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■ PAGE' 4—THE BULLETIN, December 26, 1959
Seriate Committee Investigates Drug Prices
JOSEPH BREIG
IF YOU LOVE HIM
Christmas is a many-million-
ed rejoicing. But at this time of
year, it would be good for each
of us to find a moment of soli
tude in which to ask, “What is
Christmas to me? What am I to
Christmas?”
It is easy,
s t a n d i n g at
the Crib, lis
tening to ca
rols, or revel
ing in the
glow of color
ed lights, to
think oneself
in love with
heart is not moved in the pres
ence of an infant?
And who is not reverent at
the thought of omnipotence
helpless, of the divine entering
the human for our sakes? It is
right and good that in the
Christmas season we should
feel the romance of redemption,
and be lifted up.
ALL THE SAME, the Christ
in the Crib is the same true God
and true man, the same Son of
God and Son of Man, as the
Christ on the Cross, and as the
Christ Who taught and com
manded.
He had seven level words for
■us that sum up and define our
• right relationship with Him. “If
you love Me, keep My com-
: mandments.” That is the test
we must apply.
' If we love Him, we keep His
J commandments. We do not, per-
: haps, begin by keeping them in
'complete perfection, or continue
invariably in total loyalty. But
. at very least we fight our way
toward that goal.
THAT IS OUR AIM and our
; heart’s desire. For this we strive
•and do not stop striving. If we
‘fall, we repent and get up and
go on. Though we fall time and
'again, we will not quit.
“He who hears you, hears
’Me,” Christ said to His apostles.
•“He who despises you, despises
| Me.” And before that, He spoke
• to Simon—“Thou art the Rock,
'and upon this rock I will build
• My Church, and the gates of
‘Hell shall not prevail against
‘it.”
“If you love Me, keep My
^commandments.” And among
these are the commandments of
!the Chiych, even the least of
them, because Christ is in His
Church- “unto the-'consumption
'of the world.”
> "I WILL GIVE to thee,”
Christ said to *£eter the Rock,
■ “the keys to the Kingdom of
Heaven. And whatsoever thou
-——
shalt bind upon earth, it shall
be bound also in Heaven; and
whosoever thou shalt loose on
earth, it shall be lossed also in
Heaven.”
The appeal of the Infant in
the Crib reaches out to us, and
to respond is easy. But the in
fant, like the Man, would de
mand of us manfulness, were
He to speak. “If you love Me,
keep My commandments.”
To limit these commandments
to the ten given on Mount Sinai
and the six handed down by the
Church—to obey only the bare
essentials of those—would not
be the action of one who truly
loved Christ.
Kneeling at the Crib, can we
say that we are proving our
love by living the life of the
Church, and obeying and de
fending the many truths the
Church teaches? Or, perhaps,
do we reject the Church’s stand
on the rights of those of all
races?
DO WE HOLD our own nar
row and selfish opinion—and
not the Church’s—on the duty
of powerful nations to assist the
weak? On the natural right of
human beings to migrate to
areas where they can prosper?
“If you love Me, keep My
commandments.” One command
ment, given by Christ through
the Church, is as easy as not
eating meat on Friday. Another
is as difficult as loving one’s
enemies, or keeping marriage
holy.
Each of us has his own spe
cial problems. For one, it may
be a fierce nationalism, the ape
of patriotism, that counsels
against cooperation with other
peoples. For another, it is per
haps stinginess toward those in
need of toward one’s parish.
MAYBE INTELLECTUAL at
tainment, or wealth, or power,
attracts us more than the call to
holiness. But Christ, with that
level look, says, “What doth it
profit a man if he gain the
whole world and lose his im
mortal soul.”
Our weakness may be as con
temptible as lying abed when
we ought to be at Mass; or it
may be as huge and hellish as
pride that looks down upon
some, and fawns upon others.
But “if you love Me keep My
commandments.”
The Infant in Bethlehem
means that, every bit as much
as the Man dying on Golgotha.
Christmas and Calvary—they
are of one piece.
