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4—THE CATHOLIC TIMES
Friday, Apr, 2. 1954
THE
CATHOLIC TIMES
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Home Thoughts
Or The Lack Of Them
“No good American family should honestly have
to be ashamed of its home”. President Eisenhower
stated to Congress last January. He followed this
self-evident principle with a request tor legislation
providing for 140.000 units of public housing, at a
rate of 35.000 per yeai foi four years. Last week
the House Appropriations Committee recommended
that 20.000 be started in 1954 and 15.000 in 1955,
with the program to end there.
As we go to press we have just read the House
Rules Committee overrode this recommendation,
and eliminated even the 33.000 units. Even these
would have been only a drop in the bucket since a
conservative estimate places the need for public
housing units for low income families at 100.000
per year tor a number of years.
We can now place the wreath on the tomb of
public housing. It is dead and buried for years, if
not forever. This will bring mixed reactions, joy
from some and grief from others, for this question
a controversial one.
The end of public housing to meet future needs
does not mean that we no longer have a housing
problem. What is the problem? The family of four
living in one room can tell you (an actual situs
tion). The family of six which slept in an automo
bile for ten days while looking for a place to live
can tell you. The family of five which lives in a
hovel with only the bare earth for a floor can tell
you. So can the teen age girl whose home was so
poor that 'he was ashamed to bring her friends
into it and who was arrested recently for theft.
All these are actual situations within a 25 mile
radius of Columbus and could he multiplied end
lessly. The problem is still with us.
Worse than the housing problem, however, if
the widespread apathy towards it. Those who suffer
from the lack of housing for low-income families
are almost powerless to help themselves. Those who
don't need housing just don't seem to care about
those who do. They don’t seem to be able to see
that their ill-housed neighbor is another Christ, who
also can say with divine simplicity: "The birds of
the air have their nests, and the foxes their holes,
hut the Son of Man hath not whereon to lay His
head.” Nor do they liken families without decent
housing to the Holy Family which had to seek
shelter in a stable, "became there was no room
for them the inn.”
We can wax eloquent over the need of promot
ing good home life, and the need of preventing
juvenile delinquency. We only pay lip service,
however, io the promotion of decent housing. How
much longer will it be until our wisdom, our social
conscience and our Christian Charity prompt us io
become interested and active in making sure that
“No Good American family should honestly have
to be ashamed of its home?”
A (.all To Action!
The action of the New York Board of Censors
tn rejecting the movie "LaRonde” was the partial
occasion for the ruling of the Supreme Court of
the United States that the words ’immoral” and
“intending to incite tn crime’’ were too vague
to be used to ban a motion picture from public
■how ing
New York, therefore, was forced to pass this
picture and release it for public viewing. That was
the handwriting on the wall. We in Ohio have just
been waiting until what we knew as inevitable
should happen here. And now it has happened
Dr. Clyde Hissong. Director of the Ohio Board of
Censors, whose appointed duty it is to help safe
guard the morals of Ohio’s communities by passing
on the fitness of the film-fare brought mtn the
State, has regretfully had to pass "LaRonde tor
public viewing throughout the State.
In making his announcement of the forthcoming
release of this picture. Dr Hissong noted that “in
conforming with lhe decision of the United States
Supreme Court in reversing the decision of the New
York Board of Censors, there appears to be no
other alternative except to release the picture
“LaRonde” for general exhibition in Ohio.”
“This picture.” Dr. Hissong points out, "has
nothing to recommend it from an educational or
entertainment point of view. It deal* with human
relations on a purely sexual basis with a constant
recurrence of scenes on the prostitution level.”
This is the type of picture that is going to be
shown in theatres throughout Ohio, theatres where
your children can be contaminated, unless YO(
act now.
!et even interested person and who cannot
be in this instance, phone, or much better still,
write to the managers of whatever movie house*
propose to show this film and let them know
definitely that the showing of this film will be
highly' resented, and that if it is shown the pledge
of the National Izgion of Decency demands that
such a movie and the house that shows it he
avoided And let them know that they will be
avoided for a long time to come'.
A Crusade Of The Suffering
Father fabfkr once w rote that "sacrifice is
peculiarly the hristian element of holiness and it
is precisely the element which corrupt nature dis
likes and rest Oui fallen natures do reais!
and try at all costs to avoid sufteryig—and yet it is
a commodity of great worth in the spiritual life
Sunday, the (hurch begins the solemn season
of Passiontide. She presents to us the picture of
Christ and His 1’assion. Hi unspeaka Me sufferings—
and uhat they gained foi us.
