ito 5 ("MINN, ONINNWPWANINIPININ.W.AINNIN Qui Vive? 110 By rhe Sentry Tomorrow, Saturday, February 7, a one-day regional Sodality Convention will,be held at Mount Jr St. Mary's Academy, Little Rock. st This meeting will be sponsored to by the sodalities of Catholic High fi School and Mt. St. Mary's Aca- seg demy. The program will be in )0 charge of Rev. Daniel A. Lord, rrif S.J., and Rev. Thomas S. Bowd- .0 ern, S.J., of St. Louis, M9. A lid, number of young people are ex- pected to attend, from the central d and southern parts of the state. g Many special sessions for Sodalists St and prefects will be held during r jthe day. A full program has been planned. The work of the So- dality of the B.V.M. is too well known to a 11 Catholics to need any elaboiration here. As an or- ganization, the Sodality h a s been in exist- ence almost four hundred years. Most Catholic boys a n d girls join the Sodality during their school Years and they are quite active and enthusiastic for the time. But, unfortunately, it often happens, that when these young folks leave school, they forget that they do not have to leave the Sodality be- hind. This richly indulgeneed or- ganization can be found working actively in practically every par- ish. In many parishes many dis- tinct groups will be found for girls, boys, adults, married and single, where the work, so well begun in school days, may be continued. At the present time there is plenty of work to be done, especially among the young peo- ple. Dangers threaten from all sides. The enemies of our holy ,faith are enlisting the services of every evil power on earth and it is reasonable to suppose that the devil, is actively engaged in di- recting the attack upon the Church of Christ and her mem- bers. Today the young people seem to be a problem. It is not of their making. They depend for training and direction upon their elders and they have looked in vain. Parente are not devoting themselves to their children as parents used to do. Even babies in the cradle are left in the care of so-called baby sitter, often lit- tle more than a child, herself. It is pitiful to see young boys and g is Lathering in teen-aged cent- ers around so-called snack bars, because they have no home, such as those where young people used to gather. The members of the Sodality can do a great good by Influencing young people to de- pend upon the help of the Bless- ed Mother of God. Let those, who need the advice and influence ' s of a good Mother seek and ask her help. She has never failed 4. those who trust in her. ,ne Sentry 411, Editor • c stand, pri,t, 0 P.20-230 S. ,PiP3t St. utzr.10 THE OFFICIAL CATHOLIC PUBLICATION Of THE DIOCESE OF LITTLE ROCK Volume XXXVII The question of establishing universal military training in this country is one that will bring forth much discussion. The Chairman of the House Armed Services Conunitte has been try- ing hard to get, this bill before the Congress. There is much op- position to universal training, both in the Congress and among the citizens. The supporters of universal military training main- tain that it is our only hope if we, as a nation, wish to preserve our strength and keep the peace. Those, who oppose the measure seem to have history on their side. One need only to take a glance at the various eras in the history of the Roman Empire. Under the reign of the Emperor Caesar Augustus, there was uni- versal peace in the Empire and the power and influence of the Empire was world-wide, still at that time the Empire maintained Only thirteen legions. In the fifth century, when the Empire was tottering to its eventual fall and when even Rome was sacked by the Goths and other tribes,.the Empire had sixty-seven legions under arms. One need only look back to about ten years ago. The military experts in this country were crying about our unprepared condition, while Germany highly trained and armed to the teeth was ready to goose step into Po- land or any other nation for that matter. It needed only a word from the Fuehrer. He gave it eventually and the invincible Ger- man armies started mopping up Europe. The United States was satisfied to stay out of it, but these military nations couldn't resist the opportunity to prod the sleeping giant into action. Then the world began to see something. The result the world knows. Our military advisers say that our un- preparedness leaves us vulnerable and costs us much in lives and equipment before we get into action. There are bound to be losses in any case. It is a very serious responsibility for our law makers to take young boys away from home at a tender age. The National Guard can train men While they live at home and Young men in our schools have the R.O.T.C., units, in which they may receive adequate training along with their school work. The people did not like the manner in which the military leaders fail- ed to protect the morals of our Young men in the late war. They t . eient all their efforts in prevent- ing the spread of venereal dis- ease. No military men, except