St Andrews Seminary - Mapav Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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1 9 3 9 as did the tremendous railroad empire of the Van Sweringen brothers, many of the small rich men are usually wiped out, because most of their private property consists of stocks and bonds in such organizations. Since Pope Leo's time there have been two innovations: the international bolshevist and the international banker. The international banker, or the monetary dictator, controls international relations. He constitutes the invisible government since by his power of causing the purchasing power of money to fluctuate he has the other man by the throat. The monetary dictator caused the depression by withdrawing from the country half of its gold reserve. Consequently, there was less to spend, and less gold on which to base credit. As a result of this, prices were depressed and the people had no purchasing power. To combat the monetary dictator, an Ecof nomic Supreme Court should be set up which would keep the country in a state of prosperity by regulating the volume of money so that there would be more money in a time of high cost of living and less in a time of low cost of living. To sum up, therefore, we should save the small banker, save private property, and end the reign of the four dictators. We should bring all nations together in the sacrifice of the Mass, and we should use the Gospels and the Constitution as our weapons, forming discussion clubs to study them. If we do these things and use these means, the victory must be ours. Mother Cabrini The Church, on November 13, 1938, elevated Mother Francesca Lauerio Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, to the lofty title of blessed Her life was duly scrutf inized in the usual exhaustive manner to prove that she practised heroically the virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity. According to requirements, two miracles were proved to have been performed through the intercession of Mother Cabrini bef fore the Church conferred this great dignity upon her. Cn july 15, 1850, Agastino Cabrini, a farmer in the northern Italian town of Sant' Angelo Lodigiono, noticed a flock of white doves in the courtyard. He shooed them away, but one kept fluttering back to land at his feet. Finally he picked it up and carried it into the house. Shortf ly afterward a girl was born into his family. Thus the life of Mary Frances had begun under auspicious circumstances. Mary Frances, who had a delicate constituf tion, was given great care by her mother and her sister, Rosa, who was her teacher in rudiments. Mary was a modest, obdient child and because of her piety was called ula santita, the little saint. Even during her early years her thoughts turned constantly to the missionaries in the Orient. With her small hands she made paper' boats, loaded them with violets, and launched them in the stream, pretending they were mis' sionary sisters leaving for China. At the age of thirteen, she entered the normal school at Arluno. Five years later she received FRANK DINOLFO, '41 her licentiate and began teaching at Vidardo Instead of a few weeks, Mary remained in Vidar' do for three years, and was forced to see her life flitting away without her approaching any nearer her goal of Sisterhood. She had petitioned the Daughters of the Sacred Heart for entrance into their community, but they had to refuse her bef cause of her poor health. At length she became mistress of the Institution of Providence at Ca' clogna. Though this was not the fulfillment of her aspirations, yet she found many kindred spirits among the girls, and with them continued her work among the poor and orphans. At the age of thirty, Mary Frances was Hnalf ly given permission to found an institution of missionary sisters. With great thanksgiving, the young saint undertook her new task. With six girls from Providence, she moved into her new abode in November, 1880. From this humble beginning grew the huge network of Mother Cabrini's foundations. It had always been her fond hope to send missionary sisters to the Orient, but God willed otherwise, Pope Leo XIII advised Mother Cabrini to work among the Italian emigrants to the New' World, so on March 31, 1889 she arrived in New York. Mother Cabrini's work in this country is too well known to need repetition here. To the Ital- ians she will always be the i'Mother of the Emif grants. It would be impossible to assess all the good that she accomplished. Her Sisters were right in instinct, if not in liturgy, when they prepared the altar for a Mass of Thanksgiving at her death. fifty-five

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S A T O R The Red Peril and the Way Out Forty years ago, Pope Leo XIII declared that a plague was eating out the vitals of the world. Recently Pope Pius XI repeated that warning, saying that a titanic scourge is undermining the social structure of the world. Both pontiifs were referring to the doctrine which is now called Communism. According to Earl Browder, Communism is a state of society which has destroyed the exf ploitation of man by man and which has divided society into classes of employers and employees. This means that the worker must work for the State, i. e., the employer, or starve. Communism is guilty of crimes against God and man. In Russia countless thousands of both religious and lay people have been massacred. Religion has been completely torn from the hearts of the Russian people, one eighth of the human population of the world. All regard for morality has been removed from their minds. Two nationally known newspaper men, john Chamberlain and Eugene Lyons, have recently written books on the conditions in Russia in which they say with one accord that the Russian Revolutionary leaders have betrayed the revoluf tion, for, instead of abolishing the exploitation of man by man, i. e., the laborer by the capital- ist, they have only substituted the exploitation of man by the government. The Communists in America are striving fur' iously to substitute the government of Russia for the democracy of the United States. Russia is divided into Soviets or unions which are govf erned by seventeen commissars who are under the heel of Stalin. In Russia there is one big company union controlled by the state, There is no striking, no collective bargaining, no free' dom of speech, press, or religion, and no real elections. In Russia the bosses in the government control the bosses in the plants, the bosses in the plants control the spies or speedfup men in the plants, beneath these rank the one hundred and ten millions of poor Russian laborers, and still farther below these are the forced prison-laborers. In Russia there is the liquidation of objectionable classes, i. e., showing an objectionable class how it sinks and disappears in its own blood. Truly, it is not a government desirable to us in America. In the United States there are only forty' thousand duesfpaying members of the Commun ist Party, but every one of these forty thousand members is a leader. They are fanatics, drunk with an ideag they think that they have a Mes' sianic mission to emancipate their fellow men. Besides, they sincerely believe in themselves and their objectives. jiftyffour FRANCIS DAVIS, '39 The average American, however, ordinarily will have nothing to do with Communism or Communists. He thoroughly hates Communism. He is content with his home and his family, but then the depression comes, he is Hred, and all his hopes are destroyed. He looks around for aid, the Communists, ever on the alert for new con' verts, give him this aid and convince him of their good intentions. Then he enrolls as a member of the Communist party, and consequently must, according to his membership book, accept orders from Moscow. The future of the Communist Party in America is well planned. In 19404944 when, as they predict, the next depression occurs and when men are walking the streets, the forty thousand ,leaders will gather the people under the red flag. How can we, therefore, stem this tide of Communism? The Popes have offered us a conf structive program which has shocked many Cath olics because of its seeming redicalismg but the truth is that many of the Catholic doctrines which the Popes have emphasized have been stolen by Communism and have become, to a certain extent, tainted by their relation with it We should strive to follow out this program, and devote ourselves to saving the small banker from the unscrupulous money men, we should also try to secure a more equitable distribution of private property, lest it bring about its own destruction. In addition, the Pope declared that we must rid ourselves of the four dictators: the wage dictator, the price dictator, the saving dicf tator, and the monetary dictator. Briefly considered, the wage dictator controls the wages of the country. He is responsible for only onefhalf of the workingmen in a country having a living wage. Fortunately, the wage dic- tator is beginning to lose his economic and des' potic control. The price dictator controls the trade and commerce of the country. J. Pierpont Morgaii, for instance, paid Andrew Carnegie fifteen hunf dred million dollars of the Carnegie steel plant, ive times as much as he would have had to pay the previous year, only because he realized the immense power which the control of the steel plant would give him, and further, because he knew that the investment would yield him six per cent. Thanks to antiftrust legislation, the reign of this economic despot, the price dictator, is also being brought to an end. The saving dictator uses other people's money to aid his own plans and to pile up wealth which is the power of mankind. If such a bubble bursts,

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