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 winter 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 love 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 common 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 John Ruskin, ENGLAND William Morris, 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 problem, 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 London, 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 Formosa 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 faPeter Maurin Farm not. Since there were no accelerating preparedness without an announced final •purpose, By H. YAMAMOTO clothes to fit her, there was lit or, as an alternative, "suicide war; and trifle in the meanwhile Feast of the Purification cc;>w. Shoeprints-to and from the tle I could do to remedy the with cor ollary and indeterminate theses - such as limitation of mailbox, the chapel, the barn-are hurt. Happenings like this are Swirling, swirling snow this sad. - armament, restriction on the use of nuclear power, adoption of morning,_and how chaste and pure quickly blurred by blown and fall new legal standards as propounded at Nuremberg - all of which and white Peter Maurin . Farm ing snow. Yesterday's wash, still One unpleasant part of the are but palliatives and all of which in varying form have been looks-the ragged edges are all half-frozen .on the line, is coated work is not being able to help tried in the past with negligible results?" covered over. The branches of the with snow. The, winter pond, be those in need. When this hap The P resident and the members of Congress all have consciences splendid fir in front are wearing low the pump, where the children pens there is often a sense of but they believe in what Pope Pius XII calls, snow, its trunk is banked with of the neighborhood have_ been helplessness and failure which "The curr ent politk al practice, while dreading war as the great snow. Down by the chickens and gathering with 'their skates and overpowers one. · At a time like est of all catastrophies, at the same time puts all its trust in war, rabbits, there are drifts already sleds for the past several weeks, is that it is consoling and encourag as if it were the only expedient for subsistence and the only means over a foot deep. The goats will now one - with the immaculate ing to remember that it is the of regulating international relations." have to stay inside the barn again, fields. This is, I think, the fifth intention which counts to God They believe, in • achieving -good by evil means. And it seems i'hat but there is plenty of food for substantial snowfall of the wintet; even '!"hen one is a failure. the great bulk of the people s'hare that haµucmation. them, the corn, oats and hay-.vhich and the heaviest so far. It looks Now the cold weather is here Whd then can be done! The message was given to us 2000 were originally intended for the as though it will keep up through and with it has come much need 7ears ago! "Thou shalt not kill." "Love your enemy." "Return good for out the day. for warm clothing, which we did evil." St. Francis of A5sisi visited the Sultan, and started his Third . We began the day with Prime not have much of, not that you Order, members of which could nor be soldiers. Gandhi gained the Speakers at St. Joseph's House · in the house. Fr. Duffy said Mass did not try to provide. Last freedom of India by this same pacifist method. Individuals who accept 223 Chrystle St. (8:15 PM~ at eight o'clock, and the Epistle, Summer we received much violence as a necessary method of -overcoming evil will have to act from Malachias, was particularly heavy clothing. However, be according to that method. Nations which a ccept war, -diplomacy and Feb. '· Frank Sheed, "Teachlnr lyrical: " ..• Behold he cometh, cause of the fire we bad two intrigue will have to fall by that same method. "They that take the ChrisUanity on the street cor saith ihe Lord of Hosts; and who years ago, we are afraid to store aword shall perish by the sword." Before a nation can practice Chris ners" shall be able to think of. the day too much In the basement. So tianity the individuals w1lo compose that nation must be Christians. Feb. 11. Francis Porret & Louis of His coming? and who shall stand a &"reat amount of the said Therefore our message to the President and Congress and to the Ballande, "Little Brothers -of to see- Him? for He is like a refin clothlll&' was liven to a priest American people is one of warning that the continued production of the Poor In France" ing fire, and like the fuller's herb; for the needs of 'other countries: atomic bombs can only lead to our destruction. That the continued Feb. 18. Maisie Ward, "Ap and He s)lall sit refining and Now we appeal to your g-ener reliance .upon war and the deceit which goes with war will bring the proach to the Gospels" cleansing the'rsilver, and He shall osity once again. Very often spiritual and material destruction of our country. Feb. 25. Reverend Ma Io o,f purify the. sons of Levi, and shall lately, women seekin&' warm clothes had be turned away, We do not call upon all others to be as absolutist u we are, but we "Practical Chriatianft:r Jn the refine them as eold, and as sil- to do say that inasmuch as each one can do so he ahould disassociate Near Easi" · ver ••." because there wa1 nothing to himself from the war system. We would advocate·for those who can Francisco, who comes out from &'in them. Just th~ morning a Mar. :4. Jlenrend James McCoy. do 10 to refuse 'to register for the, draft or conscription or- military Chrystie Street each week to .help woman came who has been tralDJng and cheerfully take the ·alternative puniahment. To refuse SJ., "Freedom la Cbrlatln Lee make bread. was up at m wearing the ume dress for two Thoqlai" 4 to pay in<:ome t-ues for war; to refuse te make- mun~ for war, 8 cloct.. to cet the- bakery I~ -eh There has been· nothlnc and to refuse to buy war ltonda. Then, u. the Ho1¥ Father bu adv1aed. Mar. 11. Jaaet CalYJa, "'The Ha- hu. with ,hlm, , ai alwa71, his here to 8t her. Onr-11boe1 are we should pray for peace, lmowm1 that one en the Ude . el <;od la· • Gran M••ement'" favorite boot, the llbaruhacl-Gita. alao bedl:r ...... • ~~ty... • , • l • .It • • • • • . • - •• " .. ~ • .. • ...... lCoat1Duetl ~.