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Subscription: · Vol. XXI No. 7 February, 1955 25c Per Vear Price le THE COMPANIONS OF EMMAUS · ON PILGRIMAGE By KATE WIDTE new homes Abbe Pierre took to of no more perfect parallel than By DOROTHY DAY (Kate White, who labored begging on the streets, on the thill to express the spiritual state Feast of St. John Chrysostom that you can only see out if you are with us on Chrystie street two radio. Last he said very of part of France. For the spiritual Little Canada. St. Paul up near the driver. The light snow years ag-o, is now worltlng and simply, on the radio, "last night a abyss is all the deeper because in We are in the depths of the win­ flows across the cleared roads like studying in France.) four year old girl froze to death the past they bad the faith, they ter now. When • we got up · this milk, blown by the northwest wind in the tent of ·her family on the believed in a God who loved thetn morning it w.is thirty below, by and the drifts pile high. We have Abbe Pierre has captured the edge of Paris. You who are warm and who came-to them, but to most the· time we set out for Mass at had snow twice this month, but no hearts of the French people. Very and have an empty bed are the French workers God simply does seven thirty, we were swathed with real blizzards yet. little is known about hilll as far as ones who have killed her.''"" A few not exist in their every day world. scarves, clothed in "double gar­ Guadalupe Parish personal details but his sincere such broadcasts during the middle And it is no wonder; you have only ments" but it was calm so it was Yesterday I spoke at St. Cathe­ and righteous indignation oi the coldest winter Europe had to see the hovels in which they are not as cold as yesterday when it rine's College and two of the girls comes through the social works he known in a decade, brought imme­ forced to live-not temporarily but was exactly zero and a high wind. from Maryhouse were with me, directs. He has become one of the diate response from the warmth of generation after generation. As a What b~auty ·of snow and blue sky Dorothy Kregle and Marie Knis­ most effective symbols of Christ the French hearts. I think that it people the French have suffered with the stark dead outlines of ley, and we met Mary Lou Hen­ in France today. Around him has must have been so refreshing for deeply both materially and' spiritu­ trees resting against the sky. All nessy and Eileen Lexau there. All grown in an organic fashion a com- the French to hear a spade called ally from the last two wars. And is s.o still and quiet. Yet what of us had lunch together with Sis­ munity. of about 700 men who sup- a spade. Abbe Pierre did not blame if as a result the rich are now seems like death is the most pro­ ter Mary Edward and because port. .themselves via the ·ragpicking the war; nor the government nor bordering on poverty thoJ_e who found life and will burst out again Mary Lou and Eileen had worked activities of about 200 of their capitalism but those who had be­ were poor are bordering on desti­ in a few more months. Spring is with Friendship House we began members. The other 500 men are come hard of heart. And his tution. It is today for a late here in Minnesota. There is talking about the condition of mi­ building ll.Q.mes ~for ·the po9r of strength lay in the fact that he French worker to spend a good. something tremendously invigorat­ norities in Minnesota. A gover­ France. called upon each individual to forty-four hour week at his job as ing about this weather. I press on nor's investigating committee has The money which .comes in via remedy the situation as far as they carpenter or mason for example tomorrow to St. John's, College­ put out very good reports about the salvaging work of the men were able by their own personal and come home to his family living ville, then to North Dakota and on the situation of Negro, Mexican, guarantees that each man will action or privation. As a result in a tent or flimsy barrack-like to Montana. The busses keep run­ Asiatic and Indian in this section have a bed, food and about 75 Abbe Pierre has been the spark (Continued on page 8) ning, the windows so frosted over (Continued on page 4) cents pocket money a week. He which has set off individual co-op­ works a 44 hour week or longer if erative housing groups all over the he desires. He works for the poor country. His own group has suc­ who have no hemes-his boss is ceeded in building more houses the community of which he is an than the French government but important a member as any other. he also shamed the government No one will question him on his into expanding theil' housing pro­ past. This is a saving grace for gram. the thousands of men who have The community whicb has grown been branded by the French up around him is called "The Com­ courts, after several convictions as pagnons of Emmaus;" this