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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-11-02
Names Central
Deanery board

Mrs. D. Bruce Bischoff,
Central Deanery Council of
Catholic Women president,
has named board chairmen
who will serve for the next
two years. They are:
Mrs. William Langley, re-
preventative to council; Mrs.
Ray Augustine, religious
activities; Mrs. George D.
Panzer, Catholic charities;
Mrs. John F. Dennis, home
and school.
Mrs. Clement Luckhaupt,
social action; Mrs. Ralph
Angelo, international rela-
tions; Mrs. Leroy Boulware,
family life; Mrs. Joseph Per-
sichetti, civil defense; Mrs.
Edward Dietlin, organization
and development.
MRS. DONALD G.. Me
man, communications; Mrs.
Charles Haggerty, legisla-
ton; Mrs. Paul Lynch,
youth; Mrs. Fred Signoracci,
ways and means.
Mrs. Chester M. Ratusz,
budget; Mrs. Frank Van
Holte, parliamen t a ;
Mrs. William Klarman, bet
ter entertainment; Mrs. Ro-
bert Christ
mas is Christ's birthday.
Mrs. Clara Massey, tele-
phone; Mrs. Edmund Por-
tisch, constitution; Mrs. Will
liam Miller, golden age; Mrs.
Julian James, friendly visi-
tors; Mrs. Charles Wetterer,
transportation.
Mrs. Richard Castrop, Sis
ters' transportation; Mrs.
John Polito, babies trans
portation; Mrs. Ted Watson,
baptismal sponsors; Mrs.
Anthony Moskus, senior citi-
Zens committee.
Mrs. Edward Huffman, re-
preventative State School
volunteers activity; Mrs.
Jack Bentley, U.S.O.; and
Mrs. William White, repre-
sentative State Hospital vol
unteers activity.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-11-02
GOD LOVE YOU
The wOrks OF God
are uery difficult
By BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN

How different are the works of God and mani The
works of God are done only with much difficulty and suf.
fering; the works Of man are wrought easily and mechani-
cally.
This is brought out in the way Sacred Scripture des-
cribes two golden objects: the golden candlestick, which il
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-11-02

High speed driving on ex-
pressways necessitates fast
reading Of road signs. The
Columbus Auto Club urges
you TO enlist the aid OF other
car passengers In reading
signs.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-11-02
: diocesan mel
advance in
religious life

Mr.. Michael GIockner,
csc, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alexander Glockner, ST.,
1741 North Fourth Street,
Columbus 1, received
the habit in the Congregation
of Holy Cross at an August
ceremony in Sacred Heart
Novitiate, Jordan, Minnesota.
Following the Novitiate, a
year of intense religious
training, he will return to the
University of Notre Dame to
continue his studies for the
priesthood at Moreau Semi
nary.
Mr.. Glockner is a graduate
of st. Charles High School
where he was an honor stu
dent. Before entering the
Congregation, he was a Navy
regular at the University of
Notre Dame.
Mr.. David J. Porterfield,
csc, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Porterfield, 30 Oak
Street, Mt. Vernon, pronounc-
ed his first vows in the Con-
gregation of Holy Cross on
August is at Sacred Heart
Novitiate, Jordan, Minnesota.
Mr.. PorterfieId, a graduate
of St. Vincent de Paul High
School, will continue his col
lege studies for the priest
hood at Moreau Seminary,
the University of Notre
Dame.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-11-02
End 'Sabin Sunday
VIII be November 4

The second step in the Sabin on Sunday polio immune
cation program in Franklin County - the biggest COM
munity action program ever undertaken here will take
place on Sunday, Nov. 4.
Type II .Sabin oral polio vaccine, which immunlzes
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-11-02

against the Type II polio
virus, will be distributed
from II am. to 5 pm. at 118
Sabln Stations all over the
county.
The location of the Sabin
Stations will be the same as
Sept. 80, the opening Sun
day of the mass program.
DIR RICHARD L. Fulton,
head of the Sabin on Sunday
committee, stressed that
everyone over two months
old should visit a Sabin Sta
ton Nov. 4 and receive the
Type III vaccine -. even
those who for some reason
did not participate in the
initial part of the program.
TYPE III vaccine is COM
pletely safe and harmless
and 100 percent effective"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-11-02
Perry County
Twig elects

