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PAGE FOUR liti' JUmtfr DCNN, N. G. Published By RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY At 311 East Canary Street NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC. W 5-217 E. 42nd St., New York 17. N. Y. ' Branch Office* In Every Major City SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER. 20 cents per week; $8.50 per year In advance; U for six months; $3 for three month* IN TOWN’S NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: $6.00 per year; $3.50 for six months; $2 for three months OUTOF-81 ATE: $8.50 per year in advance; $5 for six months. $1 for three months Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, N. C., under the laws of Congress, Act of March 3, 1879 Every afternoon, Monday through Friday Federal Civil Service Smells With Politics Some people have the false and mistaken idea that the U. S. Civil Service Commission is a high and noble organization aloof from and free of politics. Nothing could possibly be further from the truth. Even members of the Civil Service Commission are politicians, appointed by the President of the Unites States. One of the present members is Mrs. Francis (Ma dam) Perkins, a shrewd and wily politician from the word go. One of the most glaring examples of how the Civil Service Commission can be used for politics is the ap pointment of Former Internal Revenue Commissioner John B. Dunlap as commissioner of the' Texas-Oklahoma Internal Revenue District, and supposedly a life-long job. Old Dunlap was a failure and flop as head of the Bur eau of Internal Revenue; investigation proved his de partment contained an abundance of crooks and chise lers—some of whom have been fired, convicted,, etc. Yet President Truman saw fit to appoint Dunlap to a Civil Service post for life. Apparently, Dunlap isn't a ble to make a living for himself so has to have a govern ment job. We wonder if dunlap ever passed a real, honest-to gcodness Civil Service examination—the strict sort of examination given good, honest, hard-working post office employees, for instance? We doubt it. And has anybody ever heard of a person being ap pointed to a Civil Service job by the President of the U nited States and then failing to pass the examination. Certainly not. It couldn’t possibly happen. Another ’example of politics in Civil Service dates back to the early days of the Roosevelt administration. All postmasters and thousands of other purely political appointees were put under Civil Service. Whether or not the new administration allows all of this political gravy to remain in the opposition hands remains to be seen. We frankly doubt it. Civil Service, if carried out under its original high aims, is a good thing. It supposedly frees Federal em ployees from the taint of politics. There are many good things to be said in favor of Civil Service. But, it seems to us, U. S. Senator John J. Williams of Deleware, who has sought to clean out the crooks, chi selers and grafters, made a very good point when he said: “I have always been a staunch promoter of the Civil Service system, but I denounce any attempt to use it as a haven of refuge for repudiated politicians.” He was re ferring to Dunlap and his illustration was a good one. We believe that down on the level of the ordinary clerks, office hands, etc., the Civil Service functions very efficiently. The abuse seems to be in the political appoint ments on the higher levels. There was a temptation on the part of the Demo crats, in power for the past 20 years, to put all Demo cratic employees under Civil Service for lifetime appoint ments. That tendency will no doubt be continued by the Republicans, but we hope not. Life appointments to any post kills both initiative and incentive. Few people who “have it made,” so to speak, are going to work quite as hard and diligently as those still striving to get ahead. Frederick OTHMAN WASHINGTON— The Washing ton corps of. ahem, correspondents these days is sitting on its respec tive handkerchiefs. For the first time in 20 years there’s not a dang ed thing for the gents to do. This is an odd feeling. For two decades our town has been like a dozen circuses combined with a couple of busy fire departments, while a few police cars kept dart ing full speed into the melee. From the viewpoint of the Washington reporter, that is. Elections over the years neve changed the tempo, excent ir.avbe to accelerate it, because the same firm stayed oh at the same newlv enlarged stand. Newsmen here, ex cept the lazv ones like me. worked so hard so long and so fast that they lost touch with their wives and barely had a speakire ac quaintance with their own children. Then, blooie! Since election of Gen. Ike not one reporter has busted anv bones skidding on the marble floors in his race with hot news to the tele phone. One I know has seen his first movie in 15 years; says he’d forgotten what a startling invention the motion picture was. A few of these remarkable labor ers still are resting up from t h e ardors of the campaign