The Record Newspaper 14 March 1940

"What on earth is the matter with this shaving-brush?" stormed the husband Its as hard as iron and wont bend at all It was as right as ninepence yesterday morning" It certainly was all right yesterday dear," replied his wife "When I touched up the paint in the bathroom it was in splendid condition"

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An old lady on her way home in the blackout bumped into an old man, and both fell to the ground

The old man couldn't apologise enough. "Never mind all that,'' said the old lady But will you please tell me which way I was facing before I was knocked down?"

* * * * recruit reported sick and complained to the medical officer that he couldn't eat

The MO, first inspected his teeth and tongue, then his throat and tonsils Finding nothing wrong he prodded the lad in the stomach and back and asked him if he had any pain at all ' No sir" said the recruit "Well, I can't find anything wrong' replied the MO "How do yo tee! v·iurself?"

"Quite OK sir"

Well, why on earth can't you eat?'

"Ive lost ay knife and fork"

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"On the right form platoon," roared the sergeant The recruits carried out some kind of manoeuvre which left the sergeant speechless He looked at them for a moment, Then his voice returned and no words can describe the tone of it:-

AII right-now take your partners for the Lancers"

k # For five or six days he had been digging in the garden for an air raid shelter What with the rain and the clay he was not in the best of tempers Suddenly an old friend looked over the wall, and said, "Hallo! Digging for vour shelter?"

'No" was the reply "as a matter of fact I bought a swing for the kids, and the ropes are too long

# k Some months after the 1918 Armistice, when Germany was full of men wearing the Iron Cross a woman reported to the police in Berlin that a man had snatched her handbag

'Did you get a good look at the thief" asked the Inspector

"NoI didn't see his face very clear 1 " "Well then did he wear the Iron Cross?"

"No" "No? You're certain?"

"Positive"

'Oh then we'll trace him easily enough"

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Two young students couldn't quite decide how to spend their evening Conscience told them they should stay at home and work; inclination disagreed "I know" said one. 'Let's toss for it Here's a penny If it comes down heads. we'll go to the club; if it's tails we'll go to the pictures", "Oh, no!" exclaimed the other "Lets be fair If it stands on its edge we'll stav at home and work.''

k k An officious and unpopular ARP official was putting the stretcher-bearer party through ts paces. He lay on the ground and said, Now, remember, I'm completely smashed up Every bone in my body is broken Now let's see how vou pick me up

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The stretcher-bearers piked him up efficiently, laid him on the stretcher, and asked, Well, was that satisfactory?'

Yes, it wes all right,'snapped the officious one, only you didn't have the look of regret n your eyes I expected!'

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For Heaven's sake,'' wrote Tommy to his wife, don t send any more of those nagging letters while I'm at the front I want to fight this bloomin war in peace''

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The cinema usherette was in the dentist's chair

Now, miss,' asked the dentist, "which tooth is giving on all the trouble?"

Second from the eft in the bal-, cony,' she replied k k k

The not-very-successful heavyweight boxer walked into the artist's studio

I say" he said Id like you to paint a full-length picture of me on canvas

"Certainly," said the artist When is your next fight?"

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Whats the meaning of this Jim Higgins one skylight left absolutely open glaring in the black-out?"

"Ah, don't be so 'asty, zur Them bombers II drop 'un on the cottage thinkin' Oi'm inside, but ere Oi be sittin' on me gate all the time, smokin' me pipe at the bottom of the garden"

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An ARP man knocked at the door to complain about a light

Where's the light?" asked the householder.

Shining through the crack at the bottom of the door" he was told

Well I'm blowed" said the offender Are they coming over on their hands and knees now?"

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Giles and his wife were in a large town for the first time in their lives

After a lot of trouble they had boarded a tram which went to the address their son who lived in the town had given them

Five minutes passed Then the tram came to a stop James-street!" called the conductor

One man got out A few minutes later the tram stopped again Catherine Terrace," announced the conductor

This time a woman stepped out Mrs Giles leaned towards her husband

"Isn't it time for us to leave?" she asked

Giles shook his head

Don't show your ignorance woman he whispered "We've got to wait here until that man calls our names

k # k k In the regimental band the trombone player, a new member, always finished first. Look here-" shouted the conductor you've been playing two bars in front of everybody else all the way through!"

' Well, I'm sorry," the man exclaimed "You see, I used to play in a street band, and the one who finished first went round with the hat"

k k k k Donovan came to London for Christmas and called on his friend Hanlon Hanlon had made money n London and welcomed the opportunity of showing off

The first night he took his friend to a fashionable restaurant, and told the waiter to bring a couple of cocktails Donovan looked puzzled, then decided it was time to intervene If it's all the same to ve, waiter," he said, "I'd rather be havin' a wing.''

k k k k The vicar and his curate had quarrelled, and the curate was requested to resign

He therefore preached his farewell sermon and the parishioners came n crowds to hear him

Me text" he said "is taken from the moving story of Abraham: Tarry ve here with the ass, while I go yonder'"

k k * * " Riches'," said the teacher, as he was reading to his class, " take unto themselves wings and fly away' What kind of riches does the writer mean'

Blank looks met his gaze

"Surelv someone can answer a question like that Yon, Brown, what kind of riches did the writer mean;" Brown hesitated for a moment, and then plunged: "Ostriches, sir"

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I have a friend who, I think, is interested in religion, though he does not practise any

It is natural to man to be relipious and therefore even though he is left uninstructed and drifts into neglect of religious duties, he can never entirely ose his interest n the subject of religion

After all the only religious beings on the face of the earth are those endowed with reason Irrational animals are not religious And no man can ever fully reconcile himself to a life on the level of mere animals

He is an Anglican, but says that he does not believe in Churches

Ii he is an Anglican I presume that he professes to be a Christian If he professes to be a Christian, I presume that he professes to believe in Christ Now f there is one thing clear about Christ it is that He carefully established a Church "I will build my Church," He said, "and if a man will not hear the Church, let him be as the heathen" In the light of those words how can your friend profess belief in Christ yet deny the necessity of belief in a Church? Of course he but exemplifies once more the iruit of Protestantism Protestantism dragged multitudes from the Catholic Church and now cannot tself retain their allegi2 ance The Anglican Dr Goudge Regious Professor at Oxford Urversity, remarked recently that Anglicans are hopelessly individualistic without any corporate religious sense They have no clear conception of the Church "Protestants," he adds "took the doctrine of the Church seriouslv n the I6th century but they do } not take it seriouslv now Yet the doctrine of the Church, next to the doctrine of God and His redemption, is the most important doctrine of revealed religion both in the Old and in the New Testament" It s but one more sign of the general driftage from Christianitv outside the Catholic Church, despite the retention of the title "Christian"

I Religious-Without the Church! He says that he can be religious without any Church's help Maybe But he can't be religious mn the way God wants him to be religious And, since religion s concerned with the duties of worship we owe to God, it is for God to dictate the terms and conditons, not for us Your friend's attitude is due to lack of knowedge and thought He s contenting himself with no more than a vague religious sentiment But religion demands a devotedness of the whole man to God, a devotedness of mind and heart and will That means we must believe what God has taught, love Him above all else, and serve Him both by worship and obedience to His law But for this a man must study and know just what God has revealed, and not be content with a merely vague religious outlook And as he is not only individual but also social by his very nature, man must render both private and public worship to God God sent His only-begotten 'on, Jesus Christ, to redeem mankind That Son established His Church to teach all ations and to gather into itself all whom it leads to belief in Christ. And a man who savs he s religious, but practises no religion, and refuses to have anvthing to do with the Church

Christ established simply does not know the Christian religion., and is talking mere words You should advise vour friend strongly to study thie Catholic religion and the claims oi the Catholic Church, which has never allowed her members to drift into such a distressing state of confusion and indifferences as that manifested by him To wish to believe in Christ without believing in the Catholic Church is to assert a thing and denv it in one and the same breath Tell vour friend to write to me and ask for books on the Catholic religion I will send them free of charge; and whatever he makes of them, the additional knowledge they will give him will be of great value to him '

Papal Definitions

Listener, Cowra: How aany times did the last Pope make infallible decisions during his reign?

I am wondering whether vou 2 mean infallible "decisons,"' or nfallible "definitions." There is a difference between a decision and a definition For example, the ast Pope gave no infallible definitions such as the positive definition of the Immaculate Conception given by Pope Pius IX. In 1854 But he certainlv made many infallible judgments or dec1sons; as, for example, his condemnation of atheistic socialism or communism as intrinsically irreconcilable with Christianitv, and also his condemnation of contraceptive birth control as immoral and opposed to the law of God His decisions were nfallible also as often as he hnallv de creed the approval of the Constitutions of various Religious Or-

ders, and also in each solemn canonisation of the various Saints whose causes were finalised during his pontificate What is the most any Pope has made?

I am afraid I have not the time which would be required to go through all the decrees issued by some 260 Popes, sorting out the infallible decisions from those of mere administration and discipline, and compiling the statistics which would enable me to sav which Pope heads the list Te definitions of the Popes are not classified according to the Popes who made them, but according to the doctrines with which they are concerned If vou have some doctrine in mind and wish to know whether it s a defined article of the Catholic Faith, I will be only too pleased to supply the information

BY REV. DR. RUMBLE.

Morality of Love Making

0 S, North Sydney:

When answering some questions about free love, you said :hat "the only love-making which is morally justified is that of lawful courtship with possible marriage in view" You added that this beginning of court· ship "is justified only provided the man and the girl are free to marry, and have at least a remote mtention of possible marriage'

Correct The instinct of love between male and female is implanted by God primarily for the production of children The mutual attraction of the sexes towards one another, and ts expression by ove-making kissing, and embracing, gravitate of their verv nature towards that complete bodily union which terminates in the child There is no love between persons of opposite sex which does not spontaneously and consistently aim at this design of nature, however ignorant of the fact young people may be Any couple indulging in flirting love-making kissing petting, and cuddling is already nviting the prospective child, however remotely And since parenthood s unlawful outside marriage indulgence in free love for its wn sake outside marriage and apart from all intentions of marriage, is unlawful and sinful Whoever is not in a position to meet nature's purposes in lawful wedlock is not morally free to indulge in exchanges of ove primarily intended for the procreation of children and the conservation of the human race k #

"Young Boys and Girls"

Thev seem to think that as soon as they experience the love-urge towards the opposite sex, as soon as those first dawning inclinations come to them, it must be right to ndulge them merely because experienced So they yield to their impulses and caresses which are merelv the indulgence of blind sex instinct

The end is onlv too often both moral and social disaster Such boys and girls have never been taught that blind inclinations and passions must be controlled in accordance with reason and conscience, or, if thev have been told that, thev have not been retained n self-control even in other departments of life I need scarcely sav that if bovs and girls ndulge in passionate love-mak ing with their parents' consent, then such parents are either crim inals or lunatics If without their parents' knowledge, then the parents have never been true parents to those children at all

They have neither exercised proper supervision, nor have they nstilled into their children the right principles of obedience and confidence k ik "Why Don't Priests Stop It?"

Ostensibly these boys and girls are regular at their religious duties. but apparently priests do not stop a boy from having his "girl-friend"

You must remember that a priest can give advice only according to such facts as are submitted to him for the purpose It is quite possible that boys and girls indulging in love-making as a pastime drown their uneasiness of conscience, persuade themselves that it is not so wrong, and fail to mention the matter in confession. They have a false conscience on the subject to which many things contribute Finding the topic delicate, teachers at school avoid it, and give little instruction on the matter Parents at home are careless in the general upbringing of such children. And at the pictures the children sit with an obviously ap proving audience whilst the sweetness and delights of women in men's arms are graphically depicted It is not surprising that so manv children should deceive themselves nto thinking that it s not so wrong for them also to indulge their artificially stimulated instincts -

If this is the Catholic teaching, how can many young Catholic boys and girls of 15, 16 17 years of age engage in boy and girl friendships with passionate, love-making of the cinema or magazine type, with or without their parents' knowledge? · Such passionate love-making in mere boys and girls, who cannot be seriouslv thinking of mar- � ;--,, rage, s in itself gravely sinful conduct. Such young people are neither able to appreciate nor to fulfil the heavy responsibilities of fatherhood or motherhood If any such young boys and girls do indulge in such love-making. � 1t 1s either because thev lack instruction, or ecause thev lack any real character-formation mama mums=w2 For Exquisite Mildness and Tenderness i i and Fine Flavour Always m

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Theory and Practice.

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It seems to be one thing in theory, but another in practice"

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be mortal sin because of the unjust alienation of affection from a lawful husband or wife The state of those consecrated to a single life by vow also excludes all such infidelities

Ardent and prolonged embracing between detached persons of the opposite sex who have no intention of marriage is ranked as mortal sin by Catholic theology almost invariablv

But, whilst a priest applies these principles in practice and advises people accordingly, he has no means of making everybody live up to them any more than her can ensure the observance of any of the Commandments by merely stating them But I do admit that adolescent boys and girls should have these principles put more clearly before them than is commonly done; and that parents should exercise much more control and take much more interest in their sons and daughters during the earlier years of their development than must parents do

Is Communism Dead?

Reality, Sydney: RecentlyI readthatthe present Pope, Pius XII., has reiterated the convictions of his predecessor, that Communism is the greatestmenacetotheworldtoday

Correct

Don't you think, to put it crudely perhaps, that this is rather like flogging a dead horse in these days?

Not in the east The present situation may have meant a temporary set-back as regards external activities n democratic countries But the ideology of Communism is not affected by that Communist propaganda, and underground activities throughout the world continues At present, in the United States of America a Parliamentarv Committee is investigating un-American activities, and has already revealed that over ten million dollars have passed through 43 different bank accounts for the American Communist Party during the last 4 or 5 vears Ben Gitlow the General Secretarv, has admitted to the Committee of Investigations that the American Communist Partv has been receiving 150,000 dollars a vear from the Communist International at Moscow and that every cent of the million dollars collected by the Friends of Soviet Russia for Russian famine relief came back to the American Communist Partv in USA., after being sent toFrance in order to pretend that it had gone to Russia He admitted that the Communists in America were spending two million dollars a year on their propaganda and campaigns

An organisation like that s not extinguished by a few political set-backs k k k k Worst Enemy of Catholics

Don't you think that Communism could well be left alone, whilst efforts are made to remedy the social evils which lead to so much irreligion?

If a man is attacked bv several diseases, attention must be paid to all of them No one denies that social evils must be remedied But the Communist cancer must he fought And this is a religious ssue as well as a social issue, for Communism is essentially antiGod and anti-religious Commenting on the American Committee's investigations the "New York Herald-Tribune" of September 15 last said. "It seems high time that an attitude of sentimental

tolerance, as towards an infant should give way to a realisation that we are dealing here with a mature and powerful body which should be held to strict account for its activities and intentions or be kicked into the sea There is othing in the doctrine oi democracy that compels it to nurse a full-grown viper mn its bosom" These activities in America are but symptoms of world-wide activity And as they were underground and hidden in America until the Parliamentary Commission's revelationscameas a shock, so they are going on in Australia as elsewhere n the world Pope Pius XII knows that quite well, and he knows the menace it 1s to religion and to the civil order and general welfare of all countries nthe world And whatever others may think of the wisdom oi his remarks Catholics at least know that their worst enemv to-dav s Communism And they are not so foolish as to be lulled into anv false sense of securitv Communism in Australia may be but a seedling at present But it counts on a future And it must not be allowed to come to even such maturitv here as it has attained in the United States No one can have both Communism and Christianity; and those who have any lingering belief n Christianity at all must in conscience reject anv affiliation with Communist principles and activities

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From Luther to Hitler

MR. C8:Ai\IBERLAI� and other I Napoleon Went to St Helena British statesmen may be The Kaiser Went to Doorn N quite sincere whenthey de; pxy, vow elare their intention to_ fight until 'e Have Hitler What AssurHitler is unseated by revolution, or de- ance Have We That When This stroyed; but when theysay or imply Tyrant Is Disposed Of Some that his elimination will remove the Other Evil Force Will Not Ari cause of all the present affliction of 1se Europe I wonder if they can be so and Make It Necessary For the stupid as to think so I_hope_not Allies To Fight Another World

It is depressing to think that in War?

the event of an Allied victory, the fate of the world, perhaps, may be in the hands of men so blind

It is only a short generation since some of the identical cabinet officers (Mr Winston Churchill for one) were giving us to understand that as soon as the German people were freed from the Kaiser and what he stood for, all would be well with mankind on both sides of the Rhine Well, the Kaiser went to Doorn, as Napoleon went to Saint Helena; and here we have Hitler popping up to revive the same old problem, by inconsiderately challenging the British Empire Such a man, say the British propaganda agents, must ndeed be mad, as we were told Wiihelm was mad as Englishmen were convinced that "Boney" was mad Well perhaps he is What assurance have we, however, that when and if this man of blood retreats to Moscow (where his friends will know how to entertain him), some new and undreamed of bete noir will not arise out of the obscurity of the future to undo all the heroic work of the champions of democracy, humanity, and virtue itself, and make it necessary to fight a world war all over again?

This, of course, will surely happen, if certain tendencies continue unchecked For Hitler is not the radical cause of the world disease, but an effect and a symptom Bad as he is, he cannot be explained by Communism alone, or by a facile reference to the Versailles Treaty without acknowledging that those two trouble-breeders were in turn the effects of more basic causes that men must seek if they are to heal the stricken body of Europe

The rise of Hitler was decreed b the logic of causality on the day Luther defied the authority of the Catholic Church It is possible of course to go beyond Luther to other causes-to the laxity of clerical discipline in many places, to the Great Schism, to the Black Death, to the unwearying conspiraey of all the powers of evil n every age to weaken, corrupt or defame those who belong to Christ; but Luther was the turning point in the tragedy Before him all could have been mended, all restored. After him the nations went slipping one after another, down the dark and easy road

It was written in the nature of things that wherever the spirit of Lu ther prevailed over men of the Catholie tradition, the State, sooner or later, must reign supreme over the indivi dual For man is so made that he can hardly choose, in any important matter, without first being hoisted upon the horns of a dilemma There are only two kingdoms of the spirit If the Son of God came into the world to establish an orderly society of human beings (as of course He did) men must be governed by the laws of that society (His Church), or by the laws of that opposing agency whom He called the Prince of this World" "and in Me he hath not anything Where, then, does the authority of the Prince of this World appear? Most pretentiously in the godless State

Whenever the Church of Christ has been bitterly maligned and persecuted, it has been in the name of the State Nero threw Christians to the lions, not (admittedly) because they worshipped Christ, but because they refused to worship Caesar Henry VIII and Elizabeth had Catholic priests tortured and mangled, not for saying Mass (ostensiblyv) but for refusing to take an iniquitous oath that the State was the supreme religious authority

The Mexican martyrs were mowed down not as Catholicsoh, no!-but in the name of a wicked Constitution

The Russian martvrs were "liquidated" not as Christiens, but as enemies of the sacred Proletariat, whose selfappointed spokesman was the ruthless Communist State. Inevitably man is forced to choose between Christ and the anti-Christian State, this is increasinglv evident in the march of all modern history Now the unsanctifed State, as such, being an abstraction, has no conscience. Perhaps it would be more accurate to sav that it displays as much or as little conscience as the aggregete of the individuals who control it, How an it help reflecting their spiritual condition? If they have rejected the Church established bv Almighty God their conscience will be a corrupted one and all that proceeds from it will tend to militate against the Church

lWILLIAM T WALSH in The SIGN

For a while the dechristianised St te may tolerate the Church to a greater or lesser degree, but there comes a time when it finds the claims of the Church an obstacle to its own pretence to universal authority (a pretence which logically follows the rejection of divine authority) and the end is totalitarianism Finally in its last phase, totalitarianism demands not only' obedience but worship.

