THE CATHOLIC WORKER
Subacr1ption1 Vol. -xxxm No. 5 FEBRUARY, 1967 25c Per Ye•r Price le Clerical Witness OF.HOLY DISOBEDIENCE A./. Muste convince him that he 11 helpless BY TOM CORNELL In Colombia as an individual and that the only Abr;ham Johannes Muste, A.J., way to meet regimentation ls by is dead at 82. regimentation, there ls absolutely no hope saye in going back to the A minister, a labor leader, a beginning. The human being, the revolutionary, a pacifist died child of God, must assert his hu peacefully of heart failure at St. manity and his sonship again. He Luke's Hospital in New York early must exercise the choice which is Saturday evening, February 11. no longer accorded him by his He worked at his home until five society, which, "naked, weaponless, hours before his death, and re armourless, without shield or mained lucid till the last. He was spear, but only with naked hands very much a father to many of us. and open eyes," he must create A. J. was born in the Nether again. He must understand that lands and grew up in the Mid this naked human being is the west. He was graduated from only real thing in the face of the Hope College in Michigan in 1905, machines and the mechanized in valedictorian, captain of the bas stitutions of our age. He, by the ketball team and state oratorical grace of God, ls the seed of all the champion. He studied for the min human life there will be on earth, istry and served a Dutch Re though he may have to die to make formed church, a Presbyterian that harvest possible. As Life church, a Congregational church stated, in its unexpectedly pro and a Friends meeting. He studied found and stirring editorial •f Au at Union Theological Seminary, gust 20, 1945, its first issue after New York University and Colum the atom bombing of Hiroshima: bia. "Our sole safeguard against the Milton Mayer, in his essay "The very real danger of a reversion to Christer," quotes James P. Can non's History of Americ.an Trot skyism: "Trotsky was greatly interested in the personality of Muste, asked me questions about him and en tertained some hopes that he would develop into a real Bolshe vik later ... Muste's handicap was his background. He had started out life as a preacher. But de spite the handicap of lhi back Nonviolent Protest ground, he gave promise because By PAT RUSK of his exceptional personal quali ties, and because of the great in The charges read off to us as we to risk days, months or even years fluence he had over the people stood before Judge Grey in Crim behind bars? Why do we dot it? associated with him; his prestige inal Court on January 3rd were: The answer was given in the and his reputation. He was, you Prison Meditations of Father Al- might say, the last chance anlf the disorderly conduc~. resisting ar fred Delp, the German Jesl!it who best chance; even he, the best rest (for some), public nuisance, was executed by the Nazis: "For prospect of all, could not come and inciting to riot. The first two how shall we hear if there are through in the end because of charges had been pressed against none to cry out, none whose voice that terrible background of the us when w~ were arrested, on De can rise above the tumult of vio church .. ." cember 15th, for refusing to clear lence and destruction, the false "Terrible Background" the sidewalk in front of the Army clamor that deafens us to reality.'' A. J . left the Church, and pacl Induction Ceuter at Whitehall Somehow we managed to get up fism (he thought that Christianity Street, in New York City. The the steps and there were so many was inconceivable without paci third and fourth came as a shock, of us that we spilled over onto the fism) in 1921, after seeing children fot· wc had been expecting merely sidewalk, where 'we continued to barbarism ls the kind of morality spitting blood in the textile mills which compels the individual con to plead on the original c.'1arges. huddle together against the biting of North Carolina. He found his Inciting to riot is punishable by wind. We sang Christmas carols science, be the group right or way with the poor, the workers, wrong. The individual conscience uo to three years in prison. until we were irlterrupted by the and took Ill> their fight as his own. OPTING OUT against the atomic bomb? Yes. The protest had taken place on amplified voice of the police cap He found in the doctrine of the There is no other way.'' December 15th, when a large tain, who ordered us to move on class war a way of hope. But after (Of Holy Disobedience, 1952) NORTH group of us took to the streets to or face arrest. We hoped that our organizing and directing Brook protest the latest escalation in the voices would carry across the roar (This ~an excerpt from one of Increasing numbers of young the pieces included in "The Essays wood Labor College in Katonah, Americans of draft age, faced with Vietnam war. After a brief meet ot battle fire and reach the· small New York during the 1920's and ing at the F-ifth Avenue Peace children in the ricefields of Viet of A. J. Muste," edited by Nat the moral dilemma of forced servi Hentoff and Just published by coming by the early Thirties to Parade headquarters on Beekman nam. Sixty-three of us were placed tude in a war against the Vietnam~ Bobbs-Merrill). believe violent revplutiop neces ese people that they neither be Street, we all crossed City Hall under arrest. sary, after successfully leading lieve in nor approve of, are taking Park and walked down Broadway It took only a few minutes to strikes in the textile industry, the the alternative choice of immigra to the Induction Center. At the put us in the .paddy wagons and -to stay in jail voluntarily for trucking and · automotive indus tion north to Canada. head of the line were a number whisk us off to the First Precinct weeks or months or even years, as tries in too many cities and too Since Canada . has no Selective of clergymen, including eighty station house, where we were many conscientious objectors do, many plants to mention, after Service Act, offers no language two-year-old A. J . Muste, Fathers quickly processed; there was no is proof that one takes seriously founding an independent labor un barrier, and provides both jOb and David Kirk and Richard Mann, of fingerprinting or taking of pho Christ's words about suffering per ion and a political party with t he education opportunities to the man Emmaus House, and Father Thom tographs. To expedite matters, we secution for justice' sake. It seems Trotskyites, A. J. went to Norway, willing to immigrate, the wonder as Hayes, of the Episcopal Peace cooperated with the clerical work to me that if we are committing with his wife, on their first Vaca is only that more young Americans Fellowship. Many college students and reached Day Court in time to civil disobedience in order to pro tion, to confer with Leon Trotsky do not avail themselves of the op walked behind them. and some be arraigned. While waiting to ap test the war, we are defeating our himself. It was 1935, and the be portunity. Canada's position on parents ere accompanied by their pear we spent a few hours in cells. purpose if we pay fines or bail ginnings of World War II were the trend north to avoid the Selec teen-aged children. In my cell, Beverly