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JULY 6, 1957.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
Jottings ..
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
• ARE YOU certain that you
®re you? It is. no joke. Think
about it. You could be a compo
site of many people — the man
next door, the news commentator,
the boss at your office, your fa
vorite television comedian, your
sister or aunt or brother. Has
anyone ever mistaken "you for
someone else? Today it seems
that there are few people who
stand out as real individuals.
There’s a strong current of con
formity sweeping us along. Con
formity’s guns are. turned on us
at every side. They whip us and
grind us into an unrecognizable
entity We are failing these days
to be ourselves. Conformity wag
es an insidious campaign. Watch
cut for it. It begins with the ex
ternals and eats its way inside of
us until we become mechanical
robots to its demands.
• WE BEGIN becoming like ev
eryone else early in life. Soon we
wish, to blend in with the ways
and days, we dislike being, dif
ferent in any way. We want to
look like everyone else; we want
to dress like everyone else; we
want to build the same kind of
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home in the same kind of loca
tion; we want to drive the same
kind of car and dance to the
same kind of music and eat the
same kind of meal and drink the
same kind of drink. Fads are pos
sible overnight in America. Ad
vertising, publicity are the whips
and gears which bring us into
line. If it all ended with crew
cuts and pony tail haircuts and
Brooks Brothers suits and ranch
houses and station wagons and
calypso music and brand name
foods and frozen juices, it would
be all right. Sadly enough it
doesn't. We shop in the super
market for our foods and glean
our entertainment from the tel
evision, thus we are easily spoon
fed assembly line thoughts and
opinions and ideas and we digest
them meekly and innocently and
mouth them as our own.
• LAST ISSUE we quoted our
college president’s message to the
graduates. She urged each grad
uate to "have the courage to be
yourself,” The nun also said that
“we shall pray that you will look
to Mary and grow in her likeness
into the person that only you can
be.” It does take courage today
to be yourself and to stand apart
from the moving crowd. It takes
a thoughtful person as well as a
courageous person to do this. The
saints were not sterotyped,
moulded by the .whims and
fashions of their times. No two
saints were exactly the same. No
two saints won their sanctity in
exactly the same way. We need
their individualism today des
perately. We need a spark among
the dull, grey masses who move
like mechanical dolls at the call
of conformity. We need men and
women today who will walk
against that crowd, and think
their own thoughts and mould
their own dreams and thus be
come completely themselves.
“This above all to thine ownself
be true .
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fall-out or another propaganda
trick.
JUST ANOTHER TRAP
If, in fact, the offer to negoti
ate a bomb test suspension agree
ment was intended as another
entrapment for the West, it was
skillfully timed. For it came at
a time when Japanese protests
against British tests had focused
world attention on the fall-out
dangers and a Congressional
Committee had aired the views
of prominent American scientists
on the harmful effects of atomic
radiation on this and, more par
ticularly, future generations. Not
since the beginning of the tests
have people throughout the
world been so aroused over atom
ic radiation perils as at the mo
ment Moscow trotted out its
suspension proposal.
When Moscow spoke, this was
the cue for communists and the
communist press in the Western
nations to call loudly for support
of the humane leaders in the
Kremlin. The Daily Worker here
erupted with a chorus of Hosan
nahs for Messrs. Krushchev and
Bulganin and a stern admonition
to the United States and Great
Britain to stop polluting the air.
In its new-found concern for hu
manity, the communist paper
cited the words of the Pope,
whose name had never before
been mentioned except in a con
text of villification.
It is an old communist tech
nique to seek to exploit every
fault of a capitalist society by
supporting all well-meaning
groups who seek to correct it. Is
this what we are witnessing now?
Is the Moscow maneuver an at
tempt to cast the United States
and Great Britain in the role of
villains callously bent on poison
ing the atmosphere with atomic
fall-out? As the talks progress
we shall learn the answer.
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Russian communists can be trust
ed. Some, apparently, would not
trust them at all. Others would
be inclined to make an agree
ment if there were proper safe
guards for its enforcement. But
the safeguards, including en
forceable inspection, seem to con
stitute the basic minimum, of
trust. The American people are
not likely to accept anything less.
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By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, Ph. D.
(University of Notre Dame)
Miss Isabel Slaven of Fresno,
California, is an active member
of the Legion of Mary, and
through her work in that organ
ization has helped to lead four
converts into the Church. She be
lieves that the Catholic faith is
not to be
hoarded, but is
to be shared.
She has put
that belief into
practice.
Sister Mary
Thaddeus read J§U
in the Voice of
St. Jude an ar-
tide of mine, in which I told of
my interest in lay people who
have helped to lead churchless
neighbors into the Catholic
Church. Sister told me of -Miss
Slaven’s outstanding work in this
regard. I got in touch with her
and asked her to tell how she
started one of two converts on
the road to the Church.”
“At most I was but a channel
of grace in these conversions,”
she began. The first occurred
when I was participating in the
Central California Register drive
for subscribers.
“I called at the home of Mr.
Charles S. Codd and told him
that we were seeking subscribers
for our diocesan weekly. I ex
plained that in addition to re
porting religious news, the Reg
ister carried many articles on the
Catholic religion and that these
would prove of interest to him.
“He was the son of an Episco
palian minister and had consider
able interest in the Catholic re
ligion which he regarded as sim
ilar to his own. So he subscribed
and read the paper regularly. It
was not long before he discover
ed that the Catholic Church alone
was founded directly and imme
diately by Christ, while his
Church came into being only at
the time of Henry VIII in the
sixteenth century.
“He became convinced that the
Catholic Church is the one true
church, but hesitated to apply
for admittance. ‘It’s not a very
honorable thing,’ he remarked,
‘for a man t.o become a Catholic
at 84.’ I assured him it was hon
orable to enter the Church at
any age, and that it was better
late than never.
“I brought him to Monsignor
Sullivan, who gave him a good
course of instruction and, then
received him into the Church.
When he made his first Holy
Communion Mr. Codd was so
happy that he wished he had
discovered the church sixty years
ago.”
I asked Mrs. Slaven to men
tion one more case.
"1 had a somewhat-similar ex
perience when, as a member of
the Legion of Mary, I was mak
ing a house-to-house canvass to
get an accurate census of Catho
lics. I called at the Malcom Sar
gent home and was graciously
received. Mr. Sargent expressed
an interest in knowing more
about Catholicism.
“I visited the family for two
years. When Mr. Sargent who
was not in good health, asked to
receive a course of instruction in
the faith, I volunteered to in
struct him. I came twice a week
for four months. At the end of
the course, Father Patrick Bres-
lin Baptized him and gave him
his first Holy Communion. Later
Mr. Sargent suffered a stroke,
and Father brought him the last,
sacraments. He was 64 when he
died.
"Miss Slaven,” I asked, “your
experience brings out clearly the
fruitfulness of the doorbell apos-
tolate. It was because you, a
stranger, rang those two doorbells
that you were able to help lead
both those men into the Mystical
Body of Christ. It was by going
from house to house that St.
Paul too was able to win so many
souls. When Catholics ring more
doorbells, we too shall win many
more souls for Christ.
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