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PAGE 4—THE BULLETIN, April 19, 1958.
The Soviet's Good Humor Man
JOSEPH BREIG
Many A Mason Must Fool ...
My Guess is that many a Ma
son must feel slightly ill over
the situation in Oregon.
Scottish rite 33rd degree Ma
sons in that state have teamed
up with POAU in an effort to
take free text*
books away
form children
in Gat h ol i c
schools.
POAU, if
you have for
gotten, is short
for Protestants
and Other ___ __
Americans United for Separa
tion of Church and State.
Its chief tool in this noble en
deavor is what it calls “separa
tion of church and state.”
POAU’s main reason for be
ing is to makes things difficult
for Catholic Americans.
POAU HAS NO USE for the
separation set forth in the Con
stitution: “Congress shall make
no law respecting an establish
ment of religion.”
That means that Congress is
forbidden to set up a govern
ment church and compel people
to adhere or contribute to it.
The Constitution does not sat
isfy POAU. POAU wants “sep
aration” to mean that religious
citizens (especially Catholic cit
izens) are not entitled to the
same government benefits as
non-religious citizens.
In practice, POAU policies
add up to government discrimi
nation against Catholic Ameri
cans.
POAU is nothing if not small;
nothing if not petty.
POAU does not want children
in religious (for which read
Catholic) schools to ride in
school buses.
POAU does not want them to
enjoy the services of public
health doctors or nurses.
POAU does not want Catholic
American youngsters to get any
of the government aids that oth
er children get — including'
textbooks.
POAU wants hospitals ope
rated by religious denomina
tions to be excluded from fed
eral aid.
SURELY, SAID THE PHY
SICIAN who heads the staff of
one hospital, POAU “does not
expect reasonable men to be
lieve that the operation of. a
modern hospital staffed by doc
tors and nurses of all creeds,
and caring for men of all faiths
and no faith alike ... is propa
gation of religion in the sense
that funds used for such pur
pose are for the establishment
of a religion.”
Wrong, doctor. Precisely that
is what POAU wants people to
believe.
POAU fought a proposal that
Congress give religious schools
the same excise tax exemption
enjoyed by public schools for
necessary educational equip
ment.
If a religious school buys a
typewriter to teach typing,
POAU wants the school taxed.
Oh, POAU can be piddling
small.
IN OREGON, Scottish rite
Masons, by their own admission,
are working with POAU to de
prive Catholic school children of
free textbooks.
To this end, the rite’s educa
tion committee circularized a
statement to 2,000 public school
teachers.
The statement falsely alleged
that Catholic schools teach “gov
ernmental doctrines that are
foreign and contrary to the
American concepts of govern
ment.”
“This is evident,” said the
Scottish rite statement, ‘by sim
ply reading the textbooks.” This
amounts to saying that the State
of Oregon has been giving un-
American textbooks to Catholic
children.
STUFF AND NONSENSE.
Anybody is perfectly free to ex
amine any textbook used in any
Catholic school in the land. Any
body who will do so will find
that the charges are prepos
terous.
The Masonic statement went
on to say that the Church (the
statement calls it a “sect”) “de
mands that the public support
its sectarian schools.” And fur
ther, that the Church “schemes
and demands for itself a mo
nopoly on all education.”
More stuff and nonsense.
A week before the Masonic
falsehoods were distributed,
Gov. Robert D. Holmes of Ore
gon denounced the campaign
against free textbooks as plain
downright bigotry.
One thing is certain — it sure
is small. It sure is petty. It sure
is enough to make many a Ma
son feel slightly ill.
Theology
For The
Layman
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Little-Known Facts for Catholics
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(By F. J. Sliced)
We have now come to the
hardest part of our examination
of spirit. I approach the writing
of this section with dread. It
will have much sweat and
strain in it, for you, for me; but
everyt hing
will be easier
afterwards.
We begin
with a state
ment that
sounds nega
tive, but isn’t.