Sterner, who and there'bY pay the State for the clear to him. He arrived back from tive Service Act was made plain At Whitehall Street, barricades is A. J . Muste's secretary, de privilege of demonstrating when Norway reconverted, a passionate by Tom Kent, Canadian Deputy had been carefully placed in the scribed a demonstration she once it is this "frozen monster" (as ly convinced Christian and a paci Minister of Citizenship and Immi gutter to contain us. The weather took part in at New London, Con Berdyaev called the State) that fist. He could not overcome "that gration, in a press statement last was bitterly cold and we walked necticut. She and a fellow-pacifist initiates, perpetuates and thrives terrible background." September when he said, "There round and round to keep from were paddling a canoe and holding on war. A. J. did not then cease to view is not any prohibition in the Im freezing. The other side of the up a sign that said Stop the War Stokely Carmichael said recent history with the clear insight that migration Act or Regulations street was jammed with specta when a naval launch bore down ly that Jesus Christ was the great Marxism, his own vision and ex against the admission of persons tors, also behind barricades. who on them. I was relieved to learn est revolutionary of all, because perience had given him. He was a who may be seeking to avoid in simply stared at us in silence. The that Beverly is an excellent .swim he had to choose whether he brilliant political analyst, perhaps duction into the armed services attempt to block the doorway was mer. With her ,,,oft, smooth skin would inflict suffering or accept unsurpassed in America, and cer and, therefore, provided they meet of course symbolic of our objec it is easier to imagine her behind suffering, and he made his choice. tainly unsurpassed in the State De immigration requirements we have tive: to halt the drafting process. a perfume counter than paddling I think that tire wrong kind of partment. Years later, at lhe death no basis in law !or barring their In the face of such overwhelming for dear life to escape a naval pain comes from refusing to make of Stalin, A. J . circulated a memo entry." realities as fragmentation bomb launch. this choice. There can be joy in forecasting in detail the gro~h of As to the possibility of the ing and napalming, our protest To spend an hour or two in a suffering. Being imprisoned is a polycentrism · in the Communist United States instigating legal pro must seem pathetic and futile. clean, well-lighted CE:ll is little small way to sU.ffer for the sins world, showing why the Soviet Un- (Continued on page 6) Isn't It a waste oI time and effort more than an inconvenience. But (Contin-.ied on ~age 7) (Continued on page 6> Page Two THE CATHOLIC WORKER February, 1967 Vol. XXXIll No. 5 February, 1967 Goldbricker's Paradise. .CATHOLIC tlbwoRKER :By JAMES MILORD "Honest labor bears a lovely ting time! Combined with the Published Monthly September to June, Bl-monthly July-Aucut face."-Thomas Dekker standar d frustrations of a govern· ORGAN )F THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT One of the ideas you hear bal ment. job, idleness can literally PETER MAURIN, lo'ounder tered ar ound by blue-collar work drive a man to dr ink. DOROTHY DAY, Editor and Publisher Men do want to work. MARTIN J. CORBIN. Managing Editor ers is that they would work at just Associate Editors: about anything so long as the pay ~re may be a few abno~l CHARLES BUTTERWORTH, JACK COOK, RITA CORBIN (Art) , was good. I don't believe that, sub-men around who do not, but I NICOLE d'ENTREMONT, EDGAR FORAND, JUDITH GREGORY, and I bad a good experience to found that cloth didn't wear too THOMAS S. HOEY, WILLIAM HORVATH, MARJORIE C. HUGHES, well, either on myself or on the CHRISTOPHER S. KEARNS, WALTER KEBELL, PHIL MALONEY, back up my reasons for coming JOHN McKEON, KARL MEYER, DEANE MOWRER, HELEN C. to exactly the opposite conclusion. majority of the men on that mas sive play-acting job. RILEY, PAT RUSK, ARTHUR SHEEHAN, ANNE TAILLEFER, During one doldrum summto1·, a EDWARD TURNER, STANLEY VISHNEWSKI, JAMES E. WILSON. It was not only the nick of con friend of mine who was pulling New subscriptions and chanae of address: JESUS is sentenced to death. science that occasionally touched wires at a massive two-year con 175 Chrystie St., New York, N. Y. 10002 H hey have persecuted ME, they us and said: "Now wait a minute! Telephone OR 4·9812 will also persecute you. struction job near Chicago, paint You're getting something for noth Editorial communications to: Box 33 Tivoli, N. Y. 12583 IUessed .a:re they that suffer pe~ ed a uranium-strike picture of the ing here, man." Or, "You know building laborer'·s life. The wages Subscrlptlon United States. 25c Yearly. Canada and Foreign 30c Yearly seoution for justice's sake, theirs you don't. deserve that paycheck." Subscription rate of one cent per copy plus postage applies to bundles of one is the Kincdom of Heaven. made my own earning at the time No, it went deeper than that. hundred or more copies each month for one year to be dlreded to one address look like a r elief dole by compari If a man is forced into bogus . congregation should remain calm, son. · With the high rent we had labor, somet:bing has to give, some Reentered as second class matter August 1-0. 1939. at t.be Post Office to -shell out every month, my wife o1 New York, N. Y., Undt>r the Act of March 3. 1879 and later the Charge was made that thing has to come out in the wash th -e parishioners experienced and I spe£].llated that it would -usually his temper, his disgust pr.obably give us a better diet than <&; ,121 •1emotional upset." with himself, his quarrelling. At peanut-butter sand.wiches. ~ I "We would have torn them the end of a skulking day, even the became a laborer. apart," one old Italian woman in confirmed dawdler likes to say that A what! our n~borhood said, "if that he's done something. It does not had happened at old St. Patrick's," The first day, on the second take any brain power in such a which I for one doubt. There is a -deck of a four-block-long building, sluggaril's carnival to realize that ON PILGRJMAGE one of many foremen, handed me you are acting in a farce that strong anarchistic streak in -all By DOROTHY DAY Italians. This neighborhood is their a broom. doesn't bring any laughs. The "Swee.p up the decks," he or science of p<0ttering can only be A.J . w11s founder and director of village, not to be confounded with The Rev. A. J. Muste, known to dered, and walked blithely away. learned by someone who is im all of us in the peace movement as Brookwood Labor College at K.a Greenwich or East Village, and I searched the "decks" for some mune to human feeling. tonah, New York. (The Reuther they have their own government of A.J., is dead. The name Abr.aham thing to sweep, but they were A bri.ght young student at the Brothers were .alumni.) He had not streets .and neighborhood associ means Father of a multitude, and spanking clean. Two other deck University of Chicago. who shared he was that. If the peace movement only opposed war since 1918 but ations. In a way they are used to sweepers were already hard at it. my distress, finally broke under the