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~rotest McCarrani lmmigratioR Bill Reunion With Senator McCarran's Immlcration Bill is before the Senate. It is based on oJd population figures and the belief that the Anglo-Saxons and Northern Europeans who originally settled this country acquired The Eastern U.S.A. Social Assembly a permanent ·right to preferential treatment. Although the bill does By MICHAEL HARRINGTON lift some of the restrictions on Asiatics (but in lumping Oriental quotas If you would ask most people in together other problems are created), it is designed to operate alone Orthodox the United States today about the Line frankly racist lines. For people from the South and East of Europe, By ROBERT LUDLOW state of the economy and its ability . By EILEEN F ANTINO quotas are small, rigidly maintained. For favored croups (e.c., the Eng­ In commenting on some of the to fulfill a social role, the answer Staring up at our modern hous­ lish) who do not face the necessity of emigratlnc the qµotas are ample. arguments and attitudes of "Ro­ would probably be that "things are ing projects, we see the end prod­ No transfer of the unused favored quota to the impoverished South man" Catholics in their approach pretti good." Fourteen years--one uct of a long and dehumanizing and Eastern Europeans is allowed. The Humphrey-Lehman-Roosevelt to Orthodox Christians my friend hot and one cold war-after de­ social assembly line, an assembly Bill avoids most of these racist errors. We have fought several wars F a t h e r Vladimir Borichevsky fense spending began in 1938 full line which uses the raw materials In the t wentieth century against racism or because population prob­ (Orthodox priest) writes: "In all employment and wage increases of fear, insecurity, job-depend­ lems were left to be settled by violence. Write against this racist policy these quotations there is t eflected seem normal. · ence, weakened initiative, in­ now, while there is still time; address your Representative or Senator the feeling of power and strength It comes as a shock to realize grained conformity, discourage­ in Washingtol\. that American Catholic Ecclesias~ how badly this prosperity has me_nt, and stifled creativity. With­ tics find in their statistics. We are functioned in the social order. out these characteristic qualities of our civilization the "housing not too much impressed by this Just Wage flexing of physiqal and material project" would never have seen On Pilgrimage muscle. The statistics prove noth­ The just living wage of which the light of God's brigh t yellow ing except that the Roman Catho­ Pius XI wrote is somewhat vague sun. By DOROTHY DAY and indeterminate; it requires ad­ lics are numerous, rich and power­ Let us begin with the most im­ Suddenly Tom Sullivan decides When one travels· there' are long ful, and that in contrast the justment to particular economic portant creatures on earth, man that a June "issue must come out solitary hours on a bus, times circumstances. Yet it is certain that and his family. What do they Orthodox Catholics are adminis­ 1 before June, and anno'unces that when you can't read, don't talk, tratively disunited, poor and weak it includes enough money for the need for their temporal and spir­ m1rumum necessities of family all copy must be in by May 21. So and really get in some ·praying. ~but only from a mathematical itual good? Why do.any vf us set­ on a cold (50 degrees) windy, rainy Conyers, Ga. point of view. And there is much existance, especially for the raising tle for Apartment 5B, on the fifth night, I sit down to the typewriter. The end of Holy Week, I spent more to unity than the mathemati­ of children, and·calls for a surplus floor, sixty paces from the east There are never more than two at the Trappist monastery, Our cal and practical aspects of it. which will eventually make the elevator, Building 42, Area A, battered-up old machines in the Lady of the Holy Ghost, about "We are very much distressed wage-earner an owner. Project No. 6? We bow our heads office and it is a pain to write on twenty-five miles out of Atlanta, by this cynical attitude which In 1949, fifty percent of the fami­ to the front office, paint our few them. Our poverty also consists and it was really spring there. seems to be primarily an Ameri­ lies in the United States , had. an walls "conformity pale green." in having poor tools to work with. There is a Ji!Uest house down the can phenomena. Neither spiritual income of less than $3,100: the We begin to think of limiting our "Put in an appeal for a couple of road from the monastery, situated strength or truth can be conquered minimum cost of the Family Work­ vocation of procreation when the decent typewriters," someone says. beside a pond where the frogs by the majority .. . we can find er's Budget in 19i9 was $3,295. apartment shr,inks in contrast to a "We'll never have the moneY' to_ croaked every evening, as we sat nothing but discouragement ani;I (Statistics are from Census Bureau growing family. Our neighbors buy even a rebuilt machine." (Continued on page 6 ) (Continued on page 7) · '( Continued on .page 7) · sneak in and out of doors similar "Put in an appeal for sheets, pil­ to our own, and a feeling of ·every­ low cases, towels," someone else one "minding his own business" says. "Men are sleeping on old prevails. The thought is never spreads, patched together table lost that we are being watched, cloths, or just plain mattress." The Holy. Ghost Within the Church after the barrage of questions, That's the way it goes. Always forms, and investigations that pre­ something more urgent than a "As the spirit by which man lives operates within the body~ so does the Holy Ghos.t ceded our entrance into this "hall typewriter. operate .hi the Church.· Just as the soul vivifies all our organs, all our members, so of the mountain king." · Travel does the Holy Ghost give life and strength to the Church. It is through Him that the .. * • "Curved roads and narrow eyes of the Church see-that is, the prelates set upon the heights who watcli over the The reason families will live in bridges." That phrase kept run­ flock in the plain. As the soul speaks by the tongue, so, through Him, the tongue of housing projects is that they have no other place to go. An excel­ ning through my mind last month the Church-that is, the doctors-instructs the nations. As by means of the fee~ the on an all night ride on a bus. "It soul walks, so it is through Him that the feet of the Church-that is, the apostles and lent reason. Wby don't they have was on11 of those warning signs any other place to go? They are that suddenly strike you with their missionaries-are spread over the world to preach the Gospel to all creatures. As bound l\and and foot to a job that poetry and could be used as the the soul acts by means of the hands, so it Js through Him that the hands of the Church provides a wage, and depend en­ title of a travelogue. My life this -that is, those ·persons who are active and self-sacrificing-distribute alms and mul­ tirely on the employer for world­ past six weeks has been something tiply good works, whilst others devote themselves up to penance, apply themselves to ly existence. Labor is sold for a of a series of jaunts and yet with the practice of humility, consecrate themselve~ to virginity, according as they are im­ price, the worker has no share in it all there has been a sense of pelled by that same Spirit who animates and directs them by different ways to the profits. The employer operat~s leisure. You can't go too fast on same perfection in love."