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Visit to Cardijn Center
We had occasion to visit Milwaukee this week-end and spent a few hours at Cardijn (pronounced car-dine) Center, Catholic lay apostolate headquarters in that area. The Center was named in honor of the still-very much alive Belgian priest, Canon Joseph Cardijn who started the Young Christian Worker movement in Europe.
The Center started in February, 1949, when a handful of lay Catholics and a few priests rented the second, third and fourth floors of an unused down-town building. The rooms were rented to provide a meeting place for various lay apostolate groups in Milwaukee. Soon word got around, and volunteer lay and clerical workers offered their services. After a carload or two of dirt and refuse had been cleared out, other workers re-plastered the walls and ceilings, painted and decorated the rooms and gradually secured furnishings -- rugs, chairs, tables. Rent was met through voluntary donations to the Center and through the various groups using it as their meeting headquarters.
Gradually, the lay apostles saw both the need for and possibility of further services. A co-operative book store was installed offering only the best of Catholic writing. Then a bookmobile was built by a couple of the laymen and young men and women visit the various parishes and sell books after Sunday Masses. 
Courses taught by volunteer professors from Catholic colleges and universities were offered. Special lectures were sponsored and such people as Jacques Maritain, Anton Pegis, Dorothy Day, Maisie Ward and Baroness deHueck came to Milwaukee to speak at the Center.
THIS YEAR, the center is offering its most ambitious intellectual program in its brief two and a half years of history. It is called the "Cardijn Program of Social Studies." And the program has two parts: (1) the regular study courses meeting weekly; and (2) the formal lecture series. 
Lecturers in the latter series this Fall include Yves R. Simon, the political scientist philosopher from the University of Chicago; Dr. Herbert Rice of the history faculty at Marquette university; Julian Pleasants from the University of Notre Dame; Ruth Mary Fox of the English faculty at Milwaukee State Teachers college; Edward Marciniak, editor of the Catholic Labor Alliance publication, Work; Dr. Bela Kovrig, a Hungarian refugee now a professor of political science at Marquette; Dr. Roman Smal-Stocki, a Ukranian refugee on the history faculty at Marquette; and Father M. A. Mathis, C.S.C., director of the extensive liturgical program at the University of Notre Dame. 
Regular weekly courses at the Center's Fall term include lettering and layout; French, Spanish, music appreciation, Red Cross home nursing and Red Cross first aid; introduction to Catholic Action; God and man (a series of theology lectures); Christian in the modern world; public speaking; Papal encyclicals on labor; social legislation and how it affects the individual; CHristian impact in living; the meaning of man; U.S.A., 1951: Rise or Decline; and an 18-weeks great books discussion course.
All of the courses are conducted by professional and competent teachers who donate their time and talent to people looking for truth and skills at Cardijn Center. 
One of the guiding lights of the Center is Father John Beix, a professor at St. Francis Minor seminary, Milwaukee.
WORKER - PERSONNEL, like the money needed to keep the Center going, come in unsolicited. Father Beix has an organizational chart in his office and names of workers and the days they can be at the Center are inserted. A stove, refrigerator and huge kitchen table have been added recently to one of the back rooms; and here working girls and young men come down after work in the offices and factories, prepare their evening meal and then stay until the Center closes, performing the many tasks needed to be performed in a semi-public gathering-place.
Religious articles made by top-flight American Catholic artists and craftsmen, are stocked in a special show-case at the Center. If the Center does not have an item, it will write to the artist for the customer and get what he wants. 
A recent addition to the Center is its 1,200-book free rental library.
ALTHOUGH ONLY the second and third floors have been extensively re-decorated, the Cardijn people now plan to turn the fourth floor into a carpenter shop for both its own use and for the instruction of people interested in that craft. 
One of the rooms houses mimeographing and multigraphing equipment; and here various apostolic groups publish their literature for distribution.
There is nothing stuffy about Cardijn Center. The coffee pot is always boiling and people are not trying to convert strangers, nobody is coercing anybody else and nobody says the Cardijn Center is the most dynamic thing that has been born in Milwaukee for many years, although that really is the case.
For Cardijn Center abounds in truth -- from the solid books in the book store and library to the artistic truth of the religious articles -- truth and gracious charity and friendliness are the substance of this apostolic meeting-place. The Cardijn people claim no spiritual revolution in Milwaukee. Indeed, they aren't claiming anything; they are merely moving ahead, maturing their own minds and hearts and, socially, creating a climate for Christian living both at the down-town Milwaukee center and in their daily lives. And in these days that is fairly revolutionary. 

