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One Man's Opinion By DALE FRANCIS I was talking with some men this afternoon. They were very learned men. They’ve got lots of degrees and their words carry weight all over the world. They were agreed that a certain magazine is not worthwhile oecause 11 is too emotional. “N( dispassionate enough,” one < them put it. .1 thought I knew what dispas sionate meant but I waited until returned to the office to look it u] It means unbiased. This magazine is a magazin about God and God’s Church. ] treats of the need for integratin our lives to Christ. It got m wondering. How do you go abot being unbiased about God? don’t think you can do it. Nc if you really believe in God. This is an illness of the secula society — this fear of being emo tional, this emphasis upon bein dispassionate. It isn’t the thing t do, you see. You’ve got to stand off and look at things. “Chrisl you say? Oh, yes, He’s God.” A simple as that.- No exclamatioi points. . Nothing to-get excitei about. “Christ is God and Sin clair Lewis is a 20th Centur; American novelist.” But they are wrong. You can’ be dispassionate about what i important in the world. The om great fact in all the universe i God and it is a fact that shouh make you sing. It isn’t just an; fact, it is THE fact. You can’ be dispassionate about THE fact St. Francis of Assisi wasn’t dis passionate. The dispassionati men of his day were the ones wh< remarked it was all very well t< believe in God but you didn’t hav< to run around barefoot about it The Cure d’Ars wasn’t dispassi onate. The dispassionate one; were those who said that a pries1 would do well to have a little so cial life and fix the hours of con fession between four and five or Saturdays. We don’t need more dispassion ate people. We’ve already got toe many of them. What we need are passionate believers in the one great truth. People who believe so much they can not contain their joy. The world already has too many intellectuals. What it really needs is saints. Greensboro Girl Wins Negro Scholarship To Manhattanville College GREENSBORO — A full Schol arship for Manhattanville Col lege, New York City has been awarded to Miss Joselyn Bailey of St. Mary’s Church by the Catho lic Negro Scholarship Association, according to word received by Sister Margaret, principal of St. Mary’s School here. Although only 16, Miss Bailey graduated from Dudley High School he^e with honors. She has been the organist of the parish church and was a pupil o£ the St. Mary’s School. The scholarship competitive examination was tak en two months ago. Her success in winning the schol arship has given great joy to her mother, a local high school teacher, and to the Sisters of Char ity of St. Vincent DePaul who taught Miss Bailey during grade school. TROLLINGERS FLORISTS Flowers For All Occasions Phones: Day 931 Night 519 Main Street BURLINGTON, N. C it if I e t g B t I t r 3 1 1 t l 'Charlotte Observer' Gtes Pope's Easter Message To Italians Below is reprinted an editorial which appeared in the March 30 issue of “The Charlotte Observer.” Although he did not mention communism by name in his Eas ter message to the 400,000 assem bled at St. Peter’s in Rome, to the Italian people, and to the civilized world, Pope Pius XII made his meaning clear when he declared Italy and the world are at the crossroads and denounced the “deniers of that which is most sacred” and “agitators who make the negation of Christ the . cor nerstone of their work.” It was evident that he had in mind the critical contest between Communists and their foes in the Italian elections of April 18 when he said that “over this multitude of believing Rome there lies al most a shadow of singular grav ity” and that “Rome now finds herself ... in the midst of a turning of the times” which re quires of Christianity “the high est vigilance, untiring prepared ness and unconditional action.” In the world today there is no stauncher foe of communism than the Roman Catholic church and no foe of the church and Chris tianity more dangerous and re lentless than communism. In the forthcoming election in Italy and in the struggle against the Soviet program of aggression throughout Europe and the world, no cause has greater stakes than that of Christianity. All Christendom well may heed the Pontiff’s call to its conscience and be aroused “to full under standing of its responsibility.” As he said, “There is no