-St. Augustine. under a profit motive system, curved roads and narrow bridges. (Continued on page 6) Page Tu'o THE CATHOLIC WORKER June,_ 1952 :VoL ~VIIl No. 11 June, 1952 Church and State _Relationship ill Spain, Chrystie , ' ~ouC6!bwoRKER Street _ Austria and America ~ By .TOM SULLIVAN Pabllshed MonWy September to Juie, Bl-monthly Jal7·A•cut Last month, against my better (Member of Cathollo PreH A11oclatlon) By MICHAEL HARRINGTON judgem~nt, I stated in this column ORGAN OP' THE CATHOLIC WOii.KER MOVEMENT that we were able to pay our bills PETER MA.URIN, Founder The issue of the relationship between _Church and State was well­ up to the first of April as a result , . · ' Associat~ E'ditora: publicized last month: the controversy over Cardinai Segura's "anti­ ROBERT LUDi-PW, TOM SULLIVAN, MICHAEL HARRINGTON protestant" statement reached the level of charges of heresy; the Presi­ of your response to the Spring Managing Ed.itor and Publisher: OOROl H\' DAY dent of one of the wealthiest private educational insUt uttons in· the Appeal. We had ·no sooner gone 223 Chrystie St., New York City-Z world came out against private education; and-none to well publicized to press when the bank phoned us • • , Telephone GRamercy 5-8826 -the Austrian Hierarchy approved an excellent statement ori --Ghurch to say that we had overdrawn our account. This for the first time in 8ubscrlpt1on. United States, 25c Yearly. Canada and Forelvi, 30c Year!lP and State. lubscriptlon rate ot one cent per l!'opy plus postage applies to bundlea of one Spain five years. , bundred or more cop~• each month for one year to be direc:ted to one ~dclre9 The voice on the other end of Over a month ago, Cardinal Segura issued a pastoral which came out the wire suggested that I come up Reentered aa second class matter August 10, 1939, at the Post ota.ce strongly against the gentleness toward Portestants which he felt had and see them in order to get a ot New York. N. Y., Under th"' Act of March S, 1879 been manifested in Spain,"especially in connection with King George's complete picture of the catastro­ death. phe. Confident that the bank had .,-: Several' groups of American Catholics r~sented the anti-democratic made. the mistake I hurried up 'to implications of his statement. The Indiana Catholic and Record, a dio­ point out their.error. Not to make cesan publication, made a strong case for religious freedom in the a long story a serial, I learned that EDITORIAL · majority Catholic country. The Jesuit magazine America also indi­ the bank with their usual disgust­ cated that it had no intention of instructing the Spanish Hierarchy .in ing efficiency had ·'not made the how to run their affairs but protested any attempt to universalize their mistak~. bu't that I had to the sum The Smith Bill principles and make them applicable to the United States. Now, the of $1~Q. Within the . week the Spanish magazine Ecclesia has raised the spectre of heresy with regard deficit-was m~de· up. The S~el Strike has.raJsed the entire issue of the rfchta of the work­ to the American position. I • • a Inc man In a democratie societ7. Theologically, it is clear that there is an anti-democratic tradition on re­ There ID\lSt be someone over at the Internal Revenue Department 'The- Taft-Hartley Law had many anti-labor provisions, e.c., ~ allow ligious freedom. within the Church. But is is also clear that this is not the only position. American writers of the authority of Heinrich Rom­ who took to heart the over opti­ acab1 to Tote In a NLRB certifylnc election while denylnc that richt to nen and John Courtnay Murray, S.J., have defended full religious and mistic note of money matters the worken who had been with a company for years, but this !s as noth- civil liberties for non-Catholics in the majority Catholic country. ' around the Catholic Worker. 0th· 1nc ·compared to some- of the schemes for Industrial peace new offered Jacques Maritain has joined with them. .erwise I don't see why tbey send to Concress. Pragmatically, it would appear that taking the anti-demoeratic posi­ me a personally addressed letter - requesting that I pay a friend's The Issue is not one of wares for a million steel worken. It now tion is the surest way for the Church to lose popular support. Then: is no question liere of instructing the Spanish ·Hierarchy on the conduct income tax. Why, me? Well the concerns this fundamental question: will colledive barraininr be re­ ot their affairs. There is the question of legitimate historical general­ letter courteously pointed out that plae~d by J'Ovemmental or 'mana.-ement coercion In the United States? ization: that wherever the Church was in a position of power and op­ their agent after contact with me had turned in the report that I SMITH BILL pression in the beginning of the' modern era (Spain, France, Italy), it 1 has lost the masses; that wherever the Church was a minority support religious freedom. The repeated to the department the same statement that I had made to eral to enjoin any strike or lock~ut which. Imperils the national defense. weight of evidence is that it is as necessary for the health of the Church as it is for the conscience of the individual. The Spanish issue has func­ their .agent. The friend has been If the dispute. is not ~ttled within 80 d;rys, receiven are to be ap­ tioned well in reminding American Catholics of their responsibility to­ away from our house for almost a pointed to manag'e the- company. ward freedom and human rights. It is to be hoped that they will not year and has been un.employed The receiver is forbidden · to. make any chance In the ware structure forget the lesson. during that period and will be out of work for sometime to come. I or conditions of employment. During' this period, it is a crime to ln­ Conant of Harvard definitely did not · by the slightest ati&'ate a strike, to aptate for a work-interruption, or even to provide , In anothe"r area, it developed that the interest of the Church is the inference state that we would pay funds for the payment of strike benefits. the master of the guest is to b~ received as the tion of hospitality. therefore are merely commercial household in the worn and tattered Saviour. Those who have ever enterprises. The degradation of It is possible to better under­ wanderer. This passage causes us knocked at the door of a Benedic­ modern hospitality can be meas­ stand what an advance the practice to see faintly delineated, the future tine Abbey, even unexpectedly, of hospitality represents when we mysterious character of the guest ured by the degradation of the word "hotel" which ·originally has experienced what is true hos­ recall the striking linguistic fact who is other and greater than he pitality in a true guest-house for that in many lan·guages, the same appears to be. This guest is an ub­ came from the word "host"--0ne strangers. who receives or entertains a guest. root word serves as derivative for known who one day will be recog­ Our Protestant brothers have But if it is Jesus Who is the the words "guest" and "enemy"; nized for what he really is, and on that is, at the base of the two given us some notable examples, guest we receive -J:oday, we must that day there will be great re­ categories is the undifferentiated and the Salvation Army, in par­ not forget that one day it will be joicing for