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No. 2859

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DR. SHEED ELECTRIFIES AUDIENCE OF 700 AT SUBIACO

Never Less Reading Done Since Invention Of Printing

Archbishop Gawlina To Address Sodalists

of them (not of At the Subiaco City hall on Monday evening more than 700 number course, the greatest) it was

people gave a rousing ovation to Dr. and Mrs. F. J. Sheed at the the one card they held against television. conclusion of their remarkable adresses. It was one of the most In reading, said Dr. Sheed city this of they should be alert for the stimulating intellectual experiences that the people phrase which touched a have ever been privileged to share. nerve. When they

came to it they should shut the book for that phrase could be of more value to them than the whole book. He instanced several experiences from his own reading. When he found in Bacon's essays, Pilate's question: "What is Truth?" it obsessed him. He was furious with Pilate for not waiting for the answer.

Dr. Sheed spoke with amazing lucidity, force and freshness of "Reading and Sanity." Mrs. Sheed gave a profound exposition of "The Intellectual Apostolate," revealing an extraordinary knowledge of patrology. On the platform were the Rev. J. E. Bourke, Mr. J. Toohey (president of the Newman Society) chairman, and Professor B. J. Grieve. The Auxiliary Bishop (Most Rev. J. J. Rafferty) and a large number of clergy were present. Dr. Sheed said that the senses showed only the frame of reality. To live only in the sort of world they could see about them was really to live in a suburb of reality. When they thought that their suburb was the whole metropolis, they were not facing reality. If they thought that this world was the whole of reality they were in that sense primitives. Their task was to see the whole of reality and to do that they would have to work at it. But that kind of understanding was essential to the apostolate and it was by reading they could come at it. "There never has been less reading done since the invention of printing than is being done today," said Dr. Sheed.

Touching A Nerve

What is truth? Truth is what is. Once they had that they had a rabid taste for all aspects of reality. Then there was another phrase: "A lie is what is not." How truthful that was. Citing the Portuguese proverb: "God writes straight with crooked lines," Dr. Sheed said that however odd a life looked there was a pattern in it that God was forming. Likewise whenever he read the line: "Chastity without charity will be chained in Hell," it gave Archbishop Joseph Gawlina, Protector of him the same joy of the the Poles in exile, who arrived in Perth on nerve. Taking a phrase from the May 21, will address a diocesan rally of the Australian p o e t, Adam Children of Mary at the Cathedral on MonLindsay Gordon: "Life is mostly froth and day, May 26, at 7.30 p.m. bubble, His Grace is the director will offer Mass at the ReTwo things stand like of the World Federation of demptorists' church in Vinstone, cent-st. He will administer Marian sodalities. Kindness in another's Archbishop Gawlina was the Sacrament of Confirmatrouble, met on his arrival at Perth tion and bless the banner of Courage in your own." Airport by His Grace, Arch- the Polish Ex-Servicemen's Dr. Sheed said it was bishop Prendiville, whose Association sub-branch. Nasal Reading At 4 p.m. on the same day wonderful but not true. guest he will be until May They would say that was he will travel to Northam Kindness and courage are 28. obviously not true because Archbishop bless the community 22, to May On not foundations-they need all their friends had their foundations. The man who Gawlina will make a series house built there by the noses buried in reading all to Poles. mainly visits, of official Dr. F. J. Sheed held audience enthralled wrote those lines committed the time. But the nose was On May 26, the Archthe clergy. At 8 p.m. he suicide. not an instrument of the will attend a reception ten- bishop will pay official intellect and most of today's That did not give any rich- read. They would find in Leon Blo y once said of visits to His Excellency the to executives by poetry in one line what was dered reading was merely nasal ness to the mind. at Governor and the Premier. organisation When that mind came up said in a book of prose in LT:1----an'gy "I wouldn't treat a Polish reading. dog as You At 4 p.m. he will be given treat Polish House, Brisbane-st. Reading meant feeding against a mind that had three pages. After visiting Poles in a reception by the R.S.L. in Of novel reading, Dr. me." You see at once, of done some work their minds upon a mind really they took course you would not. A the Bunbury and Collie Anzac House. richer than their own. How while reading, the richer Sheed said that if should At 7 p.m. he will address not dog, whether mangy or not areas, His Grace will attend mind went through it like it seriously they many of them did that? not done anything an official welcome at the diocesan rally of the a knife through butter. The make it exclusively modern. has Coleridge had drawn at- full life of the mind was They should read mainly wrong. But we have done Anzac House at 4 p.m. on Children of Mary at the Cathedral. tention to the point that sanity. the classics which had stood plenty. And the dog can- May 24. In the Town Hall on May not learn from it, but we This will take the form of men were naturally lazy. the test of time. Having nothing to do they Poetry Is Highest a concert and speeches and 27, His Grace will meet the Most of the modern novels can and will. will mark His Grace's epis- Polish community. On the were easily bored and so inThey should do the kind lacked life. They might be following day he will leave vented something to do of reading that would make inclined to disagree and to copal silver jubilee. No Languor On May 25, His Grace by air for Rome. which amounted to nearly God more real to them than say that whatever they Dr. Sheed referred to nothing. Such things were the man next door. There lacked it was not life. Yet Chesterton's rebuttal of called "doing nothing"- would be reading for know- it was so. They were lively Svvinburne's talk the such as reading advertise- ledge, by which they would but they did not have life. lilies and langoursabout of virSouth Perth Contestant Wins ments in a waiting room, learn the truths of theology, A leaf on a tree had life, tue and the raptures and cards, philosophy, history, econoplaying smoking, of vice: roses drifting on leaf whereas a and, spitting over a bridge, mics, etc. They ought to "But the notion impels me With 549 Score "Tot -Em possibly, knitting. know something of all of the wind was merely lively. to anger, The modern novelists had Of all these things read- them. That vice is all rapture Miss 0. D. Rosair, of 23 ing came top in the realm There was another kind to paint everything so loudfor me, South Hurlingham-ter., of "nothing to do." They of reading by which they ly to get any response at all. picked up a telephone or did not learn anything par- Readers had to get "a kick" And if you think virtue is Perth, wins the prize of langour, £6/9/6 for the highest read a book to fill in time, ticularly, but by which all out of it--they had to be Just try it and see." kicked. It was all too loud score of 549 submitted in They found their own learned became more and noisy. So many noveIn sin men followed the "Tot -Em -Up," No. 9. company intolerable, so they they Dr. Sheed said he lists were distorting and easiest path, the line of least picked up a book to while alive. Three contestants tied for recommend this overdoing sex, and doing resistance. Anybody could away the time for a couple would the lowest score of 44. it loudly. Television was go with the stream, but to Hence no prize will be of hours until a friend was strongly. to come to visit them. Then He urged more reading of even easier because the fight against it could be awarded in that section. they thought that friend those books by which the viewer did not have to turn called anything hut langour. They were: C. Day, 26 would love their company great masters of books had the page. But the novelist There was not only the Weld-st., W. Palmyra; although they were ,bored seen* under the surface of could say things about sex natural order of reading but 8 Ozone-pde., North Mason, In order. supernatural which could not be shown the life. with it themselves. Miss 0. D. Poetry was the highest on t e 1 e v i s i o n. So this category the highest Cottesloe, and There was nothing in 23 Hurlingham-ter., their minds to occup them, speech. If they could not ithe novelist worked on that reading was the Gospels. 13 Rosair, Perth. South Page on anything. read poetry they could not angle. With an enormous i* Concluded so they read '

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