EXTRA   MATERIAL

Chapter Twenty-one - 1938-39
The Church is a Failure?

Pamphlets of 1938

I Saw the Soviet

The Invincible Standard (a reflection on the cross)

Let’s See the Other Side

The Pope in the World Today

Well, What is the Mass?

Why Be Decent?

No Door Between

Lord wrote I saw the Soviet: An Interview with Frederic Siedenburg, S.J., after Siedenburg’s visit to Russia in 1937.  Siedenburg was invited in as a sociologist.  He wore a suit and told no one he was priest.  Before the trip he got special permission to say mass without vestments.  He smuggled in hosts and wine so he could say mass by himself in his locked hotel room.

Siedenburg was on an official and completely supervised tour.  His account provides a window into the conditions of the Soviet Union at time.  He describes a dull and dismal place with low wages and closed churches.  He summarized what he saw:

I found that religion was systematically extinguished.

I found low standards of living.

I found almost no refinements of life, particularly none for the multitudes.

I found propaganda substituting for culture and fullness substituting for joy.¹

Lord wrote The Pope in the World Today in early 1938 about Pope Pius XI, who was born Achille Ratti.  Lord tells Ratti’s story and how he went to a Seminary in Rome in the 1870s during the tumultuous days after the Vatican lost Rome.  After ordination Ratti, became a librarian although his hobby was mountain climbing.  Ratti was next sent to Poland as papal delegate.  When the Russians threatened Poland he led a religious procession in Warsaw and the Russians withdrew.  In 1921 Ratti became archbishop of Milan and a Cardinal.  He became Pope Pius XI in 1922.

Lord describes in detail the Pope’s daily schedule and explains the various offices of the Vatican administration down to the Papal guards.  Lord describes the pope as the most accessible ruler in the world. ²  During one year his ring was kissed by one million two hundred thousand people in audience.³  Lord gives a summary of the Pope’s accomplishments in his first years.  Lord then defends the existence of the Pope and the Vatican offices.

Lord notes that the Pope has a world-wide view because he is head of a world-wide Church.  Lord notes that the Pope was not invited to join the League of Nations: Interestingly enough the league had pointedly not invited the Pope, the head of Vatican City to become a member of the league.  In fact the Pope’s exclusion was notably and deliberately intended.⁴

Lord follows up on the arguments he made in his 1935 pamphlet What’s The Matter With Europe? justifying the Pope’s tolerance of Mussolini because Mussolini opposes communism.  Also Lord answers the question, Isn’t Mussolini subject to the Pope because he is a Catholic?

I have never been able to find the slightest evidence of Mussolini’s being a practicing Catholic.  While I was in Rome, I made effort every effort to learn whether or not Mussolini had made his Easter duty; no evidence was forthcoming.  I was told in guarded fashion that he attended church on state occasions.⁵

Lord again defends the Pope for not speaking out against the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 by noting that in its long history the Popes typically did not speak out against such actions.  Lord notes for example that Pope Leo XIII did not speak out against the unjust 1898 Spanish-American War.  Lord also notes the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury does not criticize Britain on its political actions.

Lord concludes:

But it is a consoling thought that in Rome during these past few years there has dwelled a pope that is simple, hard-working, gentle, learned, saintly, broad of vision, energetic of achievement, with an eye for all the world and a heart for all mankind, a leader of whom this generation can be justly proud and for whom Catholics can feel only the deepest reverence and love.⁶

The question remains whether such reverence and devotion for the Pope prevented the asking of the tough questions while he lived and today prevents an honest look at the failure of Pius IX to adequately assess the dangers of Mussolini and Hitler.

Well, What is Mass? is set in the winter at Lakeside which has become a ski resort.  Fr. Hall had invited Ford Osborne and Helen Webb for breakfast after mass.  (Ford sprained his ankle on the slopes.)  But Fr. Hall had an unexpected sick call so mass got postponed and Ford and Helen had to sit through mass.

