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f QUESTION BOX (Continued from Page 4) But sometimes severe means such as the death sentence are necessary. ADMITTING that the death penalty is moral for serious crimes, such as those for which Caryl Chessman was judged guilty, what room is. there for discussion concerning the use of capital punishment? The answer is that there are still two points which are debatable in this mat ter. THE FIRST IS whether, in our modern society, capital pun ishment is actually a deterrent to serious crimes. Or, more prac tically, it is more of a deterrent than life imprisonment or im prisonment at hard labor? This is a question which properly be longs to social scientists, crim inologists, penologists and pol ice agencies. As the issue now stands, a considerable differ ence of opinion exists as to the right solution. THE SECOND POINT is whe ther or not a lengthy detention in a death-row cell is not equiv alent to death itself. In other words, is not the mental torture experienced by a condemned man, compelled to wait year af ter year until all legal processes relating to his conviction have been exhausted, comparable to death itself? In the Chessman case, of course, the protracted legal maneuvering was instig- nated by the condemned man himself. But even under the pe culiar circumstances of his case, should not all legal questions and appeals annexed to a death sentence be expedited as much as possible, perhaps within a certain stipulated time, insofar as this is possible?, AT ANY RATE, those who keep crying that capital pun ishment is immoral would do better to lend their energies to something more useful — such as condemning the .murder of innocent human beings in the satellite countries of Europe, for example. Or yet closer tq home, why doesn’t the anti-capital punishment bloc begin a cru sade to rid this nation of the thousands of abortions, perform ed falsely in the name, of medi cine in our own hospitals year after year; and similarly, to cut down the millions , of, so-called “illegal” abortions perpetrated here yearly, over anti beyond those performed in , hospitals? IS TURNING a delivery room into a morgue any less revolting than strapping a convicted crim inal into an electric chair? Q. Are milkshakes considered liquid nourishment and may they be iaken between meals without breaking the Lenien fast? If they may be taken with out breaking the Lenten fast, are they allowed within the three-hour communion fast? A. This is a most difficult question to answer. As a general rule light milkshakes are per missible. The thicker mixtures, so popular today are not. As a light milkshake would not break the Lenten fast, it would not break the communion fast either. The sarcastic things you left unsaid will never haunt you. PRIMROSE PATH The fellow who follows his inclinations will never reach the top of the ladder of success. TIGHT SPOT Many a man burns his badges behind him, and then finds out that the road ahead is closed. HAPPY DAY NURSERY AND KINDERGARTEN Mary Hunt, Director Established 1950 4 Fenced Areas, New Modern Building, Balanced Meals, Trained Personnel, Transportation Furnished, Pony Rides, Swim and Dance Lessons Available GL. 7-3456 — Chamblee, Ga. — 1751 E. Nancy Creek Rd. LEWIS SEED STORE PLANTS — BULBS — .FERTILIZERS GARDEN & GRASS SEEDS — TOOLS — HARDWARE FARM SEEDS 402 East Howard Ave. DR. 3-3737 DECATUR, GEORGIA DUGGAN OPTICAL COMPANY OPTOMETRISTS AND OPTICIANS — 2 Locations — 221 MITCHELL, S. W. — JA. 2-9985 ATLANTA, GA. (Sadler Cjrcelinrji LUNSFORD-WILSON CO. 714 STEWART AVE., S. W. PL. 3-1228 ATLANTA, GA. Theology for The Layman (Continued from Page 4) A century ago the Church made this doctrine the subject of an infallible definition. For century upon century before that Catholics had held it for certain truth. Once the Church had formulated with all pos sible . clearness the doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation, so that Catholics could live day in and day out in the full aware ness of who and what Christ is, they began to see it as unthink able that He should have allow ed His mother to exist for so much as an instant without sanctifying grace. Yet for many, devoted lovers of the Blessed Virgin, a troubling question re mains. Our Lady had said in the Magnificat “My spirit doth re joice in God my Saviour.” How could God be her saviour, what was there to save her from, if she had had grace always. Gradually they came to see the answer, or rather the two fold answer. To save men from their sins is a great mercy of God; but to save this one wom an from ever sinning was a greater mercy, but still a mercy. Not only that. Sinless as she was, possessed of grace at every instant, she was still member of a fallen race, a race to which heaven was closed. The Sav iour’s redeeming act opened heaven to her as to all members of the race. Roughly a hundred years after the definition of the Immaculate Conception came that of the Assumption of Our Blessed Lady. In the dogma, the word Assumption has no relation to its ordinary English meaning of something one assumes because one cannot prove it. It means the taking of Our Lady, body and soul, into heaven. It is, if anything, earlier than the be lief that she was conceived im maculate; and it is not to much to say that it never raised any serious doubt, or even problem, in the minds of Catholics. It was an almost inevitable result of living with the full truth about her Son. For the ordinary man, there was the simple feeling that