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Subscription1 :Vol. XXV" No. ·10 June, 1959 25o Per Year Price le • ' STRIKE IN NEW YORK HOSPITALS • At a meeting of the Central Labor Council last week at Roosevelt School Auditorium strikers from each of t he slx hospitals described By DOROTHY DAY the intolerable conditions and low wages of from $32 to $40 a week. Afterwards Beth Israel Hospital was picketed by thousands who The last issue of the Catholic Worker, 'the April-May issue, came marched down 14th. St. from the meeting, out while Deane Mowrer and I The wealthy men who determine the policies of exploitation of the were in the Woman's House of De non-professional employees who are on strike say the same thing now tention. She eovers the story in that they and their kind said years ago, that unless there was a 16 this issue of the paper, and I shall hour day in the steel mills the steel companies would go bankrupt. write more on it later. Looking, In the industrie.s in which they lead they recognize unions_ and pay over my diary in which there are decent wages-because they have to. And because the law states that large gaps I find that part of the non-profit hospitals do not have to bargai.a with unions they take thil time since my last On Pilgrimage, to mean that they can get by with their robbery. was taken up by sickness, an at Lorenzo Santiago of Mt. Sinai H;ospital told of Hungarian refugees tack of flu, the kind that leaves being maqe straw bosses and advised that if they joined the union they one very melancholy, dull-witted would be deported back to Hungary. Joe Brown of the Bronx Hospital and down in the dumps. My moth told of society women lying on the floor of taxis in order not to ba er used to say that the best cure seen when· entering the hospital for scab duty. This reminds me of for melancholy was to clean house, fifty years ago when President Eliot of Harvard called on his students take a bath, get dressed up and to scab during strikes. Rev. McCray, Negro minister of the- Jewish go buy a new hat. St. Teresa of Hospital in Brooklyn where there is an injunction against the strike Avila is supposed to have fed her spoke eloquently of the spirit of the_ strikers. Doris Turnex of Lenox nuns steak when they were weak Hill Hospital said that the strikers were fighting for what most of ened by melancholy. My cure in New York already takes for granted as to living conditions; not for this case was Dickens. I reread jam, but just bread and butter. Mr. Nelson of Beth David Hospital "David 'Copperfield." My confusion said that the managem~nt told them that they were not skilled, but o.f mind might have been increased they were made to do a lot of skilled work that-nurses do, and that by reading Charles Williams' "The they were offered extra wages if they would scab and return to work. Greater Trumps." But there was Mike Quill in his best Irish manner called for unions to withhold a splendid quotation which helped any donations to the Community Fund which gave money to these me greatly, on page 143. hospitals. Louis Hollander, Chairman of the Executive Council of the, "· •• When her brother had re State AFL-CIO said that unions were formed for the very purpose to marked that she seemed mopey help those which needed ft the worst, and ,this was surely a case where she had been shocked • • • by a help was needed. Harry Van Arsdale Jr., President of the Central sense of her own disloyalty sine.~ Labor Council called for donations of food for the strikers. A tele· &he believed enjoyment to be a phone message of approval came from George Meany, President of the - debt which eury man owes to his Mary Whalen AFL-CIO. fellows, partly for its own sake, This strike has been going on since May 8 and 3,000 are out. lt partly lest he at all dlmlnlsh their was called by Local 1199 of the Retail Drug Employees Union, whose own precarious hold on It. She leader Leon J. DaTts has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for violating attempted dutifallJ to eaJo1 .U Grand Jury ari injun-ctiotf. However, M'ayor Wagner bas appointed a fllree man It failed, but whlle a.be attempted BJ CHARLES BUTTERWORTH arbitration committee headed by veteran conciliator William H. Davis, the true ~ilt was deliored faCo .lier and the jailing of union men, and further strikes in hospitals run for Jiands." The United States case against and walked around, maybe to go to profit is being delayed until the committee makes a report. Eighteen Joy in this sense ls used as C. S. me for refusing to give up Don to the washroom. Some paid good at out of twenty-eight social workers who belong to the American Federa tention, but others showed by their Lewis uses it in ''Surprised by the F.B.I. ls still in process. The tion of State, County and Municipal Employees, refused to cross the Joy,'' and as Bernanoa meant it in wandering eyes they were waiting picket line at Beth Israel Hospital. (I formed a union of social workers indictment had to be passed on by for the next case. his novel Joy. the Grand Jury and I went down and others in 1935 ln Milwaukee that later joined this union.) My own brief gloom was caused to the Court House for that meet As near as I remember this ls Whether hospital employees should strike or unions be recognized, not only by illne~s but also by the ing. what I said. "It ls likely, it seems it is a shame that hospitals which charge plenty and are surrounded impending air raid drill. Making to me, that this law has been with the latest in luxurious and expensive equipment should depend There was a. long wait so I told broken. If ~ou .find that to be the upon the starvation of "the least of these, my brethren" to continue the stations of the Cross overcame Agent McKoen how in the old days that. Abbot Marmion says one gets case then it will be your duty to their operation. The Catholic Worker backs these strikers and their an increase of fortitude while mak a fugitive could obtain sanctuary grant the indictment the govern- · aim for union recognition and appeal for funds for them. ing the stations. I prayed for for- in a Catholic Church. He estab ment asks. A. H. titude and joy. · lished his right of sanctuary by "But I want to draw your atten- grasping a large ring or knocker My prayers were answered all tion to something else. This law is on the church door. I said that a right because I had a perfectly part of the war system. It ls part of • happy time in jail. The Image priest who refused s!lnctuary could the old way of trying to get peace, be excommunicated. But maybe The Hopi Visit_Us Book, Teresa of Avila, helped in oy arms, military service, and laws that's wrong. The Catholic Ency this. Monsignor Mccafferty brought supporting them. Perhaps there is By Anita De Frey clopedia just says, "Violation of me a copy of this and it was so someone here who is beginning to (Sunblrd) Modoc Indian the protection of sanctuary was good and exciting that Deane and lose faith in that way to peace. punishable by excommunication." The following Hopi Spiritual Hopi Tribe). Josephine Tarrant I took turns reading it. Now we at the Catholic Worker Bob thinks this penalty probably leaders were our guests: Dan (Silver Cloud) daughter of -Mofsle are pacifists, we reject that old The Line applied to the person who tried to Katchongva, Spiritual_ leader-;- Sun and Alvina, of the Hopi/Winne way to peace. There is a new way We have been looking for other take the fugitive away, not the Clan, who led the delegation to bago T rl b e s. Kenneth Tarrant quarters and spent much time and priest. But Ammon's- position is which the world must learn that the United Nations. George (Sharp Shooter), son of Josephine, Gandhi used in freeing India. It thought on one· building on the clear, no one can both "turn peo Nawewsevlna, Priest of r.ellgious of the Hopl/Wlnnebago Tribes. Is called pacifism or non-violence. Bowery, which turned out to be ple in," and remain at the Catholic ceremonies of the Snake and An· A brief introduction was made too small · to take care of our Worker. • · You can learn about it from the telope Societies. Tan Holr Yama, by Mr. Hennacy. He has visited Catholic Worker or from the our distinguished guests In their office and kitchen both, and would Then I was called into the Grand Religious leader of the Rain Cloud mean increased