Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1950 — Page 19

To Greet Four Million

E hy giis x BEES Pilgrims to Rome ta. The ne Dome of St.Peter’s, Mother Church, Rises rvations until Out of Russet Hills to Beckon Visitors I obtained By CHARLES LEECEY: -Seripps-Howard Staff Writer i which ROME, Mar. 4—You see it first after you drop dewn over the § : going . ips -and follow a gently curving Mediterranean past Genoa and En _ Florence to come out in mid- Ttaly—a great, distant are ng out|

tain may have political overtones,

of russet hills. —It is the dome of St. Peter’ 8;

"all the world to.kneel in penitence| —

mother” church and first Shrine PP to 400 million Cathelics, goal in 1950 of Pilgrims who will come from| |

‘beside the Tiber. in historic ob- Years. . and this year's 4 ‘celebration

"servance of Anno, Santo—the {follows next after that of 1925. z & "Holy Year." i

Here on this little piece of has drawn tremendous numbers, ground where the church says to Rome-—an exception was that! martyred St. Peter, humble Gali- of 1500. when plague and flood! “lean fisherma and ‘first bishop sWépt the papal states. __of Rome, lies buried, have heen (1600 of three enacted Christianity's greateest million persons, despite the prim-, spectacles. {itive mode of travel of that day, Expect 4 Million Pilgrims converging on Rome. Here spring faith that ringed; Often they came barefoot, fa--the earth; here popes reigned and tigued, famished and without: holy men were - canonized and. ‘hope of lodging. Yet when the| Charlemagne was crowned em- Pope appeared to give his blessperor; here Michelangelo and Ra- Ing the famed piazza of St. P el ‘phael gave the world art as price !eI'S would be thronged to: over-! less as men’s hands have made. [10Wing; and so, too, on Nero's They say four million Catholics wm) beyond and in the vineyards.| will come to Rome this year, and |Oftefi there were more who did| already the pace quickens in Bot see the Pope at all than those preparation. - All western Europe, ho did. in fact, from Ireland te Switzer-| Ancient hardships of travel are land and to Spain and Portugal, one now and Europe, on the way

Almobt - always the observance

“But in"

to the university.

Times State Service ! BLOOMINGTON, Mar. 4—A 1 {

collection of letters and docu- | ments related to colonial Amer- | ican history from 1732 to 1834 | has been given to Indiana Uni-.«

versity by an anonymous benefactor. The gift includes more than

Historical Documents Given to Ww

* diana University. President Herman B Wells (right) and -Librarian-Robert Miller examine historical documents recently given

A Was Amazed, It’s Sensational, Different’

“THE : INDIANAPOLIS INES. _ hora LC : . = - _PAGE s Growing Population: Norse en Sider = EERE Facing: Saturation Point | ramon v. ve. or. oe pay att | BY REYES BEECH [tone ote! labor force of 3 mi fabricated a Biblical map “which tt tae ots dd aque . toe map

KYO, Foreisn Correspondent ° OR 20, Mur Bor 8 Japanese | This; However, is-due to the pe-|= There's nothing new about the [culiar nature of the Japanese fact that Japan is a country with £CODOMY. : too little land and too many peo-| In Japan, out of the total labor | : ‘ple. Nearly 83 million people are! force of 37 million, only 12.5 mil-} packed into four mountainous is- lion are paid-workers. The re-1 lands with a total area no bigger mainder are employed on farms than California. and in other family enterprises. --But now ominous signs of the The significant. and alarming ‘consequences of overcrowding are fact, as economists see it, is that beginning to appear on the sta-| |Japan’s farms, which account for Jrsisea; horizon. ‘exactly half ‘of Japan's popula-'

