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PAGE FOUR—THE BULLETIN, February 8, 1958.
Joseph Breige
Who’s Who In What Sense?
Father John J. Cavanaugh, for
mer president of my alma mater,
the University of Notre Dame,
recently revived the public dis
pute over the alleged intellectual
mediocrity of American Catholics.
I held my
peace when this
subject was
broached a cou
ple of years ago
by Msgr. John
Tracy Ellis of
Catholic Uni
versity of
America. I re
mained silent while other speak
ers and writers took it up.
Now I have decided that some
body ought to examine the evi
dence offered by these men, the
conclusions they reach, and the
assumptions that lie behind their
attitudes.
Since nobody else seems in
clined to do this, I will do it. It
cannot be done in one article. I
must devote my space to it for
several weeks.
Father Cavanaugh’s address to
the John Carroll Society in Wash
ington, which renewed the dis
cussion of Catholics and the in
tellectual life, was for the most
part a restatement of what Msgr.
Ellis had said.
Let me begin by quoting the
following passage from Father
Cavanaugh’s talk:
“The thesis of Msgr. Ellis’ book
can be summed up in a few words
—here in America, where the
Catholic Church is so strong in
wealth, in numbers, in general
organization, the intellectual
prestige of American Catholics
is shockingly low . . .
“Catholic vanity and complac
ency might be safeguarded if
Msgr. Ellis had been content to
make a sweeping general obser
vation without objective evi
dence. But, painstakingly, he cites
certain facts . . .
“. .. He draws upon two studies
that were made in 1927 of persons
listed in the American Who’s
Who. The first of these studies,
conducted by the American Mer
cury magazine, finds that for
every 100,000 Jews in this coun
try, there were 20 listed in Who’s
Who; that for every 100,000 Sev
enth Day Adventists, there were
11 in Who’s Who; that however
for every 100,000 Catholics, there
were only seven in Who’s
Who . . .”
Sounds impressive, doesn’t it?
It does, until you begin to exam
ine it. The figures were taken
from Who’s Who for 1927—30
years ago. And Who’s Who con
tains the names of tens of thous
ands of persons, only a minority
of whom have any connection
with the intellectual life.
I have made a cursory exami
nation of Who’s Who for 1948-49,
and edition roughly contempor
aneous with the beginnings of
this discussion about American
Catholics and the intellectual life.
The names I am about to cite
were well known then.
Father Cavanaugh is listed.
Msgr. Ellis is not.
Elmer Layden, Notre Dame’s
football coach in the 30’s is listed.
Not listed is Notre Dame teacher
Richard Sullivan, novelist and
short story writer.
I CAN FIND no listing for Har
ry Sylvester, Notre Dame gradu
ate, novelist, short story writer
and newspaper correspondent.
Also not listed is Notre Dame’s
Dr. Vincent Edward Smith, known
here and abroad as a philosopher,
writer and educator.
Absent is Frank Sheed, inter
nationally famed Catholic pub
lisher, editor, author, lecturer and
theologian. Also missing is Do
minican Father Walter Farrell,
author of that magnificent work
of scholarship. “The Companion
to the Summa,” and other distin
guished books. Among Farrell’s
listed are a bond buyer, a ship
ping executive and a newspaper
city editor.
One more example. Not listed is
Daniel Sargent, historian, biogra
pher and poet; author of “Thomas
More” and a dozen other books;
former Harvard professor, for
mer president of the Catholic
Poetry Society of America and
the American Catholic Historical
Association; and member of the
Boston Art Commission.
WHILE SUCH NAMES are
omitted, I found, in a 10-minute
scanning of Who’s Who, former
mayors, paper and tobacco mak
ers, a shoe company ex-president,
an internal revenue man, a tax
consultant, some Democratic com
mitteemen, actors and actresses,
investment agents, Navy and
Army officers, dancers, singers,
chemists, pharmacologists, food
company executives, organizing
secretaries, and a selective service
director for a section of an eastern
state.
I am not objecting to any list
ing. I merely ask what is to be
thought of the kind of argument
which offers a study of Who’s
Who as evidence of anybody’s in
tellectual inferiority or superiori
ty. I cannot agree with Father
Cavanaugh that this constitutes
“painstaking” assembly of “ob
jective evidence.”
