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Subscription: Vol. XXXVII No.6 - JULY.AUGUST, 1971 25c Per Year Price Ie Bengal Nightmare INDIA HAS 6,000,000 DESTITUTE REFUGEES From reports by ELIZABETH REID (Miss Reid, a member of the Grail Movement, is General Sec retary of AFPRO, Association for Food Production, an ecumenical organization for development, op erating from Delhi. She has visited the refugee areas of West Bengal for Catholic Relief Services, arm of mercy of the Amerman Catholic community. The Bengali people of East Pak istan decided on a non-coopera tion campaign when the meeting of the National Assembly, sched uled for March 3, in West Pakistan, was postponed. A recent election gave the East Pakistanis a majority vote, and they wanted a new con stitution prOViding for civilian rule and more autonomy for East Pak istan. An autonomous East Pak istan is referred to as the Bengal Nation or BangIa Desh. Jaya Par akash Narayan, a Gandhi follower, Sr. Meinrad. stated that the non-cooperation campaign was one of the most successful -ever held. On March ') 25th, the West Pakistan at.my at tacked the unarmed East Pakis • tanis, killing as many as 250,000. A mass exodus of Bengalis, both By PAT HOFFMAN our society low wages means-lack of told him the rules. Learning what it's Muslims and Hindus, brought-six "I haven't seen a thing in the news. prestige and worth as a human being. about, the procedures, understandings, million destitute refugees into the What's happening?" Farm workers are It means being disregarded by school' processes-all this has to be done. neighboring provinces of India. making news; it just isn't often print boards, hospitals, community agencies, 30,000 workers have come under Most of them landed in India's UFWOC contracts since summer 1970. ed. The movement is sending roots government officials, and employers. West Bengal and are -clustered in down and is spreading across the na For years farm workers have lived Most of them are new to the meaning the towns and open fields, depend with these problems, and, for the most of a union. It's an enormous education ent for their life on the compassion tion. I would like to communicate some job. of the meanings of this movement and part, assumed that they could not of the world. solve them.· That picture probably still But more than procedures have to be Mother Teresa and a team of the give a brief run-down of information. learned. How about the worker who Some Reflections holds for most of the three million Missionaries of Charity are head farm workers in this country. But has been elected to the ranch com ing up the refugee relief work for Cesar Chavez talks- about this revo mittee for her farm? The owner has lution in agriculture as a two-edged workers in California and Arizona the Calcutta area.-Ed.) have seen a demonstration that a signed with UFWOC and the five per sword. The one edge has to do with son committee has responsibilities for the economic -and political struggle union of their own can begin to solve The fact that India with its enor these problems. Some farm workers seeing that the contract is enforced. mous population of 547 million has an with the growers in their power. The The grower has signed that piece of other edge has to do with keeping the now expect the union to do that job other six million added, willy-nilly for them. UFWOC contracts say that paper but doesn't plan to do a thing overnight, has not deterred the gov union clc;>se to its best ideals, with he doesn't have to do. "creating the new man" among farm there shall be toilets in the fields, ernment and people from responding cool drinking water, a just system Safety equipment for people who use to this tresh call on national resources. workers. dangerous pesticides is guaranteed in Those of us who have supported this of seniority when you move on and Today a campaign has been launChed movement have become accustomed to apply for a job in another place, health (Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 8) farm workers who have caught that benefits, no foreman driving your crew vision of a new way of being. They down a row at inhuman speed. But have enfieshedthe vision in the hard these improved conditions have not work of strikes and boycotts. We need been a reality for decades. They don't Dolci Plans October Tour to get our heads right so we won't become reality because they are writ be surprised when we discover that ten on a piece of paper called a con- By TOM CORNELL (LeMoyne and Syracuse University) many farm workers are ordinary folks: tract. 