New officers OF Perry
County Twig l of Mt. st.
Mary Hospital, Jacksonville,
are Mrs. c.. L. Chute, chair
man; Mrs. Esther Murray,
co -chairm an: Mrs, John
Stanton, treasurer, and Miss
Rose Fiore, secretary, all of
New Lexington.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-11-02
Oahanna women
name officers

The Altar and Rosary So
ciety of Gahanna st. Mat
thew recently elected officers
for the coming year.
They are: Mrs. Richard
Vargo, president; Mrs. Fred
Cemashko, vice president;
Mrs. Edward Guzik, secre-
tary, and Mrs. Dale Arm
strong, treasurer. The group
meets on the first Thursday
of each month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09

and methods Of eradication.
The pages in between are a
horrible Walpurgisnacht dur
ing the course Of which an
addict Is beset with the Wild
est fantasies and hallucina-
tons, largely sexual and pre-
dominantly homosexual. The
effect is certainly not porno-
graphic. but rather disgust
ing and repellent (my reac-
ton, as has been noted, is not
UNIVERSAL. Mr.. Burroughs
himself remarks: Since
Naked Lunch treats this
health problem, 1t is neces-
sarily brutal, obscene and
disgusting. Sickness is often
repulsive details not for weak
stomachs." The point Is argu-
able. Eye-gouging can invoke
pity and terror. as in King
Lear" and "oedipus Rex" In
Naked Lunch" 1t is merely
nauseating.
Dope, vice, sex and scatol-
ogy in the Miller tradition
could be subjects for a good
book, one In tune with the
temper Of the time. But
throughout Naked Lunch"
many readers will have a
growing impression that Mr..
Burroughs may be a man
with something TO say, but
one sadly lacking in the abil-
ity TO write. A novelist must
he able TO command prose;
Naked Lunch" is automatic
writing awash with words.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09

keeping, few wondered how a
National Cultural Center
could be involved. It was a
prime example Of Macdonald
Masscult.
Most of the Masscult that
Mr.. Macdonald exposes is all
too obviously the product
of the culture industry for
the culture market-"Great
Books Of the Western World"
with their Syntopicon, the
new Merriam Webster Una
bridged Dictionary, the Re-
vised Standard Version Of the
Bible, the new Oxford-Cam-
bridge Bible in contemporary
ranchhouse STYLE" "un-
known" Mark Twain, Cozzens'
by Love Possessed" and
Howtoism. But Mr.. Macdon-
aid is no coward. He attacks
a number of products of Mass
cult so sacrosanct as to have
become members of a sub
species, Midcult. Included in
this category are not only
H e m ingway's lachrymose
epic, "The Old Man and the
Sea-" MacLeish's u. b." and
Benet's John Browns Body"
but Wilder's "Our Town!
Wilder's play is as American
as apple pie; to make even
the most qualified objection
to it, either here or in Ger
many, is an almost unthink-
able act, like sneering at
mother. Mr.. Macdonald's
antipathy for Wilder's hook
is tainted with admiration for
the perfection of the achieve
ment, but he dares to say
what some have felt and
aShamedly dismissed as error
or apoStacy-"Our Town" is
an example of that "hollowly
portentious art which the
French call 'pompier' after
the glittering, golden, be-
plumed helmets Of their fire
men. Now there are some
things we all know, but we
didn't take m out and look
at m very often says the
stage manager, sucking ru-
minatively on his pipe. We
know that something is eter-
nal. And it amt houses and
1t amt names, and it amt
earth, and it amt even the
stars. All the greatest
people ever lived have been
telling us for 5000 years and
yet you'd be surprised how
people are always losing hold
OF 1T. There's something way
down deep that's eternal
about every human being
The last sentence is an IL
word summary, in form and
content, of Midcult. I agree
with everything Mr.. Wilder
says but I will fight to the
death against his right to say
1t in this way"
1t is true that even after
Mr.. Macdonald's 10 years on
the job we still have mock
Bibles in the supermarkets,
llliterate dictionaries in the
bookstores. Analphabetic
statesmen still push through
our front doors selling us a
hundred pounds of Great
Books. and we still nominate
for Nobel Prizes unreliable
but pretentious books like
BY Love Possessed" It can
not be said that Mr.. Mac
donald has accomplished any,
thing. Nevertheless, he has
had a good time, and if he
hasn't delighted a lot of
readers he has hoodwinked a
lot Of editors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09
FIuwIessIy Written
HountingIy Beautiful

