Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah.
About Bulletin (Monroe, Ga.) 1958-1962 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1958)
PAGE 6—THE BULLETIN, May 3 1958 CRESCENT ICE CREAM ICE CREAM FOR ALL OCCASIONS ALL POPULAR FLAVORS "QUALITY ICE CREAM SINCE 1928" CRESCENT ICE CREAM CO. GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA THE ATHENS BOTTLING COMPANY ATHENS, GEORGIA BELL'S TWO STORES TO SERVE YOU 1247 Prince Avenue 1689 S. Lumpkin Street ATHENS, GEORGIA F. G. BELL AND SONS, PROPRIETORS Thomas M. Tillman Co. REAL ESTATE AND GENERAL INSURANCE 128 College Avenue ATHENS, GEORGIA MOON-WINN DRUG CO. Prescription Work Our Specialty 197 CLAYTON STREET ATHENS, GEORGIA BEST WISHES FROM FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Association Of Gainesville TELEPHONE LE. 4-7301 123 NORTH GREEN STREET GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA Leftist Moves In Education And Labor Fields Seen As Threat Of New Dictatorship In Venezuela (N.C.W.C. News Service) CARACAS, Venezuela,—Left ist moves to create a govern ment monopoly of education and established political control . over the labor unions may lead to a new dictatorship in this country, according to observers here. Their fears are being express ed only a few months after the January ousting of the rightist dictatorship of President Mar cos Perez Jiminez, whose re gime was marked by the forced suspension of labor union activ ity and a long period of Church- state conflict. Behind recent leftist moves is the Marxist-oriented Democrat ic Action party (Adeco.) To gether with the two other major Venezuelan parties — the Re publican Democratic Union and the Christian Democrats (Copei) -—Adeco has entered into a po litical truce under the govern- m e n t of Provisional President Wolfgang Larrazabal. But one of its leaders, Luis Beltran Prieto, minister of ed ucation in the Adeco govern ment in power from 1945 to 1948. has declared that govern ment control of education is absolutely necessary. Other leftist leaders in Ca racas and other major cities have told workers that only politically-sponsored labor or ganizations can organize un ions. They have made this state ment despite the fact that pres ent laws provide that workers can organize without any po litical sponsorship or direction. Marxist-inspired speakers have also attacked the Church’s activity in the social action field and have protested against priests’ working in the labor union movement. Leaflets attacking the Adeco position, signed by well known and respected Venezuelan lead ers, have been flooding this city. Dr. Aristides Calvani, a trade union expert opposing Dr. Bel tran’s stand, asked: “On what basis is the political unity, about which there has been so much talk (since the overthrow of the Perez Jiminez regime), being built? . . . Relia ble sources insist that the Marx ists are launching an all-out campaign to get important posts in the ministry of education.” The magazine SIC, published by the Jesuit Fathers, stated: “It is a mistake to organize in each trade union a board of di rectors composed of represent atives of political parties. It is in precisely this manner that party politics have become en trenched in the labor move ment.” Referring to the political truce, SIC continued: “There is one very good argu ment in favor of trusting the political truce — fear of a new dictatorship. Dictatorship will return if the Venezuelan people show a lack of preparation for the proper use of liberty. “If liberty degenerates into license, we shall unfortunately prove right t h, e people who claim that the country is not ready for a genuine democratic government.” One of the questions puzzling observers here is the exact atti tude of the government toward the Communist party. (N.C.W.C. News Service) WASHINGTON — The prac tice of artificial birth control is “against both the natural and the divine law, is opposed to healthy family life and well being of the nation,” Father John E. Kelly, director , of the Bureau of Information, National Catholic Welfare Conference, emphasized here. At the same time, Redemp- torist Father Henry V. Sattler, assistant director of the NCWC Family Life Bureau, stressed that contraception violates “a law of nature binding on all mankind.” “If a couple makes sex an end in itself, without meaning and objectives outside the mutual satisfaction of the partners,” he said, “then all traditional morality falls.” The statements of the two NCWC officials were a rejoin der to an assertion made by Dr. Richard M. Fagley at a World Council of Churches meeting in Buck Hill Falls, Pa., that Cath olic teachings on artificial birth control are “theologically wrong and ethically weak.” Father Kelly contended it is just the opposite — that Dr. Fag- ley’s position is “theologically wrong and ethically weak.” The NCWC official said: “He must be aware of what the Bible says in Genesis 1, 28, King James version, ‘And God bless ed them (Adam and Eve), and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.’ Dr. Fag ley would divide and subtract, not multiply. His statement in dicates that he favors that the earth subdue man, not man the earth.” In the same book of the Bible, in chapter 38, Father Kelly said, can be found the story of Gnan, who practiced artificial birth control. He reminded that the Bible relates “the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore He slew him also.” Father Kelly disagreed with a statement of Dr. Fagley who claimed “millions of Catholic laymen disagree with their church in this matter” of arti ficial birth control. The NCWC official said that the charge is “unsubstantiated” and that the Protestant leader either should In a speech shortly after as suming government power, Pro visional President Larrazabal said that the “Communist party in Venezuela .will receive sim ilar treatment to that given it in the United States. Despite this statement, there is a great deal of obviously com munist-inspired activity, par ticularly among the workers, in Venezuela. submit factual evidence or re tract his assertion.” Father Kelly said that Dr. Fagley’s position is “exactly contrary to the teachings of Christian theologians from the days of St. Augustine.” He said it “is regrettable that a Protes tant leader saw fit to use the forum of a World Council of Churches meeting to criticize Catholic teachings and prac tice.” Father Sattler stressed that a statement of Pope Pius XI con demning contraception, with which Dr. Fagley found fault, “is not merely a statement of Catholic opinion or theological discussion,” nor a law passed by the Church binding only Cath olics, but “it is a law of nature binding all mankind.” The Redemptorist said that Dr. Fagley’s contention that birth control is needed in the face of an expanding population is the “neo-Malthusian argu ment” which has “been dis credited many times.” He said there are many problems in feeding a vastly larger popula tion, but the solution “lies in the fields of economics, technologi cal advances and redistribution of the food supply.” “Many eminent scientists like wise reject artificial birth con trol as a solution.” said Father Sattler. “Dr. Karl Brandt, asso ciate director of Stanford Uni versity’s food research institute, stated last year that population absolutely cannot outstrip food production. That is not the ques tion, he said, but whether ca pacity to produce will overshoot the capacity of the market to absorb and ruin farmers by low prices.” Father Sattler said that at the 1956 meeting of the British As sociation for the Advancement of Science, Dr. C. B. Goodhart of Cambridge “offered biologi cal reasons why the 18th cen tury economist Malthus was wrong in holding that popula tion will outstrip food supply.” And at the same meeting, said Father Sattler, Dr. G. V. Jacks, another eminent scientist, claimed that 100 years from now the world would be able to feed its probable population of six billion people. “We ask Dr. Fagley to keep in mind that artificial birth con trol is repugnant to the . moral sense and the family tradition of not only Catholics, but to men of good will of all nations where birth control advocates wish to introduce their contra ceptives and chemicals,” Father Sattler said. “And we ask, when the position of the Catholic Church in any matter is criti cized on Biblical, theological and sociological grounds at World Council meetings, that the speakers be more competent in their fields than Dr. Fagley has been at Buck Hill Falls.” Dr. Fagley is executive secre tary of the commission of the churches of international af fairs, a joint agency of the World Council of Churches and the International Missionary Council. He spoke at the annual meeting of the United States Conference for the World Coun cil of Churches in Buck Hill Falls. He took issue with the “rigid” position of Pope Pius XI in a 1930 encyclical, which, he said, held that the conjugal act “is destined primarily for the be getting of children” and that those who deliberately frustrate its natural power, commit a sin against nature and a deed in trinsically vicious and shameful. Dr. Fagley claimed that there are “millions of Catholic lay men who disagree with their church in this matter.” He call ed for a speedy development and extension of “effective and inexpensive” methods of birth control to stifle the “popula tion explosion” in under-devel oped areas of the world. © PRECAST CONCRETE ® READY-MIXED CONCRETE © CONCRETE PIPE MORRIS READY-MIXED CONCRETE, Inc. 425 BARBER ST. PHONE LI. 8-1331 ATHENS, GEORGIA STOP AT THE GEORGIAN HOTEL ATHENS, GEORGIA 100% AIR CONDITIONED O CHILDREN FREE • FREE PARKING • FREE RADIO, TELEVISION Alwyn B. Stiles, Manager BOTH NATURAL AND DIVINE LAW BAN BIRTH CONTROL, PRIESTS POINT OUT IN ANSWERING ATTACK ON CHURCH Question Box (Continued From Page Four) time they leave the home, it is bound to happen that a woman will find herself about to make a visit to church (on the way home from the store, for in stance) and suddenly discover she is without a hat. A similar predicament may even arise on the occasion of a scheduled church service, though rarely. But all that is required by Church law is a head covering of some kind. Even a shawl or a