Theology
For The
Layman
By
F. J. Sheed
THE CHURCH IS
CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC
Christ, then, had chosen that
His work for the redemption of
men should be carried on while
the world should last—by Him
self, of course, but through a
society of men.
Peter (M a 11.
16-18) that He
should build
the Church
upon him, and
Peter must
have been at
once delighted
and puzzled,
wondering
what this Church might be.
With the words uttered just
before Our Lord's ascension into
heaven (Matt. 28, 19-20), the
nature, purpose and structure of
the Church were made clear.
Peter and the other apostles
were to be its key men; till the
end of time it would be Apos
tolic. And till the end of time it
would be Catholic.
The glory of this last word
is inexhaustible. Here we must
be content to look at its bare
meaning. Catholic, we say, is
from a Greek word meaning
universal. What does universal
mean? The word contains two
elements—all and one, all in
one.
In His first commission to
Peter, Our Lord had made clear
what He meant by “one”—His
Church was, to be built upon
the Rock, Peter was to have the
keys and a power to binding
and loosing which God Himself
would ratify. In His final com
mission to the Apostles, He
made clear what He meant by
“all”—a threefold all: all na
tions, all doctrines, all ages.
When we say the Nicene
Creed we call the Church “one,
holy, Catholic and apostolic.”
Rightly we speak of these as
her four marks. Pause upon the
marks. They mean outward
showings, visible to anyone
who troubles to look; they do
not require the eye of faith,
any rational observer can see
that they are there. He may not
see the importance the ''Catholic
sees in them, but once he knows
what we mean by the marks,
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He had promised
Jottings ..
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
Question
Box
By David Q. Liplak
Q. Would you please answer
these questions for me: 1) What
is meant by a "month's mind
Mass?" 2) Is there more than
one kind of Requiem Mass? 3)
Why is it that an announced
Mass for a deceased person is
sometimes said or sung in vest
ments other than black? and 4)
Why is it that Requiem Masses
cannot be celebrated except on
certain days?
A. “Month’s mind” is a popu
lar name designating the special
Requiem Mass used for the thir
tieth day following death or
burial.
A Requiem Mass is so called
from the first word of the In-
troit. Requiem means “rest,”
which is one of the three key
petitions found in the Mass. The
other two are peace and light.
Thus, , the opening sentence of
the Introit reads, “Eternal rest
give to them, O Lord; and let
perpetual light shine upon
.them.”
Requiem Masses are easily
distinguished from all others:
first; because they are celebrat
ed in black vestments; and sec
ondly, because of certain cere
monial variations (i.e., there is
no intrbductory J u d i c a no
t psalm, Gloria, Ite Missa est, or
Hast Blessing; the Agnus Dei is
(terminated differently, etc.).
There are, however, several
•specific kinds of Requiem Mass-
’es. Three are used in general
4er~ deceased lay persons. The
first of these is the funeral Mass
jitself, which is meant for the
.day of death or the day of
iburial. (This, incidentally, is the
same Mass used for the month’s
mind, although in the latter, a
different Prayer, Secret and
Postcommunion are used.)
’ The second kind is the anni
versary Mass of Requiem,
'which, obviously, is reserved for
the anniversary of death or
burial. The third kind is known
as the “daily” or “ordinary”
jMass of Requiem. It is celebrat-
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Christmas is a time for wish
ing.
Tonight I wish I were many
things other than a writer with
a Christmas column to produce.
Every year it is the same prob
lem. I yearn to write the stars
out of the sky and to bring
reader^ to their knees before
the wonder of the season. I
never can.
I wish that I were a little girl
again so that I might recapture
the innocent wonder of Christ
mas. It would be worth a king
dom to view the world as a five-
year-old again at Christmas.
The innocence of childhood
fails to see the world of the
grownup with its complexities
and distractions. Perhaps that is
why all men love Christmas, it
takes them back to the inno
cence and safety of childhood.
I would like to be the mother
of a little boy at Christmas, too.
I would like to take him on my
lap and read the story of anoth
er little Boy’s Christmas many
hundreds of years ago in the
city of Bethlehem.