name people unfit to live in any of the alone shows Abbe Pierre's insight majw cities of F.r.ance. Thereafter illte the suffering11 &C he 'Frerich their entrance into any industrial worker today. Remember the pil­ city in France is consldere-d a grims from the city of Emmaus crime punishable by fmprison- were returning to their homes; ment. There are already too many coming from Jerusalem. They had industrial workers in France-so been witness to the preaching of much unemployment-that the Christ, tci the glory of His presence government can feel at ease by as their Messiah. and then they ordering a section of "criminal" were witness to the crucifixion and proletariat to find work outside their God was dead; no longer part the city. Iof their living world but already To pay for the building of the a man who had died I can think EASY ESSAYS . INDUSTRIALISM one can name: William Cobbett, IT STARTED WITH , , Lenin said: Arthur Penty, "The world cannot be Hilaire Bello-c, half industrial G. K. Chesterton, and half agricultural." Eric Gill. Lenin made the mistake The best of all of industrializing Russia. is Eric Gill. Lenin industrialized Russia because the Japanese LEGALIZED SURY industrialized Japan. "The sex , The Japanese industrialized the marriage problem, Japan the crime problem, because the Americans the problem of armaments industrialized America. and international trade, The Americans industrialized all those problems America could be solved because the Germans if we would recognize industrialized Germany the necessity The Germans industrialized of abolishing Germany trade in money, because the English and especially industrialized England. the international trade in It started with England. money; that is to say, A FEW ENGLISHMEN the usury, R. H. Tawney said the legalized usury, that the Englishmen wear practiced by the banks blinkers. , under the protection I. Because they wear blinkers of their charters the Englishmen with the support lack vision. of the so-called Because they lack vision orthodox economists. the Englishmen That is the first thing are very strong to be recognized." for supervision. -Eric Gill And supervision is not a substitute GOD AND MAMMON for vision Christ says: A few Englishmen "Tlie dollar you have got rid of their blinkers. is the d91lar you give Among the Englishmen to the poor who got rid of their blinkers (Continued on page 5) Page TU10 THE CATHOLIC WORKER February, 1955 ,; Vol• .XXI No. 7 February, 1955 Profits in ~ the-Armaments Race ' I CATHOUC ~WORJllalled MonWJ SepUmber to Jane, 81-montblJ JulJ-AllC1DS Hawker Siddeley O-roup-(Pioneer "Hunter's Ace." Export orders for also pre-apprentice and pre-cadet (Member of Catholic Preae AHoclationl ... and world leader in ' aviation>. the' "Ace" includin:g U. S. 6ff-sfiore schools for the Pakistan Air Force ORGAN OF THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT of , England, you'll be in­ purchases for NATO exeeed lZO whiclr are run on English public PETER MAUBJN. Founder terested in a report delivered by million pounds. It is, in the words. school lines. Associate Fditoru the Chairman of the. firm; Sir of the ad, "Britain's largest dollar Slr Sopwith said to the share­ SULLIVAN AMMON HENNACV TOM Thomas Sopwith on January 5, ! Managing Editor and Publisher: DOR01 HY DAY earner." Contracts for ·the plane hold-ers, "Let me tell you that your 223 Chrystie St., New Yprk City-2 •1955 at the annual general meet­ have been placed by Sweden, Den- company .is in a sounder and Telephone GRaniercy 5-8826 ing. His remarks on that occasion mark, Holland and Belgium not healthier state than ever before .. , were printed in a · full page ad in· to mention the British government. Cana·dian interests have been re• Subscription. · United l:;tates, 25c Yearly Canada and Foreign. 30c Yearl7 the Wall Street Journal with four­ The Chairman points with pride .organized into a parent com· 8ub11CTlptlon rate of onr cent per copy plus postage a;>plJes to bundles of one hundred or more cop!a each month for one year· to be directed to one addre• teen illustrations of modem avia~ to the Air Service Training pr~ Ipany . . . during the year we ex· hon's latest contribution to the gram which continues to operate tended out interests by aquiring Reentered 811 second class matter August 10, 1939, at the Post omce world, including the latest model successful technical training (Continued on page 7) o1 New York, N. Y~ Under the Act of March 3. 