen
on the subject of work. II would APP
pear, however that the tide is begin
nlng to turn.
Within recent weeks two books on
the subject of leisure have been pub
lished in this country; "Of Time,
Work and Leisure" by Sebastian de
Grazia (The Twentieth Century
FUND.- and Work and Leisure" by
NeilS Anderson (The Free Press of
Glencoe, New York;. Although both
of these titles include the subject of
work, they are concerned primarily
with the problem of leisure.
Mr.. de Grazia's book is attracting
a great deal of attention ever in the
newscolumns of the daily press, and
d~eservedly so, for it is probably the
best and certainly the most provoca-
tive book on the subject of leisure
ever published in the United States.
Mr.. de Grazia Is both a philosopher
and a political scientist - and a good
statistician to boot.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10
by Father John Knott
moment

dregs' moment!
ACTUALLY, AS a family we
concentrate on various individual per-
sons morning offering, Masses,
novenas. my friend is a daily COM
municant, and two other people show
promise of conversion.)
"Say ten people in a family, for
instance, offer their "a hours a day
for an individual. In five days there
are over a thousand hours for that
one person! Think how long one per-
son has to offer to reach a thousand
hours
So perhaps this is one advantage
to the large, planned by-God family"
Now this is a letter, not from
Everywoman, but from Onewoman.
The important thing is not that she
had ten to organize, although God
bless her for having them. The strik.
ing thing really is her m of union
with Christ and her consciousness Of
being able to offer herself for an
other, and the encouragement she
gave to her children to do the same.
All of us have been urged w
the years to pray for each other and
have been grateful when someone has
promised to pray for us. Certainly the
faith of each one of us needs stirring
up that we might be more generous
in our gift of prayer. Sometimes the
only thing any one of us can do for
another is to pray for him. This
should be e less as a no-other-
choice situation than as a challenge
to an intensification of devotion and
a concentration of effort. 1t is not
just the only thing we can do. 1t is
the best thing we can do.
BUT TO GO A step further and
make the total offering of ourselves
for a day, a week or indefinitely, out
of love for another person is to share
more intimately in the manner, if not
the degree, of Christ's total offering
of Himself for all mankind. To unite
our gift of self for this particular per-
son with His gift of Self for every
one is to focus not only our love but
the redemptive love of the Son of
God.
In a sense, it is something SINH
lar to combining the explosive effect
of a cap pistol with the force of the
most powerful atomic bomb. But it
is not what we do that accomplishes
results, it is how we love one an
other. To offer as complete a gift of
self as possible for the benefit of an
other is to be like Christ Who Offer
ed the perfect gift. In the end, the
results will be the same-the redemp-
ton of a human being.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10

ACCORDING TO de Grazia the
difference between leisure and free
time. We Americans, he says, don't
have very much leisure, but we like
TO think that We have coolies of free
time. But de Grazia the statistician
says that we are kidding ourselves
in this respect. His statistics on this
point are very revealing. In sum-
mary, he says, the difference between
1850 and 1860 comes down to a few
hours. THE great and touted gains
in free time since the 1850s . are"
he insists, largely a myth"
The very originality of Mr.. de
Grazia's statistical analysis of the
amount of free time enjoyed by
Americans probably accounts in large
measure for the widespread attention
being given his book in the daily
press. This is unfortunate from one
point of view, for de Grazia's statis-
tical findings are of less importance
than his philosophical conclusions on
the nature of leisure and its imports
ance in the development of the COM
plete man.
In any event, the newspapers and
popular magazines will have perform
ed a useful service, if, by playing up
his statistics, they can get a num-
Der of people interested in reading
his book. Though not as profound as
Pieper's study, it Is nevertheless a
very good and en%gagingly written
book on a very important subject.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10
THE YARDSTICK

Philip Scharper of Sheed and
Ward, a well-informed and very per-
ceptive Catholic layman, complained
in a recent article in The Common
veal that there is a lack of worth
while Catholic writing on philosophy
and/or the theology of work.
MIR. SCHARPER's point is well
taken, although the record will show,
/ think, that the number of scholarly
books by Catholic authors on the phil
osophy OF the theology of work is
presently on the increase. | was able
to locate four recent books on this
subject merely by browsing through
my own disorganized library, and |
probably could have located a number
of other titles in several different
languages if / had an opportunity to
check the card index of a good uni
versity library.
In an event, four books are bet
ter than one. The titles, for those
who might be interested in doing a
little serious reading on the philos-
ophy or theology Of work, are as fol-
lows:
philosophy of Labor" by Remy
c. Kwant, O.S.A. (Duquesne Univer-
sity, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1860
Work: An Inquiry into Christian
Thought and Practice" A symposi-
um edited by John M. Todd, (Helicon
Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1861.
"Work" by Stefan Cardinal Wy
szynski (Scepter Press, Chicago, IL
linois, 1860.
Labor Christians: 1nitiatio in
Theologiam Spiritualem Systematic
cam de Lahore" christian Labor: In
PRODUCTION to a Systematic Spiritual
Theology of Labor) by Charles v.
Truhlan (Herder, Freibourg, Ger
many, 1861.
The publication during the past
few years of these four books does
not, of course, negate the validity of
the point made by Mr.. Scharper in
The COmmonweal. The authors Of
these books would probably be the
first to admit that they have bare
ly scratched the surface of a very pro-
found problem and would probably
agree with Mr.. Scharper that much
more remains to be done by Catholic
scholars in this important field of
study.
Mr.. Scharper, in turn, would prob
ably agree that there is also a need
for more worthwhile Catholic books
on a related subject of equal, if not
greater, importance : : namely, the
philosophy and/or the theology of
leisure. We have at least one good
book on this subject by the German,
Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper. An
English translation of DR.. Pleper's
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10