in the United States had one out also bad served the cause of labor, us, we have lived in Little Italy For two weeks I did little more goldbricking strain. He quit one standing figure it was A.J., and becoming involved in textile strikes so long (fifteen years on Mott than push a few slivers of wood, Friday, saying in all truthfulness: God gave him length of days to in New England and in New Jersey Street) and right now, the ten the odd nail or two, and what "My God! I can't stand any more work. He was eighty-two years old and was arrested for picketing apartments the Catholic Workers flotsam of "Sawdust I could work of this." It was the lack of work when he died and many of us had both in Lawrence, Massachusetts family live in are just off Mott out of the cracks and corners, !.'hat festered in mind, adding fur seen him that last week of his life. and Paterson,- New Jersey. or Mulberry Streets. Once eight from one side of the "deck" to ther frustration to his mixed-up Tuesday, the day of the blizzard, Peter Maurin and I first met him years ago wben I had been ar another. life. He confided that he was at A.J. and sixty-one others were due when he took over the directorship rested for protesting compulsor y Within a few days, I saw the tending a psychiatrist. Probably if to appear in court at Centre Street, of the old Presbyterian Labor Tem air raid drills and was about to general picture. A lot of people he could have sweated and pounded to answer to a number of charges, ple where he served from 1937 to be sentenced together with a dozen and hollered and shifted material beginning with "breach of the l940. As I remember it, the Labor at.hers, the pastor at old St. Pat seemed to be drifting along at about my speed on the whole proj around, he would have worked out peace" and "conspiring to commit Temple on the corner of Four cid~ Mk~ me to . ~uk at a ect. I met them everywhere. Pipe what was eating him. Work isn't breach of the peace." In addition, teenth Street and Second A venue, Mother's Day communion break fitters, carpenters, laborers, spent a magic anodyne, nor an escape, by there was a warrant out for A.J .'s functioned then as Community fast, and when I told him I might any means, but it can, under cer arrest for failing to sbow up for Church does now, and Peter Mau be in jail at the time, lie told me a portion of the day swapping sto ries, avoiding work, and scrapping tain circumstances, be a positive one of the previous hearings on rin felt that here was a beginning the invitation stood, and I was healer of wounds. Niall Brennan, this charge. He had been in Hanoi <1f what he called a new synthesis, able to give the talk. about politics. When my sweeping joke came in h is masterful Making of a at the time talking to Ho Chi Minh, an attempt to apply the teachings There would have been no occa Moron, tells of how he worked with to an end, I was transferroo,... to together with an Anglican Arch of the Gospel to the world today, sion for such a demonstration at some monks in Australia to bui1d the form zang, This was a bit bishop Reeves, Martin Niemoeller the world around us. Above all, Mott Street's old St. Patrick's be a Chapel. A young chap came from more subtle, in the higher realms and Rabbi Feinberg. Tile offense A.J . felt that war could not be rec cause it was the nationalist atti the city to join them-his nerves in had been committed on December onciled with the spirit of Christ. tude Of Cardinal Spellman which of goldbricking. If I carried, as I pieces, under strict psychiatrist's 151.h and it was now February 7th "War does not bring peace, it the young people were protesting. often did, two or three pieces of orders. Hammering and sawing and he had been around the world merely breeds more wars," he said. "My country, right or wrong," he 2 x 6, the walls came tumbling and whistling for eight hours i-n a in that time, traveling to the ends The thing that marked him espe had -said, And " othing less than down. One old-timer accosted me: day in the hot sun put the case of cf the earth, one might say, in cially was his relationship to the total victory ... This ls a war for "Hey, man-- bound spirits, Kay Lynch makes candy. A Farm With. a View Undoubtedly one of the best Joe Hill House By DEANE MARY MOWRER ways to escape winter monotony is to go some place, do somP.thing By AMMON BENN.ACY On the first Sunday of Lent I of Kay Lynch, Mike Sullivan, and different. Stanley Vishnewski has On Saturday afternoon, January a difficult problem on the black- felt a penitential sting in the air JJm Canavan-are always ready to recently returned from about a . b d d in te d f tr · t 's v;sI·t WI.th varI·ous memb,,.rs 7th, thirty of us were poster-walk- oar an s a o ymg o as I walked to the car to go to do what they can for anyone sick month 1 - solve it, erases it. Mass with Joe and Audrey Mon in bed. When Dorothy Day is with of his family. J"ohn McKeon has ·ing in downtown Salt Lake City After the hearinlO:s, the Chron- l'oe,_ who had driven up from Har us, she too spends much time with been spending much time in the to protest the imminent execution icle, published daily at the Uni lem to spend the weekend at the sick. As for .the rest of us, city. Marty Corbin attended the of Darrel Poulson when we re- versity of Utah, printed an edito Tivoli with us. Snow crunched winter bas taken its usual toll in ·meeting in Washington of the ceived word that United States rial entitled "Society Seeks Bloody under our feet, but no sound came colds and viruses. C!_ergy and Laymen against the war Supreme Court Justice Byron Revenge" which said that "the from the river, where the ice Work as Prayer in Vietnam, and returned to ob- White had granted him a ninety- only thing between Darrel Poul- breaker had not yet broken the Most of us, I think, would agree serve the three-day fast for peace day reprieve. That morning the son and a firini squad was the Hudson's icy sheath. Birds still with the spiritual writers who by taking only tea and rice. Helene Utah Supreme Court had denied lonesome figure of Ammon Hen twittered ravenously about my teach that sickness and suffering Iswolsky went in to New York City his appeal. nacy marching in front of the windows. I thought that they too are a kind of prayer. What we for the Third . Hour m~eting at During the past two months in State Capitol." must be cold, and I was glad that Emmaus House-Helene Is leader which I have been picketing the Governor Calvin Rampton is_ Helene Iswolsky hl!;d brought me a?