1878 bombers, fighters .and guided mis­ siles. ~01 - I Sir Sopwith was not content to mention the enormous profits of In r The Market Place the previous year, 6,961,041 pounds, sis compared with last year's pid­ By AMMON HENNACY dling 5,033,744 pounds (after de­ It is a privilege to be selling Catholics who read in the N. Y. CHRYSTIE STREE'r ducting of special expenditures Times or N. Y. Post, or the edito­ By TOM SULLIVAN the mosi militant anti-war paper and reserve for increased replace­ every day of the week in some part rial in the Dec. 28th Christian Do you have a surplus engine to colored woman who has lived with ments cost 'of fixed assets). In cit­ of this greatest city of th~ greatesi Century about my arrest for selling donate for" a 1949 Ford station us from time to time during the ing these profit figures he says, country in the world in these days CW's on this corner, greet us and wagon? Our inim,itable chauffeur, past ten years. When she lived "I am sure you will agree that this of preparation for war, and for often buy extra papers to give to Charlie McCprmack, informs 'us here she was always sweeping and is satisfactory." Along with his the imposition of Universal Mili­ friends. that the engine in our .. indispen­ mopping the · floors am:! stairs, she report on the state of th~ firm, Sir tary Training uwn a nation sup­ Francisco sable station wagon has t.o be just could'nt sit still. Lulu has a Sopwith felt a duty· to express his posedly founded as a refuge for matter of fact voice with a con- views on the world situation, and In September Francisco had replaced. Charlie says that further those who hated militarism in the visited our office, bought my book, repairs to our ~esent machine tinual sigh to it. At present Lulu the part Hawker Siddeley Group old world. is living in a city home but said must play. and vISited with Patricia. He had are impossible. If you don't have * * * .. heard about us through the Quak· a spare engine, maybe you have she would rather get a job for The""Wall Street Journal ad has "Why don't you go back to herself but no one will hire her, a headline which is an exerpt from ers and was on the way to the an 'extra horse an'd wagon? We had Yugoslavia?" shouted a passerby, up-state Bruderhof at Rifton, pre­ a member of our staff some years they claim her old age' is a barrie~. ·-his speech and reads, "IN H-BOMB as I was selling CW's at 43 and paratory to going to the Bruderhof back who was .convinced that we The city welfare department IS AGE OUR SOLE HOPE OF SUR­ Lexington. . willing to place Lulu on relief so VIV AL LIES IN SO BUILDING in Paraguay. He was nine years would be better off if we had a "Never thought of it," I replied. of age when the Franco rebellion horse and wagon. He was positive that. she can live in a room in OUR STRENGTH AND OUR AIR I was standing by the corner privacy. But Lulu said, "I would POWER NO ONE WILL DARE sought to overturn the government that it would be much cheaper. where I had been twice arrested. of Spain. Not a conscious anarchist There seems to be some sort of rather live with others in a city ATTACK US." Tlie report deals Here the- wind blows terrifically, with a capital "A," but anarchistic a lull in the air around Chcystie home than to go off by myself. It at first with the profit figures and but it is a good corner to sell as Spaniards tend to be, he was is terrible to live alone. When the. announcement of a 71!2c divi­ street. We had a sizeable snowfall papers as the people go down however a pacifist inasmuch as he yesterday and now a spell of fright­ you are· old no one wants you. It dend and then goes on to tell of toward St. Agnes where the flag wanted nothing to do with war. fully cold weather has set in. Our is a wonder that they don't throw the expansion of the company and is visible in front like a govern­ So ,,rather than. do time in the goodly .number of men waiting for all of us old people in the East how they gradually caught up with ment building; or as travelers go Spanish Navy he jumped ship and their bowl of soup and a couple of River. Nobody wants to hire us. and overleaped the demands of a to Grand Central in' and out of entered this country illegally. He pieces of bread appears to have H there is a war we won't be any frightened world for modern war this big city, or pass by in their attended William and Mary Col· dwindled a little this noon due no good at fighting. There are too planes. He described the ''.sense of routine business. Here the side­ lege, went back to Paris on a doubt to the harsh weather. Today many people coming to live in New urgency" which prevailed while walk is narrow an-d anyone desir­ scholarship to school, and stowed you would have to be unbelievably York-€verybody loves New York. the world was defenseless against ing a paper can buy one without away again and came here to hungry to stand outdoors awaiting When I was younger I used to the weapons of modern war. We much trouble, while at the wide Northwestern University. He had a bowl of soup. · ' visit my relatives in the south see around the page picture of the thoroughfare at 42nd and Lexing­ notified . the Immigration authori· We still have four members of where I was born. But I woul~n·t latest planes int:luding a triangular ton it is difficult to penetrate the ties that he was entering