chaplains, tried to induce the Qee QUI VIVE7 on page 8 LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, FEBRUARY 6, 1948 HOT SPRINGS 9 0101+1111dI 11;4 eampEnt Official Announcement Bishop's Office 305 West Second St. January 21, 1948 My dear Friends of Thc Guardian: Recent world events show that nations are as free as the newspapers they read. A slave-press, controlled by despots for their own selfish purposes, has not served the people. It enslaves the people because it fails to print the truth. Holy Scripture says: "the Truth shall make you free." We must keep our press free in this country by printing the truth. That is the function and responsibility of The Guardian, our Diocesan newspaper. There are many forces today seeking to distort and misrepresent the truth. We need The Guardian, like other Dioceses of the Country need their Catholic news- papers, to tell the truth. It will help us to be an informed people in these days of general confusion and instability. A few days ago, the Freedom Train visited several cities of Arkansas. The historic documents shown on the Freedom Train should remind us of our patriotic obliga- tion to preserve, follow and love the principles of truth and freedom on which our Country was founded and through which, under God, our Church has so gloriously prospered. By keeping informed, in these unsettled days, it will do a lasting service to your Country, your Church and your God. February 22nd is Guardian Sunday. It is a day of reminders: Do you subscribe for The Guardian? If not, there is a special reason for you to do so now. In The Guardian we have a powerful agency for spreading the truth. Do not neglect to use it by reading it regularly. Support it by subscribing for it. i:aithtutly yours in Christ Albert L. Fletcher, Bishop of Little Rock "Be Awake,Alert, Informed" SaysBishopIn Press Message By Bishop Michael J. Ready Episcopal Chairman, N.C.W.C. Press Department "Your hour is come" "To be with Christ or against Christ: that is the whole question." These are the words of Pope Pius XII addressed to the world in his eloquent Christmas message. They are a vigorous challenge to action. They are a solemn and compelling call to duty. How shall we respond to this rallying cry of the Vicar of Christ? With prayer first of all; with fervent, perserving confi- dent prayer. Likewise by taking up "the arms of faith and cour- age" to which our Holy Father urged us in his significant letter. February is Catholic Press St. Mary's Alumna Enters Novitiate Of Srs.of Mercy Little Rock. —.Marilyn Ebbing of Mt. St. Mary's Academy class of '45 entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Mercy, Webster Groves, Missouri, on February 2. During her four years at St. Mary's Marilyn was a campus leader and active in a grreat many Of the school clubs. She was sec- retary of the Sociality of the Blessed Virgin s '45, secretary of the Bio Chem Club '44, president of the Bio Chem '45, member of National Honor Society and of the commercial club. Entering the novitiate on the same day was another Mercy girl, Molly Belle Cook who graduqted from St. Anne's Academy in Port Smith, with the class of '47. NO. 6 "Guardian Sunday"Setfor February 22 Month. If we do no make use of the buckler and lance of the Catholic Press in this crisis, we are stupidly ignoring our great and effective arms. Faith and courage should be interpreted as action to advance the cause of Christ as well as to defend it. The 2"atholic at this historic hour must act with the facts in his mind and inspiration in his soul. He must be awake, alert, informed. And where are those facts and this inspiration to be found, day in and day out, except in our Catholic Press? Worthy sons and daughters of the Church dare not neglect reading the Catholic Press. They dare not be mere subscribers: they must be readers and doers. It is providential that in our day we have excellent Catholic newspapers, teeming with infor- mation, and inspired by the mind of the Church. We have revues with analysis and opinion, and well edited magazines which cov- er the wide and varied field of world interest. There are, in fact, nearly four hundred pub- lications of general importance. Press Month is an occasion for families and individuals to con- sider a more generous budget in suppport of the Catholic Press throughout 1948. The Catholic Press is the eyes and ears of the world telling of victories and de- feats but always of the issues in which the devoted members of Christ's Mystical Body, the Church, must do their part. Our Press chiefly through the efficient NC News Service re- ports the events of the world as they affect the Church and the welfare of all peoples. If we must defend our country and our Church against a recur- ring intolerance which shows it- self in election years and among a certain group of political relig- ionists we shall meet the issue squarely and fairly. In that de- fense we are as confident of the approviitg judgment of our fel- lowmen as we are in the ability of our Catholic Press to conquer error by truth. Moral and social problems af- fecting individuals and families in their homes, in their shops and stores and offices, and in their opportunities to live in See ALERT on page 7 OUR STRONG RIGHT ARM! (Editor's Note).