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FOURTEEN.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEPTEMBER 1, 1956.
BOOK REVIEWS
EDITED BY EILEEN HALL
3087 Old Jonesboro Road, Hapeville, Georgia
Each issue of this Bosk Page
is confided to the patronage of
Mary. Mediatrix of A1I Graces,
with the hope that every read
er and every contributor may
be specially favored by her
mad her Divine Son.
EDMUND CAMPION, by Evelyn
Waugh, (Image), 75c.
(Reviewed by Rev. John
Schroder, S.J.)
Waugh’s “Campion” is the re
cipient of England’s most dis
tinguished literary award, the
Hawthornden Prize, as the best
work of imaginative literature by
an English writer. As Mr. Waugh
puts it, “We have seen the Church
driven underground in one coun
try after another. The hunted,
trapped, murdered priest is
amongst us again, and the voice
of Campion comes to us across
the centuries as though he were
walking at our side.” And in
Mr. Waugh’s biography we walk
by the side of Campion through
the villages and cities of Eliza
bethan England; we hear his voice
and read his written challenges;
we watch him hunted, trapped
and murdered.
This is a readable narrative of
an inspiring figure, to be read
as “a simple, perfectly true story
of heroism and holiness.”
THE CATHOLIC COMPANION
TO THE BIBLE, by Ralph L.
Woods, (Lippincott), $3.95.
(Reviewed by Flannery O’Connor)
In the introduction to this an
thology, Bishop John Wright sug
gests that the reason Catholics
are “frequently less articulate
about their love for the Bible than
other Christian peoples . . . may
be the presence among Catholics
of an awe, reverential and pro
found, which makes them feel
humble in the presence of this
mighty compendium of divine re
velation and sacred mysteries.”
This statement would seem to be
the extreme example of looking
at our sins through stained glass
windows. Catholics who are not
articulate about their love of the
Bible are generally those who do
not love it, since they read it as
seldom as possible, and those who
don’t raed the Bible do not read it
not read the Bible do not read it
because of laziness or indifference
or the fear that reading it will
endanger their faith, not the Cath
olic faith but faith itself. It is the
latter difficulty which this book
would help to alleviate.
In the scientistic atmosphere of
this century, the Bible can be a
stumbling block to the faith of
those who are not equipped with
an adequate knowledge of the
nature of inspiration and prophe
cy, the dates- of the books and
gospels, and the literary modes of
the authors, their use of allegory,
metaphor, and history.
The present volume contains
articles and quotations by Cath
olic writers from St. Jerome to
Dom Van Zeller, These seem gen
erally too short to give the reader
more than an interest in finding
a longer and more comprehensive
treatment elsewhere, but the book
has the value of any anthology,
along with its grab-bag character.
It will be a stimulant, a good be
ginning, a companion as the title
suggests; but Catholic residents
of the Bible Belt will find it ex
pedient to go further.
THE YEAR AND OUR CHIL
DREN, by Mary Reed Newland,
(Kenedy), $3.95.
(Reviewed by Leo J. Zuber).
Want to take time to live, to get
into the spirit of things? This vol
ume will certainly help. It is an
invitation and a guide to families
to live throughout the year in the
spirit of Church. The author, a
Catholic mother, has long prac
ticed raising her own family by
living the Church year — and a
lively year it must be in that
home. On a day to day, season by
season basis, by an endless series
of imaginative, clever and color
ful activities, she instills in her
family, with emphasis on the chil
dren, an interest and enthusiasm
for the Church’s calendar of ev
ents. The activities are wide in
variety and have as their common
key their calling for family par
ticipation.
For example, the Church year
and this book begin with Advent.
One way to make Advent a mean
ingful season and a preparation
for Christmas is for the family
to make (not buy!) the Advent
wreath; to talk about its mean
ing; to tell stories about Advent
and about peoples’ preparations
for Christmas — in short to have
within the family circle daily ac
tivities centered around the Ad
vent theme.
And so on around the year. The
father leading his family in the
blessings of the Christmas tree;
on the Feast of the Holy Innocents
recalling the piercing truth of
that name for which they died,
they did not know...”; stories of
saints as their days come along;
impromptu or rehearsed skits, for
I example, of the Magi’s travels and
arrival at Bethlehem and their
thwarting Herod’s evil wish by
going home another way; novenas
for saints’ days of special signifi
cance; living Lent each one of the
40 days and really learning that
redemption was' not easy and that
“Jesus hurt.” Making pasteboard
or plywood cutouts to portray
Jonas and the whale, a Resurrec
tion theme. Then, family blessings
of children, of seed, of food; re
citing the Litany of the Saints
on Rogation Days while having
a family procession (the author
had a farm.'); making and bles
sing the Paschal candle -— and so
on and on.
The author has drawn widely
from materials and ideas and cus
toms of Catholic peoples of many
lands and of earlier times. She
constantly shows her own im
aginative and creative ability in
developing projects and activities
that make the circuit of the Chur
ch year an instructive and a cre
ative one for children and adults.