At Christmas I wish, too, that
I were a cloistered nun far from
the distractions of the holiday
world. I yearn to escape from
the frenzied crowds which at
tempt to take all the magic and
music from the season. I could
contemplate then away from
all distractions and meaning
and promise of Christmas. And
if I were a cloistered nun this
night, I would never for a mo
ment forget those out in the
world imprisoned by the tan
gibles of Christmas. Nuns, no
matter how old they are, hold
some of the starry-eyed Christ
mas wonder of children.
Alas, I am a writer. I am not
a little girl again or a cloistered
nun or the mother of a little
boy. I have only words at my
disposal to translate the feelings
which set my heart aflame.
Words never appear as inade
quate as they do at Christmas.
Christmas is something sa
cred. It is silence and reverence
and peace and joy. These things
cannot escape at the snap of a
writer’s fingers or at the com
mand of an editor for a Christ
mas story.
I can never write the stars
out of the sky at Christmas as
much as I desire. It matters
little. For everyone holds his
own private thoughts about
Christmas. Inspiration is in the
air and is not dependent on the
words of a column.
One does not have to be a
mother, a nun, a little girl or a
writer to know the wonder of
Christmas and to hold it close.
All we must do is contemplate
again the birth of a Baby Who
is God.
Mrs. Lillian Corley
Services In Augusta
AUGUSTA — Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Lillian Hueber
Corley were held December
10th with a requiem mass at
St. Patrick’s Church, Rev. Ar
thur Weltzer officiating.
Survivors are two sisters,
Mrs. Dennis P. Sheridan of San
Antonio, Texas, and Miss Cas-
sie Hueber of Augusta, and sev
eral nieces and nephews.
SERVICES FOR
J. R. SWEENY
SAVANNAH — Funeral serv
ices for John Ronan Sweeny
were held December 9th at the
Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist.
How Do You Rate
?n Facts of Faith
(By Brian Cronin)
1. Father Bernard Hubbard, the well-known Jesuit, is noted
for his missionary work in: (a) Africa? (b) Korea? (c) In
dia? (d) Alaska?
2. The stone in a cardinal’s ring is: (a) Sapphire? (b) Ruby?
(c) Amethyst? (d) Emerald?
3. Members of the Order of Friars Minor are more commonly
known as: (a) Trappists? (b) Carmelites? (c) Cistercians?
(d) Franciscans?
4. St. Vitus is the patron saint of: (a) Invalids? (b) Doctors?
(c) Comedians? (d) Actors?
5. The first Bible was printed in 1452 by: (a) William Cax-
ton? (b) Martin Luther? (c) King James?, (d) Johann
Gutensberg?
6. To whom was Rachel married? (a) Jacob? (b) Cain? (c)
Moses? (d) Isaac?
7. Complete the sixth Beatitude “Blessed are the clean of
heart . . .”?: (a) “. , . for they shall possess the earth”?
(b) “. . . for they shall be called the children of God”?
(c) “. . . for they shall see God”? (d) . . for they shall
be satisfied”?
8. Who was the last of the prophets before the coming of
Christ?: (a) St. James the Greater? (b) St. John the Bap
tist? (c) Daniel? (d) Jeremias?
Give yourself 10 marks for each correct answer below.
Rating: 80—Excellent; 70—Very Good; 60—Good; 50—Fair
ANSWERS; 1 (d); 2 (a); 3 (d); 4 (c); 5 (d);
6 (a); 7 (c); 8 (b)
SHARING OUR TREASURE
The Faith Brought Happiness 7 —
Says Jewish Convert
By REV. JOHN A. O’BRIEN, Ph. D.
n r r j j i , j (University of Notre Dame) _
As the result of her long ex
perience the Church advises her
children to marry Catholics, as
she has seen many mixed mar
riages wind up unhappily. Even
at best, they leave much to be
desired. When
they do occur,
the Catholic
party should
set an inspir
ing example
by living his
Faith and thus
demonstrating
the wonderful
help the Catholic religion af
fords. This will frequently lead
the non-Catholic into the
Church, as shown by the ex
perience of Herbert Gordon of
Great Neck, New York.
