Catholic Hierarchy Hurt by Franco Stand
OLIVER, BRYCE
Catholic Hierarchy Hurt by Franco Stand Bryce Oliver Sees Danger of Klan Revival to Combat Church By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at WEVD, Note York IT would seem to be the fate of the...
...HIERARCHY SHOULD THINK TWICE AND the fact that a prominent New York " " City lawyer, a Republican, is rather prominent in the Reverend's entourage should at least make the higher hierarchy stop, look and listen...
...He Is oow oo toor end will write of his experiences every week...
...N the Santa Fe I learned how to eat three meals a day for ninety cents—but that is a later story...
...you can recline...
...Totalitarianism end tbe church ore incompatible...
...Yet, if the loud speakers win, they will assuredly give weight to renewed argument (which already is heard) that the Church has dangerous power...
...And if it is to be a real tour, you won't want to make journeys of terrific length without stopping...
...Severe tests," the Home Office says, "have been carried out ss the sheet steel arches without earth covering and heavy weights and loads up to half a ten have been dropped on them from appreciable heights...
...A friend of mine wrote what was alleged to be an article on his bus trip from Chicago to New York, but he devoted a thousand words to a description of his discomforts...
...you're going to see the Indians...
...UPPER CLERICS PLAY WITH FIRE OUT whatever attitude the Jews may or may *"* not take, the fact remains that powerful forces in interior America see in this Church meddling a golden opportunity to build politically again upon the well-known religious bigotry of -the cross-roads...
...of course, a large section of the Catholic Church which knows Hitler tied fs fighting to lift tbe embargo...
...Have you gone nutty...
...Tbe more Europe adjusts itself to autarchy, the more important becomes South America ss a market for manufactured goods and as a source of supply for raw materials...
...The swing in favor of tbe United States has come about comparatively suddenly, because of the international situation, which is threatening North and South America simultaneouaiy and investing Pan-Americanism with urgent and practical interest...
...Once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker...
...But most of us can't afford first-class travel...
...Oliver, veteran radio commentator and newspaperman, points out tbe danger to tbe church inherent lo tbe anti-Loyalist drives of a section of the clergy...
...This is neither a delusion nor propaganda a la Goebbels, but tangible reality...
...The Francophiles were in the majority, true, but the Church is certainly divided on the question...
...The word Yankee had no pleasant ring for Argentinian ears...
...I had reached Chicago on the first lap of a trip to rediscover America...
...fbe heaviest individual piece - weighs 60 pounds, but the whole erection system has been io simplified 'that- two men, without any technical skill, can bafld the whole shelter—includ-¦C ficging the bote—in four or tnbtara...
...They may not give two hoots for Spain...
...IN addition many other things, * which are on the border between military and economic interests, play a part...
...nr*HE tragedy of it is that the loud speakers of the Church no more represent the entire church than I do...
...Soon all the passengers had found their taximen or had walked off...
...If he is afraid to make such a trip, it looks as though he is not quite sure of himself...
...One of the pleasantest bus drives I ever bad was from Sparta to Paterson in New Jersey—not to be compared with an overnight journey on a really long trip, of course—and I did that against the advice of people who could think only in terms of cars or trains...
...Hero, as fa Germany and Austria, tbe safety of the church lies lo real democracy...
...Then, protected by their economic and political dominance, they deliver bad goods...
...And the hierarchy is just pleading for it when they go to Washington and take a hand in governmental matters...
...In 1936 North America had invested $1,600,000,008 in South America as against *1.200,000.000 in Europe and 62* millions in Central America and Mexico...
...Hiram W. Evans, the Imperial Wizard, in October, 1938 (see the records of W. B. Hibbs Company, investment brokers, of Washington, D. C.) was raised at least in part by Republicans...
...the strongest bank is the "Banco Italiano...
...It's not the streamlining, its' the comfort of those cushioned seats...
...but after that you're ready for anything...
...All of which should indicate just one thing for the exasperated grandees of the Church who are nOw trying to butt their heads into governmental affairs...
...The charges that he was pro-labor didn't have much real effect, but the minute the cross-roads heard he was a Catholic, the whispering campaign was on...
...Catholic Hierarchy Hurt by Franco Stand Bryce Oliver Sees Danger of Klan Revival to Combat Church By BRYCE OLIVER News Commentator at WEVD, Note York IT would seem to be the fate of the preponderantly democratic elements in the Roman Catholic Church to reel their collective fate in die hands of leaders who have an amazing talent for raising up political polecatry against the church...