This is the all-embracinji and final proof of
the value of »uffering A nd vet, u seldom trans
late this lesson into our ci wn lives. I'o place a posi
live value on suffering for one s self let alone
for others, is a hard lum for mode rn* tn swallow
The Church teaches that suffering does have
a place and a valuable place, in the lives of mod
erns. The Church tells us that some souls are won
by kindnest and good example. Some are brought
to the light of Faith by prayer.. Rut many souls,
she teaches us. receive the graces of conversion
only by the sufferings of others endured with
love for them.
While the world says evil men ought to suffer,
the Cross of Calvary proves that the good must
suffer for the bad. This truth is not an anesthetic,
tf does not erase pain, but rt certainly makes it un
derstandable. precious and even desired.
To speak of “wasted pain” is to speak of some
thing highly unintelligible to the world today. But
the Church speaks of pain unwillingly borne and
undirected in just that way. Joined to the suf
ferings of Christ our hurts become the tender for
purchasing great graces for men.
During the coming season of Passiontide, the
office of the Society for the Propagation of the
Faith in Columbus will try to bring this message
to every sick person and every shut-in throughout
the Diocese. A pamphlet w ill be distributed, telling
of the "price tage on every soul.”
This leaflet, written by Bishop Fulton Sheen,
explains the missionary value of the offering of
their sufferings by the sick, disabled and shut-ins
generally. The Propagation Office has arranged to
have the pamphlet distributed by the sisters and
nurses in all Catholic hospitals and in many of the
rest homes throughout the Diocese.
To draw this mission crusade to attention of all,
a poster will be displayed in all the hospitals in
scribed: “Hunger of Soul in the East. Hunger of
Soul the West—Offer Your Suffering that Both
May Re Fed In Christ.”
Some pain, at least, is the common heritage of
almost every human being on earth. Let us make
the intention now, that when pain does come we will
bear it willingly and joyfully, realizing that it is
paying the price of something money could never
buy.
Just Among Ourselves
Passing Comment Considered er Inconsiderate
A well known and deservedly popular Daily Mis
sal has recently appeared in a recast form‘which
may,—and should,—cut heavily into its popularity.
The copy we saw is a magnificent piece of book
binding, and indeed of book-making in the material
meaning of the phrase. It. is bound in fine leather,
and is printed on expensive India paper, and sells
tor no less than sixteen dollars. Yet this splendid
volume is, in its English parts, sprinkled all over
with absurd mistakes in syllabication.
Manifestly, the type was set by some European
who knows nothing of the manner which words
of our language are divided. Within the compass
of a few pages you may find four or five divisions
of monosyllables into two parts. It is distracting, to
say the least, to find the word "come” printed with
"co” at the end of one line and "me” at the begin
ning of the next a hyphen is used, of course. In
the same manner, “wife” is divided into "wi-” and
“fe” "love” is divided “lo-” and “ve” "have”
is presented as "ha and "ve.”
What can the publishers have been thinking of
to permit this intolerable thing to happen? The
book is blistered throughout with the error of divid
ing syllable-, and making two syllables out of one
syllabled words. The typesetter was at fault, the
proof-reader was at fault, and the publisher was at
fault, in allowing ,'iich amazing mistakes to occur.
And certainly the publisher is still more deeply at
fault in giving these mistakes the permanence and
finality of appearing in a finished volume, done up
handsomely and offered at fancy prices.
We might expect to find such "howlers” as these
in the compositions of schoolboys who are just
learning to spell and to put words together in sent
ences. We certainly do not expect to find, and we
have every right to be indignant at finding
them, tn a liturgical book that should present its
contents wjth dignity and correctness to every
reader.' The mistakes are unintelligent, unworthy,
and offensive. Further, they indicate, on the part
of the publisher, a brazen indifference to the min
imal demand* of his craft as well as to the feel
ings of the people who are asked to buy the hook.
An old-time printer had to know the rules of
ay Habitation, and to observe them otherw ise, he
would quickly find himself out of employment. If.
as might happen on the rarest occasion,—he were
in doubt, he would look up the matter in a diction
ary and make sure of his divisions before setting
them in type. Proof-reader and editor too were
on the alert, for a badly divided word is even more
offensive than a misspelled word.
