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eSupreme Court Overturns Law
Favoring Communist Mail
WASHINGTON (NC)--Tbe US Supreme
Court has unanimously overturned a Fed-
law providing for detention by the
Office of "Communist political propa-
ganda."
Associate Justice William O. Douglas,
who Tuesday delivered the opinion of the
court said the law, under which ad-
dressees could receive such mail only by
specifically requesting its delivery, vio-
lated their constitutional rights under the
First Amendment's free speech guaran-
tees.
He called the law "at war with the
ninhibited, robust, and wide-open' de-
bate and discussion that are contemplated
by the First Amendment;' and quoted
with approval this declaration by Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
"The United States may give up the
Post Office when it sees fit, but while
it carries it on, the use of the mails is
almost as much a part of free speech as
the right to use our tongues."
The court's decision striking down the
statute enacted by Congress in 1962 came
in two cases involving challenges to the
law, one arising in New York and the
other in San Francisco. Associate Justice
Byron White took no part in considering
or deciding either case.
The statute provided that mail matter,
The Catholic Press Association presented 17 newspaper and 26 magazine
awards at its annual meeting in New York for distinguished service to
the Catholic press during the preceding year. Some of the recipients are
(From Left) Msgr. J. G. Henley, editor of the Canadian Register of
Kingston, Ont., Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, Archbishop of Baltimore,
who presented the awards as Episcopal Chairman of the National Cath-
olic Welfare Conference's Press Department and Edgar Barmann, news
editor of the Catholic Exponent of Youngtown, Ohio.
(Religious News Service Photo)
except sealed letters, originating in a: for-
eign country and determined by the See-
retary of the Treasury to be "communist
political propaganda" was to be detained
by the Postmaster General upon its ar-
rival in the US or subsequent deposit in
the US mails.
The Postmaster was to notify the ad-
dresses that the material had arrived and
inform him that it would be delivered
only upon his request. Exempt from the
provisions of the law was material sent
on a subscription basis, mail sent to gov-
ernment agencies or educational institu-
tions or their officials, and material in-
volved in a reciprocal international cul-
tural agreement.
In administering the law, the Post Office
sent addressees a notice stating that Com-
munist political propaganda intended for
them was being detained and advising
them that it would be destroyed unless
they requested delivery by returning an
attached reply card within 20 days.
Prior to last March 1, the reply card
contained a space in which the addressee
could request delivery of any similar pub-
lication in the future. A list of persons
indicating that this was their wish was
maintained by the Post Office. However,
the keeping of the list has been terminated.
In finding the law unconstitutional un-
der the First Amendment's free speech
guarantees, Justice Douglas based his de-
cision on "the narrow ground that the
addressee in order to receive his mail
must request in writing that it be de-
livered."
"The addressee carries an affirmative
obligation which we do not think the
government may impose on him," he
said. "This requirement is almost cer-
tain to have a deterrent effect, especial-
ly as respects those who have sensitive
.positions. Their livelihood may be de-
pendent on a security clearance.
"Public officials, like school teachers
who have no tenure, might think they
would invite disaster if they read what
the Federal government says contains the
seeds of treason.
"Apart from them, any addressee is
likely to feel some inhibition in sending
for literature which Federal officials have
condemned as 'Communist political propa..
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elate Justice William J. Brennan, joined
Catholic Vets to Honor
IIFallen Comrades in Arms
Catholic War V e t e r a n s of Seattle's
Father Vingent Post will pay tribute Sun-
day, May 30, to deceased veterans and
to an Army chaplain from Seattle who
was killed in World War II and whose
bears the title of the post.
CWV Mass at 8 am Sunday in
Sacred Heart Church will be offered in
memory of Father Clarence Vincent CSSR,
who died 20 years ago during a bombing
raid in Germany.
A Communion breakfast will follow in
Sacred Heart Parish Hall. CWV mem-
bers afterwards will bold memorial
services at 11 am in Calvary Cemetery
and at 12:15 pm in Holyrood Cemetery.
i Tickets to the breakfast will be avail-
ble at the door for $1.25 for adults and
alf-price for children. Breakfast speaker
will be Fred Cordova of The Progress.
Douglas Harvey, post commander, has
extended an invitation to all interested
Catholic veterans to attend Sunday's me-
morial Mass.
"Catholic veterans, both men and
women, who have served in the armed
forces of the US during any official
mbat period are eligible to become
WV members," he said. "Any wife,
other, daughter or niece of a Catholic
veteraq is also welcome in the auxili-
ary."
Chartered in 1947, Father Vincent Post
was the first to be established in the
Seattle area and is dedicated to a pro-
gram of service to the Archdiocese, to
veterans and veterans affairs.