• • •
SOVIETS LOSE GROUND WITH
RECENT ‘COLD WAR’ MOVES
By J. J. Gilbert
WASHINGTON, — Soviet Rus
sia has lost ground lately in its
propaganda war against the West.
For this reason, it is expected
here that Moscow will soon come
up with a new “gimmick.”
Two messages sent by; Soviet
Premier Nikolai Bulganin to Fres-
ident Eisenhower suggesting,
“summit” talks were undoubtedly
intended to capitalize on the
propaganda advantage gained by
the Reds in launching Sputniks
I and II. But President Eisen
hower’s reply to this suggestion
has been widely acclaimed as one
of the best answers the West has
given the East, and it is thought
here that it blunted the Moscow
propaganda drive at least for the
moment.
Hard upon this development,
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko dropped the hint that
Moscow was ready to enter into
diplomatic relations with the Vat
ican. This was audacious and cal
culated to capture the headlines,
which it did. But the Moscow
radio chose this time to launch
one of its most vituperative at
tacks on religion and those who
believe in God, and people ev
erywhere, especially in Europe,
were quick to discount the pro
posal.
Experts here have advised our
Government that Soviet Russia is
seeking world domination by the
“cold war” method rather than
the “hot war,” at least for the
foreseeable future. If Russia were
bent on outright aggression, they
reason, it would not have pub
licized its achievements with the
earth satellites and missiles.
The pattern, as seen here, is
this: Having gained an advantage
in the race to dominate outer
space, Moscow stepped up its ef
forts to appear as the champions
of peace while conducting “cold
war” aggression. The Bulganin
letters constituted one phase of
this acceleration. The Gromyko
hint about possible relations with
the Vatican was another. Presi
dent Eisenhower’s reply, sug
gesting preparatory lower level
meetings before any “summit”
conference, and inviting a com
parison of the peace records of
the U. S. and the Soviet Union
over the past 40 years took care
of the first of these phases. The
patent disparity between words
and actions in Moscow took care
of the latter.
It is interesting in this connec
tion that a forthcoming book of
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
is to bear the name “Masters of
Deceit.” The book is to be re
leased early in March, and an ad
vance announcement says it is
“an authoritative book on com
munism based on over 40 years
of intensive study of this deadly
menace” by Mr. Hoover.
Appearance of the book may
coincide with Moscow’s next pro
paganda maneuver.
Protest Use Of
State Funds For
Birth Control Plan
BOMBAY, India, (NC) —The
Indian government should not
use public funds to which Cath
olics of the country have contrib
uted to support birth control pro
grams, it was held at a symposi
um here on the evils of birth con
trol and family planning.
The symposium was part of the
Catholic campaign to fight the
Bombay government’s endorse
ment of birth control as an aid
to the economic situation in India.
Participating in the symposium
were members of the Bombay
Catholic Association, the Univer
sity Catholic Federation and the
Catholic Medical Guild of St.
Luke.
During the meeting it was
brought out that Catholics had
contributed to the public funds
from which $10 million will be
taken by the Indian government
for birth control propaganda.
Question
Box
Q: Are not Catholic Schools
un-American and should be abol
ished for the general good of our
country?
A. On the contrary, Catholic
schools are essentially, practical
ly , typically and thoroughly
American. Their history is Ameri
can; their traditions are Ameri
can; their teachers are American;
their students are American; their
organization is American. They,
teach the language of America
and uphold the ideals of America.
They prepare their students for
life in America and teach them to
love our country and its people,
to respect its traditions, preserve
its institutions, and obey its laws.
Q. "If the Pope is not inspired,
and not in any way divine, how
is he infallible?"
A. By virtue of his succession to
St. Peter whom our Lord made
Chief of the Apostles and Su
preme Shepherd of Christendom,
and to whom He gave the keys of
His Kingdom and whose acts on
earth He promised to ratify in
Heaven. Since God cannot fail of
His promise to ratify, and cannot
ratify error, He must give His su
preme agent such assistance in his
office as will prevent him from
teaching error when he teaches
as the agent of God.
Weekly Calendar
Of Feast Days
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
SUNDAY, February 9 — St.
Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop-Doc
tor. He was an Egyptian by birth
and in 412 succeeded his uncle,
St. Theophilus, as Patriarch of
Alexandria. He wrote commen
taries on the Holy Scriptures and
other notable works, but achiev
ed his greatest fame in his work
of overthrowing the heresy of
Nestorius, which was condemned
in the Council of Ephesus, in 431.
