NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS Our Nation's Father George Washington, we know thanks to Marvin Kit-man, took very good care of his expense account. We learn from the newly published papers of Louis Philippe, Duke...
...JOHN DEEDV...
...Was she upset at not being able to see her father again...
...PHILOMENA Tombstone, Ariz...
...He was loyal to those he served and to principles of compassion and decency in government...
...I would like to say a few words about why his death is such an enormous loss to Capitol Hill and to the nation...
...Some words of Senator Kennedy merit recording here for the summary they provide to Wes Barthelmes as person and as exemplar...
...These range from sending in the Marines to free American citizens to sailing in warships to influence a Third World crisis...
...Louis Philippe's journals speak of a visit to Mount Vernon in 1797 and dinner with Le General...
...One man broke the chain and got his old priest back...
...Then, bundle up your priest and send him to the parish at the top of the list that follows...
...on its 200th birthday...
...SHRINE CHURCH OF ST...
...Le General lived grandly, of course, but his slaves...
...A new folly of this reasoning is pointed up by Edward Schumacher in a Washington Post piece...
...We learn from the newly published papers of Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans and later King of France (1830-1848), that he took less good care of his 400 slaves...
...It may be reverse logic, but the deadlier the weapons, supposedly the greater the influence...
...AVE MARIA STELLA BASILICA Rome, N.Y...
...Except, in Barthelmes' case, the tributes transcended the perfunctory, ran over parts of four days, and consumed long columns of the Congressional Record for June 24, 25, 28, 29...
...A Louis Philippe descendant allowed publication of the journals as a gesture to the U.S...
...Do not break the chain...
...VATICAN in EXPERIMENTAL COMMUNITY Floating, Mass...
...He was filled with talent and energy Margulies, Rothco and good humor and commitment to the notion that every government action makes a difference in people's lives...
...Gene McCarthy, on the other hand, should be afflicted with such incompetents...
...Odds and Ends Quote of the Week: Eugene McCarthy on Jimmy Carter's top advisers: "Most of them you wouldn't want to put in charge of snake control in Ireland...
...Wes represented to all of us the very best in politics and in government...
...Tributes to Sisyphus To return briefly to Wes Barthelmes, the Sisyphus of Commonweal's Washington Report column, who died a few weeks ago...
...Boomerang Effects One of the philosophical underpinnings of the arms export business is that the weapons-are meant not to be used, but to threaten and deter...
...DYMPNA'S CHAPEL Mattawan, NJ...
...They were quartered, Louis Philippe reveals, in "decrepit wooden shacks teeming with Negro children covered with rags that not even our beggars would wear...
...The exported weapons are raising the threshold at which the United States, and quite likely the Soviets, are willing to risk a military confrontation...
...Problem Solver Making the rounds is the ultimate chain letter: Dear Friend: Now you can have your own kind of priest...
...Oh, sir, I am very glad," she replied, "because he is free now...
...may have bigger and better conventional weapons," Schumacher writes, but the older weapons in the hands of the Third World nations are sufficiently deadly to be effective...
...I am saddened to think that those young people who may have become discouraged with politics as a career as a result of Watergate did not have the opportunity to know Wes...
...Battleships become more sophisticated, but they still sink when hit by a torpedo...
...The arms trade, he notes, has graduated to such sophisticated equipment that the deterrence factor is being wiped out and the U.S...
...Simply send a copy of this letter to six other parishes that are tired of their priest...
...It will be recalled from the obituary notices that Sisyphus worked a number of years on Capitol Hill as an aide to several distinguished legislators, including Senators Church and Biden and Representative Boiling...
...One of the tributes was from Senator Edward Ken-edy, for whose brother, Robert, Barthelmes worked as press secretary before moving on and being succeeded by Frank Mankiewicz...
...The U.S...
...In one week you will receive 16,436 priests and one of them should be a dandy...
...Le General's cook had recently run off to Philadelphia, and Louis Philippe's manservant, Beaudoin, spoke with the 6-year-old daughter left behind...
...Washington's descendants, had he had any, would undoubtedly say, "Thanks for nothing...
...is being hamstrung militarily in the bargain...
...And he gave his total energy to both...
...For him, politics was the finest way to use your own talents to the fullest, to test your own endurance and energy to its limits, and most importantly to use that talent and energy to help the most vulnerable members of our society, those disadvantaged by illness or handicaps, by age or by poverty...
...Others of us are grateful for a healthy Bicentennial whiff of historical reality...
...Now you can know the relief and happiness of having in your parish a priest who thinks about the church just like you...
...The restraint on the United States," he argues, is not felt so much at the level of all-out war, where the full might of the American military would presumably be unleashed, but at lower levels of military action...
...Have faith in this letter...
...In fact, concludes Schumacher, the deterrent value of U.S.-made weapons is shifting to favor Third World purchasers against the U.S...
...Inevitably, therefore, there were the traditional tributes from the floors of the House and Senate to the deceased aide...
Vol. 103 • August 1976 • No. 17
