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sin riE BO trie -n nc bn Jottings (continued from page 4) portant, it proves that a deep friendship is possible between men. As the foreword says, “the letters give a story of a friendship which to the outsider seemed ‘unlikely.’ On the one hand, a quiet man of deep, vigorous faith, com mitted to giving his life day by day to his vocation as a teacher. On the other, a passionate, exalted, yet in many ways intemperate young man who passes from the bucolic life of St. Andrew of Exeter and Harvard to become a New York intellectual, fully exposed to his generation’s temptations, questionings and losses . . . and in a dozen ways, these men could not have been more different.’’ At times, it is painful to read Agee’s words which come so near and we say: "ah, it is like that, it was this way.’’ Agee was agitated each year at his birthday at the little he had done and the sense of the death soon to claim him. On one birthday, he wrote: "For days now I have had pre monitions: more solemn than in years ... A very strong sense of death. God be merciful. And God best knows what that may mean. But I personally hope He means that in so far as possible I shall grow up and use as good abilities as I have as best I can; and that neither I nor anyone I love — and anyone else — will die in any needless kind of pain . . . Knowing each other many years we don’t often either say it or ever need to; yet occasionally and now, it is a kind of luxury to say and realize how much I love you, how grateful I am to you, how greatly I value our friendship. I have never known anyone, and never expect a relationship dearer to me, possible, than that I have had nearly all my life with you ...” How grateful are we to have these letters which show us even more than his sensi tive novel what it was like in this life for James Agee, the writer, the searcher, the friend. Letters perhaps are more valuable than published works; they are unselfconscious; they are sincere; they tell us about the human elements of man without gloss and these tell us best about ourselves. QUESTION BOX- (Continued from Page 4) cernible in his handwriting. Take the case of a job-hunter who is luckless enough to be interviewed by an office mana ger who invokes graphology as an infallible tool in character evaluation. Say that the appli cant, while filling out the usual employment questionnaire, loops every “A” and "O” twice—a quirk which, in the office manager’s school of graphology, can only be trans lated as a sign of dishonesty. Yet maybe the applicant delib erately made the double loops to manifest extra neatness, or perhaps he had a grammar school teacher who was herself overly neat, or else dishonest— or perhaps both. On the other CE 7-8694 • Free Inspection 2730 Piedmont Road, N. E. Atlanta 5. Georgia CHAMBLEE NELSON-RIVES REALTY. INC. S665A Clairmont Road CHAMBLEE, GEORGIA Formerly Sml-»1 Realty Co., Inc. Howard C. Nelson, President Ernest M. Rives, Secretary-Treas. ATLANTA WHY NOT SAVE??? OLDSARGE SURPLUS BUY, TRADE,SELL MOST ANYTHING HWY #23 3 Miles North of Norcross, Ga. Howard Smith, Jr. (Ret. Army) 448-3013 C&S REALTY COMPANY “Specialists in Commercial and. Industrial Real Estate” Suite 200 Henry Grady Bldg. Atlanta 3. Ga. Warehouses, Stores, Mfg. Plants, Acreage, Shopping Center Dev., Industrial Dev., Subdivision Dev., Insurance 524-2052 MIKE & STEVE SERTICH hand, maybe he himself was dishonest at one time, and though long since thoroughly re formed, was never advised that honest people shouldn't really loop these letters twice. Q. Have any prominent non- Catholic spokesmen declared themselves in favor of federal aid to children in private or parochial schools? A. Some Jews, Protestants, and nonsectarian organizations have alreday declared in favor of including private and paro chial school children in any general federal aid to educa tion program. Thus Rabbi Morris Sherer, speaking for Agudath Israel of America, has said: “We strongly favor fede ral aid to parochial schools ... The Jewish parent who sends his child to a parochial school should not be unduly penalized for exercising the right of free choice, implicit in the American way of life, to educate his children in accordance with his religious conscience.” Former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Dr. Arthur Fleming, a Methodist, has urged Congress to approve a pro gram of loans to nonprofit pri vate and church-related ele- : mentary and secondary schools. And the Citizens of Educational Freedom has supported the principle of tuition grants for children in both public and church-related schools. In the words of its president: “Fair treatment of children in non profit schools involves com plete equality with those in public schools, so far as fede ral aid is concerned.” Communism Study WASHINGTON, (NC) - Sen. Kenneth B. Keating of New York, in an address to the Senate (Aug. 30), cited a study prepared at the Catholic University of America here which he said showed that U. S. institutions of higher education “have not given sufficient attention” to studies relating to com munism It costs so little to serve thebest! Land O’ Lakes S2 Butter the flavor never varies BROOKHAVEN The Budget Grocery Choice Meats Fresh Vegetables Delicatessen Rox Latham, Mgr. 3174 Peachtree Rd. Atlanta ineh Inob ’ Thousandaire Headquarters WEST END GORDON AT ASHBY TENTH STREET 1124 PEACHTREE BUCKHEAD PEACHTREE AT PIEDMONT LAKEWOOD LAKEWOOD AT STEWART COLLEGE PARK 3581 MAIN STREET BROOKHAVEN 4008 PEACHTREE MAIN OFFICE MARIETTA AT BROAD Atlanta Federal Savings ANO LOAN ASSOCIATION Canada’s Food Gift Reaches Hong Kong In Typhoon Wake; Help For Homeless Thousands BY GERMAINE SWAIN (RADIO, N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) HONG KONG, - Typhoon-ra vaged Hong Kong got a dramatic psychological boost with the arrival of 648,000 pounds of canned pork from Canada. The SS Salbura steamed into the harbor bearing the manna from Montreal (Sept. 3), two days after Typhoon Wanda’s 160-mile-an-hour winds ripped through this British possession and left an estimated 128 dead and 47,000 persons homeless The Salbura bore the pork do nated by the Canadian govern ment through