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Million Mexicans Flee to U.S.
To Escape Poverty, Priest Says
MEXICO CITY (NO More
than 1,000,000 Mexican farmers
and workers are estimated to have
fled to the United States this year
to escape hunger and poverty.
This claim was made by Father
Pedro Velasquez, director of the
Mexican Social Secretariat, in an
address at the four-day National
Congress for the Improvement of
Morals, here.
Father Velasquez declared that
“the Mexican people suffer hun
ger and poverty because 55 per
cent of the national income is
absorbed by the capitalist classes,
who constitute only eight per cent
of the entire population.”
•'Responsible for this,” he added,
“are liberal capitalism and Marx
ist communism, which have joined
forces to achieve the betrayal of
families.” He also pointed out
that immorality among leaders of
economic life is the chief reason
why there is not a just and equit
able distribution of wealth.
Central Point
The social question was the
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central point of the Congress’ dis
cussions. The Congress asked a
family wage for workers and
sought profit sharing for them.
Poverty and ignorance and their
consequences, delegates agreed,
must be fought through lay Ca
tholic Action organized at the pa
rochial level.
The Congress was opened by
Archbishop Luis M. Martinez of
Mexico City. In his opening ad
dress the Archbishop stressed that
the Congress was important from
a patriotic as well as a religious
standpoint. “Improving the morals
of our people,” he said, “is com
plying with the will of Our Lord
Jesus Christ and at the same time
preparing useful citizens who, the
purer they are, the greater strength
and vigor they will give to the
country.”
Attended by numerous Mexican
prelates, the Congress received a
special message from the Holy
Father, in which he extended his
blessings to their efforts.
Among the topics discussed by
the Congress were morals and the
home, the family and morals in
the schools, the family and morals
in the press, in shows, in work
and in habits. Statistics were
cited showing widespread divorce
and illicit unions, the use of con
traceptives and abortions.
A telegram was sent by dele
gates to President Adolfo Ruiz
Cortines of Mexico urging that
law suits involving pornographic
literature be brought to a speedy
conclusion. A letter was sent to
Minister of Interior Carbajal ask
ing the withdrawal of certain
objectionable motion pictures.
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ROCHELLE PARK. N.J.—(NC)—
The austere life of a Poor Clare is
a long and healthy one according
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Of the 133 Poor Clares who have
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Chillicothe K. of C.
Install* Officers
CHILLICOTHE Willard Taylor
was recently installed as grand
knight of Flaget Council No. 1071.
Chillicothe s Knights ol Columbus
group, by Ralph Martin, deputy of
district 32. Robert Deeve-, serv
ing as warden assisted at the cere
inony.
Other newly elected officers
who were installed included Will
iam Reeves, deputy grand knight,
Dale lark chancellor: Donald Kai
tenbach. financial secretary: Jos
eph Anderson recording secretary
H. E. Hunter, treasurer.
Robert Carroll, lecturer: Leo
Stark advocate: John Reeves war
den W. M. Shea, R. Ward and
Harold Krause, trustees: John Ru
da inside guard, and Jack Vogel,
outside guard.
Those named to the committee
chairmanships were William Cline.
Catholic activity Richard South
worth, fraternal activity Jack
Spires, council activity Gene Hol
lis. Jack Vogel and Robert Snow,
membership.
Joseph Anderson, publicity B.
B. Palkovacs Jr. and Robert Car
roll, youth program and Ed Hawk
ins NCCS representative at the
VA Hospital.
The council is planning a stag
lish fry at Meaco Park on August
14. starting at 6:30 p. in. The
Knights will also sponsor the an
nual basket picnic for members of
St. Peter’s and St. Mary’s parishes
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St. Gabriel’s Sets Plans for First Fete
Two ladies who are helping to make the St. Gabriel's festival an unusual event are pictured above
checking over the results of their work on the “Hall of Fame Committee." Mrs. Michael B. Fox, Jr.,
in charge of the committee, left, and Mrs. Jay Lucas, co-chairman, have been writing letters to a
host of celebrities throughout the country asking them for gifts to be sold at the festival scheduled
for Aug. 21-22. Mrs. Fox is holding a gift received from Mamie Eisenhower and Mrs. Lucas has
gift from Vice-President Nixon in her hands. The gifts will be auctioned off at one of the booths the
nights of the fete. It's sure to be one of the more popular exhibits.
