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Vol. V, No. 48
Msgr. Higgins Here
Monday for Annual
Labor Day Sermon
Labor Writer,
Educator At
Cathedral
Monsignor George G. Hig
gins, director of the NCWC
social action unit which is
sues the annual Labor Day
statement will give the an
nual address at the Diocesan
Labor Day Mass, Monday, 10
•,m., in St. Joseph Cathedral.
Bishop Ready will preside at
Hv# 12th annual Labor Day
Mass.
Monsignor Higgins received his
Master's degree in Economics
from the Catholic University of
Monsignor Higgins
America in 1842. Two years later
he received his doctorate in Po
litical Science from the same in
stitution.
The 40-year-old labor writer
has been a keen observer of the
labor-management scene for the
past 14 years. He was appointed
to the Social Action Department,
NCCW in May of 1944. In Jan
uary of 1946 he was named as
sistant director of the depart
ment and in 1954 he was raised
to his present position.
Monsignor Higgins is a former
professor in the department of
economics, at the Catholic Univer
sity of America.
He is also executive secretary
of the Catholic Association for
international peace, co-chairman
of the. Economics committee of
C.A.I.P. and secretary treasurer
of the Catholic Conference on In
dustrial problems.
He is the organizer of diocesan
and regional priests' social action
conferences sponsored by the So
cial Action department. A pro
lific writer on labor manage
ment problems, he has written
labor economic book reviews for
the The Commonweal. Rest Sel
lers. and The Sign.
He edits a monthly bulletin, So
cial Action Notes for Priests,
end is the author of the weekly
syndicated column "The Yard
stick” which appears on the
Catholic Times editorial page.
All men of the Diocese in the
field of labor whether manage
ment or employees, are urged to
attend the annual Mass, 10 a m.,
Monday, in St. Joseph’s Cathedral.
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Sunday Busines*
YOUNGSTOWN—This city's
efforts to eliminate Sunday “bus
iness as usual,” which resulted
several weeks ago in the convic
tion of two bargain center oper
ators, will take another step
shortly, it was announced this
week. City Prosecutor Irwin Kret
«er is preparing a list of drug
stores, garden supply stores, sup
ermarkets and other firms which
violate the law against unneces
sary Sunday sales, and intends to
summon operators to a meeting at
which an agreement on Sunday
Closing will he sought.
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Annual Message
Laborer, Boss
Must Get Off
Defensive
WASHINGTON (NCI La
bor and management in the years
immediately ahead must be en
couraged to get off the defensive
and think more in terms of their
joint responsibility for the wel
fare of the whole economy.
This advice it contained in
the 1956 Labor Day Statement
of the Social Action Depart
ment of thp National Catholic
Welfare Conference here. Msgr.
George G. Higgins is director
of the N.C.W.C. unit which was
set up in 1920 to promote the
Church's social teaching. Labor
Day Statements have been is
sued for a decade.
I^bor and management have
come into a position of vast eco
nomic power, the statement notes.
“They are called upon under our
form of government and in con
junction with government to sit
in judgment every day over the
economic destiny of the nation.”
The responsibility for "wise
and unselfish exercise" of this
pgwer cannot be fulfilled ade
quately unless labor and man
agement "acknowledge as crea
tures their dependence upon
Almighty God and the need to
appeal humbly fo Him in pray
er," the statement sayj.
It urges they repeat daily the
prayer of Solomon at the altar of
Gabaon when he asked the Ixrd
for “a heart quick to learn, so
that I may be able to judge Thy
people's disputes and discern be
tween good and ill.”
The ‘broadest possible coopera
tion” between labor and man
agement at both the industry and
the national level is needed today
because their problems no longer
can be solved by collective bar
gaining alone or by legislation
alone, the statement says.
The N.C.W.C. depart e n
adds, however, that it "is in
clined to agree" with observers
who predict that industrial re
lations are entering a new era
in which labor and manage
ment "will find it possible to
cooperate more harmoniously
than ever before, not only for
their mutual advantage but for
the good of the nation as a
whole."
The department says it is now
firmly established that the right
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Diocesan Men
Assigned To
Seminaries
Bishop Ready this week an
nounced the seminary assign
ments for those men who finish
ed their minor seminary work in
June.
John D. Rurkhart. Assumption
parish, Barnesville Patrick Fox,
St. Mary parish, l^incaster Rob
ert Metzger, St. Patrick parish.
Junction City Alan Nehr, St.
lo parish, Columbus, and Clif
ford Scheidler, St. Peter parish,
North Ridgeville, all will attend
Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Nor
wood.
David Corcoran, St. Peter par
ish, Chillicothe Richard Stre
lecky. St. I-eo Parish, Columbus,
and Alan Sr enger, St. Aloysius,
Cleveland will attend the Catho
lie University. Washington.. D.C.