“I was in the Air Force,” said
Herbert, “and was keeping
company with Iris Alvira, a de
vout Catholic. Though reared in
the Jewish' faith, 1 * 1 * * * * * rarely at
tended the synagogue. Iris ex
plained that it would be neces
sary for me to take some pre
marital instructions which
would enable me to understand
the obligations I would assume
in marrying a Catholic. I went
with her to St. Aloysius rectory
where- Father Christopher Hunt
ington ministered to us.”
“What a small world!” i re
marked. “Father is himself a
convert, and shortly after his
ordination wrote for me the
story of his conversion, which
I included in the volume, The
Way to Emmaus, published by
Our Sunday Visitor. It is beau
tifully told and his story, along
with those of other converts in
that book, has helped to lead
quite a few into the Faith.”
“I’m glad to hear that,” con
tinued Herbert. “After receiv
ing a few instructions from Fa
ther, I signed the marriage
promises, agreeing that the chil
dren would be raised Catholics
and that I would not interfere
with my wife’s practice of her
Faith. Since there was nothing
in the promises requiring me
to change my religious position
as a ‘do-nothing,’ I was quite
satisfied.
“When I came out of the Air
Force, we settled down to what
I thought was a normal married
life. But I soon began to realize
that something was missing i n
our marriage, and it constantly
preyed on my mind. I admired
the way my wife faithfully at
tended Mass. She was so happy
in her religion and seemed to
get to much more out of life
that I actually envied her. So
without any prodding I became
more interested in the Catholic
way of life.
“When our son Paul was born,
he was baptized by Father
Huntington. Determined to be
the best father any son ever
had, I began to think, ‘that
means I’ll have to become a Ca
tholic.’ I could not raise him
properly unless I lived the Ca
tholic life myself. Finally
through the help of a good Ca
tholic friend, Fred James, I en
rolled in the religious instruc
tion correspondence course of
fered by the Knights of Colum
bus.
“After completing it in Au
gust’ 1958, I contacted Father
Huntington and received addi
tional instruction from him. I
was baptized in September and
received my First Communion
the next day. How wonderful it
was to receive our Eucharistic
Lord! My heart was filled with
joy. I felt that there must be
more to life than I was getting
out of it, and I find that the
Catholic faith fills that viod.
“Now my mind and con
science are at ease in the pres
ence of God. The peace and
happiness which Jesus has al
ready brought me has greatly
enriched my life. My only con
cern is how I can repay Him.
Though I’ll never be able to
repay this debt completely, my
life is now worth while in just
trying. Thank God, my son will
not miss this part of life as I
did so long, because Jesus will
be part and parcel of his daily
life.”
Father O’Brien will be grate
ful to readers who know of any
one ivho has won two or more
converts if they will send the
names and addresses of such per
sons to him at Notre Dame Uni
versity, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Sayannah Services
Mrs. Elizabeth Jordan
SAVANNAH — Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Elizabeth (Eliza)
Rankin Jordan were held De
cember 9th at St. Benedict the
Moor Church with a Solemn
Requiem mass.
,. .. . » uuii, vie lor uie auention of
a distinguished visitor to St. Ann’s Infant Home, conducted
by the Sisters of Charity in Washington. The surprise visi-
*° r " —His Excellency Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, who brought gifts for the
tots. Photo by Reni. (NC Photos)
THE BACKDROP
By JOHN C. O’BRIEN
The high prices of drugs are
receiving attention from Fed
eral law enforcement agencies
and are the subject of an in
vestigation now being conduct
ed by the
. Senate Judi
ciary Com
mittee’s anti
trust and mo
nopoly sub
committee.
What the
investigati n g
bodies want
to know is whether the major
producers of pharmaceuticals
have been entering into agree
ments to keep the price of
drugs up.
That the public is resentful
of the high cost of medication
has been amply shown by the
large volume of complaints re
ceived by the Senate sub-com
mittee in the last two years.
Senator Estes Kefauver, the
subcommittee’s chairman, said
recently that the committee has
received more complaints about
the charges for drugs than
about the cost of any other
commodity.