Intrigues at Constantinople led to
his imprisonment, but strong ac
tion by the Pope brought his lib
eration and he returned to Al
exandria, where he died in 444.
Pope Leo XIII proclaimed him
a Doctor of the Church.
MONDAY, February 10 — St.
Scholastica, Virgin. She lived in
the sixth century and was the
sister of St. Benedict. She is re
garded as the first nun of the
Benedictine order and founded a
community near Monte Cassino.
She died about 543.
TUESDAY, February 11 — Our
Lady of Lourdes. This feast com
memorates the 18 apparitions of
the Blessed Mother to St. Berna
dette, then a girl of 14, near
Lourdes, France. In the appari
tions the Blessed Mother revealed
her identity: “I am the Immacu
late Conception.” The feast falls
on the anniversary of the first
apparition.
WEDNESDAY, February 12 —
Seven Servite Founders, Confes
sors. The seven were Florentine
noblemen — Bonfilius Monaldi,
John Manetti, Benedict Antella,
Bartholomew Amidei, Hugh Ug-
uccioni, Gerard Sostegni and Al
exis Falconieri. In 1233 they re
tired for the world and founded
the Order of Servants of the
Blessed Virgin Mary (the Serv-
ites), which has a particular de
votion to the Seven Sorrows of
the Blessed Mother. Each of the
seven founders became famous
for working miracles. Their Order
spread rapidly. They died in dif
ferent years but share a single
tomb. They were canonized by
Pope Leo XIII in 1888.
THURSDAY, February 13 —
St. Benigus, Priest-Martyr. He
was a priest of Todi in Umbria,
Italy, who was tortured and put
to death in the persecution under
Diocletian about 303.
FRIDAY, February 14 — St.
Valentine, Martyr. He was a
Roman priest who with St. Mari
us and his family aided the mar
tyrs persecuted by Emperor
Claudius II. He was beheaded
about 270.
SATURDAY, February 15—SS.
Faustinus and Jovita, Martyrs.
They were brothers who lived in
the second century and preached
Christianity during the early per
secutions in the city of Brescia.
They were arrested and tried
personally by Emperor Hadrian.
They were beheaded in 121.
Issue New Stamps
Honoring Lourdes
VATICAN CITY, (NC) — A
new series of stamps commemo
rating the 100th anniversary of
the Lourdes apparitions will be
issued here on February 11 by the
Vatican post office.
The series is of six denomina
tions and depicts three scenes:
St. Bernadette beholding the
Blessed Virgin; a sick person
praying at the Lourdes grotto,
and the Blessed Virgin appearing
as the Immaculate Conception.
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SHARING OUR TREASURE
Christian Scientist Opens Door for Captain
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, Ph. D.
(University of Notre Dame)
Did you ever hear of a person
who was converted to the Catho
lic faith by a Christian Scientist?
Probably not. Yet such was the
experience of Captain Walter
Dakin Williams now at Scott Air
Force Base in
Illinois. He is a
brother of Ten-
n e s s e e Wil
liams, the noted
playwright, and
curiously
enough a direct
decendant o f
Valentine Xa-,
vier, a brother
Xavier.
“During World War II,” began
Captain Williams, “I was on a
vessel sailing for India. On board
were 35 chaplains of various de
nominations and we had lots of
time to chew the fat. I had been
reared an Episcopalian, had
taught Sunday School and had a
grandfather in the ministry.
“Here was a good opportunity
to examine and compare the vari
ous creeds. So I decided to make
the most of it. I found the widest
disagreement on fundamentals
obtaining among the Protestant
chaplains.
“A Methodist chaplain denied
the divinity of Christ; a Congre-
gationalist denied the Trinity, a
Disciples of Christ chaplain held
that the Holy Eucharist was only
a reminder or memorial of Christ.
I was appalled to discover how
they had gotten away from the
basic teachings of Scripture, Tra
dition and the Early Church.
“I had long talks with two
Catholic chaplains, Father Hen-
nigers and Father Cyril. I found
that they held fast to all the
truths revealed by Christ and
could back all their teachings
with texts from Scripture and the
Fathers. I came to see that the
Catholic Church was founded by
Christ and that its clergy spoke
with His authority and in His
name.