A spirit dif
fers from a
material thing by having no
parts. Once we have mastered
the meaning of this, we are
close to our goal.
A part is any element in a
being which is not the whole
of it, as my chest is a part of
my body, or an electron a part
of an atom. A spirit has no parts.
There is no element in it which
is not the whole of it. There is
no division of parts as there is
in matter. Our body has parts,
each with its own specialized
function: it uses its lungs to
breathe with, its eyes to see
with, its legs to walk with. Our
soul has no parts, for it is a spi
rit. There is no element in our
soul which is not the whole soul.
It does a remarkable variety of
things — knowing, loving, ani
mating a body — but each one
of them is done by the whole
soul, it has no parts among
which to divide them up.
This partlessness of spirit is
the difficulty for the beginner.
Concentrate on what follows,—
a being which has no parts dc^es
not occupy space. There is hard
ly anything one can say to make
this truth any clearer: you
merely go on looking for it,
until suddenly you find your
self seeing it. The most any
teacher can do is to offer a few
observations. Think of anything
one pleases that occupies space,
and one sees that it must have
parts, there must be elements
in it which are not the whole of
it — this end is not that, the top
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YeaO° AT JrAO slNCE
(By David Q. Lipiak)
Q: In addressing a priest,
when does one use the term
"Reverend" as distinguished
from "Father"? What is the dif
ference between the two terms,
anyway?
A: The term “Reverend” is
generally recognized in books of
etiquette here in the United
States as the formal mode of
address not only for priests, but
for most non-Catholic ministers
and clergymen.
“Father,” on the other hand,
is the familiar form of address
ing a priest employed through
most English-speaking coun
tries. Its use implies a know-
lege of the spiritual fatherhood
of the priesthood. Scripturally,
the title is based on such pass
ages as St. Paul’s admonition to
the Corinthians:
. . You are my dearly be
loved children . . . Yes, you may
have len thousand schoolmas
ters in Jesus Christ, but not
more than one father; it was I
that begot you in Jesus Christ
. . (I Corinthians IV; 14-15)
THE DISTINCTION between
“Reverend” and “Father” hing
es upon the respective adject
ives, formal and familiar.
Thus, “Reverend” would
properly be used when re-
ferring to a priest for
mally in print (as in an offi
cial newspaper or a program) or
when addressing a priest’s name
on an envelope, or when intro
ducing a priest during a public,
more solemn occasion (a gradu
ation ceremony, for instance).
When writing the title, the ab
breviation “Rev.” is permissible.
Being a formal mode of ad
dress, however, "Reverend"
should always be followed by
the priest's full name; i.e.. Rev
erend John J. Smith. It is a
breach of good manners ever to
use the term alone, or together
with only the priest's last name;
I.e., Reverend Smith. According
to standard etiquette manuals,
there is no exception to this
rule.
FURTHER, whenever the pos-
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• WHERE SHALL we seek a
hero? What qualities do you
think are necessary for heroism?
What type of person in history
do you consider a hero? Is it
one who has already been estab
lished in memory’s hall of fame?
Is it one who died successful
or with the world labeling him
as a failure? What one quality
would you have in your hero?
Conviction? Courage? Idealism?
Dedication? Ambition? Humili
ty? Recently Saturday Review
treated this subject of heroism.
It listed forty heroic figures: lit
erary, artistic, patriotic. It asked
readers to select three of the
number whose quality and cha
racter most appealed to them:
They were a strange assortment
ranging from St. Francis down
to Voltaire and including Ein
stein, Caesar and William of
Orange. The editors were also
interested in finding what read
ers would select as qualities for
heroism. In a questionnaire at
the end of the article, it asked:
Which great historical figure
would you recall to deal with
the present world crisis based
on their ability to understand
the nature of the problem and
their ability to inspire a follow
ing of leadership.