- . • ...... ______· .. '-- "--•-!...... ------~~~------· Pa,:re Four . THE· C A TB 0 LI C W 0 ltK E' R February, 1955 ers. Dashiel Hammett and Fred ()n Pilgrimage V~n'derbilt F~eld . w~re th ..re ori contempt charges because a!! memt Penal Reform (Continued from page 1) bers .of the Amerio;\, Ciyil Right~ (there is a very large Indian popu that mutual aid which is the most Cc;ingress they would not give the for my sake." THREE KINDS t. • the. New Testament; and the Gos- The· banker says: Catholic Action ~o. 1, pel of Ramakrishna, in one volume, "The aollar you have or tht; . ~e, aching . •. which he had bound · together· in is the dollar of Christian Doctrine, ' . I HELEN · -C. DAY you lend me musf be carried out Chicago when he decided ·that "NOT WITHOUT TEARS" by and helpful the discussions that for your sake." with the • Bishop's supervision. these books were the ones w,hich Helen Caldwell D~y; (Sheed & bring to the surface the points of Christ says: Catholic Action No. 2, held the most meaning for him. Ward.) $3:50. view of both white and colored; "You cannot or. ~he ,daily practice It is said that St. Therese of Llsi- for there is prejudice on both serve two masters, of the Works of Mercy, "For I 1was hungry, and you sides, and Helen Day sees very eux confihea hers-elf to the Scrip- gave me to eat; I was thirsty, ,and God and Mammon." i • can be carried out clearly that there has to be mutual "You cannot, with ,or without tures and 'The Imitation of Christ. you gave me to drink; I was a growth in love and forbearance, and all our education the Bishop's superviSion . • But most of us here are not so in- stranger, and you took me in: which will gradually break down is to try to find out Catholic Action No. 3, tent 0 ~ a single track. We do a naked, and you covered me: sick, the wall thllt now separates the two . ( or the- reconstruction and you visited me: I was in prison, races. Helen Day telates with equal how we can ..great deal of reading here, especi- a'!d you came to me." serve two masters, of the social· order, ' simplicity, as well as her own per God· and Mammon," through the found.atioh ally these days when we are re- What does it mean to give Christ sonal problems and her struggles ... .says Robert Louis Stevenson. of new· Catholic institutions, stricted to inside.activity, and. our 'to eat; to give Him to drink; to to rise above them. With true must be left tastes are catholic, including every- take Him in, a stranger; to clothe humility she exposes her pride and CATHOLIC ACTION to the initiative thing from the Daily News to Life Him; to minister unto Him in 'sick- rebellion, but, as He has often done of Catholic men and women. ness or in prison? Much has been before, God uses· imperfections to OUR BUSINESS ·The function of the Bishops of Spirit. Our books are just as written on what it means to see bring about His own designs. In Catholic bourgeois is to be varied. Sometimes, when ' Fr. Christ in bthers, to have compas the case of Helen Day, those de used to tell the clergy not directors Duffy is away for the week, Sta.n- sioo on the suffering members of signs include a house of hospitality "Mind your own business but moderators. ley B. walks (through wind and His Mystical Body, who are truly through whose ministrations to the and don't butt in Political action rain and snow, even when he is on bone of His bone, life of His Llfe suffering Mystical Christ, His own on ·our business." ls not to be considered in a· real," if mysterious, sense· of· sweet charity 'is gradually pushing Catholic bourgeois a long fast from fodd or sleep) the the words. Less has been written as Catholic Action. five or six miles to and from Miiss out the pride and• rebellion, but lby keeping up on what it means in one's own soul "not without tears.'.' · with !)On-Catholic bourgeois THE ROAD TO at Our Lady Star of the Sea in to feed the mystical Christ, to Read this little book. not from have· made a mess COMMUNISM Huguenot, and he brings back old alleviate His various other suffer a consideration of its lite.rary of their own business. copies of' Life which people have ings; and it is from this point of. merits or •even from the standpoi;ot thrown out for the tral!h collector. view that Helen Caldwell Day's · And now the Holy Father PARAGUAY REDUCTIONS of what· is being done today i'n one In a book entitled tells Catholic bourgeois These we pounce· on. book has the most value for this corner of the lay apostolate, im "The Magic · Mountain" "The Bishop's business There is , a vast amount of con- reviewer. It is a l:ieautiful and in-· portant th"ough this latter certainly Thomas Mano: has a character versation, too. We have discussed, spiring thing to see tbe grnwth of i,6 your busine~s. " · is; but read it ·with great joy .in who has become a Jesuit ruefully, John Stanley's "Oliitpary Divine Love in a soul, and to see meeting a soul who had faUen in .. THE BISHOP'S VOICE after having been a Marxist. for Distributism" which appeared the outpouring of that Love love with the Christ whom she sees The Bishop's business As a Jesuit . ' in The Commonweal; we talk through the works of mercy. For in her brethren, disguised though is to teach he could understand Communism about ourselr,es; we talk about each NOT WITHOUT ·TEARS is a book He may be in rage, in filth, even in the Christian Doctl'ine. much better other. For the rest, we play concerning the works of mercy vice. It is given to very few to than he could understand it · The Holy Father bridge and checkers. Leonard has among the Negro poor 'iri a south understand the reality of the doc as a Marxist appoints a Bishop m."ade ·a new kind of mousetrap out ern city. An account of the estab trine of the Mystical Body; to even In Paraguay of frozen.orange juice tin, which lishment of a house of hospitality, to a seat Ca cat11edr~l) a !ewer to act upon that understand the Jesuits established .so people may hear the has caught~ severai mice. which was primarily a day nursery ing. It is comforting to know that a Communist society. truth Our sh.are oi illness stay!) with