At one time there were as many as
ight posts in the King County Chapter.
President
Plays Cupid
I PROSPECT, Conn. (NC) -- President
ohnson played Cupid. The Army is going
to fly paratrooper Pfc. Frank Brigiia, Jr.,
home from the Dominican Republic on
special leave. And Jaequeline Zabbarro,
19, at last report was tickled pink, way up
there on Cloud 9.
Briglia and Miss Zabbarro are being
married on schedule May 29 in St. An-
thony's Church here.
The couple had set the date, sent out the
vitations and made all necessary plans
r the wedding some time ago. Then on
May 4 Briglia and his outfit in the 82nd
Anrborne Division were sent in a big hurry
to the Dominican Republic.
After recovering from the first shock
of the separation, Miss Zabbarro wrote the
President, outlining her plight in detail,
asked his help and, for good measure,
enclosed an invitation to the wedding.
en President Johnson went into bew-
d.arrow action.
Among them were Father William T.
Cummings Post in the south end and
Commander Shea Post in the north.
Last year, the CWV voted to consolidate
all of the posts in the county under Father
Vincent Post, composed now of 130 post
members and 70 in the auxiliary.
Father Vincent, who attended Sacred
Heart School, was ordained in 1940.
While a Latin and classics professor at
Holy Redeemer College in Oakland,
Calif., he received permission to enter
the army as a chaplain.
Assigned to General Patton's Seventh
Armored Division, he narrowly escaped
death in the Battle of the Bulge. He was
killed March 13, 1945 in Germany.
His name may be found on the service
honor roll at the shrine of Our Lady of
by Associate Justices Arthur Goldberg
and John Harlan, said that while the First
Amendment contains no specific guaran-
tee of access to publications, nevertheless
the right to receive publications is one of
those "fundamental personal rights" ne-
cessary to make it express guarantees
meaningful.
"The dissemination of ideas can ac-
complish nothing if otherwise willing ad-
dressees are not free to receive and
consider them," Justice Brennan said.
"It would be a barren marketplace of
ideas that had only sellers and no
buyers."
As for the argument that requiring ad-
dressees to return a post card in order
to get mail is "only inconvenience and
not an abridgment" of freedom, Justice
Brennan commented that "inhibition as
well as prohibition against the exercise
of precious First Amendment rights is a
power denied to government."
"In the area of First Amendment free-
doms," he said, "government has the duty
to confine itself to the least intrusive
regulations which are adequate for the
purpose."
Perpetual Help in Sacred Heart Church. D'pl G
I omas o
To 922
Seattle Grads
The Most Reverend Thomas A. Connolly,
Archbishop of Seattle,, will present di-
plomas to 922 graduating seniors at the
llth annual Seattle Catholic High School
Combined Commencement at 3 p.m. Sun-
day, May 30, in the Seattle Center Arena.
Seniors will come from nine schools,
including Blanchet, Forest Ridge, Holy
Angels, Holy Names, Holy Rosary, Immac-
ulate, O'Dea, St. Euphrasia's and Seattle
Prep. The graduates' total is a record
high in Seattle.
Commencement speaker is Dr. Dix'y
Lee Ray, director of the Pacific Science
Center. The valedictory will be given by
Robert H. Ingalls of Blancher and the
salutatory by Kathryn Wheaton of Immac-
ulate.
Commencement exercises will also be
held for 702 from Seattle University at
2 pm Saturday, May 29, in the Seattle
Center Opera House.
(See Graduation photos and details
of schools in special graduation tabloid
third section.)
One of the traditional figures of
Brazil's underdeveloped northeast
is the ,mulher rendeira," the lace-
making woman who makes table-
cloths, bedspreads and other hand-
worked items which middlemen
buy for a. fifth of their market
value or less. The Church has
begun producers' cooperatives so
the lace makers and their families
may receive .a fair price for this
painstaking work. (NC Photos)
In Today's Progress
FIRST SECTION -- Twelve pages of the
latest news around the world and the
Archdiocese, plus ordination photos.
SECOND SECTION--Eight tabloid pages
of 1965 Summer Vacation Living in the
Northwest with the comlilete listing of
the Vacation Mass Guide.
THIRD SECTION -- Twenty-four tabloid
pages, highlighting Commencement 1965
of schools in the Archdiocese.
Father Pedro Arrupe, 57, Spanish.
born Jesuit Provincial in Japan,
has been elected Father General
of the 36,000.member Society of
Jesus at its chapter meeting in
Rome. A survivor of the Hiro-
shima atomic bombing in 1945,
Father Arrupe was elected on the
third ballot. See other details on
Page Two.
