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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- (Continued from Page 1) 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— (Continued from Page 1) 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- (Continued from Page 1) 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- (Continued from Page 1) 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.” *