and which later grew into a shelter one whose eyes are on the spiritual Part Of the land that will set them free. us. Agn~s seems a bit better but for expectant mothers, it includes heights can keep them there dur was held ·individually. Howard is abed with a leg ailment all the heartaches and joys that go Clergy, teachers, journalists ing her interior battle that exposes The other part, and Willard's cold persists. Paul into the planning and realization to herself all the misery of a son of are the amplifiers known as God's land, is always missing school because of such a work. Many details are of the Bishop's voice. Adam. Helen Day doE!S not lower was cultivated in common. of one cold or another, driving Si given; and for those who are won her ideals when the going. gets Fathers and mothers The produce was used wild. Tamar, who is expecting her dering how to go about beginning rough, or talk in terms Qf a modi must also be for the maintenance seventh child in March, has been "something in Catholic action," fied spirituality more "suited" to the Bishop's voice. of the aged, in bed with a .severe cold, so both there - is much racli.cal help in work in the world. Her courage is Bishop O'Hara {he infirm Peggy and Beth have gone over to seeing how the interracial study admirable, her example inspiring. is fostering the teaching and the young. help. "Beth and Fred have also group in Memphis began, first with May she continue to be fed by the of Christian Doctrine PROUDHON AND MARX ' gone over to help the Chad Smith meetings and discussions, and Hungry, given to drink by the by fa thers and mothers. "Communism is a society family, .who are now out of Bi,-ook- then later developed into the foun Thirsty, sheltered by the Home Everything connected where each one works lyn and at home in West New dation of the Blessed.Martin House less, clothed by the Naked, cured with the teaching · according to his ability Brighton here on the isla.nd. Fred of Hospitality. by the Sick, and, finally. liberated of Christian Doctrine and gets is a newcomer to the family, a sea- Those who are struggling to by Him whom she visits in the can be called according to his needs," man and a friend of Tony's. throw off the1r own racial preju- prison of her soul. Catholic Action No. 1. Such a definition A tall, tall girl, name of dice will find most enlightening By A.K.C. WORKS OF MERCY does not come from Marx; Maureen, has also come to be with it comes from Proudhon. us for awhile. And we have had But the Bishop, Proudhon wrote two volumes an assortme.nt of visitors, includ although he is a Bishop, on "The Philosophy of Poverty" ing Kay Wall, who has given us cannot teach which Karl Marx another car which actually seems ·ABBE PIERRE- an empty stomach. read in two days. to run; her sister, Ann Wall; Betty Some people Abbe Pierre and the Rag.pickers of groups - and workers' meetings. Karl Marx wrote a volume Lou Geenty and Eleanor Corrigan, Emmaus, by Boris Simon. Trans But soon the homeless men bega.n are Bishop-shy ' on "The Pc;>verty of Philosophy." who brought with them another because they are ·hungliy, lated by Lucie Noel. P. J. Ken to come; an ex-convict , a tramp, a Karl Marx Betty Lou, fresh from foreign nedy, $3.75. Reviewed by Beth former prize fighter. They began shivering or sleepy. was too much of a materialist service in Iran; a bemused gentle So the Bishop Rogers. to live and work together, and they to understand the philosophical man, describing hinlself as a "secu have grown into a true community. asks the faithful and therefore social value rity agent," who admired the work Io recent years France has pro- The real work began when the to feed the hungry, of voluntary poverty. and who offered his aid if we duced some of the· most interesting families came for help; families clothe the naked, ~y PETER MAURIN should ever get in trouble with and promising social developments evicted, families that could no shelter the homeless (Reprint) other agents; Hans Tunnesen and at a sacrifice. ·-witness the worker priests, the longer bear living nine, ten, twelve . Ernest Lindgren from St. Joseph's to a room. The Abbe bought a Feeping the hungry, Farm in Cape May, N.J.; Helen Little Brothers of Jesus, the Com- clothing the naked, large plot of ground not far from Crime and Punishment Caldwell Day, who was in town for munities of Work. One of the most Emmaus and sheltered them in sheltering the homeless her brother's wedding, with son Punishment p r o p e r 1 y so remar~able was littlp known until tents and- abandoned buses while at a sacrifice Butchie and moVJer, Mrs. Garrett; called cannot therefore have a year ago-the community of the Companions began building was the daily practice Bill Ekgren, an artist from Sweden; any other meaning and pur men, most of them derelicts, houses for them. of the first Christians. Pat ·Rusk and Francisco, who pose than that just men~ known as the Companions of Em- Time after time, Emmaus nearly The daily practices brought out six Puerto Rican chil tioned, to bring back again maus. They are led by the Abbe disbanded for lack of funds. Ooe of the Works of Mercy dren for a day in the country; also, is what we can call into the or,der of duty the viola Pierre (Henri Groues), a Capuchin ·agonizing night the Abbe went Mrs. Anne-Marie Stokes, Bill Mc priest, who can certainly be rank- begging on the streets and in cafes. Cat110lic Action No. 2. tor of the law, who had with Andrew, Mrs. Callanan and friend, drawn from it. . This order of ed with Canon Oardijn, Father Another time, he was persuaded to SOCIAL RECONSTRpCTION I Mrs. Sylvester, Jo-Ellen, and al Jimmy Tompkins, and all the vali- go on a radio quiz program, and duty is necessaril.Jr an expression most nightly, Mr. Healey. We We are asked of the order of being, of the ant priests who are close to the came away with both money and by the Holy Father missed Bill McDonough, of Boston, people and their distress, and who fame. And then, just as the lowest order of the true and the iood, who did not pay )lis monthly .call. to reconstruct which alone has the right of have the genius to find solutions. point, financially, was reached, one the social order. existence, in