illegally, our household in hospitals. Henry stay there on a bet. My relations shaped four jet bomber and an- crowd. Later he was put on parole and at used to think that the streets of ' Sanborn was given the last rites at Across the street on this day the end of this parole which was St. Vincent's on Wednesday. John New York were paved with gold. They would expect me to bring was Howard, a young Congrega- due in a few weeks he was granted Murphy and Frank Nagot are both tional minister from New Jersey, voluntary departure from the in Bellevue for the past couple of home a lot of money. and presents for everyone. I bad to tell them trying his first day at our Street U.S.A. instead of going back to weeks. John Pohl is still in Pil­ Apostolate. He had bought a CW Franco Spain and imprisonment or grim's State Hospital. Dorothy Day that I had to work hard and long hours for the few dollars I received and my Autobiography. from me worse for his refusal to be a part as you might note from her articles there a few weeks before and of the Franco terror. is still on pilgrimage across the as a maid on a Long Island estate." ' decided that he wanted to do his Now with his contact with the states. It seems as though Dorothy The visit with Lulu did all· of has been gone longer than the us a world of good. Lulu neither bit to spread the CW gospel. CW absolutist position (see CW actual time elapsed. Due to the talked up to you or down to you. Across on the other corner was Positions, Sept. 1954) and selling Francisco Ferninoez Jiminez from the CW's daily with us he felt the threat of war over Am­ Lulu spoke wit-h the minimum of mon Heruiacy has engaged in an effort, barely ·moving her lips. Cadiz, Spain. He is 28, and with. need to take a definite stand about µs every day except when helping parole from a governmeqt when indefinite retreat of silence, prayer However, she would'nt stop as long and fasting. He will tell you all as she had an audience. Lulu was Lee Peery bake bread at Peter he did not believe in governments. Maurin farm. And across at Grand Accordingly he went to Peter about it in the next issue. There particularly concerned about pe~ is no one drinking in our place so pies looks. She ofte.n remarked Central -was Patricia Rusk at her Maurin -Farm and fasted, prayed, this old house is really quiet. I how "ugly" the people appeared regular place. That day Bertha and was silent for three days and Tisius, who works as a nurse came back with letters to the don't know if I like it this way. in that last city home she was in. I suppose she tells others the same nights, was unable to come down Spanish Consulate and the Immi· Last week Lulu* * visited * our house thing about us. to help us as she usually does. gration authorities renouncing his a few times. Lulu is a short elderly Here each Friday from 11 to 3 citizenship in Spain and ·saying A few days *ago * the* city's depart- Catholics who have known the CW that he was willing to take the ment of housing sent us a brief for years se~d through us greetings consequences, in Spain or any notice clarifying their letter of a to Dorothy, Tom, and others of other country, of his obligation to · NCCW BEGS SHOES month ago. This communique was the CW whom they have met. Non- (Continued on page 7) somewhat •clearer than the first received which specified the -num­ FOR THE POOR bers of sections of the multiple WASHINGTON - (NC) dwelling laws that we were violat­ The new president of the Na­ ing. Their most recent notice states ·MARYFARM: A (ONG RETREAT· tional Council of Catholic that we are overcrowded. The By DEANE M. T. MOWRER • Women has asked that chft­ dispatch notes that this informa­ dren share in the council's an­ tion was conveyed to them by the In wintertime, here at Maryfarm, So it is a winter day begins at the holy hours which many of us nual appeal for shoes for the health department· officials who the approach of d.awn is afl­ Maryfarm, with firemaking to keep with Our Lord in chapel, s t o r e r o o m s of the Holy visited us some weeks ago. The nounced, long before the r~sing warm the body and Mass to warm prayer of the hands at work. Father. message warned that unless this cowbell, by the clank and clang the soul. And there is each day Yet winter is a meditative sea­ People having gQO(\ rubber­ violation was corrected then we and plunk attendant on Joe enough, and sometimes more than son, tQo, when the mind broods soled sneakers, or good shoes would be subject up to $500 fine Roach's morning ministcy to the enough, of work to do, what with contemplatively over the events for children elsewhere, she or six JD-Onths in jail. The threat monstrous- old furnace, that squats cooking-our family, including and- thoughts and persons of the / said, should send them to the of jail did'nt bother us since Am­ like something out of the age of "ambassadors" and guests, ranges preceding days and weeks