SALES INCREASE
Concern over drug prices has
grown since the introduction of
the so-called “wonder” drugs on
which physicians have come to
rely as specific remedies for
particular diseases. These in
clude the cortisone derivatives,
the antibiotics, the antihista
mines, the tranquilizers, the
oral medicines for diabetes and
the like.
The production of pharmaceu
ticals is now big business. Sales
this year are expected to total
around $2,500,000,000 as com
pared with $941,000,000 in 1947
and only $354,000,000 in 1937.
Each year during the past dec
ade the industry has added be
tween 300 and 400 new pro
ducts. More than 500 new drugs
were put out in 1958. It has
been estimated that nine out of
ten prescriptions today call for
drugs that were unavailable be
fore the Second World War.
Among sufferers from cer
tain chronic diseases, who are in
constant need of medication,
the high cost of drugs is a mat
ter of serious concern. Some
1,600,000 sufferers from diabe
tes muit always have with them
insulin or one of the new oral
medicines. Thousands of suffer
ers from arthritis are dependent
upon drugs for relief from their
pains.
The United States has devel
oped some of the finest medi
cines in the world, but the fear
is, as Senator Kefauver puts in,
“that prices may be getting so
high that people can’t buy
them.”
More than a year ago the
Federal Trade Commission is
sued a complaint against the six
major producers of antibiotics
charging that by various agree
ments and the licensing of pat
ents they had “fixed and main
tained arbitrary, artificial and
non-competitive and rigid pric
es.”
And two years ago a House
committee pointed out that bids
on Salk vaccine, produced by
five companies, to public health
authorities were substantially
identical. Two voluntary reduc
tions in the price of the vaccine
were made when the demand
exceeded the supply. But in re
cent years the price has remain
ed steady although supply had
caught up with and exceeds the
demand.
MONEY FOR PROMOTION
In support of their contention
that where the supply of a drug
is controlled by a few firms the
prices are kept high, critics of
the industry point out that
whenever free competition has
come into play the price has
dropped sharply. For example,
in 1943, a 100,000-unit vial of
penicillin cost $20; by 1947 the
price had dropped to 30 cents.
The price of procaine penicillin,
an improved form introduced in
1948, slid in one year from $10
to $6 and to 60 cents by 1956.
The drug manufacturers have
denied all suggestions that pric
es are maintained at an artifi
cially high level by collusive
agreements. They maintain that
competition in the industry is
keen and that this accounts for
the virtual identity of prices.
Moreover, they contend, large
amounts are spent in research
and develpoment of new drugs.
Initially, they argue, the price
"to the public must reflect a part
of the development cost.
Critics of the industry con
cede that research and develop
ment is costly. But they com
plain that the industry spends
too much on promotion, a bus
iness cost which enters into the
price to the consumer. The in
dustry spends vast sums circu
larizing the 200,000 physicians
in the country. This, according
to the president of the New Jer
sey Medical Society, is a waste
of money, for “most of this lit
erature is never read.”
The pharmaceutical industry
may be, as its leaders maintain,
highly speculative and competi
tive. But the facts remain, ac
cording to government statis
tics, the rate of profits runs
higher — twice higher — than
the rate of profits in manufac
turing in general.
Patkcr WbartoaV*
View
from die Rectory
AUTOMATIC PRAYERS
“Does anyone aboard this
submarine know how to pray?”
“I do.”
“Good. You pray. The rest
of us will put on escape lungs.
■ We’re short one.”
This is the only occasion I
can think of in which a person’s
habit of prayer would be
a drawback. Anyway, you
wouldn’t want to use an escape
lung and leave someone else be
hind. Or would you?
It’s kind of frightening to
think that there are people all
around us that haven’t the faint
est idea how to pray. Not every
one, of course, can be expected
to know lots of formal prayers.
As any struggling convert or
little tot preparing for his first
Holy Communion can tell you,
we Catholics have cornered the
market on prayers to be mem
orized. Yet we insist that a
“good morning” or a “thanks”
or a “sorry”—if they come deep
in the heart—are worthwhile
prayers. It’s as simple as that.
