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I 1 i h t PAGE 8-C—The Southern Cross, January 5, 1963 GETS CYO HONORS - Halfback Alex Webster of the New York Giants professional football team and the team’s "most valuable player" receives the Catholic Youth Organi zation’s annual Jack Lavelle award at ceremonies in Yankee Stadium. With Webster are Msgr. Philip J. Murphy, execu tive director of the CYO for the New York archdiocese, and 14-year-old Jack Kavanagh of Holy Trinity parish CYO in Manhattan. The New York Giants will meet the Green Bay Packers for the National Football League professional championship. - (NC Photos) Khrushchev Letter Proves Statement: "I Am A Communist The Moscow radio broadcast (Dec. 27) the text of a letter Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sent to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany. The letter was a reply to a communication Adenauer sent to Khrushchev following the August 17 shooting of Peter Fechter, the East Germany youth who bled to death alongside the Berlin wall in an unsuccessful attempt to escape to the West. In his reply, Khrushchev called for the troops of Western powers to get out of West Berlin; accused West Germany officials of "vicious and dangerous provocations" against socialist countries, and asked Adenauer if he were seeking to start a third world war. In the course of the letter, Khrushchev drew attention to recent calls for peace made by His Holiness Pope John XXIII, and said: "I am a communist and an atheist, and naturally 1 cannot share the philosophic views of the Roman Pope. "But I support and approve his call for peace. You, on the other hand, a zealous Catholic, who recognizes the spiritual leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, should have, apparently, heeded with particular attention the appeal of its head." The People Of Saint Matthew’s Parish In Statesboro, Including The Missions Of Swainsboro, Metter and Springfield Extend Best Wishes To The Southern Cross Aid Commission Sees More Debate On Birth Control Plan CHICAGO, (NC) — A member of the Illinois Public Aid Com mission has said further de bate is due on many details of the commission’s new birth control program for public re liefers. Michael J. Howlett, the state auditor of public accounts, not ed in a statement that "rules and regulations for making the birth control policy operational remain to be drawn by the IPAC staff and approved by the com mission." The commission voted six to four in early December to use tax funds to supply birth control information and and de vices to any public reliefer "with a spouse or child" who makes a request. Howlett, an opponent of the program, said questions to be debated by the commission in clude these: "What to do with a case worker who refuses in con science to make referrals for ‘family planning’ advice? Or an other caseworker who suggests referrals to a recipient without waiting for a ‘request’? “Will we pay for every kind of contraception any doctor may prescribe, or only approve cer tain prescriptions? Will the re ligion of the recipient, if any, make the difference in the IP AC procedures covering a spe cific case?" Howlett’s statement reiter ated his belief that distribution of birth control devices, ex pected to be mostly the so-call ed oral contraceptives, will pro mote adultery and promiscuity. He noted that the program is aimed largely at mothers of children on public relief. But he noted that in Cook Coun ty (Chicago) alone, 82.3 per cent of the mothers on relief are not living with a legal husband. Supplying these women with birth control devices, he said, encourages adultery. "Education, including specif ic instruction in the command ment, ‘Thou Shalt Not Com mit Adultery,’ would be a stronger force against illegit imacy than free contraceptive pills. I’ve heard the thought expressed that the best medi cation for this type of disa bility is a measure of‘sulfa- denial,’ " he said. Declaring that the birth con trol program was launched in the belief it would save tax payers the cost of supporting children on public relief, How lett said he was confident that there are better ways of reduc ing the cost. "Illegitimacy can be reduced by education of public relief recipients and by prosecution of the men who bring adultery, rape and promiscuity into re cipients’ homes," he said. He also noted that during the depression Illinois supported 18 per cent of the population on relief without resorting to con traceptives against support for 2.8 per cent today. He also said that tax revenue is not high here. "The per cap ita collection of taxes for state government is lower in Illinois than in 40 other states. Illinois is a high income and a low tax state,” he said. During two days of testimony before the commission vote in December, spokesman for Cath olic groups were the only signif icant objectors to the birth control program. The proposed alternatives which were reject ed. Protestant and Jewish church groups, along with social wel fare agencies, supported the distribution of contraceptives. Anthem Changed To Include Name Of God KAMPALA, Uganda, (NC) - This young country’s national anthem has been changed to in clude the name of God. Minister of Information and Broadcasting A. A. Nekyon an nounced the change in the Na tional Assembly here. The first line of the anthem was changed to: "O Uganda, may God uphold thee." It re places the original words: - “O Uganda thy people praise thee." Uganda, which had been a British protectorate since 1894, became independent October 9. Catholics number 1.9 million, about 30 per cent of the total population of 6.5 million. Pro testants make up 25 per cent of the total and Moslems 5 per cent. The rest of the people are pagan. Protests came from all over the country, especially from.the Christian press, when the name of God was left out of the origi nal version of the anthem. The Marist Brothers of the Schools - Founded January 2, 1817 - Is Happy to Share Its Birthday with “The Southern Cross”, Our Newly-Founded Diocesan Weekly. May God and His Blessed Mother give vigor to your youth with the same prodigality that they have sustained our “years”. ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH ST. JOHN VIANNEY CHURCH Bainbridge, Georgia. Dedicated in November 1958. Under the direction Camilla, Georgia. Dedicated May 27, 1962. Under the direction of the of the Franciscan Fathers (1952-63) Franciscan Fathers. (1952-63) THE FRANCISCAN FATHERS AND BROTHERS OF HOLY NAME PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR, WISH THE SOUTHERN CROSS A LONG AND FRUITFUL LIFE. ST. AUGUSTINE’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Thomasville, Georgia. Under the direction of the Franciscan Fathers (1952-63) OUR DIVINE SAVIOUR CHURCH Tifton, Georgia. Dedicated February 2, 1954. Under the direction of the Franciscan Fathers (1952-63) IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH Moultrie, Georgia. Under the direction of the Franciscan Fathers. (1952-63)