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I PAGE 4—The Southern Cross, January 26, 1963 Seven Important Points We wish our new Governor and the lawmakers of our State well in their attempts to meet and solve the many problems with which they will be confronted in the coming weeks and months. Undoubtedly the most ser ious, and potentially the most dangerous,problem will be that of racial discrimination in various forms. Its solution requires wis dom, understanding, a sense of justice, moral courage, and the guiding Grace of God, and the prayers of every Geor gian should ascend daily to heaven in behalf of those whom we have chosen to represent and safeguard the rights and privileges of all the people, regardless of race, creed, or social status. We believe that our elected officials will face this prob lem, as well as many other weighty ones, with courage, fortitude, and the will to do what is right, not merely in the sight of men, but more importantly, in the sight of God. But if the problem is to be effectively solved, and if we are to be spared the ugly inci dents experienced by some of our sister-states, courage, fortitude, and good-will is re quired of every Georgian. Recently, eleven Alabama clergymen proposed seven principles to the citizens of their state, as they, too, face this difficult, deep seated and long standing problem. We re commend them to Georgians as well - Governor, lawmak ers and citizens. 1. Hatred and violence have no sanction in our religious and political traditions. 2. There may be disagree ment concerning laws and so cial change without advocating defiance, anarchy, and sub version. 3. Laws may be tested in courts or changed by legisla tures, but not ignored by whims of individuals. 4. Constitutions may be amended or judges impeached by proper action, but our American way of life depends upon obedience to the de cisions of courts of compe tent jurisdiction in the mean time. 5. No person’s freedom is safe unless every person’s freedom is equally protected. 6. Freedom of speech must at all costs be preserved and exercised, without fear of recrimination or harassment. 7. Every human being is created in the image of God and is entitled to respect as a fellow human being with all basic rights, privileges and responsibilities which belong to humanity. Red Squabble Only Over Means, Not Ends (By J. J. Gilbert) WASHINGTON -- Com- .munism’s goal is domination of. the world, including the United States. That is a plain fact, experts assert, which the Free World, and particularly Americans, should keep constantly in mind. It is felt that there is a special need to restate this fact, in view of the Communist party con-, gress just held in East Germany and the to-do made over the dif ferences reported to exist be tween Communist Russia and Communist China. "I foresee no spectacular re versal of communist methods or goals," President Kennedy ad vised Congress and the Ameri can people on the very eve of the East Germany Red gather ing. "A dispute over how best to bury the Free World is no grounds for Western rejoic ing," the President also warn ed, referring to the reports of the Sino-Soviet dispute. Experts agree, as the Presi dent said, that communists all have the same ultimate goal and if they are disagreeing it is only as to how to achieve that end. The reason for So- viet-Chinese differences most frequently cited is that the Chi nese Reds want to spread com munism right now by promot ing and practicing revolution in other countries, while the So viet Reds feel they can get what they want by what they call co existence, but which is really deceit and subversion. Although he mentioned neither country by name, Fidel Castro, the Cuban Red, is wide ly regarded as having favored Peking over Moscow when, si multaneously with the East Ger many Red meeting, he called for revolutionaries in the West ern Hemisphere to rise up vol- lently and seize power. There are very able author ities on communism who say Red. China is not bickering with Red Russian over whether or not there should be a‘‘big war." They note that some in the Unit ed States have quoted the Pek ing People’s Daily to show that Red China wants ‘‘a big war" and that Red Russia wants peace. These authorities quote the same Peking People’s Daily as saying the people of China‘‘love Sudan Paratroopers Help Help For Hospitals WASHINGTON, (NC) - Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana has introduced a bill to extend to nonprofit hospitals , excise tax exemptions now enjoyed by non profit education institutions. The bill (H.R. 857) would exempt nonprofit hospitals from paying manufacturers' and re tailers' exise taxes, exise taxes on communications and excise taxes on air