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PAGE 6—The Southern Cross, February 23, 1963
JULIAN C. SIPPLE, General
Counsel for the Central of Geor
gia has been appointed as a di
rector of the Chatham Savings
Bank (Sav’h.) and re-appointed
a director of the Atlantic Tow
ing Company , . . Ladies of
HOLY FAMILY PARISH Coun
cil, Columbus Deanery,
N.C.C.W. hold a benefit bridge
party at the Knights of Colum
bus Hall, February 20th . . .
BENEDICTINE MILITARY
School Band to play in John
son Square (Sav’h.) on Feb
ruary 22, Washington’s Birth
day. Henry Applewhite, band
director . . . W. C. Daye, co-
chairman for this year’s Elks’
Minstrel. ALEX BARBEE, ex
alted ruler of the lodge that
the show, pointed out that all
money raised will go into the
Elks’ charity fund. The Min
strel will be held on May 8,
9 and 10. . . Savannah Police
Lt. J. J. SITLER elected vice-
president of the City’s Police
man’s Benevolent Association.
CAPT. LEO B. RYAN is pres
ident. .THE SAVANNAH ITAL
IAN CLUB, Antonio W. Aliffi,
president, adding its support
to “Savannah On The March’’
fund with a contribution of $500
. . . The money was raised by
the club’s Christmas tree sale
. . .PACELLI HIGH SCHOOL,
Columbus, placed 2nd in that
city’s annual March of Dimes
Walkathon. Winning first place
by collecting some $5,400.00
was Columbus High School. Stu
dents from Pacelli collected $4,
950.00. The latter school be
came the first in Walkathon
history to walk the full dis
tance from the Muscogee Coun
ty Courthouse to Cusseta and
back in 1961, This year’s
“walkers” were PATRICIA
SCHOMBURG and PETE FIN-
STAD . . . J. D. DeGRACIA
and M. J. CESARONI of Thun
derbolt elected to the alder-
matic board of that city. SEN
ATOR FRANK DOWNING act
ed as M.C. at the inaugural
ceremonies . . . MRS. ED
MOND B. ANDERSON, dioces
an chairman of Family and Par
ent Education, has been appoint-
U.S. BISHOPS-
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children and generally there is
no other means of adult educa
tion except radio instruction.
Msgr. Gremillion, just back
from a trip to Brazil, Chile
and Peru, has visited all the
Latin American countries dur
ing the past year.
In slum areas of the big cit
ies, he said, experiments
are being conducted in the use
of educational television.
The people-to-people ap
proach in preference to the gov
ernment - to - government ap
proach is important, he said,
noting that in some communi
ties the entire live evolves
around the Church.
Wherever possible, he said,
the agency of U.S. Catholics is
helping agencies of the Church
and the community to estab
lish and conduct worker and
rural leader centers, cooper
atives, basic educational pro
jects and housing, health and
community development pro
grams.
The agency, supported by the
annual Bishops’ Relief Fund ap
peal, is “increasingly attempt
ing” to help provide the tech
nical knowledge and leadership
necessary to banish the pri
mary causes of misery among
so many human beings, he said.
“We’re working with the
people up and down the alleys
and country lanes and organiz
ing them to Lelp themselves,”
he said.
Heads New
School
ed as vice-chairman to the Na
tional Board of Family and Par
ent Education. The appointment
was received by mail from Mrs.
JOSEPH McCARTHY, president
of the National Council of Cath
olic Women, Washington, D. C.