—This striking illustration depicting the strength of the Catholic Press must be a stroke of an ad- vertising man! Like the spirit of a battle song, the Cath- olic Press should have a strong influence in our lives. Bishop Fletcher asks in his letter this week:"Do you sub- scribe for The Guardian?" Bishop Gorman HitsReno's Marriage, Divorce Mills Reno. OD—Bishop Thomas K. Gorman of Reno has commented on his city's and Nevada's "big business," the performing of civil marriages and the granting of divorces, in his column "A Shepherd Tells His Tale," in the Nevada edition of The Register. "In this matter of Nevada mar- riages, the thing that should sad- den us all is not their great num- ber—that is easily explained by circumstances, although our law- makers are doubtless wrong in bidding for such 'business'—but the hasty, slipshod manner in which the sacred institution of marriage is abused, mainly for motives of self," Bishop Gorman wrote. The Bishop told of the custom of the Reno newspapers to run a "box score" each January on who *witnessed the most cere- monies during the past year, "when the information appears that Judge X found time to per- form 6,000 marriages and Judge Y more than 5,000 and the Rev- erend Mrs.Z 3,000." "For generations Nevadans have been treating marriage and the Sacred institution of the fam- ily as though it were some kind of a business racket devised for their own peculiar profit," Bishop Gorman declared. "They even speak unblushingly of the mar- riage and divorce business, as if they were dealing with some mer- chandise rather than a vital hu- man institution." "Puny men, in the persons of Bishop Fletcher Asks FaithfulofDioceseto Support"Guardian" Advance In Subscription Rate From $2.00 to $3.00 Effective May 1,1948 —All May Renew Before That Date Guardian Office.—"Recient world events," writes the Most Reverend Bishop in his official inauguration this week of Catholic Press Month for The Guardian, "show that nations are as free as the newspapers they read." The function and responsibility of The Guardian, he says in effect, is to remain free by printing the truth. In announcing Sunday, February, 22, as "Guardian Sun- day", His Excellency stresses the need of subscribing to our own official newspaper. He asks that it be used by reading legislators, judges, and attorneys- at-law, presume to revise divine, natural and positive law, on the grounds that business is business, subject to no moral restrictions, and that Nevada and they them- selves need the business," he stated. "Then men piously won- der why all respect for law and order and responsibility to soci- ety and its welfare begins to crumble." "Few there are who dare to protest openly, for fear of getting their ears knocked down uncere- moniously by the clique who profit by the unsavory marriage and divorce 'business,' which has made Nevada a word of reproach the world over," the Bishop said. "One such public protest was the selection by the people of the Diocese of Reno of the Holy Fam- ily of Nazareth as their special patron." "From that Family our own people may learn to love the Christian ideal.of family life and resist the disintegrating force of the putrid, degenerate atmosphere in which they are forced to live and save their souls. Is there not a hope, too, that the ideal and patronage of the Holy Family may ittle by little win those Catholics, who thus far have closed their eyes to the evils in which they _ooperate by profiting from the divorce racket, to see that a Christian, who knows that the laws of God are binding, cannot be as the rest of men?" Bishop Kelley Of Oklahoma City Is Dead Oklahoma City. 00 — Bishop Francis C. Kelley, 77, of Okla- homa City and Tulsa, for whom funeral services were held Thurs- day February 5, died after an illness of almost five and one half years, which had slowed the pace of stupendous activity that marked his earlier years. His body lay in state in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Per- petual Help and was viewed by hundreds who revered him. Founder Extension Society The founder of the Catholic Church Extension Society, former member of the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, noted author and speaker died on February 1. He had been in a coma for sev- eral days. Oxygen was admin- istrated until the end. However, he never regained consciousness. Bishop Eugene J. McGuinness, Coadjutor of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and Msgr. James Reardon of Minneapois, a boyhood friend, together with clerical members of See BISHOP KELLEY on page 2 it regularly and supported by subscribing for it. Subscription Campaign ma- terial, envelopes, posters, and a list of accredited subscribers were mailed all pastors this week. Possibly the