Luther could hardly have foreseen all this when he made his fatal decision; but such was the road on which he and all his followers placed their feet He was face to face at once with a three-horned dilemma: (1) the authority of Rome, which he rejected; (2) anarchy; and (3) an appeal to the authority of the State Luther soon discovered that his doctrines were producing anarchy, political, social and moral culminating in the Peasants' War; and from the horror that this confusion awoke in him, he turned in desperation to the State, for since pride kept himfrom making his peace with the Church, there was no other direction in which he could go Hence he basely flattered the German princes and barons; he paid homage to their pride, their greed, their sectionalism, their lust for power

Calvin likewise had recourse to the State when he forsook the Church He thought of it as a theocratic state, but it could never be truly such while divorced from the only supernatural authority granted to mankind; hence it inevitably degenerated into a form of totalitarianism

All this was done, notice, in the name of tolerance The intolerance of the Catholic Church (her intolerance of error, not pf men) was the bugaboo used to frighten the masses into the power of a state which in the end would be tolerant of all error, but intolerant of free men It is possible to trace this tendency in the evolution of political theorising in Western Europe The French political party of the sixteenth century, known as "Les Politiques," led chiefly by socalled "liberal'' but often lukewarm and misguided Catholics, appealed for tolerance of anti-Catholic ideas· and then, finding that the Church could grant no such tolerance, turned to the State Jean Bodin, their chief theorist, thus arrived at a conclusion, which in the words of Mr Joseph Jacob, regarded the State as the source of all law, and gave currency to the notion of a compact, omni~competent Sovereign, from whose dictates there could be no appeal Under Locke and Austih this was destined to become the foundation of Anglo-Saxon law; in itself it could be used to buttress the most complete absolutism, as by Hobbes and the French jurists; but by confining the commands of the sovereign to secular affairs as advocated by Spinoza, it could eave an opening for complete toleration Now Spinoza may have derived his idea of complete toleration from Bodin as Mr Jacobs points out; but the absolutism to which these liberals appealed was not likely to put up with 'complete toleration?' any longer than it was convenient to do so In the end the State as it took over absolute powers, would kick wv this ladder of "toleration" on which it had risen It would have to do so, for complete toleration' in the realm of ideas is only a svnonvm for anarchy and men instinctivelv flee from anarchy to some form of authority

All the Protestant societies talked great deal about toleration and deocracy, so long as they felt that their own deas were in danger of condemnation bv the Catholic Church; but as soon as the influence of the Church was felt to be sufficiently limited if not destroyed there set in a rapid evolution towards totalitarianism, with plutocracy as a half-way station. This began long before 1914· before Hitler was born

German thinkers have admitted that the direction of the modern German state toward absolutism had its origin in the teachings of Luther General Friedrich von Bernhardi in his remarkable forecasting of the first World War, "Germany and the Next War" (1911) made this very clear Listen to him; it might almost be Adolf Hitler speaking: "Machiavelli was the first to declare that the keynote of every policy was the advancement of power This term however, has acquired, since the German Reformation a meaning other than that of the shrewd Florentine To him power was desirable in itself· for us the State is not physical power as an end in itself, it is power to protect and promote the higher interests° power must justify itself by being applied for the greatest good of mankind"

Here Bernhardi is quoting Treotchke's 'Politik, the book which many have considered responsible for no small share of the militaristic ideas so prevalent in Germany before the first World War He goes on to quote the same writer to the effect that the criterion of the personal morality of the individual "rests in the last resort on the question whether he has recognised and developed his own nature to the highest attainable degree of perfection ; and Treitcshke then argues that f the same standard is applied to the State, then its highest moral duty is to increase its power The individual must sacrifice himself for the higher community of which he is a member; but the State is itself the highest conception in the wider community of man, and therefore the dutv of self annihilation does not enter into the case The Christian duty of, sacrifice for something higher does not exist for the State, for there is nothing higher than it in the world's history; conse quently it cannot sacrifice itself to something higher"

In all this sophistry there is implicit ofcourse, the fundamental false premise of a rejection o the authority of Christ's Church; the historian then rushes on more logically to fling himself into the embrace of Caesar impersonated by the Kaiser He even tries to sanctify this evil conclusion by draping it with a perverted idealivm, n I rrowed and spurious Christian terminology "Among all political sins" he says "the sin of feebleness is the most contemptible; t is the political sin against the Holy Ghost' Theitschke treats of the dutv of the State to make war under varous circumstances And in this connection he reverts again to Luther not merely to justify but to glorify the bloody business The statesman, he says, can "rise with a free spirit and calm breast

to that standpoint which Luther once described in blunt, bold language: 'It is very true that men write and say often what a curse war is But they ought to consider how much greater is that curse which is averted by war Briefly in the business of war men must not regard the massacres the burnings, the battles, the marches, etc that is what the petty and simple do who only look with the eyes pfi children at the surgeon, how he cuts off the hand or saws off the leg, but do not see or notice that he does it in order to save the whole body. Thus we must look at the business of war or the sword with the eyes of men asking; Why these murders and horrors? It will be shown that it is a business, divine in itself, and as needful and necessary to the world as eating or drinking or aar other work' " Thus Luther, in his 'Whether Sollers Can Be in a State of Salvation"

Inevitably Bernhardi is led to condone and encourage the interference of the State in education A compulsory continuation school is n absolute necessity of the age" It will be necessary to explain to the student "the relation of the State to the individual, and to explain, by reference toour national historv how the individual can prosper only by devotion to the State The duties of the individual to the State should be placed in the foreground"

Fine words! Here in the same kernel of rhetoric, lie the twin germs of Communism and Nazism

'In a State which is so wholly based on war as the German Empire" continues Bernhardi in similar vein (p 261) "the old manly principles of keepng all our forces on the stretch must never be abandoned out of deference to the effeminate philosophy of the day Fichte taught us that there is only one virtue-to forget the claims of one's personality; and only one viceto think of self Ultimately the State is the transmitter of all culture, and is therefore entitled to claim all the powers of the individual for itself"

In the light of all this it is evident that Adolf Hitler and his associates are not entitled to the palm of originality bestowed upon them in the popular press by virtue of the theory of totalitarianism they so loudly and persistently proclaim They have only taken up, refurbished and somewhat extended the philosophy of Kaiserism, which n itself was one of the monstrous brood bequeathed to the world by Lutheranism Hitler has not gone as far as Lenin and Stalin went, but that will come if his government endures; the logic of causality will see to it And if England and France' still lag behind in their assertion of the claims of the State over the individual, it is only be cause thev are advancing by slower steps, impeded perhaps by survivals of Catholic thinking which always militates against despotie powerHave they gone too far to turn back? We must hope, we must pray, that they have not.

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Founded nearly a score of years ago by the then Superior of the Scheut Society, the Very Rev Joseph Rutten, the central Hospital at Suiyuan, Inner Mongolia, has a fine record of service in this section of North China Some idea of what has been done during the past twelve months may be gleaned from an interesting report prepared by the Director of the Hospital, Father Charles Van Melckebeke CICM

A total of 998 in-patients were treated in the hospital proper, not ncluding 68 patients in the charity ward High spots in the report are 22 eye operations, 1,041 other cases of surgery, 864 Xray examinations, 3,018 electrical treatments, 3,363 laboratory tests and 27,663 cases treated gratis in the dispensary The mportance of the hospital to the misison personnel will be realised from the fact that 55 missionaries received medical attention within the year.

Attached to the hospital is a nursing school for women opened n 1924 The hospital provides living quarters forits entire staff, maintains a school for the children of employees, and also conducts an orphanage with some 50 children The management of the hospital is entrusted to the Belgian Sisters, Canonesses of St Augustine, working under the direction of Father Van Melckebeke The hospital has four

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PEKING CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY GROUP FEEDS 1,500 DESTITUTE EVERY DAY.

The relief kitchen established in connection with the Catholic University of Peking is supplying food this winter to an average of 1500 destitute persons every day An estimate of a probable cost of the winter's relief work totals over 10 000 Chinese dollars To help meet these expenses two charity entertainments were recently organised in the University auditorium, the amount raised totalling over 1,100 dollars

Owing to the present conditions, the social work carried on under the auspices of the University tends steadily to increase Hence a special com mittee operating in connection with the Department of Sociology has ben formed This committee, to be known as the Catholic University Social Service, will have complete control of the practical side of the work At the dispensary opened at the Universitv for the poor of the neighbourhood some 3 000 persons received medical attention between August and November last

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Though covering roughly one-fifth of all Yugoslavia, the Diocese Skoplje numbers only 30,000 Catholics Of these three-fifths are natives of the soil, mostly Albanians, and about one.quarter Slavs The other two-fifths, of immigrant stock, are for the most part Croatians hut also include some 4,000 Slovenes Catholics find employment largely as gendarmes customs officials and other government functionaries, private workers and miners It has been noted that, in contrast to their rather lax attitude often in their home districts, these scattered Catholic immigrants are proud of their Faith and ready to profess it publically in processions of the Blessed Sacrament, for instance How greatly they treasure their good fortune in belonging to the Catholic Church and enjoying its means of grace is shown by the fact that their contributions for the Propagation of the Faith are proportionatelv greater than those of anv Croatian Diocese with the sole exception of small Erk

The prospects for the scattered Catholics of the Balkans would be brighter where it not for their dire poverty and a dearth of priests to look after them

CHINESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN SINGAPORE GROWS RAPIDLY

Established a couple of years ago by Father Becheras, the Chinese Catholic school at Singapore now has 450 pupils and 17 teachers The buildings were constructed, from funds raised from the Catholic communitv, to accommodate 600 It is expected, however, that if the present rate of development continues an enlargement of the present building will be required during the next few years The Science Department possesses laboratory equipment sufficient for the requirements of lower middle school instruction

80 PRIESTS IN 15 YEARS FROM CHINA SEMINARY.

The Most Rev Henry A Pinger OP M., Vicar Apostolic of Chowtsun toward the end of December ordained six new priests from the Tsinanfu Regional Seminary Fonnded in 1925 this Seminary has already given 8( priests to the Church Of the six newly ordained two are Chinese Francisans three are Chinese secular priests from the Iduhsion Prefecture and one is a German Franciscan. Created in 1931 the Iduhsien Apos tolie Prefecture has already produced I7 priests The little village of Chemaotze, with a population of 500, as alone furnished seven priests six of them are still alive Next on the list comes the village of Yangkiakoantchmang, where dwell some [ami es with Christian traditions going back over four centuries Five priests have come from here

SIXTEEN CHINESE NUNS PO FESSED

So many have joined the Chinese Sisterhood of St Joseph at Chengchow that the Community has had to open a new Centre House for those working n the southern section of the Vicariate Recently sixteen novices made their profession in the presence of the Vicar Apostolic, the Most Rev Louis Galza, cf the Parma Foreign Mission Society They have since been assigned to work in various parishes

An instance showing how the missionaries have won the esteem and affection of the local population is furnished by the fact that, when warwounded were concentrated recentlv in this area, the civil and military authorities requested the Vicar Apostolic to look after them The Bishop promptly assigned some members of his staff for this work, providing also necessary medicine and equipment

HIGH PERCENTAGE OF CATHOLICS AT SHANGHAI CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

Father George Germain, SJ., Rector of Aurora University, baptised nine students on December 24 in the University chapel Four of them belonged to the Medical and Science Departments, and five are engaged in preparatory studies One of the young converts is a son of Mr Tchow Tsengtsong, who was the first doctor to qualiify for a degree at the University in 1917 ·

These baptisms bring the total of Catholic students at the University to 260, exclusive of those in the women's section and the annexed nurses Training School One-third of the students in the Medical end Science Departments are now Catholics The highest proportion in the Medical Department where out of a total of 152 students 62 are Catholics

Baptisms at the University during the past year total 25. At the present moment 120 catechumens are taking instructions with a view a baptism

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The Most Rev Norman Thoms Gilroy, DD., is the first Australian to succeed to the See pf Sydney He is the son of Mr and Mrs W Gilroy, of Trafalgarstreet, Brighton-Lu-sands, is a native f Sydney and is nly 44 years of age

He began his carer in 1909 as a clerk n the PostI Department in Sydney and at the outbreak of war he enlisted and was a wireless operator on a trans port vessel which later participated n the landing f the Anzaes at Gallipoli In 1916 he w:s ecalled by the Postal Department and took up duties at Lis more

After spending me time at the Lis more post office he entered the Springwood Ecclesiastical College to study for the priesthood at the invitation of the Bishop of Lismore (Dr Carroll)

Two vears later he entered the Propadanga Colleg: Rome where he continued his studies He was ordained at the Propaganda College by Cardinal Van Rossum on December 23 101· he also received a doctorat of divinity

On his return to Sydney, Dr Gilroy became secretary to the Apostolic Delegation, and he remained in that position until 1931. He then returned to the Dic ·e of Lismor as private secretary t Bishop arroll and Chancellor of t Lismor Archdiocese

On March 17 1935, he was eons rat ed Bishop of Port Augusta from which See he was cal d to bes mme CodjutorArchbishop f Sydney in su ·ession to Archbishop Sheehan

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His Excellency th Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) dispatched the following message to His Excellency the Apostolic Delegat 6Archbishop Paner-

Deepest sympathy in the passing of His Grace Archbishop Kelly His was a great life spent in devotion to the Ch»istimn faith, and he will be deeply mourned"

Archbishop Forty Years of Devoted

Service in Australia

With the passing of the Most Rev. Michael Kelly, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia loses a great prelate, one who served God and His Church faithfully and tirelessly throughout the long span of life which was given to him

The guiding rule of his life was simplicity itself, yet no rule could raise a man to a higher place in Heaven: "All my life I have tried to be a pious man, to love my God, to love my people and to love my country," he said, only a few weeks ago when he was the guest of his priests and people on the occasion of his 90th birthday

Simple as this rule s, it implies a life of self-effacing service of God and this it was that characterised the life of Archbishop Kelly He was fearless in proclaiming the truth and in attacking falsehood, and never shrank from advancing the claims of justice and morality n the face of public opposition

ARCHJJISHOl' Kelly celebrated his 90th birthday on February 13 He was

the oldest prelate in the world He came to Australia at the age oi 50 as Coadjutor to Cardinal Moran, then Archbishop of Sydnev He was consecrated in August, 1901, and after serving as Coadjutor for exactly 10 years, succeeded to the See on \ugust 16, 1911, becoming the fourth Archbishop of Sydney The first was Archbishop Polding (18321877), the second Archbishop Vaughan (1877-1883), and the third Cardinal Moran (1883-111

Remarkable changes have taken place in the Archdiocese of Sydney during Archbishop Kelly's pontificate and, al hough others have assisted, much of the progress is directly attrilutable to the careful guidance of the late prelate

When he succeeded to the Metropolitan See it contained 70 parochial districts with 100 churches The number of diocesan priests was 123 In 1917 12 of these parishes were transferred to Gulburn, to make up for the Riverina district taken from Goulburn to form the new diocese of Wagga Wagga

Nevertheless the number of parishes has increased to 122 with 204 churches and 277 diocesan priests The development goes much further however than is indicated bv mere figures Older churches have een replaced by new and larger buildings others have been added to. Increased accommodation was required for an increase of the Catholic population from 175,000 in 1911 to 304 187 at the close of 1939

CATHOLIC COLLEGES

Catholic education his kept pace with the numerical strength of the flock In 1911 there were two eclesiastical colleges for parochial priests and one to train students for religious congregations The religious Orders have now eight colleges in the Archdiocese Additions have been made to St Patrick's College, Manly, and the

beautiful college chapel dedicated to Cardinal Cerretti, has been erected A new wing was added to St Columba's College, Springwood The progress of religious Orders s indicated by the fact that the number of religious priests had increased from 76 in 1911 to 1 at the present time A college for University students was completed in 1926 Colleges and secondarv schools increased from 36 to 53.

Primary schools now number 184 as against the 140 which remained when the coastal parishes were transferred to Goulburn, The number of teachng Brothers has risen from 216 to 380, and the religious Sisters now number 2162, an increase of 724 since 19IL The pupils of Cathotc schools in the Archdiocese were 24836 in 1911 and now number 41,90 Trade schools have been established in populous suburbs The Catholic charities have grown orsiderably under the late prelate's pontificate. The c:eat hospitals doubled and trebled their accommodation nd further extensive additions are now in progress Orphanages have increased their accommodation and two ew foundling homes have been opened

ST MARY'S

The opening of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney was undoubted! the crowning work of Archbishop Kelly's administration. It synchronised with the International Eucharistic Congress in September 1928

Sixty years have e'aped since the fcandation stone was laid bv Archbishor Polding Thee first Archbishop Dent £44,000 on the building Archbishoo Vaughan raised £55GO during his episcopate, and was able to open the Cathedral up to the transepts The original foundations were made for the portion including the transepts, and the first bav of the six that would complete the nave Cardinal Moran completed that section at a cost of ±412000 and had it opened in 1900 Ten years later he laid the foundation stone of the final six bays having then £40.00 in hand He died the following vear and it was left to Archbishop Kelly to carrv on the work

He completed the Cathedral in 18 years at a cost of £210000 An amount cf £50,000 was still owing on the building at the time of his death, but this debt has been lifted from his shoulders by the people of all the parishes combined who took over the responsibility for the debt and guaranteed to pay it off within five years

LIFE

Archbishop Kelly was born in Waterford, Ireland, on February 13, 1850 He obtained his early training at St Peter's Wexford He was transferred to the Irish College, Rome in 1867. a year after Dr Moran, the future Cardinal, who had been Vice-Rector, left for Ireland

He was in Rome during the sessions of the Vatican Council and there he met Dr Moran, then secretarv to Cardinal Cullen an uncle of Dr Moran

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Two years after the capture of Rome by the King of Piedmont (1870) Michael Kelly completed his studies and returned to his native land

He was ordained at Enniscorthv and joined a small band of priests not bound by religious vows who had formed a House of Missions to help the parochial clergy and give missions throughout the country He continued in this field of labour for 19 years learning much about parish administration and missionarv work In 189 the aged Archbishop Kirby, Rector of the Irish College Rome applied for an assistant and recommended his former pupils, Father Michael Kell, to be Vice-Rector For three vears Dr Kelly acted in this capacity and in 1894, on the death of Dr Kirby he sueceeded to the charge of the historic college

He was in this post when Cardinal Moran applied for a Coadjutor and proposed the Rector of the Irish College for the position. Monsignor Kelly was consecrated Titular Archbishop of Acrida and Coadjutor\rchbishop of Sydney on July 20, 1901, and arrived in Sydney during the same vear He took up residence at St Benedict's and during the Cardinal's lifetime he became widelv known for fine conference lectures during Lent and Advent

The new Coadjutor-Archbishop was not a stranger to the Australian clergv and people Besides Australian students at the Irish College, hundreds of Australian visitorsto Rome had met him during his 10 years' residence there as Vice-Rector and Rector. He was also familiar with the affairs of the Church in this country, as he had been for years Procurator in Rome for the Australian Bishops Keeping aloof from politica! affairs of which he declared that he knew nothing Archbishop Kelly acquired the deepest respect from Australians of all types and beliefs R.IP

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Some 70 Catholics were among the 300 seamen who were herded in the holds of the Altmark, the Nazi Prison ship from which they were rescued in a Norwegian fiord by the British Navy. Several of them had rosaries but there was no opportunity for any form of religious service

Many of the Catholics were Liverpool Irishmen from Merseyside parishes

For two months Mr John Cyril Smith chief steward of the liner Tairoa, prayed to St. Anthony and the Little Flower for intercession on behalf of the men and himself captive aboard the Altmark, reports the Liverpool correspondent of the "Universe''

With the passage of time hope began to recede until on Friday I6th. ult. he realised that, unless a "miracle" occurred before midnight, by the Sunday they would be in a Nazi concentration camp or blown up with the ship

At 1145 p.m the miracle' happened, when the destroyer Cossack laid herself alongside the Altmark and rescued them

Mr Smith lived in St Francis of Sales' parish, Walton, until last year, when with his mother and sister he moved to Bootle n the neighbouring parish of St Monica's

After Cardinal Dougherty was elevated to the Sacred College in 1921, His Eminence returned to America from Rome with Mr Smith in the Olympic and presented him with a valuable gold and jade Rosary

With practically all his other possessions it was ost when the Tairoa went down on December 3.

While in Melbourne, the Tairoa's last port of call in Australia on her ill-fated homeward voyage, Mr Smith attended the St Patrick's Cathedral centenary celebrations and was introduced to the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Panico, and Archbishop Mannix.

He bought a prayer book and rosary at the cathedral for his nephew and niece Thev were about the onlv articles he was able to save from his cabin before it was destroyed by the Graf Spee's gunfire.

Mr Smith told me that no opportunity was given for any form of relgious service aboard the Graf Spee or the Altmark; in fet, religion was not mentioned ·

One day a sailor of the Graf Spee showed him a sml crucifix which h> hurriedly put away gan 'or fear that it might be seen by somebody else

After three days in the Graf Spee Mr Smith and the officers and crews \ of four other vessels were transferred to the Altmark

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"Actuallv on board the Altmark the food was not too bad but that was the only thing that was not," said Mr Smith

'Our accommodation was down holds intended for gun magazines Thev were divided into flats and n one of them were herded 5M other off cers with mvself

There we lived and slept, and the onlv time we were allowed out was fot exercise When we got into danger ous waters that was cut out altogether

"The captain of the Altmark was the worst tvpe of man I have ever known indeed I can find no words bad enough to describe his attitude towards us' On one occasion Mr Smith was caught smoking, and for punishment was confined in a special cell for t!re davs on bread and water

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Priest Who Spoke with Hitler Held e-

Breda Holland Before the last war, Father Rupert Mayer, SJ, of Munich, was preaching against Marxism During the war he was a chaplain, lost a leg, was cited for bravery nd recived the Iron Cross, First C ss When he returned he began preaching again. He and Hitler often spoke at the same meeting-one opposing Communism on religious grounds, the other attacking it politically.