OPPOSition to error Well, that about sums up the A year ago the Abbe made a of the Companions, a former rag Reconstructing the social order and evil, which represent that month, except that we could use radio broadcast in which he called picker, told the Abbe of the money means the creation which should not exist • • • The some lumberjacks. The remains on the people of Paris to come to to be had from rubbi&.h heaps. So of a Catholic society sinlplification of the norms of of the woodpile are a distressing the aid of the homeless; in the the group became ragpickers, and within the shell law, the prominence given not sight. It was such a huge, reas coldest winter in many years, men later graduated into the junk busi of a non-Catholic society only to strict formal law but suring bulk when Tony first piled and women were freez·ing to death ness. Now their pickup truck goes with the philosophy also to equity and SPOntaneous it neatly together. Mike, who had in the streets. The response was all over Paris collecting the odd of a Catholic society. good judgment, the better adap done most of the sawing and overwhelming, from the city and ments people find in their attics chopping, thought it would last from individuals. More tban ten and cellars, and the community is Catholic bourgeois tation of penal law to popular several winters. But already Ann, thousand people were given shel- on a solid financial basis at last. made the mistake sentiment-are .not, .We .say, Lee and Stanley B. have had to go ter, clothing and blankets came in The book 4s the story not only of trying to keep up vulnerable to objection. • The difficulty would arise not so down to the woods to drag back by the tffii . of the Abbe and of the work, but with non-Catholic bourgeois. more logs, and spring will be some The b1:oadcast made Abbe Pierre of each of the Companions. M. Catholic reconstructors much on the theoretical side as from the form of its realization, time in coming. We also depend famous. But for seven years he and Simon tells it primarily in sketches must create on coal and kerosene for heat, as his group had been living in priva- of the men who make up Emmaus a Catholic technique which on the one hand should preserve the guarantees of the well as bottled gas 'for part of the tion to help these same home1ess. and of the families wl).o have ·come in harmony cooking, all of which must be paid Emmaus came about almost by to live at "the Emergency City. with Catholic thought existing orcter and, on the other hand, take into account for with money. But somehow, St. chance. Abbe Pierre himself says, Once destitute themselves, they Social reconstruction tile new needs and reasonable Joseph provides, as he has done for "The whole thing started because have rescued other destitute, and by Catholic laymen and women desires of reform. the past six years, and somehow, the house was too big." His inten- ln the process have been restored - is what we can call PIUS XII thanks to you, we · do endure. We tion had beeri to establish a· rest t\l human dignity. The Abbe says, Catholic Action No. 3. beg your continued. prayers. and recreation center ·for youth (Coptinued on pag~ 8) l - Pnge Si:i 'f B E " C A T B 0 LI C W O"R KEii February, 1955 • I systematically robbing tlie . people establish power hegomonies, and noon at four thirty there ls a di· (>f their hard earnings, and big ~ hey should also show more active alogue mus. On Pilgrimage business has become the blg.' lie, wisdom in preserving and swelling Rye,ate so· gigantic a lie that it is· believed. the ranks of men of good will, We drove the sixty miles up from wn of tlle life of worsh ip growing but cent American" groups who whip creased their fields. In addition Ministers, Priests and .Rabbi as Dickey and Berlin, . both of them wheq it comes to the material up hatred for Jews and for Corn to wheat they raise cattle and well as interested lay people are around 150 population. In either needs of the people, whether it be munism, for any scapegoat that sheep. As we drove we saw a herd on this commission, and the stu- parish he has about thirty families work, community, a cultural life, will free them from a sense of their of deer feeding on the winter dents of St. Catherine's helped of German-Russian descent. This recreational life, there is much own personal responsibility and wheat. There are antelope too, gather some of the data for other means. that originally ·German, study needed. We are creatures guilt. and the wild beasts who prey on of the booklets, of which there are they were invited by Catherine the of llody as well as soul and the One of the biggest problems in the stock are the wild cats and the half a dozen. The one on the Indian Great into Russia, around the poverty of the city and of the laml poverty in North Dakota is the In coyotes. There are prairie dogs was written in 1947, and in the Ukraine, to introduce_their farm- must be remedied. In the cities dian problem and most of the In and gophers in this part of the chapfer of Indian culture and ing methods among the peasants. one .sees destitution and such dians are Catholic according to the country, and coming up by bus, white civiliation, there is this beau- Later, due to their desire to escape poverty•as that of the Mexicans, pastor of St. James Church in watching the road from the front t iful. paragraph entitled MINE conscription and constant govern- huddled in hundreds of shacks Jamestown.. And once again peo seat at night three times I saw AND THINE: ment taxation, they emigrated to around the big sugar refining plant ple are seeking for the Federal kangaroo rats scurrying across the "Two other customs, common to th's country. I spoke to these in Billings which I was to see later. government to solve their prob- highway. many Indian tribes, which were in Thousands of these Mexicans Father Kittelson has no house conflict with the prevailing prac- har vest the sugar beet crop, and keeper so he is fortunate right tice of the white man's culture and many stay and settle in the north now to be having a visit from his which have been influential in the and the poverty of their lives here French- mother and Norwegian