expense: and then Quarkers at their office on Third homes ln Oraibi and Hotevilla, Jury room. It was medium size Clan. Hughie May Nuwa, Active on another building on Houston Ave. Or you can learn as I did Arizona, and been their friend for with a large table in the center in religious eeremonies; refused Street which is being torn up and from studying the life and teach to register for war and served many years. The Hopi slept at the widened at that point. When we and the jury of sixteen people on ings of Gandhi." CW when they came the first nigh_t. a raised platform nearby. I was time in. Federal Prison at Tucson, asked city officials if thare was Then I spoke about an apparent Arizona. David Monongye, High They brought a message of tre any any prospect of the building seated at the table with Mr. contradiction. Catholic Worker mendous importance, which has Starkey, the prosecuting attorney, leader in Hotevilla, of the Pump coming down soon, they replied policy is to encourage people to re kin and Swallow Clans-also come down in the traditions of the that "as of this moment" there and several other officials. There. fuse military service, ·but to refuse teaches youngsters. Tom Banuyac Hopi people, who have been ad are no plans for that side of the is no judge, the district attorney on moral grounds and openly by ya, Rain Cloud Clan, interpreter vised that this is the time for them street. · But by a consensus of instructs the jury on their duties. returning and accepting a possible. for the group. Was a famous run to come and give the message opinion those stores and apart This arrangement helped tj). put jail term. In time a man can gain ner. Attended Sherman Institute ·and warning to all peoples. They ments which made up the building me at ease, I was glad there was his dignity and freedom both this in California and Bacone College were told to come to the house ' were considered unsuitable by our no raised witness chair. way. But I had told Don, "There's in Oklahoma. Arrested and served with glass walls, where the repre group, so we will content ourselves The hearing lasted about a half a man you don't want to see," and time in Tucson for refusal to reg sentatives of many of the different with St. Joseph's Loft on Spring hour. The questioning was let him leave. My words don't deny ister for the draft. With the ex nations of the world gather to Street until .. we are forced out. thorough and fair and a secretary our policy, they show that I ception of Tom .and Hugh!~ all of work out the probl~ms of man The problem is the line and the wrote it down for the record. "Did thought Don wasn't yet ready. for these Hopi are over 80 years of kind. The six spiritual leaders of hostility of the neighbors which you write this article?" Mr. Star this open way. age, except Dan who is over 90. the Hopi Nation in company with is not yet overcome. Right now key showed me my article in the In closing I told the jury that I The following Western Indian peo Mad Bear Anderson of the Tusca we are only feeding the "house." May C.W. Bob had sent a copy to was convinced, first that the ple were present, who are at pres rora Tribe of New York, and Rob Our windows have been broken, the F.B.I. It was entered as evid destrucflon of all life by war and ent living in N. Y. City. Chief ert Steed of the Catholic Worker, some panes in every window and ence and then Mr. Starkey read atom bombs is not the future. A Russell Moore of the Pima Tribe. went up to the United Nations one can only think of that story of it to the jury. Just before the hear great era of peace lies In the fu His wife Ida is of the Oneida Building on the morning of May St. Francis, "This then ls perfect ing I thought of reading my copy ture and all present fears of total Tribe. Mary A. Riddell (Austasha) 5, 1959, and while they· were re Joy." We are ~till housing people instead of making my statement, destruction are false. Second 'that of the Quinault Tribe. Leona Ear, ceived courteously, they were not in scattered apartments and at. the but this way both were done. God is a liying Person fully in con of the Sioux Tribe. Alvina Mofsie heard nor permitted to giv.e their Jeanne d'Arc Residence. My men- My statement was vigorous but trol of events and the true leader (Morning Star) of the Winnebago message, . the excuse being 'that (Continued on page 6) not smooth. Several people got up (Continued on page 1) Tribe, (widow of Mofsie of the (Continued.on page 2) Page Two· THE CATHOLIC WORKER June, 1959 Yol. XXV No. 10 June, 1959 • • CATMOUC ~WORKER By AMMON BENNACY Published Monthly September to June, Bl-monthly July-August "TOO MUCH TO CAESAR, TOO that Dorothy Day had broken the (Member of ·catholic Press Association} By Elba.beth Rogers LITTLE TO GOD, a judge and an law 5 times vernment which upheld seventy-one, but he doesn't look it, Congressman Meyer of Vt., and slavecy and war. I said that I had what with his straight back, un- the 2nd time for Art Harvey, non- no personal animosity toward lined and cheerful face, and abil- church pacifist who has helped me judges, police, tax men, and civil The. Hopi Visit Us ity to absotb hours of work in fast and picket on various oc- defense men, but that they were (Continued from page 1) the garden. casions. 14 others pleaded guilty all in a bad business. The judge and received a suspended sentence then asked me about rendering their message should be put 1Jl ent groups to go East, other groups John., Shorty, and Pop have put 1lS it was their first offense:- unto C.esar a'.Ild I gave the answer writing and submitted to the UN- to go West, other groups to go in lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, A week before the ·air - of with which this article begins. for consideration and later on a North, and still other groups to go tomatoes, beans, corn, and .our raid April 17 David MacReynolds, In the Tombs I celled with a meeting might be arranged whe~ South~wperever the G"reat Spirit other usual crops, and this year they could be heard-but not until directed tliem to go. The Hopis are trying asparagus and straw young Socialist conscientious ob- colored fellow waiting sentence next -September. were directed to the land that was berries, both of which grew and jector, was pictured on the .front two in a cell. The food was good page of the Village Voice saying enough, even for a vegetarian, arid They told the UN otficial to to be theirs. They were given a fiourished here when this was a I. commercial farm. that he would go to jail with the guards did not seem as m whom they spoke that this was a stone tablet which ls still at Old Dorothy and me for refusing to natured as formerly.· At Mass after message of the mind and heart Oraibi, and the Hopi people made Speaking of planting, Tommy take part in the coming aid raid the chaplain announced that "the and must be delivered in person an oath to the Great Spirit. As Hughes has planted some sweet drill. This announcement drew Epistle today says to obey the and not ill writing, and that they ~ong as they. adhere to the teach over a dozen, many of them stu- civil authorities," the sermon was would wait three days. mgs they will not be destroyed, dents, to go to jail with us. They better than the average I hear on· Tom Banuyacya spoke of .his and there will be a good life for all here; but if they turn away they were Al Scott a former CO, Scott the outside. school days. He was sent t~ In- will suffer many troubles and Herrick, FOR member and real At Hart's Island two guards dian schools which were run on estate n1 a n, Sheldon W e e ks, wanted our literature and two oth the principle of Military Schools bring things upon themselves that Quaker who has worked wilh us in e~ said that they had seen me on (~o very foreign to Indian ways}- would destroy many of our peo- pl-e. · In those days the Great various activities, Thomas Grabell, Nxghtbeat two years ago and they they had to rise at a certain time, Martin Smolin, Joe ~aldwell a were cordial. I was classed as eat at a cl!rtain time, march in a Leader had two sons. There were Catholic, Gil Turnet, Joe ·Fraser, "unfit," being over 60 and lived in line, all together. He spent a great t~o stone tablets. One remains Walter Crutchfield, Bob ·schoen- Dorm 6 along with 105 others. MY deal of time in the study of com· . with the descendents