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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15
Fathers Day

When the disciples asked Christ to teach them
how to pray He gave them the Lords Prayer,
THE MOST IMPORTANT point. in that prayer was
and is that we should call upon God as a Father, de-
string, above all else, spiritual good things, asking them
for others as we'll as ourselves, with charity in our
hearts and forgiveness on our lips.
And Christ insists that the heavenly Father will
answer our prayers ultimately for, as He is at pains
to illustrate, a father would rot give a hungry child
a stone for bread, a scorpion for an egg, or a serpent
instead of a fish.
In another place in the Gospel, Christ tells us
further that men are to "be perfect, as also your
heavenly Father is perfect"
THESE BASIC TRUTHS seem fitting in observing
Fathers Day this Sunday. II is true that the custom Of
honoring fathers on the third Sunday of June is not
of religious origin.
AS a matter of fact, it began in 1909 when Mrs.
John B. Dodd Of Spokane, Washington. got the idea of
setting aside a special day for fathers because of the
love and example of her own father, William Smart,
who reared six motherless children on a farm.
II seems to us that fathers should be treated with
the respect they deserve and not with sentimental in
diligence. If that respect is rendered them, perhaps
more American fathers will assume their rightful re-
sponsiiIity which some have abdicated in the home.
THE BEST HONOR that can be given fathers this
Sunday is to show them that we acknowledge that they
are the head of the family, endowed with authority,
subject to great responsibility to teach, to lead, and
TO rule.
They have all this because they we're created by
God in His own image and role and are expected 10
initiate His PROJECTIONS insofar as they can.
Most Importantly, we should pray for our fathers
and ask the heavenly Father TO grant them all good
things not only for themselves but so they can share
these graces with their families.
The best thing we can do Sunday is to recite the
Our Father in the Mass with special fervor for our
fathers. -GAF.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15

order.
In the last two decades health and welfare legiS-
lation has been the concern Of both federal and state
legislators. In line with this 18 states have extended
the same kind of safety protection accorded students
in unsupported schools by providing bus transporta-
ton to children attending non-public schools.
Laws similar to the Wisconsin legislation, have
been upheld by the supreme courts of California, Ken
lucky and Maryland, but high courts In Delaware,
Oklahoma, and Washington have ruled them uncon-
stitutional. Public funds are also used to transport
p~arochial school pupils in Massachusetts and New
York, but proposals to do so in Iowa and PennSyl-
vania we're rejected.
THE AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENT on this is
sue is found in the EverSOn Decision of the u. S. SUI
premc Court in 1947 which held that public funds in
New Jersey could be used to reimburse parents for
transporting children to Catholic schools because it
does not violate the u. S. Constitution.
The Court declared here: "The State contributes
no money to the schools. 1t does not support them.
It's legislation, as applied, does no more than provide
a general program to help parents get their children,
regardless Of their religion, safely and expedltiously
to and from accredited schools"
George E. Reed, associate director Of the NCWC
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15

legal department, has written that the "New Jersey
bus decision affords strong support for transportation
legislation because it implicitly reaffirmed that 1t is
the child who benefits, not the school, and even more
important, because it based its ultimate decision on
the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. Inc
Court reasoned that "New Jersey cannot hamper It's
citizens in the free exercise of their own religion.
Consequently, it cannot exclude individual Cathollcs,
Lutherans or the members of any other faith, BE-
CAUSE OF THEIR FAITH OR LACK OF IT, from re-
ceiving the benefits of public welfare legislation"
The Court concluded "The first amendment has erect
ed a wall between church and state Out New Jer'
sy has not preached it here
Mr.. REED POINTS OUT that this decision square"
ly holds that legislation designed to transport children
to and from parochial schools does not involve a vlo-
lation of the policy of separation of Church and State,
and that such legislation is a necessary safety nipple
mentation of compulsory education laws.
He concludes however, that initially, legislation
must be sought in the individual states. And 1T must
be framed with the state constitution in mind and with
full knowledge that it will be subjected ultimately to
a judicial test"
We say ION Wisconsin, and upward, prudent
leaders in other StateS.-GAF
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15
Wisconsin bus law ruling
A real disappointment to parents there