trains, while some others are laying low wh'le they pay off election bets on the installment plan. Those who once wrote the news now grab the papers for wo d of Gen. Eisenhower, his appointments and his decisions, all coming in by wire from far places. Then thev try to make like they’re busy. This is a pitiful sight. The Press Club bar is jammed with experts, interviewing each other, because there’s nobody else to interview. President Truman held a press conference the other day; the conferees walked, not ran. to their offices. There is so little news here abouts that stones long unturned in Federal bureaus seldom honored by the press are being pried up. Todav I visited the U. S. Patent Office, long my private domain as a source of stories about this nation's gen iuses. and there discovered four of iny competitors deep in the files. This has. got to stop and no doubt it will along about the first cf the year, when the new government's head men arrive en masse and start looking for places to live. I must admit I can hardly wait. What I particularly want to see is Sen. Joe McCarthy iR.-\Vis.) the demon investigator, functioning as boss prober into the Fair Deal and all its works. Probe? Sen. Joe'll use a steam shovel for his more deli cate excavations into long-sealed tombs. Somehow, I am sure, he’ll man age to slap a subpoena on his a_ch enemy, ex-Sen. William Benton (D. Conn.) and when that happens I want to be close—but not too close, on account of, the danger from fly ing debris. Sen. Homer Capehart iR.-Ind). who once got so mad at the opposi tion in a radio debate he took a poke at him, is another of my fav orite inquirers. As chairman of the Banking Committee he’ll doubtless give the Reconstruction Finance Corporation such a going-ovec there’ll be little left of it. I mean if you and I can stand the unwonted peace in these precincts a few weeks more we’li get some ex citement. You’ll have to put up with some more items like this by myself and my peers (we’ve got to keep our typewriter fingers in practice) but I give you my personal guaran tee that, come January, we’ll have inky explosions hereabouts hourly on the hour. These Days £ckcldkif BATTLING THE DEVIL The Earl Jowitt, who is about to publish a book in defense of Alger , Hiss, has already produced a pre liminary article on the subject almost reminds me of a feminine Hissite who came up with the teh ory that Alger Hiss was all the time an agent for our government, who had to take the rap so as not to give away his superiors! The Earl battles with a firmer pen if not with greater logic. First of all. he sets out to give the im pression. in polite but nonetheless sure language, that. Chambers is mad. He does not say so. for in England that would undoubted'y be libel per se, as the Earl is only a lawyer and not a psychiatrist. Nevertheless, as one reads what the Earl has to say. it is difficult to believe that he does not desire to convince that Chambers is mad. He says: "But Mr. Chambers has no mis givings; He is right—and all who differ from him are wrong. He sees himself as the modern St. George, clad in shining armour and engaged in deadly combat with the dragon of Communism. As for the case, it is not a mere case in which an in dividual called Chambers is testify ing against an individual called Hiss. It is a 'tragedy of history.’ The generation is on trial and Chambers is a witness to God’s Grace. The contest is a contest be tween the forces of good las repve sented by Chambers) and th” for ces of evil (as represented by Hissi; and what is involved in the contest is the soul of the American peools —indeed of the whole free world" How wrong is Chambers? There is something of the devil in any man who sells out his own country Chambers did it. repented and tried to make amends. The greatest cost of this psychological process is the acknowledgement of , a wasted self. Hiss, equally guilty, if not more so. proudly continues to denv what he knows to be true; is wholly un repented. makes no amends. Suppose every word that Chamb ers said of Hiss were untrue, it would be possible to reconstruct the Hiss story from what we now know of the Harold Ware cell in Wash ington. its infiltration into the A, A. A. and the Nye and La Follette com mittees. Earl Jowitt is moving into a mare’s nest, for a lawyer, he deals only with the record before him. But the public will deal with the whale record, much, of which has been unavailable because the Ad ministration prevented its use. What the Earl is going to do. When he comes here to lecture, as I am told he intends to do in grand form, is that he will stimulate a Congressional demand for the whole record. , . , The Earl’s article, from which I quote, raises questions which for most Americans have been answer ed but the gist of this learned jur ist’s analysis of the subject is an ad hominem attack on Chambers, not only to establish that, he is mad but that it is a form of congenital madness. That was tried during the Hiss trials bv the psychiatrist. Dr. Car! A. L. Binger, with sad results