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Orator;' "Comes .the' revohition,everyone '. will eat . ." .strawberries. ~nd cream."..' >i • .. , '.. .. " . , . '., .... : "::;""" Li8'tene't;'~'But I don't like:·strawberries and"cr·eam.": :.," '," ;:'. 9rator;tiCome~th~: rev~luti9i1fevery·on~.wiileat~traw~ . ". . ... ; betties.:ai'td cream and like it!" ': . " . .' . ' .,.', " ' .. ::·Thilfs.¢em.s·t,9be the attitude'pfmany speaking..out in ... "~' th~ '. Pres·ent.• equcationaf hassfe:: i(Catholics. do not like '. ·..·bein·g.. di~criminated against,· 'let them do away ~ith',their .. ' " '~divi$ive'" '~~hools which. "fragmentize" Americah culture · ~n.d.accept p'ithIjc schools as ,the 9hly American way. . . . And' no .attitu.de could be more,;un-American. . '. . First of ~n, the worq "public" as applied to a schQ~'" system is misleading. It does n'ot mean a "co~mol!" ··scY{ooI· . system. The Federal Constitution m{lkes noprc;)vision for "common" school system to whicli", all, Americans must belong. It lea.ves education wher!'l.:ifi BeI6ngs - in the hands TOMORROW-Friday of Pasof parents and, if they cantrot provide adequate education, sion Week. Human authority and in the hands of the;lo'dtl community. Divine authority are not ne.cesCatholics ~d'O;"-~ot oppose the public school system. sarily opposed. But the ChrisArchbishop Alter' of Cincinnati said. last .November that tian, in the light of today's Epistle and Gospel, must be 'Cat1lolics feel that if the public schools did not exist "we aware that they can be opposed. would have to create them." And when he is, in conscience, At the same time Catholics resent bitterly and oppose persuaded that this opposition justly any attempt to label parochial schools as anti-public exists, he must be prepared to stiffer the consequences of his or outside the democratic ideal. The private schools of this preference for the Divine. country are democracy in action - an exercise of the rights Christian respect for authority, of parents to educate their children according to their then, is always tempered by this consciences and in accordance with standards of intellectual knowledge. So that his witness is not clouded by servility or excellence and after the mind of the founding fathers of the ~illJ~~®~TI'~ ~®Cl®~@fMD[(1)@li'o@[[i) . local prejudice or human recountry. . spect. Catholics reject out of hand the attempt to label private Cl [fM~fr [P)&uB~@~@[9)[h)2f SATU]RDAY OlF PASSION tlchools "divisive" or agents to "fragmentize" the country's WlEEK Annunciation of the By Msgr. George G. Higgins culture. Who says that the public school alone represents \ Blessed Virgin Mary. What Director, NCWC Social Action Department the country's culture? What gives the· public school the The recent price-fixing scandal in the electrical manu- greater moment is there in the right to wrap the American flag around itself and look with history of the human race? disdain on all other schools as "un-American?" America. is facturing industry came as a great shock to the American When Mary learns, from a vision a plu'ralistic society embr,acing r'nany faiths ~ not a'secu- public, but it will have been a blesisng in disguise if it of supernatural authority, that prompts us to take a new look at the underlying philosopl).y the Saviour is to be born of her laristic society reducing all to one faith of materialism. of the Sherman Anti-Trust designed to modify the "laws" body, of her flesh and. blood. Is it American to reduce all education to the lowest nine-months-before-ChristLaw. This statute, as amend- of competition and to nullify This mas interruption of the Easter common denominator? Is it American to refuse to accept both the letter and the spirit of cycle is an, occasion of inexas equal Americans millions of 'children attending private ed by the Clayton Act and the Sherman Act and its several pressible joy for the Christian ·other more' recent laws, is schools? Is it American to deny the national motto, "E one of our most cherished amendments. people. The Messenger of God ·pluribus unum-One from many?" Is it American to turn institutions. 'The anti-:monopoly But they are not discouraged to Mary is the first proclaimer. by their findings. They still of the Gospel, ·the good news of education into a Detroit-patterned assembly belt ? Catholics policy which·it think that anti-trust legislation salvation, not as prophecy any will not allow this to be done in either of the two systems represents is a is a good thing and that it can more, but as present fact, Divine part qf our nathey support-public and parochial. be made to' work effectively. deed, incarnate love. tional mytholThe final test of eligibility for Federal aid is the one ogy.Labor and These conditions, I believe, are SECOND SUNDAY OF THE open to debate.. ultimate object. of the benefit - and that is the student. managePASSIO~ - Today's procession The final test is the student, not the student who happens men t, liberals Unrestricted Competition with branches of palm or other to attend this .or that school, not the student who'hauupns and conserva. Anti-trust legislation would be trees is a stirring pledge of tives, D em 0'to be Catholic or Protestant or Jew, not the student' with crats' and Rea good thing if its only purpose allegiance .to the' Saviour 'as were to prevent monopoly in the King, 'as Son of Man, the Head white skin or black, but the student. publicans, are .