At breakfast it comes up that Ford has written a play that the famous Broadway writer George Kaufman had looked at.  Helen points out the Kaufman liked the play’s title.  Fr. Hall, with his ever-present pipe, then shifts the conversation to start explaining the meaning of mass to the two skeptics.  He traces the roots of the mass from the Passover to the Last Supper.  Then Hall goes into the concept of the sacrifice of the mass.

This pamphlet is a straightforward explanation of the mass to non-Catholics.  By 1963 Well, What is Mass? would sell over 195,000 copies and go through 28 printings.

In Why Be Decent? Lord argues for sexual purity on the basis of the dignity of being human.  However, it has a strange cover graphic.  Lord based this pamphlet on talks he had given at Sodality conferences.  Lord compares the Catholic view of human existence to a pagan or materialistic view of human existence without a soul, an afterlife, or dignity in the eyes of God.

The whole of the Catholic stand for purity is a splendid one, a stand for the defense of human life.  When we have declared that purity is the means of defending human life, we have said perhaps all that can be said in praise of purity; it is all that need be said.⁷

Undoubtedly impurity is a form of theft.  To be impure is to steal from God these pleasures that He has attached to the act by which children are conceived.  To be impure is to take the love and the passion and refuse the pain and responsibility.  To be impure is to accept the joy that is attached to the propagation of life and refuse to give God human life.⁸

But if man is the son of God, then the way in which he enters the world becomes a matter of tremendous importance.

If the purpose and end of man’s life is beautiful and dignified, than the beginning of that life must be beautiful and dignified.

If God has placed heaven within the reach of man, then every element in man’s life is richly important.

And sex becomes a mystic and a beautiful and a sacred thing.⁹

A Story Told by Daniel Lord

Sad Context

It was Father Keefer of Pittsburgh who pointed out to me the sad little joke that we played on ourselves by a printing arrangement.  Two of the pamphlets from our office are Why Be Decent ? and Let’s See the Other Side.

In this particular advertisement the two of them had been slapped together in this very un-Catholic and very disconcerting fashion:

Why Be Decent?  Let’s See the Other Side.

Ouch!¹⁰

Bishop Kelley

Lord kept up his friendship with Francis Kelley:

One evening I sat with Bishop Francis Clement Kelley, a close friend, an inspiring associate, and then bishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa.  He was lonely after his intense years on Extension, and he missed the priest friends who had flocked about him in Chicago.  In a sudden misguided burst of friendship he said, How would you like to be my auxiliary bishop?

I laughed.  You know that Jesuits are never bishops except of missionary spots or places that nobody else wants.

He persisted: I’d go to the father general, a very good friend of mine, and I’d ask for you.  Let’s pretend that the Southwest is a missionary country.

I shook my head with emphasis.  One of the reasons I like being a Jesuit, I said, is that I have vowed not to become a bishop unless ordered by the pope.  You’re kind, but I have no such ambitions.

He grinned at me, as if the whole thing was a game, which possibly it was; he loved his verbal games.  That’s where you are fortunate, he said.  And after that we talked of his forthcoming autobiography.¹¹

Kelley would write The Bishop Jots it Down: An Autobiographical Strain on Memories (1939).  Kelley also wrote three books that were published in Joseph Husslein’s A University in Print series: The Forgotten God (1932), Pack Rat: A Metaphoric Phantasy (1942), and Tales From The Rectory (1943).

Uncle Tom’s Trailer

Lord wrote and produced his only play for 1938:Uncle Tom’s Trailer.  It was performed at the Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis for the League of Women Voters.  Although the title is a play on the title Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the similarity ends there.  The show is about political corruption without the League of Women Voters.  ‘Uncle Tom’ is Tom Pendergast (1873-1945) the corrupt political boss in Kansas City who would eventually spend 15 months in Federal Prison for Tax Evasion.  As the STAGE MANAGER tell the audience To tell the truth, we have no Trailer, but oh, boy, has Missouri an Uncle Tom!¹²

Synopsis

Lord wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin as part of a larger Parade of Patronage Melodrama that included parts on Boss Frank Hague in New York, California’s Diamond Lil, and political corruption in Indiana, Ohio, and Oklahoma.  Lord played the piano for this show and led the hisses and cheers.  He wrote fourteen songs including two parodies.

