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Iowa Leg~sJation to lend Dispute

Between A~;shl1. 1P(llJ1b~5(: Sch1J~I$

tHE ANCHORThurs., July 13, 1967

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~ES MOINES (NC) - The j)inn: "j[~ would be a kindnestl to c~ B"cdHft)@ ~ oot7a House of Representatives the~ people to have them be­ U.OO voted to exempt the Amish oom~ a part of the bro~der com­ ~m~$~~5 ~~®®(f iIlrom the state's school stanm&ll"ds munity." GLOUCESTER (NC)-Richard 1!a1:7. T~e I<indness was stubbornly Cardinal Cushing of Boston M i~ receives the .sign~t\nJre of refused by the Amish; however, turned seafarer here at the bles­ @a'll. Harold Hugjles a llllear sometimes with tragi-comic re­ sing 01 the !Iishing fle<!t, one of 0ertainty - the House bill win sults. In one famous confronta­ this port's most colorfUl annual ~nnit the Amish to send their tion, state truant officers chasecl events. ehildlll'en to their own sehools, a group of black-hatted Amish where they are tuught by' their children into the cornfieldls. It WG:S far from a quiet cere­ own uncertified teachers. The The chase was fruitless. Action mony after the Boston arch­ ebilolren will al50 be permitted [rn tt.e courts was no more suc­ bishop imparted his collective wend their schooling with the cessilJJl for the school officials. blessing from a wharf to several <aighth grade. Severa1 Amish fathers were hundred vessels in the fishing The law wot.::ol affect about j:olHed and fined, but they COIll­ fleet. 500 Amish pupils. tiltmed to resist the public schoo:! Some 25.f}aO along the wharves Passage of the hill-b:v a lop­ manclates. and crews aboard ships cheered, aicled 81-35 vote, which surFinally Gov. Hughes, with the ship whistles and horns tooted I\Ilrised even its most optimistic help of the Danforth FoundatioZil as t:le 71-year-old prelate, m,\pporters-signaled the end of of 51. Louis, proposed an-interim aboard a trawler, cruised around o two-year dispute between the settlement. Hughes named a the harbor. He appeared ship­ Amish and Iowa's public school study commission to discover a shave and in good spirits rnnthorities. pemlanent sOlutiOZl; the Danthroughout the event. Must lComfoll'IIWl forth Foundation provided $15,Among the Portuguese-Amer­ Two years ago school authori­ 000 to pay state-certified teach­ ican fishermen here the fleet Cles decided tha~ the Amish ers for the Amish children who blessing has been an annual tra­ Dchools did not meet state re­ were also acceptable to. the dition ior years. It climaxes a illllilirements. Their teachers are Amish. four-day Fourth-oi-July observ­ aot certified-most do not have 'StDp-GaJljl' ance and is capped by a proces­ more than an eighth grade eduThe new law was recom­ sion through the principal iCation--and their curricula are mended by the commission, and UNftQUE IN K OF C ANNAIT...s: JFDur blood brothers of streets of the town and a fiesta less advanced than those of the contained most of the proposals St. Isidore Council, Westport-][lIartmouth, became fourth in honor of St. Peter, patron of I\PUblic schools. Moreover, the of t~~ American Civil Liberties degree Knights of Columbus in ceremonies held in Boston. fishermen. Amish never bothered to send Union which had taken the The cardinal toured the port ®leir children to school after the Amish side in the dispute. ]Left tG right: Jose, Jacinto ancl N~ L. Ferro, all of Mt. aboard the trawler of Capt. ~ghth grade. William B. Ball, general counCarmel Parish, New Bedford, ~md GHl:Dert Ferro from St. Thomas Favazza, son of Salva­ For their agrarian, family sel to the Pennsylvania Catholic' John the Baptist Parish, New Bedford. tore J. Favazza, 30, who vears and God - centered life, which' Conference and a vice chair­ ago purchased the 500-Jl:nund llillB not changed significantly in man of the National Committee statue of St. Peter which in car­ noo years, such an education was for Amish Religious' Freedom. ried by fishermen in the pro­ ~med enough by the Amish. pl'aised Gov. Hughes' efforts 13 cession which precedes the an­ But not by the public schoo1 find a solution, but said he was nual blessing. llUthorities, who told the Amish afraid that the new Iowa law Offidal Says Union Lacks Jurisdiction

etta! their teachers must be cer­ w()U~d turn out to be a "stop-gap @lified; that their children must measure.~ Introductory Course