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Assumption College in Worcester and the Catholic University in Washington are to be congratulated on the inauguration of, a 'national Catholic college admissions and information center. There are two hundred and forty Catholic- colleges and universities in the country. But, as often happens, a student desiring to attend one, of them either does not apply to the one that can and does accept him or feels that application would be useless in the face of so many seeking admissions. . These two centers will .provide detail~ information' on the facilities and opportunities at; aIJ the Catholic colleges in the country. And they'wiH' assist a student seeking' admission' by making the individual's qualifications available .to college admissions officers. This is a wonderful way of solving the problem' that ·confronts both those seeking college admission and· many colleges ·themselves. All too often students apply at the better-known colleges and' are not even aware of the existence of other colleges that would provide a solid education for them. And many times college admissions officers read wryly about the shortage of places for students while aware ·of vacancies in, their own schools,' space going begging because no one thought or knew enough to apply. . It is to be hoped that high school seniors will take advantage of this new service, and will not be easily discouraged from attending a Catholic colleg~ because they do not receive their first choiCe. . . .'
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River 410 Highland Avenue Fall River,. Mass. OSborne ·5·7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. James L Connolly, D.O., PhD•. GENERAL MANAGER Rev. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A.
ASST. GENERAL MANAGER Rev. John P. Driscoll
MANAGING EDITOR Hugh J. GoldeR
in 'favor of it and 'never willingly forego an opportunity to say so. I think it would be fair to say, however, that many of those who pUblicly support the philosophy of anti-trust legislation really don't. believe in it ~nd violate it-with a good con.science-whenever they can do so with impunity. . \ Jekyll and Hyde The' ave~age American, :in this respect 'is a combination of . Jekyll ~ndHYde. Dr. Jekyll believes in free competition and pledges his undying loyalty to the so-called "laws" of the market and to legislation designed to implement these laws. . Mr. Hyde is afraid of the rigors of competition and, whil,e publicly supporting the philosophy of anti-trust legislation, will go to the most ingenius lengths, in collusion with his' "competitors," to neutrali~e the "laws" of the market. . It seems to me that there is probably more to be said for Mr. Hyde than there is for Dr. Jekyll. I do not mean to condone the' kind ·of illegal price-fixing recently uncovered which is admittedly indefensible. But does it necessarily follow that unlimited free competition is desirable? Admit Collusion Some economists would' an:' swer yes, among them George W. Stocking and Myron M. Watkins, authors of a book entitled "Monopoly and Free Enterprise" which was published several years ago under the respectable auspices of the Twentieth Century Fund. Messrs. Stocking and Watkins .believe wholeheartedly in the philosophy of anti-trust legislation, but they readily admit that the American economy is shot through with' various kinds of formal and informal collusion
anti-social sense in which that of the human race, the first-born word is usually understood. of a new creation. Matthew's narrative of Jesus' But for many people that isn't its only purpose. Its underlying passion and death is read instead purpose, according to Stocking of the usual Gospel and the les':' and Watkins, is to perpetuate the son from Paul's letter to the "impersonal" laws of competi- Philippians proclaims that Saction as the directing principles rifice which is man's liberation, the Cross. So the Church' tiegins of economic life. the celebration of the great ~eek . "If society," they say, "is to rely on private enterprise to .of .her year, to. climax in the serve it, all obstacles to its com~ three-fold commemoratiori of petitive operation must be clearly Maimdy Thursday, Good Friday recognized . and rigorously re- and Easter. pressed, however sacred may be MONDAY OF HOLY WEEKthe vested interests at stake. Prophecy of the Passion and \ "In its own interest, the public Death is the subject of both cannot tolerate private groups- readings. Judas' hypocriticai either labor or business-strong solicitude for the poor and the enough to control markets and violence of Isaias' enemies (Gosdisrupt the econ:omy., Monopoly . pel and Epistle) both illustrate power, in labor's hands or cap- . man's basic difficulty of converital's' or jointly. exercised, is sion, of admitting and acknowlinimical to the general welfare edging· the divine. and to democracy." . TUESDAY OF HOLY WEEKPrime Warfare Virtu~ The passion narrative according "All obstacles," they say. Pre- , to Mark and the figure of the sumably this would include not. suffering Jeremias continue the . merely "monopoly power" of an Church's preparation for her anti-social character but any .passover or paschal celebration, . attempt whatever on the part of WEDNESDAY OF HOLY labor and·management, in cooperation with the government,' to WEEK-Two lessons from Isaias establish social justice by regu- on the suffering Servant of God lating competition in the interest and the third recital of the' passion story, this time from Luke's of the common good. . . It would include the so-called Gospel, complete the prelude to Industry. Council System as ad- the following days. vocated in the social encyclicall! and would make. a virtue out of My own guess is that it will uninhibited price warfare. eventually be found wanting in In rejecting the philosophy of many respects and will be subunrestricted competition as ad- stantially modified to permit and vocated by Stocking and Wat- even encourage the right kind of kins, I am not lightly dismissing interference with the so-called the anti-trust. tradition of the "laws" of competition in the United States nor suggesting interests of justice and the genthat it can be or should be imme- eral welfare. diately su~pended. Predicts Modification Our present anti-trust policy is probably necessary under " Meanwhile if it can discourage present and foreseeable circum- or prevent the growth of anti.Stances, but it isn't by any social price-fixing of the kind means a sacred cow. Sooner or which the electrical manufacturlater it will have to be re-ex- ing industry has been indulging amined. in, more power t.o it.