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EIGHT-B THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA DECEMBER 21, 1957. B 1 A MERRY CHRISTMAS * a A A A if* A A E. J. McMahon & Company Plumbing and Heating Contractors s A I A A A A A yf 2 540 Bohler Ave. — Phones 4-3506, 4-3507 — Augusta, Ga. y| *> ^ >;»,3i ssso,s* 1( >[*5, asanas SOSs^SiSsXSiSjSi Si 3( Si >, St assess 5,5,51 [ Serve Your FAMILY . . Treat Your FRIENDS . With the Finest AVERA'S FARM BRAND HAMS & BACON — SAUSAGE — BOLOGNA — and — BLUE RIBBON WIENERS AT YOUR FAVORITE GROCERS PORTRAITS ... By BREAULT ARE LASTING MEMORIES! Commercial Photography “That Tells The Story*’ 946 GREENE ST. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Text Of Bishops’ Statement On “Censorship” — (Continued From Page 5-B) that this is a principle which serves to safeguard all our vital freedoms — to curb less rather than more; to hold for liberty ra ther than for restraint. In practice the exercise of any such curbs by the State calls for the highest discretion and pru dence. This is particularly true in the area of the press. For here an unbridled power to curb and repress can make a tyrant of government, and can wrest from the people one by one their most cherished liberties. Prudence will always demand, as is true under our governmental system, that the courts be in a position to protect the people against arbitrary repressive ac tion. While they uphold the au thority of government to suppress that which not only has no social value, but is actually harmful, as is the case with the obscene, the courts will be the traditional bul wark of the people’s liberties. Within the bounds essential to the preservation of a free press, human action and human expres sion may fall short of what is le gally punishable and may still defy the moral standards of a notable number in the commun ity. Betwen the legally punish able and the morally good there exists a wide gap. If we are content to accept as morally inoffensive all that is legally un punishable, we have lowered greatly our moral standards. It must be recognized that civil leg islation by itself does not consti tute an adequate standard of mo rality. An understanding of this truth together with the knowledge that offensive materials on the stage and screen and in publications have a harmful effect .moved the Bishops of the United States to set up agencies to work in the field — for motion pictures, the National Legion of Decency; for printed publications, the Nation al Office for Decent Literature. The function of these agen cies is related in character. Each evaluates and offers the evalua tion to those interested. Each seeks to enlist in a proper and lawful manner the cooperation of those who can curb the evil. Each invites the help of all people in the support of its objectives. Each endeavors through positive ac tion to form habits of artistic taste which will move people to seek out and patronize the good. In their work they reflect the moral teaching of the Church. Neither agency exercises censor ship in any true sense of the word. The competence of the Church in this field comes from her di vine commission as teacher of morals. Moral values are here clearly involved. Her standards of evaluation are drawn from re velation, reason and Christian tradition and from the basic norms of the moral law. These are the standards on which our na tion was founded and their pre servation will be a safeguard to national integrity. A judgment of moral values in these areas is of prime importance to the whole nation. Although the Church is pri marily concerned with morals and not aesthetics, the two are clearly related. Art that is false to morality is not true art. While good taste cannot supply the norm for moral judgment on lit erature or art. yet it must be ad mitted that good taste will inevit ably narrow the field of what is morally objectionable. Who can deny that in modern American life there are many (Continued on Page 9-B) ftaiiros LAUNDRY & DRY CLE1NINQ COMPANY AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Tf7e'd like to sing out our thanks to you for your loyal patronage and to wish you a holiday full of old-fashioned wannih, merriment and much good fellowship. SOUTHERN ROADBUILDERS, INC. P. O. BOX 1129 AUGUSTA, GA. GENERAL CONTRACTORS AND REDIMIX CONCRETE TWO GOOD sr 9 <*■ Sf % # v iff if if 5f 9 » if I N | MONTE SANO PHARMACY if if f if s if 9 ! 9 if if s if K>SiMKMKRiaKMklK]RSiMKSt3c9ia;>i»'3i»s9iai9i>!ai>i>k>ca;»:fcSfSE»iKIM Sdk* »'*XWk DRUG STORES 1427 MONTE SANO AVENUE KINGS WAY PHARMACY 2106 KINGS WAY — AUGUSTA, GA.