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Official Newspaper .For The Diocese Of Savannah - Atlanta Vol. 37, No. 3. Divisive Charge Hurled At Schools Called ‘Reckless’ HARTFORD, Conn., (NC) — Richai’d Joyce Smith, a mem ber of the Connecticut State Board of' Education, has brand ed as “reckless” a charge by a member of a suburban school board that the fundamental tenet of Connecticut’s n o jh - public schools is “division.” Mr. Smith, a Southport at torney, said he was shocked at the statement made by Sigmand Adler of the Rocky Hill school board. In an address last April before the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools, Mr. Smith said operation of non-public schools afforded substantial re lief to the state’s taxpayers. He suggested that children attend ing such schools be given at public expense all services which the Supreme Court has ruled constitutional and which last year’s White House Conference on Education recommended be furnished them. Mr. Adler charged that as a member of the State Education Board Mr. Smith was out of or der in “pleading the cause of the non-public schools.” “Any division of our people— ethnic, economic, social, religi ous—is unchristian and unde mocratic,” said Mr. Adler. “The most divisive force in our socie ty is religion, and here you are, a member of a body that has in its charge the most democratic institutions this or any other country knows, pleading to di vert money to institutions whose fundamental tenet is division.” Mr. Smith declared that “no one familiar with the accepted canons of statuory construction would contend that the State Board of Education is restricted ... to public schools.” He said the legislature “did not intend that the board should ignore the substantial activities of private and parochial schools simply be cause it is given special ad ministrative duties with respect to the public schools.” Referring to Mr. Adler’s critic ism of religion and of parochial schools, the Southport attorney declared that “divisive is a word coined by those who would like to suppress private and parochial schools and establish a single, standardized, lock-step system of state schools which all children would be compelled to attend, Mr. Smith said he was not, as Mr. Adler claimed, advocating that money needed for the pub lic schools be diverted to non public schools. “My interest,” he said, “in limited aid for Connecticut chil dren attending private and pa rochial schools is in no sense a derogation of public schools. Rather, it is based upon a firm conviction that unless a Russian type of compulsion is to be ap plied, an ever increasing number of American families will wish their children to attend private and parochial, schools, so that public and private schools will always be working side by side to educate the children of the state. If that be true, the recog nition of this partnership should be reflected in the fiscal policies of our local and state govern ments.” , “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Georgians Irre spective of Creed” MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1956. 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year Congressmen Mark Protest, Demand Halt To Sale 0! Pornography At Overseas PXs; Armed Services Committees Are Alerted (N. C. W. C. News Service) ✓ Quick-breaking developments show mounting displeasure over the spectacle of a Government agency peddling smut to youths: . .... 1. Protests in increasing numbers were being received by official Washington, criticizing the Department ot the Defense for permitting military post exchanges overseas to sell indecent and offensive magazines and books to service per sonnel. . .... 2. More and more Senators and Congressmen began to show an active interest in the situation. BISHOP SHEEN OFFICIATES—Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York congratulates his nephew, Fulton J. Sheen, II, 23, of LaGrange, 111., on occasion of his marriage to Miss Virginia Allison, 22, a school teacher of Lyons, 111. Young Sheen is sta tioned in the Army at Ft. Benning, Ga. As a wedding present Bishop Sheen presented the bride with a ring that belonged to his mother.—(NC Photos). Dr. M. J. Goglia New President ATLANTA, Ga.—Dr. Mario J. Goglia, a member of Christ the King Parish, and Regents Profes sor of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Tech nology, was installed as presi dent of the Georgia Tech Chap ter of Sigma Xi, national hon orary research society. Dr. Goglia succeeded Dr. Jos eph P. Vidosic, a member of Sacred Heart Parish ana Geor gia Tech Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In addition to his election the new Sigma Xi president receiv ed a certificate and prize of $100 for a research paper published during the year. His latest text book on thermodynamics, co- authored with Dr. R. L. Sweigert of Georgia Tech, is being used in engineering colleges throughout the country. A native of Hoboken, N. J., he studied mechanical engineer ing at the Stevens Institute of Technology, receiving the de grees of M. E. in 1937 and M.S. in 1941. After completing addi tional work in 1948 at Pui'due University, he was granted a Ph.D. From 1938 to 1947, he taught and did research work at the University of Illinois. Dur ing World War II, he worked on various important research projects for the office of Scien tific Research and Development. Dr. Goglia joined the faculty of Georgia Tech in 1948 as a pro fessor. In 1955, the Board of Regents of the University Sys tem of Georgia recognized his important contributions to en gineering education and research by his appointment as Regents Professor. He is married to Juanita Dix on and has two children David, 12, and Rozanne, 10. They re side at 2732 Atwood Road N, E., Atlanta. 