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SIXTEEN THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA VMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FEBRUARY 28, 1948 SACRED HEART SCHOOL IN GRIFFIN SPONSORS BROWNIE SCOUT UNITS Pictured above, members of Brownie Scout Troop, No. 20, of the Sacred Heart School, conduct ed by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, in Griffin, Georgia, are shown painting draperies for the children's ward of Strickland Memorial Hospital, in Griffin, a project of the troop for the cur rent year. Mrs. D. Chappel John son, who is teaching the members textile painting, is leader of the troop, with Mrs. W. E. H. Searcy, III, as co-leader. The troop was organized in August. 1947, at the icquest of Father John Walsh, C. SS. R., at that time pastor of the Sacred Heart Church, in Griffin. Members of the troop, pictured alxive, left to right, are, Evelyn Bramblett, Jan Raven, Chappell Johnson, Rosemary George, Glenda Clark, Ann Head, Leslie Brown, Roselyn Ward, Ann Raven, Phyliss Treadwell, seated, and Rosella McCall and Patricia O'Con nor, standing. In October, 1947, a second troop of Brownie Scouts was organized at the Sacred Heart School, with Mrs. Alice Carlisle Ward, as lead er, and Mrs. Jack Whitney, as co- leader. Members of this troop, shown in the picture to the right, are. left to right. Patricia Glide- well. Rosa Ann Eubanks, Muriel Morgan, Kay Cowart, Mrs. Whit ney, co-leader; Ann Bailey, Elaine Goldstein, Mrs. Alice Ward, lead er; Barbara Jean Combs, Theresa Barfield, Theresa Head and Gail Piland. Kneeling in front of the group are Sandra Goldstein, and Benny Ward, mascot. The two troops meet separately at the Sacred Heart on Friday afternoon of each week, and the leaders of both troops are most appreciative of the cooperation which Father John W. Doherty, C. SS. R., is giving the scouting pro gram which is being conducted under the auspices of the parochial school. French Catholics and Protestants Join in Prayers for Unity Lack of Moral Instruction in Education Seen as Source of Juvenile Delinquency By Columnist in the Atlanta Constitution (Special to The Bulletin) ATLANTA, Ga.—Juvenile delin quents are doing what comes nat urally, following the working of inexorable laws upon which this universe is based—natural and moral laws, is the opinion express ed recently by Thomas M. Elliott, whose personal column is a fea ture of the editorial department Y M. MASSIANl (Paris Correspondent N. C. W. C. News Service) PARIS.—For the first time since . _ ... ,. the breaking of Christian unity in of 1 Atlanta Constitution. France, Catholics and Protestants of the city of Metz In Lorraine met to pray for the intention of reconciliation and union of Chris tians at the conclusion of the Discussing the "Source of Juve nile Delinquency.” in his column which appeared in The Constitu tion under the date of February 1, Mr. Elliott made these observa- Week of Prayer for Christian. tions; Unity. I In the morning Catholics assist- "Preachers, jurists, editors and ed at a Solemn Pontifical Mass ( legislators put the blame for dc- offered by Bishop Joseph Heintz linquency upon the wrong things of Metz. I —neglectful parenthood and dc- Iri the afternoon, in the city cadent homes. There is no de auditorium, Catholics and Protest- nial that irresponsible parents and ants assembled together. Atound decadent homes are mighty fac- devoted fruitage of an education system that disregards a basic law of the universe . . . "While moral instruction and training were gradually disappear ing from the public education pro gram, secular agencies were launched that added influence to the decline; and at the same time more and more irreligious instruc tors were employed, until now many instructors arc ungodly, some are godless, and a consider able number are anti-God. “This would appear to be the secret of juvenile delinquency — public education without moral concept, moral objective and moral motivation. After a cen tury of that kind of education we have indifferent parents, decadent homes where delinquency breeds and our juvenile problem. "So long as public education is itirel.v to training the the Vicar General of the diocese tors in the matter, but they are were many parish priests and rep- not the major factors . . . resentatives of religious comtnuni- | "In searching for the hog in the ties. Around the President of spring the consensus of opinion is the consistory of the Reformed' that America's public education Church were Protestant pastors of system, with its total deficiency the city. A former mayor of Metz ‘ in moral training, is the hog. Dur and the mayors of several of the ing the century of public educa- villages also were tlon the increase in school atten- neighboring present. Addresses were made by a Fran ciscan priest, by the President of the consistory and by the Vicar I similar increase In General of the diocese. The Pro- chain gangs, courts dance and educational institutions has been enormous. During the same century there has been a crime, jails, and reform testant leader particularly obsei v-1 institutions, accompanied by cor ed that the desire of union had j responding lowering of the crime long been germinating in the j age and laxity of morals. hearts of his co-religionists and that the sufferings undergone by Catholics and Protestants together during the recent war had vivi fied this desire for Christian unity. Catholic and Protestant choirs alternated in singing hymns in the glory of Christ. In bringing the manifestation to a close, those present recited the Our Father and sang the Adesto Fidelis. "pne hundred years ago prac tically all reading matter for boys and girls in school carried moral teachings and implications. To day such reading matter is less than one percent. Without moral instructions and training today’s youth come to be neither moral nor immoral, but merely unmoral without moral concept or convic tion. Thus is born the tragic prob lem of delinquency, the natural head and hand only, detouring around training the moral con science and sense of personal ob ligation, youths of lax ideals will be with us and be the founders of yet more decadent homes. That is the realistic picture, and the prospects are not too bright and promising . . . "This article is not a plug for teaching religion in the public schools; but it is a plug for an ef fective remedy that will go a great way toward eliminating the growing delinquency problem. SECULAR PRESS REPORTS, widely circulated in this country, slating that the Catholic Church "has decreed that Catholics again may dispense wit'* the duty of ob serving fast and abstinence in 1948, involved two errors; no new decree has been issued, and the indult still in force does not grant a universal dispensation to the faithful directly, but grants to the Bishop the faculty to give a dis pensation within his Diocese. “Moderation is our Motto” II I • II . . but it’s more than a motto: it is a way of life. . . . We believe in modera tion in exercise ... in eat ing ... in drinking ... in working ... in playing . . . moderation in all things . . . Social drinking is for physically well mature peo ple-people who enjoy friends —who enjoy food — who enjoy drinks —in mod eration. These are the peo ple who are moderate in all things —in work, in play, in eating and drinking — these are the people who know that the intelligent use of alcohol offends nobody. ; . . In order to really en joy life, we, the members of the Georgia Distilled In stitute say “Let's be moderate!" GEORGIA DISTILLED SPIRITS INSTITUTE