Christ would want His mother with Him in heaven, not her soul only but herself, body and soul. Any son would want that, and this was the one son who could have what He wanted! For the more ..instructed, probably, there was another element. It is a doctrine of the Church that all men would receive back the bodies from which their souls had been separated at death. The gap be tween was a result of sin, and Our Lady was sinless. Men, of course, cannot pre tend to know what God will or will not do. For all of us the temptation occasionally arises to decide s o m e question with the confidence that the decision is God’s, when all that we have done is to decide what we could do if we were God. But when the vast mass of Catholics see a conclusion as certain over a space of some fifteen hundred years, the risk is not great. It vanishes altogether when the Church gives its infallible definition. 8 — - I For refreshment... for convenience... I keep BOTH sizes J handy!I is*» jssa kot sai TIE 8TLSITS COCA-COLA BSTTlBiG CO. DORIS REVERE PETERS &£)orid s^niwerA YOUTH GOING STEADY . . . WHAT DOES IT DO FOR YOU? THE BULLETIN, April 2, 1960—PAGE 5 Dear Doris: Everybody tells us we should^ n’t go steady. But if we don’t go steady we don’t get dalc^ We don’t get to go to dances or anything. It’s no fun not to have- dates. What do you think about going steady? Joan M. Dear Joan: Going steady is a fad. It is a fad like the sack dress, the pointed toe and the pony tail. But there is a big difference. Going steady effects one emo tionally and influences one’s en tire life; while blue jeans and white lipstick are forgotten like the summer heat. Why not pull “going steady”, apart like you did the sack dress and chemise and ask yourself: What does it do for me? Going steady upsets you emo tionally. It makes demands upon you that can’t be fulfilled in a proper social and moral way. Thus a steady dater may very likely become nervous and irri table. She will probably become inattentive at school and neg lectful of her duties at home. A “steady” in your life makes you preoccupied and causes you to lose out on the legitimate care free joys of youth. On the other hand, occasional dates, with different friends free you from the tensions and re strictions imposed by a “steady.” Occasional dating gives you a fine chance to develop social poise. It teaches you to distin guish between different kinds of people and personalities. Thus, you are .able to make important judgments which will help you in later years as a wife and mother. Yes, Joan, the va riety of social experiences you get by occasional dating actu ally teach you the easy grace and charm you want as part of your personality. Steady dating endangers your soul. It is a real threat to the love of God that is in your soul. It threatens you because you are putting yourself in a situa tion that encourages liberties and familiarities which easily lead to serious sin. By being an occasional dater you are practicing Christian charity — real love. Your time, thought, interests and affections, rather than being concentrated on one person are given to the many you come in contact with. UNDERSTAND HOUSE RULES Dear Doris: I’m 18 but no matter where I go my father insists that I be home by midnight. Sometimes I even have to leave a movie before it is over. Some of the girls I date are allowed to stay out later than I am. Don’t you think parents should make con cessions once in a while? Bob C. Dear Bob: The time limit set by parents depends on many things. It de pends on where you are going, with whom, and the means of transportation. Most of all it depends on you. A family, like any organiza tion must have house rules or discipline for peace and com fort and in this instance, holi ness. Discipline is a good word to understand because it is al ways with us. Try to under stand the house rules or disci pline of your home. Don’t con fuse it with punishment. When your parents are re laxed and have time, sit down and go over the rules with them. Ask them to judge each occasion separately by the WHERE, WHO and HOW method. But above all honor your parents’ reasoning and cooperate with them. In this way your house rules will have a sensible de gree of flexibility. Then when a real special occasion pops up you can ask permission to re main out later. Your father’s decisions about your activities are based on his experience and knowledge of you as an individual — not your friends. He has only your in terests at heart. To do his job well he must have great wisdom mixed with understanding, pa tience, intuition, etc. God has given him these. God has given you the responsibility of abid ing by his decisions. I think, Bob, parents will make concessions when you have proven yourself worthy of them. So keep your end of the bargain. When it comes to mov ies how about getting there a little earlier? When delayed show consideration and phone. Associate with friends stamped with your parents’ approval. First strengthen their faith in you — then — ask for conces sions. Doris Revere Peters answers letters through her column, not by mail. Young readers are in vited to write to her in care of THE BULLETIN. KNOW GOD DORTCH BAKING COMPANY Recognized By Atlanta Housewives As The Best Name In Baking Products 505 W. WHITEHALL ST., S. W. PL. 3-4143 ATLANTA, GA. (faster CjreetincjA Gene and Margaret Garner and Family Waiter CjveelincfS I. RALPH GRIMES Sheriff Fulton County Devotion - - How Deep Is Yours? by Rev. Gervase Brinkman, O.F.M. When the Palm Sunday pro