process of acculturation were the is some indication of the complete father from Denver (both born in Indian's concept of property and destitution they suffered in the this country.) The rectory ii the practice of "give away." Prop- past. humble enough to be indistinguish erty ws not individualized. Prop- Liturgy and sociology go to- able from other houses around, and ' erty, whether in the form of land, gether, and one cannot read an epis- big enough for visitors. with four homes br produce, was not bought tie or Gospel telling of the love of bedrooms, and living room, dining or sold. Land was p1entiful, h omes brother which is the fulfilling of room, kitchen and office, and Fr. is were easily built or r eplaced, and the law and our first obligation going to have some of the Mexican r food was· gathered in abundance. ("owe 110 man anything save to boys up from Billings during the The few more personal belongings love one another, for love is the hunting season. Next door to the of an individual were not reserved fulfilling of the law'') and of ·the rectory there is a public school, or held within a family group, but feetling of our enemy as a way to grade and high school. Out at ·he time of death might be peace, without condemning the eco- through the countryside he pointed buried with the deceased or given nomy under which we live, a war out schools to me where were only away. Throughout the life span of economy. three and five pupils and yet were an individual, merit did not accrue parishes after the seven-thirty and The people respond to truth, and lems instead of taking the immedl- kept open because next year per to the individual through the ac- ten-thirty dialogue masses Sunday thank God there are such re- ate and Christian way of personal haps ten more would be entering. quisition or accumulation of goods; morning, and the churches wer e sponses to the liturgical movement responsibility. There is need of rather, merit was determined both full, an d all of ttie parisioners through the .country., The evening an orphanage for Indian Children. I am fortunate to be ending the through the distribution of wealth." went to communion at the fi rst masses in such a section as this in is there-need of support from Christmas season of the church The pamphlet goes on to tell of Mass, not so many a_t the second. North Dakota means• that Fr. the government? If each family which I began in Monsignor Hell the Indians' "traditional concept of Both parishes took up collections Hovda's people can have mass on took in orphans there would be no riegel's parish, her e on the feast of the purification with Fr. Kittelson. cooperative enterprise, his unfamil- for the Catholic Worker. I spoke , the Feast of Candlemas and St. need of th~ government entering iarity with a concept of working in both places for three quarters Blaise and first Friday. There is in. His church is small but simple and for ·wages or individual gain or of of an hour, giving a resume of a cer tain amount of vernacular 1n Montana the maroon drapes behind the al tar, and all the candles lit on al r eceiving money without effort IPet ~r' s t~ree points, the paper and th_e ritual so that pe~ple can "pray If I don't ·cut this short, Tom through the disposal of resources. clarification of thought;. houses of with the understandmg." Sullivan will cut it for me. But a tar and in the body of the church His concept of property, its uses hospitality; and farming communes. But the Holy Father in his travelogue without the,se applica- and the snowy vestments looked One woman came up to me later Christmas message has said, tions would be a mere Baedeker. very beautiful this morning. The and pointed out that her people "The p ossession of t_ruth, if it Here I am now in the Muscleshell church was half full, though this had lived in family community in were to remain closed within them- Valley in Ryegate, Montana, stop was Wednesday, and everyone re CROSS CURRENTS Russia, even befo re the . Russian selves, almost as if it were an ob- ping at the rectory of Fr. James ceived communion, men, women 3111 Broadway, N: V., N. Y. revolution, so it was a pattern of ject of their contemplation for de- Kittleson, formerly of Denver, and and children. The two altar boys. life familiar t~ them. "But if we riving therefrom spiritual pleas- now of the Helena Diocese. He one of Dutch descent, one Russian Bernanos on Luther German, had breakfast with us af Stratmann on War did it now we would have to learn ure, would not be of service to the owes his tran:;fer to the fact tbat to get along together," she added. cause of peace; the truth must be he taught catechism as a seminar terward and spoke of how they Pie on St. Thomas and Freud loved to go hunting with bow and Scheier on the Tragic And such a family commune would lived, communicated and applied ian and worked among the sugar Murray on Church and State indeed be a school of sanctity as to all phases of lffe. Also truth beet workers in Montana and bis arrow for rabbits and squirrels. Danlelou on the Bible well as a school for God's service. and particularly Christian truth, is bishop kindly turned him over, at (Don Humphries of St. Cloud was Casserley on Democracy There was more time to talk a ta1ent that God placed in the his request, to this northern dio hunting for deer with bow and ar Mounier on Communism when .we had dinner with a farmer hands of his servants in order that, cese, wher,e he is as happy as a row this fall.) They had quite a job Kierkegard on Doubt and his wife later and we spoke with all that they undertake, it may fish in high water, to use ·an east this morning, those altar boys, Dawson on Sociology of the depression, dust storms bear fruit in works for the common ern seaboard simile. what with the blessing of the can Lacroix on Work dles._ the procession, and the light Heer on the Priest-Workers grasshoppers and cactus, taxes, good ... How many, perhaps even Before we came up to Ryegate, mortgages, war, peace and the priests ·and lay catholics, ought Fr. Kittleson drove me though the ing of the congregation's candles Congar on reform in the Church again before the Gospel and Pre Weil on Personalism