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,. Subscription: VOL. XXXIX No. 2 FEBRUARY, 1973 25c Per Year Price le Boycott A&P : OUR PEACE IS CHRIST By DAN O'SHEA By PAT JORDAN Farm workers continue the struggle The cease-fire in Vietnam, coming at We cannot be joyful in J;his "peace." in to gain the right to bar­ last from the depths .of nightmare, Already, after announcing peace, Mr gan collectively through a union of causes us to respond with a certain Nlxon had proposed the military budget their choice. They are seeking to im­ wariness. For the peace in Vietnam be raised from $76.4 to $81 billlon. We prove the conditions of their work is as yet ambiguous at best. cannot be joyful when America con­ through the signing of contracts that Such wariness is good, as was that tinues to arm the rest of the world will provide for such things as toilets of .Jeremiah: "They have healed the for fratricidal wars. In the in the fields, an end to cihlld labor in wound of my people lightly, saying, we house more than 18,000 troops in agriculture, and strong control over the 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace" eight bases. A calll from the corrupt, rise of dangerous pesticides. (6:14). The wounds of Indochina will tyrannical Marcos government could The average farm worker family of take generations to heal. Not money, lead us into another "war of honor." four earns $2,700 annually, according not mere ingenuity and advanced As long as these exigencies continue, to the U.S. Department of Labor. At medicine, but time and human love will there is no peace and our joy is justly the same time the accident· rate for be the effective antidotes. And they restrained. farm workers is three times the na­ will be sorely taxed. How will we re­ Root Out Violence tional rate, while the life expectancy spond to the fact that North Vietnam's Nor can we take heart in Mr. Nixon's for farm workers is 49, compared to population, tor example, has experi­ strident message by which he an­ 70 for the rest of the country. enced a five-hundred percent increase notinced the peace. "Let us be proud The growers in California have at­ in cancers of the liver resulting from of ... one of the most selfless enter­ tempted to block the e1Iorts of the our defoliation bombings? Will we prises' In the history of nations," he farm workers' union through the sign­ treat thO'se wounds lightly and shortly? said. That in stark contrast to Pope ing of "sweetheart" contracts with the Misconceptions of Peace Paul's message to the U.N., "Men can­ Teamster union. Within weeks of Cesar No, we do not find ourselves joyful not be brothers if they are not humble. Chavez's request to the lettuce grow­ at the news of "peace." The conflict No matter how justifia:ble it may ap­ ers for elections to be held to deter.,. continues in much of Indochina, and it pear, prlde provokes tensions and mine the will of the workers regarding is the poor who suffer, not ourselves. struggles for prestige, domination, formation of a union, the lettuce In Vietnam itself the cease-fire agree­ colonialism and egoism. In a word growers signed nearly 200 contracts ment makes llttle effort to protect pride shatters brotherhood." with the Teamsters. This was done political prisoners and neutralists who The misconception that peace has without consulting the workers, who have opposed the war all along. The been achieved ls even promoted in the found out about these contracts by Saigon government la about the buai­ liberal press and by the so-ea.Ued en­ reading of them in the newspapers. nesa of reclUl!dtJlng poll\lcal prlaoners lightened. When Debbie Peck ap­ When the growers refuse dialogue, as criminal prisoners. Under the latter proached -the New York Times on her farm workers have only one way of designation, political prisoners will be pilgrimage of peace (see her letter "Pil­ retained in prison despite the armis­ ensuring their rights. They must strike Robert Hodpll grim for Peace" in this issue of the and extend their strike through a boy­ tice. In his book War Bostag'es, Don C.W.), she wa~ told to return home cott. The farm workers in California Luce writes of the countless political beeause "the )Var is over and peace are asking the American people to sup­ prisoners in South Vietnamese jails has been accomplished." port them in their struggle by not (some estimate 200,000 of them>. It is Finally, the fact of peace ls belled buying or eating iceberg lettuce until Saigon Prison,ers Kafkaesque, and ls accomplished by by our dally lives. The war is not far tlle workers have won their contract. the force of a 300,000-man Saigon from our hearts and in the making of By CllA1tLIE KING and Police contingent which la financed by Breaks Agreement IGAL BOODENKO our dally encounters. Even the massive La.st August, , farm the U.8. Public Bafety Of!ice in Salgon.