And the old-timer had a much more demanding
mb than hts modern counterpart. He had to “jus
tify” each line by hand, that is, insert or ex
tract spacings here and there throughout the line
to make it come out exactly even at the right hand
margin. Today, typesetting or typecasting machines
"justify” a line at the touch of a key or lever.
Perhaps the advance of mechanical invention
has worked to bad effect in making the typesetter
careless about the fine points of knowledge he
should possess it may be that his machine is so
highly perfected that he lets it carry full, or nearly
full, responsibility for correct output. Similarly the
modern office man, even if he be a C.P.A., need no
longer be a swift and accurate manipulator of fig
ures he lets the computing machine do his work.
Rut no machine has been invented thus far which
will guarantee to the operator the division of a word
into its correct syllables. If the operator doesn’t
know how to divide a word, the machine cannot
help him.
Our American printers, in the main, are still
reliable workmen they know their job, and even
the latest gadgetry cannot take all that is personal
and human out of their task. Now and again, and
notably in ephemeral college publications, there are
crass blunders in the division of syllables wr come
upon such unconscionable atrocities as “learn-” and
“ed” for the past tense of the verb "to learn.” or of
"cal and "led” (or lhe monosyllable "called One
triumphant scholastic achievement is "thr-” and
"ough” for "through.”
But such blunders are very far from common.
Our magazines and our daily papers are usually
meticulously exact in observing the rules of syllabi
cation. They even avoid the correct but unsightly
division which would let a single vowel with ap
pended hyphen stand at the end of a line. And book
publishers are customarily more careful in this
matter than the printers of less enduring works.
The internal evidence in the case assures us
that the Daily Missal of which we speak here was
set up by a European. To him a vowel means a
syllable He would pronounce “come” in two syll
ables as “kum-meh” and hence has no hesitance
dividing the printed word accordingly. But why,
in the name of sanity, would a publisher who hopes
to sell the books to English speaking people allow
Europeans unfamiliar with our language do all the
work—setting type, editing, proofing1’ The thing is
inconceivable' And yet it is dismaying fait.
We may find a slight amusement in hearing that
a neu ly arrived European calls ice-cream "eesa-kree
ahm,” and ginger-ale "ghing-gher-alley.” Rut we as
sume the Victorian attitude when such absurdities
crop up in a printed hnok at sixteen dollars we
are not amused.
Well, the thing is done. The book has been
printed. It is on the market. Beyond question, thou
sands of copies are, at this minute, displayed for
sale throughout America. If every purchaser would
take the trouble to send to the publisher a stern
demand to know what he means by it, he would not
bring out such a book again. Or, if he did, he would
be stuck With it.
LU
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W 4SHIXLTOX LETTER
WASHLNGTON A very high
Government official is circulat
ing a periodical which has a rec
ord of endorsing birth control
as a solution to what it calls the
serious problem of overpopula
tion.
Asserting that his interest in
the matter is his "major avoca
tion” and "has no connection
with my official position.’ the
Government leader nevertheless
uses his official stationery to
urge "the intellectual 'elite to
"join the dedicated band” who
are immersed in the population
problem.
The official is Samuel W. An
derson. Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for International Af
fairs. The periodical which he
has sent to members of the Phi
Beta Kappa Associates with his
covering letter is Population Bul
letin, issued eight times a year
by the Population Reference
Bureau, Inc., of this city.
The issue of Population Bul
letin which Assistant Secretary
Anderson has sent out to "the
intellectual elite” gives promi
nence to and calls "courageous
ly realistic” a repoit by the Reg
istrar-General of the 1951 All
LOVIS I. HI DEW
From the Northwest a priest
writes in the course of a far
seeing discussion "How long,
O Lord, how long will the Unit
ed States con
tinue to deal
with Soviet
Russia, which
must always he
to our detri
ment!”
This thought,
e essed in
several o er
letters, is most
appropriate at
the present
moment. Because of American
weakness in this respect, we
are confronted with the possibi
lity of the greatest disaster since
the day when this country be
trayed the Chinese and Polish
peoples to Moscow.
The Communist press, both
international and domestic, re
cords the amazing advance of
the line laid down by Stalin
and Malenkov in October 1952,
an advance made possible large
ly by Soviet penetration of
American opinion-making groups
and agencies. Within America
the hysterical outcry against
"McCarthyism” has drowned out
or silenced at least two of the
Congressional investigating com
mittees. We hope that this re
treat on our internal security is
merely temporary, but it is none
theless real.
