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PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN CUBA QUERY GOVERNMENT POLICY HAVANA (NC)—An associa tion of nongovernment schools has pointed to question marks is the Cuban government's edu cation policy. ~ The Confederation of Cuban Colleges (preparatory schools), in a leaflet entitled "Freedom of Education in Cuba," drew attention to the following ques tions: —How will private prepara tory schools and their diplomas be recognized by the govern ment? —What is to happen to teach ers without teaching degrees? —What textbooks are to be used? The leaflet was written by Father Juan M. Dorta Duque, S.J., whom the Bishops of Cuba have appointed as spokesman on educational affairs. An educational reform de creed at the end of 1959 by Edu cation Minister Alrnando Hart has brought public education to poor districts of the city and to remote farming areas. But it has been criticized for centralizing teacher training in the hands of the slate, and im posing on private schools uni formity of administration and class schedules. DORIS REVERE PETERS s$ndwer5 YOUTH TRAMP, TRAMP, THE GOSSIPS ARE MARCHING SOUTHLAND ICE COMPANY Manufacturers of Pure Crystal Ice Dealers in Coal and Coke Phone 9-9077 Marietta, Ga. For Over 40 Years Serving the Health and Home Needs Of Marietta and Cobb County Dunaway's Rexall Drug Stores DUNAWAY DRUG. CO DUNAWAY DRUG. CO 1300 Church St. HODGES DRUG CO. Marietta, Ph. 8-2641 Town-Counfry Shopping Center :r- ,■ DUNAWAY DRUG. CO Marietta, Ph. 8-3374 DUNAWAY DRUG CO. Belmont Hills Shopping Center — Smyrna, Ph. 5-9001 Dear Doris: I’m a sophomore in a Catholic high school and recently the crowd I go with found out that one of the girls in our crowd is a “tramp.” We found out she has been having affairs with boys. Doris, believe me, my crowd is very good. We all go to Mass on Sunday and receive Holy Communion. We go to dances and parties and are la beled respectable. Our problem is what to do. Should we tell her mother? We have cut off our friendship and she isn’t allowed into our crowd. Doris, I have heard that “one bad apple” ruins the bar rel. What are we to do if our whole crowd gets this name? Are we supposed to tell our families? I’m sure your reply will aid us a great deal. Thank you. A Good Crowd A BIG 'IF' Dear friends in a good crowd: I’m relieved to see you put the word “tramp” in quotes. I hope this means you’re uncer tain about the label given your friend. I’m not worried about the “one bad apple” spoiling you. Since you go to Mass and the sacraments regularly you have God’s grace to help you. But I am worried about this other girl. If what you have heard is true (I say IF because rumors often get started without foun dation or truth) she needs a friend. One with sound moral principles, in whom she can confide. One she can trust. She also needs love and understand ing, She does not need rejection. Certainly you can understand this. How would you feel if, for any reason, you were excluded or rejected by your group? Teen-agers need the acceptance of other teen-agers to feel good. And when you feel good it’s easier to be good. Don’t be afraid. Practice Christian charity and help your friend. Not by running to her mother but rather by being nice and showing her your love. Re lating her faults or sins to her mother or anyone else will solve nothing. Keep her with you and away from the temptations of bad companions. Call for her when you’re going to confes sion. Take her with you to Mass. Most of all, get her to talk to a priest. She needs the guidance and direction only a priest can give. Pray for the tact you will need in convincing her of this. If she ever needed a friend, she needs one now. Don’t leave her stranded. DATING AGE VARIES Deer Doris: I’m 15 years old. Some of my friends can’t see why I don’t date. I have told them it’s be cause my mother doesn’t allow me to. My mother says that a girl shouldn’t go out until she is at least 17. I think I’m mature for my age but I don’t want to go out on dates yet. I can have fun doing other things. Am I immature because I don’t date? Chrissy Dear Chrissy: No, you’re not immature just because you don’t want to date at 15. There’s no rule about this and no definite age at which girls start going out with boys. Many girls, and boys, don’t date until they are 17 or older. Some even wait until they are gradu ated from high school. They all have different reasons. Some, like you, are just not interested yet. Others are obeying their parents. Since your mother doesn’t ap prove of dating until 17 you can respect her wishes easily and without conflict. You’re fortu nate. You’re also lucky to have oth er interests which provide fun. During our high school years we are developing all sides of our personality. Our interests and activities play an important role in this. They help us to be come happy people, interesting to ourselves and to others. They help us to become mature ad ults. So. Chrissy, I think you are very mature for 15. And also very lucky. 'THANK-YOU' A MUST Dear Doris: I’m a 16 year old boy. I have been invited to spend the week end at the home of a school friend. It’s his summer house out of the city. Is it necessary to take a gift to his parents or should I simply write a Thank- you note later? Dear Bob: It’s not necessary to take a gift but it’s considered the nice thing to do. In any case, keep it simple. His parents won’t ex pect one. A box of candy for the family is an acceptable gift. But a thank-you note after the visit is a must. And, Bob, don’t put this off. It should be written not later than ten days after you return. 