having received him in reality-stranger. ticular, bas carried on a great Christ Who will receive us. Today his humiliation. He comes as a stranger in the The "stranger", that is to say, work in this field; other works In a text which is basic to Greek witness to a truly Christian con­ world; Re comes to men and men he who does not belong to the clan, refuse to receive Him. But one to the race, to the biological or civilization, Jthe Laws of Plato, we ception of hospitality. find a paragraph on the status of But there is another aspect. day it will be ourselves who will sociolo.gical unity, could be re­ be strangers in another world· our­ the guest in the Helenic city. After Hospitality signifies to give and to 0 garded under either one of two selves who will travel into those aspects: as an enemy or as a guest. having described the duties to fel­ receive, and amongst Christians low citizens, Plato reaches those presupposes an exchange and mysterious regions, where there It might well be sald that civiliza­ will be with us neither comrades tion took a decisive step forward which concern strangers. "We en­ tends toward a communion: it is visage now our duties toward the an effort to open that which is nor friends to assist us, and where on the day that the "stranger" we shall feel to the utmost-terri­ from an enemy, became a guest, stranger-guest. It must be said closed, to enlarge that which is that this is one of the holiest of narrow, to re-establish a com­ bly-what it means to be a that is to say, the day when the stranger. human community was created. engagements: every fault com­ munication amongst men in such mitted against him is, in compari­ a way that the life of Christ can If we wish that one day, the Up to that time, the human son with that which concerns the circulate freely. · true Host, the Host of the eternal species in common with the animal C ~RI S TI SUMUS! mansions, welcomes us when we species, were at war, one against rights of citizens, a most grave fail­ We do not, therefore, fulfill our ing against a v~ngeful goddess. tent he is a guest, and by that, duty in its plenitude if we are con­ come to knock at his threshold, He the otl)er in the primeval forests. has already told us what we must On the day when, in the stranger, "The stranger, being isolated sacred,' even though he might be a tent merely to receive those who from his comrades and his neigh­ personal enemy. By the fact of seek us out. We must, ourselves, do in this life. He has said that a guest was recognized; when the we must know how to open our stranger was thereby clothed with bors, is the object, for men and having entered into the com­ be, sometimes, the stranger who gods, of greater love. How many advances toward others. In primi­ door to the stranger who comes to a certain dignity instead of being munion of the home, and even us for shelter. vowed to execration, on that day, precautions should one take to more, by having entered into the tive Christianity, the missionary, travel even to the end ·of our road communion of partaking of food detached from everything in order Through this, we can understand one might say, that an important the dignity of hospitality, since it ctange was. effected in the world. without committing the least fault together, the guest thereby be­ to VOW himself to the work Of in regard to strangers." When we comes sacred. Any .act of violence evangelization, lived upon the hos­ has been prescribed by Jesus to To explain the \\(.Ord derivative: be a criterion, the key to Paradise read texts of this quality we realize .or disrespect toward him becomes pitality of those whom he visited in Latin the word which stgnifies by which we shall be judged in just what that is which the Greeks an extremely serious matter . . . and to whom he communicated the th~ guest is hospes; the· word signifying last day. Hospitality must not re­ enemy is hestis. These are. two called, "love of the guest" and· message with .which he was In the ancient ritual of baptism charged, "When you enter a· house, main in our eyes as a simple ex­ derivatives from the same root. which, in reality, is but respect for it seems that all that followed the say first of all, Peace be to this terior practice, but as a true Chris­ Moreover, in German the inn is man, whomever he may be. We baptism was a concerted movement house . . . Remain in the same tian mystery. It is meditating upon the Gasthaus, in which ,.ast rep­ come then to understand what of the rites of hospitality. The house, eating · and drinking what it that we shall come to love it-and resents the same root. These facts civilization is-essentially an order feet of the newly baptised were they have to give you .. . and tell to discover in it, one of the essen­ are significant beeause linguistics of things in which man is respected washed; their beads were anointed them, the -kingdom of God is· close tial aspects of our Christian. life. bear within them.selves, the history and. love, and in which he is loved with oil and they were offered milk upon you." (Luke 10::5-9); 1 . May this discovery lead to a real of civilization. ' the more. in proportion as he is .and honey. The ointment with These words project a· light and permanent change ' in our at­ which the face, seared by the sun's upon the mystery of hospitality. titude, and may there arise In our rays in a semi-desert country, was We have a presentiment of it in parishes, churches, families, a true • -anointed lS, with water for the feet pagan civilization. We have seen current of Christian hospitality. The Dove .and the shared food, one of the that the str.anier arriving upon the ~T:anslated by Lyle Terhune. by per­ Gif of the Wounded, sacraments of hospitality. shores of Ithaca was quite other m1SS1on ot the .author and ·the editor of White Dove of fire, From these elementary gestures than what he appeared to be . . . La V ie SpiritueUe, 29 Boul. Latour, .' Breathed from thirsting lips upon an old death, that we find in .the origins of our The epistle to the Hebrews will Maubour g, Paris, in V.Wich this ar ticle The soul's. mystery is Thy dwelling. civilization, the Church makes the say, in teaching hospitality to the was originally publish&. One Bread in this common Fire is born signs of this supreme form of hos- early Christians: "Do not forget to . l As the laden wind beats fiery wings int~ the fallen city . pitality which is the reception into show hospitality, fn doing . this, .. ' Prom'ised: Wind, mist-soft, the Church by the Divine Guest. men have before now, entertained Friday Night TalksA t Earth trembles into ashes, . But Christianity, in elevating them angels unawares." (Hebrew 13:2). The sky cloak of silence is pierced by those JI.uttering wings. to the dignity of a sacrament, ·not The stranger, the guest, might be The Catholic Worker All fires are drawn into Eternal Flame. only consecrates tl\e ancient rites an angel. There is always some 223 Chryatie St. (8 P.M.) · The Dove who is one of hospitality, but also strengthens mystery about him. Rather, for us Is wille'd to life. -J1nd leads to perfection, the virtue Christians, we always know who James O'Gara-The .Encyll- cals--.JUNE 6. And tongues proclaim It. of hospitality. If we study primi- he is: Jesus Christ has told us. The Dove who is one, tive Christianity we shall see that The guest is Christ Who thus ex­ Fr. Oesterrelcher . and Dr. Beloved, hospitality bolds a prominent place pre.ss1y identifies Himself. In His Natalie Darcy on Fr. O's bk., In Her all wisdom shall unfold, .and all life burn, and that it appears as one of the eschatological discourse -telling "Walls Are Crumblinr"-JUNE -And in this unity of flame, essential virtues of the Christian. men by what they shall be judged 13. The P.eace of ancient hills, · So, the famine of hospitality in He spoke these words: "I was a Father Joseph Moody­ · Forgott-en harmony, the world of today shows that, de- stran_ger .and you brought Me Church and State-JUNE 20. -Voicele$s songs still heard., spite appearances, it is not a truly home, whereupon the just will an­ Mr. and Mrs. Ger.aid O'Grady · Hope for the soul's true rest. civilized world, and the famine of. swer, Lord, when was it that we -on Marrla•e--JUNE 27. Eileen Fantlno. hospitality amongst the. Christians saw· Thee ...a stranger .and brought Jone, 1952 THE CATHOLIC WORKER Page FiN + + + BOOK ·REVI·.EW S . -F .