handkerchief or any like arti cle will meet this requirement. EVEN MORE IMPORTANT than having one’s head covered in church, of course, is being dressed modestly and with de corum. Many styles perfectly ac ceptable for work or recreation would be completely out of place in so sacred a place as church. * * * habits are set against it. It is as if a scientist were to produce arguments in favor of walking on all fours: we should find the idea repulsive, all our bodily habits would be set against us. That indeed is no bad compari son. The man who knows of the universe of spirit walks upright, the materialist hugs the earth. Next week we come at last to God. The only driving force found in some men is the force of habit. IMVfcSI IN HcAL ESTATE . usiM (Fovt/fuitestoz | JA 2-9261 —opfUTY MANAGEMENT CLOUDT’S FOOD SHOP 1933 PEACHTREE, N. E. TR. 6-7523 ATLANTA, GA. UN NY’S SLENDEiK SALON Q. Whaf about Catholic teen agers joining Protestant youth clubs? It seems to be a fad in some parts of our city. A. Membership in and attend ance at non-Catholic church youth clubs is generally forbid den to Catholic boys and girls. Even when such clubs do not offer an obviously sectarian pro gram (usually characterized by hymn-singing, sermons and Bible interpretation), they tend to impress youngsters wiih the erroneous notion that all re ligions are equally acceptable, thus influencing them to relig ious indifferenlism. RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENT- ISM is not only the most serious danger with regard to such clubs. It is also the most insid ious. For whereas most normal Catholic teenagers possessed of a basic knowledge of the Faith are not likely to be drawn di rectly into adopting the doctrin al or moral errors maintained by Protestant and other non- Catholic sects, they are still quite impressionable enough to assume the attitude that one re ligion is as good as another. PARENTS, of course, have the primary obligation in con science of seeing to it that their sons and daughters do not join or attend Protestant and other non-Catholic church youth or ganizations. "Physical Fitness Is Our Specialty" Opposite Atlanta Journal JA. 4-4531 5 FORSYTH ST., N. W. ATLANTA, GA. ALDO’S Italian Restaurant & Drive-In 1501 CAMPBELLTON ROAD • Atlanta's Newest and Finest Italian Restaurant 11:30 A. M. — 12:00 P. M. Complete Italian and American Dinners PIZZA — SPAGHETTI CHARCOAL BROILED STEAKS Take-Out Service WE THREW THE KEYS AWAY PLAZA PHARMACY OPEN ALL NIGHT 1061 Ponce de Leon, Corner Highland, Elgin 0381 Atlanta, Georgia Theology for The Layman (Continued From Page Four) the way to work, in periods of insomnia. He should keep on looking at the relation between having parts and occupying space till he sees, really sees, that a partless being cannot be in space. He should keep on looking at the relation between having parts and ceasing to ex ist, till he sees as clearly that a partless being cannot ever be anything but itself. But the battle is never won. Space will come creeping back. We find ourselves, for example, thinking of sin as a stain on the soul. This is a common figure of speech, and does no harm to the instructed mind. But we are not ready for figures of speech yet, we should stick to plain prose. A stain is a discoloration, a color that happens to be the wrong color in that particular place. But you cannot have col or without space: the soul does not occupy space, and is no suitable ground, therefore, for discoloration. We should try to bring to gether, to see together, all these separate truths about spirit. One way is to concentrate upon our own soul, the spirit we know best — wholly itself, for ever itself, doing each thing that it does with its whole self. We may think of the soul as a ma chine, but a machine with no parts, possessing its existence, generating its ideas, in the one simple, spaceless reality which it is. The ideas it generates are not in space, but they have brought the conquest of space within our reach — if they do not blow our world into outer space first. And with all that power, the human soul is the lowest of spirits. The least of the angels is unimaginably su perior in power (those baby an gels, all cute and cuddly, which disfigure our children’s books, have nothing to do with angels.) It is not enough to have learn ed what spirit is. We must build the knowledge into the very structure of our minds. Seeing spiritual reality must become one of the mind’s habits. When it does, we have reached the first stage of maturity. Materi alism, however persuasively ar gued, can no longer take hold on us. We may not always be able to answer the arguments, but it makes no difference. Material ism is repulsive, all our mental St. Joseph’s Infirmary School of Nursing ATLANTA, GEORGIA founded 1900 Conducted by Ihe RELIGIOUS SISTERS OF MERCY OF THE UNION Apply: Director School of Nursing Tel. No. JA. 5-4681 RHODES-HAVERTY BLDG. ATLANTA 1, GEORGIA Jackson 1-0316 Long Distance 421 Ideal Gleaners & Laundry 331 Northside Drive Phone LE. 4-5171 GAINESVILLE, GA. THE UTMML BANK Of ATHENS AN ATHENS INSTITUTION SINCE FEB. 20TH, 1866 ATHENS, GEORGIA