of one of th~ hold, Joe Schulman, Milton Chee, numbe~ was 516337. I spent my parative religion. He realized that sons eriod the life would warned that they would cross the the students at one end, and Dorq- At Hyde P;irk Freedom Day at , Great Water and if they lost the be destroyed because the people original teachings they . would thy and Deane at the extreme left. Hunter College six Speakers told had turned away from the teach- corn in a patch at the beach cot He was asking about how we would the students briefly what they be. ings of the Great Spirit and the bring many troubles upon them- tages, and the first small shoots plead and I answered "Guilty." lieved," then each one had a soap. people wciuld destroy themselves. selves. Every Hopi knows that are showing a hove ground. He asked Dorothy if she was the box on the campus 'to defend their 13ut always there were certain many of the prophecies have been Visitors leader and she replied that she and ideas. A speaker from the doc ones who were -saved to carry on fulfilled and many still await ful- - I had taken this stand for years. trinaire Socialist Labor Party We hav~ad some coming and into the next stage of life. In one fillment. We are still waiting for He looked at me and asked me if spoke first. Then one from the going. Arthur Lacey, whom some of those stages the world was de- the return of our brother with the I didn't believe in law and order. Trotskyite SWP gave a not very atroyed by a ..great flood. Legends other stone tablet. Some day he one once termed the "irrepressible Impulsively I said "no" meaning clear idea of what a radical was. Will come back to see if we al'e itinerant," spent a few weeks with and stories tell Of this time, and that I believed fn God'~ law and My friend Arnold Johnson of the most of you have read of it in still following the original teach- us, as irrepressible as ever. He did order but not his kind. He wanted Communist Party gave his histori your Bible. Most Indians have the ings. If we have tleparted from errands, and acted as sacristan to know if I had ever been locked cal approach of Communism in our and Mass server, and then only a aame teacnings. The Great Spirit them we must return to the teach up for mental observation. I could world today. When· it was an Jaid down . iul:es of life for us to ings originally given us so we will short time later went his way to have answered him like Judith nounced that I had been arrested . ·follow, and by departing from not bring about the destruction of the mountains, where he has a Beck did in 1955 to Judge Kaplan thirty times the students ·cheered these ways we eventually destroy this life as it was destroyed before. summer job; by asking him if lie had ever been I said that the meeting reall; ourselves. Very few people were These men have kept the teach Ken Bourke, who was with us under obversation also, but I felt should have been the day before i;aved after the destruction of the ings. They have been beaten-they for the winter, has taken a trip that one utterance like that in for it was Karl Marx' birthday and world by flood . However, some have been thrown into vats of home to Ireland to visit his fam court was enougp to break the of- proce.eded to differentiate between strong people of all races were sheep dip-which was later taken ily, whom he hasn't seen for a ficial decorum and majesty of the the Communist and anarchist phil living after the flood. into their homes and sprayed on ~umber of years, and Andy Spil law. I suppose I upped the bail tor osophy, inviting the students to We met the Great Spii-it here. their food-tMy had their clothes lane, our seaman friend who visits all of us for he placed us all in come with us to jail on the air The Indian people were over all of torn off-they were thrown into between voyages, also has gone ~1000 l>ail each. Art and Karl and raid drill next year. Dave Mac- this land. we asked permission ditches. Tan Hoig Yama was de home to Ireland for a visit. Andy 1 told those who were planning Reynolds spoke for the Socialist of the Great Spirit to go into this prived of his 266 head of sheep used to mention sometimes after bail that we desired to be the last Party and I think gave the best new life. He granted that permis- while he was in prison. All of them a trip that his ship had docked in to be let out for we were more speech of the day. The Demo 1&ion and said: "It is up to you if had horses to bring in their crops, the harbor at Cork, but there was used to jail. Dorothy and Deane re- cratic politician was · what you you want to lead my humble life but the horse,s were taken away never an opportunity to go ashore. fused to accept bail. After 5 days would expect. The Republican and live simply. You are to take and they must now carry the crops Both Ken and Andy. expect to be we appeal'ed in court before Judge man was a Wall Street lawyer, a care of Jlfe in the land in certain in on their backs. back in June or July. Ken wrote Roe, who was a kindly Irishman. Catholic who liked Nixon and ways, and follow my teaching-s. This will lead us into the time recently that he expected to make Dorothy said as the poor couldn't Goldwater. He knew of the CW This Is the ba.sis of the life here. when the great circle will be upon a trip to Lourdes during his stay ·afford bail we CW's would not and greeted me kindly afterwards. 'You have to decide 1n your own us. There will be great sicknesses at home. take ilny. I agreed then, but we The Communists had the biggest hea.rt whel er to do the right ol' that no medicine can cure. The Paul Lerner has gone to Berea were allowed out for a day and a crowd of hecklers when we were the wrong thing; you have been prophecies foretold that twice the College in Kentucky to finish his half on our own without bail. At on the saapbox. I had mostly taught good things by your parents white people of this land woula college work, after which he hopes the trial Joseph Glass, a Socialist Catholics for an hour who were and by your uncles. You have to cross the water to kill people and to te'ach history or political sci lawyer for some of the others, disturbed at the CW pacifism and decide for your.self whether it ts even some of our sons would go ence. He writes enthusiastic let said that if the object of a sen- anarchism, but we had a gc>od right or not." with them and shed blood. The ters back to us. Norman Foret, a t-ence was to deter the breaking of, time. · This is _the way the plan wa~ third time if we do not sit down young poet, godson ·of our good a law then it was futile, for al- One Sunday I spoke at a Com laid out for this life. When we with our brothers of other nations frlend 'Brother Anooninus, spent a though he was not authorized to munion breakfast in a K of C hall came here the Gi:eat Spirit laid and talk over and resolve the dif- ·-4.,. -reeks with us, cooking and speak fo~ the ·cw•s who didn't at Southampton, L.I. to the young out the land plan and told differ- 1 (Continu•'{" on paj!I 8) ~ ·ontinued on · page 7) want any lawyer, he would say · (Continued on page 6) (· June, 19S9 THE CATHOLIC WORKER PRISON REVISITED By Deane Mowrer could not sleep, some could not sister friends, spoke eloquently on graphing, stripping,••-showering, tered about on smaller tables eat, most o.f them were glad to talk behalf of our pacifist action, point- classifying, though those of us mostly in the front part of the When Dorothy Day and I en of their troubles to anyone who ing out the historic precedents for who had undergone the medical at room near the .area of the gate tered the receiving room of the would listen sympathetically. They brealtlng foolish shortsighted laws, Tombs were spared this. Once where they served to deflect the -Women's House of Detentien after were often afflicted with the sting and the fact that deterral - would more I was the' last to be called. eye from that hypnotic contempla our arrest for participating in the of old resentments and bittern~ss, not be a consequence of any sen- Several times an officer asked me tion of bars which prisoners to·o pacifist demonstration during the which is understandable since most tence. Ammon Hennacy, ,after his if I did not want to put a call to easily fall into. air raid alert war games of April of them came from that segment of witty rebuttal of the judge's