3ttend classes until age 16; and &U cited the bill's provision­ Utat they must follow the public f.or' initial two-year exemptiona re:atative' Joom Curan says nit At St. PJlilipNeri

WASHiNGTON (NC)-Cath­ ilCbool. curriculum. for Amish schools, which would 9}lc University's Vice Rector for bad- akeadoy si.li:ned cards indi­ lEOSTON (NC)-The School 'Make y.our schools eonform, then have to seek one-year ex­ lBusiness. and Financial Affairs eating- tbei r desire to be repre­ !he,. told the Amish, or close tensions. Thlis, he said, seemed­ sented- by the- union. CUI'an said of 51. Philip Neri for Delayed ll1Ias challenged the right of • f.bem and send your clrildreB to ' to indicate that. the state wiH local union to aJI:range a demon­ the affair at Catholic University Vocatic>ns will intmduce an in­ troductory course in August. 9Ublk schools. Much 9f the stillf attempt to move the Amish stration. brr the university's is ni).t a st-Tike but a "demonstra­ lFath~ Walter J. Martin, S.J.. argument was stated by an op­ towacd compliance with the maintenance and janitorial tien." director, said the program will ~ t of the recently passed sble school law. Ms.,-. Magner issued the fol­ workers. be geared to provide a solid l!owing public statement: Msgr. James A. Magner's com­ prepaTation for men who will ment came as maintenance 'No Conclusion' begin the regular nine-month workers marched on the univer­ "University business officials course- in September. sity campus. The demonstration have- had collversations with the !Established in 1946, the school was organized by the Interna­ futernalj;iona! Brotherhood of furnishes ~he education needed STICKNEY (NC) - alB there than that. We have not been t·ional Brotherhood of Firemen Firemen and Oilers about their by me:a Who want to become IIIOOm in the Religious life fO'l' wish to ~ganize the campus called upon just to tinker, but to and Oilet'S, who represent em­ ,priests but who lack the aca­ ployes c>f the university's powell' maint~ance and .housekeeping charity?" ~rt')be deeply, to bring to this demic background to be ac­ This is a question which wiUll enterprise .aU of our goodwi~ plant-but have thus far .been f.oJllCe. These talks have as yet cepted into a seminary. unsuccessful in a five-week eome to ~ conclusion. be posed to the Oblate:; of St. ·the best that we have. This year's incoming studenta effort to· bring the maintenance "Since this union at present lP'rancis de Sales at their generaU "'If startling ideas are .pre­ has- no jurisdiction over the include an airline sales agent dlapter meeting in Annecsr, sented, they simply cannot be workers under their wing. Negotiations between Magr. maintenance and housekeeping a navy yard pipe fitter's helper, summarily rejected. They must lP'r-ance, beginning July 2l}. Magner and union officials, with fQrce, it- has no right to call them a hospital orderly and a retired 1ft has already been aRSW~i'eIil' be considered on their merits, .. the affirmative by several and there is a case for making ·a· view to union membership for IiloUt O:ll strike, university officials manager of a department store. IlDembers of the order's t _ roem· for charity in.the Religious the maintenance work~rs, came cORtend. They say that until the to- a halt when the priest notified 1Hlion, is recognized as the bar­ JIKOvinces in the United States Hfe." gailllHlg agent for these em­ woo would like to see a vow of Father Lange ~erts that "it seme 25 of the· work~rs the,­ Enjoy eharity given precedence 0'VCll' is charity 911ld charity alone would no longer be employed by pl~, it has no business inter­ theuniversity as the result of a­ feriag in- their affairs. ..ehe 1>1'aditional vows of povert7, which motivates (or should me­ IN THE "Soule employes