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the country. The Pope spoke to them in terms of the apostolate they should exercise in exemplifying and teaching Catholic principles in their profession. 
Urging the "prompt and generous fulfillment of the function of motherhood,", the Pope said: "It is one of the fundamental demands of the right moral order that sincere acceptance of the office and duties of motherhood should correspond to the use of conjugal rights." He urged the midwives to encourage such sentiments and refuse any "immoral co-operation."
Love Techniques Over-emphasized
The Pope attacked sterilization as well as the intentional vitiation of a single marriage act. He said:
"Sterilization, which aims both in means and purpose at rendering procreation impossible, is a grave violation of the moral law and therefore illicit. Even public authority does not have any right under the pretext of any 'indication'  whatsoever to permit, and much less prescribe, the harm of innocent beings."
The Pontiff also criticized a development of the past 20 years whereby publications and conferences dedicated to the "technique of love" attempt to keep newly-weds from losing through foolishness or misguided shame what God Who created them and their inclination offer. This trend, the Pope said, leads to a "serious inversion of the order of values which the Creator Himself has established." He continued:
"Now the truth is that matrimoney as a natural institution by virtue of the Will of the Creator does not have as its primary and intimate end the personal improvement of the spouses but the procreation and education of new life. However much other purposes are intended by nature, they are not on the same level with this first end. Much less are they superior to it. They are essentially subordinated to it.
"By this, is there perhaps a desire to deny or diminish all that is good and proper in personal values deriving from matrimony and its practices? Certainly not! In matrimony the Creator has destined human beings, made of flesh and blood and endowed with a spirit and heart, to the procreation of new life. They are called to this work of being the authors of their offspring as humans, not as irrational animals."
Among the many activities of Catholic Action, the liturgical apostolate should be given the first place.--Rodrique Cardinal Villeneuve.

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Miss Phyllis Miller (front-center), chairman of the League for Social Justice's Negro discrimination survey project, discusses mailing plans with fellow League co-workers. Front row (left to right): Charles Toney, League vice president; Miss Miller and Mrs Ted Grant. Back row: James Lawrence, treasurer; Mrs. Rose Gravino and Franz Klouda. The League's 15-page booklet on racial discrimination in Davenport, "Citizen 2nd Class," was published today. 

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bath, the tenement house in which he lives has no bath tub. And when he wants to get a haircut, the Davenport barbers refuse to cut his hair.
The Negro is said to be slovenly. But when he tries to buy or rent a house in a neater, tidier neighborhood, the real estate brokers refuse to deal with him. 
The Negro is said to be unsanitary and unhealthy. But when he called up a physician or dentist, they say "sorry".
And so, the white people of Davenport create and solidify for the 2,500 Davenport Negroes unsanitary, inhuman and miserable living conditions and then accuse the Negroes of living under unsanitary, inhuman and miserable living conditions. 
Can the Davenport Negro break out of this vicious trap? Yes, he can. There are signs that some are beginning to have hopes for a better, more human life. 
The League for Social Justice reports that at the Rock Island Arsenal and at the Davenport post-office -- two federal employers which may not, under civil service laws, discriminate against job applicants because of their race, creed or color -- Negroes are employed and they are working alongside of white workers, doing comparable work and no racial frictions or tensions have arisen. Davenport's two hospitals are hiring workers without regard to the color of their skin and a large department store has signified its willingness to do likewise.
Across the nation, particularly where FEPC (Fair Employment Practice Commission) laws are in force, employers have discovered that, after hiring Negroes to work with white employees, there resulted very little if any of the troubles and dissensions and loss of white customers which had always been predicted of white-Negro labor forces. Carson Pirie, Scott department store in Chicago cracked the discrimination pattern and reports that the great majority of their white customers, far from being angry or outraged, actually complimented the management for their courageous step. 
The Pitney-Bowes company in Connecticut began hiring Negroes on their merit several years ago and reports that its white employees regard the Negroes so highly that they are actually "discriminating" against themselves in an attempt to give the Negro more than his fair share of opportunities. 
Ignorance and Fear
The League for Social Justice, after reporting the findings of its survey of Negro life in Davenport, addresses a note to "Mr. and Mrs. Davenport." The pattern of race discrimination and segregation, says the League, is maintained for two reasons: "ignorance and fear."
Many people are actually ignorant, and believe in the myth that the Negro is a basically different (and inferior) sort of man, simply because his skin is not white but black. The League tells these people they can find out the truth that the Negro and the white are both human beings if they will talk to their "minister, parish priest or rabbi."