Little St. Gabriel's Parish on Co
lumbus’ North Side is planning
some novel twists for its first fes
tival, Aug. 21-22.
Thanks to the efforts of the Hall
of Fame Committee, gifts from at
least a dozen celebrities, including
Mamie Eisenhower, will be sold
at the gala affair.
Small gifts, the contents of
which have not yet been disclosed,
have been received from Vice
President and Mrs. Richard Nixon,
Katherine Cornell and Cornelia
Otis Skinner, Tony Martin, Ralph
Edwards. Peggy Wood. Sunny Gale,
Sally Flowers, Tom Gleba and
Jeanne Shea.
These are the celebrities who
have already responded to post
cards requesting a small gift sent
by the 16-member Hall of Fame
Committee. And more presents arc
expected, as the committee sent
approximately 2(H) cards to cele
brities all over the world.
Mrs. Florence Fox, who is co
chairman of the unusual project,
along with Mrs. Jay Lucas, said the
committee is still waiting to hear
from such personages as former
President Harry S. Truman, Pat
O’Brien, Ezio Pinza, Bing Crosby,
Bob Hope, Jack Benny. Ethel Bai
Freedom
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took him from them early in 1951.
No priest had been in their camp
since. Several men praised the
heroism of Father Kapaun.
The communists took all Ros
aries they saw, the men told Fa
ther (Lieut.) Robert C. O’Neill
from Spokane, Wash., chaplain
of the 11th Evacuation Hospital,
but some managed to hide then
Rosaries and keep them.
One American ex-prisoner show
ed ather O'Neill pictures ol re
ligious meetings held in camp on
Christmas and Mothers Day. These
pictures had been given to the
men by the Reds, obviously to
make an impression outside.
The communists at lust hinder
ed religious gatherings in camp.
Later, when they allowed them,
they insisted that hymns and texts
ol the prayers be submitted in ad
vance lor censorship. “Onward
Christian Soldiers'’ and the Battle
Hymn of (he Republic’’ were tor
bidden.
Th* returned prisoners, both
Catholic* and Protestants, said that
the men gathered in the camps
for religious devotions on Christ
mas, Easter and other major holy
days. Many gathered every Sun
day. "Then there were religious
study groups during the week,
mostly among Americans," said
Private Jack Heslop of the Royal
Leicester Regiment, from Brad
ford, Yorkshire.
“The Reds warned one man not
to continue holding Bible classes,”
a returnee told Father O’Neill.
“When he continued they took him
away for three weeks and gave
him a rough time.”
One Puerto Rican soldier, aged
24, made his lust confession and
Communion here He was delight
ed when ather Moore, alter ques
honing, found that he knew
enough to receive the Sacraments
then and there.
Father Moore speaks Spanish, as
he was pastor ol the Mexican par
ish of Lubbock. Texas, in the Ain
arillo diocese, for two years His
Spanish is useful here. Fourteen
Colombians were the first day’s re
turnees. “All were very well in
struct ed in their religion and ex
eryone went to confession and Ho
ly Communion, said Father
Moore.
An Army psychiatrist from the
11th Evacuation Hospital here who
talked to the returnees said that
their religious activity in camp was
a major factor in preserving their
mental health.
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rymore, Hoagy Carmichael, and
Queen Elizabeth. Dean Acheson,
former secretary of state, has been
the only refusal thus far.
In addition, the enterprising
Mrs. Fox has written to Perry Co
mo, asking him to appear for a few
minutes at the festival. One singer
who will definitely appear is Gene
Long, youthful WBNS-TV star.
The fete, which will be held on
the church grounds at Woodland
Ave. and Mock Rd., will also in
clude a Civil Defense display from
Ft. Hayes. The explosive and pro
jectile exhibit will be in charge of
Capt. John R. Pierce of Columbus.