pathetic with the plight of Mrs. Finkbine. She has already
had four children, she wanted this one. She is an attractive
young woman with a career that deals with entertaining
and teaching children, Her husband appears to be a con-
siderate and conscientious spouse.
BY her own report, Mrs. Finkbine has said 1--WE don't
believe in abortions, really. But the main thing is to do
what is right for the baby. | feel | owe a responsibility to
the child, and for its sake / don't feel it would be morally
right to bring a deformed child into the world"
This statement shows that the true plight of Mrs.
Finkbine is not the decision on the abortion, but that de-
spite her many qualities, she reflects the confused moral
attitude that is so prevalent in the world today where peo-
pie say: "A thing is wrong of course, except when there is
no alternative" In other words, to them the lend does
justify the means. You can do evil that good come of it.
You can offend God rather than chance physical affliction.
The material does take priority over the spiritual"
THE MORAL EVIL of direct abortion for whatever
reason, personal, medical, social, altruistic, is summed up
in these words of Pope Plus X when he outlined divine
law in this matter what could ever be a sufficient reason
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10

In response to a recent speech,
/ received a letter from a woma |
have never met. 1t contains, among
other wonderful things, an expression
of faith which deserves sharing.
SHE WRITES in part: although
all the days seem hard with our large
family and some impossible, as far as
the marriage and the babies have gone
] haven't really e felt deserted by
God. But once | tasted of those ter
rible depths when I was spiritually
pregnant and offering up everything
for a friends conversion.
Il remember well the last bitter
dregs' morning. Perhaps it lasted only
ten minutes and then it was all over. |
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10
By John C. O'Brien

But, with the pool of unemploy-
ed already numbering about five mill
lion, the question arises what would
become of two million farm workers
should they leave the farm? To this,
CED offers a rather dubious answer.
1t suggestions that the government
set up a training program to prepare
the displaced farmer for jobs in i'm
duStry-the panacea for taking care
of industrial workers displaced by
automation which has not been not
ably successful.
The CED's second drastic pro-
posal is that price supports be with
drawn so that prices of wheat, cot
ton, rice and feed grains may drop
to their true market level. Admitting
that such price readjustment would
have an adverse impact on the farm
ers until they learn to tailor produc-
ton to demand, the Committee sug-
gests that the government initiate a
temporary income protection program.
THIS, OF COURSE, would cost
the government money, but the CED
estimates that the cost would be about
one-half of the present Federal farm
expenditures.
Economists probably would agree
that a plan such as the CED proposes
would be a step in the right direction.
But it would get a cold reception if
it were submitted to Congress. All
farm plans are weighed for their
political, not their economic effects.
And no member of Congress from a
farming constituency would dare advo-
cate, publicly at least, throwing two
million farm workers off the farm.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10

THIRD, AS WE have already indicated, abortion is an
even more horrible brand of murder than euthanasia.
Abortion is not birth control, as Starnes says, it is murder.
Starnes wrote in his column that "sin is perhaps a
subject better left to t~heologues and metaphysicians who
have made it their lifes work" He would do well to take
that advice and so should everyone else who substitutes
personal feeling and sentiment, no matter how sincerely
meant, for the moral principles founded on divine law.
We should ask our readers to pray for all those preg-
nant women who have taken the drug and face an uncer-
tain future so that they may find the strength to do what
is right. We should pray too, that individuals stop "play-
ing God" and leave the Lord of the Universe, who is not
only all-wise and all-powerful, but all-merciful and all-lov-
ing, to bring man to his final goal by giving him the grace
to keep the eternal principles of the moral law. - GAF
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-08-10
The Plight Of Mrs. Finkbine

for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent?
This is precisely what we are dealing with here"
The Scripps-Howard columnist Richard Starnes wrote
last week that a deformed child exists in a living death
and his parents are sentenced to caring for and loving a
creature who is a g%rotesque mockery of Gods image"
We leave it to the thousands of parents who care for
retarded children to answer that. More pertinently, Starnes
says he opposes any euthanasa which would ordain the
end of human life but cannot condemn those who would
not bring unwanted life into this overburdened world.
These statements are based on a number of false as
s%umptions. First, it is not certain the child will be born de-
formed. Second, deformed children can be cared for, if not
by the parents, then by others dedicated to this task. In
the current case, two families offered to take Mrs. Fink
bine's child when it is born and Governor Rockefeller of
New York says his state will aid parents who have this
problem.