A great many other people are afraid to treat the Negroes decently because they believe such decency will cause them to lose the business of their white customers, clients, patients and patrons. Advises the League for Social Justice: "Summon up a little courage and make the break from an out-dated practice (of discrimination). Others have done it and to their surprise they've found they're still in business..."
And all the white customers of stores, patrons of hotels, bars and restaurants, patients of doctors and dentists, bowlers and roller-skaters -- all who wish to change this pattern of inhuman discrimination against God's colored children in Davenport, all can do so by assuring their store managers, hotel-keepers, bar-tenders, restaurant owners, physicians and dentists that they will continue to patronize them if they will accept Negro customers and patients on the same basis as white customers and patients.
The people of Davenport owe the League for Social Justice a vote of thanks for the League's survey of racial injustice in our community -- a survey conducted and reported politely but firmly. It is up to the white people of Davenport whether they will give the city's 2,500 Negroes the opportunity to live and laugh and love as first-class citizens.
-- D. M.

How the Survey Came to Be
An idea, four months of interviewing people and collecting data, the mechanics of assembling that information into a readable format -- that's the story of Citizen 2nd Class, the League for Social Justice's booklet on Negro discrimination and segregation in Davenport. 
The idea came from Michael Lawrence, founder and president of the league. He wanted, first of all, to throw the spotlight onto the Negro situation in Davenport -- to find out in what areas Negroes are getting a fair deal, in what areas they're not. And he wanted to let the people of Davenport themselves know how and why racial prejudice exists here.
Members of the League took care of the remaining items. Volunteering their time, they visited or called employers, doctors, dentists, restaurant owners, hotels, teachers. They "spot-checked" Negro housing for first-hand information of housing for Negroes. In inter-racial groups, they visited restaurants to see what sort of service is extended to Negroes. 
What they found is in the booklet. Copies today have been circulated throughout the city -- to city government officials, employers and civic leaders. If the demand warrants it, League members have indicated they will issue another printing of the booklet, so that all may receive a copy. The League's mailing address is 1506 West Ninth st., Davenport. 

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After quoting the teachings of Popes Leo XIII, Pius XI and Pius XII on the subject, the statement declared:
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"It is certainly not within the provinces of the Church to enter into technical details and concrete plans, which are outside its competency and power. However, the consequences of housing which in too many cases is incompatible with human dignity and family life are so grave that we urgently ask all Catholics to ask themselves anew the questions which must already have disturbed their consciences.
"Have you felt concern for the ill-housed? Have you wondered whether you could do something for them? Have you tried to come to their aid, either by placing your spare rooms at their disposal or by contributing to the improvement of the sanitary conditions and furnishings of already available housing?
"It is only proper that the public authorities and all who work towards a solution of the housing problem be supported in their efforts by Catholics. It is equally necessary that the latter keep themselves well informed of the laws and regulations which favor the construction and furnishing of housing facilities. Let them know how to utilize them and let them enter willingly into the organizations that are attempting to put them into effect.
"We could not recommend more strongly that members of Catholic Action and of our social organizations continue to work with untiring perseverance and just respect for the rights of all towards the removal of a situation irreconcilable with the demands of justice and Christian brotherhood."

16 Orphanages Fall To Chinese Reds
TOKYO -- (NC) -- Sixteen Catholic orphanages have so far been taken over by the Chinese communists in their drive to oust nuns of charges of "killing" babies.
Most of these orphanages have been closed and the nuns either ousted from the country or imprisoned, generally without trial. Only two Franciscan Missionaries of Mary have received a court sentence. Some 30 other nuns have simply disappeared in Red jails. 
Among the latest to be arrested is a Canadian-born nun, Sister Raymond Marie, 46-year-old superior of the Sisters of Notre Dame des Anges in Kweiyang, Kweichow province. Thirty communist armed police descended on the orphanage at Kweiyang to arrest the nun. Two other Canadian nuns were marched off to prison at the same time but later released. Sister Raymond Marie (Rose Alma Larose) is a native of Hannord, Ontario. She came to China 15 years ago.
After the nun's arrest the police put on a ten-day exhibit to demonstrate the "cruelty" of the nuns. The exhibit consisted of neat table-ware on one table and broken dishes and decayed food on another. According to the posters, the nuns ate at the first table and lived a life of luxury and ease. The orphans were poorly fed at the second table, the Red poster said. Press cartoons depicted the nuns as sadistic mistresses living off the "earnings" of orphans. 