law, which was to go into effect July l, with most
Catholics favoring it and the Wisconsin Council of
Churches and most other Protestant organizations OPP
posed to the measure.
In the majority opinion Gt was 4 to 2 against the
law, the state supreme court relied more on a section
in the Wisconsin constitution than on the first amend
ment of the U. S. Constitution, but the pro and con or
guments centered on whether religious societies"
would be benefited or not.
Justice George Currie, who wrote the majority
opinion, said there are only 10 private schools in Wis
consin not operated by religious organizations and that
none of these would be helped by the law, but about
500 church-related schools with some $1,000 pupils
would benefit.
Justice Thomas Fairchild in the dissenting opinion
said the law would have benefited children primarily,
not religious organizations. He pointed out that the
Wisconsin constitution was drawn up in 1848 so it is
not known how the drafters felt on the current issues.
He declared that a law should be termed unconsti-
tutional only when it appears such beyond a reason
able doubt.
HIS IS A REAL DISAPPOINTMENT to Wisconsin
parents, but before some Catholics start screaming
"foul," ~"bigotry," or "prejudice," perhaps a short re-
view Of the factors in the school bus issue would be in
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15

finding a baby mechanic, since
science now has invented a
machine that produces a me-
chanical heartbeat that is in
tended to substitute for the
reassuring heartbeat the baby
would normally hear when at
its mothers bosom.
1t should not be beyond the
ingenuity of modern science
to invent a complete dummy
mother. The next step, then,
would be automation. We
have laundromats now. It
shouldn't be long before we
have BabymatS.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15
EVERYMAN'S FAMILY
To q child - love is
dS important Gs TODD
BY FIR. John G.. Knott

communist POW, camps in
Korea was that so many Of
them had come from bad fam
lily backgrounds.
They had never or rarely
known love in their lives and
consequently had no sense
of their own worth-whileness
and dignity. They had the
feeling that they weren't fit
TO be loved by anyone, since
nobody had ever really loved
them. The cruel treatment at
the hands of their captors was
only the final proof of the
emptiness and deSolateness
of their lives. So they pulled
the blanket over their heads,
turned their faces to the wall
and died-from lack of love
as much as anything.
This is the great dignity of
a mother-not only to give
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15

physical life to the child, but
also to give love. All the ira
ditional things that a mother
has done with a baby since
time began-hugging, cooling
over him, talking to him, sing
ing to him, kissing and caress-
ing him, holding him tight,
rocking him, walking him and
a thousand other things done
over the thousands of hours
of his young life are more
than gestures of affection.
They are channels of love.
They are as important to his
emotional and spiritual devel-
opment as food is to his body.
THIS IS THE HORROR
(and use the word deliberate
ly) of the mother who turns
her new baby over to the
daily care Of a baby.Sitter, a
neighbor or another hireling
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15
~sEcURTY-rHE AGE OLD TONIC

or even to a grandmother
and goes off TO her Job out.
side the home. She seems TO
think of her child as a little
machine that needs to be
kept at room temperature and
be fed and changed at regu-
lar intervals. Anybody of rea-
sonable intelligence and COM
potency can perform these
functions and she is willing
TO pay that anybody to act
as a baby mechanic.
In fact, she may soon he
relieved of the problem of
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15

