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Sunday. J4.110 1 Dial ki: THE EL PASO TIMES El Pao HOME Newspaper Want Ad Dept. 832-1971 Pajjt 8-C- Effort Trims Large Sum Off Welfare Mother Praxedes Deeds Left Imprint On EPArea Columnist's Mail Offers Many Items By HAL BOYLE New York. (AP) Things a By BARBARA FUNKHOUSER Albany. N.Y.

(AP) An obscure office in the New York State De columnist might never know if partment of Social Welfare is when Loretto Academy was built in 1922, it was known as "Praxedes Folly" it was out Si. he didn't open his mail: providing guidance to other states in a national effort to cut A California survey of 500 arrested speeding In the in the desert away from the town which would surely never grow $252 million a year from the cost S- I of public welfare. wrong lanes found many of them out that far and it was large and The office is the Bureau of Reg spacious, too much so, as almost istry and Location. Its task is to anyone would say. find the whereabouts or lathers It was the final large project was sent to Loretto Academy in Florissant, in 1893.

There she learned of the internal difficulties within the Order and with the church hierarchy which are thoroughly described throughout the remainder of the book. In 1894, Mother Praxedes was assigned to Loretto Heights Academy in Denver where she found a new and magnificent institution suffering from the economic depression of the state and threatened with foreclosure. STORY OF BRILLIANCE Her method of returning this institution and ultimately the entire order to solvency is the story of and mothers who desert their were unconsciously expressing hostility after matrimonial quarrels. On the other hand, psychologists have found, bowling is a ready and harmless release for the anger and frustration raised of the Irish emigrant, a brilliant families, leaving them to taxpay woman who was the head of the ers to support. Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of If located in another state, the the Cross for more than 20 years.

parents can be prosecuted under by frictions within the family. Today it is one of the truly the runaway pappy act. beautiful places in El Paso which The bureau in full-time opera surrounds it, strong and progres I 5 1 1, 1 I tion slightly less than a year-has a 31 per cent record of sive in us educational pursuits and now with Nazareth Hall, a achievement. A new federal reg place of serenity for those who ulation requires all states to set a brilliant mind which, mo have served so well. If you're mad at aomeont, you merely look at the head pin, whisper the name, throw the ball and wham mo: Down It goes, symbolically, and you feel better.

VOLUNTEERED President John F. Kennedy at the age of 14 Joined his older brother and another school pal in writinz a letter to the comman up something similar. ments of silence. listened to MOTHER PRAXEDES A new dimension has been add heart of love which yearned for LARGE AMOUNT ed to the story of this Order and the Southwest through the publi unfortunately, became a victim southwestern adobes and all in The federal government esti herent in the life among them mates that desertion is respon cation of a new book, "Only One of tuberculosis. Through it she became a char sible for 18 per cent of cases re Heart," by Doubleday and Co.

acter in one of the most his ceiving aid-to-dependent children which she understood so well. Contrary to the Order Rule re quiring election by her Sisters she was appointed Mother Gen dant of the French Foreign Le The story of the pioneer nun That comes to the $252 million a toric events for New Mexico for she was sent to Santa Fe, with in America, momer year figure. was written by Sister Patricia eral in 1896, at the age of 42, to New York and other states Bishop Salpointe when he deliv Jean, director of public informa tion at Loretto Heights in Den head a divided Order. have laws requiring parents to ered the symbols of office to Bishop La my who had been re support their children. But first cently named archbishop.

the parents must be found. She was elected to the post in 1898, trouble with church officials continued and in 1903, Mother ver, who had access to material never before made public, to persons who knew Mother Praxedes The key to the New York opera Thirteen days in a rough wagon WORDY MARRIAGE Novelist Sinclair Lewis and his wife, newspaperwoman Dorothy Thompson, as they sailed for Europe from New York Aug. 31, 1935. Their stormy marriage lasted from May 14, 1928, to Jan. 2, 1942.

Now, two years after Miss Thompson's death and 12 years after Lewis', writer Vincent Sheean is preparing a book on the marriage. His source materials includes hundreds of letters written during their frequent separations. (AP Newsfeatures Photo) 'Couldn't Live Together Or Apart' Thompson-Lewis Letters Reveal Odd Relationship gion volunteering to terva in that famous desert military unit. Soma manufacturers estimate that in the next five years 50 per cent of road vehicles will be rented or leased rather than Individually owned. This year is the 180th anniversary of man's first air voyage.