have received d\astity and obedience. ti-vate) the practice of po:vert~ new contract with an outside I'ather Joseph Lange, OAl".s., cbastit.!f, obedienoo, silence, etc. cleaning. firm. He urged the two-week termination n1>tices as JOLtY WHALER worke1'\'l to- seek elnP'loyment a result of a new contract be­ • IlDember of the Wilmington­ lsi 'Jt<hat -W~ do is not done f6l' wittl· ~be firm. -AND-it;w:eea the un3¥:ersity; and.an out­ PlKtadelphia Province aDd' .in the 10"l"<e- &f Gcd, it is ·useless." The union responded by ar­ side- cleaning agency (Space residence in St. Pius X pal'isb sanee tms ·han always beeR· ranging: SPOUTER INN cilemoDl3tratioDs, in three­ CleaBers). 'F.hey have been itel'e iR ntinois, both posed ami tFtte, he- claims, there iBno rea­ BePlH"ateshifts,of the remaining 'HEged to- seek employment with IIUTAUftANTS IIIWwered the question ia Ia 'SOH. it should not be reco~ KHtPer circulated to aU mem­ ia U.l~· actual -eonstitutiOD 01·:Be­ membe«'s M the .maintenance this firm- and .some have .already ferce-. The entire force numbef'a tMways Free Parking beeD- hired·. AU· employes -en­ t'.Ienl eI. the order in the United­ !igj04tS orders. 122 werkers, and union 'xepre- titled· under university policy to 'Deeisive Step" States. Father Lange em:plained -.that tenmnal and vacation pa,r have "'One 1M the advantages crt reo­ received it.... -.e idea was introduced iD this deMing tile llleligious life ia Mass Fo.r Gypsies count'!"y by Father Bemllrei teems of a vow c>f eharity," ~ COLOGNE (NC)-Joseph'Car­ Donahue, O.S.F .5., of Brissoo continues, "is that it would >be IHnal Frings ·of Cologne cel­ (O'l' could be) the cBecisive Seminary, Center Vall.e;r, PI). ebrated Mass at nearby Alten­ lP'atbet' Donahue, a member of in liberati ng the constitutions of berg here in Germany lor an Religious institutes from the Che Wilmington - Philadelphia inlecnational pilgrimage of WfrHOUT T-RAFFle & ,PAilKING PROBLEMS PIl'.ovince, suggested at a retreat !eg,aHstic spirit, which, at pres­ about 1,500 Gypsies fro~ Bel­ .iscussion last Summer that the ent, they tend to foster. There at the gium, France, the Netherlands, is ceetainly IlIO suggestiOll\ being Cbll'ee traditional vows be re­ Gennany, Spain, Hungary and duced to the level of promise; m2de here to do away with law. and (»f'ecept; but legalism is- fall' Italy. \IIIlder a vow of charity. SOMERSETJ MASS. 'il'aking up the idea, Fathel!' from the spirit of Christianity. lLange circulated his paper. "Reducing the Religious life 1I1ll it he admits that 1he J:!'ro­ to the sterile burden of 'follow­ The most friendly, democratic BANK offerIng (;)0331 is "far reaching" and nil 8l i~ the -rule' is one of the most iJellBe even "radical.Of dan-gerous tendencies which oU!' One-Stop America's Economy King He maintains however that i~ oonstitutions tend to foster." F"T the Best Deal Come To Club Accounts Auto loans "'t:oes to the heart of tbe matter·' JEl[e further maintains that the Checl<ing Accounts Business Loans 1m considerlng tlhe adaptation s~.iJIic obligations of poverty, lINC. tild renewal of ReligiGUS life chastitsr and obedience "could. . Savings Accounts Real Estate loans be wor1l:ed out more clearly and., Qlrged by Vatican Council H. 768 B'ROADWAY At Somerset Shopping Area-Brightman St. Bridge '"Vatican II," be said, "expects wh~ ii5 important, more mean­ 1 ItAYNHAM/ MASS on Rt. 138 laIOre than superficiality and the ingtiuUy" if the)' were Pl1'omisea Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation CJV,RLF.~.l 01[Tl\tATS. P"ps. llIeUgious life 4ieservea m.ore wuie.r a vo'''' of charity.

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Oblates of St. ·Fronc·is de Sales To Consider Vew of Charity

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