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PAGE 4—THE BULLETIN, September 19, 1959
JOSEPH BREiG
HOW BEST TO VOTE
Any citizen, who really be
lieved that it would be impos
sible for a Catholic, because he
was a Catholic, to be a good
U. S. president would, of course,
have to cast his ballot against a
Catholic can
didate — no
matter what
the candi-
date’s qualifi
cations.
O t herwise,
the citizen
would be vio
lating his conscience and voting
against his convictions concern
ing the' best, interests of his
country.
Conversely, any citizen who
really believed that any Cath
olic, because he was a Catholic,
would inevitably make the best
possible president, would have
to vote that way.
Otherwise, he too would be
violating his conscience and
acting against his convictions
about America’s best interests.
THE TROUBLE IS that in
each of these cases — and in
one as much as the other — the
citizen would be acting on a
grossly mistaken judgment, due
to misinformation, or bad logic,
or bad theology, or confused pa
triotism — or all four.
It is a happy circumstance,
therefore, that the discussion
about the possibility of a Cath
olic in thd White House gives
all of us an opportunity to re
think the basic principles of
good citizenship and right-
minded voting.
Let us suppose, for the sake
of this rethinking, that a Catho
lic has been nominated.
Immediately I as a citizen and
a Catholic, must address myself
to the task of deciding whether
I will vote for the Catholic or
for his opponent, who is (let us
say) a Presbyterian of great
worth.
MY FIRST DUTY is to put
out of my mind everything that
might warp my judgment. May
be in my boyhood a Presbyteri
an lad punched my nose. May
be nothing; it really happened!)
Maybe I have known some
Presbyterians, who seemed un
sociable and censorious.
No matter; such considera
tions are irrelevant, unworthy
and irrational. I am not being
asked to vote for or against
Presbyterians generally or the
Presbyterian .rCljufch. My job is
to look at the particular Presby
terian who is up for president,
and judge his candidacy by
what he is and what policies he
favors.
Equally, I have no right to
leap to the conclusion that the
Catholic candidate, because he
is a Catholic, will make a better
president. Above all, I do not
have the faintest right to vote
for him without caring whether
he will better serve the country.
NO; IT IS MY MORAL
DUTY — and my conscience
tells me so — to examine as
best I may the records of the
two men; to listen to their
speeches; to inquire into -their
integrity and wisdom, and to
support the one whom I judge
best fitted to guide the nation.
This is true not only for me
as a Catholic; it is true also for
Protestants and Jews, and for
citizens who profess no particu
lar church connection.
Voting is a serious business.
To vote honestly and intelli
gently, for the greatest good of
the nation, is a moral obliga
tion of every citizen. God de
mands civic virtue of every
one.
There are some Americans, it
seems clear, who think that a
Catholic president could not
possibly be a good chief execu
tive — could not be trusted to
keep the oath of office. This is
emphatically a mistaken atti
tude.
TRUE, AS LONG AS a cit
izen is convinced that it is the
right attitude, he must vote ac
cordingly. But he has another
duty to God and America —
and to himself. He has the obli
gation of investigating his atti
tude to discover whether it is
rational or irrational.
If he will do that open-mind-
edly, he will come to realize
that blind prejudice is bad for
America, and bad for the person
who is prejudiced.
I do not expect to see preju
dice vanishing — although it
appears to be diminishing. But I
am certainly not going to let
prejudice against Catholics trick
me ■'into prejudice against any
body else.
If it should come about that
a Catholic were nominated, he
and his party would simply
have to convince me that he
was the better candidate. Other
wise, I would vote for his op
ponent.
Theology
For The
Layman
(By F. J. Sheed)
Every single action of Christ
was the action of the Second
Person of the Blessed Trinity,
and this includes every action
done by Him in His human
nature. For natures are sources
of action, but
not doers. It
is always the,
person who
does them and.
in His human
nature, there
was but one
single per-
• son, and that
person God. There was no hu
man person, for that would have
made Him two people, each with
His own distinct nature. His hu
man nature was complete. But
it was united to a divine person,
not a human person. He who
said I in it was God, not man.
We may make this clearer
by glancing at two great Chris
tian truths — Mary was the
mother of God, God died upon
the Cross.