“Back of all that evidence was
the silent testimony of the good
example of Sgt. Jack Crouchet
and Lt. Anthony Vellek, with]
whom I took my basic training at
Fort Warren. There was the ex
ample of Lt. Tom Angel, a con
vert also on the vessel, whose
deep faith and devotion were an
inspiration to me.
On the train between Bombay
and Calcutta, Lt. Welz held a
Christian Science service in our
car, reading from the New Testa
ment and from Mrs. Eddy’s Key
lo the Scriptures. The lesson con
cerned the Christian Science doc
trine on the Blessed Trinity.
“Christ was declared to be
merely a perfect man, and any
man by becoming perfect could
become equal with Christ! Aston
ished, I asked about the Holy
Ghost. ‘Only the spirit of truth,’
replied Lt. Wei z, ‘revealed to
Mary Baker Eddy, and she has
revealed that there is no such
thing as sin, disease or evil in
the world.’
“Here was the confusion and
chaos typical of all Protestantism.
I had had enough. The next
morning I informed Lt. Welz that
he had converted me to Catholi
cism. A ‘Scientist’ had convinced
me of the essentially divisive cha
racter of the principles of private
interpretation. I determined to
sever all connections with my
Protestant past.
“On Easter Saturday Chaplain
Gerrity administered conditional
Baptism and received me into the
Church founded by Christ and
governed by Peter and his suc
cessors for more than 19 centu
ries. I had come home at last and
my joy was complete.
“How I wish I could share my
new found treasure with all! In
striving to do this, I’ve written
with a fellow officer, Walter R.
Stewart, a book, Nails of Protest
(Exposition Press, N. Y.), and I
hope it leads many a truth seeker
into the one true fold of Christ.”
“It’s a splendid work, Captain,”
I said, “and I recommend it high
ly. Its’ hard to see how any open-
minded inquirer can read it
without deciding to follow in
your footsteps. God bless you and
your zealous work!”
of St. Francis
Jottings
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
STUDENTS HERE are taking a
poll to find the choice for the
woman of the year. “Time” has
made their unfortunate choice
and other magazines and groups
have made theirs. So why not
Saint Mary’s College at Notre
Dame selecting a woman of the
year? The answers which filter
back into this office are interes
ting and reveal good thought and
good values. Those are the head
liners which would be expected:
Queen Elizabeth for her womanly
qualities; Clare Booth Luce for
her Catholicity as practiced and
exemplified in public life; Marian
Anderson for her racial leadership
and her goodwill tour through
Asia; Sister Madeleva, C. S. C.,
president, for her great contribu
tions to women’s educational en
deavors. One student instead of
selecting a person cited, all the
Negro girls at Little Rock’s Cen
tral High School who withstood
the indignities and insults with
such courage last September.
Another student in a most touch
ing and thoughtful selection chose
her mother. She told the student
reporter that her mother deserved
a woman of the year citation be
cause she represented hundreds
of mothers who sacrificed and
devoted their lives so that their
children will benefit.
*****
THUS we would say that the
freshman who chose her mother
has really stolen the show. She
may be only a freshman but some
how she knows more than many
of the so-called wise men of our
day. Mothers are indeed unsung
heroines. They are our first line
of defense. Theirs is not the
glamour, the spotlight or the
headline. They work overtime
ironing, cooking, washing, sewing,
cleaning so that their children will
be presentable at school or college.
They have no union hours or
(Continued on Page 5)
Catholic Colleges Have Crying Need For Funds
THE BACKDROP
Father John J. Cavanaugh’s
candid criticism of Catholic edu
cation may not endear him to
some of his fellow Catholic edu
cators, but he will not have wast
ed his breath if it provokes
thoughtful con
sideration of —
the questions
he raises.
The former
president of |
Notre Dame j
University re
cently told a 1
Catholic audi- *
ence in Washington that the fail
ure of Catholics in scholarship “is
a long and costly and ugly
dream.” He cited what he term
ed the “humiliating evidence of
the lack of Catholic representa
tion in scholarship, in science,
arts, business and fields where
culture and intellectual achieve
ments are concerned.”
“Where,” he asked, “are the
Catholic Salks, Oppenheimers
and Einsteins?”