greatest single help to the pastor in his effort to-place "The Guardian in Every Catholic Home" is the list of subscribers, which he receives from The Guardian office as an exact duplicate of the files at the of- fice of The Guardian and from which he is able to check every active subscriber in his parish. Subscribers Billed Thursday All subscriptions coming due during the month of February, March, April and May were bill- eel * * * * * * * * * * * SUBSCRIPTION PRICE OF THE GUARDIAN Will remain at $2.00 a Year until May 1st, 1948, at which time it will be increased to $3.00 a year. All subscribers may renew their subscription now for one or more years at $2.00 for one year; $4.00 for two years: $6.00 for three years. * * * * * * * * * * * * ed Thursday of this week. The month, day and year, as an ex- piration date, is carried above the name and address on the mailing tab each week. It is announced also at this time, that effective May 1st, 1948, date fo the close of this Subscription Drive that the rate will be in- creased from $2.00 to $3A)0. Protects Loyal Readers Faced with unprecedented in- crease in publishing costs, like all Catholic newspapers from New York to California, The Guardian' is form' to protect its future by raising its subscription price. The delay in waiting until the com- pletion of the present campaign before advancing 4he price is a gesture of fairness to our loyal readers. All subscribers can take advantage of the present rate to renew their subscriptions at the rate of $2.00 for each year in ad- vance. The Board of Directors of The Guardian express themselves as wanting to give loyal readers the chance of paying up their sub- scription in advance before in- creasing the subscription price to $3.00. Only at the conclusion of See GUARDIAN SUN. on page 2 RELIGIOUS FERVOR MARKS POST-WAR CZECHOSLOVAKIA Great public manifestations of re- ligious fervor are characterizing life among the people of Czecho- slovakia, as evidenced by these post-war views witnessed in the Square of St. Wenceslaus, Prague, where evening Mass was cele- nated by Archbishop Joseph,Ber- an. The Papal Nuncio, Msgr.; Raffaele Forni and Msgr. Alois Tylinck assisted. Political prison- ers during the occupation were also present for the services. In these scenes, taken during the public procession of the relics of Adalbert and St. Wenceslaus, the faithful kneel ii the streets and girls in Czech folk costumes • t Holy Mass. , OCR Text: ito 5 ("MINN, ONINNWPWANINIPININ.W.AINNIN Qui Vive? 110 By rhe Sentry Tomorrow, Saturday, February 7, a one-day regional Sodality Convention will,be held at Mount Jr St. Mary's Academy, Little Rock. st This meeting will be sponsored to by the sodalities of Catholic High fi School and Mt. St. Mary's Aca- seg demy. The program will be in )0 charge of Rev. Daniel A. Lord, rrif S.J., and Rev. Thomas S. Bowd- .0 ern, S.J., of St. Louis, M9. A lid, number of young people are ex- pected to attend, from the central d and southern parts of the state. g Many special sessions for Sodalists St and prefects will be held during r jthe day. A full program has been planned. The work of the So- dality of the B.V.M. is too well known to a 11 Catholics to need any elaboiration here. As an or- ganization, the Sodality h a s been in exist- ence almost four hundred years. Most Catholic boys a n d girls join the Sodality during their school Years and they are quite active and enthusiastic for the time. But, unfortunately, it often happens, that when these young folks leave school, they forget that they do not have to leave the Sodality be- hind. This richly indulgeneed or- ganization can be found working actively in practically every par- ish. In many parishes many dis- tinct groups will be found for girls, boys, adults, married and single, where the work, so well begun in school days, may be continued. At the present time there is plenty of work to be done, especially among the young peo- ple. Dangers threaten from all sides. The enemies of our holy ,faith are enlisting the services of every evil power on earth and it is reasonable to suppose that the devil, is actively engaged in di- recting the attack upon the Church of Christ and her mem- bers. Today the young people seem to be a problem. It is not of their making. They depend for training and direction upon their elders and they have looked in vain. Parente are not devoting themselves to their children as parents used to do. Even babies in the cradle are left in the care of so-called baby sitter, often lit- tle more than a child, herself. It is pitiful to see young boys and g is Lathering in teen-aged cent- ers around so-called snack bars, because they have no home, such as those where young people used to gather. The members of the Sodality can do a great good by Influencing young people to de- pend upon the help of the Bless- ed Mother of God. Let those, who need the advice and influence ' s of a good Mother seek and ask her help. She has never failed 4. those who trust in her. ,ne Sentry 411, Editor • c stand, pri,t, 0 P.20-230 S. ,PiP3t St. utzr.10 THE OFFICIAL CATHOLIC PUBLICATION Of THE DIOCESE OF LITTLE ROCK Volume XXXVII The question of establishing universal military training in this country is one that will bring forth much discussion. The Chairman of the House Armed Services Conunitte has been try- ing hard to get, this bill before the Congress. There is much op- position to universal training, both in the Congress and among the citizens. The supporters of universal military training main- tain that it is our only hope if we, as a nation, wish to preserve our strength and keep the peace. Those, who oppose the measure seem to have history on their side. One need only to take a glance at the various eras in the history of the Roman Empire. Under the reign of the Emperor Caesar Augustus, there was uni- versal peace in the Empire and the power and influence of the Empire was world-wide, still at that time the Empire maintained Only thirteen legions. In the fifth century, when the Empire was tottering to its eventual fall and when even Rome was sacked by the Goths and other tribes,.the Empire had sixty-seven legions under arms. One need only look back to about ten years ago. The military experts in this country were crying about our unprepared condition, while Germany highly trained and armed to the teeth was ready to goose step into Po- land or any other nation for that matter. It needed only a word from the Fuehrer. He gave it eventually and the invincible Ger- man armies started mopping up Europe. The United States was satisfied to stay out of it, but these military nations couldn't resist the opportunity to prod the sleeping giant into action. Then the world began to see something. The result the world knows. Our military advisers say that our un- preparedness leaves us vulnerable and costs us much in lives and equipment before we get into action. There are bound to be losses in any case. It is a very serious responsibility for our law makers to take young boys away from home at a tender age. The National Guard can train men While they live at home and Young men in our schools have the R.O.T.C., units, in which they may receive adequate training along with their school work. The people did not like the manner in which the military leaders fail- ed to protect the morals of our Young men in the late war. They t . eient all their efforts in prevent- ing the spread of venereal dis- ease. No military men, except chaplains, tried to induce the Qee QUI VIVE7 on page 8 LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, FEBRUARY 6, 1948 HOT SPRINGS 9 0101 1111dI 11;4 eampEnt Official Announcement Bishop's Office 305 West Second St. January 21, 1948 My dear Friends of Thc Guardian: Recent world events show that nations are as free as the newspapers they read. A slave-press, controlled by despots for their own selfish purposes, has not served the people. It enslaves the people because it fails to print the truth. Holy Scripture says: "the Truth shall make you free." We must keep our press free in this country by printing the truth. That is the function and responsibility of The Guardian, our Diocesan newspaper. There are many forces today seeking to distort and misrepresent the truth. We need The Guardian, like other Dioceses of the Country need their Catholic news- papers, to tell the truth. It will help us to be an informed people in these days of general confusion and instability. A few days ago, the Freedom Train visited several cities of Arkansas. The historic documents shown on the Freedom Train should remind us of our patriotic obliga- tion to preserve, follow and love the principles of truth and freedom on which our Country was founded and through which, under God, our Church has so gloriously prospered. By keeping informed, in these unsettled days, it will do a lasting service to your Country, your Church and your God. February 22nd is Guardian Sunday. It is a day of reminders: Do you subscribe for The Guardian? If not, there is a special reason for you to do so now. In The Guardian we have a powerful agency for spreading the truth. Do not neglect to use it by reading it regularly. Support it by subscribing for it. i:aithtutly yours in Christ Albert L. Fletcher, Bishop of Little Rock "Be Awake,Alert, Informed" SaysBishopIn Press Message By Bishop Michael J. Ready Episcopal Chairman, N.C.W.C. Press Department "Your hour is come" "To be with Christ or against Christ: that is the whole question." These are the words of Pope Pius XII addressed to the world in his eloquent Christmas message. They are a vigorous challenge to action. They are a solemn and compelling call to duty. How shall we respond to this rallying cry of the Vicar of Christ? With prayer first of all; with fervent, perserving confi- dent prayer. Likewise by taking up "the arms of faith and cour- age" to which our Holy Father urged us in his significant letter. February is Catholic Press St. Mary's Alumna Enters Novitiate Of Srs.of Mercy Little Rock. —.Marilyn Ebbing of