• THIS QUESTION, I threw
out to my class and required a
paper on it. The results proved
interesting. One felt that there
was no one in the past who
could cope with the today of
Atomic Energy and Sputniks
and Recessions. She therefore
set out to compose a hero for
today. He would have the wis
dom of Aquinas, the vision of
the signers of the Declaration
of Independence and have the
leadership of Washington and
Lincoln. Another wrote a paper
entitled “F i n d Me Somebody
New.” She felt that little people
who coped with omni-present
obstacles like term papers, 2:00
a. m. feedings, supporting a fam
ily on a limited income were
heroes, too. This all lead to a
lively classroom discussion on
heroism and heroes in general.
Do we want a man who does
something heroic or one who is
heroic in himself? Must one
master himself before he can
master others. Ironically the
roster of heroic figures listed in
the Saturday Review were those
who lived immoral lives, com
mitted suicide, drank them
selves to death, betrayed
friends, etc. Is this. the stuff of
heroism?
• THIS RECALLED an arti
cle I once read in a Boston
nwespaper following the staging
of the play, “Saint Joan.” The
reviewers stated that “the plays
that capture the imagination are
still those that present human
beings of heroic character. Play
goers want to watch stage men
and women who are like us in
our human weakness but above
and beyond us in courage. What
makes Saint Joan great is Joan
herself, one of the most heroic
women in history. Her heroism
lies in the fact that she ig ; true
to herself though it costs her
life” This would seem to hold
a pretty air-tight, sensible defi
nition of heroism. Saint Joan is
one of my all time hero choices.
She had all the qualities to
make my kind of hero — cou
rage, spirituality, dedication —
but dedication to the right
cause! Another thought which
would combine this discussion of
heroes, heroism, little people,
dedicated people, courageous
people is accented in the Voca
tion Month appeal. It takes the
stuff which makes heroes to
turn a young person’s steps from
the secular pursuits of comfort
and sensuality and glamour and
wealth today towaM a dedicat
ed life where all is given to
God to be used for others. What
better hero type than the priest,
the nun, the brother in their
hidden lives of sacrifice. Here
we find the hero for whom we
seek.
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SHARING OUR TREASURE
Gladys Baker's Happiest Day
By REV, JOHN A. O'BRIEN, JPh. D.
(University of Notre Dame)
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The greatest success in getting
splendid Catholic books to the
mass market has been achieved
by Doubleday and Company,
New York, publishers of the
famed Image Books. Launched
by John J. De
laney, a young
Catholic edi
tor of vision
and resource
fulness, this
series of books
cove ring a
wide variety r ^
of C a t h o lie
topics is reaching an audi
ence of unprecedented magni
tude: 4,000,000 readers.
They are the means of lead
ing an ever growing number of
truth seekers into the Church.
This is illustrated by the ex
perience of Gladys BYk£r, a fea
ture writer for many newspa
pers and author of I Had to
Know, her conversion story.
“For years,” began Miss Bak
er, “I’ve read, on an average, a
book a night. Following that
custom, I opened one night The
Road to Damascus, and was so
fascinated that I went lickety-
split through it. Here was a
sharp departure from any book
I had ever seen on Catholicism..
Whereas books of Catholic doc
trine per se had repelled me,
here was a fresh breeze cutting
across the ordinary stuffy pre
sentation of philosophers and
theologians.
“It contained the stories of
15 outstanding writers of Eng
land, Canada and the United
States on their conversion to
Catholicism. Here was a group
of intellectuals revealing the
most intimate experiences lead
ing to their finding of security
at last in the arms of Mother
Church. And revealing as if a
Pentecostal coal had touched
their lips.
“The slender red volume op
ened with the story of Evelyn
Waugh, British novelist, and ac
claimed as one of the most bril
liant stylists of our day. He
ended his thrilling story with
the advice, ‘Come inside. You
can not know what the Church
is like from the outside.’ That
intrigued me.