For the “mediocrity” of Catho
lic scholarships, Father Cava
naugh suggested two factors
which contribute to it. One is the
low esteem in which intellectual
pursuits are held in many Cath
olic homes. The other is the in
adequacy of many Catholic in
stitutions of higher learning. The
same criticism, of course, could
have been directed at hundreds
of non-Catholic colleges, but Fa
ther Cavanaugh was speaking to
a Catholic group about their own
particular problem.
SPREAD TOO THIN?
Noting that few Catholic col
leges and universities have earn
ed a rating among the leading in
stitutions of learning in the na
tion, Father Cavanaugh asked if
the reason was that “we have
By JOHN C. O’BRIEN
spread ourselves too thin, opened
up colleges and universities with
out sufficient first-rate person
nel.”
The Notre Dame educator, of
course, is not the first to suggest
that the education dollar has been
spread thin in the field of higher
education and that, as a result,
we have attained numbers of edu
cational institutions rather than
quality.
Yet, it was inevitable that our
Catholic system of higher edu
cation evolved in the mannar in
which it did.
A few well-staffed universities
may be able to serve the needs of
Catholic students in the European
countries, where the travel di
stance to the main centers of
population is short. But that is
not the situation in the United
States. If Catholic youth in this
country are to have an opportun
ity for a Catholic higher edu
cation, colleges, even though they
may be inadequately equipped
and inadequately staffed, must be
spotted throughout the nation.
That we have to support so
many institutions of higher learn
ing is, of course, one reason so
few have been able to attain first
rank. But if we want to put our
finger on the main cause for the
anaemic state of Catholic higher
education, we must look at the
meager endowments of our Cath
olic colleges and universities.
GRIM STATISTICS
The stark fact is that only in
recent years have our schools re
ceived support from alumni and
wealthy Catholics. And even
now gifts and bequests are sel
dom substantial. In short, the ed
ucation dollars have been spread
thin because there have been so
few of them.
To grasp how ill-supported our
colleges and universities are one
has only to compare their endow
ments with those of non-Catholic
colleges. For example, only 28
Catholic institutions out of a total
of nearly 200 at the college level
are among the 410 listed in the
World Almanac for 1957 as hav
ing endowments of $1,000,000 or
more.
The total endowment of those
28 Catholic colleges is just under
$100,000,000. This is less than .
one-fourth of the endowment of
Harvard University, which, in
1957, reported its funded worth at
$442,000,000. The disparity is all
the more glaring when we con
sider that Harvard is educating a
student body of a little more than
10,000, while the 28 Catholic uni
versities and colleges are trying
to educate a total of nearly 95,000
students.
Notre Dame, with an enroll
ment of more than 5,000, has the :
largest endowment of any Catho-
lice University in the United
States — a little more than $10,-
000,000. By comparison, Wesleyan ’
University, a Methodist-founded
school in Connecticut, with an en
rollment of only a little more
than 1,000 students, has an en
dowment of more than $19,000,-
000.
Better financing, of course,
would not cure all the ills cited
by Father Cavanaugh. It would
not necessarily stimulate the de- J
votion to scholarship which the
Notre Dame educator found lack- 1
ing in American homes. But the
fact remains that until American | -
Catholic colleges are more gene-:
rously supported, it is asking for
a miracle to expect them to !
match in all respects the stand- 1
ards of the well-endowed secular i
and non-Catholic institutions.
A Shave For Maura
At Our House
(By Mary Tinley Daly)
Everyone, probably, is entitled
to his piccadillos and his small
pet peeves. Disassociated from the
grave concerns of the day, these
are the minor frustrations.
For the Head of the House, it
is shaving.
He would, we feel, have been
perfectly happy living in the time
of the apostles. Sometimes, when
he is particularly razor-shy, we
think that he envisions himself
in that carefree era when a red,
and now graying beard, mustache
and sideburns would be accept
able.
However, he dwells in mid
twentieth century, Madison Ave
nue, Park Avenue, Broadway,
and Tennyson Street, (where he
actually lives) have as their
mores clean-shaven jowls. The
Apostles are long ago and far
away; their virtues remain but
their hirsute adornment is seldom
seen.
So, for the Head of the House,
it’s make with the razor—but
not without a grumble.
When we’re out in the evening,
there is a careful inspection at the
bathroom mirror, and many a
time we find him perpetrating the
well-known ruse, a careful pat
ting on of talcum powder to hide
five o’clock shadow.
