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V UN Urged To Speed Study UNITED NATIONS, (NC)— The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has been urged to speed up its study of a set of draft principles on religious liberties in time for this year's General Assembly session. The upping came from the subcommission on the Preven tion of Discrimination and Pro tection of Minorities in a (Jan. 29) resolution. The resolution states that the draft principles which the subcommission submitted to the Human Rights Commission in 1960 “contain the basic elements which should be included in a draft declara tion on the elimination of all forms of religious intolerance. Later (Jan. 30) the subcom mission unanimously adopted a draft declaration on the elimi nation of all forms of racial discrimination. The subcommission resolu tion came in response to a General Assembly resolution (Dec. 7, 1962) which requested the Economic and Social Coun cil to ask the Human Rights Commission to prepare such a declaration for the assembly’s 18th session next fall. The assembly resolution ask ed the subcommission, whose 1963 session ran from January 14 to February 1, to express its views before the Human Rights Commission starts its work. The commission opens its 1963 session March 11 in Gene va. The 1960 draft was taken up by the Human Rights Com mission during its 1962 session along with comments on the draft by 53 governments and 3 non-governmental organiza tions and a working paper pre pared by Sec. Gen. U Thant which compiled proposed amendments and new texts. In the Human Rights Com mission’a 1962 session, only the preamble to the proposed declaration was discussed. Debate on the wording of the preamble was concerned main ly with the meaning of the words “religion" and “belief" as they are used in the text. Communist members of the commission--the Soviet Union, the Ukraine and Poland- insisted on equating “religion" with a “belief" in atheism or rationalism. Other members, led by Ar gentina and Afghanistan and strongly supported by Italy and the Netherlands, insisted on a difference between “religion and “belief." They maintained that the document under review is concerned essentially with the right to practice religion in freedom. The majority of members interpreted “belief" to be re lated to convictions of an ethi cal nature. On Argentina’s initiative, a new paragraph was added to the preamble of the text. It states “Whereas religion for anyone who professes it is a fundamen tal element in his conception of life, and therefore freedom to practice religion as well as to manifest a belief should be fully respected and guaranteed." Australia And Council SYDNEY--The Vatican Coun cil “ventilated the whole ques tion of Christians acting toge ther," a Protestant leader de clared here, predicting that it would lead to important Aus tralian discussions between the major faiths. At Most Pure Heart Of Mary The Southern Cross, February 16, 1963—PAGE 3 ADDRESSES PARISH—Bishop McDonough is pictured as he addressed the parishioners of the Most Pure Heart of Mary parish, Savannah. The Bishop offered the 10:00 a. m. Mass February 3, after which he blessed the re modeled school. His Excellency confirmed at the parish that evening. (Will Bond Photo) SAVANNAH—Last December as men’s minds and hearts fo cused across the invisible bar riers separating the waning of the old year from the approach of the new, the Pastor, Sisters and Parishoners of Most Pure Heart of Mary Parish, Sa vannah, looked forward to the First Sunday of February as a Day of Special Promise on the horizon of the New Year. This was the day scheduled by His Excellency, Most Rev erend Thomas J. McDonough to visit St. Mary’s for the two fold purpose of administering the Sacrament of Confirmation and blessing the modernized entrances and facilities of the Parochial School. His Excellency offered the 10:00 A. M. Parish Mass of February 3rd. The Little Church was filled to overflow ing and the congregation pri vileged in offering a dialogue Mass with the True Shephard of their souls was blessed, indeed, even as were the early Christ ians grouped about the First Christian Bishops. Despite the wind and the rain, an enthusiastic procession ac companied His Excellency to St. Mary’s School where the Epis copal Blessing was given to the renewed facilities. Here as a token of appreciation to His Excellency for his solici tude and concern for the wel fare of the school children in his providing improvements to the building so greatly needed, Little Miss Agnes Young of the Fifth Grade presented him a Spiritual Bouquet from all her schoolmates. Sunday evening, Bishop Mc Donough in the solemn ceremony of administering Confirmation to fifty-five child ren and adults, paid inspiring tribute to His Holiness Pope John XXIII, particularly for his courageous undertaking of the Second Vatican Council not yet completed. Judge Makes TV Plea Divorce, Desertion, Lack Of Discipline Seen As Cause Of Narcotics Use EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif., (NC)—Five heroin addicts re sponded to a judge’s