“So too did the story of Rasa-
lind Murray, former wife of the
great historian Arnold Toynbee
and daughter of Professor Gil
bert Murray and Lady Mary
Howard. I was strangely stirred
by her conclusion: ‘Catholicism
has been for me the door to a
limitless new world of know
ledge. If I were to sum up in
one word its most essential gift
... I would say Lite.’
“After reading the gripping
story of Gretta Palmer, a news-
woman like myself, I determin
ed to get in touch with her. We
had lunch together in the Ritz
Garden, and she arranged for
my instruction by Monsignor
(now Bishop) Sheen. Under the
skilled direction of this scholar
ly and gracious priest, I read
book after book on Catholicism.
“The ones which moved me
most were those in which noted
converts told how they found
the fullness of divine truth in
the Church founded by Christ
Himself. St. Augustine, John
Henry Newman, Robert Hugh
Benson, Ronald Knox, Sigrid
Undset, Jacques Maritain, Tho
mas Merton, Gene Fowler and
other noted converts were my
intellectual and spiritual com
panions for several months.
And what a galaxy of great
souls they are!
“Like them I too discovered
that Christ had established not
a multitude of Churches but one
Church, and had given to her
the authority to teach all na
tions. Monsignor Sheen receiv
ed me into the Church and gave
me my fisrt Holy Communion.
It was the happiest day in my
life. I had come home.
“It all started when I read
The Road io Damascus, now an
Image Book. That book will
start any truth-seeker on his
way to the Catholic Church —
the trysting place of all truth
and man’s true home on earth.”
The moral? Get all the Image
Books into your city’s public
library. Buy a dozen yourself
and circulate them. They will
help you share your treasure
with many.
Washington Newsletter
Says That Communism Is More
Dangerous Today Than Ever
Sometimes the first to suggest
a reform is last to accept it.
(By J, J. Gilbert)
WASHINGTON—From a va
riety of authoritative sources re
newed warnings have been is
sued on the menace of com
munism.
These seem to be very much
needed because of a hobbling'
complacency which threatens to
overtake the West, and particu
larly the United States. One
reason ascribed for this com
placency is an ignorance of what
communism really is.
The Kremlin and its confed
erates had one of thier “great
est years of triumph” in 1957,
the U. S. House of Representa
tives Committee on Un-Ameri
can Activities has reported. The
committee maintains that it has
come to “the inescapable con
clusion that the menace of the
international .communist ap
paratus increases each day.”
Judge Harold R. Medina said
“people nowadays are getting
so they think communism is on
the run and they don’t need to
worry anymore.” “That’s not
so,” he added. “The hard core
of communists are working just
as hard as ever. There is more
reason now than ever before
to fear the communists. They
are more dangerous now than
ever.”
The Judge rates as an au
thority. He presided over the
10-month long trial of the 11
top U. S. Communists in 1949,
Now comes “Masters of De
ceit,” the new book by J. Edgar
Hoover, director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. Against
a background of some 40 years
of close observation of com
munists and their activities, he
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THE
Unless the men in the Krem
lin are complete fools, they
could not have seriously be
lieved that the American peo
ple would be taken in by the
“let’s-be-pals” gospel which the
new Soviet
Am bass a dor,
Mikhail Men
shikov, h a s
been spread
ing with un-
p r e c edented
ami ability
since he ar
rived on our
shores two months ago.
The siren song the genial So
viet good humor man is singing
to whoever will listen is so com
pletely at variance with the
venomous chorus that rises dai
ly from the banks of the Volga
that no American in his right
mind is likely to be deceived by
it.
If, therefore, there is a pur
pose behind the bizarre per
formance of the new Ambassa
dor —• and there must be one —
it cannot be to convince the
American people that Moscow
has suddenly been seized with a
great yearning to be buddies
with Americans.
Rather one suspects that the
Soviet rulers, who, whatever
else they may be, are expert
propagandists, see an oppor
tunity to use the American press
and other American media of
communication to spread among
the peoples of Europe, Africa
and the Middle and Far East the
message that world tensions
would dissappear if the United
States would only grasp Rus
sia’s out-stretched hand.
