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Newspaper Page Textt I Diocesan School Superintendent Says Education Bill Can Hurt Schools SAVANNAH—Asked to com ment on President Kennedy’s Aid to Education proposals, the Rev. John Cuddy, Savannah Dio cesan Superintendent of Schools said, "I’m not so sure that federal aid is really necessary for either public or parochial schools. But certainly, if it is necessary, or if it is in fact extended, it should be used for the benefit of all the nation’s school children, not for just some of them. "If the bill, as it now stands, becomes law,” he said, "it certainly would work hardships on parochial school systems throughout the country. Its pro vision for federal financial help in raising teacher salaries in public schools only, would make it more difficult for us to obtain lay teachers. We would have to find the funds, somewhere, to compete for them." "Then, too, if we are to carry out our responsibility to provide our children with a-‘first rate’ education, we must keep pace with the higher standards which federal aid would make possible in Public School plant facilities and curriculum re quirements. We would have to find the funds for that, too. So the bill’s failure to include in its scope, children in Catho lic elementary and secondary schools would, of course, make it more difficult for us to con tinue our operations/’ Father Cuddy said. He characterized as a "bright spot’’ in the Kennedy proposal, its inclusion of all colleges in its recommendations, and the extension of aid to teachers in private, non-private colleges as well as to instructors in state and local institutions of higher learning. Hit Failure To Include Private, Parochial Schools Discrimination In Federal Aid Bill Criticized Across Nation CONFERS WITH HOLY FATHER—British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan walks with His Holiness Pope John XXIII into the Pontiff’s private library at the Vatican. Macmillan, in Rome for talks with Italian leaders on European unity and the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), had a half-hour private audience with the Holy Father. After his visit with the Pope, Macmillan conferred with Amleto Car dinal Cicognani, Papal Secretary of State. (NC Photos) -■ CARDINAL D’ALTON IRISH PRIMATE DEAD AT 80 DUBLIN, (NC) - John Car dinal D’Alton, who died here at age 80, was known for his scholarship, opposition to ty- ranical forms of government and his efforts for national unity. The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland died (Febuary 1) in St. Vincent’s Nursing Home after an illness of several months. His death came just three days after he had attended a Requiem Mass in London for William Cardi nal Godfrey, Archbishop of Westminister, who died on Jan uary 22. The death of the two prelates reduces the number of cardinals to 83. Known as a classical scholar, John D’Alton resembled the: novelized concept of the scho lar: shy, retiring and benevol ent looking. When it was announced in De cember, 1952, that he would be named to the cardinalate, the Irish Times, a Dublin daily under Protestant control, com mented: “Even with the added dignity of the Red Hat, John Francis D’Alton will remain at heart a simple scholar.’’ The Times also said: "He has that complete unconscious ness of dignity possessed only by a man whose natural dignity is unassailable.’’ Archbishop D’Alton was pro claimed a cardinal by Pope Pius XII at the consistory of January 12, 1953. In 1957 a plan drawn up by the Cardinal for a united Ire land was placed before the Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth of Nations meeting in London. It proposed that the northern part of Ireland, instead of re maining a part of the United Kingdom, be included into a federation of northern and sou thern states comprising the entire island. The Cardinal pro- THIRD ANNUAL VIANNEY AWARDS The Most Reverend Thomas J. McDonough announced today the committees charged with preparing the program for the Third Annual Vianney Award Program. Bishop McDonough will serve as honorary General Chair man, assisted by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James McNamara, P.A., vicar general of the Savannah Diocese. General Chairman of the program is the Very Reverend William V. Coleman, rector of St. John Vianney Seminary. Other committee chairmen are the Rt. Rev. Msgr. An drew J. McDonald, Liturgical; the Rev. John Cuddy, Parent's program; the Rev. Joseph Stranc, Arrangements; the Rev. Francis J. Donohue, Publicity; and the Rev. Kevin Boland, Invitations and Hospitality. Also named to committee slots were: Invitations and Hospitality, Mr. and Mrs. James Harte, Mr. and Mrs. George Chandler, and Mr. and Mrs. William Gaudry; Arrangements, Mrs. Martha Vasta, the Serra Club of Savannah, Mr. Nick Minden, and Mr. Michael Wassil; Parents’ Committee, Mr. and Mrs. Dan J. Sheehan, Mr. and Mrs. William Roach; Lit urgical, Mr. Eugene Mahon and Mr. Joseph L. Rau; Publicity, Mr. John Markwalter and Mr. Ronald Pachence. posed that the federation be associated within the British commonwealth as a republic on the same basis as India was at the time. The plan recieved widespread support but did not reach higher echelons. One Catholic editor commented that no Irish poli tician was willing to push it and risk being snubbed by the Irish Kingdom. When»the Cardinal visited the U. S. in 1956, it was the first time in 30 years that a (Continued on Page 2) Catholic lay leaders in several sections of the country have criticized the failure of President Kennedy’s omnibus Federal aid to education bill to include assistance for pupils in parochial and other private schools. A common theme in their jor point." statements, and in Catholic press editorials commenting on the proposal, was the contrast between the administration’s appeal that strong education of all school children is a nat ional