On Nov. 21, 1783, two Frenchmen flew a balloon for two hours and 10 minutes over the rooftops of Paris. They traveled six miles tion is that it has access to state beset with heat, cold, dust, wind Praxedes went to Rome to appeal and to an Insight with which she could interpret to the layman this records that normally are confi and the threat of Indians and directly to Pope Pius for final dential tax reports, correction then arrival in an adobe town woman of strength and compas approbation of the Orders Rule It was a period of anxiety, il! department files, and unemploy where even religious services sion. ment insurance records. were conducted in Spanish dearly ness and negotiations which were Her writing is factually straight If a deserter is employed in the finally successful.

taxed her not only physically but spiritually and it was Archbishop forward, so much so as to aston state, the bureau can obtain the In 1904. Mother Praxedes was ish one who was not expecting to and reached an altitude of more Lamy along with Mother Magda name and address of the man and his employer. If the man is elected for the second and final read of scandal and trouble with len and Mother Francisca who bishops, imaginative in plot and six-year term possible under Can on Law and as she looked for helped her back onto the path in than 3,000 feet. Less than 30 per cent of the world's three billion-plus people collecting unemployment insurance, the bureau can learn where conversation and creative the three husbands were all like both conditions. By OTTO DOELLING Syracuse, N.Y.

(AP) It re human interest stories which keep that." the checks are being picked up. ward to retirement and return to the land of adobes, her Sisters are Christian. the book from becoming the story from Lancaster, N.Y., were introduced to one another at a German foreign ministry press conference in Berlin. Miss Thompson was a working newswoman and Lewis GOES TO NJNL quired the imagination of no less obtained Papal authority for her TELL TALE In his turn, Lewis was tremendously impressed by Doro of a long struggle and which add than a Nobel Prize winner to cast In 1878, Sister Praxedes was re-election as Mother General for If the man is in jail, in a men to the understanding of this only Adolf Hitler in the role of the thy's savoir faire," and he per sent as superior to Bernalillo, a oeriod which included the in' tal institution, or has visited a one heart. was slumming, Sheean said.

'other man" in a triangle N.M., where she educated, re fluenza epidemics in which she sisted in his entreaties, even proposing publicly at another party Mother Praxedes was born Su friend in jail correction department records will show this. That was on July 8, 1927 when with newspaperwoman Dorothy modeled, gardened and quickly sent Sisters of Loretto into the san Carty in Bawnboy, Ireland, Lewis was 42 and made his liter became one upon whom responsi When the local welfare official worst areas as nurses, planned Thompson and her husband, nov-elist Sinclair Lewis. one of 11 children in a family bility in all areas could be placea. knows where his quarry is, he ary mark wun sucn works as "Main Street," "Babbitt." "Ar- which migrated in 1865 to St. On Aug.

24, 1880, at an end of begins legal proceedings to make the first foreign mission tor ur-etto Sisters and completed her record of achievement which in Louis, Mo. rowsmith" and "Elmer Gantry." The unlikely relationship was conceived by Lewis, the first American to win the coveted a retreat in Santa Fe, she was him assume his responsibilities. You can save up to 30 per cent or more by sending your ton or daughter to a college In the South or Midwest instead of an Ivy League-type school In the Northeast. NO POLICY No insurance company would issue a policy on the "Mona Lisa" during its visit here, because the master-piece was considered priceless. However.

39 companies now have banded together into a syndicate to offer insurance on art treasures to be in Berlin, Sheean said. Finally, on May 14, 1928, they were married in London. MARRIAGE DOOMED The marriage, Sheean said, had a literary germ and was doomed from the start. Miss Thompson, imbued with suddenly dispatched to Visitation cluded 51 new schools including The next day was to be her 33rd birthday and she invited Lewis to Under the runaway pappy act ENJOYED GOOD TIMES a uniform law passed by all the Academy Las Cruces, N.m. two colleges.

She was a quick and teasing prize, in a moment of irony. He remarked that, if he and Miss Thompson ever were divorced, he would name Hitler as co-respon states and territories a support Arriving in the dark town at El Paso is the subject of the child, turnine into a beautiful 2 a.m.. her long knocking finally young woman who enjoyed good proceeding begun in one state can be tried in another, eliminating her party. The meeting came at a time when both were "terribly wounded," Sheean said. Miss Thompson had just received the final papers roused someone to open the door book's final chapter for which the author apologizes with a plea for reader understanding of the prob times, orettv clothes and spena- of the half-constructed academy inz monev while assuming an im German philosophy, visualized Lewis as the embodiment of the creative spirit, Sheean said.

the need of returning a man home for trial. The effectiveness of the bureau who said, "We thought it was the portant role in the expanding fam- lems of describing a hie so long and active. ly with its times of trouble ana of her divorce from Josef Bard, a Hungarian intellectual she had married four years before. Lewis is curtailed when a deserter "Dorothy saw in Red the liter sheriff or someone trying to force their way in." The situation was very bad in sorrow. brought here duing the New York World's Fair.