Charles Benedetti, Corpus
Christi parish. Columbus, and
David Sorohan. St. Rose parish.
New 1 -exington, will attend the
North American College in Rome.
Effective September 3:
Th* Reverend Ralph J. Huntiinger, M.A.. from assistant
pester St. Nicholas Church, Zanesville to the Faculty St.
Charles Seminary.
The Reverend Thomas L. McLaughlin from assistant pastor
St. Mary Magdalene Church, Columbus, to assistant pastor St.
Nicholas Church, Zanesville.
Effective August 30:
Reverend Patrick J. Conaty, O.P. pastor St. Patrick Church,
Columbus.
Rev. Paul F. Mottey, CJA., pastor St. Mary Church, Grove
port.
Reverend J. P. Morrissey, O. P„ assistant pastor St. Thomas
Church, Zanesville.
Republican Plank
Pledges Aid to Build
More Class Rooms
By Frank A. Hell
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
SAN FRANCISCO—-The Repub
lican Party, in its quadrennial
convention here, recalled a prev
ious urging hy the present admin
istration that federal assistance
be given for school building, and
pledged itself to a program of
“state and local efforts to build
more classrooms.
There wii no specific men
tion of school health and wel
fare services in the section on
education, but under agricul
ture there is a pledge to ex
pand the school milk and school
lunch program.
In general, it was affirmed:
“The Republican Prrty is de
termined to press all such actions
that will help insure that every
child has the educational oppor
tunity to Advance to his own
greatest capacity.”
In its last two platforms, the
party in 1948 pledged against
"federalization" of schools, and
in 1952 stressed local concern
in educational matters.
The platform also called at
tention that the present admin
istration had proposed a nation
wide analysis of problems in edu
cation “beyond the high schools.”
In its “Declaration of Faith,”
leading off the platform, the first
words are:
“America’s trust is in the mer
ciful providence of God, in whose
image every man is created
the source of every man’s dignity
and freedom.
“In this trust our Republic was
founded. We give devoted hom
age to the Founding Fathers.
They not only proclaimed that
lhe freedom and rights of men
came from the Creator and not
from the state, but they provided
safeguards to those freedoms.”
Later in the same section. Pres
ident Eisenhower is quoted
Secular Schooling
Over Stresserl
Prelate Asserts
TOLEDO. Ohio—(NC)—Bishop
George J. Rehring of Toledo, has
warned Catholic parents against
being misled hy the emphasis
their neighbors and fellow-citi
zens may be placing upon secular
education.
Most of these persons, said the
Bishop have not had “the oppor
tunities to learn adequately the
supernatural and natural truths
bearing on life or if they have,
they failed to take full advan
tage of them.
“Because of their shortcomings
as teachers, they are unfortu
nately in no position tn provide
necessary instruction and train
ing for their children. Although
they follow their lights to the
best of their knowledge and abil
ity. they educate mainly fo rth
and time and let the hereafter
and eternity take care of them
sel es.”
The ... lolic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, August 31,1956
“Under God, we espouse the
cause of freedom and justice and
peace for all peoples."
pledging more federal aid for
construction of hospitals, and
“emphasizing low-cost care of
chronic diseases” and aid for
medical care of the needy, the
platform takes note of “the spec
ial problems of older persons."
The party also promises to seek
extension of a “sound social se
curity system.”
As to communism, the plat
form makes the pledge:
“We shall continue to oppose
the seating of Communist China
in the United Nations.”
It also asserts:
“The advance of communism
has been checked, and, at key
points, thrown back. The once
monolithic structure of interna
tional communism, denied the
stimulant of successive con
quests, has shown hesitancy both
internally and abroad
"Forces of liberalism with
in the Soviet bloc challenge
the brutal and atheistic doc
trines of Soviet communism.
For the first time, we see pos
itive evidence that forces of
freedom and liberation will
inevitably prevail if the free
nations maintain their
strength, unity and resolu
tion
“Where needed, we shall help
friendly countries maintain such
local forces and economic
strength as provide a first bul
wark against communist aggres
sion or subversion. We shall
reinforce that defense by a mil
itary capacity which, operating
in accordance with the United
Nations Charter, could so nunish
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Bishop Ready
Makes Clergy
Assignments
Bishop Ready this week made
five clergy appointments, two ef
fective this Monday and the re
mainder effective yesterday.
Fr. Ralph Huntzinger was ap
pointed to the faculty of St
Charles Seminary from his pres
ent post, assistant pastor St.
Nicholas parish. Zanesville.
Replacing Fr. Huntzinger will
be Fr. Thomas L. McLaughlin,
who has been assistant pastor of
St. Mary Magdalene parish since
his ordination in May.
