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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-10
Two Builders
Buy Property
For Apartment

Two Washington men have
purchased four pieces Of
property on the southeast
corner of Cathedral and Con-
necticut avenues NV. and
plan to build a LOT = unit
apartment.
The transaction was han
died by Murray Bogen Of
Legum & Gerber Realty Co.,
which announced the $780,
900 sale and will manage the
apartment building when 1t
is completed.
Local builders Nathan Lam
dow and Lawrence Brandt
are the buyers Of the prop
erty and the sellers were Mr..
and Mrs. Floyd A. Cartwright,
who sold two pieces; a group
of owners headed by Michael
Anselmo. and Mrs. Ethel
Pilson.
A spokesman for Legum &
Gerber said the planned
apartment building will be
eight stories high and have
a roof = top swimming pool
and sun deck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-10

ment bailer kit that is now
available.
The unit comes in a small,
compact packages by 6 by
6 inches and it is as easy
to handle as it is compact.
The entire kit consists of just
three parts: A hooded pump
capable of moving up to 10
gallons Of water per hour;
six feet of heavy duty power
cord with three-pronged plug
and eight feet Of flexible
plastic hose.
The bailer pump even oper-
ates when completely under
water, the maker says. The
power cord connection at the
pump Is waterproof.
The basement bailer kit,
also can be- used to extract
water from fallout shelters,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-10

under the house or in SWIM
ming pools.
Further information about
the articles mentioned dboDe
may be obtained from the
manufacturers. They are:
Solder, WoodhiH Chemical
Corp, 1890 East Thirty
fourth street, CleUeland,
Ohio, and bailer, Little Giant
Corp, Att Glen White, 1910
North Tulsa street, OkIa-
hontG City IL, Okla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-10

Construction hos begun the So million Lynn Building Rossn
Circle end North lynn in Arlington Owned by Louis
ponio i the story building will include poins for 200
on lower levels SPokemen for the Beeps componies which
the building Of the spcee
been contracted the Department Of Defense Designed Edward
Pitt Ala, the building scheduled for completion next June
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-10

training course for construc-
ton foremen, assistant SUI
perintendents and superin-
tendents.
The course will be conduct
ed by safety engineers and
instructors of the Bureau of
Labor Standards and the
District Industrial Safety
Board.
1t will be given in eight
sessions beginning at z pm.
November 20 in the Railway
Labor Building, First and D
streets NV. Those interested
in enrolling should contact
the Building Congress office
by next Thursday.
Mosaxins Features
Levitt Development
Levittown, N. Y, built in
the late 1940s by the Develop
er of the Washington areas
Belair at Bowie, Levitt and
Sons. Inc. comes in for praise
in the latest issue of House
and Home magazine.
The magazine says that
with thoughtful landscap-
ing" the community has
proved its early critics wrong
in their predictions it would
provide "tomorrow's slums."
"The value Of thoughtful
landscaping is proved" the
article says. Individual
houses no longer stand out
against the sky, but blend
into streets. Streets are no
longer stark lines on the
landscape, but are neighbor-
hoods. The neighborhoods,
in turn, are no longer foreign
blots on bare fields, but are
part Of the Long Island
countryside"
AfeG Builders
To Judge Contest
Four Washington area
Building field figures are
among six men who will Judge
the 1862 ideas for Home
Builders" contest sponsored
by the Producers Council,
Inc. and the National As
ISOLATION Of Home Builders.
The men are STEPHEN G.
YeOnas, president Of the
Home Builders Association of
Metropolitan Washington
and chairman of NAHB's
Marketing Committee; Milton
e. Kettler, who heads the
Marketing Committee OF the
HBAMW; Harry Feldstein of
Alexandria, who heads his
own builder-consulting firm,
and Herman Greenberg, of
Community Builders. Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-10
Congress Sets
Safety Course

The Washington Building
Congress has announced
plans to hold q second safety
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-10
Kettler TO Speak
In Charlotte

