Jersey Hiradó, 1964 (45. évfolyam, 3-39. szám)
1964-09-25 / 39. szám
September 25, 1964 3 South American Parties Told To Agree or Face Civil War BOGOTA, Colombia (NC) — Luis Cardinal Concha of Bogota has warned this South American nation’s political parties to reach agreement on its political, social and economic problems or face civil war. The Cardinal said in a radio broadcast that “if complete and absolute agreement is not reached in Colombia between the parties, we are totally lost, because experience has shown that whenever one of the parties seeks a dominant position, there is civil war, declared or not, but in any paee a disaster.” Fighting in recent years between the forces of the Liberal and Conservative Parties led in 1957 to a compromise in which the two parties agreed to alternate in power and share seats in Congress equally. But fighting has continued in the countryside, and more than 20,000 persons have been killed since 1957. Cardinal Concha called for agrarian reform, but said he opposed participation of workers in industrial management. He said of the latter that “applying such a method means failure for industry. ... Not only are the owners ruined, but so are the yvorkers.” Replying to a question about alleged violations of religious liberty in Colombia, Cardinal Concha said: “As to whether we have liberty or not, I believe that there has been a lot of exaggeration, especially by the Protestants themselves, because I have had the opportunity to examine complaints that they have made of alleged persecutions and every time an investigation has been made, it has been proven that their complaint was unfounded.” Speaking about a draft divorce law which is being studied by Congress, he said: “Matrimony is . . . indissoluble, not only by Church law, but by Natural Law.” Nurse Alumnae Set Homecoming Day Homecoming day for all alumnae of the St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, Trenton, will be held October 7 at 5 p.m. The ceremonies will begin with a guided tour of the new addition to the hospital, and a dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. All graduates of the school are invited to participate. Reservations will be accepted until October 1 at the school. Daniel Brenna funcAal (Dihsidtßh 340 Hamilton Ave. THREE SPACIOUS AIRCONDITIONED PARLORS AMPLE PARKING SPACE FREE USE OF PARLORS Tel. EX 3-2857 DENNIS RONDINELLI N. D. Alumni Now Headed ByRondinelli New officers of the Notre Dame High School Alumni Association were elected at a general meeting September 10 at Notre Dame High School, Trenton. Fr. Henry M. Tracy, Ph.D., principal, officiated at the installation ceremony. Members elected Dennis A. Rondinelli as president. Other officers are Patrick McManimon, vice president; Misses Carolyn Abel, Kathy Cooper, secretaries, and Martin Conner, treasurer. Mr. Rondinelli is a senior at Rutgers University, majoring in political science and city and regional planning. He is an officer of the Organization of Rutgers Planners, and a student member of the American Society of Planning Officials as well as of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society. Also appointed to the alumni association’s executive board were the chairmen of the organization’s standing committees: Miss Maribeth McEwan, scholarship; Miss Sandra Persichetti, program; Francis Babuschak, membership; Miss Lois Willis, newspaper, and Miss Joyce Friel, hospitality. It Was the Women of Chile Who Elected Frei President HARRISON INSURANCE AGENCY A Complete Insurance Service for Your Every Need Free Consultation on ALL Insurance Problems 619 Trenton Trust Building, Trenton, N. J. EXport 2-2444 JAMES PERLINGIERO, Representative 457 Whittaker Avenue, Trenton, N. J. — Tel. EX 3-1838 SANTIAGO (NC) — The day before Chile’s presidential elections .22 Chilean seminarians studying in Buenoe Aires boarded a plane and flew home to vote. On the flight, they made no bones about who their candidate was—Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva. On election day (September 4) the seminarians joined more than two-and-a-half-million Chileans in giving Frei a whopping majority over Marxist Salvador Allende in an election that Latin America— and the rest of the world—will be talking about for years. Frei wound up with 56-percent of the total vote, Allende got 39 percent and a minor candidate -the rest. By obtaining an absolute majority Frei, a devout Catholic, becomes Chile’s next president, replacing President Jorge Alessandri next November 4. The Frei victory, achieved in a free and honest election of which the Chileans are justly proud, has dealt a severe blow to communism in the Western Hemisphere. And the victory was made possible by Chilean Catholics, like the seminarians, who roundly rejected Allende and his communist overtones. The situation that led to Frei’s victory and the why behind the victory are complex. Both Frei and Allende are members of the Chilean Senate. Both were coalition candidates who had been campaigning toward the election almost continually for two years—Chile chooses its president every six years and nominates candidates long before the election itself. Allende, intelligent, a medical doctor by profession, was making his third run for the presidency. In 1958 Alessandri beat him by a scant 30,000 votes. One of Allende’s major campaign promises, a point he drove home at rally after rally, was that his first act as president would be to nationalize the United States-run copper mines, Chile’s single most important industry. Allende was also quoted as saying he would pattern Chile after Fidel Castro’s Cuba. An ardent admirer of Castro, he made several trips to Cuba and kept a portrait of the Cuban leader prominently displayed at his downtown headquarters. The