3. The Armed Services Com mittees of the Senate and House of Representatives were both alerted to conditions, and the staffs of both began collecting all pertinent material for possible committee action. 4. A spokesman for the Na tional Council of Catholic Men called for the proper authorities to scrutinize the procedure by which* books, magazines and comics are purchased for mili tary post exchanges, beginning with the allocation of funds for this purpose. 5. A statement issued by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service Headquarters was ques tioned on several fronts, and promptly brought indignant charges of “buck-passing.” 6. The solicitor of the U.S. Post Office Department in Washington, said that his office would be glad to advise the Ex change Service headquarters on the mailability of any matter, if brought to its attention. 7. Some 60,000 member of the Knights of Columbus throughout Ohio have launched a letter, writing campaign demanding that Congress call an immediate halt to the sale of smutty litera ture at PXs overseas. The presence of pornographic books on the magazine racks of post exchanges in Japan and Korea was revealed by Catholic papers throughout the United States in a story written by Father Patrick O’Connor, S.S.C., veteran Far East correspondent of the N.C.W.C. News Service. “The magazines sold in Japan and Korea by Japan Central Ex change,” the official statement by the Exchange Service head quarters said, “are selected by Japan Central Exchange and purchased by headquarters Ar my and Air Force Exchange Service in New York City. “They are shipped to the Far East by second class mail on receipt of requisitions specifying quantities and titles of magazines to be procured. This could not be accomplished if these maga zines did not comply with the postal regulations which forbid the shipment of pornographic literature through the U.S. mails. “The magazines stocked in these exchanges are representa tives of the nationally distribut ed magazines in the United States newsstand circulation.” Shown this statement, A. Mc Gregor Goff, solicitor for the Post Office Department told the N.C.W.C. News Service that “whatever the Post Office De partment is able to do in ex cluding non-mailable matter from; being shipped to post ex changes, this would not relieve from responsibility those charg ed with the selection of maga zines to be sold in the PXs.” Amazed that the Exchange Service headquarters statement offered no promise of an inves tigation or improvement of the situation brought to their atten tion, Martin Work of Washing ton, executive director of the National Council of Catholic Men, said the proper authorities “should study the purchase of books, magazines and comics for military post exchanges, begin ning with the allocation of funds for this purpose. They should re quire as a condition for their approval definite assurance that all such publications be screen ed by the appropriate agency and measured against the basic moral principles that underly our society.” Continuing his criticism, of the statement, Mr. Work, who rep resents some 9,000 affiliated Catholic men’s groups with a membership of 8,000,000 said “the military have completely evaded the issue by attempt ing to shift its responsibility.” “It is just another classic ex ample of the old military game of buck-passing,” Mr. Work con tended. “When are they going to become mature enough to meet issues head on. J ’ “The fact of the matter is.” the NCCM director charged, “that the military and no one else is responsible for what is in our PXs. Even though there were no postal regulations, they would still be responsible. “The chaplains of the Armed Forces dedicate their lives to protecting the spiritual and moral welfare of our boys, only to find their work undermined by the insidious influence of publications supplied and dis tributed by other military agen cies.” Others who protested said the statement outlining the position of the Army and Air Force Ex change Service headquarters at tempted to excuse what is being done on the ground that some one else is doing it and failed to mention the principal objection, which is that an agency of the U.S. government is in the busi ness of peddling printed filth. There was an air of increasing concern evident as word of the smut peddling spread on Capitol Hill. Some Senators and Repre sentatives have already received numerous indignant letters of protest, and more and more legis lators were beginning to hear from constituents. The Armed Services commit- (Continued on Page Three)