I remember as though it were
yesterday the first time a street-
corner heckler said to me “If
Mary was the mother of God,
she must have existed before
God.” I was a newcomer to the
outdoor work of , the Catholic
Evidence Guild, and I simply
gaped at him. In a superior voice
he went on “You realize of
course, or don’t you, that moth
ers come before sons.” The im
mediate answer, though I did
not handle the question very
brilliantly at the time, is that
mothers must exist before their
sons are born; and Our Blessed
Lady did exist before the Sec
ond Person of the Trinity was
born into human nature; that
this one Son already existed in
His divine'nature does not alter
the truth that it was in her
womb that He was conceived
as man, from her womb born
into our world. His eternal
existence as Son of His heavenly
Father does not by one jot
diminish what she gave Him.
-There is nothing received by
any human, being from his
mother, which He did not .re-
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How Do You Rate
on Facts of Faith
By Brian Cronin
1. Acolyte is another name for: (a) The Holy Ghost? (b) The
Pope? (c) Altar Boy? (d) Apostle?
2. The sprinkler which the priest holds in his hand to sprinkle
holy water during church ceremonies is called the: (a)
Thurible? (b) Crosier? (c) Aspergillum? (d) Censer?
3. Only one of the Apostles was present at the Crucifixion.
He was: (a) John the Baptist? 'b) Peter? (c) James the
Greater? (d) John the Beloved?
4. Where did the Ascension of Jesus occur? (a) Garden of
Gethsemane? (b) Mount Calvary? (c) Mount of Olive?
(d) Mount Sinai?
5. Who is the patron saint of housewives? (a) St. Agnes?
(b) St. Anne? (c) St. Margaret? (d) St. Zita?
6. The days of special penance marking the four seasons of
the year are called: (a) Rogation Days? (b) Ember Days?
(c) Vigils?
7. In 1926, the first American to be appointed an Apostolic
Delegate was assigned to represent the church in India.
He was: (a) Cardinal Mooney? (b) Bishop Sheen? (c) Cardi
nal Spellman? (d) Cardinal Stritch?
8. What does the Pope’s benediction “Urbi et Orbi” mean?
(a) “Pray for peace”? (b) “To the city and the world”?
(c) “Blessings to the world”? (d) “Peace and prosperity”?
Give yourself 10 marks for each correct answer below.
Rating: 80-Excellent; 70-Very Good; 60-Good; 50-Fair
Answers: 1 (c); 2 (c); 3 (d); 4 (c); 5 (b);
6 (b); 7 (a); 8 (b)
CIA Warns Gullible Americans
THE BACKDROP
Jottings ...
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
(By David Q. Liptak)
Q. As Catholics, must we ac
tually hold that the Bible was
written by God rather than by
men? If so, why do we use such
expressions as "the Gospel of
St. Matthew.” or "the Epistles
of St. Paul?" Are there any
passages in the Bible itself indi
cating that it was written by
God?
A. Catholics must hold that
the Sacred Scriptures were
written under a special divine
influence, specifically attributed
to the Holy Spirit, and known
as inspiration. By virtue of this
special divine influence the hu-
0L an _a u thojs of the books of the
Bible (i. e., St. Matthew, Moses,
etc.) were moved and impelled
to write in such a manner that
1) they correctly understood,
then 2) willed faithfully to put
down in writing, and finally 3)
expressed in apt words and with
infallible truth all the things —
and those things only — which
the Holy Spirit ordered.
IN THIS SENSE, the Holy
Spirit was the principal Author
of the Scriptures, while the hu
man writers functioned as Sec
ondary or.-instrumental authors.
Since human beings are free
agents and vary in personality
and mode of expression, the pre
cise how, of divine inspiration
remains a profound mystery.
THE BIBLE ITSELF does at
test to the fact of its own in
spiration. In the New Testa
ment, there are two complemen
tary texts which demonstrate
that the Old Testament was
written by God. In the first of
these (II Timothy III: 16), St.
Paul says: “All Scripture is in
spired by God and useful for
teaching, for reproving, for cor
recting, for instructing and in
justice ...” In the second (II
St. Peter 1:20), the first Supreme
Pontiff recalls that the prophet
ic utterances of the Old Law
were of divine, not human ori
gin: “No prophecy of Scripture
is made by private interpreta
tion. For not by will of man
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SHARING OUR TREASURE
Good Example And Inquiry Class
Win Convert
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, Ph. D.