Mt. St. Mary's Academy class of '45 entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Mercy, Webster Groves, Missouri, on February 2. During her four years at St. Mary's Marilyn was a campus leader and active in a grreat many Of the school clubs. She was sec- retary of the Sociality of the Blessed Virgin s '45, secretary of the Bio Chem Club '44, president of the Bio Chem '45, member of National Honor Society and of the commercial club. Entering the novitiate on the same day was another Mercy girl, Molly Belle Cook who graduqted from St. Anne's Academy in Port Smith, with the class of '47. NO. 6 "Guardian Sunday"Setfor February 22 Month. If we do no make use of the buckler and lance of the Catholic Press in this crisis, we are stupidly ignoring our great and effective arms. Faith and courage should be interpreted as action to advance the cause of Christ as well as to defend it. The 2"atholic at this historic hour must act with the facts in his mind and inspiration in his soul. He must be awake, alert, informed. And where are those facts and this inspiration to be found, day in and day out, except in our Catholic Press? Worthy sons and daughters of the Church dare not neglect reading the Catholic Press. They dare not be mere subscribers: they must be readers and doers. It is providential that in our day we have excellent Catholic newspapers, teeming with infor- mation, and inspired by the mind of the Church. We have revues with analysis and opinion, and well edited magazines which cov- er the wide and varied field of world interest. There are, in fact, nearly four hundred pub- lications of general importance. Press Month is an occasion for families and individuals to con- sider a more generous budget in suppport of the Catholic Press throughout 1948. The Catholic Press is the eyes and ears of the world telling of victories and de- feats but always of the issues in which the devoted members of Christ's Mystical Body, the Church, must do their part. Our Press chiefly through the efficient NC News Service re- ports the events of the world as they affect the Church and the welfare of all peoples. If we must defend our country and our Church against a recur- ring intolerance which shows it- self in election years and among a certain group of political relig- ionists we shall meet the issue squarely and fairly. In that de- fense we are as confident of the approviitg judgment of our fel- lowmen as we are in the ability of our Catholic Press to conquer error by truth. Moral and social problems af- fecting individuals and families in their homes, in their shops and stores and offices, and in their opportunities to live in See ALERT on page 7 OUR STRONG RIGHT ARM! (Editor's Note).—This striking illustration depicting the strength of the Catholic Press must be a stroke of an ad- vertising man! Like the spirit of a battle song, the Cath- olic Press should have a strong influence in our lives. Bishop Fletcher asks in his letter this week:"Do you sub- scribe for The Guardian?" Bishop Gorman HitsReno's Marriage, Divorce Mills Reno. OD—Bishop Thomas K. Gorman of Reno has commented on his city's and Nevada's "big business," the performing of civil marriages and the granting of divorces, in his column "A Shepherd Tells His Tale," in the Nevada edition of The Register. "In this matter of Nevada mar- riages, the thing that should sad- den us all is not their great num- ber—that is easily explained by circumstances, although our law- makers are doubtless wrong in bidding for such 'business'—but the hasty, slipshod manner in which the sacred institution of marriage is abused, mainly for motives of self," Bishop Gorman wrote. The Bishop told of the custom of the Reno newspapers to run a "box score" each January on who *witnessed the most cere- monies during the past year, "when the information appears that Judge X found time to per- form 6,000 marriages and Judge Y more than 5,000 and the Rev- erend Mrs.Z 3,000." "For generations Nevadans have been treating marriage and the Sacred institution of the fam- ily as though it were some kind of a business racket devised for their own peculiar profit," Bishop Gorman declared. "They even speak unblushingly of the mar- riage and divorce business, as if they were dealing with some mer- chandise rather than a vital hu- man institution." "Puny men, in the persons of Bishop Fletcher Asks FaithfulofDioceseto Support"Guardian" Advance In Subscription Rate From $2.00 to $3.00 Effective May 1,1948 —All May Renew Before That Date Guardian Office.