The Red press has constantly hammered away at the high mortality rate among foundlings in the Catholic homes and the lower mortality in the communist state-conducted orphanages. 
The Red press, it is pointed out here, failed to say that the state homes accept only babies who pass a medical examination, are duly registered by a doctor and brought to the orphanage by their parents. The Catholic foundling homes have accepted all unwanted babies as long as they were alive. Many of the charges brought to them were found on garbage dumps. They were diseased and half dead from starvation on arrival at the foundling home.
The Catholic homes cared for babies too sick or too weak to be accepted by state orphanages. Their mortality rate was necessarily higher than in the state homes, it is noted. 

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MALAGA, Spain--(NC)-- Bishop Angel Herrera Oria of Malaga has sailed for Mexico where he will give a series of lectures on social problems. It will be his first visit to America. 
Bishop Herrera is known as one of the foremost exponents of Catholic social action in Spain. He was raised to the hierarchy only eleven years after he entered the seminary to study for the priesthood. He was 49 years of age and one of the foremost Catholic laymen in the country when he entered the seminary in April, 1936. He was ordained four years later and raised to the episcopasy in 1947.
Prior to studying for the priesthood, Bisohp Herrera was founder and first president of the National Association of Propagandists, a movement for the training and development of Catholic lay leaders. For several years he was also director of the Central Committee of Catholic Action. 
He was also editor of the paper El Debate and founded the first school of journalism in Spain. As a layman he was a leader in the Social Institute for Workers, the forerunner of the National Confederation of Professional Youth Workers.
After becoming Bishop of Malaga, Bishop Herrera established a school of social studies where his priests are given a two-year course in the legal, social and economic aspects of the labor-management problem. 
Earlier this year Bishop Herrera called for establishment of a law which would guarantee the "legitimate freedom" of the press in Spain. 
His recommendation was made shortly after a Catholic Action labor weekly suspended publication because the government censor refused to let it publish an editorial approving a protest strike in Barcelona. 

Pius XII Urges Flow Of Money Credit
VATICAN CITY--(NC)--Pope Pius XII briefly discussed the moral and social importance of credit and encouraged its fruitful extension, in an audience granted to delegates to the International Credit Congress meeting at Rome.
Delegates from 46 nations attending the congress journeyed to Castelgandolfo and heard the Pontiff declare that they marked the frontier and even the meeting point between capital, management and labor by establishing contact between these three and making them mutually useful. 
The Pope regretted that money is often left fruitlessly dormant and urged credit men to encourage putting it to work for the benefit of all, for cultural and charitable undertakings to benefit humanity. 
It does not matter whether money is invested in stocks and bonds, he said, or industrial or agricultural activity, public works or low-cost housing, cultural or educational institutions or charitable or social works. 
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Reds Have Corrupted German Universities
Communists in control of East Germany have completely corrupted the once-honored universities of Leipzig, Jena and Berlin, a writer for a West German Catholic journal has charged.
The universities, says Franz Mueller-Gaspar, have become agencies of communist propaganda. Admission to the schools is granted only to communist students. And all anti-communist teachers and students have been expelled or jailed, he reveals.
The communists achieved their control over the universities through the establishment of the so-called "pre-semesters," which prepare young people for college. The pre-semesters have been incorportatd into the universities. They received the bulk of communist scholarship aid and teach their students the straight party line, Mueller-Gaspar says.