M. e. Kettler, vice presi-
dent Of Kettler Brothers. Inc,
has been invited to speak to
the Home Builders Associa-
ton of Charlotte, N. c.. dur
ing a meeting Wednesday.
In response to q request
Of the association. he will
speak on Research by Build
erS A Case History"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-10
Moster Builders
Plan Meeting

The Master Builders Asso-
citation will hold its monthly
meeting at 8 pm. Tuesday in
the Mayflower Hotel.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19
United Appeal

Appeal, including a number of Cath
Ollie ones...r
We are exhorted to make Our COM
munity a better place to live by pro-
viding these comprehensive services
which are essential to the we'll being
o. its citizens.
WE ARE encouraged to give of our
efforts as well as our finances in
order to serve this good cause and
promote solidarity among the people
in the community of differing race,
creed, and background.
All of these things are true and
valid. But none of them pin-points
the real motive for giving generously
to United Appeal. 1t is:
"A new commandment | give you,
that you love one another: that as |
have loved you, you also love one.
another"
And when Christ illustrated in the
parable of the Good Samaritan that
a true neighbor is one who takes pity
on his brother He added:
GO and do thou also in like man
ner." -GAF
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19
By Father Andrew Greeley

But IL self-criticism is a good thing,
it does not follow that all it's mani
festations are useful or relevant. One
could agree with practically all the
charges made by the current crop of
viewers-with-alar and still doubt
that they are presenting a balanced
picture of American Catholicism.
Now, of course, a social critic does
not necessarily have to say everything
there is to be said about an institu-
tion.
But when his picture leaves out GER
tain aspects of the institution which
seem to be of overwhelming import
ance, then the critic runs the risk of
being accused of missing the point.
My major quarrel with the current
self-criticism is that it takes a very
static view of the American Church.
1t is not especially difficult to see
things In the American Church that
are considerably less than perfect:
nor is 1t difficult to generate a fair
amount of gloom about these weak
neSSeS.
ONE WOULD think, however, that
an observer would not have to be too
perceptive to note the rapid rate at
which change Is occurring. In fact,
] should think that the most striking
phenomenon about the American
Church IS its tremendous dynamism
II
most fantastic rate.
1t is still fashionable to repeat hoary
cliches about the Catholic press-and
especially the Diocesan press las Pro-
lessor O'Dea did at the Sociology
meetings).
Yet how car anyone look at the
Catholic press of Is years ago and the
Catholic press of today and not be
astonished by the rapid development.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19

Last Monday was the beginning
of the United Appeal Campaign in
many counties in the Diocese.
This is a highly-organized and
publicized community effort which
has been successful in the past and
bids fair to repeat this year.
We are reminded in the campaign
literature that the economy and lack
of fuss conjoined in the one appeal
is a refreshing change in this COM
pick age.
WE ARE TOLD too that this gem
eral effort shows what a whole COM
munity can do when 1t puts its mind
to II.
We are asked to consider that in
VA we can help families and individ-
uals under stress; children denied
their birthright of love and care;
those suffering from disease; youth
to constructive adulthood, and older
persons through the strain of later
years.
We r given a listing of all the
agencies that are supported by United
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19

The growth Of the meetings Of Ma
tional Liturgical Conference from a
few score of o~utcasts, to thousands of
clergy ard laity, the spread of the
specialized Catholic Action Move
mcnts, the mushrooming of study
Institutes for the clergy in the SUM
mer time; the beginnings of lay mis-
sion effort, the increasing numbers
of graduates of Catholic colleges who
are going into the intellectual life, the
Sister formation movement, the insti-
naturalization of self-criticism in the
Notre Dame study of Catholic educa-
ton - If these do not reveal dramatic
social change processes, then one won-
ders what would.
1 AM NOT AFRAID of the self
critics giving aid and comfort to the
enemy but | am concerned about their
discouraging their followers. and
indeed themselves.
One cannot read through The Com
mOnweal symposium, for example,
and not come to the conclusion that
despair would be a cheerful descrip-
ton of the attitude of most of the
writer's involved.
The American Church is a vast,
complex, and sprawling organization.
Some problems are more serious in
certain localities than in others. There
is reason to think that a few of the
self-critics have fallen victim to the
temptation to g%eneralize from one
section of the country to the whole
country.
The level of the optimism in Cath
Ollie literary circles might be raised
considerably if a foundation would
provide a weeks vacation for the en-
tire staff of The Commonweal in, let,
us say, the Diocese of Oklahoma City,
Tulsa.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19
EVERYMAN'S FAMILY
Youth today has a
false concept Of sex