And the morning stretch-a-
shave: “Think I can get by?” he
will ask hopefully on a morning
after he has shaved the evening
before.
We try to take his side, but the
verdict, after a sandpaper em
brace, is “Well, if you’re going to
appear in public . .
Result—suds and scraping.
Every week end comes the
complicated routine, with timing
worked out as though he were
launching a satellite: Friday
morning’s shave is to last until
as late as possible on Saturday
evening and, with only slight
stubble he can get by for church
on Sunday—if he goes to an
early mass.
“But a shave takes just a few
minutes,” we’ve argued for years.
“Why don’t you go ahead and do
it automatically? Forget that you
dislike it. Recite poetry, plan
your next story, say your prayers
—offer it up for a penance.”
“Oh, rats!” he growls, and
starts lathering. “Women . . he
mutters under his breath.
Once, in an even more preachy
mood, we commented, “Why,
Daddy used to have to hone his
straight razor on a leather strop,
then use an old fashioned brush
and shaving mug . .
“And he always whistled while
he worked?” the Head of the
House asked wryly.
“Well, no,” we remembered
truthfully. “He used to kind of
complain too. Matter of fac t,
when Mom and we girls would
kid him, he’d growl, ‘Oh, wo
men!’ ”
The head of the House tries ev
erything that industrialized
America in 1958 offers to big and
little. shavers: foam that squirts
out at the press of a finger, elec
tric and safety razors, before and
after-shave gunk.
He pretends to pay no heed to
TV commercials where a guy
comes up beaming as he zips
through a stubble like a wire
brush and then goes into a clinch
with his wife. They rub cheeks
and both grin into the TV camera
with the pseudo-sincere:
“Honey, what in the world
would we do without Whiskoff?”
Next day, though, we find that
Whiskoff has been added to our
bathroom paraphernalia.
Recently, we’ve noticed a
change in the Head of the House
and his grooming habits. Early
each Sunday afternoon he goes
up and shaves, voluntarily and
uncomplainingly, even though he
knows that he faces the same
ordeal again on Monday morning.
Somehow, he always manages
to finish just before Johnny and
Lu and the four grandchildren
arrive. We had never connected
the two events, for certainly he
makes no other pretense at a
ceremonial, keeping on the two
sport shirts (the striped and the
checked) and wearing the loung
ing slacks.
Last Sunday, though, the truth
popped out as suddenly as shaving
lather out of the newest plastic
pinch bottles.
“Um-m-m, smell good, Grand
pa,” Sean said, climbing into his
lap where Maura, admittedly his
best girl, was already ensconsed.
“You’ll do the same thing some
day, boy,” the Head of the House ,
checkled. “A guy with whiskers
can’t nuzzle up and scratch a lit
tle baby face like Maura’s.”
So . . . 14-month-old Maura, as
yet unable to speak, has delivered
a more effective lecture than we
could do with years of entreaties
and protests.
Thank you, Miss Maura!
SUMMER COURSES
ROME, (NC) — A special sum
mer course of studies in Italian
literature, archeology, history and
Church history for foreign stu
dents will be given here at the
Institute of St. Eugene.
The aim of the course is to pre
sent the history of Rome as a
means of understanding the city
as the “Teacher of Civilization.”
The courses are scheduled to
run from July 3 to July 25 and
are open to students of foreign
nations interested in a deeper
knowledge of Christian culture
and history.
WITHHOLD NEWS
JAKARTA, Indonesia, (NC)—
The Central Committee of Bish
ops of Indonesia made no public
announcements after meeting in
this politically tense capital.
It was believed, however, that
the Catholic prelates discussed
Church policy in the event of any
possible emergency.
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Editor Savannah Edition Editor Atlanta Edition
JOHN MARKWALTER
Managing Editor
Vol. 38 Saturday, February 8, .1958 No. 18
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1957-1958 ’
GEORGE GINGELL, Columbus President
E. M. HEAGARTY, Waycross Honorary Vice-President
MRS. DAN HARRIS, Macon _ Vice-President
TOM GRIFFIN, Atlanta Vice-President
NICK CAMERIO, Macon Secretary
JOHN T. BUCKLEY, Augusta Treasurer
JOHN MARKWALTER, Augusta Executive Secretary
MISS CECILE FERRY, Augusta Financial Secretary
ALVIN M. McAULIFFE, Augusta ^ Auditor,