Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1951 — Page 32

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Head Over Heels—

Play Is Partly Responsible For ‘Better Self, Msgr, Sheehy

EDITOR'S FOREWORD: This is the fourth of a series of six articles hy the head of the Religious Education Department of Catholic University of Ameyica, Washington, D. (.,, Mansignor Sheehy. These articles are taken from HEAD OVER HEELS, A GUIDE FOR THE BETTER SELF, copyright 1951, by Maurice S. Sheehy with the permission “of the publisher, Farrar Straus & Young, Inc.

By MONSIGNOR MAURICE SN. SHEEHY

CHAPTER YOUR N MAY 19, 1944, an air group took off from the U.S. S. Saratoga on a perilous mission. After weeks in the Indian Ocean, a fleet in which five

different flags were flving ‘sailed to destroy oil refineries in Java.

To dé this it was necessary to fly over 14 air fields. The mission was one of greatest

daring. Four men did not return from it, -

The red whirie-Were heer rg-the

vellow shirts in’ touchball. Above the ship) -the combat air patrol, as guardian angels, kept its vigil. Pilots who had a few moments before dropped their deadly missiles rushed for the volley -ball courts, The scene might have been familiar on any playground or college campus far from the scene of battle. Enid Dinnis, in Mystics All, makes the comment that God Who made the kitten also taught it to play. The Better Self is partly the result of play energies properly motivated and _ properly moderated. x = = td FOR SEVERAL centuries eertain religious groups frowned upon all forms of play. Henry Ward Beecher wrote: “The

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religion Joined. People going to church in the morning. staved on the parish green to dance, to dramscenes, and to

religious

Recreation means create new, The recreation is self-activated. To do that well through life. the habit must be formed in child-

hood.

again make best

I much admire the custom in

many Jewish families of elders ane children plaving card games dominoes, and

checkers after the evening meal together. It takes love and selfdiscipline for a worried man to settle down to games with children. . Jewish parents encourage their children to make music, to paint, to work In

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play they are seek release in sinful pleasures. This accounts for most of the juvenile delinquency.

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middle perfect

1 ; keep on playing ing was praying.

To him, play -

Once when I was athletic di- ©

rector at Loras College, I saw a

* fobtball coach of a rival team,

Luther College, reverse a decision of the referee which would have given his team an undeserved championship. Neither the college nor the coach suffered from this example of honesty in athletics. - One of the primary functions of play is to cement friendship. One who has sailed the seven

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in the beauties of soul.that a quest for fun because they for- “One hour.” new friendship may reveal, get to pay their taxes for the A smile came. on The happiest disposition J privilege of recreation. No one priest's face. "Then 1 shall have have ever come across was that has a right to play who is time to hear one more chapter of asbung man who was ac- troubled by the thought of un- of Dickens.” he said.

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