transporta- ion. The same exemptions were Colleges And The Constitution granted to nonprofit educational institutions in 1958. The bill was referred to the House Ways and Means Com mittee. Camping Standards Urged PITTSBURGH, - The seventh National Catholic Camping As- ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., (NC) - A commission of the Asso ciation of American Colleges held that nothing in the U.S. Constitution prohibits Feder al aid for education in pri vate colleges. The claim was made in a re port from the association's Commission on Legislation. Calvert N. Ellis, president of Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa., and commission chairman, submitted the report to the 49th annual meeting of the associa tion, composed predominantly of private liberal arts colleges. “There is nothing in the Con stitution of the United States,” the report said, “to debar the Federal government from as sisting colleges and universi ties, whatever their affilia tion, in the performance of their proper educational functions." NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REL/GtON AND RACE BEHIND THE CUBA DEAL It Seems to Me sociation convention here was told it needed “standards of conduct.” Father William L. Schroed- er, general director of Fort Schoo Camps, Cincinnati, re minded some 250 delegates the association is about 12 years old, “and like all teenagers, we need standards of conduct.” Father Schroeder made it plain he was not calling for standardization or conformity. “In adopting standards we are simply setting up goals and ideals," he declared, “and sug gesting that you attempt to reach them, each in his own way.” Six Month Old ’Apostle’ SYDNEY, Australia, (NC) - The lay apostolate started ear ly for six month old Joseph Van Haren who received a medal as his parents and 11 other lay missionaries received mission crosses at the close of a week’s training here. Auxiliary Bish op James Carroll of Sydney presented the medal to the baby and the crosses to the 13 who have volunteered to serve in South Pacific missions. JOSEPH BREIG Ask Columbus Day Holiday Bible Pictures Called "Smut” peace” and that “China was an initiator of the Five Prinicples of Coexistence." What the two communist - dominated coun tries are debating, these ex perts contend, is how to infil trate Free World countries and how ripe these countries are for picking. In any event, even assuming that Moscow favors a less vio lent line than Peking, there is no doubt that Nikita Kruschev, Soviet Russian Premier, feels that “coexistence” is serving communism well. He said so in East Germany. He said it had already en abled Soviet Russia to catch up with the United States in the nuclear field. Asserting that nu clear war would obliterate whole nations, and that the com munists could not win such a war, Khruschev indicated that the Reds can go on as they are and take over the world. It has been suggested that a stake in the Peking-Moscow tussle is the allegiance of the rest of the 90 communist par ties Moscow says exist round the world. However, this is only a by-product of contention over the best method of bringing the Free World to communist slav ery. It is, as the President has said, a disagreement over means, not ends. Christopher Columbus must surely have beamed as he watched from the other shore, the ransoming of the 1,113 Cuban invasion prisoners. After all, the discoverer of the New World has a right to feel that he had a hand in the liberation of the men cap tured in the Bay of Pigs battle. On one of his voyages to America, Col umbus brought with him three Mercedarians who founded branches of their religious or der all through Latin America —in Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Eucadoor. . .and Cuba. And who were (and are) the Mercedarians? THEY WERE missionaries who, among many other things, made it part of the Latin Ameri can tradition that a prisoner must always be able to hope for freedom—by ransom if nec essary. That tradition has deeply in fluenced the Cubans. It influ enced, almost certainly, Pre mier Fidel Castro, because it is part of the very air of Latin America. For the beginning oftheMer- cedarian story, we must go back to the 12th century, when the Moors were waging war on Europe, trying to destroy Christianity with fire and sword, as they had destroyed it in northern Africa. Thousands of Christian defenders were taken captive, cruelly mistreated, and enslav ed. IN 1192, a group of noblemen in Barcelona, Spain formed what is called a “confraternity” to ranpom the prisoners. Spain, which later was to send Columbus on his epic voyages, was bearing the brunt of the Moorish attacks. About this time, the King of Aragon died, and his young son succeedeu