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THE TRIBUNE — TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 1936.
Our Deepest Need
—America—
After weeks of labor, it seemed that the members
of the Constitutional Convention, assembled at Philadel-
phia, had striven in vain to form a new Government. In
that dark moment, the venerable Franklin arose, to sug-
gest, as his fellows thought, one of his familiar compro-
mises. But addressing himself to Washington, the
speaker sought to turn the thought of the Convention in-
to a new channel.
“How has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto
once thought of humbly applying ourselves to the Father
of lights to illuminate our understanding?” he asked.
At the beginning of the contest, with Great Britain,
he observed, “we daily had prayers in this room, for the
Divine guidance.”
“And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend,”
he continued,” or do we imagine that we no longer need
His powerful assistance? I have lived a long time. Sir,
and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of
this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men.
"And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without
His notice, is it probable an empire can arise without
His aid?
"We have been assured. Sir, in the sacred writings,
that “except the Lord build the house they labor in vain
that build it.”
“I firmly believe this; and I also believe that with-
out His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political
building no bettor than the builders of Babel.”
And with that. Dr. Franklin moved that one of the
local clergy be invited to pray with the Convention every
morning.
* * *
The speech was powerful, but no less convincing was
the address given by the Hon. Alfred E. Smith, one of
the most eloquent preachers in the Archdiocese of New
York, at the national convention of the Holy Name on
September 20. Mr. Smith knows that we face perils
no less menacing than those which surrounled our poli-
tical ancestors, and with an even truer feeling than
Franklin’s, he bids us have recourse to Almighty God.
“We challenge the theory that religion is a purely
personal matter,” said Mr. Smith,” that a man ought to
keep it to himself, that it ought to be made part of the
political life of a nation.”
When that theory is adopted, “the entire social fab-
ric will be divorced from all moral and ethical relations,
its guiding principle will be one of expediency, and godless-
ness and irreligion will control the social order.”
As one who has taken a distinguished part in public
life, Mr. Smith knows that when men put God out of
their lives. God is by degrees excluded from the life of
the nation, and political chaos follows.
Russia, Spain, and Mexico, shows where God has
been set at naught, there can be no civilization.
“Do we need God?” asked Mr. Smith. “I don’t know
what we are going to do without Him. I don’t see what
we can expect to get without Him. Without Him, we
shall face revolution, disorder, and eventually complete
and utter ruin.”
W * *
Nearly a century and a half intervenes between Frank-
lin at Philadelphia, and Alfred E. Smith in New York.
We have learned much during those years, but we have
learned nothing that can take the place of religion as a
guarantee of freedom. Our country has many needs to-
day, above all else it needs God.
LATE NEWS FLASHES f
There Can Be No Advance
There can be no advance for farming' under the
present system of tenancy.
President Roosevelt “is gravely concerned with the
steady increase in farm tenancy.” )
“Governor Landon says: "Today, forty-two farms
out of every hundred are operated by tenants. — Our
national welfare demands that the situation be corrected.”
It is worse thruout the South, thrown back in the
war of “The Lost Cause.”
In Texas, almost seventy farms out of every hund-
red are tenant-operated. In other states of the South,
it is not better.
And this has about the same effect as slavery.
“In the early years of the nineteenth century, leading
Southerners agreed that Slavery was impoverishing them,
and bv 1830 the movement for its abolition was well un-
der way," writes Virginius Dabney in "The Mercury,” him-
self a son of the Southland.
The same is true of the farm tenancy.
Nations Future to Turn Upon Ownership
of Farms by Farmers
By D P. Trent, Regional Director. Resettlement
Administration.
Rural society cannot be
secure and progressive with
one-third or more of the ru-
ral people packing everything
in the wagon in the middle
of winter each year and mov-
ing off through the sleet and
snow to a new location, to
a new place which they will
call home for a time. Such
condition is sapping the life-
blood of the people and is
undermining the foundations
of democratic government.
I am not saying that some
ernment. The land cannot
be concealed from the tax
assessor and the tax collec-
tor. Other classes of pro-
perty are much more diffi-
cult to reach in the levying
and collection of taxes and
other classes of property
have been able to secure low-
er rates of taxation and to
escape the tax to a greater
extent than has land. Also,
farmes are in less favorable
position to safeguard their
own interests in the matter
thing should be arbitrarily (of taxation then are the ovvn
taken from someone and
given to someone else with-
The very fact that tenancy is on the increase shows-out due process of law. I am
its effect on the farming in general.
There are roughly 3.(100,000 farm tenants in the Un-
ited States. In the South, nearly four-fifths of the
farm operators are tenants, records The Literary Digest.
Mexico is removing its peonage by distributing the
land , of large plantations among the poor who work it.
Eleven million acres have been thug divided in the
past twenty months.