Fr. Patrick Conaty. O.P., has
taken Fr. Bernard Schaefer's
place as pastor of St. Patrick's
Columbus.
Fr. Joseph Lawler, C.M., pastor
St. Mary parish, Groveport, has
been replaced by Fr. Paul F. Mot
tey. C.M.
Fr. J. P. Morrissey. O.P., was
named to St. Thomas parish,
Zanesville, as assistant pastor.
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Bishop Ready greets the new diocesan
school supervisors before school begins
next week. From left to right Sister Char
lene, O.S.F who will direct the elementary
Students from the 86 el
ementary and high schools
return to classes next week
as the Diocesan school year
gets under way.
Fr. Bennett Applegate, su
perintendent of ichools, ex
pects another record breaking
enrollment when schools opens
Tuesday and Wednesday next
week.
A total of more than 27 thou
sand students will report to the
elementary schools Tuesday and
the high schools, Wednesday, ac
cording to Fr. Applegate.
Eighteen grade schools and
seven high schools will have new
principals this year the diocesan
school superintendent said In ad
dition both the grade and high
school systems will have new su
pervisors for the current year.
Sister Charlene, O.S.F., will
head the elementary section
while Sister Gregory, O.P., will
take charge of the high schools
according to Fr. Applegate.
New Principals
The new elementary principals
include Sister Rose of the Sisters
of St. Joseph. Baden Pennsyl
vania. who will open the new St.
Andrew's school. Reed and Mc
Coy Roads, in Upper Arlington.
Bishop Will Dedicate Church, Two Schools Sunday, September 2nd
Bishop Ready will dedicate two elementary schools and
Church this Sunday.
Sunday morning the Bishop will blew the new St. Andrew*
Church end school (Left) He will then offer the 11 o'clock M»«.
Fr. George Kennedy, pastor of St. Agatha parish, and Fr.
Arnold Favret, pastor of Our Lady of Victory parish, will assist
the Bishop according to Fr. Michael Nugent, pastor of St. Andrew.
The St. Mary Magdalene male choir will sing the Mass
The combination church and school building, located at the
corner of Reed and McCoy Roads in Upper Arlington is a two
story contemporary style structure and is built of native Bellevue
stone.
The Sisters of St Joseph of Baden. Pennsylvania, will staff
the new school.
The architects are Emerick and McGee, and the general con
tractor Altman and Coady.
In the afternoon, at 4, the Bishop will go down to St. Mary’s
parish, Columbus, to dedicate the new elementary school. (Right).
The new school, begun last year, is a two-story brick building
containing nine classrooms, a gymnasium auditorium, cafeteria,
plua teacher, nursing and music rooms.
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Bishop Praises School Staff,
System Recalls 10-Year
Growth of Education Here
it
Iw
y
Classes Begin Next Week
At 86 Diocesan Schools
Othbr new principals who will
open their elementary schools
are: Sister Michael Joseph. O.P.,
Holy Name Sister Mary Mildred.
S.C.N., St. Agatha Mother M.
Teresina. S.B.S.. St. Cyprian Sis
ter Philip Neri. O P.. St. Gabriel
Mother M. Ixingina. O.S.F., St.
Ieo Sister M. Lenore, O.S.F.. St.
Mary Sister M. Ellen Clare. O.S.
F.. St. Michael Mother M. Mari
ella. O.S.F.. St. Peter: Sister
Agnes Terese. S.N.D., St. Joseph
Academy all in Columbus.
Outside of Columbus the new
elementary principals are Sister
Alice Mary, S.C., St. Mary. Chilli
cothe Sister Lucia. O.P., Sacred
Heart. Coshacton Sister Rosel
la. O.S.F. Our Lady of Mercy. Gran
ville Sister Theodosia St. An
thony. Kenton Sister M. Rosa
mond. O.P St. Mary. Lancaster
Sister Imelda. O.P., Blessed Sac
rament. Newark: Sister M. Jean
ette. C.D.P.. Sacred Heart. New
Philadelphia: Sister M. Brigetta,
O. S.F., Holy Redeemer, Ports
mouth Sister M. Clara Louise,
Holy Trinity. Somerset Sister M.
Vivian. O.S.F.. St. Nicholas. Zanes
ville and Sister M. Anacletus. O.
P. St. Thomas Aquinas. Zanes
ville.
Newsman Says 3 Moscow
Monasteries in Poor Shape
MILAN, Italy (Radio, NC) A correspondent for a
Milan newspaper has described the “pitiful condition” of
three former monasteries near Moscow.
The correspondent for Corriere Delia Sera said his
visit to the monasteries "over
whelmed him with sorrow.” The
three once famous abbeys are in
Pereslavl-Zaleski, some 90 miles
northeast of Moscow.
One has been converted into
a museum, another into an avia
tor’s club. The third is "a deso
late ruin.”
