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THE JBUU'-JCTIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
1 rapp Family Singers
Form Corporation for
Austrian Relief Work
(Special to The Bulletin)
MONTPELIER, Va.—Articles ol
Association of a unique one-family
Corporation have been Tiled in Hie
office of the Secretary of State
of Vermont. The Corporation, to
be known as Trapp Family Aus
trian Relief, Inc., will have mem
bers of the family of Garon Georg
von Trapp, world famous as the
Trapp Family Singers, as its offi
cers. Its business of providing
"general help and relief to poor,
displaced and unfortunate peoples
of all nationalities and creeds” in
the Trapps’ native Austria, will be
conducted exclusively by members
of the celebrated singing family.
Aaron von Trapp will be presi
dent of the* corporation; his wife,
Baroness Maria Augusta von
Trapp, will serve as vice-presi
dent; Johanna von Trapp, one of
the seven singing daughters, is sec
retary; Father Franz Wasner, the
Trapps’ priest-conductor, is treas
urer, and Werner von Trapp, a
son, is clerk.
Already Trapp Family Austrian
Relief, Inc., has launched a drive I
throughout the United States to
collect clothing, food, household
goods and money for the relief oi
the utterly destitute people of the
country which gave the world the
immortal music of Mozart, llaydn,
Schubert, Brahms and Strauss, and
which has suffered longer than
any other from the ravages of
Nazi occupation.
On their coast-lo-coasl concert
tour, the Trapp family Singers will
make personal appeals for cast-off
clothing, surplus foods, discarded
pencils, needles and a variety of
the necessities of life which will be
sorted and ' sent to the Austrian
needy. Cash contributions, which
tire deductible from income tax
returns, will also be sought, to be
ti ed to purchase flour, lard and
other foodstuffs. Overseas ship
ments will be made direct to per
sons in Austria known to the
Trapps, who have volunteered to
make distribution impartially
among the needy. All expenses of
packing and shipping will be de
frayed by the Trapp family.
Between May and December
last year, the Trapps were re
sponsible for the shipment to Aus
tria of more than 10,000 pounds jf
food; 1,400 women’s dresses; 500
pairs of shoes; 400 sweaters; 400
blankets; 200 yards of material:
( 1,500 items of infants’ wear; 50
pounds of spool thread and nee-
dies, 5,000 pencils and other arti
cles.
FEBRUARY 22, 1947
German Cardinal Tells Why He Wrote
Pastoral Letter Which Enraged Hitler
CHURCH, ROCK IIILL—Serving a parish which was
established about a quarter of a century ago. St. Anne’s Church, Rock
Hill, South Carolina, has been a charge of the Oratorian Fathers since
1934. The Divine Saviour Chapel in York is a mission of the parish,
which has Father William Covie, Congr. Oral, as pastor, and Father
Francis X. Winum, Congr. Oral., and Father Christopher Barry, Congr
Oral., as assistant pastors.
NCWC Committee
Issues Statement
on Human Rights
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—The inalienable
rights which man must have to
fulfill his obligations as a crea
ture of God are catalogued in a
document drafted by Catholic
scholars. It has been presented to
the United Nations commission on
human rights.
Entitled A DECLARATION OF
RIGHTS, the document, bound to
be historic, was prepared by a
committee of a dozen distinguish
ed philosophers and jurists ap
pointed by the National Catholic
Welfare Conference. The text of
the general preamble of the Dec
laration of Rights drafted by a
committee appointed by the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence follows;
God, the Creator of the human
race, has charged man with ob
ligations arising from his person
al dignity, from his immortal
destiny, and from his relation
ships as a social being. These ob
ligations are in reference to the
Creator, to himself, to his fam-
Baron and Baroness Von Trapp
and the noted Trapp Family Sing
ers stopped over in Atlanta re
cently while on route from Ashe
ville, N. C., to Clearwater, Fla.
While ip Atlanta they were en
tertained at an informal party
given in their honor by their
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Hecht. A group of music lovers
were invited to meet the famous
Austrian family.
Eire Ships Kosher Meat to
Displaced Jews of Europe
(Religious News Service)
DUBLIN—i By Wireless).—The
Irish Government is preparing to
ship ten million pounds of kosher
meat to Europe for distribution
among Jewish displaced persons,
it was announced here.
The food gift was described as
the greatest to be sent from Ire
land for European relief. II is cs-
l timated that Ihe meat will cost
[the Irish people about $3,000,000.
Ay and fellowmen, to the state,
and to the community of states.
For (he fulfillment of these obli
gations man is endowed with cer
tain inalienable rights. These ob
ligations and rights form tire sub
stance of the natural moral law,
which can be known by reason.
Obligations and rights ate cor
relative. At all times the obliga
tion to respect the rights of oth
ers operates against the arbitrary
use of rights.
Suitable opportunity to dis
charge fundamental obligations in
the various and separate situa
tions of life is a right which can
not he justly denied. For man’s
use God has provided the basic
re ources of this world.
The unity of the human race
under God is not broken by geo
graphical distance or by diversity
of civilization, culture, and econ
omy, and tile adequate use of the
world’s resources by all peoples is
not to be denied because of these
factors.
Weakness resulting from eon-
j quest or imperfection in govern-
, mental organization should not be
| used as a pretext to reject the
fundamental fights of man or to
■ impede their legitimate exercise.
| The order of rights progresses
j through the individual, the fam-
I Ay. the state, and the communi
ty of states.