and warehouse of War Relief mon Hennacy smiles at the pros­ dinosaurs at the laundry-end of from eighteen to twenty-five; wash­ months, gleaping their essence, Services - National Catholic pect of a jail sentence but the fine the long low cement-floored base­ ing-particularly with no function­ questing their place and meaning Welfare Conference in New was something else. We phoned ment-level kitchen. The fiecy ma..w ing washing machine, as Marian in God's plan for Maryfarm. There York. the gentleman from the health de­ gapes open, and Joe shoves in the Judge and Rose McDonnell, who are memories that warm one like Funds for shoes for Korea partment and asked about this ref­ hefty hunks of wood that have came all the way from Minnesota a benediction: the sursam corda -as well as elsewhere, which erence he had made to the housing been chopped and cut in Mary­ to keep us clean and well-ordered, lift that came to us during the according to Mrs. Desch can department. He claimed that he farm's own woods by the princi­ can testify; cleaning; bread baking October Friendship House conven­ be bOUght for $2.50 ·a pair­ did not discover that our house pal hewers of wood-John Filliger, -for we bake our daily bread; tion at nearby Blessed Martin farm should be sent to NCCW Michael Fitzgerald, and Jim Cana­ dishwashing-perhaps the most when we were privileged to hear was overcrowded . .1 e._o we asked headquarters, 1312 Massachu­ him why he sent tll~Jetter of com­ van. And warmth begins to creep onerous job of all, requiring a the FH foundress speak from that setts ave., N. W. Washingtoµ, plaint to the housing department. through the huge old pipes into special kind of dedf.cation, as Bill perfervid well of holy fire which 5, D. C. The address for send­ He replied that he had merely the arctic regions of the upper Keene knows well; and all the odd is the soul of the Baroness' great ing actu.al shoes is War Relief turned over to them the letter floors where the women's dormi­ jobs and chores that must be done apostolate; the visit during that Services Warehouse, Parkway whieh he received from our reader tories and the chapel are situated. on every farm, as John Filliger same month of Dorothy Day, our Industrial Center, Bronx­ friend: the dear soul who made There is a stirring about, the sound and Joe Cotter and the men who own CW foundress, who came and Whitestone Terminal, East the original complaint. He added of coming and going in the kitchen help them know. But there is al­ was with us like a fountain of Chester Road and Haswell st., that the city housing department below, and just /efore seven a ways time for prayer-tirayer at God's peace and love; th'e retreat · Bronx 61, New York. would have to make a visit to our second bell warn that Fr. Faley the liturgical times of Mass, of which Fr. Wendell of the Domini-

\ CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCE AND PENAL REfORM Clothing the Poor By ,\.NTHONY ARATARI , • ., ! • By ANNABELL LUND The prison riota which . have I ham, a member of the committee, punishment for crime" as "in its Ithe immemorial injunction "to visit The women's Clothes-Room - erupted across the country ln re- described the first conference as ' prevention." the imprisoned," say, as the Saints here at St. Joseph's House of cent years are without doubt In the "a most amazing .9Cene." "There The discussion is still goi ~g ,on. did in former times; whose gener- were e~ 11ven chairs, a table, a pad Over a week ago, the Ford Foun- ous impulses would send him out Hospitality, also "The Catholic nature of SOS signal!, cries for and a pencil. The prisoners served dation granted $200,000 dollars to 'personally · to do corporal and Worker'', is still operaUng thank help from a pitifully neglected, us cold water and coffee. Then the American Bar Association, spirtual works of mercy, the re­ God and thanks to your charity maltreated section of our pe_ople: they stated their tragic plea for which has created a special com- ligious element is conspicuously and sacrifices. Familiar people the men we have penalized · for hop!!. ,They admitted they had a mittee, to make a comprehe~sive relegated to a place among a list . . . t . t Th debt to society." The authorities, survey of penal J'ustice in this of possjble thin!!'s which could be together with new people who their crunes. agams soc1e y. e however,, made a pomt. · o f saying· country with the objective of mak- used . Indeed, ..