Vol. XXXIX No. 2 February, 1973 Tivoli: a Farm With a View 117 DEANE MARY MOWRER The snow flakes Chow rare they have deal of research on Peter Maurin, and ~ouc rti!b'M>RKER · have been this winter) which began has written some articles for the paper. falling this morning, causing Dorothy When he stays with us here at the Published Monthly (Bl-monthly March-April, Ju17·Aucast. Day to alter her plans to drive over fami., he gets up very early in the October-November) · to visit her sister, have turned into a morning and gives the dining room a ORGAN OF THE CATHOLIC :WORKER MOVEMENT cold drizzle. Yet from time to time a thorough cleaning. He ls also one of PETER MAURIN, Foander few birds visit my window feeder, call­ the leaders and best elucldators in our \ Editor ud Publisher ing out now and then what sounds like discussion groups. MARTIN J. CORBIN, Managing Editor an expletive against such weather, a Tomorrow Ed ls beginning a teaching Ahociate Editors: sentiment which I share. Job at Blue ·Heaven Farms, which ls a J At' ADAMS, CHARLES BUTTERWORTH, JACK COOK, 0 RITA CORBIN (Art), Mike Kreyche; who has Just returned rather unique kind of rehabilitation FRANK DONOVAN ,. EILEEN EGAN, EDGAR FORAND, ROBERT GILLIAM from visiting his family in Arizona and center for young people recovering w r l.I AM HORVATH, MARJORIE c. HUGHES, HELENE ISWOLSKY: from traveling about in , re­ from hard-core drug addiction. The KATHL EEN DE SUTTER JORDAN, PAT JORDAN, WALTER KERELL, ARTHUR marked last night that it was difficult program includes arts and crafts, in­ J . LACEY, KARL MEYER, CHRIS MONTESANO, DEANE MOWRER, PAT to get used' to the dreariness of our dustrial skills, ·basic learning skills, RUSK, KATHY SCHMIDT, ARTHUR SHEEHAN, STANLEY VISHNEWSKI, weather after the clear, dry sunny days counselling and other so many ing me Professor William Miller's book library proved to be a huge warehouse. . work. of the poor, that they have over and A Harsh and Dreadful Love: Dorothy We first entered a large ro(_)Dl in which -Oft to Sea over again been defrauded of their Day and the Catholic Worker Move­ several persons were boxtng books to So Hans came in one ea:dy morning rights-one of the seven deacrly sins ment, and I have been record1ng it on go out. Then we met two young librar­ to cut the bread for the line, a hard of our time. my cassette as he reads. This book was ians who were cor~al and helpful. job since it needed a strong arm. But Hans llved as waterfront people l\ved, reviewed by Stanley Vlshnewskl in the When I expressed an interest in Brame he could not endure the city. Another all hl8 days, until he came to us. Per­ January issue of The Catholic Worker. books, we were taken to that section where Mr. Stamls, who ls in charge of volunteer took his place, and Hans be­ haps it was a year or so after he came It ls certainly written in a lively and came cook at Maryf arm, Easton, Pa. that he said to me with his usual wry interesting manner, and contains much Braille books, did everything he could That farm overlooked two rivers, and humor, ''When I first came here I information about the Catholic Worker, to find the kind of books I wanted. it had the Joy and glamor of all be­ thought I was in heaven, sitting down as well as some mistakes. But then, He found two volumes of poetry-one, ginnings. to table with priests and college fel­ whoever wrote a book without making selections from Robert Frost, and the Fr. Paciftque Roy, a Josephlte was lows, and all these beautiful young some errors? After I have heard the other, selections from GeTard Manley living with us then, and other priests girls." (He had quite a leer, an inoffen­ whole of the book, I shall evaluate it Hopkins. He promised to send me Allee came and gave retreats. But Fr. Roy sive one, when he spoke of the girls.) it more fully. in Wonderland-which I have been and HaM and John Filliger, the farmer, "But I sure found out it was like every Ed ls one of those who spent some re-reading ever since I was a child­ together with three girls from the Gtall place else. They were like everyone time in prison as a result of his dis­ soon; and kept his word. It is difficult -who had 'come to help us for a few else." An enigmatic remark, a sad re­ agreement with our military authori­ to learn to use Braille when one loses· months-did all the work. No one could mark in a way, but it also meant he ties. He is an Associate Editor of the one's vision as an older adult. But with the help of the Perkins Brailler- keep up with them. felt perfectly at home with ~that he Catholic Worker, has helped in many in en when one Carl Batey, told me that they'd asked the U.S. Dep&rtment of Agriculture that Hidden away in the "Futur·! Goals" group