The book is dedicated to
Sylvia Townsend Warner. 1t
is in every way worthy of her.
\ +
THE SILENT PEOPLE. BY
Walter Macken. (Macmil-
Ian; $3.50
Civilized and theoretically
God-fearing mans inhuman-
ity to man reached heights
almost unparalleled in his
tory in the nineteenth century
attitude of the English to-
ward the Irish. The whole
sorry tale is told again in
this tory Of Dualta Duane,
a young Irishman whose
spirit is almost but never en-
tirely broken by the grinding
poverty and injustice that
are the staple ingredients of
his life. 1t is through
Dualta's eyes that we follow
the rise and eventual eclipse
of the great Irish patriot
Daniel O'Connell, "the liber-
ator," and the events of the
stormy years that preceded
the disastrous potato blight
of the mid '40s.
Dualta's story is told with
an engaging. occasionally
naive charm that makes
pleasant reading even though
the subject matter is obvious
ly melancholy.
RUTH HUME.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09
The FutefuI Story
Of q City Divided
By q Wall of Spite
THE BERLIN WALL. B

THE BERLIN WALL. BY
Deane and David Heller.
Introduction by Konrad
Adenauer. (Walker g. Co.,
$4.500
Man builds to beautify the
world about him or. If en-
FILTERED, to scar it as well.
The Great Wall of China is
symbolic Of Asia's jealous
grip on its culture. The
Statue Of Liberty is a lamp of
warmth and hope. History,
however, will hardly praise
the disfiguring monument
raised under cover Of morn
ing darkness in Berlin on
August Is, 1861.
For those whose daily read
ing Of Berlin has reduced
their interest to cursory
glanceS at newspaper COL
umns, Deane and David
Heller have loosened an
awakening bill of particulars
of Soviet intrigue leading to
the erection of Berlin's wall
Of tears.
This latest Heller book is
the formidable history of a
divided city subjected to in
credible Soviet behavior; a
modern chronicle, concisely
written, of Communist in
spired policies of suppression,
kidnapping, deceit, threats
and lies.
Wallpaper money, the Ber-
lin Airlift. blockade and
counter-blockade; it is all
here in fast-moving dialogue;
the 1858 stones-against-tank
riots, escapes Of young people
determined to have a full life,
the old man pulling his
mangled, broken body over
stone to a few years Of free
dom. Since the wall, the vast
flow Of 3 million refugees
has been checked, but a
valiant trickle still manages
escape from the East Berlin
ghetto.
A good Christmas gift for
the serious friend blessed
with everything - without
knowing 1t.
BERNARD POIRIER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09
A Navy Captain
Tells His Story
From the Bridge
HARMS WAY. BY James
Bassett. (World Publish
ing Co: $3.50