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persons, places and other things Visit to Cardijn Center We had occasion to visit Milwaukee this week-end and spent a few hours at Cardijn (pronounced car-dine) Center, Catholic lay apostolate headquarters in that area. The Center was named in honor of the still-very much alive Belgian priest, Canon Joseph Cardijn who started the Young Christian Worker movement in Europe. The Center started in February, 1949, when a handful of lay Catholics and a few priests rented the second, third and fourth floors of an unused down-town building. The rooms were rented to provide a meeting place for various lay apostolate groups in Milwaukee. Soon word got around, and volunteer lay and clerical workers offered their services. After a carload or two of dirt and refuse had been cleared out, other workers re-plastered the walls and ceilings, painted and decorated the rooms and gradually secured furnishings -- rugs, chairs, tables. Rent was met through voluntary donations to the Center and through the various groups using it as their meeting headquarters. Gradually, the lay apostles saw both the need for and possibility of further services. A co-operative book store was installed offering only the best of Catholic writing. Then a bookmobile was built by a couple of the laymen and young men and women visit the various parishes and sell books after Sunday Masses. Courses taught by volunteer professors from Catholic colleges and universities were offered. Special lectures were sponsored and such people as Jacques Maritain, Anton Pegis, Dorothy Day, Maisie Ward and Baroness deHueck came to Milwaukee to speak at the Center. THIS YEAR, the center is offering its most ambitious intellectual program in its brief two and a half years of history. It is called the "Cardijn Program of Social Studies." And the program has two parts: (1) the regular study courses meeting weekly; and (2) the formal lecture series. Lecturers in the latter series this Fall include Yves R. Simon, the political scientist philosopher from the University of Chicago; Dr. Herbert Rice of the history faculty at Marquette university; Julian Pleasants from the University of Notre Dame; Ruth Mary Fox of the English faculty at Milwaukee State Teachers college; Edward Marciniak, editor of the Catholic Labor Alliance publication, Work; Dr. Bela Kovrig, a Hungarian refugee now a professor of political science at Marquette; Dr. Roman Smal-Stocki, a Ukranian refugee on the history faculty at Marquette; and Father M. A. Mathis, C.S.C., director of the extensive liturgical program at the University of Notre Dame. Regular weekly courses at the Center's Fall term include lettering and layout; French, Spanish, music appreciation, Red Cross home nursing and Red Cross first aid; introduction to Catholic Action; God and man (a series of theology lectures); Christian in the modern world; public speaking; Papal encyclicals on labor; social legislation and how it affects the individual; CHristian impact in living; the meaning of man; U.S.A., 1951: Rise or Decline; and an 18-weeks great books discussion course. All of the courses are conducted by professional and competent teachers who donate their time and talent to people looking for truth and skills at Cardijn Center. One of the guiding lights of the Center is Father John Beix, a professor at St. Francis Minor seminary, Milwaukee. WORKER - PERSONNEL, like the money needed to keep the Center going, come in unsolicited. Father Beix has an organizational chart in his office and names of workers and the days they can be at the Center are inserted. A stove, refrigerator and huge kitchen table have been added recently to one of the back rooms; and here working girls and young men come down after work in the offices and factories, prepare their evening meal and then stay until the Center closes, performing the many tasks needed to be performed in a semi-public gathering-place. Religious articles made by top-flight American Catholic artists and craftsmen, are stocked in a special show-case at the Center. If the Center does not have an item, it will write to the artist for the customer and get what he wants. A recent addition to the Center is its 1,200-book free rental library. ALTHOUGH ONLY the second and third floors have been extensively re-decorated, the Cardijn people now plan to turn the fourth floor into a carpenter shop for both its own use and for the instruction of people interested in that craft. One of the rooms houses mimeographing and multigraphing equipment; and here various apostolic groups publish their literature for distribution. There is nothing stuffy about Cardijn Center. The coffee pot is always boiling and people are not trying to convert strangers, nobody is coercing anybody else and nobody says the Cardijn Center is the most dynamic thing that has been born in Milwaukee for many years, although that really is the case. For Cardijn Center abounds in truth -- from the solid books in the book store and library to the artistic truth of the religious articles -- truth and gracious charity and friendliness are the substance of this apostolic meeting-place. The Cardijn people claim no spiritual revolution in Milwaukee. Indeed, they aren't claiming anything; they are merely moving ahead, maturing their own minds and hearts and, socially, creating a climate for Christian living both at the down-town Milwaukee center and in their daily lives. And in these days that is fairly revolutionary. Pope Cautions - - (Continued from Page 1) the country. The Pope spoke to them in terms of the apostolate they should exercise in exemplifying and teaching Catholic principles in their profession. Urging the "prompt and generous fulfillment of the function of motherhood,", the Pope said: "It is one of the fundamental demands of the right moral order that sincere acceptance of the office and duties of motherhood should