~ foun~er 0 ~ this. group-and to State Capitol, letters pro and con sponsoring a bill in the current a seed bell to hang out for them, visit a fnend m Prmceton, but ~s the execution have appeared in legislature which would allow the and that there were still some suet the result of a fall and the big the morning p3per One American death penalty only when the trial scraps from those Marg~ Hughes blizzard in .the c_i ty was unable to Buddhist picketed. with me for a judge expressly asks for it. How had given me. A spot of warmth return until thu past weekend. day and Roger Carrier and other ever, an ex-policemen has intro on my face told me that the sun Doro!hy Day is hardly ever able to Unitarian students joined me at duced another bill to make execu shone, but I knew that this was stay m any one P!ace more than a times. A few shouts of "Shoot tion mandatory for first-degree no day to tempt jonquils from few days at a ~Ime. Kay Ly~ch Poulson and you too" came from murder and life-imprisonment their frosty coverlet, though Peg attended the Third Hour meeting decrepit old men and youngsters, mandatory for second-degree mur- gy Conklin had told me that a few at Emmaus House, then spent the h , th ·· 1 k d · th •ty tte din'g a and on t e seven , six peop e der. of the more precocious had actu wee en 1~ .. e CI • a . n counter-picketed us with s.fgns play and v1sitmg Chrystie Street. . f ·t ( · ) · h Ecumenical Walle ally pushed through during the . . d ca 11mg or cap1 o1 SIC pun1 s - January thaw. Poor jonquils We have had v1s1tors to.o; an t S • · d On the Saturday before Christ . men . ome peop.•e praise my mas we held a poster walk against shrhrelled now under the Lenten are grateful. for them all, especrnlly. ac tiv1 ·ty b u t as k e d w h a t one man chill. Remember man, that thou , for the priests w~o ha~~ said Mass do. I told them that in this the war in downtown Salt Lake art dust. for us. My favonte visitors, how- can City. It was probably the first tin t b th b " d h state, where the preponderance of time in Utah history that three 1 Thursday mornin~ after Ash HE falls. ever, con ue o e e 1r s w o th r . t · a · b ed on feed at my window. But then per- e re 1gious eac1 un.,. IS as varieties of Mormons marched to Wednesday, Fathe: Guerin, the If you will serve ME, take up your h th t · ·t b t f l vengeance, there was all the more gether: Mark, who has signed up Marlst priest who comes over once cross and follow ME. aps ey are no v1s1 ors, u , e - reason- why someone should stand as a conscientious objector, Jack, a' week to say Mass in our chapel, Sin no more, your sins are for- loVI'. workers, feathered communl- d I oted Tolsto to the tanans who perform a far more up, an .~u Y • who is a polygamous Mormon, and s~l>ke to us about the spiritual civen. important .role in trying to main- effe~; that no good deed is ever four young men from the Reor importance of the traditional Len- MY yoke is easy, MY burden. licht. tain that delicate balance of nature lost. ganized Mormon Church of Inde ten practices of prayer, penance, -which we ourselves have done so At the Board of Pardons hear pendence, Missouri joined with and fasting. He reminded us that often forget - as Placid Decker much to upset-than any mere hu- ing on December 28th, the psychi- the rest of .us anarchists, social prayer, though it might seem easy, likes to point out to us-is th{lt (Continued on page 7) atrist who had committed Poulson ists, Unitarians, etc. was really work - hard work. wo.rk, plain ordinary manual work, at the all:e of fifteen to a home for Six men came off the road and Thinking this over, I thought that is also prayer, or should be if ap the feeble-minded testified in his proached in the true Benedictine spent Christmas at our Joe Hill prayer was not only work, but the behalf. and a letter was introduced spirit. Placid -in a former Bene Boston House House, and during the holidays very foundation of all other work. from the judge who had first sen about a dozen students coming to Without prayer, what would pen dictine, and still tries to live as Twenty-three Dartmouth Street is tenced him,_ also asking for clem and from Students for Democratic ance and fasting be? I prayed that nearly as he can in accordance the new address of Boston's House ency. Attorney General Phil Han Society meetings on the West I might learn to pray better, that with the rule of St. Benedict. He of Hospitality, and a new name sen compared the State's action to €oast stopped in to rest. Two is a conscientious and faithful accompanies its rebirth: Haley I might at least accept the pen that of a _schoolchild who is given woodworking factories a block worker, always ready to help Hous·e-in gratitude for the life of ances God Himself had imposed down the road let us pick up the wherever he can; and his voice Leo Haley. Leo's work as director on me, that I might at least per scrap wood, so right after break severe in keeping the three-day at rosary and Compline is monastic of C.1.c. (Catholic Inte-rracial fast and before supper we take a and beautiful. Council) -at St. Joseph's Parish in fast for peace, which the Wash cart and ·brini back loads of wood ington meeting of Clergy and Lay Whether work for work's sake Roxbury and with Packard Manse for the fireplace. Like the Hopi Nam or for prayer, there ilr~ many iri was an expression of his attempts men Against the War in Viet Indians, who pile each ear ot corn bad asked all peace-loving persons. our community who he-lp keep at change andreconciliation. things going by their work. John The underlying premise of the carefully on top of the others, we to keep. Prayer. Penance. Fasting. place the wood in neat piles and Insignificant gestures, many will Filliger, Hans Tunnesen, Mike Sul- house is a deep belief in the in livan, Placid, Bob Stewart, Luigi, herent dignity of every person; a will saw it as we need it. Del think, against the mighty, the has come back from the hospital monstrous, weapons of hatred and Alice Lawrence when she is able, belief · that pe-ople respond with Marge Hughes, Kay Lynch, Marty love· when treated with love, with and fixed up a -room in the garage, war. But with God, all things are which makes Fred, the cook, hap possible. and Rita Corbin, ~Hanley Vishnew- kindness when treated kindly, with ski, Arthur J. Lacey, Jim,Canavan, trust when trusted, and respe-ct py sinee we iet more customers. Saturday nii;:ht, after Ash Wed and some-times our visitors make fully when respected. Our aim ls A youni man who was with us nesday, Pat Rusk telephoned from important work contributions. Our not to set up a value system- de briefly once is cominif back this New York City tell us that A. J. to workers and scholars may not al- termining what is right and wrong week to stay for a few months; Muste had died. Speaking about ways agree, but the truth is we -or a way of life for persons, but he will be in charge while I go on him that night, we all agreed, I need them both. to allow them to form their own. a speaking trip to the Coast in think, that here- was a man truly For our hermits, in the woods The atmosphere is deliberately un HE meets JDS mother. the first part of April. With the dedicated to peace. I remembered survival would seem to be s.uffi- structured, informal and personal. Take up your cross. and follow ME. rent and utilities, we barely make with a little prid~ that I too had' cient challenge. Yet they ha'l!e In this situation a man is not pres Blessed are they that mourn, it SO' donations are very welc()IDe. taken part in some of the demon time for prayer, more time than sured or bribed into acting in a for they shall be comforted. O~r address is: :t-162 S. W, Salt atrations a):}ainst war led and or those with more comfm;ts. special way, and his eventual re- "Hail, Mary, the Lord ls with Lake City, utah. Address mall to: ganized by A. J. Muste. He was, As for me, suffering from winter sponse is free, lasting, and more Thee.