(Religious News Service Photo)
Archbishop ÷o Break
Ground For John F.
Kennedy Memorial
High
Ground breaking ceremonies for the
proposed John Fitzgerald Kennedy High
School will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday,
May 29, according to an announcement
made today by the Most Reverend
Thomas A. Connolly, Archbishop of Seattle.
By Barbara SticjImayr
SALZBURG, Austria (NC)--The dra-
matic confrontation of Christian and Marx-
ist thinkers in this city concluded with
considerably fewer sparks than had been
predicted. Yet during the four-day meet-
ing, about 250 delegates asked some hard
questions of each other--questions that
might eventually bear fruit if allowed to
mature in an atmosphere of mutual sin-
cerity.
The Salzburg meeting was sponsored by
the Paulus Society, a Catholic group that
had invited participants from both sides
of the Iron Curtain. As it turned out, those
from Eastern Europe declined at the last
minute to attend, perhaps due to the mis-
understanding that the meeting was being
sponsored by the new Vatican Secretariat
for Non-Believers. Only a delegation from
Yugoslavia and one person from Bulgaria
were here to represent Eastern European
Communists.
The first question posed here was wheth-
er Marxism is atheistic by its very nature.
An Austrian Catholic argued that it is not,
for he observed that Marxists refer to
their ideology as an exact science, and
science, he said, is not concerned with
the existence or non-existence of God.
Roger Garaudy, a member of the central
committee of the French Communist par-
ty, disagreed. Marxist atheism, he said,
proceeds not from a denial of God but
from an affirmation of man, The Marxist,
he continued, understands history by an-
alyzing the totality of humanity and sees
human progress as a movement which
formally negates a God-created world.
At the same time, Garaudy, like many
of the Marxists here, argued that religious
feelings are a part of that "totality of
humanity" which Marxism subscribes to.
Thus, he said, Marxist humanism does not
impoverish man by renouncing any human
dimension, such as religion.
One of the most stimulating discussions
was started by Father Karl Rahner S J,
the famed German theologian, in his ex-
position of "a theology of the future."
Since the "future" is the one form of
transcendence accepted by the Marxists,
they listened closely as Father Rahner
defined Christianity as "the religion of
the absolute future," insofar as it can
only be understood from the future. This
future, said Father Rahner, approaches
each man on earth as an absolute, and
thus it is essentially different from any
planned or manipulated future. Because of
this fact, Christianity shuns all future
models of society, and in fact it looks
upon all such human projections as uto-
pian idealism.
All observers at the April 29-May 2
Salzburg meeting eventually became aware
that the Marxists present did not feel
comfortable holding to any hard-line ide-
ology. Led by the French and the Italians,
they often spoke of a "social pluralism"--
society composed of many differing ide-
ologies. Yet it was also evident that athe-
ism continues to be a cornerstone of
Marxism, and that Marxism continues to
be one of the world's most rigid dogmas.
France's Father Jean Calvez S J, ad-
dressed himself to this fact when he said
it is impossible for Christians to engage
themselves in Communist policy, because
Communist policy eventually becomes a
philosophy, an ideology in which there is
no room for real social pluralism.
He appealed to the delegates present--
both the Christians and the Marxists--to
"step down from the heaven of abstract
philosophy and ideology to the earth oI
our daily problems." The immediate ques-
tion, he said, is not whether one should
give up atheism or Christianity, but wheth-
er persons of differing beliefs can learn
to live together and work together for
the common good.
"Are you ready," he asked, turning to
the Marxists, "to give up all philosophical
determinations of policy? Are you ready
to admit that human communication with-
out reserve or condition has to be tried
once more?"
BishopsWarn
Of Red Aims
BOGOTA, Colombia (NC)--For the sec-
ond time in three weeks, the bishops of
Colombia have issued a warning that their
i:ountry is a prime target for Communist
subversion. They called on all citizens to
work urgently to improve the political,
social and economic climate of the nation.
The statement May 17 was signed by
Luis Cardinal Concha of Bogota and seven
other Colombian archbishops. A previous
appeal by the bishops April 29 received
wide publicity in Colombia and sparked
an emergency session of congress to con-
sider new social and economic legislation.
The bishops' new statement said not all
of Colombia's problems are Communistic-
inspired, but they said all the problems
are being exploited by the Communists.
The bishops further detected a general
desire for the Church "to intervene ac-
tively in tracing precise guidelines within
the limits of her mission."
CRS, Others
In Dominican
Relief Effort
SANTO DOMINGO--(NC)--The US Cath-
olic overseas relief agency together with
US government and other private agencies
has been doing yeoman service in distrib-
uting food to the needy daring the fighting
in the Dominican Republic.