—"Recient world events," writes the Most Reverend Bishop in his official inauguration this week of Catholic Press Month for The Guardian, "show that nations are as free as the newspapers they read." The function and responsibility of The Guardian, he says in effect, is to remain free by printing the truth. In announcing Sunday, February, 22, as "Guardian Sun- day", His Excellency stresses the need of subscribing to our own official newspaper. He asks that it be used by reading legislators, judges, and attorneys- at-law, presume to revise divine, natural and positive law, on the grounds that business is business, subject to no moral restrictions, and that Nevada and they them- selves need the business," he stated. "Then men piously won- der why all respect for law and order and responsibility to soci- ety and its welfare begins to crumble." "Few there are who dare to protest openly, for fear of getting their ears knocked down uncere- moniously by the clique who profit by the unsavory marriage and divorce 'business,' which has made Nevada a word of reproach the world over," the Bishop said. "One such public protest was the selection by the people of the Diocese of Reno of the Holy Fam- ily of Nazareth as their special patron." "From that Family our own people may learn to love the Christian ideal.of family life and resist the disintegrating force of the putrid, degenerate atmosphere in which they are forced to live and save their souls. Is there not a hope, too, that the ideal and patronage of the Holy Family may ittle by little win those Catholics, who thus far have closed their eyes to the evils in which they _ooperate by profiting from the divorce racket, to see that a Christian, who knows that the laws of God are binding, cannot be as the rest of men?" Bishop Kelley Of Oklahoma City Is Dead Oklahoma City. 00 — Bishop Francis C. Kelley, 77, of Okla- homa City and Tulsa, for whom funeral services were held Thurs- day February 5, died after an illness of almost five and one half years, which had slowed the pace of stupendous activity that marked his earlier years. His body lay in state in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Per- petual Help and was viewed by hundreds who revered him. Founder Extension Society The founder of the Catholic Church Extension Society, former member of the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, noted author and speaker died on February 1. He had been in a coma for sev- eral days. Oxygen was admin- istrated until the end. However, he never regained consciousness. Bishop Eugene J. McGuinness, Coadjutor of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and Msgr. James Reardon of Minneapois, a boyhood friend, together with clerical members of See BISHOP KELLEY on page 2 it regularly and supported by subscribing for it. Subscription Campaign ma- terial, envelopes, posters, and a list of accredited subscribers were mailed all pastors this week. Possibly the greatest single help to the pastor in his effort to-place "The Guardian in Every Catholic Home" is the list of subscribers, which he receives from The Guardian office as an exact duplicate of the files at the of- fice of The Guardian and from which he is able to check every active subscriber in his parish. Subscribers Billed Thursday All subscriptions coming due during the month of February, March, April and May were bill- eel * * * * * * * * * * * SUBSCRIPTION PRICE OF THE GUARDIAN Will remain at $2.00 a Year until May 1st, 1948, at which time it will be increased to $3.00 a year. All subscribers may renew their subscription now for one or more years at $2.00 for one year; $4.00 for two years: $6.00 for three years. * * * * * * * * * * * * ed Thursday of this week. The month, day and year, as an ex- piration date, is carried above the name and address on the mailing tab each week. It is announced also at this time, that effective May 1st, 1948, date fo the close of this Subscription Drive that the rate will be in- creased from $2.00 to $3A)0. Protects Loyal Readers Faced with unprecedented in- crease in publishing costs, like all Catholic newspapers from New York to California, The Guardian' is form' to protect its future by raising its subscription price. The delay in waiting until the com- pletion of the present campaign before advancing 4he price is a gesture of fairness to our loyal readers. All subscribers can take advantage of the present rate to renew their subscriptions at the rate of $2.00 for each year in ad- vance. The Board of Directors of The Guardian express themselves as wanting to give loyal readers the chance of paying up their sub- scription in advance before in- creasing the subscription price to $3.00. Only at the conclusion of See GUARDIAN SUN. on page 2 RELIGIOUS FERVOR MARKS POST-WAR CZECHOSLOVAKIA Great public manifestations of re- ligious fervor are characterizing life among the people of Czecho- slovakia, as evidenced by these post-war views witnessed in the Square of St. Wenceslaus, Prague, where evening Mass was cele- nated by Archbishop Joseph,Ber- an. The Papal Nuncio, Msgr.; Raffaele Forni and Msgr. Alois Tylinck assisted. Political prison- ers during the occupation were also present for the services. In these scenes, taken during the public procession of the relics of Adalbert and St. Wenceslaus, the faithful kneel ii the streets and girls in Czech folk costumes • t Holy Mass. , Z ArchiveInABox,Car Collections,American Muscle,Chevy,Test 2 3/3/2021,Test 2 3/3/2021 1 Page 1, Test 2 3/3/2021 1 Page 1