+ + man who sees it as his duty to throughout the world is a matter power-in spite of the tremendous save his country from the evil of terror. It can only be rooted dramatic account of his strange Whittaker Chambers of whicl) he is aware. out by a stronger idea-the re­ existence, there is a defeatest note WITNESS by Whittal(er Chambers. h'is reactions in varied situations, ligion of. love. The due processes in the book. He felt finally that led him early to a conviction that But it does seem necessary to Random House, New York. $5.00 point out that the evil of a ma­ of law cannot do it-they are not he must leave the party but in so Reviewed by Betty Bartelme there was something desperately equipped for such a task. Only a doing he was leaving the side of wrong with the· world. · In Marxism terialism which prompted Cham­ bers to join the party in the first return to God in true Christianity the winner. It is a brave choice Identification of Whittaker he felt he had found a solution will have any effect on the world to make with such convictions, but Chambers is unnecessary. . The for these wrongs. Like many in­ place still exists. That he himself has become aware of higher values which is racked by the disease of a negative attitude. For if he Hiss case ·in which he was one of tellectuals of the 20's and the dec· which Communism is only a by­ truly chooses the good and strives the two dominant figures • was ades following, revolution on a and of his own· place as a child of God ·can be only a matter for product for it, then he must come to the front page news foi; two years. cosmic scale seemed the only an­ This Chambers firmly believes­ conclusion that the good can also The heated partisanship which swer to establish an economic bal­ rejoicing. But there is far more to be done than standing alone but in spite of the brilliance of his overcome the. powers of darkness this case aroused is still alive in ance and a just social order. Cham­ analysis of Communism and its as nothing else can. many circles, and the memory of bers worked· faithfully for years to as a single witness · against Com­ - it will most surely be revived by further the aims of the Communist munism. Chambers over and over the publication of this book, as it party with these ends in mind. again points out the firm grip• that was by partial serialization in a The account of the movements of the Communist doctrines have on national magazine earlier this year. the underground have a horrible the minds of the party people. Open Letter Under such a circumstance and in Under such circumstanc'es it is fascination as treachery after To His Holine·ss, .Pope Pius XII safe to assume that few Ameri­ treachery is unfolded, as men fade the face of such intellectual con­ viction, it seems naive to expect cans are unfamiliar with the story from one identity into another, as Our Dear Holy .Father: ' of Whittaker Chambers. They un­ the doubtful are ruthlessly cut Communism to be overcome here doubtedly know, for example, that down. Chambers' disillusionment, or anywhere else by legal machin­ Convinced that burdened consciences should find a refuge in the .his boyhood ·was strange and un- beginning with a pin-prick here ery~ That process can only effect Church, we, the undersigned, appeal to Your Holiness. an oe- Man is nothing for man is the Acreed on in Frankfurt on Main by One Hundred men and women, trays his young · student. It tells of his disillusionment in industry, of norm. There is no Absolute­ priests and laity present at a conference of the newly-formed Catholic • union fight, and of his disillusionment with the "Brotherhood" CCom- nothing treater than he. The.idea Worldnc Group within the International Fellowship of Reconcllatlon munist Party) and his horror at the Harlem nationalist. It is a story of is all and faithfulness to it auto­ on November 17 and 18, 1951, and presented to your Hollne!lll In filJal l~rning the terrible reality of race in this country of ours-the sham matically looses natural ties and respect and Joyal obedience. black and the ·sham white-until everything has been proved un~real instincts of common humanity. (The above message was sent to us for publication by Herr Kasper and false, and therefore nothing is left to be real,.and a man is invisible. That such an idea could conquer Mayr of Vienna, a' Catholic Zavman editor of Der Christ in der Welt. Paraphrasin_g Joyce, Ellison's problem is to "forge the uncreated fea· and hold the minds of intelligent He writes: The above letter was signed on behalf of the conference of tures of his face," as he puts it. men seems monstrous·; that they Catholic .pacifisb held at Frankfurt, Germany, last November b11 three I am aware that the section on the Communist Party has been criti- could not see the ·· fallacy of the priests, Fr. fierre Lorson, S. J., author of " Can a Chr~tian Be a . Cow cized as carricature. I would· like to dissent. tenets of Communism seems un­ scientious Objector?"; by Fr. Str!].tmann, 0 , P, quthor of ~ ·world ' ..T.here are moments in this book when some of the writing about believable to those who have not Church and Worliritual weapon in the present and from all it . is not impossible will be attached. This is an old gating tonight and soon will come ~e. F•r further details write Vincenza Bacllonl at Maryfarm. to gain a few aaherents for that run:a-round and I am not worry- irrigatin,1 maize. .. June, 1952 THE ·CATHOL.IC WORKER Page Seven persecution under the present re­ gime and even despite the· fact Reunion With the Eastern Orthodox that there may again be a tend­ Poverty, U. S. A. • ency to become subservient to the (Continued from page 1) J consecration of the species Is a State-1-we cannot overlook the fact (Continued from page 1) f less than $500 (this, for families distress in an appeal which Is fairly recent opinion in the East­ that the Orthodox in Russia have Reports and an excellent study of and unrelated individuals). fundamentally one of physical and en:i Church. It must, however, be put 'up an heroic struggle, have income dis.tribution published in Over half of the non-white pop­ material power and strength." pointed out that there has always maintained the Faith-that they Social Order for February, 1952.J ulation bad an income of less than The worst thing about this in- been a difference in atti~ude still preserve the authentic Chris­ And yet, the Worker's Budget $1500. dictnrent is that it is absolutely towards the Sacred Species in the tianity peculiarly theirs. In large was calculated for