of · working men and women the artist to show the treed mooey­ family-sized farm representation be in­ who've never organized before begin to section is a loaded bomb. On£ of the man with a bullwhip sticking out of his cluded in writing future farm pro­ threats the cotton farmer (especially get together as did the southern pulp back pocket. But the artist didn't have grams. This necessity ls one of the wood workers in 1971. When southern the mall one) i faced with every time room to do it, he said. At any rate, the hardest things for a bureaucratic ahd he gets biggety with a broker or textile cotton farmers, small landholders all, cartoon is perfectly readable and tells mechanization-oriented Department of begin to gather together and talk about mlll operator is, "Well, if you -won't their story to all who will draw near Agriculture to absorb. take the price we offe.r, we'll go all syn­ cotton prices, and over-planting, and enough to look. The farmers point out that farm day the crushing competition from the big And if that isn't enough, they have laborers do not enjoy unemployment thetic." But down in Sectioll D, and operators, it's still not populism. But numbered 3 is a simple statement, the a mimeographed sheet with their im­ compensation. The act de>e6 not cover bomb. "Help alleviate fuel crisis by the coming of the small cotton farmer mediate and future goals set out fu them. They want this to be corrected. into the growing number of workers using natural fiber instead of syn­ beautifully clear outllne. It is called Both federal and state unemployment thetics." organlzlng to get a hearing from the the Farmers Plan for cotton and ls compensation laws force employers of consumer and the government does say really a manifesto. They call for or­ one or more employees to pay a tax With Cesar Chavez and. his United something to those who watch the ganization -and education for organlza- for their coverage, or close down. These Farm Workers Organization spreading, southern scene, hoping for rejuvenation with the boycott of Farah slacks, with of human values stlfted these long dec­ the quietly growing pulpwood workers ades by racial hatred and domination. organizations, the small cotton farmer The cotton farmers are organizing. is moving into position. There will There's a group just across the river eventually be a coalition - a coalea­ from Natchez, Mississippi in Franklin cence, a natural alliance. ThaL alliance · Parish, Louisiana with a platform of will also include the small wheat and action they're promoting far and wide. - grain farmers after the latest govern­ They've been to Governor Edwards of ment robbery they suffered. And coming Louisiana and now to Mayor Charles to meet this coalition are the environ­ Evers of Fayette, Mississippi. mentalists and the geologistc- who are aware that the natural resources for They want Evers to help them get fuel are nearing depletion throughout their story to the Department of Agri­ the world. culture. They want a voice in planning Not least of this last triumvirate ls the 1974 farm programs and that must that growing group of people, environ­ be done before March of 1973. The story mentalists 11oung and olclA who are of the small farm operators is the same shedding the trappings of artlftciallty. as it has been for the past forty years­ The health-food faddists, the consci­ the rich gobble up the land and make ousness-three people who are not inter­ big operations, and the small family­ ested in the latest fads and materials slze farms are obliterated. in clothing, but who .want natural fibers Threatea Embargo Rlt• Corltln in their clothing. The natural alliance The Franklin Parish farmers brought will be augmented by all of these last. to Fayette a stack of materials they are tion for all small farmers; they call for small farmers are. concerned about No - one swallow does not make a using to put their story across to those "Goug(ing) and prod(dlng) the con­ workers even more defenseless than summer-but something really ls going they want to help them. The big car­ sciences of m1ll merchants and cotton­ they, the farm day laborers. - on. U Mayor Evers is successful, as he toon they hired a commercial artist to seed mills to come into market now They want to guarantee eoat of pro­ was once with the pulpwod workera, 1n draw up ls based on the theme of a with ethical prices." Their ultimate duction to all producers, and guarantee focussing attention on the needs of the possum up a tree. And the big-money weapon, if arousing consciences falls, a ll\1ng for family-sized farmers. They small family farmer, then the south operator ls the possum up the tree. At ls to impose a total embargo on all