ad- someone to pay my fine. I said no; On tile whole I think- that the 17, it was for her the fourth visit, our society which shares least in its monition to render to Caesar - I was too tired to try to explain Women's House of Detention is for me the third, to that grim supposed advantages and most in "Too many people are rendering why. I kept trying to pray but it disgracefully im1dequate for the building on Greenwich Avenue its glaringly harsh inequities and too much to Caesar and too little was difficult. For one thing I was multiple uses to which it is put. which houses New York City's injustices. Even the women ac to God"-gave a calm and simple hungry - the bologna sandwich This is a fact which is generally women prisoners. Once more we cused of homicide were, for the statement of the Catholic Worker which I had eaten without so much acknowledged, I believe, by cor were questioned, numbered, pho most part, poor beaten creatures position on war. In .an age of as thinking of Friday until I had rection authorities. Reports hav& tographed, fingerprinted, stripped who had tumed"in some final fatal demagoguery and warmongering, consumed tl}e last crumb did not of possessions and clothes, sho,w been authored, and increased rage against drunken brutal hus it was good to know that there provide much sustenance; I was funds asked for again and again, ered, and' subjected to a medical bands. The truth -.is that in our examinaaon primarily intended for were a few men of intelligence and also wondering how and where but with scant success. It is hard society, wht~ like ancient Rome integrity who could speak so forth· Dorothy was and whether I would ly to be e.iu>ected th!lt a city gov- • til morning of the f o 11 o w i n g pleased at seeing Dorothy again. that elsewhere in the jail. Satur Wednesday, Dorothy and I shared tened again to the kind old la~ who assisted Msgr. McCa-";~ry by I was much too late for supper, day morni.ng we exchanged our un the life of the women detained in but Dorothy borrowed some in sightly wrappers for a few prison corridor C of the sixth floor. This trying to help the women prepare good confe~ions. Sunday we at stant coffee from a fellow-prisoner; garments almost equally unsightly ~as similar to that we had shared but covering us sufficiently so that with the sentenced women on the tended Mass at 7:30 in the morning another produced a piece of gin and were happy to see there were gerbread, and still a·nother a tuna we could go to confession in the seven:~h floor, both during the afternoon and to Mass Sunday five-day sentence which Dorothy many more in attendance than two fish sandwich which she had oved years ago. Then in our cell during from lunch. The food was de morning. Monday morning we and I served together in January licious, but the kindness was even were given work assignments; Dor of 1957 and the thirty-day sentence the period we were locked Jn, we continued Olll' prayer life, with better. After I had eaten Dorothy othy to the sewingroom, and I to which Dorothy, Judith, Joan and showed me around our new quar light cleaning in the dbrmitory, I served the following July. There Dorothy sometimes reading aloud were some differences. Detention the Mass of the day or the Office. ters. There was a spotlessly clean which was very light indeed since women are not given work assign For spiritual reading and for -shower with real shower curtains; there were already too many ments so that the time is more recreation-it is truly both-we there was a lavatory room with cleaners for the job. Miss Mc drearily served with only the fret react.from the delightful biography toilets actually provided with Carthy, who is in charge of the ful ticktock of waiting and worry Teresa of AYila by Marcelle Au doors, though somewhat abbrevi sewingroom, 'Promptly put Dorothy- ing. There was more variety, how clair, which Msgr. Mccaffery had ated and without locks. There was to work knitting a baby blanket t>.ver, in --the type of offense rep brought in for Dorothy. This is an a clean attractive diningroom for the bazaar which was coming resented. A m o n g the women Image Book edition which every opening off the front section of up soon. Dorothy's arthritis was around us, we knew of six homi 'bod.y with any interest in that sAINTPAUL the large dormitory, thus provid-. bothering her, and she -was also great and lively Spanish Saint ing an angled break in the larger suffering from a cold, but she kept cide ch a r g es, two kidnapping examination which is even more charges, and several grand lar should own. Nor do I know of any rectangular space. There was a at her knitting during most of her better book for jailtime reading. In rigorous than that at the Woman's TV set in the diningroom which spare time in the dormitory, There ceny charges. Some of the women House of Detention. There was maintainested panes for jail life. It helps to pass the alter if they chose to do so. There usuaJ, and I heard of one person agrees, court appearances are most but with three lower and three time, to calm frazzled nerves, and are few women so totally lacking who had to wait ten months. This exhausting, truly penitential. Nor upper panes opening diagonally to promote better relations with kind of thing seems downright un can one ever be sure exactly how in modesty that they would not ap for ventilation-which gave the fellow prisoners. constitutional, or perhaps Ammon many times one will have. to ap preciate a little courtesy and feeling of spaciousness. It was also Among our fellow prisoners, would say that it is merely an pear in court for this unorthodox privacy. Dorothy was among the the high ceiling, the columned there were a number who admitted other proof of the folly of putting crime which baffles and annoys fi st to be examined 'and because supports, and the highly polished to drug addiction, some to prostitu one's trust in governmental guar judges and police. This time we of her heart condition was taken tiled linoleum floor. The restful tion, probably to get money for antees. of rights. Some of these had to undergo three appearances, in the first load to the Women's soothing tones of blue and green drugs, some to various kinds of women, of course, might have been fortunately all within the space of jail. This consideration, I think, witli which walls and columns had money orin;ie. There was a young out on bail-if they had money or a week. It was fortunate too that originated with the doctor who for been painted seemed to blend m woman from Ecuador who had ' friends with money. Realizing this, Judge Roe released those of us all the assembly-line nature of her the natural harmony of the sea been involved in a fight in the fac Dorothy and I were delighted with who had not given bail on our own task did seem capable and intelli and so subtract from. the walls tory where she had worked; she Bob Steed's response to those who recognizance so that we had a day gent and really making an effort something of their grim confining. was an attractive, rather senti wanted to r~Jse bail for us: "Dor- of freedom which Dorothy spent in to regard the. stripped and awk purpose. There were twenty-two mental young woman who lived for . othy doesn't believe in giving bail her indefatigable work for the wardly tabled bodies before her as beds with white spreads and pi11k the visits of her fiance; these visits because the poor cannot afford to poor. My owp. state of nervous something more than mere labora blankets folded at the foot, and a meant so much to her that she do so." numbness is evidenced by the fact tory specimens of pathologic dis pink cabinet for personi!l poses could not eat on visiting day. There I can scarcely remember what l orders. Since I was among the last For all the gravity of the charges sions alongside each bed. Every was also a relief case, an older did except that I know I was glad to ·be called, I had plenty of time thing was arranged with neatness woman, the mother of children, against them, most of our fellow to go to Mas.s and Commun.ion and to observe my fellow-suffer;ers who prisoners seemed muqh like women and order, but not that severe in· who seemed to be one of the most spend a while in church. seemed sunk in a kind of fatalistic in trouble an.ywhe1'e. Emotionally stitutional order which must not re~ponsible and