To the tune of Oh Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam, Lord wrote a parody on patronage jobs:

Oh give me a job where there’s plenty of pay.
Where there’s loafing for party men true;
Were positions of note
Are exchanged for a vote
And the boss all the thinking will do.
Loaf, loaf on the job.
Just as soon as the elections are through,
Just gather the clan
To elect the right man,
And a job will be waiting for you.¹³

To the tune of Anchors Aweigh Lord wrote the message of the League of Women Votes:

Stand voters, unafraid,
Ballots in hand!
Stand, strong invincible,
For votes shall take the land,
And swiftly!
What though the grafters bold
Honesty flout?
We’ll crush this patronage,
We’ll whip the rascals,
Ship the rascals out.¹⁴

In Uncle Tom’s Trailer a noble CANDIDATE runs in an election rigged against him.  When the CANDIDATE starts to make his speech Uncle Tom’s men rush into the audience yelling: Vote for Uncle Tom and tossing out candy.  VIOLET VOTER is pushed into the arms of UNCLE TOM by her Pappy and brothers who were promised jobs as night watchmen in a mattress factory.

When pressed by the LEAGUE, UNCLE TOM brings out his own candidate: a Dopey Doll (Dopey of the Seven Dwarves).

VIOLET.  Oh, Uncle Tom, I’m so happy.  He’s just like all your candidates.¹⁵

In the end the noble CANDIDATE loses.

STAGE MANAGER: I forgot to tell you before we started that it didn’t have a happy ending.  But elections in this here state of ours seem to turn out pretty much that way.  Maybe we don’t understand Uncle Tom.  But maybe he understands us too well.  Anyway, you took candy from him, didn’t you?¹⁶

A Story Told by Daniel Lord

A Chaw

My friend at the wheel, faithful watchman and chauffeur for a group of sisters, bit off a large chew of tobacco and put his foot on the clutch.

Chewing’s good for the teeth, he said.

Yes?  I asked, interested, thinking of my hours with the dentist.

Yep.  Never have no toothaches if you chew tobacco.  Then I was interested.

Is that a fact?  I asked, with real desire for knowledge.

Sure.  ‘Pears like it kills the nerves.  So we talked about something else.¹⁷

Miscellaneous of 1939

In 1939, the Queen’s Work published The Sodality Movement in the United States: 1926-1936 by Sister Mary Florence, S.L. (Bernice Louise Wolff).  This book provides an essential study for understanding the scope and growth of the Sodality movement because the surviving archival material is incomplete.  The Central Office led by Daniel Lord did so many things that without this book it would be hard to get a handle on all the pieces and how the pieces fit together.  It is regretful that no one did a similar study for later years.

In the summer of 1939 Summer Schools of Catholic Action were held in Chicago, Denver, New York, San Antonio, and Washington DC, with the theme, Six Days of Dynamic Catholicity.

In November Lord came to Boston College for a regional Sodality Convention for eight colleges.

With his Boston College group he sat down at the keyboard and played popular songs they could all sing.  Then, as the crowd relaxed, they opened up to talk.  A lot of his routine was simple catechism and his brand of common sense.  So as students stood up and revealed that for some time they had been harboring: false opinions, he corrected them kindly.¹⁸

In the group was a sophomore in college, Robert Drinan.  In 1942 he would become a Jesuit.  He would serve as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts starting in 1973.  He was the first member of congress to introduce a resolution calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon, believing that the secret bombing of Cambodia was illegal.  In 1981 he left congress after John Paul II prohibited priests from holding elected offices.