• " Box 655, Salt Lake City,_utah. I thought, the kind of man young doldrums - or "dulldrums," as I fully himself. people- should emulate rather than sometimes think one should call This past month has seen a busy. } Ch · the men of violence and ruthless it-I am beginning to feel, like scrubbing and painting effort, with Training For Socia ~nge exploitation so often glorified in a jonquil, premature longjngs for man_y hands. joining us. The- build- our history bo(}ks. I marvelled at spring. This winter, with its snow, ing includes four apartments, three The Upland Institute seeks to train men and women for leader- the many kinds of work that he ice, and mud has made walking storefronts, two Puerto Rican fam- ship rores in social cbange. The one-year graduate level-prog:ram had undertaken for peace through outside almost impossible for me·. ily tenants, and six workers, part is opened to men and women; without res:ard to race or creed, out his long life: lecturing, writ Like others, house-bound, winter- time .. Plans are fl~xible at present, who are ready to devote· a year to serious study and who feel a ing; organizing and leading dem prisoned, I miss the sun, t~e more with the storefront for the' men off commitment to some field of soclal ckange and social conflict onstrations, takin~ part in dem zestful activity and experien.ce of to a slow start. A little soup, The A.B. degree, or equivalent in esperlence or training, ls onstrations, goiniz to jail, traveling out-of-doors. warmth, TV, cards, and friendship reqqired tor admission. about the world on missions of We do, of course, have- diver- are. what we offer. Dan Berrigan . The Institute's prog:ram ls based upon three concepts: that social peace· and f.!OOd will Then at 82, sions. Almost -everyone reads. In suggests, "For that loo~ on his h shortly befo.re his death, he trav addition to my talking b_ooks, I face, for your hands meeting his. change. is inevitable and that it can be constructive; that man u elled to Hanoi, and brought back recently received a gift of taped across a piece of bread, you might been ..•iven the Intelligence and resources to develop constructlvein b with him a message for President amas and othe-r interesting mate- be willing to lose a rot-qr die a and creative patterns that can help to resolve the press g lbil·tpro - 0 dr Johnson which he ho.ped would rial from a kind reader in Califor- litue even." To live this death often lems 0 •1 contemporary societies; and that the greatest poss I Y help bring about negotiations for nia. One evening some of us gath- meant a·ccepting the frustration of tor creative social change lies in the deve!?pment of democratic peace. May his death strengthen ered in the living room to listen little measurable "success." When and nonviolent institutions and values. us all in a more purposeful, more to 31 tape or two, and discovered a a man is filled with confusion, The one year program begins in September and is completed the sacrificial, more prayerful dedica taped interview with Ammon Hen- even despair and hate, a deluge o.£ end of May in the followinl" year. Successful completion of the tion to peace. nacy which made us feel that Am- patience and love is essential be- required work leads to a Ce.rtilicate ~f Accomplishment. The Here at the farm our life during mon was sitting there talking to fore he can begin to· tnist himself program utilizes seminars, lecturers, and field training. The Se- recent weeks has been quiet and us. On another night when Mr. and or those concerned about him. minar on Social Change survey& the development of contemporary peaceful; yet we have our share Mrs. Michael Cullen, who have re- Over the months spent at Upton technological society and undertakes critical evaluation or the oI sickness and suffering. Agnes centfy started a house of hospital- Street and certainly here, a won- creat theories of social change. The Seminar on Skills and Pro- Sidney, Mrs. Carmen Ham 1 And so South Africa stirs images up donatipns, and begs for vegeta- that marks a man is eating. This Simon of Cyrene helps WM. of gold and .diamonds and furs; bles twice a week at tbe market. too is significantly part of the images of 'goo.d' and :evil'; }?ut no Ch.ristine Bove, who goes to Colum- commemoration of him. Veronica wipes face. You shall be scattered and .shall 1 ms leave ME alone. images of my Brother. 1 TJ1~ path bia, is once again cooking on Sat- We come together to eat be Take up your Cross and follow ME. I Yet I ain nnt a.Io~~ 'because the olog,v of race . has, des ~ro y ed man. urdays now that her ex.ams are cause we need nourishmerut and Blessed are the merciful, they shall Father is with ME. , What t h,e wor.l.d can do , to prevent over. .Br other Paul fixes afternoon he needed nourishment a11d left obtain mercy. IIY 1oke Js eas;v:, MY burden light. the final destruc.tion' of South Af- , (Continued on . page 7) us an eX I / February, 1967 THE CATHOLIC WORKER THE YEAR OF THE GOAT Jungle Village Lowland Village Tlae IOUnd that 1ing1 We were used to the smell of dung. • all over the jungle It meant sweet potato and corn harvests h the secret of our Sadanl' people. and strength for our children. Ia 9Ur village we make much music, Rotted fish dung was the sip the wooden drum, the brua &'Ones, that we were eating every day the amall bamboo orcans, even thouch the killinc was goinc on and the lone bamboo pipes and the soldiers came and wen&-- that pve sounds when our younc &'iris the French, the Japanese, the Indians, clap their bands. the British, the Americans. We lauched when strong men nearly faint~d And It is with music we frichten the wild boars and ticers before our piled dune sacks. away from our mounialn rice fields. We tried to stay away from the ldllinc. n Is the music of many bamboos. They called us the trum chan, the people who hid under a blanket, ·Jn the ravine, HE falls acaln. A man can climb alive from under the blanket a little waterfall : . Take up your Cross and follow ME. with his wife and children untouched. fills the bamboo cup with water. They know not what they do. That is what we thoucht. It fills and empties many times Father, forcive them. and each time pulls at a bamboo rope. MY yoke is easy, J\IY burden licht. The rope pulls hundreds of other little We killed no one. ropes, -and they move the bamboo pipes. But the killing came to us. The bamboo pipes bit. hundreds of other pipes We cannot cet used to the smell of death, and the sound fills the Juncle. the bodies moulderinc in the rice paddles. The boars and «i"ers-what did they think? We search for days and weeks to find them. ' They must have thou&'ht that the bamboo trees Already the heat has found them and made the~ ••ne than du• bad learned a lancuace so that they could talk withot1t atoppinc. ' Our people were 11roud that they could make the juncle apeak. Thia Is the smell of our village now, Who else could do that? our people's rottlnc fiesh. We· can no more co to our rice fields. We have seen also the quick death Even the leaves of the trees have been burned away. that happens before our eyes. · The men who have cone out t~ the Jun&'le The white phosphorus bu fallen on many ylllacers. • have not come back. U fell on my smallest daughter Phuoe. U went on cnawinc