industrious per more iIBmature, usually lacking When we were finally sentenced, apathy, and to try to build in my be disturbed, for some of ...the sons in the jail'. In addition. to her educational advantages and intel Friday morning, April 24th, I self a reservoir of prayer for all women were lying on their bed:; duties in the hospital where she lectual discipline, more childlike think we all felt _we had been of us who were caught up in this wiUf pink blank&ts spread over was assigned, she took care of the but just as moving and pathetic as given a fair hearing by Judge Roe wearying and humiliating situa them. Built into the walls were a chapel, a task which she liked since any other suffering human being. wh o was quite a contrast to the tion. When my turn finally came, few closets in which dresses could she was very devout. It was she At times they sang, laughed, quar angry irritable judge before whom the kindness and personal interest be hung. In the center of the room wli..o lent us the St. Joseph Missal reled noisily, engaged in broad and we were originally arraigned. The of the doctor did much to amelior were two tables where women so that we could read the Mass of bawdy raillery, or. found an out judge listened patiently while ate the ordeal. could sit and play cards or read the day and pray the beautiful let in obscene and profane lan some of the men in our group It was about five-thirty when the or knit and talk with one another. litanies which are included in that guage, though there was less of spoke up for peace and against the group of women _with whom I wa~ There was also a small table near book. We heard of a riumber of this than we heard on the seventh mockery of civil defense which herded finally climbed down from one of the front columns where relief cases, all of whom . seemed floor two years ago. But in un surely no one in his right mind be our dark, stuffy, uncom.fortable magazines and a few books and to be serving disproportionately guarded mcments. their faces re lieves is any real defense against conveyance at Women's jail. Once games were· kept. And to add a long sentences. In a society where vealed the deep "marks of weak_ nuclear warfare. Mr. Glass, the more we had to undergo the pro note of nature's greenery, there money is god-as it is in pra~tice . ness, marks of woe." Some of. them lawyer representing our War Re- cessing - fingerprinting, photo- were several potted plants scat- (Continued en page 6) } • TUE CATHOLIC WORKER June, 1959
eludes both sound traditio.n and ;::::::::::~~~~~------the, best of modern Q.evelopments, ANOTHER OASIS theological, philosopbical, and psy- · From the jungle of one more rotte~ ing place chological. . . Father Gleaoori's present boqk my father pulled· waste. " discusses Christ as -the cente.r of Before we owned the High, Street· house, Christian life, a11d how we ar e to. paid for with hard-earned cash, CULT :: C make Him in pr actice the focus of we lived in rented houses; and wars our personal life and spirituality. were declared by father: "Man's supreme desire," :h e says, roaches and rodents were wiped out "has always been union with God, •• by our giant; and Christ the Lord is God's relentless, he licked the lousy lot, sublimest answer." And, "The truth •• that man of love CULTI\ is not that God loves, but that God fierce· as he battled dirt, And is Love, that Love expresses the at last he lay, · ' very nature, and very essence of his birth. Fathi:r Crisogono, 'Yho MORALS AND MISSILES: Cath • Inhaling the odor of washell, white sheets, the God•head." He discu55es charity died in 1945 at the age of 41, was olic Essays on the Problem of as he saw by moonlight and hope in the Old Testament a Discalced Carmelite priest who a sunflower, big as his pride, and corn War Today, with an introduction and the New, and shows how the distinguished hims~lf !>y a life of tall as our grower New Testament has universalized teaching and scholarship. This Life by Michael De La Bedoyere. washed and waiting for mother ~o lie besi~e him. these virtues. There is a first-rate is based on t he primary manuscript Edited by Charles S. Thompson. Joseph Joel Keith chapter on humility as the keY- vir- sources and the author had access James Clarke & Co., Ltd.. 33 tue the fountainhead of all other to all ~xtan t documents. In addi Store · Street, London, WCI. .virtues, as pride is the fountain tion, he had an intimate knowledge 1959. 76pp. Reviewed . by head of all other sins. His discus of Spain and of the sixteenth cen sion of grace and liberty as an tury. This work gives a good Deane. Mowrer. appendix to the chapter on hope is BOOK~EVI ~ws· exposition of the teachings of St. The seven to this very fine, taking into account mod- ~on tri bu t ors By ELIZABETH ROGERS ern discoveries about the nature John which is not too obscure for booklet-Canon F. H. Drinkwater, BOOKS o:N 'RACE in the South in the latter nine- of the personality. There is a final the ordinary reader, and it is a Dom Bede Griffith s, O.S.B., first-rate biography. Fr. Crisogono Christopher Hollis, Sir Compton The last few years have seeri a 'teenth century, who has gone be- chapter on the place of work in the yond the prejudice~ of his boyhood Christian scheme of things, not presents a picture of a man who Mackenzie, Archbishop Roberts, 1pate of books on the South and I and given fifty years to the work simply as punishment for sin. but must have been, humanly speak- s.J., Fr. Franziskus Stratmann, race relations, -both South and of bettering race relations ' in the as an expression of man's self and, ing, one of the most attractive of' O.P ,. E. I. Watkin-deserv.e the North some good, some notably South. He got into the field when since the Incarnation,· as a redemp- the saints; there are . repeated gratitu~e of all peace lovers for bad. For those . interested .in this he was a senior at the University tive act. · stories of how people avoided con- their clear authoritative presen field I would like. to call attention of Georgia and became the recipi- We now have two books by sulting St. John for spiritl!al di-· tation of the Catholic position un to the following book: which have ent of the first Phelps-Stokes Fund Father Gleason. We hope earnestly rection because the rumors of his war and conscientious objection. come to my notice recently: fellowship for tlie study of race for more. asceiticism and holiness made Although they take off from dif T·he Catholic Viewpoint on Race l hem think he must be stern an ferent points of view ~and . offer. relations. The book is an excellent l~age Books . Relations, by John La.Farge, S.J. general survey of the history of . forbidding, and of how they were somewhat different solutions, they Double11ay · continues its. high New York: Doubleday, 1956. $2.95. completely won over by his gentle- are all vitally concerned with the white-Negro relations, and Dr. standard of paperback Catholic This ls, as far as I am concerned, Woofter's attitude toward the books in the Image series. ness and love when they cam~ to monstrous, almost unthinkable hor the book for Catholics. Father I:a eventual outc- an official ban on the use of bows on the question of war offers a fubllc Laws of· the Church, 3rd and arrows, the new weapons which absolute, Sermon - on - the - Mount progressive accommodation to its pacifism of Ammon Hennacy and ed., Rome, 1947. baa taken fighting out of the hand "lawfulness.' In the early Chui·ch, to-hand stage and won for England the Catholic Worker. Indeed in Summer Meetings abstinence from and clear reje.c his discussion of the desirability the famous victories of Crecy and tion of war. In the time of the "The man of religious faith must Agincourt. Yet none of the Catholic of extending non-violent activity PETER MAURIN FARM Crusades, taking up the sword int1J1 the spheres · of social and' have a truer and mor.e effective P_!easant Plains, Staten Islan~ ru1ers of Europe and none of their at the service of faith. After tcve for all men, including. those Catholic followers-it was the age political .life, he makes special S•11clay After1111011-2:30 that, for ·the punishment of who are our enemies . . This is what of faith-paid· any attention to this mention of the work of Dorothy grievous wrong of whatever type. Day and the Catholic Worker the Church must do in. a- society J1111e 7-ED. ECiAN Papal ban; it was as though ~he Since the 16th century, permit where welfare is a secular project, The leat Cie11eratlon: Pope had not spoken. Today a group. He also gives considerable S.ekl11g Wit•o.t Desirln•to Find · ting wars even for pursuing attention to the example of achieved by machinelike organiza small minority would probably claims of national right, without ,Gandhi, who has demonstrated tions moving on the plane of J•H ll, Ju11e 28, July 5- obey such a Papal ban of nuclear necessity for the presence of that non - violence - which he science rather than . love. 