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THE BULLETIN, October 17, 1959—PAGE 7 Doris Jewelry Store Augusta, Ga. 913 Broad Street John B. Murray Co, REALTORS Real Estate — General Insurance Loans 122 EIGHTH STREET PHONE PA. 2-6673 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA General Electric Heating and Air Conditioning For The Home Sicj C^ox 1431 Greene St. Phone PA. 2-3556 Pearce - Young - Angel Company WHOLESALE FOODS Fresh • Canned • Dried • Frozen BETTER BUY BIRDSEYE BOOK REVIEWS EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 Old Jonesboro Road, Hapeville, Georgia Each issue of this Book Page is confided to the patronage of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, v/ith the hope that every read er and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. PRIZE STORIES 1959: The O. Henry Awards, Edited by Paul Engle, Doubleday, $3.95. (Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester) This group of fifteen stories is Paul Engle’s idea of the best appearing in United States periodicals between July 1957 and June 1958. Because most of the stories are very fine wrappings surrounding a hard core of nothing very much, the anthology as a whole is a rath er appalling testament. It re minds us that decadent socie ties are characterized by over- refined art forms as hollow as last year’s cicada shells. A clever story by Jean Stafford . dwindles into a conclusion that’s merely cute. James Bald win spreads the selfpity of his main character so thickly that seemingly only an utterly ir responsible intelligence could lend it sympathy. Thomas Wil liams presents a case for euthanasia as forcefully as any one could do, apparently with out awareness of the peculiar deficiencies of his position. Somewhat exceptional is Tom Filer’s “The Last Voyage,” a sort of Hemingway exercise which has the special virtue of a recognizably adult main character. Rather an odd story is Thomas Turner’s third place winner, “Something to Ex plain,” a study of actions re sulting from a government security check. Also odd is the first place winner, Peter Tay lor’s “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time.” Mr. Taylor brings to gether a collection of monumen- taly trival people and galva nizes them with a vulgar joke; this story has more down right dull spots than any other in the collection. Like mountains on a plain are two stories in the collection, second prize winner George Elliott’s “Among the Dangs” and Flannery O’Connor’s “A View of the Woods.” Mr. Elliott does not write with Miss O’ Connor’s phenomenally power ful economy, but he appears to have in common with her that peculiarity of our time, a com pulsion to explore the respon sibilities of the soul. Of soul searchers we have great hordes, but for the most part they re gard all they find as natural phenomena not to be disturbed with, questions. By the evidence of their work, Miss O’Connor and Mr. Elliott regard the will as at liberty to work on the soul, and through this vision their work emerges as some thing solid inside their artful packages. r idest e5 Your New Walton Way at 15th Street AUGUSTA, GEORGIA the cultural life of Japan. Mr. Suzuki traces its influence in swordsmanship, the art of tea, the Japanese love of nature, and in Japanese poetry, partic ularly haiku, the seventeen syllable verse form very popu lar Japan. Zen has impinged on the American consciousness lately by way of the highly vocal bohemian groups found currently in San Francisco and other large cities. These people, in their revolt from our exag gerated materialist values, turn more often to Zen than to Christianity. The Catholic reading Mr. Suzuki’s book will be interested in deducing from it reasons for this. Zen, although it te.aches poverty and charity and ethi cally bears a superficial resem- blence to Christianity, is non- conceptual, non-purposive, and non-historial, and therefore ad mirably suited to be exploited by the non-thinker and pseudo artist. It seems to have blended over the centuries with the Japanese character to produce delicate art forms such as haiku. Its insights are genuine but not suited to a vigorous art. It can combine itself readily with many cultures, philoso phies and theologies, but hardly with orthodox Christianity. One of Mr. Suzuki’s best illu strations of the incompatibility of Zen and Christianity is his comparison of the death scenes of Christ and the Buddha- — Christ, vertical in agony against the cross, the Buddha contentedly falling asleep on his couch. eekly Calendar Feast Days ZEN AND JAPANESE CUL TURE, Bollingen Series LXIV, by T. D. Suzuki, Pantheon, $8.50 (Reviewed by Flannery O'Connor) Unlike other forms of Bud dhism which have influenced the spiritual life mainly, Zen has influenced every phase of Some Parents Delay Too Long Spiritual Training Of Their Children, Ex-Governor States (N. C. W. C. News Service) SUNDAY, October 18 — St. Luke, Evangelist. He was a physician at Antioch in Syria, who was converted to Chris tianity and became a fellow- worker of St. Paul. In addition to the Third Gospel, he wrote the Acts of the Apostles. He preached in southeastern Eu rope after the death of St. Paul, and is venerated as a Martyr. A persistent tradition holds that St. Luke was a skilled artist. Various pictures of the Blessed Mother, venerated in Rome and elsewhere, are attributed to him. MONDAY, October 