-it. is ' sometimes come seeking clothes, allow for attempt rune days ago by four . that they had made "no conces- ing "justice more certain." It will pointedly minimized as a helpful few idle moments. Here as in prisoners in the . Massachusetts sions." not investigate 'the causes of crime .factor in the rehabilitation· of so many other places, one sees State Prison (the oldest prison in The discussion on what to do to but will deal with the methods of criminals . . Here are some remarks the t~th of Christ's words, "The the nation) to bargain with the au- improve conditions for prisoners treating it and the survey is ex- made by the former ·he.ad of the poor you'bave always with you." thorities by holding eleven men really got under way, last year. pected to ta'ke several years. The psychiatric clinic at Sing Sing, It is just impossible to get any at gun-point in a cell-block and Books were published by reporters Committee hopes to improve the Ralph Banay, in an article entitled idea of the great number of threatening to kill them is but the on the prison riots, several movies existing system, the guiding prin- "Should Prisons Be Abollsned?" in needy right here in the city of latest disturbance to make such were made in Hollywood, articles ciple being the t raditional concern last Sunday's New York Times New York. They are everywhere nasty headlines as this one in the were written in newspapers. Gov- for the rights of all, society and Magazine (January 30, 1955): "Al­ and ohe seemingly more needy New York Mirror: "CONS GIVE ernor Meyner of New Jersey made the individual. And last week though every prison offers oppor­ than the other. UP!" They gave up after exacting an admirable speech· to the New Governor Harriman of New York tunities for religious worship and The response you made to our from a citizens committee of seven Jersey Judicial Conference on sent a message to the State Legis- ' i_nany prisoners attend church serv­ appeal for women's clothes was men, which tbe Warden selected June 9, 1954, expressing strong lature recommending a program ices regularly, prison is barren very generous. . I would like to after the rebel prisoners requested distaste for prisons, about which, of action to combat the growing ground. for the flowering of religi­ apolQgize for taking so long to an impartial body of outsiders, a be said, there was " a growing be- problem of juvenile delinquency ous impulses. Most prisoners la·ck tell you. The large size dresses promise "to get something so that lief that prisons have n othing to and this in terms both of the the necessary emotional depth and and other garments were many these convicts will have some hope do with reformation, but rather causes of such crime and its effec- moral values. It is usually under and were received with delight for the future." Long prison terms than that they breed new crime." tive punishment. His main desire the whiplash of fear or panic (in by women who before that had which cut off hope of liberation He pledged liimself to the reform is to prevent ruihed lives so early the ~eath cell, for example) that usually met with a disappoint­ in this life was one of the com- of the existing penal system in his in life and for probably insuf- a prisoner clutches at the . hope ment. . The many under-clothes plaints. The Editor of the Chris- state and affirmed that h~ was ficient, preventable reasons. that religion offers him." you sent were like a blessinJ. tion Science Monitor, Edwin Can- "not so much concerned with There is no doubt much more This · judgment on the value of There was many a grateful heart activity going on in this area than religion in reforming criminals be­ and I am confident you have is described here and some of it is trays a serious lack of knowledge been remembered in many pray­ undoubtedly quite in advance of of the psychology of sin; for all ers. When women tell me how ONE ON THE SIDE OF genei:al notions, already well in crime is sin, as. we , Christians much they appreciate what they progress and concretely effective, know it from the reading of Sacred receive, I try to impress on them too. Yet most of the action pro· Scripture, especially the Book of the fa

.. ~ " ' t .. : .· . II-~ Eight Page~__;~~~~~~__.:__;__:__.:,___,__..._=-=.=--.:::..::...:....::.~..:.:::.--=-~~~~-- T B E C A T B 0 L I C \V 0 R K E R February, 1955 ·Companions of Emmaus Chrystie Street (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 2) structure on the edge of Paris. first went into a factory where he premises and decide whether or nied it they questioned him as to There is no easy way to allude to owned nothmg he had no rights at" not we are overcrowded. He said why was he in China if not for this problem by saying that there all until now when he has achieved they can't simply take action on that purpose. He retorted that at least a tQken of respect in the tii.at letter from yc;>ur reader. Now "he was there to preach Jesu; are always going to be ·those peo­ recognition of unions. we await a visit from city housing Christ." This answer infuriated ple who do not have enough and The book "The Rag Pickers of department. his captors to the extent of their it1 is their own fault because they Emmaus" by Boris Simon,. which Three days after the dire notice striking the priest. They told him do not work hard enough or be­ is soon