cot- want to make sure the big farmer does can rise again. Peace Chronicle Thoreau· and Civil Disobedience By EILEEN EGAN By JAMES D. VICKERY The last issue of the Catholic Work­ church of Christ to love and help all More than one hundred years have organization that has usurped tta er carried a set of letters entitled "Non­ men. All nctiins are our brothers, and elapsed since Henry David Thoreau power from the people and placed it Violence in Vietnam: An Exchange." As what anyone sufters, the Church suf­ wrote his essay 0n "Clvll Disobedi­ 1n its own hands. To do this ls to a party to that exchange, I pointed out fers with him." recognize the palpable reality of kin, that the new "Gospel of Liberation" as The message of Jesue ls not selective ence." In this essay Thoreau hoped to cousin, and neighbor no matter how enuncia·ted by many "means that one · love, but love for all, and the Christian effect change by appealing "to a hu­ distant. In short, we live our allegiance must identify not only with the op­ must resist all wars, must oppose the man force and not a brute force." to the reiit nation, the real state: pal­ pressed but with their violence." The kfillng or injuring of any human crea­ Thoreau knew well the slgnlftcance of pable, tactile, and human. The other, last four wordS were dropped from the . ture. true ethics and the value of .a man the "machine," ls the inventor of imag­ .copy inadvertently. What Gandhian Mass of Atonement-Vietnam who has "a bone in his back which inary boundaries, the constructor of Christians (followers of w:ho On January 20, 1973 a Mass of Atone­ you can not paiSS your hand through." prisons, and the wage~ of war. find Satyagraha a practical embodi..: ment was held at the Church of St. Every act, he implied, has a personal The True Patriot ment of His teachings) are trying to Paul the Apostle under the sponsor­ effect, a social effect, and hence, a say ls that men on both sides of a vio­ ship of Pax Christi, the Catholic universal effect. Like the oriental Law The government ls a "machine," a lent confiict are victims because they Worker, and a group of .lay people of Karma, every act reaps its like re­ human contrivance, out of control are dragooned into killing other hu­ headed by Mrs. Sally Cunneen. The ward; good producing good and evil (like Steppenwolf's "monster '~), not man creatures. Those who are fighting Rev. Lyle Young led the concelebrated producing evil. Sinfulness, ln a sense, governed by real men in good con­ on what we call the "unjust" side are Mass. Before the liturgy Alan Solom­ is social irresponsibility, an act done science, but by its own rules of order, doubly victims since they have been onow recited the Kaddish for the dead without honest reference to its effect. decrees, and dictates. The government conscripted for an evil cause. Those on and blew the shofar as a sign of atone­ And what should our social actions ef­ does not represent men, although it the "just" side may be fighting for a ment and cleansing from sin. The Rev. fect, despite their frequent triviality? wishes us to believe it does, but serves good cause but are utilizing inhuman John Sheerin delivered the homily. They should help, in a social sense, to itself to further its own ends and the means in the struggle. Let us not Vietnam's Future remove all obstacles which inhibit or pockets of those who uphold it. Con­ delude ourselves. Every side in every Rabbi Mark Tannenbaum made a prevent people from experlencliig the sequently, the true patriot is he who, war today finds that most of the tar­ far-reaching proposal on Sunday, Feb­ happiness of true freedom. to defend man's liberty, lets his/her life be "a counter friction to st.op the gets are noncombatants- children, ruary 4. Leaming that Pope Paul VI For Henry David Thoreau, the great­ women with children, the aged, and had asked for _prayers and a collection machine." That ls, the truly responsi­ est obstacle to man's true freedom ls ble person, committed to people and in general the less mobile members of for Vietnam in all of Italy's Catholic a product of his own creation: a gov­ the community. churches on that Sunday, Rabbi Tan­ not to a misguided machine, wm listen ernment created to govem, in -so far to the beckoning of his conscience Time was, when the splrltual lead­ nenbaum suggested that Americ1ans as it ls expeident, yet, given corruption ers, including the Catholic bishops, of urge their own faith communities to (often too dim}, and, acting not from arla the weak characters of most men, f-ear but co.urage, will declare his liber­ the various countries, made a deter­ hold a special collection for the re­ transformed into a "machine," enslav­ mination of the justness