To-day Father Mayer is a Nazi prisoner In 1937 he was arrested by the N :is, and again in 1938 He was forbid 1en to preach but the ban was lifted His re-arrest has been confirmed bv CP News Service The reason is not known

RATIONS FOR THE VATICAN. ! Rome Residents of the Vatican Citv are to be rationed in bread, sugar, coffee, butter tobacco, and petrol They must indent for their supplies which will be delivered at their homes Vatican authorities have also taken over control of the customs, hitherto in the hands of a private company, This is to prevent abuse The Vatican telephone system, too, is to be worked in future by one of the religious orders

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Rome Despite German protests the Vatican Radio continues to give reports of atrocities n Poland and of the persecution of the Church there and in Bohemia, Slovakia and Austria In its latest bulletin it has announced that the Germans have suppressed religious teaching in Silesian schools, thus violating article 21 of the Concordat between Germanv and the Vatican Polish Press Bureau

HOLLAND MAY APPOINT ENVOY TO THE VATICAN The Hague.

A proposal to send an ambassador from Holland to the Holv See has been discussed in Parliament here Deputy Van Lanschot pointed out that after the suppression of the Netherlands' embassv at the Vatican n 1926 the Holv See continued to nave an Inter-Nincio at The Hague, and that this action won the appreciation of Holland's Government Holland first sent an ambassador to the Holy See in 1914 The post was suppressed in 1926 due to the opposition of Calvinists

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Asks RATHER EUSTACE DUDLEY, SJ., in "The Catholic Times-"

WE all know the Good Pagan as a social being but not all appreciaie his mental outlook, so excellently portrayed for us in the work of Rosalind Murray

He is the bluff, tolerant, amoral hu manitarian the Christian gentleman,'' the be-a+good-sport«andGod-will-blessyou type We meet him everywherein the club, factory, at business, recreation, and even at the Christmas Midnight Mass He speaks of Hitler as an incarnation of the Prince of Darkness or as a cornered maniac," Mr Churchill's expression

The Good Pagan is a terrific patriot to-day In his eyes Hitler, Stalin and Co are unmitigated cads, scuttlers ot all decency and humanity And su doubtless they are But the Good Pagan, Hitler and Stlin, are bedfellows all the same, though most uncomfortable ones, their hours of rest and quiet being few and far between A Trinity in Unity and Disunity; all children of the one Mother, Naturalism; all believers n the self-perfectibility of the human race; and all despisers of the God of revelation and haters of the Christian and Catholic ideology. Their goal then is a common onethe social Utopia of unredeemed human nature

But their deals that are to speed that happy day are poles apart- Humanitarianism, Racialism Commumsm Now the Good Pagan with his humanitarian ideology is n far better case than the system of Hitler and Stalin He does believe in methods of decency and humanity, with a considerable respect for the moral law

This was very strongly evidenced at the time of the abdication of Edward VIII It s a legacy from his Catholic forebears He is therefore much more convertible to the Catholic philosophy of life than either of his bedfellows He takes his stand on human nature pure and simple "What's wrong with human nature?" he asks or s asked and answers for himself, "Nothing, if one will ply the game." He is not an atheist, he is agnostic · He frequently uses the name of God quite piously and says his prayers at times An emotional pantheist perhaps best describes him He stands aghast and helpless to-day at the wholesale reversion to barbarism

But there is something Satanic about the cold contempt and derision that is flung in the face of the Christian God bv Nazi and Communist alike Here are an example or two"German youth declares in all pride it can live with out sin end has no need of grace."

At the trial of the British engineers a few years ago accused of sabotage, in some Russian works, the Russian Minister of Justice (') thus addressed the court You are to remember that it is not a question of whether these men are guiltv, but whether it is to the advantage of our Communist State they should be declared to be guilty" No wonder God is proclimed in Russia to be the supreme enemy of the human race No wonder Herr Rosenberg declares the doctrine of original sin to be defeatist, escapist in its implications; and therefore taboo to German youth

The question we have set ourselves to answer in this article is whether this kind of person we call the Good Pagan is convertible, whether without

a direct intervention on the part of Almighty God he will come to see the Catholic philosophy of life as the com plement and perfection of human naure in the raw Some children in America are having Holy Mass said for the conversion of Hitler and Stalin God reward their faith and zeal The conversion of the Good Pagan would seem, however, a more likely and praetical proposition We have shown why we consider it possible Let us consider the practical side

To begin with, he predominates everywhhre-in the professions, the government, in the public services, in His Majesty's Forces He is to be found too, amongst the higher dignitaries of the Church of England-the type of Dean who can seen in Communist Russia a new and wonderful experiment n Christianity

Unless we do convert him, disillusion him of his belief that naturalism, pure human nature, is enough this war will never be won in anv sense worth winning Just as Nurse Cavell, standing on the brink of eternity, realised that patriotism-exaggerated and uneontrolled-was not enough so with the possible even probable, ruin of civilisation staring him in the face, the Good Pagan must frankly acknowledge that secularism has failed that man unredeemed and n his own strength, cannot save himself even for this temporal order, s not self-perfectible that men and nations without the God of the Christian Revelation are helpless

We must as Catholics take the fullest advantage 'of the tremendous searching of hearts that is going on in our midst and in France From American Catholics we are receiving little sympathy or understanding of the spiritual issue at stake n this war They seem to regard it merely from the point of view of rightly apportionng the blame, and conclude for the most part that it is six of one and half a dozen of the other, that Europe always has fought and always will They fail to see that the outcome of this war will be, either the salving and reconditioning of the very supports and basis of civilisation, or the seeing them kicked for ever from under our feet

And that is why this war is-or should be -a Crusade no matter on which side the man who realises these things is engaged He will recognise in his foe a kind of partner in this struggle for the saving of Europe anl ultimately America, and the world,

The war may seem a desperate chance; but it has become The Only Way to a far better life than Europe has ever known sinceand perhaps before-the religious revolution of 1560 It is certainly a terrible punishment and there may be worse developments to come, but God has been mocked by Good Pagan, Nazi, and Communist alike Can we accept is as a kind of sacramental penance and come out of it sane and purified?

Mr Attlee on Labour's war aims cries: "Europe must federate or perish" Mr Belloc in his appraisment of European history, writes· "Europe must return to the Catholic Faith or perish" Synthesise the two judg-

.. ! ! j The "Good Pagan," according [ ; to Father Dudley, is the one j ' who thinks little if at all, about God, but is nevertheless a man l of good, decent instincts who j believes in the self-sufficiency i of man and in his regeneration ] from within, without divine aid [ Father Dudley shows that Eu- + j rope must return to the Christ l j tian faith if it is to be saved. ]

ments and we read: "Europe must but cannot federate unless she rebuild from a Christian consciousness of the Catholic Faith as the revealed philosophy of life "

We have entered this war on behalf of democracy and freedom, 'for the value of the individual," "for the rights of nations" But such terms and expressions are too vague and unconvincing unless they connote their Christian interpretation and guarantee Too many scoundrels and gangster groups, as mendacious and tyrannical as the labelled Nazi and Communist, have shouted these slogans the ast twenty years

The value of the individual'' as an expression has no definite meaning, no ultimate sanction for recognition and respect unless transformed by the revealed Christian truths, that each and every individual human soul is a distinct creation by Almighty God, redeemed by the Blood of God whose end is the eternal life of God, the Beatific Vision That revealed value of the individual gives the only sure and permanent basis for recognition of the rights of man, and therefore of the rights of nations, as well as for the essential quality of men, and therefore for brotherhood and good will, for social and international justice And that is why we say, Europe must return to the Catholic Faith or perish"

The essential error n the philosophy of the Good Pagan is that he is working his regeneration of mankind from human nature unredeemed, and unredeemable except from his own efforts; and that because he conceives of man only as the highest expression of some blind impersonal force, which he calls sometimes "evolution" and at others God."

The Good Pagan must reconsider the whole question of the origin and destiny of man in the light of the Christian Revelation Whilst evolution explains nothing the latter does at least explain why, to use the words of a scientist man in the course of evolution ost the organic control of himself,"

And finally only with the increasing cognition of the Christian interpretation and transformation of Our Case and Cause shall we possess an deology, spiritual unity and strength, capable of shattering for all time that unholy Trinity of Humanitarianism Racialism and Communism Then ndeed will the ideal of the Greatest of Centuries, the Thirteenth, become the ideal of the new and federated Europe - Each for all and all for God" and in the full Christian acceptance of the term God

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S BODY TO BE EXPOSED \ «

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The body of St Francis Xavier, enshrined in the Bom Jesu Church hee, is to be publicly exposed next December Pilgrims from many parts of the' world who are expected to make a visit during the exposition include Dr Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal, and Cardinal Cerejeira Patriarch of Lisbon

BISHOP O'ROURKE OF DANZIG IS SAFE

London

News that Count Edward O'Rourke, Bishop of Danzig is now safe in Rome has, says the "Daily Mail," reached Dublin in a letter from the Bishop to a friend

Bishop ORourke was reported last October to have been killed bv the Soviet Russians He now writes to say that he was in Warsaw and Siedlce during the bombardment of those cities

Of Irish descent and a typical Irishman in appearance, the Bishop reads Gaelic His mother-tongue is Russian, but he speaks German fluently, and an converse in French and English He resigned in 1938 and was succeeded by the present Bishop, Mgr Karl plett

CARDINAL DEDICATES ENGLAND TO MARY.

London

In order to seek a just and honourable peace, Cardinal Hinsley solemnly renewed the dedication of England to Our Ladv n Wes minster Cathedral st month. The crowded congregation recited the Praver of Dedication with the Cardinal

Among them were brancardiers and Handmaids of the Sick, soldiers and airmen

Noticeably absent were the children, who usually are very prominent at the service on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, owing to the evacuation Archbishop Godfrey, Apostolic Dele gate for Great Britain, preached

Social Reform

WE note with pleasure that the project of the Metropolitan Labour Couneil that birth control clinics should be established at the Perth and Fremantle Hospitals has been rescinded by that body Saner counsels prevailed at the last meeting and the recission vote was carried by an overwhelming majority thus removng an unsavoury stigma from the Labour movement mn this State One suspects that the original motion was a militant minoritv affair from the fact that the request was unequivocally rejected by the Minister for Health and found no favour with either the Fremantle or Midland Junetion district councils

Praising the attitude of these bodies, His Grace the Archbishop recently stated that, in refusing to support the proposal, they had done a great service to the community, and he hoped that their action would be an incentive to others to adopt a similar attitude

Thursday, March 14, 1940

Comment

It s to be hoped that those peopie in the Labour movement who have the cause of social reform eeply at heart will not leave the issue to subside, that those who have favoured the birth control proposal may well ask themselves not only whether their suggestion is good morals, but also whether it is sound politics Recently it was announced in the press with the prominence of a boast that Australia's population had reached the 7,000,000 mark In all conscience this s little enough to be proud of when one views the alarming decline of the last 50 years, and the temptation which the vast undeveloped wealth of this country must be to virile and prolific foreign powers

If the present vital decline continues it will be extremely difficult to maintain that we have a Frankly

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In this connection it should be noted how the Christian life and good citizenship go hand in hand and how the doctrine of the Church has the most wholesome social consequences At the time of the Church's foundation slav ery was the universal condition of mankind Through her doctrine of the brotherhood of all men in Christ the Church over a period of centuries broke up this immemorial structure of civil society, and indirectly gave Europe the institution of private property So long as Her teaching on the question of property was observed Europe enjoyed stability, order, prosperity.

True liberty went overboard when unrestrained capitalism began to employ property in despite of moral considerations and the common good Property passed into the hands of the fe while the masses sank into slavery again

Proletarianism in its turn gave rise to the horrible Asiatic dream of Communism which spells the denial of all property

Similarly, in the matter of popution which is an integral factor in national greatness, so long as the Christian view of marriage prevailed, and natural morality was respected, Western civilisation could hope to persevere, however desperate its economic plight But now that marriage, the family and the home are at a discard the very pillars of civilisation are seen to tremble and irreparable collapse impends One need ot be a Catholic to fear and execrate the practice of birth prevention The writing on the wall of national survival is penned by natural reason and all but the blind must see and understand true moral right to hold this country which we will not develop and which we will not populate

Environment

IF you dote on naivety, here it is in bucketfuls The long investigation by experts appointed by the Federal Parliament into the problem of tuberculosis has given out as its chief conclusion that the basis of the problem is mainly economic One of the comic papers had the following comment:

This is great news If only economic factors stand in the way of eradication of the 'white scourge' the end of the combat should not be very far off"'

This is in the nature of A Memorable Pronouncement Indeed exuberance might betray one into classing it as A Good Thing

Before the experts blew the gaff we had the pressing fears that tuberculosis arose from an innate tendency in human nature to grow sick, but now that it is chiefly economic the whole thing becomes as plain as a pikestaff. We can prevent tuberculosis just by fixing up the economic system, Hey presto! Just like that

It reminds us little of the nonconformist view of religion Its all so simple God is love Why haggle about creeds and dogmas? Likewise, health has now become simple. Health is food, and good labour conditions and decent housing Why haggle about political machinery and economic formulas?

Whichever way one goes about looking at modern life the explanation of its evils ultimately traces back to the chronic and fundamental disorders of the social order This is true even of the one real evil which we call sin not in the sense that man is completely a , reature of his environment or that it is superior to his will, but it certainlv s a very powerful conditioning factor

Few but the saints rise above their environment. For the average man end woman it is absolutely essential to have a reasonable condition of natural living

To be good to-day is to be heroic and for the mass of men heroism is not the line The glaring disorders of the social system are also responsible in major part for the growth and aggravation of those lesser evils such as dis-

ease, death (notably maternal mortal tty), malnutrition, ete But the tackIng ot the problem at its roots is by o means the easy matter that our omie paper has suggested There are roadly two radically irreconcilable solutions the solution proposed by the 'hurch and derived trom pure reason which demands the restoration of property, and a corporate system and the solution put forward by materialism, whether this means the continuance of the present rotten structure or the final return of slavery through Communism Humanly speaking t Communists stand the better chance because they ofter a demoralised worid nothing higher than economic welfare as the end of life, and the people of the world have already been largely prepared for this through the philosophy and practice of Capitalism The Catholic solution, on the other hand demands a revolutionary change of heart both in the individual and in the nation It does not actually mean the return of the Faith, but it does postulate an exercise of pure reason such as was never found in history except perhaps among the Greeks Libertv cannot be imposed from above, and it is sadly to be confessed that the masses have lost their appetite for freedom

Even in the Catholic camp there are divergent views on important aspects of the social question, whether, for instance t is possible to Christianise a proletarian society -whether man has a right to property as an intellectual being rather than as a moral being The great danger is of course that we would lose sight of our long term policy (that is, the restoration of property in pursuance of the obvious need to alleviate the misery caused by the present system Nor is this merely a hypothetical danger There is evidence of a vague but growing belief that the present system of mass production, machines, and proletarianism together with the ridiculous urbanisation of the ndustrial ations is here to stay, s too great to change, and that all we need do s to Christianise the workers and let the system go n, with a few minor variations

This view apparently ignores the whole basis of the question, which is that urbanisation is an unnatural s ndition of work denying man the exercise of that which constitutes him as man namely, his intellect and treewill Proletarianism we believe is an air in which Catholicism cannot breathe It has moulded the material which will not be amenable to the Faith because it has been denied the use of reason and of moral effort True the Church converted the slaves of the Roman Empire( and of the British Empire) but the slave we fancy, was a happier man than the proletarian worker of our city He at least had security and was treated at least as well as the horses and other beasts of burden because he was even more useful than they

Ultimately we do not feel it will be possible to Christianise the proletariat until it at least has the prospect of proerty; for property is the natural and historical atmosphere in which the Faith grew and through which the human spirit gave forth the choicest fruits of created endeavour

3,679 CLERGY IN SOVIET POLAND FOR SIBERIA.

London Jaroslawski, eader of the Russian Godl ss, has declared that 3679 priests in Soviet Poland have been deported to Siberia savs the 'Neue Zurcher Zeitung''quoted by the Polish Press Bureau in London. The country has been completely purged'' of priests, he boasts All schools are to be re-organised n accordance with atheistic "principles'' Courts of justice have been instructed to regard Christianity by either party as valid grounds for granting divorce to the other Nazi Pagan Propaganda. Extracts from German Neo/Pagan documents may now be published n Russian atheistic publications, the Central Council of the Godless has decided To help a digest of the most characteristic" speeches and writings of Nazi leaders is being compiled

A PARAMOUNT CONSIDERATION

Among the monuments of the world the Sphinx of Egvpt is paramount, and mong the world's peoples to-day the war is the paramount consideration Nevertheless, one must live, and towards this end the first prize (£6000) in the No 86 Charities Consultation is worth having Have you bought your tickets yet?

Any subscriber whose paper is not delivered by Saturday at the latest, is askcd to communicate immediately with this office

Thursday, March 14, 1940

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St. Kevin's Church, Serpentine

Officially Blessed and Opened

On Sunday, March 3, His Grace the Archbishop blessed and opened the new Church of St Kevin n Serpentine

His Grace was welcomed by Father Clery on behalf of the people of the district

His Grace, addressing the conorecation said that his welcome s's ] : was the more pIeasmg because the church had been built at the spontaneous request of the people For a number of years they had worked hard to raise funds in order to have their own church in which to worship God, and he congratulated them on their efforts and success

In some countries in Europe churches were being destroyed, and we here in Australia were making some compensation for the damage done there, by building churches and thus providing �for the spiritual needs of the people here, and thereby keeping the flag of Christianity afloat

His Grace concluded by thanking Mr Duckett, th designer and Bilder for the excellent piece of workmanship At the price the people could not possibly have expected more as it included seating and the altar

He also thanked Mr McLartv and members of the Roads Board for their presence

Mr McLartv said it had been his privilege to have been in manv of those fine old churches in Europe but which were now destroyed, but despite all that Christianity though crushed in

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one place would prosper in other places

The function was concluded bv Mr Kelly, speaking on behalf of the people of the district, and thanking all who had helped them to build the church

List of Donations

Crucifix: His Grace the Archbishop Stations of the Cross: Little Sisters of the Poor

£5 5s: His Grace the Archbishop

£I0: Mr D Keane

£6 8s: Mrs McAlinden

£5 5s Each: P McNellis, J Kiely, Mrs Bett, G Rodgers, J Sullivan

£5 Each: D Coffey, Mrs O'Connor t deceased)

£4 4s: J W Matthews

£3 3s Each: Rev Father Russell, Rev Father Clery, Bob Stott, Matt Stott, Mr T Ahern, Mr E C Collett, Mrs Smith H McManus

£2 10s: Mrs B Martin

£2 2s Each: Monsignor Moloney, Rev Father Lenihan, Rev Father T Ahern, Rev. Father Philbin, Mr Sharpcott, Redemptorist Fathers, Mr Ronzio, Mr Bomme, W Rogers, Dudley

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£1 2s Mr and Mrs O'Rourke, senr

£I Is Each: Rev Father Doyle Rev Father Murray, Rev. Father C. Casey, Rev Father Regan, Rev Father E Power Rev Father Henebry, Sisters of St Joseph, Sisters of St. John of God, Mr and Mrs G. Benett

£1: Rev Father Collins DD Rev Father P Carmody Rev Father Mccaul, Rev Father Duffy, Rev Father O'Connor, Rev Father Wallace Mr McLarty Mr Kentish

I0s. Each: Mr and Mrs O'Rourke, junr, Luff family, Rev Father Farrelly, 1A Friend

5s Each: Mr Dempsey Mr F O'Dwver

Father Clery, on behalf of the people of Serpentine wishes to thank His Grace the Archbishop and all the people who have made donations and gifts of furnishings •

v. LECTURE

Christian

Rev Father Dwyer, CSSR, dclver ed the fifth of a series of Lenten lectures in St Mary's Cathedral on Sunday night last

[[N the world to-day there are )L powerful forces whose direct tendency is towards the destruction of the Christian ideal of marriage and family life

The evil-minded scoff at the very idea of fidelity in marriage Everywhere divorce and race-suicide are alarmingly on the increase It is all bound to result n appalling loss of immortal souls, redeemed by the Precious Blood of Our Saviour Hence this sermon on Christian Marriage

Marriage s not a merely civil contract It is one of the sacred things of religion It comes tous trom God Hmself, who bv His presence made holy the marrage of our First Parents He told them their marriage was indissoluble He sent them forth with His blessing "to increase and multiply ana fill the earth " But in the course of time this sacred union became debased y polygamy Woman became the slave of man's lust

Then God again intervened and through His Divine Son, Our Saviour, restored marriage to its primitive purity Once again marriage became the pure and sacred thing God intended it to be Moreover, Our Lord elevated marriage to a still higher dignity-the sublime dignity of a Sacrament of His Church

Such is Christian marriagea source of supernatural grace, of honour and love to husband and wife And in this mutual loves they will bring up children to the glory of God, to fll the earth, even to fill in Heaven the thrones of the fallen angels

Marriage

Marriage, therefore-so sacred, so holy must be prepared for, must be lived in a holv manner

COURTSHIP

Two young people contemplating marriage obviously have the right to frequent each other's company But this period of courtship is lawful only on one condition- that it does not become a dangerous occasion of sin Doubtless many of the young people of to-day, in spite of evil customs, prepare for their marriage by a courtship entirely honourable and chaste A happy marriage invariably results, because thev are blessed bv God

But, unhappily, so many others spend their courtship, not according to God's law, but according to the sinful fashion of a godless world. These young peopleoften mere boys and girls are thus made familiar with loathsome impurity, the very thought of which every Christian should repel with horror Surely no blessing of God can be expected on a marriage prepared for in such a sinful manner No wonder so many unions turn out unhappily Prepare for your marriage in the Catholic wav-as befits a Sacrament-by a life of purity, with frequent reception of the Sacraments

In the second place, marriage must be contracted in a holv manner-in the fullest obedience to the laws of God and His Church According to the law called the "Ne Temere Decree" the marriage of a Catholic must take place before an authorised priest and two witnesses If a Catholic goes through the form of marriage before a nonCatholic minister or in a registry office, there is no marriage in the sight of God

DIVORCE

Another Jaw forbids divorce Sep- I aration for

again the Church never allows And why? The plain words of Our Lord Himself: What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder" Someone mav sav the law of the land permits divorce But God is above the State And God savs of those who marrv after divorce· 'Everyone that putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth adulterv"

MIXED MARRIAGES

Finally, there is a law of the Church of supreme importance, the law against mixed marriages, Hundreds of years of heart-breaking experience have convinced the Church that the faith of Catholies, and especially of Catholic children has no more deadly enemy than mixed marriages. The Church does sometimes dispense from this law Yes, but always with tears in her eyes For she regards everv mixed marriage as a tragedy And what a straitened life of anxietv and sorrow does not a girl bring on herself who enters such a marriage! Even in the mo,t i:i\'our-1 able case when her husband is faithful to his promises to allow the children be brought up as Catholics. But how unspeakably sad is the case of a woman whose husband is brutallv unfaithful to his promises' And the worst case of all when a Catholi man takes a Protestant for the mother of his children Onlv a miracle of God can save the faith of the children born of such a marriage

CONTRACEPTION.