at her flesh We sit in fear in the dark evenincs like rat's teeth, gnawinc to the bone. when the eyes of the ti&'ers shine like tiny moons around us. It Is better that she died. We look at each other without pride. I can no longer hide my family · We had thought that we could watch over under a blanket of peace. our jungle bamboo pipes so that they would sing forever. Buddhist Villa~e HE comforts the women. The•cones of our pagoda Tak.e up your Cross and follow ME. were the sound of prayer. Christian Villagers Weep for yourselves and for your An, An, An, I would say in time From Tonkin we came. children. with the atrikinc of the cenc From the dykes and canals, Weep not for ME. by the booze. the Iacework of the Red River Delta, MY yoke is easy, MY burden llcht. Peace, Peace, Peace. we came south a decade aco. We left the elders of our villace. Now they strike the warnlnc aound We abandoned the tombs of our ancestors, that calls us to run from the hard strong people who helped to build death that creeps by nlcht and care for the dykes from generation and bursts around us by day. to ceneration. The warnings come close tocether. We thoucht we would never be happy again. Always we are burying the people ef But here in the rich South our hamlet, we made a new life. Sometimes we bury torn pieces of lesh That was the name we cave our hamlet, from many people. My first IOB di~ New Life. In such a way. With our coups-coups we cut down the Jungle. J\ly other children know our cones Our new thatched homes were cool. only as the gongs of war. The &"reen su-su grew up to the door of our house .. giving us food and sometimes ·burstinc into white flowers like millions of stars. · Leper Village Before long we harvested our rice from paddies They put us out of our villacea that shone like jewels when our fingers and we caught the tilapia fish that swam amine the rice shoots. became blunt and bard like sticks and the black lumps At dawn the wooden fish drum crew like terrible plants called us to prayers in our church HE falls again. on our bodies. and to the lone work of the day. Take up your Crou and follow ME. The aign of the fish reminds us of those first Christians, Why are you fearful, o, ye of IJUle We are with our own kind ancestors of all the Christians llvinc in the world. Faith! ancl we watch whose finien er tees. faD elf Their families -,ivere tortured and killed, in old ways Fear not, for I have conquered and whose nose becins t~ rot· awa7. as ours are now by men and by bombs of fire. death. They were the offscourings of all in their lands . MY yoke is easy, MY burden light. Only our docs came with ui. as 1We are now, filthy and covered with sores, But we raise our rice, even If in this refugee shed on the bare, scilldinc sands. we sometimes fall on our faces. And we play our congs. Mou_ntain _Village We are far from the road and the river. Why do they drop fire here We bring strangers wllere we are already burnt into our village hi our bodies? with the sounds of our gongs. The beating of the bic and little congs ring back and forth Refugee Shelter in the hills. "We do not belonc here," said a man in a steaminc refucee hut. Then we lead the stranger to t lie- jars. "We are like unwanted weeds He sips the rice wine with us on the land." through the same straw. We asked him to tell us We sometimes have eight Jars in a row. about his village in the hills. "The air in our hamlet," The elders of our village he said, welcome any stranger. "is like your mother holding you." We would even starve ourselves And he would -not say any more. from rice to fill the wine jars. Some time ago, at a meeting of some poets and artists In the village, I But now the strangers do not come to meet us. IDS clothes are taken from HIM. It was suggested that I write some pieces from within the Vietnamese They kill us by night. If you will serve ME, deny your situation. Since· I was there, the gongs of prayer and peace have They fly in our skies and drop down death. sell. become the gongs of war. I atn sending you what I wrote. The Viet Blessed are the Poor in spirit, namese 'New Year begins ori February 9th. · This will 1te the Year ef the What are the elders of their villages thinking theirs Is the Kingdom of Heaveli. Goat, symbol of.stubbornness and perseverance. I' that they· let them do these things to usf MY yoke is easy, MY burden light. EILE&N lmµJ' Pa1• Sis THE CATHOLIC WORKER February, 1967 On Pilgrimage OPTING OUT NORTH ' (Continued from page 2) (Continued from page 1) ceedings or petitioning tht> govern been that the chancery office pro subsistence during these years of is necessary, one is handy, straight ment of Canada to extradite young from the life of the Cure of Ars: vided this little treat, marmalade study is a heartbreaking problem Americans who immigrated to "St. John Vianney, Patron of Dran with many students. No use talking and cocoa,-perhaps suffering avoid the draft, External Affairs Dodgers, pray for me." about state loans or scholarships; ( from misgivings at their harsh Minister Paul Martin said in a students may have great talents ness? press statement, also in September which are not brought out by our I had not been at ali shocked 1966, "We don't feel under any ob competitive system. Anyone who myselI at the action of this group, ligation to enforce the laws in that has children or grandchildren will all of whom knew each other, and regard of any country." know what I mean. And in how A.J. .Muste who were part of larger groups Thomas S. Hathaway, a young protestil!g against the war in Viet many fields knowledgeable lay (Continued from page 1) men are needed! Even in the field American student in Canada who nam. Catholics themselves, in refused his induction notice in ion could not much longer main stories of the lives of the saints, of teaching itself, how few good teachers there are, who .love their order to return to the United tain her satellite system. He was a have been ~ilty of much more HE is nailed on the cross. States, summed wp the feelings of Marxist, but he was not a materia work and love their students. violent behavior. His own monks I have chosen you out of the world; many when he stated, in a letter list. He was a Christian, but he ·Where there is a good teacher it therefore the world hates you, tried to poiSon St. Benedict and would be worthwhile to travel to printed in Liberation magazine: knew that the Christ of the com- there was scandalous behaviour but I have chosen you that you The reason I will not go Into fortable was a fake. He was a pacl the ends of the earth to find him, should go and bring- forth fruit, within the monastery itself, as a to sit at his feet and to open up the army is that I will not kill fist, but he was a revolutionary. and that your fruit should re protest then against the so-called one's mind to know, to learn. I can another person. Nor will I take That was his genius. That was main. - rigor of the saint. There m~t have remember one such · teacher, Dr. part in the activities and sup- why he was called by some the been an awful fuss made too when Matheson, at Robert Walter High port of an institution whose pur- American Gandhi. He became St. Francis insisted on offering up school in Chicago, who