television plea to narcotics users to turn themselves in voluntarily for rehabilitation. Municipal Judge Leopoldo Sanchez made the plea on “La Hora Catholica" (“The Ca tholic Hour") presented every Sunday evening here on KMEX, Spanish language television sta tion. “La Hora Catolica" is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. In his chambers at East Los Angeles Municipal Court, Judge Sanchez explained his “Catho lic Hour” offered to help nar cotics addicts. Some don’t know about the op portunity for rehabilitation. And some don’t care. But there are mothers and fathers and wives who do care and who should know that there is a change for a user to be rehabilitated," the judge said. ‘ 'Some believe that you have to be arrested in order to be eligible. All a man needs to do is to sing a petition asking for rehabilitation. It won’t cost any thing and does not involve ar rest," he said. Judge Sanchez said he assists a man through the routine of making formal application for treatment. When this is com pleted by a deputy district at torney at the Federal Build ing, the volunteer goes to the County Hospital jail ward and is helped through withdrawal. Results of physical and phy- sent to Department 95 ofTfie Superior Court which then com mits the individual to the De partment of Correction at Chi no. “A man may spend from six months to five years there, Judge Sanchez said. “The vast majority get out in about 10 months. It is not like a hospital, but more like a farm where it is recognized that work is good therapy. “Here the man has the help pf a psychiatrist, individual, and group therapy, and then is sent home on three to five years to parole," he explained. “During this time he has report once a week for a naline exam to determine whether or not he has resumed using dope. If he has, he goes back to JUDGE LEOPOLDO SANCHEZ Chino. If not, his parole con tinues," the jurist said. Judge Sanchez said his per sonal effort on behalf of nar cotics addicts is promoted by the fact that most of them are under 25 years old. He said more emphasis should be plac ed on prevention of narcotics use. “I have been a judge for two years. For the first year I was assigned to do all the sentenc ing in this area," he said. “In studying records I noticed a pattern. Boys didn’t come in to narcotics as their first ven ture into crime. “They usually had a history: hub caps, burglary, curfew vio lation, drinking, maybe mari juana or pills," he continued. “There is a tip-off here, a warning bell. If they take pills or marijuana, sooner or later they are going to try a cap of herion," he said. Judge Sanchez advocates a prevention program be estab lished that would attempt to halt a boy’s progressive environment in narcotics use. Reach for SAVANNAH’S FIRST CHOICE! He envisions an effort sim ilar to the Army’s character guidance program in which chaplains, doctors and officers speak to troops and develop motiviations for right conduct. Judge Sanchez would make it a requirement that each indi vidual passing through the court’s jurisdiction and having pills or marijuana in his re cord be ordered to see and learn the ravages of narcotics. He admits that some offi cials object to such a program on the grounds that it would only stimulate further curios ity by youths. Judge Sanchez counters that a man with evi dence of pills and marijuana in his record needs to be steeled agqinst thg pressure and blandishments of the “push er" and bad company. * ' “Sure," he said, “the push er will say to the boy. 'Come on, try it. Don’t pay attention to what they tell you. It won’t hurt you. Look at me, there’s nothing wrong with me. Come on, I’ll race you to the corner and back.’ " Judge Sanchez said “it is always a group situation that induce addiction.” Addicts all say that curios ity started them as users, friends were using it, they want ed to experiment, they weren’t going to get hooked, the judge related. The judge knows the men tality and environment well. He grew up in a tough neigh borhood. Why do boys take up dope? “Nine times out of 10 there’s not a good home situation: di vorce, death or desertion of a parent, a working mother, the low income of the father," he speculated. “The boys have too much time on their hands. They’re on the street at 2:30 after school. They meet other boys % they’re idle. When I was a boy if I was 10 minutes late from school, I heard about it from my father,' he said. Among the five who volun teered for rehabilitation after the recent “Catholic Hour" tel evision plea are a son disown ed by his father and a man who is the father of five children and was supporting a three- cap, $15 -a-day heroin habit. “Most addicts will not live past 40. I tell them they run the risk of disease, hepatitis, death from an overdose. Most heroin is greatly cut with sug ar, but sometimes a new push er sells a stronger dose and it can kill a man," the judge said. For* Wedding Invitations It’s The Acme Press 1201 LINCOLN STREET PHONE 232-6397 PAUL E. THOMPSON Your Complete Food Store 39th and Price Streets FREE DELIVERY Phone AD 4-4489 A A WESTERN MEATS FRUITS, VEGETABLES & FROZEN FOODS BISHOP-ELECT GRAN Trappist Named Bishop ROME, (NC) --A dozen years ago Willem Gran crossed the mile of open water between the southern coast of Wales and the tiny monastic island ofCal- dey. He was 30 years old, a Norwegian and a convert. Behind him lay a cosmopo litan career: in Rome, where he studied opera production and found the Catholic Faith; in Eng land and Norway as an intelli gence officer in the Norwegian army; in France and Norway as an assistant director in the movie industry. Before him lay a life of con templation and hard physical work in Caldey’s Monastery of the Cistercian Reform. What ever he hoped to accomplish for the conversion of his native land would have to be done through prayer. Now his Holiness Pope John XXIII has plucked Father John as he is known in religion, from the Cistercian life of si lence and seclusion. The Pope is sending him back to Norway as Coadjutor Bishop of Oslo with the right of succession. He is the first Cistercian of the Reform to be named bishop in more than half a century. How does a Cistercian monk feel when he is taken from his monastery and brought into the administration of a large (big ger than Georgia) and busy diocese? “Sad," Bishop-elect Gran replied without hesitation. “I feel sad to leave the re ligious life. But personal feelings don’t really matter The important thing is to follow the plan of Providence SPIRITUAL BOUQUET--Little Agnes Young, fifth grader, presents spiritual bouquet to Bishop McDonough on behalf of all school children at Most Pure Heart of Mary School. Also pictured are (left) Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald, Chancellor of the Diocese, and (right) Rev. Denis Begley, S.M.A., pastor of St. Anthony’s, Savannah.-(Will Bond Photo) Clergy Concensus Reported On Ending Sterilization Causes NEW YORK, (NC)—A study of recent controversy over sterilization has reported a consensus among most clergy men that ' ‘the best long-range way to deal with the problem of sterilization is to eliminate its ‘justifications’ — poverty, illness and ignorance." This is a finding of “The Fauquier Hospital Sterilization Story," a “background report" published here by the Religious Freedom and Public Affairs project of the National Confer ence of Christians and Jews. The report was written by Gerald Grant, a reporter for the Washington Post. The controversy over the sterilization program of the Fauquier County Hospital in Warrenton, Va., was touched off last September 9 in a sermon by Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington. Archbishop O’Boyle stressed the traditional teaching that sterilization, even on a volun tary basis, is “grosslyimmor al” when it is carried out as a means of preventing conception. Grant says that in the first 33 months of the program, 63 mothers were voluntarily ster ilized at the Fauquier Hospital. After reviewing the nationwide controversy over sterilization which followed, Archbishop O’- Boyle’s denunciation, he says: “Clergymen generally agree Urban Renewal “Unity Test 55 HARTFORD, Con., (NC) — Urban renewal is a “great test of our unity as a people," a Catholic authority in the field declared here. Dennis Clark, executive sec retary of the Catholic Inter racial Council of New York and author of two books on ur ban problems, told the Social Workers' Association ofGreat- er Hartford it is essential to “use this effort of city recon struction to serve those in need,” rather than let its ma chinery “be captured by propertied interests who want a neat, clean, profit-making downtown to the exclusion of the complex problems of fami lies and the poor." Clark said “urban renewal will not work properly without desegregation of local life and housing." He said experience has proved that progress in desegregation is made only when communities are under pressure and not from any com munity feeling of benevolence. At present there is not real assurance that urban renewal programs will stabilize cities, but there is a reasonable hope for success in communities where urban renewal projects are geared to the needs of the people, he stated. Clark warned that urban re newal must be thought of as a continuing process. As a city continually grows, he pointed out, it also continually decays and therefore expedient, short term plans will not solve the city’s real problems. that the national discussion of the sterilization issue was a healthy one. It accomplished the good of refining a moral ques tion, and motivating the man in the street to come to grips with a moral and social problem." The NCCJ’s “Religious Freedom and Public Affairs" project, which sponsored pub lication of the report on the sterilization controversy, des cribes itself as aiming “to raise the general level of pub lic understanding and dis cussion on issues of public con cern about which religious groups differ." OlLttai y HOTEL-. • FREE PARKING • TV & AIR CONDITIONING • FAMOUS MIAMI BUFFET • PERSIAN LOUNGE • CENTER OF ATLANTA LUCKIE AT CONE ST. A Good Address in Atlanta OrradiaUd Utamtn-D '• JLnnettz&. 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