state. We spoke of .how the farmer to feel r emorse for having instead aforesaid Mexican quarter and sold his· wool for 25 cents a pound buried in their own hearts this and showed me the Church of Our Lady face. We were prepared ! or the These and many more out and then bought his blankets and other spiritual riches because of ·9f Guadalupe where he had been feast last night during the regular standing articles a re to be clothing at the store for much cash. their own indolence and insensibil- pastor for a year up to last August. Tuesday devotions by reading of read in CROSS CURRENTS, an article from Worship. a qua rterly review to ex ' How he sold his wheat at fo ur ity to human misery. , . nor would In that time, with the help of funds plo re the impl ications of dollars and fifty cents f or t wo those priests and laity fulfill their from Extension in Chicago, and his Tomorrow in spite of a heavy C hri stianity for our 'times. bushel and then bought it back in obligations. were they voluntarily friend William Joseph, sculptor and fall of snow around Billings, I will Now in its fifth yea r. bread and cereal, and of inferior to close tbeir eyes and keep sil- painter of Denver, Colorado, he set out for Cody, Wyoming where grade too, with little nourishment ence concerning the social injus- turned a former skating rink into I am to speak tomorrow night. La > Please enter my iubscription · left in it. How he brought his tices of which they are · wit- one of the loveliest little churches ter I will visit Georgia Kernan and at $3 • year. then come back here to set out for wheat and corn and/ oats to the .nesses ••." In another part of I have ever seen. A painting of I Please send me • ump le back big feed· dealers and bought it his message the Pope says that St. Joseph on one side of the other visits around Montana. That copy. back in feed for his cattle. whereas in both camps Capitalist church matches in color the tradl- will be a March On Pilgrlmace. Please S.nd Me t.. Followh19 The voices of modern bqsiness, and Communist there are those "in tional Virgin of Guadalupe on the loUld Volumes the cry of the advertisers1;°in press whom the imprint of Christ is pre- other side. The stations of the and radio and now televi~ ion are served in more or less active de- cross are extraordinarily effective, Vol. II C l , Vol. Ill ) EASTER CARDS . gree," in the one truth is sup- carved wooden figures, painted, By -Ade Bethune Vol. IV ( l pressed by the Government and in standing starkly against the white d $5.50 each AUTOBIOGRAPHY the other by "excessive timidity" wall of the church. The wide, ahal loa I: •••• 10 for $1.00 OF A CATHOLIC and lack of confidence in them- low church was brllht with sun loa P: •••• 25 for s-2.00 NAME ...... ,selves, the people and their rep- and cheerful with-the noise of two 1'11 Wlleel Celeedar $1.00 , .., ... $25c ADDRESS ...... : ...... ANARCHIST rei;entatives, should give proof to carpenters who were mendinl and BJ' AMM{>N HENNACY others of a mor~ firm couraae in 'Varnishing pews. On Sundq ST. LEO SHOP CllY...... Paper, $2; Cloth, $3. foiling the ma~euvera of the ob- morning there 11 -a man IWll by NEWPORT, I. I. ZONE ...... STATI ...... ~ . ' " .' . ,. " . •• ' 'I; 14Ul·e.forces1Whlea are•Wl try1n& to .the con~tlon, and ta tbf' ~r- - ...... 4-oo...... ~~--~~~~~--~· February, 1955 THE CATHOLIC WORKER I - • ad cheerfully bought a CW, ·_!lay J-1 .. ing, that they were glad to ..beat: . • '• 1- • the name "Catholic" shouted •ap Armament Race . provingly on' the streets, for right '7 . (Continued from page 2) (Continu~d from, pageti> , .,. • . down there on Wall ·street wEl,Te God rather than to man, My em- dow JUt~en feet away. It· ,was tw<>" eJC-Catholics damning, , the Canadian Steel Improvement Ltd. to deal anywhere with local wars, phasis has been on refusal to reg- 4:28 end, I had decided to go home Church. I told them. I wouldr be' .. . oilr United Kingdom interests with local tensions whethe;: they be ister for war or to pay income 'at 4:30' but I gave 'Qack the dollar there in all good. time · in , good have been expanded by the acquisi- in Korea,, Indo-China, Malaya, the taxes for war. -This is µiy native and told the man that I wouldl\'t weather to answer them in the tion of Kelvin Construction, Ltd. Near East, the Arctic or Western country and I love it anq its t,radi:- shut up. I offered him a CW .and spring. Meanwhile .we were reach- with. factories in Glasgow and Europe. We hear so much talk tions emphasiziµg ,liberty and I feel he replied that he !'wouldn't r.ead ing 300 people evei:y week with Greenford. He begs you Share- about push-button warfare, but no desire to renounce membership the damn paper: • and stumbled the CW message proving Uiat the holders and readers of the Wall that is still in the test tube stage. in it, although I have lo~ ·agu away IJlUttering to himself. ·, .. Church was alive and meeting •the Street Journal to permit him to For years to come there will be seceded from participation with Here the sidewalk is extra wide problems of the day. Soon the ex- give his thoughts on the current a dual pattern to any aggressors's the government. Franciscq, and· l and throngs of people hurry by. I Catholic speaker came up and in- status of "our country's air ~ower movements and hence we must be discussed all this and we each have to shout to let them know terro_gated each one of us about and that of our allies." prepared for both kinds, all-out drew the line differently but wifft I am there. I do well if I sell 60 the deficiencies of the Catholic The opening remark on this atomic wufare and local penetra respect for each o t J '~ . papers , in two hours. Several Church and the i merits of being subject is, "At last the West is tions: Hence our . need for the The Spanish co nrnl read the Catholics want to be sure that it "saved by faith." He was not vitu- beginning to get the wings it so latest fighters and bombers and letter in which Francisco said, "If is not a Communist paper. One perative, and I suppose had a cer- desperately wants. There was a similarly our urgent need to pr ess men would love one another, there such man said that any paper that tain respect for us as fellow evan- time not so long ago, when our on with atomic carriers, rockets whold be absolutely no need ·for had the name "Worker'' had to be gelists. defenses were so stripped and and guided missils." governments. What we need is not a Communist paper. I told him When I came to se!l CW's at my meager an easy prey for any ag- The report was adopted by the governments but Love, and certain- not to be foolish but to look in the corner I noticed after a bit that gressor. That danger is passing. nineteenth Annual General Meet ly we do not find love in the or- librory and he would find many everyone kicked a stray newspaper At last the picture is beginning ing of the Hawker Siddeley Group ganized government of men . .