for Binger. It would seem from the context ■ that Jowitt has.taken his cue from Alistair Cooke's book. "A Genera tion on Trial.” a book which, at the time it was published. I was tempt ed to review hut resisted the tem ptation because it. seemed to me that here was a British reporter ■ who had long heen in America and 1 learned too little abort its peonlc most of whom do not live on Park Avenue. Cooke is now an American citizen and by law has become one of us. When Jowitt’s book ,r> f this country, if ever, I shall re-read Cocke to see how one has influenc ed the other. Meanwhile. I found a clipping of a review by Miss Rebecca 5 West in which she says: 3 “So Mr. Ccoke goes on. always 1 neating an impression unfa’-qu-- 1 able to Chambers and favourable to Hiss, in big things and in small. T», , might be that the Committee wo- 'd , have shown prejudice against Hms ' in listening to Chambers if his i 'sto-y about the espionage group had . been unrelated to any known pc-r --’ sons or events.” i It is possible that Mr. Cook» does not know that the FBI had this case sewed up lone before it - came to trial and that the Adm.in - istration prevented the usual judi cial course from flowing. 1 — 1 " Pfc. Spence To Return Home WITH ""HE IST CAVALRY DIV i IN JAPAN—PFC. James F. Sp“no» . Buie's C"eek. son of Mrs. Ethel ; Spence, is returning to the United 5 States under the Army’s rotation ; program after 19 months In the Far • East. He served in the Ist Cavah'v Di vision. which spent 17 months in ’ the front lines of Korea before be -1 ing assigned to security duty in Ja ■ pan late in 1952. 1 Spence, who entered the Army in f December. 1950, was a squad leader 5 in the sth Regiment’s Company E. ) PARIS (IP)—The Duke of Wind : sor returned to Paris from London t today and joined his American-born duchesi.. TIB DAILY RECORD, DUNN, If. O. „ism ,„*>,« i - g : ( v o - . ..tc'ni to discourage those long ■,' . , ” I GU YftSUHGTOH >3# MERRY-60-ROUND || »ttw *tARSON WASHINGTON What Harry Truman told Dwight D. Eisenhower and vice versa is known directly on ly to the two men themselves. But what is known is what President Truman told intimates, he said to Ike. Both men were obviously ne: vous before and after their interview. One friend who talked to Truman just before he saw Eisenhower, noted that he looked fidgety and dropped some papers, Eisenhower also looked nervous and wiped prespiraticn from hi s barren brow after the conference. The version which the President gave one of his closest friends also indicates that the two men were a little tense at first. But he broke the ice by telling Ike something like this: “I’ve been in politics for 40 years. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. That’s politics. "Sometimes you have to say some harsh things in politics, because everyone’s out to win. But let’s for get all that. "The only important thing is the future. I want to help you in every way. I want you to have as much assistance as we can give you be tween now and January 20. “I only wish I could have been briefed before I took this job. Presi dent Roosevelt's death hit me like a thunderbolt. I didn’t even know he was ill. I had only talked poli tics with him. and hadn't even at tended a cabinet meeting. I don't want you to go through that.” Truman pointed to a sign on his desk which read: “The buck stops here.” “Every government official has a boss to whom he can pass the buck —except the president,” he said, ac cording to the account given a friend, "But when it gets to the President, he has no one to pass the buck oil to. ‘The buck stops here.’ ’’ SECOND CONFERENCE Mr. Truman had also prepared for the President-elect a series of loose-leaf notebooks containing co pies of all his executive orders, re ports on defense production, and charts showing exactly the amounts of production achieved in every stragetic material. He told friends that he hoped these would be of value to Eisenhower and he certain ly wished someone had prepared such reports for him when he took office in 1945. When Eisenhower and Truman appeared in the cabinet room a minute or so later they were smil ing and appeared to be congenial. At this second and enlarged meet ing, Secretary of State Dean Ache son did most of the talking. One important point he made was that, unless. Eisenhower made some reassuring statement about contin uing the present policy for Europe, the governments of France and Italy might fall. CUTIES v “UGH—you gettum better results with a filter. Stop the lens down to F. 9 at l-soth second—UGH.” Eisenhower interrupted at th ; point to say that he had already made one such statement, but he did net elaborate as to what state ment he referred to. Acheson also said he was “un happy” about the split between the United States, Canada, France and England over the Indian proposal on Korean prisoners of war. but said he felt that our differences could me repaired—though he did not in dicate any approval of the Indian proDOsal. NATO MEETING ON SCHEDULE He also discussed the December 15 meeting of the North Atlantic Pact Nations originally scheduled to make important decisions on Army strength for the next two years. Britain and France want to proceed with the meeting as scheduled on December 15. though because of the changeover of administrations in Washington, no important decisions will be made. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder gave a report on the finances of our allies, warning especially of the economic predicament of France and Italy. England, he felt, was not in such bad shape. Secretary of Defense Lovett talk ed chiefly about Korea and defense production. The latter was the only domestic question discussed during the entire conference. Neither President Truman nor General Eisenhower did much talk ing during the conference. It was purely a briefing session, with little opportunity or necessity to talk. When Eisenhower came out of the White House the grim and irritable manner noted by reporters was because he was surrounded with newsmen. He had expected a mili tary aisle through which to walk, and remarked that he thought things had been outrageosuly handled. WASHINGTON PIPELINE Illinois' big. affable Sen. Paul Douglas slipped off to the Indiana dunes to rest up from the political campaign but spent his first day battling forest fires. He was stretch ed out for a long nap when the alarm was flashed that volunteers were needed to help stop a'spread ing forest fire. An ex-college pro fessor who joined the Marines at the age of 50. Douglas is now 60 years old. But he stood in the fire line for four exhausting hours. . . Eu ropean Communists have received instructions to stir up trouble be tween U. S. troops in Europe and the local citizenry. The Commies have put a top . priority on this lat est Tiate campaign. . . Texas Sen Lyndon Johnson, the new Demo cratic Senate leader, gets it from both sides. Up North they call him a Dixiecrat; down in Texas they call him a Commie. The fact is he follows the middle of the road. . . . Lockheed’s new super Constellations with revolutionary new engines will soon be flying the Atlantic in less Walter Winchell York New York Novelette: Afte" 32 years On the gazettes (since The Vaudeville News (1920) we still haven’t figgered out why gab col umnists (who make a neat living making like Walter) want to Blow the Poor Old Man Down Particu larly those ingratz we took by the paw when they first hit town and introduced to cuffo society, their first celebs, all the 3-dots they liked—including orchids. Heywood Broun once colyum’d “Wincheli pioneered another thing. He junk ed that taboo about hot mention ing other newspaper people or news papers when he wanted to salute and help them”.. . (So get to the point, already!) Okay.. E. Wil son. who testified (but never in print): “Walter gave me many a good break when I came to N. Y. from Akron”—and whose books (containing dozens of quips and quotes from our files) were best seller’d (via WW puffs on the aw) —makes with th” v ”tc' bet’ 1 --'”' -the-head like th!' - “From WW’s Nov. 17th rcl’nr "The Pert Bailey -i o"is Bel Ison stn-v was Winchell’d Friday.” From WW’s col’m Nov. 3rd: ‘Pearl Bailey marries Louis Bellson. Duke Ellington’s drummer, in Lon don, Nov. 19th.” From Sheilah Graham’s Daily Variety (H’wood) Column Oct. 31st: “Pearl Bailey marries drummer Louis Bellson in London mid-Nov." Moral: Trouble With Stealing Bows You Gotta Bend Over. Haw! Free Cheers: Liza Morrow thrush ing “Nothing to Sing the Blues A bout Blues” (King Record) Zan uck’s new click, “My Cousin Ra chel” .. Rita Hayworth’s “Salome” Johnnie Ray’s latest tear-juker, “Gee. I’m Lonesome” (Columbia) The Variety Club’s 25th ann’y Sunday. And its annual drive (at Pittsburgh) for the Children’s liosp.. The movie, “Four Sided Triangle," a British best Irene Stanley at the Zebra Room in the Hotel Fairfax, and Flair Annual at all book stores. Sounds in the Night: At Mane ro’s: “Why are they continuing those probes? Ain’t we got enough ambassadors?”. At the Baccara: “The old Broadway story. Fom name-dropping to name-calling” At the Caprice: “Walter, bring her a saucer of milk!”.. At the ABC Sunday-night mikes: “Your N. Y. Correspondent, who has this to say to the men from Missouri —the Show-Me State. See? The Broadway Bus: The Ambas sador Bill O’Dwyers (Sloan Simp son) have intimates shaking their heads and hearts Christina Pa tino y Borbon (dghtr of the Boli vian tin king) weds Prince de Beau vaus-Caron in Paree Dec. 9th. At the Mayor’s office The Overseas Press Club of America starts it $300,000 drive tomorrow. To estab lish a memorial for newsmen who died at their posts reporting war news. Please send checks to John Daly (at ABC) or Ed. R. Murrow (at CBS), thanks . Uncle Samson wanis Lt Baker to explain the $7,000 per week she sent to Europe vie American Express chex Despite her “lawsuit” claim that this col’m “ruined" her bookings—her pay-or play contract (with mrr. Ned. Schuyler) guaranteed her SB,OOO ner week. He was the one who got clip ped: . . She rec’d about $104,000 until she left the U. S. and she filed a tax statement