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REV lt,ATHEh HAUrtUS TH}:; ABBEY .t>RE88 TH• SAINT HE INRAIJ nm CATHOLIC Sub•cr1pt1on: . Vol. XXIV No. 9 April, 1958 25o Per Yeu Price le EASY ESSAY By PETER ~UR.IN By DOROTHY DAY Caesar or God A story has been sent out by Christ says : the N. C. W. C. news service about "Render to Caesar "the closing" of the House of Hosp­ the things that are Caesar's itality in New York by the city. I and to God understand that the story included the things thljt are yo?'s." 1 the statement that we were ·looking The Fascist Caesar, • for another place, but this state­ the Nazi Caesar, ment was left out· of many of the and the Bolshevik Cae~ar news stories in the diocesan press, are not satisfied and our friends have been left with the things with the impression that the House that are Caesar's; is closing. This is not true. We are they also want the things hunting daily for a new place and that are God's. we will· continue even if we have When Caesar sets a glaim to rent a· store front to feed the to the things that are God's hungry, clothe the naked. When it he sets himself up as dod. comes to sheltering the harborless, And when Caesar with all the deaths by fire in our sets himself up as a God great and crowded cities, it be­ he sets himself U.P , comes harder to find a place where as a faker. we would get a certificate of occu· • When Caesar sets himself up · pancy from the city. ~ as a faker, African Bishops We repeat as we have many he should be denounced B ~ovine In The Tower times before, that while there are as a faker. Denounce Segregation slums, we must live in them, to By JIM MILORD share the condition of the poor. At Fascist Caesar , LUSAKA, Northern Rhodesia­ • The Fascist Caesar Most of the, working population, traffic problem for a hundred miles the same time we have improved In a recent pastoral letter the claims that the child blessed by automation or not would or, a wreck. In either case, your every house we lived in, and made belongs to the state. Catholic · bishops of this British probably raise a hue and cry plione plant becomes -janglingly it a place of comfort and peace. The child does no~ belong protectorate made the following against George Orwell · and his alive with waspish dispatchers One story printed about us said to the state; statemep.ts: "Some barriers may coterie of gloom-prophets. droning their everlasting: Move, that we had been living in a fire Move, Move. trap, and that the city had to clamp it belongs to the paren,ts. have been justified in · the past. Things are a bit mechanical but The child was given by God not that bad-ever. 1984! You A towerman moves his trains by down on us. The truth of the mat· to the parents; They are no tonger j,ustified today. don't really believe that stuff? a series of interlocking switches ter is that when I was given a sus· / pended sentence as a sluin land­ he was not given by God Nothing short of this concept of I cannot say ttiat I do. But I am and ·signals and the hallmark of lord (a sentence that still stands) , to the State. a multiracial society will have the beginning to wonder. And if you'll his eff~ciency is a continuous ftow: the house had two fire escapes, The parents must approval of the Catholic Church, follow me on my final Railroad ot traffic. It is impossible, of teach the child course, as machinery in :the plant back and front, though the build· because it is the only system which -caper, 'ou ,P..e.rhaps .P,aY ]\a\;e cause ing at Chrystie street is onfy h\ o to serve God to look into our Brave Old World itself as welf ' as switch springs rooms deep. In our repairs, the from whom will· safeguard the requirements of with less myopia. break down, signals bum out and they received the child. human dignity and secure equality trouble is a daily affair somewhere building- department made us take "Once the wheels start rollin,' " one fire escape aown! We also had When the parents in human r~hts for all its citizens. on the Pike. · a crusty Brakeman told me once, a night watchman and fire ex· allow the state In labor· jargon, l suppose the There Is no multiracial society as "you'll be hearin' them all the time tinguishers on each ftoor. to grab the c~ild long as the various sections or the and you won't be the same." "conditions" were ideal: good pay and to act When we purchased the building I had to admit he was right. Here -$2.00 an hour even while train­ towa d the child population are compelled to live with the help of St. Joseph e"ght I was in the Summer of 1,954 .right ing, three weeks vaca'tion with pay, as if God did not matter, segregated from each other. One hot plate privileges, private wash­ years ago, there were no violations bfCk in the re!f clapboarded hiring against the house. In the' ensuing they loose their claim of the fundamental doctrines of the office of the Belt Railway, room and even janitor services. to the allegiance six years, more and more laws were Church is that the human race is ·A subtle lure·, Railroading. It is There was no slogging around in a of the child. slicker' on rainy nights, no tripping added to the books, so that there one. We appeal to all Catholics to a narcotic after a few hundred in the snow. You could wear a <Continued on page 6) The Nazi Caesar think and speak and act in con· nights out 'there in the hustling The Nazi Caesar Yards. I was remembering the smoking jacket to work and go • claims that there are formity ~th their belief . in the thrills I got when fighting and home without a smudge on your Australi·an BIS• hops superior races unity of mankind, and not pay holding a full hea(l of steam ·at the hands. At one Tower my co-work- .. and inferior races. exaggerated attention to accidental pop as we woµld run for a grade. ers on day and night tricks rigged Urge Accel,.,rated The superior race differences within the'human fam­ I mused 'about those ea.rly dawn up a TV set in a concealed place, "" j. ls always the one ily, particularly to the color dif­ runs, sifting along on a big "glory" to watch between trains. J • · • one happens to belong to. ference. It would pe hypocricy to engine, a Pacific Mountain, with It all reads like a very pleasant mnugrat1on The inferior race claim that we stand for Christian fifty yellow reefer cars strung out job indeed. On the contrary, it The Australian Federal Catholic' is always the one civilization if we ignore one half behind and a dishwater gray plume was deadening and intolerable for Immigration Committee, an official that refuses to recognize of the most important command­ of smoke spiraling into the sky. the most part and ls sure to be- or gan of the bishops there, is urg­ the superiority of the one ment of Christ." My attempt at a farming experi­ come worse. Why? ing an accelerated immigration which claims to be In this te~se situation the bishops ment found my, ideals of freedom Electronics and TV are slowly program. In_ a recent statement the the superior race. could easily have hidden beh~d f not squaring too well with the feed putting this once ~challenging job committee said that the "prejudices The superior race false prudence and remained silent. mills and necessity as well as · my into a position for robots-certain-. and ar:-tipathies" that create opposi. likes to believe Like the hierarchy of the Union of addiction to tracks and trains ly not men-at least men who want tion to immigration are more often that God works South Africa, however, the bishops found me back in the crazy, hard­ to do more than push buttons. than n.ot the result of "a lack of through the superior race. here spoke up against the country's rock routine. In the old days, the switches had know:ed'{e and understanding of The superior race "ruinous divisions." Three he ct i c, dissillusioning to be pulled by manual work on a man's inherent right to emigrate." conceives God months they were, in a refined series of wires and pipes. · They These prejudices are often as a racial God. form of indolence which would de­ were nicknamed "Armstrongs" and linked with "selfish fears of loss of There are no superior races; Colombian Bishops light an Orwellian oracle. · it took a .strong arm on wintry employment, of power and of au­ God {s not a racial God It was my last tap with Mother nights to close the switch points. thority, social an9 religious," the but the Father of all races · Ask Land R~f orm Railroad. It also gave the man plenty of ex- committee said. "Such fears ought and the Creator of all; A dispatch~r had once taunted ercise running from one to the to be d;sregarded as unworthy of · Christ loved and died for all.
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