No Such Gain
When we look at international
events, we note further in the
Neir Times how severe has been
the "set back for the American
war-mongers” at Berlin. Its
February 6 issue, fresh from
Moscow, bluntly declares that
the gain made in "forcing” the
United States to meet with Red
China at Geneva will be followed
by demands which would ef
fect sovietize all Germany.
The Daily Worker takes up
Red Peddlers Keep Out
Solon Has Shocking “Avocation"
India Census, attacking what he
calls "Improvident Maternity.”
According to the report "improvi
dent maternity” is "a hirth oc
curring to a mother who has al
ready given birth to three or
more children (of whom at least
one is alive).” The report says
"within the next 15 years the tar
get should be to reduce the inci
dence of improvident maternity
from its present level of 40% to
5%.”
The Population Bulletin says
India (where "family planning'
stations have been introduced by
lhe government) "leads the world
in her hemic effort to cope with
overpopulation.”
A signed editorial in the Bul
letin says "in the Lmted States,
government reluctance to recog
nize the problem seems to be
lessening at last. Some officials
are discussing population prob
lems openly, relating them di
rectly to foreign policy, world
trade, and foreign aid. Official
reports are using less guarded
language.”
Assistant Secretary Anderson
tells the Phi Beta Kappa Associ
ates that he has the honor to be
a trustee of the Population Ref­
Courting A Grave Disaster
this theme in its Sunday Issue
of February 21, in which it
states: "Dulles' support of a
revived German wehrmacht was
and remains the single biggest
obstacle to peace and agree
ment.”
Now, the chief argument made
hy our Secretary of State for
permitting Red China to be pres
ent at the coming Geneva con
ference was that we gained in
other spheres at Berlin, and no
tably in regard to Germany. It
is now evident that there was no
such gain, and the Soviet pro
paganda throughout Europe
against "the resurgence of Ger
man militarism” is proof of that.
Through many sources, including
as usual some outstanding non
Communist newspapers, France
is being reminded that it has a
military alliance with Soviet
Russia, signed during World
War H.
'Th* New Situation'
To sum it all up, the Kremlin
demonstrates clearly that it will
not abide by any terms save
those which it imposes. Clearly,
it plans at Geneva to work upon
the weakness of Britain and
France, using them as blug
geons to beat the United States
into surrender on all points. If
the Secretary of State will not
agree, he will be denounced as
an agent of "international Mc
Carthy ism.”
The setting for that event is
already arranged in the instruc
tions to (he Soviet fifth column
in this country to take advan
tage of "the new situation” to
"broaden the struggle against
McCarthyism' so as to defeat
American "international poli
cies.” Nothing is more evident
than that the hue and cry about
"McCarthyism,” generated in
much of our general press, has
as its object the complete capitu
lation by the United States to
the Kremlin at Geneva on April
erence Bureau and that he is
communicating with them re
garding "what I consider to be
the world's most terrifying prob
lem.”
"1 would hope that in some
small way I could stimulate the
widening of your interest,” Mr.
Anderson tells the Associates,
"and that you would join with
the ever growing group of us
who study, talk informally, lec
ture and speak about the prob
lem whenever occasion offers.
An increasing public awareness
of the implications of demo
graphic realities is absolutely vi
tal, if our race is to meet the fu
ture successfully.”
Not long before his death, Guy
Irving Burch, founder of the
Population Research Bureau. Inc.,
said in a signed editorial in
Population Bulletin:
“It is generally agreed by stu
dents of population that the most
important element in any pro
gram of population limitation is
the discovery or invention of a
simple, safe, and inexpensive
means of birth control that can
be effectively used in rural dis
tricts and in industrially back
ward countries.”
26. The Communists have stimu
lated this hysteria as they
stated they would do at their
secret "national conference" in
September in order to "force”
the United States to agree to
Soviet international plans.
We have reached a point, in
approaching Geneva, where we
must know who are actually our
allies. This is essential to our
future national existence.
Nothing Learned or Gained
Nothing deserves more con
sideration in this respect than
the request made to Mr. Dulles
by the American China Policy
Association on March 14 through
its president George S. Schuy
ler. That organization urged
the Secretary of State to recess
the forthcoming Geneva confer
ence where delegates of Soviet
Russia and Red China will be
seated. "There is nothing to be
learned from such conferences.”
Mr. Schuyler’s letter said.