(University of Notre Dame)
Have you ever brought a non-
Catholic friend to an Inquiry
Class? If not, you are, failing
to avail yourself of an excel
lent means of helping to win a
convert. Many, who are not suf
ficiently inter
ested to ring
the rectory
doorbell and
ask for in
structions, will
attend when
they are in
vited. This is
illustrated by
the experience of Mrs. Anne S.
McManus of Whittier, Cali
fornia.
“I was reared,” related Anne,
“as a Christian Scientist in
Rochester, New York, where my
father is principal of a grade
school. While at Middlebury
College, however, I attended the
daily chapel and Sunday Vesper'
service. I enjoyed the hymn
singing and the sermons, as
they seemed to be more like
what a church service should
be than the Christian Science
service.
“In the spring of 1939 I met
James R. McManus and we be
gan to date. I discovered that
Jim was a Catholic who knew
His religion and loved it. It was
n’t long before we were deep
ly in love. Jim explained many
things about the Catholic reli
gion and arranged for me to
receive a course of pre-marital
instructions at Old St. Mary’s
Church in Rochester.
“We were married outside the
altar rail in October. Jim at
tended Mass regularly and I
went with him. I could see how
much his religion meant to him,
and how much it influenced his
life. He backed up the practice
of his Faith with a good Chris
tian life. This made a deep im
pression on me.
“In September 1941 Jim en
rolled at the University of
Illinois to complete a semester
needed for his B. S. degree. We
attended Mass at the beautiful
Catholic chapel at the Univer
sity. One Sunday the priest an
nounced that an Inquiry Class
would be conducted for all inter
ested in knowing more about the
Catholic religion, without com
mitting anyone to embrace it.
“That rang a bell for me. Jim
came with me, and we found
the course, conducted by Father
Gerald McMahon, O. S. B., one
of the assistant chaplains, most
interesting. The credential that
proved most convincing to me
was the fact that the Church
was founded directly by Christ
and had been governed by the
successors of the Apostle Peter
for more that 19 centuries —
five centuries before a Protes
tant sect was established.
“While I had probably known
these historical facts for years,
their practical implications nev
er seemed to have dawned upon
me. Now they did. If the Catho
lic Church had been founded
by Christ and authorized to
teach in His naihe, then it ,and
it alone, is the one true Church
and I shohld delay no longer in
joining it.
“My parents were not only
unopposed to my conversion but
were happy about the proposed
step, particularly my father. In
his work as a grade school prin
cipal he had seen much un
happiness stemming from mixed
marriages. His own grand
parents were Irish Catholic im
migrants who had settled in the
country where there was no
Catholic church and had grad
ually drifted away.
“On March 28, 1942, I was ■
baptised and received my first
Holy Communion the following
day with Jim kneeling at my
side — two red-letter days in
my life! I had but returned to
the Faith of my forebears, as
may be truly said of every con
vert from Protestantism. Now
Jim and I pray together, receive
the sacraments together, and re- sons i 0 } llm a ( Notre Dame Uni-
joice together when any of our verS ity, Notre Dame, Indiana.
"Please be a little boy again
and I will be a little girl and
nothing is trite and nothing is
old. We can smile gently at a
ripe grape and satisfy our
hunger with a raisin."
• THE STORY IS TOLD of
the old professor who queried
his class at the beginning of his
course as to what they expected
to learn from him. The students
replied that they wanted to
learn how to be happy and suc
cessful and to understand the
peoples of the whole world. The
old professor turned away sad
ly for he knew the secret to
none of these things. Heading
the best-seller list today is a
book entitled “T h e Status
Seekers.” It could be subtitled
“the American concept of suc-
cesss.” It tells of the American
preoccupation for getting ahead
and keeping up appearances. It
tells that the car you drive, the
church you attend, your vocab
ulary and accent, the political
party you favor, your choice of
furniture and food all stamp
you as a member of a certain
social class. Sadly enough suc
cess is too often defined in the
American vocabulary as wealth,
fame, social status. Is it really?
Are there very many who
would dare discard the worldly
definitions of success and go the
way of a “Mr. Blue?”