HARMS WAY. BY James
Bassett. (World Publish
ing Co.; $3.50
This is one Of the best
novels that has emerged
from World War II dealing
with the inner turmoil that
accompanies fateful decisions
by high-ranking commanders.
1t explores the relationships
between those at the high
level and their staffs, their
lower-ranking men, and the
women in their lives. Also in
Mr.. BasSett's novel is a vivid
description of a sea battle.
Mr.. Bassett, political an
alyst of the Los Angeles
Times, was a staff officer
closely associated with Ad-
miral Halsey and handled
the admiral's press relations
from Guadalcanal to the ia
paneSe surrender in Tokyo
Bay. He now holds the rank
of retired captain in the
Naval Reserve.
The protagonist of his
novel is Capt. Rockwell
Torrey, Naval Academy grad
uate and inevitably called
Rock" by his classmates and
his men. He is not unlike
one Of his sleek, gray ships
as he rises to command of
large units in the profession
for which he has trained all
his adult life.
His weaknesses are hidden
behind his granite facade,
unsupported by either SUI
periorS or Subordinates. Yet
he is limned here as a mere
man as we'll as a fearless
leader with his own set Of
doubts, memories and chal-
lengeS. It may be that, be-
cause Of or in spite of his
humanity, he is first and
foremost, a commander of
men.
The story is told from the
fighting bridge of "The
Rocks" ship and he faces an
impossible assignment and
how he does so. 1t is also
the story of what it cost him.
JERRY OLEARY, JR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09
A MASQUE OF EXILE. BY

A MASQUE OF EXILE. BY
Martha Bacon. (Clarkson
Potter; $4.50.)
Two English children evac-
uated from wartime London
are sent to stay with an aunt
in New England. Their arrival
comedies with the homecom-
ing of still another branch of
the family, also driven out
of Europe by the war. To
pass the tedium of the sum-
mer the eldest son of the
expatriate group organizes
an amateur production of
"The Tempest" in which the
whole town, willingly or I'M
willingly, becomes involved.
On CnlS decept1Vely simple
framework is constructed a
novel so flawlessly written
and hauntingly beautiful that
it should leave any receptive
reader gasping with admira-
ton. Miss Bacon's characters
are a marvellously conceived
and executed crew, and need
less to say she avoids every
one of the numerous pitfalls
inherent in re-creating a
typical New England town" "
Her love story is at once
tremendously moving and de-
lightful, since we wish so
infinitely well for its hero.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09
For the Children

ALI good books, even
nursery rhymes and picture
books, should have a touch
of adventure in them. How
ever, the following stories are
ones in which modern boys
and girls initiate and carry
out adventures of unusual
challenge. The age appeal is
broad. for readers from 8
to IL.
ACROSS FROM INDIAN
SHORE. BY Barbara Rob-
inson. Uothrop; $500
THE WINGED WATCHMAN.
BY Hilda Van Stockum.
(FarTar; $3.250
BRAVE JIMMY STONE. BY
Elliott Arnold. (Knopf;
$3.50
DRAGON HILL. BY David
Walker. (Houghton; 49,
MIR. DE LUCAS HORSE. BY
Marjorie Paradis. (Athe-
neum; $500
PRnIECT. CENrTTrS D., WA
liam Hayes. (Atheneum;
$3.50
The following adventure
stories have a slightly older
slant, with plots based on
more mature concepts. The
bright child will have the
satisfaction Of identifying
himself with someone "just
like me" who shows unusual
courage.
SILENCE OVER DUN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09
Naked Lunch q Novel
Of Real BewiIderment
NAKED LUNCH. A