. . . TERRENCE HENNESSY.il,
HARRY HASLAM, ll.andROB-
ERT MULLER, 12, all members
of Troop 16, are taking the slo
gan “Keep Beautiful Savannah
Clean” seriously. The three
Boy Scouts recently embark
ed on an “Operation Clean-
sweep” in Bonaventure Ceme
tery by clearing Spanish Moss
from the main drives in the
cemetery . . . Mardi Gras fes
tivities are shaping up in at
least two places in Chatham
County. ST. MICHAEL’S (Sa
vannah Beach) will hold its
twelfth annual benefit for the
school on Saturday, 23rd, with a
Smorgasbord from 6 to 9 at
the Surf Room at the Brass
Rail (Tybee). A floor show will
follow from 9 to 10. And then,
too, everyone is invited to join
in the fun at the CATHEDRAL
DAY SCHOOL Annual celebra
tion on Tuesday, February 26th,
5 to 9 p.m. There will be the
traditional Shrove TuesdaySup-
per of pancakes, sausage, but
ter, syrup and coffee served,
plenty of games, coronation of
a King and a Queen . . . Send
future news items to
Fr. Lawrence A. Lucree,
P.O. Box 180,
Savannah, Ga.
Father Eugene C. LeBel,
C.S.B., head of Assumption
University, Windsor, Ont.,
has been named president of
the new University of Wind
sor, an inter-denominational
institution with which As
sumption merges on July 1.
In 1957 Father LeBel directed
the affiliation of Canterbury
College, an Anglican arts
school, with Assumption—
the first such affiliation with
a Catholic university. A na
tive of Sarnia, Ont., he had
been a jnember of Assump
tion’s staff since 1941, (NC
Photos)
Ethics-Morality
In Business
To Be Discussed
WASHINGTON, (NC)—The
problem of inculcating business
ethics with morality will be
discussed at the 1963 National
Council of Catholic Men con
vention in Atlantic City, N. J.,
from April 24 to 28.
Speakers at a special panel
on the subject will include Fa
ther Raymond Baumhart, S. J.,
of Loyola University, Chicago,
who will speak on “Frequent
Unethical Business Practices,”
and Herbert Hohnston, philoso
phy professor at the University
of Notre Dame, who will dis
cuss “Resources and Activities
to Help Businessmen Meet Mor
al Problems.” The seminar
will be followed by an audience
participation forum.
CHURCH
FINDING ITS
TRUE PLACE
GENEVA, (Radio, NC)—The
general secretary of the World
Council of Churches asserted
here that “the Roman Catholic
Church is discovering its true
position in the modern world
and beginning to take the chal
lenge of the modern situation
seriously.”
Dr. W. A. Visser’t Hooft in
a report to the 16-member
executive committee of the
World Council said that the first
session of the Second Vatican
Council shows that the Catholic
Church “has a greater capacity
for renewal than had been con
sidered possible.” He added
that the Catholic Church “has
become a source of ecumenical
initiative.”
William F. Johnson ofPater-
son, N. J., NCCM president,
commented: “Undoubtedly
some toes will be stepped on
and some consciences twinged
by what will be said at the
seminar and forum, but there is
no use dodging these vital
issues. Many businessmen of all
faiths are deeply concerned
by frequent unethical business
practices with which they come
in contact. We would be dere
lice in our duty if we did not
point out emphatically the prin
ciples of Christianity in such
practical, daily matters as
business ethics and morality.”
These of the convention will
be: “The Catholic Layman in
an Age of Christian Renewal.”
Sessions will be held at the
Shelburne and Dennis hotels and
at Atlantic City Convention Hall.
The convention is sponsored by
the archbishops and bishops of
the Province of Newark, which
includes all of New Jersey.
Honors For Aquinas Students
Cheryl Lewis (1) winner in the Voice of Democracy Contest sponsored by Orlin K.
Fletcher Post 3200, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Ann Chafee '(c) awarded! a red ribbon
as second prize in the water colors division of the Annual Penny Arts Show. Maria
Picciuolo (r) was awarded the blue ribbon in the water colors division and the white
ribbon in the oils division of the Annual Penny Arts Show. The show is sponsored by
the Augusta Junior Woman’s Club.
"Delegates Say ——
U. N. Should Not Recommend
Policies On Population
. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(NC)—United Nations involve
ment in the Asian Popula
tion Conference to be held in
India in December has been
questioned by three members of
the UN Population Commission.