of ·the cause ty, and its concomitant love, by recog­ building of Vietnam. The Vietnan:i col­ ing those whom it was created to serve. nizing a higher law innate to man. in an armed struggle. Need it be point­ lection could be held at a special time And how does one remove the obstacle, Henry David Thoreau, in "Civil Dis­ ed out that national hierarchies in­ - a good time would be the Easter­ a "machine" that has transgressed its obedience," spoke of a freedom that variably announced that their own side Passover season. Readers should urge purpose? By refusi-ng lt one's allegi­ knows no bars and sees no walls. His was fighting the "just war"? At a church leaders to undertake such a ance, 1.e., by retaining one's conscience was a freedom that knew no boundar­ plenary session, however, the Bishops special collection for all of war-rav­ and character. Indeed, for Thoreau, ies, fought. no wars, and felt no restric­ of denounced such practices. aged Indochina. the greatest possible patriotism, or tions. "Certain bishops appear to take one The Welfare of All "highest virtue," is to "dissolve the side or another. This is not their role. Sarvodaya, meaning "the welfare of union between oneself and the union." By taking sides bishops arouse pas­ all," ls the title of an international That ls, we serve the real state, the "Jesus would not make atom.bombs. sions even further and dig divisions monthly digest published in English people, and further their happiness, Why should you pay for them?" 1et deeper. n is the mission of the (Continued on page 4) by preventing sell-enslavement to an Ammon Bennac1 T,JIE CATHOLIC WORKER February, 1973 Prisoners' Group Finds Hope

By TED GLICK and seventy-mile pilgrimage to New parole board. The result is an accom­ fear and in building a human, respon­ . York City intended to focus attention plished f.act: the release of Phil Ber­ sible alternative to this society. over the past several years interest and to make visible the involvement of rigan from prison on Dec. 20, 1972. At Prisoners Strike for Peace we real­ In prisons and involvement with p!'is­ prisoners, present and former, in the A former Danbury inmate and faster, ize that it ls not enough simply to be oners have increased throughout the anti-war struggle. They called -them­ I am currently working with Prisoners against the war. It is the system of bu­ country , as a result of the mounting selves Prisoners Strike for Peace (156- Strike for Peace. We work in a number reaucratic, corporate capitalism which number of those imprisoned for protest Fifth Ave., Room 439, N.Y., N.Y. 10010). of areas: searching out ex-prisoner and ls responsible for our involvement in activities, and ·because of the growing Soon after, -action work. was begun prisoner contacts, relating to and Indochina. We recognize that our strug­ vociferousness of prisoners to be treated around the case of Fr. Phil Berrigan, working with the Peoples' Coalition for gle ls but one part of a world-wide as human beings. At the same time an­ Peace and Justice, speaking before revolution of people determined to other phenomenon has developed: the various groups, and developing a sup­ create decent lives for themselves and emergence of anti-war protests from ply of resource materials for distribu­ bring justice to their society. Towards inside the prisons-both by those in tion. In the future we plan to do some that end we plan to actively search oul prison for war resistance, and by those intensive traveling to meet with peo­ and create connections with those in who have developed into resisters while ple, to talk from our experience a& re­ other ·countries who have been im­ there. As I write, a Fast for Peace ls sisters and as ex-prisoners, and to in­ prisoned for revolutionary activity, to taking place inside Lewisburg federal · crease communication and a sense of develop international ties with other .prison. An undetermined number of in­ network among those currently work­ radical movements. mates are taking only water there. It ing in local areas. began on Thanksgiving and is intended Dope Comes From The Bottom to continue until Christmas. I myself New Men And Women Hope and strength often come from was on a thirty-four-day liquid fast We believe that there is a great deal looking to the lowest levels and the last summer which began in Danbury, to learn about the society from the ex­ grass roots of a society and of our lives. Conn. and ended in Springfield, Mo. perience of prison. Prison is in no way Hope comes to me from the Black lib­ Our fast centered around both the op­ entirely different from the world out­ eration movement, the Chicano and erations of the federal parole board side. By its processes