cession returns to the Church the following antiphon is sung: “Jewish children . . . carrying olive branches, cried, ‘Hosanna in high heaven’.” The procession then moves in triumph back into the sanctuary. It is a visual re minder of the scene described by St. Matthew and read on this day: “And most of the crowd spread their cloaks upon the road, while others were cutting branches from the trees, and strewing them on the road. And the crowds that went before him, and those that followed, kept crying out, saying, ‘Hosan na to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ” This following of Christ was not a deep-rooted devotion. Six days later, the same evangelist records: “But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to destroy Jesus . . . Pilate said . . ., ‘What then am I to do with Jesus who is called Christ?’ They all said, ‘Let him be crucified!’ The pro curator said . . ., ‘Why, what evil has he done?’ But they kept crying out..., ‘Let him be cruci fied!’” A gentleman who had spent 18 years in prison came to the monastery about a year after his release. “Father, I just don’t un derstand people. I’m working on my third job right now. I quit the first two. The first job was with a com pany that manufactures pin-ball machines. Some of the fellows were regularly taking marbles and tools away from the shop ought I to have done for thee than I have done?” By Rev. Gervase Brinkman, O.F.M. The next two weeks are call ed Passiontide. It is a time of special thought on the Passion of our Lord. The first four and a half-Weeks of Lent did not emphasize this. These weeks were devoted to the idea of mortification. We were asked to look into ourselves and, looking into our selves, try to discover our main faults — those faults that were keeping us away from God. Once we found the fault, we were asked to kill it by the practice of the opposite virtue. This first part of Lent ful fills the first part of a prayer by St. Augustine: “Lord may I know myself.” But there is a second phrase to Augustine’s prayer. It is: “May I know Thee.” Passiontide tries to realize the second part of this prayer. In Passiontide we are asked to think of God. God Incarnate, Jesus Christ: Who so loved us that He sweat blood for us; was mocked and ridiculed for us; was scourged for us; was crown ed with thorns for us; carried the cross for us; was murdered on the cross for us; and from the cross, pardoned his mur derers; promised heaven to the repentant thief; gave us His own mother to be our mother. God so loved us that from the cross He could justly say to us: “O my people, what more and carrying them home. They didn’t think it was wrong and laughed when I said it was stealing. . Next I was on a school con struction job. One man tiled several rooms of his house from the tile he took from the job. What’s wrong with it? The school can afford it. They get plenty tax money.’ And he’s an officer in the Holy Name Society in my parish. Do those men think they’re fooling Christ when they go to Mass and Com munion and profess loyalty to Him? It’s so easy to join an enthus iastic crowd. It’s so easy to cry Hosanna when it’s popular to do so. It’s so eeasy to say: “I’m a Christian, a follower of Christ.” But saying it isn’t the test. More is demanded. “Do you love Me?” he asks. “Oh, yes,” we shout. “Then keep my command ments” — all of them, big and small. Do we go on our way when we hear the condition of His love and then, by our non-ob servance of His commandments, join with the crowd before Pil ate demanding His death? Or shall we stand beside Him, with Mary and John, despite the ridicule and opposition of the mob. Ours to decide. And no better time to make a decision than this week which we call Holy. May it lead us to holiness. BROKEN TIES Division in the family circle will always be a very unsatis factory kind of arithmetic. PUMPED DRY Pop’s bank account turns into a sinking fund after the Christ mas bills start coming in. EKONOMIE BINDER COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF LOOSE LEAF BINDERS Made In Atlanta — Sold Direct to Users "Quantity One to a Million" 154 Piedmont Ave., N. E. JA. 2-2818 Atlanta, Ga. Havertys ©I iuckhead 3135 PEACHTREE RD., N. E. 9 Fine Homefurnishings CE. 3-4410 Myles Connelly, in his book: Three Who Ventured, has posed the proper question for Passion tide. Chirst is nailed to the two- branched tree. His blood runs fast, His blood runs free. Where have all fled? Where are the sick His love made well? Where are the lost He kept from hell? Where are the living He rais ed from the dead? Lazarus, His friend, where is he? Where is the son of the widow of Naim? Where is she? Where are the blind He made to see? What of His lepers, His sick, His lame, His deaf, His dumb, His sore- distressed, His poor, His lambs, His devil- possessed? Where are all He kept from Hell? Where are all His love made well? Where are all on this lonely day? Where are they? Christ is nailed to the two- branched tree, His blood runs fast, His blood runs free. Where am I? What of me? “Oh my Lord, what ought I to have done for Thee than I have done?” Now is the time to renew Lenten resolutions. If you have felt yourself weakening, medita tion on the Passion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will help you to persevere. King's Drug Store Prescriptions Expertly Filled Prompt Delivery Service 2929 PEACHTREE ROAD, N. E. CE. 3-2101 ATLANTA, GEORGIA LOOK FOR THE FRIENDLY f FOREMOST DEALERS ... 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