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. View From (Continued from Page 5) This is what we mean by the Communion of the Saints — the one holy Church united under Christ Our Redeemer. All the members of the three divisions are of one family, sharing in the spiritual treasures of the Church, caring about each other and helping each other. It’s a beautiful doctrine, and a consoling one. We’re never far from friends — just a prayer away. Death never really sepa rates us from loved ones. As long as we remain in God’s friendship, we maintain day- and-night contact with all oth ers in the state of grace for eternity. Little Cholmondoley can’t ex plain all this, but he realizes it. That’s why he feels close to his deceased Uncle Bill. That’s why he prays so fervently each night for his mother. And that’s why he can kneel down and have a man-to-man chat with St. Peter, the “brick” that Christ used beneath His new building. Vatican Praises American See VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC) —A Vatican congregation has praised the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese for its efforts to increase religious vocations. The tribute came for the Sac red Congregation of Seminaries and Universities in a letter sent to Bishop John P. Cody of Kan sas City-St. Joseph. The letter stated that the dio cese’s vocation agency will be affiliated with the Ponifical Or ganization for Priestly Voca tions. The organization’s presi dent is His Eminence Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, Prefect of the seminaries’ congregation. Theology for The Layman (Continued from Page 4) anything from losing a job to martyrdom. In fact there are circumstances in which letting oneself be martyred is highly , prudent, and the avoidance of martyrdom would be imprudent in the extreme. There is no gain in avoiding martyrdom at the loss of one’s eternal soul. The very motto of Prudence is that he who loses his life shall save it. Prudence is thus the virtue which enables the intellect to see what is right to do. The oth er three help the will to do what the intellect sees. Justice concerns our dealing with oth ers. It is a strong will that they should have what is due to them—not that we should have what is due to us! It needs no supernatural virtue to set us claiming everything we our selves are entitled to. Our in stinct is to do that, and a very dangerous instinct it is — St. Thomas Aquinas remarks that where every man seeks his rights, there is chaos. Justice is not simply that we refrain from grabbing what we are not en titled to — that might be mere ly spiritual anemia. It is a strong will that others should receive their due. Very interestingly St. Tho mas places Religion under the Moral Virtues of Justice, be cause it means giving God the worship which is due to Him. The man who believes in God but never does anything about worship would be startled to hear himself accused of injus tice, of failing to meet an ob ligation, of a fraudulent non payment of debt. Temperance and Fortiiude concern our handling of our selves. The world contains things — in some moods we feel it is full of things — which at tract us almost irresistably; we know that we should not have them, that we cannot have them without damage to the soul, yet the tug is there, to a point where resisting it may be ago ny. The world also contains things which frighten us, which we would do anything to avoid, yet which duty calls upon us to face. Temperance aids the will to turn from the dazzlingly attractive things we should shun. Fortitude aids the will to face What every instinct tells it to run away from. The word temperance in Eng lish has come to apply partic ularly to alcohol, but it must govern our relation to every thing. It is from a Latin word meaning “to moderate.” Mode ration means taking all things in proper measure; but the pro per measure is not always the same for everyone. There are those for whom the proper mea sure of alcohol is none at all — if they drink so much as a glass they will not stop till they are drunk. For most, temperance in this matter lies in Chesterton’s phrase — that we thank God for wine by not drinking too much of it. THE BULLETIN, June 11, 1960—PAGE: 5 QUESTION BOX (Continued from Page 4) drawn to and fro between two “dclecations,” the one good; the other immoral. Unable to resist by virtue of his own will, he always and invariably yields to the relatively stronger “deleca- tion” — whatever that happens to be in his own particular case. If this stronger “deleca- tion” was a “heavenly deleca- tion,” he acted virtuously; if not, he sinned. WHEREAS Jansen was the draftsman, the organizer of Jan senism was John Duvergier de Hauranne, also known as St. Cyran, from the name of the abbey he assumed direction of in 1620. It was this man who convinced the Amaulds to sponsor Jansen’s ideas, and who succeeded in forming a party of intellectual converts at Port Royal. TYPICAL OF THE frighten ing sacramental consequences of Jansenism is the doctrine on the reception of Holy Commun ion outlined by St. Cyran’s suc cessor, Anthony Arnauld. Ac cording to him absolution and the Holy Eucharist should al ways be denied except to those manifesting perfect contrition. Before receiving Communion, moreover, one should piousj^ await a special call from God/! 1 Although Jansenism was con demned several times by the Holy See, it continued to con taminate French thinking up to the 18th century. It is probable that this gloomy heresy might still exist in certain parts of the Church, were it not for the supreme au thority vested in the Vicar of Christ to declare infallibly in such matters. Hence, a play like the recent French import “Port Royal” cannot help but distort the truth. The fact of the matter is that had Jansenism prevailed, the play itself would be forbid den viewing for the “elect.” ’Is this an idea worth defending? PIANO SERVICE POLLARD PIANO TUNERS JA. 4-2548 Si. Piux X High School 1915 ROSWELL RD. PHONE 7-4211 MARIETTA, GA. i^edt l/UidlieA CLOVE MACHINE WORKS INCORPORATED MARIETTA, GEORGIA