* * *
• IT WOULD BE INTER
ESTING to take a random suc
cess survey on a busy street-
corner some noontime. The an
swers would be quite different
if they were to remain anony
mous. If a reporter were to ap
proach you this moment and
ask you: What do you consider
success? Are you successful? Do
you think you will ever at
tain success? Think about the
answers you would give if your
name accompanied the inter
view or if you were to remain
anonymous. What is it we strive
all our days to possess? The
sociologists and psychologists
and advertisers say that it is
status, acceptance, belonging.
Most people believe, it seems,
that happiness is the bonus
which comes with success. They
operate on the theory that once
they are in the right section of
town, belonging to the right
club, landing in the president’s
chair, that they will be auto
matically successful and happy.
Although this theory has been
disproven time and time again,
men feverishly strain for the
top rung thinking that success
and happiness finally await
their grasp like a pot of gold
at the end of the rainbow.
• WHAT IS SUCCESS real
ly? Does it have anything to do
with tangibles and accumula
tions and fame and wealth and
power? Some have ventured to
say that it is being able to ad
just to the world and the peo-
four children is baptised, makes
his first Communion or is con
firmed, and we are closer and
happier than ever before.”
Father O’Brien will be grate
ful to readers who know, of any
one who has won two or more
converts if they will send the
names and addresses of such per-
Servicas For
Frank T. Reese
AUGUSTA, — Funeral serv
ices for Frank Thomas Reese,
were held September 5th, at
St. Patrick’s Church, Rev. Ar
thur Weltzer officiating.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Helen Mura Reese, one son,
Glenn Francis, his father, Tho
mas W. Reese, Augusta; one sis
ter, Mrs. Agnes R. Harper, Au
gusta; and other relatives.
Atlanta Services
M iss Arline Schuily
ATLANTA, — Funeral serv
ices for Miss Arline Izabella
Scully were held September 5th,
at the Sacred Heart Church,
Rev. C. J. Diggers officiating.
Survivors are Miss Mary
Scully, Miss Genevieve Scully,
Col. and Mrs. James W. Scully,
Falls Church, Va.; Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander Scully, Wilmington,
North Carolina.
As Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev sets foot on Ameri
can soil and begins spreading
his message of peaceful co
existence, it would be well for
Americans to keep in mind an
appraisal o f
Soviet objec
tives made as
recently as
the latter part
of August by
the C e n t r al
Intel ligence
Agency of the
United States
government.
As if to warn gullible Ameri
cans not to be tempted to accept
Khrushchev’s honeyed words at
face value, CIA publicized its
considered judgement that So
viet aims are inflexible.
“The objective of communism
is abundantly c 1 e a r,” says
the latest CIA pronouncement.
“The communists want to rule
the world. They want to abolish
free society. They have, in fact,
announced their intention of
world domination and they are
determined to carry out their
intention.”
SUBVERSION AT
OUR DOORSTEPS
On the very eve of Khrush
chev’s departure for the United
States, supposedly on a mission
of good-will, the communists
were up to their ears in sub
versive activities not only in
the Far and Middle East but at,
our very doorsteps in the Carib
bean and in Latin America.
By JOHN C. O’BRIEN
In Laos, a small free country
in what was formerly Indochina,
they are carrying on a program
of subversion, propaganda,
penetration and force designed
to snuff out the liberties of a
valiant but weak people.
In Iraq we find communist
subversion, propaganda and
penetration and at least an
incitement to murder.
A vehement program of
propaganda and subversion is
being directed against the Shah
of Iran. The communists are
working day and night to split
Iran away from other nations
of the free world with which
she has voluntarily alighed
herself.
In May of this year, at the
very time Khrushchev was
angling for an invitation to visit
the United States, a Soviet
intelligence officer, Vadim
Kotchergin, was sent to Cuba
under the guise of a member
of a Soviet Trade union dele
gate to guide Cuban communists
on how to exploit and penetrate
the government of Fidel Castro.
In Mexico and Argentina, the
Soviet Union has interfered in
trade union activities to the
point of offending the national
sovereignity of those nations.
At the moment Soviet agents
are seeking to promote a “Con
gress of Latin American Peo
ples.” The communist aim is to
undermine the amity and co
operation of member-peoples of
the Organization of American
States. This aim is to be dis-
guished under ,fhe pretended
purpose of defending the in
ternal resources of the Latin
American countries against “im
perialist and capitalist” exploi
tation.