Vittorio Castellano of Italy,
Jacques Mertens de Wilmar of
Belgium, and Francisco Anton
io Carillo of El Salvador all
expressed reservations re
garding certain items on the
proposed aganda of the con
ference.
The Population Commis
sion was considering the report
of the preparatory committee
for the Asian conference, which
is to take place under the aus
pices of the UN Economic Com
mission for Asia and the Far
East (ECAFE).
The proposed agenda includes
an item on “policies designed to
affect population trends” such
as family planning and public
health measures, an item re
quiring reports on measures
taken by governments to limit
population growth, and a final
item calling for conclusions and
recommendations.
The three commission mem
bers stressed that population
policies are strictly the pro
vince of governments and urg
ed the UN to keep clear of de
cisions regarding such policies.
Castellano asserted that the
prestige and authority of the
UN could be damaged if it ac
cepted responsibility for such
decisions. He said he con
sidered the request for gov
ernment reports and the item on
family planning and public
health measures in the con
text of policies designed to
affect the rate of popu
lation growth to be “tenden
tious subjects.” The effects of
public health measures (such
as lower death rates and long
er life expectancy) cannot be
“neutralized,” Castellano said,
by family planning measures.
Public health measures have
an immediate effect on the pop
ulation, he noted, whereas fam
ily planning sometimes encoun
ters obstacles rooted deep
in the culture of peoples and in
their social and religious or
ganization. The aim of the Asian
conference is to bring “imme
diate relief” to the developing
countries beset by population
pressures, he said, but family
planning is a long range “gov
ernment hope” which will not
have the immediate prac
tical effects which the confer
ence is intended to produce.
Therefore, he urged, the UN
should not take the responsi
bility for any decisions on the
subject since there is too
much danger of failure for the
UN “to expose its authority and
dignity in this matter.”
The representative of Bel
gium said he had thought the
Asian conference was to be a
strictly scientific one, geared
to research and knowledge con
cerning demographic problems,
not policies as such. Ob
serving that votes and recom
mendations are not a usual
feature of scientific con
ferences, he asked the commis
sion to reflect whether there
is not a danger for 'the UN in
associating itself specifically
with resolutions and votes
on population and votes on
population policies designed to
“moderate fertility trends.” He
said he had no objection to the
discussion of these very deli
cate problems, but addedthatto
adopt recommendations on such
policies contradicts the philos
ophy of the Population Commis
sion and the UN itself.
The UN, Mertens said, has no
population policy. It has not pro
nounced itself on such policies
and has no right to recommend
any policy to any government.
This was confirmed by the Gen
eral Assembly resolution on the
subject at its last session des
pite attempts to “lead the UN
along a certain path,” he said.
This was a reference to the res
olution calling for increased
study and research on pop
ulation matters, from which a
controversial phrase asking for
UN technical assistance in
population control was deleted.
Mertens questioned whether
it is prudent to engage UN
responsibility in a conference
under UN auspices and financ
ed by the UN in adopting de
cisions on demographic poli
cies.
Carillo of El Salvador stress
ed that ECAFE is bound by the
same rules, principles and pro
cedures that govern the UN as
a whole. While ECAFE
ROME, (NC)--Possible ac
tion by the ecumenical council
against anti-Semitism was dis
cussed here by the president
of the U.S. national Jewish or
ganization B’naiB’rith and Aug
ustin Cardinal Bea, S. J., Pres
ident of the Secretariat for Pro
moting Christian Unity.
Dr. Label A. Katz, B’nai
B’rith president, is also co
president of the Coordinating
Board of Jewish Organizations
for Consultation with the Econ
omic and Social Council of
the United Nations. He was ac
companied by Dr. Saul E. Jof-
tes, the coordinating board's
director for international re
lations, at the meeting (Feb.
16) which Cardinal Bea’s sec
retary, Father Stephen Schmidt,
S.J. , described as “private.”