In 1939 John A. O’Brien published Catholics and Scholarship; a Symposium on the Development of Scholars: twenty essays promoting Catholic scholarship in all fields, including science.¹⁹  Daniel Lord contributed the essay Training Youth for Authorship.  Lord makes the points that writing is a habit and that writers are also readers.  However, Lord admits the big problem is the lack of a Catholic reading audience.

Have You a Soul?

Lord published the booklet Have You a Soul? in which Father Hall comes to New York for a week’s negotiations with his publisher.  He has dinner with the Bradley’s, the twins, and their friends the Fosters and the McDermotts.  As always, the discussion turns to religion and Father Hall attempts to explain what a soul is.

Hall’s basic idea is that the soul encompasses all those qualities that humans have and that animals and non-sentient things do not have: abstract thought, self-awareness, consciousness, intelligence, and free will.  He states, I think; my thoughts touch themselves thinking; I am conscious that I think.  I have a double action as I think; I know my thoughts, and with those same thoughts I know myself thinking.²⁰  So our soul is the thinking principle.²¹

Hall notes that most cultures have a belief in the afterlife that something other than the body lives on after death.  He also describes the soul as the awareness of one’s own self that passes through the years though the body is constantly changing: And the unchanging soul in the center of our constantly changing body keeps us the same person and gives us the assurance that we are the same person.²²

Hall makes the point that although animals are happy and content humans are often not.  Humans often have a divine discontent, always wanting something more.  Bodies are satisfied: but not souls.²³  (Of course today many people wonder whether animals might actually have complex emotions and thought processes.)

Hall also he seems to argue that having an awareness of spiritual realities such as God means there must be something spiritual within us.  Father Hall says We could not think of the spirit God unless we had a spirit within us to do the thinking.  Matter works on matter.  Force works on force.  And only spirit can work on (in the sense of thinking of) spirit.²⁴

When Mr. Bradley then asks How do you prove that our souls are immortal? they all agree that it is late and that the discussion will have to wait for another time.

In Have You a Soul? Lord wanted to show that the existence of souls could be proved based on reason, common sense, experience, and the teachings of the church.  How would Lord’s understanding of the soul compare to what a typical Catholic, priest, or religious of the time thought?  This pamphlet is worth reading today.  Most importantly, it is an interesting discussion of what it means to be human.

Pamphlets of 1939

The Church is a Failure?

Dare We Hate Jews?

Faith Is a Chain

A Guide to Fortune Telling

How To Stay Young

I Can Take It or Leave It Alone: Drink and Young People

Last Supper, Calvary and the Mass

The Priest Talked Money

What Is This Mystical Body?

What To Do on a Date

Youth Says: These Are Good Manners

The Glorious Notes of Christmas

Lord summarizes his 15 page pamphlet Faith Is a Chain with a graphic:

In A Guide to Fortune Telling, predictably, Lord is against fortune telling as he describes a stereotypical Gypsy fortune teller.  He brings up the standard criticism: the vagueness of predictions, the failure to predict significant historical events, and the lack of wealth of fortune tellers.  If they could really tell the future they would be rich.  Lord surveys ancient practices such as bird augury and examining animals entrails and discusses the popularity of astrology.

How to Stay Young is another practical Lord pamphlet.

It’s chiefly a matter of wanting to be young.  It’s a matter of starting early enough and sticking at the job throughout the years.

In 1938 Lord is giving straightforward practical advice such as to go talk to one’s doctor about exercise and diet and staying healthy.

So I think the whole fundamental measure of youth comes down to this: how alert is your mind?  How responsive is your soul?  How quick are your reactions?  How many interests have you?  Is the world wonderful to you, or is it a bore?  Do you find most things delightful or annoying?  Are you fond of new acquaintances and devoted to old friends?²⁵

Lord laments the problem of modern industrialism where people have mindless repetitive jobs.