of heavy surveil­ Native American struggles, the wom­ and the treatment of political prisoners lance, restricted activity, milk-sop re­ en's movement. It comes also from on Con Son Island, South Vietnam. - forms and heavy overkill, it is a testing those at the absolute bottom of things This· summer eleven prisoners from who at that time had just been denied ground for a society waiting in store -prisoners. It comes from prisoners Danbury, of whom only three were a parole hearing by the federal parole for all of us if we do not become -who are transformed from criminals draft resisters, fasted for thirty days board. Included were a week of actions aware of the fact and respond ac­ into resisters while behind bars, from against the war. in Washington, D.C., the arrest of 15 cordingly. Prisoners Strike For Peace people before Nixon's Re-election Head­ At the same time, prisons can be In re.sponse to that fast, several ex­ quarters, and the organlzlng of a mas­ places of political and human growth. Danbury inmates organized a fast, vigil sive letter-writing campaign to the Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans are rediscovering a history and an identity stolen from them. And some prisoners are being transformed from "criminals" into New Village for Handicappe'd Women and New Men. - Community Can Overcome Fear By PATRICK MURRAY We learned in prison of the necessity Inntsfree Village ls an lnterdepen­ special way. There ls no separation into of community. We learned that the d'ent working community with mentally patient-stat! relationships. The handl­ greatest impediment to human prog­ retarded adults-an attempt to absorb capped Villager ls guided by his own ress and the cause of justice is not these handicapped into a community of intuitions, a growing sense of self­ priscn, death or tyrannical government, non-handicapped men, women and awareness and an und'er.standlng of but fear. We learned that it ls only children. We are seeking here to pre­ the needs of others. Each Vlllager when fear ls overcome that true free­ sent a creative alternative to the grave comes to recognize his own worth, sen­ dom in responsible action and life-style the continuing acts of protest from be- . problem of car.Ing for, educating and sing that he has rights within the ls possible. hind the walls, and from the strong working with mentally retarded ·adults. community, as well as daily, supervised There is no question In our minds and clear writings of prisoners such as The vlllage itself occuples four hun­ duties. This ls a place where a person that it is the sense of community, still George Jackson, Philip Berrigan and dred' acres of sweeping farmland ad­ can say, "I'm retarded; this ls my life; present now that we are out of prison, Malcolm X, writings which are deep, jacent to the Shenandoah National this is where I can function. I live ln which is the key to the development of inward, rich in meaning and power. Forest in central Virginia. Our large a community where I need not be told a meaningful and powerful movement. This depth arises because these men houses are shared equally in family that I am a member-I know I am a To share one another's lives, -to learn have lived with a form of death and units by houseparents, their own chil­ member." to love and trust honestly and truth­ overcame it. They have realized the dren and the handicapped Villagers. Why do individuals and families fully, to act and work and risk together truth, and it has set them free to share We all take our meals together in a without mental handicaps come to live -all of these are crucial in overcoming it with others. family atmosphere and share in the re­ at Innisfree? A desire to be useful, to sponslblllty for household maintenance. help the men.tally handicapped must be -At present we are thirty-two people, a bond and' a reason common to all, eleven Villagers, two natural families but there ls more. - Peace Chronicle wi·th six children, and five single co­ There is a desire to find and build workers, living in two households. A an alternative to the life that they had

