NEWS A VIEWS:
Deedy, John
NEWS & VIEWS
Pressuring Pacifists
The critical moment approaches for Peacemakers, the pacifist community that lives in the Gandhian tradition and proclaims a solidarity with the Catholic Worker...
...Odds and Ends -The Diocese of Memphis' new weekly will debut in September with a name both Bicentennial and contemporary...
...The cash award goes to the student who has written the best paper on a theological subject...
...Emily Bouchard, director of Contemporary Christian Art, demurs...
...They are prepared to do civil disobedience (sitting in) in the IRS federal building on Sept...
...NEWS & VIEWS Pressuring Pacifists The critical moment approaches for Peacemakers, the pacifist community that lives in the Gandhian tradition and proclaims a solidarity with the Catholic Worker movement...
...The title of his winning paper was 'Dance Pardner: The Dance of God and the Cosmic Clodhoppers-A Play Christology.' "A graduate of Burncoat Senior High School in 1972, Smith plans to join a troupe of tap dancers...
...Debuting in Saigon is a new Catholic daily, Catholics and the Nation...
...Peacemakers are now engaged in last-ditch maneuvers...
...Nguyen Huu Tho, president of the National Liberation Front, recently indicated government willingness to allow a private press, provided it had not at any time collaborated with the Thieu regime...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...In 1971, the IRS audited the Peacemaker Movement, declared Peacemakers a business and recipients of the Sharing Fund employees...
...The issue then will be joined...
...But "if it were put up as a museum, enough Christians would take care of it," Ms...
...At the same time, there is the Peacemaker Movement, quite a separate entity, which publishes a tri-weekly newsletter and which during the Vietnam war had a "Sharing Fund" that helped support, for the most part, dependents of draft and war resisters...
...Appeals to the IRS brought a revision in some earlier analysis, but not substantive reassessment in the amount owed...
...Eugene Clark, archdiocesan director of communications, as saying that the archdiocese -sellers of the property to commercial interests-is willing to go to any lengths to preserve Villard Houses and has already gone to substantial trouble to save the buildings...
...The idea seemingly was rejected as economically unfeasible...
...No one's expecting the archdiocese or developers to be persuaded by this logic...
...They're also talking to people on Capitol Hill (on the not impossible notion that the action against them was of Nixonian, and therefore political, inspiration...
...It will be called Common Sense...
...In 1950, a number of Peacemakers, including Ernest and Marion Bromley, formed an international community and bought a small farm in Gano, Ohio, 20 miles north of Cincinnati...
...There will be a Villard shell, overwhelmed by a turgid New York Palace Hotel...
...The group incorporated as Gano Peacemakers, Inc., and has dutifully paid property taxes on the farm...
...Park East quotes Msgr...
...Art Loses Again No publication is wringing its hands harder over the imminent emasculation of Vil-lard Houses-the structure at 451-7 Madison Ave...
...There are more important things in this world than just money...
...Guiding light, presumably, will be less Citizen Paine than Citizen Dozier...
...Ole...
...Heavenly Tap Dance Under the heading "Clear Days on the Theological Front," The New Yorker offers this sampling from the Worcester, Mass., Evening Gazette: "Gary Arthur Smith, son of Arthur and Geraldine Smith of 72 Bull Run Circle, Holden, received the Tully Theology Award at a special ceremony Sunday...
...that until recently housed the New York archdiocesan chancery -than Park East, a neighborhood New York weekly...
...Smith graduated magna cum laude with a bachelors' degree in theology and philosophy in three years...
...The Bromleys were given 120 days to vacate the premises, or until about Sept...
...3. They expect to be joined that day by Dorothy Day, who has indicated that she will bring her chair and sit in with the demonstrators...
...Important interiors, including the famous Gold Room, are to disappear in an architectural scheme that will preserve the facade and wings of the structure, but raise up from its rear a bronze, phallic hotel...
...I could see it beautifully restored and keeping the elegant rooms...
...They are leafietting Cincinnati and Washington, revisiting IRS officials, and attempting to persuade the farm's purchaser that he's involved in a mistake...
...In New York we are destroying everything that's beautiful...
...The IRS slapped a lien on the farm in Gano, contending that Peacemakers and Ernest Bromley owed $25,000 in FICA taxes...
...Bouchard is convinced...
...About $100,000 has gone through the Sharing Fund...
...If all is to no avail, the Bromleys and company will stay on the Gano farm after Sept...
...The Catholic daily was therefore brought back from Paris, where it was being published in Vietnamese...
...The farm was seized and sold at public auction last May 28...
...It's a shotgun wedding of a New York ' landmark and New York schlock...
...After that date, they, their friends and supporters will be legal trespassers on the property...
...She told Park East that her organization, devoted to the creation and display of sacred art, had proposed in 1972 that the archdiocese convert Villard Houses into a museum of Christian art...
Vol. 102 • August 1975 • No. 12