"Every past conference has re
sulted in some concession to the
Reds, major or minor, and either
by no concession by them or an
agreement quickly broken.”
Such a request has more force
because it is precisely line
with the excellent assertions of
Walter P. McConaughy, new
director of the Office of Chinese
Affairs in the State Department,
to which 1 ret erred several
weeks ago.
We can also ask again: Why
is it that the United States con
stantly falls victim to proposals
which are mounting up our
defeats at the hands of the
Krenjlin? It is due, first of all.
to the painful disservice to
American security and to edu
cation on Communism in our
secular press, with some honor
able exceptions. It is also due,
and above all, to the lack of
knowledge of Communist tech
niques on a wide scale among
American community leaders.
Inquiry Corner
Can a Catholic who is a
convert be buried iti a Protestant
cemetery? There is a family lot
there.
A. While Catholics should con
sider it an honor and a privilege
to be buried in consecrated
ground there are times and cir
cumstances which allow of excep
tions. The Synod (Fifth) of the
Diocese of Columbus states that
Catholics may not be buried ih
public or common cemeteries
(which is w hat you mean by
Protestant cemetery, I presume).
It adds that in the case of the
burial of a convert whose family’
owns a lot in such s cemetery an
exception can be made. In all
doubts about such matters the
pastor, who will consult the
Bishop if necessary, should be
consulted.
Q. Why was Clare Booth Luce
permitted to remarry after being
divorced? Is it easier for an in
fluential person to have a mar
riage annulled?
A. No one remarries with the
approval of the Catholic Church
unless the first spouse is dead
or there is some definite deci
sion based on solid evidence
that the first marriage was in
valid. For details on any decision
involving the declaration of in
validity or in any dissolving a
past marriage it would be neces
sary to consult the Diocesan Tri
bunal which made the decision.
The Catholic Church grants such
decisions solely on the evidence,
but famous people whose cases
are dismissed do not receive the
same publicity as those who re
marry' after a favorable decision.
There are many favorable deci
sions, based solely on the evi
dence, for people who can make
no offering even for the expenses
of the court. They seldom re
ceive publicity. Mrs. Clare Booth
Luce is no exception. Only if the
EVIDENCE indicated that there
was no obstacle to a marriage
after her entry into the Church
would such a "remarriage" be
permitted. It is idle to speculate
about particular cases.
Q. In a recent column you said
that the last Eucharistic Con
gress held in the United States
was in Chicago in 1926. I was
present at one in St. Paul, Min
nesota in 1939 or 1940.
A. National Eucharistic Con
gresses should have been men
tioned in the article to which
you refer. The answer did state
that the last INTERNATIONAL
Eucharistic Congress in the Unit
ed States was held in Chicago in
1926. and that is correct. There
have been National Eucharistic
Congresses here in Washington
D.C. (1895), St. Louis (1901),
Neu York 1904), Pittsburgh
(1907), Cincinnati (1911), Oma
ha (1930). Cleveland (1935),
New Orleans (1938). and St. Paul
with Minneapolis (1941).
Q. Could you list some of the
patron saints traditionally asso
ciated with certain ways of life?
A. Among the more official
patrons are: St. Albert the
Great, given by Pope Pius Xll
in 1941 as patron of students of
natural sciences St. Catherine
of Siena, named patroness of
nurses by Pope Pius XII in 1943:
St. Francis de Sales for writers
by Pope Pius XI in 1923 St.
John Baptist de LaSalle for
educators of youth by Pope Pius
MONSIGNOR HIGGINS
Lather Healey--------------------
Very Confusing
In 1949. the CIO, after pro
longed investigation of the facts,
formally expelled a number of
its affiliates on the grounds that
they had ceas
ed to be bona
fide unions and
had become, in
effect, political
agents of the
Kremlin.
Chapter and
verse were cit
ed to establish
the fact that
these affiliates
were slavishly
following the
communist par
ty line in the
field of foreign Policy. More speci
fically, their opposition to the so
called Marshall Plan, which the
CIO as a national organization
was vigorously supporting, was
considered to be prima facie
evidence that they were taking
orders from Moscow.
Applauded in '49
The decision to withdraw the
charters of these organizations
and expel them from the parent
federation was widely applauded
in 1949 as an important contri
bution to the anti-communist
counteroffensive of the Western
powers. On the other hand, if the
CIO—in the interest of keeping
peace within its own ranks—had
refused at that time to stand up
and fight for the Marshall Plan,
it would have been severely criti
cized and the personal loyalty
of its policy-making officials
might well have been called into
question.