“Land shall be available to the peasants and to all
men," says president Cardenas.
The Mexican government is buying the large haciend-
as and selling the land to the people. 1
In Yugoslavia, according to the N. Y. Times, the gov-
ernment is helping its debt-ridden farmers by simply cut-
ting their mortgages 75 percent.
- Other countries in Europe had the same land pro-
blem and solved it in a similar way.
There, in tenancy, in that farm poverty is also our
chief trouble
The sooner our farm people own the land they till,
the better for the whole country.
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State Spelling Contest
Won by Catholic Pupil
Syracuse, N. Y. — Regina
Dnody, 13-year-old graduate
of St. Mary’s school in Med-
ina, became the champion
speller of New York state
in the contests held at the
state fair. She outspelled
50 other contestants in an all
day competition and was
awarded a S50 prize.
W’orld Crusade Against
Neo-Paganism Is Urged
Rome. — A call for a
world crusade in the Catholic
press against neo-paganism
was sounded by Cardinal Pa-
eelli, Papal Secretary of
State, in inaugurating the In-
ternational Congress of Ca-
tholic Journalists. The new
naganism, he said, is pro-
ducing the same state of low
world morals as flourished in
the time of pagan Rome.
the nun as a “Sister of Char,
ity for 75 years." Sister Ge-
nevieve is the oldest membei’
of the Western province of
The Very Opposite
If the Terre Haute, Ind. authorities intended to harm
Communism by throwing its presidential candidate in jail,
the very opposite happened.
Comparatively few would have known of the Com-
munist candidate’s presence at Terre Haute.
But as it happened, the whole country and the rest of
the world learned about it.
The jailed Communist Earl Browder was quick to
appreciate the service done to his cause.
The Indiana officials, he said, “convinced hundreds
of thousands that I was right.”
“They did my work better than my staff or T could
have done. 1 feel certain that the mayor and chief
of police, by their action, added 100,000 votes to my
t0taCommunism will not be defeated simply by throwing
its candidates in jail.
saying that the national wel-
fare requires that the people
who live on the land and who
till the soil, who produce food
and raw materials which the
nation requires, have an in-
herent right to own the land
which they till without hav-
ing to compete with specula-
tive interests in acquiring
such ownership. I am say-
ing that the soil, the very
foundation of human exist-
ence, should not be subject to
speculation and exploitation.
Bad Thing for Farmers.
The truth is that absentee
ownership has not only been
a bad thing for farmers but
for a number of years it has
been unprofitable for inves-
tors in farm land. Indica-
tions are that the old prac-
tice of investing money in
land and reaping rich pro-
fits is probably a thing of the
past and there is reason to
believe that in the future
speculative investments in
land will be a losing game.
It is to the interest of the
capitalist and of the business
and professional classes that
ownership of the farms of
era of the other property.
Most1 citizens of the South
west will be surprised to
know that in 1913 the Okla-
homa state legislature passed
a law which exempted the
homestead from taxation and
provided a graduated scale
of taxation upon speculative
holdings of land. Due to
the fact that the bill was
passed during the last five
days of the session and for
other technical reasons the
law was declared inoperative,
but was never tested in any
court and was never repeal-
ed.
In connection with the idea
of exempting the homestead
from taxation, two problems
arise. First, other sources
of revenue must be provided
as a means of maintaining
government. This is not
sufficient reason for failure
to find a solution to the pro-
blem and is not a sufficient
excuse for continuing to com-
pel land to bear an undue
portion of the cost of gov-
ernment. Second, the mere
exemption of the homstead
from taxation does not re-
move agricultural land from
speculation and exploitation
the United States be return- SvinVth^
resource by recognizing and
safeguarding the inherent
right of the people who live
on the land to own the land
which they till and to ac-
quire ownership without hav-
ing to compete with specula-
tive interests.
ed to the farmers who oc- •
cupy the farms and that
those who have savings to
invest find some other place
to invest their monev.
If the ideals of the pio-
neers are to be realized, if
rural life and rural societv
are to become full and rich
and free and satisfying, if
thp United States is to be
the great progressive and
democratic nation which its
founders conceived.
groups
claim to be “Catholic" in one
sense or another. Some of
them design themselves as
“Papists”, others “Old Cath-
olics” and “Ambrosian Cath-
olics." The German Jews
seems to be split into no less
pthan 32 different groups. A-
the Sisters of Charity in themong beliefs professed are
United States. 'those labeled “Darwinians,”
j “Syndicalists,” ‘Spiritualists.’