• Finally, marriage must be lived in a holv manner To everv truly Christian man and woman this is an unclean thing a foul blot on the fair face of God's creation It is the perversion of a noble facultv and a refusal to co-operate with God in the creation of children It substitutes pleasure for the God-appointed purpose of that faculty The law of God against birth prevention is as unchangeable as God Himself Do not think the Holv Church in remaining faithful to God's law does not appreciate the difficulties some have. She well realises the tears, the noble self-sacrifice, the suffering of many a pure and courageous Catholic woman Thev are trulv the friends of God. Such women are called fools bv the world. But how different will it all be on the day of judgment' In your marriage range yourselves on the side of God and purity. Take your difficulties to Our Saviour Himself in Holy Communion and in dailv prayer And remember the tender Fatherlv care of Him Whose Providence clothes in wondrous beauty the lilies of the field and feeds the birds of the air, not one of which falls to the ground without His permission Prepare then for marriage in a holy manner

Receive it and live in it in a holy manner Thus will your marriage be what God intended it to be a source of mutual happiness in this life and of perfect happiness in the life to come

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Demand for Social Justice

The pronouncement of the American Hierarchy on the Church and the social order which was made early in February is now to hand in detail and is given prominence elsewhere in this issue It is an opportune utterance, notably in that it rebukes that view which makes of defence a pretext for the indefinite shelving of social reform The war issues and the American isolationist policy have given rise to misunderstandings between British and American Catholics, and even to a little bitterness in the Catholic Press of each country That the American Bishops have chosen this particular moment of history for their manifesto Is indicative of the fact that Catholics the world over, both belligerents and neutrals, realise the tremendous issues that lie behind this war and its aims, real and alleged So far as the common people in all nations are concerned, the political issues will not be the primary ones The Immediate and tangible concern of the masses is that this war will decide once and for all whether we shall have "business as usual" Perhaps that s why there s undeniable apathy in many quarters over the political ssues at stake Our own house is in disorder, economically and spiritually, and the fruit of this war, whether t be victory or defeat, offers no real promise of genuine alleviation and still less of radical reform

It is pleasing to ote that just as the war ssue has revealed something of the hidden strengthof the Communist movement,so it has given a illip to the Catholic plan for the reconstruction of the social rder The term "Catholic Plan,'' however, must not be misunderstood It does not mean that the principles for social reform outlined by the Church are applicable only to Catholic nations or to Catholics within a nation It simply means that the Church has pioneered the application of principles of pure reason to the economic disorders that beset our times Since thev arise from reason alone, and amountto the application of thenatural virtue of justice and of the supernatural virtue of charity, in the lingering tradition of which the de-Christianised world still lives, they should be acceptable to all people of reason and good will The chief pointofdivision between ourselves and the materialists s that Catholics demand that any solution of the Social Order must recognise the primacy of the spiritual over the material, and that the whole of life, economic and political, should be subordinated to moral considerations and not merely to the material well being of a few Hence the pronouncements of the Popes and such authoratitive statements as that of the American Bishops combine these elements of spiritual re-orientation and practical common sense, and though the spiritual element makes the Catholic programme more difficult and more complicated it will in the end prevail, because it provides for the real and the whole nature of man. Materialism is more attractive momentarily because it is more simple, but eventually it is revealed as essentiallv an nhuman svstem where the weak go to the wall and where man can no longertolerate the dreadful prospect of the nsufficiency of his own unaided nature

Australia, happily, is not lagging behind in this growing Catholic demand for justice The Episcopal Committee for Catholic Action has released an mportant announcement of the establishment throughout Australia of a special annual Day of Prayer for social justice and for the exposition of the social teaching of the Catholic Church, to be known as Social Justice Sunday This move has been hailed with enthusiasm bv Catholic Actionists engaged in the social apostolate, and it may perhaps be the prelude to the "Semaine Sociale," which has done so much to spread Catholic social teaching in France and Belgium We hope to be able to announce in our next ssue the date and the manner in which SocialJustice Sunday will be observed throughout the Archdiocese There will be perhaps an element of reparation in this new project, in as much as Catholics have been in possesion of these strong clear principles of social reform for so many years without doing very much about t It has taken the horror of war, and the prospect of future social misery vivified by the widespread anarchy of the post war generation, to awaken our social consciences But, at least, however belated our effort we have something at once radical and satisfying to bring to bear n these tremendous ssues Our solution of the social problem s not a mere fantasy and dream as in Communism, While it is not retrogression, it has roots in history from an age when European civilisation reached its peak It is founded on common sense not only as regards practical measures, but also as regards the true natureof man as a being dependent upon his Creator both as an individual and as a social animal In this respect what has been so glibly called Fascist for so many years will prevail over the dead hand-to-mouth prospect of Communism, because the new European ideologies have some kind of mystical synthesis recognising that the nature of man needs such a thing Many of these mystical doctrine's are, of course, false, but if they have lentdynamism and a passion for justice to the peoples who have received them, how much more surely shall the strong clear light of Catholic truth conquer the world We have the truth and it is the truth alone that shall set us free

Rome

The Holy Father gave a very beautiful and practical talk on the duties of the parish priest when he received the rectors of Rome and the Lenten preachers for their churches

Every parish priest must be an apostle a father and a shepherd said he Pope He spoke of Rome and the modern conditions of life, and said that while a great many continue to live truly Catholie lives every parish h~as a number of people who have stopped practising their religion and are indifferent and even hostile to it

Know your parishes, the Pontiff urged Keep in touch with all His Holiness ended by speaking of the glories of Rome and asking them to work with him, their Bishop, to make Rome a model Catholic city

CHAPEL BECOMES VATICAN PROPERTY

Rome

The Borghese Chapel attached to St Mary Major's Basilica has now formally been handed over by the Borghee family to the Holy See Arrangements for the transfer were being made when Pope Pius XI. died

A condition is that the Holy See undertake to put in order the ancient crypt where two Borghese Popes Pius V and Clement VIIIand sev zral Cardinals are buried Another is that the Borghese family may still bury their members there

Vatican Rome and Borghese officials were present when the erypt was reopened recently, and a formal recognition of the coffins was made The huge coffins of the two Popes were found hidden by masonry and there were three small rooms full of coffins, totalling in all 148.

The remains of Princess Pauline Borghese was amongst them

The crypt is to be renovated and repaired An altar will be erected and the coffins rearranged with inscriptions

The two Papal tombs were hidden apparently to prevent them being stripped of their heavy lead coverings during the Napoleonic occupation of Rome

THE POPE RECEIVES PICTURE OF NEW SAINT

Rome painting of the martyrdom of St Andrew Bobola, the Polish martyr, has been presented to the Holy Father by Father Ledochowski, the Jesuit Gen eral The painter, Silvi Galimberti was present

"REAL GLORY" HEADS MOVIE PREFERENCE LIST

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CAMERA "STAND INS" FOR CLOISTERED NUNS.

St Louis

As the cloistered nuns at the Aca demy of the Visitation never consent to be photographed, seniors donned religious habits and stood in for them recently, when photographers took pictures of classrooms for a new book by the Rev Aloysius J Heeg, S J

The book "Practical helps for the Religious Teacher,'' is ready to go to press

The photographs are to illustrate Father Heeg's ideas of practical teachingto tell a story interestingly, to show a picture well, how to ask a question and how to use a piece of chalk

The day the pictures were taken, some students brought their brothers so both sexes would be included

CAPUCHINS WIN GERMAN IRON CROSS

Two Capuchin lay brothers serving in the German Armv have been awarded the Iron Cross Second Class for bravery in the face of the enemv, states "Italia" of Milan

They belong to A1totting

A military chaplain, the Rev Dr UIrico Muller has been awarded the Iron Cross He served in the Great War when he was wounded twice, and was ordained in 1923 He has been a military chaplain since 1927

NEW MISSION OPENS IN FIJI ISLAND

Despite the difficulties caused by the war, the Most Rev Charles J Nicolas, of the Manist Society, Apostolic Vicar of the Fiji Islands has decided to est blish a new mission station with a resident priest on the outlying Yasawa Islands

Only twelve of these small islands are inhabited, the total native population being some 4,000 Among them are some 200 Catholics, who in the past could be visited only occasionally by a priest coming by boat from Vitu Levu, the main island in the Fiji Archipelago

While awaiting the time when he will be able to build himself a church and mission residence, the priest assigned to the Yasawa Islands is living in a native hut

During January there died in Rome at the age of 77 years, the eminent philosopher, Father Joseph Gredt, 0 S.B A native of Luxembourg, Father Gredt lived most of his life in Germany, where he entered the Beuron Congregation of the Benedictine Order. For the past 35 years he occupied the chair of philosophy in the Benedictine University of St Anselm in Rome a position he filled with rare distinction. A strict Thomist, Father Gredt won the prize for his thesis during the celebration of the 6th. centenary of St Thomas Aquinas, held in Rome in 1936 He was the author of a celebrated text book on philosophy, which s the recognised work in the seminaries of Italy His book, in two volumes, "Elementa Philosophiae Aristotelico-Thomistacae,'' is now in its seventh edition and has also been translated in German One of Father Gredt's last pupils was Father Ilde phonsus Garcia, 0 S B of New Norcia

Holy Childhood 1939

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Re Dr J T McMahon M A., Ph D., will give a broadcast talk on "St Patrick" from Station 6WN, irom 615-630 pm this Sunday evening March 17 St Patrick's Day. Rm.moms3

The attention of our readers i drawn to the circulation in the m 3city and suburbs of a product ii tion_ called "The Catholic An @ nua" This is completely an z authorised, especially in the use i ii of pictures of His Grace the s Archbishop for gemer iai pa, " poses The only official publi- iii " gton gt tis jnd is the""¢R ii tholic Calendar," published byE = "The Record" Press, and of ii «wi~ ii- i, • biiy'is iie pro @ ii prietor

APPEAL FOR SCHOOL BOOKS. The St Vincent de Paul Society has been requested to make an urgent appeal for school books for children attending convent primary schools Many Catholic parents in poor circumstances are making a valiant effort to give their children a Catholic education and are hendicapped by lack of text books The books required are for primary school work from the second standard upwards. Parcels may be sent to this office

PALM SUNDAY

This Sunday (Palm Sunday) the Cathedrcl Choir, vested in cassocks and surplices will sing the music incidental to the blessing of the palms and dur- p ing the procession in plain chant (ex; eepting the response In Monte Oliveti and the antiphon durin the distribution of the palms,'Pueri Hebraeorum, respectively, by Schubert and Palestrina, to be sung in four parts) The Mass will be Victoria's Missa Orbis factor" The Gloria Tibi laus' will b sung by seven of the Cathedral choir-boys

Tenebrae

The music at Tenebrae on the Wednesday Thursday and Friday nights of Holy Week will be rendered by the St Cecelia Choir The Responses of the first Nocturne each night by Mitterer (four parts), and those of the second and third Nocturnes and the Benedictus to Flsi Bordoni, by N Praglia Prior to the sermon Tenebrae factae sunt," by Vittoria, will be sung This latte is one of the most beautiful and most touching of all the musical compositions that have ever been inspired bv the sorrowful mysteries that Holy leek commemorates The words are: Darkness was o'er the earth whilst thev crucified Jesus, And about the hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice

Me God My God why hast Thou forsaken Me?" And bowing His head He gave up the ghost.

crying with a loud voice, Jesus said: Father into Thy hands I commend My spirit" And bowing His head He gave up the ghost.

The Responses, which are sung between the Lamentations and Lessons originally to fill in the space of time for each Lector to take up his position and find his place) could be regarded as commentaries, or reflections which the Church makes, whilst meditating on the sad events of the Passion. They take the form of a dialogue between a tiny group of cantors and the main bodv of the choir For those who possess Holy Week books these are not only beautiful, but dramatic in their force, as, for instance, the VIIIth Response on the Wednesday night: Could ve not watch one hour with me?

Ye who declared that von would die for me?

Or do you not see Jndas, How he sleeps not, But hastens to betrav me to the Jews

What! Sleep ye?

Arise and pray lest ye enter into temptation Or do ye not see Judas How he sleeps not, But hastens to betray me t the Jews?

• HOLY THURSDAY.

On Holy Thursday morning, both the Proper and the Ordinary of the Mass will be sung by the Priests' Choir As on Holv Saturday the bells will ring

CRUCIFIED

The sun in Heaven hid its face; The earth trembled in disgrace: Rnd darkiess covered all the place When Jesus died.

The Temple veil in tzo was rent; The sleeping dead in rock-tombs pent Came forth and thro' the City went When Jesus died "

The Cross against the dark'ning sky Was token cf a promise high Of One Who for His friends did die, Crucified s

HOLY

and the organ will play white the celerant recites the Gloria, which will then be sung by the boys of the Cathedral Choir, accompanied by the organ This is the only occasion in Holy Week when the organ wi!' p! until during the proession to the Alta of Repose, and the antiphons uring the procession of the Holy Oils

• GOOD FRIDAY

On Good Friday morning the singing will once more be in the hands of the Societv of St Cecelia, combined with the bovs of the Cathedral Choir The 'Reproaches" which are sung during the veneration of the Cross by the clergy, will be sung this year to music by Victoria This is among the most beautiful nd feeling pieces of music from Victoria's pen The words are words of sorrow and reproach which the Church puts in Our Lord's mouth in answer to which a double choir answers with words of contrition and adoration, alternating one in Latin and the other in Greek, representing all the Christians on earth both from the Western and the Eastern Church. The two choirs will be placed respectivelv in the Sacred Heart Chapel and the St Teresa Chapel

The soloists will be Rev Father F O'Reilly, Rev Father J McGillicuddv Mr Sid Lvnch, and Mr John Buggy (These are also the soloists for the re sponses at Tenebrve.- The priests and the St Cecilia Choir will join for the singing of the Vexilla Regis during the procession from the «Altar of Repose to the High Altar

HOLY SATURDAY.

On Holv Saturdav the music will be n the hands of members of the Priest Choir, when the whole ceremony will be sung to Liturgical Chant An interesting moment is when, after the celebrant intones the first Gloria of Easter, the organ peals out its loudest tones to the ringing of the church bells, announcing the end of Lent and the eginning of the festive season The organ and the bells will have been silent since the same ceremony was performed at the Gloria of Holy Thursday Shortly after this the joyful Alleluia will be intoned three times by the celebrant in rising tones, taken up each time by the choir and it will be in use once more until Septuagesima Sunday of the following year The Mass ends by the choir singing a short form of Vespers

• EASTER SUNDAY

On Easter Sunday the Cathedral Choir will sing Perosi's Missa Pontificalis, which is written for boys, tenors, bases and organ As the Archbishop enters the "Ecce Sacerdos" (unaccompanied), by the same author, will be sung (This is witten in six partstwo parts boys Ist and 2nd tenors, 1st and 2nd basses) After the Offertory the motet will be Lotti's "Regina Coeli." The Proper of Easter Sunday's Mass is worthv of attention The first thing heard after the "Ecce Sacerdos" s the Introit, which begins as the celebrant says the first words of the preparation of the Mass Contrary to what one might expect, it is very gentle, and the words "I have arisen' are expressed by quiet meditative musical phrases which ndicate the perfeet and unspoken understanding between the Father and the Son after Our Redeemer had completed his won derful mission of salvation In between the Epistle are sung the Gradual, the Alleluia and the Sequence These cover the time spent in the preparation for the solemn singing of the Gospel They are joyful especially the Alleluia; but most beautiful of all is the sequence, which has something of the nature of a hymn. Only four times each year is a sequence found in the MassEaster, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, and the Feast of the Seven Dolours This one is of remarkable beatty, and for those who will take the trouble to follow t

The Lamb the sheep redeemeth: Christ who only is sinless reconcileth sinners to the Father Death and life have contended in that conflict stupendous: the Prince of Life who died deathless reigneth

Speak, Mary, declaring what thou sawest wayfaring

The Tomb of Christ who now liveth and likewise the glory of the Risen Bright angels attesting, the shroud and napkin resting

Yes Christ, my hope, is arisen: to Galilee He goeth before you'

We know that Christ is risen, henceforth ever living: Have mercy, Victor King, pardon giving Amen Alleluia

WEEK

in their missals it will open ont its treasures of both liturgical and musical thought Here is an English transia ton:-

Christians, to the Paschal Victim offer vour thankfnl praises

The Offertorv was originally very much longer, and was sung while the faithful carried up to the altar their offering of bread and wine Likewise after the Priest's Communion, the Communion' was long enough to last while all the faithful went to Holy Communion

The Cathedral organist Mr Arthur Taylor, will preside at the organ

Gregorian Chant

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS' PROGRAMME FOR Important Instructions

Tl!E tir�t important event of the vear will be a Pontifical High Mass n St Marv's Cathedral during the forthcoming visit of the Apostolic Delegate This Mass will DE sung by the children of the metropolitan area, It s important to note that this mav onlv be attended by those children who know the Mass set for ast vear's competitions This point must be rigidly observed, as the Mass is for the children of the Fremantle as well as the Perth area

Allowing for the ildren who have eft school and those ho did not learn the omplete Mass, tt.ere will be just sufficient room for tle remaining numbers In addition to Mass No IH and Credo No II at the Offertory the antiphone 'Regina toeli «simple form) will be sung This vear's programme consists of the Mass No 9 Cum Jubilo," Credo No 3 again the Regina Coeli, O Salutaris No 1, Tantum Ergo No 3, Ecce Panis Angelorum, and Adoremus No 15 from The Benediction Choir Book of the late Sir Richard Terry The other numbers previously mentioned ie., he Veni Creator and the Confirma Hoe need not be learned

In regard to the psalm "Laudate," it must be remembered that th psalm formula for each verse consists of two parts, the recitative and mediant, and again recitative and termination. There is also a little introductory phrase, but this is onlv used at the beginning and not for the subsequent verses In this particular psalm formula (in the fourth tone) all the words of the first half of the verse are recited on La and on the last two syllables before the final accent the change is made on to Sol La, on the last accented syllable itself the

note Ti is sung and the remaining svllable or two syllables as the case may be are sung to the note La

The second half of the formula is similar La is once again the reciting note the termination beginning three svllables before the final accented syllable, using the notes sol, la, ti The final accented syllable itself is sung on the note sol and the remaining syllable or two syllables is sung on the note mi

The Proper of the Mass may be sung in the same way The words could be taken from the missal marked into verses of two parts and these same rules applied

The greatest attention must be paid to the even singing of each syllable, especially in the recitative Each Latin syllable is equal in value whether it be "-ter-'' in aeternum' or the "-o" in Fili-o" The recitative must neither be jerky, choppy, uneven slow to the point of sounding staccato, nor rushed, but should be even, smooth moderately, rapid pace, and above all light Pav due attention to all the syllables m a word ike prin-ci-pi-o" four syllables of equal value

Going into the mediant or the ter mination from the recitative should be effected without hesitation and in a natural manner, taking up the rythm of the final notes of the formula gracefully and ending all with the merest suggestion of a rallentando and diminuendo Especially avoid giving a hard prol oersdtnegssttta- mhhm h a hard prolonged stress oh the final accented svllable which should be rather light if anything

The following example gives the application of this psalm-tone to the two halves n the verses of the Laudate."