'Dhe power of that contract is .Danilo Dolci, who has been called the October IS-Rochester, New York who complain when the services of the the union that can enforce it. And the Gandhi of Sicily, will tour the United (Monroe ,Community College) union are inadequate, slow or con power of the union is the people who States in October. Dolei, who was October 16-18-Philadelphia, Penna. fusing to them; and who resist doing are a part of it. trained as an architect, left a highly (Villanova and Haverford) the ranch committee work that makes So what does that mean? Here's a profitable career in Milano to work October 19-20-New York City (City a turning-around of power real in that man doing field work on a farm near among the poor (}f Western Sicily University of New York) place. Coachella in Southern California. He twenty years ago. He had been im October 21-Departure for Sicily The leadership of the union has a never cared that much about the union prisoned during World War II for Friends of Danilo Dolci, Inc., P.O. tough job going up against the power struggle. He worked while others were refusal to serve in the Fascist army. Box 182, Haddonfield, New Jersey of agriculture. It has another tough on strike. But now he is a member of The same instinct that led him away 08033, is coordinating Dolci's tour. CW job leading farm workers to take on the union. His employer has signed a from m1litary service led him to readers who might wish to schedule new roles and responsibilities. contract with UFWOC. He and his Partinico, a small village near Palermo, Dolci in their areas or to know his pre When I heard Cesar talk about "cre fellow workers know the benefits where he organized the people around cise timetruble take note. ating the new man," he talked about guaranteed by the contract, but he nonviolent techniques of action for the I spent the month of October, 1970 some problems the union is currently doesn't understand the procedures for improvement of their lives in opposition With Danilo on tour of the United having in order to show what the getting some of those benefits. His to the entrenched and immobile gov States as his guide and interpreter. At union needs to do. Most of us are aware wife is expecting their second child dur ernmental bureaucracy and the Mafia. that time the Friends of Dolci group of the multitude of inter-woven prob ing the summer and the hospital This is his itinerary: was not well enough established to lems farm workers have faced. Most benefits will help. The baby comes and October 2-6-New York City coordinate a nationwide tour, so the of these problems stem from exceed so does the bill. This man knows he's October 7-Los Angeles Fellowship of Reconciliation undertook ingly low wages, poor diet, little -or supposed to have hospital coverage, but October 8-10-San Francisco and that responsibility as a contribution to no health care, high death rate for doesn't know what he needs to do to get Palo Alto (Stanford University) the work in Sicily. When I was asked babies as well as adults, crowded liv it. He feels frustrated and angry at October 11-12-Madison, Wisconsin to translate for Danilo I accepted the ing, condItions and the toll that can the union. He has suddenly been thrust
July-Augu8t, 1971 THE CATHOLIC WORKER Page Three To Love Rather Tl,an Be Loved SAINT FRANCIS AND HIS FOUR the significance of the combination of LADIES, by Joan Mowat Erikson. (W. The Ardor of St. Francis artist and saint. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New She shows that not only did Francis I York, $5.) 140 pages. Reviewed by twined with his life. cis-we must remember that the Fran- imitate hls Master through the use of Eileen Egan. . The four women, named by the au ciscan beginnings were in lay street the dramatic parable but he also taught thor as the Lady Pica, his mother, the preaching-Clare asked to follow the by demonstration. "Using the most ele It is close on 800 years since the birth Lady Poverty, his bride, the Lad'y Clare, the way of Francis. The author makes mentary grammar of behavior," she . in Assissi, an Italian hill town, of his adopted daughter and Our Lady a special point of the fact that though writes, "he would juxtapose his message Giovanni Bernardone, n i c k n a m e d Queen of Heaven, allow her to pursue Francis had been given by the Pope against the prevalent modes of action "Francesco," "Little Frenchman," by fresh and illuminating insights into only tpe permission to form his hand- and startle his audience into the im his father. In the intervening time, the formation of Francis. They also ful of followers into a group of "beg- mediate recognition of eternal truths." countless thousands of men and women cast new light on the power the Saint ging friars," he received Cla~e's vows Kissing the--Ieper and' stripping off his have attempted to follow, literally or has wielded over the lives and imagina of poverty, chastity and obedience. In clothes to return them to his father less literally, the life-style of Francis tions of men and women over