Man is essentially a creator.  He must be doing things, making things.  Modern industry has largely deprived him of this opportunity to create.  He no longer makes a carriage; he simply stamps the trademark on the hub of the wheels.  He no longer carves a statue; he handles the lever of a machine that presses out on tin ashtrays profiles of Krazy Kat.²⁶

Then Lord turns the discussion to theology

No wonder that our world is an old, tired world waiting hopelessly for the war that will destroy the present civilization and crush the future.  Sin has been given a free hand, and it has etched deep wrinkles in the face of humanity.²⁷

Lord wrote The Priest Talked Money in response to a letter from a man complaining that his parish priest always talked about money.²⁸  The man was so disgusted he was walking out.  Lord makes a strong and convincing defense of the need of churches for money because of the expense of building, maintaining, and running churches, school, and hospitals.  Lord also points out that churches belong to the people and not the priests.  Lord mentions that Catholic colleges were built on the endowment of the labor of religious and priests who worked for very little.  Lord notes that in some cases these endowments better survived the Depression than the financial endowments of private universities.

However, Lord does not tackle the tough issues such as priests who do not spend money responsibly.  Keep in mind that Lord wrote at a time long before parish finance committees and standard accounting practices in dioceses.  Many priests were accountable to no one in spending money.  Lord does not raise the question of whether large, beautiful, and ornate churches are worth the cost.  Also he does not talk about those priests who do talk too much about money.  Finally Lord mentions, but does not develop, the idea that if parishioners felt they were getting something in terms of faith experience and involvement in the parish the money would take care of itself.  The Priest Talked Money would sell over 220,000 copies by 1963 and go through over 24 printings.

What is this Mystical Body? is a short 16 page pamphlet with Father Hall and the Bradley Twins.  They are discussing Father Lord’s book Our Part in the Mystical Body.  Father Hall makes a number of sketches to illustrate.

Sue talks about people who are not united with Christ yet seem pretty alive.  Dick answers, They may be able to do a wicked tap dance or sing a mean croon, but as far as doing any of the divine things that matter for heaven, as far as seeing, knowing, loving, and possessing God, they’re, dead, dead.²⁹

Dick and Sue Bradley are visiting Father Hall in What to Do on a Date?.  Hall notes that the current use of the word ‘date’ is new.  Hall recommends planning: Well, young couples have to plan for the prolonged date that is marriage, they are smart if they plan for even the brief date that is it day or an evening together.  A marriage without interest or things to do is dull and dangerous.  A date without interests or things to do is bad—and often very dangerous.³⁰

Hall suggests inexpensive and interesting things to explore: art museums, science exhibits, ethnic neighborhoods, free art and music events, interesting churches, and even interesting industrial centers:

What do you know about your city’s interesting industries?  Visitors are taken through the industrial centers.  Did you ever take a date there?  Yet they are often the things that make your city important.  Out-of-towners think them the things that make your city absorbingly interesting.  And really a young man and a young woman ought to know a little about the industries that have created our modern world and the luxuries and conveniences that we use so easily.³¹

Father Hall talks about going in groups in the section Fours Are Better Than Two.  He recommends going to shows and sitting in the cheap balcony seats as well as sharing hobbies and listening to records.  He suggests games such as bridge, Chinese-checkers, and table tennis.  In the section Real Fun is Doing Things Hall recommends people making their own music.  He also suggests planned conversations on specific topics and just talking.

In the section In the Groove Hall regrets that young people have slipped into a groove about what to do on a date.  Perhaps his image is a stuck record or maybe a rut.  Some twenty-five years later being In the groove would be a good thing and hence would be Groovy!

This pamphlet would sell over 294,000 copies by 1963 and be Lord’s fourth largest selling pamphlet.  Although some of the points and examples of this pamphlet are dated, the general discussion is just as relevant today.  However today an intelligent discussion of the issue would include a section on Turning Off the Electronics.