Other features include a mer
chandise mart, fish fry and pizza
on Friday and ham dinners on Sat
urday, and numerous booths. For
the children there will be pony
rides, a ferris wheel, merry-go
round, kiddie ears, and little Bo
Peep, distributing gifts from a
Wishing Well.
Msgr. Harold J. O'Donnell, pas
tor of the church, has named R.
J. Gallagher as general chairman
of the event.
The festival will open at 7
o'clock each evening. There will
be adequate parking facilities.
St. Gabriel’s parish serves ap
proximately 200 families, and
many of its members are World
War II veterans. The new church
opened last February, and the
parishioners are working toward
construction of a school.
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i'.i.tr' I 1 ml’: mniissioner of ed
ucation i ?d i he Cranston
school commillces denial of bus
transportation for pupils ol St.
Matthew's parochial school.
The Cranston coniniitee last Jan
uary voted 5-to 4 to deny the trans
portation to the parochial school
children. Chairman Charles J. Da
vis of the Cranston committee said
the decision given by Dr. Michael
Walsh, State commissioner of edu
cation. will be discussed bv the
committee at a meeting August 17.
Commissioner Walsh said that
the only practical way to interpret
the statute for compulsory educa
lion and transportation tor stu
dents living long distances from
school buildings was to hold that
Cranston has a “mandatory re
quirement'’ to give the same rights
and privileges to pupils attending
non public schools as are given to
public school students. He pointed
out that Cranston does furnish
busses foi children who live more
than a mile irum public schools.
The commission said the statutes
do not segregate private schools
or their pupils as the State s bene
ficiaries. He added: "individual in
terests are aided only as the com
mon interest in an educated citi
zenry is safeguarded The First
Amendment of the U.S. Constitu
tiou requires the state to be neu
tral in its relations with groups
of religious believers and non
believers. It does not require the
state to be their adversary.”
"The power of the state.” the
commissioner continued, “is no
more to be used as a handicap to
the religious than it is to favor
them. There are decisions in many
states upholding in the dearest
terms the constitutional and stat
utory rights of the state to furnish
bus transportation lor parochial
school pupils.”
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Judge Rules
Police Cannot
Censor Books
CLEVELAND (NO— A judge
here has ruled that a police chief
docs not have the power to act as
a censor of obscene books.
Federal Judge Charles J. Mc
Namee, a Catholic, made the rul
ing in the widely publicized case of
a New York publishing firm
against Police Chief Edward J. Al
len and the City of Youngstown,
O. The jurist issued an injunction
which restrains the police chief
from further “unauthorized con
duct. Police Chief Allen, a native
of Eric, Pa., also is a Catholic.
Judge McNamee upheld the con
stitutionality of Youngstown's or
dinance directed at smutty books,
magazines and other publications.
The New American Library of
World Literature. Inc., had attack
ed the validity of the ordinance on
the ground that the word “ob
scene” as it appears in the regula
tion was too vague to be valid.
The judge, while disagreeing
on this point, held that Police
Chief Allen, by forcing some of
the Library's Signet books from
Youngstown newsstands, had de
prived the Library of a property
right without due process of law.
“The defendant (Police Chief Al
len) was without authority to cen-
sor books,” Judge McNamee ruled.
"Until a court of competent juris
diction adjudged a book to be ob
scene or immoral, there would ex
ist no warrant in law for its sup
pression. Not only did the defend
ant exceed his lawful powers in
suppressing the publications, but
the methods he employed in cen
soring the books were arbitrary
and unreasonable.”
Distributors and dealers of the
pocket-size books, the judge said,
ordinarily are respected citizens.
He pointed out that they handle
thousands of books and cannot be
expected to read them.
But the publishers, he said, read
every book that is offered for sale.
He added: “So, when an obscene
publication is displayed on the
bookstands, it the publisher who
is the real offender.” He said the
publisher usually is a resident of
another community and not sub
ject to prosecution in local courts.
Hoiindu p-
Ohio News
CINCINNATI—Saturday sessions
in teacher-training will be offered
at Our Lady of Cincinnati College
this year beginning on Saturday,
September 26. the college admin
istration has announced.