SECRET TRAINING
Latin American communists,
in ever-increasing numbers, are
being trained in the Soviet
Union in the techniques of gain
ing power, leading to the estab
lishment of communist dictator
ships. Their training is describ
ed by CIA as “clandestine from
beginning to end.”
The trainees are aided by So
viet agents in obtaining illegal
travel documents in defiance of
their own and other govern
ments in order to travel to the
training sites within the Soviet
Union. They are being taught
to exploit honest and legitimate
national aspirations of the na
tive Latin American political
parties, labor unions and other
democratic institutions.
One of the Soviet’s primary
instruments in Latin America is
the Confederation of Workers
with headquarters in Mexico.
This Confederation, headed by
Vicente Lombardo Toledano, is
the regional liaison bureau for
the World Federation of Trade
Unions, which has headquarters
in Prague but is controlled from
Moscow.
Whatever olive-branch wav
ing Khrushchev indulges in the
United States probably will turn
out to be a smoke screen to
divert our attention from the
active subversion now being
carried on throughout the world.
pie around you, it is a coming
to terms with life. Others say
life is a series of successes and
failures. It is not one sudden
burst of passing the finish line.
Setting out to accomplish a
certain thing, such as winning
a sailboat race or being com
pany vice-president, and doing
it is all part of the bits and
pieces that make success. Look
around you and see the type of
persons you consider successes.
Would you want to-Cfcange plac
es with them? Is a Catholic or
Christian’s concept of success
different from others? I asked
my students once to define suc
cess. They did very well. It was
not defined in terms of money.
It was defined as reaching hea
ven, doing God’s will, choosing
the good in all things, living up
to the ideal exemplified by
Christ.. Will these concepts of
success stay with them after
they leave the cloistered cam
pus? Will they, too, with their
families join the race for status
in the material symbols of jobs,
houses, cars, clothes, clubs, in
terests?
• AS FOR ME, success has
nothing to do with externals.
The man who appears as the
worst failure in the eyes of the
world may in reality be the
biggest success story. I am
thinking of my hero, “Mr.
Blue,” who lived gloriously. It
has nothing to do with health
or wealth or fame or power. It
is an inner peace and content
ment which tells a man whether
he - is successful or not. He
knows it each night as he goes
to bed and again each morning
as he awakes. Each man can
measure for himself the extent
of his success, no charts or
graphs or books can tell him.
Sometimes we can best measure
success by failure. In T. S. El
liot’s latest book “The Elder
Statesman,” he defines para
doxically the successful failure
in these terms: “What do I call
failure? The worst kind of fail
ure, in my opinion, is the man
who keeps on pretending to
himself that he’s a success. The
man who in the morning has to
make up his face before he
looks in the mirror.”
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View
"WHAT, ME WORRY?"
Science is always destroying
pleasant myths we have held for
centuries. Now a prominent
biologist has come along and
attacked our honored belief
about the owl and his wisdom.
“He’s not wise,” says the
biologist, “he’s dumb. He’s
dumber than a chicken, if that’s
possible. If it weren’t for his
extraordinarily sensitive ears
(his eyes are only incidental in
hunting), the owl would proba
bly starve to death. An owl go
ing after mice in pitch dark is
guided to the quarry purely by
sounds.”
What’s so dumb about that?
I’d like to see Mr. Biologist catch
a mouse by sound in pitch
darkness. Or in broad daylight,
for that matter. We have to con
cede that most people are
smarter than owls; therefore he’s
pretty dumb by our standards.
But what’s so erudite about
chickens? At least the owl
doesn’t end up on our dinner
table without his head.
I don’t mean to argue with
science in its prejudice against
owls. It’s just that I used to
know a charming owl who lived
right outside of my window. In
time we became rather good
friends. I must admit I usually
carried the conservation; all he
would say was “whoo” (or
“whoom” as the case might be).
You couldn’t beat the simple
dignity of his bearing.
Which brings me to the point.
The Sunday newspapers, in an
article entitled “The Sermons
America Wants to Hear,” listed
this topic as one that should be
treated by every preacher who
wants an enraptured congrega
tion: “How Can Religion Elimi
nate Worry and Tension?”