Han~nu!'!..'!.. '!:esen ·1 36 ·East First was dealing with reality. "Ml is not we sang the hymns. Coming up the By ELLEN MOORE gold that glitters." "Handsome is as stairs from the basement kitchen he'd .As I walked down Chrystie Street sense of humor makes everything more handsome d'oes." (My own mother say, ''Shall we complain?" The word Park this morning, I suddenly realized fun. Bob Murphy c~me to us from St. humorously was fond of _these aphor- Compllne was a mystery to his Lu- that spring is very close at hand. The Francis House in Montreal, and' dinners isms.) theran training. . temperature hovered at a comfortable, have not been the same since. Susie, --- Carpenter and Baker Fr. Shritz, an 80-year old. retired almost warm level, and the brisk winds the "pint-sized volunteer," arrived in Hans loved to wor1c. He had a com- priest from Minnesota, stayed with us seemed gentler. Further downtown, on laj;e November, and is a very stabilizing panion in Fr. Pacifique Roy, a· French a few years at Maryl.arm, Newburgh. Grah,d Street, I noticed some elderly influence in the third floor dormitoryA Canadian, who piped our water down Afiter "complaining," Hans and Fr. people taking advantage of the early Anne Marie has given up teaching for to house and barn from a hillside Shritz used to sit crown to a game of i sunshine. Propped up in their folding cooking, but her "school teacher ait­ spring, and' who installed e1ectricity pinochle while they smoked big black chairs, they were talking and drowsing titude" has calmed many a tempestu­ cemented over the barn floor and th~ cigars! · Whether it was during or after in small groups on the sidewalk. ous situation. Richard is back, and now cow stalls to make a great hall which the game that they discussed Luther­ The winter is a hard time for the it's hard to understand how we ever got was dining room, living room and anism and Catholicism, I don't know. poor, and none of us will be sad to along wllthout him. Tim can really kitchen. Hans' kitchen coal stove, large But they studied Catechism and Hans ·see it go. Many members of our family handle a bowl of soup like a pro. Pat as it was, was not adequate to heat it, remembered his, and accepted the mys­ were afflicted with the flu which was Murray comes on weekends, when he so Fr. Roy built a great fireplace witb teries the Catholic Church presented a plague t~roughout the country. Bob can slip away from medicai school at chimney extending up thru the lib- to him, and was formally "received" Baez, John-Michael, Anna, Mary, Jane 1 StOny Brook. Bob d'rives in from· New rary-sitting room and then thru the into the Church. From then on, a Julia, Michael Kirwan, Bob Murphy Jersey at all hours, and is truly the roof. Two loft dormitories were on one picture of the Virgin and a rosary hung Mike DeGregory, Jan, Ed Forand' master of the "odd job." side-on the other side, the chapel. over the bed. I have his rosary around Susie, Angie and her husband Ray: Hans cooked and baked and helped my neck now. (There .is no pocket in Mainstays Catherine, Pat, Tim, Polish Mike, With all the sickness and travel, Fr. Roy with carpentry. There was an my dress.) His crucifix, a black iron Frank Donovan, Arthur Lacey, Jean­ abundant supply of food including fish Christ on a plain wood cross, and a there's no, way we could have managed Pierre, Bill and Ellen Heine all were without our strongest memlbers. John - and chicken which the priest knew worshipping angel, a foot high (which sick. Dorothy was still convalescent how to wrangle from the chain stores :Probably came from some church McMullen cooked soup iri a veritable after a particularly severe bout with maraithon while Ed was sick, and kept . on Saturday nights (food that would Christmas creche) on top of 'his ward­ "the bug" when she came down for spoll, if kept, but '!Ve had a big popu- robe completed the decoration of his the soup-line running smoothly. Rich­ lation to eat it). little ship-shlipe room. Not a super- her pre-Christmas visit. Hiram escaped ard answered the door with) his usual the epidemic, but spent several weeks enthusiasm, and kept the evening meal Hans taught us all to bake from that fluous thing in it, only a change of in the hospital undergoing treatment day to. this, though now the new vogue clothes, and a good,1 unworn suit put as calm as possible. Esther, Charles, among some of the young means that away for his burial. Nearly eighty, he and surgery for frostbite on his feet. Bob Baez, John-Miohael, Wong, Gus, But all are well on the road to re­ Sendra, Harold Henry, and Frank those emulating the Way of ithe PU- was ready to die. covery now. grim with his sack of bread and Bible He did not want to go to the hospi­ Camella with John Geis made sure that bake bread made of wholewheat, rye: tal. He had been only to emergency Holidays the paper got out in time. Indian Jim soybean flour, cornmeal, molasses and wards in the thirty years ·with us. The winter is also a time of great fixed two radios so that we could have who knows what other nourishment all Once he broke his wrist in a fall. Once joy, especially at Christmas. Harold music while we worked. Mr. Anderson combined which has to be cut with a he was bitten in the calf of the. leg by Henry Gay outdid himself in devising kept the fourth floor in fine order. Sal saw.