...Some of these elements stand off and applaud— but they do stand off—the denunciation of the labor movement, the condemnation of the Communists, and the attempt to besmrich the Jews...
...The truth was probably brought out in a recent Gallup poll which showed Catholics divided on Spain four to six...
...At that time the prevailing feeling was: distrust of the northern Colossus, threatening the small republics with financial sad economic bondage...
...I ITTLE boys and little girls in preponderantly Protestant America grow up with it from the cradle...
...Oliver points oaf the forces which might destroy too church mod bring dictatorship...
...DUT fascist policy in the last "few months has succeeded in arousing all the instincts of defense in South America...
...In the morning we passed„_taough Gary, Indiana, and and all that dready blight of willustrial country just outside Chicago...
...be like, which the smaller South American states, with their uncontrolled oligarchy, will get from the totalitarian states...
...The shelter will be six feet Jang and, sunk in the ground, will be partly covered by earth...
...There is plenty of anti-Jewish trouble around the country, but it isn't a marker to the trouble that can be stirred up by a good rabble rouser with his eye on the anti-Catholic vote...
...The advisers expected — and bswWght they were is now being men—toat the job would be too ¦ueh for John's flabby hands, before long, these men are con-Went, the vice-president will be •mnnd complaining of his troubles and asking for advice...
...But if now the embargo should not be lifted, you can bet your, last peseta that the whisper will go around the prairies and the canebrakes that the Church has shown a dangerous power in the government...
...Finally Chicago itself and the busy scene of arrival...
...The preachment began as a warning that Smith was the spearhead of an attempt by the Roman Catholic Church to influence the Federal Government...
...It should be remembered that in the Middle West it was respectable (though perhaps deplorable) to vote for Debs, but never for a Catholic The resurrection of General Nathan Bedford Forrest's "hoods" took place in Indiana, not in the South, and reached' some four million membership in 1924, when Al Smith was fighting William G. McAdoo for the Democratic Presidential nomination...
...it is certain that j**ntr is totally incapable of •"Ting tie role of chief of re-J*»naries that the G.O.P., the a*""* Democratic machine, and Tory press would want him ¦ «s»ft> _ _t_ ,____ Church in Danger •THERE ore fhose Catholics who sin-eere/y , believe that torture and shooting made up the Loyalist program for tbe Catholic Church In Government territory...
...with Belgium 20 and with France 8 millions...
...In this, connection there is in certain-cases well-founded suspicion that Germany buys Argentinian goods, forcing its own products in return, so as then to create ex-chapge values by re-selling Argentinian goods a competitor of the Argentine...
...The shelter will consist of a steel arch, six feet high and four feet six inches at the base...
...To-day alee the appalling economic dominance has not been removed and aeawee-ly lessened...
...He harped on his miseries...
...The former's imperialism—as it is now fashionable to call the appetite to devour everything that can be devoured—was even more disliked than English imperialism, the pressure of their financial power upon the economic life of the La Plata Republic, their efforts to control the oil wells, their influence upon Argentinian politicians, this and other things gave rise to considerable bad feeling...
...I started my trip on the Commodore Vanderbilt—"the train with a million friends"—out of Grand Central Station...
...They may even wish to goodness, here and there, that the upper Churchmen would win out in their fight to prevent the lifting of the embargo...
...he was taking it easy while another man in overalls, wielding a long cane, was oiling the monster...
...Against a credit balance in its foreign trade of 753 million pesos in 1937 there will probably be a debit balance of 60 millions pesos in 1938...
...But—and this is the thing that Catholic dignitaries should remember—there is no fetish in traditional America quite so powerful as the Catholic fetish...
...That there is a colossal complacency about the New Yorker which shuts him out from a realization of his own ignorance...
...Only a little more expensive than first-class travel, we art told...
...ALARMED BY FASCIST ALLIANCE 1*HE United States feels itself * threatened and knows from very recent experience that the totalitarian states are already setting to work very vigorously to establish a foothold in South America...
...That was the one argument that brought the dollars rolling in for the nightshirts...
...This fear has now not only found expression in a stricter inspection of German and Italian schools and associations, as well as of Nazi and fascist espionage, but also in a re-orientation in foreign policy, which will certainly not be welcomed in Germany and Italy, namely, in a rapprochment to North Amenica...
...but since, in Montgomery, Birmingham, Memphis and Fort Wayne (not to mention way station) some of the leading local merchants were at least permitted to contribute, the reader may form his own notions concerning which "anti" was the most emphatic...