She constantly encourages her
readers to develop their own fa
mily practices and customs and
not to cleave too slavishly to her
suggestions. Certainly within the
pattern suggested children live
and grow up in the atmosphere
of the Church year but always
within the family circle; such a
means is bound to develop strong
bonds with the Church and with
in the family.
THE BROWNSON READER, ed
ited by Alvan S. Ryan, (Kenedy),
$4.50.
(Reviewed by Virginia G. Math
ews).
The purpose of this anthology
is to introduce the work of Ores
tes Brownson to a larger circle
of readers. Brownson was an out
standing American critic, journal
ist and lay theologian of the nine
teenth century, who ran the ga
mut of Universalism, Unitarian-
ism and Trancendentalism before
he was drawn toward the Catholic
Church. Following his conversion
he devoted his talents as writer
and thinker to the defense of
Catholicism.
The selected essays in this vol
ume, drawn from Brownson’s
twenty volumes of published
writings, now out of print, are
those considered by the editor
most pertinent for the present-
day reader. They are arranged
topically, to indicate Brownson’s
varied interests, and within each
of those divisions they are ar
ranged chronologically so readers
may trace the development and
changes in Brownson’s thought as
he grows toward Catholicism and
as he embraces and follows it.
His prolific thinking covered
many subjects: democracy, the
laboring classes, public and par
ochial schools, American litera
ture, philosophy, human reason,
the convert. He frequently prod
ded Catholics because of their
complacency about promoting hu
man freedom.
For many years Brownson con
tributed to the “Ave Maria,” a
Notre Dame publication. Father
Edward Sorin, first president of
the University, invited him to be
come a faculty member. Pressing
commitments made him unable to
do so. Today his remains lie in
the Brownson Memorial Chapel
at Notre Dame.
YES, SISTER! NO, SISTER! by
Joe Lane, (Michael Book Compa
ny), price not stated.
Cartoonist Joe Lane is back
again with another series of
“little nuns” whimsies, proving
again the now oft-proved axiom
that women who wear religious
habits are just as human as those
who don’t.
If you liked Joe Lane’s other
cartoon books these will amuse
you too. At any rate, all of his
humor is inoffensive, which has
not been true of some attempts
to imitate him.
Perhaps there is no better rec
ommendation than the fact that
the woman who enthusiastically
reviewed Joe Lane’s earlier car
toon books for us (Pogo was an
other of her favorites) is now a
cloistered nun.
Labor, Managem’t
Urged To Think—
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tional unity and paralyzing the
national economy.
It explains that it is still nec
essary to defend this right and op
pose legislation which would
restrict its exercise, but that “it
is even more important ... to
emphasize” the fact that the ma
jor problems confronting labor
and management, such as automa
tion or the “potentially danger
ous problem” of mass unemploy
ment, can be solved only by broad
cooperation.
As one of the indications that
industrial relations “have reached
an important turning point,” the
statement pointed to the merger
of the American Federation of
Labor and the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations.
The merger, it says, “symbolizes
the fact that organized labor in
the United States has come of age
and, at long last, is in a position
to concentrate on its essential role
in the economic life of the na
tion, which is to cooperate with
management, as an equal partner,
in applying the principles of
social justice.”
It states the merger is “of only
minor importance” from the
point of view of collective bar
gaining since the federation is
not intended to have any direct
effect on the conduct of industrial
relations in separate companies
or industries. Member unions
keep the right to make their own
decisions in the field of economic
policy, it points out.
A few of the specific responsi
bilities thrust upon labor and
management by their “extra
ordinary power,” the statement
says, are:
—Labor must “ruthlessly eli
minate” the “relatively small”
number of racketeers. “Time is
of the essence for the hard-won
reputation of the American labor
movement is at stake right now.”
Labor must caution members
to “give a fair day’s work for a
fair day’s pay” and not abuse
“well deserved benefits” acquir
ed in recent years-.
— Management must bring
“moral pressure” to bear upon
those in their ranks “who may
be guilty of harassing the labor
movement or of impeding neces
sary progress in the field of
labor-management relations or in
the field of legislation."
Other problems which the state
ment says are shared by labor
and management are put in ques-'
tion form. These inquiries are
made:
—Will the worker who per
forms the same task every day,
controlled by people he never
sees, be able to maintain his
strength as an individual?
-—Wi,ll people, conditioned to
regimentation, at work and home,
become “uncritical victims” of
propagandists?
-—Will managers consider a
worker’s personality, as well as
his material welfare and com
pany profit, as a matter of con
cern?
■—Will workers’ organizations
continse to protect the dignity of
the individual worker and not al
low it to become only a part of
the mass about whom negotia
tions are made at contract time?
•—Will the future conduct of
the economy be illuminated by
justice and individual dignity so
that each man finds satisfaction
in his daily task?
—Will technology be allowed
to change the country so that
.sight is lost of every goal except
the material?
Services For
Miss Mcyme Daniel
ATLANTA, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Miss Mayme Dinese
Daniel were held August 22nd at
Our Lady of Lourdes Church,
Rev. Albert Turcotte officiating.'
VOTE FOR 26A
Cullen M. Ward
(to succeed Hugh McWhorter)
As
Representative To General
Assembly (State Legislature)
From DeKalb County
PLATFORM
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