In our opinion, this would
have been a justifiable reaction.
For the American public had a
right to expect the CIO to sup
port the Marshall Plan against
communist opposition, even at
the cost of depleting its own
ranks to the tune of several hun
dred thousand members.
Apparently, however, what is
sauce for the goose is not al­
XII St. John Vianney as patron
of parish priests by Pope Pius
XI in 1929 St. Joseph as patron
of workmen by Pope Benedict
XV in 1920 St. Michael for
policeman by Pope Pius XII in
1950 Our Lady of Loreto for
aviators by the Congregation of
Rites in 1920. Less official but
traditional are: St. Matthew
(bankers). St. Elizabeth of Hun
gary (bakers), St. Fiacre (cab
drivers), St. Isidore (farmers)
and Ss. Cosmas and Damian
(physicians). The National Ca
tholic Almanac has a long list.
Q. If parents neglect needed
sex-instruction should not the
schools supply it? Doesn't the
Church's restriction on this
cause children to fall into pit
falls otherwise avoidable?
A. Since the schools (public
schools) generally feel that
moral and religious teaching is
outside their province it seems
they should not attempt such
teaching. To teach mere physi
cal facts about sex to young
people at an impressionable age
is as likely to cause sin and un
happiness as is the lack of more
complete information. Pope Pius
XL (Chritian Education of
Youth, 1929) stated that it is a
grave error to imagine that
purely natural means can pro
tect youth against the dangers
of sensuality. He encourages,
as the Church always has, proper
private intruction by those who
"hold from God the commission
to teach and have the grace
of state.” Catholics can obtain
pamphlets for their own guid
ance in such instruction and for
the children themselves. The
Christopher movement has
brought our records to guide
parents, but all these means in
corporate the Christian respect
for the whole person, not over
emphasizing the mere physical
facts.
Q. What good does sending a
person to hell (by excommuni
cation) do the Catholic Church?
It scarcely seems the Christian
A. The Catholic Church does
not send a person to hell. Ex
communication means cutting a
person off from the privileges
of full Catholic living because
of some particularly vicious or
public sin. It aims to wrarn and
protect others from following
sinful example and also to con
vert the excommunicated person,
as did St. Paul's "let him be
anathema” (Galatians 1:R).
Christ said, "If a man does not
live on in me he can only be like
the branch that is cast off and
withers away such a branch is
picked up and thrown into the
fire, to burn there.” (John 15:6)
Any living person can repent
and return to the Catholic
Church.
Q. Is Leonard a saint’s name?
A. He was a Frankish lord, fol
lower of Clovis, who w as baptized
with him at Rhetms in 496. One
of his apostolic works after re
tirement from the army for ded
ication of his life to God was the
visitation of men in prison. He is
patron of prisoners. His feast day
is November 6th.
Send questions to Father Ed
ward F. Healey, The Inquiry
Corner. The Catholic Times, Box
636, Columbus (16) Ohio.
ways sauce for the gander. Many
holier- than- thou anti commun
ists, who even to this day are un
willing to give the CIO a clean
bill of health, are now openly
saying with impunity that the
Marshall Plan was a thoroughly
disastrous policy which was fav
ored. if not actually initiated, by
the communists.
Isolationism In The Raw
This is part of a larger thesis
which says that “the greater
threat to America is from within
that the external threat is over
emphasized, and has been prop
erly built up to justify a level of
spending and taxation which will
ultimately destroy our economy
and society.”
The above statement, which is
primitive isolationism the
raw, is quoted verbatim from the
jacket of a new book by Chesly
Manly of the Chicago Tribune,
who is important principally as a
representative symbol and
spokesman of the new national
ism.
A Different Standard
It would be the height of ab
surdity and injustice to
question the loyalty of
Mr. Manly or the influential
group w hich he represents. They
are loyal Americans, all of them.
They are very fortunate, how
ever, that they are being judged
by a different standard from the
one which they themselves and
many other professional anti-com
munists customarily apply to the
“liberals” and the so-called “egg
heads.”
Heaven help the “liberal” who
would dare to suggest, at this
late date, that the external
threat of communist aggression
is "over-emphasized.” I seriously
doubt that he could qualify for
employment with the federal
government. Mr. Manly, on the
other hand, would undoubtedly
be cleared by the FBI without
the slightest bit of trouble.
Very confusing, isn't it?