...visited Monchukuo, erossed Siberia, toured practically all too coutries of Europe—el ways specialising lo travel aod human interest stories, lo 1935 he vkHed Iceland, tbe smallest country participating lo tbe World's Fair...
...My tour is for the purpose of discovering America for the British and rediscovering America for the Americans...
...The Tide Shifts Nazi, Italian Threat Lowers South America's Fear of U. S Japanese Menace Heightens Argentine Desire for Western Hemisphere Unity By ODA OLBERG gUENOS AIRES—Just after the so-called peace of Munich a widely circulating conservative newspaper of Buenos Aires, "El Mondo," wrote: "Europe has ceased to be our example and teacher...
...fit Japas aod China twice...
...And you can mingle freely with the "natives" in the course of your journey...
...Garner Has His Troubles WHEN John Nance Garner's " name began to break into the newspapers with a frequency that was incongruous with the V. 8. Vice-President's traditional Throttiebottom role, a large section of the American public was bewildered.' But today, no one is more bewildered at the acceleration of events than the Texas terror ^mtilfi " For every correspondent in Washington is wondering just bow mack longer Jobs can keep the rope of his sudden "prestige" hum crawling up until it encircles sad tightens about bis neck...
...What is more logical than for the republics of America to unite against the fascist danger...
...And that goes for seeing America as well as for seeing Europe...
...that if he knew more of the rest of the country he would like New York less...
...In between sleep I looked out on a winter world that night with a thin covering of snow toward morning...
...TTHE United States till recently * has enjoyed no sympathy ia the Argentine...
...The tour had began...
...From there, with the latest bombing planes, German "minorities'* could be delivered...
...If there were any scenery, if there were any historic spots or fellow passengers, you wouldn't know it...
...If memory serves, the Ku Klux Klan of 1928 was "frankly anti-Jew, anti-Negro and anti-Catholic...
...among tbe Sooth American states Brazil comes first with 194 million dollars, tbe Argentine second with 116 million...
...a surplus of expenditure over income resulted with Great Britain, 143 millions...
...Bat at the Lima Congress for the first time the political interest drove purely financial and trade questions into the background...
...While the Republicans are 26 *ats shy of a Senate majority •as" 79 shy of a majority in the Some, they hope to use Garner ¦•tbe figurehead for a united *"* of both parties against the ««w Deal Whether they can do that is «rkly doubtful...
...with Germany and Austria, 23...
...Everybody doesn't own a car, and that means buses, trains or planes for travel...
...To prove to myself—and I hope to others—that there is a tremendously vital, enormously interesting America beyond Broadway...
...What kind of aeroplanes could they have been if Italian technicians had to admit such opinions ! And what may the war material...
...The German firm "Gildemeister" owns in "La Libertad" district a harbor of its own, with flagrantly evades the Peruvian customs regulations...
...You must go to your hotel for bath and brushup...
...We have to go tourist or stay at home...
...The Klan was—and is—frankly "Protestant Christian," but the Imperial Wizards were never able to capitalize to any extent on anti-Semitism, for the simple reason that where the Klan grew and prospered, there were too few Jews to bother with...
...How to travel...
...Therefore at Lima North America sought allies and offered itself as tbe safeguard for South America, because tbe latter, as a source of supply for essential war materials and as a military zone for the movement of troops, has to-day for the United States a significance which could not have been conceived at tbe seventh Pan-American Congress in Montevideo...
...Butcher It vice-president of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents io too United States, editor of "Tbe Foreign Press," U. S. correspondent for a dozen British newspapers including tbe London Dally Herald...
...I f Meanwhile, hundreds of miles •f trenches in Britain, filled with mow and flooded with water, are gradually becoming useless...
...There is no question of trenches being made unnecessary by the new steel shelter plan," a Home Office official said yesterday...
...Press a lever and the seat slips back...
...I was myself particularly struck this week by unquestionable information that came to my cubbyhole in a Forty-second Street office building that the Rev...
...In a private car is best because then you can go wherever you please untied by timetables or station stops...
...Indiana and the Middle West weren't much concerned over Jews, and they still are not...
...there are enough cars and trucks in the country to carry the entire 130,000,000 population on wheels...
...These tests have demonstrated that the shelters are strong enough to resist the fall of debris which, may be expected from small dwelling houses...
...And that every New Yorker should know something about it...
...It is elementary to tell Americans that they ought to go by car...