to the throne. As tutor for him, his counsel lors selected a learned soldier in France, who was later to be canonized as St. Peter No- lasco. Nolasco joined the young king in his capital, Barcelona. The Virgin Mary , appearing in a vision, charged Nolasco with the task of founding a religious order dedicated to ransoming prisoners. THE RANSOMING of captives then, and for long after, was< listed as one of the seven cor-; poral works of mercy. “Visiting^ the sick” was substituted when (so it was thought) ransoming would never again be necessary. St. Peter Nolasco consulted his confessor St. Raymond of Pennafort, canon of Barcelona, who encouraged and helped him in the work given to him by the Virgin. Naturally enough, St. Peter based his order on the confra ternity founded by the noblemen who became the order's first monks. It was called the Order of Our Lady of Mercy—Merce darians for short. THE MERCEDARIANS col lected funds and negotiated with the Moors for the release of Americans, seven centuries la ter, were to solicit goods and money and negotiate with Fidel In Anti-Christian Drive Castro. Some of the Mercedarians rose to such heights of heroism that when everything else failed, they handed themselves over to the Moors in exchange for pri soners so that the captives could return to their families. Among these heroes was St. Raymond Nonnatus, a cardinal, who got his name (non natus, Latin for not born) from the (fact that he had been taken from his mother’s womb after she died. Nonnatus was a nobleman who became a Mercedarian and rose to the exalted office of Ransomer. AFTER RANSOMING hun dreds of captives, he faced a demand from the Moors that he give himself as ransom. He did so, and because he would not stop talking to them about Christ, they pierced his lips with redhot irons and padlocked them. He is so pictured in representations of him. Among Mercedarian saints, in addition to Nolasco and Non natus, were St. Peter Paschal, a bishop who was martyred, and Blessed Bernard of Cor- bario. The Mercedarians also pro duced many archbishops, bish ops, writers and educators— plus the three who came to the New World with Columbus and spread the Order of Our Lady of Mercy through Latin Ameri ca. Nor was North America skipped. The Mercedarians are not as well known as, say, the Jesuits, Franciscans, Domi nicans and Benedictines, but they are with us, as they were with Columbus when he found the lands we live in. WASHINGTON (NC) - Two senators have introduced a bill to make October 12, Columbus Day, a legal holiday. The meas ure (S. 108) was sponsored by Sens. John J. Williams and J. Caleb Boggs, both of Dela ware, and was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. College Interracial Unit BERLIN, (NC) - A tribunal in Kosice in Slovakia has sen tenced a resident of that city to three years in jail for pro ducing and selling pictures showing Biblical scenes, ac cording to reports reaching here. The convicted person, Josef Brann, allegedly supplied the pictures, which a Slovak communist newspaper called “smut,” to Catholic priests. ST. BONA VENTURE, N.Y., (NC) - Students of St. Bona- venture University who are members of the Third Order of St. Francis have organized the first college unit of Action for Interracial Understanding, a Catholic movement designed to solve racial problems at the grassroots level. Ralph Fenton, AIU executive director, said the students here decided to pioneer the college unit after analyzing the suc cessful methods of the movement on the parish level. Eastern Rite Choirs VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC) - His Holiness Pope John XXIII attended a concert by the choirs of the Armenian, Maronite, Russian and Ukrainian colleges in Rome which he said meant a great deal to him. Following the concert the Pope said “I bless God because this concert is a most pre cious surprise for my spirit.” Priest Asks Asylum Governor Honors Nun CULLMAN, Ala., (NC) - A nun who has taught school con tinuously for the past 68 years was honored here with a cer tificate of appreciation on be half of outgoing Gov. John Pat terson of Alabama. Mother Annunciata Janeway, 83, first president and still a Latin teacher at Sacred Col lege here, was cited “for her steadfast devotion to the teach ing profession , for her interest and concern for our youth and for her consistent efforts to make ours a better state in which to live and work.” SANTO DOMINGO, Domini can Republic, (NC) - Father Jean Baptists Georges, who served as Haitian Minister of Education from 1.957 to 1959, has requested political asylum at the Dominican Republic’s embassy in Haiti, according to reports received here. Father Georges' request for asylum is the latest incident in the