AS Gen. MacArthur's OWN finn. are r the saturation. Bs statisticians see it, the time is not. point. ea ng pe Ean ea aR RE

traces the story’ of the Testament than 10 years to Sami

Look Outside! Look lide! “ou Can't Match da

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far off when there will be too! By Auctloan standards, Japa-| 0 Now gold-and-white beauty! 1 'many people and too few jobs. | : ® New aluminum rust-proof shelves L THé consequence, as some 6f De>¢ farms are mere garden plots. [them ‘see it, will be mass unem- { Nintey- “ning per cent of Japanese | ® New full-length door! : oy

ng anand eng 2 2 nk arma TN ty Nee ee Sow interior wim Ty 2 ~ come As Tt may atso farm: tnciudes 77 -acres of ¢rop| x $309.05 "Come In!_Pricés Start ot $18475 "On the. Ewisies “the picture is ir Japan's population in the - COOPER'S AP PLIANCE {deceptively bright. Despite lay- past 20 years has increased by: a FRIGIDAIRE DEALER aE : Tre are at ly ag Industry nearly 20 million. And today] 5625 BrWASH:— OPEN FRI EVE-'TIL 9 "oe uses]

a pa 4 {340,000 u unemployed in Japan out workers are farm workers. !

that’s what one lady who visited. The Shipping Room Saturday Morning said . . . A couple from out in the -

is being buffed and polished in| ito recovery from war, {sable to: readiness for the visiting millions, tare for millions. To tens of! For most pilgrims the advance {thousands of Americans, travel-| on Rome will have deep spiritual/!8 easily either by ship or by| meaning. But the movement of | Trans-World airliner which -carChristian millions in and out of r leg Jou from-New York to Rome countries so close to the Iron Cur-/!? less .than a day, this year

brings the event of a lifetin the event of a lifetime. -gdvocate of peace, and the church

"plainly hopes the example of ; union of millions in religion, with-| out distinction of language, na-| at Day

tion or race, will not be lost on the world. Hardships Endured ‘Pilgrimages are as old as the church itself and in earlier days

Pope .Pius XII has been a reJentless foe of communism and

Ripon College Head To Address Banquet

Active and alumni members of|

800 items to be added to the WB

university’s already - extensive collections on the American | Revolution and the War of | 1812. ) Basis of the collection "recently given was compiled by | Walter Gardner, Jersey City | banker and railroad executive,

from foreign and domestic sources. ; ee ‘Items include documents

signed by Gen. Lafayette; English rulers, signers of ‘the Declaration of Independence, | early American Presidents, and | heads of the French government. Photographs, clippings and engravings are also in the collection:

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+ colntry said, “We drove up in our pickup truck and brought the goods home with us, saved almost $100.00, too.” ... A man from Irvington said, “It’s the darndest thing | ever saw, all brand new mer‘chandise, stacked high to the ceiling. | tried to ¢hisel the price but it didn’t work. | bought a television set, took it home with me in a taxi” . . . Come see for yourself. . . you are in for the surprise of your life ve: B fHoors of fine furniture . es at cut prices! Merchandise uncrated while you wait.

No Salesmen! Reg. Warehouse

. gin to move, Rome deépens the

paid to recall a previous great

though, and on the succeeding

traveled in millions along the old roads leading to Rome. Here today, as new millions be-

Chi president of Ripon College, will be speaker at the annual banquet, starting at 6 p. m. Dr. Kuebler is a graduate of North-. western: University, and received] his Ph.D. degree in classics at! the University of Chicago in 1940. He is a member of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, | ‘president of the Anglican Foundation and a ‘member of the

Why this vast movement of | pilgrims across the earth? How Social . . Reconstruction Commis-!

the tradition of Hol “Year : Bo y _ Dr. Kuebler has addressed)

Nothing Unusual Noted many notable gatherings, includ-| Toward the end of the year Ing the Congress of the United 3900 there -was-talk-in-Rome that! States and the. annual meeting of some greater pardon might bejthe United States Chamber ot] given for men’s sins, and some| Commerce, Washington; D.C. He| of the most elderly people ‘were Was grand orator for the fra-| ternity’s last national sonvantion; in Seattle in 1948. Paul R. Matthews, president of the Indianapolis Alumni chapter of Sigma Chi, will preside at the!

feeling in men’s hearts by a gentle reminder that “you move toward eternity with every step you take.” The hope here is that the Holy, Year will produce an effect _not only on Catholics |

but op-“all: men of good faith.”