EXAMPLE OF FIRST HALF OF VERSE

EXAMPLE OF SECOND HALF OF VERSE

Thursday, March 14, 1940

Santa Maria Win Swimming Carnival

Santa Maria College had a 160point victory at the Girls' Secondary Schools' Sports Association swimming carnival at Claremont Baths on Iuesday. Many of the college's wins were by a touch Points for the champion school were: Santa Maria College, 259 points, Victoria Square College, 98) points· St Brigid's High School, 82 points; Sacred Heart High School, 38l points Champion swimmers.Open P Anderton (SM C ) Under 16: P Anderton (SM C ) Under 14: M Fitzgerald (S.M C ) Under 12: N Price US B H S ) Under I0· R Hooper (S M.C )

Results:

Open

110 yards reestyle: P Anderton US M.C ) 1 M Hilton (SM C) 2; K Connell (SB HS), 3 Time, Imin 29 3-5sec 55 yards freestyle: P Anderton (SM C) 1; L Fitzgerald (SM.C ) 2, K Connell (s.BHS) 3 Time, 36 4-5sec 55 yards breaststroke: B Kelly (SM C ), 1, P Anderton (SM.C ) 2; N Toms (VSC) 3 Time, 17 4-5sec 30 yards backstroke: J Dolin GS M C ), 1; K Connell (SBHS), 2; s Partridge (VSC) 3 Time 23sec Neat dive P Anderton (S MC ), I, S Stephens (S M C), 2; Smith (VSC), 3 Relay race· Santa Maria College, I; Victoria Square College 2; St Brigid's High Schoo], 3; Sacred Heart College, 4. Time, 2min 46 2-5sec Under 16

55 yards freestyle: P Anderton (S M C ) 1: M Corbett (SM.C ), 2; K Connell (S B H S ), 3 Time, 39sec 55 vards breaststroke: M Corbett (S M.C), I: N Toms (V C ), 2; P Anderton (S M.C), 3 Time, 47 3-5 sec. 30 yards backstroke: J Dolin S MC, 1; M Bernet (v.s ), 2; M Hilton (SM C ), 3 Time, 22 4-5sec (record) Neat dive: P Anderton (S M.C ) 1: M Corbett (SMC) 2; S Smith (V.$ C ), 3 Under 14.

55 yards freestyle M Fitzgerald IS M C ) 1: J Dolin (SM.C) 2; M Bernet (VS C ), 3 Time, 38sec (record) 0 yards breaststroke: M Fitzgerald (S M C ) 1: B Corbett (S M 0) 2 P Malone (S.B H S ) 3 Time 25 1-5sec 30 yards backstroke: J. Dolin (SMC , I M Fitzgerald (s.MC), 2: M Bernet (VSC), 3 Time, 23sec. (record+ Neat dive· E Johnson (VSC), ; M Fitzgerald (S M C ), 2: P Wilson (S MC), 3 Relay race: Santa Maria College I St Brigid's High School 2; Victoria Square College 3 Sacred Heart High School, 4 Time. 2min 55 25sec

Racing Selections

By"The Hawk

WA TATTERSALL'S CLUB Saturday March 16 1940

Juvenile Handicap: Erskine, 1; Sanovan, 2; Romanette, 3 Tattersall's Welter Plate: Samoan Clipper, 1; Great Treat, 2; Atorna, 3 Tattersall's Welter Purse: Prince Merab, 1; Pretoria, 2; Apt, 3 Tattersall's Handicap: Nirimba, 1; Eastdcl, 2; Tetbury, 3 Breeders' Handicap: Trehint, 1; Seranto, 2; Mylopia, 3 Final Handicap: Grand Love, 1; Charming Wave, 2; Sea Hare, 3

Trotting Selections

RICHMOND PARK. Saturday, March 16 1920

WA Breeders' Handicap: Katarab, 1· Red Bay, 2; Miss Tarena, 3. Bicton Handicap: Black Judy, 1; Denver's Image, 2; Brent Light, 3 March Handicap: Silver Antique, 1; Plain Percy, 2; Mill Adonis, 3 St Patrick's Handicap: Grand Mogul, 1; Glen Wilfred, 2; Kitty 01ywn, 3 Rockingham Handicap: Lady Barragan, 1; Lady Commodore 2; Thebes 3 Mandurah Handicap: Don Sebastian, 1; Edith Direct, 2; Lady Watheroo, 3.

TATTERSALL'S RACES at BELMONT

SATURDAY

MARCH 16th

Under 12

30 yards freestyle N Price s.BHS)

1 J Outtrim (s B H S ), 2: S Dolin (s M C ) 3 Time, 22 25sec 30 yards

breaststroke: R Boys (SM.U ) 1 P Sheppard (S M.C), 2; K. Rees (VS C) Time, 28sec.

s Under 10

0 yards freestyle: S Hooper (S M C)

I;J Wilson (S MC), 2; L Outridge

GS H H S , 3 Time, 21 1-5sec (record) 30 yards breaststroke: P Sheppard S MC), I, R Hooper (S M C) 2; L Outridge (SHHS), Time, 30sec record)

CATHOLIC TENNIS ASSOCIATION

By "RON"

Country Carnival Cancelled

This year's country carnival has necessarily been cancelled, owing to the inability of AII Hallows' Club, Boulder, to participate.

Council Meeting

The first council meeting of the new season was held at Bacton House on Friday evening last being well attended by delegates The chief business was the election of the various committees, which resulted as follows: Executive, Messrs A. E Heagney, D A MeGillivray, J W Wall, P Reilly J T Edwards, W O Stainthorpe, J Tully and E De Luca; shield committee, Messrs D A McGillivray J Wall, E De Luca, J Tully, Jack Ed

wards F Cripps and J T Edwards; permit committee J Edwards senr R Forbes and E. De Luca; finance committee, Mesrs W Waltho, B C Hagarty, and J Wall; appeal board, Messrs F Darcy, T Anderson, and H McDermott; chairman of social committee, Mr Jack Edwards; secretary of social committee Mr Les. McGovern; press correspondent, Mr R A Morris

Theresian Club

Last week-end the Theresians continued with their annual tournaments McMahon atoned for his defeat at the hands of Forbes by taking Molloyto 97 in the third set of their championship match Neil Hanley continues to show his fine form on the courts

We again appeal to parishioners of Maylands, Inglewood and Mt. Lawley to support their Catholic tennis club

Mr D A McGillivray (phone U1979 will be pleased to answer any enquiries

Nedlands Club

A tennis picnic to Point Walter has been arranged for Sunday, March 3l

It is intended to hire a launch for the dav and members and their friends wil be conveved from either Barrackstreet r the Nedlands Jetty Hot water, milk and tea will be prvided Details will be announced next week

CHILDREN OF JACK DEMP SEY BROUGHT UP CATHOLICS

Joan and Barbara Dempsey, I daughters of Jack Dempsey, go j to Mass every Sunday with their mail Mthough the former El champion and his wife are no jg Catholics, they intend to bring their children up in the Catho ie faith

When Jack was interviewed and questioned at the baptis- ii mal of Joan, he said that Joan% was going to get something he ever got and that was a good ii Catholic education ii

He recently told friends the I smartest thing he ever did in his life was to have his children # baptised Catholics

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VICAR DELIVERS COAL TO PRIEST

London

Canon M Parmentier, parish priest of St Augustine's, Nottingham, found himself with a coal cellar as bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard during the severe weather

All that he had to console him was a promise that his coal was onorder and would be delivered "as soon as it is humanly possible"

Imagine the Canon's surpose and pleasure when he saw the vicar of St Ann's a neighbouring Church of Engiand parish, the Rev A Bromham staggering up the presbytery steps beneath the weight of a huge sack of coal he was carrying on his back

He delivered with the coal a friendly mess?ge that, hearing of Canon Par mentier's plight, he had brought a small contribution "to keep the home fires burning"

Priest

Father

Silence to

Ridicules Cry -- Coughlin

The move to slene the Rev Charles E Coughlin, radio priest, marked for investigation y the FB.I, in connection with the Christian Front probe; is he subject of comment in Along the Way'syndicate l news column of the Rev Daniel A. Lord, SJ editor of ·The Qnen's Work' Father Lord writes: Of course you've run into the perfeetly good non-Catholic and the atholic too) who wants to suppress Father Coughlin I must confess they amuse me more than a little I was always under the impression that our constitution guaranteed free speech to everyone, even to a priest And just because a man put on a Roman collar was no reason for denying him the rights we fought and bled for 'However, there's another angle "During the Middle Ages, the Church did actually suppress heretics When men said terrible things, untruthful

U.S. GATHOLIC YOUTHS FAVOUR DEMOCRACY.

By a vote of 9 to 1, 20,000 Catholie young men and women expressed interest in the preservation of demoeracy n the United States, according to responses to a questionnaire sent to all parts of the nation by the Rev Daniel A Lord, SJ, editor of "The Queen's Work."

The question asked was: "Are young Catholics interested in the preservation of democracy?" The response showed that the youths clearly think that democraey is important to them and to the future

Among reasons given were that demoeraev gives ibertv to evervone; that the value of democracy has been brought home to Americans since the rise of dictatorships in some coure tries, that democracy is not so likely to be involved in war· that the end of democracy would prob bly mean the beginning of a persecution of the Cathohe Church; and that Americans know a good thing and mean to keep it

The comparative few who replied 'no" offer the plea, for the most part that thev hadn't given the matter much thought, Father Lord added

DEMOCRACY CONCEIVED BY

CATHOLIC CHURCH. LECTURER POINTS OUT.

Cincinnati Democracv was conceived bv the Catholic Church. This was stressed by the Rev Daniel A Lord, S J., of St Louis, editor of 'The Queen's Work" and nationally famous author and lee turer, who addressed a rally at Taft Auditorium here recently under sponsorship of the St. Xavier's Church conference of the St Vincent de Paul Societv

'We are strong for the thing we call human dignity" Fr Lord said "and we are filled with amazement when we find anywhere n the world people who deny or deride our pet ideas. Some day or other we are going to ask ourselves where we got those ideas When that happens there is going to be a stampede into the C tholie Church For the plain fact is that never would those ideas have hit the world if it had not been for the Catholic Church, and to-dav the Church is the one organisation fighting most vigorously for their preservation

"Take science without faith, for instance If men are animals as that group maintains, then it is ridiculous to talk of democracy There is not, there never has been and there can be no democracy among animals

If Christ had not taught the fatherhood of God no one of us would ever have guessed the brotherhood of man, and without that brotherhood there is no democracy possible.

"It the Catholic religion had not held up Mary and the Child in her arms, we in the Unitd States would be treating woman as she was treated in Greece and Egvot and India nd China and in the labour battalions of Europe And if we had not known through the Catholic Church, union in the Kingdom of God we would be living according to the jungle moralitv of ruthless competition and in the battlefields of civilisation across the water"

TO TRANSLATE FATHER LORD'S PAMPHLETS INTO FRENCH

St Louis The Rev R Dunn S J of Immaculate Conception Scholasticate Montral has been authorised bv the Rev Daniel A Lord, SJ, to translate all Father Lord's pamphlets into the French language Father Dunn will eoervise the distribution of the pamphlets in the French speaking world, the announcement added,

things, things against faith and morals, they were silenced-and promptly! As I remember the good Protestant his tory I studied in my high school, the author (and all the other authors of his ilk) regarded this as the most irightful abuse of power They imp'ied that the Protestant reformation had been put through largely because the Church did such unspeakable things as silencing priests and laymen who shot off their mouths out of turn But noz it seems that our good Protestant friends think the Church cught to start silencing people all over egain And it ought to start on Father Coughlin. We were wrong when we silenced heretics; we are wrong because we do not silence a Ca tholic priest who, whether you agree with him or not, is certainly not talking heresy and is merely exercising his constitutional right of free speech "Say I for the thousandth time in dealing with non-Catholics: Wil you please make up your mind?' "

NEW YORK HAS NEGRO CATHO LIC MAGISTRATE.

New York Mr Myles Paige, who has been named by Mayor La Guardia as th first coloured magistrate ever appointed to the special sessions bench in the history of New York State, is a prominent figure in Catholic organisations here

He is a member of the board of directors of the Catholic Inter-racial Council and a Knight of Columbus

AT NORTH PERTH FACING MONASTERY GROUNDS

Beautifully appointed brick tiled Re sidence, containing spacious hall and passages, 7 large and lofty rooms, wide verandahs and sleep-out, all in perfect order with every convenience; charmng lawns and double garage sewerage nside and out (NP 210 WOULD SUIT TWO FAMILIES OWNER LEAVING AUSTRALIA PRICE, £1,300 TERMS ARRANGED HODD, CUTHBERTSON and NORTH, LTD

DEATH.

OBRIEN -On March 10, 1940, suddenly Vivian dearly loved wife of Stephen O Brien of 55 Mackie-street Victoria Park, loving daughter of Mr and Mrs Jones (Victoria Park), loving sister of May Mrs Poole (South Perth), Ivy, Mrs Wells (Victoria Park), and Lionel; loving daughterin-law of Mrs E O'Brien, sister-nlaw of Michael, Francis Thomas Mary, Nancy, and Rose O'Brien; loving aunty of Brian Poole, Laurel Wells and Thomas O'Brien; aged 21 vears, Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her

IN MEMORIAM

CROWLEY In loving memory of dear Monica, who passed away on March 17, 1931 Sweet Jesus, have mercv on her soul -Inserted by her mother and family

HAGAN.- -Of your charity, pray for the soul of Ellen Teresa Hagan, who died on March 16, 1939 Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on her soul Blessed Virgin, help of Christians, pray for her -Inserted by the Hagan family

SCOTT-Sacred to the memory of my dear husband, Walter Scott, who departed this life on March 15, 1939 As his soul was departing and his eyes were closing in death the hands raised o'er him in blessing were the sacred hands of the priest. Sweet Jesus, have merev on his soul R.IP

Inserted by his sorrowing wife and family

Can we Christianise the Machine Age? Yes

Dr. Simonds

Calls for Realignment of Industry in Occupational Groups

In a most important and penetrating address, delivered at St Mary's Cathedral, Hobart, and broadcast through 3AR by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, on Sunday, 3rd inst, His Grace the Archbishop of Hobart, Most Rev J D Simonds, DD, DPh., examined constructively the fundamental problem of the age--namely, the challenge of a depraved and damoralising industrialism to twentieth century Christians Dr Simonds asked and answered two questions:

(1) Is there any Christian solution for this grave social evil except the gloomy prospect of slavery offered by the exponents of atheistic Comunism? Yes

(2) Is it possible to idealise or even Christianise the soulless mechanism of modern industrial life? Yes

Dr Simonds expounded the Church's spiritual teaching on the dignity of human abour from the life of Christ the workingman, a doctrine vividly reaffirmed n ur own time by the Young Christian Workers' Movement and utlined the Church's social teaching on the reorganisation of Capital and Labour in occupational groups

ACAl{PEl\'TER'S shop, said Dr Simonds was the school in which the Son of God allowed Himself to be initiated into the things of the world which He came to redeem The King of kings chose to be a labourer and to be initiated into His lowly trade by a humble artisan of Nazareth There is a profound and important lesson for the modern world in this phase of the human life of the God-Man. The hands in which were poised the destinies of the universe had been roughened by lbour at a workman's bench, and had often been held out to receive the scanty wages of His hard-earned craftsmanship Modern Industrialism

Jesus Christ the Workman at a craftsman's bench is an alluring inspiration for those Christian workers of the twentieth century who are so anxious to Christianise the toil of modern industrialism instead of allowing it to degrade and demoralise them

Those of vou who are familiar with the history of industry during the last couple of centuries know that a great industrial evolution or revolution-developed during the I8th. century when the newly-invented power-driven machines began gradually to displace the individual skill of the artisan From this radical development the face of industrial life was changed. The ownership of the means of production passed from the hands of the workman to those who controlled capital, and with this change began most of the economic ills which afflict society to-day Unhappily the economic philosophy which dominated men's minds at the time encouraged the unhampered exploitation of labout, and violently resisted protective or ameliorative measures on behalf of the exploited workingman Class Warfare

The worker, n a condition of isolation and poverty, was forced to sell his labour on the cheapest market or suffer the cruel fate of unemployment, and slowly, but surely, the dignity of man became debased as he was gradually subjugated to the machine. As the victim of this system began to organise to protect their mutual interests, the labourer became conscious of his own strength and of his essential position in the industrial world A growing chasm between the worker and his employer began to yawn and there developed the modern state of classwarfare, which s one of the most tragic features of contemporary life As Pope Pius XI sadly remarked, on the labour market of to-day men are sharply divided into two classes, as into two hostile camps, and the conflicts between these two parties convert the industrial world into an arena where two armies are engaged in conflict This line of cleavage cuts right through the whole ot our social life, and as long as this condition perseveres society must be continually subjected to industrial conflicts, tending towards the violence of revolution rather than to the peaceful evolution of social harmonv Occupational Groups. Is there any Christian solution for this grave social evil except the gloomy prospect of slaverv offered bv the exponents of atheistic Communism? Yes

The Catholic Church, through the voice of her modern Pontiffs, proposes to the world a plan of society in which the present class war may be replaced by a reign of social peace based upon the Christian virtues of justice and charity Pope Pins XI. appealed for a reorganisation of both Capital and Labour within each trade or ndustry by a realignment of men into occupational groups which would replace the present class-warfare The organisations that exist at present in industry are all on class lines thev are unions of em-

ployers alone or of employees alone, but not of employers and employees

Wherever men have a common interest in trade or profession, the representatives of both Capital and Labour in each trade or profession should be united in joint occupational boards sharing interests of the trade, and meeting regularly for discussion on all points of disagreement, and for the purpose of promoting their mutual interests and the common god of those affected by the ndustry Council of Co-Operation.