the cen the presence of his small company, are early examples of his gift for the of Assisi, a life-style patterned on that turies-a power that is building into a ' Francis cut ,off the long, fair hair of epiphany of the dramatic act. Invited of Jesus. Added to those who vowed crescendo in our time of mechanization, Clare and gave her rough, poor clothing to a dinner by Cardinal Ugolino, Fran to walk in the footsteps of Francis are dehumanization and scientific warfare. to replace her rich garment&. The Poor cis found himself surrounded by "many innumerable others who were d'rawn to . Joan Mowat Erikson is a teacher, Clares, installed in the San Damiano ,knights and nobles." Francis had the life of Francis and who pondered writer and craftsman and the wife of cloister restored by Francis and his begged his bread and during the meal, and wrote on every aspect of his life. Erik H. Erikson, noted psychoanalyst followers, became the responsibility of shared a portion with the Cardinal and Can anything new be said of a poor and author. She tells us that her book the begging, wandering friars. Clare with each of the rich guests. When the little man who has become public is "the testament of a traveller" to the saw herself as "the little plant of our Cardinal informed Francis that this property and who has been called places where Francis walked and Father Saint Francis" a~d Francis cond'uct embarrassed him, Francis ex "Everybody's Sa i n t Francis"? The prayed, preached and sang. "Drawn treated her as his spiritual d'aughter plained, "The bread of charity is holy strength of this latest book on St. back to Assisi many times," she writes, though she was only twelve years his bread which the praise and the love of Francis by Joan Mowat ErikSon is that "one becomes an amateur in the an junior. It was the Poor Clares who the Lord God sanctifies." there is no striving after the novel. cient sense of tlie word: a devotee of cared for Francis for some months to- Francis did not attack the rich life The author tells us that "Saintliness is, the Franciscan legend." ward the end of his life when he was style of lay or cleric, but acted out, of course, impossible to descdbe or de The fact of the Lady Pica's Proven wounded with the five wounds of the boldly and with unquench8lble gaiety, fine. Since it is of necessity a process cal origin is accepted by the author. crucified Christ. ~t was in a little hut an evangelical life-style. To the re of becoming and of being in a constant Francis sang like a minstrel all his in the cypress-rmged garden ~f San ligious communities of his time, many state of transcendance, there are few life and Thomas of Celano wrote that Damiano that Francis sang hlS song of whom had settled into comfort, ac aspects of saintliness that one can as he sang, "the song would become of all creation, "The Canticle of Brother cepted and protected by the system, he capture in words ..." The beauty and louder and the French words would Sun." posed the wild scandal of a counter strength of SAINT FRANCIS AND HIS pour from his lips .. ." Where did he Francis, says the au.thor, was 'in the community, living from day to day on FOUR LADIES lie in a quietly new way d'rink in the French tongue and the spirit of his time in hlS l?oetic and in- alms and without permanent shelter. of approaching Francis, n a mel y spirit of courteous love if not from a timate devotion to Our Lady Queen of The Franciscan counter,.community through four feminine figures inter- mother steeped in the poetic tradition Heaven. But to him, Mary was not only was rooted in a conviction of the of Provence? a powerful Queen in a heavenly court, existence of a loving and all-merciful When Francis chose the way of not only a beautiful and mysterious Creator and on total dependence on poverty of His Lord, he dramatized his "Rose of the World," but also a "lo,:",ly Him. choice by uniting himself with the peasant woman whose compat,>;lOn Because he did not spend his energy Peace Ship Lady Poverty. One of the many telling throughout life had been poverty. It in attacking patent evils, his powers illustrations of the book is a reproduc By ARTHUR SHEEHAN was Mary's role on earth that came be- of reconciliation were enormous. He tion of a fresco depicting the marriage fore the mind of the country people maintained dialogue with a Pope who, I am on a ship in New York harbor of st. Francis with the Lady Poverty. of Greccio when they saw the first surprised by his scruffy figure in a which is being made into a radio sta The Lady holds out a gaunt hand and replica of the crib of. Bethlehem. On Vatican corridor, told him to leave and arm in troth to Francis. She is taller a Christmas eve, the villa.gers were in- roll in a pigsty. Francis, it -is related, tion with a 50,000 watt power. It is than he and is covered in pale rags, a vited' to join in worship With .the friars. found a pigsty, rolled in it and came called the Peace Ship and eventually, burst of thorns at her feet. There is In their midst was a stall With an ~x, back for his audience. He opened a we hope, wUJ broadcast in five lan no sentimentality in the long, thin an ass, some sheep and a small child dialogue with the leader of the enemy guages In the Mediterranean to the face of the Lady who is being wedded in a manger-a~d 'also the poverty of . 