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Wadesboro The Rt. Rev. Msgr, Arthur R. Freeman, vicar-general of tfce Diocese of Raleigh, conduct Tdlhe ceremony ot blessing the cornerstone and foundation, of Sacred Heart Church here on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 20th. The 250 people present, largely non-Catholic, and witnessing a Catholic cere mony for the first time, were deeply impressed with the centuries-old ceremony of the Churchy Msgr. Freeman was assisted by Rev. J. F. Hudson, Rev. Thomas McSvoy of Monroe, Rev.M*™ nell pastor of St. Peter’s Church in Charlotte. Rev.PhiUp Tierney, Rev. John Kells, Rev George Lynch assistants of the two Catholic Churches of Charlotte. Sacred Heart Church, nowunder Con struction, will be a mission of the church in Monroe, both under the direction of the Fathers of Mer cy in New York. Rev. J. F. Hudson is the pastor. The church is the gift of the Horne family._ Catholic News Roundup _r Evil Press Condemned St. John, N. B., — Special — —The most deadly of all weapons employed in the assault upon God and His Church, Christian faith and morals is the “evil/ press,’ Bishop P. A. Bray of St. John, said in a pastoral letter. He de clared: “Lying newspapers, sug gestive pictorials, filthy magazines not only suppress and distort the truth but also corrupt the mind and heart by appealing to deprav ed passions and by gilding vice and pagan living to make them look respectable and attractive.” The Bishop counseled that it is the “plain duty” of Catholics to shun the “corrupting influence of bad reading master” and to strive with all means in their power to promote “the Catholic Press in its nfluence for good by putting a Catholic paper in as many non-Catholic centers as pos sible.” Woman Aids Archbishop Los Angeles— (NC)—An Ameri can mother of 13 children saved pennies to help finance the edu cation to the priesthood of Arch bishop Aloysius Stepinac of Za greb, central figure in the recent trial in Yugoslavia. A West Los Angeles woman has told the story —the donor was her mother—to The .Tidings, weekly of the Los Angeles arch-diocese. ^ On her death bed in Clyde, Missouri, in 1928, Mrs. Emile Hav lik called her, family and told them hqw over the years she had scraped a sizeable fund to be used for the education of a priest. Members of the family gave the money to the Benedictine Sisters in the Mossouri town, who sent it on to the Pontifical German and 'Hungarian College in Rome. Soon Miss Alice Havlik—now Mrs. Alice Sutton, of West Los Angeles—re ceived a letter from the Rev. A. Rauch, S. J., vice-rector of the college, saying that a former army officer named Aloysius Stepinac had been selected to benefit from the unexpected gift. Father Rauch described Aloy sius Stepinac and his background to the Havliks in his 1928 letter: He told how the boy’s mother had ■ Im. ■■ fill". fasted three days a week for 30 years in order to obtain the grace of the priesthood for Aloysius, the seventh child of 11 in the family. (Reports from Yugoslavia state that Bishop Joseph P. Hurley of St. Augustine, Fla., regent ad in terim of the Apostolic Nunciature at Belgrade, blessed the 75-year old mother of Archbishop Stepinac following the sentences passed against her son.) “The times in Yugoslavia are bad,” the Jesuit educator wrote. “The conditions at home are not rosy . . . Mr. Stepinac welcomes your help most gratefully. His case is certainly an extraordinary one. He promises to become an excellent priest who will do you great honor.” The Tidings carries a copy of Father Stepinac’s letter to Mrs. Sutton written shortly after his ordination in 1930. In it the Yu-, goslav priest who was destined to personify the sufferings of the Church under the Tito regime de clared: “During these days of grace* I have often thought with a grateful heart of all the good people who have helped me on the way towards the altar; among these your mother takes a promi nent place. She was ah instru ment in the hand of God to bring about a great work and I feel sure that in heaven she is enjoying the reward for her charity towards a poor priest.” Mock Trial Protested Pelham, N. Y.,—(NC)—United in protest against violation of God given human rights by the Tito regime in Yugoslavia as shown in the conviction of Archbishap Aloysius Stepinac and his co-de fendants at their trial in Zagreb, war veterans and Protestant and Jewish leaders here joined with Catholics at a Mass meeting at which a petition was forwarded to President Harry S. Truman. Some 800 residents of this com munity signed the petition re questing President Truman to “use every legitimate means” in bring ing about the liberation of the Archbishop and his fellow defend ants, who were “unjustly tried and sentenced.” The petition also urg i . , ed upon the President that the United States Government adopt “a policy of complete firmness to ward the government of Yugosla via” and insist that the Tito re gime “carry out its commitments of guarantees of civil, political and religious liberties.” The meeting was held in Pel ham High School and was spon sored by the Kenneth Hart Muir Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the St. Catherine’s Post, Cath olic War Veterans of America. Among those who signed the pe tition and addressed the meeting, were Bishop Francis X. Ford of Kaying, China, a Maryknoll Mis sioner; William L. Chenery, pub lisher of Collier’s magazine; the Rev. Dr. Willard Soper, rector of the Hugenot Memorial