'The Fr. H11go'1 Co11ference1 011 Records war and nuclear weapons, but I moral guilt. At the beginning of learned from the Christian Gos Church m1Jst bring out the ancient would agree with Mr. Watkin that the 19th century, extension of pels- is as efficacious iii our day truth that every man is his broth July 12-HELENE ISWOLSKY' the great majority would not obey, Ru11lan C11lt and Culture the military calling to the entire as it was in the time of Christ. er's keeper and that it is not would follow like foolish sheep able-bodied pop·ulation; vohm But the practice of non-violence enough to refer him to a· social J•ly 26-ANNE MARIE STOKES their militaristic leaders and per tary enlistment replaced by uni is not easy. It depends-as Christ agency. Charity today means con Fre11cli C11lt, and Cult•r• .haps accuse the Holy Father him versal · conscription. taught and as Gandhi continually descending, heartless giving in IFr. Tavard •01 p-;omlsed to speak self of acting as an ally of Com " If at the present time you emphasized-on the conquest of order to be- free· of the· sight of OH S1111day Oii Eculllenlsm) munis)ll. hold that the Gospel of Jesus self, on the glad willingness to misery. Aid so given produces II.treat Over Labor Day Weekend If the Pope will not speak in Christ stands at the beginning of renounce the goods and rights of hatred and the recipient is not so FR. MENARD, · O.S.I. - formal condemnation, what then this line, then you can well this world for the sake of the much helped as humiliated '' must the Cat.holic with a consci- speak of a steadily descending Kingdom of Heaverr, and · the -Father Gustave Weigel, S. J. ------~------_,.. ------
June, 1959 P-ie Sis TB E c AT H 0 L.I c w 0 R K E R their own trees. It was a bad sap year, he said, and they had made CAR IT AS only six gallons, but for each six "It is particularly n.ecessary to .maintain permanent and ON PILGlllMAG.E. gallons, thirty gallons of sap had loving contact with every eategory of .person, beginning with (Continued from page 1) to be gathered from the woods, the most humble, the laborers, favoring among these the most and it had been a job, sliding down ignorant, abandoned, needy, and unemployed ... and e:;~er- · tion of that brought me a · delight- ished plougiling, spreading manure icy paths and much of it being ful letter from 4 woman who came and harrowing the garden patch, spilled. cising at the same time assiduous charity among the infirm, many years .ago from Europe and with David and the children assist prisoners, and the like." stayed with the Sisters there for ing and the joy and excitement The boys were fishing every ·· Pope John XXIll in a talk to the Italian Hierarchy. some year s, and wanted very much. had been interi.se. It was truly spare moment, and I had a good to join their order but was re- spring, and the weather from then pan of brook trout before I left. jected, much to her disapp·oint- on for the four day weekend was Nickie is always telling of the dozen he caught, all of which were ment. She was very happy there hot and still. too small and had to be thrown ·In The' Market Place she said, as thqse of us who stayed They· had a full day, that Ascen- back. But Eric and he always bring there have been happy. sion day-up for a six,thirty Mass (Continued from page 2) fish home. Staten Island in Springfield where the parish Squires and their mothks. The Army and Navy Journal, the Daily church is, then on to Chester to By the side of the kitchen door :young man who introduced me was Worker, the Socialist Milwaukee We are settled, as much as we the crimson tulips, narcissus, · daf a school teacher in the local high- Leader, the I.W.W. paper, the can be settled anywhere, on Staten buy feed and get the 25 baby chicks offered with every hundred fodils, pan'sies and grape hyacinths scbool and years before had. no- anarchist paper Freedom, the Na Island, and we are making plans were in bloom and in the woods ticed me on 43 and"Lexington sell- tion, the World Tomorrow, a to build ther e if we can_ get a pounds. They had a full load com~ ing. back, eight childre.n, 75 chicks, red trillium, little yellow lilies and ing CW's when he taught at St. pacifist paper. the Christian Sci permit. But the latest news is that many varieties of violet are' in .Agnes. He was a liberal Repub- ence Monitor, and America, the our neighborhood is zoned and we and feed, but "they made it," as Nickie says jubilantly, and the five bloom. The fold upon fold of hills l:ican but felt that these young Catholic weekly. This last is can build only one or two family are many shades of blue, violet folks could stand a message from w.hat had the KKK burn a cross houses. Ii we decide to do this older children were dropped off at the four-room schoolhouse in PerJ and green and above the sky is the the left. I told them that there where I lived. I told the students we w:n build a two-family house clearest blue. The only sounds are was thr~e sides to every question: that no paper told all the truth, with bedrooms for twelve children! kinsville and the rest brought home to seltle the chkks in the the stream coming down from your side, my side, and the right that histoFy was a fiction agreed What are we coming to when there Weathersfield Center and the wind side. I told them of the time upon, and that what happened to are so many restrictions laid down. room ovt!r the barn. All during the day Marthie kept going arourid in the trees nd the cow bells on when ~ taught history, in Fairhope, day as they read all of these pa- We keep trying to work things out the hillside, the clucking of a pers would be history tomorrow. as a vol untary association of peo clutching one of the tiny black roosters to her breast. Little dozen or so bFown hens, and the This of course made history class ple, a grou p living together and .occasional song of a bird. - interesting. I asked the head of trying to perform the works of chicks alwa:9s seem to live through I fed the little ones their apple the KKK to come to the high mercy. these adventures. - sauce and peanut butter sand school on a Friday morning when - Visit to Ta.mar Hilaire had how!ed when his we all discussed items from these mother and father went to com- wiches on the porch, and tried "to Early this month I had an en describe all the beauties around us papers and to give his argument for gagement at Bard College which to the children in terms of God the KKK. I told him I would is almost a hundred miles from the creator. "Isn't God good to argue against him. Three weeks Staten Island. It is dn the way to STTlMOTHYa give us all these things?" I said later, he left town, for he was Vermont, and · since I wanted to from my own deep sense of thank ashamed to have peoplz .know that bring Tamar some boxfS of clothes fulness, . and little Maggie said he was afraid to talk, and he for the children I borrowed the S!PAUt firmly, "I like God," and Martha couldn't talk against reason. Over farm c::ir and drove up the West echoed. "I like God too!" . half of the students asked for an ... shore of the Hudson to Kipgston extra history class at night (no ~ememhering how often the and the.:i across the river to the credit) and we met Wednesday e·omment is made that one must ·school which is a hundred years nights 8 to 11. The next year the love one's· neighbor but not neces old and is now termed by some a history teacher was an ex-army sarily "like:• him,_ ! was well satis "progressive" college, and de captain. So the students were not fied with their comment. scribed by another as like St. hurt. But where today could you John's at Annapolis except that When Tam;u- was growing up 1 be allowed to read every side of they went in opposite _directions. used