an urban family Seventy-seven percent of the true-that only too often the ap- Eastern Church from that of the measure this is also true of the of four; larger families would be non-whites in the United States peal of our Catholic press and· our West. When the sacred elements other Orthodox Churches of the even more hard pressed than the had an income of less than $2500, Catholic societies is on a par with are rem_oved from the table of the East. It is imperative that the dif­ statistics indicate. while their privileged white the advertising campaigns of com- Prothesis, for the' Great Entrance, ferences between Orthodox and Children brothers placed only half of this mercial concerns in this country. they are accorded a reverence by Roman Catholics be ironed out­ percentage in the same class. The effect o~ this distribution on We can never approach the Ortho- t~e peopl~ whic~ the West would that we be united. The excom­ Without considering racial prej­ children is even more out of line dox by thls method and it is con- give t? the Sp~cies only after con­ munication of the patriarch Mi­ udice, jim-crow (or economic ex­ V(ith notions of a family wage. sequently with sorrow I note the secrabon. This because the East­ chael Cerularius in 1054 was a per­ p~oitation based on · prejudice­ A · quarter of American children tendency of our Eastern Rite ern Church h_as never Pl?ced the sonal excommunication, it was tr.e employer who plays white live in families with income of less parishes to "get on the band- same emphasis. on th~ time el~­ never meant to be an excommuni­ against black in order to pay a than $2,000 a year; almost half liv.e wagon." To be aggressive and ment in the Liturgy-so that, m cation of the Eastern Church as least wage), such a situation has in families with incomes of less pushy and to adopt all the worst some way, the Sacred Eleme~ts such. As far as the Russian become important in the relation­ features of Roman parishes. But are the Body and Blo?d of Christ Ohurch' is concerned, no one can than $3,000. ship of America with foreign na­ Children, of course, lower the one could go on a long tirade on even as they are carried unconse­ point out when separation from tions. The great motive force of this and probably to no avail. Per- crated to the Throne at the Great the Holy See occurred. It is a family share of wages. With chil­ social change in this century has dren, the wife- is unable to work, haps it would be more to the point . . . condition i.Pto which they drifted increasingly become the nationalist Entra~ce. and because· ·of this, the average to consider some of the points that Ta~ng m~o account this di1fer­ with no set purpose, it is a condi­ aspirations of the non-white. With separate us from the Orthodox and ence m attitude it would seem, tion which was utilized by the loss in income is around $700. the situation as it is within the fo see if there is -not some possi- howev~r, that to. ins~t on the temporal powers for political ends One explanation for the appear­ United States, the· country must ance of prosperity is installment 1 bility of mutual understanding. necesStty of an epikles1s is ~ten- and to serve the greed and ..am ­ face a grim less of moral authority buying. In 1948, 62% of this type able for several reasons. First, if bitions of men in both -the East and leadership. Filloque the Eucharist is the re-enactment ·of transaction was concentrated in and West. It is a condition that Bi&'Oted Reform Let us take the matter of the Qf the Last Supper (and 1 presume we must work and pray to end. automobiles, department stores and Filioque phrase in the Creed. West and East hold thls in com­ furniture stores. It goes without saying th~t the Here is an example of a contro- mon) then, taking the Scriptural But even more unbelievable is income . structure just described versy conducted with bitterness on accounts, we find no indication of the American tax structure. In a must be changed. both sides and yet ·wholly unneces- · such an invocation of the Holy recent study of the Joint 'Congres­ But in realizing this, there is a sary and fruitless. In the words of Spirit. If the Last Supper con­ sional Committee on the Economic danger that we fall into a counter­ Father Sergius · Bulgakov COrtho- taitis all the essential elements of Report, it was revealed that the bigotry, a bigotl'J{. of- the left, of dox): "The controversy about the the Liturgy it ii di1Iicult then to tax burden was heavier on families the social reformer. If this pove,rty Holy Spirit has been conducted see where the Eastern contention with incomes of less than $1,000 today is seen as the means toward in an atmosphere lacking .in love is valid. Secondly, if the epiklesis a year than on those whose earn­ the well-being of some future gen­ and actuated by the spirit of I• necessary then those Rites not ings totaled $5,000 to $7,500. This eration, as merely an incitement to schism; it has been therefore a- having one are invalid since they class-structur'ld tax pattern puts class consciousness on the part of pointless dispute. The doctrinal lack an e.ssential part of the the brunt of the costr of govern­ these involved, then we have disagreement about the Holy Spirit Liturgy. This would seem to be ment on those least able to pay and changed people into objects, means. was lacking in 'spirit' and there- untenable even from the stand­ reduces the money available ·for The problem must• be faced as fore its only result was emptiness point of the Eastern Church which, minimum necessities in the lowest one of the future-and -of the pres­ and futility." According to the on occasion, has used the Liturgy income group. ent. Immediate relief through any Orthodox theologian Nicolas Zer- called St. Peter's (at Mt. Athos, Proletariat means which are not clearly im­ nov "until this controversy, was for example) which bas no epik­ moral ·must be studied. To think started, Christian writers often lesis. There is further something One fact which emerges from the Income figures should clarify otherwise, to view thls poverty as spoke and wrote about the Holy wretched about either the Western a force in a historic dialection, is Ghost as coming from the Father or Eastern Churches doubting the •1gr1·~afl1e thinking on social questiO.I\S. In as Pl tJ much as Marxists (and Catholics) not only the dehumanization of the through the Son, or from the validity of each others Liturgy. On poor; it is the dehumanization of Father and the Son. No one had To my knowledge no Roman the­ {Continued from page 6) have applied the term "proletariat" be able to handle the orders. Or· in the United States as meaning him who thinks it. hitherto considered that such ex- ologian of repute has or does The reaction to this poverty - . pressions contained heresies, as doubt the validity of the Eastern perhaps the · shop, Designs for a stable, conscious class of indus­ Christlan Living, Box 5948, Kan- trial wage earners, they have over­ should be partly one of calcula- · also no one questioned the text of Liturgies but there are some East­ tion, of how can it be erradicated. the creed which used the words of tern theologians who cast doubt on sas City 2, Mo., might be a better looked significant groupings. thing since they handle all the The slums of America are racist but it must also be of the Beati­ the Gospel (St. John xv. 26). But the validity of the Roman Rite be· tudes, of hunger and th'Wst for ~- hatever were their