"For those who find the El Paso years paced too swiftly, may leaves the state and has no con She was disappointed in not be was on the rebound, following the tact with any stare agency. No ary man par excellence. She never fully realized the dominion alcohol had over Red or his appalling The spider is the latest occupa deed. A novitiate had run off and I say, turn to the living who ing able to attend trie Loretto school in Cane Girardeau, tional victim of the space ape. were there and ask those who now breakup of his first marriage to the former Grace Hegger, whom he had wed in 1914.

married a priest and the reputation of the entire Order was jeo sense of inadequacy," Sheean whera she had once visited but Spider webs onca used as cross know the story of the years be adequate machinery exists for location of these individuals, Rosenblatt says. He hopes that an effective interstate informa said. held alwavs the impressions of fore to tell you about the woman. pardized. There was no food or At the party, the impulsive Alcohol, however, did come be- the Mother Praxedes who lived the Sisters and in 1874 entered the hairs in optical instruments, are being replaced by lines etched directly on the glass.

money, and the academy was Lewis proposed to Miss tion exchange can begin when beyond the scope that this book $5,000 in debt. novitiate in Loretto, founding home of the American Order. dent. The irony of the remark stems from the fact that the German dictator expelled the outspoken woman journalist from the Third Reich in 1934 for her hostile views toward Nazism. What Lewis had in mind was that his wife's ouster had catapulted her into international prominence, such as she had not enjoyed before.

Despite his literary renown, Lewis felt he had been regulated to the position of "Mr. Dorothy Thompson." So observes Vincent Sheean, who is writing a book on the ill-fated 1314-year marriage of Lewis and Miss Thompson. DELVED INTO PAPERS At Syracuse University's library, Sheean has delved into the untapped personal papers of Miss all states establish a central reg tween Lewis and Miss Thompson, who believed Lewis could reform himself. Mother Praxedes left Las Cru Psychologists aay one of the could reach," Sister Patricia Jean concluded. istry of deserting heads of "Of course, that made Dorothy She was given the name, against ces 13 years later as one of the best ways to relieve your own With the gradual cooling of their her own desires to be named for And there are many there who most beloved leaders that com laugh heartily.

Red was a hell of a clown," Sheean recalled. tensions in living is to help some ardor, Sheean said, many rows saint, of a Roman martyr who munity has ever known. Her ac one else in trouble. knew her including Sister Matthew Marie, principal of Loretto CARMAKERS GAIN Miss Thompson, though, was developed because "Red couldn't tivities as described in the book faced challenges and died for her It was Thomas Carlyle who ad Moekholm. Sweden two beliefs.

High School, who asked the per fascinated by Lewis' "elfish sense of humor," Sheean said. But most contain the names of many still-prominent families whose letter stand political discussions and she couldn't stay away from the subject. It nearly drove him crazy." From her teachers. Sister Pra vised, "Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure Chere is one rascal less In the automobile manufacturers plan to increase their capacity to a of all, he said, she had a "deep xedes learned the need for see objecting to her transfer con mission of this Mother Praxedes for entry into the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross. It got to the point, Sheean said, total of 250,000 cars a year by ing from God's point of view but, tained the very reasons why she I world." reverence for his achievement." "She was attracted to creative men," Sheean remarked.

"Her where "they couldn't live together 1970. Next year's capacity is expected to be 200,000. or apart. Thompson, who died in 1961 at the age of 66 in Lisbon, Portugal. Lewis was just shy of his 66th birthday when he died 10 years earlier In Rome.

After Miss Thompson's death, Chances Are Your Friends Recommend TS0 Copies Still Available off (K ATT IE WAY it op SIPACCIE Syracuse, her alma mater, acquired about 75 scrapbooks and 112 boxes of letters, diaries and other papers including butchers's bills that she had collected over a 40-year period. i Sheean said in an interview that the documents included some whose intimacy "startled" him since Miss Thompson, although a conversationalist, steered clear of intimate subjects in her talk. Juaiiie Ecliitioims Tentatively, Sheean has named his work in progress: "Dorothy and Red: The Splendors and Mis eries of a Literary Marriage." GIvt to your Carrier Boy, or mail to: Circulation Department, Newspaper Printing Corporation, Post Office Box 20, El Paio, Enclosed Is my remittance covering mailingi of the "GATEWAY-TO-SPACE" Edition as indicated befow. (Please type er print.) "It was a hell of a match," said Sheean, who knew both principals personally. I On the one side, he said, was the tall, gangling son of a small Mail them to your Out-Of-Towii Friends, I Relatives antl Business Associates I town doctor who had become a world-famed novelist, a social critic who eschewed politics, a personality who basically had remained a "hick" and a compul I sive drinker filled with a sense of insecurity.

ALMOST OPPOSITE On the other side was the femin ist daughter of a British-born Methodist minister. She had developed into a sophisticated, self-possessed journalist with unful filled literary aspirations and an rA 'r i-Tiriii innmi 1 1 1' 1 addiction to international politics. The romance began in surroundings. Harry Sinclair EACH OR 7 FOR $1.00 MAILED POSTPAID ANYWHERE IN U.S. 15c (Red) Lewis from Sauk Centre, and Dorothy Thompson I if i I S3.

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