WIDE CIRCULATION
Coming from the Soviet press
and radio such sentiments as
Ambassador Menshikov has
BACKDROP
By JOHN C. O’BRIEN
been voicing would be consider
ed suspect in various parts of
the free world. But the Rus
sians apparently believe that,
reported by the American press
and radio as the utterances of
a Soviet representative on
American soil, they would ac
quire a stamp of authenticity
they otherwise would not have.
Messrs. Bulganin and Khru
shchev are familiar enough with
the manner in which we operate
to know that, however much
they may mistrust the billing
and cooing of the new Ambassa
dor, American newspaper and
radio editors will give the wid
est circulation to his speeches
and interviews. Generous sum
maries of his remarks will be
carried throughout the world
even by the Voice of America,
an agency of the government.
The picture our friends out
side the Iron Curtain will get
from American reports will be
that of a spokesman for the
Soviet government exuding
good will and pleading with a
reluctant America to meet the
Russians half way in a sincere
effort to let bygones be bygones.
A sample of the sweet reason
ableness the Ambassador will
be beaming across the seas
from our shores was given in a
speech the other day to the
Washington press corps, the
first such appearance by a So
viet diplomat in 27 years.
The Ambassador recalled the
tradition of friendship that had
its source in such distant times
as the struggle of the young
American republic for indepen
dence, “when the Russian peo
ple supported by every means
the natural desire of the Ameri
can people to become free.”
VILLIFICATION UNABATED
He reminded his audience of
the partnership between the
United States and his country
during the Second World War
against a common aggressor.
“Will this friendship ever be
forgotten by our people?” he
asked, conveniently overlook
ing the efforts of the Soviet
government over the years to
convince the Russian people
that the United States and the
oilier western allies had done
their utmost during that war to
betray and destroy the Soviet
Union.
And almost at the same mo
ment that Menshikov was as
suring the American press that
the greatest desire of his gov
ernment and of the Russian peo
ple was to be good neighbors of
the United States, the Moscow
press and radio were carrying
on unabated, their steady cam
paign of detraction and villifi-
cation.
The Russians were told that
the United States inspired the
French attack on a Tunisian
town near the Algeria border.
North Korea communists, dom
inated by Moscow, kidnapped an
American-piloted South Korean
plane and a few days later shot
down an American military
plane near the North-South Ko
rean border.
Only the Russians would at
tempt to maintain such violent
ly contradictory positions at
one and the same time. And the
disturbing thing is that they are
fooling a great many of the un
committed peoples. A recent
poll in New Delhi, the Indian
capital, revealed that for every
person who thought the United
States was doing most to bring
about world peace, four thought
the Russians were the real seek
ers after peace.
Help For The Problem Drinker
This We Believe
When a man or a woman
suffers from the disease of al
coholism (men out-number wo
men five to one), there are two
problems presented. There is the
drinker’s own problem—his in
ability, alone
and unaided,
to control his
appetite for al
cohol. Then
there is the
problem fac-
e d by the
drinker’s fam
ily — a mul
tiple problem of emotional, so
cial and financial aspects.
For the compulsive drinker
himself there can be no help
unless and until he wants help.
This means unless and until he
admits to himself that he has a
problem, that his drinking is
beyond his own control. It is
the great tragedy of alcoholism
that so many who are afflicted
with the disease and who would
find help, just will not recog
nize the nature of their afflic
tion. It takes humility for a
man to admit that he is saddled
with a burden which he cannot
carry alone. Often the victim
of alcoholism must hit bottom
before he finds the himility that
is the prelude to conquest.
Even when he faces the fact
of his problem, the compulsive
drinker is further blocked by a
black fear. He knows that any
kind of therapy will be aimed
at helping him to get along
without alcohol. The prospect
of days and weeks without al
cohol, not to mention a life
time, is a vision that he cannot
bear to contemplate. If some
magic word could be spoken or
some drug given that would for
ever take away all desire for a
drink, he could accept that. But
he knows that it isn’t going to
be that easy; and so he may re
ject all efforts to help him.