Father Schmidt said that the
meeting was “part of the other
known steps taken by Jews to
have the ecumenical council
consider the anti-Semitic prob
lem which was the cause of so
much brutality and bloodshed
during the last war.”
i should have a certain liberty
to permit it to meet the aspir
ations of the Asian countries,
it should remember that it is
an organ of the UN and not a
separate organization, he said.
Ansley J. Coale of the United
States said that the Population
Commission should not try to
instruct ECAFE in its arrange
ments for the conference. This
view was supported by A. B.
Bhadkamkar of India and C.
Mahendran of Ceylon.
Hasan Hussein, chairman of
the Population Commission,
spoke as the representative of
the United Arab Republic.
He said that the proposed con
ference, in his view, is en
tirely the responsibility of
ECAFE, but he is aware that
it must conform to the rules of
the UN.
Hussein said he feels that
the topics of population growth
and even birth control can be
discussed scientifically to some
advantage, but he also feels it is
best to keep the UN “clear of
it at least at the present mo
ment.”
It is known that the Unity
Secretariat prepared a draft
proposal on anti-Semitism but
the draft was not treated by the
council’s central preparatory
commission.
Father Schmidt said that Car
dinal Bea still hopes that the
council will deal with the mat
ter.
Ministerial—
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for the kindness and frankness
with which they have reported
on the council to their people.”
Declaring that “the Catholic
Church is acting on a mandate
of love,” Bishop McDonough
said, “we must set aside all
bitterness and misunderstand
ing,” and strive for mutual
understanding “even if we can
not always agree on matters
of doctrine and practice.”
The meeting was held at the
Chapel of Hunter Air Force
Base, where the Ministers and
Bishop McDonough were wel
comed by Colonel Clayton
Dougherty, base commander.
For Education Of Priests
Bishop Thomas J. McDonough is presented check to be
used for education of priests from Karl Holmen, Grand j
Knight of Savannah Council 631. The contribution of $781.50 !
was given the Bishop at the council's annual Clergy Night ;
held on February 13th. (Photo—Charles F. McMillan, Jr.)
Council May Act
On Anti-Semitism
Kennedy Asks Youth Corps
For Community Projects
WASHINGTON, (NC)—Presi
dent Kennedy has proposed a
federally supported corps of
40,000 youths who would work
in nonprofit community serv
ices, such as hospitals, schools
and settlement houses.
The Chief Executive’s re
commendation came (Feb. 14)
in a message on youth sent to
Congress. He proposed that the
Federal government pay half the
wages and related costs of the
corps.
The Chief Executive proposed
a variety of projects for youth.
The so-called “Home Town
Youth Corps,” those who work
in nonprofit services, would go
hand-in-hand with another one,
Columbus
Pastor
Feted
COLUMBUS—St. Anne’s Holy
Name Society presented the Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Herman J. Deimel,
pastor, with a bronze statu
ette of St. John of Versailles
and a Holy Name Manual, at a
breakfast held in honor of the
Columbus prelate, Sunday, Feb
ruary 10th. The presentation
took place at the “Black An
gus” restaurant.
Holy Name President, A1 Ev-
ersman noted that Msgr. Dei
mel came to this city in July
of 1943 as Pastor of Holy Fam
ily Church, which at the time
/
MSGR. DEIMEL
numbered only 320 Catholics.
“In 1951 Holy Family ele
mentary school was opened,
and almost immediately an an
nex was added on,” Mr. Ev-
ersman said.
“By 1956 Monsignor Deimel
had risen so high in the esteem
of his parish that they pre
sented him with a trip to Rome,
where he visited with the
late Holy Father, Pope Pius
XII.
“Upon his return a building
program for Pacelli High School
was launched, and first classes
in the new school began in 1958.
In that same year this beloved
pastor was named to the rank
of Monsignor.
“In 1956 Holy Family Parish
was divided and Monsignor Dei
mel was named the first pastor
of the newly formed St. Anne’s
parish,” said Mr. Eversman.