This is serving religion a big
order. If we could somehow get
all worry and tension out of our
lives, we’d soon be like the owl,
just perched day and night
staring through big round eyes.
Since God gave us a mind to
figure out things and nerves
with which to feel things, prob
lems are a part of our life.
Especially since Adam and Eve
got things off to a bad start.
Dogs, cats, zebras, aardvarks
and owls are not intelligent be
ings. Therefore, no worries. But
who wants to be an aardvark or
an owl? Nor does Mr. Owl ever
suffer from tension like we do.
He has nerves, I suppose. But
he has never had to drive
through Washington or write a
column or listen to the kids
arguing about who’s going to
sit next to the car window.
As long as we remain thinking
creatures with all the mixups
this brings about, we have to
accept the consequence: jitters.
It’s one thing or another. Cad-
waller will have the fear that
he’ll never be able to pay for
all those Christmas presents.
Tomorrow’s visit to the dentist
can make life seem like it’s not
worth all this. Parents will
worry how they’ll ever pay the
grocery bill now that Junior is
6’4” tall and weighs 210 — even
though he’s only 12 years old.
How do we go about ridding
ourselves of tension completely?
All we have to do is stop nations
from squabbling, do away with
politics, agree on religion, ban
rock ‘n’ roll, cease competition
in business, take the horns off
automobiles, declare Commu
nism non-existent, forbid the
kids to get sick, and tell dogs
they shouldn’t bark when we’re
trying to sleep.
The point, of course, is that
religion will never eliminate all
worry and tension until we get
our wings and halos. For that
matter, my latest divine revela
tions indicate that even in the
heavenly regions someone is al
ways fretting because he wanted
pink wings instead of blue. It’s
unrealistic and un-Christian to
expect all troubles and tempta
tions to terminate, all disagree
able things to disappear.
Before we all drown our dis
appointment in a Coke, how
ever, let me say that religion
can do a lot to reduce worry and
tension. Or, to put it another
way, religion can help us to
live with the worries and to
survive the tensions of life.
It’s all a matter of solid con
victions. We know that God
loves us and watches over us
with tender care. Sure, we know
because it’s a teaching of the
Church. But when we become
really convinced of the Provi
dence of God, our burdens are
not nearly so heavy.
Evqn since we were little
shavers tormenting Sister in
class, we have known that we’re
on this planet to know and
love and serve God. Yet if we
became really convinced of this
Catechism truth, we’d breeze
through the difficulties of life
like the saints did.
We are sure Christ died for
us because He loves us. Yet
we’re often lonely, insecure and
troubled because the truth just
doesn’t sink in deeply.
Religion will never make a
Paradise on earth, of course. It’s
not supposed to. Some trouble
and bother is going to be present
unless we can turn into carrots
or oak trees. Alfred E. Neuman,
who grins ridiculously from the
cover of “Mad” magazine, is al
ways saying:-“What me worry?”
He’s too stupid to worry. And
the old owl, even though he has
a certain charm, doesn’t worry
because he hasn’t that much
intelligence.
Being endowed with this in
telligence is quite a privilege;
but it has its drawbacks. It
means we’ll worry and be tense
sometimes. Firm convictions
about the truths of our Faith,
however, will keep the worries
from becoming obsessions and
the tensions from becoming
nervous breakdowns.
If we don’t grit our teeth and
decide to live our Faith in
earnest, the only solution is to
lock ourselves in our room and
never go out. But, even then,
we’d worry about what’s going
on outside.
Services For
W. L. Harrington
AUGUSTA, — Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Elizabeth Keene
Harrington were held Augus
29th, at St. Mary’s-on-the-Hil
Church, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Daniel J
Bourke officiating.
Survivors are four sister;
Mrs. Bell Armstrong of Augusts
Mrs. Bertha K. Wright, of Char
lotte, N. C.; Mrs. Edmund K
Stovall, of Hollywood, Calif,
and Miss Ruth F. Keener o
Augusta; and several nieces am
nephews.
People who borrow money to
get themselves out of a rut us
ually end up in the hole.
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v °l- 40 Saturday, September 19, 1959 No. 3
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1958-1959
GEORGE GINGELL, Columbus 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 CECILE FERRY, Augusta Financial Secretary