necessity and its failureto deal with children who attend elementary and secondary pri vate, non-profit schools. Most Catholic comments, however, had praise for the Kennedy bill's provisions to treat all types of colleges equal ly with construction assistance and to extend benefits under other aid programs to all col lege students and teachers. " EDITORIAL " PAGE 4 ■ ■ Their fire was concentrated on the bill’s proposal to as sist public elementary and se condary schools. This would be a four-year, $1.5 billion pro gram of grants. Administration spokesmen say appropriation of funds would be authorized so as to phase out Federal support by the end of the program. The U. S. money would he used to raise teacher salaries and to support "critical class room construction needs," such as those stemming from over crowding and fire and health hazards. In Washington, an attorney who is chairman of a Catholic lawyers' committee said that "if any Federal aid program is adopted by Congress, Cath olic parents should insist that their children be not penalized by reason of the exercise of their right to attend a non public school.’’ Paul R. Connolly, chairman of the Washington Archdiocesan Catholic Lawyers’ Committee on Equal Educational Rights, said; "Equal justice demands that public moneys be distri buted in a more equitable man- ner. Connolly said that Catholic parents should not ignore their rights because the scope and amount of money in the pre sent public school aid proposal are less than the administra tion’s past recommendation. This has no major signifi cance, he said. "The principle of no discrimination is the ma in Chicago, officers of the archdiocese’s lay organizations expressed keen disappointment with the proposal. They said that the proposal’s vital national purpose will not be achieved if the 15 per cent of American grade and high school students in non-public, schools are ignored. "The national welfare and ef forts for self defense will suf fer from this exclusion. Ameri can justice will suffer,’’ they said. Signers were: Frank Dailey, executive board, Council of Catholic Men; Mrs. RobertSch- wass, president, Council of Catholic Women; Joseph De Serto, president, Union of Holy Name Societies; Mr. and Mrs. James Hassett, president couple, Christian Family Move ment, and Dr. and Mrs. Wil liam B. Buckingham, chairmen, Cana Conference of Chicago. In Detroit, the heads of two big Catholic lay organizations charged that the President’s proposal amounted to “dis criminatory exclusion" of pri vate school pupils. Mrs. Katherine D. Theisen, pi>fcidenC of the Council of'Cat- holic Women, and Thomas J. Foley, president of the Coun cil of Catholic Men, said, however, that Catholic parents will be "encouraged" by the President’s recommendation that certain othei* forms of Fed eral aid go to students in all colleges. In Saginaw, Mich., Catholic lay leaders said the proposal to aid only public elementary and secondary schools fails to respect the rights of all child ren at the elementary and se condary school levels." The protest was made by James Leddy, president of the Diocesan Council of Cath olic Men; Mrs. Wilfred R. Woods, president of the Council of Catholic Women; and Mrs. Leroy Bobolts, president of the Diocesan League of Cath olic Women. In New York, the layman who heads the archdiocesan educa tion committee said the admini stration's bill has "regrettably missed the mark." "A plan that would exclude hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of elementary and high (Continued on Page 2) IN THE SUDAN “Papyrus Curtain” Hides Anti-Church Acts CINCINATTI, (NC) —Mis sionaries in the Sudan have a name for the anti-Christian barriers being erected by the Moslem government of that country. They call it the "papyrus curtain" from the tall papyrus plants that decorate the banks of the Blue Nile. But there’s more iron than paper in the curtain that the Moslems are ringing down on the missions, according to Father Lawrence Endrizzi, F. S. C. J. Expelled in December after nearly 10 years of work in the southern Sudan, Father En drizzi visited Sacred Heart Seminary, Forestville near here, where he had been one of INDEX HERE AND THERE 6 EDITORIALS 4 JOTTINGS 5 OBITUARIES 6. MARRIAGES' 5 the first group of six semi narians to come from Italy in 1947. The Bronx-born missionary, a member of the Sons of the Sacred Heart, said that al though the "Missionary Socie ties Act" with its many res trictions only became law last fall, Christian missionaries in the Sudan have been living in the shadow of the papyrus cur tain for several years. “We have walked a tight rope," he said, "fearful of what we said and how we acted. Gov ernment spies even would come into church and take notes dur ing a sermon, then go away without saying anything." But when the government wanted to get rid of him it didn’t bother to set a trap or establish a pretext. The po lice commandant in Juba sim ply handed the priest a note which said: "I have been directed by the Director of Passports, Im migration and Nationality to warn you to leave the coun try within a period of six weeks from today. The reason being that the purpose for which you were allowed to enter the Su dan no longer exists. You are hereby requested to send to this office within two weeks a written undertaking to the ef fect that you will leave the country within the prescribed period of six weeks." For the past two and a half years Father Endrizzi was pas tor of Assumption mission at Rejaf. The name of the town is the Arabic word for earthquake, and he said that usually six or seven earth tremors a year were felt in the area. To visit the more than 40 "bush chapels" in the mission area called for regular safaris—by Chevrolet pickup truck in dry weather, and by canoe in the rainy season. On his final safari he welcomed three witch doctors into the Church when they turned over their fetishes (bits of leather and colored stones) and took a public oath that they were (Continued on Page 2) { Vol. 43, No 10c Per Copy — $3 A Year SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1963 Denies Program Is “Comprehensive” Kennedy School Program DisappointsNCWC Official WASHINGTON, (NC)--A I Kennedy’s program of Federal leading spokesman for Catho- aid to lower education while lie education has expressed expressing encouragement at "disappointment" at President I its proposals for higher educa- ST. JOSEPH MOSAIC TO VATICAN BASILICA—Three artists at the Vatican's mosaic studios are shown working on the mosaic image of St. Joseph to be installed in St. Peter’s' Basilica by Easter. The first permanent image of the foster-father of Christ to grace the Basilica the 10 by six feet mosaic is a direct result of a promise by His Holiness Pope John XXIII to give increased honor to the Spouse of Mai:y. The original of the mosaic is the work of Achille Funi, 71-year-old Milanese artist whose paintings are world-reknowned.—(NC Photos) Mosaic Of St. Joseph For Vatican Basilica (By Msgr. James I. Tucek) VATICAN CITY, (NC)—St. Peter’s basilica is getting its first permanent image of St. Joseph—a 10 by 6 L/2-foot mosaic. The mosaic, which is being made at the Vatican mosaic studio, is expected to be mount ed by Easter. It has been plan ned as a memorial to the steps His Holiness Pope John XXIII has taken to give more honor to the foster father of Christ. Pope John, who was baptized with the name of Joseph, indi cated in an apostolic letter ot March 19 (the feast of St. Jo seph), 1961, that he was going to put the Second Vatican Coun cil under the patronage of St. Joseph. At the end of that letter, he promised that he would give "a new, greater and more sol emn splendor" to the altar in St. Peter's dedicated to St. PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTLY DEAD REV. STEPHEN SHERIDAN February 15, 1857 Oh God, Who didst give to thy servants by their sacredotal office, a share in the priest hood of the Apostles, grant, we impto r e, that they may also be one of their company forever in heaven• Through Christ Our Lord, Amen. Joseph. The work now being complet ed in the Vatican’s mosaic stu dio is a direct result of that promise. It is intended to re cord also the order the Pope issued November 13, 1962, to insert the name of St. Joseph in the Canon of the Mass. The Mosaic is a copy of a painting by Achille Funi, 71- year-old Milan artist, whose works hang in galleries in Rome, Moscow, Venice, Mi lan and Lausanne. It depicts St. Joseph as a young man hold ing the Child Jesus in one arm with a lily in his other hand. One of two angels in the paint ing bears a banner with the words: "you shall rule over my house.” Master artisans of the mo saic studio have finished two- thirds of the mosaic, including the full figure of St. Joseph. It lies on the floor of the studio and is covered with sheets of cellophane as three artisans assemble the remaining se- tions with pieces of colored stone and enamel, all of which measure less than a half-inch square. When the mosaic is com pleted, it will have taken the three artists—Edoardo Ansel- mi, 47, Fabrizio Parzi, 42, and Silvio Secchi, 37—more than a year of delicate and tedi ous labor under the guidance of Virgilio Cassio, director of the Vatican mosaic studio. tion. Msgr. Frederick G. Hoch- walt, director of the Education Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference, said the President’s education message to Congress "contains some thing for everybody, everybody except the children whose par ents have elected to send them to private schools." Charging that the Kennedy education program "ignores one child in seven in elemen tary schools" by excluding children in private institutions, Msgr. Hochwalt said in a state ment (Jan. 29); "The claim that this Federal aid program is comprehensive and balanced echoes a hollow sound in the halls of private elementary and secondary schools. "Any proposal of a pattern of discriminatory legislation that disregards such a rich educational resource cannot be called balanced nor can it be considered truly in the national interest." Msgr. Hochwalt said the position of the NCWC is "equal treatment for all children," and added: "On this we stand firm.” Church-related colleges and universities would share in most of the Federal aid propo sals called for under Mr. Ken nedy's 1963 program of assis tance to higher education. How- > v ever, church-related grade and high schools would'be excluded from most of the funds provid ed for aid to elementary and secondary education. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell of New York, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said in a statement that President Kennedy’s edu cation program is doomed un- ' less the major groups that speak for U. S. education can reach (Continued on Page 2) College Dean: “Business Must Police Itself’ TORRINGTON, Conn., (NC) —A plea for American busi nessmen to “set their houses in order” and root out dis honest practices was made to a group of executives here by a priest-specialist in business education. Father William C. Mclnnes, S. J., associate dean of the Boston College school of busi ness administration, told the Torrington area Industiral Management Club that business must police itself or some out side agency such as the govern ment will be forced to do the job. "Today,” he said, "there seems to be widespread apathy toward the common good and an even more widespread sympa thy for the common crook." Father Mclnnes declared that "everyone knows that stealing is wrong, yet we read in the press a sympathetic account of why a million dollar embezzler did what he did." He said steal ing today is lightly regarded "because everyone seems to be doing it." "We have in the mid-20th century developed a double (Continued on Page 2) MAILING ADDRESS