Don’t let our Age of Automa
tion fool you into thinking all
prayer must also be mechan
ized. Prayer is simply a heart-
to-heart talk with God, and
someone who can’t do this is in
sad shape indeed. Ever since the
first people on earth offered
sacrifices to show their depend
ence in God, every prayer is
supposed to be an outpouring of
our interior attitude.
All this needs to be said. Our
beautiful and colorful ceremon
ies often cause us to be charged
with a formalism like the Phari
sees of our Lord’s time. Some
outside the Church think we
judge a person’s sanctity by the
number of Rosaries, he can “get
through” during the day.
No truth to these charges. The
Church insists in season and
out of season on purity of heart
and truly interior holiness. But
we have to admit that it’s easy
to fall into bad habits. Unless
we keep our hearts working, we
can pray in a slipshod way.
Our lips can be reciting the Our
Father while our minds wash
the dishes or play football.
One extreme of automatic
prayer is the Litany of Saints
I once overheard in church. The
little old lady was somewhat
deaf, and her audible prayers
sounded something like an air
pump. On this occasion, she was
reading from her prayerbook,
and I could make out these
words: “All the saints on this
page, pray for us. All the saints
on this page, hear our prayers.
From all the things on the last
page, deliver us, O Lord.” She
must have said a hundred of
these litanies in a day!
The Rosary, too, is not sup
posed to be like a spinning
prayer wheel. It’s true that it
consists of a constant repetition
of Hail Marys. But an essential
part of the Rosary is meditation
on : the mysteries of our Lord's
life. Better to say one Rosary
devoutly and thoughtfully than
to “get through” five in a care
less and distracted way.
We begin almost all our pray
ers with a very sacred symbol,
the Sign of the Cross. This an
cient sacramental brings to
mind the mysteries of the Holy
Trinity and our Redemption by
Christ’s death. Unfortunately, it
sometimes becomes a mechani
cal motion which looks lake a
waving away of cobwebs. And
the super-speed of the action in
dicates that the words accom
panying it can’t be more than
this: “Na-fa-son-hol-go-men.”
Even during that holiest ac
tions, the Mass, it’s possible to
miss the spirit by too close ap
plication to the letter. The es
sence of participation in the
Mass is a spirit of offering of
yourself in union with Christ’s
perfect offering of Himself.
Using a Missal is an excellent
custom if it helps us to keep
our mind on the essentials. But
if the book is followed so slav
ishly that we spend our time in
a flurry of flipping pages and
rapid prayers, the spirit can be
lost.
Even lighting a candle in
church should represent the
love in our heart, not take its
place. One little rascal knelt
before his lighted candle. But
he became uneasy when his pal
knelt beside him. After eyeing
the newcomer for a while, he
finally leaned over and whis
pered: “Pray on your own
candle.”
That’s kid stuff. The candle
power will not be diminished
by a hundred kids praying on it.
The candles we light, the in
cense we burn, the Masses we
attend, the novenas we make—
all these are supposed to repre
sent an interior disposition.
Only we can put this in our
souls, or take it away.
Our external ceremonies, ac
tions and prayers are necessary.
We’re not angels floating
around this earth. We are crea
tures of both body and soul. As
long as the soul is brought into
the prayer, our outward expres
sions of devotion are pleasing to
God and quite natural to us.
Just so we keep the soul in the
prayers.
I’ll wager next Sunday’s col
lection that the sailor on the
sinking submarine put every
thing he had into his talk with
God. No distracted, ho-hum,
mechanical attitude for him at
a time like that.
Too bad we can’t always im
agine we’re on a sinking ship
when we pray. If we could ha
bitually give our chats with
God such attention and devo
tion, we would be saints in a
jiffy. It’s fine if we use our lips
for prayers. But we have to re
member that it’s really our
heart that is speaking.
Services For
Robert- Grant, Sr.
SAVANNAH — Funeral serv
ices for Mr. Robert Grant Sr.
were held December 14th at St.
Mary’s Church.
Survivors are Mr. Robert
Grant Jr., Mrs. Willie Mae Tay
lor Grant and family.
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Vol. 40 Saturday, December 26, 1959 No. 15
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