taught us project is given up. It takes a pose is to provide men who will more of a revolutionary the more the holy Sacrifice at Christmas in Latin and history in our third and certain temperament to keep a kill when someone decides it is he became a pacifist. Christianity a stable. fourth years and who so encour house of hospitality going. necessary • . . Except for its made no sense to him without the One might say the chancery of aged us that we accepted his offer Boston unique, gruesome function of revolutionary imperative. He be fice behaved too harshly, and the to study Greek after school for Our visitors had also been to killing people, the army is only came the chief architect of a move judge later in the day did nothing four afternoons a week. I remem Boston, Massachusetts where they one ol many institutions in the ment for nonviolent revolution in to increase the respect of the pro ber one frivolous creature who visited Cathie and John McKenna. United States which contribute the United States. He came to the testors for law and order, with his looked and often acted as though Catherine Sulli an had been one to making people afraid, lonely, conviction that the real revolution innuendos. At least ten of those boys were the only subject she of the leaders in the Young Chris angry, hurt, stupid and ugly. is nonviolent and that the conven arrested taught at New York Uni was interested in, taking this tian Students before her work in And of all institutions, the army tional politics of deceit and treaclb versity, New York and Brooklyn course with the deepest interest. the peace mov~ment put her in Is only the most overt, because ery is dOomed to fail, tU;lt only Community colleges, New School, Casa l\faria, Milwaukee the vanguard of the apostolate, one it alone says that you can take the politics of integrity, truth and and Fairleigh Dickinson, and it out your anger and fear and hurt love armed by self-sacrifice can The Casa Maria is the name of might say, and removed her from was a first arrest for all but two, organized "Catholic Action" where openly by killlng somebody. prevail against the terrible array. and they had been arrested in pre the new house in Milwaukee where W-hat finally keeps me lrom re- And that made him an anarchist, Michael Cullen and his wife live. clerical influence is too often na vious demonstrations. turning to the United States and I suppose. But A. J. would not use In January there were five fam tionalist.- I have always been struck by John McKenna is a teacher, but protesting the evils of Selective these labels. He could not cut him ilies there, staying until they could Service by going to jail for re- self off from other men, and to the unconscious esteem in which find a place to live, and ten single involuntary servitude (conscrip the Church is held, and the shock tion) will be catching up with him fusing induction is the realiza- use t~e label "Christian" in such men. "Believe it or not,'' Michael tion that America's problems are a way was inconceivable to him. people feel when churchmen and writes in the editorial of the Casa soon. I have heard that he will only unique in the way they A politician par excellence, he ,Christians in general do not live Maria Cry, a bulletin the house accept alternative service, as David manifest themselves, but that was a saint. Yes he was, and there UP to their professions of faith. I .puts out, "we have enough food Miller's brother did, but we have they are actually human prob- is no political sense in denying it. can remember thinking, over forty for all. But of course there ls al had no direct word from them. years ago, before I was a Catho ways a shortage of milk with four The house there has grown from lems. I can work on them any- He was the kind of saint that many lic, "What is this Church that peo teen children and two expectant an apartment where they took in where. For me the way to alter more of us will have to become if ple can say of those who profess mothers in the house." men, to a house at 23 Dartmouth things is to create alternatives. we are to talk seriously of ending Street. Becoming a Canadian citizen is the war in Vietnam, to say nothing membership in it, 'And he is a One-of the biggest jobs at the Fa.mlly Leadership one ·such alternative and I have of the half dozen wars that promise Catholic'! in tones of condemna Casa Maria is to try to find homes tion because they were not living It ls interesting to see young availed myself of the opportu- to follow Vietnam, to say less of for families; as in all other cities nity (to become one). - the cataclysm so near for so long up to their professions of belief?" housing ~s the greatest problem'. families in charge of houses of It was so, I felt, that Cardinal hospitality. For those who opt north to avoid That we tend to forget its impend The housing situation is worse now ing horror. The· revolution, like Spellman was being judged. It than when we in New York started David and Catherine Miller are the Selective Service Act it should the Kingdom of God, is within. So was one thin~ for him to be visit the work· in 1934. The four-room looking around for a house in be borne in mind that returning it was with Muste and so it must ing the soldiers, so far from hcnne apartments we used to live in Washington, D.C. The Cullens, the without the cover and protection be with each one of us if we will and family at Christmas time, but have been ch()pped up into two~ MeKennas and the Millers are the of Canadian citizenship might well surrender to it. Which is just the for him to not love his enemy, the :oom apartments and the rens have youngest in the field. But the lead to prosecution and imprison beginning. The Kingdom of God is so-called enemy,-not to follow mcre~sed enormously. Murphy family in Detroit, the ment. There are three relevant without, too, or we must make it the peace-directives of the Holy Casa Maria publishes a mime Gaucbat family m Avon, Ohio have statutes that a non-Canadian may Father, Pope Paul V ... been operating for more than have for extended stay in Canada: so. "To drive the normative prin ogr~phed bulletin which our read ciple of morality into the hard soil. It is heartbreaking to think bow twenty years and Karl Meyer's Landed Immigrant, Student, or ers Ill the midwest should send for. of Political reality,'' I can hear him often we all dishonor God the house in Chicago- has been going Visitor, but only Landed Immi In fact all who are interested in quoting Martin Buber to newcom Father of us all, by not acting as five years. At Tivoli tlie Corbin grant status leads to eventual houses of hospitality should send ers. A. J. did just this with politi though we believed that God was family are in charge. It is a hard Canadian ·citizenship after five for it. Address, 1112 South Third cal brilliance, with spiritual insight Father of all, that all men are street, . Milwaukee er and more realistic approach, years. (A "landed immigrant" is Wisconsin, and moral vision. And he never orothers. As St. Paul wrote, "Be 53204. • this family leadership, and there someone who has been lawfully feared to pay the price, not on the cause of you, the name of God is Chleag-o is less room for pride and dissipa admitted