Not SO long age the puritanical-
%Jansenistic attitude toward sex Great
ed a conspiracy of silence. At the
worst sex was bad. At the best it was
neither nice nor respectable.
In either case, the common APP
preach seemed to be that since ours
is a nice, respectable family we don't
have that stuff in our house.
Only the poor, ignorant slobs have
it and they don't seem to know what
to do about it. For us-we ignore it
or hide it away with the other fam
lily skeletons in a deep dark closet.
WITH ALL the free discussion
about sex one wonders whether there
isn't as much ignorance about it to-
day when everyone is talking about it
as there was so years ago when no
one mentioned it.
The distortion of the past about sex
was that it was bad. The distortion
of the present seems to be that it is
primarily a physical attraction be-
tween people, with some emotional
overtone, because people do get ex-
cited. 1t is treated and discussed as
though it were the same as any other
physical appetite.
You have an appetite for food; you
eat. You don't have to make a fuss
about it. You are thirsty; you drink.
You have sexual urge; you satisfy it.
The only two rules governing SEX
ual pleasure among today's youth
seem to be that you have to like each
other, which implies that you don't
use force, and secondly that you don't
go all the way. Making out" is no.
body else's business but that of the
two people involved.
THE ALARMING increase in the
last few years in illegitimate preg-
nancy among teen-age girls is an indi-
cation not only of excessive freedom in
dating habits, but also of a tremen-
dous ignorance concerning the nature
of sex. Our young people have been
sold a bill of goods by the culture OF
the day.
A girls womanliness is determined
by her measurements. The manliness
of a boy is too frequently judged by
how far and frequently he makes
out" For this the necessary ingred-
tents seem to be a smooth line, an au-
tomobile, enough money and some
alcohol.
A line from a recent song goes like
this-"When I'm not near the girl I
love, / love the girl I'm near
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19
THE YARDSTICK
Self-criticism can go too far

Msgr. George G. Higgins has been
appointed to assist the work of the
Second Vatican Council. FIR. Andrew
Greeley will write The Yardstick
while he is in Rome. FIR. Greeley has
a dOctorate In sociology from the
University of Chicago and Is the au-
thor of three books: ''The Church
and the Suburbs; strangers i'm the
House; and Religion and the Col
lege Graduate" He is editor of Apos-
tolate Catholic Action Journal).
1t has been a grand and glorious
season for self criticism. The Com.
monweal symposium on the Council,
the Thomas More-Rosary College
talks, Robert Hoyt's article on Free
dom and Christian Responsibility in
Social Order, Michael Novak's Cath
Ollie Church Confidential" series i'm
The New Republic, Thomas IDEAS
paper at the meetings of the American
Sociological Association, the various
statements and counter-statements by
faity and hierarchy in the role of the
layrnan" debate - all prove that what
Edward Duff has called mass maso-
chism Is not yet out of fashion among
American Catholics.
UNDOUBTEDLY self-criticism is a
good thing,
1t is surely a sign of the vigor and
vitality of an organization that it is
able to generate self-criticism among
its members. If there were no COM
plants the organization would be
quite defunct.
In fact one wonders how a church
that is afflicted with as many weak
nesses as the critics would lead us to
believe American Catholicism is, can
possibly be alive enough to generate
such vigorous criticism.
If AAM tMA A AMMFM - p = A A & E EE o.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19
THE BACKDROP