DAYTON Dayton Catholic
were denied an opportun
ity to expand their educational
facilities recently when the old
Steele High School was purchas
ed at auction by a local depart
ment store. The final bid on the
property and school building,
located in the heart of the down
town district, was $530,000.
STLUDENV1LLE The first
school of its kind to open its doors
in the Ohio Valley in the era of
modern education, the Immaculate
Heart of Mary Academy, a private
elementary school, open to chil
dren from families of all creeds,
has pledged to accent what folks
of a previous generation proudly
refer to as “book lamin'.”
FIVE POINTS One of the
nine ecclesiastical students se
lected as scholarship winners by
the board of governors of the
Basselin Foundation of the Ca
tholic University of America is
John Whippel. a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Whippel of Five
Points.
STEUBENVILLE A six-man
commission for the construction of
all building and the purchase of
furnishings and equipment in the
diocese of Steubenville has been
established by Bishop King Mussio.
Four priests, an architect and a
contractor form the commission,
which has replaced the diocesan
building commission and the school
and school convent building and
equipment commission.
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ael's and 18 to help St. Rita's.
Home Mission*
The Home Missions, also includ
ed in the annual collection, consist
of 19 missions and six mission par
ishes. With the aid of the Society
for the Propagation of the Faith
major expansion is in progress in
several of these missions, notably
Waverly, Mt. Gilead, Milford Cen
ter and Philo. These missions op
erate in sections where the Cath
olic population is as small as one
half of one per cent.
Their purpose, according to Fa
ther James Kulp, diocesan direc
tor for the Society for the Propa
gation of the Faith, is “to keep
the faith in those families which
do not live in Catholic centers,
and also to make the True Faith
known among groups which do not
have much contact with Catholics.”
He cited the fact that many South
ern families from non-Catholic
areas are moving into Ohio rural
areas.
One of the groups requiring a
special apostolate are the Amish, a
sect of Puritans w ho live in a com
munal society in the area of
Holmes and Union counties.
“Another purpose of the mis
sions,” Fr. Kulp said, “is to pro
vide for the Catholic education of
children in these areas by employ
ing busses to transport them to the
nearest parochial schools.
In several instances. Father
Kulp added, a child is transport
ed by bus 18 miles to the nearest
parochial school. In all, four mis
sions operate school busses.
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Priest Is Named
Delegate To U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NC)
—A priest who has served for a
number of years at the oldest ca
thedral in the western hemisphere
is the newest delegate to the Unit
ed Nations.
Msgr. Oscar Robles Toledano, 41,
who offered Mass dnd preached
sermons at the Cathedral in Ciu
dad Trujillo, capital of the Domin
ican Republic, has been named to
serve under Gen. Rafael L. Trujillo
on the Dominican Republic delega
tion to the UN.
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LITURGY
Of The
WEEK
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16
FEAST OF ST, JOACHIM,
FATHER OF THE BLESED VIRGIN
THE TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER
PENTECOST
White vestments. Gloria. Second
prayer of the Twelfth Sunday, Cre
do, Preface of the Trinity. Last
Gospel of the Sunday.
MONDAY, AUGUST 17
FEAST OF ST. HYACINTH
White vestments, Gloria. Second
prayer of the Octave of the As
sumption. Third of the Octave Day
of St. Lawrence, Credo, Preface
of the Blessed Virgin.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18
TUESDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE
OF THE ASSUMPTION
Mass as on the feast. Gloria. Sec
ond prayer of St. Agapitus. Third
of the Holy Spirit. Credo. Preface
of the Blessed Virgin.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19
FEAST OF ST. JOHN EUDES
White vestments, Gloria. Second
prayer of the Octave, Credo, Pre
face of the Blessed Virgin.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20
FEAST OF ST. BERNARD
White vestments, Gloria. Second
prayer of the Octave. Credo, Pre
face of the Blessed Virgin.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21
FEAST OF ST. JANE FRANCES
FREMIOT DE CHANTAL
White vestments, Gloria. Second
prayer of the Octave. Credo, Pre
face of the Blessed Virgin.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE
HEART OF MARY
White vestments. Gloria. Second
prayer (in Low Masses only) of St.
Timothy and Companions, Credo,
Preface of the Blessed Virgin.
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