The Corriere correspondent
gave a full description of the
abandoned monastery. At a dis
tance. he said, its architectural
lines have maintained all their
beauty. But seen up close it is a
picture of complete “ruin, deso
lation and barbarism.” Doors are
walled up and figures of angels
and saints in frescoes have been
tilated hy bayonets, he said.
school activities the Bishop Sister Greg
ory, O.P., who will oversee the high
schools and Fr. Bennett Applegate, sup
erintendent of all Diocesan schools.
The new high school principals
who will open their schools nn
Wednesday are: Sister Evan
gels, O.S.F.. St. Mary. Fr. John
Hart, O.P., Aquinas College High:
Sister Ursula Marie. O.P. St.
Mary of the Springs all in Co
lumbus.
Sister Aliie Mary. SC., Cen
tral Catholic. Chillicothe Sister
Lucia. O.P.. Sacred Heart. Coshoc
ton Sister Rose Marie. O P.. St.
Mary. Lancaster, and Sister M.
Clara Louise. O.P.. Holy Trinity,
Somerset.
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Political Atheists
Denounced By
French Bishop
LOURDES, France—(NC)—The
“practical atheism of so-called
Christians” was hit by Bishop
Pierre Theas of Tarbes and Lour
des speaking to the R3rd French
national pilgrimage tn the shrine
of Our I^ady Here.
He said that while the prob
lems of Suez and Algeria are of
national concern their solutions
must be sought in prayer and
concern about each individual's
faults.
"That a dictator should seize
and nationalize the Suez Canal
against every law has properly
aroused us,” the prelate contin
ued, “but are there not many so
called Christians who. enslaved
by greed for gold have done sim
ilar things without remorse on a
petty level?”
The prelate referred to the re
cent nationalization of the Suez
Canal by Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser.
“We are quite right "to be dis
turbed about the progress of
Marxist materialism, but isn’t the
practical atheism of the socalled
Christian even more damaging
than the atheism of those who
have not listened to the word nf
Christ?" the Bishop asked.
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"Just Among Oursolvos*
Takes A Serious Look
At Political Conventions
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Continued
Vocations,
Aid Needed
Bishop Ready this past
week praised the work of the
Diocesan school system and
recalled the growth of Catho
lic education during the past
ten years.
In a letter to the Clergy, re
ligious and the laity read at all
Masses Iasi Sunday, the Bishop
said, "More than 300 new class
rooms came into existence to ac
commodate a school enrollment
which doubled during the past
decade, and this year will reach
a total of 27 thousand children."
Financially it has meant the ex
penditure of nearly seven mil
lion dollars. Presently there are
48 new classrooms under con
struction and many more in the
planning stage.
Though this is remarkable
achievement the Bishop re
minded the priests and laity
that "A zealous •postdate
awakened to new and heavier
responsibilities, must forge
•head in providing school facil
ities on both the elementary
nd high school levels.
The Bishop sympathized with
the great number of parenti
who find no desks for their chil
dren in parish schools. "We are
distressed." he said, to institute
double sessions to accommodate
more children. We are grateful
for the patient consideration and
generous understanding of dis
appointed parents.
“But the crowded condition nf
«ur schools is shared by the pub*
lie schools, which, of course, art
subsidized by taxes he added
The Bishop further cited the
need of providing financial re
sources for teaching in the new
classrooms. "Both." he said, “sug
gest the gravity of our problem
and should elicit ynur heartiest
cooperation in school support and
promoting vocations for the Sis
terhood.”
The Bishop closed the letter
commending Fr. Bennett Apple
gate. superintendent of schools,
and the schonl staff, for “their
excellent achievements in the
face nf innumerable burdens."
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Johnstown Man
Professes Vows
At ^otre Dame
JOHNSTOWN Brother Rich
ard Stout son of Mr. Edwin Stout
of Orlando. Fla., formerly of
Johnstown, and the late Mrs. Eth
el Stout, made his perpetual pro
fession as a Brother in the Con
gregation of the Holy Cross, in
Sacred Heart Church of the Uni
versity of Notre Dame Campus,
South Bend. Indiana, at a Solemn
High Mass sung by Fr Rankin,
Superior of Moreau Seminary,
Aug 16.
Brother Richard, a native of
Johnstown, was graduated from
Johnstown high school in 1948,
and attended Ohio State Univer
sity and St. Vincent College. La
trobe, Pa.
He served many years as an
altar boy in the Church of the
Ascension here. Edwin Stout and
Mrs. Isador Ruffe of Orlando and
Mrs. Luke Egan. Mr. and Mrs.
Neil Stout and son. David, of
Johnstown, relatives, witnessed
the ceremony.
Brother Richard expects to en
ter the nursing profession.
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