place for blind credulity towards those who at first are abundant with affir mation of respect for religion but then, alas, reveal themselves the deniers of that which is most sacred.” The Easter message of the head of the Catholic church was a sharp warning and a ringing call to Christianity and civilization to relentless and uncompromising St. Gene vieve-of-the Pines Asheville, North Carolina Junior College — High School - Grammar School »■ Resident and Day Students Conducted by the ReligjfjUs of Christian Education Raleigh—Greenville Greets Americans a Here is the latest picture of Giu-' liano Cabbia, ten-year-old nearly blind “GI Joe,” former mascot of the 88th Division, (Blue Devils). It was taken during a reception to the committee accompanying America’s “Friendship Food Train” in Italy., He recently left an Institute for the Blind to ap pear in a film which narrates his own story of blindness, resulting from the kick of a German sol dier’s horse, and his subsequent “adoption” by American soldiers who brought him to the United States to undergo two operations which partially restored the sight of one eye. (NC Photos) battle against communism and a timely call to the world’s peoples to “thoughts and designs of peace.” Mrs. Price Honored GUTHRIE, Okla. — Mrs. Kath erine E. Price of Greenwich, Conn., whose gift of $300,000 made possible the completion of the Katherine E. Price Benedic tine Heights Hospital here, was honored at a banquet marking the opening of the institution. Bish op Eugene J. McGuinness of Ok lahoma City and Tulsa was prin cipal speaker. The new hospital is a 100-bed, six-story structure, modernly equipped. “Coals of Merit” HADEES — POCHAHONTAS BLACK ACE SPLINT OLGA STOKER ★ MERRITT RALEIGH, N. C. HALL'S SERVICE STATION Texaco One Stop Modem Station Complete Line Texaco Products G. R. Hall, Prop. 601 W. South St. Phone 2-2224 RALEIGH, N. C. *5* *** *?* *i* *5* *5* *|* *J* *5* *** *5* *»* *5* *i* *** *& *J* K* CLYDE COOPER'S BARBECUE Barbecue Pig and Chicken A Good Place to Eeat 109 E. Davie SL RALEIGH, N. C. Hollywood In Focus — A chat with Ingrid Bergman i: always stimulating. My remark: concerning her recent film, “Arcl of Triumph,” were scarcely of] the press when we happened tc meet at a party given for little Jean Simmons, the British gir] star you may remember in “Greal Expectations.” Ingrid’s closely cropped hail reminded me that she has jusl finished what she regards as her greatest screen role, not except ing Sister Benedict of “The Bells of St. Mary’s”—the sainted Joan of Arc. She asked me whether I’d seen it. I told her I had seen enough to make me wish that this great movie about the girl who talked with the angels might not have to follow to the screen Erich Remarque’s sordid tale of low life in Paris. “People find it hard to under stand why, after playing a nun, you accept the role of a drunken immoral woman and then follow it with the Maid of Orleans,” I told her. Ingrid listened thought fully, then smiled. “I cannot go on playing saints all the time,” she said. Hollywood made of the movies, the greatest popular dramatic force of our times by selling the public something called “star per sonality.” There is much to be said against this idea in princi ple, but stars such as Ingrid Berg man cannot hope to accept the advantages of it without paying the penalties also. Thousands and possibly mil EXPERT FUR REMODELING and REPAIRING ★ KIRSCHBAUM'S 124 W. TRADE ST. ' CHARLOTE, N. C. i lions of other people will be ; shocked by the extremes gone to , by Miss Bergman in an effort to , prove herself an actress. To them no such proof is necessary. They acclaimed her artistry and recog nized her personal graces in “The Bells of St. Mary’s” and they are subject to rude shock when they see her natural virtues completely submerged tq no better purpose than the portrayal of a woman wallowing in the depths of degra dation. Some of them — maybe more than Miss Bergman realizes —will not be drawn to see her on the screen again by the time “St. Joan” is publicly released. Versa tility is all very well, but ex tremes of this kind are certain to damage even an artist as popular as Bergman. Support the advertisers of the NORTH CAROLINA CATHOLIC. LEE'S AMOCO . SERVICE COMPLETE LINE AMOCO PRODUCTS COURTESY CARDS HONORED TIRE REPAIRING LUBRICATION BATTERY CHARGING ★ 429 S. Salisbury St. RALEIGH, N. C. 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