to lament the passing of each a question? If our Faith amounts I do not know what they mean, year, each stage. "Now she is no to anything it ought to stand criti but I 1£¥lrned that there are aQout ronger an infant, now she is no cism. 250 students, it is coeducational, longer a two-year-old." But with One afternoon I spoke to a class there is one faculty member for the big family, there is the fascina at St. Francis Xavier High School every seven students, thili: they tion of all the ages. where the scholastic Mr. Cezparik study by th~ seminar plan and the And how beautiful young moth had educated the class to know students love the place. It is very ers are and how more relaxed the what we of the CW believed. I expensive. rt costs about $2300 a mother of the large family who had a fine time for several hours year to go the~e. knows DlGl"e or less what to l!J'pect with the alert students. "Bronnie" I stayed the night at the home of each year. During the month I Alabama and the KKK wanted to from Boston is here for a few of the professor of sociology, Dr. spoke at Easthampton where our run me out because I believed in weeks while Bob Steed is away on de Gre, went to Mass the next friends the Whalens and the thinking instead of sh9llting, for li vacation, and he helps me sell morning Ascension Day at Barry Konceliks live on a pinewooded I had the Wall Street Journal, the papers on the street. town and then set out on route • hill overlooking a bay. They each nine to meet route 23 into Great have nine children and there too munion. The family had to go in one finds that wonderful sense of Barrington. Route seven brought two batches to the communion rail. Prison Revisited me. to Manchester, Vetmont, and purpose and fulfilment. Not much chance for feelings of (Continued from page 3.) then over Bromley mountain, devotion with a squirming, restless ' Reli&'iCNl in the home - where the car boiled over and here-crimes involving money, no by the knowledge that loyal friend1 20-month old baby but .what an act The problem of religious expres matter how petty or in what ex on the outside were partjcipating made whistling noises like a tea of faith, what will to offer wo.rs.hip sion in the home is one that both kettle. We rested for a time on tenuating circumstances, are re in our act by prayer, · picketing, to God, what real desire to re- ers many parents of large families. garded' as particularly seriQus; a goodwill. But I think the gre_atest the mountain side while I said ceive Him! • St. Benedict's rule, short prayer!! " the rosary, and then fortified with kind of blasphemy, I suppose. compensation was that of being Tamar will fatten the cockerels but frequently, is a good one. There was a young woman in our able truly to visit the prisoner. For Hail Mary's I got to tfie top of the When it ·comes to the recitation of hill wher e a kindly man cooled to a certain age and then they will dormitory who was r eading Dos going to jail is rather li~e ventur be put in the deep freeze. Her the ros ry, it certainly seems to toievsky's Crime and Punishment; ing into a new country, not unlike off the car for me with a hose me better to recite a decade · and advised me to have the ther hens are giving plenty of eggs, so there was another lively young those fearsome nether regions many that she sells some. There reverently rather than five in a woman with snapshots of her visited by many ancient heroes of inostat checked. I learn much by mad and distracted race, a bab . all the disasters that happen to is an abundance of home made charming daughter on her wall myth and legend. But - with butter too, som~ oi which she sells. bling with one eye on the littlest who was reading a life of St. prayer - more like our Cbristian our cars. I have had the battery ones climbing in and out of bed. drop out to the ground, the old I slept in Becky's room and she Therese of Lisieux and was deeply purgatory; for one doesn't have to moved into the attic room next 'to The morning offering, grace at moved by it. There was the young be a hero to go there, and no suf style c ~ utch come off in my hand, meals, remembrance of sa1nt's the gas pedal go down through it and the sun poured in and we woman who seeing that I had not fering is lost but ultimateiy ·glows were awakened . early, she to do days, the liturgical season, - the been provided with a blanket on -and forever-in the peace anrget tliat derstaµd what prison is like unless Sponsors fuclude such outstanding we go to jail to see? How can we Catholics · as Donald Attwater, June 19. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn eaten by the wild things about. grace follows its own laws""--41iffer really love when we pass unthin.1<:- . Christopher Hollis, and E. I. Wak -Pr~s_on. Saturday morning Tamar took ent from those of natural psycho logy; and that even i.n natural life, ing outside the walls? How often tin. Subscriptions may be sent to June 26. Anita De Frey (Modoc tne five oldest to catechism which lasts ¥1 morning, and David and I spiritual maturity does not c:>fu will we pray for prisoners if we 93 Malmstone Ave., Mersham, Indian) - The Penitenties of sat out in the sun talking abou! cide with physical maturity. A.s St. have never experienced the walled Redhill, Surrey, England. New Mexico. books and publishers,-city tall!:.. Thomas says it would be a danger forlornness of a prisoner's life? The Peacemaker is published at July 3. Ammon Hennacy-CW But in the oven in the house a big ous materialization of grace to What is compassion but suffering 10208 Sylvan Avenue C llllHHttttff l ltttt lHlllll~HIHHlllllll ...... IDMHSIHttMl•ll ..*'HtfW IHOIWlUfflHNH_IMIN...... , ...... MlmlDllftltlffttMHl" .... "''"lllN llltlttllHlll union. It is equivalent to the laten 1::.111111uwUHlllU IUIUllHUlllttatnltttttltlUHl-lllltnNfftltlMtllflUtli1MtttM.... lmltHfflllll.. IKHIMl-.mfff ...... ~l ...... 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Peter to pray not only for all of in this latter sense we are using it is also the possibility of putting up A young man named Max Sofsky our subscribers and frlends with Mount Angel, Ore~n tonig}lt. housing, such as ls used in Vene phoned one day and asked if he out whom this work could not go zuela, made from cement and mud In the Byzantine Calender it is Dear Friends, could come out to play and sing on. We are sure that God will bloc"k:s, very inexpensive, and sim preserved as the title of certain About a year ago, Ted le Ber his. music for us. We ·were of bless all of you. ple enough for the farm families course delighted. and delighted , .Fire at Grallville feasts on which the people as thon had some articles in .the semble in some particular church of that country to build, so our even more by hi.,s visit. He has C~tholic Worker about the plight ·The Grail has sent out an appeal for the Holy Liturgy and there Mexicans could do this too. We set William Blake's "The Lamb" of the Mexican migrant workers. have a carpenter, mason and and ''The Tiger" io music, and he for funds to rebuild the research fore corresponds to the Roman center on community evelopment, Statio or Stations. Living,_ as we do in the Willa plumber arriving this month, or played for us also his setting for next to help us work ·out some located at Forsters, Ohio, which was " mette Valley in Oregon, where the Ave Maria and '\ome · of hls For example Jan 4th is the thing, but we do not have land to ason is eight to ten month1 Green Fields, Calm Seas waited outside for the decision of bly fertile valley during the grow long, ila~ the surplUJ! food avail· By S'I' ANLEY '\TISHNEWSKI the jury. It wasn't lollfl and a ing .months, is malnutrition! It able fef" the gathering . . . espe A great deal has h!!ppened I based on an ancient manuscript "True Bill" w11s granted. seems to me the .important thing cially ii -ou has worked for the since I last wrote the Peter Maurin dating from the 11th century. I The next step, ten days later, at present is to establish perma particlllaf' :brm~r. . lumn It the w· ter l:ope to make it a beautiful tribute was tbe pleadings. This time Am- nent homes, with tbe privileges of Per}lap.s ~ome et your readera Farm co . was n m to the Saint. IJlOn went with me because he bad e.ciucation, and a place in a com would like to conU.Ct us, and help and the fields were white