All the occupational unions in any country would naturally be federated into a National Council of Co-operation which would possess a large measure of autonomy in planning the economic life of its particular occupation These autonomous unions would be able t defend the interests of all those who had any stake in the particular calling, and resist the growing tendency of the State to arrogate to itself the right of complete control ust as every citizen in our present regmme must belong to some political electorate and be a member of sone municipality, so he would belong to some occupational group or other, according to the profession or calling he pursues, or according to his interests Pope Pius XI thus envisaged a society organicaly reformed and re-established upon a true social basis, whose members cooperate for their mutual benefit in a spirit of social justice, while the soul of the whole order is charity, combined with a recognition of the dignity and the rights of man

Dignity of Human Labour

As a first step in implementing this Christian reorganisation of social and industrial life, the Popes have appealed for a recognition of the inherent worth and dignity of human labour so that the workingman may enjoy that measure of self-respect and social esteem that is due to him In the davs of the individual artisan, whose skill produced the finished product of his particular trade, labour was invested with a radiance of its own and appealed to the tradesman as a thing of joy But in the mass-production methods of our machine age, with its minute division of labour amongst factory "hands,'' the workman has tended to become a mere appendage to the mchine, and it generally happens that the repetition of mono onous and uninspiring actions is all that is required of him in his daily toil

Is it possible to idealise or even to Christianise the soulless mechanism of modern industrial life? Yes Even those who take no account of the spiritual nature of man and of his supernatural destiny must realise that when man is incorporated into a vocational organisation of production, such as is envisaged by the Pope, his relation to societv is immediately elevated He is no longer applying himself to his toil merely as a means of providing himself with the necessities of lif , but is also conscious that the fruit of his labour is of value to the communit The usefulness which members of most of the professions render to society is obvious to us For example, we feel a sense of obligation and of gratitude to the medical man whose professional skill assists us to regain our health after a serious illness, and it is more or less apologetically that we offer him our fee, for his service to us s not something than can be equated to a monev value Until the workingman's contribution to society is similarly realised he has not attained to that position in society which the dignity of human labour demands But when he s incorporated as an essential member in a vocational organi-

His carpenter's ench fashioned the raw material of timber into simple works of His craft, such as ploughshares and yokes, which supplied some humble human need • As a lowly carpenter, He was thus continuing, extending and evolving the creative work by which as the Word of God He created the universe at the beginning of time In his characteristic fashion Papini asks us to imagine how, as the pale shavings curled beneath His plane, or the sawdust dropped to the ground to the strident rhythm of His saw, He must have thought that it is a aw of life that all base material must be transformed and refashioned if it is to become the useful friend of man Soon He would leave His bench, where He aboured on base matter to toil for souls But the same principle would guide His work in the realm of the spirit For just as a ploughshare was fashioned by Him from the gnarled and twisted trunk of an olive tree, so also the most hardened and unregen erte soul can be transformed by the discipline cf grace into a being fit for the Kingdom of Heaven

sation of production, he will cease to figure in society as one who sells his abour as a mee wage-earner in order to keep body and soul together, and the social character and usefulness of his labour will be recognised in the community

Young Christian Workers

But for the atholie there is something much more elevated and spiritual in the Young Christian Workers' Movement, which began in Belgium about fifteen years ago, and which is ast spreading to most civilised countries The members oi this virile organisation have taken their nspiration from Ghrist the Worker at His carpenter's bench, and have determined to elevate and spiritualise their labour rather than allow themselves to be degraded by the machine As members of Christ's Mystical Body they are conscious of their incorporation in Him and therefore their toil is also mncorporated in the labour of the Divine carpenter at His bench. In this lofty concept all human industry is capable of offering worship and glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost

Transforming the Raw Material

St Justin tells us that Jesus Christ at

The Young Christian Worker, conscious of his incorporation into Christ by grace, proclaims that work is not a curse or a slavery, but is a co-opera tion and a collaboration with the Creator of our race. This is a refreshing conception of life and labour It has already proved to be a veritable revolution, for these young men have al ready succeeded in giving a mystic sig nificance even to the whirring wheels of modern industrialismThis is the spirit of Catholic Action I exhort evervone who wishes to see the Christianising of our debased in dustrial ife to pray for and to work for, the expansion of these ideals The new order for which the Popes have appealed has its heralds in these young Catholic Actionists who are determined to bring to bear upon their daily toil the religion of Jesus the Carpenter

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Cricket

W.A.CA First Grade Results

Claremont, 155 and 2 for 100, defeated East Perth, 124, on the first innings West Perth 156 and I for 7l defeated North Perth, 11I, on the first innings Subiaco 8 for 341 (dee) defeated North-East Fremantle, 85 and 6 for 145, on the first innings Mt Lawley, 174 defeated Fremantle 9 on the first innings

Noteworthy Performances

Batting: Watt 5 ) 128; Wilberforce (NP) 50 not out Bowling: Rowe (CI), 3 for 12; Eyres (C1 ), 3 for 34; Shea (WP), 3 for 12; Cumming (S ) 4 for 32; Wililams (F) 5 for 54

Brieflets

The finalists are Subiaco and West Perth but at writing the time of commencement of the premiership was not known

Dave Watt's 128 is his first century in top grade cricket, and a great innings it was He compiled his runs in 142 minutes, and hit three "sixers and thirteen "four's" He is our best stroke-maker

Captain Bob Wilberforce, with 50 not out played a very meritorious innings

The Northerners were very unlucky to be without the services of Ossie Lovelock; his batting might have made all the difference

A WACA XI-poorly selected by the way-will play Geraldton at Easter

Notches

n extraordiarv incident occurred during the match between The Army and the Australians on the occasion of the last tour Jack Fingleton, fielding at mid-on, tried to run out a batsman His throw-in proved so accurate that the ball removed the bails at the bowler's end, and went on to hit the wicket at the other end Despite this great piece of work, neither batsman was out

Between April 30 and May 27 (inclusive), 1938, Don Bradman, in England scored 1021 runs W J Edrich Middlesex) completed a four-figure agregate on May 31, all his runs being scored at Lord's His opportunity to achieve this distinction was afforded by Bradman who, on the last day of the Middlesex • Australia match, declared his team's innings closed and left Midlesex with fifteen minutes' batting Edrich needed ten runs to reach his 1000 and quickly scored that number

M S Nichols, of Essex, in 1938, was the first player to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets for the season He completed this feat as early as August 15 It was the fourth consecutive season in which he had pulled off "The Double'a record

Another 1938 "curio" was accomplished by A Fagg of Kent in compiling two separate scores of over 200 in the same match He did this against Essex244 in the first innings and 202 not out in the second

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Boxing

BOX.ING UPSET

By "RECORDER."

One of the greatest boxing upsets, of recent times, anyway, was the beating of Max Baer by Tommy Farr. Before the gong sounded Max was quoted at 8 to l on, and probably these odds were justified The Welshman had gone through a bad run and very, very few gave him any possible chanee against Baer elittled, derided, all forlorn, Tommv Farr made full redemption of n promise that he would beat the trumpeter physically magnificent, cock-sure Max Baer and no British heavyweigh champion ever won a triumph more popular or one so richly deserved The exposure of Baer was complete, rutnless, and to his unrelenting crities, almost incredible. For a pale-faced square cut, near to a stone lighter, unsmiling silent man who but a few weeks back had attained t p-rank 'argely because of the poverty oi the Eglish opposition, scaled such heights that Baer was robbed of everything of his reputation By craftsmanship, cunning style speed, and by confidence, Farr shaped the fight as he meant it to be shaped, and as t best suited him No fighting on the retreat, no covering up, no clinching, no mauling He jumped smartly into action and before Baer had time to bling he had shot home a stinging left and got close to drive a right to the body and before the round was over Baer had both eyes badly cut

Max made light of these hurts, but there was in his expression a note of apprehension Not even his most expansive grin could disguise his uncertainty as to what might happen next

In the second round Far's fotwork beat Max badly He was frequently made to tilt at the wind with vicious right uppercuts, but always he was badlv out of distance

However, Baer showed his fighting spirit in a purple patch He staged a great fight-back and for the nonce it seemed to man that he had been "foxing.'' He went for Farr with everything in him and almost at once the cry was heard "Now he's on the job, this is the beginning of the end for Farr who had his eve cut with a beautiful straight left In the fourth round aer fought exceedingly well and heroically Could Farr hold him through this brilliant burstit wes a veritaole turning of the tables Farr, however, answered the fighting challenge of Max He refused to break ground. To his everlasting credit, instead of floundering, he shot out a left as quick as lightning, and as straight as a die, followed with a right to the jaw, and at once was the leading actor again It was a thrilling round chalenge and counter-challenge

Again in the fifth round the Welshman scored with clean svift punches, and left Baer bewildered bv the excellence of his footwork Not vet was Baer out of it He made Farr gasp when he buried a punch n his midriff, and was fighting strongly when the gong called for a spell In the sixth Baer was fighting very strongly, but Farr took up the challenge once again, stood toe to toe, and for a couple of minutes made Max the receiver-in-general Baer's eyes were deeply cut and he looked towards his corner, as if he desired to give it up

In the next round his seconds warned him that it was 'now or never,'' and he went along those lines Hitting out rather wildly with terrific punches

Farr's rejoinder was a smashing right, and try as he would Baer could not nail him to a given spot or force an opening through which he might send over a KO punch

So it went on In the eleventh round Baer taunted Farr Come on Tommy, you must be ; bont even now' With which taunt he coupled a blow that slashed Farr's previously damaged eye but Tommy nothing daunted held to his wits His legs were strong, his fists ever ready and powerful

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Vow came the last round, which Farr not only weathered but gave a good more than be received and he finished as he begn, the better boxer and, for the occasion, the cleverer fighter On that occasion Baer chanced to meet an inspired, an espeially brave deep thinkin supremely-confident Farr. Like a good sportsman he was first to shake his conqueror's hand They were pictured together and with that over Farr flopped on to his stool, his rection to victory probably more upsetting him than the heaviest thump he took in any of the twelve long and memorable rounds A tightly-shut eve was a mere detail, as his friends crowded sound him to shake his hand, to pat him, to fuss over him

And now we hear that Tommy has been released from his RAF dutiessomething about not being fit! Is he about to figure in the fight ring again? I know not-bot in an American authoritative paper there is a list of proposed fights for this year and one of them is: "April 15, Joe Louis v Tommy Farr"

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FAMOUS STAWELL GIFT"

The programme for the first Stawell Easter Gitt meeting in 1878, is a most interesting document and shows that those who drew t up certainly belie ed in variety For instance, in addition to running events there was a walking race, a pole vault, and an old men's race" For the last men tioned event the first prize was a pig the second prize a pig, and the third prize a sheep

RACING

Tattersall's Club will hold a meeting at Belmont on Saturday

The programme with an early (be fore the weights) both-ways' tip is given below:Juvenile Handicap: Moorianty Welter Plate: Blue Lake Welter Purse: Ripplian Tattersall's Club Handicap: Pande monium

Breeders' Handicap Trehint

Final Handicap: Skylark FROM THE EAST

After their brilliant races in the New market Handicap, I have heard it whis pered that Hilton and Chatsbury will tackle the Doncaster Handicap Hilton is a seasoned mile horse, ha ing won the Toorak Handicap with 9 4 The Newmarket was his third race since he resumed work and he ran a great race, finishing second from a long way back He will improve provided, of course, that he does not go wrongNorlen TROTTING.

Special trams and trains are being provided for Saturdays meeting at Richmond Park

The programme will open with the Breeders' Handicap, 1l miles for v hich 23 locallv breds have been handicapped. The back-markers are Miss Tarena, Red Bay, Sunstretta and Den ver's Last

For the Bicton Handicap I mile 5 furlongs, for the 222 and better class another big field is assured. The backmarker is Royal Step 108 yards bhd The March Handicap hassimilar conditions as the above, and Sandy Derbv 120 yards bhd, will give starts to 21 candidates

The St Patrick's Handicap, 11 miles for 217 class, carries £120 in prize money A high class field has been handicapped, the bark marker being Grand Mogul, 122 yards behind The Rockingham Handicap, 1 mile 5 furlongs, is for the 222 class Louis Beaden will endeavour to give nineteen others a start, and this should be a verv closely contested race

The programme will conclude with the Mandurah Handicap, 1 mile 5 furlongs, for the 22 class Here, Cloudy Range 120 yards bhd is the back marker There should be keen racing in all events

See "The Hawk's" Selections for Racing and Trotting elsewhere in this issue

Thursday, March 14, 1940

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One of his most famous feats occur red at Flemington in 1868 He rode ; horse named Babbler" to victory, carrying I3st 4lb, in the Melbourne Hunt lub Cup, and then later in the day on his own horse "Viking''won the Victory Steeplechase A race or so later he rode another of his horses Cadger" to win the Selling Steeple chase In all he covered nine miles over the stic Flemington fencesfor three starts, three wins

Last Sunday March 10 a social ericket match was played at New Norcia between Magumber and St Ildephon sus' College. The College won by 77 runs A Lanigan, the Mogumber captain won the toss and elected to bat D Read, a new player, opened the bowling from the Monastery end E Hinchliffe following from the other end iter the fourth over, Bro. Charles re placed Read who could not strike form and he and Hinchliffe soon had the Mogumber side in difficulties Their total was only 46, the highest indivi dual score being 12 Bro Charles was the College's most successful bowler while V Clune gave a fine exhibition behind the stumps I Brown and W Patterson opened the atting for SIC., and the latter was very unlucky to be bowled early for two byM Butler Then G Clune and I Brown made a stand for 74 of which Clune compiled 31 Brown re tired soon after G Clune's dismissal and then four wickets fell very cheap ly Bro Charles and B Lardi made a fast ninth wicket stand of 22, and soon after the last batsman was dismissed J Lanigan bowled best for Mogumber, taking 5 wickets for 24 runs Scores Mogumber, 46 Bowling: Bro Charles, 5 for 9; E Hinchliffe, 2 for 16; B Lardi, 2 for 6. College W Patterson b M Butler 2 I Brown retired • G Clune, b K Graham • J Hay, b J Lanigan V. Clune, Lb w, b K Graham E Hinchliffe, b J Lanigan J Groves, Lbw, bJ Lanigan D Read b J Lanigan Bro Charles, not out B Lardi, b K Lanigan W Prosser, b J Lanigan Sundries

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Thursday, March 14, 1940.

Miracle CAI0uI

IT\IN of Tramp

Mott

Ex-Communist and began U.S. Worker Movement WHERE IS CHRIST TODAY?

I W!AS in Cairo last year, seeing a' its sights and treasures; but we ere a long way away before I realised that Christ was there, and l had missed him He had lived in these oriental cities actually in this city so they told me He was poor-not like an American or an Englishman is poor -but like these Egyptians are poor; and I could have seen him there in the middle of them, homeless men, sleeping on old rugs in the public street He was hungry like these Eastern beggars are hungry; and I had turned away with a shudder at their faces without seeing the eyes of Christ looking out at me A guide took me to "Old Cairo' where (it is said) he lived with Mary and J seph for some time There an aged Greek priest told me that these rarrow streets and dark smelly houses are the same as they were when he was there I scattered a few useless coins among the children he had played with but hurried quickly past the dirty beggars He had cured, the diseased men he had touched, the cripples he had made to walk

And then one day I saw him when I was all alone and his eyes were sad as he said to me: 'I was hungry in Cairo and you gave me not to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me not to drink; naked and you clothed me not "

In the United States to-day there is a small group of people who n the middle of Mammon's city, the greatest man has ever built, have looked for Christ and have found Him They have found Him as he was in Cairo, in the poor workshop at Nazareth, tramping the streets of Jerusalem The words he will use on the last day tell us where to find Him WHERE TO FIND HIM

They found Him at Mott Street, Nev York, a slum condemned two years ago by the Government as unfit to live in Led bv a convert Communist woman Dorothy Day, and a French Am erican tramp, Peter Maurin, they have started the American Catholic Worker movement Each day, in their "House of Hospitality" they feed 1,500 men, and thev house and clothe others who are too poor to receive help frem orthodox "charitable institutions"

But the main thing about them is that their lives are a challenge, a cha1 lenge in one way to everybody; but above all to Catholics, who have been told by Christ to love one another,'' not with any sort of love, but "as I have loved you"

The great truth in Christia ity s that we go to the Father only through Christ; but we must accept the whole Christ, in Himself and in His members; all his members, even the poorest of the poor: accepting them and oving them as Christ Himself has loved them And He has told us directly that it is insofar as we have seen Him living in them that He will recognis us as His friends on the last day

There are in the world to-dv hundreds of thousands of men who, even after two thousand vears of Christianity,are literally starving. There are millions more without work, and some with it who find it a struggle tc keep body and soul together You can see some of them in the streets, sometimes n the gutters, with all hope lost

It is for God to judge them, he system under which they liv, and the men who run it

The great majority of them struggle along, happy enough perhaps-snarelv they are happier than the rich Yet over their lives alwavs hangs the grim spectre of poverty, the chance of going under as thev have seen manv of their neighbours do. Insecurity· it leads to despair, so thev are turning more and more to Communism, which at least holds out some hope Some have never heard of Christ Others were once His friends and have turned their backs on Him ONE OF THEMSELVES.

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is life was the same as theirs, He too, was born in poverty, and lived in rt all his life To-dav if he wer back

Catholic

This article by J J Heffey is intended as a summary of an article by Father Reinhold in "Blackiriars' " Magazine

n person, He would be living in the midst of them, in the slums, sharing everything with them, everythirg, their wrk and unemployment their suffering, their hunger, their insecurity comforting and teaching them, but as one of themselves, so that you and I might not notice Him Yes, there is no doubt where we would find Christ to-day.

This being one with the poor, sharng their very lives, being like them in everything, so that they ARE the poor themselves-this is how they have found "life" in the American Catholic Worker Movement They think it is the method Christ used and would use again It is their apostoate, They live in a condemned slum Men, women and children are still living in it because a politician has pulled strings and some rich man is still drawing his rents There are twenty famlies in each building with perhaps one water tap and one toilet in the backyard The Catholic Worker house s one room, deep, damp, and carries with it the smell of many changing gererations of poor unhygienic people

Here somehow they find food for the scum of the earth who seem eyond hope, but it is the food they themselves eatfor they too are the poor

They will find them somewhere to live here in these same rooms where thev live themselves They have begged supplies of old, worn-out clothing, they give it to the poor, and they wear it themselves They will find a bed for sick men, and poor men, and drunken men If one of these late guests" arrives when there is no room they will make room for him and sleep themselves on the floor of the landing or on a desk or on a chair And always in their hearts there is an answer to any question: "Would not Christ have done the same?"

I have said that their live: are a hallenge a challenge to everybody

Each one of us should and MUST apply that challenge to himself-discontented poor and comfortable rich, street sweepers and professional men (especially perhaps those who dal with human suffering), men on the land, and industrial workers, the youth f the world (so many wondering what thev can do for Christ), above all priests and even religious with a vow of poverty

Men in our times are beginning to hear more and more of Catholicism, They have heard of the encyclicals of two great Popes, often quoted by the statesmen of the world They Know that there are great monasteries and convents where men and women practice poverty, chastity and obedience, and that the Catholic priest has made great sacrifices They sometimes look doubtfully at our beautiful universities and schools, seminaries, monasteries, presbyteries convents, social organisation (and perhaps banquets conferences in first-class hotels, etc), comparing them with certain things in the world which they know are run for monev and pleasure

BOURGEOIS CATHOLICS.

But they can see quite clearly the bourgeois Catholic, men and women who are ashamed of the name who live in luxurv (and in mortal sin) when fellow Christians around them, soretimes their own employees, are living in miserv men who are presidents of banks trusts industrial plants, without religion, but with Catholic names; who will sneer atsaints working in the slums and call the Catholic Worker Movement "Communist." Even in gities known to be predominantly Catholic, men cannot see what makes a Catholic

different from other Christians what makes a true Christian different from a non-Christian business 'man-their lives in practice mount to the same And at the sight of all this they ask and are right in asking, for deeds

Well, they will see deeds at Mott St , heroic deeds, year in and year ut They will see here too the difference betzeen Christian love and the sometimes dangerous organised charity of our age.

Dorothy Day was once told by a lady who was "also keenly interested in the poor workers'' that her work was degrading, unsystematic and disorderly It was against the principles of up-to-date social work; nice «dean quarters for the staff dressed in so£less white, telephones on all desks beautiful file boxes full of carefullv typed copied and re-typed appliestions, cards, and statistics: Have vou ever been here before? What illness did your grandmother die of? When did you have the measles? Do yo receive support from other sources?

Well, Dorothy got mad" and said: Why do we feed the scum of the earth and shelter bums who ARE beyond hope? I'I] tell you: because they are our brethren We want no assets we want obligations We want to carry the burden of our neighbour; we do not want to sit in the comfortable swinging chairs f well and over-organised charity " "Who WiI be a Fool-For Christ?"

Dorothy Day, a sensitive woman, of forty, a successful journalist, well educated, with a keen sense of the beautiful, living with Christ and the p or in Mott St. Peter Maurin, the son of a French peasant a tramp all his hfe a master of Catholic thought w!o thrills everyone from professors of theology down to unemployed men and washerwomen Behind them a small group who have nothing in this world, whe have sacrificed everything and have learnt to love Christ.

Look at them and meditate on them, and then think of vourself, vour ambitions the lives of men and women in this world of bourgeois comfort We are startled at Mott St: it makes us ask questions, look for precedents; the saints are their precedents and they are all based on the model of Nazareth Oh, yes, we must be prudent-the trouble with us is we are rotting with prudence Who will be a fool for Christ?