- . union and other papers with the to and fro as they walked by. I to change." (He describes how the at the Dorchester Hotel in London. - Not with pride but with humility word "Worker" as part of their was busy selling CW's but I finally trickle became a flow. and the new mesa; br; true let us abandon all hope of form those that are left. They .. tion by degrees, having resigned that I had been in jail recently the same sun that the Zuni sing defense, and these prophets of have pointed out that test explo as editor of a trade paper in N. Y. for selling the CW and gave him' their sunrise song to; the same sun despair clamor for appeasment." sions have affected genes and r City before going to Paris. The the basic pacifist anarchist phi that the Taos Indians in New Mex- Continuing he says, "Make no resulted in malformed infants be Spanish Consul told Francisco that losophy of the CW ~e smiled and ico welcome, starts the day for me. mistake about it. -The one sure ing born. Continued bomb tests we all believed in God but that said th'at I must have a bad opinion ~n the parable of The Sun and the way to invite disaster is for this alone may permanently mJure we should give to Caesar what was of him as a cop. I said that I Wind it is the blustering, venge- country to pursue a policy of weak- masses of people. There is no logic Caesar's. Francisco replied, "Here didn't need a cop to ma\e me be ful Wind which seeks by force to r.ess. Our potential enemies ·only in depending on any kind of de is my passport; you have it; it is have and if other people thought remove the coat from the traveler. understand strength and our sole fenses against atomic or hy·drogen Caesar's. Keep it." they did I wasn't going to quarrel It is the warm rays of the Sun hope of survival lies in so buiiding bomb warfare. All we can do in The Immigrtaion office, as re- with them about it; that there were which persuades the traveler that our strength and our air power case of an all-out war is die well. - ported in the NEW YORK TIMES good cops. and bad cops just ti the poat should be removed. Now that no one- will dare attack us. One of the illustrations in the said that they had done all that among the rest of u.S. He won as of old it is Love and not Vio- And strength in airpower· is not Hawker Siddeley ad is a building. they could do in meeting Fran- dered how I could accept the au Jenee that is the way. only ato.mic strength but the ability The Caption reads, "Part of this cisco's renunciation of citizenship thority Of the Church and not the Australian hospital was a factory and that they had allowed him to authority of the state. I have just built in England and quickly and be free until they would call hlm had an article on that subject economically erected on the site." for deportation to Spain. They printed in a local atheistic anar Maryf ann What Sir Sopwith forgets is that had asked him to sign parole chist paper and will give it to the they coul-d;;i.'t erect enough hospi papers but he refused "to do so as cop if I see him again. (Continued from page 2) , tals quickly enough with all the he had compromised enough be- Intellectuals cans conducted here in November periment in a new kind of commu king's horses and all the king's fore in signing sucb papers. So Peter Maurin wrote so much for the Friendship House volun nity living, an experiment which men to put anybody together again they marked the parole sheet, "re about the scholar being a worker teer workers; the Day of Recollec God Hitnself seems to be shaping if there is ever another war on fused to sign" and he is free for and the worker being a scholar. tion which Fr. Tavard came down out of the amorphous needs, the this earth. If the philosophy of the time being. Sympathetic legal There is a discussion the yeal' from New York to give us in De chaotic void of· our times. A three armaments racing pushed by com minded friends have sought to pre around between those who stress cember; the singing a_postolate of fo1'd purpose which, I think, is not panys whose being depends on war vent the deportation of Francisco academic and ttleological learning Joe Monroe who brought us so accidental. But whatever else it and the fear of war is the philos according to Section 243 (L) which and those who shy away from much of joy and good will during may be, Maryfarm is first a Retreat ophy with which we continue to states that no one should be sent books. I have read books and writ the Christmas ,season; the visit of, House, with its o\vn chapel where "solve" world problems we have to a country where he would suffer ten them lbut I do not consider my Fr. Casey and Fr. Judge early in Our Lord' in the Blessed Sacrament nothing to look forward to except beeause of his political or .religious self an intellectual. I have been January, who stopped ·over long is always housed. Readers o:( the extermination. Even the slightest belief. a white collar worker, a migrant enough to leave us something of Catholic Worker will be familiar "minor war'' is an occasion of total Francisco feels that inasmuch as worker, a social worker, and now their holy gladness before going with the annual retreats here; destruction. be does not recognize governments I am more active than at any time on to Nanuet, where Fr. Judge many will have made them; some, The war industries continue to he will not appeal to them for of my life in the varied office who is the brother of Marian Judge in consequence, will