'forces, Sultan Malak-el-Kamal, after Middle East where radio is usually to the Poverello, the little poor man, the holy family of Bethlehem. . crossing from the Crusader's Camp at government controlled. Interspersed in the presence of Christ himself. Joan Erikson's new approach brmgs Damietta, Egypt. The Sultan returned with music will be news broadcasts, The Lady Clare was Chiara Faverone special illumination to two asp~cts of courtesy for courtesy to the brown-clad talks, debates with persons of different of a rich and noble family of Assist the life and infiuence of FranCIS, first "instrument of peace" and gave him Views, Arabs, Jews, Catholics, Moham Drawn by the street preaching of Fran- his method of teaching, and secondly safe conduct to the Christian lines. medans. Some of these have already :::.:::.::....:::.::.:.:.:.:....:.---=------This teaching act, the opening up of been taped here in New York. converse with the so-called enemy, The ship is the idea of A. B. Nathan, speaks to all peacemakers who refuse the man who broj1ght food into Biafra. ,Tivoli: a Farm With a View to consider any other man an enemy. The Catholic Worker had an article on By DEANE MARY MOWRER "True teaching," Joan Erikson com his work last year. Abie, as he is called, ments, "teaching that molds or so enthused ,the Dutch people with his On the Feast of st. Vincent de Paul, white-who lived seemingly in dark changes, is, as everyone knows, ac Biafra work that they collected $70,000 rain fell blessedly for many hours, ness and ignorance of each other's way complished' by living example. For how and bought him this ship. Father Philip breaking the long drought of July, . and light, who approached each other else can the young learn except through Bourret, a Jesuit, is building the radio bringing refreshment and vitality to with aims that seemingly could not be the quality of life in the human matrix station at cost. It is about half finished the half-parched vegeta&es in our achieved except through the extinction of their world?" and another $100,000 is needed to mmy gardens, bringing smiles to the of the other. Incidentally, one of the omissions finish it and get the ship started. One face of John Filligar, our farmer. With Then in the clear light of that day, from this book is a great work of peace person has promised a year's food sup the rain came Canadian coolness, wel- cooled with aromatic shade of pines achieved by Francis on behalf of his ply. A priest is collecting canned goods. come as September, touching us all re- and hemlocks, fragrant with many lay followers who banded together into A Jewish lady brings meats. freshingly, relaXing taut tempers. flowers at every station ,of the martyrs' the Third Order. He released all Third Three rabbis wUl be in the cabin Then, in the evening, while wood way, I knew that there had been a few (Continued on Ipage 7) talking to Abie while I sit listening and thrushes sang their evensong, Father who had walked towards others not in wondering. The conversation veers Vincent Haut, who is visiting us from darkness but light, not in fear but love. from English to Hebrew (I guess) back Jacksonville, Florida, said in our chapel With Clare reading to me the narra the Mass of st. Vincent de Paul. In my tives and prayers at every station and RADICAL CHRISTIAN THOUGHT to English. Abie speaks five languages, Easy Essays by Peter Maurin I believe. heart there was gladness, for the re- stopping now and again to kneel and freshment of rain, for the Mass, and pray, I began to have a strong sense Foreword by Dorothy Day Now he is in Tel AViv, sell1ng his for that saint who was-and is-so of the heroic faith and love of those illustrations by Susie Greene restaurant buildings to put the funds great a friend of the poor. Seventeenth Century Saints: Fr. Isaac 48 pages, paperback into the completion of the radio; but it The next morning, when Clare Dan- Jogues, Fr. Rene Goupil, and Fr. Jean 60c single copy. won't be enough. He still will need a lot ielson and I arrived at Auriesville, I Lalande. Then when we came to the $2.75 five copies. $5.25 ten copies. of money which could easily come from thought that the Mass of st. Vincent Tekakwitha museum and reviewed the All postage paid. many small donations. And perhaps de Paul had been a good vigil