Czech Catholics
Oppose New Law
PRAGUE (/Pi—Czechoslovakia’s
Roman Catholic priests notified
the communist-led government
yesterday they will oppose all ef
forts to bring them and their
church under state control through
new legislation.
The priests rejected in advance
as unfair and anti-social a pro
posed church law coming before
the national parliament next
month. This law would give the
government complete control over
the appointments, finances and ad
ministrative affairs of all church
es.
The stand of the Catholic clergy
was expressed in a statement sent
to the government and made avail
1 able to the western press by
church sources.
An accompanying note said such
protests had already been signed
and sent into the government by
HOME ARTS CLUB HOLD
FIRST MEETING OF SEASON
The Home Arts Club held their
first meeting of the season with :
Mrs. Frank Bingham last Tuesday
evening and made plans for a
bridge and whist card party for
the benefit of the Playfield which
is being held at the Pioneer Hall
on Sept. 17th. The proceeds will
be used to pay for parts needed to
repair the playfield equipment.
Mrs. Robert Baldwin presented
an excellent paper on AlasTtan
artists, exhibiting examples of
their work and explanations of the
various styles and types of paint- j
ings being done.
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70 per cent of the nation’s Catho
lic clergy and that “others are,
steadily being sent in.” There are
about 7,000 priests in Czechoslo
vakia.
With this statement the Catholic
j church apparently took its stand
, for what is expected to be a show
I down this fall in Czechoslovakia’s
embittered state-church fight.
Catholic Information
What’s the use of pain and sorrow?
A banker in a mansion, with i
chronic indigestion and an imbe- I
cile son, both impossible of cure
despite his millions.
A widow in a hovel, worn and
tubercular, with eight little ones
cryig for food.
Men, women, children of every
class, down through the ages—
pain, trouble, deprivation, sorrow
dotting each life.
What’s the use of it all?
The God-Man in a garden, weep
ing and sweating. The God-Man
on a cross, weakening and dying.
What was the use of that?
Sacrifice is the answer. Suffer
ing and sorrow offered up to God
by God. A sacrifice that redeemed
mankind.
“If -any man will come after me,
let him deny himself, and take up
his cross and follow me” <Matt.
16:24), said He who showed the
way.
Crosses! Our crosses! Little and
big. Each of us gets them to take
or to leave. Physical, mental,
heart-rending; but if we seize
them and raise them to Him on the
Cross, they form the most pleaful
of all human petitions. They take
away punishment deserved for our
sins. They obtain God’s favors for
others both living and dead. They
attune our hearts with the Heart
of our God.
The greatest of all sufferers was
Christ, who is God. And Mary,
His Mother, blessed among women,
was permitted to be the Mother of
Sorrows for all of her life. Never
a Saint who did not suffer intense
ly and purposefully, though often
through smiles. So there’s lots of
use in pain and sorrow if we offer
them up as sacrifices to God.
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Strikes Threaten
Three Railroads
Three of the nation’s railroads
were threatened with strikes yes
terday, making possible the idling
of more than 130,000 rail and steel
workers.
Some 30,000 workers are set to
quit their jobs on the Missouri
Pacific railroad at 1 p.m. today.
Union officials, who rejected an
arbitration proposal Wednesday,
went ahead with strike plans in
the dispute over some 282 unset
tled claims involving about five
million dollars.
In Pittsburgh, rail brotherhood
officials have called strikes on two
inter-plant connection carriers
which serve scores of plants, prin
cipally in the steel industry. One
walkout is set for tomorrow and
the second for next Tuesday. The
work stoppages on the lines would
make idle some 100,000 steelwork
ers.
Wages are not involved in any
of the rail disputes.
In Washington, Frank Douglas,
member of the mediation board,
said the board has “given up en
tirely” in its efforts to avert the
strike against the Missouri Pacific
line. The road reported in St.
Louis that it had stopped accept
ing freight that cannot be deliv
ered before the strike deadline.
Four rail unions are involved in
the dispute. They are the locomo
tive engineers, enginemen and
firemen, railroad trainmen and
railway conductors. In Cleveland
Wednesday brotherhood spokes
men said they had decided to make
“no change whatsoever” in the r
strike plans.
The strike calls in Pittsburgh by
the brotherhood of railroad train
men stemmed from disputes in
volving technical interpretation of
various rules.
Other major labor developments
across the nation included:
In New York, Cyrus S. Ching,
head of the federal mediation and
conciliation service, planned sep
arate conferences with negotiators
in attempts to effect a settlement
of the 131-day-old Hawaiian dock
strike. Harry Bridges, head of the
CIO ILWU. demanded that picket
ing and “blacklisting” issues be
settled before any general settle
ment is reached in the dispute.
After Wdnesday's violence in the
13-week-old Bell Aircraft strike
at Buffalo, N. Y., Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey called for a halt "to such
lawlessness.” Six persons suffered
injuries.
ROTARY CLUB
The Nome Rotary Club met at
i the Pioneer Hall Thursday noon
| for their regular noon luncheon
i with the following guests: Axel
Osberg and B. P. Gerard, of the
Osberg-Manson Construction Co.;
Clifford Smith of the Northern Tin
Mines, Co. L. F. Hofinger, who is
in charge of the dock work of the
U. S. army and Ted Duffield, U. S.
Commissioner.
The representatives of the con
struction company told some of
their plans for the immediate sea
son in connection with the break
wafer. Clifford Smith, who is op
erating at Buck Creek, stated that
he has had a successful season so
far and if the season permits will
be able to get out considerable
more ore.
The luncheon was prepared by
Mrs. Stanley Morgan and Mrs.
Bud Harper and the group were
most pleasantly surprised with a
fine luncheon of fish caught by
President Stan Morgan and Ted
Duffield.
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Shot In Canton
CANTON, (/Pt — A Briton was
killed and two Americans, one
explorer Leonard Clark of San
Francisco, were wounded critical
ly yesterday in a mysterious shoot
ing at a residence.
The dead man is Harold Harris,
Shanghai born manager of the In
ternational Suppliers Corp.
! Wounded with Clark was Wil
1 lard Freeman of Bridewater.
I Mass., vice president of the Inter
national Suppliers Corp.
The three were found on the
J floor of the Freeman home in the
suburbs of Canton by Mrs. Maya
Freeman, Polish-born wife of
Freeman.
Mrs. Freeman, who was married
in Chungking four years ago yes
terday and was to have celebrated
her wedding anniversary and
birthday at a party last night, said
she did not hear any shots.
Clark recently completed an ex
pedition to the Amne Machin
mountains in Western China in
search of a peak higher than Mt.
Everest.
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Yugoslavia (#<»ts
Large Loan
WASHINGTON, ^—Diplomat
ic officials said yesterday they un
derstood the Export-Import bank
has approved a multi-million dol
lar loan to Yugoslavia.
The amount was reported to oe
around $20,000,000. Tic money
would be used mainly y> buy ma
chinery and equipment needed by
Yugoslav copper, lead and zinc
mines.
The credit would be the first di
rect American loan to the Yugo
slav gove rumen since Marshal
Tito broke with M >scow about 15
months ago.
Yugoslavia has ueen pressing
an application 1 a loan ! >r ab at
three weeks.
Secretary of state Ache-on is
known to have strongly supported
the applicaton. He urged that it
was a “calculi! . rd ri-k” necessary
to bolster Yug >slavia\- ( joaomy
and strengthen Tito as a symbol of
independence torn Mi-cow's or
ders.
“One way to trim the budget
, would be to trim off some of the
trimmings.”—Indianapolis Star.
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