The Holy Name Society’s pre
sentation took place on Msgr.
Deimel’s 62nd birthday. A
native of Fitzgerald, he will
have been ordained a priest
35 years on May 17th.ui
DEMOCRACY-
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Dean Fitch also attacked sec
ularist tendencies in American
life, but he was confident that
there is a trend away from
them and toward an “affirma
tion of human freedom and re
sponsibility” which he said is
basic to'Christianity.
“A secular idolatry of dem
ocracy is as damnable a thing
as a secular idolatry of any
other kind of government,”
Fitch declared.
“It is fundamental to the re
ligious heritage, whether
Jewish, Catholic or Protestant,
that our loyalty to God is high
er than our loyalty to the gov
ernment and that the govern
ment . . . stands under the
criticism—not the authority—
of the Supreme Command
ment of God,” he said.
Fitch rated 1960 a “turning
point” in the moral condition
of the nation.
“1 think the moral break
down of the past 40 years has
about run its course. I visit
college campuses and I talk to
students. I have a feeling that
they are turning once again to
a regard for moral law, for
standards and principles.
“Very young parents today
are not as permissive as their
parents were. They believe in
certain standards of behaviour
that have to be enforced.”
the Youth Conservation Corps,
which would put some 15,000
people to work improving for
ests and recreation areas. The
first-year cost for both would
be about $100 million.
The two programs, the Presi
dent said, are aimed at reliev
ing the unemployment problem
among youth. “Unemployment
among young workers,” he said,
“today is 2 1/2 times the na
tional average and even higher
among minority groups and
those unable to complete their
high school education.”
Mr. Kennedy also proposed
to Congress the widely herald
ed domestic peace corps, called
in his message the “National
Service Corps.”
He described the domestic
peace corps as “a small, care
fully selected volunteer corps”
of men and women of all ages
who would work under local
direction.
They would “help provide
urgently needed services in
mental health centers and hos
pitals, on Indian reservations,
to the families or migrant work
ers and in the educational and
social institutions of hard-hit
slum or rural poverty areas,”
he said.
Mr. Kennedy noted that “mil
lions of Americans” have al
ready done this kind of work
through voluntary private serv
ice organizations.
But he said that “an even
greater number of dedicated
volunteers” is needed today in
support of professional work
ers.
Mr. Kennedy appealed to
Congress for “substantial in
creases” in funds for Federal
programs to aid dependent
children, again urged action in
his Federal aid to education
program, sought authority to
raise the Peace Corps size
from 9,000 to 13,000 and called
for stronger school health and
physical fitness programs.
He said that Secretary Antho
ny Celebrezze of the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare is studying school
health programs and will pre
sent recommendations later.
In regard to physical firntess,
the President “stronglyurged”
schools to increase physical
activities programs.
He noted that in the 1961-62
school year, 56-per cent of the
108,000 public schools
strengthened their programs
and “some 2,000 of the 16,500
private and church-related
schools offered physical educa
tion for the first time.”
The message was the first
ever sent to Congress specifi
cally on youth.
At Dublin
Joint Meeting Of
PCCW, Holy Name
DUBLIN--The Dublin Parish
Council of Catholic Women and
the Holy Name Society gathered
in joint session at the Rectory,
with about twenty members
meeting with Father Toner and
Father Bateman. Miss Louise
Ludwig and Mr. Damian Waller
were in charge of the meeting.
Various committee reports
were heard. Catholic Charities
announced plans to begin work
on cancer pads for Our Lady
of Perpetual Help Home in At
lanta.
Dr. Elizabeth Holmes report
ed progress on the Gold Bond
Stamp Drive, and led a dis
cussion on concluding plans for
the large Mardi Gras Festival
to be held on February 26.
Announcement of a poster
contest among the third through
seventh Sunday School grades on
“Religion Through Literature”
was made for Miss Dana, ofthe
Library and Literature Com
mittee, who also announced
opening of the Parish Library,
with wide selection of read
ing material available.