for our facts of the life of this extraordinary Order from: more significantly than if given by just pilgrimage. Standing on the high hill Indian, I realized that she, who was THE GREEN REVOLUTION one or two persons. A number have of that shrine of martyrs, listening to born in Osser-Nenon, which we now Catholic Worker Farm been able to make loans to the project. Clare's evocative description of the sur- call Auriesville, and became not only a West Hamlin, WY 25571 ·Although I had read the article last rounding Mohawk River Valley, I felt Christian but one of heroic virtue, was year in !J.'he Catholic Worker on the that here was something more than surely the seed of the blood of these Also Peace Ship, the full meaning of it natural beauty. There was a sense of Jesuit martyrs. MEDITATIONS didn't dawn on me. Father Charles Mc history, of the Indianness of our orig- She is Venerable Tekakwitha now, by Dorothy Day Tague, a priest friend happened to be _ins, of that great Mohawk people who and her image is carved on the great Selected and with Introduction driving by the ship when curiosity dwelt here before the coming of the door of st. Patrick's Cathedral in New by Stanley Ylshnewsky lead him to meet Abie Nathan. This Colonials, secure. in their tribal virtues York City. Surely one day she will be Illustrated by Rita Corbin lead to Father bringing many young and in theIr culture so admirably suit- canonized. We have need of her, we $1.75 paperback, $2.50 hardcover people to work on the ship. Father, an ed.to their way of life. Nor could I for- Americans; for she is a true saint of ex-seaman, still in possession of his Order from Stanley E"'t that violence which moved disturb- our land. Surely she who lived with Catholic Worker Farm seaman's papers, has long had the idea ingly as streams of blood amid the such heroic v,irtue in such turbulent Box 33, Tivoli. N.Y. 12883 (Continued on page 8) meetings of those peoples-red and (Continued on page 5) ..-
... Page Four THE CATHOLIC WORKER July-August, 1971 .July-August, 1971 THE CATHOLIC WORKER , Page Fif'e + + + LETTERS + + + Where's The Huelga Now? the old Bank of America Building in We are hoping to lodge these people ~ ':>- J ,.. ?\ '" "- ~-<. July-August, 1971 THE CATHOLIC WORKER Page Seven To Love Rather Than Be Loved I' (Continued from page 3) tion to the Ladies in his lifE'." The The New York Times recently fea- mere negation or sentimentallty and Order members from their mllitary saint lives in awareness of the presence tured a reproduction of an image of support each other in a lifestyle' that obligation ,to fight at the behest of their of God, in himself, in all creatures and st. Francis as part of a news story de went against contemporary customs if feudal lord. One can glimpse the down all creation; in awareness of the eter scribing him as the patron saint of not ideals? fall of the military hold of feudalism nal in the time-bound, the infinite in ecology. Francis' reverence for all cre Some of us experience in our own in this prophetic act of liberation. . the finite, the sacredness in every. mo ation and his sparing use of the p.arth's time the excitement of the days of In the last chapter; '~rtist Saint," ment. "To communicate this aSj ol.ct of resources are more meaningful to us Franciscan beginnings. We feel it in Joan Erikson reminds us that the saint the 'glad tiding'," she concludes "and than to his contemporaries because we the efforts of the Cathollc Worker and artist have in common the struggle to incorporate it in a memorable ·form must now face the anti-creation pos- movement to live out the gospel today. to reconcile the masculine and femi -this then is the unique function of Those of us who knew Peter Maurin nine in themselves. She adds a crucial the saintly artist." knew a man who llved like Francis and point. "However, thesairlt who is an This extra-ordinarily well-produced wanted the Catholic Worker not to artist too must not only wed the two book (forty small and large illustra grow large but to stimulate others to sides of our basic bisexuality which tions, a jacket design by the author proliferate centers of study and hos struggle for conciliation in all of us, but and a hand-lettered Prayer of st. pitality across the land. Joan Erikson he must also manage a harmonious Francis) comes at a time when Francis has dedicated her book to "Dorothy alliance of self-d'enying asceticism and is particularly in th~ public conscious Day, friend of poverty." We feel a sim receptive sensuality." ness. The ''Poverello'' is probably more ilar excitement in the poverty of Francis, she decides, "could. be all in the public mind now than at any Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Char this: Knight Errant, troubadour, jong time since he breathed his last on the' ity who unerringly