correspond to the use of conjugal rights." He urged the midwives to encourage such sentiments and refuse any "immoral co-operation." Love Techniques Over-emphasized The Pope attacked sterilization as well as the intentional vitiation of a single marriage act. He said: "Sterilization, which aims both in means and purpose at rendering procreation impossible, is a grave violation of the moral law and therefore illicit. Even public authority does not have any right under the pretext of any 'indication' whatsoever to permit, and much less prescribe, the harm of innocent beings." The Pontiff also criticized a development of the past 20 years whereby publications and conferences dedicated to the "technique of love" attempt to keep newly-weds from losing through foolishness or misguided shame what God Who created them and their inclination offer. This trend, the Pope said, leads to a "serious inversion of the order of values which the Creator Himself has established." He continued: "Now the truth is that matrimoney as a natural institution by virtue of the Will of the Creator does not have as its primary and intimate end the personal improvement of the spouses but the procreation and education of new life. However much other purposes are intended by nature, they are not on the same level with this first end. Much less are they superior to it. They are essentially subordinated to it. "By this, is there perhaps a desire to deny or diminish all that is good and proper in personal values deriving from matrimony and its practices? Certainly not! In matrimony the Creator has destined human beings, made of flesh and blood and endowed with a spirit and heart, to the procreation of new life. They are called to this work of being the authors of their offspring as humans, not as irrational animals." Among the many activities of Catholic Action, the liturgical apostolate should be given the first place.--Rodrique Cardinal Villeneuve. Learn To BOWL FREE INSTRUCTION FOR BEGINNERS EVERY AFTERNOON HOB NOB 2603 Rockingham Rd. Phone 7-8158 Complete List Of Our DISSATISFIED PATRONS: STRUNCK'S ST. LOUIS HOUSE 402 West Second Street Davenport, Iowa The MARTIN Co. - CIGARS - "A Good Place to Eat" Third and Brady Streets IN DAVENPORT ... IT'S The Steak House 332 Harrison Street For appetizing meals at popular prices, Full Course Dinners .... 60c and Up! 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W. Bus to Doo Announcing the FALL OPENING OF THE New Town Theatre 15th & Washington Sts. Showing THE BEST In Motion Picture Entertainment at All Times... Popular Prices! Social Justice Leaguers Discuss Survey Miss Phyllis Miller (front-center), chairman of the League for Social Justice's Negro discrimination survey project, discusses mailing plans with fellow League co-workers. Front row (left to right): Charles Toney, League vice president; Miss Miller and Mrs Ted Grant. Back row: James Lawrence, treasurer; Mrs. Rose Gravino and Franz Klouda. The League's 15-page booklet on racial discrimination in Davenport, "Citizen 2nd Class," was published today. Citizen 2nd Class - - (Continued from Page 1) bath, the tenement house in which he lives has no bath tub. And when he wants to get a haircut, the Davenport barbers refuse to cut his hair. The Negro is said to be slovenly. But when he tries to buy or rent a house in a neater, tidier neighborhood, the real estate brokers refuse to deal with him. The Negro is said to be unsanitary and unhealthy. But when he called up a physician or dentist, they say "sorry". And so, the white people of Davenport create and solidify for the 2,500 Davenport Negroes unsanitary, inhuman and miserable living conditions and then accuse the Negroes of living under unsanitary, inhuman and miserable living conditions. Can the Davenport Negro break out of this vicious trap? Yes, he can. There are signs that some are beginning to have hopes for a better, more human life. The League for Social Justice reports that at the Rock Island Arsenal and at the Davenport post-office -- two federal employers which may not, under civil service laws, discriminate against job applicants because of their race, creed or color -- Negroes are employed and they are working alongside of white workers, doing comparable work and no racial frictions or tensions have arisen. Davenport's two hospitals are hiring workers without regard to the color of their skin and a large department store has signified its willingness to do likewise. Across the nation, particularly where FEPC (Fair Employment Practice Commission) laws are in force, employers have discovered that, after hiring Negroes to work with white employees, there resulted very little if any of the troubles and dissensions and loss of white customers which had always been predicted of white-Negro labor forces. Carson Pirie, Scott department store in Chicago cracked the discrimination pattern and reports that the great majority of their white customers, far from being angry or outraged, actually complimented the management for their courageous step. The Pitney-Bowes company in Connecticut began hiring Negroes on their merit several years ago and reports that its white employees regard the Negroes so highly that they are actually "discriminating" against themselves in an attempt to give the Negro more than his fair share of opportunities. Ignorance and Fear The League for Social Justice, after reporting the findings of its survey of Negro life in Davenport, addresses a note to "Mr. and Mrs. Davenport." The pattern of race discrimination and segregation, says the League, is maintained for two reasons: "ignorance and fear." Many people are actually ignorant, and believe in the myth that the Negro is a basically different (and inferior) sort of man, simply because his skin is not white but black. The League tells these people they can find out the truth that the Negro and the white are both human beings if they will talk