swearing she earned about $16,080 in that time! than nine hours—carrying 59 pas sengers. William Hawley Dies Suddenly William Washington Hawley, aged 56. of Dunn, Route 5, died sud denly Saturday morning at his home. Funeral services will be held Mon day afternoon at two o’clock p* lee’s Chapel Church. Services will be conducted bv the Rev. W. H Lancaster of Smithfield, assisted by the Rev. C. H. Coats, also of Smithfield. Burial will be in the Williford Cemetery. Mr. Hawley was a native of Ssmn son County and reared near Plain view School. He was a farmer and carpenter by occupation. A mem ber of Lee’s Chapel Church, he was very active in church affai-s. He had been in declining health for some time, but his death came unex pectedly. Surviving him are his wife. Mrs. Oma Williford Hawley: six sons. William Henry Hawley, Rt. 3, Clin ton. O. D. Hawley. Dunn, Calvin Hawley. Newport News. Va„ Edward Hawley, Sanford. Jalee C. Hawley. U. S. Army, and Joe Hawley of the home; four daughters, Mrs. A. C. Sutton. Sanford, and Mary Carolyn. Devondolyn, and Fave of the home; five brothers. John Thomas Hawley M. B. Hawley, W. M. Hawley, and Hubert Hawley, all of Dunn, Rt. 5 and Claudie Hawley of Rt. 1, Dunn; four sisters, Mrs. W. G. Elmor° Spring Lake, Mrs. W. M. Eason and Mrs. G. M. West of Dhnn. Rt. 5 and Mrs. W. M. Elmore of Augusta, Georgia; eleven grandchildren. STOCKHOLM. Sweden HP) Plans were made today to keep fly ing the route of the first civilian airliner to cross the Atlantic over the “roof of the world,” from Los Angeles to Scandinavia. 1 MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 24, 1952 The Worry Clinic Kt ok. GEORGE W. CRAKE Men. use “horse sense" when you pick a wife. Don’t foolishly grab the first pretty face and figure that you see. Remember, too, since a kiss is intoxicating, kiss more than one so you can * grow sufficiently im mune to appraise the relative merits of several. Then pick the one that has the most virtues. You can learn to love her. Ci se F-325: Howard L., aged 37, has been married and divorced four times, “Dr. Crane, I have had tough luck in marriage,” he ruefully con fessed. “Something is wrong somewhere. “After four successive failures, I guess maybe I must be at fault. How can a man make sure his mar riage will not fail?” MAR KIA G E STR A TEG Y Pick quality merchandise to start with! Don’t expect an habitue’ of a tavern t.) become a virtuous, tal ented wife and mother. Play the batting averages! Se lect a woman who has had a good moral upbringing and who is active in a church. A successful wife must know how to rear children wisely, oper ate a home on. a budget, encourage spiritual and cultural pursuits, and get along agreeably with people. While there arc some hypocrites in the church and some honorable people in taverns, the batting aver ages favor the churches, so act accordingly. If a girl indulges in liquor, then she can become the prey of any designing male who flatters her vanity and meanwhile coaxes her into taking an extra drink. When you’re away from home on your travels, and she grows lonely, she will tend to go back to her habitual pleasure haunts. If these were the church, you are usually safe. If a tavern, she may spend the night with another man, especial ly if she is sufficiently pretty to arouse his interest. Remember, a drinking woman’s virtue is always in the custody of her Jhmp-nions! So use your brains when you pick a wife. PREVENT DIVORCE After you have wisely selected a wife, then you must satisfy her five basic hungers. The first is gastric, meaning food, clothing and shelter, or the so-called self-preservation instinct. The second is love, including sexual enjoyment. Women are far fore-£* r ' HAS WOMAN A RIGHT TO EXPECT HER FRUGAL HUS BAND TO SHARE HIS SMALL SAVINGS WITH HER SISTER? DEAR MARY HAWORTH: My husband, a skilled laborer, is close to 60. He makes a comfortable liv ing and our modest home is paid for. We have two children —a son, 12, to rear and educate and an older son, married, whom we help a lit tle, because we want to give him a good start. We are so thankful for what we have. My worry is a younger sister, Ellen, in her late thirties, who has 11 children, ranging from infancy to 15. Life is a bitter struggle for them, although they do as well as possible with what they have. For years I have collected and sent them good donated clothing, twice a year. And at Christmas we al ways send a big box of things. We stopped giving to others so we could do more for Ellen’s house hold. Now her health has failed and she must have complete rest for a few months. My brothers, who are better able, send her money, but not enough to cover the added expense of her illnes. Whatever is sent must be a gift, a loan is out. To help as much as she needs will take hundreds of dollars. But I hate living in comfort, knowing her circumstances. If Clyde (my husband) were willing, would it be right to take money from his savings to send to Ellen? It would worry him not to have a little backlog security as his work is seasonal and if he