Duvalier government's campaign against the Church in Haiti. Within the past two months a French-born bishop and 11 French priests have been expelled from the Caribbean island country. Since 1959, the Duvalier regime has ousted three bishops and 17 priests. STANLEYVILLE, The Congo, - The Sudanese government has created a paratroop corps to deal with any emergency that might arise in the southern part of the country, where it is sys tematically expelling Christian missionaries. At the same time, it has more than quadrupled the strength of its garrisons in the south in an effort to prevent the Sudanese people themselves from flee ing the country. It was learned here that the Sudan’s Moslem - controlled government had expelled 120 missionaries — 83 Catholics and 37 Protestants -- between mid-November and mid-Janu ary. The repressive methods employed by the Moslem Arabs who rule over the Negro and Nilotic peoples of the south have spurred thousands of southerners to flee. Estimates of Sudanese refugees who have escaped run as high as 10,000 here in the Congo and 15,000 in neighboring Uganda. The re- jgees include hundreds of for mer southern servicemen, po- schoolmasters and stu- Khartoum government has kept insisting that “every part of the country is calm.” But by its troop movements it has tipped its hand: In the past six months the troop strength in the south has been increased from 3,000 to 13,000 men. Southern soldiers are transferred to northern garrisons, while a new troop- train of northern soldiers goes south weekly. Sudanese troops patrol the borders of the Congo and Ugan da night and day in an effort to prevent both any further ex odus of refugees and to be on the lookout for any possible at tempt of refugee forces to free the south from its Arab mast ers. There are periodic clashes between refugees and Sudanese frontier patrols. In one, in early December, Sudanese troops en tered the Congo and set fires in villages where refugees were supposed to be living. The Su danese press did not mention this or other incidents. But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Khartoum issued a communique stating that some shots has been exchanged during“anormalpa- (Continued on Page 5) QUESTION BOX Ask Study Change Nobody Wants Q. What is a miracle? What I mean is, what is the exact definition of a miracle? Me! // Chu Maria was aban doned in the streets of Hong Kong. A Cath olic institution gave gave her shelter. Now authorities seek an adopted home for her in America. Must she be abandoned again? You can help. Call your Director of Cath olic Charities, or write today to: A. A miracle (the word comes from the Latin miror, (i.e., “I wonder at or I marvel at") is, in St. Thomas’ classic de finition, “that which is done by God outside the order fo all created nature.” St. Augustine described a miracle as “some thing difficult, which seldom occurs, surpassing the faculty of nature, and going so far be yond our hopes as to compel our astonishment.” Old Testaments, are obviously of faith. Those which have oc curred since Apostolic times— those accepted by the Church in formal canonizations of saints for example, or the authentic cures of Lourdes—are demand ing of at least the serious credence due to any truth for which indisputable evidence is available. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (NC) - Two Catholic organiza tions have suggested changes in a questionnaire to be used for a proposed United Nations study of discrimination against persons born out of wedlock. The changes are designed to protect the rights of persons born out of wedlock and also to protect the stability of the family. The Southern Cross CATHOLIC COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES, NCWC 265 W. 14th Street, New York 11, N. Y. A MIRACLE can only be wrought by God, then though he may choose to employ any creature as the instrumental cause. Moreover, a miracle is not, as one theologian remarks, “a violation of the laws of nature, but an exceptional hap pening brought about by a spe cial, divine power that inter venes in created things, pro ducing an effect superior to their natural power.” P. O. BOX 180, SAVANNAH. GA. Vol. 43 Saturday, January 26, 1963 No. 1J Published weekly except the last week in July and th< last week in December by The Southern Cross, Inc. Subscription price $3.00 per year. Second class mail privileges authorized at Monroe, Ga. Send notice of change of address to P. O. Box 180, Savannah, Ga. MIRACLES MENTIONED in the Bible, in both the New and Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, D.D.J.C.D., President Rev. Francis J. Donohue, Editor John Markwalter, Managing Editor Rev. Lawrence Lucree, Rev. John Fitzpatrick, Associate Editors