to Canada for permanent 1 tion of energy. But it is a most residence and differs from a cit picket line, not in Saigon jail a dishonored among the Gentiles." Michael was making a little tour particular vocation, and certainly izen in that he may not vote and few months ago, not in bombarded I would not have participated in of houses through the country, and none shoµld undertake It without cannot obtain a Canadian pass Hanoi just weeks ago, where he this demonstration-could it not he had already visited Karl Mey a vocation. port.) consulted with Ho Chi Minh and be that these young people felt a er's St. Stephen House in Chicago Pham Van Dong. sense Qf God's presence there, a Sir Victor Gollancs By fa:r the best and roost" com b~t he had missed the Peter Mau~ prehensive report on the subject Everyone will tell you how be sense of worship, of awe too, as rm _House, whioh had faithfully This morning, as is usual on Sat I have always felt in church a urday, there was a Requiem Mass. is published by the Committee to listened. At committee meetings ~rov1ded thousands of nights' lodg Aid American War Objectors. It is and in his office, to the freshest place set · apart for worship? No, mg for men over the years and The epistle read: I heard a voice I would not myself have, chosen from heaven saying, "Write: entitled "lmmigration to Canada neophyte, because he really was who daily feeds the men on' West and Its Relation to the Draft," and such a place for a demonstration Blessed are the dead who die in interested in this individual and Madison Street from a truck-can free c:.opies can be obtained by but I have permitted my name t~ the Lord henceforth. Yes, says the what he had to say. They will tell teen every night. Bob Bosshart writing to the Committee at P.O. be used by the group in their effort Spirit, let them rest from their you of his lack of bitterness his has kept his leadership in this Box 4231, Vancouver 9, British to raise funds to defend them labors, for their works follow love o poetry and ba$eball ~d a · place :fOr many yea-rs, and. though Columbia, Canada. selves. them." good meal. It is presumptuous of · there is no "ideology" expressed For the American youth opting Houses ol Hospitality It rejoiced my heart to hear that me to say much when there are so verbally, Ute most fundamental of to go north in order to avoid par because yesterday I read in the many great and near-great men During the month we had a visit the works of mercy are being per ticipation in the sordid, squalid, New York Times the obituary of and women who were influenced from Michael Cullen and bis wife for~ed, feeding the hungry, shel disgusting prostitution of brave Victor Gollancz, with whom Eileen and formed by A. J . and knew him and a student from Marquette Uni tering the harborless. men that is the Vietnamese war. Egan and I dined in London a few so much longer and more inti- ' versity, ·Maryjo ·Rozycki, who is there need be no feeling of re Detroit years ago. Head of a large publish mately. majoring in Latin American his gret or shame at leaving the coun Michael visited Louis Murphy ing house, he brought out the Among his achievements ol the , tory and has spent the last three try. There should, rather, be a and the two houses of hospitality English edition of my Loaves and past ten years has been the forma summers in Mexico. It was one of sense of pride in carrying on the in Detroit, putting up at Martha Fishes. He visited us when he was tion of the Committee for Nonvio - the most stimulating visits we have tradition that brought tens of House at 1818 Leverette Street. in the United States and had lent Action, to experiment with . ' had for some time, not only be thousands of immigrants to the There had been two other housei, lunch with us at our old House of and expand the philosophy and the : ) cause of their vivid personalities, United States in the first place: Hospitality on Chrystie Street.- He but because they epitomized for us run by young people but they are the avoidance of compulsory mili art and science of nonviolent re- . some of the problems of the day not operating now. Dan Shay. ran wrote books himself, Our Threat tary service. If that is not enough, sistance with which to replace vio and of the CW movement. To be one house for a few years but is ened Values, A Year of Grace, it should be remembered that the lence in the solution of human con Letters to Timothy. The first quo gin with Maryjo: here was a stu now married and living at the President of the United States flict. His last major project is the dent who was really studying, and farm at South Lyons, Michigan tation in A Year of Grace, which himself felt constrained to say of Spring Mobilization Committee dev~ting her young zeal and health a farm given The Catnolic Worker is a collection of passages "ar our participation in the war that bringing together in a broad coali~ to cultivating that atttaction she by Maryknoller Fr. Hessler years ranged to express a mood about it offered us a choice "between tion over a hundred groups of al felt for seeking solutions to the ago, and now is divided between God and Man," is from St. Thomas: a greater and lesser evil." A dif most every political, social and particular problems relating to four or five families. Lou's farm God loves all existing things. ference in degree is not a differ religious coloration to end the war hunger and health arid education house is a house of hospitality on Sir Victor advocated "an abso ence in kind. What we are strug in Vietnam. This Mobilization will in this hemisphere and preparing the land, and countless are the lute living of the Christian ethic." gling for is a world that provides mount massive demonstrations in herself to give service and dedica activities carried on there over the "By socialism," he wrote, "I mean a choice between good and evil; New York and San Francisco, si tion to this .work in the world. I years. · living with a community of goods, even between right and wrong. multaneously, on April 15, to begin did not ask her whether she was Houses have begun and ended the kind of socialism that used to Any non:violent course that slows work in earnest to bring this war working on grants or scholarships, in other cities in Michigan and in be true, and perhaps still is true down, impedes, obstructs or halts to a halt. although I should have. These other parts of the country .too and, of life in the kibbutzim of our participation in the fighting A. .J.'s life was a triumph, and might seem ~ke personal ques the · cause , may , b!1 urban. renewal, Israel. Equal incomes? No,-peo in Vietnam is at least right In the his death' was a triumph. For the tions, but the woblems of poverty new highways, qr the presence of ple with beastly jobs-scavengers light of that, opting out north to rest of us it remains to take up beset students ,everywhere, ap.d to SOJile di!icouraging ~oul who casts anci lavatocy .attendants and the Canada is a valid value judgment. the work and bring it to fruition. have no money for~du~ation, , for a blight "on all a1;ound ~q that µte Obristianity. As one Polish priest said: "We Ohris.J;ians are duty EASY ESSAYS bound to help build the· socialist On ·Pilgrimage · state when we are p /