In the winter of 1938 Lord held a Student Spiritual Leadership Conference where the students talked about good and bad manners.  After the conference the Queen’s Work office mailed a questionnaire about manners.  The results were compiled in this pamphlet.  Youth Says: These are Good Manners is not what Lord wrote, but what the students wrote.

This pamphlet would be valuable for young people to read and discuss today to get them to think about what are good manners.  Most of the good manners in 1939 seem to be good manners today.  A few are dated, such as whether it is acceptable to take a girl on a date on the bus, but most are still relevant such as good manners around the home and good manners toward brothers and sisters.  Perhaps the most dated part of this pamphlet is that the discussion actually took place among high school and college students.

Many young people today would benefit from a similar discussion.  (Of course lots of adults also desperately need to think about their manners.)  Students today could create an updated version of this pamphlet including a discussion about good manners regarding texting, posting online, cell phone use, tweeting, using electronic devices at family dinners and in restaurants.³²

The Matrimonial Follies of 1939

Lord next wrote and produced The Matrimonial Follies of 1939 in February at the university auditorium in St. Louis with a cast of 200.  The program cordially invites the audience to attend the events surrounding the Jones-Kelly wedding.

Songs and Skits in The Matrimonial Follies

1. Don’t Rush ‘Here Comes the Bride’

Hesitate . . . .

     You’re sure you’ve thought this thing out?

     Marriage isn’t for a day.

So hesitate . . . .

     Don’t be so quick to spring out,

     Like a skittish runaway.

Here comes the Bride . . . .

     I hope she knows his full worth.

     He bought the ring at Woolworth.

Groom at her side . . .

     The bride is shyly sighing.

     The groom should feel like crying.

Happy the Couple . . . .

     Let wedding bells go clanging.

     I’d rather watch a hanging.

Chorus:

But think . . . Oh, think . . .

Before you leap the brink.

Will you rue

A quick I do . . .

This is a life job . . .

Taking a wife job . . .

If it’s to stick,

Don’t make it quick.

2. Nasty Little Boy Next Door

3. That All inclusive Word Called Love

4. They Blamed It on the Moon

They blamed it on the moon,

That far off, star off

Yellow fellow in the moon.

They blamed their chills and fever,

The vow he’d never leave her,

His quickness to believe her,

Her hope he’d not deceive her.

They blamed it on the moon,

That stupid cupid

Winking, blinking from the moon.

Their gay, romantic madness,

Their lunacy of gladness,

Their moonstruck love,

They blamed upon the moon.

Why blame it on the moon?

I scorn ‘em,

Warn ‘em;

Take it easy, says the moon.

He’s a wonder when he dances,

But how are his finances?

By moonlight she’s a winner;

But can she cook a dinner?

Why blame it on the moon?

This daffy, taffy,

Cooing, wooing needs no moon.

I’ve waved my fingers, drat ‘em,

Way back to Eve and Adam;

But still they will,

And blame it on the moon.

5. I Can’t Believe

6. My Poor Unfortunate Husband

7. The Ballet of the Guardian Angels

8. The Echo in My Heart

9. Look Your Prettiest

10. The Lone Parental Blues

11. Roll Up the Rugs and Dance

12. The Maid Who Never Caught the Bride’s Bouquet

13. There Aren’t Words

14. Home at the Range

15. A Dollar Down and a Dollar A Week

We’ve coffee percolators.

We’ve books and hooks

And breakfast nooks,

And twin perambulators.

We’ve chairs and stairs

And china wares,

And gas refrigerators.

We’ve garden seed

And doggie feed,

And even escalators.

. . .

Scarce knowing what it all meant.

Don’t be afraid.

We’re cupid’s aid.

It’s love upon installment.

This cute sketch is sung by Happy Gus selling furniture on credit with the motto You Hook the Bride and We’ll Hook You Both!  When the couple finally pays off the debt they are so old the salesman offers wheel chairs for a dollar down and a dollar a week.