motives, the cause of a lack of epiklesis. All of books listed also in the Art Guide. and rJITal to a much greater degree These are guides for all parents than they are industrial. Justice, of love and grief for what innovators committed a sin; not a this, however, developed since the goes on before our eyes. sin against truth, but against Chris- split between the East and West and teachers, riot just for the art- There were almost six million Poverty tian fellowship and love." And and is to be attributed more to ist. Every man is an artist, every farm families in 1949-of whom those mostly responsible for this political and factional · rivalries child, Ade always points out, and 60% had cash.incomes of less than It is the hope of our time that offense were those bishops of the than to genuine theological differ- I remember her sympathetic ap- $2,000. poverty become a memory. , Roman Church who, contrary to the ences. For, even taking into con­ predation of some paintings on It is true that these families can As far as this refers to the desti­ agreement that the Nicene Creed sideration the Eastern aversion to the walls of the Chtcago Catholic ~upplement this income by the food tution which still exists in the would never be tampered with, fixing a moment, a point of time, Worker years ago. One of the men which they grow; but it is also true United States after reform and added the Filioque clause to it. at which the consecration takes from the breadline -decided he that they need money to expand war-prosperity, we can only join This innovation was opposed for place, yet the very insistance on would decorate our walls for us their equipment. in the hope, though with some pe~­ some time by the Holy , See but the epiklesis as necessary intro­ and the ·result was colorful but The condition of the migrant simism. finally accepted. and extended to duces the time element as effec­ crude and rather too much a copy worker and the share-cropper ls, But the poverty that is voluntary the whole Western Church. This tively as does the teaching that of what has scornfully been termed of course, even more extreme since and not destitution: this is another could not but give .offense to the the consecration is effected by the Barclay Street. When Ade showed they often back the supplement of thing. Only when the necessities bishops and Patriarchs, priests and words of tnstitution. up her sympathetic encouragement food which the farmer-owner can of life are satisfied and ·destitution people of the Eastern Church who Temporal Powers warmed all hearts. She and Peter rely on, eliminated can man become poor were not consulted Oh this innova~ These are but two of the prob- Maurin always had so great a re­ Racial Slums in spirit. And we seek to trade the tion. Consequently Eastern the- lems involved in this matter of re­ spect for the creative .aspirations But by far and large the most poverty 'of the destitute, of the in­ ologians then began to advance union. There are more serious of others, that they warmly ap­ signi1,icant of the oppressed groups dustrial worker, the Negro, the· reasons against the Filioque as a difficulties, difficulties that are plauded all attempts at singing, is the non-white. Puerto Rican, the share-cropper, doctrinal conception, holding that seemingly unsurmolintable which playing, dancing, painting, writing Over 18% of the non-white pop­ to trade this for a society in which -any cultural effort to do the ulation in 1949 had an income of the poverty of saints is possible. it destroyed the uniqueness of the will be unsurmountable ' unless \ Father as the principle of origina- both sides combine a great love and thing one's self, instead of oiily tion. humility in their approach. The listening to music made by others, ~ - An examination of the facts sur- West has much to learn from the admiring art done' by others. They DAVID HENNESSY rounding the Filioque controversy Orthodox Qmrches of the East. were firm believers in participat"'- Distributist Bookshop would seem to place the large pro- The inevitable results of the high­ ing in life, not just being onlook- 201 Winant Avenue \ portion of blame on the Western ly centralized system of the West­ ers. Who knows what talents lie Staten Island 9, New York Church for the tactless manner ern Church has been a certain crushed and buried by just the in which the Filioque was addeli tendency to formalism, . legalism, not seeing Christ in others! Private Property and Distributism by R. Jebb ...... $ .30 to the Creed. But the point for us unifol'IJlity. But in East and West In a craft shop we had for a A Mechanistic or a Human Society by W; Wello,ck .•.••••••. .25 today is that this is so much water alike th~ great evil has been the time on Mott street there was Why a Land Movement by H. Robbins ...... •••...• .l!i some beautiful wood carving done under the bridge, that the damage alliance of the Church with the The Cross of Gold by H. Pepler ...... ••• .30 bas been done and that, should re- temporal powers. To succumb- to by men who had never made a .25 union come about, the Holy See the temptation to have the State crucifix or a statue before. Man Unchained Security, and Freedom by C. G. Hope . ..•.• would not require the Filioque to take tip the cause of the Church. And at one of the retreats we Peter Maµrin, Christian Radical •...... : ...... ••• .25 be used in the Eastern Church- Which ends always in the Church had for families at Maryfarm, G. K. Chesterton by C. Hollis ...... •••••••.•••••••...• .25 Newburgh, Julia Porcelli taught is indeed the Holy See does not taking up the cause of the State. Restoration of Property by H. Belloc .••••••••••••.•...•. .75 it to be used in any E;ist- Caesaro-papism is a peculiar in­ the children of the couples who requir~ Distribµtism by S. Sagar ...... , •. ,., ... ,25 erq Rite Church under her juris- strument of the devil to keep dis­ came, how to make little pictures diction where it has· not been cus- cord and schism alive. If the day of our Lady, little pictures · of the William Cobbett by W. B. Pemberton . ...•••••••.•••••..••• .40 should come when we decide we Cross, so thjlt in effect they were Pius XII speaks on R~ral Life ...... : ...... • ', •••..•.• .10 : tomaty to do so: h t t d h f h , • ave as e enoug o t e State making, something of a retreat Disfributism, The Alternative by H. Bellac . ....•••.•.... Epiklesls and can do without it, then the themselves. ·to tf the Filioque controversy is an Churches wifl once more be free. - We call attention again to the Chesterton, Prophet for Today by M. B. R~cksiit . .•.•••..• .40 example of unbecoming conduct As they are not free even in the revised list of retreats for the sum­ And Who Wants Peace by Eric Gill ...... •...... •• .10 on the part of the Western Church, United States where religion "is be­ mer at Maryfarm, Newburgh: July The Evolution of Peace by Rev. A. Gille the Epiklesis controversy ls an ex- ing coddled by the State as a 3-6, Fourth of July week end; with Foreword, and printed by Eric Gill: ...... 30 k- ample of such unseemly ·conduct handy instrument with. which to July 27-August 1-Father Paul Gloria in Profundis by Chesterton on· the part of the Eastern Church. fight Communism. And Commu­ Judge; Augtist 17-23, Fr. Marion with wood engravings by Eric Gill ...... •••••••.... .40 The old rubrics of the Byzantine nism is conceived as an evil by Casey. In September there will be Rite directs the priest to make an the State, not for' ethical or re­ another five day retreat under Fr. Work and Culture by Eric Gill ...... 