to appear translated in mentioned above arrived, another that he was not to mention the cause they drink their ·savings. English, tells the story of how the inspector from the Health Depart- name of Jesus Christ since they Would any of us dare to say this Campagnons of Emmaus began ment made a visit. We were ink- tlad done away with Him. While of a whole social class? The prob­ and developed by telling the story ing stencils on the addressograph he was in jail this priest said he lem of housing in France is a mass of one · of the men who came to machine and we were in no mood had tried to keep up his own mo­ problem affecting well over the the community at the beginning. to answer the same questions that rale along with that of the other majority of the working class. Abbe Pie; re a few years ago we had answered before to their prisoners by singing and tap danc­ They are not all living in ·tents, was a Depute in the Chambre Na­ first investigator. This man was ing at numerous opportunities. He some are lucky enough to have a tionaJe de France equivalent to a.. ~o impressed with our lack of wel- said he was able to get some of room or two to house the whole natipnal congressman in the U. S .. come and cooperation that he the prisoners to join with him in family. It is no wonder to these threatened to bring in a police- singing Stephen Foster's , songs w if I could help her locate dark and the entire building worker by stabilizing his rent self-supporting for he could re­ turn to his job as a ragpicker and are today at least a thousand fami­ her husband for her. She is sure where the fire <>ccurred was prices so they could not ·be raised. lies who have been saved by us that he doesn't have any desire t blacked out. The shops along Riv­ But building prices have of course even teach some of the others­ and so the community began with specifically and throughout all of return to her but thinks that there ington were closed and the street gone up so it· has been unprofit­ might be a chance. There are was deserted; there was not a per­ ..-Abbe Pierre, his secretary, an France there are thousands of able for private enterprise to ouild others that we do not know who these frequent letters from prison- son to question on the holocaust. new homes for the ·workers. The efficient elderly woman; the family ers who are sure that they can be As we made our way back to our and the men who had come to have been saved by the initia­ French government restricts the tive of others who were awakened paroled to us if' we said the word. house we realized that h~re again private investors, but it did noth­ love very dearly this priest who had We always reply that we will ac- was one of the terrible prices that loved · them as brothers and had and brought to action by our ing in the way of a government example. cept them but' the prison author!- the poor pay for their unholy pov­ 1ubsidized housing program to help taken them in his home while . . ties refuse to acknowledge us as erty. If all of these tenements meet the needs of the workers. others called them "ex.-c~victs, "To ~ou all; the rag"pickers; who a reputable organization for such were centrally heated than many pick up things -from the streets, And so the workers have been bums, drunkards." a purpose-some nerve. so if you of these .tragedies could be avoid· caught in the agony of changing But the fertilizer that made this and garbage cans, to those of you who empty basements and attics, are in prison, friend, don't waste ed. It must be realized at this late slowly from one economic system community grow to ' 700 was the your stamps and stationery on us. c;iate in our civilization that heat to another - much as they were suffering of the French people in who select the materials that can * * • is a necessity. caught in the change from Feudal­ be resold, and those of you who their seemingly hopeless search Of .a Tuesday noon, a bright ism to Capitalism-the craftsman for a home. They began to dig for junk at the city dumP-the cheerful little missionary priest in the Middle Ages owned his own flock to Abbe Piex:re, knowing that dump is really the cradle of our BOOK REVIEW tools and was freer in his ability life, for that iii where we first be­ came into our midst. He had spent he would somehow find tempor.11ry some thirty years in China where (Continued from page 5) to regulate liis., work, but when he shelter for them and also try to gan, and that ls where actually our basic spirit is continually pro­ he was recently expelled by the "One saves oneself in saving tected, renewed and maintained in present rulers. Just before he left others." BOOKS ON DISTRIBUTISM, THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE its depth, and purity to the first he had the ordeal of spending one The book makes one wonder TO THE TWIN EVILS OF CAPITALISM AND "COMMUNISM ideal of Emmaus-to you all my year in jail, forty days of it in what will be the outcome of the comrades • , • I say "Courage"; solitary confinement. He said that Abbe's work. Certainly he succeed­ The Social Teachings of Pope Leo XIII by E. Gilson ...... 