seek out the poorest leur, dramatist, teacher, lyric poet Assisi earth, naked and with arms out and most rejected members of the hu artist and saint ... Probably only a· stretched, cruciform and blind but man f:amily in India and other parts saint who was also a great servant of singing to the very end. Millions will of the world. Here again is the poetry the sensory and who happened, too, to see his story in a film "Brother Sun, and stark realism of Francis and his be a totally dedicated monk, could pro Sister Moon," being made in Italy by followers. claim so freely and joyously his devo- Franco Zefflrelli. sibllities of pollution, over-consump . We hear echoes of the Franciscan tion and the storage of genocidal in spirit in the work of Ralph Nader and struments of nuclear destruction. his young co-workers. When asked how The bands of Friars Minor, "lesser he chose young people to share his Dolci Plans October Tour brothers," were certainly in their day gruelling, often thankless struggle counter-communities which bear deep against corporate power, pollution, and ~ Page Eight THE CATHOLIC WORKER July-August, 1971 A Return To Life Nightmare In Bengal (Continued from page 2) few weeks ago) when I discovered that (Continued from page 1) organizations to come forward Wit!} tance, when without warning I would a change was taking place within me. to collect thousands of' saris for the help. fall down, hard, bone-jarring falls that I came nearly every day to the Worker women refugees now' living in camps. In addition to such basic foodstuffs left me helpless to get up without help. -and began to have friends, and with Money has been collected by the Cen as rice, CBS has flown in 150,000 doses I could squirm and wiggle, but I could their help, or rather by their examples, tral Relief Committee to put up im of anti-cholera vaccine and mass not get up. I ·kept trying and with I began to have a kind of faith I had mediately 300 hutments at a cost of innoculation jet guns to help stem an enormous effort I could' get to my never known. For several years' I had 50,000 rupees (7.50 Rs to a U.s. dollar). epidemic. Air-shipped also were cloth knees, only'to fall over on my back believed in God,' but I could not and Lists appear in the daily press day ing, cooking utensils and large numbers again. All through this a cop and one would not trust Him. Now I began to after day with voluntary contributions of shelter tarpaulins and tents to of the desk clerks at the flop house trlist Him to help me through the hard, from the people. protect the refugees from the tropic painful'time when it seemed useless to sun and monsoon rains soon to begin. where I was liVing were following me, A Difficult Choice keeping pace with me, when I walked keep on trying . Contributions to help keep this and stumbled along, stopping when I Friends, my tale is nearly told.. I Mrs. Ind'ira Gandhi, tlie Prime program alive can be ,sent to: fell-and just watching me struggling Minister of India, has a difficult choice still live on the Bowery, but I am not Catholic Rellef Services to get up on legs that had turned to a bum any more. I shower and shave to make. She is fully aware of the jelly. They would watch and wait while. public opinion regarding' BangIa Desh, 350 Fifth Avenue every day, my clothes are clean, and New York, New York 10001 people walked by, glanced at me, and most important, I am able to make but also it should be noted that she has wa,lked away-fast. Then when some small efforts to contribute (not money) acted calmly and carefully in face of a body helped me up (how kind some to the difficult, and at times nearly dangerous political situation, steering strangers were to me that day) the impossible job of trying to help the clear of involvement which could lead squad' car would start up and stay destitute-the ones who seem as hope to war. Her main problem is the inflow Peace 'Ship with me till I fell again. Finally they less as I was. of refugees from the other side. Out got .tired of the g,ame, shoved me into of them, about 600/0 are Muslims who (Continued from Page 3) One last thing. This change in me is the back seat of the squad car-and want to go back and 40% are Hindus of a ship for a school where young very new and fragile. I could very who may 'wish to remain. The Central took me back to the hotel. easily find my self back among the people can learn not only seamanspip I woke up the next day, weak, sick, Government in New Delhi is spending but the many trades that landlubbers garbage ,cans. 1 don't want that to Rs. 5 per person per day. How long tremUlous, and in a complete state of happen, and I don't think it will. need - carpentry, welding, electrical paranoia. The television was blaring, can India alone bear this burden and wiring, cooking, etc. I've diseovered the