For the problem drinker who
does want help, Alcoholics An
onymous is the most readily
available, the least expensive
and probably the most lasting
form of therapy. Alcoholics An
onymous (more commonly term
ed simply “AA”) is a move
ment so well known as to need
no lengthly description. It is a
voluntary association of men
and women, alcoholics only,
who are banded together for the
sole purpose of helping them
selves and each other to get
sober and to stay sober. The suc
cess of the AA technique of
mutual therapy is attested to
by the remarkable growth which
has characterized the movement
since it began about two dec
ades ago. At last. report there
(By FATHER LEO THESE)
were more than 200,000 AA
members in 16 countries. That
seems like a lot, until we recall
that there are an estimated
4,000.000 victims in our own
country alone.
The AA members meet week
ly in their local groups, with
out dues and without officers.
Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief
— they come from every walk
of life, including the clergy. It
is in the weekly meetings, plus
the in-between assistance given
to each other in moments of
crisis, that the members of AA
progress through the following
“Twelve Steps:”
1. We admitted that we were
powerless over alcohol — that
our lives had become unman
ageable. 2. We came to believe
that a Power greater than our
selves could restore our sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn
our will and our lives over to
the care of God as we under
stand Him. 4. We made a search
ing and fearless inventory of
ourselves. 5. We admitted to
God, to ourselves, and to an
other human being the exact
nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to
have God remove all these de
fects of character. 7. We humbly
asked Him to remove our short
comings. 8. We made a list of
all persons we had harmed, and
became willing to make amends
to them all. 9. We made direct
amends to such people when
ever possible, except when to do
so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take per
sonal inventory and when we
were wrong promptly admitted
it. 11. We sought through prayer
and meditation to improve our
conscious contact with God as
we understand Him, praying
only for knowledge of His will
for us and the power to carry
that out. 12. Having had a spi
ritual awakening as a result of
these steps, we try to carry this
message to others, and to prac
tice these principles in all our
affairs.
Alcoholics Anonymous is as
close as the telephone. “AA” is
the very first listing in almost
every telephone directory. The
problem drinker who can sum
mon the courage to lift the re
ceiver and to dial the local AA
office, is on the way to re
covery; he has taken the first
step. If he fears to commit him
self to the extent of a phone
call, a written request to the
AA office will bring explana
tory literature by return mail,
with only a box number show
ing as the return address. Or the
victim of alcoholism can write
to AA Headquarters, P. O. Box
459, Grand Central Annex, New
York 17, N. Y. Whether he tel
ephones or writes, the inquirer
should know that the person
who answers will be an alcohol
ic like himself. There are no
“outsiders,” no professional re
formers in AA. Everyone who
works in A A is a volunteer who
is fighting the problem himself
or herself.
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Georgia, Inc., with the Approbation of the Most Reverend Arch
bishop-Bishop of Savannah, the Most Reverend Bishop of Atlanta,
and the Right Reverend Abbot Ordinary of Belmont.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Monroe, Georgia,
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REV. FRANCIS J. DONOHUE REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
Editor Savannah Edition Editor Atlanta Edition
JOHN MARK WALTER
Managing Editor
Vo[ - 38 Saturday, April 19, 1958 No. 23
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1957-1958
GEORGE GINGELL, Columbus __ President
E. M. HEAGARTY, Waycross Honorary Vice-President
MRS. DAN HARRIS, Macon Vice-President
TOM GRIFFIN, Atlanta Vice-President
NICK CAMERIO, Macon , _ Secretary
JOHN T. BUCKLEY, Augusta Treasurer
ALVIN M. McAULIFFE, Augusta Auditor
JOHN MARKWALTER, Augusta Executive Secretary
MISS C.ECILE FERRY. Augusta Financial Secretary