The Dublin Council of Catho
lic Women will host the Dean
ery meeting in the form of a
Tea to be held at the Dublin
Elks Club on March 31, fol
lowed by Benediction, with His
Msgr. Smith
Augusta
Speaker
AUGUSTA--Right Rev. Msgr.
George Lewis Smith, Director
of Catholic Hospitals in the
Diocese of Charleston, spoke
at the February meeting of
St. Mary’s Auxiliary.
Monsignor Smith gave an in
teresting and detailed talk on
the first session of the Second
Vatican Council.
It was announced at the meet
ing that a Day of Recollection
will be held at St. Mary’s on-
the-Hill Church on Sunday,
March 17th.
Obituaries
M iss Anita
Brittingham
AUGUSTA-Funeral services
for Miss Anita Brittingham
were held February 12 at Sac
red Heart Church. Rev. A. N.
Kearns, S.J. offered the Req
uiem Mass.
Burial was in Magnolia
Cemetery.
Miss Margaret Funk
AUGUSTA—Funeral ser
vices for Miss Margaret Eliza
beth Funk were held February
15 at St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill
Church.
Survivors include two nieces,
Mrs. Robert Bresnahan and
Mrs. John W. Brittingham, both
of Augusta; four nephews, John
C. McKeon, Sharon, Ga., Pat
rick J. McKeon, Thomas-
ville, Ga.; Joseph McKeon, At
lanta, Ga., and Arthur Funk,
Savannah.
Excellency, Bishop McDonough
expected to be present.
Following the meeting, re
freshments were served by
Mrs. C. G. Daniels, Mrs. Wm.
Goverau, and Mrs. Damian
Waller.
FOREIGN AID-
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The annual collection is the
principal source of revenue for ^
CRS NCWC, the agency main
tained by U. S. Catholics which
now is the world’s largest pri
vate voluntary relief organiza
tion.
Since its inception in 1943,
CRS-NCWC has sent five mil
lion tons of food, clothing, medi
cines and other relief supplies
valued at more than $1 million
to needy persons throughout the
world, Bishop Swanstrom said.
The CRS-NCWC program now
is centered around maintenance
of basic relief programs in
needy countries of Europe, Asia
and the Far East, Africa and
Latin America, Bishop Swans
trom said.
He detailed that CRS-NCWC
“last year brought food, cloth
ing, medicine and other help
and services to an estimated 40
million homeless, destitute
and hungry persons in 67 coun
tries, without regard to race,
color or religion.”
The Bishop said CRS-NCWC
has an office and staff of 40
person's working in Miami, Fla.,
cooperating with the U. S. gov
ernment in the resettlement of
Cuban refugees in other areas
of the country.
“As of January 4, 1963, the
center registered a total of
156,562 Cuban refugees, of '
whom 106,716 were referred to
and registered by Catholic
Relief Services - NCWC,” he
said.
“While our food, clothing and
medicine distributions have ex
panded to meet immediate and
emergency needs,” Bishop
Swanstrom continued, “our su
pervisory staff of 135 resident
U. S. citizens in 67 countries
. . .have been increasingly
active in implementing long-
range and self-help projects
designed to meet and solve the
depressing socio-economic
problems and conditions that
plague so many areas of the
globe today.”
The primary purpose in these
technical assistance programs,
he said, “is to put people in
habiting the world’s impover
ished and underdeveloped areas
in a position of being able to
respond to their own needs. In
short, helping them to help
themselves.”
The Bishop said that while
there is no minimizing the in
estimable value of the U. S.
government’s far-flung foreign
aid programs, ’ ‘one of the weak
nesses which I have noted in the
U. S. foreign aid programs, and ,
one which I have urged the ad- f
ministration and members of §
Congress to amend, is their *
repeated failure to bring help I
down to the level of people in 1
the towns and villages in these g
underdeveloped and emerging § *•
countries.” *