Catholic Women's League

The monthly meeting of the Catho. lie Women's League will take place in St Joseph's Hall on April 8 at 8 pm

As the general elections are to take place on this evening, all members are earnestly requested to be present

YOUNG MEN'S CLUB NOTES

Easter Dance

Members are requested to reserve East Saturday evening for the "Carnival Dance'' to be held in honour of the visiting Catholic country tennis players The venue will be St Joseph's Hall and the admission price is only 2s A special well-known city orchestra has been engaged for this occasion and supper will be provided

You all remember our last Easter dance, well, this will outdo it easily and the committee can assure everyone of a wonderful night's entertainment

Advertise it well amongst your friends get them to come along and enjoy themselves as, patrons of the Subiaco Catholic Young Men's Club

Meeting

On Monday next the usual fortnight ly meeting will be held A full attend nce is requested, as important details re the Easter dance and the longawaited Marathon" will be discussed

Bunbury

Annual Bazaar

Remote preparatins are being made to organise forces for the above event

An important item is the art union, The books of tickets are being printed, and as usual a list of good prizes have been selected After the Easter holidays tickets will be issued to the parishioners thus leaving six months to dispose of such tickets and they should easily all be sold

Holy Name Society

Last Sunday proved to be another satisfactory day so far as the attendance of members of the Society at their Holy Communion and meeting was concerned. However, the collection to meet the levy of 3d per member was extremely disappointing The atten+' n of members is directed to the indulgence which may be gained by wear ing habitually the badge of the Society

The Sacred Heart Sodalitv and Chillren of Marv attendance at their monthly ommunion and Holy Hour was very satisfactory to their Spiritual Director We understand that the Sacred Heart Sodality intend to present a set of white vestments to the priest No better evidence of the attention members pay to all their obli gations could be given

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Mr W. Keliy, Dumbteyung Branch. Mr Arthur, Inglewood Branch.

General Meeting

The annual general meeting of delegates of the above Diocesan Union will be held in the Cathedral Hall, Murraystreet, Perth, on Tuesday, March 19, 1940, at 8 pm

Business

I» Election of officers

2) Deal with notice of motion "That these meetings be held annually instead of quarterly"

(3) General

It is essential that this meeting shall be well attended, and country branches are notified so that if any of their members are in Perth or able to attend they may do so Branches are reminded that their representation consists of Rev Spiritual Director, President, Vice-President, Secretary, and one delegate from every 100 members, or part thereof, but not to exceed four delegates, making in all eight representatives ranch levies for 1940 are iow due and may be paid at this meeting

Holy Name Indulgence

The Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, by virtue of faculties from His Holiness Pope Pius XII, graciously grants a partial indulgence of 300 days, once a day, to members of the Holy Name Society in Australia who habitually wear the badge of the Society in public, if at least with a contrite heart they devoutly make the ejaculation: Blessed by the Name of the Lord"

The Archbishops and Bishops of the Australian Dioceses in which the Holy Name Society exists have all graciously consented to the promulgation of the indulgence in their respectIve dioceses

His Grace Archbishop Prendiville has requested that notification of this indulgence shall be sent to all branches in the Perth Archdiocese

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larch 17 Narrogin, 8 am Marling

10.30 a m March 24 Narrogin 8 am: Williams, 10 am March 31: Narrogin, 8 am Wandering, 10.30 am April 7· Narrogin, 8 a.m: Yearling, 11 am April 14 Wickepin, 830 am: Narrogin, 1030 am April 21: Narrogin, 8 am; Yilliminning, 930 am April 28· Cuballing 8 30 am Narrogin 1030 am

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PIm Sundav 830 am Easter Sundav· 8 am Sunday, March 31: 8 am NORTH BEACH Easter Sunday 930 am

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The annual Mass and Holy Communion of the Newman Society will take place in the Cathedral on Sunday March 31, Low Sunday.

His Grace the Archbishop will celebrate Mass at 8 a.m, during which the members will receive Holy Communion. The occasional sermon will be preached by the Rev J T McMahon, M.A, PhD, Chaplain to the Society A Communion bre. kfast will be held after the Mass Graduates and undergraduates are expected to wear academic dress It is alsc hoped this year that all lawyers will robe for the occasion Particulars about transport will appear next week

General Meeting

The annual general meeting will take place on Monday, I8th nst, at the University Refectory at 8 pm Freshers are specially requested to attend The election of officers will be held

Monthly Meeting. The monthly meeting of the League will be held on March 27 at 8 pm We hope to be able to announce the place of meeting in next week's issue

Annual General Meeting The annual meeting is dated for May 2, and His Grace has signified his intention of being present on that occas1on,

General • The Executive wishes to thank all those who helped in the street appeal for the Polish Relief on Friday last Also our thanks are due to "We1 wisher,''for her generous donation to the League and the Soldiers' Comforts Fund

Those desirous of giving for th furnishing of the room at the Northam hut to communicate with the Mrs Maxwell

donations chaplain's are asked President,

Third Order of St. Francis

The monthly meeting took place on Sunday, March 3, and was well attended Our spiritual director, Rev Alan Johnston, was unable to be present, so Bro Prefect gave a reading from Father Fulgence Myer's "Seraphic Highway,' dealing with the tertiaries obligations

During the month Bro Mangini left to join the Jesuits He is the second from the fraternity to do so A letter was read from Rt. Rev Monsignor Hawes, who has been on a pilgrimage to Rome conveying his good wishes to the fraternity

DISTRICT BOARD.

The drive" for new members being conducted for the period ending June 30 next is progressing fairly well; some branches being already well on the way in the work of obtaining their quotas The District Board urges every branch to strive assiduously to ensure success for its own ecort n this most important work

Members on Active Service

The Registrar of Friendly Societies has now fixed the concessions that the societies are authorised to grant to members enlisting for active service, namely: I Members on active service are to be exempt from payment of contributions.

2 They will not be entitled to sickness benefits while on active service

3. In the event of death whilst on active service a death benefit of £25 will be paid to the relatives

4 Assistance to the extent of 10s per year will be given to heup defray medical fees for dependants of members who were on the lists at the time of enlistment

5. Application for these concessions must be made by the member; except, of course in the case of members who hav already gone overseas, an effort will be made to ascertain their desires and intentions

6. On discharge from the Forces the member will by intimating his desire so to do, be entitled to resume his position in the society on the same basis as that which applied to him before enlistment

7 "Active service'' covers members enlisted in the military, naval or air force for the duration of the war, or on the permanent forces but does not include members taking part in ordinary militia training camps

St Mary's Branch

At the meeting held on 6th inst which was presided over by the president Sr Verna Hales there was a splendid attendance of members Three new benefit members were admittd The quarterly Communion will take place on 3lst inst The syllabus item, Sing Song,''was a great success, Sr Peggy Knox proving a very able accompaniste Wednesday next, being in Holy Week there is no item on the syllabus for that night, but at the following meeting a parlour bowls match will be held

St Joachim's Branch

Owing to the unavoidable absence of the president, Sr Murphy presided at the meeting held on March 4 Our sincere sympathy is extended to Bro Steve O'Brien in his sad bereavement Bro G Keogh is improving but is still under medical treatment The attendance at the suarterlv Communion was very gratifying Three prospectiye members were nominated for initiation at the next meeting on March 18

Fifty yards of material is now on hand from Castledare and Sr Hardy asked for volunteers to assist the sewing circle make it into garments

In connection with the Soldiers' Welfare Organisation some of the tertiaries have done good work n iron was kindly donated to the cause and was won by Miss Tormay who re-donated it in the same cause \l doll and basinette was won by Thelma Mulcahy, 152 Ninth-avenue, Inglewood. This was disposed of on account of the burary fund

Bro Prefect was pleased to announce that Sr Rita Wilson was much improved from her recent llness

There are many excellent books in the library, which have not been widely read. Tertiaries should avail themselves of their access to such fine literature The meeting closed with Benediction

Masses for Easter Sunday. Queen's Park: 730 and 9.15 am Armadale: 7.45 a m Karagullen: 930 am Holy Thursday. Queen's Park, Mass 7 am Good. Friday Stations of the Cross, Queen's Park 3 pm; Armadale, 3 pm; Gosnells, 415 p.m Holy Saturday Queen's Park Blessing of Fire Paschal Candle and Font follwe' by Mass 730 a.m The children are looking forward to their dav of davs at Gloucester Park next Saturday They are even hoping to see some of their names adorning the prize lists Congratulations to Mr Eric Wooltorton n his record dash to annex the coveted State 880 " This genial athlete also holds the State 440 yards title, while his brother, Bill, easily captured the three mile riband Rumour has it that a concert may spring to life shortly after Easter GOSNELLS

Parishioners and patrons of the annual St Patricks Ball are assured f the usual dainty fare at the Mad dington Hall on Saturday next March 16 Merv Rowston and his Gliders Dance Band will call the tune

By F B RUSSELL, in "The Sign"

THE stained glass windows of St Christopher's sent a rainbow ray across the chapel, Jeanne Gannon sat n the rainbow and didn't appreciate how lovely she looked with the flow of colour glancing from her dark curls Her blue eyes concntrated on the altar, on the burning andles that flickered dreamlike be- re her. Git Waring_ who sat stiffly beside her did appreciate how lovely she was but it didn't apparently add to his happiness

Father Mark came down the altar steps knelt and said the closing prayers of the Mass, and the two young people filed out with the rest of the early worshippers

"I don't suppose you ve changed your mind, yet!" Gil said almost harshly, his dark gaze fixed on a far line of trees

Jeanne's glance was as remote as a bit of sky that broke the thick grey ceiling of clouds "No!" she said, erenl- "I don't see why I should"

A gust of wind and rain whipped her tailored blue coat and Gil snatched at his felt. He looked stubborn He was angry in a way that did full iustice to his red hair A dripping hedge of crepe myrtle, rich with fuchsia-shaded blooms, brightened the way from St Christopher's to the airport

The flowers were the colour of Jeanne's lips, the colour of the high flush on her cheeks.

"So what?" Gil asked heatedly

"So I'm going to keep on flying"' Jeanne said, walking faster Ive been flying for more than two years I make good money, and since we can't get married for four months, until you finish your course, Im going to, keep my job°

We can get married right away,' Gil said furiously "We could be together every day There isn't any sense in our being separated, in your risking your life this way It's the job, thats all You value it more than you do me! It's glamorous and exciting being a stewardess You meet interesting people

"I don't know about that" she retorted warmlv f met you on a plane! Ive often wondered how you gathered the nerve "

"To fly to my father's deathbed," he finished for her his eyes bitter with hurt. "You'll remember we made a forced landing too!" Rapidly he swung about and paced off into the rain, leaving her alone at the airport office

She shouldn't have said what she did She hadn't intended to say it at all The words had escaped, and now no

Out of the wet dark sky a silver plane glided, exactly on schedule Like a sleepwalker, Jeanne adjusted her cap, and straightened the trim lines of her uniform As she met the plane a blonde girl Lila Johnson, in an identical uniform, grinned at her, lively lights dancing n her eyes

"Consider a bluebird with clipped wings'' she said. This is my last flight."

'What's

No!" Jeanne exclaimed wrong?"

"Nothing!" Lila said "AII's right Im getting married and am going to keep mv feet on the ground from now on Watch yourself, darling" she called as she tripped away "You can swim in the water, jump sideways on land, but vou can't walk on air"

Frowning, Jeanne took the other girl's place Lila was naturally giddy but nevertheless she was annoyed A person could drown in water too, and get run down bv a car with her two feet conservatively on the ground She set her mouth stubbornlv Not only had she never been in an acident in her vears of flving experience, but the air line had an absolutelv clear record except for a forced landing or two

That brought her back to Gi1 He was afraid for her He loved her and she couldn't hold his concern against him, but-his fears were baseless, comparatively speaking She wanted him to love flving, to make frequent trips bv air and not to reserve air travel simplv to cases of emergency.

A chill feeling of futility came over her as the huge silver plane lifted from the earth She didn't see how she could ever give up flving. Gil was right about her She did love her iob All along she had been fighting against relinquishing flving complete-

• Tr she could onlv make Gil get

Over hie aversion to planes then even after their marriage she could

fly They'd make long trips together, spend week-ends in New York, if they wished 1 vacation lasted so much longer if one's destination could only be reached without so much loss of time

**MECHANICALLY, she went about her duties, making passengers comfortable soothing the fears of a nervous, middle-aged lady on her first trip, quieting a fretful baby for an exquisitely dressed young wcman

All through the trip the rain continued, and she knew it was bittercold out Inside the plane however everything was snug, comfortable

At noon she served a light lunch to all the passengers, with the exception of an elderly man who was slightly airsick

One of the passengersthat young chapsays we just went through a flurry of sleet or snow" the nervous lady said, her uneasiness growing "It's rather ezrly for snot,"Jeanne answered calmly so it can't amount to much" She peered out Yes, a few white flakes were mixed with the rain

Aren't you afraid of snowstorms honey?" the woman asked Jeanne laughed "I'm not afraid of anv storm I love them! We've never had anv serious trouble from them"

She was glad, however, that Gil didn't know it was snowing He had such distorted visions of things This was an early fall, fast-melting snow, but if he knew about t, he'd sit alone n his room imaging blizzards, imagining the wings heaped high, heaping higher until the very weight of the snow brought the machine to earth, crashed it to earth

The snow changed suddenly to rain again Gil hated her to fly during storms She kept worrying about him He'd been so angry this morning What was he doing now? At his studies? Brooding? Thinking that when she returned to-morrow he'd settle the matter once and for all?

The baby was crying again His mother had asked bier to fix his milk for him, and she was taking too much time Hastil she started to sterilise the bottle, and in her hurry, tripped She caught herse'i, but her band was twisted so that her wrist commenced swelling immediately She bathed it, bandaged it, but the pain wouldn't leave and she couldn't use her right hand

The passengers were kind They helped all they could, but it was impossible for her to go on The next field was contacted for a relief stewardess and when thev landed Jeanne went to the doctor

Youll be all right in a few days," he told her; perhaps a week."

Ordinarily she would have been badly upset about the loss of time, but now, somehow she wanted to get back -she had to get back home She couldn't rest! Perhaps is was the quarrel with Gil this morning, but an uneasiness she couldn't control possessed her every faculty ' The return trip was unusual She wasn't accustomed to being a mere passenger, and her fellow stewardess took extreme delight in waiting on her Jeanne acted as lighthearted as possible, but wasn't able to throw off her dark mood

Almost all the way home they flew, a silver streak, between layers of misty, dripping clouds As they glided downward toward the field, the autumn rain started falling heavily again There was a constant silver splatter of t against the taxi windows as Jeanne sped home

"I'm not hurt badly, Mum,' ' she said as she met her mother's startled glance "It's only a light sprain."

Yourd better rest, Jeanne," Mrs Gannon said worriedlv 'You look tired strained."

Jeanne's face was white As soon as I call Gil" she said "T must call him Wewe quarrelled a little before I left"

"About flying?" her her mother asked Jeanne nodded, but said nothing The expression on her mother's face deprived her of speech "Jeanne!" Mrs Gannon said almost sharply "If you are going to marry Gil, whv don't you do it now?"

"He's still at Uni" Jeanne said hastilv 'I don't want to marry him until he graduates" Whee?" Mrs Gannon asked ' He has enough money to take care of both of vou What difference does

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n unreasonable fear possessed Jeanne as she turned away from the phone She laughed the fear away Why, this was exactly what she wanted He'd go now have an enjoyable trip and- get over his fear of flying Nothing would happen to him this time no forced landings nothing! He'd get the spirit of the air and after they were married, she'd still be able to enjoy flying with Gil with her husband

"He's actually taken a plane trip, Mum " she said joyously 'He actually has I guessI guess he wanted to show me he wasn't afraid"

"You'll rest then, Jeanne," her mother answered, making no further comment You should"

**

SHE crawled into a warm bed and slept blissfully for several hours; When she awoke her wrist felt better and her nervous tension was gone

Phone the airport for me, Mother, won't you?" she called into the hall, and see if Gils plane will be back on schedule I want to meet him!'

"How do you know he's coming back right away?" Mrs Gannon asked I don't," she answered gaily, "but I'm meeting all planes until he does I want to see his face when he lands

She heard her mother dial and then there was a short, sharp exclamation from the hall ''No!' Mrs Gannon gasped Oh, no!"

Jeanne was beside her nstantly, her hair sleep-rumpled "What is it?" she asked. "What's wrong?"

Mrs Gannon was badly shaken The plane's missing,'' she said tremulously. It didn't reach its destination and there's been no word from it since it left the field"

Incredulously Jeanne called the office and verified the unbelievable news

It can't be!" she said, her lips white "We don't have accidents We never have had one He he simply has to be safe' She dressed with frantic haste, for getful of her injured wrist Stay here Mother" she said just-just in case Gil should call They may have made a forced landing and the first thing he'll do s to get a phone. I'm going to the field"

All night Jeanne stayed at the field

Thev made her comfortable in the waiting room but she couldn't sleep At regular intervals the Company's planes zoomed in, and each time she'd start up hopefully, only to be plunged again nto chaotic despair In the morning numerous searching planes took off from the field, followed the course the missing plane had taken, and deviated from it as spaced distances All through that day, and the day following the search for the missing plane went on endlessly fruitlessly

Father Mark made frequent trips to the field He brought messages to Jeanne from her mother, from her friends, and then hed stop in to re port to Mrs Gannon

"Jeanne still hopes, Father," she said heavily

He rodded his head "Yesves she still hopes, and there's scarcely a chance that the bv's alive If she'd only give up it wold be so much easier for her ultimately, but she knows he's alive"' Father Mark sighed. He went out shaking his head. "I'm very much afraid, Mrs. Gannon-very much so. I think TI go back and talk to Jeanne again this afternoon'

When Father Mark reached the field that afternoon he found Jeanne staring out into space, her eyes darkly shadowed, her slim hands twisting a handkerchief tightlv "I've just called Mother!' she said in a strained, hurt voice "Theyhey've sighted the plane and I'm going!"

"Do they-have they " Father Mark commenced ' They don't know anything yet," she said miserably 'One-one wing

it make whether he's working or going is completely torn off and when � to University?' She didnt wait for plane nosedives thethe way the Jeanne to answer 'You like that said it did, there's not much-" job of yours better than you do Gil, She didn't finish the sentence and better than your own life' she finish- she didn't need to. Father Maj. ed You might as well be frank knew that the last word was chant with yourself about it.' He watched Jeanne enter a small plane 'I love Gil more than anything else that was to take her as close as pos in the world'Jeanne said quickly, but Sible to the scene of the disaster, and in her heart she was confused She and then turned away wanted to fly more than anything else Pray for us, Father," she called, and in the world too already his lips were moving quietl Shakily,_she dialed his home phone ;Be walked toward St Christopher', He should be there now His land- vapel lady answered "He's not in'' she Jeanne closed her eyes to shut out said. "He took the noon plane, but 'De sight of a world_grown intolerable, didn't say where he was going nor a world without Gil Waring, and when he'd be back." across her darkened eyes there flashed as on a screen a picture of a silver plane hurtling wildly through the sod den skies, striking huge trees, tearing crashing to the ground its wing gone its engine competely caved in Th% picture persisted, grew worse With her eyes shut or open she saw it, and she saw other things. She saw too late that it was Gil she wanted I she could have him back she wouldn't care if she never saw another plane But t was a miracle to survive an air crash It was almost too much to expect a miracle This had all been her fault She had taunted Gil He wouldn't be

Now she knew how he felt, but she couldn't tell him she knew She covered her face with her hands and gave way to dry, shuddering sobs,

After many hours of flying, the pilot set the plane down in small rough field There's no place to land higher than this," he said, "but we'll ride horseback as far as the ranger's cabin from which the rescue work is being done"

Wordlessly she rode the five miles to the ranger's cabin There were nurses and doctors there One nurse and a doctor had gone ahead Just n case''one of the men said, "any of the plane-crash victims were alive."

"That's not likely,'' a nurse said lightly She did not know who the new girl was until the pilot who had flown Jeanne up whispered something Then there was a shocked silence, curi ous pitying glances but no more talk of the accident It was hard to bear the forced silence, and that long, long waiting She dared not look at the party coming slowly down the mountain trail If, if Gil were dead, she wanted to stay that knowledge until the last possible moment A boy ran out to meet the rescuers, and then hurried back, eager to be the first to tell of the disaster The pilot and mechanic were killed like that," he said, snapping his fingers "The whole front end of the plane folded up when it nosed down All the passengers in front were killed too"

"Gil!" Jeanne moaned softly over and over "Gil oh Gil!"

"Bring the injured into the cabin, a voice commanded. "The undertaker will meet the rest of the party where the road ends Tell him to keep one ambulance ready for the injured" Jeanne stood up, her legs shaky beneath her "GilGil Waring!" she said He-he was on that plane Is he-"

No one answered The injured were already in the cabin and quickly Jeanne went from one to another, her eyes afraid, her hands trembling Gil wasn't therehe wasn't among the injured Gil was dead!