Catholic Relief Service-National Catholic
Welfare Conference "is playing an inte-
gral part in the President's emergency
food program," reported Father James
Clark of Washington, D. C.
Father Clark, assistant to the director of
the National Catholic Welfare Conference's
Latin American Bureau, has been assisting
in the relief work at the request of the
papal nuncio to the Dominican Republic,
Archbishop Emmanuelle Clarizio.
In three weeks the Agency for Interna-
tional Development and US voluntary
agencies distributed some five million
pounds of emergency aid in the Dominican
Republic, most of it in this strife-torn cap.
ital, the priest said.
In one operation May 18, Father Clark
reported, Catholic Relief Services in coop-
eration with AID sent 12 trucks loaded with
246,000 pounds of rice, vegetable oil, corn
meal and milk to 19 cities and distribution
points in the interior of the country.
"The civil war persisting in the capital
has aggravated the food situation through-
out the country," he noted.
Father Clark said CRS-NCWC has been
working with AID, CARE, and Church
World Service under Organization of Amer-
ican States coordination.
In Santo Domingo, he added, "food is
also bei n g provided by US soldiers"
throughout the international safety zone
they are maintaining in the city.
"One of the chief problems in food dis-
tribution is transportation of food from
warehouses to distribution centers," Father
thony's Church here.
The Catholic agency has in the immedi-
ate past imalntained the largest relief pro-
gram in the country,
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Newly-ordained Father Richard Kenji Hayatsu (right) imparts his
blessing on the Most Reverend Thomas A Connolly, Archbishop of
Seattle, at the conclusion of the ordination of 11 deacons Saturday in
in St. James Cathedral. Father William Morris SS (center) served as
chaplain to the Archbishop. Father Hayatsu 'is the first priest of Jap-
anese descent to be ordained for the Archdiocese.
(More ordination photos on Page Four)
Justifies Jewish Interference
JERUSALEM, Israel (NC)--Jews have
a right to urge passage of the proposed
ecumenical council declaration on Cath-
olic-Jewish relations because anti-Jewish
and anti-Israeli groups are opposing its
passage.
This was stated here in an editorial in
the Jerusalem Post, which said it hopes
"reason will prevail at the Vatican over
the sectional interests of Catholics in Arab
states."
Earlier, it was stated, "it was held by
some Jewish leaders--and we believe right
ly--that Jews have no business in Rome
while the Church is discussing a purely
internal problem, no place in a discussion
of Catholic dogma." But recently, it went
on, "it has become increasingly clear that
it is the intention of a large body of non-
Catholics--mainly in the Arab world--and
many Catholics--both in the Arab world
and elsewhere--to prevent the Church
from removing the brand of guilt from
the Jews, lest this lead to a acknowl-
edgment of the right of the state of Israel
to live."
"Many Arab Christian and non-Christian
spokesmen." it added, have become "in-
creasingly active in trying to persuade
Vatican leaders that it would be a politi-
cal error for the ecumenical council . . .
to ratify the 'Jewish schema' approved
by an overwhelming majority at the last
session."
JOURNAL OF A SOUL
'It Is Good to be Humiliated'
(Seventh in a series of 18 articles
excerpted trom the torthcoming
book "Journal o/ a Soul," the
diaries of the late Pope John
XXIII. These notes were written
during 1956 and 1957 when the
[uture Pope was Cardinal Patri-
arch o/Venice. The entire 18.part
series is brought to you through
the courtesy o the Ballard Blos-
som Shop, 2001 NW Market St.,
Seattle, SU 2.4213.)
WITH regard to practical proposals for
the year I have confirmed my resolution
to achieve what has been the object of so
many of my efforts, so frequently re-
peeled, to improve my spiritual life: the
perfection of mildness, patience and char-
ity in my prayers as a priest and in my
work for souls and for Holy Church, day
by day. Add this at all costs, at the risk of
seeming to be and being considered a per-
son of little worth, with little to give.
The sense of my own insufficiency,
which is always with me and preserves
me from vanity, is a gift from the Lord: it
keeps me simple and saves me from mak-
ing a fool of myself.
I would not mind being thought a fool if
this could help people to understand what
I firmly believe and shall assert as long
as I live, that the Gospel teachings is
unalterable, and that in the Gospel Jesus
teaches us to be gentle and humble; natu-
rally this is nat the same thing as being
weak and easygoing. Everything that
smacks of pretentiousness and self-asser-
tion is only selfishness and c o m e s to
nought.
"Give me more light: as evening falls."
O Lord, we are now in the evening of our
life. I am in my seventy-sixth year. Life
is a great gift from our Heavenly Father.
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