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JUNE 25, 1955. THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA NINA World Underprivileged Look To U. S„ For Something To Feed Their Souls HARDAWAY MOTOR COMPANY P. O. BOX 670 1541 1ST AVENUE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA CONGRATULATIONS To Our Catholic Laymens Association Progressing with our Catholic brethren and the city of Columbus, we appreciate the patronage of our good Catholic customers in the Columbus metropolitan area. Visit our modern dairy bar for healthful ice cream and dairy products. Once again WELLS DAIRIES COOPERATIVE wishes to congratulate your progress. 917 BROWN AVE. PHONE 3-3651 By Thomas E. Heffner. Jr. (Correspondent. N.C.W.C. News Service) CHARLOTTE, N. C., — The world’s underprivileged are look ing to America “for something which will feed their souls, something which will give them new hope,” not more economic aid, His Eminence Samuel Car dinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chi cago, declared here. The Cardinal emphasized that men crave truth in his mes sage to more than 1,000 mem bers of the North Carolina Cath olic Laymen’s Association at its annual convention here. Speaking before a packed au dience in this city’s largest audi torium—and several hundreds were turned away—the Cardinal, in the course of his address, de clared: “Tyranny has brought misery to millions ...” “An ideology which dares not face reason, seeks world conqu est . . .” “Secularism with its specious empty promises is endangering the very foundations of morali ty.” “With material plenty there is confusion.” Throughout his talk was woven the theme that what suc cess commjunism has enjoyed springs directly from its pro mises, albeit never fulfilled, to those millions wfio each day wonder from where the next day’s bread will come. And the Cardinal’s challenge to the West was plain: Material aid is not enough. Men, even those who do not know Him, are seeking Christ, craving Christ, hunting for the Sacred Truth. “There are,” he said, “so many good things and so many good people in our world. And theirs are the gravest of problems which must be solved if the to morrow is to be better than the today.” A native of Tennessee who holds the interests of mission- iand Dixie high in his heart, Cardinal Stritch dwelt also at length upon the changing South land with its industrial growth of recent years. While shunning the lavender and lace portrait of the South as pictured in “pretty novels written for Northern readers,” he pleaded that Dixieland not lose its culture. And he said, here “I see some thing which is the antithesis of Marxism) . . . Here I see in the recognition of human dignity the safeguard of native freedoms. “And here I see what I think is a deep craving to hear the Church tell its fact, the fact of Christ. “Christ Jesus is the fact which can save the world, bring or der out of confusion, bestow genuine peace. The speech of Cardinal Stritch was preceded by one of Lawrence W. Pierce, Assistant District Attorney of Kings Coun ty, N. Y., who spoke on the problems of the Negro. And he was speaking before a Catholic audience where there were several hundred Negroes present. Mr. Pierce traced the problem of the Negro and the problem of the Church in reaching tho Negro. He said there are 460,000 Negro Catholics in the U.S. to day -and about 5,640,000 Negro Protestants. He had high praise and ex pressed great hope for the vari ous Catholic Interracial Coun cils. Thanking Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh, for his now- famous pastoral letter of Juno 12, 1953 in which the Bishop firmly state the Church’s views on ail men, Mr. Pierce said: “Negro Catholics have every reason to expect that if forth right declarations concerning the nature of man, the dignity*of the human person and his conse quent standing before God and among men could be expected from any quarter, it should emanate from! that Body con ceived in divinity and founded by Christ, the Holy Roman Cath olic Church. Our expectations could not have been better ful filled than by His Excellency’s statement which was undoubted ly inspired by the Seat of Wis dom, the Holy Ghost, and by this great Hierarch’s unbounding and Christ-like love for his fellow man.” Present for the convention banquet were: Auxiliary Arch bishop William D. O’Brien of Chicago; Auxiliary Bishop Jos eph Durick of Mobile-Birming- ham, Ala.; Auxiliary Bishop Francis E. Hyland of Savannah- Atlanta, Ga.; Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Hodges of Richmond, Va.; Auxiliary Bishop James J Navagh of Raleigh, N. C.; Ab bot Vincent G. Taylor of Bel mont Abbey, N. C., and Maj. Gen. Joseph P. Cleland of Fori. Bragg. Mrs. White Funeral Services MACON, Ga.—Funeral services for Mrs. Beatrice White were held June 11th at St. Joseph’s Church. Survivors are two brothers, John and Mark Mullees, Clare- morris, Ireland; three nieces and one nephew. Our Best Wishes ~ jg| COLUMBUS IRON WORKS CO. Established 1853 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA W