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PAGE 4—THE BULLETIN, January 23, 1960
JOSEPH BRE1G
DAN'L AND THE DEVIL
Just about the easiest way
of getting your name in the
papers nowadays is to say
something about whether or
not you think the United States
of America is hale and hearty
enough to
withstand the
shock of fac
ing the hide
ous prospect
that a presi
dent might
some day be
elected who
is (shudder)
a Catholic.
Make it Roman Catholic, and
shudder twice.
How stands the Union? Thus
might old Dan’l Webster, he
who was not afraid of the Devil
himself, inquire in an oratorical
roar, reverberating in a sonic
boom from Maine (so goes the
nation) to California (so goes
the population).
How stands the nation?
Rock-ribbed or not? Well, she
stands in peril dire, if we can
believe those whose hair turns
whiter than the White House
at the thought of its ever being
occupied by a man who goes to
Mass on Sundays and maybe
even kneels down now and then
to pray the Rosary.
CONGRESS, it appears, does
not matter a fig. Nobody
spreads the alarm like Paul
Revere, or loads his musket
like a Minute Man, when a
Catholic, or many Catholics, is
(or are) elected to the House or
the Senate. Congress, one gath
ers, could be as Catholic as the
College of Cardinals, and no
body would so much as look up
from the sports page.
The Supreme Court is equal
ly of little consequence. No new
Boston Tea parties have been
held, even though for genera
tions it has been customary to
have at least one Catholic sit
ting with the other justices to
interpret the Constitution, and
sometimes to overrule Congress
and the president too.
How stands the Union?
Nobody, apparently, so much
as notices that many of the gov
ernors of the 50 states are
Catholics, and many of the
mayors of cities, and countless
councilmen and members of the
state legislatures.
INDEED, YOU COULD walk
through many a state capitol,
and city hall, and county build
ing and find that half or more
of the men and women who
tend to the affairs of govern
ment are Catholics. Roman
Catholics. The police depart
ments, the national guards, the
Army, Navy, Marines and Air
Force are plain polluted (if my
fellow-Catholics will excuse the
word) with them. And still
there are no terrifying head
lines in the newspapers,. or
blood-chilling articles in the
magazines, about the nation
standing on the brink of de
struction for such reasons.
Somehow, a Catholic in the
presidency is another matter. A
horrifying matter. At least, it
is so in the eyes of a few
Americans who are in position
to get their statements widely
publicized.
Let us not name any of them.
Let us chip no chips off the
rock-ribbed harmony of the
Union. They are frightened, or
they profess to be; and when a
man is frightened, he may
sometimes say things which are
best laid not to him, but to his
fright, and then forgotten.
As a Catholic, yes a Roman
Catholic, I for one do not par
ticularly care whether I live to
see a Catholic in the White
House.
I DECLINE to vote along re
ligious lines. I refuse to per
vert the democratic process. I
shrink from behaviour so un-
American. But I have a sug
gestion.
Possibly the frightened ones
are afraid merely of change. So
maybe we ought to amend the
Constitution, just for a short
time, to allow us to send a Ro
man Catholic to the White
House for, say, one week, and
then'a Jew for one week also.
Then we could all go back to
work and stop jittering and ar
guing and pointing with alarm.
I think old Dan’l Webster
would chuckle, and say we had
outfoxed the Devil once more.
Theology
For The
Layman
(By F. J. Sheed)
Column 47
THE CHURCH IS HOLY (1)
With the mark of Holiness as
with others, we must distin
guish between the outward
showing—visible to anyone who
cares to look and liable to grow
greater or less—and the inner
char acteristic,
visible to the
eye of faith
and belonging
to the Church’s
very essence,
from the first
moment of her
existence and
never varying.
In this profounder sense the
holiness of the Church is simply
the holiness of Christ. It is His
Church, made by Him as the
bearer of holiness to men. Ev
ery member, in contact with
Him, has available to him a
fount of holiness; there is no
limit save our own will to re
ceive what He has to give.
There is no growth and, of
course, no diminishing. If every
one of her members were in a
state of grace at a given mo
ment, the Church’s holiness
would be no greater; if we were
all in mortal sin together, it
would be no less. In other
words the holiness of the
Church is not the sum total of
the holiness of all her members;
any more than the wetness of
rain is measured by the wetness
of all those who have ventured
out in it. If the whole popula
tion goes out and gets drenched,
the rain is no wetter; if every
one stays indoors, the rain is no
less wet. Rain is wet because it
is rain, whether or not men ex
pose themselves to it. The
Church is Holy because it is
Christ living on in the world. It
is the cause of the holiness of its
members, but is not measured
by their response.
But with the mark, we find
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Question
■" Box
By David Liptak
Q. I grant that our churches
could not possibly exist unless
they took up collections. But I
do wish that the subject of col
lections would cease to be dis
cussed from the pulpit. It's so
distasteful, especially when the
sermon happens to manifest the
very antithesis of tact. What
about the early Church? Ser
mons on Church support were
not necessary then, were they?
At least they couldn't have
been so strongly worded. I sub
mit that practically every
Catholic is well aware of his
obligation to give to the Church
and hence needn't bo reminded
of it, not even during the read
ing of the annual report. Or am
I all wrong?
A. Probably niany a sermon
on Church support could be
more tactfully put. If strong
words are used, however, it is
usually for the benefit of the
scores of slackers who. accept
it or not, definitely do make up
a sizeable percentage of par
ishioners in the majority of
parishes. And while severe re
minders may seem disturbing
to the conscientious individual
who does his part, they must
be resorted to at certain times
in order to wake up both those
who perenially neglect, through
their own fault, to give any
thing at all to their church;
and those who do contribute a
little, but considerably less than
their fair share.
Even if everyone realized
and tried to fulfil his obligation
in this matter, the subject of
Church support would still be
a most fitting one for discus
sion in the pulpit. For such dis
cussion could at least serve to
help parishioners renew proper
motivations, which should ulti
mately be, of course, love of
God and a sincere Desire to fur
ther His greater honor and glo
ry.
As regards sermons about
Church support in the primitive
days of Christianity, several
references can be found both in
the pages of the New Testa
ment and in the works of the
Fathers and early historians. St.
Paul himself mentions the sub
ject. Thus, too, St. Cyprian,
who was bishop of Carthage in
the third century, thought it
necessary to issue the following
warning to certain affluent per-
(Continued on Page 5)
Jottings ...
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
“It is the yesterdays that I
love. Do you ever feel more at
home in the past than the pres
ent?”
Cardinal Newman in
Second Spring
• HISTORIANS, EDITORS,
statesmen, analysts, economists
are all busily recording events
of the fabulous-fifty decade. The
weighty world problems of the
past ten years, the grave eco
nomic dangers, the wars, the
floods, the famines, the great
men who walked these years
are being immortalized in the
records. To most of us the past
ten years are punctuated and
engraved with the events which
never made the front page of
the newspaper and never caused
world crisis. We move as actors
on a stage against the backdrop
of these major happenings of
the decade. We are apt to look
back to the yesterdays instead
of ahead to the tomorrows or
even this afternoon. As for me,
I am sure that there will never
be a more important decade in
my life than the decade known
as the fabulous fifties. I will
remember the Korean War, the
Communist terror, Senator Mc
Carthy, the hurricanes and the
fires but I will remember more
the little human things which
made the heart beat faster and
the blood run quicker and the
soul move to great heights.
• BEGINNING the decade at
the early twenties with a here
and hereafter before me, the
waters of baptism had hardly
dried on my head. I became a
voter but more important I be
came a citizen and heir of heav
en knowingly as a child of God.
The gift of faith is never paid
for outright. We die with the
debt unpaid. Each day we pay
something and we get some
thing. These have been the most
important years of my life be
cause I have held the blueprint
of faith before me and all
things were added to it. Only
because of this has my decade
held meaning beyond the power
to express. St. Thomas has said
that we are wdiat we know. All
things are mine that I have
known. They come somersault
ing out in no particular order
as I go back in mind over these
years. There have been fare
wells to dear ones who have
gone before and now wait and
there have been new ones to
take their place. In this period,
I have the most important
friendships of my life. A nun-
friend once told me that every
person we meet along the way
should bring us closer to God.
How many steps to the ladder
of heaven? I have walked new
paths with new people and done
things I never dreamed I could
do and suffered things I never
thought the human heart could
bear. I have dreamed dreams,
been disappointed and begun
again and I have seen more
than ever why we must anchor
all our actions and all our loves
and all our works in God Who is
the same today, yesterday and
tomorrow.
• WHEN I THINK of all the
wonders of the world that have
come to me in this past decade,
I am overwhelmed with grati
tude. I am not the slim young
ster of 1950. I can no longer
take the .stairs two at a time
but I am still able to make it to
the altar each day. I have no
bank account or have made no
material assets. My memories
are treasures no man can take
from me. I have nothing to show
the world for these ten years
and not half enough to show
God. Doors have opened before
me which I had never dared ap
proach and turn the handle. The
beauties of art, music, drama,
poetry have enchanted me.
These have indeed been the
most important years of my life
but I am a backward scholar
and will never catch up. All the
great minds of the world are
ours if we but approach them
Oh, the friends of this world
and the other world and the
world of letters which have fill
ed my nights and days these
past ten years! When these are
measured, I am a millionnaire.
I have come to know our Lady
better, source of all wisdom. I
have become closer friends with
the saints Patrick, Augustine,
Brigid and Bonaventure and
Teresa of Avila in the decade.
There was Dante, Plato, New
man, Eliot, Beethoven, Mozart,
Renoir, Picasso, Wolfe, Ber-
How Do You Rate
on Facts of Faith
By Brian Cronin
1. Job, in the Old Testament, was noted for his: (a) Piety?
(b) Wisdom? (c) Patience? (d) Strength?
2. Who is the patron saint of the Universal Church?: (a) St.
Peter? (b) St. Joseph? (c) St. Paul? (d) St. Pius X?
3. To what religious order did St. Thomas Aquinas belong?:
(a) The Jesuits? (b) The Dominicans? (c) The Francis
cans? (d) The Benedictines?
4. The patroness of Mothers, St. Monica, was instrumental in
the conversion of her son whose name was: (a) St. Augus
tine? (b) St. Paul? (c) St. Ignatius of Loyola? (d) Fr.
Isaac Hecker?
5. Which one of the apostles was called "The Just”?: (a)
John? (b) James the Less? (c) Peter? (d) James the
Greater?
6. What month of the year is dedicated to Mary, Queen of
Martyrs?: (a) May? (b) July? (c) August? (d) September?
7. Name the archdiocese with the, largest population?: (a)
Boston? (b) Chicago? (c) New York? (d) Philadelphia?
8. Who was the spy sent by Moses to Canaan?: (a) Caleb?
(b) Delilah? (c) Jezabel? (d) Judah?
Give yourself 10 marks for each correct answer below.
Rating: 80—Excellent; 70—Very Good; 60—Good; 50—Fair
Answers: 1 (c); 2 (b); 3 (b); 4 (a);
5 (b); 6 (d); 7 (b); 8 (a).
SHARING OUR TREASURE
"My Conversion Is A Miracle
Of Grace," Says Psychiatrist
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, Ph. D.
(University of Notre Dame) _ ^
About one out of every three
marriages at which a priest offi
ciates today is a mixed mar
riage. Though the Church does
not encourage such unions, they
offer a fertile field for conver-
sions if the
Catholic part
ner sets a
proper exam
ple, lives his
Faith, and
prays con
stantly that
God will give
the precious
gift of faith to his spouse. This
is illustrated in the conversion
of Dr. Frederick J. P. Rosen
heim, a gifted and brilliant
psychiatrist in Natick, Mas
sachusetts.
“I was brought up in the
Orthodox Jewish faith,” related
Dr. Rosenheim, “by loving and
saintly parents. In college I lost
my faith and from then until
the 13th year of my marriage I
didn’t even believe in God. I
had received my medical degree
from Columbia University and
then pursued further studies to
become a psychoanalyst.
“My colleagues and friends
were largely agnostics and athe
ists. The words of the Psalmist,
‘The fool hath said in his heart:
There is no God,’ fitted to me a
‘T’. I had turned my back upon
Him and had turned to evil.
But God is good and His mercy
reaches into the heavens.
“He stretched out His hand
and rescued me, not because I
deserved it but because He
loved me. He gave me the most
wonderful girl in the world to
love and marry, an Irish Cath
olic. Born in Ireland, Gertrude
Shanahan was in the United
States only a year when we
married. She not only loved me
but prayed arid did penance for
me.
“She composed the following
beautiful prayer which she and
the children said every night:
nanos, O’Casey—all have given
me new thoughts and manners
of expression.
• IT WAS DURING this dec
ade that I became a teacher and
found a satisfaction that writing
alone could never bring. I have
had the privilege of bringing
knowledge to others and influ
encing personally instead of
through the written word. I
have walked the green path
ways of Ireland and the sun
baked roads of Rome and knelt
where saints were martyred and
prayed where Popes are buried
and received the personal bles
sing of a Vicar of Christ. I have
visited shrines and met hosts of
celebrities, some who became
my friends. Places which were
only names have become real to
me. I have held more portion
of the world’s beauty than I
could dream possible. My cup
runneth over in gratitude that
these ten years have been filled
with grace and beauty and
thought and love and challenge.
The seas that smash the Galilee
breakwater, the sunsets inde
scribable over Indiana skies,
the Boston skyline at twilight,
the college tower bathed in
moonlight, the plane rides, the
boat trips, the subway excur
sions, the stimulus of idea ex
change, the world that has en
tered into my mind—and the
friends who have entered my
heart and the God who has en
tered my soul in only ten years!
‘Good night, dear Jesus. Bless
us and make us good children.
God bless daddy. Help him to
know just You, to love just You
and to serve just You. God grant
that some day he may learn to
know, love and serve the family
of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
Help him to persevere in his
work and bless our happy
home.’
“During World War I, I en
listed. Shortly before overseas
I was writing a letter to my
wife. In the middle of it, sud
denly, abruptly, without ever
having even for a moment en
tertained the thought, I told her
to tell her pastor that I wanted
to be baptized. That weekend I
called on him in Belmont and
told him that I believed every
doctrine of the Catholic Faith.
“Shortly afterwards I was bap
tized and received our Eucharis
tic Lord, with my wife kneeling
at my side. God’s love flooded
my soul and happiness filled
my heart. Truly I was reborn.
Through a miracle of grace God
drew me into His outstretched
arms. My wife’s prayers were
answered and now our family
is still more closely united by
our common Faith.
“My wife now sings a silent
song of praise and love to God.
Silent? Yes. Before my conver
sion she sang with the most
glorious voice I ever heard. She
had studied under the great
John McCormick and had won
a medal at the London College
of Music. She had sung fre
quently, of course, in church.
Immediately after my conver
sion she lost that marvelous
voice and has been unable to
sing a note since.
“Never has she expressed the
least word of bitterness. A far
greater sacrifice would she
gladly have made for my con
version. I ask God to bless and
reWard her. She has fulfilled
the glorious mission, bequethed
by St. Patrick to the Irish, to
capture souls for Christ. She
had captured me and bound me,
a willing prisoner, to Jesus
Christ, my Lord and my King.”
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
sons to him at Notre Dame Uni
versity, Notre Dame, Indiana.
ASKS PILGRIMAGE
OF PEACE TO
MONTE CASSINO
PARIS, (Radio, N C) —
France’s Marshal Alphonse Juin
has called on all veterans, of the
Battel of Monte Cassino to re
turn there with him on a pil
grimage of peace.
Marshal Juin, who command
ed the French troops in the
World War II assault on the Ger
man-held Benedictine abbey in
Italy, said the pilgrimage will
emphasize the desire of all men
for the creation of a world or
der based on peace and justice.
Soldiers of 15 nations took
part in the battle that raged
around the heights where St.
Benedict took refuge in the
sixth century and continued his
work of founding monasticism
in the western world.
The pilgrimage will take
place on April 15. It has been
organized by the Lamp of
Brotherhood, an international
organization devoted to peace.
Books Hold Own Despite TV
THE BACKDROP
By JOHN C. O’BRIEN
One of the assumptions that
has won wide acceptance in re
cent years is that Americans do
not read books as much as they
used to.
Often we hear people say that
the movies,
television, ra
dio and the
a u t o m o bile
have come to
m o n o p o lize
leisure time in
this country
to the point
where there
are no hours left for the perusal
of a book. Our parents and our
grandparents, so the story goes,
were supposed to have been
omnivorous readers of books,
but we have time only for
thumbing through a magazine
or two a week and the break
fast time scanning of newspaper
headlines.
BACKSEAT FOR TOBACCO
Like many widely accepted
assumptions, this one fails to
stand up in the face of the cold
statistics. The fact is, reports
the Department of Commerce,
that book sales have been mov
ing steadily upward for the past
decade, the very decade during
which television is supposed to
have taken command of our
lives. And if more books are be
ing sold, the assumption is that
more books are being read.
Book publishers’ sales in 1959
ran close to $1,200,000,000 and
the forecast is that they will be
in excess of $1,300,000,000 in
1960. This means that Ameri
cans spent almost as much for
books during the past year as
they did for movies and tele
vision sets combined. They spent
more for books than for tobacco
in all its forms.
It may be objected that an in
crease in dollar volume of book
sales is not a reliable measure
of the increase in book buying,
because the price per book has
risen so sharply in the last few
years. But the statistics of the
Department of Commerce show
that the number of titles pub
lished last year ran nearly 13
per cent ahead of the number
published in 1958. In 1959, some
14,000 titles were channelled
into the bookstores, a record
high for the United States.
As might be expected text
books of all kinds accounted for
a substantial percentage of the
increase in book sales. Sales of
this type of book have been ris
ing at about the same rate as
the increase in school enroll
ment. Funds available under the
National Defense Educational
Act of 1958 for purchases of
printed materials other than
textbooks have given an addi
tional stimulus to the educa
tional market.
But books of biography, his
tory, religion, fine arts, fiction,
medicine and science (other
than textbooks) also have been
running ahead. The two classes
of books which have declined
in sales are poetry and drama.
Interest in the past seems to
have been awakened among
Americans, for books on his
tory, including historical fiction,
showed a greater sales increase
than any other category except
textbooks.
PAPERBOUNDS ABOUND
The most phenomenal growth
in the publishing business in re'
cent years has been the vast
output of paperbounds. The
issue of paperbounds is no long
er limited to two or three pub
lishing firms. Nearly every rep
utable publisher now issues a
series of paperbounds, many of
them reprints of'the great books
of the past.
Hardbound trade books', how
ever, have not been neglected.
Hardbound fiction and non
fiction, the kind of books that
sell for from $3.95 to $7.50, sold
better in 1959 than in the pre
vious year. Publishers of books
for adults reported that 1959
sales were running 23 per cent
ahead, while publishers of
books for juveniles reported an
increase of 11 per cent.
Not only are the domestic
sales of books moving up but
the export of books as well.
Book exports in 1959, according
to Department of Commerce
data, were running 14 per cent
ahead of exports in the previous
year. Bibles, textbooks, diction
aries and encyclopedias ac
counted for a large percentage
of the book exports.
Fears of the publishers that
rival claimants for the leisure
of the American people were
threatening to put them out of
business, once were very real.
But these fears have not been
realized and the outlook for the
publishers never was rosier,
The statistics show that we
are buying more books than
ever before. Whether the quali
ty of the output has kept pace
with the quantity may be high
ly debatable.
Father Whartaa’a
View
fromtfce Rectory
\\
The Wrong Mrs. Isaacson
His wife came to him at the
close of day, when the lamps
were being lit and a feeling of
peace lay pver the world. With
cool fingers she caressed his
forehead. Gently she took from
him the volume of simple,
heartfelt verses he had been
> reading. Softly, her . warm lips
close to his ear, she whispered:
“I’ll wash and you dry.”
Marriage is a serious business.
If that were a Hollywood star
in our example above, he’d
probably walk out right past
the pile of dirty dishes and into
the divorce court. “Mental
cruelty and incompatibility,”
he’d tell the judge.
The dishwashing problem is
only one of the elements that
make matrimony a serious busi
ness. Marriage is certainly a
solemn contract by which a
man and a woman acquire the
breathtaking privilege of co
operating with God in bringing
other human beings into the
world. But - it’s also a contract
by which a man and a woman
agree to face together the dirty
dishes and unpaid bills and
baby screaming at 2 a. m.
Because marriage is a con
tract for men and women, not
for little boys and girls, certain
requirements must be met if
the agreement is to bring hap
piness. Or if it’s to be any con
tract at all, for that matter.
The nervous bridegroom, for
instance, should make sure he
has the right girl. If the bride
blushing under that heavy veil
is not the one he thinks she is,
they’re not getting married at
all. The most famous of mis
taken identity is that of the
wrong Mrs. Isaacson in the
Book of Genesis.
While Jacob, the son of Isaac,
was fleeing from the wrath of
his brother, Esau, he fell in love
with his beautiful cousin, Re
becca. Laban, the girl’s father,
was no man to pass up a deal.
He therefore agreed to give Re
becca to Jacob in return for sev
en years of work. This was be
fore unions, of course.
Jacob labored for seven years,
and wedding bells finally rang.
Jacob was happy at last—until
he found out that his father-in-
law had substituted his older
daughter, Lia, for Rachel.
It is to Jacob’s eternal credit
that he accepted this trickery
with a generous spirit. All he
said to Laban was, in effect,
“What’s up?”
And a little more eternal
credit goes to Jacob for accept
ing Laban’s lame excuse. “It’s
not the custom to give the
younger girl in marriage,” said
the old man. “But for another
seven years of work, you can
have Rachel too.”
If only Jacob had been living
a few thousand years later and
was familiar with Church law.
Not to mention that the girls
were his cousins and that he
would end up with two wives,
Jacob would have a perfect an
swer. “The laugh’s on you,
Uncle Laban,” he could say.
“Marriage is a free contract and
there’s no contract if I say ‘I
do’ to the wrong person.” And
he’d be right; it was not a valid
marriage.
The incident illustrates the
point that the marriage contract
isn’t something a person falls
into accidentally. If it’s an acci
dent—if force or excessive fear
or substantial error enter into
it—it’s no contract.
That doesn’t mean that Spotts-
wood may sue for an annulment
simply because his new bride
isn’t all he expected her to be.
Later he finds out that she had
said she was a “healthy lion,”
not a “wealthy scion.” He learns
that she was called “Duchess”
just for laughs. Too bad for
Spottswood—but this kind of
error doesn’t invalidate the
contract.
Force and violence make a
true marriage impossible,
though. If the bride’s father has
a gun stuck in Eppington’s ribs,
or if he pushes the reluctant
bridegroom’s head up and down
to signify his “I do”—Eppington
can hardly be entering into a
free contract.
Even fear induced by threats
might make the agreement in
valid. This has nothing to do
with the disease called Bride
groom’s Knees, a knocking con
dition which is normal in all
members of the species at such
a crucial time. We mean the ex
cessive fear caused by such ex
ternal things as blackmail, shot
guns or over-demanding moth
ers.
Little Elwood might be one of
those precocious tots who are
only 11 but who walk, talk and
smoke as if they were 21. But
even if he somehow gets to the
altar with another sixth-grader,
it’s no marriage. Too young.
Hiram emerges from the hills
and is ensnared without having
the slightest idea what mar
riage is all about. Maybe he
said “I do”—but he doesn’t. No
contract.
And Smedley, who every day
bemoans his defeat at Waterloo,
cannot enter into a marriage
contract. An insane person is
not free enough.
These examples all demon
strate that marriage is a con
tract that must be made freely
and knowingly only by those
who know what they are doing.
Our national scene presents a
picture of remarriage and
remarriage that could make us
lose sight of the dignity of this
great sacrament. Young couples
looking forward to wedded bliss
have to make the contract as
human beings—not merely as
animals of the opposite sex.
The wrong attitude will make
the dreams crumble quickly
when the Mrs. says those inevi
table words to the Mr.: “I’ll
wash and you dry.”
Russian In,
Latin Out
Of College
SYRACUSE, N. Y„ (NC)—Le-
Moyne College will introduce
Russian language courses nexl
fall, and drop its requiremenl
that Latin must be studied foi
a bachelor of arts degree, Fa
ther Robert A. Mitchell, S.J.
College dean, announced.
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Vol. 40 Saturday, January 23, 1960 No. 17
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
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