1.00 act of reverence after the words ligious considerations, but because Robert Brown, the date to be an­ The Sun of Justice; a study of the social teachings of the of institution-so they were evi- it is deemed a danger to American nounced later. These are all basic Catholic Church by Harrold Robbins ...... 1.50 dently not regarded as merely the imperialism and aggrandizement. retreats dealing with nature and Unholy Trinity by Eric Gill ...... : ...•• , ••••••••••••••••. 1.75 recitation of an historical narra:- The Orthodox Church In Russia the supernatural. Cottage Economy by Wm. Cobbett ...... • •... 2.25 tive. The theory that an invoca- has been cleansed and purged of Write to Jane O'Donnel at R.R. 1.75 tion of the Holy Ghost was neces- its enslavement to the Tsarist re- 3, Maryfarm, Newburgh, New The Servile State by H. Belloc ...... ••.•.••• , •...... 1ar7 (i.e. the epiklesis) for the gime. Despite the subsequent York. • June, 1952 do you. do it?" This last Sunday we • were visited by about sixty par­ Peter Maurin Farm ishioners of Grace E p i s c op a 1 Chrystie Street (Continued from page 3) He had an awful time catching Church, Jersey City, and their them. We are going to have egg­ three priests. They seemed de­ (Continued from page 2) Congressman Franklin Roosevelt, have been painted,. by Ed and Dan much taller. At the outset of the Jr., is engaged in. Collins' brother John, so that it laying chickens in return. Tommy, lighted. They· are doing their own conversation you might be led to shines like the sun. Ed is a dream Black Diamond's daughter, has lay apostolic work, under the same believe that they were man and About the time that I listened to been flirting desperately with two Christ. All of us sang Benediction the radio interview of Ryan and of a worker, besides having a dis­ wife. However, the lady quickly Anastasio, we had a good visit position such as never was seen. outrageous-looking toms that steal hymns together in our c h a p e 1. corrected this presumption. · around the grasses. Bijou never Dunstan and Mr. Peanut were wild She and her sister have. known with a seaman from the We st We have a new gas stove, bought Coast. This friend is a member of with money sent by a friend. It Is came. with excitement at beholding a bus this little old man for a number of years. At times the two sisters the ILWU which union is. lead by elegant, and the cooks-of whom Bill McAndrew has been about. drive right up to our back door, Harry Bridges. I informed t h i s and disgorge an infinity of' pas­ have helped the man with both we have four-find little fault with He t-0ok Rita to five movies, at one food and money when he was hard s_eaman how we had been receiving it. The day it came, there was a sitting. He still brings butter and sengers. They weren't satisfied un­ literature from the committee that til they saw every single one of pressed, even though they both had crisis in our domestic relations. charm. a difficult time supporting them­ is defending Bridges against de­ Hans, upon whom we had depended Kit Smith (Dave) is handsome as them get back in. Dorothy spoke selves with work as maids. How­ portation on the allegations that to knock out a cupboard where the butler, dish-washer or dancer. His on Peter Maurin to the crowd, mov­ ever this woman registered no pro­ he is a Communist or was one. ingly. We served coffee and ginger tests in regard to helping t h i s The literature p o i n t s out that stove was to go, was baking. Tamar older sister, Thelma, is graduating Bridges is a victim of the ship had flu (a temperature of 104); we next month from St. Peter's snaps which Mt. Loretto gave us. friend, in fact she seemed happy Everyone was gay. owners and other vested interest were trying to get over there. At School, in St. George. We all to have been able to do it. Be­ on the west coast who believe that that moment the gas man came, to studied the class book: Thelma is Mary Roberts has been cool\:ing sides being short and elderly the they can smash the ILWU once put in the stove. He had no inter­ pri;,ttiest. satisfactorily to all, and makin man was minus one hand which they get Bridges out of the way. religious drawings in "the evenings, had been chewed up in a machine est in who knocked out the. cup- Little Mac makes remarkable 1shop some thirty years ago. It also pointed out that Bridges had ~ard . Leonard had other fish to which are quite original. Th e y been cleared of the charge of be­ drawings. He and Lucille go to The little man in a re g u 1 a r 'ing a Communist by the Supreme fry. It seemed iike a total break· the grammar school in Pleasant show both the evil and the good of fighter's crouch stood in the mid­ down. The gas man was not co-op­ human piety, and provoke study. Court of United St ates. They Plains on a bus. dle of the office sweeping the air quote Supreme Court Justice Frank erative. I was about to tell him She is turning the chicken house with his left hand, the good one Chad Smith their father found into a hermitage, which will now Murphy: "For more than a decade sadly and bitterly to go away, after living in England and in the telling how he had been arrested powerful e c o n o m i c and social when Ed appeared and said in a give us four, with Hans' and Leon- by the city police for carrying a forces have combined with public Bahamas that America, the land of ard's abodes. ,.. sandwich sign advertising a barber pleasant tone-"1'11 knock it out." the free, has some odd customs. and ,-private agencies to seek the Seldom has woman heard sweeter Mike Gunn and Joseph Flanagan, shop. The police claimed that this deportation of Harry Bridges . . . The segregation LAWS in Miami, type of occupation in a busily con­ w o rd s. When I returned from Florida, surprised him, and the who worked with the Philadelphia Bridges incurred the hatred and Tamar's, the closet was out, and gested area tied up traffic along hostility of those whose interest co­ treatment his wife and family re­ the sidewalks. Soon after the man incided .directly or indirectly witll the stove was in. Hans later ad­ ceived in Cincinnati will not soon was brought to the police station justed it to the gas tanks. the vicious and inhumane prac­ be forgotten by them. The fact the case was dismissed and the tices t o w a r d longshoremen that We have been cutting asparagus, that Catholics and other Chris­ poor fellow was out on the street Bridges was combating." looking for another job. - all of us-a pleasant occupation at tians were as bad in their attitude I asked our visiting seaman what sundown. Leonard bunches it in as non-Christians was mystifying. "A sign carrying jQb is a laz.x_ he thought of Harry Bridges. He a machine, cuts off the ends and In Miami there are no parochial ~an's work,'' said our little friend. replied that he thought that the ties it up in raffia, then lurches I am not sorry that I lost that IL WU was one of the tinest unions · schools for Negroes. Thank God particular type of occupation but forth in the Chevrolet with Berna­ these lovely people are here with in the country and vastly superior I have to eat and pay for my room." to the longshoreman's union on the dette and Lucille, to sell it. They us, where their goodness and At one time he gained a brief res­ never return with any. If you saw charm and intelligence can be ap­ .t;ast Coast. As for