Catholic Relief Services - National Catholic Welfare Conference. The 27,000 cases—each containing 24 one- pound tins of pork—had been earmarked for relief of the refugees who fled here from communist China last spring. The shipment arrived at a time when foodstuffs were scarce and marketing opera tions had been disrupted. Most of the newly homeless thousands were among the 60- to 70,000 persons who escaped from Red China. They had been eking out an existance in jerry- built squatters’ huts or in sampans in the harbor - dwellings which were ripped to matchsticks by Wanda. So a large share of the pork desig nated for refugees were dis tributed to them. The typhoon smashed through this colony (Sept. 1) and brought with it a 10-foot tidal wave which wrecked the shantytowns across the harbor from Hong Kong inland itself. Four nuns who were trapped in their quonset-hut convent by the swirling snake-infested floodwaters said after they were rescued: “We thought we would die, so we offered our lives for the Church and our poor ones in China.” The four nuns who nearly drowned are Chinese women, members of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows, whose motherhouse is in Beaverton, Ore. The ty phoon buckled and ripped their Quonset hut and the floodwaters .pgyredin,., The waters rose to within armslength of the overhead Record Enrollment At Sacred Heart CULLMAN - A record en rollment of more than 200 stu dents is expected at Sacred Heart College in Cullman, Ala bama when classes -start September 19, it was announced by Sister Mary Lourdes Michel, O.S.B.TB dean of the college. There are still openings for a limited number of qualified students, according to the dean. Students interested should con tact the college before Septem ber 17. The freshman class, largest in the 22 year history of this two-year college for women in Northern Alabama, is expect ed to reach approximately 110. Orientation and registration for freshmen and sophomores will be held September 17 and 18. Freshmen must report at 8 a.m. September 17 for orien tation. Sophomores may regis ter from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. September 17 and 18. Freshmen resident students will report on campus Septem ber 16 for dormitory room as signments. They must report before 6 p.m. DECATUR Any Tinne — Anywhere Call a TAXI RADIO CABS DECATUR CO-OP CABS 310 Howard Ave. 24-Hour Service Passengers Insured Trins Anywhere DR. 7-3866 — DR. 7-1701 DECATUR. GA. “Buy Your Slax From Max” MAX METZEL, Owner MAX'S MEN'S SHOPS 5494 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Chamblee Plaza Shopping Center Phone 451-1911 975 Peachtree, N.E. Phone TR. 4-9582 — At lOtl) St. College Park JUHAN'S CLEANERS Expert - Personalized Service Given to Every Garment Coming Into Our Plant 112 N. Main St. PO. 1-4404 College Park, Ga. crossbeams where the Sisters perched. They had climbed first on chairs, and then on tables as the waters kept rising. Then they trust their coifed heads through the paper-thin ceiling nailed to the crossbeams, and tore openings to hoist them selves up under the rounded roof. One beam started to break as one Sister was pulling her self up, but she was yanked to safety. As the waters swirled closer and closer, the Sisters recited the Rosary, litanies and acts of contrition louder and louder in order to hear themselves above the crescendo of the voice of the typhoon. While they were on the beams, two men were able to swim in through a window. “Have you come to rescue us?” they call ed. “No—to save ourselves,” was the reply. The men too perched on beams. Two hours later the flood- waters had receded somewhat, and Father Seraphim Priestly, O.F.M., missionary of the Franciscans’ Holy Name pro vince (New York) who is superior of the Franciscan house in Hong Kong, was able to make his way to the hut- convent. He took the four nuns— Sister Mary Clara, the superior, and Sisters Mary Jo sephine, Mary Angela and Mary Stephen—to the Maryknoll Sis ters’ convent in nearby Kowloon. They were muddy and drench ed. According to the Maryknoll Sister who opened the door, “they looked as if they had been put together with Scotch tape.” It was on reaching the Maryknoll haven that the Chi nese Sisters revealed they had offered their lives for the Church and their “poor ones in China.” The Sisters—members of a group which had earlier been driven out of Hunan by the Chinese communists—are now homeless and without funds. Meanwhile, reports of dam age to other Church in stallations were coming in slowly. Half the desks for the 24 classrooms at the Bishop Ford Center were destroyed or badly damaged. Many of them were blown over a cliff. The cen ter’s Father Howard Trube, M.M., also reported that 400 classroom windows were shat tered by the storm, and that the center’s chapel was dam aged. Father Seraphim Priestly said that the primary school of the Franciscan friars’ model village suffered about $7,000 in damage. The roof was par tially destroyed, windows bro ken, and the torrential rains ruined school equipment. At Ma On Shan, on a penin sula jutting out of Tolo Har bor, the dispensary of the Fran ciscan Missionaries of Mary was swept into the sea. The mission house of the Belgian Franciscan friars was also damaged. Father Francis Lerda, P.I.M.E., of Hong Kong Catho lic Charities, moved a meals- on-wheels van into the de molished Sha Tin area (Sept. 2) the day after the typhoon and distributed 1,000 hot meals to the homeless. Lack of food in the markets barred him from feeding more of the hungry. Little Sisters of the Poor cared for 600 newly homeless people at their home for the aged in the island’s Aberdeen section. They were sampan dwellers whose boats had been lost. Another 500 people were fed and clothed by the Mis sionary Sisters of the Immac ulate Conception at their school in the refugee squatters area. Hong Kong Catholic Chari ties allocated $3,500 for aid through parish centers on the day of the typhoon. Four Cari- tas trucks operated throughout the colony delivering food and clothing, including 20,000 pounds of rice given by the United States and distributed through Catholic ’ Relief Serv ices—N.C.W.C. 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