S**

HE stare<l at the people in the room No one was paying anv attention to her, no one at all but the pilot who had flown her up, and his eyes were filled with compass1on

Vaguely she thought she would go down the trail, check make sure, when one of the doctors spoke up 'We need more nurses" he said tersely Why didn't they send more nurses?" Jeanne stared at him Tm a nurse," she heard herself sav in a voice she scarcely recognised as her own

Without question the doctor put her o work, and automaticallv she admin istered to the crash victims, her clever fingess mechanically busv, even though her wrist still pained her Finally the last njured passenger had been given first aid and sent down to the waiting ambulance Jeanne pushed her dark hair back wearily The strain, the nervous fatigue of the past few days

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with a stretcher-bearer Listlessly one that reflects the mind of her eyes sought the face of the man the ideal Catholic man who has on the stretcher not been called to specialise so to Gil!' she gasped, "Gil!" speak, in the service of God Such a Incredulously he looked up at her man balances and associates his relifrom the stretcher "Jeanne!" he gious and his secular side without consaid huskily, joyfully, "Jeanne, what founding them In this difficult matare you doing here?" He smiled rug; ter shall we not find, providentially, full Ive a broken leg, he said our exemplar in the life of a Saint like hastily, "and a couple of broken ribs sir Thomas More?

I was lucky, just plain lucky We cannot imagine St Thomas un-

I-Im the lucky one," she said, nterested in Catholic religious news, tears streaming down her face "I ;n the words of the Pope, in the views thought you were dead You weren't of the Hierarchy, in the fortunes of the among the injured and I thought Church in the events of his parish He reached out, caught her hand "I though his secular duties and his indidn't dream you'd be here" he said terest as an intelligent English Cathoor I'd have given someone my name ie in polities and international affairs told them to tell you I wasn't as would perforce severely limit the badly hurt as most of the others, so amount of attention he could pay to I waited with a couple of other chaps religious events of habitual occurrence

She didn't seem to be listening to the and of small mportance, He would words he was saying "Gil,' she said himself, with his Catholic intelligence quickly, breathlessly Gil I want to and conscience, see these secular matget married right now, as soon as we ters in a very different light from his can get back home." worldly-minded or anti-Catholic con-

His face beamed and he held her temporaries hand tighter "I want to get mar-

Furthermore he would attach a great ried even sooner,' he said, at the hos- deal of importance to secular matters + pital while I'm laid up, if we can get that were generally overlooked, to the Father Mark and your mother to fly condition of the poor, to the injustices up ' so often hidden to men, that lie in the "Fly?" she said dazedly "Did you economic and sociological conditions say fly?" of the times, to unemployment and the 'I iwent up in a rainstorm to see if like, and, without holding that CatholI actually was afraid to fly," he said jcism either could or should provide a slowly, gently, "and I found out that social Utopia, seeing that its primary I wasn't I was enjoying every mo- message is salvation in another world ment of it-until we crashed" he would found both his criticisms and Jeanne watched him, her eyes won- his remedies on the principles of re der-filled But you might have been ligion and true morality by which the killed'' she said. way to that salvation is prepared even 'I know," Gil answered, 'and I on this earth might have been killed the time my Above all, would St Thomas be on car hit a fireplug, and I might have the look-out for the attempt, however been killed when my roller skates went subtle, of the forces of the State or of out from under me but I wasn't.'' He powerful men to enslave the conscishook an accusing finger t her "I ences and actions of men know what I'm afraid of now," he said. We may be quite certain that he "T'm afraid of losing you It was would be most surprised to hear of a only having you go alone that I hated Catholic newspaper (had such a thing when all the time I thought it was existed in his time) which did not fling' itself From now on we'll do consider these matters very seriously our winging togetherwe'll be a fly- and constantly, on the plea that they ing unit" were not specifically religious or CathoJeanne's blue eys misted over She tic or that the majority of Catholics tried to speak but she couldn't. She were not interested in them and that tried again and her voice was deep therefore such topics did not pay with emotion. "It-if you'll excuse The word Catholic in the phrase Came for a few minutes," she said "I've tholic press should mean a press runby some prayers of thanks to say to God practical Catholics with a Catholic purand Saint Christopher our Patron" pose, a purpose, that is, of keeping Ca-

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Father Paul James Francis founder of the US. Franciscan Society of the Atonement. who led his community into the Catholic Church in a body n 1909. has died

She bowed her dark head, and a tholies informed of religious news, acbowed red head kept her prayerful cording to its importance, which they company would not otherwise be able to obtain, of giving publicity to the views, wishes and instructions of Catholic superiors in whom the religious authority of the Church resides of counteracting the unprincipled selection of secular news by the non-Catholic press, of inquiring into and most carefully commenting on secular affairs with the object of informing according to its abilities, both Catholics and non-Catholics, of the religious and moral order against which these secular affairs may at times militate openly or hiddenly and of endeavouring to restore that order

He was famous throughout the United States for his St Antony Radio Hour and was looked on as a "Father Coughlin ithout his politics."

He started the eight-dav period of praver known to-day throughout the world as the Octave of Unity, in 1908, when he was 'an Anglican

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Such a press simply because the moral law binds upon the whole world and vet is known clearly and adequatelv onlv to Catholics, will address itself to non-Catholics as well as to Catholics, but, while allowing for the goodwill wherebv those outside the Fold may be saved, it will not gloss over the difference between Catholics and nonCatholics in secular as well as religious matters

He was encouraged and blessed by three Popes and as he hay dying he was told of the special approval that Pope Pius XII has given to the Octave this

His societv to-dav has ne house in England. at Shoreham Kent· one in Rome one in Ireland. and 25 in the US A Sisters of the Atonement also haye houses in England

On the contrary by clearly emphasising Catholic leadership, it will hope to play its part in bringing back those not vet in the Church, from a state of common agreement in a few secular matters onlv to one of full agreement in all secular affairs that are actually or potentially of moral importance and finally of acceptance of God's entire revelation, If a Catholic paper is not actively working for the restoration of all things in Christ, it has no right to the name

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TENEBRAE

Q What is understood by the service ot Tenebrae?

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A Tenebrve s the public recitation of Matins and Lauds of the Divine Office which takes place on the evenings of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Holy Week

0 Why is is called Tenebrae?

j Tenebrae means darkness, and it was the custom n the early Middle ges-the psalms and lessons being committed to memorv to recite the M tins and Lauds at midnight in perfeet darkness At the present day all lights are extinguished in the church at the concluding portion of the function

0 What is the character of this function?

A Sadness and mourning at the suf ferings and death of Our Redeemer The treachery of Judas serves as a kind of motif for the Thursday Office, the Matins and Lauds of which, n ac cordance with the usual practice, are recited on the evening before that is Wednesday, the mortal sufferings and burying of Christ give their character to the Office of Good Friday, while the sadness and complaint of the Holy Saturday Office are relieved by the thought of the approaching Resur rection.

Q What is specially to be noted of the Office in the Tenebrae service?

A There is no invitatory, no hymn, no absolution, no blessing, no "Gloria Patri''the old form of the Otlice being preserved these three days, consisting of psalms, lessons from the Old Testament from the New Testament, and from the Fathers, with responsoriesset to a music that for its expression of sorrow and pain finds no equal in profane art

Q What s notable in the ceremony of Tenebrae?

A On the Epist'e side of the choir near the altar there is set up a triangular candlestick made of wood, called the hearse, on which fifteen candles c.re lighted- -one at the top and seven at each side After each psalm or canticle one of these candles is extin guished until all, save the top one, are quenched During the "Benedictus" the candles on the altar are likewise

extinguished The candles on the hearse and on the altarlike the altar candles on Good Fridayare of tawny unbleached wax

Q What of the candle kept lighting upon the wooden frame?

A It is held for a moment on the altar while the antiphon at the end of the "Benedictus'' is being sung 1e is then hidden away during the re meinder of the Office When the Office is completed the candle still lighted is held up in sight of the con gregation This latter ceremony con cludes the Tenebrae service

0 What is the symbolism of the ceremonies described in the two previous answers?

A The candles extinguished one by one denote the abandonment of Our Lord by His Apostles The top can dle symbolises Our Lord Himself Its removal from the frame and the subsequent holding up of it to view symbolise the Burial of Our Lord in the tomb and His subsequent Resurrecion

O What ceremony follows the conciusion of the Prayer "Respice"?

A The striking of the benches by those in the choir

Q What is the symbolism of it?

A It represents the trembling of the arth that took place at the death of Christ

Q What is the origin of the prae tice?

A The giving of a signal by the pre siding Abbot that the Office had coneluded

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2 On ABSTINENCE days, flesh meat and meat soup are forbidden

3 Lard and dripping may be used on days of abstinence, provided they be used merely as a condiment or seasoning

4 Friday, unless it be a Holiday of Obligation, is a day of abstinence

5 Ash Wednesday and the Fridays in Lent and Ember weeks are days of fast and abstinence

6 Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in Lent, and the Wednesdays and Saturdays in Quarter Tense are days of fast without abstinence

7. There is no fast or abstinence on Sundays or Holidays of obligation ,

8 St Patrick's Day s exempt from fast; f it falls on a Friday, it is notexempt from the abstinence

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H, Those who are in delicate health or who are engaged in exliausting work, are not bound to fast Of course, those who @re seriously ill are not bound by either fast or abstinence

I..On the days mentioned in No 6, those who are not bound tofast are not limited by the law either as to the quality or 'antity of the food they wish to take

13 The Lenten Fast and Abstinence cease at noon on Holy Saturday

The Bushies'

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Mother of Sorrows, many a heart, Half broken by despair, Has laid its burden 'neath the Cross And found a Mother there

Dear CorneritesThe coming week has some of the most important Feasts of the Year

On Friday is the Feast of the Seven Dolours of Our Lady From the moment when holy Simeon uttered his memorable words tll the moment when Our Blessed Lady beheld her Divine Son laid in the tomb she shar ed in every detail of His sufferings tor our redemption Grat Italian artists painted their various concepeons oi Mater Doloroso and many of these famous pictures are still venerated, particularly one painted in Campocavallo, an insignificant little town hard by the dark blue waters of the Adriatic Sea In 1892 it wa. the subject of a miraculous manifestation, and though the Church has made no pronounce ment regarding the genuineness of the manifestation, the picture now reposes within a magnificent Basilica in Italy

Sunday is the Feast St Patrick, the Patron of Ireland, and though the liturgical feast has been transferred until after Low Sunday the local celebrations for the day are being held on Friday and Saturday, as announced elsewhere in this paper

But the most important day of the week is Palm Sunday the commemora tion of Our Divin Lord triumphant entry into Jerusalem prior toHis Passion and Death I m sure vou have all heard how the pe ple of Jerusalem welcomed Him in His triumph, only to turn against Him and deride Him when His hour had cme On Wednesday the Office f Tenebrae begins in the Cathedral, and those of you who have not yet been privileged to attend this service should trv to do so this year AUNT BESSY Mundaring

Dear Aunt Bessy,Please accept this little gift with my best wishes for your great work for th. Bushi Yours sin cerely till next time and wishing you a very happy Easter ANONYMOUS

Dear Anonymous Though your letter was temporarily overlooked, the ac-

AUNT BESSY «u w1eagmens ot your Dttle giit"was au9s, ana ± wish to thank You Very uucn or rememDeIg the pusleS ung he A1oiy Deason of Lent l am siaa o saythat pasuer this year nnds us in a better position as regards the busmes fund tnan did baster last year but there is still a very long way to go and ± trust many others w remember to write and help tne tause along

Victoria ark

Dear Aunt Bessy, -Where has sandy gone to again? 1 miss hum irom the Corner very much We are going over to Victoria to live at the end of next month, but I will not forget the Bushies, especially to pray for them, when I leave here Evervone has been telling me how cold it is over in the East, and I am sure I shall miss the sun and the beach but perhaps they have other things to make up for them I do hope the Bushies' Scheme will be a success for this vear and that the Cardboard Brigade will have as manv enlistments as the second A.IF CAROL HYNES

Dear Carol,-I really think the second AI.F takes the honours from the Cardboard Brigade in the number of enlistments So far the response to the Brigade has been poor indeed, and I do hope a good many more little Cornerites who helped me so diligently last vear will come forward again and work to make this vear a great success The prick cards contributed a good deal to last vear's brilliant effort and I have been looking forward to them to do so again this year Perhaps after Easter we shall see a record enroment I hope you will like Victoria as much s I did Meanwhile I must see f I can get Sandv to write a little letter occasionally AUNT BESSY k k k k • Highgate Hill

Dear Aunt Bessy,-I am sending along a box of used stamps, which I hope will prove useful for the Bushies' Fund Next time I hope to have a small donation to send you, but for the present the pennies seem to be right out of sight Wishing you a!! the luck for the ' use

CECIL ARMSTRONG

Dear Cecil, The ctamps were very useful ndeed and tised a small san which has be dropped into the Lemonade Bottle Thank vou very much for helping the Bushies' Cause I am sure the pennies will pop up at the convenient moment and we shall see your name in the acknowledgment col-

umn verv soon

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Dear Aunt Bessy,I enjoy reading vour little reminders of the Feast days of the week Somehow thev seem to be forgotten so easily I have been saving up during Lent and hope to let vou have the proceeds soon after Easten I hope you will have a happy Easter

LESLIE STEVENS

Dear Leslie,-I was very glad to hear vou have been making sacrifices for Lent. and I am sure the Bushies too will be glad to know they are going to benefit thereby Thank you very much for your good wishes, which I trust you also will enjov AUNT BESSY

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American Bishops on Social Order

LABOUR'S

"We Must Bring God Back Into All Our Life" RAW DEAL

Hidden Control of Wealth is Chief Danger

"We must bring God back into Government, into Education, into Economic Life, indeed into all life, private and public, individual andsocial

"The truth of God, the law of God, must, by: conscious efforts and willing submissions, be made to permeate all our social intercourse and all our public relations"

These imperative commands form the central theme of a joint statementon social questions which has just been issued by the Archbishops and Bishops of the United States who are members of the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference

It isentitled "The Church and Social Order" It is the most important pronouncement on social questions made by members of the American Hierarchy since the "Bishops' Programme of Social Reconstruction" issued in 1919

Five Leading Questions

Painstaking and comprehensive, the statementdeals separately with the five most controversial social questions of to-day: ownership, property and labour, security, wages and the establishment of social order

The full text is published by the NCWC, with a study outline and alphabetical index.

The Church's right to teach, it points out, "permits no curtailment of the law, no matter how diverse the circumstances and conditions under which man lives and works, nor any compromise with the full measure of its application to human conduct The obligation comprehends the actions of man in his private and public life as an individual and as a member of society''

Immoral Economic Principles

We judge it wise and opportune to reaffirm the jurisdiction of the Church as the teacher of the entire moral law and more particularly as it applies to man's economic and social conduct in business, industry and trade''says the Bishops

Man as a member of a community has "duties in commutative justice and duties of social justice and duties of charity which emerge from this relationship" it is brought out 'On no other foundation can man build a right social order or create that good society which is desired so ardently by the great mass of mankind.'

Man can claim "no absolute or unlimited ownership'' as if he were free to follow his own selfish interests without regard to the necessity of others

"Man is truly the steward of his possessions in the sight of God and has therefore definite responsibilities both of justice and charity toward his fellow man with respect to the use he makes of his property"

Recruit, Train Leaders.

"Large numbers of working men have become alienated from religion," the statement asserts To bring back those who have suffered loss of faith

it is necessary to re-establish the sound principles of Christian social teaching : "To make our progress sure and effective we must recruit and train leaders from within the various ranks of society who know the mentality and aspirations of their respective classes and who with kindly fraternal charity will be able to win both their minds and their hearts.''

The statement attacks unfair wages lue to greed for excessive profits, and insecurity due to false and immoral economic principles, as leading "directly to under-nourishment, bad housing, inadequate clothing, and indirectly to irregular family relations, child delinquency and crime"

Excessively long hours of work in some industrial areas and processes are declared to create dangers to life and limb, impair the health of working men, and impoverish whole families through infection, disease and premature death"

It is essential to remember that ownership has a two-fold aspect, the one affecting the individual and the other affecting society "' the statement asserts

"The two great dangers which society faces in the present state of econcmic organisation are first, the concentration of ownership and control of wealth; and secondly, its anonymous character, which results from some of the existing business and corporation law, whereby responsibility toward society is greatly impaired if not completely ignored"

Distribution of Income.

Pointing to inequitable distribution of income between those who supply capital and those who supply labour, the statement asserts that "this condition arises from the fact that labour policies have been dictated by false principles in the interests of the owners or capitalists,'' and, secondly, "from the fact that labour frequently has had no voice in the regulation or the adjustment of these problems"

"To remedy this situation,"' the Archbishops and Bishops say, "it s necessary to adopt right principles for the distribution of the income of industry These principles must be both economicallv sound and moral[v just -

"The principle that labour should be compensated to such extent only that it remains physically efficient and capable of producing itself in new generations ofworking men, is a vicious prin- , ciple, devoid of all respect for human dignity and opposed to all sense of social responsibility It is true that

INDUSTRY

this principle was never widely held in theory, but it has been frequently applied in practice

'The principle of force and domination is equally wrong if exceeded by labour under certain conditions by means of monopoly control

It is not, however, the excessive claims of labour on the income from industrv which constitute the most immediate problem in labour relations to-day," it is added, "but rather the abuse of power "

Security for Workers.

Stating that our present economic order rests upon the sanctity of private property," the Archbishops and Bishops say "working men should be made secure against unemployment, sickness, accident, old age and death," and that "the first ine of defence vgainst these hazards should be the possesion of sufficient prikate property to provide reasonable security

'Industry, therefore, should provide not merely a living wage for the moment but also a saving wage for the future against sickness, old age, death and unemployment

Individual industries alone, however, cannot in each single case c hieve this objective without invoking the principle of social insurance some form of government subsidy granted by the entire citizenship through legslative provision seems to b a necessary part of such a programme"

Security for the working man "must be frankly accepted as a social repon sibility of industry jointly with soeety Not all responsibility rests upon government In truth, a large measure of responsibility rests upon the proper collaboration of employers and employees or of property owners and wage earners.

Living Wage

"The first claim of labour, which takes priority over any claim of the owners to profits, respects the right to a living wage' the statement goes on A living wage, it is declared, "means sufficient income to meet not merelv the present necessities of life but those of unemployment sickness death and old age as well In other words, a saving wage constitutes an essential part of the definition of a living wage

To withhold just and reasonable wages from the working man has injured him directly and immediately, but it has also injured the common good and the interests of the very owners of property Their factories, their commercial establishments and their equipment have frequently stood idle as a result Unless working men as a class have sufficient income to purchase their share of the goods which our economic system is capable of producing, the markets will automatically be closed to the sale of goods, and idle factories and unemployment are the disastrous result"

Guilds.

The Archbishops and Bishops warn against the expectation of a sudden reorganisation of the economic system "We face a problem which requires 'r its solution intellectual vision moral integrity and persevering effort," th> say Many leaders both m the field

I c,r management ant! in the fie� of I ,abour 1:1-ust first be con\'inceJ that economic laws and moral aws are in harmony and not in conflict with one another No one section of human society can be grievously injured with out that injury reacting harmfully i the final analysis upon all other seetr ns of society

''The true remedy will be found according to the mud of Pope Pius XI in accomplishing two reforms in our social order, the statement continues

In the first place, there must be reestablished some form of guild or vocational groups which will bind men together in society according to their respective occupations, thus creating a moral unity secondly, there must be a retorm of morals and a profound re ewal of the Christian spirit which must precede the social reconstructon ·

The primary duty of the tate and of all good citizens is to aboiish contiiet between classes with divergent nterests The remedy for the class conflict which makes the labour market an arena where the two armies are engaged in combat, is to be found precisely in the reintegration of the social body by means of vocational groups which bind men together not according to the position they occupy in the labour market, but according to the diverse functions which they exercise n society '

Thirst for Riches.

The second reform' the statement continues, "is of equal importance 'Nowadays,' states Pope Pius XI., 'the conditions of social and economic life are such that vast multitudes of men can only with great difficulty pay attention to the one thing necessary namely their eternal salvation' There grows in consequence a disorderly affection of the soul, having its source in original sin but aggravated by the present unhappy social conditions

This leads to the unquenchable thirst for riches and temporal possessions, and prompted by this greed for gain there develops a fever of speculaton unrestrained by any scruple in committing the gravest injustices against others The civil authority which might have mitigated the evil failed lamentably in the enforcement of the moral law and the spirit of nationalism already in the ascendant ae centuated the evil by giving free rein to an economic science devoid of moral principles

"The remedy in the spiritual order is a frank and sincere return to the teaching of the Gospel God must once more be recognised as the supreme end of all created activity; and all created goods as the instruments under God for the attainment of our final destiny

"Our economic life then must be re organised not on the disintegrating principles of individualism but on the constructive principle of social and moral unity among the members of human society

'In conformity with Christian principles, economic power must be subordinated to human welfare, both individual and social; social incoherence and class conflict must be replaced by corporate unity and organic function; ruthless competition must give way to just and reasonable state regula tion; sordid selfishness must be superseded by social justice and charity

'Then only can we eliminate the twin evils of insufficienev and insecurity, and establish the divine plan of a brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God"