...I'm not going to kid you into believing the seat is as comfortable as a bed, but it is true that when you reach Chicago next morning, you feel reasonably rested...
...What's to be seen in that vast hinterland beyond the Hudson ? Then they brighten...
...Gerald P. Smith, a worthy successor to Bishop Cannon, has found the opportunity an excellent one to break with Father Coughlin and stir up the embers of religious bigotry again...
...On the other hand, dining with another friend in Chicago, he told me of an English-Canadian who had traveled all the way from Edmonton to Chicago—with one night off for sleeping in a Winnipeg bed—and then continued happily, and hardily, to New York...
...Liverpool Echo, Yorkshire Evening Post...
...It is unfortunate that the loud speakers have seen fit to put the body of the Church on the spot again by fighting a sentiment which is overwhelming through the country...
...and electricity works and transport are controlled by Italian capital...
...I*HE fact remain^, New York isn't America...
...British Retailers Sell Portable Bomb Shelters LONDON.— Neville Chamberlain 3 "Peace for Our Times" Is sot stopping the British home «Ace from moving to protect gjng Gaeage's subjects from anticipated air raid...
...When they awake to the fact that you are actually proposing to leave the city, they look at you more in sorrow than in anger...
...In Peru in whose capital the Conference took place, the whole police force has been organized by officials of the Italian Ovra...
...they function in a capitalist system...
...In addition, in recent years 50,000 Japanese have immigrated into Peru, in itself a valuable immigration (the Japanese are very industrious and have a minimum degree of criminality), but who are feared as the advance troops of a state now in rapid "growth...
...There It...
...we were swallowed up by the big city...
...The Gallup poll showed well over seventy per cent favored the Spanish Government, and this will be likely to increase as the hierarchy continues to argue for Franco...
...In the first ten months trade with the United States showed a debit balance of 230 millions, with Italy 41 millions and with Japan 26 millions...
...The fiery crosses burned brightly enough...
...You don't need a sleeper—if you can't afford it!—in these swell streamlined trains...
...In the accompanying article Mr...
...Distrust of too powerful allies is demanded' by caution...
...It has not disappeared, and was en smsvotf, able brake on an agreement at Lima, for the weaker states cannot forget that for them there is an imperialist menace in then* own continent...
...Garner has been given the job of leading Congress, in a plan «f the President's advisers to let Throttiebottom take the position Tory papers want to give him...
...AH of that seems rather good to some of the boys and girls at the cross-roads...
...You can see it in the eyebrow lifting over the appointment of Frank Murphy...
...Luckily, however, they have made the Plata Republic suspicious...
...If you tell your friends that you propose to shake off the 'dust of New York from your shoes, they will think it's a facetious way of saying that you're going to have a shoeshine...
...a thinly populated country, rich in all raw materials except iron and coal, a country which has literally i more school teachers than sol-" diers, whose oligarchy sympathises to excess with tbe totalitarian states and whose markets are altogether inadequately protected against German, Japanese and Italian dumping, has every ground to fear a "cultural," commercial and even military penetration by the dictatorship states...
...And my friend's wife had also gone by bus from Chicago to New York one time when she wished to make an economical trip...
...And it * won't hurt New Yorkers to read something about the rest of their country...
...Twenty-two dollars and sixty-nine cents for a seat in a coach...
...For weeks, months, perhaps years...
...Personally I'm prepared to take the risk—I took the same risk in 1925 when I made a quick round trip, North, West, South and East—and I am confident that I shall , still thrill when the sun catches the towers and spires of Manhattan, when spring comes to Central Park and Fifth Avenue, when the Great White Way offers the world's best in movies and stage plays...
...It was unfortunate for the Church itself and equally unfortunate for the liberal Americans who are continually being called upon to resent the religious issue in politics...
...It must be the Indians...
...Ho bos been twice around tbe world lo search of feature material—in 1927 aod 1934...
...To be sure, very large trade interests are at stake for tbe United States...
...It seems to me that careful planning—by which I mean occasional nights off—should be able to yield a most attractive tour entirely consisting of buses...
...Northern Dally Telegraph (Blackburn), Wolverhampton Express aod Star, Birmingham Mall...
...The feeling of -intimate solidarity may be weaker titan that of external pressure, but objective expediency actually arises from the threat from without...
...Just for the moment, the hierarchy is fairly popular—in a cool sort of way—with some of the elements that are ordinarily most anti-Catholic...