pardoning just a century before. On Christmas. day of that year,

days until the new year and the

£ 1200 began; nath

dinner. The speaker will be in-| troduced by Edward P. Fillion, toastmaster. Honor guests will | include John Neal Campbell, | Chicago, national fraternity pres-| ident. : Members of the active chapters at Butler, Hanover, DePauw, Wabash, Purdue and Indiana will. compete in basketball and! +bowling tournaments —in LAC. gym and bowling alleys Saturday afternoon. Awards will {be - presented winners at the| ner. |

HCW century Vi A00V OTIx ing unusual was noted - in the ordinary life of Rome. But late in the first day of the new year people began to gather in St. Peter's basilica, and in succeeding days for two weeks these people—many from foreign lands—became multitudes. -Pope Boniface VIII, a man deeply —troubled—by assaults -on the church from many directions, ordered the records of the Curia] to be searched for documents re-

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Boniface in his remote day, Pope|

_ authority. the church teaches was|

lating to great pardonings at beginning of other centuries, but “in vain. The archives had been moved many times and records must| Lr. have been lost. Yet heeding the pilgrimages to St. Peter's, the Pope and ‘the College of Cardi-| nals issued a papal-bull fulfilling - the plea of pilgrims for pardons. Traced to Early History | In practice, the granting of] special indulgences to wipe out} punishment due to sin goes back} to early church history. Pope

"Plus XII today “and ‘the many} Popes between them drew on an

--Christ—himsei—on-}-St. Peter and the Apostles . . .| “And whatever thou shall bind on| earth shall be bound in heaven, | and whatever thou shalt loose on| earth shall be loosed in Heaven.” “Remission of sin, Catholic] flows from the |

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teaching holds, “so-called spiritual treasury of the |

_prayers And sacrifice and good works filled by the suffer: | ing of Christ himself, ‘by the] Blessed. Virgin Mary ‘and by| countless saint and martyrs down through the ages. | So from Christian lands every-|

“where thousands of mem, wonren |

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and children—people of black, white and yellow skin, people of | strange tongues and far away dialects—are beginning to gather in the magnificent piazza of St. - basilica to fulfill in prayer and devotion the require- |

tne wing ou of pusnment ae] YOUTH BEDS ¢ ws to past sin 33x66” £2.

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The Catholic who goes to confession, does penance in prayers) and goes to Holy Communion is| forgiven as to the fault of his | sin, ‘but is not absolved of some)

temporary expiation of these sins| Other well -in ourgatory. Hence piigrims| HI-CHAIRS Kno Styles come to Rome this year to gain ‘$788 ; $60.95 . the special indulgences the church 7 ini teaches Wipes ut ihe yunishmentyl 1 5 Ow Pric as well as the fau : DI. 4 pave Brus, prescribing the ruies | PLAY PENS ~~ sus0 for observance of Holy Year, has 40"x40” Folding All merchandeclared that the faithful canij _ Off Floor dise: can. be gain the jubilee indulgence notj——— $ 88 purchased in only for themselves, but also fori} 7 matching sets the faithful dead as often as the or separately.

established conditions are met. _. This year the 25th. Holy Year| is being “celebrated. Inthe early days it had been thought to have this world-wide observ hei |

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o ship and sufAT ee De nes in|Si8ma Chi Fraternity. will take| Portions of the Lafayette W ’ v op AT cur P ; tian faith part in the fraternity’s annual] collection will be displayed in | That's Right . . . No Sales- < oN/TYRE ATL " Hours! -Enanifestation of. Christian. d ab.| State day activities next Satur-| the special and rare book di- | eda Ne $7 : : BE ios af thelr Denote. 48Y in- Indianapolis Athletic Club.| Visions —of the university ii- | en. Customers. will be uy A | We vill_have to keep reg- | ts, as apostles o peop Dr. Clark G. Kuebler, Sigma, brary. | sisted by the regular ware- ulor worehouse hours, 3

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that itis Jower and refund the diffrence i in cash .

Warehouse Hours 8 A M-5P. M

or Open Monday

Merchandise. will. be in crates or in - various stages of assembly |

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