But it could, and I will tell you how how will it rehabllltate those who do almost universal interest in electronics people were talking; and I could clearly you can help. Pray for me. Pray that not want to go back are questions hear them making plans to force me among young pe1"sons. The radio ship my life will continue to have meaning which need immediate attention. brings it out immediately and they to run naked through a gauntlet and purpose. That when 1 die it will (everybody invited) of men with sticks Refugees Relate Deeds of give me lectures on the mysteries of not be in some flophouse among stran Pakistan Army . and stones, clubs and iron pipes. gers, but with dignity and with friends, this dark subject. After a long, long. time, while the and in a state of grace. Mr. Jogendra Sahni, standing outside Abie asked me to stay on the ship terror increased, I became desperate And pray for all the ones who are a camp in Krishnager, related the fol while he is in Tel Aviv. Communication enough to risk the ordeal I was sure apparently beyond redemption. pray lowing: "The Pakistani army collected always amazes me but here it is some was waiting for me outside' my room for a miracle for them, because that is some 400 disabled beggars and slum thing special. One minute I am talking door. I opened the door, and walked what happened to me. dwellers, brought them to the Sadar to Abie in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the next slowly and carefully to the locked cage Bazar area and machine gunned' them minute it is Father Bourret on the type door and waited until the clerk to strike terror among the civilian phone in California. Then a reporter pushed a button under ·his desk en population." will call from Akron, Ohio, and in a abling me to open the door.' Nobody Another man who wished to remain few minutes I give him the details of was waiting for me, nobody gave me On Pilgrimage un-named told how about 125 young the ship to answer a letter received from a subscriber to his newspaper. a second glance, and for a moment (Continued from page 2) men were machine-gunned by Pakistani sanity returned-I saw how my sick Firing Squads in the Mayamari The other night about 11 p.m., Rabbi imagination had, beginning with the have to delay answering, or just to Amjhupi area, near Meherpore in Steve Schaffer and I had a ,talk with clerk and his cop friend playing a game acknowledge communications. Others Kushtia District. They were made to Abie by phone. It was 6 a.m. in Tel with me (truth), moved to an intricate of course help, and we are blessed with stand in rows and asked to read the Aviv and Abie was slightly groggy plot involving great numbers of people many volunteers especially in the sum "kalma" before they were shot. from sleep. But there was a problem to mer. Some take a year or so with us who were planning flrst to take away Among the victims of the genocide- in solve. Rabbi Schaffer handles the the last vestige of my integrity, then to help and ate very interested right finances of the Peace Ship Fund which now in the Farm Workers' struggle, BangIa Desh last week were thousands destroy me (all paranoid delusions). of boys from schools and colleges has to be set up according to New York My sanity lasted until I hit the side and tenants', groups and neighborhood State law since contributions are problems. But not many write about. selected by the Martial Law authorities walk. Then I realized that the enemy for' training in the National Cadet sought. was. waiting on every street corner, in these things. Students have had enough of writing, enough of books (text Corps. The trainees were taken out in By phone the status of the problem alleys and door ways. I watched them army trucks from Dacca to Norshingda is soon seen. The steps to be taken are signal to one another (hand signals, or books) for a time. So 1 make apologies on the false promise that they would understood. It is truly amazing. I look piercing whistles, or yells). They were for us all for omissions, delays, and-I be allowed to go home with their ask prayers, when you read this, for out the window at the old World Tele working on me. in relays-when one pocket money. But, once they reached gram .building and understand acutely stopped, another took over. I was never the trials and trouble-ations, as John Norshingda, the homesick boys were Fillinger our farmer calls them, of the difficulties of a daily newspaper out of their sight. It -was then that I taken to a warehouse and told that staying in business today when anyone began to run, stumbling and sobbing those at the farm, and those in the they would be served tea and then let city, and right now most especially for can pick up a phone and get the story with blind, unreasoning terror. I do off. When all of them were thus lured