NCCW IN SPARTANBURG
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
SPARTANBURG, S. C. — Mrs.
L. C. Riebling has been elected
president of the Spartanburg
Council of the National Council
of Catholic Women for the. cur
rent year, other officers named
being Mrs. W. R. Calhcart, vice-
president; Mrs. E. S. Steele, sec
retary, and Mrs. A. Abernathy,
treasurer.
A Mass is offered at St. Paul
the Apostle Church cacU month
for the living and deceased mem
bers of the council. Members at
tend in a body and receive Holy
Communion. Following the Mass,
breakfast is served in the parish
hall, after which there is a pro
gram which includes a discussion
of current religious topics. Regu
lar meetings of the local council
are held on the first Monday in
each month.
“MARY AND THE SPINNERS,”
by Elizabeth H. ’Frost, has been
announced as the January selec-
tion of the Catholic Book Club.'
By BURKE WALSH
(Staff Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
NEW YORK — The Bishop of
Beilin who began in 1935 publicly
to assail the Nazi doctrines of to
talitarianism, racism and paganism,
sat in a small room in the tallest
building in the world and told
representatives of th» American
press how he came to write his cel
ebrated Christmas pastoral letter
of 1942.
His Eminence Konrad Cardinal
von Preysing said that someone
had to answer the false creed that
Hitler was propagating, so he de
cided to do it with a pastoral let
ter.
The explanation was as simple
as that. Yet the document itself
had world-wide repercussions. It
was read on th<* floor of the
United States Senate, and it has
been acclaimed warmly by Catho
lic, Protestant and Jewish leaders
everywhere.
In answer ,to another question,
the Cardinal said that he had not
heard that tie was threatened with
incarnation in a concentration
camp lor this bold defiance of
nazism. but that he did know for
a fact that it made Hitler and his
associates very angry. He knows,
the Cardinal said, that there was
a meeting held in the Reich Chan
cellery over it, and that nazi lead
ers had said angrily that this sort
of thing could not go on; they
could not have the Bishop of Ber
lin speaking and writing in this
fashion. >
At the press conference held in
the Empire State Building, the
Bishop of Berlin was accompanied
by his host in this city-, His Emi
nence Francis Cardinal Spellman,
Archbishop of. New York, and the
Rev. Paul F. Tanner, assistant
General Secretary of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, who
is accompanying Cardinal von
Preysing on his tour of various
American cities.
Cardinal von Preysing’s itiner
ary, after he leaves New York,
calls for him to visit sixteen cities,
and to go as far west as the Pa
cific coast. After New' York, Buf
falo, and Rochester in that order
llis Eminence will visit St. Louis,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, St.
Paul, Dubuque. Milwaukee, De-
Iroit, Cincinnati, New Orleans,
Washington, Baltimore, Philadel
phia, Noire Dame, Ind., and Chi
cago.
STUDENT ACTIVITY AT
SACRED HEART, ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga.—The month of
February began with a gay touch
lor the students at the Sacred
Heart School. A Valentine Ball
was sponsored by the Sodality,
with Miss Cherry LeBlanc in
charge of the arrangements.
Wrist corsages were presented to
Miss Teresa Maloof. who was
elected “Girl of the Month,” and
to Miss Rachel Maloof, prefect of
the Sodality.
The I and II French classes
have .“adopted” lw 0 French chil
dren, a girl, fourteen, and a boy,
eight years old, and are planning
to send food and clothing boxes to
them each month.
“The Fifty-First Scores,” a play
by Barbara Deiters, was broad
casted on January 21, on the
sOttplarship program sponsored by
Radio Station WATL. Students
from the Sacred Heart*School who
were in the cast were Misses Jane
Hooks, Mary McDonald, Regina
Cantrall, Jeanne Connors, Mary
McNally, Jean Lafitte, Kathryn
Voker and Teresa Maloof.
A criticism from the Catholic
School Press Association has been
received by the editors of the
Sacred Heart School paper, “The
Live Wire.” The association com
plimented “The Live Wire” for
its art, editorials, features and
news stories.
The basketball season is well
under way, the Sacred Heart
team having played games with
Washington Seminary, Decatur
Girls’ High, Covington High,
Druid Hills and Napsonia. A game
with Mount St. Joseph Academy,
Augusta, is scheduled for Febru-
•ary 22.
Members of the senior class as
sisted in welcoming the guests
at a silver tea which was given on
February 2, for the Sisters of St.
Joseph.
Members ui the senior and
junior classes were numerous in
the audience which witnessed a
performance of “Macbeth” at Ag-
nes Scott College in January.
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a
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W. Main Street Phones 490 and 491
Rock Hill, South Carolina
SI. MARI S ( IIl ItCH, KO.CK IIILL—Although il lias not yel
1)0'’ ‘ formally dedicated. St. Mary’s Church, which serves the Colored
pai • i in Rock Hill. South Carolina, lias been in use for some months.
Atf. h d to the substantially constructed, church is a parish hall, or
let ! Uional center. The new building replaces the old’ St. Julia’s
Church, where the Colored Catholics of ilock Hill formerly attended
cervices, hut which was atjgndoncd because of its not being easily ac-
f ccssible. Father Edward Wahl, of the Congregation of the Oratory, is
pastor of St. Mary s, with Father James Sharpless, Congr. OraL, assist
ant pastor.
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