II was an expert in the
field who stated that the
usual nine months preg-
nancy for a b a b y was
about three months too
short.
You can hear the reaction
OF the latest mother-"Hmph
i suppose that so-called ex-
pert is a man. Who else would
come up with a bright idea
like that"
ACTUALLY, the bright-idea
expert was a man and a psy-
chiatrist. All he was trying
10 do was emphasize that
while the first nine months
were important for the phySic-
al development of the child,
the first few months of the
infants life we're also import
ant for his emotional and spir-
itual development.
When a baby is born he is
completely dependent on
someone else for food d,
warmth, cleanliness and for
an answer to all his little hui
man needs. He Is also abso-
lutely dependent on someone
else for an answer to his
greatest need-love.
The infant has an infinite
capacity to be loved. He can
lie in his crib and the whole
world can pour its love into
him and he will just lie there
smiling, waiting for more. He
Is never satisfied with love.
There are statistics some
place, | suppose, about the
infant death rate due to phys
ical causes beyond anyone's
control. Certainly, there is
always a sense Of great shock
when we read of a young
child who dies or is crippled
because of physical abuse or
neglect.
But where are the statistics
on the number Of infants who
starve to death through lack
of love. Who knows the num-
Der of adults going through
life emotionally and spiritual
ly crippled for the same rea-
son. You meet them often
enough to guess that their
name is Legion.
ONE OF THE contributing
factors for the death of some
81 our service men in the
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15
THE YARDSTICK
US. economy dominated by
neither business or government
THE YARDSTICK
by Msgr. George G. Higgins

in one Or two words, that
there is, in other words, no
single agreed-upon name for
the system.
BUT WHAT'S in a name?
The important thing to note
is that under the American
system call the Institutions
public and private-play their
roles with a great deal of self
determination and self-re-
sponsibility."
The big question today is
whether or not the several in
stitutions are doing well
enough in this regard or, to
put it another way, whether
or not they are playing their
respective roles with enough
self-responsibility and with
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15

enough concern for the public
interest.
This question was publicly
aired at the recent White
House Conference on National
Economic Goals. The Confer
ence didn't come up with any
definite answers and indeed
was never intended to. It
did, however, succeed to some
extent at least in dramatizing
the Importance Of the ques-
ton itself, and this was no
mean accomplishment. We
need many more such meet
ings at the regional as well as
at the national level. It
would be almost impossible, /
think, to have too many Of
them.
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Letters -.
Where + the
rational Catholics?

Editor:
Not long ago we received our first copy of
The Catholic Times and enjoyed every word of it up
to "Your opinion letters to the editor"
Not only that issue, but all subsequent issues have
carried letters against Father Cronin, Joseph Breig
and others,
PERHAPS it's just that rational Catholics are too
much concerned with intelligent, helpful actions to
take the time to express their opinions on World and
Federal events, but whatever the case may be, please
let it be known that here is one Catholic who is salts
fled with our Country and its government.
| am against the against people, who are not
only fighting Communism by devious methods but also
fighting everything else that illustrates them from
income tax to the Supreme Court.
| am for the "for people" who are trying to pro-
tect this country from Communism by being for God,
Country and all men regardless of race or creed.
Margaret c. Kozelek
Columbus
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Thanks from
the Cancer Society

Editor:
Or behalf of the American Cancer Society may |
express our thanks to you and the Catholic Times for
the fine cooperation given us during our Cancer Cru
SADIE.
We always get such fine help from you and your
staff that we've gotten so we expect it. We also would
appreciate using your columns to thank the thousands
of Crusaders who each year work so diligently to
make the Crusade a success.
Without such help from you and from the Cru
saders we might never find the cancer answer.
Paul L. Walker
Executive Director
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15

Last week the Supreme Court of Wisconsin struck
down as unconstitutional a law which provided limited
transportation of private school pupils on tax-paid
school buses.
The law, which was termed a halfway" law,
stipulated that bus riders could be provided along
regular routes for ALL children to the public school
(which they are entitled to attend" 1t said that non
public school pupils would then have to make their
own arrangements getting from the public school to
their own schools.
Widespread controversy had been aroused by the
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15

loves God and hates his neigh
Dor is a liar"
This man is made to the
image of God. If | am a teach
er, / will not give him per-
verted truth.
This man is made in the
image of God. If he works for
me, | will not defraud him. Ii
/ work for him, / will not
defraud him.
This man is made to the
image of God. II / am a law
yer, | will protect him from
injustice though the heavens
fall.
This man is made to the
image of God. If / am a doc
tor / will try to preserve the
sacred gift of life. If | am a
patient, | will pay the doctor
bill.
This person is made to the
image of God. If | am a bar
tender and he is a minor, I
will not serve him.
This person is made to the
image of God. If | am married
to her, / will not beat her.
And vice verse.
This waitress is made to
the image of God. / will not
humiliate her.
This congregation is made
of people in Gods image. If
] am a preacher. l will not
make my sermon too long.
This driver in front of me
is made to Gods image. / will
not honk the horn before the
light changes.
/ cannot love God and hate
my neighbor. IF / hate him I
am like the man in the story
who was so short sighted that
he sold a valuable art treas
ure for a foolish trifle. | am
forgetting that, underdeath
the dust out of which everv
man is made, there lies the
image of God.
Goodness knows, we are
looking for a basis of world
unity. 1t should begin here
with the recognition of Gods
likeness in everyone, because
everyone in the world is made
to the image of God. What a
difference it would make for
world unity and world peace
If everyone tried to see in his
neighbor, not an enemy. not
a bore, not a nuisance, but a
creature made to the image
of God.
The world today is like the
man in the story. Short sight
edness causes us to ignore a
valuable treasure because it
is covered with dust. We are
forgetting that, underdeath
the dust out of which every
man is made, there lies the
image of God.
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one as God is one. Matter and
spirit were united.
Behold Man. Behold the key
to the unity of creation. Be-
hold Gods last creative word.
Behold the last chord in the
symphony of life. Behold Man.
Behold the image of God. Be-
hold Yourself. Destined to
live forever. Intended by God
to live forever with Him.
We have travelled a long way,
All the way down to nothing
ness and all the way up to
God. Let's see if we can bring
it down to everyday life.
A first reaction could be,
as | gaze lovingly at my pho
tograph, "This is a very ele-
waiting theology. There is no
doubt about it. l am made to
the image and likeness of
God. How lucky God is" A
second reaction could be this:
when | look at my neighbor
/ begin to have doubts. It is
difficult to see the image of
God in him with his big nose
and his flat feet"
OF course it is difficult.
Whoever said religion is
easy? But, easy or not, you
must try to do it. Why? Be-
cause one is the image of the
other. You cannot see a thing
directly and say, at is beau
tiful" and then, when you see
its clear reflection in a mir
ror, say, at is ugly" One is
the image of the other.
Your neighbor is the image
Of God, just as much as you
are. | may not like the way
my neighbor walks or talks
or combs his hair. | may not
like his taste in clothes. |
may not like his political con-
yictions. | may not like the
things he said about me be-
hind my back. In short, / just
do not like him (nor he, me,
for the same reasons). But |
cannot say that | love God and
say that | hate my neigh
Dor, because one is the image
of the other.
If | do not try to see this |
am like the workman in the
story who could not see Lord
Nelson under the dust when
he found the painting in the
secret passage. / am forget
ting that, under the dust out
of which every man is made,
there lies the image of God.
Pious twaddle and nonsense?
Try it for a week and see,
Suppose you did this for a
week. You meet someone and
say:
"This man is made to the
image of God. | cannot love
God and hate him. Saint James
tells us, whoever says he
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What should the Amer
lean economic system be
called?
In response to this
question, many, if not
most Americans would an
swer Capitalism.
But such an answer really
wouldn't be very helpful to
the mythical man from Mars,
because, if he had stopped
off in other parts of the world
before coming to the United
States, he would have observ-
ed that there are many def
initions Of capitalism so rad
ically different one from the
other as to be almost contra
dictory.
THE PROBLEM. then, is to
qualify the word capitalism
in such a way as to enable
the man from Mars to dlstin-
guish between the American
economic system and that of
Country X, or between the
American economic system Of
1862 and that of 1900.
The difficulty in choosing
the right adjective to go
along with the word capital
ism was highlighted in an ed
itorial of the April 20 issue of
The Statist, a British weekly
devoted to commerce and in
dustry. The Statist says that
the American economic sys-
tenn is a kind of socialist
capitalism"
The coupling of these two
apparently contrad ictory
words may at first sight seem
paradoxical, The Sfatiss adj
mits. The paradox, we are
told, lies in the widely accept
ed view that the United States
provides the setting for the
worlds most uninhibited free
for-all capitalism.
This, says The Statist, is a
false view of the American
economy, for the fact of the
matter is that Gin many re-
spects the American is one of
the most regulated economies
of the free world. In few 9TH
er capitalist countries are the
banking and insurance COM
panies and the capital market
so hemmed in and often re-
stricted by regulations as in
the United States -"
THIS WOULD seem to be
a fairly accurate statement as
far as it goes, but does it fol-
low logically that the Amer
lean economic system should
be described as a kind of go
cialist capitalism" Is social
iSt" the proper adjective, or
is il burdened with so many
varied, not to say contra
dictory, connotations as to be
a source of even further con-
fusion to the inquiring re-
porter from Mars.
There is a good discussion
of this whole problem in the
new and revised edition of a
book entitled "The Economy
of the American People" pub
lished by the National Plan
ming Association in Washing
ton, a nonpolitical organiza-
tion where leaders of agricul-
ture, business, labor and the
professions join in programs
to maintain and strengthen
private initiative and enter
prise.
THE AUTHORS of this
book, Gerhard Colin and
Theodore Geiger in reply
to their own question, What
should the American econom-
ic system be ealled?"-point
out, in Summary, that our
system SIS neither capitalism
nor socialism in the histor-
ical meanings of the terms.
1t cannot be classified un-
der these headings because
it is dominated neither by the
State nor by private business
nor by any other single group.
All the institutions - public
and private-play their roles
with a great deal of self-de~
termination and self-responSi.
bility."
What Colin and Geiger are
saying, in effect. is that their
question - What should the
American economic system be
called?-ScanEot be answered
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-06-15
AT RANDOM
But WhO cdn IOUe
God and hate man?
BY Gerard Z. Sherry