to their "minister, parish priest or rabbi." A great many other people are afraid to treat the Negroes decently because they believe such decency will cause them to lose the business of their white customers, clients, patients and patrons. Advises the League for Social Justice: "Summon up a little courage and make the break from an out-dated practice (of discrimination). Others have done it and to their surprise they've found they're still in business..." And all the white customers of stores, patrons of hotels, bars and restaurants, patients of doctors and dentists, bowlers and roller-skaters -- all who wish to change this pattern of inhuman discrimination against God's colored children in Davenport, all can do so by assuring their store managers, hotel-keepers, bar-tenders, restaurant owners, physicians and dentists that they will continue to patronize them if they will accept Negro customers and patients on the same basis as white customers and patients. The people of Davenport owe the League for Social Justice a vote of thanks for the League's survey of racial injustice in our community -- a survey conducted and reported politely but firmly. It is up to the white people of Davenport whether they will give the city's 2,500 Negroes the opportunity to live and laugh and love as first-class citizens. -- D. M. How the Survey Came to Be An idea, four months of interviewing people and collecting data, the mechanics of assembling that information into a readable format -- that's the story of Citizen 2nd Class, the League for Social Justice's booklet on Negro discrimination and segregation in Davenport. The idea came from Michael Lawrence, founder and president of the league. He wanted, first of all, to throw the spotlight onto the Negro situation in Davenport -- to find out in what areas Negroes are getting a fair deal, in what areas they're not. And he wanted to let the people of Davenport themselves know how and why racial prejudice exists here. Members of the League took care of the remaining items. Volunteering their time, they visited or called employers, doctors, dentists, restaurant owners, hotels, teachers. They "spot-checked" Negro housing for first-hand information of housing for Negroes. In inter-racial groups, they visited restaurants to see what sort of service is extended to Negroes. What they found is in the booklet. Copies today have been circulated throughout the city -- to city government officials, employers and civic leaders. If the demand warrants it, League members have indicated they will issue another printing of the booklet, so that all may receive a copy. The League's mailing address is 1506 West Ninth st., Davenport. HOSPITAL and SICK ROOM SUPPLIES Canes, Crutches, Baby Scales, Trusses of all kinds. Wheel chair and hospital bed rentals. Ladies' and Men's Elastic Stockings U.S. HOSPITAL SUPPLIES 220 W. Third Street Dial 3-7307 Klise Construction 1719 1/2 State Street, Bettendorf Louis J. Klise Dial 7-4203 General Construction, including Church, Shool, Rectory Work. BETTER ROOFS AND INSULATION Clinton Roofing Co. PHONE 799 402 South 4th St. Clinton, Ia. The Church Overseas Housing Is Matter Of Justice - - Prelates PARIS -- (NC) -- French Catholics were reminded of the seriousness of their country's housing shortage and told that each one of them has a duty to help solve it, in a statement issued by the cardinals and archbishops of France at the close of their general assembly there. After quoting the teachings of Popes Leo XIII, Pius XI and Pius XII on the subject, the statement declared: "The cardinals and archbishops of France are resolved to call attention to the practical moral demands which arise from the grievous and truly intolerable plight of so many families. "It is certainly not within the provinces of the Church to enter into technical details and concrete plans, which are outside its competency and power. However, the consequences of housing which in too many cases is incompatible with human dignity and family life are so grave that we urgently ask all Catholics to ask themselves anew the questions which must already have disturbed their consciences. "Have you felt concern for the ill-housed? Have you wondered whether you could do something for them? Have you tried to come to their aid, either by placing your spare rooms at their disposal or by contributing to the improvement of the sanitary conditions and furnishings of already available housing? "It is only proper that the public authorities and all who work towards a solution of the housing problem be supported in their efforts by Catholics. It is equally necessary that the latter keep themselves well informed of the laws and regulations which favor the construction and furnishing of housing facilities. Let them know how to utilize them and let them enter willingly into the organizations that are attempting to put them into effect. "We could not recommend more strongly that members of Catholic Action and of our social organizations continue to work with untiring perseverance and just respect for the rights of all towards the removal of a situation irreconcilable with the demands of justice and Christian brotherhood." 