gets sick our insurance is surely the only financial aid we could ex pect. Also I owe a good life to our boy and we help at school and church to make him feel he belongs. What do you think is the right thing to do, knowing Ellen’s need ? PROBLEM BRINGS TO MIND A BOOK DEAR F. F.: Before venturing opinions on “the right thing” in the circumstances, one should know more about Ellen’s situation and the history of her needs than you reveal. If she has eleven chil dren, one of them an infant, pre sumably she has a husband in the picture. And what is he doing in terms of coping with the present crisis? Or in providing, responsi bility, for the large family he has begot? Or in conserving his wife’s health and energies—by practice of unselfish considerafion on his part, :or instance? less passionate than men, but they do have some sex desire. .The average husband hasn’t been taught enough about marital technique to satisfy a wife. Remember, the anatomical design of the two sexes is not suited for satisfaction in the marital rela tion, so you must add a psychologi cal technique devised by the Vu man brain. The third basic hunger is par ental, or maternal in your wife’s ease. If she cannot have children of her own, then let her adopt a couple. You can grow just as devoted to foster youngsters as to your own flesh and blood. In lieu of children, real or adopt ed, give her substitute love objects like a cat, or dog, or sublins ge her interest via work for the Tied Cross or the teaching of a Sunday sch >ol class or Girl Scput activity. FIVE. HUNGERS The fourth essential hunger of wives is for social esteem. They like friends and enjoy going out in crowds. , Don’t be a jealous, sex inferior ity complexer, who “hoards” his wife at home and will not permit her even to attend church, A:st some other man win her awayV The fifth hunger is for spiritual and cultural expression. Women like to sacrifice for worthy causes. They gain a thrill in planting roses where thistles grew before. No wife can he truly happy frit tering away her time as a painted doll or bridge addict. The human soul craves expression in" construc tive social service. Encourage your wife to invest her life accordingly. Then remember that women want words! Especially honatud, complimentary ones. Then no man can ever break up your home. It will be as stable as the famous Biblical house that was builded on a rock. Send for fny 200-point#“TESTS FOR HUSBANDS AND WIVES,” enclosing a stamped return envel ope plus a dime. Rate your date thereon before you pick her for your mate. (Always write to Dr. in care of this newspaper, en closing a long 3y stamped, ad dressed envelope and a dime to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one of his psychological charts.) (Copyright by The Hopkins Syndicate, Inc.) Yourappeal for guidance in help ing Ellen brings to mind certain instructive views set forth in ques tion-and-answer form in “’’’he Rhythm,” a handbook on cmld spacing, copyrighted and issued by the Latz Foundation, with eccles iastical approval. The book is ad dressed to such married persons as are. entited to the information it contains, and this information has to do with a rational method of limiting the size of their families. On page 144 of “The Rhythm” we find this relevant counsel, “We are bound in conscience to go to the assistance of our neighbor r”iO is in need,” offering honorSCie self-help education if this seems indicated. However, the point is made that the gravity of our obli gation to help is in proportion to the neighbor’s need—AND our abil ity to help. Thus, if we weigh your financial ability to help El len against this definition of duty, we may have to concede you’ve no cash to send. Your resources are nil. It seems unjust to deprive your husband of his bare margin ofrr.-- curity, frugally amassed, merely to compensate for another’s mis management of life. A THREE-WAY PLAN OF HELP Ellen’s great appeal to your sympathies has to do with the size of her family, no doubt, and your compassion beautifies your char acter. But “The Rhythm” forth rightly challenges the moral war rant for such improvident repro ductivity. The passage (page kLjJ) on this subject is as follows: Are married persons obliged co bring into the world all the chil dren they can? A.: Far from being an obligation, such a course may he utterly indefensible. ‘Broadly speaking, married couples haven’t the right to bring into the world children whom are unable to support—.’ (Koch-Preuss, A Hand book of Moral Theology).” Now for specific suggestions: To tide Ellen through the you might get a part-time job'Tmd send her your wages. Also you might discuss her case with a so cial worker, to plan ways and means of bringing her maimed household under the wing of a Family Service Agency. Finally, you might get!from a doctor a copy of “The Rhythm"' for her—as ed ucation in better living. M. H. Mary Haworth counsels through her column, not by mail or pyr sonal interview. Write her eaTe of The Daily Record.
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