16. This Will Last, Dear

17. The Marriage Feast of Cana

18. Swing Those Wedding Bells

19. Piccaninny, Don’t Grow Up

Chorus:

Everybody loves a piccaninny;

No one seems to love a colored man.

Honey, ain’t if funny

Ev’rybody’s smiling now.

Stay a little baby, if you can, my honey.

When your eyes are shining bright with laughter,

Why even white folks turn to laugh with you.

‘Course you know it’s winning hearts you’re after;

And it’s funny, how you win ‘em like you do.

White folks ain’t so smiling to your pappy;

Rough’s the road he often has to tread.

Even having you, he can’t be happy,

Feeling storms that beat about his head.

. . .

Maybe sometime folks will know

That you’re God’s little son;

Know that men are brothers, white and black,

And ev’ry one.

Till that day arrives, my child, a rugged way is run;

So Piccaninny, don’t grow up.

Influenced by the 1930s Broadway show Hellzapoppin Lord included entrances and exits through the audience and audience participation.  To promote the show Lord gave free tickets to newlyweds, printed 500 bumper stickers, and wrote a radio script ad.  There was even an attempt to link up advertising with the boxer Jack Dempsey’s Broadway Restaurant in New York.

Irvin John Scully, a St. Louis Press Agent worked on the show and wrote to another agent:

I thought you might be interested in the subjoined paragraph.  [A blurb for Matrimonial Follies.]  It will make a hit with a lot of Catholics and also a large number of Jews as many of the latter are very enthusiastic over annunciations of Father Lord’s on the Nazi situation across the pond.³³

The success of Matrimonial Follies would inspire Lord to write another for the upcoming of election year of 1940.

NOTES

•   ¹ Lord, I Saw the Soviet: (QW, 1938), 33.  Lord tells more about Siedenburg in People You’ll Like to Meet (QW, 1943), 118-20.
•   ² Daniel A. Lord, S.J., The Pope in the World Today (QW, 1938), 16.
•   ³ Ibid., 17.
•   ⁴ Ibid., 42.
•   ⁵ Ibid., 42.
•   ⁶ Ibid., 48.
•   ⁷ Lord, Why Be Decent? (QW, 1938), 8.
•   ⁸ Ibid., 29.
•   ⁹ Ibid., 16.
• ¹⁰ That Made Me Smile, 84.
• ¹¹ Played by Ear, 148.
• ¹² Lord Uncle Tom’s Trailer, 1938, 2; Script in Jesuit Archives.
• ¹³ Ibid., 4.
• ¹⁴ Ibid., 6.
• ¹⁵ Ibid., 8.
• ¹⁶ Ibid., 9.
• ¹⁷ Lord, People You’ll Like to Meet, 99.
• ¹⁸ Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., Bob Drinan: The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress (New York, Fordham University Press, 2011), 27-28.
• ¹⁹ John O’Brien, Catholics and Scholarship; a Symposium on the Development of Scholars (Huntington, Indiana, Our Sunday Visitor, 1939).
• ²⁰ Have You a Soul?, 55.
• ²¹ Ibid., 48.
• ²² Ibid., 46.  In Buddhism this sense of self is seen as an illusion.
• ²³ Ibid., 42.
• ²⁴ Ibid., 34.
• ²⁵ How to Stay Young, 12-13.
• ²⁶ Ibid., 20.
• ²⁷ Ibid., 31.
• ²⁸ Lord, The Priest Talked Money (QW, 1939).
• ²⁹ Lord, What is This Mystical Body? (QW, 1939), 12.
• ³⁰ Lord, What to Do on a Date? (QW, 1939), 7.  Warning: this pamphlet contains a reference that is not PC, although Lord says the term is no longer used by nice people.
• ³¹ Ibid., 11.
• ³² Reading Daniel Lord’s material gets one to start to think like Daniel Lord.
• ³³ Irv Scully letter January 20, 1939, in Matrimonial Files in Jesuit Archives.

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