16 Orphanages Fall To Chinese Reds TOKYO -- (NC) -- Sixteen Catholic orphanages have so far been taken over by the Chinese communists in their drive to oust nuns of charges of "killing" babies. Most of these orphanages have been closed and the nuns either ousted from the country or imprisoned, generally without trial. Only two Franciscan Missionaries of Mary have received a court sentence. Some 30 other nuns have simply disappeared in Red jails. Among the latest to be arrested is a Canadian-born nun, Sister Raymond Marie, 46-year-old superior of the Sisters of Notre Dame des Anges in Kweiyang, Kweichow province. Thirty communist armed police descended on the orphanage at Kweiyang to arrest the nun. Two other Canadian nuns were marched off to prison at the same time but later released. Sister Raymond Marie (Rose Alma Larose) is a native of Hannord, Ontario. She came to China 15 years ago. After the nun's arrest the police put on a ten-day exhibit to demonstrate the "cruelty" of the nuns. The exhibit consisted of neat table-ware on one table and broken dishes and decayed food on another. According to the posters, the nuns ate at the first table and lived a life of luxury and ease. The orphans were poorly fed at the second table, the Red poster said. Press cartoons depicted the nuns as sadistic mistresses living off the "earnings" of orphans. The Red press has constantly hammered away at the high mortality rate among foundlings in the Catholic homes and the lower mortality in the communist state-conducted orphanages. The Red press, it is pointed out here, failed to say that the state homes accept only babies who pass a medical examination, are duly registered by a doctor and brought to the orphanage by their parents. The Catholic foundling homes have accepted all unwanted babies as long as they were alive. Many of the charges brought to them were found on garbage dumps. They were diseased and half dead from starvation on arrival at the foundling home. The Catholic homes cared for babies too sick or too weak to be accepted by state orphanages. Their mortality rate was necessarily higher than in the state homes, it is noted. Noted Spanish Bishop To Speak in Mexico MALAGA, Spain--(NC)-- Bishop Angel Herrera Oria of Malaga has sailed for Mexico where he will give a series of lectures on social problems. It will be his first visit to America. Bishop Herrera is known as one of the foremost exponents of Catholic social action in Spain. He was raised to the hierarchy only eleven years after he entered the seminary to study for the priesthood. He was 49 years of age and one of the foremost Catholic laymen in the country when he entered the seminary in April, 1936. He was ordained four years later and raised to the episcopasy in 1947. Prior to studying for the priesthood, Bisohp Herrera was founder and first president of the National Association of Propagandists, a movement for the training and development of Catholic lay leaders. For several years he was also director of the Central Committee of Catholic Action. He was also editor of the paper El Debate and founded the first school of journalism in Spain. As a layman he was a leader in the Social Institute for Workers, the forerunner of the National Confederation of Professional Youth Workers. After becoming Bishop of Malaga, Bishop Herrera established a school of social studies where his priests are given a two-year course in the legal, social and economic aspects of the labor-management problem. Earlier this year Bishop Herrera called for establishment of a law which would guarantee the "legitimate freedom" of the press in Spain. His recommendation was made shortly after a Catholic Action labor weekly suspended publication because the government censor refused to let it publish an editorial approving a protest strike in Barcelona. Pius XII Urges Flow Of Money Credit VATICAN CITY--(NC)--Pope Pius XII briefly discussed the moral and social importance of credit and encouraged its fruitful extension, in an audience granted to delegates to the International Credit Congress meeting at Rome. Delegates from 46 nations attending the congress journeyed to Castelgandolfo and heard the Pontiff declare that they marked the frontier and even the meeting point between capital, management and labor by establishing contact between these three and making them mutually useful. The Pope regretted that money is often left fruitlessly dormant and urged credit men to encourage putting it to work for the benefit of all, for cultural and charitable undertakings to benefit humanity. It does not matter whether money is invested in stocks and bonds, he said, or industrial or agricultural activity, public works or low-cost housing, cultural or educational institutions or charitable or social works. He say several benefits deriving from capital being brought together with competent planning. The crisis which holds the world of labor would be reduced somewhat because the worker would find work more easily; increased production would permit the moving, however slowly, toward an economic balance, and many deplorable disorders resulting from strikes would be lessened through the greater good of a domestic life which is healthy, social and therefore moral. Reds Have Corrupted German Universities Communists in control of East Germany have completely corrupted the once-honored universities of Leipzig, Jena and Berlin, a writer for a West German Catholic journal has charged. The universities, says Franz Mueller-Gaspar, have become agencies of communist propaganda. Admission to the schools is granted only to communist students. And all anti-communist teachers and students have been expelled or jailed, he reveals. The communists achieved their control over the universities through the establishment of the so-called "pre-semesters," which prepare young people for college. The pre-semesters have been incorportatd into the universities. They received the bulk of communist scholarship aid and teach their students the straight party line, Mueller-Gaspar says. On the university level itself, students are forced to study historical materialism and the writing of arch-communists Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Examinations are administered by communist trade unionists and youth workers. Student life at the universities is completely dominated by the communist-ruled "Free German Youth," organized two years ago to "coordinate" student activities. Only members of the organization can hold office on the student council. STEWART'S PHARMACY PRESCRIPTIONS -- DRUGS FOUNTAIN SERVICE PHOTO FINISHING -- 24-HR. 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