1.00 they claimed unjustly that he was ed as few men would have in Father Vincent McNabb Reader by F. E. Nugent _ ...... 3.50 • •• '~And this is our ideal com­ arousing a whole nation to the 1 an American spy, When he de- Unholy Trinity by Eric Gill . 1.00 pletely. We are not beggars, this great scandal of the homeless. It The Limitations of Industrial ci~illi~ti~~ . b~ . G~b~i;I M~~~~· : : : : :.: 1.00 is not a ''home," we are workers is perhaps doubtful whether the Where Man Belongs by H. J. Massingham . . .. : ...... • 1.00 who are working". We are men body should mention the past suf- effect of his appeal will be lasting Pope Pius XII to the Tailors and on Mass Production ...... •. .10 standing on our own two feet who ferinl" or mistakes of anybody that enough to cause any large-scale ABC of Economics by . 2.00 can look anybody in the face and lives amona- us, for the rule states: action to better the housing situ­ Selecte~ Political Writings of Thoma~ ' A.~.tili.~ · .. :::: :::::::::::: 2.50 keep our hat on our head-any­ We will never accept that any one ation. The Companions may be The Servile State by 1.50 body even the most illustrious and who lives amona- us should be alone in this work for a long time The Making of a Moron by N. Bren~~~ ...... • · · · · · . . . · · · · · · · · 2.50 important of personnages, for we judged by other than his quality to come. But the book is neverthe­ Financial Justice by J. F, Bray· ...... : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : .40 have earned the bread we eat. We as a man at the present moment." less a hearfening record of Chris- 1952 Christmas"-Message of Pope Pius XII ...... • .40 are not a social work ,institution ••• "Ancl then; there is a third· tianity in the marketplace, and can Philosophy for the Layman by Rev. A. Doolan, o. A . . . . . , ...... , 2.25 with devoted persons and then rule. Not only are we not an asy- well serve to make many Chris­ Rich and Poor in Christian Tradition by Walter Shewrinl' 2.50 those who are helped. We are a lum b~cause we earn our bJ'ead; tians examine their conscience to The Pleasures of Poverty by Anthony Bertram ...... : : : : : : L75 community that is to say; a place we are not a social work institu- see if they are doing as much as The Earth's Green Carpet by Louise Howard ...... 2.00- where we all work for one another tion because we live in community; they might to bring Christ to Farmers of 40 Centuries by F. H. King ...• ...... 3.00 according to a fundamental rule­ but more than that we are not just those in distress. the one about which I am the more The Earth's Face and Human by E. Pfeiffer ...... 1.75 a business enterprise." ...... I:------• Pope Leo XIII on the Conditions of Labor .15 severe, the only one for which you Pope Pius XI on Reconstructing the Social O~d~~ · · · · · · · · · ' · · · · · .15 sometimes see me become a~gry­ •••• "Of course we work exactly. NO BALANCING THE Sacred and Secular by Eric Gill ...... · · · · · ' · · 3.00 is the rule which forbids that any- We want to obtain results. We BUDGET • Control of Life by Halliday Suthe~i~nd . : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 2.75 want to do beautiful things in bet­ Had I been rich, I could never _ The Peckham Experiment by Pearse and Crocker ... 1.00 ter conditions; with as much am­ have seen a poor person hun­ The Revolt Against Reason by Arnold Lunn ...... : : : : : : : ~ : } : : : : 3.25 bition as any business enterprise­ gry without giving him to eat. The Revival of Thomism by Rev. A. Doolan, O. P •...... 50 Personal to John Geis but we are • special kind of a This is my way also in the The Fjlilure of Technology· by F. G. Juenger ...... 2.75 Anyone knowing the where­ business because for us the day spiritual lUe. There are many 0 we take stock and inventory our Technology and Peace by Pope Pius XII ...... , ...... 30 abouts of John Geis, wh0 has souls on the brink of hell, and The Sun of Justice by Harold Robbins 1.75 been mlssing trom his home in assets will be measured in the as soon as I earn anything, it is From the Ground Up by Jorian Jenks : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 1.50 New York, should please contact number of down and out comrades scattered among sinners. The EnC"land, Past, Present and Future by .Douglas Jerrold ...... 2.00 his loved friends •.. Mr. & Mrs. we have been able to welcome by time has never come when I Dom, 3963 47th street, Sunny­ the number of hopeless families could say: "Now I am C'Oinl' to DAVID HENNESSY DISTRIBUTIST BOOKSHOP side, L. I., New York. we have been able to save. These work for mysell." St. Therese 201 Winant A.venue, Staten Island 9, N. Y. are our assets and our pride."