God spoke. Man obey the Voice. A being appeared
from the dust of the earth, by which he was united
to the lower world, The being was made of the breath
of God, by which he was united to the higher world.
The being was made of body and soul. Creation was
Evening star., 1962-05-29
4Window Washers Die
When PIotform Falls

NEW YORK, May 20 (AP).-
Four window washers were
killed early today when the
moving platform on which they
were working plunged down the
side Of the 43-story Equitable
Building in midtown Manhat-
tan.
Three apparently were killed
outright as the platform hit
the sidewalk with an impact
so great that huge plate-glasS
windows several yards away
were shattered by flying frag-
ments. The fourth died en-
route to a hospital.
The victims were Nicholas
Sczerba, As, of Jamaica, Queens;
UleSces johnson, 33, of Man.
haitian: Flagit Grover Zunk, 38,
of Astoria. Queens, and Edward
Bartelho. AZ, of Bayonne, N. J.
The men we're working at
some point below the 23d floor
OF the building, which is situ-
ated across the street and a
Evening star., 1962-05-29

had converted his assets, other
than cash, into Federal, State
and local bonds. 1t was un-
derstood at the time he had
ordered the 45th birthday
share of the trust fund to be
invested in Government bonds.
Mr. Kennedy plans to leave
the White House this evening
for the birthday party at Glen
Ora. his hunt country estate
where Mrs. Kennedy and the
two children, Caroline and
John, jr., will greet him along
with other members of the
family.
Attorney General Robert F..
Kennedy, the Presidents
brother, and wife, Ethel, will
be there as will two sisters,
Eunice and Jean. Eunice is
the wife Of Sargent Shriver,
head Of the Peace Corps, who
will also be there. Jean is Mrs.
Stephen Smith.
The President plans to re-
main at Glen Ora over the
Memorial Day holiday, return
ing to the White House on
Thursday.