...Steel firms all over the country are to be brought into the scheme to mass, produce the shelters...
...Into the "Sf/c/cs"CEW 4meneon city dwellers are lucky enough ever to shake tbe dost of the local factories from their shoes, lo the accompanying article, the first of a snort series, Harold Botcher, U. S. correspondent tor a string of British newspapers, begins a de-scriptloo of tbe real American...
...The great hullabaloo raised in Washington by a couple of cardinals and other high ecclesiastics over the pro-Spain diplomatic moves of the Administration had an acute reaction that some of the church's Francophiles may not have expected...
...But suddenly one realizes that New York can be Hicksville on the Hudson...
...Modern Columbus Begins Rediscovering America iy HAROLD BUTCHER INHERE comes a time when one simply has to get out * of New York...
...By automobile, bus, trains or airplane...
...You never meet the "natives" that way...
...It should certainly indicate that while the Jews on the whole might deplore the Klan as much as they ever did, they might not again be so actively allied with the Catholic Church in defense...
...anxiety regarding tbe economic dominance of Mm sli America has been driven into too background by anxiety regarding tbe fascist triple alliance: Germany, Japan and Italy...
...On November 18 of this year it was announced from Santiagc in Chile that the many accidents to the Nardi aeroplanes just purchased from Italy had led to an inquiry by a commission of Chilean and Italian technicians, which was unanimous that the accidents "in many cases were due to the careless workmanship of some parts of the motors, in others to the deficient quality of materials used...
...national committee bought the support of Dr...
...It goes without saying that Roosevelt's energetic stand for democracy has contributed to smoothing the way for an understanding, but above all this way is paved with concrete interests...
...But to-day...
...T is well known that the cur* rent year for the Argentine has been one of the lean kind...
...These facts make the Pan-American Congress of Lima a political event, which was anticipated with greater tension than the seven earlier Congresses, tbe first of which met in 1889 in Washington...
...Germany is asking for the return of its colonies, of which Togo and Kamerun lie nearer to the South American coasts than the United States...
...But long before this view was openly expressed, people in the Argentine had found out that European chaos signified a menace...
...A IRPLANES are still for the Big Boss and movie stars...
...that there is an America that stretches three thousand miles to the Pacific coast.' An America, incidentally, which gets even with New York by refusing to accept Manhattan as an American city...
...The Italian press has even had orders to appeal to the blood relationship and the common religion of Italy and Latin America, miscalculated at a time when Italian soldiers are devastating and plundering their blood-relation Spain, and when common religion has resulted in a particularly intimate alliance with two so thoroughgoing Christian-Catholic states as Japan and Germany...
...But that is not why I have temporarily left New York...
...This thought came to a good many observers this week as the Bishop Cannons, the Colonel Manns, and all the South's "Hoovercrats" of 1928 began to dust off their old religious prejudice and"*— load up the family shotguns for Frank Murphy, newly-appointed Attorney General in the Roosevelt Cabinet...
...I looked up at the driver who had brought his engine quietly to rest in the Megalopolis of the Middle West...
...Let's consider buses...
...And the principal argument against the Democratic Party on the front porches was that most of the Catholics belonged...
...fk parts of the structure can h easily stored, the curved jbsts fitting into one another...
...Bombproof ghelters which can be stored away are being built by the eminent at a cost of $100,-S*M>«0...
...In order to supply the utmost possible, both the states try to create frequent tension mong the small Republics themselves...
...I myself remember two widely separated small towns—West Bend, Wis., and Bo wen, 111.—where children of Sunday School age would rather cross the street than pass close by the small Catholic church...
...Not forever r definitely not forever...
...If they fail to remember the lessons of 1928, it is their own fault...
...As a.matter of fact, I am...
...However, we haven't achieved perfect distribution so far as cars are concerned...
...The dictatorship states would like in particular to loosen the Argentine from the Pan-American embrace and protect it from the imperialism of the United States...
...The concern over Murphy's religious affiliation might never have occurred to the latter day saints of the 1928 Anti-Papist Campaign had not some of the latter brethren of the cloth permitted their high dudgeon over the Spanish war to lead them into an attempt at pressure politics in Washington...
...Variations of the design are being made, so that as many firms as possible can be * employed in piudatiag them...
...And it is now a recorded fact that some of the 130,000, for which the G.O.P...
...There is further the armaments industry of Germany an^ Italy, which today supplies the countries which they would like to conquer tomorrow...
Vol. 22 • January 1939 • No. 2