himself. not remember whether I decided on me. in, the doors were bolted from the out the Worker as a sanctuary or just _1 confess to fear and trembling at side and within minutes the bloodbath With this swift communication, there lucked into the only people who were the take off and the landing of planes. followed as the army kept on firing is really no night and everything has a able to help. The speed is so terrific that I feel it Biblical touch. I feel like Noah a little, through the windows. or Danny Kaye, and the decaying New Despite my appearance - f ilthy, is a miracle when we have accom sweating, and so fouled up I could no plished either height or landing. When Catholic Relief Services York wharves are understandable longer separate reality from phantasy, I am in the air, gliding so comfortably Feeding 600,000 Daily against this background of communica so exhausted I could barely talk-and among the clouds, over the clouds, I Catholic Relief Services has responded tion with planes flying overhead. when I could I was nearly incoherent. recognize that the plane finds it no promptly to this difficult situation, as I hope you got my message which However, they didn't turn me away. harder to sustain itself in the air than it responds to human need wherever is simple. Many little donations can They suggested I sit down and rest, ,a giant steamer the size of the Waldorf possible. At present this organization make this ship a reality soon. The and brought me a bowl of soup, and Astoria hotel has to float on the waters is responsible for feeding, daily, 600, Peace Ship would like to reach the bread. Also they listened, they paid of the ocean. God has us all in the hol 000 refugees located in camps in West Mediterranean before the Fall when attention. This hadn't happened to me low of His hand. My heart and my soul Bengal, at Jalpaiguri, and Krishnagar, crossing. the Atlantic will be difficult for nearly a year. And they told me to know it but my flesh trembles. Mary Nadia District, and in Assam at ShU for this 570 ton vesSel. come back any time. And for the first Lathrop, the darling, drew me a won long in the Dawki District. P.S. The Peace Ship Fund address is time in a year I had a place to go derful picture of a plane saillng The CRB staff in Calcutta has been P.O. Box 1111, F.D.R. Station, New York, where there was sanity, and help of a through the clouds, and under it were reinforced with'staff from the main New York 10022. kind I still don't quite understand. It the sustaining wings of two great office in New Delhi. The Director of began with the concrete fact that every angels. A beautiful line drawing, and the India Programme, Mr. Joseph morning I (and many, many others) when I find it we will have a cut made Nemec, has himself travelled to the could get a bowl of good hot soup, tea, of it for the paper so others who share scene to see that everything is done to and all the bread we wanted. But it my fears may be reassur'ed. speed up the help needed. LETTERS went a long way beyond that. There And here is Arthur J. Lacey on his The problem in terms of organizing (Continued from Page 6) were people there, most of them young, way to the printer, and sitting, pa relief has acquired immense pro have always been rare. (Gandhi called who called you "Sir," and just the way tience on a pedestal, waiting for me to portions, putting tremendous strain on them "public workers.") We would like they said it made me-habituated now finish. So when 1 mend a suit, an<:). the administrative and' material to continue to join with you in the to being cursed, yelled at, put down, shine my shoes which are a bit down resources of the States concerned. The service of those who suffer needlessly treated with contempt-feel a little' at the heel, and repack my suitcase, Central Government's will1ngness to be and alone. They are so many, and flicker of life inside me. Gradually 1 thrOWing half the stuff back in the of as much assistance as possible has those to serve them are so few. To began to realize that even now, when wardrobe, I shall set out for the air relieved the State of some of the gether we can make up a mighty army time was running out on me, 1 might pgrt, with Tom Cornell ferrying me financial strain, but it is felt that only of true servants. . yet become a human being. ~'ith a borrowed car, to meet Nina at through international effort can relief Peace and love, Since then, very slowly and without the American Airlines, and transfer on the requisite scale be organized. Dan & Chris Delany, Jeff Dietrich, any real conviction or motivation, t ourselves to the Pan Am where we will The Government of India has already Sue Pollock, Dan Bender, and John struggled' through to the time (just a meet the rest of the tourists. appealed to several international O'Neill.