reaction to his comment about creating a second Cuba aroused the ire of-the Chileans. Things got so hot Allende denied having said it. He also denied ever having talked to the Italian newspaperman who attributed the quote to him. Santiago newspapers promptly printed pictures of Allende talking to the Italian journalist and Allende lost considerable face. Among his supporters was the Chilean Communist Party, the largest in the Americas outside Cuba. His strength lay outside of sprawling Santiago, among the rural workers, the miners and the lower working class. Frei, a lawyer, ran a lackadaisical race in 1958, finishing behind both Alessandri and Allerde. This year, as a Christian Democrat, drawing support from the entire spectrum of Chile’s jigsawed political parties, Frei represented a liberal, but not extreme, choice. The third choice before the voters was a lawyer, Julio Duran, candidate of the Conservative Party, who had. no chance from the outset. Frei advocated a social revolution during his campaign, and carrying out of the precepts of the Alliance for Progress. He urged peaceful reforms - in agriculture, land, tax, social problems and the like. Until this election Chile had traditionally been run hy the landholding oligarchs-—families whose ancestors had received huge land grants from the Spanish king during colonial days and maintained them over the centuries. Perhaps inevitably, the 20th Century has brought a decline in the power of the. oligarchs, an increased clamor from members of the working class—for centuries subservient—for a.better standard of living, more food, better homes and schools and land to call their own. As the polls opened it was clear to almost everyone that a new day was dawning for this ribbon-t.hin republic in southern South America. Both Allende and Frei promised revolution. Chile was free to decide which kind it preferred. 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The women, to whom Catholicism is part of their, daily lives, rejected Marxism and its atheistic overtones and voted for Frei. Even in the mining areas, where he was thought to have been stronger, Allende could not overcome the Catholic women. He even lost his: hometown of Valparaiso and was dealt a sound almost twoto-one thrashing in Santiago, where almost 50 percent of the voters live. In his campaign, Frei emphasized his Catholicism, his large Catholic family—one daughter is a nun—his Catholic approach to Chile’s problems and the search for their solution. And this is what won him the presidency and gave Chile a reprieve. : Nurses at Institute Told To Avoid Specialization QUINCY, 111. (NC)—Delegates to the Quincy College Medico-Moral Institute August 22-24 were told that hospitals need more nurses who are generalists, rather than specialists. Fr. Pacific Hug, O.F.M., institute chairman, said “there is a danger in our highly technical specialization of welfare services that they tend to become professionalized. In hospital work we need more nurses who are generalists rather than specialists.” Fr. Pacific, chairman of the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology at Quincy College, spoke to 165 delegates from 30 states. He criticized mechanization of nursing. “I know it has long been the fashion to teach nurses and medical personnel that they must not get personally involved in the welfare and concern of the patient,” he said.' “That is, a genuine personal relationship is declared undesirable, painful, and perhaps even dangerous. “Here you have suffering human beings, frightened humans, facing unknown perils, possible death; in any case entangled in a variety of anxious human worries and needing more than 'anything else to realize that somebody cares what patients are feeling and what may happen to them. Caring for these patients are key hospital personnel who have been well trained not to get personally involved in a fellowman’s need. “What are we here trying to do? What have we been duped into doing? Are we trying to abrogate the Commandment to love our neighbor?” FLEEING FROM CASTRO Steele on Dean’s List EMMITSBURG, Md.—Fr. Carl J. Fives, dean of studies at Mount St. Mary’s College, has announced Warren V. Steele of Trenton, N.J., is among the 19 students named for the dean’s list for the second semester of 1964. Mr. Steele is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Steele Sr., 713 Mulberry Street, Trenton, and a sophomore English major. He is a graduate of Notre Dame High School, Trenton. More Than 7,300 Refugees Reach South Florida by Boat MIAMI (NC) — Airline flights from Cuba to Miami no longer exist, but Cuban refugees still reach South Florida — in hundreds of boats, many of them homemade craft. More than 7,300 men, women and children, fleeing communism have risked their lives in 776 boats since June, 1961. In their desperation, many have used inadequate craft which were sunk after arrival because they were useless. In the past three months, 554 new refugees reached South Florida in 66 .boats. In the previous Summer, the same number of boats brought 664 exiles. People have arrived on an automobile trailer’s roof converted to a boat, a raft of bamboo, ropes and innertubes and even a kayak. How many have lost their lives in an attempt to flee ia unknown. But tragedy is not uncommon. One boat, originally filled with 14 children and three adults, was found by the United States Coast Guard with but one survivor. New life has come into the world on these boats. One group of refugees, lost in a small boat for more than seven days, arrived here safely with an infant born during their voyage. The child was named “Miracle.” The Coast Guard said that as soon as a refugee boat is spotted at sea, air patrols drop food and medicine and a ship is dispatched to assist.