NAKED LUNCH. A novel by
William Burroughs. Grove
Press; So
Certain passages in the
book that have been called
Topographic" says William
Burroughs about NAKED
Lunch" were written as a
tract against capital punish
ment in the manner Of Jona-
than Swift's "A Modest Pro-
posal.' These sections are
intended to reveal capital
punishment as the obscene,
barbaric and disgusting an
achronism 1t is" Jack Ke-
rouac says, picking up the
tip: Burroughs is the great
est satirical writer since
Jonathan Swift. The net
result Of Naked Lunch will
be to make people shudder at
their own lies. will be TO
make them open UP and be
straight with one another.
Swift and Rabelais and
Sterne accomplished a step
in that direction. and Bur-
roughs another"
What prospective reader
wouldn't feel the blood
quicken In his veins? A new
Swift. Rabelais. Sternel But
as he reads page after page
his bewilderment increases.
Too pedestrian TO be q hoax,
Naked Lunch" is not even
involved in the form OF
satire. and instead OF Swift,
Rabelais. and Sterne there
could be invoked Just as
credibly Saul OF Tarsus,
Bulwer Lytton, and Anne
Lindbergh. The last name
comes TO mind because OF
John Card. who thinks Bur-
roughs one Of the best writ
ers Of modern times and Mrs.
Lindbergh one OF the worst.
A critic wrong only half the
time has a pretty fair aver
age; II may be that what at
tracts Mr.. Cards attention
Is inconsequentiality.
Mr.. Burroughs introduce
ton and appendix deal So
berly with narcotics addiction
-junkies and peddlers, the
law, medicine, background
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09
MADAME CASTEL'S LONG

Err. BY Francis Park
inson Reyes. (Farrar Straus
Cudahy; $500
There is something about
the South, as in ancient
Greece, that gives rise to
romance and tragedy. Per-
haps it is the landscape.
There is nothing lonelier than
a swamp. 1t is the only
region where all four poison
GUS species of snakes are
found in the United States
the coral snake, the moe
casin, the rattlesnake and
the copperhead. Certainly
there are moonlight and
magnoliaS" as Mrs. Reyes
is quick to point out in the
beginning Of her historical
novel, but there is the other
"a strange combination of
romance, defeat and only too
often, tragedy.
Madame Castel's Ledger"
is definitely of the moon
light and magnolia" school.
but the other is there, too,
since Gen. Pierre GuStave
Toutant-B eauregard is one
of the South's more tragic
figures, more than once mis-
understood by such figures
as jefferson Davis and Gen.
Winfield Scott, who thwart-
ed an early romance be-
tween his daughter and the
dashing Creole.
p. G. T. Beauregard
He was the first brigadier
general in the Confederate
Army, and by then had
dropped the hyphen in his
name and become simply
P. G.. T. Beauregard.
He was the hero Of the
Charlestonians, who wor-
shipped him as the Con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09

pCllCIAdIlilSs lCOLlOCldSJlC, dIlu
entertaining throughout every
page.
I'm the last two centuries, /"
says Mr.. Macdonald, pro-
pounding the argument of his
book, which, though written
piecem meal is surprisingly
unified, If not by design GER
tainly by its subject matter,
"our traditional culture has
been under increasing press
ure from mass culture, a con-
flict which has reached its
greatest intensity in this
country. The market for cul-
tural products has steadily
broadened until by now prac-
tically everybody is a Gus
toner. This is something new
in history and it has had
novel effects. AS the masses
have become more and more
educated, prosperous and
politically influential, the
cultural question has moved
into the foreground. Up to
about 1850, art and thought
were pretty much the exclu-
Sive province of an educated
minority. Now that the
masses-that is, everybody
are getting into the act and
making the scene, the prob
lem Of vulgarization has be-
come acute. I see only two
logical solutions: (a) an at
tempt to integrate the masses
into high culture; or, (b) a
contrary attempt to define
two cultures, one for the
masses and the other for the
classes, an intellectual elite.
I am for the latter"
For about 200 years, says
Mr.. Macdonald, the West has
had two cultures-one for
the textbooks and one manu-
featured for the market.
Hitherto, there had been good
art and bad art, both of
which served the same cul-
ture. Today we are swamped
in a kind of art, as typical
practitioners of which Mr..
Macdonald cites Drury, Mich
ener, Ruark, Norman Rock
well and Norman Vincent
Peale, characterized by its
impersonality, its lack of
standards, and its total sub
lection to the spectator"
There is a difference between
a popular art and an ART
that truckles, and in Mr..
Macdonald's view what he
calls Masscult today is re-
markable in its highly sue
cessful appeal to the pref
udiceS, the ignorances, and
the lack Of discrimination of
the community, the sect and
the family. Art for the in
dividual is disparaged, prob
ably because there is SO little
to sell. We must not think
that culture lies in the home,
says August Hecksher, mean
ing not the book and the
piano, but the TV and the
Hi-Fi, we must get out into
the theater and the concert
hall to possess it. Within the
last fortnight, we have seen
the success of cloSed-circuit
culture in the Nation and
in Washington-in the prov
inces the result of the avari-
ciouS appeal Of half the take,
here at home of a combina-
ton Of social intimidation,
business shrewdness and a
torrent of contrived publicity.
Many marveled at the filet
mignons. few noticed the pro-
gram; many were impressed
by the company they were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Fine Essoyist Turns
To American Culture
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