, "Antichrists,” “Messias Fol-
lowers,” and others. Some
declare themselves to adhere
to their “own religion," oth-
ers to an “ethical religion”
and to “original religion.”
but sectarians have appar-.position. n , /rounders conceived, some-
considerably ^ince'1 NotS! »SS.De MaasWde and De ‘."in, mwt be done to _brins
than 18 different groups j Tijd, the former published at
Rotterdam and the latter at
Amsterdam, have morning
and evening editions. De I
Maasbode has a morning ed-1 iand
ition of 10 pages and an eve-
Religious Is Honored in
Death by Priest-Nephew
New York. — At the hour
of the death here of Sister
Maria Alphonse, for 66 years
a nun, a nephew, the Very
Rev. Lyman A. Finn, S. S..
of St. Joseph’s college, Moun-
tain View, Calif., not know-
ing of her death was celebra-
ting a Mass in commemora-
tion of her 87th birthday.
‘Denominations In Germany
Reach Almost Thousand
Berlin. — Almost 1,000 dif
Churchgoer Is Seldom
Arrested, Says Judge
Gary, Ind. — A very small
percentage of children
brought into court are mem-
bers of a Church organiza-
tion, Criminal Judge William
J, Murray told members of
the Holy Angels P.T.A. “We
ferent “denominations" are i must instill into the minds
Charity Nun Described
In ‘Believe It or Not’
Birmingham. Ala.—A draw
ing of Sister Genevieve Dol-
an. 93, of East Lake orphan-
age, was included in one of
Robert Ripley’s “Believe It
or Not” cartoons describing
of children their duty toward
God in order to do away with
crime in this country,” he
said.
subscribed to by the popula-
tion of Germany, according
to the census of 1933. the
statistical results of which
are now available officially.
The census is particularly in-
teresting because it was tak-
en after the Nazi regime’s
advent to power.
In 1907, there were 200
different religious groups
listed in the census survey,' Vatican Catholic Press ex-' year.
ning edition of 20 pages.
In addition1 to its imposing
list of Catholic dailies, the
Catholic minority in Holland
has a number of Magazines.
Everv branch of economic
activity in Holland has its
Catholic organization and
each organization its trade
organ. The abundance and
variety of these indicate that
Catholic Action is a very
powerful influence in the
Netherlands.
De Maasbode has prepared
for showing at the Vatican
exposition a very interesting
motion picture dealing with
the Catholic press in Hol-
land.
these things about. These
purposes cannot be achieved
with a rural peasantry. They
can be achieved only with
the rural people owning the
and living in homes
where stability, comfort, hap-
piness and progress abide.
These conditions will not just
happen. They do not come
about by iust wishing. They
Doubts Cleared
O. — What is the Rosary
and why so called?
A. — The whole Rosary is
a series of 165 or more pray-
ers. divided into three parts,
each consisting of medita-
tions on five Mysteries. It is
called Rosary because the im-
aginary circle of the most
beautiful prayers (Our Fa-
ther, 10 Hail Marys. Glory
be) and a meditation with
each group is like a wreath
will not be brought about1 of fragrant roses,
just by talking. They can- Q- — What do™ title
not be brought about' with-1 “Doctor of the Church” sig-
out opnosition and a struggle. Mf.v?
To bring them about will
require fearless and honest
leadership coupled with care-
ful and systematic planning
and action. The future of
A.—It is a title given by
the Church to an ecclesias
tical writer of eminent learn-
ing and high degree of sancti
tv from whose works the
THE TRIBUNE
Published every Tuesday
and Friday by the Malee
Bros. Publishing Co., 108
Texana St
Editor — Walter Malec.
Entered as second-class mail
matter Jan. 7, 1932, at the
at Hallettsville,
the nation 'is tremendously iChurch has derived great ad-
dependent upon the course 1 vantage. St. Gregory the
which is adopted with refer- great, St. Ambrose, St. Aug-
ence to these matters during I ustine, St. Jerome and 19
the next few years. I others are, so far all so pro-
Easy {claimed Doctors of the Cath-
Credit. olic Church.
In addition to providing
long-time easv credit to far-
Q. — Why does the Ca-
tholic Church require her
Holland With 3 Million
Catholics Has 34 Dailies!post office
Vatican City. — “For 3,-i Texas. ____ ________ _____ _____
000,000 Catholics, 34 Catho- The Only English Catholic j tainlv these are steps in the
lie dailies!” This is the boast i semi-weekly in the Country, right direction. Always
of the Dutch exhibit at the | Subscription rate $1.50 a the land has borne too large
mers in an effort to promote [ members to be married by a
...... ‘ priest9
A. — Because Matrimony
is a Sacrament as the Holy
Communion or Confirmation
and therefore under the jur-
isdiction of the Church. Mem
bers of the Catholic Church
are expected to believe as
she does and engaged couples
are required to receive the
Sacrament from his or her
home ownership, the state of
Oklahoma has taken othe-
Hallettsville. Tex. steps with this same purpose
in view. Steps have been
taken to reduce the ad valo-
rem tax rate on land and to
replace this with the income
tax and the sales- tax. Cer
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