AS a result of the steady increase in
property taxes, county and municipal
authorities are faced with a nation
wide taxpayers rebellion.
Taxpayers are voting down bond is
sues for school construction and other
purposes. In many communities they
are banding together in non-partisan
groups in an attempt to arrest mount
ing expenditures for schools, recrea-
ton centers and other welfare prof.
ects.
TYPICAL of what is going on is a
revolt of property owners in one Of
the national capitals adjoining coun
ties. Residents have seen the county
budget increase more than skiold in
a decade i'm which the population only
doubled.
In the past year tax bills mailed out
to some property owners were 40 to
so per cent higher than they were the
year before. A major share of these
tax dollars goes for support of the
public schools.
In the hope oil. checking this steady
rise in county expenditures property
owners have formed a n~on-partisan
taxpayers league to combat what they
consider "frills" in the school pro-
gram such as a mosaic facing for a
high school that cost twice what a
plain brick facing would have cost.
What, the taxpayers are asking,
does the mosaic facing contribute to
the quality of education offered with
i'm the school walls?
IN 1850, the nations voters approx
ed referendums in support of bond is
sues for schools and other purposes
with regularity. Now they are exercis-
ing greater discretion. School bond is
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19

American property owners who
send their children to public schools,
no less than Catholics who entrust the
education of their offspring to pa
rochial schools, are beginning to show
grave concern W. the galloping cost
of elementary and secondary educa-
ton.
Across the country there are rum
blings of a taxpayers revolt against
the steady rise in property taxes, at
tributable in large measure to the
cost of building and maintaining pub
lie schools for the expanding school
population.
Among Catholics, who carry the
double burden of paying taxes for sup
port of the public schools and at the
same time maintaining the parochial
school system, the question has been
raised how long this drain upon the
income of property owners can be
borne.
IN SOME PARISHES there is talk
of disseminating parish schools for
the elementary grades and ~concentrat-
ing on parochial high schools. If such
a solution should be widely adopted,
of course, the taxes on property for
support of education would be further
increased substantially almost over
night.
In 1862 the median real estate tax
bill rose for the 18th consecutive
year. The tax load now averages $305
a family, compared with a median Of
$110 a family in 1945. In some fast
growing counties, property owners
have seer their taxes jump more than
300 per cent in 20 years, a principal
cause. of the increase being an ever
expanding school system.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19
Home o,Uners bdk at rising tax load
By John C. O'Brien

sues, in particular, have been meet
ing with resistance.
In 1861, only 81 per cent of the
bonds submitted to voters were ap-
proved and so far in 1862 only So
per cent of the proposals have been
authorized.
In some instances, voters have an.
proved bond issues for school con-
struction and then refused to approve
the tax increase required to staff such
facilities.
For fear of a further tax increase
home owners fight coming changes to
permit multi-family properties to be
built In their localities. They know
that such properties bring a sharp in.
crease in the school population and
generate demands for additional
school buildings.
REZONING OF LAND for CONNER.
cial use often is opposed because new
industries attract new families with
children for whom classrooms must
be provided.
Home owners are complaining that
they are paying a disproportionate
share of the cost of public education.
While tenants in multi-family prop
critics pay real estate taxes Indirect
iy, the amount they pay toward the
landlords tax bill is much less than
that paid by the home owner for a
comparable cubic footage of living
space.
1t property owners continue in their
balky mood, the public authorities
will have to devise a new tax formula
to transfer a greater share of the tax
load for schools from home owners
to other groups of taxpayers. A great
er share of the cost of education ma
have to be assumed by the state and
federal governments.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19
A remarkable woman

This year is the centenary year of
the death of a very remarkable wom-
an precursor of this new age of the
lay a~postolate.
She was Pauline Jaricot, talented,
%vivacious socialite of Lyons, France,
who completely changed the course Of
her WI life - and of the Missions.
Stirred by the accounts of heroic
mission explorers, she took up a life
of simplicity, poverty, prayer and
works of charity. She sought and
found a way of mission-aid that
would be thoroughly Catholic.
Her plan invited all, even the poor,
to contribute sacrifices and prayer,
Systematically gathered from all and
distributed under the direction of the
Church among all missionaries.
Her confessor said, "You are too
stupid to have invented this plan
evidently it comes from God, and not
only do | allow you to carry 1t out,
but | earnestly urge you to do So"
Soon the Society spread. Many gave
1t their whole-hearted support, but
just as many were strongly opposed
to 1t.
1t must be remembered that in
those days 1t was quite unheard of for
a young woman in her early twenties
to occupy herself with public apos-
tolic works. 1t seemed to many that
this vas a dangerous departure from
the normal conduct of women, which
could only end in disaster. She was
advised not thus to s%candaliZe the
weak, but to keep to the ordinary line
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19