AGAINST THE AMERICAN GRAIN: Essays on the Effects Of
Mass Culture. BY Dwight Macdonald BRANDON House;
$65O0
During the last 10 years Dwight Macdonald has turned
his attention from politics to American culture Most of his
essays have been occasonabook reviews in short How
good they are what important addition to the thin body
Of really fstclass contemporary writing evidenced
by the fact that they nger the memory after
and by the pleasant anticipation of rereadng that evoked
by their appearance bound in single book Against the
American GRAIN The adjective in the title the only thing
awkward about volume that gracefully written lucid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-09
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Puts Beuuregurd in Fiction

federate who reduced Fort
Sumter, even though it was
a heart-breaking decision
since the fort was COM
manded by his old friend
and fellow teacher at West
Point, Maj. Robert Anderson.
Brilliant, he graduated second
in his class, taught there.
and was superintendent
of the academy for five short
days. Pierre Gustave Tou-
tant Beauregard III, who
lives in Washington, owns a
portrait Of the general in the
blue uniform Of the United
States Army, painted when
he was at West Point when
he was a major.
At Manassas
He was also the victor at
Manassas and it was in this
battle that another famed
Southern general gained his
nickname when Gen. Lee
shouted: Look at Jackson
standing there like a stone
WALL"
Mrs. Reyes has used fic-
ton to build her story around
the great Confederate, and
she has done a prodigious
amount Of research, and as
the present Pierre Beaure-
gard says: "She's done an
amazing job Of weaving fact
with fiction and her gene
illogical research seems to be
very true" Mrs. Keyes was
ID years laying the founda-
ton for the present volume
and it all began when she. or
the Reyes Foundation, &C
CURED Beauregard House. one
of New Orleans most mag
nificent old houses.
At Her Best
Mrs. Keyes is at her best
when she wrote Of life on a
pre-war plantation In Louis
lana. We meet young Pierre
in his family circle at Tou-
tant, later renamed Contre-
ras after one OF his victories
In the Mexican War, where
he was wounded twice and
where he fought with Robert
E. Lee.
One Of the most readable
parts Of the book deals with
his romance and marriage
with Laure Where, also a
member Of one OF the oldest
landed families in Louisiana.
whose family owned Upper
Magnolia. one Of the loveliest
plantations on the Missis-
sippi. It is interesting TO note
that while Gen. Beauregard
was always the darling OF the
ladies OF the South, he met
with tragedy In both Of his
marriages. Laure died In Civ
ing birth to their third
child, Doucette. at Upper
Magnolia: Caroline died
while he was off fighting the
War Between the States and
when he went TO Montgom-
erx(to see jefferson Davis he
thought he would soon be
back with her. Instead, he
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was rushed off TO Charleston
and Fort Sumter and never
saw her again.
The dashing Creole general
had his fair share OF real
life romances. but Mrs.
Reyes has created a fictional
one with Mrs. Madame Cas-
tel for purposes Of her story.
Each chapter starts off
with historical data and the
story is picked up from
there. For incurable roman
tics and those who know this
has all gone with the wind
but Ssy like tOEad about it any
LEE WALSH.