Church, Pelham; Louis S. Breier, prqgram director of the American Jewish Committee, and Joseph Calderon, chairman of the Bronx Round Table Conference of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Veterans Enter Orders Holy Trinity, Ala. — Special— (NC)—There are 14 ex-service men among the 98 students who have arrived here to study for the priesthood at St. Joseph’s Prepa ratory Seminary conducted by the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity. ' These young men, who represent all branches of the armed forces were welcomed by the seminary’s director, Father Athanasius Goode, M.S.SS.T. The ex-servicemen are: William A. Nickerson, Somervill, Mass.; Jas. E. Reilly, Long Island City, N. Y.; Raymond J. Van Stone, Brooklyn; Jawrence J. Peters, New Orleans; John J. Segadelli, Arlington, Mass.; Robert J. Murphy, Lake wood, R. I.; Adam Kaizmir, Ba yonne, N. J.; Vito V. Ferrara, Hoboken; Charles V. Haiss, New York; Ralph K. Searles, River dale, N. J.; Herbert P. Price, Louisville; Edward H. Comer, Philadephia; James P. O’Bryan, Jackson, Miss.; and Pasquale D’Angelo, Elmhurst, N. Y. At the present time we have records of over five thousand chained books in eleven Protest ant and two Catholic libraries. .. Catholic'Rural Life -A COLUMN FOR FARMERS-— Mounted on dark plush, and held firmly in place by the plate glass facing of the sturdy picture frame, there they were—twenty-five new silver dollars arranged in a large XXV. Ordinarily twenty-five dollhrs are just one quarter of a hundred dollars, but these twenty-iive dol lars spelled values that cannot be measured in silver nor even gold. They were the gift of the fifteen children of Mr. and Mrs. Salm on the occasion of their Silver Wedding. Martin is a man to know, and a great many people do know him. From 1937 to 1944 he was Far mer Field Man for the AAA and since 1945 census area supervisor of the Department of Commerce for Wisconsin and Upper Michi gan. From these facts it might be surmised that Martin is a gradu ate of at least the State Agricul tural College. Such, however, is not the case. He is a farmer on a quarter section (160 acres) who finished the eighth grade at St. Mary’s Parochial School, Chilton, Wisconsin, where he also took pia no lessons from one of the Sis ters. Another year’s study of mu sic later on qualified him for a position in an orchestra in which he played evenings after work on the farm. He still plays the piano when time permits. People who still speak of the farmer as an ignorant, backward hayseed only reveal their own abysmal ignorance. Not all far mers hold jobs bn the AAA or the Census Bureau, ,but a great many resemble Martin in other re spects. On his 160 acre farm he fol lows a three-year cycle of crop rotation. Alfalfa and clover cover a field for two years after which it is pastured for one year. The field is then plowed for a one year corn crop or canning peas. The following year sees the field in sugar beets, after which it is seeded to small grain, oats, and clover to supply hay and later pasture while other hay fields are returned to cultivation. The feed is used right on the farm for the herd of 28 Holsteins which are\ the cash producers on Martin’s Chilton Dairy Farm. Only the high protein content feed is bought. To keep his fields fertile, in ad dition to the AAA allotments of lime and fertilizer he adds five tons of phosphates, potash, etc. and the manure from the bam yard; and it should be recalled that his system of crop rotation provides a considerable - amount of humus building matter. All this calls for no small amount'of knowledge in economics and man agerial techniques. Martin, like every real farmer, emphasizes the fact that while he must have crop and livestock for ‘ cash, the really infportant part of a farm is the garden both to save cash and to provide the best nu trition. Martin has all-2 acre garden. Half of it each year is covered with a legume or a green manure crop to keep the soil fer tile and friable. The other half produces all the vegetables and fruit needed for the large fam ily. The family has a large re frigerator with a quick freeze unit and enjoys such items as fresh sweet corn on the cob any time of the year. This, of course, is not one per cent of the story about the Salm homestead. At least fifty percent of the whole story would center around Martin’s “better half” who sees to it that all the cook ing, baking, canning, cleaping, washing, and sewing, etc., aj-e so managed as to leave the members of the family time for recreation. In her, Martin finds a real rival when it comes to management. Nothing has been said of the fifteen children, those married, the one in the armed forces, one in the seminary, another in the convent and tBbse at home. But that would require a book, just as interesting books could be writ ten about thousands of other farm families over the nation. Martin and his family as a typical exam ple reflect the better side of Amer ican life. America can be proud of them. — (Rev.) Anthony J. Adams, S. J. t/Vitrfst CATHEDRAL Planned ftta me sirr until -me HAQUC or \3&£hr£ ^ motor tor Mk 4 stnwf oTblu* bouts bvu> o*r it* bomvrt it 4 Centrum. ii3ht i% Qfrstme. Hut m Hootnrl ar saimne ^fcnorujst the distinctions of-the THAT it is built oh at Sit* of A PAGAN TE"\PL«; THAT IT IS GOHKXED StXtU —iHSitx amo our- or MARBLE IN THC COLONS RID, WHITE AMO SLACK., amo, oesnre m MaGnificsmcs. that rr a are gSOW. muoly *<&****;« ....
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