19 — St. Peter of Alcantara, Confessor. Early in life he entered the monastery of the Discalced Franciscans. He rose to high posts in the order, but inspired by a desire for penance, in 1539 when he was 40 years old he founded the first community of the “Strict Observance.” He died while kneeling in prayer in 1562. TUESDAY, October 20 — St. John Cantius, Confessor. He was born in Kenty, Poland, in 1403 and studied at Cracow. For a short time he was in charge of a parish but returned to Cracow as a professor. There for many years he lived a life of unobtrusive virtue, self- denial and charity. He died in 1473 and was canonized in 1767. WEDNESDAY, October 21 — St. Hilarion, Abbot. One of the best known Palestinian Soli taries, he was born near Gaza of pagan parents about 292, but while very young was bap tized and visited St. Anthony in Egypt. On his return to Palestine, he found his par ents dead, distributed his wealth to the poor, and retired to the wilderness of Egypt. THURSDAY, October 22 — St. Mary Salome, Widow. One of “the three Marys,” she was the wife of Zebedee and the mother of the Apostles St. James the Greater and St. John the Evangelist. She was one of the holy women who followed and ministered to Our Lord at His Crucifixion and burial, and who witnessed His Resurrection. FRIDAY, October 23 — St. Theodore, Martyr. He was tor tured before being slain be cause he assembled the Chris tians at Antioch after the Church had been closed by Julian, and uncle of the em peror of that name and, like him, an apostate. SATURDAY, October 24 — St. Raphael, Archangel. One of the three Angels venerated by name in the Church. St. Raphael, according to the Book of Tobias, is “one of the seven who stood before the Lord.” Many churches are dedicated to him. (N.C.W.C. News Service) PORTLAND, Ore., — Too many parents, well intentioned in other fields, delay the spirit ual education of their children until they reach school age, Michael Stepovich, former Gov ernor of Alaska, declared. Addressing the 10th North west regional congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doc trine, Mr. Stepovich said the labors of parents in the up bringing of children is realized best in the moral and spiritual values which motivate the youngsters. Parents realize the impor tance of training in formative years in the matters of diet, health, good manners, obedi ence, respect for the property of others and respect for el ders, the former Governor said. “If we recognize the import ance of the training of the child in the home in the phy sical and social realm, we can not overlook its importance in the realm of the spiritual,” he said. “And yet, it is precisely this religious instruction which is too often postponed until the child reaches school age, even by parents who are not remiss in other fields. Delegates from Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Alaska were in attendance at the sessions. Host to the con vention was Archbishop Ed ward D. Howard of Portland. Mr. Stepovich spoke at a gen eral session at which Arch bishop Thomas A. Connolly of Seattle, Wash., presided. The former Governor stress ed the example of parents and a religious atmosphere in the home as an important means of child education in spiritual val ues. “In a household where a par ent begins the day with attend ance at daily Mass — where this is possible — the child will early appreciate this cus tom as a natural beginning of a day’s work,” he said. “It will then be easy to im press upon him that without God’s help we can do nothing. The habits of prayer that a child learns in his earliest years becomes as natural to him as putting on his shoes.” Mr. Stepovich, now a Fair banks, Alaska attorney, told the CCD group: “As God is our Father, and our teacher, Who taught us how to pray, so we, too, fulfill our role as ‘father’ by teaching our child to pray.” Mr. Stepovich suggested that family recitation of the Rosary, even before a child actually un derstands what it is, will lead to questions about it. “The parent then is in a posi tion to explain Christ’s Passion and Crucifixion for love of mankind. He finds himself teaching doctrine to the child in an informal but vital manner,” he said. The purpose of religious training at home, he said, is “to accomplish one particular thing —the reason of Christ’s life on earth.” The purpose of Christ’s life, the purpose of the family and the goal of parental teach ing, he said, “is that we may be one with God.” * Training sessions for the hun dreds of participants in the congress were held at St. Mary Academy here, at the Universi ty of Portland and at Maryl- hurst college. Presiding at those sessions were Bishops Joseph P. Doherty of Yakima, Wash; Francis P. Leipzig of Baker, Dermot O’Flanagan of Juneau, Alaska, and Bernard Topel of Spokane, Wash. At earlier meetings, Bishop Francis D. Gleeson, S.J., Vicar Apostolic of Alaska, and Auxil iary Bishop Thomas E. Gill of Seattle presided. Services For (VI rs. Argie Fox SAVANNAH-—Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Argie Walker Fox were held October 2nd at the Cathedral of St. John the Bap tist. Savannah Services Mrs. Mamie Schwartz SAVANNAH — Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Mamie Farrell Schwartz were held October 6th at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Survivors are several cousins, Mrs. W. J. Macher, Miss Ade laide M. Curry and Francis T. Curry, all of Savannah. Services For J. P. Mulherin Jr. AUGUSTA — Funeral serv ices for John Patrick Mulherin Jr. were held October 3rd at the Sacred Heart Church, Rev. Edward R. Shields, S.J., offici ating. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ethel Pearson Mulherin: two daughters, Mrs. Gary Palmer, Marietta, and Mrs. Robert Gwinn, California; one sister. Miss Louise Mulherin, Augusta, and five brothers, Rev. William A. Mulherin, S.J., New Orleans, La.; J. Harold Mulherin, Sav annah; J. Gerald Mulherin, Louis Mulherin and A. T. Mul herin, all of Augusta. World’s Poor Need Esteem Of Brothers More Than Food (N. C. W. C. News Service) SAN FRANCISCO — The world’s poor do not hunger for bread nor medical care, as much as they . do the’ esteem of their better-off brothers, says Mother Anna Dengel, a little dark-eyed woman who has given her life to helping the people of Asia and Africa. Mother Dengel, foundress of the Medical Mission Sisters, a community begun in the United States in 1925, said: “The people of underdevelop ed nations want to be considered on a level with others as human beings despite their ignorance, their illness, their poverty.” Mother Dengel went to Rawil- pindi, India, in 1920 as a lay medical doctor. She saw the need for an order of medical missionaries, so she founded one with the encouragement of Pope Pius XI. Now she keeps close contact with some 27 hospitals founded and staffed by her Medical Mission Sisters in India, Pakistan, Ghana, the Congo, the Orange. Free State, Nyasaland, Burma and Venezuela. She visited the San Francisco area as part of a tour of U. S. establishments in Atlanta, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Moun tain View. Her headquarters are in Rome. Mother Dengel is not one to scold or reprimand, but she is emphatic about small contribu tions made by Catholics for foreign medical aid. “We are like a grain of sand,” she says. “The Protestants do much more than we. And the mission bishops are so anxious to provide help if we can get it to them. True, much more has been done since World War II, but a tremendous amount re mains to be done ...” Mother Dengel believes that most Americans, and other Westerners, do not fully appre ciate the mission picture. “There is a considerable lack of knowl edge and understanding,” she says. “Too often the missions are glamorized. This is not the correct picture; the missions are interesting, challenging, but not glamorous. And I haven’t seen snakes or lions yet except in zoos ...” Mother Dengel is realistic in her appraisal of missionary needs: “You must be willing to work to learn the native lan guage, to learn their customs, their mentality,” she advises missionary aspirants. But she said the biggest ob stacle to missionary recruit ment is parental objections. “We would have lots more Medical Missionaries if we could have girls who really want to go and help. But par ents stand in their way. They just don’t understand the mis sions. They don’t know enough about them.” She added that in 34 years her congregation has lost only one missionary Sister as a result of communicable disease. She said, her Sisters get a month’s vacation in the moun tains each year. “On the other hand,” she says, “I can see that in a sense the parents make the real sacrifice. For us, and for those who want to go to the missions, we have the vocation. We have it in our hearts to go. But they don’t, yet they make the sacrifice and send their children. That is their contribution to Christ’s Church ...” Mother Dengel says there is great satisfaction in bringing medical aid to the peoples of underdeveloped lands. “One can see the people being helped to overcome disease and poverty and ignorance. They are very nice people in the mission lands, and they become your friends forever,” she said. Thaddeus Werynski Savannah Services SAVANNAH—Funeral serv ices for Thaddeus Werynski were held October 3rd at the Cathedral of St. John the Bap tist, Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James McNamara officiating. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Eduth Dupes Werynski, Savan nah: his mother, Mrs. John F. Werynski, Savannah; and a sister, Sister Cornelia Joseph, Sacred Heart Convent, Savan nah; and a number of cousins. Savannah Services Charles Sterling SAVANNAH — Funeral serv ices for Charles Sterling were held October 1st at the Chapel of the Little Sisters of the Poor. CARD. TEDESCHINI LEAVES HOSPITAL ROME (Radio, NC)—His Em inence Federico Cardinal Ted- eschini, Archpriest of the Vati can Basilica, has left the hos pital after a month’s convalesc ence from an intestinal opera tion. After the operation it was feared for a time that the life of the prelate, who was 86 on October 12, was in danger. TWO GOOD DRUG STORES MONTE SANO PHARMACY 1426 MONTE SANO AVE. AUGUSTA, GA. KINGS WAY PHARMACY 2106 KINGS WAY AUGUSTA, GA. F. E. FERRIS & CO. Hickey-Freeman Clothes Botany /# 500 f/ Clothes Arrow Shirts Dobbs Hats Florsheim Shoes 752 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA out hern Cdt (Corporation i nance REALTORS Real Estate and Renting Insurance — Mortgage Loans AUGUSTA, GA. (CUP AND MAIL) AIR FRANCE 1620 Rhodes-Haveriy Bldg. Atlanta, Georgia Please send free illustrated booklet describing your Catholic Pil grimage Program for I960.- NAME™ ADDRESS... CITY. ,. ZONE STATE...