Religion: Words & Works

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¶ The Vatican revealed that, in response to requests from all over Italy, Pope Pius has proclaimed St. Cassianus of Imola the patron saint of Italian stenographers. Legendary martyrdom of St. Cassianus (dates uncertain), who taught writing: stabbing by the pens of his students when he refused to worship Roman gods.

¶ In Mitchell, Ind., Harold C. Feightner, executive director of the Indiana Brewers Association, agreed to give "the other side of the case" at a camp meeting of Methodist youth. Feightner traced the course of Biblical wine-bibbing from Noah to the marriage at Cana, summed up: "The builders of the Bible saw virtue in the cultivation of the vine and the moderate use of its product." His audience, totally abstaining from applause, preferred the other invited speakers: a basketball star, a social worker, a judge, and two members of Alcoholics Anonymous.

¶ Though ill with a circulatory ailment, complained the Yugoslav press, Cardinal Stepinac refuses to leave his remote Croatian village and travel abroad for medical treatment—just as he refused to go to Rome last winter to receive his red hat from the Pope, fearing that Tito would never allow him to return.

¶ On a visit to Alaska, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Negro evangelist, chartered a plane, flew out over the Bering Sea, heaved out a watertight canister containing a Russian-language Bible. Elder Michaux's hope: that the Bible would wash up on Russian territory, and that "God would send the proper person to find it and get it to the people of Russia."