with The beach llas Hen reaewed ac- to sip my bail papers again. D11111ity; 1lDd -mollllla to eat, etc., out, this _project will be both tem· 1now. There waa no indkation o'f thdty with the coming of the warm .Tadge .Dimllck wn W1fY · for those wliO- ire iufferlni slicb poral .and spiritual in scope, as o1Jr that I understood tbe meaning of want, here .awl now, just as bread the renewed life that was to ~m~ weather. The ebbing tide leava people are Catholics and often un pleading guilty to a felony, that [ lines and .soup kitchens tackle the with the Spring. There was then behind all sorts of crab&, clams and instructed, ibut with su:ch lov.e ior couldn't vote any mwe. He read immediate problem of humanity, the faith; which they hold -to with a somber beauty to tbe landscape seaweeds of maJ1y different hues. tJte lllf a "lay the fields al'e all green and the The bounty of the sea one can peals, there are some who are say! There are many things washed ment. community to work .for the needy, sending help v.oluntari1y, and I am farm crops are b'eginning to sprout. up on the shore and one wonders In these hearings good men are and to .act ..also as ..a center of putting it in a fund in t!i.a bank, in 'The song birds J:iave all come back at the story that lies behind -them. seeking only to do their duty under Catholic Action, in the form .of the event that it may make a be to the farm and in the early morn- For the spring months -we kept a law. That is as it should be. I am Confrater11ity Wor.k. Since ~ost ginning 'POSsible at some future not fighting Mr. \Starkey or Judge of the. migrants (Mexican) are ing one can watch them close 'to small stove ~oing ·with ihe drift date. Dimock, or the rule of law as such. Catholic, there is a much needed the poµd where they come for wood that each daily tide piles up Please keep us in your prayers, on the beach. I 'am fighting the war system ork in this ..field, and our .own and may God bless you. . what seems to be an early morning which I see now as essentially im"' Archdiocese has an excellent pro The children roaming around Sincerely in .Jesus .and Mary, dip. The geese, whose numbers the beach manage to find all so:cts moral. But if law is used to sup- gram started ~long these lines, The Nassets port that system then such law be- but can alwayJ! .Use helpers. have been increased by two g~s- of objects ranging from 2 cans of comes infected and los-es all moral Such a group needs a means of J lings, pay no attention to the powdered eggs to life preservers. sanction. If such a war law touches livelihood, and I believe the opera Mixed-Up Kids robins, bluejays, cardinals who Mai:ge Hughes walking along the me I must react by non-coopel'a- tion of a small local cannery, beach found -a slightly charred Bluffton, Mo. br avely settle down in their midst. wallet containing fifty dollars and tion to the limit of my strength. which by .the way is for sale or Dear Dorothy: After the pleadiirgs Ammon lease, on a :five year basis, could I am sure that to a song bird a papel's identifying the owner, and I hope you haven't given up on signed the bail papers. Commis- afford much of the income, as well goose must look like an elephant. turned it over to th_e police. us. We are still battling the ele sioner Bishopp asked how tile air ·as some form of arts and crafts, or John Filliger says tbat b never Pentecost Sunday I had the hap- ments on top of our wind weary raid drill case came out so Ammon manufacturing. had such good helirers before. Al- piness of participating in a Synoxis hill and at times feeling very iso· was able to tell him all about the Many-families are attempting to lated and a bit guideless. We are bert, who is close to 70 used to given at the home of Dr Louis "More for 'God, less for Caesar" stay, on their own, but loneliness, Loscalzo which was sponsored by probably in better shape all the work on .a dairy farm where he the Queen's Mass Preparation exchange. ostracism, and hunger drive many way around than at any time in our helped take care of 110 cows. He Gr oup. That day at the Court .House of them back to their nomadic eighth year tenure but our life isn't closed with .a talk to my prob4,tion existence after a trial year. We worked tmre i or te; years with I was a bit puzzled when Murie exactly idyllic· w hat ""i th my officer. He showed understanding are God-parents for two children rarely a day off. Albert told me Zimmermann, who runs the Reg traisping off thirty-three ~ miles and respect !or our moral position. from one family w hich made it, that if you asked for a day off, the ina Coeli Bookshop, pl10ned me up each aft-ernoon to the mental hos had been assigned five and now are buying their .own boss would say, "Yi:>u can .take the and invited me to participate in He con~ pital to my off the farm bFead and scientious objectors from Union place, but in the mean time they whole month off." the Synoxis. In ·a sense this was a butter job. The family are all fine Theological Seminary before the had to feed and clothe a family and healthy. Our newest addition, Staten Island h as been invaded scoop for me as Leo Callahan, who last war. The sentence will be of seven on eleven dollars a week, Kristin, was born Christmas day by tent caterpillars and every- originated the idea, told me that welhlre money dur ing the winter and aiine smiling baby girl. We are wher e one can see their cocoon tWs is the first time a has giveri on June 10. Gandhi says do months when there was no work, 1 Synoxis seven now, Judy. Maria, Tommy, nests. All the wild cherry trees been held since the 4th Centur y. not exercise the imagination in and sometime!I if they ran out such matters, expect the best an:d Mike, Kristin, Mom and Dad. - bave already been stripped clean The ceremonies, which were led be ready for the worst. before the two weeks were up, Last year we were able to pay of their leaves. Rere at the farm by Leo Callahan, consisted of a when they got their twenty-two the government more money than we .are keeping a vigilant watch banquet at which Ure beautiful My reading recently has been dollars; and it is hard to judge any year previous. This year they that they do not strip .our apple pr.ayers of tlre Mass for the Feain seeking a better understanding of a baby's aJ>petite, they had to feed want an eqUal .amount and next trees. It w.ould be a tragedy if we of Pentecost were read by the the way of prayer of tile Little their four months old baby 'bean year, the w.o.rst will be over. We lost our a11ples the first year they group. There was the blessing of Brothers and Sisters of Jesus. soup juice and rice water in its don't exactly know what to do with were to bear. The trees were the bread and the wine which were Their ·way is friendship, prayer, bQitle for a few days! The woman the added income. Whether to planted while Irene M ary Nau~h- sh!llled by the assembled people, and sacrifice among the poor. saw no one for months on end, build a new house for our present ton was in charge of the fafm testifying to the oneness of the Mary says this is the true way to when there were no Mexicans in one is bulging, or buy more land some eight yeal's ago. Irene, at Mystical Rody of Ohrist. J>eace, prayer and sacrifice. Jail !is the area to call on her, and she which would enable me to quit my present, is . a lay . missionaz:y in part of our sacrifice, penance for could not leave ller :five little ones present job and devote ~U my time Yucatan. we hope that when II'ene Dor-ethy Sartori did a beautiful the social sin. of war. And we have alone to .go calling. She is -a lovely to our farm. In either l·a .·~ . it will returns this Nall for a visit. that job of mimro-printing the book the certain :promise of Christ person, and a dear friend of ours, mean going back into tlebt but she will be -able to have a treat of lets which co'Iltained the Mass tilrough Mary -at Fatima in 1917 and is at present in the hospital smilingly. some old fashioned apple pie. Prayers for the Feast of .Pentecost. that our efforts are not in vain. giving birth to her seventh child. My job at the hospital consists On my handpress I am printing, I am indebted to Dr. LoScalzo The problems of war, persecution They, as I say, have made it, and of running all the afternoon and as my latest effort, a limited edi- for the foUowing notes