Eric Johnston. president of the Mo-
ton Picture Association of America,
spoke in Columbus last Monday and
reiterated his opposition to any kind
OF government censorship of the
movies.
In principle we agree with his state
ment that 1T is the job of parents to
educate their youngsters in such
matters. But this abstract utopian
premise does not always stand the test
or experience and we must differ
with MI. Johnston when he says This
Is not a problem. A person who wants
the state to decide what his youngster
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19

of piety, thinking only of saving her
own soul.
The storm ragged about her, but the
Society still spread and in 1922, only
four years later, the approval and
blessing of the Holy Father, Pope
Plus VII, was obtained. Opposition
quickly changed to enthusiasm, and
the Society was firmly established.
Pauline was overjoyed to see her
humble venture taking firm root. 1t
grew SO quickly and to such import
ance Git sustained Notre Dame Uni
versity in it's early years. that her
part in founding and guiding the So
ciety was forgotten.
Her promotion of it, and of the liv-
ing rosary, and other works of charity
we're misunderstood.
So lived and died a noble French
woman whom we might well rank
with Saint Joan of Arc for complete
self-forgetfulness, heroic courage, and
boundless devotion to the Church
and its missions.
Pope Plus XI took PauIine's scheme
for assisting the missions from Lyons
to Rome. In 1922, he declared it a
Pontifical Society, that is, the
Pope's own Society for the assistance
of all m issioners and mi S sions
throughout the world. Mission Sun
day, inaugurated by the Society for
the Propagation of the Faith, occurs
Oct. 81 of this year. -Msgr. James
KuIp, diocesan director of the Propa-
CATION of the Faith.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19

has an obligation to exercise its pre-
negatives.
THE GOVERNMENT is not some
thing alien OF apart from the people.
While it is true that society is a
broader concept that the State, still
the State represents the formulation
Of the peoples wish for law and order.
These very basic considerations not
only apply to the matter of censor
ship but to other areas of life. They
should be a basis for application to
the problems of I'LL day, not the least
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-10-19

When / can't fondle the hand I'm fond
of, / fondle the hand at hand" 1t ex-
presses as well as anything the casual
ness with which the physical relation
ship on a date is accepted.
When something can be shared or
done with anybody it loses much of
its meaning.
Sex has become meaningless to
many American young people because
the basic note attached to it has been
pleasure. 1t is a pleasure to be shared
with any date, but not always to the
same degree of course.
One shares it more deeply when
likes or cloves" the other more deep
ly. 1t takes two to tango, but some
times you tango better with one part
ner than another.
WITH THE emphasis on the pleas
ure giving aspects of sex in III mod
ern culture, there is the danger, that
the real and human meaning of sex
will be lost sight of.
If it is only something to be used
and enjoyed with another at a given
moment, then the big question is not
whether to neck and/or pet but only
the degree to which it goes.
The Catholic only expresses this in
his own terms when he asks, "How
far car you go before you commit
SIM"
But what about the mystery of
sex-that whole quality of manliness
or womanliness which conditions and
colors the total personality of the in-
dividual? Where does love come into
sex with its notes of self-sacrifice and
the seeking of the good of the other?
When does the boy on a date catch
the vision that his role is to be lover
of this other person and not just a
switch-man?
WHEN DOES a girl see herself not
just as one made to tease, entice and
use sex for her w advantage but
as one called to complement and per-
feet another human being? When do
they both catch a glimpse of the true
beauty of sex as intended by God?
When Bobby Burns wrote the
words, when a body meets a body,
etc." he was talking about two per-
sons. Using the same words and with
but a simple change of meaning, the
same song should become "our'' seng
of too many of our modern youth on
dates.
The relationship has become body
to body rather than person to person.