have found expand although we hope for dis special favors. And as the U. S. work, speaking, and outdoor apos now in charge at Maryfarm and of out that sweet and difficult Way armament; for the outlawing of A is on friendly terms with dictators tolate. Jane Judge in charge last year of Perfection, the still and secret and H bombs, and the elimination Tito, Chiang, and Franco there is "You say this to me now and is undergoing treatment for cancer Way · He walked Who bore the of war as an activity unworthy of. no reason why anarchists should you will tell it to God when you of' the brain. Cross for us. And for tliose of us rational human bein~s. The monop. be protected by the government. die," said one of the few young There are, however, other mem who ·participate in the work here olistic industrial machines con There is this straight. out issue non-intellectuals around here who ories which we aie n~t so happy -whether for a few weeks, a few tinue to try to convince us that the . which Francisco has drawn and is also one of the best workers, to to recall. There have . been times months, a year or more-should way to peace ls increased arms. which he must in all conscience t he seminarian who had argued when picayune anxieties have we not look· upon the period of They work hard to manufacture a now live up to. He did run away with us here in the office after a choked the gladness of God's day; our livfng-service as a kind of long need for their -wares like any other from military service and if de Friday night meeting for 'hours to when sour suspicion, like sour retreat, a workshop in the ex business would in its advertising. ported he will take whatever the effect that he could kill a man yeast, infects the very leaven of ercise of charity, a training school The callousness is obvious. In this punishment is given to him. There case they are dealing with the lives in war and love him at the same that love which is His gift to us; in the practice of His love? are too few Spaniards opposing of people whose hearts quake at time. This intuition penetrated the when charity, grown niggard, gives A long retreat. A r etreat com Franco in Spain today. We' will be the thought of another war. If is fog of intellectualism that many so grudgingly, it is no gift at all.; pounded out of daily prayer and sorry to lose our faithful comrade tim.e for humanity to grow up and try to use as a cover up for a lack when the Stranger turns sorrow daily tasks, of living centered and I will picket the Immigration realize that an economy based on o'f responsibility to face the real fully from our door; when the sharp round the Iilessed Sacrament, of office if and when Francisco is de profits, bolstered by war produc ity of a world armed for war. words .fliiil. These are not happy bearing with each other's quirks ported, calling att91tion to my memories, but it is good and salu and foibles, of accepting with as tion, is. its own suicide weapon. solidarity with him rather than Wall Street tary for us to remember them. much of grace as we can muster with the two governments who Each Tuesday from noon for sev For this is Our Lady's house, Our the cantankerous r ecalcitrance of can sustain pain with the quip and unite in imprisoning one who seeks eral bours when we sell CW's at Lady's land, which is another way things that will not run,. as our iest, the cap-and-bells kind of to follow God rather than man. Pine and Nassau we see a mature of saying it is most particularly aging wheezing electric pump antics with which Philip, who Union Square man walking briskly with a blue dedicated to the service of Our refused to do for one full week makes our rosaries, lightens his Here wher e the first issue of sign held on his breast reading Lord. Now ,in our winter stock and left us stranded, desertwise, hours and ours; the humorous tlie CW was distributed on May "GO TO DAILY COMMUNio'N." taking, we must ask: Do we so unwashed and waterless - except anecdote with which joe Davin Day 1933 we three sell CW's from He is always friendly to us. I re serve, with all we have, with all for precious bucketsful hand-drawn after many months still bedfast in 14th, and Broadway east a block. member him from soapboxing on we are? Is His will ours? Or do from an old untested well - until the little room where Peter Maurin At times others help us there Wall Street last fall. we'follow our own perverse caprice ministraJ(ons of a kindly neighbor died - cheers so many visitors Thursday nights. The other Sat One of our CW friends dissuad into the . barren fields of dispu Charlie Pe'trillo, restored us, tern ~ who come to cheer him. Meditating urday we went up there for 2 hours ed a man who thought we were a tation and selfish striving? Sancta porarily al least, to our accustomed so, in the raw and snowpatched in the afternoon as we had missed Communist front from buying all l\faria ora pro nobis. water level. For God Himself, it days of latter Januar y, we reflect the Thursday as we were all mail of our papers and tearing tbem up. Pray for . us, 0 holy Mother of seems, sends all the penances and that perhaps He sends us these ing CW's at the office that night. One lady from out of town did God. For this is Mar yfarm; and mortifications we ·can handle. But Phillp, Joe, and others, too--as "Take this dollar and sh\!t up," buy 50 to take to her priest, and it is yours, intended for a holy He also sends the joy. The joy the humble magi of a new Epiph said an inebriated man who had often office workers buy 5 or 10 to purpose: as a Retreat House, .a that comes from loving Him and any to manifest His joy and sho w heard me for some minutes as he give away in their offices. House of Hospitality, and as a serving Him- with love. The joy us how in gladness we should leaned against the candy _store win- Today several people stopped consecrate-d laboratory for an ex- that comes from seeing those who make our long retreat.
.. ~ " ' 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 Ezra Pound . 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 Hilaire Belloc 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 Destiny 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."