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Show men married to Catholics in Bingham, Copperton, Copper-field Copper-field and Highland 'Boy. The Lark men will form their own men's organization in the near future. The following rules and regulations regu-lations for the use of the BCO hall were unanimously adopted by the men represented at the meeting: 1. There will be no public dances (sponsored by the church or other groups) in the ECO hall. Any dances will be for members of the organization which sponsors spon-sors the dance and their guests. Tickets may not be sold nor may the doors be opened to the general gen-eral public. 2. The hall will be used by any parish organization free of charge provided they clean the hall thoroughly within 24 hours after, each use. 3 WAn-irtni'nrViiril rtrcrnni7itirms God's law, then we must use our common sense and stay away not only from sin, but from those persons, places, or things which can easily lead us into sin occasion oc-casion which are made attractive and capitalized on by movie producers pro-ducers whose only god is the almighty al-mighty dollar. In taking this pledge, the Catholic people show their regard for the welfare of this nation. History has shown over and over again that when the morals of a nation fail, that nation becomes soft and corrupt and crumbles from within. The same thing could happen here. Of course, in taking this pledge Catholics are . accused of being subjected to ecclesiastical tyranny tyran-ny and giving up their freedom. Criticizing the Catholic church for censoring movies and literature litera-ture is like criticizing a mother for allowing her children to taste poison just to see what it is like. Freedom does not mean the right to do as we please. It means the right to do what God wants us to do. We never have a right to violate the law of God. The pledge taken reads as follows: In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Ghost Amen. I condemn indecent and immoral motion pictures, and those which glorify crime or criminals. I promise to do all that I can to strengthen public opinion a-gainst a-gainst the production of indecent indec-ent and immoral films, and to unite with all who protest a-gainst a-gainst them. I acknowledge my obligation to form a right conscience about pictures that are dangerous to my moral life. As a member of the Legion of Decency, I pledge myself my-self to remain away from them. I promise, further, to stay away altogether from places of amusement amuse-ment which show them as a matter mat-ter of policy. may use the BCO hall under the following conditions: a. They pay $25.00 for the use of the main hall and $10.00 for the kitchen. b. This will be paid in advance at the time the hall is reserved. c. A deposit of $20.00 must be made at the time of reservation. If the hall is cleaned within 24 hours and left in good condition after its use, the deposit will be refunded to the user. If the hall is not left as it was found, the deposit will be used to make repairs re-pairs and to hire someone to clean the hall. d. The party using the hall will be responsible for any damage dam-age or breakage to the hall or any of its furnishings and will repair the damage and restore the furnishings to the full. 4. These same regulations apply ap-ply to those who want to use the hall for private parties. 5. Any organization which attempts at-tempts to violate any of the regulations re-gulations mentioned above or other regulations mentioned by the pastor at the time of reser- HOLY ROSARY CHURCH by Rev. John J. Sullivan NEW MEN'S CLUB FORMED vation, forfeits the privilege of ever using BCO hall again. These rules were the result of bitter experience in the past. The dance regulation was the result of the dance Monday which attracted at-tracted so many undesirable people who embarassed and humiliated hu-miliated the members of the Guadalupana Society and other decent people present. The Catholic Cath-olic Church certainly does not approve of such a thing and will not even tolerate such conduct in her buildings. Legion of Decency Pledge A large number of Catholic people of this parish took the Legion of Decency pledge at the masses last Sunday. The Legion of Decency is a board set up by the Catholic bishops of the U.S. to censor fnotioii pictures, and from their knowledge of human psychology to determine whether or not a particular picture would be harmful to the normal person. This is done because Catholics do not believe that man is naturally na-turally perfect, but that everyone every-one is influenced more or less by evil. If we are going to keep A group of interested men met at BCO hall last Tuesday evening even-ing to discuss the formation of a parish men's organization. A committee of three, Louis Arritola, Arri-tola, John J. Creedon, and Bill Hennings, was appointed to meet with Father Sullivan in order to draw up a proposed constitution and by-laws for the next meeting, meet-ing, January 5. At this meeting, the constitution constitu-tion and by-laws will be submitted sub-mitted to the assembly for discussion dis-cussion and approval, there will be the election of officers, and the organization will be born. It was tentatively decided at the Tuesday meeting that the Men's Club would meet on the first Thursday of each month, that membership would 'be limited to Catholic men and non-Catholic |