Bridges, he an· pit~ !rom the rat race· of making swered that he thought that he was Bernadette and Lucille, you'd know preciated, and where some of the a hvii;ig Y.irough t~e assistance of why. The mo ey is going towards one of the best if not the best American enigmas can be ex­ -the city home relief department. labor leader in this country. the hot water eater. plained to them. It is an inspira­ However that was shortly termin­ Quentin Smith (Quee) goes to tion to see them at mass. ated when he refused to be placed During a search for a book now out of print entitled The Forgotten sleep standing up, bent over on in a city shelter. Our place has many birds. You Paraclete by Mgr. Landrieux, I vis· the cat. At this point the woman spoke can hear their different calls from up to relate how the man had lost ited the PARACLETE BOOK We had five days of gloomy tree to tree, near the house. Out rain, after which it was springlike. his hand in a machine shop some SHOP at 76th street and 3rd ave-· by the asparagus patch the air is thirty years ago. A lawyer took the nue. It is a recently founded re­ Leonard's sweet peas and lettuce full of them. ?ase up for a settlement and kicked are getting beyond him. Rita's ligious book store which carries an Our old friend the goat, now it around for some months before excellent line of religious books vegetable garden is going to be owned by Mr. Prasse next door, he finally dropped it. A second one of the wonders of nature. and periodicals plus a show case of keeps leaping the fence and eat­ lawyer was engaged with the same liturgical jewelry. -"here is positively nothing that is ing amid our asparagus. Mr. lack of re s u 1 t s. She wondered It was quite obvious to me that not in it, and all is transplanted Prasse has some beautiful Abyssin­ whether we would have a lawyer and hoed. Bill Feney, a visitor ian goats (different from her), and look into the case which we did. the tw(> &irls who lWl.Dage the Par­ from the Island now with us, and We found that anything that old aclete book store have a genuine pretty little kids, which the chil­ was hopeless in the court of law apostolic zeal that is needed for Cyril, have been faithfully work­ dren love to visit. ing in it, with Rita. We've had a11d was strictly for the birds. their very worthwhile project. A~ A couple of articles of clothing radishes twice from it. Ray Taylor passed some days present we are arranging with with us. He runs the Eric Gill were found small enough to fit the them to handle reprints of Fritz The brook is lovely. There is a man, which was the purpose of water moccasin in it, who glides Center, in New York. Since we house of hospitality, and were Eichenberg's works that have ap­ are noted for our lack or organiza­ their visit here in the first place. along like gold. greatly aided by the Quakers there, As he was leaving our house we peared in past issues of the Cath­ We hope before long, friends tion here at PMF Call the work of invited him to move in with us or olic Worker. We urge you to con­ this house and outdoors being done came to see us. willing, to have a decent hot water Some time ago He n r I et t a set~le at one of our retreat how;es. tact that store if you are interested heater. There was a crisis for on a spontaneous and voluntary This offer he gratefully declined in obtaining these reprints. basis), and that frequently pro­ Hronek, head of the women's peni­ about ten days; the grate. in tire tentiary in Cleveland, visited us. it would not be in line with h~ • • • jack stove that heats the boiler vokes criticism, I asked him how fierce desire for independence. On or about July the 21st we he did. He told me that the ones Many of us had known her at re­ was broken. In the end Leonard • • • hope to have a Mass said for the who ask to have regular work as­ treats at Maryfarm. She is one of found a way to mend 1t, but it A couple of weeks ago I listened repose of Charles O'Rourke here signed to them are the first not to the most agreeable women 1-ever to the Barry Gray show over radio won't be permanent. The sweet met. She spoke at Chrystie Street at Nativity Church. It will have dispositions of the inhabitants perform it. This cheered me;- for station WMCA. On that particular whatever may be our indiviual on her work. By accident, it was night Barry was interviewing Jo­ been two years s i n c e Charlie's during that period were edifying not mentioned in Dorothy's or this death and God knows that anyone to me, who tends to complain about sb;uggles, I cannot see that as a sep!J. Ryan and Anthony Anatasio, community we are not h a p p y. column, or in the -paper at all. I two of the most powerful labor who knew him could not have for­ every single thing. · called D.'s attention to that. She leaders in the Longshoremen's un­ gotten him. We have known some Dunstan Coleman visited me, Everything always gets done; every crisis is met. A large cause of this said: "That's the kind of thing that ion. In view of the present and first class co-workers here at the his grandmother, for a month. He happens to saints." past activities of these two individ­ CW over the years but none im­ and his pal Quee (Mr. Peanut) general happiness I believe is that uals along the waterfront f wa~ the people feel · free, and loved. Betty Dellinger came again, to pressed us with a more Christ-like turned on the kerosene tank surprised that they would' allow spirit than did Charlie. I realize faucets, and did other things. They They are left to the Holy Spirit our intense pleasure, bringing Ta­ themselves to be questioned on the (who speaks differently to different sha, Fathers John Kean and Jo­ radio. that it doesn't make sense to com­ and Charlie went to ball games pare people since God made each and played with Janet and Arty persons); and are not pressed by seph Konrad, who used to give My surprise was short lived as the superimposed wills of others. c o n f e r e n c e s .here, came from I heard Ryan and Anatasio handle one unique, perhaps to give each ""i\einhardt, neighbors, and Jerry. one of us a particular facet of His They pumped in the swing and at­ For SOl_!le Wfeks we had as many :arooklyn to see Father Cordes, themselves. Anatasio gave a pret­ whom they found greatly improved. ty good imitation of not being able Image in which ·we are made. But tended the rosary, behaving de­ pecans as we could eat-shelled. Charlie was a mainstay and an an­ cently. (Charlie Smith has the This was due to Freddy Baker. "In Rita Ham came again, and Diane. to understand English and conse­ We had also a visit from Bety Lou quently blocked simple question­ chor to all that found the ground sweetest smile of all.) Rita was the cooking line we've had ducks _ng. The interview with Ryan was shifting under them. · Texas Star the cowgirl to - them. by Rita, liver by Mary and cake by Geenty. Just as futile. Ryan was in a very "Dusty" slept out in my hermitage. Bernadette. Bill Robinson, a friend of Peg­ • • • affable mood and seemed to be A letter from Frater C h a r 1 e 1 At night Rita plays Mozart. Helen Stansbury, a non-Catholic gy·s, was here twice. enjoying the occasion with wise­ (Jack English) of the Conyers, Ga. Dan had a· fire-horse Dalmatian from New York, was here. She Father Cordes looks better and cracks and overly sincere responses Trappists. He says he is still hap­ for a time. There was also a marvelled at the Sunday after-din­ better. 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